I open sacred space for reiki healing energy with the invocation traditionally shared by Master Usui.
"Dear Master Usui & all available reiki masters, please assist me in becoming a pure channel of loving reiki energy & please provide me with the protection that I need"
However I want to share with you a beautiful invocation here that was shared with me when I did the South direction of the medicine wheel in my shamanic practitioners workshop.
I am halfway through the medicine wheel, having attended two south classes and one west class. Based on the four directions, the medicine wheel consists of learning some tools from the shamanic tradition, adapted for a western audience, they include: the process of illumination, soul retrieval, extraction.
Shamanism is passed on through a traditional heritage of practice as well as through the ancestral line.
We cannot "become" a shaman, we are chosen by the spirits to be a shaman from very early on in life.
To be a shaman involves completely breaking the self down through a process of illumination, extraction and soul retrieval. The process can take years and isn't completed by finishing a "medicine wheel"
Ireland had a long tradition of Celtic shamanism. However Ireland's shamanic ancestry remains, for example in the dolman stones that scatter the wild landscape here, and there are still some practitioners of a form of Celtic shamanism & plant medicine here in Ireland
Here, the adapted workshop was based on the 4 directions. North, East, South, West.
Here is a prayer for opening sacred space based on the 4 directions...
Prayer for Creating Sacred Space
To the Winds of the South
Sachamama, hatun Amaru, Great Serpent Mother of the waters, the rivers, the galaxies, and the roads that bring us together, come wrap your coils of light around us Teach us to shed the energies of the past that no longer serve us, the way you shed your skin, all at once Show us how to walk softly on the Earth, in the beauty way So that all we touch and create, we touch and create in beauty Ho!
To the winds of the West
Otorongo, Mother Sister Jaguar Come protect our medicine space, devour those energies which do not belong to us Teach us your ways beyond fear, beyond anger, beyond death, beyond guilt, beyond shame, beyond all the mythologies and beliefs that no longer serve us Teach us to be impeccable, luminous beings Peaceful warriors who have no need to engage in battle, internally or externally, but instead are able to support ourselves in asking for and receiving what we desire, so that we can leap into who we are becoming and so that we create from a place of love Ho!
To the winds of the North
Grandmothers, Grandfathers, Ancient Ones, Ancestors and Guardians of this Land Come to us, teach us your ancient wisdom and the wisdom to come, we honor you who have come before us and will come after us; help us to remember that ancient wisdom directly; come warm you hands by our fires, whisper to us in the winds Siwarkenti, hummingbird, teach us to drink of the nectar of life, even when the contrast is great and the journey seems difficult or long, help us to do that which seems impossible, just as you do So that we create from a place of joy and a sense of timelessness Ho!
To the winds of the East
Hatun Kuntur, Great Condor, Apuchin, Huaman, Eagle, Macah Come to us from the place of the rising Sun, the place of our becoming Teach us to soar high and see those mountain tops we have only dared to dream of before and help us to see with the eyes of the heart, to feel the guidance in our bodies Give us the broadest perspective and clearest vision of our destiny Take us under your wings, and teach us to fly wing to wing with Great Spirit So that we create with self effort and grace Ho!
Pachamama, Santa Tierra Madre, Great Mother Earth, We come here for the healing of all your children, beloved Mother The stone people, the plant people, the two legged, the four legged, the creepy crawlers, the finned, the furred, and the winged ones, all our relations that are here not only to sustain us and bring us beauty and joy, but to also teach us with their characteristics, their medicine, helping us along the way Thank you Mother for sustaining us with your bounty, for supporting our healing work on your belly, and for always taking those energies which are too heavy for us and mulching them for us, so that we don’t have to carry them around any longer, so that we can be truly free to create extraordinary lives filled with joy, abundance, love, and support Ho!
Intitaita Father Sun, Mamakia Grandmother Moon, Hatun Chaska Star Nations, Star Brothers and Sisters,
thank you for rising everyday showering us with your light, your cycles, your love, that makes life possible for us here, and for doing this unconditionally without judgment, teaching us to treat ourselves in the same way Hatun Apu Kuna, Great Holy Mountains, Great Lineage, and Teachers of All times, thank you for helping us; and Ilaticha Wirakocha, Wakantanka, Great Spirit, Creator, God, Creator of all-that-is, you who are known by a thousands names and you who are the unnamable One that dwells within us and all around us in all forms Thank you for bringing us together to sing the song of life one more day, to dance this dance of co-creation, to take creation beyond where it has been before, new levels of joy, abundance, and exhilaration Thank you for holding us Ho!
(shamanjon.com)
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