Workshops & Ceremonies
Healing workshops
I am delighted to offer healing workshops globally online and in person in the Uk, Sintra & Lisbon in Portugal and Spain.
The intention is to bring people together in community to experience connection, transformation and celebration.
Catalysts for transformation during healing workshops may include:
A safe, sacred space with strong, grounded, experienced facilitation
Sound, voice-work & singing
Breath-work & meditation
Movement & dance
Ceremonial cacao
Shamanic journeying
Ritual & magic
Working with spirit guides
Symbolic artwork
The Process
We may briefly introduce ourselves to the group. We can share vulnerability, courage, trust, humour and honesty. We then start to explore spaces of healing and meditation to peel away and release layers of suffering, stuck-ness, conditioning and repression to make space for more peace, joy, love and authentic expression. Releases of sounds, emotions, laughter and tears are welcome.
There may be the opportunity to connect with spirit guides and archetypes from the animal or ascended master, god and goddess realms. We may transform or integrate our light and dark shadows. At our healing workshops we create space for creative inspiration & expression, spiritual downloads and clarity. We may also eat, drink, move, play, dance and sing together. We check in with everyone as we close with gratitude.
What sometimes comes up before healing workshops (and 1 to 1 sessions or training modules)
You are encouraged to attend with the spirit of curiosity. Know that everyone tends to feel a little apprehensive and even some resistance beforehand.
Whenever we are about to have a shift in consciousness or open to a healing process, our ego’s resist growth and want to stay the same – even when that includes suffering – and will try to justify choosing staying at home or some other avoidance tactic. So tune in and see if its fear that is actually attempting to hijack and sabotage your growth and see if you are willing to be a little out of your comfort zone, so as to create the opportunity for healing, transformation and growth. You are welcome to discuss your process with me. Know that you will be in a safe place.
Some people experience ‘imposter syndrome’, and imagine that they will in some way be judged as the ‘outsider’ – perhaps due to their age, experience, appearance, colour, ancestry, sexuality, gender, background, class, economic bracket, political opinions, spiritual beliefs, occupation, accent etc Sometimes we can judge ourselves much more harshly than others do and imagine all kinds of illusions with our projections – never assume anything! Know that you are welcome to our tribe and community and that there is much more that unites than divides us.
Our Workshops & Ceremonies
Cacao Ceremony
Healing workshops with Cacao
Cacao (raw chocolate) is a magical and gentle facilitator of healing, taking us into our hearts and inspiring creativity. We drink the finest grade cacao from Guatemala, gently heated into a tasty ‘love potion’, including optional organic honey, rose to taste and chilli/cayenne to help absorbtion.
We will meditate and journey using sound healing in a beautiful space, with room to be still or move, as you prefer.
I have practised healing for over twenty five years, holding space for thousands of people through their healing processes. I create a safe and compassionate space for profound healing and transformation.
Join this circle for an intimate heart space, gentle healing, and to open to receive divine inspiration and creativity…
NB: Contra-indications: Cacao has an adverse reaction with certain anti-depressants (MAO inhibitors) and if mixed with them can cause severe migraines, and since it raises the heart rate, is also unsuitable for people with a heart or blood pressure condition. If this prohibits you from drinking cacao, or if you are pregnant, you may still participate in the ceremony, just without drinking a ceremonial dose of cacao (42g).
No previous experience of healing workshops or cacao ceremonies required. All welcome.
Laughter Workshops
Healing workshops with laughter
Laughter is often called the ‘best medicine’. It is said to release serotonin and natural endorphins, relieve stress and raise our immunity. It helps us to relax and feel well, and you don’t need to be in a good mood to participate and reap the benefits – you can ‘fake it til you make it’ and can be contagious.
In my laughter workshops I use playful exercises that you can laugh along with, and connect with others in a relaxed, comfortable, easy and fun way.
No previous experience of healing workshops or laughter workshops required. All welcome.
Chocolate Laughter Ceremony
Healing workshops with Cacao & Laughter
This is a healing workshop combining laughter medicine, ceremonial cacao, breath-work, movement and dance.
In my Chocolate Laughter Ceremony, I weave together ceremonial cacao (a raw chocolate drink that brings us into our hearts), laughter yoga, shamanic journeying and cathartic release with breath-work, sound and movement. The day will result in a celebration with dancing and end with us eating a light meal together.
You can go as lightly or as deeply with this process as you wish and will be held in a safe, nurturing space.
Our intention is to create more joy within as well as in the world.
Raw chocolate is a magical and gentle facilitator of healing, altering our consciousness, taking us into our hearts and inspiring creativity. We will be using the finest grade cacao from Guatemala.
No previous experience of healing workshops, laughter & cacao ceremonies or shamanic journeying required. All welcome.
Wombens' Work
Healing workshops for Women
This is a healing workshop working with Goddess archetypes, ritual, movement and art.
Sister circles working with goddesses & archetypes, myths & stories, ritual & ceremony to explore reveal and awaken our innate feminine essence and power.
The first archetype we will work with is: INANNA
No previous experience of healing workshops required. All those who identify as women welcome.
Animal Spirit Medicine
Healing workshops with Animal Magic
This is healing workshop working with animal spirit guides. We will journey, connect and shape-shift with our power animals – embodying and honouring their medicine.
‘Power Animals’ are spirit allies, that chose a particular animal form, due to an affinity with our nature, so that we can relate to the skills they bring and awaken in us. If we work with their ‘medicine’, they can support us and enrich our lives.
Do you want to find out who your personal animal guides are, experience a closer connection with them and receive the medicine they bring for you?
Since the time of cave-paintings, humans have lived in awe of the animal kingdom. Indigenous peoples tend to live in harmony with nature and the animals they eat. Elsewhere, animals are often misused, ill-treated and exploited by human ignorance and greed; their habitats are being destroyed and their numbers diminishing. During this workshop we honour and prey for our animal kin, revering the magnificence of every creature as our relation. Aho Mitakuye Oyasin.
No previous experience of healing workshops or shamanism required. All welcome.
“Sue was born to run laughter workshops! She has a hugely infectious laugh, and is full to the brim, if not overflowing, with enthusiasm. Her passion for life, love and laughter is inspiring. She can be trusted to hold space for laughter as well as tears.”
Ben Taylor
Artist, Devon
“I have been lucky enough to attend two of Sue Holmes’s laughter workshops. I arrived at the last one feeling a little down and unsure if I was ‘in the mood’ but after much hilarity I felt lighter, more connected and in a wonderful space. Sue is a very talented, fun and highly skilled facilitator with whom you are in very safe and knowledgeable hands.”
Rosie Harrison
Energy healer and Massage therapist, Herefordshire
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