The Transfiguration week brought me a sense of a soul family joining together.

Nothing moves me to tears more than feeling the authentic soul-led words of my soul brothers and sisters. Our gathering seemed to invite a constant stream of both group and personal sharing that touched my heart at every opportunity. The sheer courage to be profoundly honest with oneself is not to be understated.

It seems that when we are absolutely honest with ourselves we cannot be help to begin to align to the divine universal flow. When this happens a whole new divinely authentic world opens up before our eyes. None greater is the joy of sharing this with others as we did this week.

I'd like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to all for joining us during this course and sharing... The depth of connection was truly inspirational!

Past and beyond this week, may all we do continue to be aligned with higher purpose. Let's stay in the flow and bring it ever more increasingly into our everyday lives.

With Love

Trin

Well I'm afraid this message means I am back in the Matrix! But WOW - what a magical week it was in Snowdonia!

I can't even begin to express the joy I’ve felt in meeting such special people. If the script had been written the week could not have been more perfect.

A BIG HUG to everyone, I'm so missing my soul family already Your support, encouragement, friendship and unconditional love are truly inspiring. Last week we experienced magical memories I shall carry in my heart forever - you guys ALL ROCK!

Chris & Trin, well what can I say but my sincerest heart felt thanks for setting the stage of this amazing event and guiding us all through with your wisdom and love. I feel so blessed to have met you both. Openhand is completely that! You both live by example and never once preach or pressure people into believing what you know but simply offer your knowledge openly without ever tiring to explain the details – sometimes over and over again for us who are a little slow in getting things!! Ah, it’s refreshing to meet such genuine & honest people. Brilliant shinning stars.

A million thanks too to JoJo for your delectable cuisine - mate it has made a visible difference to my health – I’m overwhelmed by the difference. Organic wheat, sugar & dairy free living has impacted my entire well being – along with conscious expansion of course! My skin feels amazingly soft & smooth - so I am attempting to replicate your culinary delights in the Shoebridge kitchen! It may take some time to come up to your standards but hey, the recipes you gave me are a great place to start. Inspirational stuff - thanks for the tips.

I guess to mention just a few of the stand out highlights I would have to say the sweat lodge was an incredible experience. Talk about bonding of the spirits! For anyone contemplating taking part in one – don’t give it a second thought – you’ll love it.

And how can I not mention the fire walk on our last night – WOW! WOW! I really didn’t think I would be able to do after building what seemed like a funeral pyre, but I surprised even myself when I made it across and into Trin’s arms. For someone who has climbed Mt Blanc I thought I had conquered most of my fears already! I have the greatest respect for Lesley Goddess of fire. Mate you are gold.

“Cae Mabon” what a stunning property. I just want to build a cob house now!!! Perfect living, mind you how could it not be with a beautiful woodland waterfall adorned with thick carpeted moss rockeries and an abundance of fresh water. Bathing was a whole new experience & the outdoor wicker hot shower was pretty welcome at times too.

Oh to turn back the clock and stop time for awhile longer. Here in London I am doing my best to remain focused and continue my conscious expansion, meditating each day and sharing the joy.

Thank you with all my heart. I can't wait for the next unfolding.
Love & Light, Stephi x x x x x

I am slightly reluctant to write about my awesome week on "The Transfiguration" as it is not easy to express the intensity, complexity and pure simplicity of my journey in words. It has taken me this long to "ground" myself back into our beloved matrix and to make some sense of what I experienced.

I have spent the last 10 days or so in a very detached but most amazingly tranquil space, getting slowly used to an intense new awareness of everything and everyone. I feel an enormous sense of relief, release and "internal" freedom that I could only have dreamed of before. Let me give a simple example - from a young child I have always woken every morning with a sense of dread, a tightness in my stomach and a fear of what the day may bring - for no apparent reason. Yesterday I woke and realised that fear had gone and there instead was wonderful sense of peace and acceptance. These new feelings and many others, are radiating throughout all aspects of my life and truly feel like they are here to stay. The course at Cae Mabon was indeed a transfiguration - beyond belief. For me it was life changing & feels like just the beginning of a magical and deeply authentic part of my life.

I can't write here about the exact experiences I went through during the week except to say that whilst being totally unexpected on the one hand, they were utterly appropriate and I think, a true expression of a soul connection that has been waiting a long long time to be heard. I have known for quite a while now of a real need to express a connection with spirit yet have never found anywhere or anyone capable of understanding what was inside me! I am very wary of anyone claiming to have "seen the light" and even MORE wary of anyone telling me how to find the light myself! After this course I can truly truly say that Chris and Trinity bring an honesty and clarity to this complex and demanding expression of being human, without dictating, insisting or telling on any level. With a rare talent, they created & held the group beautifully, (and wow, we threw some wonderful stuff at them just to check! ) but their total sincerity and commitment held both them and us in a place of unmistakable safety, openness and trust. It was a profound and moving thread that was woven and I feel deeply honoured to have had the time and space in my life to be part of the group.

I am running out of words so this is from the incomparable Khalil Gibran -The Farewell from The Prophet. It really should be read it full - this is just the last paragraph - it just says it ALL so well...

