A tree attunement is an attunement to the essence of tree consciousness. You do not literally become a tree, although that would be nice, but you do become the energy of Trees.

It began with a Dryad, in Coldridge Woods, in Wiltshire, in May 2006, where I had been doing an archaeological survey on an Iron Age Banjo enclosure. The tree grew in a bluebell woodland which had grown up around the abandoned settlement. I had taken a friend up there as I was training her in Reiki.

About a couple of hundred meters beyond the settlement-site, lay the remains of a Roman Villa, which I was also surveying, with a colleague from Winchester University. We often field-walked this site, picking up bits of pottery and other Roman remains. Having taken my friend to the Banjo enclosure, and introducing her to the energies there, we went to do some field-walking on the Villa Site. On the way, we passed a large old beech tree. Its energy ‘felt’ different and to me it felt like an old, wise man. We sat at the base of the tree and tuned in, but nothing happened, so we got on with our plan to field-walk.

Returning from the field we passed the tree again and this time we sat at the roots and tuned in again, just in case. My personal guide appeared and I felt his energy move into mine, blending like ink in water. Then I ‘saw’ a tube of energy, an umbilical cord, move from my Tan Tien into the centre of the Tree; into its heartwood. My guide told me it might feel a little uncomfortable for a while. I always hate when he says that , it’s usually an understatement!

The liquid tree energy, the sap, flowed through this umbilical cord and into my centre, feeding me. I remained sitting in place until this stopped. When it was finished, the tube retracted, pulling back into my body, and I could leave.

This experience made me think more like a tree. Being able to stand still, when I needed to, rather than feeling I had to do something all the time. Which I always did. I could never sit still. Trees help by simply being there. They don’t go uprooting themselves when someone else screams for help. It’s not the tree’s responsibility to heal everyone, but it heals with its energy just by being itself, sharing that energy with others. They are rooted in the earth, but their branches stretch high into the sky. They are also capable of reaching deep into the earth for nourishment. Energetically this means that you can access the deep Earth layers and the upper vibrational layers of the Earth’s magnetic field, and higher dimensions.  You can access the higher dimensional energies and bring them deep into the Earth.

But that is not as easy as it seems. It takes emotional work to be a tree. As a tree, we learn to witness, knowing that the work we do, when not jumping in to fix or rescue, is just as valuable. When others do not understand what we are doing, they may see our witnessing as an ‘abandoning’ behaviour, or that we don’t care. But we care very much. We witness it all, knowing that our standing still is doing more good than saving. We are allowing others to grow into their strengths, through their hard choices and difficulties. It is not everyone’s path to be a tree, as others have their own tasks with humanity, but for a person aligned with the energies of nature, that is often the way.

We use our ‘roots’ to hold human emotional energy and then root it someplace else, so that healing may happen. We are using our energy to heal, to create connections between other sites and other trees, to bring healing and balance to different areas, just like in my first experience with an ancient Yew tree. And it all happens through the earth.

Years after the initial experiences, I was given an attunement by a large pine tree, who spoke of the Tree-man, a man whom it saw as ‘kin’. The tree was part of a group of pine trees planted in an open park and they expressed such love for this man, telling me about him and how he was not simply a gardener. This man truly loved trees and understood them. He communicated with them as one of them. I could see this man clearly and saw him walking around the vast park, feeling everything. The tree then gave me an attunement, which they told me to share with those people who also felt like kin to trees, and who felt a strong urge to work with them both physically and energetically. The attunement would create an energy in the person’s field effectively making them like a tree, which other trees would recognise, and which would help them communicate with the trees, as a consciousness. Tree energy would become part of the person who received the attunement, which they saw as an energy-sharing.

When I got home, I looked up this park, and it turned out to be part of a large estate and parkland designed by Lancelot Capability Brown. The park was North Stoneham Park. “Brown is regarded as one of the greatest landscape designers of all time. Few people can have made such an important and lasting contribution to the English landscape. Gardens at Longleat, Petworth, Chatsworth, Bowood and Blenheim are among his most significant achievements.” A tree-man to be sure. A couple of weeks after this, we found another tree he had planted, which still grows in the little churchyard of St. Nicolas. There were some beautiful trees in this graveyard. But the huge pine tree was planted by Brown. Tuning into this tree, it shared its essence with me, to create an essence for those who work with trees on the physical plane.

My guides explained our Treeness like this:

The Tree.
When you began this journey you were but a speck in the ocean, a seed of creation, full of potentials yet unformed.
Today you stand as a tree, your potential grown and blossoming for all to see. You now bear the fruit of other’s potential in your branches. The fruit of your tree contains the seeds, which will one day mature into other trees and they, in their turn, will bear fruit which contain seeds of potential.
In this life you have grown and matured. You have moved through obstacles, as you tried to root yourself in stony ground, that became your foundation. As you grew, you grew in strength, your roots trying to find the fertile soil of experience, which lay between the rocks and stones of your surroundings. Your branches ever sought the light of the sun, and the nurturing rain, which fell on your leaves. You expanded ever upwards, trying hard to grow no matter what the odds.

And here today, you stand connected. Your branches nourished by the soil/earth and stones. You have grown into a mighty oak, strong and tall, aware of the mighty currents which sweep through your branches. You stand solid and rooted, straight and true.
We ask you now to provide the fertile soil for the seeds which will fall from your tree, seeds which will need to develop the qualities of strength, love, joy and abundance.
Let nothing sway you from this task. Allow it to fill you, lighting every facet of your life until all that you do radiates life. Let the cells of your body become the repository of joy, not pain, love rather than hate. Let your life radiate the qualities of the tree, steadfast, nourishing and bountiful.
This is our wish for you today. Seek not without for the answers but within, for there you will find the seeds of creation which you will sow, and there too the light with which to nourish them.
Stand tall and be seen.

To receive a tree attunement :

Foundation Level Attunements.