Date/Time
Date(s) - 04/04/2025 - 06/04/2025
5:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Nature Spirits: recovering our dialogue
Nourishing renewal for ourselves and the Earth
Serenity House, Llangammarch Wells, Fri Apr 4 – Sun Apr 6
With Susan Raven
“The Nature Spirits are waiting to be reunited with us, and as emissaries of higher spiritual beings, they wish to be of great assistance to us at this time, but we have to step into their world and meet them in their own territory. It is time to engage in dialogue and relearn a living world wisdom from the elemental kingdom.”
This weekend will help you play your part in regenerating the vitality of the earth, water and air, which are so degraded at present. The elementals and other Nature spirits who sustain our ecosystems urgently need human connection to sustain themselves and their vital work.
Nature speaks, and everything in Nature is communicable. The intelligent beings of Nature wish to communicate and co-create with an awake and aware humanity. So how do we contact them? How do we learn from them? How do we enter the dream-time of their world? How do we interpret the sensations we experience with them? And how are we transformed by our meeting with them?
At this workshop we will be exploring the methods used for seership and communication as described by the philosopher, scientist and seer, Rudolf Steiner. We will be focusing on ways in which we can build a mutually rewarding line of communication with the nature spirits, so that we may receive information and insight into their world. By working together with the elementals -which reside in earth, water, air and fire -we can become responsible co-creators at this critical time in our evolution. In this workshop Susan will be describing the activities of the nature spirits in the landscape, in plants and in the human being. We will be looking at ways in which we can effectively help these generous inhabitants of the supersensible realm for the ultimate benefit of us all.
Susan Raven (below) is a highly experienced facilitator and also a talented singer and musician. She has worked with the methods and exercises described by Rudolf Steiner for seeing into the supersensible realms, and has also trained with Dorian Schmidt, director of the Biodynamic Research Institute. Susan is author of the popular book ‘Nature Spirits: The Remembrance: A guide to the Elemental Kingdom’, featured in the Cygnus magazine, Nexus, Star & Furrow and Caduceus. See www.susanraven.com.
Workshop content
Our process will be highly participative and experiential. We’ll spend substantial time outdoors, engaging with nature spirits in the garden at our venue, and in the wild open hills of the Mynydd Epynt nearby.
During the weekend we will be exploring:
- Rudolf Steiner’s ‘Six Essential Exercises’ for awakening supersensible perception, with special emphasis on control of thinking and control of feeling. (It is more important to be in a state of Grace than to be ‘right’ if you wish to enter the realm of the nature spirits!)
- The significance of colour on the inner and outer screen.
- The language of sense, sound and movement.
- Protocols for greeting and questioning the nature spirits.
- Ways in which the human being can help the elementals return to their right and proper sphere.
Our venue: Serenity House
Serenity House is in the quiet village of Llangammarch Wells, in the beautiful Irfon Valley, with high hills nearby. It is formerly a small hotel, lovingly refurbished as a retreat centre, with 12 en suite bedrooms, 22 bed spaces, and a delightful garden bordered by a stream.
Serenity House is in mid-Wales, easily reached by car (Bristol 2 hours, Birmingham 2.5: postcode LD4 4BY), and Llangammarch’s tiny station is only 100 yards away (on the Shrewsbury-Swansea line).
Practicalities
Timings: Starting with supper on Friday at 6.30pm, finishing after lunch on Sunday at 2pm.
Food: The price includes vegetarian food for the whole weekend. To deepen our sense of community and keep costs down, we’re asking all participants to help with food preparation, table laying, etc.
Residential or non-residential: The venue has twin, double and single rooms, or you can book on a non-residential basis, which includes all meals.
Cost and booking:
Group size limited to 16 people, so book now to ensure a place. Please note: Early Bird Discount until January 31.
Residential: Early Bird £230, Regular £250. £10 reduction per person if sharing a room.
Non-residential: Early Bird £120, Regular £140.
Some concessionary places are available.
For enquiries and bookings, contact Alan Heeks: alanheeks@gmail.com, tel. 07494 203014.