tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92165240731846876512024-03-05T21:40:01.485+00:00Shaman Sham's BlogShaman Sham the Wandering Hedgehoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09923755078234965090noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216524073184687651.post-32362116057260169172013-02-10T14:03:00.004+00:002013-02-10T14:20:35.610+00:00Preparing for a human hoglet<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> 2013 already and I think I’m a bit late to say ‘happy new
year’ so I’ll send many blessings for a wonderful 2013 to you all instead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have been staying in Durham, in the north of England with
my friends Joe and Claire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a very
exciting time because they are expecting a human hoglet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Human hoglets are called babies so I’ve been
learning all about them so I can be helpful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hedgehogs have a litter of four to five
hoglets after a five week pregnancy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Poor humans take a whole nine months of pregnancy to have one baby
although sometimes they can have more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Like hedgehogs, humans like to prepare a nesting site for the baby and this
is called a nursery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I’ve been
helping prepare the nursery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">With new friends in the nursery</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Apparently
they don’t like compost bringing into the nursery though, although personally I
think it would make a lovely warm baby bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Customs for welcoming the human baby vary around the world including decorating
the nursery, giving the baby presents when it arrives and holding a special
ceremony to welcome it into the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According
to my research sometimes special adults are chosen to protect the child so,
just in case, I looked this up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Obviously I couldn’t be a godmother as I’m a male hedgehog, although I
quite fancied the idea of having a sparkly wand and casting a blessing on the
baby when it arrives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I looked up
godfather instead which was a bit confusing as I don’t think Joe would like me
making anyone who upset the baby sleep with the fishes!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is so wonderful that Joe and Claire have let me be a part
of their family at this very special time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As you probably know if you have been reading my blog I was born at <a href="http://www.secretworld.org/" target="_blank">Secret World Wildlife Rescue</a> who do wonderful work in raising lost hoglets and looking
after injured hedgehogs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Preparing for
Joe and Claire’s new baby has made me wonder if it is time to meet a nice sow,
settle down and have hoglets of my own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
doesn’t really work like that for hedgehogs though as we are pretty solitary animals
so maybe the settling down bit wouldn’t work!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">While I’ve been away June managed to get Issue 15 of the
<a href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/" target="_blank">Indie Shaman magazine</a> done and dispatched even though I wasn’t there to help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a great edition featuring an interview
with <a href="http://www.christamackinnon.com/" target="_blank">Christa MacKinnon</a>, author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shamanism
and Spirituality in Therapeutic Practice</i>, and articles including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Cactus Of Mystery</i> by <a href="http://www.thefourgates.org/" target="_blank">Ross Heaven</a>; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Web of Life: Guidance for your Life Journey</i>
by <a href="http://www.yvonneryves.com/page3.htm" target="_blank">Yvonne Ryves</a>; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Northern Plantlore:
Asparagus</i> by <a href="http://www.eoghanodinsson.com/" target="_blank">Eoghan Odinsson</a>; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mandalas</i>
by <a href="http://chaoticat.com/" target="_blank">Cat Hawkins</a>; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Archetypes in Everyday
Life</i> by <a href="http://spiraltales.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Judith Stafford</a> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shedding
the Layers</i> by <a href="http://markflaherty.co.uk/" target="_blank">Mark Flaherty</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus a
wonderfully informative article, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gateways
of the Mind: Welcome to the Sun of Darkness</i>, written by <a href="http://innerhealingjourneys.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Paul Baskerville </a>reporting
on the Gateways of the Mind Event in London.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And of course 50p from all UK
subscriptions and all PDF subscriptions is donated to support wildlife including
<a href="http://www.secretworld.org/" target="_blank">Secret World</a> and <a href="http://www.wwuk.org/" target="_blank">Wolf Watch UK</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Maybe I’ll be back for the next edition which sounds
excellent too with articles from <a href="http://www.blueskywaters.com/" target="_blank">Jim Pathfinder Ewing</a> on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Spiritual Eating in the Modern World</i> and an article by <a href="http://www.african-shaman.com/" target="_blank">John Lockley</a>, an ancestrally trained and initiated Xhosa Sangoma (traditional South
African Shaman).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>June is planning to catch
up with John in person as <a href="http://www.archetypeevents.com/" target="_blank">Archetype Events</a> are running a workshop with him in
Bristol in June.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.archetypeevents.com/" target="_blank">Archetype Events</a> are also running the <a href="http://www.archetypeevents.com/tle" target="_blank">LucidExperience</a> in London and Bristol as well as more Gateways of the Mind Events in
<a href="http://www.archetypeevents.com/dublin" target="_blank">Dublin</a> and <a href="http://www.archetypeevents.com/amsterdam" target="_blank">Amsterdam</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are an <a href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/indieshamanshamanicmagazine.html" target="_blank">Indie Shaman subscriber</a> look out
for<a href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/indieshamandiscounts.html" target="_blank"> special offers and discounts</a> coming soon on these events.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span id="goog_1203148944"></span><span id="goog_1203148945"></span> Following my quick trip into the snow with my new friend its
time I was off for a little dreaming of my own again - back to the
serious business of snoozing through hibernation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Your friend, Ezekiel</span></div>
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Shaman Sham the Wandering Hedgehoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09923755078234965090noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216524073184687651.post-59785592746594270232012-11-02T11:34:00.000+00:002012-11-02T11:34:26.710+00:00Autumn in Cardiff and Bonfire Safety for Wildlife<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Many thanks to my friend Bear aka <a href="http://rebeccalbrownupdates.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Rebecca Brown</a> for letting me stay with her in Cardiff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’ve visited Wales many times yet never been to its capital before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Above </span>is a photo of me by the hyena on Cardiff castle wall. The animal
statues were put there by the owner of the castle when he was denied
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mention bonfire night, dreaded eve for wildlife and cats and dogs
everywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please keep your animal
friends indoors and if you buy fireworks please think of wildlife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you really need the loudest
bangers you can find?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or will something
quieter and prettier do the celebrating far better?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also …</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">PLEASE CHECK BONFIRES FOR HEDGEHOGS BEFORE LIGHTING!</span></div>
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though which is a bit like time travelling I think. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During its 2000 years Cardiff Castle has been
a Roman Garrison, a Norman stronghold and even transformed into a gothic
fantasy which all sounds a bit Dr Who-ish to me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is said Roman legions could have arrived in Cardiff as
early as during the reign of Emperor Nero (54-68 AD).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The invasion which started in 43 AD was met by
resistance led by Catuvellaunian nobles Caractacus and Togodumnus. Catuvellaunia was in the South East of England
and includes what is now Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire,
Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Togodumnus died but Caractacus fled to the
Welsh hills where he rallied resistance and led the Silures and Ordovices
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Celtic speaking tribe, the Silures, who were based in
south-east Wales were a sophisticated people who traded widely, made use of
horses and horse-drawn vehicles and had war chariots with trappings decorated
with red enamel. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This Iron-Age tribe
managed to defeat a whole Roman legion during a bloody campaign which lasted
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Caractacus was defeated in 50 AD at the Battle of Caer
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a Northern British tribe who handed him over to the Romans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Caractacus was then taken to Rome where,
following making a speech, he was pardoned by the Emperor and held in high
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and exile of Caractacus the Romans built their first fort at Cardiff where the
River Taff nears the Bristol Channel as a campaign base in the still hostile territory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then in around 75 AD they rebuilt the fort in the area now occupied by the southern half of the castle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Around 250 AD another new fort was built with
10 foot thick stone walls backed by an earth bank and this remained in use
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After the Roman occupation the native princes of Glamorgan
based themselves about a mile to the north and the fort fell to ruin until the
Normans arrived and Robert Fitzhamon, the Norman Lord of Gloucester built his
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In 1947 the Castle was given to the people of Cardiff by the
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Back soon with more news on my adventures in Cardiff. Talking of travel and history look out for some great photos of me in <a href="http://www.groveradio.net/" target="_blank">Charlotte Shirvington</a>'s article in the next edition of the<a href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/" target="_blank"> Indie Shaman magazine</a>, one from when I was visiting <a href="http://www.thefourgates.org/" target="_blank">Ross Heaven</a> and the other from when I met Mike Stygal of the<a href="http://www.paganfed.org/" target="_blank"> Pagan Federation</a>. Good to know I'm not forgotten while I'm away!<br /><br />Many blessings</span></span></div>
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While I was staying with Maggie and Les, Les offered to take me to work with him to learn about making light. I'm all for treating things humorously so was happy to go along to <a href="http://www.paceuk.com/" target="_blank">Pace UK</a> to learn more.<br />
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Once Les had explained what he actually meant I had to make light of my hedgehog brain and was even more excited to know I was going to learn to be an electronic design engineer! <span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span>Les is very clever and has worked for some big companies, including working in Europe, the USA and the Far East so we had plenty to talk about as I have been to Europe and the USA as well. I haven't been to the Far East though which sounds a very interesting place to go also.</div>
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Les told me how he set up <a href="http://www.paceuk.com/" target="_blank">Pace UK</a> 10 years ago to provide LED technology as an alternative to conventional light sources and showed me some of his work. Here I am concentrating hard as Les shows me how to solder. <span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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As it turned out hedgehog paws aren't very good at soldering so I took a seat safely out of the way and watched instead.</div>
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I really enjoyed my stay in Axbridge including learning about light
and energy from another perspective! I've now just arrived in Cardiff to stay with my new friends. Very exciting as I've never been to Cardiff before. Will tell you all about them soon.<br />
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On a sadder note I was sorry to hear that while I was travelling my dear friend and
adopted brother Keller Cat passed on. He will be sadly missed by his
family and friends. He was one of my best friends and being older and
wiser, when I was first adopted
taught me all about how to manage humans which he had down to a fine
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Recently I’ve been learning all about acting at <a href="http://www.axbridgecommunitytheatre.org.uk/%20" target="_blank">Axbridge Community Theatre </a>where <a href="http://www.paceforliving.co.uk/" target="_blank">Maggie</a> had a part as a parlour maid in the play <i>Pygmalion</i>
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Director, Wendy Mace, was very nice. She gave me a program
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story about a professor of phonetics, Henry Higgins, who makes a bet that he
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The part of Eliza was played by Sarah Kendall who is pictured here being ‘poshed up’ by <a href="http://www.acutabovehair.co.uk/" target="_blank">Sara Boundy</a>. 'I washed me face and hands before I come, I did' so I didn't muck her up again while I was getting in the picture.
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Many thanks to everyone at <a href="http://www.axbridgecommunitytheatre.org.uk/%20" target="_blank">Axbridge Community Theatre</a> for letting me join in and I
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I've taken the opportunity since to learn more about George Bernard Shaw who said “Animals
are my friends and I don't eat my friends.” Very sensible I think in respect of hedgehogs ... although personally I
don’t think it counts for slugs and snails.</div>
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Shaman Sham </div>Shaman Sham the Wandering Hedgehoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09923755078234965090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216524073184687651.post-23126019243670899602012-06-19T20:50:00.001+01:002012-06-19T20:51:48.122+01:00A Hedgehog’s eye view of the Jubilee<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Sorry I'm a bit late posting my blog about the Jubilee. June apologies too as she is the one who helps me with the typing and she has been busy pulling together the Summer Edition of the <a href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/indieshamanshamanicmagazine.html" target="_blank">Indie Shaman Magazine</a>. She had lots of interesting articles from authors and as the magazine is due out of the end of July, this is the month she has to finish the editing.</div>
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Anyway back to the Jubilee, which happened while I was
staying with <a href="http://www.paceforliving.co.uk/" target="_blank">Maggie</a>, who took me along to the <a href="http://www.axbridge-tc.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Axbridge</a> Jubilee Celebrations where
I had a great time and met lots of interesting people. Everyone was very welcoming and nice to me as you can see from my title photo. I met Tessa Munt, the Liberal Democrat MP for the Wells Constituency; the Reverend Tim Hawkins; Mrs. Yvonne Chamberlain, the Town Crier; Ian Laken the Mayor and his wife; and the Deputy Mayor, John Albone. I also met Mike Sartain, the Deputy Chair of Axbridge Chamber of Commerce as you can see from the photo below. </div>
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I’ve been learning about the Queen’s Jubilee. The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee marks 60 years of
the Queen’s reign. That means the Queen
came to the throne on 6 February 1952.
Her coronation was on 2 June 1953. The only other British monarch to celebrate a
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One of the special projects launched for the Jubilee was the
Woodlands Trust <a href="http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/en/jubilee-woods/Pages/home.aspx#.T-DUHfW2C_w" target="_blank">Jubilee Woods</a>. This
will create a 460 acre public wood in Leicestershire and also plant 6 million
trees across the UK creating hundreds of new woodlands. Planting has already started in Autumn last
year and will continue until the end of 2012.
I think this is a very good idea and all my wild animal friends will
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I have been learning about Axbridge while I am here, which is a lovely medieval
town on the Southern slope of the Mendips in Somerset. It has some wonderful old buildings one of
which I visited; the<a href="http://www.kingjohnshuntinglodge.co.uk/" target="_blank"> King Johns Hunting Lodge</a> is a museum in a 450 year old
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As you can see I am now a very cultivated
hedgehog. The museum is run by a
dedicated group of local volunteers and has many interesting things in it including
prehistoric bones found in caves in Bamwell.
