Inner Shaman Adventure - Hoska Ceremony

As I entered the check-in area at the airport, I saw my accidental Ayahuasca doula and we greeted each other like long lost friends.

  ‘Are you going to Aniwa?’

  ‘Yes, I am!’

Little did I know that this would be a weekend of synchronicities, magic and some deep healing. I was blessed to meet with some of the most powerful Shamans on the planet and was a part of some very different ceremonies, stories, discussions and rituals. To go through all the experiences would be tantamount to a novel but when I came back to London to finally move house, I did so with a renewed sense of wonder at the magic this planet holds and a deep sense of gratitude to my ancestors, the elements and the Grace that weaves my life together.

Whilst there I met a Shaman called Anthar Kharana who led some of us in a hoska ceremony as part of creating and building a labyrinth over the four days we were together. I had been involved in rapé ceremonies and during Aniwa had many opportunities to work with tobacco, but hoska is known to have a softer response and was new to me. I was intrigued to see what the medicine would bring.  

We sat in a circle and Anthar spoke about the labyrinth and the medicine it creates and how we could be a part of the magic it held. We all agreed that we wanted to be a part of creating something loving on the island, a space that would provide others the levels of transformation we all wanted to achieve.

Anthar gave us the gift of song and together we sang about how we are all family, including the animals, wind, stones and the elements, how they are a part of us and we are a part of them. As we sang, I felt my heart open and be closer to the earth and her magic, I felt a sense of aliveness and a deep communion with all beings.

As Anthar delicately, and with great respect, imparted the medicine, it worked immediately and I came into contact with the women from my two ancestral lines. The Scottish on one side, the Italian on the other and between them they formed a great river of tears. In their tears I could feel their strength, pain and hear their stories. I was told that my sisters and I are the bearers of our ancestral pain, their heartbreak, love and wisdom.

I saw those women crying, expressing their deepest pain, trauma and tragedy and my tears joined theirs - I couldn’t stop crying. I was with them, I could feel them. In that moment, I understood that the blood contained in my veins was much more than fluid that delivers nutrients and oxygen – it also holds history and destiny.

In a vision I saw that my sisters and I expressed this suffering and knowledge differently, particularly with the way we approached relationships. We three, different branches of the same river, navigating the connections in our life, were trying to make sense of the inherited knowledge with our own karmic ties.

I was told that part of our mission on the planet today was to heal ourselves as well as our ancestral pain. We were placed here to start the process of healing so that future generations will be born clean of historical trauma and make way for a new way of living.

So let it be so.

Aho.

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Hoska Ceremony facilitated by Anthar Kharana 

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Inner Shaman Adventures - Cacao Ceremony 20

In the summer, fresh from her Cacao Shamanista training, my oldest friend agreed to hold a cacao ceremony on magical Wimbledon Common. There were 4 of us and I was blessed to have a deep connection with all of the participants there as well as the common, one of my most favourite places on this earth.

We walked and found a small enclosed area in the woods and set up the space to drink.

My intention was to decide whether to leave my lovely home in Wimbledon and the heart space I had created for myself - my place of self-healing and sanctuary in a place that resonated with my need for urban and country. We were being offered a choice to live in two rooms in a shared space in Wimbledon or to move to our new home further outside of London where space, privacy and peace abounded.

I pulled the card, ‘Transformation’ and instantly I knew what my decision was as I could see how this new change, the next phase of my life, could be a perfect step on my path.

We lay down to journey and Old Mother Cacao came and sat beside me.

  ‘Darling, the time has come. You are entering the field of relationship on a deeper level. You need a place to root down so you can healthily blossom in love.’

I watched her as she sat there composed, she inhaled her mapacho, studying my situation in detail.

  ‘You have been waiting for this, aching for it.’

I realised the waiting for the perfect place, and the indecisiveness of my flatmate held its own perfect pattern. Nothing is done by accident on this planet and my frustrations with how I felt things should be rather than how they are melted away.’

  ‘In your new home you will be in the perfect place to create sanctuary for people. You will support, heal and comfort others on their path when they enter your home. In this space you will find peace – no more constant traffic outside your window shaking your vibration constantly. Remember what Ayahuasca told you about the constant interruptions to your energy fields.’

I remember seeing my auric field being constantly impacted by the unwanted noise and how Aya had told me I would become sick if I was constantly subjected to this sound pollution.

I saw my future as we grew as a family and how the extra people in my life would open me up to new and wonderful experiences.

  ‘You will expand in love and many people will pass through your doors and feel all the better for it.’

After a while, she looked at me and stated to me that it is time to start working with her to heal others. She stated it is my path to work with her as an equal and support those who need to find answers like I do as well.

  ‘You are ready my darling, it is time to learn from me in a new way. Use me regularly and let me show your new path will unfold.’

When we came out of the journey I pulled the card, ‘The Lovers’. I realised that a new path to help me refine my reserves of compassion was about to begin.

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Cacao Ceremonies facilitated by Carmen Saccone

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