The Raven’s Lamentation: A Grief Ritual for coming back to our Senses

Grief, like death, is often considered a failure in our culture. But grief, like death, is part of a natural cycle, like snowdrops giving way to roses and summer blazing into autumn leaf fall.

Grief is an expression of love, of what we hold dear and when we close the door to our grief, we separate parts of ourselves from who and what we love as our heart becomes constricted to the flow of life energy that needs to move through us uncensored. Grief metabolizes the pain of where we feel separate; from our true nature, from others, from our spiritual and creative power, from whoever we consider divinity; and in this transformative process of surrendering and allowing, an illuminated pathway is formed between the loss and pain we feel and the wholeness and freedom from unnecessary suffering we long for.  Read more here and to register:

This is a 6 month exploration into the nature/expression of grief and its value to our humanity coupled with a look at the dynamic of Time Spirits and how they move in the Ancestral Weave

Earth/Spirit-based individual Mentoring: Collaborative area of interest, duration and hours per month.

Conscious connection and communication between humanity and the other spirit beings of the Earth is essential to knowing who we ourselves really are, and thus how to live in balance, for we are intertwined; weaving, dreaming, tending, dying and being born within and through each other, endlessly.

Belonging: Tending the Spirits of Place (in-person gathering)

Conscious connection and communication between humanity and the other spirit beings of the Earth is essential to knowing who we ourselves really are, and thus how to live in balance, for we are intertwined; weaving, dreaming, tending, dying and being born within and through each other, endlessly

Belonging: Tending the Spirit of Place (in-person gathering)

Deepening relationship with the Earth, Ancestors and spirit realm through cultivating the communication possibilities of psyche and soma and using these enhanced abilities to tend the Earth and all her expressions of life.

This three day workshop highlights ways to encounter loss, death and grief in oneself, families, organizations and community and especially helps us reframe the value of grief in our lives as a way to be more fully conscious, loving and effective on the earth as one member of an infinitely varied world. Includes a day where invited non-workshop members will be invited to join us in a grief ritual.

I will be facilitating a Lake Erie Institute event originally created and led by my friend and colleague Bill Pfeiffer. Please go to www.lakeerieinstitute.org and to the 2019 events page for more information on this three day enormously popular event.

Part two of exploring shamanic plant spirit relationship in healing.

In this workshoop we’ll begin to discover how to meet and tend our ancestors in the ways needed, why it is so greataly needed now, and by doing so also meet and resolve some of the limiting inter-generational patterns we carry ourselves that we’ll refer to as Time Spirits.

Already begun and now closed to further participants for 2019

Learning to work with plant allies in shamanic healing. Registration closed.

Lake Erie Institute fundraiser information

During our two days together, we'll tap into the true nature of Eros and use various shamanic means that include our sensual intelligence to connect with spirits of the Earth, including ourselves. Our purpose will be two-fold: to become more erotically alive and connected as sensual beings of awareness and to reorient our creative process and presence on our planet.

Healing the unwell ancestors and decoupling yourself from inherited trauma and other unwelcome conditions.

Healing the unwell ancestors and decoupling yourself from inherited unwelcome conditions.

Healing the unwell ancestors and decoupling yourself from inherited unwelcome conditions.

This will be a two day practice of partnering with the elements and traveling in the middleworld together as a group to a selected region of land that is asking for attention,  nourishment and healing.

Fries, VA