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January 2008

Happy New Year!
New Year, new skills! I started off the year in Switzerland, kind of a spur of the moment leap at an invitation to go skiing. I hadn’t been skiing in 26 years so I was really counting on that cellular memory to kick in! It did. It was WONDERFUL. I found it fascinating to compare the experience from when I was in high school as to now. Back then it was just about survival, getting to the bottom of the hill alive. I was permanently terrified, usually out of control and there was no technique or turning involved...or stopping for that matter! This time however, with a lifetime appreciation of valuing my life and limbs, I really liked the idea of having some kind of feeling of “control” and thrilled at applying technique to make it all easier. I noticed the patterns in myself. I like a challenge, I like going fast and thinking fast, I like learning new skills, I like strength, stamina and having to totally focus on what I am doing. I love getting a great work-out in the process of enjoying myself. There was so much multi-tasking going on, I was in heaven! 
I thought about the things I love to do the most like riding horses and Bikram yoga, they both have all those elements. I thought about Theta because I was in it much of the time, praying mostly that I would have control and get to the bottom in one piece! Theta was a great state of mind to be in before attempting something new. But in itself Theta Healing and Shamanic Energy Medicine have all those elements too. The process of both can be a challenge, it makes everything go faster (in terms of healing, soul searching, manifesting), it is continually learning new skills and it requires total focus, plus it exercises that pineal gland and your brain unlike anything else! And best of all, they are both highly creative!
I met beautiful people there and will be returning to teach a Theta Healing DNA 2 Basic class in February. Theta can help improve anyone’s ability to perform in any area of life. I remember once coaching my youngest son in cricket. He thought it hilarious that I would “coach” him and that we wouldn’t even go outside to do it. I sat with him for five minutes and talked around the problem he was having with his bowling at the time. After a few minutes we reprogrammed his body’s ability and the next day he was bowling perfectly. This could work with every sport, hobby, and any performance skills. Of course, now I am hooked and want to get really good at skiing because it was such a thrill and fulfilled so many plus points for me all at once.
What will your new year bring you? You know you have to go out and make it happen. I questioned my sanity taking up skiing again after all these years, and I was scared. My body shook from head to toe and my heart was in my mouth for the first few runs, but there’s nothing like a little adrenaline to get you going! In order to progress we need to push ourselves beyond our comfort zones. Uncovering our secrets from ourselves is also a little scary. We might find out something about ourselves that we don’t like....but that’s the beauty, then we can fix it and move on, breathing easier and with a sense of accomplishment and pride because we have overcome something.
Most people fear the unknown. Theta helps you tap into the unknown and embrace it. There is a wonderful new class called Manifesting and Abundance which really helps you find out what is actually blocking you from achieving your highest dreams, it may surprise you! You need to have taken Advanced Theta before you take the manifesting class so I urge you this year to finally make the leap of faith and enrol in a Theta Healing class today, it may change your life for the better in ways you could never imagine! This is the year to be self-empowered.
Learn from the Eagle who feeds himself from the land yet still soars to great heights in the sky. He rises above the bigger picture yet always has clear focus on every detail below.   They can teach us a balance of being of the earth but not in it. These magnificent birds of prey are about the illumination of the spirit, healing and creation. Creativity is a wonderful motivating force to progress us as far as we can go. It goes hand in hand with a willingness to experience extremes in a controlled way so you can fully realise all your passions and fly free with grace and ease. Theta Healing and Shamanic Energy Medicine can help you achieve this wonderful feeling of bliss. How much do you want to engage with your own adventure this year?
Hope to see you all swooping into a Theta Healing class soon.
With love, light and clarity,
Shannon
www.lucid-training.com
 

