heart medicine

Have you ever considered a teacher training to hold dance classes for your community? My dance offerings began over twenty two years ago, with 5 Rhythms classes in West Cork and then Cork City. I branched out to many other cities and countries around the world, offering the dance as…

Offering The Dance

31 May, 2019 in Blog / Newsletter tagged #menopause #spiritualmentor / authenticleadership / Dance / ecstatic dance / elderhood / eldership / empowerment / healing / heart medicine / integrity / leadership / magic of mandorla / movement / traditions of shamanism / trance by Caroline Carey

It’s one of the most beautifully exquisite experiences that I know and like anything else not without its need for awareness, strengths, prayers and hopes. Like many there is a very deep and loving connection I have for my grandchildren, it’s different to anything I’ve known. A love for them…

On being a Grandmother – by Caroline Carey

7 Jan, 2019 in Blog tagged Alchemy In Movement / archetypes / caroline carey / Dance / eldership / grandchildren / grandmother / grandparent / heart medicine / Middle Earth Medicine / poetry / poetry and prose / traditions of shamanism by Caroline Carey

That liminal space of transition the known and the unknown riding the wave 'in-between' these worlds the no longer & the not yet we ride that invisible wave a mandorla surrender that cannot be forced into I am here or there, again awaiting the…

Liminal space of transition

1 Nov, 2018 in Blog tagged Alchemy In Movement / authenticleadership / being heard / caroline carey / empowerment / heart medicine / liminal / movement / soul retrieval / spirituality / time / transition by Caroline Carey

As a child I had ideas that I always longed to share and did my best to in one way or another. For sure some of them were a little out of the box, but still I was passionate about them and wanted to have them heard. I know for…

Is your voice being heard?

28 Jul, 2018 in Blog tagged being heard / Dance / empowerment / healing / heart medicine / Middle Earth Medicine / poetry / soul retrieval / Spirit / spirituality / voice by Caroline Carey

Caroline offers this ancient principle, which is creative, playful and accesible to everybody yet deeply moving, intense, powerful, heart-touching and inspiring. For me, most importantly it is a tool, a resource that gives me more clarity, choice and freedom in how to live with the many opposites in my daily…

Mandorla with Lies Van Hee & her art

11 May, 2018 in Uncategorized tagged constellation / Dance / ecstatic dance / heart medicine / magic of mandorla / mandorla / vesicus piscis by Caroline Carey

If I did not know what to be ‘empowered’ meant and I looked at images of what it appeared to mean, I could assume it was all about having strong muscles. There actually seems to be a lot of confusion about this word and I wonder how we might…

Journey Of Empowerment

30 Apr, 2017 in Uncategorized tagged caroline carey / Dance / ecstatic dance / empowerment / healing / heart medicine / movement medicine / poetry and prose / power / shamanic journey / shamanism / soul retrieval / Spirit / spirituality / traditions of shamanism / trance by Caroline Carey

The pioneering work of Michael Harner, PhD, brought shamanism to the West. In 1979, he created the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, the world's foremost shamanic training center. It was the work of Harner that I studied with in the UK when it became very clear to me that it was…

Traditions are alive….in us

24 Apr, 2017 in Uncategorized tagged drum journeys / ecstatic dance / healing / heart medicine / shamanism / soul retrieval / traditions of shamanism / trance by Caroline Carey