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효영 Minna: I messaged Elisabeth back in January after seeing her Instagram post about 한 (Han) and dreams. I don’t remember following her page, yet here she was—4,500 miles away in Scotland—a sibling of the Korean diaspora creating art inspired by her relationship with the dreamworld as a shamanic practice, part of her dialogue with Life and the work of intergenerational healing. Our first video call was a breezy hour of chronological time, and stretched beyond into something a

It all began with a dream. In that dream, I found myself repeatedly saying the words: "Ash Leigh" or "Ashley Dance." Only later did I discover that in Old Irish, Aisling (pronounced ash-ling) means "dream" or "vision" (Robert Moss). The dream lingered it had a peculiar feeling and charged with energy. I followed the thread of that dream, which led me to a crown chakra activation event in Stirling with Matias De Stefano and R. E. Grant. During the activation, I climbed to the

Water pond by the Mandala garden, A quinta da Lage My experience started with a dream, as it often happens. In the dream, I have a conversation with a friendtor ( friend+mentor) Phyllida who tells me I should go to Portugal as there's a group of people I should meet. I didn't think much about the dream and started to plan another trip to Korea, I was very interested in YATOO-I an international organisation based in a small city, a few hours away from Seoul, immersed in nat

Veiling of the Soul, painting by Rassouli A few days ago, Phyllida Anam-Aire kindly invited me to a guth gathering, I thought it was a workshop where I'd learn how to sound the Celtic chants. I really didn't want to miss the experience of participating in a guth session and while it wasn't a workshop, I had the privilege to sit and receive the sounding of these Celtic guth. It's an ancient Celtic vocal tradition like keening, connecting to the land, the unseen world but most