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I took the opportunity to learn more
about being a hedgehog during my visit to Secret World. Of course I know a fair bit about actually <i>being</i> a
hedgehog but it’s always good to get a human perspective on our world which I
can share with you all. I also wanted to let you know how you can help wild hedgehogs as we need your help and make good garden friends you know.</div>
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Hedgehogs aren’t just handsome (as a friend remarked on my appearance on my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/shaman.sham" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>) we are
also valuable friends to have around your garden as we are one of the best pest
controllers there are. As anyone who has
had me visit them will know I do have a rather large appetite but did you know an
adult hedgehog like me can clear a slug-infested garden in three months? Hedgehogs
are insectivores which mean we eat slugs, beetles, worms and caterpillars. Bread and milk isn’t good for us but poorly
or rescue hedgehogs can be fed cat or puppy food.</div>
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Unfortunately hedgehog numbers have
dropped by 25% over the last decade.
Changes in farming practices haven’t helped but most hedgehogs actually
live in suburban areas so I’m sorry to say that its changes in people’s gardening
which have actually caused hedgehog numbers to fall so drastically in recent
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Hedgehogs do, unsurprisingly, like hedges to
hang out in but hedges have been replaced by fences and walls with no gaps for
us to get in and out of the garden - effectively locking us out from helping you
with your slug problem. People are also paving
or decking their gardens, and appearance and tidiness seems to matter more than
having the odd wildlife friendly area. </div>
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So what can you do to get your own wild
hedgehog friend helping you with your garden?
We like:<br />
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<li>piles of leaves and longer grass</li>
<li>a source of drinking water - if it’s a pond please make sure we can escape if we fall in</li>
<li>log piles, compost heaps, hedges/shrubs</li>
<li>hedges or walls and gates with gaps for us to get underneath or through. </li>
</ul>
Basically a hedgehog, like humans, needs
food, water and shelter. But unlike humans
you can provide for a hedgehog with a good compost heap! If you haven’t got a hedge then shrubs or
keeping a wild bramble patch will do – we’re not that fussy. If you leave some leaf litter that will be
perfect for us to make a nest with and did you know slugs also like to eat
leaves so they will be eating them rather than your plants while the hedgehog
will be eating the slugs. Once you have
a hedgehog in your garden keep it safe by checking any fruit nets aren’t too
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Many people don’t want hedgehogs in
their garden as they think we have lots of fleas. All wildlife has some fleas and hedgehogs
have no more than any other wild animal.
Hedgehog fleas only live on hedgehogs so it’s not true that encouraging
hedgehog will mean your pets ‘catch’ our fleas!
Of course personally I have no fleas at all!</div>
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solitary.</li>
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</span>Hedgehogs have 2 litters a year between June to
July and September to October. We have
on average 4 or 5 hoglets but litters can be as large as 8.</li>
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<li>·<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span>Hoglets are born blind without spines which develop
within an hour of birth. Baby spines are
soft and white with brown spines appearing within a few days. Eyes open after two weeks.</li>
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</span>Weaning takes place after 3 – 4 weeks when the
hoglets will follow their mother on foraging trips. The hoglets leave home at around 6 to 8 weeks
old.</li>
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</span>Hedgehogs hibernate from November to around
February/March when there is no food.</li>
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Many blessings on your hedgehog helping</div>
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Sham<br />
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Hedgehog information and facts courtesy of <a href="http://www.secretworld.org/" target="_blank">Secret World Wildlife Rescue</a> and <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/" target="_blank">the Guardian Online.</a><br />
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To find out how you can help Secret World with their rescue work<a href="http://www.secretworld.org/" target="_blank"> visit their website </a>or donate via <a href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/" target="_blank">Indie Shaman</a>'s <a href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/charityfund.html" target="_blank">Charity Fund</a> to help continue my adoption.</div>Shaman Sham the Wandering Hedgehoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09923755078234965090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216524073184687651.post-81952445818882316012012-06-06T20:13:00.000+01:002012-06-06T20:19:59.546+01:00The Secret World of an Assertive Hedgehog<br />
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I was so excited to arrive at my friend Maggie’s last week. I’ve met Maggie before when June, Simon and
Judith from <a href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/" target="_blank">Indie Shaman</a> met her on one of <a href="http://www.davidrowan.co.uk/list/moonlight_stonehenge.html" target="_blank">David Rowan’s Stonehenge tours</a>. Maggie knows a lot about hedgehogs already
as she volunteers for <a href="http://www.secretworld.org/" target="_blank">Secret World Wildlife Rescue</a> where I was born. Here I am having a rest after my journey and enjoying
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Maggie also runs <a href="http://www.paceforliving.co.uk/%20%20" target="_blank">Pace for Living</a>.
She’s been a therapist for over 20 years which is more years than since I was born! </div>
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Maggie runs training courses
and let me help her teach assertiveness at the Carlton Centre, Weston Super
Mare. I’m very good at assertiveness
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Then Maggie took me for a visit to <a href="http://www.secretworld.org/" target="_blank">Secret World Wildlife Rescue</a>. It made me feel quite emotional seeing my old
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<a href="http://www.secretworld.org/" target="_blank">Secret World</a> is a charity in South West England which rescues, rehabilitates and
releases injured, sick or orphaned wildlife.
Last year they helped around 4000 of us.
They also carry out educational visits in schools to teach children about
nature and what they can do to protect wildlife, and have a conservation area including
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Do you know that I’m
endangered? It’s not just me and my
hedgehog family and friends either as hedgehogs are only one of the many species of
wildlife that were once common but are now on the endangered list. Makes me feel very sad so I'm lucky I have all my friends to cheer me up and to help, and even luckier that there is somewhere like Secret World Wildlife Rescue.<br />
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Secret World relies on charitable
donations to be able to do its work so if you are holding a fundraiser do take
a look at <a href="http://www.secretworld.org/" target="_blank">their website</a>. You can also
help Secret World by adopting an Owl, Fox, Badger or Otter and you will get
information about your adopted animal as well as your own cuddly friend. And if you treat them well they may develop a
personality with assertiveness like I have.<br />
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Your friend,Shaman Sham the Wandering
Hedgehog</div>Shaman Sham the Wandering Hedgehoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09923755078234965090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216524073184687651.post-60563731084166871772012-05-22T14:45:00.002+01:002012-05-22T14:54:08.918+01:00Exploring Ancient Pembrokeshire<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A shamanic journey to Pentre Ifan*</td></tr>
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The second week of our holiday in Wales June, Simon, Indi and I set off again, leaving Stepaside for a short hour and a half journey to a caravan site at Llanychaer near Fishguard. The caravan site was lovely and very peacefully with beautiful views over Cwm Gwaun. However June and Simon’s faces were not quite so lovely a picture as they approached the site and saw the hill they had to go down to get to it. Going down wasn’t a problem but they were right and had to call out a knight of the road from a local towing company to get them back up it in order to go home at the end of the week!<br />
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The first place June wanted to visit was Pentre Ifan. Unfortunately, or fortunately as the case may be, they turned off the road too soon and ended up at the beginning of a walk to Tycanol ancient woodland. Tycanol,one of the few remaining ancient woodlands in Wales, is representative of the type of forest that would have surrounded Pentre Ifan when the tomb was built around 3500 BCE. <span id="goog_1196118589"></span><span id="goog_1196118590"></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These lucky sheep live in the tranquility of Tycanol</td></tr>
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Tycanol is
understandably wonderfully atmospheric and if you are fortunate enough to take a walk there yourself look out for one of its outstanding features, the variety of lichen. There are over 400 species of lichen many of which are rare, as well as of course many trees including ancient oak.<br />
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Pentre Ifan itself has a huge capstone unbelievably balanced on three upright stones. This Bronze Age megalithic burial is
surrounded by extensive views over the Nevern Valley. Turn one way and you can see the sea, turn the other way and you see the stones perfectly framing Carningli, Hill of Angels.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carreg Coetan - 5 foot 5 inches tall to the capstone as proven by June (and Indi)!</td></tr>
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A smaller Neolithic tomb, Carreg Coetan, can be found in the middle of a small private housing estate at Newport.<br />
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Another visit on June’s list of ‘essentials’ was the Celtic Cross at the Church of St Brynach, an ancient church located in a wooded valley at Nevern. St Brynach was an Irish born Celtic monk who married the daughter of a Breconshire chieftan. Legend says St Bryach came to the Gwaun Valley and freed Pontfaen from evil spirits whose horrible howling had made the village uninhabitable. When he arrived in Nevern an angel told him a white sow would show him where to build his church.<br />
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The tower of the church you can visit today is Norman but the remainder dates to around 1425 – 1525. The avenue leading to the church is ancient yew trees. These ‘bleeding yews’ were believed to shed blood and you can see why when you see the red sap dripping
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If you visit do go into the church itself to see the Maglocunus Stone which has an Ogham inscription in Goidelic, the Irish branch of the Celtic language then predominant in parts
of Wales. No dog's are allowed inside but as hedgehogs weren't mentioned I went in with June. While you are in the church pick up a booklet (for a small donation) to make sure you don’t miss any of the other fascinating ancient features here. The Great Cross itself is very difficult to miss at 13 feet high. One of the most perfect specimens of Celtic Cross of its kind it dates from around the 10th or 11th century. Just before the Celtic Cross near the church porch is the bilingual Vitalianus Stone, believed to date from the 5th century – one of the oldest examples of this type of monument.<br />
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Other features well worth looking out for include: the male mask on the wall near the Vitalianus stone; the incised stone believed to be a remnant of a vertical Latin inscription dating from the last years of the Roman occupation on the north wall of the church; and the Consecration Cross on the wall of the Glasdir Chapel.<br />
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We will definitely be going back to visit this beautiful area of Pembrokeshire again to explore all the areas of the Preseli Hills we didn't have time to see. In the meantime I am leaving June and Simon to work on creating the <a href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/indieshamanshamanicmagazine.html" target="_blank">Summer edition of the Indie Shaman magazine </a>while I hit the road again. Back soon to tell you all about where I am and what I am learning about!<br />
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Many blessings<br />
Shaman Sham<br />
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p.s. * My title photo 'A shamanic journey to Pentre Ifan' is apropos and in appreciation of <a href="http://www.shamanstouch.com/" target="_blank">Kenn Day's book 'Dance of Stones: A Shamanic Road Trip'. </a> June reviewed it for the <a href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/" target="_blank">Indie Shaman</a> magazine and highly recommended it so I'm reading it before I hit the road again for another shamanic road trip of my own. </div>Shaman Sham the Wandering Hedgehoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09923755078234965090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216524073184687651.post-81282241480483408012012-05-12T12:23:00.001+01:002012-05-12T12:23:12.554+01:00Stepaside<br />
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The sun is shining so I may help with some gardening again
this weekend. Last weekend when June was
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<i>Waiting for my dinner in the caravan</i></div>
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But first a blog update about my lovely fortnight’s caravan
holiday in Wales with June, Simon and Indi.
Indie is my adopted dog-sister.
Like me Indi was born in a rescue so we have a lot in common. I was born at <a href="http://www.secretworld.org/" target="_blank">Secret World Wildlife Rescue</a> and
adopted by <a href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/" target="_blank">Indie Shaman</a> in 2009 so I’m a couple of years older than Indi who
was born in a foster home with <a href="http://www.fourpawsanimalrescue.org.uk/" target="_blank">Four Paws Animal Rescue</a> and adopted by June and
Simon. Indi had her second birthday
while we were on holiday but didn’t have a cake which was a bit disappointing,
only a dog toy, but she did share some of her dog snacks and chicken with me.<br />
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<i>Comfy rock 'seat' at Amroth</i></div>
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For the first week we stayed at <a href="http://www.millhousecaravan.co.uk/Home.html" target="_blank">Millhouse Caravan Park</a> which
is in Stepaside near Saundersfoot. If you
are looking for a place to stay the site is very nice and quiet, nestled in a
sheltered valley. You can take a short
but lovely walk from there through the woods to Wiseman’s Bridge which is what
we did the day after we arrived. <br />
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Stepaside is not very far from June’s Mum so I got to meet
my adopted Grannie for the first time. We
met her every day and went out to the sea side.
