The Wise Elder – Not for the arrogance I stand, but for the truth that is beholden from the seeing

my crown not so far in the distance
but I am here to witness, that is all

I am that elder,
staff in hand
my spine of contentment
ripe
am I ready
not all too far to dream
that star
that visions here
I am but tired,
yet wiser too
my bones a frail unrest
my work to show
the world to know
as innocence in the nest
will surely try
as I know my
intent is for their soul
my love for all
my journey tall
has grown beyond my years
and now for sure
I take my all
and witness
at my best

Wisdom comes with maturity and knowledge. The wise elder maintains his or her position with the essence of that wisdom, there is no more need for ambition or the desire of wanting.

The wise elder knows thyself, is mature and present, and is powerful in his/her security of self-knowledge and ability to offer guidance and wisdom, gleaned from personal and cultural experience, deep wisdom that is a synthesis of what has arisen out of the pain and strength stretching back through time, sometimes pushing us beyond our fears to a new level of experience.

Two one hour webinars that are free, to introduce you to The Wheel Of Souls Return.

This is an opportunity to see how we work together and find out a little more about this way of growing with the Wheels support and with Soul Retrieval.

Please email if you would like to take part in one or both of these webinars.

Dates are 12th and 26th February. 7-8pm

The crown of our sovereignty is presented to the world, for we were all so innocent, the wisdom so fruitful then

We are born innocent and constantly reminded of our curious innocent nature. This can easily be lost because of trauma, dis-ease or neglect.

Our adult world will often ‘do away’ with the needs of the innocent for a more grown up status, fitting into the needs and wants of an education based on academic endeavors.

So here we explore our own innocent archetype and how we can develop a stronger connection to the inner-sense of our being. Our purpose has an innocent desire, to become, to be, to unfold its existence. By understanding the innocent nature of our purpose, we guide it gently and tenderly into manifestation, knowing it has its vulnerabilities too.

We will dance, meditate and create. Awaking the parts of our mind that can be more receptive to curiosity and fascination thus awakening the imagination.

From ‘The Wheel Of Souls Return’

The Art Of Spiritual & Emotional Intelligence for the way of living in todays climate.

We begin the journey of seeking and, bringing ourselves to a place of desiring to see more clearly. What lies ahead and where have we come from that might serve this?

Our Seer is at our side, supporting the growth of this adventure and all the realizations that are ready to be born.

Finding ourselves in our full innocence, we live in the center of that circle, with all the elements around us, making steps to uncover the undergrowth, allowing the new garden to become apparent and weed the ground of our life, so we can stretch to our full beauty and live the life we were born to live.

We will journey and learn to share with honesty, the wisdom and the information that we discover. We will gain more spiritual tools to support our personal growth and find a deeper wisdom within.

We will dance, write and create, sharing what we discover with our fellow participants.

Our focus will be with the ‘The Gathering’ segments of the wheel, follow link for more info https://middleearthmedicine.com/workshops/the-wheel-of-souls-return/

This is an opportunity to begin a journey of the ‘Souls Return’ series of gatherings which can, if you wish, lead you to apprenticeship with Caroline and team.

Creative Writing & Meditation Day

A day in the yurt with walks in the local area. Time to contemplate, to share the magic of our words and the stories of old. Listening with the drum beat, inspired by the fire and nourishing our creative juices.

Please book in advance, bring journal and pens and food to share.

There is a maximum number of participant places available.

Donations (suggested £40 – £50)

Travel with me amidst the thickets, brushing through the passage of time, I will meet you in the shadows where the soul it does reside.

Making our way to the forest we take strides into the places of darkness, called to enlighten our own life, we know what we must do, despite the not knowing, we are free.

The rebel is the master of his/her own destiny, with no attachment to the call of others, yet aware that others have their own thoughts and feelings about this.

We are learning about detachment and we begin to take strides to understand this more.

We need to be able to discern what is right for us and what might merely be folly, even resistance. There may be times when we try out detachment, trusting ourselves with what we can or cannot live without. We may simply be looking for reactions from others, in order to grow and learn from these reactions and how they make us feel.

