The Medicine Path 2025
Journey with Ancient Healing Wisdom
A Deeply Transformational Journey
The Medicine Path is an invitation to step into a profound journey of healing, self-discovery, and transformation. Rooted in ancient wisdom and natural healing traditions, this experience offers a space to reconnect with yourself, nature, and the unseen forces that guide us.
A deeply healing and empowering journey, this path weaves together energy medicine, ceremony, and connection to cultivate personal insight and transformation.
This journey is both practical and experiential, blending deep inquiry with embodied practices. It is an invitation to uncover your own unique medicine and gifts and to walk your path in alignment with your soul’s highest purpose and capacity.
We believe that each of us carries an innate wisdom—an ancient knowing that can be remembered and reclaimed through connection with nature, our bodies, our minds, and our deeper intelligence.
This journey provides a sacred and safe space for your innate wisdom to awaken, supporting you in making empowered choices in your healing journey and all areas of your life.
Each immersive weekend, every practice, ceremony, and teaching is part of a greater whole—a sacred container through which these wisdom traditions are fully integrated.
The intention is to guide and support you in honing your unique gifts, expressions, and deep medicine as they emerge and take form at this time.
Who is this for?
This journey is open to anyone seeking personal transformation, a deeper spiritual connection, or practical tools for healing and self-exploration. Whether you are new to this work or already walking a spiritual path, The Medicine Path offers a space to deepen, expand, and remember.
No prior experience is needed—only a willingness to step into the unknown, to explore, and to listen deeply.
Course Structure
A Journey Over Seven Months
April to October 2025
Five immersive 3-day weekends (Friday to Sunday, non-residential)
Option to join the full course or attend individual weekends
Locations: Wexford & Sligo, Ireland
Each weekend is a carefully curated experience, weaving together guided inquiry, ceremony, movement, breathwork, and ancient wisdom teachings. You will be invited to explore personal and collective themes, learning through direct experience in both sacred indoor spaces and nature-based settings.
Curriculum - What you will learn
- The medicine wheel: working with the directions and the elements.
- Circle, sharing, ceremony; sacred ways for deep medicine & connection
- Shamanic Breath-work
- Calling on and working with the ancestors
- Fire ceremony and firewalking (the walking is optional)
- Somatic practices for body-mind and nervous system healing integration
- Introduction to Munay-ki Rites
- Journeying with the drum
- Guided meditation journeys and transmissions
- Night Vigil – a night spent alone in nature, listening, observing, allowing
- Working with nature, the land, and sacred sites
- Ceremony: specific to the content and the journey of the training
- Sound – voice – the word – alchemical laws of creation – soul power
- Tools and techniques for working with Self and others
- Alchemy of laws of Creation – the word; sound, choice, prayer
- Deep invitation and opportunity for individual growth, healing and the transmuting of karma, trauma, conditioning, shadows and blindspots night spent alone in nature, listening, observing, allowing.
5 Immersive Modules (3 Day Weekends)
- Module 1: Landing in Ourselves & The Medicine Wheel April 11th – 13th | Wexford
- Module 2: Your Medicine Body – The Wisdom Within May 23rd – 25th | Wexford
- Module 3: Connecting with the Ancestors July 11th – 13th | Sligo
- Module 4: Night Vigil – Deepening into the Unknown August 22nd – 24th | Sligo
- Module 5: Fire Walk, Self-Declaration & Closing Ceremony October 3rd – 5th | Sligo
Join the Journey
The Medicine Path is a space of remembrance—an invitation to reclaim the deep wisdom and healing that has always been within you. Whether you choose to walk the full path or attend individual weekends, this journey is an opportunity to align with your truth and deepen your connection to life.
If you feel called, we welcome you with open heart
Full Course Cost: €2100 (€500 deposit required)
Individual Weekend Cost: €420 per weekend
The Five Immersive Weekends
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Landing in Ourselves & The Medicine Wheel
April 11th – 13th | Wexford
This weekend lays the foundation for the journey ahead. Through the Medicine Wheel and the elements, we begin the process of deepening awareness and mapping our personal transformation.
