Will you invite Orkney to assist you in dreaming into being what you know is possible?
The element of copper – often undervalued as the true energy it can be - invites us to play and show us new aspects of it and ourselves. We will work with all copper alloys - brass, phosphor bronze as well as pure copper - and invite you to bring copper coins with you to refashion and recreate through alchemical processes. |
Crafting a Singing Bowl
There are no pre-requisites and the workshop retreat is open to young people from 14 years, if attending with an adult.
Contact us if in any doubt about skill set or fitness.
Contact us if in any doubt about skill set or fitness.
A star explodes … elements become available to form planets and molten life becomes stone … a snapshot of coalescence into form. Through cosmic creation’s dance, metals depart their stone matrix and transform through the alchemy of forge … molecules changing shape and purpose … consciousness. |
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Gabriella 'Songbird' Kapfer has been co-facilitating vibrational healing workshops and retreats as well as transformational journeys and pilgrimages to sacred sacred sites working with sound and Nature for more than 14 (thousand!) years. As a creator and sound alchemist she brings the wider consciousness of co-creating with all of life towards facilitating others to be coherent with themselves and with the Earth. The Orkney islands have played a vital part in the beginning of her journey, where she spent days at a time in stone circles receiving downloads and songs to share with the world. She is very excited to share these sites with you and work with the energies of this land and its amazing sites to forge an alchemical vessel of frequency, sound and vibration. She learnt the craft of metal instrument making with Ton Akkermans since 2004 and started offering workshops of singing-bowl making in 2011. She is particularly skilled at facilitating the alchemical process with metal, fire, the elements and the vibration of conscious heartfelt connection as a way to consciously invite, birth and/or transform energies in our personal lives and in the world. As such the making of the singing bowls becomes a tool of creation way beyond the instrument itself. See Gabriella's website for more information http://peace-trails.com/ Heather Cowen nee 'Smith' has a wide reaching background in facilitation. Inspired by the innate magic and oft unseen aspects that live in each person, Heather empowers others to widen their lens and perceive beyond the evidence based surface. She gives people access to more of themselves through sound, music and creative mentoring, body processes, intuitive and well developed skills of deep listening as well as energetic healing work and one to one facilitation. Heather has been hosting and co-facilitating the work of the singing bowl crafting since having first met Ton Akkermans in 2010. It brings together all of her gifts. It is a work she thrives on - the act of engagement with a physical process and the continual invitation to greater consciousness. Many have described her as a Bowl Whisperer, a Muse and Midwife to new Creations. One of her joys within a workshop and retreat is to include her wild love of intuitive cooking, co-creating meals with the plants and exploring the wider language of harmony and the direct perception of communicating with the many species and intelligent energies that are always willing to contribute when we show up asking for something that is vibrationally alive with possibilities for creating more beauty and joy on this planet. As a facilitator of Bars and Energetic Body work with Access Consciousness Heather also offers a wide range of tools for change and ease with bodies. The gift of opening to greater awareness through her five years of working with these tools have enriched this space of creation that deeply inspires the Resounding Earth impulse. See Heather's website www.fieldsofbeing.com for more of her work. |
Janine Greaves is a gift of Galactic proportions having worked with sound, healing, the energetics resonance of the earth and stars for many years.
A lifelong immersion in music and sound has led to keen awareness of the worlds of vibration and molecules. Janine has studied various spiritual traditions and healing modalities as her skills with subtle energy increased. She now uses her channeling and transmission skills to work with earth and star energies and has for some years now been painting the constellations of The Milky Way. Through her intimate sensing and attunement she conveys the essence and energies of these unique astral qualities as though the stars themselves were participating in the artistry. Her work in recent years has been amped up through the choice to create a greater communion with her own body and through a vast body of energetic processes and questions she provides that possibility for others as well as a Body Whisperer and Facilitator of Change with Bodies. Janine is a gifted and experienced maker of singing bowls in this lineage of crafts people calling in a consciousness at every level of existence and confesses to having a passion for the alchemical process of forging sound instruments in metal: copper, bronze, brass, titanium and silver all present powerful elements of transformation for both body and being. For more information about Janine's work go to _http://www.light-horizon.com/ |
A Co-Creation SpaceOur retreats and workshops are creation spaces. These are opportunities to directly affect material and to be affected by it.
We acknowledge the co-creative universe of which we are a part and we invite the consciousness of other beings and energies to participate with us in all that we offer and facilitate. One of the gifts of a bowl making workshop or retreat is that participants come to have direct encounters with these co-creative invitations and possibilities. Through direct engagement with our own ‘part’ in the creative act a window opens to the possibility that every moment in life is an invitation to meet the creator aspects of ourselves. We acknowledge and give our thanks for all of the contributing energies in the co-creation of this wondrous Orkney adventure. |
"The possibility of making your own healing instrument is rare.
The experience of forging with your own hands is transformational in itself.
The instruments that result are exceptional.
Book this course, bring your soul-spirit into your hands."
Tobias Kaye, Director of Sounding Bowls - Tuning the Circle