Welcome to the Introductory Course on the Cardinal Directions

The Four directions and the spiral are more than symbols — they are a map of life, a mirror of nature’s cycles, and a pathway back to wholeness. Across cultures and time, it has guided seekers to understand the interconnectedness of all things — body, mind, spirit, and earth. In this self-led journey, you’ll learn to walk with the Wheel as a living ally — one that helps you find balance, healing, and clarity through every season of life. This is an invitation to pause, listen, and remember the sacred rhythm that’s always been within you.

A Pathway to Wholeness

Explore the interconnectedness of body, mind, spirit, and earth through the Wheel

Guided Journey Through the Four Directions

Discover the teachings and medicine of the East, South, West, and North

Practical Wisdom for Everyday Life

Learn how to integrate the wisdom of the directions into your daily practices

Ethical Context and Teaching Disclaimer

This training offers an introduction to the cardinal directions—including Earth and Sky—as sacred portals for guidance, reflection, and personal growth. The teachings shared here arise from my own lived and embodied experience of working in deep relationship with the directions over many years. They are informed by specific lineages, teachers, ancestral wisdom, and relationship with land, and are shared with humility, reverence, and respect. When the term Medicine Wheel is used, it is done so with deep respect for cultures across the world that honour the spiral, the circle, the seasons, and cyclical ways of understanding life. This training does not teach, replicate, or represent any North American Indigenous Medicine Wheel teachings. I do not claim knowledge of, training in, or permission to teach North American Indigenous traditions. I have not learned from those lineages, nor have I been authorised to teach them. Therefore, none of the teachings shared here should be understood as originating from, or representing, North American Indigenous cultures. The teachings in this training are drawn from: Andean wisdom as shared through my teachers in the Peruvian Andes Celtic traditions of the British Isles connected to my heritage Ancestral and land-based wisdom arising from my upbringing, mentors, and lived experience Much of this work is rooted in Southern Hemisphere–based understandings of the directions. The word Medicine is used here not to appropriate any tradition, but to honour a shared, cross-cultural understanding of life as inherently healing—where land, plants, seasons, and the greater cosmos are recognised as allies rather than resources separate from us. Participants are invited to engage with these teachings as an experiential and reflective practice, grounded in respect, cultural awareness, and personal responsibility.

What You’ll Explore

Through video lessons, guided reflections, and personal practices, you’ll journey through the spiral centre and the four directions — East, South, West, and North — each one offering its own teachings and medicine. You’ll learn: 🌅 East — Beginnings, vision, inspiration, and illumination 🔥 South — Growth, passion, embodiment, and emotional wisdom 🌊 West — Healing, shadow work, and transformation 🌌 North — Stillness, cosmic wisdom, and spiritual alignment Centre - your place of sovereignty and connection to consciences Along the way, you’ll discover how to: Work with the elements, animal guardians, and cycles of nature Build your personal relationship with each direction Use the wheel as a tool for reflection, healing, and spiritual practice Integrate the wisdom of the wheel into everyday life

Meet Your Guide

I'm Laura, and I'm thrilled to share the profound teachings of the Medicine Wheel with you. As an experienced guide on spiritual journeys, I aim to help you connect with the wisdom of nature and find harmony within yourself.  Join me on this transformative path towards wholeness and enlightenment. I acknowledge and thank all of the lineages and teachers from the Andes, The British Isles, Ireland and those on the lands that I serve. For allowing me to embody this wisdom in my own life and share it form me perspective. Please refer to my website for full details of my lineage: https://the-hummingbird-life.com/meet-laura-yates

I teach from my own lived and embodied experience.