What to Expect:
* Explore the Medicine Wheel and the energies of the elements
* Understand the symbolic and practical aspects of working with these forces
* Begin to map your personal journey of transformation
* This is a time of grounding, remembering, and stepping into sacred space; The journey begins here.
Your Medicine Body – The Wisdom Within
May 23rd – 25th | Wexford
The body is a vessel of wisdom, holding the keys to deep healing and transformation. This weekend we'll move beyond the mind and into the body, exploring our personal energy field, somatic intelligence, and the vibrational principles of creation. This is a space to reconnect with your innate knowing and the wisdom encoded within you.
What to Expect:
* Somatic practices to expand awareness and embodiment
* Breathwork, movement, and voice activation
* Aligning with the intelligence of nature and the cosmos within
Connecting with the Ancestors
July 11th – 13th | Sligo
We are the living expression of those who came before us. Through ceremony, journeying, and deep inquiry, we explore the ways in which ancestral energies shape our lives—and how we can work with them consciously.
What to Expect:
* Exploring ancestral wisdom and lineage healing
* Guided journeying to meet ancestral guides
* Understanding and resolving ancestral patterns and entanglements
* Sacred site visit
* Ceremony to honour and connect with ancestral lineages
Night Vigil – Deepening into the Unknown
August 22nd – 24th | Sligo
Through solitude, silence, and the unknown, we open ourselves to profound insight. This weekend includes an overnight vigil in nature, inviting deep listening and surrender.
What to Expect:
* Work with the elements and the unseen world
* Practice deep listening and surrender to guidance
* Face fears, sit in presence, and receive insight
* Connect to the wisdom of the dark
Fire Walk & Closing Ceremony
October 3rd – 5th | Sligo
The final weekend is a rite of passage—an opportunity to embody your personal medicine, step forward with intention, and celebrate your transformation.
What to Expect:
* Firewalk (optional) as a practice of courage and personal power
* Self-declaration and stepping into your embodied truth
* A space for reflection, celebration, and witnessing
* Closing ceremony and integration of the journey
Full Overview of Course
- The Power of Intention: Explore the transformative potential of intention-setting in shamanic practices. Understand how intention shapes energy and influences the outcome of rituals. Cultivate the skill of consciously directing energy and intention for personal and collective healing.
- Medicine Wheel and Elemental Connection: Overview of the Medicine Wheel and connecting with the directions and elemental energies. Understanding the symbolic and practical significance of each aspect of the wheel. Learn how to invoke and connect with the natural forces and energies represented by the wheel.
- Ceremony: Introduction to shamanic ceremonies for prayer and healing. Engage in specially designed ceremonies, tailored to the course content, for personal healing, empowerment and connection.
- Shamanic Rites/Initiations: Receive foundation rites; ancient energetic transmissions for spiritual evolution.
- Sacred Sharing Circle: Experience the power of circle; supportive and sacred space for participants to share experiences, insights, and spiritual journeys. Benefit from a deep sense of community, belonging and interconnectedness.
- Drum Journeys: Experience the rhythmic heartbeat of the drum as a tool for entering altered states of consciousness. Shamanic drumming may be used for wisdom, self-discovery, and connection with guides.
- Meditation Journeys: Experience guided meditation and transmissions for spiritual insight, exploration and connection with universal and inner wisdom.
- Breathwork: Engage in shamanic breathwork to unlock altered states of consciousness and facilitate healing. Explore the power of deep release through rhythmic breathing.
- Ancestral Healing and Connection: Understand the importance of ancestral connection for personal and collective health and well-being. Delve into practices for connecting with and honouring ancestral wisdom. Cultivate a deepened connection with your lineages. Tap into the roots of ancient knowledge for guidance.
- Visit Sacred Site(s): Embark on a pilgrimage to a sacred site in Ireland, connecting with its energy and significance. Integrate shamanic practices within the context of the ancient Irish landscape.
