“I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.” ~ Henry David Thoreau.
When I am out of balance I turn to nature. I go to my backyard or into the mountains, sit under a tree or touch a rock, and close my eyes, feeling the sun on my skin, the earth under my feet, while listening to the birds. I immediately feel the stress of the day gradually leaving my body and mind. It’s amazing how quick that “medicine” works, isn’t it? But how do I actually connect to that medicine? And what is this medicine about? And has our land balance and stress too?
In this month’s newsletter I am talking to Loraine O’Hagan, an advanced Home- and Land Alignment practitioner based in South Africa. She shares her extraordinary skills to connect to the soul of our land and to heal in co-creation with Earth.
Maggie: Loraine, you are a passionate Home Alignment practitioner and work not only in South Africa but also in Europe. What made you decide to specialise in the alignment of property and land?
As an Animist the environment has always been a very important part of my world. Growing up in East and Southern Africa in the 1950’s as a highly sensitive and dyslexic child, there was no understanding in those days of special needs and I was labelled a cry-baby and stupid and so it was to the earth, the trees and plants, and elemental beings I turned to for comfort. My relationship to this world and the rural settings I lived in sustained and nurtured me and later as an adult, finding my way in the world of alternative culture and spirituality I discovered the work of Rudolf Steiner. I read his lectures on elemental beings and the relationship to the land through Bio Dynamic farming and Anthroposophical medicine. The cycles of the moon and planets and their influence on the growth and wellbeing of crops allowed my internal world to feel validated.
After many years working within Anthroposophical therapeutic communities, and my love of the child, teenager or adult who was “different”, I was guided to Wilderness work being done with foster children in the UK working with Vision Quest and rites of passage in the Lakota Indian tradition. This led me on a beautiful journey into the work of “Ancient Healing Pathways” all the while deepening my connection to the spirit within the land, the forests and all who dwell on it both visible and invisible.
Fast forward many years and my return to South Africa led me to a Facebook ad of a certain Jeff Levin holding a Life Alignment demonstration in a space in Woodstock. After a bit of research and seeing that one of the modalities within Life Alignment was Home and Land Alignment and having found the demonstration fascinating, I began studying Life Alignment in Cape Town. Learning Home- and Land Alignment gave me the tools to deeply implement and facilitate my connection to Earth.
Maggie: That is very interesting. Working on the quality and energies of land implies that there can be imbalances in it. How does this happen?
The earth is no different to the material human body, it holds and stores trauma just like we do within our human body. Having worked for many years as an Art Therapist within the refugee and Asylum seeker communities of United Kingdom, I became fascinated at tracing the “fault lines” of the major conflict zones that were feeding the refugee crisis at that time. I was working with a lot of underage Afghan boys at the time who were all placed in foster care and from different tribes. When I traced the Afghan conflict as well as the inter-tribal conflicts, I realised it was embedded in the land and not just a current conflict. I was working there, post 9/11. The more I researched the conflicts I found them all to have ancient fault lines that simply continued to play out the trauma of the land with different players in different costumes. I felt and still feel that it’s not just the humans living in these lands that need healing but a deep global healing within the earth is needed to end these on-going conflict hotspots.
Maggie: And Global healing is what Life Alignment is all about, offering treatments and the Vortex Technology to balance not only the trauma of land, but also of our air, food, body, past etc.
Exactly Maggie. In the past when people lived in a much more animistic way in their relationship with the land, ceremony and honouring were a natural part of life. The ancients had a deep understanding of the power held within the earth. You just have to begin to explore Ley lines and the powerful cathedrals and sacred sights built on them to realise that this connection to the land, the magnetic grids and the galactic influence and a build-up of negative energy that needs to be acknowledged and cleared, is nothing new. We are simply reviving a much-needed skill that has been put to sleep but is thankfully being re awakened. Jeff’s work within the whole body of Life Alignment and Home/Land Alignment is just one truly magnificent example of reclaiming and re working these ancient skills.
When we recognise that the body of earth has memory and stores trauma in pretty much the same way as we do, and we bring to consciousness the deep need it has to be healed and respected and honoured, we become co-creators with the earth and can partake in a beautiful evolutionary healing journey that truly does work for the highest good for all.
Maggie: This sounds so beautiful Loraine, it deeply resonates. How exactly do you use Home and Land Alignment? Do you have an example?
Just like in an individual Life Alignment session, also Home and Land Alignment provides a modality and a process to bring to consciousness the unconscious or hidden stories, wounds or traumas, that a home or piece of land may be holding. Through this work and its completion and participation of the clients, what was once hidden in the realms of the unconscious is able to be healed or neutralised for the highest good of all.
I will give a truly wonderful example of some work I had been doing with a client in Europe. I had done a lot of Life Alignment work with her and when I told her about Home Alignment, she was really keen. She was living in her ancestral home that had been her Grandmother’s and after a lot of personal balances, things were still not shifting but reoccurring. I suggested a Home Alignment Process. She sent the house plans and I did the initial set up of the work using the plans and the lists of Root Causes. One of the root causes was Burial Site. When I shared this with her, she became unhappy and denied that this could be possible. She later called me back to say she had spoken to her father and there was definitely no burial site on the property. So, I started the whole procedure again to double check myself and got exactly the same results. I decided to look up on the map where exactly her house was and was absolutely amazed to find it was 3 km from one of the infamous Jewish Concentration camps, one that did not have a gas chamber but used mass graves. I was able to have a positive conversation with my client who was able to say it had been a deep fear in both her and her mother and they had chosen not to acknowledge its closeness out of fear of retribution. We identified the right treatments to balance the land. For example she took both her young children to the memorial garden, and they placed stones with blessings in it. She planted a beautiful Pink Rose bush as a way of honouring and acknowledging the burial site. We also buried the Earth Card beneath the Rose bush as part of the process to clear the trauma embedded in the earth. For me this is a beautiful example of not only personal healing, but ancestral and global healing as well.
Maggie: Very beautiful. And it makes sense! What can I do for myself if I believe my house or land isn’t in a healthy state?
A beautiful start is to become conscious of the earth, the trees, one’s garden and home as vital living beings. When in a “right relationship” with them, we are able to work with them and receive their benevolence and support. This allows us to become co-creators with our garden and home and to raise the frequencies of light and love.
A daily practice of gratitude for our home, mother earth and all the living beings in our garden helps align and strengthen healthy energy of the land.
I love to sing or tone to the trees, land and elemental beings as well as truly listen to what information they have or hold for one is another great practise.
And of course having a Home /Land Alignment certified practitioner come and work with you on your home and land, in a sacred and creative way, is a truly wonderful and very tangible experience.
Thank you so much Loraine. I found this interview deeply touching and I am fascinated about your connection to the spirit of land. It sounds like a while new world to explore. We are all feeling drawn to nature, but to really get deep about connecting to the gifts, soul and support of it and to merge with the land power and history, just feels so on track with what the world needs right now.
Your and all other international Home Alignment Practitioners contacts are available on our website.
Vortex Cards of the month
EARTH CARD (Grounding)
The earth element represents the matter of the universe. It gives form to the human body and all creation. The Earth card increases the energy field of the body or an object and activates life force. When the energy field expands, your personal feeling of being grounded is enhanced, as well as your connection to the energy emanating from Mother Earth.
Another crucial function of the Earth card is detoxification. It may be used on your body to energetically activate the cleansing process of the liver. The Earth card may be utilised to activate the life force of minerals and vegetables, too. Tests have shown profound changes in growth and health when the card has been placed on many types of vegetation. The Earth cards also work very efficiently on cleansing crystals and jewellery from energies they have absorbed as a way to reset and reactivate them.
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