When we feel acknowledged for who we are, we can relax and reveal our natural essence, wholeness and potential, our “medicine”.
Our vision is to inspire the awakening of your medicine, so you can touch yourself, the planet and others with your unique beauty.
By healing ourselves, we walk in our beauty, and we change the world.
For many people, the reality they are experiencing is dissatisfying and dissonant from the life they desire to be living.
To come into resonance, change has to happen.
Our mission is to provide shamanic knowledge, teachings and sacred ceremonies to help you negotiate change effectively and efficiently.
Such a sacred journey expands our minds beyond our singular perspective.
The student opens the door while the teacher takes knowledge and wisdom into unexplored areas.
Without one another, neither student nor teacher can grow.
As keepers of these ancient teachings, we remain committed to learning, healing and growing. It’s why we do what we do!
A Time of Rest, Reflection & Renewal
After almost 2 decades of teaching, guiding ceremonies, and holding spaces of profound transformation, healing and growth, we have chosen to step into a season of sabbatical - to give ourselves some time for rest, reflection and renewal.
For the foreseeable future, Sacred Journeys will not be offering its full calendar of teachings, journeys or retreats.
Like the cycles of nature that inspire our work, there are times to create, times to serve, and times to go inward and quietly listen.
This is one of those times for us.
We are stepping back from our regular offerings and will only host a small number of sacred gatherings through 2026.
We thank all our students, seekers, and friends who have walked alongside us over the years.
We look forward to seeing where the path leads us next.
In beauty, Lou & Laurel
PERSONAL READINGS, WORKSHOPS & ONLINE TRAINING
Rooted in the wisdom of the African animals and the ancient Medicine Wheel teachings, AMWA gives you a map of your innate strengths, a compass in times of challenge, a mirror to bring you clarity on hidden blind spots and an anchor to your true nature.
Ready to map your unique blueprint?
A personal Birth Constellation Reading reveals your specific relationship with each of the 21 Allies & Spheres, offering deep clarity on your life purpose and personal medicine.
Feel called to dive deeper?
AMWA PT101 ONLINE is a foundational 3-month course designed to immerse you in this remarkable paradigm. Learn to read the wheels, connect with the elemental forces, and integrate these ancient teachings into your daily life and practice.
WOMB HEALING, SOLO JOURNEYS & RETREATS
Rooted in the ancient wisdom of the feminine, the cycles of nature and the power of gathering in circle, Red Owl Women’s Lodge is a sacred space for women to slow down, reconnect and remember the wisdom that lives within.
Ready to come home to yourself?
Through sisterhood circles, sacred ceremonies and one-on-one sessions, you are welcomed into deeper connection with your body and your inner wisdom - creating space for reflection, renewal, creativity and transformation.
Feel called to journey deeper?
Our immersive retreats and transformational journeys weave together Medicine Wheel teachings, ceremony, movement, sound, meditation, creative expression and embodied practices. Come as you are, step out of the noise of everyday life, and enter a space where you can listen deeply, reconnect with your own rhythm and rediscover what is waiting to emerge.
A SOLO JOURNEY OR IN A GROUP
What if you could step outside your everyday story and see your life through a different lens?
Drawing on ancient teachings and the wisdom of nature, these shamanic journeys offer a space to explore what is happening in your life and discover new perspectives, insights and possibilities.
What are you ready to explore?
Choose a private solo journey shaped around your own intention, or join a scheduled group journey with a specific theme. Each journey weaves together teachings, ceremony, guided journeys, movement, breathwork, sound, somatic practices and time in nature.
Are you ready to see life differently?
Step away from the familiar and into the unknown. Explore practical ways to meet change with greater awareness, balance and self-trust — and take the medicine of the journey home with you.
This profound 2-day cleansing and balancing process ultimately elevates us into a state of greater acceptance, boundless love, and expansive compassion – not only towards ourselves, but crucially, towards the intricate tapestry of life and all beings within it.
