The Journey of the Bear: shamanic pilgrimage and sacred journey in North Karelia

This is a shamanic pilgrimage towards the sacred nature sites of North Karelia – the old land of the shamans, sages, and wisdom keepers of the traditions of the poetry singing, incantations, rituals of nature, and connection to the nature spirits. This shamanic pilgrimage and sacred journey is offered as our veneration to the Spirits of this Land, and all those Ancient Ones around it. We will celebrate together in the old Bear Stones and other sacred nature sites, where this journey invites us, as we quiet down and listen.

On our shamanic pilgrimage, we devote our time for full-time nature spiritual or animistic-shamanic service, to connect, remember, and give sustenance to the ritual work of sacred reciprocity.

This is a possibility for you to deepen your nature spiritual or shamanic work by learning about ritual and ceremonial work, as well as about shamanic journey work. Most of all, we all will learn directly from nature, as we visit for honoring together these incredible natural sites. We visit sites, where our ancestor shamans and seers have done their contemplations and healing work for hundreds and even thousands of years.

During this journey, we walk, we silence, and we sing songs.

We have simple steps towards natural awareness.

We allow our whole nerve system to sooth in the calmness and stability of these ancient stones.

The connection to the destinations of the pilgrimage will connect us to our Ancestors, no matter where you come from: Your ancestors will follow you here and will connect with the ancestors of this land. What can we learn by experience from this journey together? What can we remember of our ancient souls and our being of nature?

There are no special requirements for this journey, but everyone interested can join as they are.

We will be spending time and sit in earth-honoring ceremony. Our journey takes us to important ancestral sacred nature sites of North Karelia, “the forest temples”, and Old Stones.