Our purpose is to find that wild instinctual nature, instead of glorifying the nature of others. We would benefit our own land and heritage, as well as honor the cultures we aspire to by understanding how the emergence of spirituality is so necessary and overlooked, and mostly feared in our society with the dangers it can inflict on people when we try to block, medicate and restrict our natural flows.

We will dance and create, share stories and step into the cultivation of our own purpose.

(English below)

Das Gewebe meiner Seele

Tanzen bedeutet, in die Fülle der Berufung unserer Seelen zu erwachen. Diese Berufung so vollständig wie möglich zu leben bedeutet, unser Potenzial zu verkörpern, auf eine Weise, die nur uns zueigen ist. Dies kommt nicht aus einem Dogma, auch nicht aus dem Ideal eines anderen, wer wir sind und was wir tun sollten. Es ist eine persönliche Beziehung zu einem Bewusstsein, das die Essenz unseres Seins bewohnt, die Unschuld, die in uns angeboren ist. Wenn wir uns nach Hause rufen, lernen wir, unsere Leidenschaft und unser Potenzial in eine heilende, verkörperte Quelle für andere zu verwandeln, und werden zu einer Inspiration für das Wachstum unserer Gemeinschaften.
Das Gewebe unserer Seele kann gefühlt und verkörpert werden, und es kann visuell gestaltet werden, um uns an eine un-gebrochene Unschuld zu erinnern. Dieses Gewebe ist eine archetypische Qualität, die wir in uns tragen. Sie ist auch das Angesicht, von dem wir wissen, dass wir es in die Welt tragen müssen.
An diesen Tagen werden wir tief tanzen und in einen Prozess der Maskenherstellung eintreten, einer tiefen Meditation, um uns mit dem Gewebe unserer Seele zu verbinden und was sie uns in der materiellen Form zeigt.
“The Fabric Of My Soul” befasst sich mit Seelenrückholung und ruft Teile von uns selbst zurück, die vielleicht verloren gegangen sind.
Trauma in seinen vielen Formen, der Vernachlässigung und den schmerzhaften Erfahrungen, verursacht diesen Seelenverlust und wir finden die Akzeptanz dessen, was es uns ermöglicht, die Wunden anzuerkennen und Neues zu wagen, indem wir positive archetypische Qualitäten zurückfordern, um zu erfahren, wer wir sind und was wir hier zu tun haben.
Immer wieder diese lebenswichtige Frage stellend: “Was ist es an mir zu tun”, und Samen der Erneuerung zu pflanzen.

The Fabric Of My Soul

To dance is to awaken to the fullness of our souls calling. To inhabit this calling as fully as possible means to embody our potential, in a way that is ours to do and only ours to do. It does not come from dogma, it does not come from any one else’s ideal of who and what we should be doing. It is a personal relationship with a  consciousness that inhabits the very essence of our being, the innocence (inner – sense) that is innate within us. Calling ourselves home we learn to materialise our passion and our potential into a healing, embodiment source for others, we become an inspiration for the growing members of our community. (an in-spirit-nation)

The very fabric of our soul can be felt and embodied, it can be created visually, to help us remember a broken innocence, the archetypal quality that we realise we carry and the face that we know we need to share in the world.

In this gathering we will dance deeply and enter a process of mask-making, a deep meditation to connect with the fabric of our soul and what it shows us itself through material forms.

‘The Fabric Of My Soul’ addresses soul retrieval, calling forward parts of ourselves that might have become lost.

Trauma in its many forms, neglect and painful experiences cause that soul loss and so we find the acceptance of that, which enables us to acknowledge the wounds and take new actions, reclaiming positive archetypal qualities in order to learn about who we are and what it is we are here to do.

Always asking that vital question ‘what is mine to do,’ and planting seeds of renewal.

