Answer the call of your spirit—take your place on this journey and return to the Medicine Woman within.
Initiation Ground is a transformational voyage home to your sense of belonging, rooting back into the universe and the vast elemental ancient forces that support us and all of life, here you will uncover your deepest gifts and remember your purpose and what really matters to you in this life.
The heartbeat of this body of work is returning to your indigenous soul.
The Gateway in is embodied ceremony & ritual. You will be skilfully guided through this body of work to a place where deep alchemy unfolds.
Your guide is Bonnie McAteer, she will hold the space for you to dive deeply into the highly curated shamanic journey work of Medicine Woman Movement which combines dance ritual, ceremony, working with practices from the ancient and unbroken lineages of the Qero paqos (shaman) of the high Andes, weaving in alchemical womb wisdom and much more.
With Guest Facilitators Ana Pomar & Serafina Karahassan
Highlights include:
* Daily shamanic, embodiment, dance ritual, ceremony, movement journeys
* Ceremonies include Sweat Lodge, Cacao, Dispatio, Whirling, Embodied soul retrieval
* Receiving powerful healing techniques and following the ways of the wisdom keepers & elders of the Q’ero Inca Paqo (shaman) of the high Andes of Peru.
* Learning medicine songs from renowned songstress Ana Pomar
* Working with the powers of the menstrual cycle for personal healing, creativity and spiritual awakening
* Returning to ways in which Medicine Women & Earth keepers work
* Harnessing & communing in relationship with the sacred elements, the 4 directions, animal spirit allies, ancestors, descendants & the unseen.
* Being immersed in the wild lands and waters with a beautiful, strong circle of women alongside you
This immersion is for women who are ready to transform the past into medicine and deepen their relationship with themselves and the sacred, to live in alignment and reciprocity returning to the alchemical power and wisdom we hold.
About Bonnie:
Bonnie is a Medicine Woman & wild spirit who has traveled across continents & vast inner worlds for over 2 decades to bring this medicine home. She weaves in deep teachings from intensive Initiations she received in the Amazon rainforest bridging a pathway from the dreaming world to this world.
Her roots are deeply nourished by a 13 year shamanic apprenticeship with the founders of Movement Medicine, in which Bonnie Graduated & trained to the most advanced level, after 10 years of teaching locally & internationally she was called by spirit in the form of a double lightning strike just after the birth of her second child to initiate her own body of work.
She weaves within this work the prayer & prophecy of our time, Bonnie is initiated into an ancient lineage of Inca Paqo of the Qero people in the high Andes, journeying in an ongoing apprenticeship training as a Nusta Paqo.
Also trained as a menstruality mentor with the Red School she shares her deep passion for reclaiming the wisdom of our womb & cyclical nature. With decades of work within ceremony & ritual she holds a powerful space for deep transformation & homecoming.
Initiation Ground
3-13 October
Cara Creek Eco Lodge, Central Portugal
Learn more about Medicine Woman Movement!
Enquire with Serafina at initationgroundmwm@gmail.com