Over many years, I have taken time to be in deep, devotional relationship with each direction, allowing life itself to be my teacher. Through seasons of challenge, change, grief, and growth, the directions have become living companions rather than abstract ideas. Through this ongoing relationship, the “wheel” has become my compass. I have lived and worked with the directions not as a concept, but as a breathing, relational practice. They have met me in moments of disorientation and clarity, sorrow and joy. I have turned to them repeatedly as an inner compass when my life felt uncertain or tender. Walking with the wheel and the spiral has been profoundly healing for me. Through this relationship, I have learned how to soften into self-acceptance, to meet my own humanity with compassion, and to trust the deeper rhythms of life. This work has supported me in rebuilding trust in the divine—not as something distant or external, but as an intimate, living presence woven through the land, the body, and the cycles of life. The wisdom of the wheel has offered me steadiness when I felt lost, belonging when I felt alone, and a deep remembrance of my place within the greater whole. My authority in this work arises not from theory alone, but from years of lived experience—of returning again and again to the directions and allowing them to shape my healing, my trust, and my way of being in the world. My life, lived in relationship with the directions, has been my greatest teacher. When I use the term Medicine Wheel, I do so with great respect and appreciation for cultures across the world that honour the spiral, the circle, the seasons, and the wheel of life.

Who This Course Is For:

This journey is for anyone who feels called to reconnect with nature, spirit, and self. It’s especially for: 🌿 Those seeking balance, clarity, and deeper meaning in their lives 🔥 Practitioners, facilitators, and spaceholders who need an introduction to the Medicine Wheel 🌙 Seekers walking their own path of healing and spiritual remembrance 🌾 Anyone curious about sacred tools and earth-based wisdom You do not need any previous experience — only an open heart and a willingness to listen. For practitioners, facilitators, and spaceholders who wish to deepen their energetic foundations, I recommend looking into the Spaceholder Training, where we deepen our relationship to the Guardians of the Wheel and how this creates a safe space for those we serve

Course Curriculum

7 Chapters · 39 Lessons

  1. 1

    Introduction to the Directions across cultures

    1. Welcome and Overview Free preview
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      Guided Audio: Opening your Space and Setting your intention

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      Cardinal Directions workbook

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      The Wheel across Cultures

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      Holding Space with the Medicine Wheel

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      The Medicine Wheel in your personal life

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      Downloadable Compasses

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      Audio: Opening the wheel and calling in the guardians

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      The Four directions of the British Isles

    10. Ethics on the Medicine Wheel Free preview
  2. 2

    Earth and Sky: The Foundation

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      Centre, the spiral, your sovereignty

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      Guided Audio: Connecting with the Earth and Sky

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      The Heart of the Earth

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      Guided Audio Journey: Heart of the Earth

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      The Heart of the Sky

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      Guided Audio Journey: Heart of the Sky

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      Reflections and contemplations

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    East: Beginnings and perspective

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      Architype of the East

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      The Guardians of the East: Birds of Prey

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      Reflections and contemplations East

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      Guided Audio Journey: East

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    South: Transformation and letting go

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      The architype of the South

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      Guardian of the South: Serpent

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      Reflections and contemplations South

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      Guided Audio Journey: South

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    West: Shadow, Healing and Acceptance

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      The architype of the West

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      Guardian of West: Puma and Great Cats

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      Introduction to Shadow work

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      Reflections and Contemplations: West

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      Guided Audio Journey: West

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      Bonus Audio: A journey with your Shadow

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    North: Cosmic remembering and soul purpose

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      The architype of the North

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      Guardian of North: Hummingbird

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      Reflections and Contemplations: North

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      Guided Audio Journey: North

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    Integration: Spiral back to the centre

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      Final Integration

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      Guided Audio Journey: Returning to your centre

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      Bonus Audio: Transformation

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      Audio: closing the wheel with gratitude

What will you gain?

By the end of this course, you will have: ✨ A personal understanding of the Medicine Wheel 🌍 A deeper connection to the elements, nature, and your own spiritual cycles 🪶 Tools to navigate change, healing, and transformation 🕊️ A renewed sense of safety and belonging to the greater web of life

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How It Works

This is a self-led online course that you can begin anytime, moving through at your own pace. Each direction includes: A teaching video with Laura Guided meditations and practices A beautiful downloadable workbook Rituals to integrate the teachings into daily life You’ll have lifetime access to revisit and re-walk the wheel whenever you feel called.