"I only speak to you in words of that which you yourselves know in thought.
And what is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?
Your thoughts and my words are waves from a sealed memory that keeps records of our yesterdays,
And of the ancient days when the earth knew not us nor herself,
And of nights when earth was upwrought with confusion,
Wise men have come to you to give you of their wisdom. I came to take of your wisdom:
And behold I have found that which is greater than wisdom.
It is a flame spirit in you ever gathering more of itself,
While you, heedless of its expansion, bewail the withering of your days.
It is life in quest of life in bodies that fear the grave.
There are no graves here "

With love and eternal gratitude to all who came and shared at Cae Mabon. May we all meet again soon.

Hazel

Thankyou for sharing Hazel!
I know how hard it can be sometimes to express our experiences in a way that truly justifies what we feel - time and again we find that words just don't cut it.

However when I read your words I instantly recognised the sincerity and energy in them - I was moved to tears.

I know that you made a profoundly life changing transition on the course - you underwent a "Transfiguration". It is entirely down to your own self honesty and commitment to profound truth that enabled it to happen. It was this that enabled you to go deep within the meditations and strip away the blockages that initiated its unfolding.

I wish you every joy and success in your new state of being!

Love always

Chris

I find your sharing most touching Hazel.

Peace within is a gift, once tasted, that can never quite be forgotten. None greater is the joy to share with you as deeper and deeper experience of this unfolds from the centre of your soul.

From sharing deeply together I realise the enormity of challenges that have confronted you and helped bring you to the place you are now at. It takes none other than sincere surrender to cut to the core of our fears. It is from this place we finally see them for what they are and are able to welcome the gift of strength that they bring.

You offer such a beautiful example of this poetry in motion. You seem to me to be one who has embraced discernment, seeing things for what they really are. Only when we find something at the core of our soul, at the centre of the divine heart beyond illusion, will it become an unmistakable expression of who we truly are.

As one who appreciates profound poetry I would like to thank you with all my heart for the inspiration, for simply being you!

In my heart
Trin

Dear Friends / Soulmates,

Right from the start I knew this was going to be a special week. Not just 'special' as in 'out of the ordinary' but 'special' as in life will never look, feel or taste the same again.

Looking back now, its clear that everything worked as a perfect metaphor for what we were doing, the full orchestra in all its harmonious glory - from the generous amounts of clensing rain at the start of the week to the glorious sun that warmed our souls and finished the week. The rain that bought all that wonderful energy rushing down the mountain, through our sanctuary and on into that amazing pool of truth below. We all spent hours soaking our souls in and around that beautiful stream, watching the life energy flowing through us and taking away our pain and fear - and with it, our former identities. Even on closer inspection, you can witness the water diverting this way and that as each molecule expresses itself and its highest purpose, but like the one absolute truth that we are, it all kept flowing so beautifully, so perfectly, in the one direction.

So to all those who shared in that wonderful time in that magical forest, WOW! This is what we tasted - and what a wonderful injection of divine love and beauty! The only other occasion where Ive felt anything nearly as powerful was my wedding day.

And here in this murky and muddled environment I find myself in now, that week almost seems unearthly, as if it happened in another place in time. And yet it is still there, every leaf, every tree - I have made an incredible transition! I only have to close my eyes or remember to smell something and there it is and there is a lifetime of learning and reminders I now draw on (and Ill carry that millipede with me everywhere!). And Ive come to realize that this is probably whats referred to as multidimensionality - and it is within the subtlety of this experience that lies the profound truth and beauty that Ive longed for all my life.

And so to Chris and Trin, again, words will fall short here but I cant
thank you enough for the incredible amount of love and energy you two put into the Transfiguration week. As Ive said, we have the highest love and respect for what you do as there is no greater service one could offer.
And there is no one doing it with such warmth and wisdom. As Hazel described it so beautifully, it really was poetry and felt like we'd moved mountains!! But you two empowered all of us to do this for ourselves which is an amazing achievement and deserves recognition. What a blessing to have crossed paths with you two! I can safely say that I have now tasted magic, in every sense of the word.

And to Spirit, thankyou for the lessons, Im eternally grateful. And if it is in the highest good of all, please keep them coming.

Ill leave you with a deeply moving poem that was given to me on the second last day from spirit via our beloved and cherished Brian.
Im sure you'll find these words as profound and poignant as I do.

Happy travels all, I know we'll meet again soon.

With Love.

"Brothers and Sisters, we are as one.
I give to you both my 'open hand'.
I feel the hurt, the very pain in the words you speak
and the songs you sing.

But life flows like running stream,
and with it takes hurt and puts a dent in many a dream,
but with all of this the water runs clear
and when flowing over the skin can remove many a smear.
We all are different, and not in just the way we look,
or the games we play, or the book we read,
some like a flower, others like a weed.

As we grow in many a way,
learning our lessons each and every day,
you cant make hay if there is no sun,
with a broken leg its hard to run.
But there is a place for the rain in our sky,
as without it falling, all would surely die.
We must deal with life's rolling ball,
it not only touches me but one and all,
and in a strong wind many a tree will fall.
So what is for us wont pass us by,
and there'll be many a cloud in our summer sky.
But the winds of time will shortly blow them by
and we will have our blue, blue sky.

Hey Brendan,

Such a heartfelt sharing. It was awesome working with you during the week and to share your enchanting discoveries and realisations. Always something new around the corner to fill us with the wonder of it all

With Love
Trin