Samhain
Day of the dead festival
Weekend/day/evening tickets here:
Or pay on door.
Programme.
At Emerson College Forest Row.
Friday:
Arrive from 4
Dinner 6 -7
7. - 8.30 Kirtan
Kirtan - Prayers & Ecstatic music for the holy evening of Diwali
with Shakti Das, a group of friends committed to the path of love in action through the Bhakti Yoga – the devotional path of Yoga. We believe that by realising our true, divine nature and bringing the sacred in to whatever we do, we can become a force for goodness in the world.
In the Celtic culture we celebrate Samhain and connect to our ancestors and beyond the veils. Friday is also the Hindu festival of Diwali – the festival of light where we celebrate the triumph of goodness over the dark. Let’s join together and light the voices of our hearts in the darkness of the night.
Please bring something to sit on, open hearts and voices!
8.30 - 9
Enchanted folk stories from around the world with Xanthe Graham
Skeleton bride -
Red princess -
Day of Dead
Baba Yaga and weeping woman -
9 - 10
Music with Butterfly Wheel
https://www.instagram.com/thebutterflywheel
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1uEXEJHqSOk8HhqComk6nN?si=knsqUSQvRhqSjkjoJsVsQg
https://youtu.be/TGnC5HQuLSE?si=qn3_5E1B826uv4tN
10 until Finish
Music from Magic Bird
Saturday:
7 - 8 Chi Gung with Swami Si
8 - 9 Breakfast
9 - 9.30 Roaring silence. Meditation. Awareness & Enquiry
9.45 -11.15
Dancing with the Ancestors - a dance ritual. With Ayla Willow
Deep into our bones, roots and ancestral landscape we will dance...
Opening our hearts in the container of this dance prayer and ritual we will give our ancestors voice through body, through dance and through the spirit realms that we will touch through the veil.
Dancing with the feet of our ancestors that have touched the earth through time.Opening to the elemental, mineral and spirit worlds where the ancestors reside eternally. As we come together in this dance, we say yes to life and to death. We embrace our reality as the living ancestors of tomorrow and we open to the legacy, gifts and support of the ancestors that have walked before us. Their stories are the threads that weave our lives, and these stories live and yearn to be told in our hearts, bodies and bones.
What is ours to dance this Samhain, what is being called of us for the generations that come? Let us widen the web to trace that map with the support of the seen and the unseen.
“If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment.
11.15 - 12.45
Drumming circle
Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny
Dive deep into presence through drumming and rhythms to find the drumbeat of the soul
With Denys
Or 🔥
Fire Workshop.
A journey through fire harnessing the power of flint and steel through the ages.
A chance to learn the primitive and modern ways to conjure up the First Element and warm our bodies and hearts for the Winter to come.
With Gary Butcher ( Gazza)
12.45 - 1.30
lunch
1.30 - 3 Break
3 - 4.30 - Sound bath with Leah star - sacred sound immersion diving deep into the primordial stillness
4.30 - 6 Diwali & Samhain Ceremony with Lindsey Vandita &
Bethan Lloyd
Be silent in your mind, silent in your senses, and also silent in your body.
Then, when all these are silent, don't do anything.
In that state Truth will reveal itself to you.
Kabir
6 - 7
Supper
7 -7.45
Devotional manta and prayer.
7.45 - 8.15
Enchanted story time with Jenny Lynne
"Dancing with death"
Let love be your guiding star
(A bridge between worlds)
8.30 -9 .30
Music with Bethan Lloyd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKOYKutUIF0&list=RDEM2onYuMUIIDvJfgiejCnPIw&start_radio=1
9. 30 onwards
Music with Reid:
https://reiditandweep.bandcamp.com/album/lone-wolf
Sunday:
7 - 8 Chi Gung with Swami Si
8 - 9 Breakfast
9 - 10.30
The roar of emptiness
Movement and depth. Light and silence.
”If you want the truth,
I’ll tell you the truth:
Listen to the secret sound,
the real sound,
which is inside you.”
Kabir
10.45 -12.45
Lynne Ridden. Ancestral Gifts
Ignite our own inner flames. come and join us in sacred circle, journey to the drum and connect deeply with your ancestral creative, passionate, furious life force that is calling to be lived fully right here right now!
Lunch and finish