Workshops


Courses for 2008

    Shabdan and Shastra

    Please scroll down for information on Hand on Heart events and other workshop dates.

    Courses run by Shabdan and Shastra under the auspices of Iona Light are detailed below. Please see below for information and dates, after the information about the Shambhala Heart Ascension School.

    We are still working on and seeking guidance about the 2007 programme and beyond, but the events already planned are listed here. There will be further workshops in the Autumn, so please keep an eye out on this page, or sign up to our mailing list for notification. Some events have multiple dates, so please scroll down to see everything.

    Our new and greener payment policy: in order to save energy, paper and admin time, we are now asking you to send your deposit together with a balance cheque for a specified date. The deposit is non-returnable, but if you are unable to attend, the balance cheque can be returned up to the date on the cheque. This enables us to honour financial commitments with venues, saves time, letters/phone calls and energy chasing up balances and uses fewer envelopes, stamps and paper. It also leaves Shastra more self-healing time! We hope you will support us in this.

    For a list of all events in date order, including health fairs and talks and workshops at shows, please see the Programme page.


    Shambhala Heart Ascension School

    Shabdan is now creating a modular structure to most of his healing courses and introducing a new range of workshops and tools. Shambhala Heart Ascension School courses are ascension training courses and attunements, and participants will receive completion certificates for the modules they choose to take. Please click this link to Training School for further details and sample course descriptions. Courses will be included in the Iona Light Workshop Programme.


    Iona Light Workshop Programme

    Staffordshire, nr Cannock, Healing Keys, with Shabdan, 22 June 2008

    Join Shabdan for a very special day of healing, meditation and illumination. Shabdan is a healer with extraordinary clairvoyant skills. He can see your guides and angels and work with them to help you move forward on your healing journey.

    As an incarnation in the third dimension of the Keeper of the Keys, he also has access to powerful universal tools that can help you shed the burdens that so many of us carry. You will feel lighter and clearer and better able to continue the work you are here to do. This is a unique healing opportunity for you, but in working with Shabdan, his guides, the angels and and the ascended masters you also have the chance to help create new energy pathways for everyone to move forward when the time comes.

    You will work with Divine Gateways, learn some simple light language phrases that will solve common healing problems like grounding and anchoring into your physical body, and have the chance to share a transforming healing day with like-minded people.

    Venue: Calf Heath Village Hall, near Cannock, Staffs, WV10 7DU, 10am - 5pm, please bring water, lunch and a blanket. Cost: £55 for the day. Please send a deposit of £25 (current date) together with a balance cheque for £30 dated 13 June 2008. Cheques to ' Grahame Wyllie'. Local organisers: Annie and Terry Day, 01785 713780. Please contact Annie and Terry to register and for venue directions.


    Leeds, Full Moon Workshop with Shabdan, 16 August 2008

    This is the last full moon of the year that falls on a weekend, and Shabdan will be holding a day event on Saturday 16 August for healing, spiritual teaching, energy clearing and working with the Angels, the Masters and the Divine Gateways. More details in due course. Cost: £55. Times: 10am - 5pm. Please try to book in advance. Venue directions: click here. You can also participate in previous and new full moon workshop audio broadcasts by accessing the workshop 'podcast' information online. Click here for more information.


    Hand on Heart Camp, Yorkshire, 6 - 13 September 2008

    This unique first-time summer camp with Shabdan will be an amazing opportunity to step into Shambhala consciousness, live in the vibration of Shambhala energy, and be in touch with the Earth in a secluded nature sanctuary near Ripon in Yorkshire. The camp will be established on a sacred spiral and you can pitch your tent or park your caravan or camper within the sacred energy space. This is simple living close to nature, but in energy terms it represents the greatest possible refinement. Living within close range of Shabdan's Keys, you will be healing 24/7 just by being there. There will be meditation sessions, teaching times, creative and social times, with music, new expereinces and open fires and the chance to glimpse the possibilities of community living at a completely different level.

