Having walked our own shamanic paths for years, they crossed in 2008, and we have enjoyed many shamanic adventures ever since.
We have run awesome courses, workshops and retreats together since 2014, including Return to the Forest, Wisdom of the Forest, Kambo World, Pilgrimage to Peru and Natural Wisdom Leaders.
We're looking forward to sharing our ongoing journey into natural wisdom with you and making the best use we can of online and real world gatherings.
We need deep roots to reach high. As the outgoing paradigm continues to dissolve, the call for authentic being, community and leadership gets louder.
Hay House author of Feng Shui Made Easy and The Dream Whisperer, feng shui maestra, shamanic seer and mentor, Davina has inspired miracles of positive transformation in people’s lives for more than 25 years. A popular workshop leader and speaker, she offers her Wisdom that Works consultations to thousands of clients all over the world.
Her love of adventure has seen her leading retreats among the Q'ero communities of the high mountains of Peru for the last 30 years. She recently returned to the UK after two years caretaking 47 hectares of rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon.
A sought-after mentor and guide, Davina is known for her compassionate straight talking and masterful good spirits. A gifted seer, she embodies the wisdom of the mountains in her shamanic practice and teaching.
Find out more about at Davina at her website.
Born in Forest Gate, London, selvatic connections were there at the outset. Nizami has travelled extensively in Latin America and Asia, where he has trained in various disciplines, from Andean and Amazonian shamanism to yoga, qi gong, meditation and transformational group work.
A gifted writer, musician, creative and shamanic teacher, he is passionate about helping people gain a deeper understanding of themselves, and making the most of these times of collective transformation.
With degrees in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Psychology, he worked in digital design for many years before the forest called him back to his roots.
A qualified permaculture designer, he once directed a haunted resort in Bali, and an 47 hectare lodge in the Peruvian Amazon. Currently in Bali, where he is mastering the art of staying in flow.
Find out more about Nizami at his website.
Masks made by Natural Wisdom Leaders participants 2017.
A three-day immersion in the solar and lunar wisdom of the forest, guided by powerful grandmother and grandfather teacher energies. Clean diet, yoga, breathwork, qi gong, meditation and guided shamanic walks in the woods of East Sussex. A safe space to gain deep insight into our lives and let go of old thoughts and feelings holding us back. And a living hub of soul community.
Weekly Kambo circles in Ashdown Forest. Davina and Nizami are master practitioners. They took the first ever UK kambo training course, with the International Association of Kambo Practitioners in the Brazilian Amazon—a magical and grounding preparation for years of safe and ethical Kambo practice.
Two weeks of shamanic teaching, personal healing and guidance, against the breathtaking backdrop of the Andes. A sacred journey to meet the apus, the great mountain spirits, involving lots of adventure, sights, insights, healing, fun and shamanic shopping. With Maestro Puma Quispe and team.
A thirteen month residential training in self-mastery, combining traditional shamanic teachings and initiations from the Andes and Amazon with yoga, qi gong, meditation, breathwork and transformational group work, in East Sussex, UK. Participants undertook the deep work of meeting shadows, healing trauma and wounding, advancing their spiritual practice, discovering creative talents, and bonding as part of a soul collective.
NWL graduates interested in NWIV should go here.
Probably our most challenging shamanic mission to date, we raised funds from our community to buy a small ecolodge in 47 hectares of rainforest in Tambopata, Peru. Sipapu immediately became part of the Pilgrimage to Peru, offering an authentic deep immersion in the powerful energies of the primal forest. Everyone who visited Sipapu had a life-changing experience, whether adapting to the jungle environment, with its endless and sometimes steep learning curves, or working with the grandmother energies of the forest in their proper setting.
We held our last retreat at Sipapu February to March 2020. Then the pandemic changed everything, including our plans to stay resident in Peru and take the project step by step towards its full manifestation, a temple to nature run by an off-grid intentional community.
The old stories of who we are and why we are here are coming to an end. And the new story has barely begun. We find ourselves between stories.
Now more than ever we are called upon to examine our thoughts, feelings and actions. Do they serve us and others? Do they support our true purpose? What is that purpose?
We have walked that path since 2014. We call on myth and magic to help others find the joy and fulfilment of living the life they are designed for.
We are designed to live and thrive in community with others. But what does this mean and why is it so difficult? What do we want from a community? What does community want from us?
We believe in building community through shared experiences where we can hold and be held by others. When we share deeply, we learn to trust life again.
Community is a big part of our vision. We see diverse ways of living, working, healing and creating, linked by a shared purpose to support the global shift in consciousness.
About that mutation.
It's a strange word to apply to human beings. We tend to think of mutants, warped by nuclear fallout, or cyborgs with metal limbs—and indeed those are potential futures.
Take a modern city like London, New York, Shanghai or Kuala Lumpur, with its steel towers, and it's tempting to think those science fiction futures are fact.
Take social media and the attention economy, now powered by artificial intelligence, and we may wonder where we humans are in that future.
Technology is a catalyst. As we turn it increasingly on ourselves, we must make a choice. Are we our data, a resource to be mined? Or are we something deeper, something integral to the cosmos?
Much has been written about these times, from the archaic revival inspired by indigenous peoples, to modern retellings of myth and prophecy, of a fall from grace that foreshadows a rise to redemption.
We live in a time of divergence—of left from right, east from west, us from them. Yet polarisation reveals convergence. Left and right, east and west, self and other are two sides of the same coin. As the ancient Maya used to say, I am another you.
In the end we must reckon with ourselves, with those polarities that seek harmony. As we balance our inner equations, we find a double helix connecting left and right, up and down, spirit and matter.
We become instruments of evolution, tuned to the unfathomable power of the heart. That's our kind of mutation.
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