online event next week - 'sunday ceremony:' a community spirit circle, 10/15 12p cst
working with prayer to train your mind and shape your thoughts
calling all compassionate spirits!
join us in co-creating a guided, collaborative ceremonial gathering in non-local space, anyone welcome from any ability, path, belief system or level of experience. we’ll spend time dropping into our bodies, make offerings of gratitude, craft our container with guided invocations, ask for the help we need and practice receiving and interpreting the ways in which spirit communicates uniquely for each of us, with time for questions, shares and processing what comes up.
the way i’ve learned to hold ceremony is as both practice — a structured, consistent form that serves to support (and steadily upgrade) my status quo through repetition — and art — said repetition yielding traction, over time, for increasingly more elegant and responsive adaptations to the particular needs of each season, day and moment, whether i’m traveling or at home, have 5 or 500 minutes. learning how to ‘set the energy for the day’ in my daily ceremonial practice by tuning in to my needs, desires and the dreams i’m seeking to receive and manifest, actually speaking those needs out loud as prayers from the vulnerable truth of the heart and then experiencing all the ways spirit sincerely responds (both blessing, protecting and teaching me in the process!) has been a true gift in my life and become the needed bedrock i didn’t know i was missing until i found it.
this style of practice follows a theme i’m weaving together for my workshops this fall — learning to take responsibility for the personal, human parts of life that are mine and only mine to tend, so that the spirits, humans and everyone else don’t have to tend what i won’t. not only does this set the stage and help hew the intimacy required for even deeper transformational work, but it’s also a super practical balm for both the day to day ‘ugh’ that can creep in for the best of us and in giving us more ordinary-reality ease of access to spirit for the moments when we can’t just, like, drop everything and start drumming into an hour-long trance state, because we’re cooking dinner, or in traffic, or have a work meeting in five minutes, etc.
i hope you’ll consider joining us! and inviting your friends and folks! space is limited, so we’ll have plenty of time for questions and container-supported sharing and processing of our experience. this offering is live-only, but as always i’m happy to receive feedback on scheduling and will continue rotating this kind of event into different time slots to accommodate more peeps. any questions, please reach out! with deep gratitude to the teachers, teachings and helping spirits that have helped me grow, hold me in each day and always meet me exactly where i’m at. <3
xo, alexis
PS — here’s a few free resources from my teacher christina (and some other neo-shamanism OGs), who has shaped my understanding of both ceremony and practice the most:
https://whyshamanismnow.com/2014/09/the-shamans-mind-shamanic-practice-4/
https://whyshamanismnow.com/2015/01/resources-for-shamanic-living-with-sandra-ingerman/