February 2008

Happy February! This is a time of organisation. It pre-empts the spring clean. This is when we need to organise our home base, whether that is literally our house, our bodies or even our thinking. It is time to get a firm grounding of clarity in all aspects of our lives so we can be whole on every level. Our bodies are simply the homes for our mind and spirit. We have to take care of that so everything else can work beautifully. Feng Shui is a method of creating energy flow throughout a house. If you de-clutter your house, it will directly affect your personal energy flow. We find all sorts of ways to keep ourselves stuck, by stepping around the obstacles time and time again, avoiding them, when it would simply be easier to confront and remove them in the first place. 
I had two pigeon doves show up the other day. They flew around my courtyard and danced on the windowsill. They reflect returning to the love and security of home and drawing on those energies. They remind us that we can always find our way back home no matter how lost we may feel. Finding your way home to yourself, to a place of peace and balance takes some reflection. Have we forgotten who we are? I am not talking about the child your parents wanted you to be, but the free spirit you were when you were born. Are we falling into old patterns we vowed to remember and change? If you have pigeons or doves show up, you may need to look at your home base.
It can be relatively easy to change patterns of behaviours, although it takes some practice. Clients come to do Theta HealingTM, a process of changing neural pathways, so they have healthier belief systems, yet they are not doing anything in their external lives to support that. Make sure you are taking care of your home base. Your body needs to have regular exercise, you need to eat a healthy and nutritious diet, or be taking supplements to make sure you are receiving all the vitamins you need for a vibrant physical house. Your mind needs to be active and alert and learning new things, challenged. If you are a tv couch potato, switch it off and read a book even if it’s only for half an hour a night. Your spirit also needs some attention, go outside! Breathe the air, feel the rain and wind on your face. Pray. De-clutter your actual house. Clean out that closet you’ve been meaning to for ages. Create space. Love yourself.
When we remove the obstacles we have more space to breathe. We can expand. Every time we get angry, fearful or stressed our chakras contract. Our body language reflects this. We want to open up and breathe out, allowing all the pent up stress, anger and resentment to release. Then we can move freely, all our energy will flow beautifully and we will feel clear and be able to get organised.
Engage with your process of clarity. Love yourself more and learn Theta HealingTM so you can apply it to every obstacle in your life. Check it out on my website www.lucid-training.com
I look forward to seeing you in a theta class soon.
With love, light and clarity,
Shannon O’Flaherty
www.lucid-training.com
MARCH 2008
HAPPY ST. PATRICKS DAY!
It is important to honour where we come from and who we are becoming. I am 5th generation American Irish as well as coming from my mother’s English stock. I relate to my Irish ancestry more, although I’m living most of my life in England. My life seems to be a series of transitions, but whenever we are about to have another potentially major transformation we tend to look back at where we have come from, to recap in a conscious way, our life transformation that has brought us to this point here and now. Although a true born and bred New Yorker, I had a few years in Argentina when I was nine to eleven and a half. We travelled all over South America