WILD REMEMBERING

“The future has an ancient heart.”
— Carlo Levi

 Remembering Our Wild and Ancient Heart
through Earth Connection, Ancestral Healing & Ritual Arts

You are loved.
You belong.
You are called by the living Earth.

Come back into relationship with your wise and loving ancestors, awaken your magic, and rediscover your place in wider webs of kinship.

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Warm Welcome!

My name is Flora Schanda and I am passionate about supporting others to come into conscious relationship with the more-than-human world and their own kind and helpful ancestors and reconnect with the wisdom, beauty and magic of the ancient heart of this animate Earth.

I am committed to being in service to fellow humans and our other-than-human kin as forest bathing and nature connection guide, ancestral lineage healing practitioner, animist activist, scholar and ritualist. Based in Vienna, I offer online sessions and 1:1 mentoring as well as community circles and in-person events in German and English.

I know an ash stands,
it is called Yggdrasill,
A tall tree poured over
with shining bright clay;

From there come the dews
that fall in the valleys,
It stands ever green
above the Well of Origin.

From there come maidens
possessing much knowledge,
Three from the dwelling
that stands beneath the tree;

Urð one is called,
Verðandi another,
Into wood they carved,
Skuld was the third.

They laid down the laws,
they shaped the lives,
For the children of the ages
they determined all fate.

— from the Prophecy of the Seeress, Poetic Edda

Explore Our Pathways to the Well of Remembrance

It is my great joy and calling to help people dedicated to a more just, kind and sustainable future to:

  • Explore and deepen the connection with the benevolent beings and powers all around and within you

  • Find spiritual resources and guidance for your own path

  • Receive insights about your destiny and gifts

  • Transform ancestral burdens and energetic blockages

  • Strengthen your sovereignty, true self and inner wisdom

  • Develop ritual skills, intuitive gifts and spiritual practices

  • Attune and align with natural rhythms, cycles and seasons

  • Awaken to the wild magic and mysteries within the heart of yourself and this precious Earth

  • Experience belonging, welcome and interconnection through animist relationships

  • And re-member your place in the larger community of the living world

I welcome clients from diverse cultural, religious and personal backgrounds and specialise in working with fellow empaths and highly sensitives, people seeking to reclaim or deepen spiritual gifts, scholars, activists, artists, those living with chronic illness, disability or neurodivergence, and members of the LGBTIQ+ community.

You are warmly invited to book a free 20-30 minute consultation to answer any questions, clarify what you are looking for, and find out whether one of my offers is a good fit for you.

“Flora is an extraordinary practitioner and human being, balancing radical compassion with fierce integrity, and bringing a spark of magic with her to everything she does. I deeply appreciate her awareness of social justice and intersectionality and her capacity to hold and honour diversity, difference, and marginalisation. She brings an openness and an abundance of kindness, warmth, curiosity and creativity that make her a pleasure to share space with.”

– Rev. Rowan Bombadil, Author of “Igniting Intimacy - Sex Magic Rituals for Radical Living & Loving”

To pray you open your whole self
To sky, to earth, to sun, to moon
To one whole voice that is you.
And know there is more
That you can’t see, can’t hear;
Can’t know except in moments
Steadily growing, and in languages
That aren’t always sound but other
Circles of motion.

— Joy Harjo, from Eagle Poem

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