August Newsletter –
Sacred Journey launch
Your exclusive early access to Sacred Journey
I hope you’re keeping well and managing to stay cool during what continues to be an incredibly hot summer. I don’t know about you, but I’m definitely ready for a little rain!
July has been a wonderful month here at Essential Energies. Since returning from my holiday, I’ve completed the business development course I’ve been working on, held my first ever Saturday Gong Bath, and experienced another first — taking my gongs onto the beach for a beautiful Gong Bath organised by my Gong Master, Vida of Sounds Alive Therapy.
There has also been plenty happening behind the scenes, and this month I finally get to share the project I hinted at in my last newsletter…
Behind the Scenes
Last month I hinted that, although my regular wellbeing circles were coming to an end in their previous format, something new was quietly taking shape behind the scenes.
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This autumn I’m launching Sacred Journey – a carefully curated series of six two-hour circles, designed to be experienced as one complete journey.
Together we’ll explore practices inspired by shamanic traditions, energy work, nature and ceremony. Along the way we’ll open sacred space, work with the elements and energy, explore rhythm through drumming, experience guided journeying to meet your power animal, connect with the wisdom of the land, and much more.
The journey concludes with a very special Winter Solstice Closing Ceremony on Monday 21 December.
I couldn’t have wished for a more fitting ending to our journey together.
There are just eight places available, allowing us to create a small group that can grow and journey together over the three months.
Each participant will also receive their own Sacred Journey journal to accompany them throughout the programme.
Dates
• Monday 5 October
• Monday 19 October
• Monday 2 November
• Monday 16 November
• Monday 30 November
• Monday 21 December – Winter Solstice Closing Ceremony
Investment
£150 for the complete six-circle journey.
Early Bird: £120 until 31 August using code SACRED120.
Subscriber First Access
Sacred Journey won’t be launched publicly until 8 August.
As one of my newsletter subscribers, you have the opportunity to secure your place before the public launch.
With only eight places available, I wanted to make sure the people who already support Essential Energies had the first opportunity to join me.
Find more details and book your place here → Sacred Journey
Upcoming Gong Baths
My regular evening Gong Baths continue on the second and fourth Monday of the month, with my daytime Saturday Gong Bath taking place on the final Saturday.
August
Monday 10 August — 7:30–9pm
Monday 24 August — 7:30–9pm
Saturday 29 August — 12:30–2pm
September
Saturday 26 September — 12:30–2pm
Monday 28 September — 7:30–9pm
There won’t be a Gong Bath on Monday 14 September as I’m away enjoying another little adventure!
I’m also hoping to be joining Vida from Sounds Alive Therapy for another Gong Bath on the Beach on Saturday 29 August. This one is planned as a donation-based event — simply come along, settle onto the sand and enjoy the sounds of the gongs beside the sea. Time and location to be confirmed.
It’s also the day after the Full Moon, so we’ll still be sitting beautifully within that Full Moon energy.
I’ll share confirmed details nearer the time.
Summer Wellbeing
Summer can be wonderful — but it isn’t always restful.
Children are home, families visit, holidays need organising, routines disappear and sometimes it feels as though you’re constantly meeting somebody else’s needs.
So amongst everything else you’re doing this summer, remember to make a little space for yourself too.
That doesn’t have to mean anything elaborate. Take yourself for a swim. Walk along the beach or through the woods alone. Sit somewhere with a quiet coffee and nowhere else you’re supposed to be.
Or perhaps let somebody else hold the space for a while and come along to a Gong Bath or book yourself a one-to-one session.
However you do it, give yourself permission occasionally to put down everybody else’s needs and ask:
What do I need today?
Service Spotlight — Reiki
Reiki has become an increasingly important part of my one-to-one work, and it’s also the subject of my latest blog.
It’s one of those therapies many people have heard of without necessarily knowing what actually happens during a Reiki session.
There is nothing you need to “do”, achieve or even understand. You remain fully clothed and simply have the opportunity to rest while I work with Reiki energy, allowing the session to unfold according to what you need that day.
People come to Reiki for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes they’re emotionally overwhelmed or going through a period of change. Sometimes they’re anxious, exhausted, stressed or finding it difficult to switch off. And sometimes there isn’t a particular problem at all — they simply know they need some time to stop and receive.
I’ve written much more about Reiki, what happens during a session and some of the questions people commonly have in my latest blog.
Read: What Actually Happens During a Reiki Session?
Or, if Reiki has been calling to you and you’d rather experience it for yourself:
As always, thank you for continuing to support Essential Energies. Whether you’ve been coming to me for years, joined me for the first time this summer, read my posts from afar or quietly open these newsletters each month, I’m very grateful to have you here.
I’m looking forward to sharing the next chapter of Essential Energies with many of you over the coming months, and I hope to welcome some of you on our first Sacred Journey this autumn.
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