05/04/2026
The day everything changed - Sunday 17th March 2024
When you look back at life, you can see how every little step leads towards something bigger. Whilst there are a few choice crossroads that ultimately brought me here, those are for other stories.
I both yearned for this and resisted it. All that is important is that, however it happened, I was booked onto a Trance Workshop with 7 of us participating. Everyone except me had been sitting in circles or had a lot of prior experience and/or interest in the work of mediums and spirit/channelling. I - had none really. I had sat in a small circle with those attending for no more than maybe 6 weeks.
I felt pressure, expectation and judgement from myself and others (though that was probably in my head). Excitement at what could be. And pre-preparation for disappointment at what would, in all likelihood, be nothing much.
You see I started 2024 knowing - just knowing that the time had come to seriously address my spiritual path. I knew I had abandoned a huge part of me and let it drown in work and family commitments. I had let me drop to the bottom of a very long list of must do, should do and have to's. I see now that was nobody's fault, other than my own.
The workshop itself consisted of grounding & protection; initial meditation to blend with our guides; overshadowing/transfiguration meditations to watch for changes in those sitting; channelling demonstration; channelling in pairs; trance healing on 3 volunteers from the group.
Most of the day, I felt very little. Some minor heart rate increases. I could see nothing in regards to others overshadowing whilst much of the group were talking excitedly about what they saw. I felt a bit of a failure.
After lunch the channelling demo seemed all too simple and then we split into pairs to take it in turns to do the same. My partner was the only person in the group I didn't know. In hindsight - I see the perfection in this. No pressure or expectation. Someone who didn't know me from Adam. I didn't want to go first - they were ok with that. Then it was my turn…
I felt the nerves that you get if ever you're about to go on stage - or talk in public, whilst trying to maintain my absolute cool and calm in order to 'meditate' and get into the right headspace for what we were doing.
This is what I wrote in my journal (slightly abbreviated to fit into this post):
"I wasn't prepared and presumed it would be a bit dull. All started as expected. As my meditation had me descend further in my 'elevator' to blend, my breathing became so slow and deep. My head went up - up so much I was tilted back and my eyes filled with tears. My lips twitched. My eyes were flicking a lot. I started crying - tears flowing down my face and my nose running.....
My partner asked me to come back into the room. Our trainer was there with me as I just sobbed and sobbed - properly sobbed - not out of sadness and for no reason really - but I remember saying it was like I had been reunited with someone I hadn't seen for a really long time. My partner asked if I was ok and said I didn't look like the kind of person who cried much - I said I wasn't!"
I can tell you, I was speechless, shellshocked and elated. Elated that something, finally something had happened that I just knew was real and important for me.
We watched our trainers do trance healing on one of the group. Then another volunteer, this time 4 of us were going to do the 'trance healing' on them. One of us each side of the treatment couch. I was sat on the right side. I had no idea what would happen.
From my journal:
"I remember thinking a lot about what I probably should do and if I was making it up! I felt I should stand up but didn't want to as I thought everyone would think I was showing off! But I did - awkwardly - with my eyes closed. I put my hands out over them. They started coughing - a lot. I started to sway a lot, with my deep breathing. Our trainers moved behind me to make sure I didn't fall over. Then I felt my arms move - undirected by me! They ended up, spread wide - like I was on the cross - not at all embarassing! But also very cool!! I then felt I should move up towards their head end more. Again, overthinking how silly I would look shuffling to the right with my eyes still closed. I put my arms out in front again and then they just started properly vibrating and shaking. It was like I was holding a Kango or something - PROPERLY flopping about!"
"It was then my turn as a volunteer on the couch to receive healing from the others. I literally just shook and shivered the whole time. I felt I was getting an upgrade to deal with the new energy. When they finished, I just stayed on the couch lying down while everyone cleared up around me. I just felt too spaced out to move. When I finally did, my head felt about 2 heads higher than it physically was but I felt so energised!"
And that, as they say, was just the beginning. ✨🤍