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SACRED MAN : SACRED WOMAN
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“Paint me a picture of the river - and let it flow,
It will flow and wash away all difference and love will grow.
You have the power to deliver – so let it go”
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 Sacred Man : Sacred Woman is the name of a longstanding annual workshop -
which is really a big ritual -
which is really to say it is a way beyond personal issues into a world of magical re-connection, renewing life.
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Sacred Man : Sacred Woman, is;
A way to heal the wounded houses of our longing,
A way to learn at the deep end what the power and play of ceremony or ritual can be,
A way back to the old wisdom of women’s and men’s sacred lodges,
A way to strut and sway with pride without apology beyond fear or shame,
And a way to keep the sun and moon wheeling in the ecstatic sky!
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We invite you to come and learn this ancient art of living at our annual summer ceremony. No experience is needed. Come alone or with your partner and renew life, yourself and your relationships. You’ll be someone else at the end! (There is no uninvited intimacy)
You may feel ok as a man or as a woman and you and your relationships may be doing fine, but in this culture some part of you is likely to be aching with loneliness, knowing you have never been seen, part of you never addressed in the way your ancient heart has waited for.
Has she ever been really seen? Has she heard the praise that her soul aches for?
Has he danced his vision? Has he ever been blessed and sent on his adventure?
Come away to this ancient fire,
Where the deepest soul of woman can be courted and praised, as is so long overdue,
Where he can find his healing, which he so badly needs, where his adventure can be blessed,
Where the Holy One can move freely in the gestures, songs and dances of men and women bound in fellowship.
Free yourself in this beautiful dance of polarity - which is delicious, deeply rooted and forever new. It can’t really be described but it is very easily experienced if you take up the invitation.
We return this year to our old camping place, buying our camp and valley to return the land to the wild.
Sacred Man : Sacred Woman will be our celebration and chief ritual.
Join us and be part of this mirth.
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A Dervishes’ Song for Sacred Man and Woman;
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We live together day by day,
Our hearts beyond reach sail by
We try this dangerous embrace and lie, in an ocean of our longing
These loving kisses with wives and husbands we have never really met.
In the night of delight, all softened in a thousand layers of ritual wrapped,
Warm tears flow over the carpet woven with tireless threads of thank yous,
All darkness in hush, my story’s bitterness turns to an elixir,
A song like a river flows
A woman’s face glows bright - but not due to the hundred candles.
When beauty awaken, amidst intense praise, from her sleep,
The universe gets drunk again
And begins to dance.
At dawn the birds carry on the song.
Tonight there will be a feast, we rest, because the food has already been blessed.
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Quotes from participants:
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From women:
“I met me and then I met my beloved”
“It changed how I see men; and men and women together forever”
“I gave up long ago on men but after Sacred Man Sacred Woman a whole new adventure started, I live with a beautiful husband now, so many deep wounds became a thing of the past forever”
From men:
“I’ve done a lot, and a lot of workshops, a real lot; but this is the tops”
“I’ve discovered ritual – I love this!”
“It wasn’t really just about men and women, it was about life, loving the earth, offering something back, being grateful and going beyond what I wanted and what I thought I needed for myself”
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And they lived happily ever after, which is the only proper way to live.
Our soul is our dream of the other.
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GOING FURTHER IN THE GREAT WORK
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Our culture pays little tribute to the sacred dimension in the lives of men and women. We have lost the stories, ceremonies and companionship that older cultures considered essential. Peeling back the surface layer, deep within us are places that have retreated in the face of a grey world; holy places that speak and sing and dance when they are spoken to. They can be appropriately addressed in Lodges such as these:
The Men’s Lodge
With Shivam and several very experienced members of Spirit Horse. Click here for details of the Men's lodge.
The Women’s Lodge
With Erika, Paloma Suarez and other experienced women of Spirit Horse. Click here for details of the Women's lodge.
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