It is known as one of the most powerful of (spiritual) experiences we can have in life. Mandorla is the place of poetry ‘where the fire and the rose are one!’ (Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot)

This is  a weekend workshop in Depot 37, Hastings, East Sussex in a very interesting location. It is open to all to attend, whatever your experience.

“Sometimes within our individual self and within the self of our worn-out society, there is no answer to conflict. There is, however, a way to stand within the center of the opposing forces. Conflict creates tremendous energy. If we leave out judgement then that ‘energy’ can become a vibration of light. Not always just a single light but many lights, sending out a vibration that is LOVE!”  — Caroline Carey

As human beings, we can exist on multiple planes of being; the one that we are usually most aware of, however, is the material world. By its nature, the material world is a place of duality – a place of opposites that we often experience as being in conflict with one another. Examples include heaven and earth, light and dark, masculine and feminine, loyalty and betrayal, to name but a few. The polarity between these opposites creates a fundamental tension at an evolutionary level that has the potential to be either profoundly destructive or powerfully generative and creative. The evidence of the destructive consequences of this tension lies all around us in the terrible scourges of war, inequality and conflict within and between individuals, groups and societies.

The key to transforming the destructive consequences of conflict into life-affirming outcomes lies in how we relate to the tension between opposites. When we can hold the tension within ourselves, bearing the pain, beauty and terror that this brings, we bring the two opposing elements together, creating a space in which the split between the two can be resolved. We call this space the ‘mandorla’ – a word derived from ‘almond’ in Italian, which refers to the almond shape created when two circles overlap. The mandorla also known as the ‘Vesica Piscis’ is the sacred space of our soul work; when we stand in this place, we have the ability to transform what once was a curse into powerful medicine for the soul. Its energy is that of the Father Mother Principle in the Divine Union, the Mother of all Forms and the Yin and Yang that has been known to us for decades. 

“Magic of Mandorla, amazing and deep work with Caroline Carey. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT to anyone who is studying to become a therapist or is one already but seeking the thread of connection in continuing your own development and work with your own process (which we so need when we work with others – right?) If you feel called to this work, then follow your intuition and go for it! I think it’s of excellent quality.” Suzan Lemont

From ‘The Wheel Of Souls Return’

The Art Of Spiritual & Emotional Intelligence for the way of living in todays climate.

Accepting the awakening of the potential of the souls return, is the primary teaching of our work. This offering includes learning more presence and deep listening, adopting more self-awareness with the ability to self-regulate, finding empathy and compassion for self and others, embodying and using principled actions.

This all helps to motivate us and bring who we really are into our everyday living, loosening inhibitions and addressing any lack of self esteem and/or negative patterns and habits.

It is during this time that we begin to be able to address our life story within the safe container of dance, supported by others who share this path.

We use movement and dance to help us integrate and digest some of our stories assisting us to stay fluid and receptive to change.

We will journey and learn to share with honesty, the wisdom and the information that we discover. We will gain more spiritual tools to support our personal growth and find a deeper wisdom within.

We will dance, write and create, sharing what we discover with our fellow participants.

Our focus will be with the Deeper Knowing segments of the wheel, follow link for more info https://middleearthmedicine.com/workshops/the-wheel-of-souls-return/

This is an opportunity to begin a journey of the ‘Souls Return’ series of gatherings which can, if you wish, lead you to apprenticeship with Caroline and team.

Awaken Your Dancer – Empower Your Soul – Embody Your Purpose in Life!

Many of us live with a sense that something is ‘missing’ – as if there is a void lurking beneath the surface of our lives that we can never quite fill. As a result, we can spend our lives endlessly seeking to fill that emptiness with more – more money, more possessions, more relationships. However, this is ultimately a fruitless quest because often what we are really seeking cannot be found ‘out there’ in the physical world for they are the lost parts of our soul – fragments that may have split off many years earlier.

Long recognised by shamans, such soul loss is a form of psychic fracturing that can come about as a result of trauma, dis-ease or a dysfunctional upbringing. Not only does soul loss leave a legacy of ongoing dysfunction, fatigue, illness and depression, but it can also disempower us by crippling our ability to heal and move forward.

