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Healing the Burning Times

Understanding the legacy of the witch hunts - and clearing the generational trauma we still carry

Do you feel…

  • Afraid to speak your truth or be truly seen?
  • Held back by self-doubt, perfectionism or mistrust?
  • Disconnected from other women or your own intuition?

If so, you may be living with a legacy that has its roots way back in our collective history

Reclaiming What We Lost...
— Through History, Ancestral Connection, and Embodied Healing

 

Before we can reclaim the Original Witch — her intuition, power, medicine, leadership, and wisdom — we must understand what was done to her.

The witch hunts of the 16th and 17th centuries were not symbolic. They were real, sustained acts of terror enacted on real women and yes, some men too — women and men we have descended from — and they left the imprint of a deep unconscious wound that has been passed down through the generations ever since.

Mention the witch hunts and we feel a strong resonance in some way; a felt sense in our bodies that we can’t quite put our finger on, a morbid fascination to visit the stories of those persecuted, and a deep knowing that we carry an ancestral legacy that is calling to be remembered.

The Burning Times left a wound in the psyche of humanity that we still haven't recovered from.

Many women today struggle with:

  • A fear of visibility or speaking out

  • A tendency to self-silence, self-doubt, or over-pleasing

  • Disconnection from intuition and embodied knowing

  • Tension or mistrust in relationships with other women

  • A sense of grief, anger, or sadness that feels older than this lifetime

These are not personal failings. They are inherited survival patterns.

Healing the Burning Times is about understanding this unresolved period in our collective history, feeling its impact, and consciously releasing what no longer belongs to us — so something more authentic can emerge.

A Collective Wound requires Collective Healing

This is a wound that calls for tending by all of us — not just for our own lives, but for our Ancestors and for the future we are collectively shaping too. When we look beneath the black pointy hats and peer into the historical cauldron with a sense of curiosity rather than fear we find a world of healing and treasures.

This work, whilst not always easy:

  • Treats those persecuted as "witches" as real ancestors, not as archetypes or folkloric characters

  • Grounds spiritual reclamation in historical truth, busting the many myths about the witch hunt phenomenon

  • Brings awareness of the trauma wounds of separation into the body, nervous system, and lineage

  • Creates healthy, vital pathways for both collective and personal healing

This work is not about learning to call yourself a witch. It is about understanding why it became dangerous to be one — and what it takes to heal that legacy now.

 If you resonate with this work, please start where you feel most called...

Healing the Burning Times Workshop

A Saturday workshop, held every two months in Lancaster

This is an immersive and transformational day that weaves history, reflection, ritual, ceremony, shamanic journeying and embodied practice.

You will:
-Learn how the witch hunts unfolded and why they matter now
-Explore how this history lives on your beliefs, behaviours, and body
-Reconnect with and bring healing to ancestors of those times
-Gently clear inherited wounds rooted in fear, rage, grief, or shame
=Experience a sense of remembering, relief, and rooted belonging

This is not a lecture. It is an experiential day of powerful inner work — held gently, as an invitation, and with depth. No experience required.

Take Your Place

Healing the Burning Times Online Programme

A 12 week Inner Journey of Ancestral Magic and Medicine for Witchy Women Ready to Rise!

Future dates coming soon!

Coming Soon

The Untold Hystory of the Burning Times

The story of this traumatic chapter of our collective history is a complex one with many moving parts. And so I wrote a "spoken word" version that cuts to the chase and gives you what you need to know to understand how you're affected by it.

Printed as a set of 5 postcards y0u'll learn how the witch hunts started, what it meant to be accused of being a witch, and how we still carry the tragic legacy, along with a vision for our collective healing.

It's a perfect way to quickly feel the somatic resonance you hold in your body and where you may have some work to do.

It's also a perfect gift for those interested in the history of the witch hunts.

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Return to the Ancestral Altar

 "Return to the Ancestral Altar" is a 40 page illustrated e-book designed to help you discover the healing power that comes through ancestral connection.

In it, I share some of the magic I've experienced on my own ancestral journey and some favourite practices for bringing the ancestors into everyday life.

In it, you’ll learn:
-Why your ancestors matter and how they shape your life.
-The many benefits of connecting with your ancestral lineages.
-13 transformative practices for building a meaningful relationship with your ancestors.

Whether you’re just beginning or already walking the Ancestral path, this guide is designed to inspire and deepen your journey and is available instantly as a printable PDF file for £4.99.

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Testimonials...

"Cali, I want to thank you for an absolutely authentic, powerful and deeply humbling experience during this work of honouring and feeling into The Burning Times.  I’ve been drawn to a range of ways of healing over the last few years, but nothing else has resonated in this way. I was apprehensive and slightly sceptical about guided journeying to meet my ancestors but this was something really profound and unique, and like nothing I’ve experienced before. I feel I am now standing at the beginning of something far bigger than I, with a renewed sense of purpose, hope and stronger connections to my ancestors, feeling more firmly rooted in my northern heritage. I’ve a deeper ‘knowing’ of who I am and why the things that light me up matter so much to me, even if others don’t share those passions. And that’s ok." SM

"Cali, I wanted to let you know how brilliant the Healing the Burning Times journey has been and how much it brought me personally. As the future feels more uncertain than ever, it is increasingly difficult to effect any meaningful change. This work is timely and valuable; exploring new avenues is pressing. The progression of the sessions over the weeks was great and each one generated new insights. The overall effect has been subtle and profound - gentle, but truly life-changing. I am already miles further down the line on this exciting journey." HN

"I would say to anyone considering entering this work with Cali  “Sign up straight away!  It might not always be ‘easy’ work, but with Cali’s depth and breadth of knowledge and wisdom, and uniquely insightful way of presenting the sessions, you will be taken on a deep diving, thought-provoking journey and come out at the end wanting more.” GB

"This online journey has been truly transformational and tied into the core of my most personal healing work. I feel held, seen, supported, and connected while shining a light on an ancient wound. I am so grateful to Cali and to the other women who joined together to engage with this important work." CD