- Connection with Nature: Attune to the sacredness of the land and the natural world in shamanic exploration. Embrace the wisdom of nature through plant, tree, animal and element. Deepen your connection with nature through practices involving the land, trees, plants and waters.
- Somatic Practices, including Voice: Somatic techniques for body-mind integration, including touch, breath, and voice. Explore the interconnectedness of body, mind and nervous system. Harness the power of the voice for healing and self-expression.
- Practices and Techniques Integration: Develop skills for energy clearing, protection, and working with sacred tools. Learn hands-on shamanic techniques applicable for personal and communal healing. Integrate learned practices and techniques into daily life.
- Night Vigil: Transformation often happens in the quiet, in the stillness, in the moments when we face ourselves without distraction. The Night Vigil is an invitation to step into the unknown. A night spent alone in nature, listening, observing, allowing. This is an ancient practice of deep connection—both with the land and with the self. Embrace solitude and communion with nature during this transformative experience. Note: Involves fasting and and spending a night outdoors. While this is a solitary experience, facilitators will be available to support participants if need be.
- Firewalking Ceremony: Participate in a firewalking ceremony for personal transformation and empowerment. A unique opportunity for introspection, release of emotional blockages and a shift in perspective.Embrace the challenge of walking across the fire, if chosen, as a powerful metaphor for overcoming fears.
- Alchemy of the laws of creation: The intentional application of spiritual principles using the power of spoken word, sound vibration, conscious choice, and prayer. This course offers a profound invitation for individual growth and healing, leading to the transmutation of karma, trauma, conditioning, shadows and blind spots.
Facilitators
Anne-Marie Southcombe
Anne-Marie, originally from Dublin, has called the scenic county of Sligo home since 2006, where she resides with her husband and kids. Despite the twists in her career, the transformative powers of yoga, energy medicine, and shamanism have shaped her life, fostering a profound connection to nature and spirit.
Anne-Marie is driven by experiential learning and a curiosity for life's mysteries, empowering individuals on their journey to joy and self-acceptance. Since 2009, she has embarked on a holistic health journey, exploring yoga, subtle body anatomy, women's health, energy medicine, life coaching, and shamanism.
Anne-Marie finds her greatest joy in quality time with loved ones and immersing herself in nature, exploring woods and beaches. Her love for nature, coupled with a passion for music, art, singing, dancing, and creative expression, shapes her conscious and meaningful life.
Currently Anne-Marie leads individual sessions in diverse healing and therapeutic practices. Additionally, she facilitates courses, workshops, and events covering shamanism, ancestral healing, women's empowerment, personal development, self-care, yoga, breathwork, and meditation. On a weekly basis, she conducts yoga classes in Ballisodare.
Annie-Veronica
An ex subtle body yoga teacher trainer, my service now is as a practical alchemist and natural medicine woman. The work facilitates knowing oneself as the perfect creation in God’s image in manifest reality; immensely, innately intelligent and pure magnificent love and aliveness. Interested only in present-moment truth, Veronica works through words of the principles and laws of creation ever present in all living things to facilitate deep nervous system healing, karma- and trauma release and transmuting conditioning without effort; free from dogma, delusion, concepts and ideology; but with distinctive choice! The alive splendor of God's Creation we are remains self-evident.
Scoliosis necessitated a life of in-depth exploration of the body-mind-spirit nature of reality. A 25 year healing journey and 2300 contact hours of training and certifying in Yoga and meditation, Lightbody Teacher Training, Journey (!) Practitioner Training (Brandon Bays: cellular emotional healing, NLP, and Enneagram), Shamanic Medicine Woman Training, and Firewalking instructor Training, amongst many other mind-body modalities, such as authentic movement and dance, breath-work, voice work, Qi Gong, fasting, Vipassana and Sumara meditation. Opening an organic award winning restaurant in Ojai, CA, as well as almost dying from organ failure and open abdominal surgery was a true awakening. An astonishing and humbling adventure, all in all, this gift of life!
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