Reclaiming and reintegrating the lost parts of the soul is therefore a crucial first step towards self-empowerment. Only then can we align ourselves with our soul’s purpose in order to manifest the abundance of our highest potential.

In this workshop, Caroline will support you to reclaim the lost parts of your soul using the powerful shamanic process of soul retrieval. In a safe and held environment, she will guide you on a journey into the depths, exploring what is missing and what needs to be reclaimed. Then, you will enter into ceremonial space, where you will call in the missing soul parts, integrate them and realign yourself with your soul ready for action in the world.

This training is already underway. Our second training will take place in 2021.

In applying for this training, you will need to have the experience of a movement practice, for a minimum of two years. As an apprentice to the Leadership path, you will need to have some understanding of the Middle Earth Medicine Wheel and its philosophy. The syllabus is on the web page here https://middleearthmedicine.com/middle-earth-syllabus/  Study available as webinars monthly.

If interested in taking part in our training, please work with the training syllabus and courses before or during this training

Those accepted onto the training and during its process will be expected to:

• attend 3 intensive workshops as working apprentices. Here you will work within the field, developing your own skills and be given tasks to enhance your experience.
• complete tasks and projects including creativity and written work, in relation to the Medicine Wheel over two years
• attend a teacher trainee module (see dates above) held by Caroline and a further 5 day gathering.
  
• be expected to work as individuals and also work in collaboration with others on the course.
• take a minimum of 6 supervision sessions per year with Caroline or other qualified teachers during the apprenticeship and in setting up of their own work
• keep up with supervision during offerings/teachings with qualified supervisor.

Every apprentice will be treated as an individual with their own needs and requirements in preparation for holding their own work. It will be advised that apprentices continue with ongoing study with Middle Earth Medicine taking part in regular workshops with apprenticeship roles. There will be opportunities to train to teach the work of the Mandorla constellations in due course.

To be on the mailing list specifically for apprenticeship please send a paragraph about yourself, the work you have already completed and why you might be interested in a training program to EMAIL

I look forward to hearing from you and receiving you into further study with me. Once applied for, we will begin a conversation to explore with you, your personal needs on this path.

There are a maximum of 12 available places on this training. If you require a place please send your application as soon as possible with your application fee of £99. This fee includes one skype session. EMAIL for application form.

Costs and fees. Application fee £99. (non refundable) includes skype call with Caroline.  Cost of Space Holder 1st module 9 days – £1,800.  2nd Module £900.  Mentoring: £55 per session. Accommodation and food is not included in the training prices. Please see ‘Little Earth’ at Earth Spirit Center accommodation prices, there are various options. Cost of accommodation: EARTHSPIRIT PRICE LIST ACCOM 2019

When attending the three intensive courses as apprentices to Caroline, the cost is 40% of the course fee. This payment includes your part in the workshop, meetings with the space holder during the workshop, webinars before and after the workshop and ongoing learning support. More info available.

The Space Holder Module begins 11th – 19th September 2019 and 8th – 12th June 2020.

What do I get if I complete the Middle Earth Medicine Space Holder Process?

If you complete all requirements of the Space Holder modules, you will be listed as a Space Holder of Middle Earth Medicine, be included on our website and members calendar and supported to hold your own work. You will have access to regular webinars and meetings to support your practice and offerings and be able to attend space holder retreats yearly.

See this page for what is required during the space holder training…..  

Application Fee: £99  (non-refundable)  Includes skype call. EMAIL

Costs of these gatherings:   1st gathering £1,800 (accommodation separate)

2nd gathering £900  (accommodation separate)

Assistant places on intensives: 40% of full cost.

Mentoring: £60 per session.

An exploration of soul purpose, using the Middle Earth Medicine Wheels dwellings, stages of life, archetypes, resources and tools.

This is an offering where we see opportunity in every one of our life experiences.

