Annie
Spencer, founder of Hartwell Centre for Shamanic
& Ceremonial Ways in the UK. She is a
ceremonialist and workshop leader with an
Oxford MA and a diploma in Humanistic Psychology.
Annie has been running groups and trainings
for over 20 years including the groundbreaking
Women's Mysteries courses; and of Openings,
the Bath based centre for therapies and group
work. Her writing on earth mysteries, women’s
mysteries and ceremony can be regularly found
in many major magazines.
She
is currently involved in the establishment
of Circle of Life Rediscovery, which is devoted
to bringing earth based spiritual traditions
to young people. Annie has worked in many
spiritual traditions across the Americas over
the past 30 years. In addition to studying
Guatemalan Mayan teachings for the past five
years she has built up an intimate relationship
with the sacred sites of her Cornish ancestors.
Her primary interest is the renewal of ancient
ceremonial forms for creating a path of beauty
upon Grandmother Earth.