PREREQUISITE: Book a video-call with us
Standard fee: ZAR3,500 / US$350
This 10-Day Medicine Journey will hold you in gentleness, ruthless compassion, and unconditional love as you break free of your plates of protection and armour, soften into your inherent womb power and claim the pleasure of embodying your true divinity. Join us in this alchemical circle as we tap into the current of our divine feminine life-force to heal our sexual wounding & celebrate our sacred bodies as the temple for our spirit.
MAX 4 PARTICIPANTS ENSURES A SACRED AND PERSONAL HEALING EXPERIENCE.
PREREQUISITE: Book a video-call with Weaving Willow
Standard fee: ZAR18,000 US$1,800
Many of the struggles we experience in life are rooted in the beliefs we hold about ourselves, others, and the world around us. Often formed in childhood or through difficult life experiences, these beliefs can become invisible forces that shape our choices, relationships, limitations, and sense of self-worth.
Over this 2-night Medicine Wheel journey, you will explore the hidden architecture of your core beliefs and discover how they influence the way you think, feel, and respond to life. You will carry the weight of them until you are ready to put them down and reformulate them into beauty.
PREREQUISITE: Book a video-call with us
Standard fee: ZAR4,000 / US$400
ENROLMENTS CLOSE
SepTEMBER 4Th
AMWA PT101 ONLINE is a foundational 3-month ONLINE course designed to immerse you in this remarkable paradigm.
Learn to read the wheels, connect with the elemental forces, and integrate these ancient teachings into your daily life and practice.
ENROLMENTS CLOSE
NOVEMBER 13th
As you begin your Alchemist’s journey, a portal opens, giving you access to a powerful space for exploring, applying, testing, challenging, asking questions, learning about the powers of the universe & experimenting with the infinite ways you can manifest your hearts desires.
We weave the four key threads of the Almanac: Wealth, Dreaming, Naturals and Diary together into an alchemical container to support your transition from one year to another.
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With its black plumage and captivating voice, the Raven reminds us we are the most important person in our lives.
Resilient and fearless, the Raven teaches us to tap into our innate intelligence to solve the mystery of who we truly are and cast aside the unnecessary baggage overshadowing our brilliance.
This ONLINE Journey takes you into the world of mystery and magick, and opens a portal for personal, ancestral, inter-generational and collective healing and maturation.
As a self-study journey, it will help to bring about significant transformation in your Self, your life and your world.
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CLIENT EXPERIENCES
Hi Lou and Laurel! Since my Shamanic Healing with you, I have had three consecutive PSA serum levels done at three month intervals, all at barely detectable levels and no sign of an upward drift. The healing I accomplished with your guidance is holding true and I am much better able to relate successfully to the challenges that invariably come my way. I appreciate deeply what I came to SEE through your help. My view of the world and life are so different than before we met that at first it threw me off - but now I am seeing more clearly that some of my past views were not concordant with the changes I had made. Again, THANK YOU!
The Living Clean Program has been a bumpy ride… At times I felt annoyed & frustrated, a little caterpillar squirming his way up from a mountain of shit & at other times I felt like a burning phoenix, soaring above it. At the end, what I have really taken from my 10-day experience at Sacred Journeys is that just as I have the power to create dysfunction in my life, I am the only one capable of eradicating it. Thank you for showing me what I was no longer capable of seeing for myself
Shares this after a Personal Shamanic Retreat, ‘I have come to understand that the greatest moments in our lives that give us our true power back, are in fact the most simple – effortless. All we are required to do is to stand in front of ourselves with neutrality. When I can allow myself the opportunity to be neutral, I can find love for myself. I look back and deeply thank myself for the experience I had at Sacred Journeys. I can deeply thank you, Lou & Laurel for holding a space where I can search for my authentically powerful self. I thank you for your unconditional love and for breathing life into the Circle of the Medicine Wheel and the world.’
What on earth is a Sweat Lodge? Well, this experience has created a divine shift in me. Laurel talked us through the entire cleansing process and guided us to allow a beautiful space of release and openness to the Divine. What an experience! The sense of peace is amazing and indeed an experience for all! Every single person had let something go and every single person had evolved into a deeper level of themselves! I had never seen such transformation before. For me, this is now a monthly appointment in my diary! Thank you Laurel Weaving Willow!