Our birthings, our new beginnings, or the start of a project, we learn to accept as Spirit sent, where our soul is designing its own sacred contract and is connected from pre-birth in the realm of dreaming.

It then follows around the wheel to the innocent stage where the imagination begins to vision in, with curiosity, what is possible to create from that contract, from our life story, from our awakenings and even sometimes from our challenges and wounds.

We journey from innocent to rebel, where we need to let go of old structures and immerse ourselves in the wildness of the untamed forest to release ourselves and explore the true nature of who we are.

This leads us to become an apprentice of our own story and the creation of our vocations through it, whatever that might be, whether it is a particular project, body of work, even relationship, being helped and guided by the understanding of our own repetitive patterns, by allies and guardians.

The wheel continues to be our guide, through adulthood with the artisan and the thespian, creating and acting from that place of creativity, parenting those qualities into being, showing our art to the world and manifesting change and fruition.

Knowing and maturing our purpose, we become the Sovereign of our own Magestic garden, stepping into the responsibility needed for the task set out to us and those we must serve, accepting the humility of our own sacred fool that we might relinquish the hold that our soulless ego has over us.

Trusting in a power greater than ourselves, the sacred fool reminds us of who we really are, how to find humor in our story and our humanness, we must awaken fully and know who we are.

Leaving no stone unturned, we aspire to be the wise elder of our own making, standing, staff in hand with that sovereign vibration and the embodied calling that is here to serve.

Surrendered in acceptance of who we are, we know ourselves and are able to honor our ego as the hands of the soul.

Now as that elder we are here to serve the innocents dream and whatever needs our support, bringing it into new life…

and the wheel turns again…

*

Exploring our purpose means the acceptance of our life experience, unraveling some of its life long stories and what we have made them to mean. Our purpose is born through us and the challenges we meet along the way are divinely there to sculpt us and shape us into who we are and what we are here to offer, yet how we view our own stories might need to make way for something entirely new, even more revealing and much more inline with our potential.

Middle Earth Medicine takes us on nine stages of soul work, integrating soul through personal development, soul-retrieval, creativity and ecstatic dance.

This particular medicine wheel not only supports your personal growth, but offers deeply healing experiences and meditations to open the heart and re-member a broken innocence. We learn to use the tools that can physically put us in touch with our purpose on this planet, guides that will support us on the journey and the very particular archetypal quality we need to embrace. We journey with each of the archetypes and their dwelling places, time of life, tools and resources, to establish the current position of soul and purpose.

Without careful observance and enquiry into knowing where we are in the cycle of our souls offering, it is almost impossible to know what stage we are at and what we need to embody before we can fully move on to the next stage. We can do this with the support of our community, listening to their experiences and learning and growing together. Often we can find ourselves trying to move on too quickly to the next stage before fully engaging with the last, thus meeting with the same challenges over and over again without fulfillment. We learn, one step at a time, patiently unfolding what is truly intended for us.

During this syllabus, Caroline will guide you through the wheel, using movement meditations, outdoor work, self reflection, sharing and creativity. She will share her own story of the Wheels discovery and the maps that have led to the Middle Earth Medicine path. No matter what your experience, no matter what your age or position in life, this Medicine Wheel may be able to support you on a journey of discovery.

The outer-realms of the Middle Earth Medicine Wheel are The Gathering, Deeper Knowing and The Offering. These are the stages of development that the wheel offers. First is to gather the information, second is to deepen our understanding of it and third is to create and make our offering from it.

Giving what I have,

I know is mine to give

Now the offering is clear, we know it at our core. Everything has been made clear to us from the work we have done and the time and effort made into our journey.

Sovereign, Sacred Fool and Wise Elder, become our trusty companions as we persevere, reminding ourselves always to be willing to see with a lightness of heart, our own truth. If we make mistakes, and we will, we take it as a lesson learnt; we take it as an opportunity to make better that part of our life. Staying humble we know that in order to make our offering, we must understand ourselves on an even deeper level. If arrogance arises then we invite the Fool to remind us who we are and we step down from that pedestal. Taking stock of ourselves and asking for help. Humbling ourselves to what really needs to be spoken and what needs to be taken seriously enough. Knowing that we will undo any harm we might have done.

