SAPIENS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMANKIND
FIRE gave us power FARMING made us hungry for more MONEY gave us purpose SCIENCE made us deadly This is the thrilling account of our…
A change of direction
Being part of the solution
Being a force of evolution
Inspiring and influencing people
Living a life beyond the ordinary
Uncovering and deepening your talents
Developing access to higher consciousness
Being empowered to fulfil your life’s purpose
And giving it your best shot.
With every moment, every breath and every thought we are co-creating our reality with the universe.
We weave our part in the web of life, often unconsciously. We repeat patterns of thought and behaviour, and wonder why the universe responds to us the same old way.
For the Kogi people of Columbia, we Westerners are the errant “Little Brothers” who have forgotten their role as caretakers of the planet we inhabit. For the Qero people of Peru, we have forgotten ayni, the law of sacred reciprocity. Nothing ever goes one way.
Natural Wisdom Leaders condenses traditional shamanic and esoteric teaching with leadership training into a one year intensive programme.
Delivered in thirteen modules, the programme's seven themes are designed to wake you up to your own power to weave beauty, harmony and joy in your life and all it touches.
DAVINA MACKAIL
Davina is a Registered Nurse, certified counsellor and qualified feng shui practitioner, Q’ero trained master and lineage holder, master practitioner in hypnotism, Time Line Therapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming. More >
NIZAMI ELÉ
Nizami studied Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Psychology before taking his passion for wisdom in a more natural direction. He has studied with many masters across the world, bringing their magic and music into his work as teacher and guide. More >
We are bridging between the worlds of traditional shamanic training and the Western requirement for a structure that fits with modern lifestyle demands. Natural Wisdom Leaders is both the immersive, listen and observe learning model of a traditional apprenticeship, and a modern training course with a rubric and assessment.
Natural Wisdom Leaders is designed with as much alignment with traditional teachings as modern living allows. This one-year intensive programme constitutes 9 modules distrubuted evenly over the year, and an 8-day/4 module residential retreat in the summer. Homework is set between modules and supervised via online webinars and coaching.
Our commitment is that throughout the programme all participants develop a set of safe, effective skills enabling them to become of service to their community.
Each participant should: learn to facilitate healing; learn to hold space for others; support and guide others; hold safe and effective ceremonies and rituals; be a conduit for spiritual guidance; be
in right relationship with all that is; develop strength
of character and inner independence; develop honest, authentic communication; become a clear channel for creative and artistic self expression; become adept in the skills of the seer, the healer and the bard.
SINGING TO THE PLANTS
Plant spirit shamanism is now part of global culture. Once the terrain of anthropologists, it is now the subject of novels and spiritual memoirs. This…
ONE RIVER
In 1941, Richard Evans Schultes took a leave of absence from Harvard University and disappeared into the Northern Amazon of Colombia. The world’s leading…
THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES
Peter Wohlleben puts forward the idea that the forest is a social network, with optimisation algorithms far more complex than Facebook. Drawing on groundbreaking scientific…
BRAIDING SWEETGRASS
Subtitled “Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants”, Robin Wall Kimmerer embraces indigenous teachings that consider plants and animals to be our oldest…
SHAMANISM: ARCHAIC TECHNIQUES OF ECSTASY
First published in 1951, this survey of shamanism covers two and a half millennia of human history, from the Shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central…
THE COSMIC SERPENT
Jeremy Narby’s research into molecular biology, shamanism, neurology and mythology leads him to deeply contemplate indigenous beliefs in the origins of knowledge itself. A…
THE THREE HALVES OF INO MOXO
Teachings of the Wizard of the Upper Amazon. Predating it by 20 years, this in many ways is the progenitor of the movie Embrace of…
A PATH WITH HEART
Drawing his title from Castaneda’s classic Journey to Ixtlan, Jack Kornfield’s book is to the spiritual path what the Good News Bible is…
The shamanic path is no easy option. The great shamanic teacher and author Martin Prechtel questions why indeed anyone would want to become a shaman. The shamanic path however promises great reward at all levels of being.It demands that you undergo a period of purification in order to know the absolute core of who you are. It requires that you open your heart, dig deep and be humbled, vulnerable.
It invites you to dance in ecstasy and know bliss. Only when you have run the gamut of human experience and deeply contemplated each aspect will you develop the wisdom to lead and be of service to your community. The shamanic path lies at the heart of Natural Wisdom Leaders. If it is the path for you, you will hear its call.