The weather was a bit cold but the rain held off enough for us to go out
nearly every afternoon. I think my
favourite place was Amroth, which means ‘on the brook called Rhath’. Amroth has a long sandy beach with lots of
rock pools and wonderful views across the coast. There
is a handy pebble bank to the beach where you can find comfy large rocks to sit
on if the sand is damp. <br />
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Sham</div>Shaman Sham the Wandering Hedgehoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09923755078234965090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216524073184687651.post-37259412126696060922012-04-13T10:47:00.010+01:002012-04-13T11:15:54.799+01:00Hibernation<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSiZ09vqszdeEa0qkqIiE5BCHIv90RXzsxMuZa-V6n6Vzpsopx0iy5rnIk7x9YRFUVTFKdTlYPXX5f3m9pF70ElDKByPoLlDnBeOfmaQaatdZ8LCia0hevI99PP6Awb4zzOVpXbbEafKw/s1600/DSC_0057.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSiZ09vqszdeEa0qkqIiE5BCHIv90RXzsxMuZa-V6n6Vzpsopx0iy5rnIk7x9YRFUVTFKdTlYPXX5f3m9pF70ElDKByPoLlDnBeOfmaQaatdZ8LCia0hevI99PP6Awb4zzOVpXbbEafKw/s320/DSC_0057.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5730819905119102818" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Hi everyone</span><br /><br style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Sorry about the large gap since my last blog. I decided after all my travels and learning about other things it was time to try hibernating and learn about being a British hedgehog.</span><br /><br style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Hedgehog hibernation depends on the weather conditions and begins when the temperature turns colder, usually around November to January, and ends around mid-March to early April. Our food, such as slugs, snails and caterpillars, is more difficult to find during this time so it makes sense to conserve our energy - during hibernation a hedgehog’s metabolism is almost at a standstill. If we live somewhere where it stays warm, or live indoors and there is enough food we don’t need to hibernate. So this is why I have never tried hibernating before as people tend to keep me warm and feed me cat food when slugs and snails aren’t available. I also like muesli and raisins very much (always worth telling people what you like to eat I think just in case you go to visit them). </span><br /><br style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Hedgehogs start looking for the best place to build a nest to hibernate in towards the end of autumn, liking under hedges, by the roots of trees and inside old rabbit burrows. Urban hedgehogs also like underneath sheds and inside compost heaps. Nests may look a bit messy and are made up of things like old leaves and grass. I admit I didn’t start looking until after Winter Solstice and then I didn’t have to look very far to find a nice comfy bed going spare. I didn’t bring in any old leaves as I didn’t think it would be appreciated and the quilt is much comfier. </span><br /><br style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">When hedgehogs hibernate we become immobile, our body's temperature drops to around 10˚c, our heart rate decreases to only 20 beats per minute (as opposed to the usual approximate 190 beats per minute and we only breath once every few minutes.<br /><br style="font-family:verdana;"></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">I woke up a few times while I was hibernating. Once because Biscuit the cat moved into the bed while Judith was visiting so I moved back out into the doll’s cot for the night. The second time because it was my birthday and I didn’t want to miss out on any potential presents and party food. I did think about staying awake then as I gave June a hand with the new <a href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/indieshamanbooks.html">Books page</a> on the <a href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/">Indie Shaman website</a> but once I got back into bed the temptation to go back into hibernation and learn more from Grandmother Hedgehog was too much.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghr-oKd7O1UsG3waKPaN_gKFtsQ-jaARBRI45A9E8d56Ds4lta5S_aETW82Ct6a7nIszC7eR9ERJ58gAKJ_n6_xgAWPCtEWxQesIZC6WfchHLKr7gCHJSOcSUZ-epXE9RW239sR5_YK-A/s1600/DSC_0054.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghr-oKd7O1UsG3waKPaN_gKFtsQ-jaARBRI45A9E8d56Ds4lta5S_aETW82Ct6a7nIszC7eR9ERJ58gAKJ_n6_xgAWPCtEWxQesIZC6WfchHLKr7gCHJSOcSUZ-epXE9RW239sR5_YK-A/s320/DSC_0054.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5730822076100468930" border="0" /></a><br />The third time I woke up was because Rochelle was here. Rochelle and June went on a <a href="http://ukwct.org.uk/">Walk with Wolves</a> and brought back my new friend, Laputa. He is only a young wolf so once Rochelle had gone I let him sleep with me as he still likes to sleep as part of the pack. (You can see some of the photos from the Walk with Wolves Day on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/junekent">June's Facebook</a>)</span><br /><br style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Other hedgehogs also wake up fairly frequently for a day or two during their hibernation but rarely leave their nests. If the weather becomes too cold we tend to wake up and go and build another nest as it’s dangerous for us to get too cold. If you see a hedgehog wobbling, staggering or rocking it needs help as that is a sign of hypothermia - sick, injured and orphaned hedgehogs are very susceptible to hypothermia. They may also look like they are sunbathing as they spread themselves out in the sun to try to get some heat. Hedgehogs with hypothermia can be helped by taking them indoors and putting them in a box with a well-wrapped hot water bottle underneath them. Don’t let the bottle get cold and ring a hedgehog rescue centre such as <a href="http://www.secretworld.org/">Secret World Wildlife Rescue</a> or the <a href="http://www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk/">British Hedgehog Preservation Society. </a></span><br /><br style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">I’m going to stay awake now. The spring edition of the <a href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/indieshamanshamanicmagazine.html">Indie Shaman Magazine</a> is due from <a href="http://www.minutemanbristol.com/">Minuteman Press</a> today. It’s got some great articles in it and some wonderful photographs by Rochelle, including some of wolves I want to show Laputa. Plus I’ve heard talk about a trip to Wales so I may see if I can smuggle myself into the caravan without anyone noticing.</span><br /><br style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Promise not to leave it so long to my next blog!</span><br style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Many blessings</span><br face="verdana"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Shaman Sham </span><br style="font-family: verdana;"><br style="font-family: verdana;">Shaman Sham the Wandering Hedgehoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09923755078234965090noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216524073184687651.post-23091739143173597252011-12-21T18:40:00.008+00:002011-12-21T19:06:43.904+00:00Solstice Blessings<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIFTCvDU8ZTOLfMHrvdDHOfyig3kTpSp9uf-FovKcO2RgUcMZiH058H2j-DwXeZ5FP5XZvj8Vr7HYN9osb3HI-jCBUiX4HvT1JwoVV07iL9UNAy1yKUXdrb8E9slgmzTfVKTe2PLPB_LE/s1600/DSCF2999.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIFTCvDU8ZTOLfMHrvdDHOfyig3kTpSp9uf-FovKcO2RgUcMZiH058H2j-DwXeZ5FP5XZvj8Vr7HYN9osb3HI-jCBUiX4HvT1JwoVV07iL9UNAy1yKUXdrb8E9slgmzTfVKTe2PLPB_LE/s320/DSCF2999.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688653722836978802" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Hi all</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I just wanted to wish all my friends many blessings on Solstice or for Yule or Christmas ... whatever you personally are celebrating may your celebrations be wonderful!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">There seems to be something interesting going on here with a pile of food and presents appearing. I wonder which one is for me? I do so love this time of year!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Many blessings to all </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/">Indie Shaman</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> subscribers and customers; to all </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="https://www.facebook.com/IndieShaman">Indie Shaman Facebook</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> friends and </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="https://www.facebook.com/shaman.sham">my personal Facebook friends</a><span style="font-family:verdana;">.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Many blessings also and many thanks to all at </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.minutemanbristol.com/">Minuteman Press Bristol</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> for looking after me so well during my visit and to everyone else I have visited over the past year.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">And last but most certainly not least Many Blessings to all my friends who are reading this because they follow my blog.</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDyBPnPFM1XUtG6RdSGTLFej3G8DVNjWZvJj6qsEHzJ5-7TYVE0XwPWqx0vlKVNm-dLohv1i_QoqmsrQIsfXYO9Gp78WfD9WLVYTpSB4VZqaZooKCTimT8wacNoYCZQPU2lI8U1pv-2Ic/s1600/shamcot.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 249px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDyBPnPFM1XUtG6RdSGTLFej3G8DVNjWZvJj6qsEHzJ5-7TYVE0XwPWqx0vlKVNm-dLohv1i_QoqmsrQIsfXYO9Gp78WfD9WLVYTpSB4VZqaZooKCTimT8wacNoYCZQPU2lI8U1pv-2Ic/s320/shamcot.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688657220780000386" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">As you can see I intend to take it easy over the holidays. I found a lovely little cot (it rocks you know!) that was made by June's Dad for her daughter's dolls when she was a little girl. So I have my own space all set up now with a bed as well as my chair - both are really comfy!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">This evening we have candles lit all around the room for Solstice to help bring the light back. Not much light out there at the moment so maybe I should fetch a few more.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Happy Solstice everybody! And many bright blessings for the Coming Year!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Ezekiel</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">aka Shaman Sham the Wandering Hedgehog<br />(who is currently all wrapped up in the warm planning next year's adventures!)</span>Shaman Sham the Wandering Hedgehoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09923755078234965090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216524073184687651.post-77986587269731795742011-11-26T16:28:00.010+00:002011-11-26T16:52:02.713+00:00Printing the magazine and protecting the environment<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE8EF0Wo8dnVusMbXTMtPVE2qJBl5KJ7vdINnuzrQiQTcvvKSoQBGZdeqYyByzcDHQYMzCnH_G4vbCc3Z6MJvDXBRk7_R5uwGDUpxOQ2qSWyAQ-aat2DDOmxvuagAh_eOT6yngeUfJzqw/s1600/5+Spot+colour+checking.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE8EF0Wo8dnVusMbXTMtPVE2qJBl5KJ7vdINnuzrQiQTcvvKSoQBGZdeqYyByzcDHQYMzCnH_G4vbCc3Z6MJvDXBRk7_R5uwGDUpxOQ2qSWyAQ-aat2DDOmxvuagAh_eOT6yngeUfJzqw/s320/5+Spot+colour+checking.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5679344385836929170" border="0" /></a><p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Now I’ve learned all about printing the <a href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/indieshamanshamanicmagazine.html">Indie Shaman magazine</a> with many thanks to everyone at <a href="http://www.minutemanbristol.com/">Minuteman Press Bristo</a>l.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-size:100%;">It’s been fascinating watching their expertise at work and as I’m very nearly an expert now too I look forward to being able to advise June, the editor, when I get back home.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="verdana"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Here I am doing a post-press spot check of colours and print.</span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">All in order so on to the next stage.</span></span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii2hyphenhyphenC5MUmwzcI5h7YecFH9HpC9m1e5VbvTpxn1sT0ugbqkJyUzwewXWcnTqSPwKBMMg4ilT1KODvskCiuQixH8TVV9XudHvU6tLXK7UJo_sKVVf0b9St0SFSisB5PhxCkJHmfDNnE-VI/s1600/Bindery.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii2hyphenhyphenC5MUmwzcI5h7YecFH9HpC9m1e5VbvTpxn1sT0ugbqkJyUzwewXWcnTqSPwKBMMg4ilT1KODvskCiuQixH8TVV9XudHvU6tLXK7UJo_sKVVf0b9St0SFSisB5PhxCkJHmfDNnE-VI/s320/Bindery.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5679344841869975266" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">When the print run is complete it’s time to collate, staple, fold and trim the edges.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjghDjv4M5okdjpioJrtkNun3LwBuHn2vfhgkIXIeOL019F9LhrJymC7f5jpWagR2WhcCC1rw2XSk2uwBkDkb3Yt4GF54y1oBihBYRzpMPwkuNcGIh4okC7cS-FnwUMoOLFtozbG6Rl-CI/s1600/Packaging.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjghDjv4M5okdjpioJrtkNun3LwBuHn2vfhgkIXIeOL019F9LhrJymC7f5jpWagR2WhcCC1rw2XSk2uwBkDkb3Yt4GF54y1oBihBYRzpMPwkuNcGIh4okC7cS-FnwUMoOLFtozbG6Rl-CI/s320/Packaging.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5679345266885934850" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">All done!</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Just time to box the magazines.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Oh, and what a great image on the front of this particular edition!</span></p> <p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-size:100%;">Just time for a chat with Peter about <a href="http://www.minutemanbristol.com/environment.html">Minuteman Press’s all important environmental policy</a>.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Like <a href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/index.html">Indie Shaman</a>, Minuteman Press Bristol recognises that there is a great responsibility in printing magazines so they use only FSC (Forestry Stewardship Council) certified paper.