“Sacred Burial Ritual 2022”
Toltec Earth’s Embrace ritual
Residential 4-day Shamanic Intensive
Friday, August 5th – Monday, August 8th, 2019 – Orval (Belgium)
“Shamanism is a path of direct revelation, from personal experience, connection, and power. There is no sideline. Earth is a fundamental teacher, she heals, reveals, and transforms. Her power is there for everyone who is willing to receive it. This time asks us to remember and walk upon the path of the Earth renewed.” – Roel Crabbe
This is an in-depth initiation ritual with enormous potential. What Earth will bring you on this night of ceremony and embrace is something that cannot be expressed in words. You will walk the path of mystery and the ancient path of healing. – Roel Crabbé.
The Ancient Tradition of “Earth’s Embrace”
The Sacred Burial found in Toltec and African traditions, but this powerful ritual exists worldwide. The ritual of the Sacred Burial is an ancient tradition that has been used for many centuries for healing, renewal, and transformation, as a Vision Quest or rite of passage.
Roel is one of only a handful of people trained to facilitate a Toltec Sacred Burial ritual in Europe. He will be guiding this powerful ritual for the fifth time since 2008. Currently, he holds a Toltec Burial ceremony every two years. (The other year he runs the Vision Quest in the South of France).
This is an intense authentic initiation ritual very few people get to encounter. If the deep mystery of Earth, its teaching and healing powers call to you, we welcome you to join us in this ancient tradition.
Ancient, life-changing ritual of transformation
In the Sacred Burial ritual, you dig your own grave, where you will spend a night of darkness, silence, surrender and prayer.
It is an authentic ritual of stillness, transformation and deep communion with the spirit of the Earth.
The Sacred Burial is for people who are called to connect further and deeper with the healing power of the Earth or want to use this intensive transformation ritual as a Vision Quest.
An Initiation that is not for everyone
It is important to note that this ritual is not for everyone. The Burial is for those who are willing to release the grasp of ego, fear and control and open on a deeper level. We will guide you through the necessary inner preparation to fully open yourself to the voice of nature and to release the perception of boundaries, so you can be fully embraced by the healing spirits. Focus, silence of mind and surrender are key.
Preparing for powerful ritual
During the preparation period, you will work with several methods of the Toltec tradition, fire ceremony, work in nature, meditations and silence. These preparations will guide you into deeper and deeper openness and give you access to inner silence. You will work with your connection to Mother Earth, the powers of nature, and allowing the embrace of life’s mystery to teach you about your true potential.
During this time you can focus on what is important for you at this moment in your life.
When we go into the Earth, we go with clear intention and surrender.
This ritual is only for those who are ready. This will open the door to the soul and carry you into new realms.
If you are dedicated to the path and are ready for this initiation into the Wisdom of the Earth, Roel and Griet welcome you and will guide you and keep wacht over you during the entire ritual and your night in the Earth’s Embrace.
Roel Crabbé practices shamanism since 1995 under the guidance of both traditional and Western teachers. He is personally trained and authorized to teach working with the shamanic journey and shamanic healing by Sandra Ingerman, former education director of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies and author of a.o. “Soul Retrieval” & “Medicine for the Earth”.
Roel has thought thousands on shamanism and healing in Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Italy and France. His work has been published in publications by, among others, Bres and Change magazine.
You can find his work and that of his colleagues at ShamanicTeachers.com
Facilitation: Roel Crabbé & Griet Heylen (supporting the ritual)
Date: Friday, August 5th – 18u, till Monday, August 8– 16.30 u
Language: Dutch, with translation in English
Location: Bois le Comte te Orval (South of Belgium)
Contribution: 449 euro course + 186 euro accommodation
Earlybird: 399 euro course + 186 euro accommodation when you sign up and pay before June 1st, 2022
Included is board and stay in 3 or 4 person rooms, and organic-vegan meals. 1 or 2 person rooms can be booked as long as available, and at extra cost.
To Bring: A list of what to bring will be sent to you 1 month prior to the workshop.
Your reservation is complete after signing up and payment of the amount on the following account, with the message of: ” Sacred Burial + name”
Account: Roel Crabbe: IBAN: BE64 5230 8047 8652 – Bic: TRIOBEBB
Please only sign up if you are certain of your participation.
“By far the most beautiful experience I ever had!!!”
“I am very grateful that we went deeper and deeper into silence during the days of preparation. This made me strong enough to experience such a night in full surrender.
The whole night I felt carried and guided in my deep process of rejuvenation, transformation and surrender.
Now, after a few months, when there is a storm around me, I can easily go back to the silence deep within!
That is just indescribable and that experience is just getting stronger and stronger!
It is by far my most beautiful experience ever!!!
May all the good light your path!
“The Sacred Burial, what a beautiful gift! The simplicity, the love, the caring and most of all, the power you place in each of us…
I felt safely protected in the Great Mother, as if a new life energy began to trickle in, that whispered to me: it is okay to be who you really are, LIVE, follow the call of your heart, feel the love that has always been there, look with the eyes of the soul and see the abundance…
And the trickling in became a small stream and holds the promise of becoming a powerful current. The beginning of everything…”
“While digging my grave I felt, most of all, dignity growing inside of me, a feeling that was pretty nonexistent in my life before.
Many deep fears and concerns have died before, during and after the Burial.
Since the Burial I take my life very consciously in my own hands. And I enjoy a new kind of freedom, of observing every tree I come across and of the mud on my hands.
I have learned to take in the life-force and have let go of resistance.
I opened myself to the love of Mother Earth. And I am so happy for it.
I have felt so much more warmth and love around me than before.
Thank you for this!”
“I am so happy that I am in tears. I am not able to do something, I can only be.
I am new in this world and I look with eyes full of wonder. I have so much energy that I can only lie down on the earth and connect. I am the life in this body and my body is strong and powerful. This is who I really am and I am everything.
I am so thankful for the wisdom, the healing and the love of the earth. I am so grateful for the process of the Sacred Burial, I am so thankful for Roel and Griet, for your love and devotion.”
“Dear Roel and Griet, Till today the Sacred Burial ritual is alive within me. It was the most powerful experience I have ever had.
The silence, the rituals, the focus, were strong preparation. It helped me empty myself, letting go, coming home in the silence of just being.
The night in the earth was so special. I experienced 8 hours of intensive healing, as if every cell was shaken by Mother Earth’s powerful but loving energy. There were moments fears showed themselves, but the preparations we did in the days prior made sure I was ready for this and they flowed away.
I felt myself being carried by you the whole night. It was so beautiful to feel you watching over us.
The Sacred Burial let me experience how Mother Earth is alive and how important it is to be loving in everything we do. I left my grave with a deep appreciation to be able to live on this magical planet.
Everything was different, wonderful, peaceful, and serene. I felt so strong and pure.
Since that night I haven’t smoked a cigarette, after 15 years!
The Burial has become a part of me and I have a feeling that this will stay that way. I am very grateful that I was able to experience this ritual! I am grateful for everyone who was there and for Roel and Griet who were guiding us.
Thankful Thankful Thankful!”
“Embrace
Dark
Warm
I get the chance to share all my feelings with our Mother, the Earth
An experience of Oneness
Deep connection
and surrender.
“A bird sings
deeply felt
joy and tears.
As a larva I was in prayer
there was no grave
more a royal temple the earth,
so close so protected I lay
in an unlimited space full of life,
and then the night is over
the Sun rises
a new day.
Every day
grass trees earth
why am I here
and life is singing!
What moved then and yes, woke up,
moves still every day.
Thank you! ”