and in Machu Picchu, Peru the spirit of the condor captured me and reclaimed me as their own....or something like that! Something happened in Peru that re-connected me to my spiritual lineage, re-connected me to nature, to the earth, the moon, the stars. When I went back to Machu Picchu five years ago it was like coming full circle from my childhood...this time it is as though I am diving into that circle to go explore the depths of my becoming. Everything I have been doing over the past few years and especially the past year has led up to this point. Even the change over one year has been an incredible shift, of consciousness, readiness, and acceptance.
Now I am in the countdown to embark on the most intense yet, journey of self-discovery and although a few anxieties are surfacing, it’s more a feeling of quiet exhilaration! I was driving my son to cricket today and noticed that my nail varnish had chipped in a big way, when I had only just painted them two days ago. I had a moment of girly drama over that, entertaining my son, as Forrest and I laughed together, while he expressed his concerns for me living in a hut in the jungle for six weeks! I told him the nail varnish wouldn’t be coming to the jungle with me. I thought back to twenty years ago when I was having my first backpacking experience how I had not only packed all my manicure supplies but also my high heels in my backpack. There will be no electricity in the jungle....no laptop, no mobile, no high heels. I have a long list of supplies that I need to bring with me. I know from past experience that I never use half of what I bring with me so this time I am sticking to the basics. After all, we are supposed to be getting in touch with our shadow parts; facing our deepest fears so they no longer have a grip over us. 
My biggest anxiety is not having any communication with the outside world, mainly my kids, for six weeks. But I also know they will be totally fine. There are other fears, you know, bugs and things, so before I go, I am going to start facing some of my irrational fears here. I have never liked Ferris wheels, ever since I was 9 and watched one fall over at a fair when my sister and I were waiting in the queue to go on it. She’s not too fond of them either. So of course London builds the EYE which plagues me relentlessly. My boys are coming down to London to hang out with me for a few days and they are going to force Mommy to face her fears....
Caterpillars have been coming up for me lately. They are about transformation of course. They must be terrified going into the cocoon, not knowing if they will come out alive, and not recognising themselves when they do! But perhaps caterpillars have also been coming up for me because they munch on leaves all day, and that’s what I will be doing. Munching on plants so I can connect to the plant spirit and learn about how the plants heal. And in turn this will transform me in some way....I may not sprout literal wings but I am sure I will ethereally spread my wings and fly. Whenever you lift your vibration up to another level of clarity, you are in essence trusting that your wings will carry you as you step into the abyss...the deep unknown which usually leads you home.
Besides the wonderful Theta Healing classes that I teach to help you connect to your higher love state and heal yourself and others from limiting belief systems, I also teach shamanic energy medicine classes to help you send and receive energy, and how to work with it. So you can sprout your own wings and fly. Check out my website and join a theta or shamanic energy medicine class today so you can explore your deep unknown and transform into the beautiful butterfly that you are.
With Love, Light and Clarity,
Shannon O'Flaherty
April 2008
 