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-size:100%;">This means the paper is sourced from sustainable forests.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-size:100%;">A sustainable forest is one where felled trees are replaced by new trees.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-size:100%;">It will contain trees of all ages and care is also taken to ensure the safety of any wildlife there.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNFPGTGHBxFBQV6IbItcr4irF-h_pLrz-N9Dqxff2TkOiISJBtrPMFTuHgyGD_jYBQthSItAVHuIoHfsrZYddPLGSOx5UdkQSG1cCYc0GT1u9vyc9146-zP2UxtBPbSdvV_7x97RWDzY4/s1600/Dec+2010+001.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNFPGTGHBxFBQV6IbItcr4irF-h_pLrz-N9Dqxff2TkOiISJBtrPMFTuHgyGD_jYBQthSItAVHuIoHfsrZYddPLGSOx5UdkQSG1cCYc0GT1u9vyc9146-zP2UxtBPbSdvV_7x97RWDzY4/s320/Dec+2010+001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5679345841753048498" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="verdana"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:100%;">All the paper used by Minuteman Press Bristol is EU sourced as well as FSC certificated.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Sourcing things as locally as possible helps carbon emissions – June told me that was important.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere when people (I nearly said ‘we’ then but to be honest its people that do it not hedgehogs) burn fossil fuels.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Fossil fuels are used in transporting things to different places so it’s much better if you can source things locally or from as least far away as possible.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-size:100%;">In nature’s cycle carbon dioxide is absorbed by plants and trees, which is one reason sustainable forestry is so important.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-size:100%;">But the trees can’t keep up with the amount of carbon dioxide people produce which is why it’s equally important to think of the ‘carbon footprint’ of everything you do.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes;font-size:100%;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:100%;" >Peter told me that the inks they use for printing are vegetable based too.</span><span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:100%;" >We then had an interesting talk about plastic bags because Minuteman won’t accept orders to print them and Indie Shaman don’t stock them.</span><span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:100%;" >I don’t like plastic bags either as my cousin hedgehogs in the wild can get stuck in them when they are discarded as litter and suffocate or starve.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes;font-size:100%;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">As a hedgehog it’s always good to know that some people care about things like the environment and plastic bags.</span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Maybe one day all people will but possibly all people aren’t as wise as hedgehogs yet.</span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Well we do pass down our wisdom through the generations and we are quite ancient animals having been around for about 15 million years!</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>Shaman Sham the Wandering Hedgehoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09923755078234965090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216524073184687651.post-15181950301863427492011-11-05T12:54:00.011+00:002011-11-05T14:00:38.266+00:00Visiting Minuteman Press Bristol to find out how our Indie Shaman magazine is made<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: verdana;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEMDvxLYsHfGEXbxymnhZsmBY-LIWMqJsF6ZZAEb4CvdpCrqoWoD7_4lZhRDMNHMxnSxkSYwAt2tVPHGBOvFfcZVe5POvTMiWD-7IIY5wpwCbkLOg7UcSeoWF2w_z_rzbTcTeB7czTymg/s1600/1+preprintprocess1.JPG"><img style="display:block; 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mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--><span style="font-family:verdana;">Hi everyone </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;">I was very happy to hear that Peter Wise, Director of <a href="http://www.minutemanbristol.com/">Minuteman Press Bristol</a>, had said to <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/JuneKent">June Kent on Twitter</a> that they would be happy to have me visit them to learn all about printing magazines and to give a hand with printing the <a href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/indieshamanshamanicmagazine.html">Indie Shaman Shamanic Lifestyle Magazine</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Peter said they had a desk and seat and cardboard box with straw all ready for me!</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"> </p> <p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal">Having written a couple of articles for the magazine about my adventures I was very excited to get the opportunity to learn all about how the magazine is produced.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>June, who is the editor of the magazine, says she likes Minuteman Press because they are local, helpful, friendly and very efficient.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>In fact I have heard her say that without their help there wouldn’t be an Indie Shaman Magazine as ‘she hadn’t a clue when she started’ and that would have be a great pity as the shamanic lifestyle magazine is pretty popular now!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>She also likes their ‘environmental policy’ as things like that are very important to <a href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/index.html">Indie Shaman</a> so I am hoping to talk to Peter about what this is and learn a bit more about it.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"> </p><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><p face="verdana" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:verdana;">In the first photo above I am helping one of the graphic design team make sure that the latest edition of Indie Shaman looks crisp and clear and that the colours are as they should be.</span><br /></p><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><p face="verdana" class="MsoNormal"> </p><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisxWdrrd5NZbrO3rRgRdEb256YnlBUTwFP-DZG4YoheMjE5X1iA9zYicXMn118aEeW8OWXcmHGEQ919fsiquhU-M2TFRh77JhoHdo-R7KSvdwkyp0zcQK0qzLVQ9mp4AjyEm0tlZ_3nS0/s1600/3+Operating+the+printing+press.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisxWdrrd5NZbrO3rRgRdEb256YnlBUTwFP-DZG4YoheMjE5X1iA9zYicXMn118aEeW8OWXcmHGEQ919fsiquhU-M2TFRh77JhoHdo-R7KSvdwkyp0zcQK0qzLVQ9mp4AjyEm0tlZ_3nS0/s320/3+Operating+the+printing+press.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5671505311193180482" border="0" /></a><p face="verdana" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p face="verdana" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:verdana;">After a final few adjustments and a paw to the start button the press roars into life.</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">Yes I started the latest Indie Shaman print-run!</span><br /></p> <p face="verdana" class="MsoNormal"> </p><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcFx9IbbUSKFbwDKp34gBKpV1l-FDcQM2QnH0CoMflXo9H_avqkd9LZRSLgNL0E91y323XKj6FVLGYkM39PsSdJPaNL49dd-B2FzuJs_ayWRgAaSWVN3_Vimpquab4izbnXZn2Cc4cUyg/s1600/4+Printing+press.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcFx9IbbUSKFbwDKp34gBKpV1l-FDcQM2QnH0CoMflXo9H_avqkd9LZRSLgNL0E91y323XKj6FVLGYkM39PsSdJPaNL49dd-B2FzuJs_ayWRgAaSWVN3_Vimpquab4izbnXZn2Cc4cUyg/s320/4+Printing+press.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5671504859555956274" border="0" /></a><p style="font-family: verdana;" face="verdana" class="MsoNormal">Hot off the press the latest run of Indie Shaman is expertly (following intensive training) supervised by me.</p><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><p face="verdana" class="MsoNormal"> </p><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiX2lmpxQoQWMjrJw9W0EBuYWQ7OFydLD9KXu_aTbYMiwWiHJBvK8p6hyphenhyphenFzfs5RSSjh5v6u6XcmJjzy3US4egi2vo3qfFx5sxZsiKq4SnekSL7SAS3vs5gAr-JxDXbHo_tbJhtJAXUMys/s1600/4+A+well+earned+lunch+break.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiX2lmpxQoQWMjrJw9W0EBuYWQ7OFydLD9KXu_aTbYMiwWiHJBvK8p6hyphenhyphenFzfs5RSSjh5v6u6XcmJjzy3US4egi2vo3qfFx5sxZsiKq4SnekSL7SAS3vs5gAr-JxDXbHo_tbJhtJAXUMys/s320/4+A+well+earned+lunch+break.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5671505681716450546" border="0" /></a><p style="font-family: verdana;" class="MsoNormal">Here I am having a well earned lunch break shared with Tom, Peter’s son and Minuteman Press’s youngest employee.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Peter said I do eat a lot of worms but I was happy to share Tom’s food too.</p> <p style="font-family: verdana;" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: verdana;" class="MsoNormal">Its pretty tiring learning all about printing but I’ve been having great fun.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Next I’m learning about post production checks, bindery and despatch so I’ll be back to blog about them and the all very important environmental policy soon.</p><p style="font-family: verdana;" class="MsoNormal">In the meantime I've had a telephone call from June who said that she has been learning about Seidr Shamanism which sounds pretty interesting. If you would like to learn more about Seidr June is interviewing <a href="http://www.capallbann.co.uk/popup.cfm?p_n=132796&p_i=132796">Runic John</a> for the next edition of the magazine so send her any questions you have and she could include them in the interview! June can be <a href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/feedback.html">contacted via Indie Shaman</a> or I don't mind if you post any questions in the comments on here.<br /></p><p style="font-family: verdana;" class="MsoNormal"> </p><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><p style="font-family: verdana;" class="MsoNormal">With many blessings<br /></p><p style="font-family: verdana;" class="MsoNormal">(and not very inky paws thanks to all at Minuteman Press!)<br /></p> <p style="font-family: verdana;" class="MsoNormal">Ezekiel</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>Shaman Sham the Wandering Hedgehoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09923755078234965090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216524073184687651.post-1049617379857536782011-10-13T14:15:00.015+01:002011-10-13T14:45:44.722+01:00Pagan Federation 40th Anniversary Event<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd-qySM66CXLmGdtVhRrDMHDVUbSmnkiJ-nZDi4Tt8uWW4b3COhWEu37nia1xo6xFW2CQ4RV5iBsrP8Leviyswd1LtGMJdPAI-O3HNkddF4ZdJ6MYy8q2PK9OYYLZSULUb1A8ZHHb3CS4/s1600/Stall+1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 173px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd-qySM66CXLmGdtVhRrDMHDVUbSmnkiJ-nZDi4Tt8uWW4b3COhWEu37nia1xo6xFW2CQ4RV5iBsrP8Leviyswd1LtGMJdPAI-O3HNkddF4ZdJ6MYy8q2PK9OYYLZSULUb1A8ZHHb3CS4/s320/Stall+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662967966608171714" border="0" /></a></div><span style="font-family:verdana;">Merry meet and bright blessings.</span><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">What a wonderful atmosphere there was at the </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.paganfed.org/">Pagan Federation</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> 40</span><sup style="font-family: verdana;">th</sup><span style="font-family:verdana;"> Anniversary Event last Saturday and what lovely people there were there.</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">I met lots of new friends who all seemed very happy to meet me and hear about my travels.</span><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">I got my chair set up on the </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/">Indie Shaman</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> stall straight away as I wanted to get a good position where I could see everyone.</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">The stall was very busy with people being especially interested in the <a href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/indieshamanshamanicmagazine.html">Magazine</a>.</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">We also sold out of some of the large <a href="http://www.shamaniclifestyle.com/category.php?id_category=5">Fair Trade shamanic drums</a> so June has to get more soon!</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">It was also lovely to meet a new member, Graeme, in person who joined up on the day.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaeAnU2b1FldYFh2hjitdixxHKwMjn8WxMqTo4wQxQ8hYzkbeJLNnsllgIY778nTtkVsr6V-bZ9cW34pRyKVJAmreIzCZ0CbjFLNY6AxJ4nMgpkHmYRwXSwlMftD5IjrxQI4i9HNTS6uE/s1600/Mike.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaeAnU2b1FldYFh2hjitdixxHKwMjn8WxMqTo4wQxQ8hYzkbeJLNnsllgIY778nTtkVsr6V-bZ9cW34pRyKVJAmreIzCZ0CbjFLNY6AxJ4nMgpkHmYRwXSwlMftD5IjrxQI4i9HNTS6uE/s320/Mike.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662968978312552098" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Getting a hug from Mike</span><br /></p><p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal">I was very pleased to get the opportunity to meet Mike Stygal and get a manly hug which was great after knowing him online for so long.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It’s difficult to sum up all of Mike’s work in few words but he was there as one of the Pagan Federation’s event organizers and is also an interfaith champion extraordinaire, running among other things the <a href="http://paganandchristianmoot.co.uk/pcvbforum/index.php">Pagan Moot Forum</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I don’t know how he fits it all in!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Mike congratulated me on all my ‘ologies and said I must be a very wise hedgehog now.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Made me blush to the end of my snout but I don’t think he noticed!</p> <p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal">Our stall was opposite Rev. Rebecca D’arcy who runs an Interfaith Ministry and Spiritual Counselling service including Sacred Ceremonies.