    The techniques Shabdan will teach on the camp will help you come closer than ever before to the vibrational levels we all need to achieve before Ascension. He will use his sacred keys and powerful spiritual technology tools to hold a remarkable energy space on the camp in which you can heal, clear and grow while learning how to hold yourself at a higher level. You will acquire simple techniques to support yourself in your journey and open yourself at and to higher levels to receive the gifts of your own divine light essence and of the universe. The tools Shabdan brings are unique and many can testify to their effectiveness. You will encounter the energies of the Masters of Shambhala (two of whom are coordinating the camp with Shabdan), together with other Ascended Masters, your guides, the Angels, nature spirits and devas. This is a chance for accelerated growth at a sustained level in a beautiful energy environment.

    There is a stone circle, an ancient sacred tree, a pool and a round house on the site - and we will have exclusive use for the week. You bring your own tent/camper/caravan (there will be some shared tent spaces available at additional cost for those coming from abroad and those without their own tents, but please book well in advance). You provide your own food, but there will be a food preparation area and simple kitchen, and we will eat together. There are composting toilets on site and a water source, and we are organising a hot shower.

    Live the Shambhala experience for a week while you expand your consciousness and heal deeply!

    The fee for the teaching at the camp is £330, but this is reduced to £310 if you pay in full before 19 July 2008. If paying after then, the deposit is £50 and the full balance must be received by us by 22 August. Please book well in advance if you want to sleep in a shared tent that we provide - cost on application. Although Shabdan's guides recommend that you stay on the site overnight in order to reap the full benefit of what they plan to offer, you can also book for the week and sleep elsewhere if you are uncomfortable with camping. The cost is the same. Camp participants can stay on site until Monday 15 September and attend the evening full moon event, or leave and come back for the full moon event, free of charge. Others can also attend - please see below.

    Shabdan plans to hold a three-week camp in 2009 with augmented facilities.

    Shambhala Healing Sessions

    During the weeks in September following the camp, Shabdan will be offering a limited number of individual Shambhala healing sessions at the same location on 16, 17, 18, 23, 24 and 25 September. Cost: £60. Please contact us as soon as possible if you want an appointment.

    Shambhala Retreat Days

    If you want to spend some time in the energy of Shambhala and can't get to the camp, or want to continue the experience beyond the camp, you can join Shabdan for retreat time afterwards. There will be a programme of daily morning meditations plus a morning healing/teaching session (10 - 11am) and an evening session (approx 8 - 9pm). The rest of the day is for retreat time, meditation, social time, music, connecting with nature, impromptu activities, sharing skills (we will have a notice board so you can offer treatments or exchanges) and living with the energy of the site. You can visit the site during the day or camp overnight. You will be in the energy of Shambhala and in the ambit of Shabdan's healing keys, which operate all the time. The cost is £25 a day (£20 if you attended the Hand on Heart Camp). The Retreat Days run from 13 September (at 2pm) to the evening of 19 September (option to stay over to the morning of 20th September) then from the morning of 22 September to 29 September at 4pm. There is a reduced cost of £10 each for 13 and 29 September as they are arrival and departure days. You can sign up for one or more days or a whole week. Please make your booking in advance.


    Full Moon Evening, 15 September 2008

    Shabdan will conduct an evening event on the full moon on Monday 15th September on the site of the Hands on Heart Camp - a beautiful energy space in the countryside near Ripon. This event will help to anchor in the Shambhala energies built up on the camp, so even if you cannot attend the camp, come long to this! You will need a lift in a car to access the site. Cost: £15. Please contact us to book - directions provided on confirmation of booking.


    Local Workshops

    If you can gather 20 or more people together and can find an appropriate venue in your local area, please talk to us about arranging a workshop local to you! Shabdan and Shastra are also available individually to do talks, and Shabdan is touring the north of England from mid-August to travel for sessions, talks, fairs and workshops. If you have an interested group anywhere between the south of England and the Scottish borders, just get in touch to see what is possible.