Lions Gate Gathering

Lions Gate gathering 

11-13 August 2023

Lions gate is a powerful portal - a time frame window, a cosmic alignment in the constellation of Leo that is considered to be one of the luckiest days of the year! 

We have decided the focus for this gathering will be in the honoring and assisting the deep healing needed to return the divine feminine as well as the divine masculine to their rightful, harmonious, sacred places, side by side. 

This means it’s time to stand tall and proud, and chase the passions of your heart with courage and knowing. 

But it's also a time to look at resolving deep and persistent collective wounds and triggers which are holding us back from our individual and collective highest potential. Bring on 5d unconditional love!! 

We gather to celebrate, co-create and heal over this divine auspicious date, whilst honoring woman's day and the passage of the divine feminine and masculine rising to their rightful places as powerful co-creators. 

We will sing, talk, dance, meditate, stretch, sit with mama Ixcacao, hike in nature and just enjoy and celebrate being alive together in this time. 

Early Bird Tickets R555 till 4 August, R1010 incl catering

Second phase tickets R655 till 7 August R1110 incl catering

Door R700 incl catering R1155

Full Weekend including camping and all activities.

Children under 12 free

Ticket booking online

https://www.quicket.co.za/events/225525-lions-gate-gathering#/

Info Raquel on 084 782 3230 

Join the event whatsapp group https://chat.whatsapp.com/GzbDDBZRYuV3QllKvaJaJC 

Catering:

Should be pre booked, R455 for the weekends catering of 2 breakfasts, 2 dinners, 2 desserts and 6 beverages. Lunch and dinners, desserts are available in a raw rendition upon request. 

There will also be homemade rusks for sale with beverages. Beverages include coffee, rooibos, spiced chai, iced tea, cacao. Lunch will sell for R55. 

Accommodation:

There are a few rooms available, first come first serve basis, as well as exclusive luxury tents available. Accommodation bookings directly with Roman 064 518 4967 

PROGRAMME

Friday evening

19:00 - Opening ceremony with Everyone

Creating sacred space and intention setting for the weekend as soul tribe 

Traditional sticks & bow fire lighting ceremony with Piet

Healing toning circle with Raquel StarHawk 

20:00 - Dinner  

Voice opening, music & drum circle with Raquel StarHawk, Piet and Stuart 

Saturday 

08:00 - Gentle Yoga Flow with Alexa 

09:00 - Breakfast 

09:30 - Sound journey with Raquel StarHawk and Piet 

11:00 - Drum journey to balance the sacred divine feminine and masculine energy within us with Raquel StarHawk

12:30 - Lunch 

14:00 - Red Tent with Alexa and Knights Circle with Stuart Davies and Mark Umkhulu Bëorn (separate circles)

17:00 - Community ixCacao Ceremony with Tarries

18:30 - Expressive Movement with Tonia 

20:00 - Dinner  

Ohm chanting & Singing circle with Raquel Starhawk and Stuart Drum circle with Raquel Starhawk and Piet 

Sunday 

08:00 - Breakfast  

08:30 - Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine sharing circle - continued circle and completion of previous days sharing circles, With Alexa & Stuart 

10:30 - hike/nature walk with Roman

Lunch on return

Sharing and closing ceremony - hopefully with everyone :) 

Facilitators

Introducing our Host, Raquel StarHawk - Shamanic Healer

Raquel StarHawk is a shamanic healer, ceremony facilitator, musician, and earth warrior. 

She holds an open-hearted space when engaging in spirit work events, encouraging and allowing the space for everyone to feel free to express what’s inside, in a safe, non-judgmental, loving way. 

Raquel StarHawk uses her music and voice coupled with her strong intention of healing and unconditional love, to assist in the inner journey process. Be it around the fire, drum circle, or plant medicine ceremony, you are sure to be inspired by her authentic sharing, which allows those experiencing it to reach deep to feel whatever needs to be felt. 

She loves it when people show up and open their hearts and voices, sharing a peek of what is truly inside, thus empowering all avenues of their lives. 

She looks forward to connecting, healing, exploring and having good old fashion fun with you!  

Pieter Van De Erve is a South African Medicine man.

Initiated into the San Bushman healing/trance dance, drummer/musician with 15 years’ experience in sweat lodge facilitation and indigenous music, instrument-making and tribal dancing. 

While being involved in corporate teambuilding, he also prepares and makes medicines for the healing of the people. He will be sharing his magic and spirit of the drum with us as well as a healing sound journey. And not to forget his playful giant bubble magic!! 

'Dance is the soul made visible' - Martha Graham. 

Hello! My name is Tonia Rall aka Sachamamahealing. I am a creative arts therapist, Expressive movement facilitator, medicine woman and recovery and wellness coach. 

Expressive Movement is a dynamic conscious dance form with the focus on movement as your meditation tool to enable authentic presence, creativity, spontaneity and joy. 

This embodied mindfulness practice enhances physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health; increasing your shakti/ vitality and supporting a healthier relationship with yourself, others and all of life. 

This is a dance practice focused on conscious (awake & present) embodiment and authentic expression, through the dance, of what is emerging in the present moment. 

It is gently guided by the facilitators voice against a backdrop of a carefully selected set of music consisting of an eclectic variety of genres, tempos and vibrations. 

It is about finding freedom, trust and unbridled joy in the natural intuitive movement of the body; resourcing the dancer with what they may need to access, awaken, activate, acknowledge, release or transmute. In this way, allowing for a sense of safety, spaciousness, sovereignty and energetic alignment. 

Dance is medicine! And it has the potential to facilitate healing and wellness on many levels, mind body and spirit. Come dance your Medicine. No prior dance experience necessary. Come as you are divine being of light. Dress in comfortable clothes you can move in. See you on the dancefloor! 