Happy April Snow Rain Wind & Sun Showers!
It certainly will be a month of elements and elementals for me!  I fly off to Peru this coming Thursday morning at the crack of dawn, and Friday, even earlier fly from Lima to Iquitos which is in the middle of the Peruvian Amazon jungle.  I will live there in a hut of my own, experiencing a six week shamanic plant diet apprenticeship with the Shipibo tribe at Onanyan Shobo.  I will be drinking the sacred medicine of the plants and tapping into the plant spirits which teach us how each plant is used to heal.  It is clear to me in retrospect why I needed to go see John of God in Brazil last October/November before traipsing off to the jungle.  Everything in the right time and order.
On May 22nd I come out of the jungle, probably a much thinner version after only eating plants for so long, and I meet Roam, my 14 year old son who is flying down to travel with me for two weeks.  We will hang out in the sacred valley inbetween Cusco, Peru and Macchu Picchu and visit many sacred sites and allow him to have his own experience of the shamanic wonders of my world. 
He goes home and I go on an advanced mountain spirit research expedition with my favourite shaman mentor Jose Luis Herrera, as well as a bunch of other talented shamanic practitioners, including one of my very best friends.  We will go commune with the mountain spirits which entails high altitude mountain trekking and camping.  So I have packed for both extremes! 
On June 20th my 16 year old son, Forrest, travels down to Peru to essentially have the same trip I had with Roam.  Except he is a little older and apparently there is a great night life in Cusco!  I have already made him agree to salsa dancing! 
So I have a very exciting three months ahead of me.  Life transforming, spiritually evolving growth and experience.  I have done some work on my fears, obviously a few things have come up, big things and little things.  Something that kept coming up for me in Brazil was TARANTULAS! 
NLP years ago, made it possible for me to pick up an English house spider, which was never going to happen in a million years....but tarantulas??  Mmmm no.  They have fangs.  But I KNOW they are all about creativity and weaving of fate.  I know they have to do with writing too.  In Native American mythology the spider is the link to the past and the future.  Everything we do now is weaving what we will encounter in the future.  We write our own destiny, weaving it by our thoughts, feelings and actions.  I have been called to the jungle....it's taken me about two years to finally go, but I have been doing a lot of work leading up to this point!  Spiders are a feminine energy and maintain the balance of walking the threads between life and death, waking and sleeping and between the physical and spiritual.  The energetic piece of work I did around spiders gave me a new framework with which to view them.  I am going into the jungle to drink Ayahuasca which is partially about experiencing a "little death" so you no longer are bound by the hooks of the fear of death that hold us all back.  So we can let go of our attachments to life as we know it and awaken to the spiritual realms all around us.  If spiders are showing up for you, look at every aspect of balance and creativity in your life!
I'm having to give up sugar but it would be such a shame if everyone had to so I enclose my BEST CHOCOLATE CAKE recipe.
Get a Betty Crocker Devil's Food Cake mix (you can try to use any good chocolate cake mix but this is the best one)
Follow directions on the cake mix (eggs oil and water) and then ADD:
6 ounces of Baileys Irish Cream
A BUNCH of dark chocolate sauce (like an ounce or two) or Nutella (melted a little) works well too.  OR if you want density you can add chocolate chips (maybe a half cup or a cup?)
A packet of Delight Chocolate Pudding Mix.  Stir it all up.
Bake at 180 F for 37 1/2 minutes in a pre-heated oven.  I use a greased Bundt pan which is a pan with a hole in the middle of it and the entire cake mix goes in there.  Or you can use 2,  8 inch pans but then the cooking times may change.
Naturally, make it with love and bless all the ingredients as they go in!  Get Betty Crocker Frosting already made up and put a few scoops of it in the microwave for 15 seconds and "glaze" the cake with that.  Mmm mmm good!  Enjoy!
I will be back on email sporadically from May 22nd through the end of my travels (back in UK July 5th) and teaching Theta Classes again in September, so plan ahead!
If you need Theta Healing, Contact Carolyn Festa caztaz@hotmail.com 01932-885862.  She trained with me in Theta and Advanced, and continued with Vianna and she really gets it!  She is also a naturopath and kinesiologist among other wonderous things!
I HIGHLY recommend everyone have an astrological reading with Rania James 0208 3185211 home and 07837822214 mobile rania@gis.net.  She is the BEST astrologer and not only gives you a totally thorough reading of your chart (or any aspect of your chart that you want to know about, moving, relationships etc.) but she channels some superior information!  She is SO accurate and has helped me identify key core issues in my life so that I could work through them at a much faster pace.  She works in person or does readings over the phone and makes you a tape each time.  It will be a fascinating and informative experience for you!  Ring her now and book your reading!
And finally the very talented and knowledgeable Dan Kahn, BA(Hons), MSc, BETD. – is teaching MEDITATION MASTERY AND ESOTERIC ENERGY WORKSHOP LEVEL I-II Saturday 26th - Sunday 27th – April 2008 Wandsworth - London - England A two day workshop based on the research by Dr Glenn Morris of highly effective meditation and esoteric energy techniques, cherry picked from a variety of martial arts, healing therapies and shamanistic traditions. Contact Dan.Kahn@bi-aura.com or +44 (0)7785 304 724 for application form.  This is an awesome workshop and will help you get in touch with commanding your energy immensely! 
Stay balanced and creative with all the changing elements of seasons coming into play.  I will hold the feminine energy in the jungle and the mountains and connect to the elements which will help us all stay in balance with the beautiful Pachamama.
Peace and Love,
Shannon O'Flaherty
www.lucid-training.com


