The Way of The Buzzard Mystery School

This course will support you in learning how to go on a shamanic journey and work regularly with your spirit guides.

The shamanic journey is all about shifting our consciousness, so we move from being in one state of mind, into another.

We do this on the beat of a drum, and by journeying to different Worlds outside of this current World we live in, we can meet our Spirit Guides and develop an ongoing relationship with them.

Through this they will guide us on our path. In this course we cover:

Module 1: What is journeying, including the history of shamanic journeying and how it ties in with shamanism, and the benefits it can bring to our lives

Module 2: How to go on a Shamanic Journey, including preparing and setting off, what happens during the journey and how the journey ends. Here you will go on a guided journey to the Lower World to meet with an Animal Spirit guide.

Module 3: How to interpret the Journey, including distilling down what happened, making sense of the messages and working with the advice. 

Module 4: Information for people who have learnt the basics and are looking to improve their journeying skills and experience, including how to journey to the different realms, meeting and developing relationships with different guides, journeying unguided and setting intentions for journeying.

Bonus 1: A quick guide to journeying straight away, for those  people who would like a refresher or are the kind of person who likes to jump right in.

Bonus 2: A focus on interpretation, supporting people in understanding the guidance that they have received in the Shamanic journey.

Bonus 3: A resource of journey drumming tracks and guided journeys 

Bonus 4: A Trouble Shooting guide to Shamanic journeying, with answers to commonly asked questions and challenges people have when they are learning the skill of Shamanic journeying.

This course will show you how to align with the seasons through the Wheel of the Year.

Sometimes it can seem that there is no end to the daily routine and ever increasing to-do list. Yet when we pause to look out of the window we notice that, although time seems to be speeding up, natures cycles are moving at the same pace they always have.

By dropping into nature's time, we can slow ourselves down, even just momentarily, and this can have a profound impact in supporting us to make the changes we are seeking in our lives.

This programme is designed to help you achieve your aspirations, no matter how far away they seem, create time and space for a spiritual practice no matter how busy your life is, and align personally with the seasons to connect in with nature so you can move at a slower pace.

Here we will cover:

Module 1: The Wheel of the Year explained, including what the Wheel of the Year is, how we work with it and the benefits this will bring.

Module 2: A focus on each of the Celtic sabbats, following the Wheel through the year, including Samhain, the Winter Solstice, Imbolc, the Spring Equinox, Beltane, the Summer Solstice, Lammas and the Autumn Equinox.

In each of the videos we discuss what is happening out in nature at this time, as well as linking it up with how our ancestors would honour this time of year and what was important to them. We include ideas on how you can mark this festival, as well as a guided Shamanic journey which you can go on to connect with your Spirit Guides. 

Module 3: Now that you have completed a full turn of the Wheel, we give advice on your next steps, and how you can make this an ongoing and regular practice in your life. 

Undoubtedly animals and our relationship with them have shaped humans through the history of time.

Archeological evidence aside, we only need to look at how much we love animals and relate to them in our every day lives today to instinctively know this. For many people, working with animal spirit medicine is something that they are naturally drawn to very early on in their spiritual path.

We have ‘favourite’ animals which we are naturally drawn to. We see animals appear in meditations, and animals are usually one of the first encounters that we have when we begin to go on Shamanic Journeys.

In this course we focus specifically on the healing power of animals, and how we can learn from the messages that they have for us through Shamanic Journeying and nature connection.

We do this through:

Module 1: In this Module we introduce the topic sand share the evidence for how our distant ancestors worked with Animal Spirit Medicine. We explain what Animal Spirit Guides are and Power Animals, and also how they link in with the Wheel of the Year. 

Module 2: Here we delve into working with Animal Spirit guides and there are several guided Shamanic Journeys including shapeshifting into an animal, and meeting you Power Animal.

We include guidance on how to interpret the messages you receive, and understand what the energy is of each animal. 

Module 3: Here we have a database which we are developing to contain information on the natural history of each animal, along with it’s underlying energy. 

So many people are drawn to the healing power of trees.

We notice the immediate shift in our energy as we walk through a woodland, or sit under a tree and look out across the park. Something happens inside us when we are close to them, it’s as if they speak to our soul in some secret, knowing way.

In this course we work with the wisdom and healing properties of trees in a deep and intentional manner. We have based it on the Celtic Ogham alphabet. Taking each tree in turn we are creating a series of videos to help you identify each tree at any time of the year, whether it has leaves on or not, and work with its energy.

What we cover:

Module 1: Here we focus on three key aspects as an introduction to working with Tree Spirit Medicine. Why we work with tree spirit medicine and the benefits it can bring to our lives, what the individual energies are of each of the trees, and how we can work with them.

Module 2: We have a total of twenty lessons in this Module, with each lesson taking an individual tree. We begin with Birch and end with Yew.

Within each lesson we cover how to identify the tree, the energy the tree holds and how you can work with it, how the energy ties into the Wheel of the Year, and a guided Shamanic Journey so you can journey to the tree and work with its energy in the Otherworld.

Module 3: In this Module we wrap up the course, and give some suggestions of how you can regularly work with Tree Spirit Medicine and bring this practice into your life on an ongoing basis.

Each course is made up of a series of step-by-step videos to guide you through that particular topic.

Within each Mini Course we will include suggestions on things that you can do to deepen your knowledge and experience, as well as activities you can carry out by yourself.

In some instances the course will serve as a pre-curser to one of our Masterclasses. So, if you are drawn to going in deeper you can enrol in a Masterclass to delve right in.

Topics which we are planning as Mini Courses include:

• Deep Nature Connection - complete
• Creating and Working in Sacred Space
• Shamanism Explained
• Creating Time and Space for a Spiritual Practice
• The Healing Drum
• Coping in Changing Times
• Spiritual Protection -almost complete
• The Ancestral Lifestyle
• Working with the Elements
• Geomancy
• Traditional Magic
• Divination
• Herbology

Mini Courses will be developed through the year and we will make an announcement each time we have uploaded a new Mini Course to the Membership Site.