Join our intimate group deep in the ancient woodlands of the Surrey Hills, for a special Winter Solstice devotion to ancient English Yew Tree - both the tree and its powerful and illuminating spirit.
Joining together under the canopy of these incredible beings, we bring offerings and blessings at this key time of year for these wonderful trees - and the wider forest alike.
Expect time for offerings (please bring your own), sitting with the ancient Yew Tree Grove of the Druids (the oldest Yews of the area and possibly on the planet), Shamanic Journeywork with Yew Tree Spirit (seated, although bring something to sit/ lie on if you feel the need), Yew Tree gnosis and sharing circle (including mince pies!).
About Yew Trees…
Humble and Majestic Yew is an evergreen part of the deciduous landscape of many of the older-growth forests in Northern Europe, oft on well-draining soils. Its fine, waxy needles resemble Pine, but upon closer inspection, not only do we miss the signature scent of the Pine, but also the branches are woven more densely, more intricately, less conforming to a predetermined, or predictable pattern of replication...
Yew, up close, looks like chaos itself...
Bark flaking off in flat layers, like some sort of reptilian skin, curves and twists in the slow growth of the trunk not unlike swirls of ink on the surface of water...
Overall, a masterpiece of organic creation - shaped, not only by the elements themselves, but by some preconceived intelligence that - upon aging some thousand years - actually physically turns them inside out...
As some sort of long-metaphorical advice to our own existence, they map out the Hero's wanderings, succumbing to chaos in his early days - and then a seeing through of perseverance, a definite and solid anchoring and taking up of space - and then a clearing out of one's channel, to run Divinity from head to root and back again...
Some say that the Yews are holders of Souls... certainly, without this clarity of channel, in my experience they can and do pick up the energy of whomever projects upon them - but as soon as they are clear-centred, there is an ethereal lightness of consciousness, when, combined with the ancient wisdom of thousands of years bears fruit for whomever opens themselves to this level of communion.
Journeywork with Yew Tree spirit is profoundly visual, profoundly somatic and incredibly instructive. Rather than necessarily showing up in personified form, although She/ He may well do, He holds a wider container for the deeper work to take place. Find out more about Yew Shamanism here.
Suggested donation: 25GBP - please bring water/ thermos and snacks.
Places limited. Directions given upon reservation.
Please note that Yew Spirit is an incredibly powerful activator and ally and we generally know deeply if we have been called into this work with Yew.