May 2008 - No Newsletter - In the Amazon Jungle.

June 2008
Hola Amigos! (Hello Friends)
Somehow, amidst the jungle and travelling May seemed to escape me as well as my newsletter!  I do apologise.
Apparently it is a good thing to be eaten by a giant anaconda without fear, while visioning on ayahuasca in the jungle!  This happened to me on a number of occasions during my (mostly profound) experiences with this intense plant.  Everything has something to do with what kind of power you have, and how your energy is, and how your life will be.  Ayahuasca is an interesting experience.  I wished I had had nothing previous to compare it to, because it was an entirely different experience for me this time.
I fought with it.  I had a hard time getting out of my analytical space and was really very challenged the entire time. It is a tough thing to put in your body.  I was the first person they ever knew to connect with, not a plant spirit, but the spirit of ....the mud (or clay).  Señor Barro.  I am SO of the earth, I became the mud and was connected to ALL That Is.  It was awesome!  
I was happy that I did not attract any giant spiders, although I did see a few in their own natural habitat and gave them respect and my best wishes!  I wish I had done a piece of work about not attracting the kazillion mosquitoes before going!  At least I provided nourishment and dessert for an entire bug population!  Never mind the "Deet" they thrived on it!
Somehow, miraculously, I survived the jungle, falling in love with the Shipibo family who I stayed with, (see the fair trade business section, called Lucid Trading, coming soon) yet coming out with perhaps more questions than I had going into the Amazon. 
People have life changing moments happen all the time.  It can be something traumatic, or something totally wonderful.  It changes the cement clad perspective you had before this ´happening´.  Parents die, a baby is born, you have a spiritual awakening, a close call, you fall in love....or.....you go to the jungle and live the way the Shipibo do for a month or more!
Since then I have been travelling on my own and with my youngest son who is nearly 15.  It has been wonderful to attract authentic Qéro shamans and have beautiful ceremonies, after hiking in the dark under all the stars, to sacred sites.  To be blessed with these connections and experiences has helped to bring closure to my earlier ´pruebas´ (tests) in the jungle.  My questions have been answered, I have received many healings, profound teachings and a new way forward.  I have also made beautiful connections with the most wonderful Peruvian people to help set off my new fair trade business....coming soon on my website. This is a win-win venture with opportunities for everyone to help and be involved in some way.
There were so many possible animal totems to talk about in May, like, sharing my room with a bat for example, listening to hummingbirds zip by my window every night, watching monkeys frolic in the trees, frogs, fish, birds, butterflies, the list is endless.  However, what came to me EVERY time I took Ayahuasca, was an owl.  I also heard her who-whooing through the jungle and she made me smile and feel so incredibly happy.  Peru is filled with Owl Cosas (Things) as she is a very sacred symbol.  She represents both sides of dark and light. I like this about her, as my entire journey of finding myself has been about embracing both the dark side of myself, as well as the light side.  The Owl is mystical and magical and associated with witches...no surprise there!  It occurred to me that Owls have been showing up for me my entire life!  Especially when I was twenty and most of my magical stuff awakened (without me knowing about it consciously then!).  Birth and Death.  Renewing and Letting Go.
So ask yourselves when darkness (dark thoughts or feelings) comes, why has it come?  What would happen if you allowed yourself to go into it?  Not to stay there, just to visit.  Always keep your conscious awareness (your reasoning) with you...I figure I attracted some of the dark visions I had for a reason and although not pleasant, they led me to GREAT healings. Stuff I haven´t thought about in over 30 years, but which represented a time of self loathing and insecurity.  I was able to forgive so much of my childhood, and my parents, at yet a deeper level than I even realised existed! With our parents it seems we are always the children, yet I was allowed to step into their perspective, not just intellectually, but in living technicolour! 
What would you do if you didn´t live your passion?  ARE you living your passion? And if you are not, WHY? 
The jungle experience was so raw, it stripped me of all of my comforts.  It forced me to chunk everything down to a very basic level of me questioning: what are the MOST important elements OF my passion?  I think it awakened or certainly clarified a few truths in myself that perhaps earlier I was not willing to look at, because I still had my "ideas" in the cement.  