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Judith spent quite a bit of time chatting to Rebecca about Egypt as Rebecca also runs off the beaten track tours with <a href="http://www.a-passion-for-egypt.com/index.html">‘A Passion for Egypt’</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I told Rebecca that I would really like to go to Egypt and that I am a very experienced and well behaved traveller.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Her partner Agi Angliolini came to talk to me so I told her as well.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I have my paws firmly crossed!</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmT3xIFZbPcZvN5OzZlABH_G58sqA2vtuHVnZPeJd5iDSmX1H5SdGh5cVAb4WHoYvXBEkjEYe1kPjnCgcAkypAnnEn57SyLYu1pDVCKS1zCuTjhTug5rM50hPfssBp-cLH8vrnCY4aGhg/s1600/Neil+Geddes+Ward.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmT3xIFZbPcZvN5OzZlABH_G58sqA2vtuHVnZPeJd5iDSmX1H5SdGh5cVAb4WHoYvXBEkjEYe1kPjnCgcAkypAnnEn57SyLYu1pDVCKS1zCuTjhTug5rM50hPfssBp-cLH8vrnCY4aGhg/s320/Neil+Geddes+Ward.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662969504950200258" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Sitting with Neil's Hedgewitch</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">We were also fortunate enough to be opposite the very talented </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.neilgeddesward.com/">Neil Geddes-Ward’s</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> stall. </span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">I rather liked the young lady in the painting I am sat by ‘Hedgewitch’ but June and Simon fell in love with the sketch of the woman with the sword on the wall behind me and had to bring a small print of her home.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p> <p style="font-family: verdana;" class="MsoNormal" face="verdana">Geraldine Beskin from <a href="http://www.theatlantisbookshopevents.com/index.htm">Atlantis Bookshops</a> came over to say hello to June.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Judith brought a book from their stall which June wished she had brought too.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>June also fell in love with a bracelet from <a href="http://www.runesmith.co.uk/index.html">Runesmith</a> which she had to buy so she could take it home.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Just as well the Indie Shaman stall kept her busy for most of the time or she would have been bringing most of the contents of everyone else’s stall home!</p> <p style="text-align: center;" face="verdana" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0ZlTBXHiUvefNaAr4Y9MB5sUEmULHU7FiTDLctbqg3Og_ff5TYRbF7PLmYLy82MLzE9GEd4bHeX6mqICDNYEVT5IBYEtMruPGilpWSNONxbJJup1-3ZsdpSoTtjU-m1chqAUjwooUiFc/s1600/Carrie+and+Liz+Goddess+Enchantment.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0ZlTBXHiUvefNaAr4Y9MB5sUEmULHU7FiTDLctbqg3Og_ff5TYRbF7PLmYLy82MLzE9GEd4bHeX6mqICDNYEVT5IBYEtMruPGilpWSNONxbJJup1-3ZsdpSoTtjU-m1chqAUjwooUiFc/s320/Carrie+and+Liz+Goddess+Enchantment.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662968349621552738" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:78%;">A hug from Carrie </span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Then the very lovely </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://carriepsychic.moonfruit.com/#">Carrie Kirkpatrick </a><span style="font-family:verdana;">came over to speak to me and asked if I would like to visit her and Liz on the </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.goddessenchantment.moonfruit.com/">Goddess Enchantment </a><span style="font-family:verdana;">Stall.</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">Lucky me because I got a hug from her too.</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span></p> <p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal">Very lucky me all round because I had a wonderful time, received lots of hugs and learned lots of interesting things from many interesting people.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Many thanks to all involved for organising the event.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I believe a lot of them went onto further celebrations on the Sunday but we had to travel back home.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Maybe we can go to one again another year and next time I’ll get someone to take me to some of all the great sounding workshops and talks I missed!</p> <p style="font-family: verdana;" class="MsoNormal">Many blessings</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" >Ezekiel</span><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p>Shaman Sham the Wandering Hedgehoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09923755078234965090noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216524073184687651.post-67129337635707710142011-08-31T19:09:00.022+01:002011-08-31T20:30:28.548+01:00Stonehenge by Moonlight<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL6xYM1vyNTJtFi2fm6J_q-d_EzDPVVmoQ6rXTGUYhow1dz8j3eS4zzc8kxW4D5uL9yDAXqsw67M-Kt7LRrmkmdLJ5H0MQM89NHF1-DqYDY74TVPiH4P_a-17AOjYPLshAuRa9lVSrNgs/s1600/This+one.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL6xYM1vyNTJtFi2fm6J_q-d_EzDPVVmoQ6rXTGUYhow1dz8j3eS4zzc8kxW4D5uL9yDAXqsw67M-Kt7LRrmkmdLJ5H0MQM89NHF1-DqYDY74TVPiH4P_a-17AOjYPLshAuRa9lVSrNgs/s320/This+one.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5647084569236453634" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">Hi everyone</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">As you can see I now have a new chair especially for me to sit on. This is because I am going to the </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.paganfed.org/anniversary.shtml">Pagan Federation 40th Anniversary Event</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> on 8th October and, as I told June, Simon and Judith I'm not helping out with the </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/">Indie Shaman</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> stall if I can't rest my legs occasionally. It sounds like it's going to be a great day so if you can get along to London do come and say 'hi' if you see me.</span>
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<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkJN1RCeTd8XiXHMxois8MpFK1VmLUE9ch_keY1yHvfM53BoS2KJF3BY5ExwHYfoSMi-xIEvrODRICfMOe17qIXq360tLbXP_Irk93n4fqnv8bOvJ9GoLEP3adEub2LykX7VSFrHV0buo/s1600/stonebury+002.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkJN1RCeTd8XiXHMxois8MpFK1VmLUE9ch_keY1yHvfM53BoS2KJF3BY5ExwHYfoSMi-xIEvrODRICfMOe17qIXq360tLbXP_Irk93n4fqnv8bOvJ9GoLEP3adEub2LykX7VSFrHV0buo/s320/stonebury+002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5647085967119313970" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">A couple of weekends ago on 13th August I was lucky enough to go on a </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.davidrowan.co.uk/solar/david_rowan.html">David Rowan</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> Tour of Avebury and Stonehenge. Here I am at the start of the </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.davidrowan.co.uk/solar/moonlight_stonehenge.html">'Stonehenge by Moonlight'</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> Tour sat having a quiet drink outside the Red Lion at Avebury. June's walking stick turned out to be just a little bit big for me to use so she used it instead and carried me in my Indie Shaman bag to save my legs.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">All the other people who were doing the tour were very nice to me. I was especially pleased to get to meet one of </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.secretworld.org/">Secret World Wildlife Rescue's </a><span style="font-family:verdana;">volunteers who told me all about the hedgehog she had rescued.</span>
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<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhplM4DqX2W3XzymNwyzftxDfub7fHyH7usGybav9PU3o1xJ4dyJ3zGts43yn8E2bXi4eKp_qwdSftgboNmmHNuKouNOW8bqRm2p1yyJWl_seHOLOYrzY0fCLSV0GD5_5ytCkoWo4AYlLI/s1600/Sronehenge+by+Moonlight+2011+-+03.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhplM4DqX2W3XzymNwyzftxDfub7fHyH7usGybav9PU3o1xJ4dyJ3zGts43yn8E2bXi4eKp_qwdSftgboNmmHNuKouNOW8bqRm2p1yyJWl_seHOLOYrzY0fCLSV0GD5_5ytCkoWo4AYlLI/s320/Sronehenge+by+Moonlight+2011+-+03.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5647088210761423970" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">photo courtesy of </span></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">© David Rowan</span></span></span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">David gave a very interesting illustrated talk about the history and astronomy of Avebury and Stonehenge which I learned are both much more than just the impressive stones you can see. I was too busy listening to take notes so Judith took all the notes as she is writing an article about the tour for the </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/indieshamanshamanicmagazine.html">Indie Shaman magazine. </a><span style="font-family:verdana;">David very kindly said we could use some of his photos as well as our own.</span>
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<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilxyZXb6AVIWVX-XI28hCua9LddLKR97GjR6x91snNtTzxmay6QKBAufsOTW2LiKa6k1mCjGVaFw6hh4TA_WWzQxTZ33OoYSyQORXNx9pG0WD134OOXNtBYdzcReUylPQIorfyYRvgQ1I/s1600/stonebury+009.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilxyZXb6AVIWVX-XI28hCua9LddLKR97GjR6x91snNtTzxmay6QKBAufsOTW2LiKa6k1mCjGVaFw6hh4TA_WWzQxTZ33OoYSyQORXNx9pG0WD134OOXNtBYdzcReUylPQIorfyYRvgQ1I/s320/stonebury+009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5647091122646687410" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">Then we were off on our walking lecture tour. David has a masters degree in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology. He is a fascinating speaker and really helped bring this magical landscape to life as we walked round. Of the two stones above the one on the right is said to represent the male and the one on the left the female. Everyone seemed to know what David meant by that but I had to wait to ask June when I got home.</span>
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<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN4wa1Ge319DCw9MmtQuMZbvZBdODVhaB3mqUY_Aj181xlgI7diLwvWzrGA3aGx2rk0ue4WI3shX1YlI8_qTIVmIRaDxl0-mjGjQBYUH9piXjhXfn8Le7CfZY_d5E7T4INrWvXdQ1uUz4/s1600/stonebury+013.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN4wa1Ge319DCw9MmtQuMZbvZBdODVhaB3mqUY_Aj181xlgI7diLwvWzrGA3aGx2rk0ue4WI3shX1YlI8_qTIVmIRaDxl0-mjGjQBYUH9piXjhXfn8Le7CfZY_d5E7T4INrWvXdQ1uUz4/s320/stonebury+013.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5647092315114900034" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">This magnificent stone is called the 'Devil's Chair'. It is said that sitting in the chair results in pregnancy. Judith, Simon and June insisted I sit in it immediately although I did point out to them that I am a boy hedgehog!</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Then as the sun was setting on the temple of the Moon at Avebury we set off in convoy following a ley line to ...</span>
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<br /></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family:verdana;">... see the Moon rise over the temple of the Sun at Stonehenge.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">It was so peaceful and beautiful to explore and sit in the stone circle itself and felt such an intimate experience among such a small party of like minded people. It was impossible not to be touched by a sense of wonder and by the magic that surrounded us as the dramatic clouds parted to allow us to see the moon rise over the stones.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Then we all had some quiet time to meditate or send healing before setting off back to our cars for a short drive to a local hotel for a quick drink and chat before setting off back home.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">Many blessings to all my friends</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">p.s. Many thanks to David Rowan for sharing his photos. For more photos and information about the Stonehenge by Moonlight tour, Stonehenge and Avebury, see Judith's article in the Autumn edition of the </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/indieshamanshamanicmagazine.html">Indie Shaman magazine.</a>
