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Celtic Virtues to Cultivate Lasting Peace Within With Jane Burns

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nnWhat You’ll Discover in These 10 WeeksnIn this 10-week transformational intensive, Jane will guide you to step back in time and invoke the wisdom of heroes, gods, goddesses, wise old trees, and more — to help you cultivate lasting inner peace.nnModule 1 — The Virtue of Presence: Grounding Yourself & Living Deeply (July 8)nnYour opening class with Jane will focus on truly being present.nnTo live well and deeply, you must be grounded — and that means fully knowing yourself as you navigate the potent and mysterious forces of this world and the Otherworld of the unseen.nnYou’ll begin by examining your connection to the Earth itself — exploring the many ways it’s a reciprocal relationship, meant to be founded in mutual love and affection.nnAs humans we’re contending with seemingly endless dangers in the world — and that relationship of trust can become strained, leaving us fearful and seemingly alone, ambivalent about our lives, disconnected from our destiny, and separated from the Divine source that we serve by fulfilling our destiny.nnThis week, you’ll start investigating the magic of Celtic wisdom and practices to make chaos and change your allies, not your adversaries.nnAs an antidote to fear and separation, you’ll practice aligning with Source through the Cauldrons of Energy, places in the body the Celts believed held more soul — your head, heart, and belly.nnIn this session, you’ll seek deeper grounding to achieve greater presence as you:nnWork closely with the Cauldron of Warming (also known as Fire in the Belly), the seat of your survival — and the strength from which you put yourself out into the worldnStudy the myth of Fintan Mac Bochra and the Hawk of Achill — Fintan Mac Bochra is said to have lived for more than 5,000 years, and, having seen the passage of many eras in Irish history, is “the ever-present one”nJourney to Fintan and visit Ash, the Celtic World Tree and the unifier of Heaven and Earth for strength and groundingnAccept the benevolence of nature as a givennAscertain a part of your soul that you’re NOT living right now — and become more aware of how to be presentnRecoup what you’ve lost through ungroundednessnnModule 2 — Courage: Loosening Fear’s Grip (July 15)nnSometimes sacrifice is necessary to loosen the grip of what keeps you in fear.nnThis week, you’ll explore how trial and adversity are important allies in shaping who you become. And as you’ll discover, in most cases, your fiercest battles lie within you.nnAs great observers of nature, the Celtic people understood how chaos and destruction often brought much-needed change to the landscape and waterways.nnIt was natural for them to question in times of hardship: “How can I change myself to align with this new balancing?”nnWhen we purposely leave our arrogance behind, as the Celts did, it can inspire courage to embrace new and different ways of being.nnYou’ll also continue working with the Cauldron of Warming, a source of strength, since nothing requires more courage than putting yourself out into the world and fulfilling your destiny — something you can’t achieve without grounding.nnIn this session, you’ll:nnExamine the role challenge serves in your life — and visit Holly, the tree that explores battle-readiness for the challenges you’ll meetnInvestigate the myth of Oisin Goes to Faeryland, in which Oisin, a patriot and noble warrior of the Fianna, finds himself in a land that asks nothing of him — and offers little to test his mettlenUnderstand fear as an optional responsenUncover what inner contest you’re most avoiding in your lifenDiscern which sacrifices are worthy onesnEmbrace courage as an inner force that garners its strength from SourcennModule 3 — Joy: The Force Creating Goodness in Our World (July 22)nnJoy is a living and accessible presence in this world, a shaper of earthly life, and an equal partner to sorrow and grief.nnThis week, you’ll explore the ways joy isn’t just a felt response to good fortune, but a force that’s constantly creating goodness in our world.nnJane will guide you to work with the Cauldron of Motion, located in the heart, that’s said to turn with the joys and sorrows of life. This cauldron houses and awakens the soul’s yearning and destiny.nnAs you tend and align the Cauldron of Motion with Source, you’ll also tend and align your destiny with Source.nnIn this session, you’ll discover:nnHow joy is the force that melts and expands, while sorrow seizes and tempersnHow to explore and journey into the myth called Deirdre of the Sorrows — and understand the inextricable relationship between joy and freedom (saoirse in Gaelic)nHow to meet and seek a teaching from Honeysuckle, the consummate embodiment of the contagious nature of joynHow to identify the accessible freedoms in your life you’ve been ignoringnHow releasing yourself from others’ expectations brings you joy — and how to anticipate joy as the reward for pursuing your destinynWays to foster and tend to joy as you open your heart to nature’s innate goodnessnnModule 4 — Gratitude: Responding to the Promise of Greater Wisdom (July 29)nnGratitude is perhaps the most appropriate response to everything that comes your way — and therefore, to the natural order of things.nnThis week, you’ll discover how gratitude lets you trust and give way to the greater wisdom of providence. You’ll explore