SHAMANIC MENTORSHIP

The Way of the Willow: Healing and Re-imagining Eldership

A year long Apprenticeship Pathway course

The Way of the Willow: Healing and Re-imagining Eldership

Starts Tuesday 18th November 2025

We gather to listen, as the decaying allows us, deeply to the memories within bones of Mother Earth.

We explore the pulsing weave, the rich tapestry, of Maiden, Mother, Crone. Through the many layering threads of our personal weave, our ancestral weave and the great Cosmic one.

This is a time to heal our Elder Wounding, beyond that of the Divine Feminine and the Divine Mother. We need to heal our relationship with the choices that our Cosmic Elder made, that ripple through our ancestry, where the echoes still resides within our bones … and that of Mother Earth.

And the land … the land remembers. For the bones of our original Cosmic Elder, the Divine Crone - Tiamet formed her.

And this has been my work with the land these past few years, the convergence, her Restoration and our Re-creation … and it is time.

Here you learn to recognise yourself as The Mother, as the portal, who in each moment births … becoming the Child and the Crone.

“This is a time to revisit your innocence and hold the responsibility of guardianship for that. What wisdom do you now hold to nurtures parts that have been neglected?
What songs do theses parts carry that you have forgotten?”

It is a time for understanding and forgiveness so you can more fully embrace your Crone aspect and acceptance of your Eldership

“Eldership isn’t a rigid status - it is fluid - one that moves through all three aspects retrieving innocence and purity, reparenting self with the still, quiet reflection that spins the song thread down into the well of your being, retrieving the balm of wisdom.”

Suitable for those living in the Northern Hemisphere, as the weather parallels our journey, and open to exploring the feminine aspects of themselves regardless of gender.

More about the Way of the Willow

We are being invited to allow what no longer serves to fall away and decay. Also what already has done so, so it can be witnessed as the rich nutrient that brings to fruition something more aligned with our true nature, our authenticity.

As we prepare for Winter we are returning to the bones of our origins. This gives us the opportunity to access new memories, new coding within their formation ready to come to life in the spring.

This is a tender time, so do we have the resources to nurture and nourish this new unfolding - and cherish it?

We will be moving full circle meeting from November to October. A year to observe these patterns of decay and flourishment and the enchanting that weaves through it all - that magical thread of our knowing, remembrance, deepening true self, soul integrity and authenticity.

Our human is always becoming … the grandparent, the mother, the daughter - there are always parts of ourselves who are younger, who are older … parts who are in the awe and wonder of being enchanted and those who are aware of the falling away, the letting go, the change of form …

Here we are really focusing on our Inner Elder, so they can become a healthy ancestor for our Inner Child.

We draw comparisons between the Cosmic story and our personal stories, and learn to heal both - so we can become true stewards of the New Paradigm.

As we step into our power, we step up, taking up the mantle - the responsibility for our work in the world, the knowledge of the imprint it will leave, fostering the Eldership qualities of integrity, discernment and Mastery of Self.

Wherever we feel we may be on our path we move from abdication to advocation and a knowing that this is never a linear journey.

We explore the intersections and parallels between the Cosmic story and our personal stories, our own Inner Elder, through mythos, poetry, shamanic wisdom, sacred transmissions and deep experiential connection with Mother Earth and Grandmother Willow.

    • Session 1: The Descent and the Decay
      Tuesday 18th November 2025, 6pm UK time

    • Session 2: Settling into the Darkness ~ Receiving the Wisdom
      Tuesday 16th December 2025, 6pm UK time
      Optional: Group Alchemical Healing Circle: Sunday 21st December 2025

    • Session 3: Emerging ~ The Cracking and the Budding
      Tuesday 20th January 2026, 6pm UK time
      Optional: Group Alchemical Healing Circle: Sunday 1st February 2025

    • Session 4: Becoming ~ The Flowering and the Seeding
      Tuesday 17th March 2026, 6pm UK time

    • Session 5: Freedom ~ Taking Flight 
      Tuesday 19th May 2026, 6pm UK time

      The Inbetween: The Questing and Visiting

      June ~ Maiden
      Visiting: At the feet of the Elders and the Ancestors

      July ~ Mother
      Independence and the Quiet: Refining the knowledge received.

      August-Crone
      The Rooting and the Deepening: integrating, assimilating, embodying 

    • Session 6: The Ripening
      Tuesday 22nd September 2026, 6pm UK time

      We gather to share our journeys.

    • Session 7: The Wisening
      Tuesday 3rd November 2026,
      6pm UK time

      Completion and reflections
      Optional Bonfire Vigil: Sunday 1st November from 4pm UK time

    There will be simple in between session experiential exercises and meditations to help support you with anchoring in each sessions work. 

    Reduced rate Mentorship will be available relating to this course.

Practicalities  

  • On payment you receive an email with the link for the course information and preparatory material.

    7 Online sessions via Zoom approx 90mins to 2 hours each

    Additional free options: 2 Group Alchemical Healing Circles (public/online) and 1 Bonfire Vigil (private/online).

    Preparation Material includes meditation, experiential exercise and ebook.

    Each sessions recordings will be uploaded with accompanying material into a dedicated area of the website.

    Guidance material throughout the course may include: videos, downloadable audios and pdf’s with experiential exercises and meditations.

    Please email if you wish to pay in instalments. Full payment must be complete by January 31st 2026.

    Price is £369.00

    Reduced rate Mentorship will be available relating to this course.

The invitation

Invitation, who it’s for/…?

I AM TANIA AURORA WHITE CROW

Catalysing you to Freedom