May 31, 2009

Yogafest: A Festival for Healthy Living


I invite you to the 2nd Annual Yogafest, held on Sunday, June 21, 2009 from 10am to 6pm at The Herb Garden (3840 Old Almonte Road, Almonte, Ontario).

In addition to having an information booth, I will be offering a workshop entitled “Ceremony and You: Marking Transitions and Rites of Passage”. Learn how you can use Ceremony to meet life transitions and rites of passage consciously and powerfully.

Come on out! I would love to see you there.

May 2, 2009

Re-Birthing Into A New Life Ceremony

Continuing my last entry's theme of thresholds, I would like to share about a “Re-Birthing Into a New Life Ceremony” I created for a client recently.

Over the past 3 years, my client had faced a lot of change: the death of a parent, a change of jobs, health problems, starting a course about finding your life's purpose, the end of a relationship.

Once she was through the immediate processes of healing and grieving that which was loss and beginning that which was new, she really could see that she was at a turning point in her life. One was of being was completing and another way of being was emerging. She decided that she would hold a ceremony to mark this, inviting those people who had been supporting her in these changes.

Her “Re-Birthing into a New Life Ceremony”, consisted of three sections:
1) Releasing the Old – a ritual to consciously choose to let go of patterns, people, things, ways of being that were complete.
2) Re-Birthing – a ritual to re-enact the birthing process, so as to heal old birth trauma and emerge anew.
3) Claiming the New Self – rituals to acknowledge and own the people and parts of the old life that did work as well as rituals to claim that which makes up the new life.

My client and all of her guests engaged with the Ceremony with great heart, authenticity and integrity and the afternoon was truly a highlight of my time as Ceremonialist. And although many people didn’t know each other before the Ceremony, afterwards we all came out of the experience feeling connected to each other in a deep way.

So, not only did my client live her own conscious transition, she deepened her connections to her circle of loved ones, while connecting them to each other in community. Such is the power of Ceremony.

From my client:
“You have been a true guide in helping me understand the key elements of my transformation and have held my hand through the threshold of my new life. You made it safe for me. Thank you.”
 
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