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<br />Shaman Sham the Wandering Hedgehoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09923755078234965090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216524073184687651.post-77176992610412983122011-07-13T14:22:00.012+01:002011-07-13T15:13:30.387+01:00<span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: verdana;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqunCh1aOdxMF-Glj-5-aBwuS4SS72u_BC0Mx065Qed8IXjAlLx_xmOIf_kqob6i9xFnk415d2ovvbyBnRGzMAfJ8HYBKaR9QKNTpncpBKtyv5NHMi9oma8SxyTuPD7SkwFWBR_kyZNN4/s1600/great+ross+sarah+sham.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqunCh1aOdxMF-Glj-5-aBwuS4SS72u_BC0Mx065Qed8IXjAlLx_xmOIf_kqob6i9xFnk415d2ovvbyBnRGzMAfJ8HYBKaR9QKNTpncpBKtyv5NHMi9oma8SxyTuPD7SkwFWBR_kyZNN4/s320/great+ross+sarah+sham.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628826885812112242" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Hi everyone. I'm now back home with Indie Shaman having a good rest before my next adventures. I meant to write some more to my blog before leaving </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.thefourgates.com/">Ross</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> and Sarah but I just didn't seem to manage to fit it in between all the learning and having fun. The photo above is one of my favourites showing the shamanic art class and tatuajes (tattoos). I didn't have a tattoo painted on my face as it may have ended up more permanent than intended!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I had a great flight back to England as Ross travelled with me which was a far more interesting experience than travelling alone as I usually do.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: verdana;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyuBfxMluoTX3ofqu9J31biD3fAI0ACl-zeg1qnWv6fpcgqbCiM2qGKNY52elpYq0gGPUvVHHvfb9FeprugOSIjRnNQ8xeVFap-xt_gIPj6OtbrJeicX6Hlfb2FD_ktbugZQy0Nwq7qoE/s1600/B+capi.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyuBfxMluoTX3ofqu9J31biD3fAI0ACl-zeg1qnWv6fpcgqbCiM2qGKNY52elpYq0gGPUvVHHvfb9FeprugOSIjRnNQ8xeVFap-xt_gIPj6OtbrJeicX6Hlfb2FD_ktbugZQy0Nwq7qoE/s320/B+capi.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628830213559256642" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I must admit, even for a modest hedgehog such as I am, I feel I can safely say I know quite a bit now. Here is a photo of me teaching about banisteriopsis caapi (used to prepare Ayahuasca).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I also learned:</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Lower, middle and upper world journeying</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Mapping the shaman's cosmology</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Power retrieval</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Soul retrieval</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Spirit extraction</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Mapping the energy body</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Energy balancing</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Pre-birth, conception and family work</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Ancestral healing</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Earth healing</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Community healing</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Plant spirit shamanism</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Making allies in nature</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">How to make 'magic potions' (pusangas, seguros and perfumes)</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Floral baths</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">How to diet plants (and he's dieted rosa blanca and ortega and poppy)</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">How to conduct a salvia ceremony, san pedro ceremony and ayahuasca ceremony.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Unfortunately talking human is still not a strong point but everyone on the course seemed to have no problem communicating with me (and my writing is, as you can see, quite fine as long as someone else does any typing - paws weren't meant for typing!)</span><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" class="fbphotocaptiontext" ><span style=""><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifeKNKw8SQjZ9j_qUmxVmpXelrQmuCsL8ha3KxgodyOtYdpo59AV6VKdlQ7qmsui1QmyqiZmk4PtFGl_vNpxDsJL-Fgo3D2XryD9NrlMRnHLvdpYIEam6nNX_x8Yrc8sT9NXzsWyWPovc/s1600/sarah.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifeKNKw8SQjZ9j_qUmxVmpXelrQmuCsL8ha3KxgodyOtYdpo59AV6VKdlQ7qmsui1QmyqiZmk4PtFGl_vNpxDsJL-Fgo3D2XryD9NrlMRnHLvdpYIEam6nNX_x8Yrc8sT9NXzsWyWPovc/s320/sarah.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628832608573088210" border="0" /></a><br />Sarah is well impressed with my wisdom as you can see.<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQej3rTVHi75WqVnsmXiGTwjtczycyt2irRceuDpXECS6dXA9nGKGK7csIlJhpKm5GwNDjwj9oGIWsCGEUJsxOkCYo002tdlFiSTcd7VIsjpbP1qB_4XvXfwUrI57iYZcqCPSIlCf-Wps/s1600/shinging.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQej3rTVHi75WqVnsmXiGTwjtczycyt2irRceuDpXECS6dXA9nGKGK7csIlJhpKm5GwNDjwj9oGIWsCGEUJsxOkCYo002tdlFiSTcd7VIsjpbP1qB_4XvXfwUrI57iYZcqCPSIlCf-Wps/s320/shinging.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628832947084153970" border="0" /></a><br />Sarah knows quite a bit too of course although I helped by keeping an eye on her when she sang a song and led a journey ... just in case she wanted any help from a hedgehog. I will miss both Sarah and Ross a lot.<br /><br />As I said earlier I'm currently back home having a bit of a rest. Although June did ask me to finish off my article for the </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/">Indie Shaman magazine</a></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > which wasn't much hardship as Ross had sent most of it to June already. Indie Shaman has a particularly good cover on the Summer edition if I say so myself. Looks like June has been keeping busy while I've been away - she </span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" class="fbphotocaptiontext" >showed me the new <a href="http://www.shamaniclifestyle.com/">Shamanic Lifestyle Shop</a> she has been working on which is now online. Apparently if you are <a href="https://www.facebook.com//IndieShaman">Facebook friend</a> you can get a discount. </span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >That reminds me I haven't checked my </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="https://www.facebook.com/shaman.sham">Facebook page</a></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > for ages so I must finish blogging and</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >let my friends know I am back in the UK. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Speak to you all again soon</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Ezekiel</span><br /><span class="fbphotocaptiontext"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></span>Shaman Sham the Wandering Hedgehoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09923755078234965090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216524073184687651.post-84935338855963877432011-06-21T20:05:00.009+01:002011-06-21T20:39:46.993+01:00Serpent and Condor - baths, bottles and ballyhoo<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgodjdPX37lwGr99dhYjJBu_fBKqOom-uyMYrCOjns2Aop3R0pHpGRvH6rBCbmbQ3Buh6fOQk3DrkjP-RqdPDDDD9vLxfVw4B8YyX_cawVEGxizgaVfCSi08hPHkjW5SJiAD8E91Kq7G_o/s1600/ceremony.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgodjdPX37lwGr99dhYjJBu_fBKqOom-uyMYrCOjns2Aop3R0pHpGRvH6rBCbmbQ3Buh6fOQk3DrkjP-RqdPDDDD9vLxfVw4B8YyX_cawVEGxizgaVfCSi08hPHkjW5SJiAD8E91Kq7G_o/s320/ceremony.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620751719308441730" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-weight: bold;">Many many Solstice Blessings to all my friends around the world.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I am still with <a href="http://www.thefourgates.com/">Ross Heaven</a> in Spain, assisting in ceremonies and generally being as helpful as I can.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLlfATQD1SbgN_KrbRfxxaAbicH1OCeW6CoiQHdVQlgWFLGo7NxywkoTPDe8la9sAFUfQRigCYDxm8dox-lNEmgc0Vd2QvXhb4YWwMcLwrvRB_EpN-WMtXSH60ZNMCwIkmRjuLbiyWWGk/s1600/stpeters.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLlfATQD1SbgN_KrbRfxxaAbicH1OCeW6CoiQHdVQlgWFLGo7NxywkoTPDe8la9sAFUfQRigCYDxm8dox-lNEmgc0Vd2QvXhb4YWwMcLwrvRB_EpN-WMtXSH60ZNMCwIkmRjuLbiyWWGk/s320/stpeters.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620752366913029730" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br />Here is our St Peter's Day celebration, earlier in June, where I started the ceremony with a simple mesa for healing.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGgvbYVWWNd2oJYCRvwTR2YdUAluFFdQijEFt91NFJ1NcxCfAjAa2TfnUqsL7HnrDh3qiQvTLnciB-GjLMT5tIXRsl32LekI2tz2ZBkl44TinsLX9c2VBcJfIM75qrU38deMSXlKL2i9M/s1600/mesa.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGgvbYVWWNd2oJYCRvwTR2YdUAluFFdQijEFt91NFJ1NcxCfAjAa2TfnUqsL7HnrDh3qiQvTLnciB-GjLMT5tIXRsl32LekI2tz2ZBkl44TinsLX9c2VBcJfIM75qrU38deMSXlKL2i9M/s320/mesa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620752989003092690" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br />And here I am below with some Embruho juice all ready for a day of magic</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv9q3lVwR5tbPUpdGeyktsRToUGIhW6xnFD45tc-likb8G5OEt5YonFhn6yvCcqSTkKsFptu9FJ5ITetDse08l0KhUc83zMb34kNAk8puiZVQ8oP-Wur6BHoTBd1nOYSDq9lw4jJPXe6w/s1600/Embrujo.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv9q3lVwR5tbPUpdGeyktsRToUGIhW6xnFD45tc-likb8G5OEt5YonFhn6yvCcqSTkKsFptu9FJ5ITetDse08l0KhUc83zMb34kNAk8puiZVQ8oP-Wur6BHoTBd1nOYSDq9lw4jJPXe6w/s320/Embrujo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620753597330041586" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">Hope you are enjoying the photos as much as I am enjoying sharing them. I have some more to share before I leave Ross and Sarah in Spain and return to the UK where I am looking forward to seeing Stonehenge at Moonlight on a <a href="http://www.davidrowan.co.uk/list/moonlight_stonehenge.html">David Rowan tour</a> in August and later on in the year going to the <a href="http://www.paganfed.org/anniversary.shtml">Pagan Federation 40th Anniversary Event</a> in London! </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Have a wonderful Solstice</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Ezekiel aka Shaman Sham the Wandering Hedgehog</span><br /><a href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Indie Shaman</span></a>Shaman Sham the Wandering Hedgehoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09923755078234965090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216524073184687651.post-63118594143277889652011-06-06T19:47:00.013+01:002011-06-06T20:32:21.391+01:00Ezekiel the Shaman<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJo8hpbSsFOxXesSfypoE6910Gu92y4mzPRcy6sBYpuO_Ukz-9oL10BFh8PE0j1X0WQUHsW9bn-dC-ys4M5j70eoKLkehIYQ4jMU4hkzKuzAgjTpxXm1lsUZWPCdzeYeOOSaVCt02qYps/s1600/248786_10150258723452953_593342952_8700013_4806109_n.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJo8hpbSsFOxXesSfypoE6910Gu92y4mzPRcy6sBYpuO_Ukz-9oL10BFh8PE0j1X0WQUHsW9bn-dC-ys4M5j70eoKLkehIYQ4jMU4hkzKuzAgjTpxXm1lsUZWPCdzeYeOOSaVCt02qYps/s320/248786_10150258723452953_593342952_8700013_4806109_n.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615180548070900882" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Hola! I have been preparing for the new plant workshop which began on June 1st and where I was once again in ceremony with the vine of souls and with the cactus of vision, two plants I learned a lot from during my time with with </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.thefourgates.com/">Ross Heaven</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> in Peru and I was keen to explore again in case I had any lingering unresolved issues. Now I have my Shamanic Practitioner and Shamanic Healer diplomas I feel it's important for a shaman to continually work on his own self-development and the release of personal blocks so he can be a more effective healer for others.</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLxU5BPcU3FfMfnhquYmiUWq-Og6EXvYBthXWoJC_Yobs4yPDBdkIjifqoRMoJcWSRjLvjUlzMwnx1oZHe66QHSEy3QsRUN7sSMXtsO5AAmq-id-DtwYB1WsvFHOfnhwk_Jio6aSmARe0/s1600/226306_10150258723367953_593342952_8700012_396683_n.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLxU5BPcU3FfMfnhquYmiUWq-Og6EXvYBthXWoJC_Yobs4yPDBdkIjifqoRMoJcWSRjLvjUlzMwnx1oZHe66QHSEy3QsRUN7sSMXtsO5AAmq-id-DtwYB1WsvFHOfnhwk_Jio6aSmARe0/s320/226306_10150258723367953_593342952_8700012_396683_n.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615181851047265474" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />The other day I was thrilled to discover that Ross and Sarah have toe (pronounced to-HAY) growing naturally in the garden here. Nobody planted it so it's a mystery where it came from but I was excited because the ancient shamans of Peru used to mix it with San Pedro to perform profound healings for their people and Ross was about to begin a diet with San Pedro but thought it best to diet toe first so I could get to know that plant and its arrangements and interactions with San Pedro.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSZ-HqR-RLeQZGDNVovSK2x6O3JGk00vYxl67KtSgidhsJJw5s94cxIf7VKWOQRkZq2v6F-lZs4HwaFScB3GTzyrCS934rRSGDkVOTVTcWMYKg85TTmgz-BAsmqkPXh4RwsGSdKsXpA3o/s1600/with+toe.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSZ-HqR-RLeQZGDNVovSK2x6O3JGk00vYxl67KtSgidhsJJw5s94cxIf7VKWOQRkZq2v6F-lZs4HwaFScB3GTzyrCS934rRSGDkVOTVTcWMYKg85TTmgz-BAsmqkPXh4RwsGSdKsXpA3o/s320/with+toe.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615187021166514706" border="0" /></a></span> </span><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Toe is the strongest visionary plant and teacher in the known universe - a tea made from the flower that I am holding here is enough to produce a 3-day out-of-body experience where the shaman will meet a whole team of ancestral and universal spirits who will teach him about reality. I had been sniffing the toe flower all night and felt a little trippy himself. </span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIVBx9LC7UdrouWBF7popEdGuOdOogvbZS2kjioj6BSMEj1dk58gCUFIZmeL5QfwPAasZDsXNveuoTuuDcHQ_TibjwC_58emRo4bH6OzSwcmPRiZv1bSbnKvcyJlU0UK8NfeWbcMceTec/s1600/sarah%2527s+smudge.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIVBx9LC7UdrouWBF7popEdGuOdOogvbZS2kjioj6BSMEj1dk58gCUFIZmeL5QfwPAasZDsXNveuoTuuDcHQ_TibjwC_58emRo4bH6OzSwcmPRiZv1bSbnKvcyJlU0UK8NfeWbcMceTec/s320/sarah%2527s+smudge.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615182776837903938" border="0" /></a><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >I've really enjoying my work with plants and Shaman Sarah (who also has an 'ology) made me my own romero and salvia smudge stick. Rosemary (romero) and salvia (sage) grow naturally in Ross and Sarah's garden and Sarah dries them and mixes them to produce the smudge bundle which is then lit and the smoke used for purification and cleansing. On the Shamanic Practitioner diploma course they also teach how to diagnose illness with smoke and a smudge stick is very useful for that too. I am going to show you everyone how to do it when I gets home.</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > If you would like order your own smudge stick send Sarah a message via </span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=549087307">Facebook.</a></span> <span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" class="fbphotocaptiontext" ><span style=""><br /></span></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >That's all for now but will blog again soon before I come back to the UK.