For more information contact me on 0845056624

See more about expressive movement here 

https://expressivemovement.co.za/about/expressive-movement/

I'm on Instagram as @sachamamahealing

https://www.instagram.com/invites/contact/... 

Stuart James Davies is a traditional healer whose enigmatic approach to healing, stirs the stagnancy in spirit, opening patched wounds and flooding the field with the healing energies of peace, love, joy and truth. Having been initiated into the Ndau lineage, with honour he carries the sacred medicine of the lion clans and is privileged to be of service to the unification of polarity. 

Alexa Daniela is a Personal Wellness Advocate with a decade of experience in Uplifting the Underdogs through developing resilience and Insourcing. She dances with the Sacred and the Sound, combining ancient wisdom and modern psychology. Her passion for Red Tent work brings Womban to wholeness - in personal sovereignty and solidarity with their Sisters. 

I am TARries. 

Mother. Teacher. Lover. 

My journey with mama ixCacao has been mostly beautiful (but also deep and raw) because of the shared experience with those around me. 

Exploring my curiosity I came to know the depth of her love and beauty through preparing my own medicine. In this way I realised how much there is to learn, share and experience together and how POWERFUL it is to explore the depth of her sweet taste and teachings as a group and collective. 

IxCacao's story became my own as I realised that I am worthy and able enough to participate in my own healing. 

As you enter the community cacao circle it will become your story too as you initiate the kuccina within YOU and bring the healing, love and medicine back to YOURSELF by empowering yourself to BE and CREATE YOUR OWN MEDICINE knowing that you are worthy and able to do so. 

Let us amplify the manifestation of our collective intentions by Cocreation. 

Let us grind the stone together as we learn and share and laugh and sing and dance and set intention together in her warm embrace. 

Please bring a wild herb or spice you would like to add to the pot as well as some beautiful flowers or gifts from nature to adorn her sacred temple. 

It is said that when her spirit returns the people will come together to celebrate and dance and live abundantly once again!!! Let it be so. 

Hilililiiiiii

Mama ixCacaoooooooo 

Mark Umkhulu Bëorn is in thwasa to be a Lila'Ngoma Kuchina and has been honoured to work with plant medicine and in sacred spaces for 8 years. He brings deep compassion, love & trust and finds great joy in being of service to those who choose to journey inwards, creating the perfect atmosphere for growth and a space to hold the full-self with kindness, gratitude and self-trust for the purity that we are. 

Roman is a passionate nature lover, having a background as an adventure guide as well as many years of event hosting experience, he guides you safely and lovingly through the beautiful and serene forests to spend some time in nature, a walk to the waters, to cleanse the body and rejuvenate the soul. 

Time/Thyme Kitchen 

Menu 

Friday ??

Dinner: Our hands made Veggie burger with sweet potato fries

Dessert: Fireside apple pie 

Saturday ??

Breakfast: Break your fast with a seasonal fruit ensemble our style with with herbs.

Fresh cacao pops with coconut cream, cacao nibs, honey and seeds of joy. 

Have one or a bit of both.

Lunch: Winter harvest salad with Shambhala fire baked rye bread and we should have a spread.

Dinner: Processing since Friday opening ceremony, now it’s a Potjie potjie with nice rice and a fine sliced salad.

Dessert: Seems like a peanut and sesame brittle, macadamia and gooseberry delight, and chocolate oomf. ?? 

Sunday??

Breakfast: Break your fast with a seasonal fruit ensemble our style with herbs.

A veg cook-up with green beans, tomato relish and what what, with fire baked bread, if you are sneaky, find an egg. Have one or a bit of both.

Lunch: that's a wrap, you can go home, you are healed with falafel, avo, sprouts and delectable veg... Served for lunch, taking along hike or padkos. 

Shambhala, the venue:

Deep in the Magaliesberg mountains, enlightenment awaits ?????

Welcome to Shambala, home of Aumna, sacred temple dedicated to the will and divine work of Spirit. Nestled in a majestic valley between the ancient Magaliesberg Mountain Range, Shambala is a sacred space of spiritual sanctuary and a beautiful venue for yoga/ceremony/meditation or hiking retreats. 

We welcome you in our hearts, minds and community. Creating spaces that honor every part of our identities, ancient backgrounds, and experiences. Our ethos is “leave no trace” ideology, so please try and pack zero waste or just take your waste home!

None of this would be possible without the support of our community. We honor you, and the energy you share and exchange! 

We want to make this gathering ACCESSIBLE, so with the purchase of a ticket, you will have access to all of our sacred offerings. We are an off grid venue so bring all you need in terms of power banks torches and spare batteries. 

WHAT TO BRING:

Drums, fire toys, music instruments, cash, yoga mats, towel, camping gear, warm clothes, cool clothes for sunny days. 

This is a family friendly event, we ask that you keep a close eye on your children 

TERMS & CONDITIONS

*No ticket no entry

*No refunds

*No weapons & firearms, illegal substances, bad attitude.

*R.O.A.R.

* P.L.U.R. 

WHAT NOT TO BRING

No bad attitudes, No illegal substances, No glass or bottles, No weapons, No Independent Car Sound systems, No valuables , NO Glass bottles – Fires. No Commercial alcohol, rather bring honey mead, home made ginger beer or organic and conscious, intent-fully made alcohol 

RIGHT OF ADMISSION RESERVED 

Entry is entirely at your own risk. The promoters accept no responsibility whatsoever for injury, death, loss or damage of any nature to persons, vehicles & belongings. This applies even to negligence of any kind by the promoters, venue and contractors. Due care has been taken to make this event safe & secure. All rights reserved.