Events

Events, Workshops & Retreats

Events: Restoring the Ib | Returning To The Source | Women’s Mysteries

Below, you’ll find information about recent, past and upcoming events. Contact Rachana for expressions of interest or information about event dates.

Restoring the Ib

A process of integration after a time of attainment and expansion using sound, aromatherapy, neuroscience and deep ancient ritual.

What is the Ib?

Restoring the Ib focuses on the human experience that we have come to understand at ICSM as the heart/brain connection.

The Egyptians called this ‘ Ib’. We understand that in fetal life as we develop inside our mother’s inner sanctum, where our father’s lineage combines with our mother’s to create us, the merging of these two strands of human experience ultimately become our lives to lead.

It also provides the environment for our soul journey. Our fetal heart develops and cells from the heart ascend to the developing cranium to become the brain. This vital connection of resonance between the heart and brain is established.

The wisdom of the heart informs the brain so that it performs its purpose inclusive of love.

Restoring the Ib restores and strengthens this connection.

Restoring the Ib can be undertaken by anybody and is valuable after a time of attainment, expansion and change. When major events/trauma from earlier in life have resulted in a disturbance within the 5 bodies and the person has been left scattered and performing below their potential, this ritual of sounding and wrapping and neuro-enhancing aromas for the body in sacred space can bring solace and resolution.

This understanding is known to many traditional cultures and they often have similar rituals and practices that care for and support their new mothers and initiations for specific life events. At ICSM we draw inspiration from the ancient Egyptian healing temples and their profound understanding of the life force and its manifestation in human beings. Hence we have embraced the model of the 5 bodies practiced particularly in the ancient Temple of RA. Today we make these understandings available in a contemporary context and call it Restoring the Ib.

We have found that years after having given birth a woman will still carry unexpressed events from her pregnancies and births. It is as if the body memory holds the event in the tissues and bones, and the emotions from the event are waiting to be fully expressed. The energetic body carries a file of the program that was activated at conception stored in it that awaits the opportunity to complete its download.

Find out more by contacting Rachana via our contact form.

Returning To The Source

Returning to the Source is a 16-day Advanced Shamanic Training.

It’s a skill-based program that provides a systematic descent into the various realms of the unconscious, the personal, cultural, archetypal and cosmic layers of these realms of existence.

Participants learn to voyage into highly altered states of consciousness and master the skills to inhabit extensive shamanic realms efficiently, safely and enjoyably.

The program is designed in a 64-part sequence (one for each I Ching hexagram, and one for each sequence of our DNA) that step by step deepens into the mysteries of our existence.

On the way you will learn:

• to alter your personal experience of time

• to heal your body rapidly

• to establish connections with internal teachers who can teach any skill you wish to learn

• to guide others into profoundly altered states of awareness

• to join others in those states and to navigate into places of profound beauty, enjoyment, wonder and awe.

Imagine being able to access ‘talking in tongues’ without having to adopt the belief system that usually goes with it!

You will be a visionary anthropologist visiting other star systems in our galaxy! You will have the possibility of walking through the doorway into another dimension, having the skills to enter and exit safely.

The process is designed to unveil the nature of YOUR consciousness to YOURSELF.

You learn through your own experience, not through someone else telling you.

There will be times of profound initiations into the ancient wisdom and mystery traditions.

In addition to being profound, engaging, challenging, life-changing, thought-provoking, entertaining, and enabling you to think and see things in a new way, Returning to the Source is fun!

Past participants have included business analysts and corporate trainers, doctors and a Professor of Medicine, teachers, a property developer, shamanic apprentices, public servants, midwives, dancers, a film script writer, psychiatric nurse, landscape gardener, sailor, rebirthers and therapists, cabinet maker, mothers, carpenters, social workers and market gardener.

Returning to the Source teaches skills that will stay with you for the rest of your life in a concentrated, innovative and enjoyable way.

Want to know more? Contact Rachana via our contact form.

Women’s Mysteries

Every woman deserves five days for herself in a rich, nurturing environment.

This is your opportunity to travel deeply within and be supported by a circle of women. Enjoy massage, bush walks, drawing, laughing, great videos and meeting your wise woman in all her glory.

Women’s Mysteries takes women into the mysteries of the feminine and covers all aspects of a woman’s life cycle. As a woman comes to understand her own journey she is able to complete the unfinished transitions of the past that have been limits to her natural unfolding. 

We offer one-day events and ongoing programs throughout the year that highlight particular transition points.

One-day events include:

1: Conscious Conception

To conceive or to be conceived consciously is the greatest gift we can give or receive. This day explores these possibilities and is an opportunity to heal trauma from past conceptions and to prepare for future ones – your own and your children’s.

2: Women and Sexuality

Your sexual self. Your essential self. Unveiling it to yourself in a safe and nurturing environment.

3: Wise Blood

Gain a fuller understanding of the potent changes that occur around times of ovulation and menstruation. Learn to tap deeply into your feminine wisdom and creativity. When we flow with our true nature, life becomes richer and harmonious.

4: Your Birth Your Choice

Taking responsibility for the birth of our children is a challenge with many options available. Ensure that your choice is a fully informed one. This day provides information that you will find vital in making decisions that will have lifelong impacts. Also looking at the pleasure and pain of birth. What is your role in the natural process? An opportunity to heal the past and plan for the future.

5: Mothers and Daughters

A day for mothers and daughters to explore and open to new possibilities in a relationship often fraught with difficulties. This primal relationship is a powerful gateway for healing and growth. 

6: Journey Around My Father

A day in which we explore, heal and move to more deeply appreciate this journey which is the foundation of our future relationships with men.

7: Sisters and Siblings

Fraught with tears and joy, these early relationships set the pace for future encounters. A time to remember and resolve.

8: Menopause

Is it madness or is it a mystery? A doorway to be reviled or one to be entered? Will you embrace the crone or race for a facelift? A day of revelations and deep insights.

9: The Grandmothers Speak

A time of sharing from older women to younger women. We look at the customs of other places in relation to their elders and at our attitudes to aging as women in our culture. How can we benefit from the wisdom our elders possess and how can we grow into elders who are able to relate to and nourish generations of the future?

Want to know more? Contact Rachana via our contact form.