</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Many blessings</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Ezekiel</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /><a href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/">Indie Shaman</a></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyYFpQnn9iBhqFdM2WgMuTdN538MAwM0KVFBAhzp5EL-X_lx8jhZaQnIoAVaMyrdRjlXP3Jkg-scpD0Hgmejx7TOAz9I0RIp3O1RTiuqDcoGE7PWojM0gzohnvNhLiWFVbeuvrsB0U5fw/s1600/white+rose.jpg"><br /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg622_8lIspmfN6tDzDTuQ2a0f7JepSSdj2z2UOIA9c-0I6kIShk2BgItRXvdn1iQew40w4AUyg4v1o1F4O6PI0ijFvV9xniH5b1FMQfeQa4oSJLA4oJ3jaFufyZdAGSjVkbU8IMCVbMwQ/s1600/soul+shape.jpg"><br /></a>Shaman Sham the Wandering Hedgehoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09923755078234965090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216524073184687651.post-59096670630892069782011-05-25T19:07:00.006+01:002011-05-25T19:35:18.755+01:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD-gW0Yzr80Fd0PmoTEmXbumZvf2czShBl1czv9cyXdLYMQ6pdWjKb9R1USc1tRzJn02ZIC4JcKuy9oVORO10gXNEAYtMv-KKZh9tv5WMnDjj1uqhkCC5rckiyryeZ1qIzzO8bwlHXIn8/s1600/Ross.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD-gW0Yzr80Fd0PmoTEmXbumZvf2czShBl1czv9cyXdLYMQ6pdWjKb9R1USc1tRzJn02ZIC4JcKuy9oVORO10gXNEAYtMv-KKZh9tv5WMnDjj1uqhkCC5rckiyryeZ1qIzzO8bwlHXIn8/s320/Ross.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610719959893168706" border="0" /></a><br />I have now been to 2 new aya ceremonies. On the first I was very sick, purging out all the stress and illness I had accumulated again since my time with <a href="http://www.thefourgates.com/">Ross</a> in Peru. I had a difficult journey but Sarah and Ross sang our ayahuasca songs to me and made me better.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTKAIsSvF1CxxXNJXgOpPbS1PcToym_8fltj1lnEdwMpY7ak0Z5LH1JgrI2fm6ZXswNIYBVDH3CsiGu-mNW_K_yuIsmXKVPRRzGSAMWNgSl2J9st08IcwovQVYmC-EAZEcRW_txaDooDA/s1600/Sarah.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTKAIsSvF1CxxXNJXgOpPbS1PcToym_8fltj1lnEdwMpY7ak0Z5LH1JgrI2fm6ZXswNIYBVDH3CsiGu-mNW_K_yuIsmXKVPRRzGSAMWNgSl2J9st08IcwovQVYmC-EAZEcRW_txaDooDA/s320/Sarah.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610720781808181330" border="0" /></a><br />Then they gave me a floral bath and I was well. My second ceremony was much better and I realised I am God and the universe is inside me and so I am very powerful indeed.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcprQSJ1pqR6EHtBr4HgK8eRzuNbZXe3pPF9EACAZ-o2irDkiES_CJlJC_q9jYkgi5cTO7Bj4MSfceZz9QVCZyyM7HcMnPJrxXaZEzvKkg22ngZneQmLS8_YuSpOQk3J2hd-SVkpUyIXs/s1600/Fly.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcprQSJ1pqR6EHtBr4HgK8eRzuNbZXe3pPF9EACAZ-o2irDkiES_CJlJC_q9jYkgi5cTO7Bj4MSfceZz9QVCZyyM7HcMnPJrxXaZEzvKkg22ngZneQmLS8_YuSpOQk3J2hd-SVkpUyIXs/s320/Fly.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610721463554398066" border="0" /></a><br />On the course I also learned to talk to plants and sing their songs, understand the core principles of all shamanic herbalism so now I can prescribe plants effectively for any client, and I followed a shamanic diet with White Rose so had her as an ally (or at least I did until 7.31pm that night when my diet ended providing I didn't have sex, drink alcohol or eat sausages until then).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtpd_lBgrP_MUb7UWp6BaqDMZr5YSHMd0AqLINGxJN7yMkpg2KZAFilzdF0j0CmCHMD3LGNNyAavHkGW-wBtstLDe-lmQjupd5KfKzVCmFULFsQBXcCiiT_SHuW9JtKwy3K-LVIbQDxoM/s1600/Group.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtpd_lBgrP_MUb7UWp6BaqDMZr5YSHMd0AqLINGxJN7yMkpg2KZAFilzdF0j0CmCHMD3LGNNyAavHkGW-wBtstLDe-lmQjupd5KfKzVCmFULFsQBXcCiiT_SHuW9JtKwy3K-LVIbQDxoM/s320/Group.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610722908378070786" border="0" /></a><br />Back again soon with pictures of my <a href="http://www.thefourgates.com/Shamanic%20Workshop.htm">Soul Retrieval and Shamanic Healing Course</a> certificate. With many thanks to Ross and Sarah - I passed!<br /><br />Ezekiel<br /><a href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/">Indie Shaman</a>Shaman Sham the Wandering Hedgehoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09923755078234965090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216524073184687651.post-51938230089854747542011-05-13T19:23:00.010+01:002011-05-13T19:51:52.918+01:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoBYdNttwM9LKHFdtD4dlhw48jby4VKJXx0zJhu2f7AXXs00OqXhhPrNeztCh-lHUqBKLrC5k_16GVAi5p86ZMO3Z3x1agjweffrci0081vis_mRL1vj9PryYXLNoRLRdYilvhbDMklwk/s1600/4.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoBYdNttwM9LKHFdtD4dlhw48jby4VKJXx0zJhu2f7AXXs00OqXhhPrNeztCh-lHUqBKLrC5k_16GVAi5p86ZMO3Z3x1agjweffrci0081vis_mRL1vj9PryYXLNoRLRdYilvhbDMklwk/s320/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606268367835227378" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">How time flies! I'm soon to attend <a href="http://http://www.thefourgates.com/">Ross</a>' <a href="http://www.thefourgates.com/Shamanic%20Workshop.htm">Soul Retrieval and Shamanic Healing course</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" >so here's some more first about my experiences earning my Shamanic Practitioner Diploma.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW5nKW_2GPMfWfLpcv5LPD142bGmFcn7KBsOeN9VFj67pV9uZKNlxZEOvKc6R6ILOjdts_w2XNE_MLErOeFXHZ_BdcywaE5TSnd9wT5RX2wRrPBeIov8UFunDjCx4Mfb3ihkNtDAOK9qY/s1600/12.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW5nKW_2GPMfWfLpcv5LPD142bGmFcn7KBsOeN9VFj67pV9uZKNlxZEOvKc6R6ILOjdts_w2XNE_MLErOeFXHZ_BdcywaE5TSnd9wT5RX2wRrPBeIov8UFunDjCx4Mfb3ihkNtDAOK9qY/s320/12.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606269745003127746" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" ><br />My favourite part of the course was the plant spirit work: listening to the whispers of the plants divulging their secrets to me. This spirit to spirit communication feels very natural and I’m looking forward to working more with plant spirits on my shamanic path and singing more songs of nature. Creating plant perfumes in the rain was more fun than I anticipated and I thought my own concoction (for love, if you must know) looked particularly pleasing to the eye in one of Ross’ hand-painted bottles.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTvM4UdEp_-UpqYTOfWfhSj1OgniDEJEzUNoqNgJbPPE1lmaJd3wSTcuIbP7mxlZAA47rZVCrNjI60uuReJBi7-xfJY5hV1dLizDZfQx7jYR80x3azM5ifQvMbjmCBUmTq9IvvXZrP5n0/s1600/11.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTvM4UdEp_-UpqYTOfWfhSj1OgniDEJEzUNoqNgJbPPE1lmaJd3wSTcuIbP7mxlZAA47rZVCrNjI60uuReJBi7-xfJY5hV1dLizDZfQx7jYR80x3azM5ifQvMbjmCBUmTq9IvvXZrP5n0/s320/11.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606270779953959986" border="0" /></a><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Mesa work and the medicine wheel</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I was feeling a little sad when the course was almost at an end – we had learned so much that I couldn’t possibly blog it all but I feel brand new and by the looks on the faces of the other course participants, they shared this feeling I have inside ...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">... and I must have done OK on the course as at the end I was awarded my certificate!</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN3xUiZ8J-KrB_KvMp3gqaorZfvltje3UpWOPaybyQDEnj19qeSuJTJcLH7mPHeOlUDGabWvvPIUQ52F0X7VQBEV7oxorwqfnVyorNbAhR9b1VgHqBrbzYuNxc276QvdCH7sW5QzPBeIA/s1600/17.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN3xUiZ8J-KrB_KvMp3gqaorZfvltje3UpWOPaybyQDEnj19qeSuJTJcLH7mPHeOlUDGabWvvPIUQ52F0X7VQBEV7oxorwqfnVyorNbAhR9b1VgHqBrbzYuNxc276QvdCH7sW5QzPBeIA/s320/17.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606272828395759202" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here are a couple of my new friends all with our certificates</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2a_7yvFdDXnqAfz7phzMcG6mfEL_A5_r5pxg6SVh2Ml9FkYd39_W_uu-RlgmZVywYrGpzg7RJfUR95m10q99K_ibIb1tcV-IE8KQRoymbDHV6LcUW1oOkfiS8drsCF76d7etKwqBJHCM/s1600/16.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2a_7yvFdDXnqAfz7phzMcG6mfEL_A5_r5pxg6SVh2Ml9FkYd39_W_uu-RlgmZVywYrGpzg7RJfUR95m10q99K_ibIb1tcV-IE8KQRoymbDHV6LcUW1oOkfiS8drsCF76d7etKwqBJHCM/s320/16.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606273277383344562" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It's so exciting me getting my first ever 'ology and now having a Diploma in Shamanic Studies I think you might want to see a close up so here it is :-)</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlFVXeJ3MLCPE3dVTx9meOvtMeNuFNjlkn4XGOlnRZZKQrISMeuofl2lt2jtBKpjxGT8L7AphvwO-h_EahXNDZ4uzXNxGE70MDBaMDwhdZ9m3OUSW1SUG_cLoVNbu1D_1W8CX4jW8C8mg/s1600/18.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlFVXeJ3MLCPE3dVTx9meOvtMeNuFNjlkn4XGOlnRZZKQrISMeuofl2lt2jtBKpjxGT8L7AphvwO-h_EahXNDZ4uzXNxGE70MDBaMDwhdZ9m3OUSW1SUG_cLoVNbu1D_1W8CX4jW8C8mg/s320/18.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606273794972873394" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">As I said at the start of today's blog I'm staying with Ross and Sarah in Spain a bit longer so I can join in with the next course too. So do catch up with my blog again soon!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Many hedgehog blessings</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ezekiel</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/">Indie Shaman</a><br /><br /></div><br /><br /></div>Shaman Sham the Wandering Hedgehoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09923755078234965090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216524073184687651.post-18333412794966437682011-05-03T20:01:00.009+01:002011-05-03T20:25:59.510+01:00A Very Shamanic Hedgehog<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSWEUiSKgQLTWgj9dbQvbsjVfzZp-e4VJ6NYdbHOr9nSFOanFg7hWN_JR9EinFJgHQegsHQYrpz1OONIbE2yxgY2x2wswa7DrFDXKsBfOpjz2vedBeow293vM1CKQUcDGIppZx-dPGMhQ/s1600/9.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSWEUiSKgQLTWgj9dbQvbsjVfzZp-e4VJ6NYdbHOr9nSFOanFg7hWN_JR9EinFJgHQegsHQYrpz1OONIbE2yxgY2x2wswa7DrFDXKsBfOpjz2vedBeow293vM1CKQUcDGIppZx-dPGMhQ/s320/9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602567385206826482" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">Hi again to all my friends. I'm back with some more tales about my exciting and educational experiences on Ross Heaven's </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.thefourgates.com/Shamanic%20Workshop.htm">Course in Shamanic Healing</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> in Spain.<br /><br />We made many drum journeys to explore the spiritual realms available to us and afterwards we sat and discussed our experiences. I enjoyed the sharing of our journeying stories and these were some of my favourite moments. It’s funny how themes started to emerge within the group and it was already starting to feel like we’ve all been brought together at the perfect time.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6wBl9wRTYGrNMilG89rG-dBdnxoo50eObCR1S39hk5hj1B3IyhaB2svL63DmIFQBz_iI_rceZvtkTNp7qAZrReokcy-2VmgBIV0FVkx6ZxTp8v4_NnPJ4FiWLBNU_yucxNmQqtchdops/s1600/3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6wBl9wRTYGrNMilG89rG-dBdnxoo50eObCR1S39hk5hj1B3IyhaB2svL63DmIFQBz_iI_rceZvtkTNp7qAZrReokcy-2VmgBIV0FVkx6ZxTp8v4_NnPJ4FiWLBNU_yucxNmQqtchdops/s320/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602568505331904802" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">This was a big drum for a small hedgehog but I managed to make a big noise, providing I remembered to keep my nose out of the way.</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Power and soul retrieval were challenging for me: old fears and beliefs arose in us as we learned to work with the techniques, but we were such a close knit group by then that we worked together to heal and support each other as these issues came to light. I feel like I’ve made so many good friends here!</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLLJR40CpcyhrR6h2FuntTBucjAbfMxzhrERLdZSKB8VfvF-GFmKkGIIFBrWEagpbRJtiP5tEstMkx_PBnZb9GOwThkx_cxDb8d3fiGfUHxbHdR2XbiTuoAKhG94lbcus1xgrlmoTYBKs/s1600/7.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLLJR40CpcyhrR6h2FuntTBucjAbfMxzhrERLdZSKB8VfvF-GFmKkGIIFBrWEagpbRJtiP5tEstMkx_PBnZb9GOwThkx_cxDb8d3fiGfUHxbHdR2XbiTuoAKhG94lbcus1xgrlmoTYBKs/s320/7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602570411723850882" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >With Teresa in the workroom</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">We learned methods of shamanic counselling – guiding people to find their own power and retrieve lost parts of themselves appeals to me as it’s so empowering for the person you’re working with. I personally found the blessing ceremonies wonderful to take part in and afterward felt energised and, funnily enough, blessed!</span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT7FaxLqxdzBU_fH3IwQubSN2yACa9Hac7IaCySv6XxnbeE2W7G8jsllcxk2Ar8IzXJhfIWFekjHkhjD_4Q4Bd-BvVA7rlBL8pn8EMucefUozRtAX6XlhJKcLAJEgbzwaCzD25hgjJEbs/s1600/14.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT7FaxLqxdzBU_fH3IwQubSN2yACa9Hac7IaCySv6XxnbeE2W7G8jsllcxk2Ar8IzXJhfIWFekjHkhjD_4Q4Bd-BvVA7rlBL8pn8EMucefUozRtAX6XlhJKcLAJEgbzwaCzD25hgjJEbs/s320/14.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602571528528918242" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >Gold and Shadow Counselling</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsMko2xCwvLMOsEYa0HfnOysqe-iU9vb1eriVRkNcJD7XI4-bBKflA-SgF9bzdUHYT0c-s75zg5YdDEbLACgL0hhrXfA-yiK3iRyTY9_Jrmf4PoHv4b3Yun_wgu-uaAa_g8NNJsob27dY/s1600/15.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsMko2xCwvLMOsEYa0HfnOysqe-iU9vb1eriVRkNcJD7XI4-bBKflA-SgF9bzdUHYT0c-s75zg5YdDEbLACgL0hhrXfA-yiK3iRyTY9_Jrmf4PoHv4b3Yun_wgu-uaAa_g8NNJsob27dY/s320/15.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602572105236826514" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana; font-style: italic;">"King Ezekiel awaits counselling from the Merlins" </span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Well I felt like a King! That's all for now. Back again soon with the rest of my blog from </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.thefourgates.com/index.htm">Ross'</a> course.