This blog contains valuable insights into the influence of ancestral connections and the potential for healing through systemic ritual and family constellations. The blog highlights the impact of both empowering and distressing ancestral ties.
Author Archives: Susanne Hazen
South-Africa – blog 3 – Where our ancestors walked
Photo: Susanne Hazen. Towerland. As you have read in my previous blogs, I was in South Africa for the last few weeks. I spent time in Towerland (Langeberg mountains) and Wilderness, among other places. This is one of the areas of the San – the oldest people in the world. They are descendants of theContinue reading “South-Africa – blog 3 – Where our ancestors walked”
South Africa – blog 2 – I Am of This Place.
I am of this place. What did I learn about this in South Africa? A journey I undertook in search for inspiration.
Looking for inspiration
I travelled to South Africa for new inspiration and will participate in the training week: I Am of This Place: Deepening Our Sacred Relationship with Life and with Land with Tanja Meyburgh and Sue Davidoff.
It is a week in which we will explore our sense of ‘belonging’ and nourish ourselves by connecting with the land through our senses, rituals, movement and land constellations.
Prior to this week, I first made a short tour through this beautiful country. The influence of the Dutch, who colonized the country here from the mid-17th century to the 119th century, is indelible and the impact of this period is still present. If you want know more – continue reading.
Bye, bye 2023, Hello 2024
First, I wish you already a very happy New Year with lots of health, well-being and great challenges. A look back at 2023 I look back on a pleasant, adventurous and full year of 2023, where I could fully practice my passion – systemic and shamanistic work.There were no fewer than ten groups for theContinue reading “Bye, bye 2023, Hello 2024”
Life after the retrieving of soul parts
And what happens after a ritual in which soul parts are retrieved?
Soul loss and soul retrieval
In shamanistic traditions, it is stated that parts of the soul can separate from us and that this separation, this loss of soul parts, can be a cause of physical and mental illness.
The Wheel of the Souls
In the article “The Multiple Soul”, you have read that shamanistic traditions assume multiple souls. In my work, I distinguish the family soul, the tribal soul, the individual soul, and the universal soul. You can give the souls a place on the Wheel of the four directions, and the Wheel tells something about the development.Continue reading “The Wheel of the Souls”
Multiple souls
Photo:Design: Alma MekkingPaintings by: David Ridley Every culture and religion believes in a concept of the soul or whatever it is called. There is a belief that we are more than our body and that we also have a soul, which continues after the body’s death and returns to where it once came from.In shamanisticContinue reading “Multiple souls”
What is the effect of a family constellation?
What effect can a family constellation have on you as a participant? I will tell you more about it in this blog so that you can participate – well prepared – in a family constellation.
Systemic Ritual and Systemic Constellations 