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TOGETHER WITH ÅSBACKA
JUNE 2026 -
Twenty years ago this June, Jonathan signed the contract for Åsbacka, and it became both home and a retreat center. Soon after, Zara joined and we have been here ever since. It is amazing to think we have been together so long with this wonderful place, which keeps teaching us and showing us more.
For Jonathan, when he signed the papers, he stepped into the right and the responsibility of being Caretaker here. Accepting responsibility of living together with Åsbacka, listening to …
THE PATH GOES ON
APRIL 2026
A SPECIAL LETTER FROM JONATHAN -
Forty years ago this Springtime, I taught my first course in shamanic practice. I was very nervous as I stepped into the circle. But as I knelt at the altar in the center and lit the candle, everything changed. It changed because I remembered I was not doing this alone. I had been asking for help and, with the fire lit, I felt the connection – connection to the Spirits, connection to the Circle of people around me, connection to the Earth, to t…
THE POWER OF PEACE
JANUARY 2026
Many years ago, Jonathan asked the Spirits what course to teach for an anniversary, and they gave him a new one called Shamanism, Peace & Power. Since then, it has been taught many times in different countries. At first, Jonathan wasn’t sure how it would work, but the Spirits said they would teach him. Through receiving it and offering it, we have continued to learn about the Power that Peace can hold, how to work with Power from a place of Peace, and how to work with Peace in …
TRUSTING GENEROUSITY
NOVEMBER 2025
What does the word generosity stir up in you when you hear it? What happens when others are generous to you?
Sometimes we may feel we do not have much to offer, but there is always something to share – a smile, a word of kindness, a moment of our attention, a helping hand.
Many years ago, Jonathan’s Spirits gave him these essential instructions:
"Give without Losing, Receive without Taking"
With this perspective as our starting point, we know we can share without having les…
OPENING TO LIFE
SEPTEMBER 2023 -
Here in the Harvest times, so much is given and on offer. Life is abundant and it is a wonderful time to glory in the gifts of nature.
But how do we see what we are offered? How easy is it to acknowledge it with an open heart? How much do we allow ourselves to receive what is given? Can we rejoice in the act of receiving, as a natural part of life? Can we allow ourselves to open more full to what is on offer now?
When we open and allow ourselves to receive, it can be easier…
FINDING BEAUTY
JUNE 2023 -
Looking around us, it is sometimes obvious that we are in a place of Beauty. It is easy to see. At other times, we may have to look harder and use different ways of relating. We may have a lot of assumptions about what Beauty is, and the Spirits can teach us more about what it means to them.
What happens to Beauty, when we begin to open to it in another way? When it is not about how something looks on the surface, but how it carries its essence, or how it harmonises with what is a…
COMING HOME
APRIL 2023 -
Home can be not only a place but also a state of being
Every day we come home. Come home to how we live, to how we breathe, to who we are. Wherever we are, whoever we are, we can connect to this place within us, and through this, connect to the world.
Sometimes it can feel difficult to find or locate this place. Where is the center, this calm still place that knows it is home? How do I find it?
When all around us is wild and moving, where do we go? What is the core that we must neve…
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