Ref: Cumbria Green Guide, Harvest Issue, 2007
Remarkable Meetings with Trees
- James Ellwood-
As a child I can remember being acutely aware of the the presence of trees.
Whenever I was upset I would find a safe refuge in the embrace of an old yew tree in the garden, or a gnarled oak in the woods.
Sometimes at night I would feel overwhelmed by the energy and power emanating from the woods.
I could always turn to trees to feel safe, protected and held.
Years of working outside as a dry stone-waller and landscaper, meant that I never forgot the voice of the trees and over the past four years that voice has been more keenly heard than ever before.
The trees have an immense amount of wisdom and awareness to communicate with us, and slowly they have been showing me how to introduce people to them in a way which will enable them to hear.
This is where Tree Spirit Journeys comes in.
A Tree Spirit Journey offers a way of deepening our awareness of trees, and the latent energy within each tree species and each individual tree. Slowing down our body and mind to reach the state of awareness needed to be able to feel for ourselves the subtle energies in our most valuable plant allies.
Reconnecting us to the knowledge and reverence that we used to have until a few hundred years ago.
A Tree Spirit Journey begins to explore the vast wealth of history and mythology associated with different trees and tree species.
Each journey will firstly consist of exercises in awareness of our own energy which will assist us to differentiate our own energy from the other more subtle energies around us. Most of us take these for granted, as we are so used to them that they disappear under the stresses and strains of modern living.
Tree Spirit Journeys are a way of slowing down the mind enough to be able to have a shift in perception and consciousness, to be able to connect and appreciate the energies in the longest living beings on our planet. Making available all the magic and forgotten law these beings hold within their species' memory which has been written over the years in myth and legend.
Tree Spirit Journeys are offered throughout Cumbria, and further afield, on a group or individual basis.
For further details please contact James Ellwood on UK (0)7731 797619 or james.treeman@yahoo.co.uk