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Yours, blessed and passing on the blessings</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ezekiel</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">(aka Shaman Sham, </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/">Indie Shaman</a><span style="font-family: verdana;">)</span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>Shaman Sham the Wandering Hedgehoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09923755078234965090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216524073184687651.post-81993243741041902882011-04-27T19:26:00.016+01:002011-04-27T20:15:09.297+01:00Viva España<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7Zef2kTDh5RmbLDzz8UN0Vu2_8tqcm8GTFtZZ1ijdl8dNCBJKEMNZrRANTV46g7ajfkKJwlDkD81w5I399Kog6huWA0QyewbLZsjxxsgpCAIpY-uPPNBA2ovnmSFgfDCS5Cmyk5fSf4c/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7Zef2kTDh5RmbLDzz8UN0Vu2_8tqcm8GTFtZZ1ijdl8dNCBJKEMNZrRANTV46g7ajfkKJwlDkD81w5I399Kog6huWA0QyewbLZsjxxsgpCAIpY-uPPNBA2ovnmSFgfDCS5Cmyk5fSf4c/s320/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600334475275979490" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Here I am when I landed safe and sound in Montefrio, but a bit green around the gills. I'm still not used to airmail! As <a href="http://www.thefourgates.com/index.htm">Ross</a> said it's a good job that hedgehogs are well known for their ability to breath plastic. Although of course he meant only very special hedgehogs like me. Plastic is very dangerous for ordinary hedgehogs who can't breath through it at all. </span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghgsuUAbUjmtwh2Hk_itB_2LiVA0m74ujpbidIbtQT4FOPQeC5HsfE-JmRsnrFtPUGGwhxaIA3FFJQbzrEEJHNAwsbmb3QaPkAZUI0kdkXQhP3w2gAD9RD0kOWgh1Ocn9XEVJ2_Z3f9FQ/s1600/2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghgsuUAbUjmtwh2Hk_itB_2LiVA0m74ujpbidIbtQT4FOPQeC5HsfE-JmRsnrFtPUGGwhxaIA3FFJQbzrEEJHNAwsbmb3QaPkAZUI0kdkXQhP3w2gAD9RD0kOWgh1Ocn9XEVJ2_Z3f9FQ/s320/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600334185146809426" border="0" /></a></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" ></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Here I am with Sarah who showed me around the workroom. I was a bit nervous at first to meet all the new people who were also taking the practitioner course but soon after meeting them we were all chatting away like family. Everyone was excited at the prospect of Ross'</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > <a href="http://www.thefourgates.com/Shamanic%20Workshop.htm">course in shamanic healing</a></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > and I was</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > looking forward to using some of the skills I've picked up on my travels.<br /><br />Ross explained the medicine wheel, the cosmology of the shaman and how we traverse these different worlds to seek information and allies with whom we work in partnership to facilitate healing.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSPjUZ0tskEBM8HZFp-iZT1-ESbG-e2Z02B4FfSB3pTDSxd6cwC_qjE11SohyphenhyphenfBVND5si_O3vNGyUZ0lOhi0EitrQ-KQFggXKI7hjkLkalM8qCN2iwW08aJ_uahhHhMVAj3HUyoOPqWTM/s1600/8.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSPjUZ0tskEBM8HZFp-iZT1-ESbG-e2Z02B4FfSB3pTDSxd6cwC_qjE11SohyphenhyphenfBVND5si_O3vNGyUZ0lOhi0EitrQ-KQFggXKI7hjkLkalM8qCN2iwW08aJ_uahhHhMVAj3HUyoOPqWTM/s320/8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600336390370432514" border="0" /></a><br />We learned how to diagnose energetic imbalances in each other using sage smoke and pendulums, agua de florida</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > and jungle tobacco. I found the gazing techniques more difficult but was assured that I will improve with practice.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAqqOA71NSEK3d973Rf0zJ-KhKB50BNq11Dhzy8BWTazSMjjdteLeznxC4YX2ePNwj8fdOxJzA5cX3UtawUiXNp14gqaXGHYfrPgy5AqQSR4oks6mAJdc8bjVEJDXnT6fCaNK6JlvF5gc/s1600/5.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAqqOA71NSEK3d973Rf0zJ-KhKB50BNq11Dhzy8BWTazSMjjdteLeznxC4YX2ePNwj8fdOxJzA5cX3UtawUiXNp14gqaXGHYfrPgy5AqQSR4oks6mAJdc8bjVEJDXnT6fCaNK6JlvF5gc/s320/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600335880157354450" border="0" /></a><br />Here I am dowsing Boris for energy imbalances. </span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"verdana";} </style> <![endif]--><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >I discovered that Boris, while very pretty, is quite depleted in energy due to being dead.<br /><br />Feathers can be used to realign energies and I have become fond of using a white duck feather to move energy within a client’s body. We learn how to rebalance the energy body and clear the chakras, so that any further healing work will flow freely through the client. Then Ross demonstrated extraction techniques during a spontaneous healing need that arises in the group! This leads us on rather appropriately to the methods used by shamans to extract unwanted energies from them.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgNSM06FRJuXaKTlCccDbz5U08XKnTfoxNz2KSdF_VCWhCDQVXGYEemixbDBnC2ql_2agRo28DhrkPnLlzKn_ZQmEIBI0YvAIHbCTdiyHsZdF2bHxjZl0YXATwzBEUTbMEBeJuouxRQxQ/s1600/13.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgNSM06FRJuXaKTlCccDbz5U08XKnTfoxNz2KSdF_VCWhCDQVXGYEemixbDBnC2ql_2agRo28DhrkPnLlzKn_ZQmEIBI0YvAIHbCTdiyHsZdF2bHxjZl0YXATwzBEUTbMEBeJuouxRQxQ/s320/13.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600337681927602450" border="0" /></a>I'll be back next week to tell you more so do visit me again soon. I'm on Facebook too at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/shaman.sham">facebook.com/shaman.sham</a><br /><br />Many blessings<br />Your friend<br />Ezekiel (aka Shaman Sham)<br /></span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><br /></span>Shaman Sham the Wandering Hedgehoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09923755078234965090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216524073184687651.post-56303406958138346112011-03-15T19:19:00.002+00:002011-03-15T19:42:16.314+00:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ9wXNGxa2Wtkt7zpCA8T0Ej_0zyNmCo2x_PO-mo4X9QLRb-2QK8HXJ5fxiO843UIhDifyk4h8w6fF-NdPQFc_p3w8uBkBs3MhAiU7uOp6gTk0_igoXP68FkLvq1xkY7fbb5WSs04fRss/s1600/Sham+helping+Ross+in+Ceremony.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ9wXNGxa2Wtkt7zpCA8T0Ej_0zyNmCo2x_PO-mo4X9QLRb-2QK8HXJ5fxiO843UIhDifyk4h8w6fF-NdPQFc_p3w8uBkBs3MhAiU7uOp6gTk0_igoXP68FkLvq1xkY7fbb5WSs04fRss/s320/Sham+helping+Ross+in+Ceremony.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584388720818168466" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hi all </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">I hadn't been back home with<a href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk"> Indie Shaman </a>very long when my good friend Ross Heaven invited me to attend </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.thefourgates.com/Shamanic%20Workshop.htm">his Shamanic workshop in Spain</a><span style="font-family: verdana;">. I'm going to learn how to become a shamanic practitioner and healer! This is a unique 14 day course at at the Hummingbird Retreat Centre in Spain from 9 - 22nd April. I think there may be a very few places left so if you want to book one and join me </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.thefourgates.com/Contact%20Us.htm">contact Ross soon. </a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">So as soon as I've had a good rest and caught up on my jet lag I'm off again to Spain. I had started packing but June said I wouldn't need any of the things I had borrowed so I put them back. I can't decide which amulet to wear though so I may wear both of them. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">I may not be able to blog for a while until I've arrived in Spain and I believe Indie Shaman is closing for a week at the beginning of April too. Something to do with June and Simon needing a holiday. The </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/shamanicforum/index.php">Indie Shaman forum</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> will still be open though under the very capable hands of Cathy.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">So until I'm back on here again here are a few hedgehog facts for you courtesy of </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.secretworld.org/">Secret World Wildlife Rescue</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> (p.s. If you want to adopt a hedgehog, or an owl, fox, badger or otter ... but hedgehogs are best honest .... just click on the link).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">* Hedgehogs have poor eyesight, but our hearing and sense of smell is very sharp</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">* Hedgehogs are born blind and our vision starts to develop two days after birth</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">* Hoglets leave their mother and their nest when they are 4-5 weeks old</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">* We used to live under hedges, but now, due to modern farming methods, we are almost reliant on gardens </span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">* The biggest dangers hedgehogs face are: road traffic, garden chemicals, drowning (in pools and ponds when we fall in and can't climb back out steep sides), bonfires, cattle grids and garden machinery</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">So if you have a garden please think of my friends and family and make it hedgehog friendly.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Many blessings<br />Sham <br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.thefourgates.com/Contact%20Us.htm"> </a>Shaman Sham the Wandering Hedgehoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09923755078234965090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216524073184687651.post-52280882647959461872011-03-09T19:23:00.009+00:002011-03-09T19:56:13.514+00:00Bye Bye to Texas, Hello Home and Happy Birthday<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFFWhyiegr5cgaczfXWm6L6M5gtdOoh5OPVldQ5wB73czJ7PJhYih-Uh-8FQuKeaQgs_a9iwDh-iMLkblySh-0kSeYKLy0V_5BJB6lbi0O7oML-pg3wKiBT0x1AYbUw7kih7aekWblPHw/s1600/IMG_4347.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFFWhyiegr5cgaczfXWm6L6M5gtdOoh5OPVldQ5wB73czJ7PJhYih-Uh-8FQuKeaQgs_a9iwDh-iMLkblySh-0kSeYKLy0V_5BJB6lbi0O7oML-pg3wKiBT0x1AYbUw7kih7aekWblPHw/s320/IMG_4347.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582163289797333122" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">Ooops sorry I hadn't realised it had been so long since I last posted my blog! I had got rather sidetracked by setting up my new </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.facebook.com/shaman.sham">Facebook page </a><span style="font-family:verdana;">. Do join me there as well. I can't write as much on there as I can on here but its good for keeping in touch with all my friends and for making new friends.<br /><br />Yesterday I arrived back at home in the UK just in time for my birthday, today. I really had a wonderful time in Texas. The photo shows how Spring is coming already there - the peach tree is already in full bloom! Unlike the apple tree pictured below who still has her winter coat on but that will soon change; as you can see she has a few buds out.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPX0S3Kky4x0-cCK8q48CSsmwKfsUHQ_6lRxWkYBKLYGuFOIQ__9D_Mn2pjHkWRFkQ_JxSa643Mw9_KPVJOO-PCJJFPgD-8zxOTxFMzMnrADezE0yCjDxYLQbz2pMC8hVF3unSu4PsjNU/s1600/IMG_4344.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPX0S3Kky4x0-cCK8q48CSsmwKfsUHQ_6lRxWkYBKLYGuFOIQ__9D_Mn2pjHkWRFkQ_JxSa643Mw9_KPVJOO-PCJJFPgD-8zxOTxFMzMnrADezE0yCjDxYLQbz2pMC8hVF3unSu4PsjNU/s320/IMG_4344.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582165566784915426" border="0" /></a>You can probably also tell that I like sitting in trees. Unusual for a hedgehog I think! I'm always very careful getting up though so the trees don't mind and its a good place to sit and listen to them.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_raBMxRSyyeJxGiEn048A3bAnCBHE-ayWkqg-7qRR1QiwhbaxmCr99adztDz9k_eSpe2ykhUF0EgRn-mAwuf-aAGEt232QIn4PgIPdxXA0PMo8npL9hkys05jNFMJ1ouYnmZrWMWbmCA/s1600/IMG_4341.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_raBMxRSyyeJxGiEn048A3bAnCBHE-ayWkqg-7qRR1QiwhbaxmCr99adztDz9k_eSpe2ykhUF0EgRn-mAwuf-aAGEt232QIn4PgIPdxXA0PMo8npL9hkys05jNFMJ1ouYnmZrWMWbmCA/s320/IMG_4341.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582166569219449922" border="0" /></a>I helped with some more gardening before I left Texas. Here are some lettuces I helped plant. I also said goodbye to all my chicken friends. They have all grown a lot while I have been here and are now all laying eggs. I shall miss them very much.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXnvPctQ7aGniqA-M8zqID7P3sjyIBk9ijmMyX68NjkyYf3Rq6qZT3l4UhUe-tFcsvYikZSqDdFOLWOCHTn1WuY4keWJeb38KC20oavk59xdq4T57sgkLfWKGGAFSgqogoa0NZgnLgd0U/s1600/IMG_4360.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXnvPctQ7aGniqA-M8zqID7P3sjyIBk9ijmMyX68NjkyYf3Rq6qZT3l4UhUe-tFcsvYikZSqDdFOLWOCHTn1WuY4keWJeb38KC20oavk59xdq4T57sgkLfWKGGAFSgqogoa0NZgnLgd0U/s320/IMG_4360.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582167303241091218" border="0" /></a>A very big thank you to Sherry and her family for letting me stay plus a special big thank you to my new friend Jessica for the amulet she gave me. I hope you can see it in the photographs above. Its a fish she painted for me so very special to me as well as very lovely. As you may remember from earlier blogs I discovered my real name was Ezekiel the Fish during my </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">ayahuasca journeys in Peru with <a href="http://www.thefourgates.com/">Ross Heaven</a> and <a href="http://www.ayahuascaretreats.org/">Tracy Thornbury</a> last August.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">It's lovely also to be back home at <a href="http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/">Indie Shaman</a> for my birthday. Indi said hello and didn't try to eat me at all so she must remember me a bit even though she has grown a lot since I last saw her. I will have to give a hand with the garden here as well as she seems to have dug it all up and it is now mostly mud and big holes! <br /><br />Many thanks to everyone who has sent me birthday greetings on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/shaman.sham">Facebook</a> and promise to blog again soon.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br /><br /></span>Shaman Sham the Wandering Hedgehoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09923755078234965090noreply@blogger.com0