This is what the Manifesting and Abundance class helps you get to grips with (minus the bugs!), finding out what it really is that you want, not just what you think it is (and can´t seem to manifest!)
But guess what?  BEFORE you can take the Manifesting and Abundance class, you have to have had Advanced Theta, and before you can take Advanced Theta, you have to have Theta Healing DNA 2, which is the introductory course over three days that gives you the tools to change your belief systems and work with others.  It´s a fun, life changing class!
So I am offering two sets of these three classes.  Remember if you have had any theta class with me before you can come again for half price, or bring a new student to Theta 2 and come for free!
So here´s the schedule:
I´ll give you price deals if you sign up for all three...I have not yet ammended my website....I´ll get to that....still travelling!
Inbetween these dates I will give a presentation and slide show of my trip to Peru and answer questions.  I intend to host the Qéro shamans to come to England and hold weekend ceremonies so you may all have the priviledge of being blessed and sitting in sacred ceremony with these beautiful people...eventually.
I will be back in service, with a new way forward (I have learned some really cool stuff!) in London in September, up north in Ilkley from August.  Please ring me 07944882482, I look forward to hearing from you.  Or, until July 7th (when I´m back in the UK) please feel free to email me at shannon@lucid-training.com.
With munay (love) and ayni (balance) always, Shannon
July 2008
Urpi Chayllay Sonqo Chayllay (Little Sweet Doves of my Heart)
HAPPY JULY!
Since my last newsletter in June a million more amazing adventures have happened, including an expedition to the sacred mountain Ausangate to commune with the Apu`s (the mountain spirits) and hike and camp at 16,000 feet!  It was cold, but that did not stop us from diving into the glacial Jaguar Lagoon for some spiritual cleansing! This was a collective event after letting go of kuyas (stones in our mesas) that held our attachments to energies that no longer serve us.  Every day was spent in ceremony, appropriate as Ausangate means King of Prayer.
 I have also had extensive travels with each son in turn.  I truly enjoyed the rare one on one opportunity to bond with my children in my favourite foreign country, laced with shamanic activity and lots of mountain climbing.  To get to know my children in this way and for them to experience me in my element has been valuable and precious to all of us.  I highly recommend taking time to get to know your family members at a deeper level, on neutral terrain.  Travelling takes away all the comfort zones so it was eye-opening, challenging, very loving, fascinating and hilarious at times!
I could write about doves (in relation to the saying above) as they figure prominently as an animal totem here, but what consistently seems to be showing up (at least in Peru!) are llamas.  In England it`s probably unlikely that a llama is going to stroll down the street and start munching grass like they do down here, but they may come to you in your dreams!
Llama`s are members of the camel family.  They are intelligent and curious and show us how to adapt and persevere in any situation...probably why they came to me in my visions when I was in the jungle!  In the Qùero Nation the main sign of abundance is not how much money you have, but how many llamas!  Llama foetuses are also used as sacred offerings, indicating that people with this animal totem tend to sacrifice their own lifestyle to accomodate another.  Llama`s hold the teachings of true service.  However, sometimes we are so tired from carrying the weight of the world on our shoulders that we forget to serve ourselves equally.  Balanced action and reaction, and learning how to incorporate patient persistence, equality and inspired action into our lives are some of the main soul lessons when llama`s show up.  Not surprising that the Incan philosophy was to learn, serve, or teach, with humility.
Sooo... that brings me full circle back to last month`s newsletter with the crazy schedule of events I posted. Kind of an old pattern, something that I have since released and more than a few shamans have told me in no uncertain words to "stop everything" "do nothing" "start from ground zero" "embody the teachings, energy, experiences."  So, I`m erasing last month`s schedule, and taking some advice.  The thought of "doing nothing" fills me with a certain amount of panic: how do I incorporate that philosophy into the modern world of working to earn a living?  Part of it is my head trip and part of it is simply changing the way I work;  changing my approach, switching my focus and applying the new things I have learned.  Before that however, I am going home (tonight I fly back) and sitting with this past three months.
So here`s the new schedule:
I will be in London seeing clients August 3rd through August 10th.  If you would like an appointment you can email me shannon@lucid-training.com or ring me (after July 10th please) 07944882482
Theta Healing DNA 2 September 19, 20, 21 in London.
Advanced Theta Healing October 10, 11, 12 in London.
Manifesting and Abundance November 8th & 9th  in London.
Those are the dates, I´ll figure out the deals later.  You can assume I`ll be in London seeing clients after each of those classes.  I will also be offering occasional shamanic energy classes/ceremonies but I will keep you posted on that! In between those dates I will be seeing clients up north in Ilkley, West Yorkshire.
I have also set the grounding for Lucid Trading, selling beautiful jewelry and fabrics from Peru to help support the indigenous communities.  That should be up and running in the next few months in time for Christmas shopping!
Happy August 2008!
I’ve been back in England three and a half weeks taking full advantage of the rare but beautiful, sunny, hot, summer weather! We live at the base of Ilkley Moor with its purple flowering heather and green expanding bracken wooing us to walk into the heart of it and be caressed by its natural beauty. I have discovered power walking up the hill...and then laying down! I stare up at the trees and find a little space of sky through the leaves and allow myself to journey up through it into space. Active meditation while regaining my breath, and then I power walk up the next bit, and lay down again or at least sit and breathe in the view. With the view I reflect on my life here, the different phases and the fullness of it. Once I notice I’m breathing easily again I run along the tops for a while until I find a new path down and run home. I have found it immensely enjoyable. 
I always used to think pacing myself meant continual motion but at a slow steady pace. Maybe that is ideal for some people but for me I prefer rapid, exuberant fits and bursts of energy followed by total relaxation. It’s kind of like yoga. I’m paying attention to the natural rhythm and flow of my body and most importantly not being so hard on myself!  
A close girlfriend and I attempted to go to a 5 Rhythms ecstatic dance class, but rather frustratingly, we missed it. So we took ourselves to Roundhay Park in Leeds creating our own freestyle rhythms. We were cart-wheeling (remember those?) and spinning around holding hands like four year olds....complete with childlike giggles. We skipped, danced and leaped finishing with sun salutations in the golden evening light. We transformed ourselves and our energy, got a great work out and didn’t feel we had missed out on anything! It was brilliant!
I have been looking at the drawings of my ayahuasca visions during my time in the jungle to see what other animal totems came up for me. I could write about snakes, they are shamanic totems, but just how much death and rebirth can one girl have in a few months?! Anyway, I am in the calm AFTER the storm. 
What keeps showing up for me now, are ducks! To be fair, I had a few ducks in my aya visions too...I wish I had known what they symbolised then. Ducks are about emotional comfort and protection. They are obviously linked to water and also to the feminine, the astral plane and emotional states of humans. They can remind us to nurture our own emotional natures. They reflect a need to find comfort in our own element and with people of like mind and spirit. They remind us to return to parts of ourselves or activities that we feel comfortable in, while not neglecting or closing off our emotional sides. We need to be willing to explore our emotions as every other aspect of our lives.
So I’ve returned home and I’ve been enjoying long hot baths (Peru isn’t big on bathtubs, or hot water for that matter!). I’ve been connecting with people who I have missed, and re-connecting with old friends. I’ve been thoroughly enjoying my work as new magic seems to be coming through loud and clear! There’s a lot of stuff to DO, to put in place and organise and I am sitting with it and running up hills with it! I’ve been reading my poetry that I wrote while in Peru although I cannot yet bring myself to read my journals, but eventually the right time for that will surface too. I am noticing a distinct shift in my natural response to just about everything! What I notice the most is that I am extremely chilled out and joyous!
I will be in London August 3rd – 8th seeing clients. I have 3 possible appointment
slots that are still available so if you feel it is time to explore your emotions or balance your energies ring me soon 07944882482 as I will not be back until September.
August 15th – 18th I will be helping Gina Lazenby on her Women’s Business Wisdom Retreat in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales. I will be opening the retreat with a shamanic ceremony and also doing a Theta Healing section on limiting beliefs around money!
 
