The Wild Hunt, Keening, The Medicine of Amrun & Honouring Death | Andrew Steed (2020)

Andrew Steed joins us for Season 1 of Birdsong (2020).

Andrew is a Shamanic Teacher, Inspirational Speaker, Storyteller & Guide to Sacred Travel. Since 1996 he has been working internationally in the USA, Canada, Jamaica, Barbados, India, Ireland and the UK. Since 1999 he has led over 50 pilgrimages in the British Isles and Ireland.

These sacred journeys offer profound opportunities for both personal and planetary healing. He leads an annual Wild Hunt at the Dark Half of the year weaving with reclaimed indigenous medicine of the ‘Celtic’ people.

He has celebrated this ceremony that honours and celebrates death 25 times in 5 different countries. He is an author of several books including ‘Powering Up Your Life Stories’ which was birthed through working with youth in a high school in Pennsylvania.

This poignant medicine book is now in its second year as part of the University of East Washington’s curriculum for students who are going into the field of counselling and wellness.

He spends his free time taking strolls by the sea, discovering and connecting to wild places and relaxing in his own back garden with his fiancé Joyce.

He can be found on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/andrew.steed.58

And via his website: www.andrewsteed.com

 

POINTS OF INTEREST:

* The bridge to the heart and honouring the sacred

* The multi-dimensional medicine of Amrun

* Amrun: the song that sings us and dances us

* The Second Battle of Mag Tured: A year and a day with Amrun

* Andrew’s epic story of sailing the high seas in Jamaica, singing home the ancestors and weaving Amrun for 13 hours

* The Wild Hunt

* What is The Wild Hunt?

* Honouring and celebrating death

* The many faces of death

* Singing home lost and displaced souls

* Sweeping clean the worlds

* Trapped energy and transmuting our sorrow into joy and peace

* What is “Keening”?

* The Dagda’s Harp and the Three Strands of Poetry

* Andrew’s dreaming story of his pilgrimage to Iona, Scotland * The lament of the dead and professional Keeners

* The key elements of the Keening process

* The ancient word “UAITHNE”

* The gift and beauty of preparing Andrew’s father’s funeral and watching it together