Creating Ceremony & Sacred Space for Your Animal Friend’s Transition.

This online offering held over nine sessions provides you with teachings, practices, tools, rituals and instruction to connect to the consciousness and wisdom of your canine friend and how to honour, support and create sacred ceremonial space for their transition – whether they are still in body or have already transitioned.

You will receive all that you need in terms of the practicality of creating sacred space, intuitive and soul conscious connection, preparing yourself, keeping this connection alive once your dog has transitioned and how to heal from this transition.

This offering is largely experiential and esoteric rather than giving you a set of instructions and guidelines of how to create the “perfect” ceremony, altar and space for your animal’s transition; it will pull you in to the unseen and also deepen your soul evolution, spiritual growth and the wider teachings, messages, medicine and gifts that an initiation such as a transition brings.

Through support and instruction, you will be guided by your own soul consciousness, the soul consciousness of your animal friend and spirit consciousness as every transition, ceremony and honouring of this will be unique, specific and varied to each animal’s soul. This is not a “how to” course in that sense, although there will be certain parts that give you steps in which to create or do.

This offering is for you to take ownership of trusting, feeling and knowing you can create ceremony and sacred space for when your animal friend transitions and what this involves, includes and looks like for your animal friend – you create it together for them.

This offering focuses on exploring, connecting to and receiving from non ordinary reality, beyond the mind and is not designed to be a thinking style offering but a feeling style offering guided by spirit consciousness, your dog’s soul and your higher self, where you can also enter your grieving journey and explore how the consciousness of death is an ally.

Given the sensitivity and delicate nature of this offering, there will also be teachings on inner work and healing and what the transition of an animal friend may bring forward within you for this. It can never be known what is to arise until we are in each teaching and sharing what is coming up for someone is welcomed.

Each teaching we will open sacred space and honour the non ordinary world we enter in to so that we can gain support, connection and meet our spirit helpers, allies and team that we work with and come to help us specifically for our animal’s transition. It is of the utmost importance to me that safe space is created when calling in our spirit support and that it is done so in the right and respectful way, so spiritual integrity and cleanliness will be included in each teaching and is expected to be continued when creating your own ceremony.

Each teaching will begin with an opening of circle, intention and entering expansive states of consciousness before we explore the topic. This will include meditation, shamanic drumming, plant spirit allies, music and possibly other practices, such as channelling from my channelling guides, The Canine People. Sessions will be recorded and you will have access to each recording.

Sessions include:

Isla’s journey with death, a sacred relationship with transition and spirit

Isla is aware that she has a different relationship with death to many. From the shock of her first pet rabbit dying in her arms when eight years old, her grandfather’s words just before he died, having her own near death experience, co-creating ceremonies guided by her own dogs for their transition and co-creating many sacred transition ceremonies with an animal of another guardian, each one has been a teaching and learning of the consciousness and infinite nature of life that Isla now recognises when a transition occurs – it is still a continuation of life, of spirit, out of form and back to formless that, with it, brings teachings.

Isla is not a bereavement councillor or death doula but she is a grief tender, grief ritual leader and holder of grief circles and ceremonies. It is from her teachings as a shamanic practitioner as well as her experience of death, dying, holding numerous sacred transition ceremonies for dogs as well as connecting with spirit consciousness of an animal that has provided her with the call to create this offering for you and your animal friend.