The idea is for women to gain a different perspective on their life and business to make it much easier. Learn how to bring the principles of feng shui and flow into your business life and become a magnet for what you need and create success with less effort. Gina will merge Wealth Dynamics with her marketing expertise and knowledge of feng shui wisdom. And because this is in the Healthy Home, there will be peace, wholefood, relaxation, deep sleep, and tips for de-stressing and living a healthy, balanced life. 
 
You will benefit from Gina's extensive practical business experience as managing director of her own award-winning businesses; her know-how in creating award-winning publicity campaigns for clients; and her own journey of re-inventing herself in different businesses and industries over the years, particularly in leading-edge fields. All this will be blended with her 15 years experience of feng shui and ancient wisdom and how energy flow principles work in businesses as well as homes. In addition, she has also certified as a Wealth Dynamics Master Practitioner for Women in Business so she will expand on how to use this great knowledge for more success and joyful working.
 
Visit the Business Wisdom Retreat website: 
 
Download a colour pdf leaflet for the event:
 
Or ring Gina Lazenby:01535 63 77 88 home      07802 33 11 12 mobile
 
This event is supporting women leaders in India - a donation is made from each place sold and will pay for one woman in India to receive life-changing Leadership Training from the Hunger Project.
 
 
REMINDER! Sign up now for upcoming classes and save £££’s
Due to an upcoming SKY TV Live interview and demo on September 22nd, I have postponed the Theta Healing DNA 2 Basic class one week (see new dates below).... more on TV Interview next month!
Theta Healing DNA 2 Basic September 26, 27, 28 London £300 – sign up by September 6th & save £25
Advanced Theta Healing October 10, 11, 12 London £300 – sign up by September 23rd and save £25
Manifesting and Abundance November 8th & 9th London £250 – sign up by October 21st and save £25
*Sign up for ALL THREE CLASSES by September 6th and save another £25 off the total price!*
Check out my website: www.lucid-training.com to find a description about each class.
Nurture yourself this summer! Run up a hill, dance in the park or lay down and stare at the sky. Invest in yourself and your business. Come to Gina’s Business Wisdom Retreat and follow it up with Theta Classes that will give you the instant tools to change your life! Dive into the waters of life, like the ducks and drink it all in!
Love and expansion,
Shannon O’Flaherty
07944882482
Happy September!
PLEASE NOTE: I will be in London seeing clients Monday September 22nd through Wednesday 24th. Book your appointment now as places tend to fill up fast! 07944882482
I was just thinking about impermanence last night. How permanent impermanence actually is! I only need think of the Amazon forest teeming with life. Survival of the fittest, be it plants, bugs or creatures, nature creates impermanence and the nature of people creates impermanence. 
Last night was the full moon and I had a fire ceremony at my house, various people attended. Someone’s brand new rattle hit the floor and exploded. I mentioned non-attachment as I have seen many rattles go into the fire over the years. In fact the whole purpose of a fire ceremony is to have your moment of prayer with the fire, which helps you to let go of all that you are attached to, bound to, transmuting that heavy energy into light. 
We get so attached to everything, “the picture in our heads of how it’s supposed to be,” our possessions, our friends, even our habits. If the sea was permanently still we would never see some of the beautiful shells and treasures she washes up on our shores. Dancing with impermanence doesn’t have to be a traumatic experience. As we grow and evolve our needs change, our viewpoints change. We have a baby and our entire paradigm shifts! Or, we go to the jungle. 
If we can’t let go of our old paradigm in order to allow all the new possibilities to shine through, it will make our process more challenging.  I help people change their limiting belief systems to more positive ones using Theta Healing and I help people release what they are holding in their auric bodies using shamanic energy medicine.
You can learn Theta Healing yourself and clear many of your own limiting belief systems as they arise. 
I need to confirm the room by this Friday for Theta Healing DNA 2 Basic class offered September 26th through 28th.   If you’ve been thinking about attending a Theta class why not come now? I need four more students to run the class.   Remember if you’ve taken my Theta class before you can come again for half price or bring a new student and come for free! What are you waiting for? Help yourself detach from all that is holding you back.
Theta Healingä DNA 2 Basic
3-Day Class with Certification
 
Taught by Shannon O’Flaherty
  Shamanic Practitioner, Intuitive, & Certified Instructor
 
 
    Join us for a three day class to learn a powerful new healing system which trains you to bring your conscious mind into a theta state, when the brain waves are at a frequency of 4-7 Hz. In this state it is easy to connect to the Universal Energy Source, that space of Unconditional Love and Grace, to effect any changes, healings, and manifestations that we choose to experience in any moment of our existence, consciously.
   This system was introduced by Vianna Stibal after she spontaneously healed her own cancer in 1995. Also known as the Orion Techniqueä, this new healing paradigm is growing worldwide with practitioners and teachers in over 15 countries. 
    The technology is now available to show that in between our two physical strands of DNA are a number of virtual strands. These strands lie dormant in most of us, but when activated they cause the cells to generate a whole new range of electrical impulses which stimulate the release of different chemicals to the brain. This facilitates an increased level of awareness at the sensory level and an awakening of powerful healing abilities at the physical level.
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