Ritual and Ceremony
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I believe there are times in our lives when talking about something isn't enough, when we need a remembering beyond what our mind and body can offer to us.
We can understand the pattern, and know where it came from. We can journal about it, talk about it in therapy, pull a card, read the fucking book... and still feel like something hasn't quite moved.
This is one of the reasons ritual and ceremony have always been such an important part of my work. Ritual allows us to work with something beyond the intellectual. This is where we make magick. We meet energy, intention, archetypes, Goddesses, the elements, our ancestors and the unseen. It gives us a way to create a threshold between what was and what comes next, to honour what has been lost, call something back, make an offering, invoke what we need, or consciously choose what we are ready to release.
Humans have been creating ceremony around the important moments of our lives for thousands of years. Birth, death, grief, and celebration. The changing of seasons and life transitions.
These private ceremonies bring together practices I've spent years studying, practicing and weaving into my work; ritual and magick, shadow work, somatic embodiment, nervous system awareness, archetypal work and ancestral practices.
These ceremonies are private, 1:1 experiences held in my studio, with plenty of time around the ritual itself for conversation, preparation, integration and whatever your particular experience requires.
Each ritual is a 2 hour booking, with an investment of $187
They require each require detailed intake and preparation, so are not available to book through my usual online booking process.
“Your magick is also the conversation you’re having with the world.” — Danielle Dulsky
The Devotion Ceremony
A Private Womb Healing & Pussy Devotion Ceremony
Devotion emerged from a remembering, a return to a passion that I've held in my heart for years. This ceremony is a reclamation of the relationship with the most sacred parts of you.
In one way or another, people who are born with pussies are disconnected from them, from the power that exists there. Whether we've been taught to keep her hidden (cross your legs, young lady!) or to bleed discreetly or fuck silently, pussy has been stolen from us. This is the ritual to undo all of that.
We'll begin with coaching and Shadow Mapping, exploring your relationship with your pussy, womb, body, sexuality, pleasure or reproductive experiences and what you want to bring into the ceremony.
From there, we'll move into ritual, where your personalized herbal steam becomes part of the ceremony itself, alongside intention, somatic womb work, energy and whatever elements of ritual feel appropriate for what you are bringing into the space.
After your steam, you'll have the studio entirely to yourself for 30 minutes, with nourishing food, tea, music and space to journal, lie down, cry, rest or stare at the fucking wall. We spend so much of our lives being needed, watched, interrupted and expected to do something that being given beautiful space with absolutely no expectations can be medicine all by itself.
I'll return for our final 30 minutes so we can talk about your experience, integrate and intentionally close the ceremony.
You'll also leave with a custom jar of your steam blend so the practice can continue at home.
Pussy devotion is an act of rebellion.
Tarpana
A private ritual of ancestral connection & honouring
There is something incredibly powerful about working with those who came before us.
Our ancestry can hold soooo much. Stories and traditions that have survived generations, people we deeply love and miss, family histories we barely know, and relationships that are complicated enough that the word ancestor can bring up a whole lot of feelings.
Tarpana is an ancient practice of honouring the ancestors through ritual. It is a practice I have worked with for years and one that I deeply love facilitating because it gives us a tangible way to acknowledge our lineage and create space for connection with those who came before us.
We'll begin by talking about your ancestry, who you feel called to connect with and what brings you to the ceremony. You may be grieving someone you love or want to deepen your relationship with your lineage. You may be curious about ancestral patterns or feel drawn toward someone you've never known personally or you may simply feel a pull toward your ancestors that you can't quite explain.
Together we'll create the ritual space and call in the ancestors you choose to welcome, honour their lives and create space for whatever you want to bring into that connection.
There may be grief here, but also there may also be love, gratitude, anger, curiosity, forgiveness, laughter or stories that haven't been spoken aloud in a very long time.
Your relationship with your ancestry doesn't have to be uncomplicated to be sacred.
We'll close the ritual intentionally and leave time afterward for both solo and supported integration. Tea and nourishing snacks will be available.
The Shadow Blessing Ritual
A private ritual to meet your Seven Shadows™
I have spent years working with shadow, and what has become overwhelmingly clear, is that we are fucking mean to the parts of ourselves that don't seem to "fit."
We hate the part that overthinks and get frustrated with the part that can't stop saying yes. We've learned that the versions of us that aren't all sunshines and fucking rainbows are somehow wrong, and that shapes the way we see ourselves in the world.
I created The Seven Shadows™ because of this, and in spite of it, and my own journey with navigating each of the shadows; Survival. Mother. Heart. Doubt. Pleasure. Truth. Power.
The Shadow Blessing gives you an opportunity to meet all of them, opening your heart to them, as much as feels doable for you in that very moment.
We'll begin with Shadow Mapping so we can see how the Shadows are moving through your life right now. Then we'll enter into ceremony, creating a space where each Shadow can be invoked, witnessed and welcomed. Working with the archetype and energy of each Shadow, allowing you the opportunity to encounter each as something more than a collection of behaviours or a pattern you're trying to change.
There will be space to listen, speak, feel, make offerings and notice what each Shadow reveals when you open yourself to that energy.
We'll close by blessing the Seven Shadows, using a single rose (whose medicine holds both protection and love) while you make space for each shadow.
The ritual will be followed by solo integration, 30 minutes for journaling, crying, movement (whatever you need) with herbal tea and nourishing snacks provided, followed by supported integration.
Soul Retrieval
A private ceremony of descent into your underworld
There are parts of ourselves we lose touch with along the way. This can happen in so many ways. It's happened to me more times than I care to count.
Relationship where you slowly became smaller, or the ways motherhood can swallow you whole. You stopped making art because there wasn't time and learned being loud made people uncomfortable. Your sexuality disappeared and your anger was labeled dangerous. You had to become so fucking responsible for everybody else that you genuinely don't remember what you like anymore. You stopped trusting yourself.
One day, you wonder what happened, and why you miss yourself so deeply.
Soul Retrieval is a ritual descent into the underworld to call back a part of you that has become deeply disconnected.
We'll begin together, talking about where you've been feeling that disconnection and using Shadow Mapping to explore what may be surrounding it. From there, we'll prepare for the descent, lighting a candle to guide your way.
The underworld has appeared in myth and ritual for thousands of years as a place of death, initiation, transformation and return. Inanna descended. Persephone descended. Psyche entered the underworld. These stories give us an archetypal map for our own journeys into the dark.
I'll guide you into that symbolic underworld through ritual, visualization and somatic practice, working with the energy and imagery of descent as you go looking for the part of yourself you've come to retrieve.
The return is just as much a part of the ceremony as the decent and the discovery.
We'll move slowly out of your underworld, return to the room, ground, integrate (solo and supported) and intentionally close the threshold we've opened.