how saying thank you and assenting to that greater wisdom, even during times of misfortune, can accelerate the new birth it promises to bring.nnJane will explain how, whenever you cling to a course of action that’s clearly not ordained, you suffer — because on some level, you’re living and endorsing a falsehood or a false Self. The separation from your truth (which is fully aligned with Divine truth) can leave you feeling bereft and sorrowful.nnIn this session, you’ll explore further alignment with the Cauldron of Motion, which sources from the Sea and enables you to keep your balance in the shifting seas of life.nnYou’ll discover:nnThe myth of the Selkie Bride, which examines what happens when the Divine order of things is interrupted and the soul’s yearning goes unanswerednHawthorn, the tree that teaches the necessity of sanctuary before rebirthnHow to stay in constant seeking and awareness of the immanence of God in all thingsnWays to maintain the right relationship with nature and Divine OrdernHow you can learn from the selkies (magical folk) about a hidden treasure in the sea within younThe inseparable relationship between grief and joy — and how each lives within the othernnModule 5 — Humility: Your Direct Access to Divine Knowing (August 5)nnThrough humility, you’ll gain direct access to Divine knowing. Insight and revelation can flow to you easily and unbidden, because you’ve released your need to know everything.nnThis week you’ll explore how knowledge can certainly make you feel more comfortable in your surroundings as you face the ongoing demands of life.nnHowever, you can also become so attached to what you know that Divine knowing (the wisdom of the gods) can become blocked and unavailable.nnJane will introduce you to the Cauldron of Wisdom (Fire in the Head), which sources from the Sky or Heaven. You’ll learn how humility keeps this cauldron upright and open to receiving, while arrogance can turn it upside down.nnIn this session, you’ll discover:nnThe myth of Diancecht and his son, Mioch, both gifted physicians and healers of the Tuatha de Danaan (magical folk with supernatural powers)nWhy the arrogance of Diancecht caused him to take the life of his sonnWhy becoming master of any craft requires you to put devotion to the craft itself above devotion to the self as the craftsmannWhite Poplar, a tree more tied to the whispers of the gods than any othernHow arrogance and pride leave no room for the whisper of God to enter — and what we mean when we say someone is “full of himself”nAn untapped part of your imagination (or pure potential)nWays to become more accepting of any personal misfortune, instead of masking it with pridenHow to gain greater comfort with not knowing and create an open door for Divine wisdom to enternnModule 6 — Wisdom: The Result of Hardship & Trial (August 12)nnWhile you can easily pursue knowledge through an intentional study of life, wisdom is usually something bestowed on all of us as a by-product of hardship and trial.nnIn this module, you’ll learn how true wisdom is not normally sought — because we inherently know it comes with a price. In fact, wisdom has been known to grow when knowledge has either tapped out, or turned inward on itself.nnIn this module, you’ll discover why wisdom was more prized by the Celts than any other virtue.nnYou’ll also continue to invoke the Cauldron of Wisdom, which asks you to forget what you think you know so you can fill yourself with Divine knowing — the hollow bone of core shamanism.nnIn this session, you’ll explore:nnThe myth of King Cormac, who loses everything he loves to learn that a life without adversity is a diminished one — and that avoiding challenge divorces us from wisdomnHow to journey to the 9 Hazel Trees that surround the Well of Wisdom for an important teaching about truthnUncover an untruth about yourself that you’ve long accepted as truenWays to see your experiences of adversity as resources from which the gold of wisdom can be minednThe riches you’ve reaped from loss and hardshipnA litmus test for determining what’s truennModule 7 — Generosity: Receptivity to All That Life Requires (August 19)nnGenerosity is not just an outpouring of support and kindness to others — it’s a receptivity to all that life requires of you, a back-and-forth flow no different than the waves of the sea.nnIn this module, you’ll explore what it truly means to be unattached to outcome and unwedded to expectations of how things “must be” in order to be happy — so you can live and love unconditionally.nnWhen you’re unattached to outcomes, life has more access to you — and can more easily bring the things that will inspire you and open your heart.nnThe ancient Celts looked to the generous spirit of nature to acquire and emulate this effortless, rhythmic flow. They admired how the nature beings yielded to the altering work of the elements — and did nothing to obstruct the changes it wrought.nnAs Jane will share, to transform your relationship with the change agents of Nature — the elements — you must step out of the fear of their power to dismember your life and yourself, and recognize the positive balancing forces they provide.nnIn this session, you’ll discover:nnPowerful examples of how humans relate so intimately to nature — for instance, how an inner imbalance of Water can leave you feeling ungrounded, unable to draw boundaries, while yielding to its weight and intent to rebalance you can lead to you finally saying what needs to be saidnThe intriguing myth