Lammas (or Lughnasadh) – the grain harvest – is almost here, and I am opening up the Healing Through the Wheel of the Year three-day event again. This time, I am adding something extra – an opening and closing ceremony.

I launched these season, three-day events at Lammas last year – so I’ve done a whole turn of the wheel with them now. This next turn will use the same teaching and healing videos, but this year I have decided to include the more ceremonial aspect. There was always an opening and closing ceremony, and a healing altar for each of the sabbats. But that work I have always done more privately. For the rest of the year I have decided to share it.

Healings are ceremonies

I can’t remember when I stopped thinking of sessions as treatments or appointments and decided instead to think of them as ceremonies. I do know that once I made that transition in my mind, the work changed for me. For most of us who do energy healing work, we are not really taught about the container for the work – or the spirit and intention that is contained when we do attend to that aspect of the work. My own training in ceremony came primarily from magical and priestess practices, but the principles can be adapted easily for intentional healing work. When they are introduced there, the inherently sacred nature of the work becomes immediately more palpable.

From Lammas onwards, the Healing Through the Wheel of the Year offerings will include an opening and closing ceremony. These will be pre-recorded, and simply guided, so that everyone taking part can be part of the space holding and intention setting for their own healing. (I have also found that people like to work through the “three days” in their own time, and sometimes they take a while – so the pre-recorded ceremonies will give control over the start and end time of the healing work.)

The ceremonies will be simple – a small altar space, some straightforward prayers of intention, a candle. In these little but important ways, we can create a powerful focus and a field of containment – both of which can amplify the effects of the work we are doing. It’s a process that I hope will make the Lammas healings land more deeply this year – bit it’s also something I hope people will take on for their their healing work outside of the sabbats.

Join me for ceremony

The Healing Through the Wheel of the Year work – Lammas: A healing harvest – begins on 30 July and runs for three days. You will receive an opening ceremony (of course!) to set up the intention for your work when you begin, and one teaching video with associated guided healing audio track each day. There will be a closing ceremony (of course) and, from my own altar, remote healing will be set up for each of the three days.

If you’ve not done the Lammas journey with me before, you can book on for £45. Those who have joined previously (and so have already had the lessons) can rejoin for a nominal price of £20, to receive the daily emails, remote healings and – of course! – the new opening and closing ceremonies. Either way, booking links via paypal are on my Healing Through the Wheel of the Year page.

Next month on Propolos – my monthly subscription service for healers – the focus of my teaching will be on healing dreams and healing ceremonies. The additional, less explored aspects that hold and amplify the intentional healing work. You can join Propolos on Patreon, and receive monthly readings, full moon and new moon healings, a monthly shamanic teaching and live class, plus access to full back catalogue of teachings since we began last summer. Join on Patreon for £18 a month.