As time moves on we begin to recognise the need to pass on what we have learnt and that the most important calling of all is yet to come.

What is yours to do in the world?

Discover this more fully in dance and in meditation. Use the mandorla process to engage more fully in the discovery of soul purpose.

Cost: tuition:  € 265, early bird price  € 235 (if paid by 15th May)  + extra for accommodation + food: 2.700 CZK

An exploration of soul purpose, using the Middle Earth Medicine Wheels dwellings, stages of life, archetypes, resources and tools.

This is an offering where we see opportunity in every one of our life experiences.

Our birthings, our new beginnings, or the start of a project, we learn to accept as Spirit sent, where our soul is designing its own sacred contract and is connected from pre-birth in the realm of dreaming.

It then follows around the wheel to the innocent stage where the imagination begins to vision in, with curiosity, what is possible to create from that contract, from our life story, from our awakenings and even sometimes from our challenges and wounds.

We journey from innocent to rebel, where we need to let go of old structures and immerse ourselves in the wildness of the untamed forest to release ourselves and explore the true nature of who we are.

This leads us to become an apprentice of our own story and the creation of our vocations through it, whatever that might be, whether it is a particular project, body of work, even relationship, being helped and guided by the understanding of our own repetitive patterns, by allies and guardians.

The wheel continues to be our guide, through adulthood with the artisan and the thespian, creating and acting from that place of creativity, parenting those qualities into being, showing our art to the world and manifesting change and fruition.

Knowing and maturing our purpose, we become the Sovereign of our own Magestic garden, stepping into the responsibility needed for the task set out to us and those we must serve, accepting the humility of our own sacred fool that we might relinquish the hold that our soulless ego has over us.

Trusting in a power greater than ourselves, the sacred fool reminds us of who we really are, how to find humor in our story and our humanness, we must awaken fully and know who we are.

Leaving no stone unturned, we aspire to be the wise elder of our own making, standing, staff in hand with that sovereign vibration and the embodied calling that is here to serve.

Surrendered in acceptance of who we are, we know ourselves and are able to honor our ego as the hands of the soul.

Now as that elder we are here to serve the innocents dream and whatever needs our support, bringing it into new life…

and the wheel turns again…

*

Exploring our purpose means the acceptance of our life experience, unraveling some of its life long stories and what we have made them to mean. Our purpose is born through us and the challenges we meet along the way are divinely there to sculpt us and shape us into who we are and what we are here to offer, yet how we view our own stories might need to make way for something entirely new, even more revealing and much more inline with our potential.

Middle Earth Medicine takes us on nine stages of soul work, integrating soul through personal development, soul-retrieval, creativity and ecstatic dance.

This particular medicine wheel not only supports your personal growth, but offers deeply healing experiences and meditations to open the heart and re-member a broken innocence. We learn to use the tools that can physically put us in touch with our purpose on this planet, guides that will support us on the journey and the very particular archetypal quality we need to embrace. We journey with each of the archetypes and their dwelling places, time of life, tools and resources, to establish the current position of soul and purpose.

Without careful observance and enquiry into knowing where we are in the cycle of our souls offering, it is almost impossible to know what stage we are at and what we need to embody before we can fully move on to the next stage. We can do this with the support of our community, listening to their experiences and learning and growing together. Often we can find ourselves trying to move on too quickly to the next stage before fully engaging with the last, thus meeting with the same challenges over and over again without fulfillment. We learn, one step at a time, patiently unfolding what is truly intended for us.

During this syllabus, Caroline will guide you through the wheel, using movement meditations, outdoor work, self reflection, sharing and creativity. She will share her own story of the Wheels discovery and the maps that have led to the Middle Earth Medicine path. No matter what your experience, no matter what your age or position in life, this Medicine Wheel may be able to support you on a journey of discovery.