Blog | The Soul Shed

Sep 7
5 min

A gift of a hundred years of sleeping and much more! Exploring Life and Archetypal Themes through Forest Stories

It’s been a while since I've written here. Summer has been late-summering to the max , with lots of offerings and events coming your way...

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samanthataroni

Jul 6
2 min

Flowers by the roadside

The more present you are to yourself, the more real interconnectedness feels. Not an idea or an abstraction at all. Something felt within y

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May 31
4 min

Guardian of some fiery secret

Photograph with thanks to Emma. Under the auspices of the Hourglass Yew, three Soul Shed deep-mapping walks happened over the course...

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May 13
5 min

Dear Human of the Forest

I’m writing to you this way, because you are part of this community, and are among the creators, healers, unseen sustainers and...

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samanthataroni

May 4
3 min

She let the gate close behind her

and heard the friendly knock of it meeting the gate post. As she walked towards the woods she allowed the stories and people close to her...

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samanthataroni

Apr 24
6 min

Being with Mandalas for a while...

What an immense proposition the mandala is! the invitation to come to know the universe in a circle. Our world is round. And so are our...

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samanthataroni

Apr 18
6 min

F is for Forest and for Friendship

Austrian poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, encourages humans to live their questions, and here is one that is very much alive in people who have...

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Emergence and Mandala - Sunday Openings at The Soul Shed

samanthataroni

Apr 5
3 min

Emergence and Mandala - Sunday Openings at The Soul Shed

There is a beautiful correspondence between Pema Chodrun's idea about our life being like a mandala and the concept of having a generative s

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Goldilocks and The Three Bears and the lost girls!

samanthataroni

Feb 10
5 min

Goldilocks and The Three Bears and the lost girls!

In a journey of walking with imagery and archetype is an opportunity to reflect on our humaning in new ways, which might include...

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samanthataroni

Dec 13, 2023
6 min

A season walking with The Hermit

It's deep-mid winter in the Northern Hemisphere and a time of walking with the archetype of The Hermit at The Soul Shed. This is the...

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samanthataroni

Nov 19, 2023
4 min

Sharing from the abundance….….

….of a whole lunar cycle with people from this group sharing their correspondence with the incredible life form that is fungus! Village...

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Beneath the light of the Full Hunter's moon.

samanthataroni

Oct 28, 2023
5 min

Beneath the light of the Full Hunter's moon.

We’re in the thick of the damp, darkening returning to earth of autumn here, and in a month of deep-mapping with fungus at The Soul...

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Autumns gifts of Falling; Moving from striving to surrendering...

samanthataroni

Oct 11, 2023
4 min

Autumns gifts of Falling; Moving from striving to surrendering...

Recently at The Soul Shed we had the first of two online Soul collage ® gatherings with the theme of surrender. You might remember from...

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samanthataroni

Aug 27, 2023
4 min

3 good reasons not to do this...

At risk of blowing my cover as a kind of imposter, I bring you this month’s SoulCollage® offering. Sweet Surrender: A SoulCollage®...

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A space to feel deeply - Reflections on a lunar month with Trees and Water.

samanthataroni

Aug 6, 2023
6 min

A space to feel deeply - Reflections on a lunar month with Trees and Water.

“I know the solitude my mother speaks of. It is what sustains me and protects me from my mind. It renders me fully present. I am desert....

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Moss is Boss:Trees and Water series part two...

samanthataroni

Jul 24, 2023
2 min

Moss is Boss:Trees and Water series part two...

It’s week two of a Sturgeon Moon Deep-Mapping opportunity to explore trees and water. It would feel wrong to not make Moss an Important...

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samanthataroni

Jul 5, 2023
2 min

Did you see the Full Buck Moon?!

Here is a view of it from here in Hampshire, England, in all its splendour from behind the little twisted golden willow tree in my...

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Six unfoldings in a SoulCollage® journey….

samanthataroni

Jul 1, 2023
2 min

Six unfoldings in a SoulCollage® journey….

SoulCollage® is an experience in finding your imagery and getting into a rich correspondence with it. I love sharing this process with...

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samanthataroni

Jun 17, 2023
4 min

Into the Forest we went....

The Soul Shed offers you spaces of Seeding your Imagination, and what it asks of you is that you simply allow your human beingness to...

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samanthataroni

Jun 3, 2023
2 min

May-be the force was with us?

There’s so much to catch up about! May was such a full month here at The Soul Shed. And this full Strawberry-moon weekend feels like just...

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