of Boann and the Well of Segais — and you’ll ponder whether it’s a cautionary talenHow the apple tree can teach you the nature of generositynWays to let go of outmoded habits and beliefs that don’t serve you — and identify new experiences and potential you’re not letting innHow Water can come out of balance — and the cost of trying to impede itnNew ways of identifying and opening to the generous nature of lifennModule 8 — Compassion: Living From the Heart, Not the Head (September 2)nnIn many spiritual traditions, compassion is a practice that can release you from bitterness, resentment, struggle, and separation. It teaches us all how to live not from the head, but from the heart.nnIt’s easy to be compassionate towards those who suffer — it’s a much greater challenge to be compassionate toward those who cause that suffering.nnIn this module, Jane will guide you through powerful truths, including how the exact life circumstances of someone you hold in harsh judgment — but for the grace of God — could be your own.nnYou’ll discover how the virtue of true compassion is both indiscriminate and unconditional — and how to observe your own actions and behavior as God would, with no judgment and with unconditional love.nnIn this session, you’ll:nnContinue your work with the elements by examining how Air impacts you — and how being too in your head can block intimacy, connection, and greater understanding of the human conditionnDissect the myth of Riannon, a queen who was judged, disbelieved, and punished for a crime she didn’t commit — and as she struggled for years to attain mercy for herself, she ultimately came to regret an earlier lapse in her own compassion for anothernExplore how the Willow tree teaches you the skill of crying for those who can’t cry for themselvesnPlace bringing an end to suffering ahead of being right — and stand in the shoes of those you judgenWitness with detachment your “biggest mistake” and locate compassion for yourselfnDismember the judgment you hold against yourself that keeps you sufferingnnModule 9 — Surrender: Allowing Transformation to Unfold (September 9)nnSometimes in the heat of struggle, the wisest course of action is to simply surrender — to lay down your arms and allow the process of transformation to just unfold.nnThis week, you’ll discover why a common response to trial is to find a way out of the burning building as quickly as possible — but sometimes, sitting down in the fire and waiting for the dismemberment to occur renders us a much greater prize — a newly forged, more empowered self.nnA kind of purification can then take place, releasing you from the seeming indignities and losses you’ve fought so hard against.nnAnd the results are more lasting, deeply felt, and irreversible. When you finally elect to stop and sit down in that fire, you freely sacrifice what’s been blocking your pathway to power for so long.nnAs you’ll discover, the element of Fire within us all is what impassions our life, what sparks our creativity and ignites our imagination.nnIn this session, you’ll explore:nnHow the Fire within you can burn out when you become too staid and complacent, too rigid in your thinking, or lacking in convictionnWhy it’s so common to avoid the parts of life that can embolden and reshape you — and why Fate is then obliged to bring to you the experience that will reignite younThe myth of the Celtic god Bran the Blessed, who foretold and gamely surrendered to his own death because he understood that it was a pathway to power and protection for his companionsnThe sacred tree, Furze (Gorse) — a golden, flowering plant that’s burned to the ground each year so it can grow more vibrantlynHow to identify and seek the fuel (or stimulus) that keeps your inner Fire burning bright — and what must be sacrificed so your deeper passions can be set freennModule 10 — Peace: Calming the Shifting Seas of Earthly Life (September 16)nnIn the Celtic vision, there are three strains of music: songs of joy, songs of sorrow, and songs of peace.nnIn this closing class, you’ll explore how peace is the third component that breaks the dualistic strain created between the other two components.nnWhile the Cauldron of Motion turns with the joys and sorrows of life, the virtue of peace calms the shifting seas of earthly life and creates something else — Heaven on Earth, or the peace that surpasses all understanding.nnAs Jane will share, joy and sorrow are temporal. Peace, by contrast, is connected to the realm of the Otherworld, or the afterlife.nnDeep down, humans have always sought to go beyond dualism, to locate a way of life where suffering is an option — and peace is a choice you’re free to make in every moment.nnAs you’ll explore, peace isn’t something you create, it’s something you allow.nnIn this final session, you’ll:nnWork with your inner Earth element, realizing that the source of your own restlessness arises out of the disconnection from Mother EarthnDelve into the myth of the Voices of the Wells, which chronicles the history of the estrangement from Mother Earth and all we’ve lost as a resultnJourney to the Great Mother herself and ask to be taken back into the cradle of the EarthnVisit the Yew tree, which often grows in cemeteries, and allow its soporific powers to lull you to sleepnDiscover a part of yourself you’ve been estranged from and call it homenAllow yourself to be imbued, like the Voices of the Wells, with the wisdom of the Earth …nn

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