✨Practical information
*Directed by Giorgos Androulakis
*Duration of meeting: 3 hours
🍂Autumn is slowly leaving and Winter is coming. The season when we gather inwards. To the warmth and coziness of home, the warmth and coziness of family, the warmth and coziness of the heart. The peace and contemplation. The direction of the North, grandparents' fires and their stories, grandmothers' food and their stories, our gifts and our bonds. In Winter we look to the North and light the fire: for all to be well, safe and full, in warmth and love, for the seed to grow!
🔥We gather for a three-hour meeting to learn how to open the heart in all directions and how to light the fire for all to be well and comfortable. To pray to chat and give thanks. Using breathing techniques that can shift the state of mind, and traditional guided visualizations, we will meet with our lineage, get in touch with our ancestors, ask for their gifts (their blessing we say) and release their burdens bequeathed to us. We will talk with them, ask for their advice/guidance and open communication that we can keep open in our daily lives.
❓- What does a fire ceremony mean?
👉- Fire is the medicine and the rest facilitates it.
In the fire we cook, the fire warms us, by the fire we burn and the fire protects us. Around the fire we tell stories, we dream, we are moved, we celebrate, we feast, we mourn, we pray. In front of the fire we get to know each other better. Better with ourselves, better with friends, better with strangers. A fire ceremony is a ritual of which fire is a basic and structural component - whether it's a candle and contemplation or the fireplace and family around - and is lit with the intention of healing and evolution (of each individual and all that exists).
❓- A fire ceremony for the ancestors, that is?
👉- They are in our hearts and in our minds, those who came before us and it is because of them that we are here. Our grandparents, a part of us is also theirs, common ground. With some we were very close, with others we were more indifferent and with others we still found it difficult.
Some we lived long with and others we remember vaguely. But they are family, our lineage, our roots and we are their children.
In this ceremony, we will light our fire, remember them with kindness and invite them to be close and supportive. We will take a journey with a mind like a dream that we weave along the way. A mental conscious journey, somewhere between sleep and waking. There we will meet them, to talk to us, to listen to them, to talk to them and ask for their advice, their guidance and their blessing of blessing and strength for our life and our path. We will take their gifts, let go of their burdens and remember, by the fire, where we come from and what unites us. Then we will thank them, bid them farewell and return home a little changed, perhaps.
❓-What is shamanism?
👉-There is no exact answer about what shamanism is beyond a spiritual path. Independent of religion, outside of dogma and beyond the boundaries of philosophy. Path primitive, simple and archetypal. Anyone, like the path of yoga, can follow it or even create it, in whatever God they believe in, wherever they come from, whatever their past and traditions.
🧘About George Androulakis
George was born in 1986 in Crete where he started his involvement with the movement. He is a graduate of the State School of Orchestral Art, and the Yoga School "Yoga & Budo Center". He has attended the International Training Massage school (ITM) in Chiang Mai, Thailand where he attended the Certified Advanced Practitioner and Teacher (CAPT) program. In addition, he is a certified teacher of Aerial Yoga and Acro Yoga. Finally, in 2014 he began his studies in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture. In recent years, having attended Alberto Villioldo's "Medicinal Wheel" program, he has been practicing traditional shamanic therapies. She has worked with many Greek and foreign choreographers, teachers and healers of various fields and specialties.
His studies are about the human being as a whole (body/spirit/mind) as an independent unit and as part of social groups/groups. An important part of his work and a key part of his teaching is the exploration of ways to communicate, relate and co-exist harmoniously with oneself and the environment in which one finds oneself.
In 2015 he opened Spiti Yoga, where he teaches Hatha/Vinyasa/Aerial yoga, Barre-à-terre and Pilates classes as well as hosting workshops of various types and specialties. He lives with 2 dogs and 3 cats and strives above all to be a good parent to them, himself and the people around him.
🌿Cost: 30€
🙌Book your place here (places are limited to 16): https://form.jotform.com/243070656241350