When a woman decides to no longer shun her body, her cycle, her emotions, her soul – where does she turn to in order to find answer that fit her?
When she decides to allow herself to feel the depth of her pain and grief as well as the ecstatic pleasure of being in her body, where does she go to feel safe?
To the Sisterhood of the Red Tent.
Back in the time when the Goddess was part of everyday life, women created and performed ceremonial rituals for every life stage that is part of our experience on this planet.
Rituals helped us – both women and men – mark the end of one stage (the death) and the beginning of the next (birth) in the cyclical nature they viewed as life. It gave us a space to both grieve that which no longer is – and that which we were now entering into.
I am giving us permission as the sisterhood to reclaim this birth right to being the priestesses who create and initiate ceremonial rituals.
AND….I do this with With a keen eye to building a Safe Container (the Masculine energy) for our individual and collective safety in all planes of existence: physical, mental, emotional and soul-spirital.
It is with this two-fold desire in mind:
1) Reclaiming Ritual for our Initiations and
A) Creating Safe Containers that allows us to drop deeper into the Feminine where the Mysteries of Being Woman are held
I am birthing this 4 week series. Please note that the Initiations are both literal and symbolic, with no need to have yet to actually be in them. These initiations happen to us as women each month – and this is what we will learn.
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Week #0: Energy Exchange Ceremony & Ritual
NOW – read here
Initiation: Rewriting our Story around Money
Ritual: Connecting to the Matter of Mother
Purpose: Reclaiming our MatterRoot
Safety Point: You must Root Down before you can Go In/Down (to Soul/Goddess) then Up (to Spirit/God)
Week #1 @ Hidden Villa
Sunday May 22nd
Initiation: Birth
Ritual: Finding & Creating our Circle to hold us
Safety Point: Connecting to the Cycles of Life through our inner rhythm
Week #2 @ Subud California At Santa Clara Valley
Sunday, June 5th
Initiation: Maidenhood
Rituals: Connecting to the Web/Matrix of Life
Purpose: Reclaiming our first bleed through ceremony
Safety Point: Creating grounding through daily/weekly/monthly self-care practices
Week #3 @ Castle Rock State Park
Sunday, June 12th
Initiation: Motherhood
Ritual: Labyrinth & Ariadne’s Ball of String
Purpose: Reclaiming our Priesthood ability to heal by claiming the Deed to our Sexuality
Safety Point: Utilizing Time Outs when emotions get BIG
Week #4 @ Ano Nuevo State Beach
Sunday, June 19th
Initiation: Crone/Sage
Ritual: Form to Formlessness to Form ==> Life/Death/Rebirth
Purpose: Reclaiming the power of the dark to transform the decaying into new matter
Safety Point: Grounding through the lower body
And yes, we will be dancing in these locations too!
***********I reserve the right for us to float in our Feminine Flow within this structure that I have provided.*********
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This series is for any and all women, bleeding or not, womb or not – that desires a sense of MORE in her life. That MORE I have discovered is a connection to the Soul of the Feminine through the Mysteries that have been buried in our subconscious for 4000+ years.
Now is a time to join your sisters for healing, grounding into our bodies and rhythms, transmuting ashes into new life. Being in the Woman’s body is a free pass to learning Alchemy. Let’s use it!
☥◯☥ Energy exchange ☥◯☥
This always seems to be such a touchy subject amongst the New Pardigm Circles.
That is why I created the first initiation and ceremony for you to dive into and feel into on your own. Please read it here.
☽♀☾ Bring ☽♀☾
* Hydration and snacks
* Writing and/or Art journal
* Pen/pencil
* Tic/Bug repellent (I will have Yarrow root tincture that is better than industrial stuff)
* Red colored fabrics, linens, curtains if you have room
* A ball of string
* a Backpack or something to keep your stuff in when we hike
* Something to sit on if you need it and can hike with it
* Musical Instruments if portable
*Your voice, your DANCE, your wisdom your Power*full Self.
Hosted by: Holli Christine McCormick of Movement Medicine, a woman dedicated to brining community and mindful self-care practices to the bay area. Holli is a feminine spirituality mentor/coach, dj & conscious movement facilitator bringing women back to the wisdom and power of their cycles and men back to the sanity of living within the Lunar cycles.
IMPORTANT: SIGNE UP HERE to ensure you get all the info you will need for each week – including carpooling! Commit to yourself, to me and to the women for the entire series please. Talk to me in advance if this isn’t possible and you still want to join.
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MORE ABOUT THE MYSTERIES
We come together to (Re)member the original blood sacrifice – our monthly menses, ending the “curse” and shame and all the other taboo about the very process that brings life.
When we as women do our “work” and (re)member the power of OUR blood which we shed for ALL, when we how our wombs connect us to the grid of ALL, when we settle back into our roots of what makes us biologically different, when we learn that our emotions ARE ALL AS THEY SHALL BE – according to our inner rhythms – we find freedom. We find our Voices, and we will help share this (re)membering with our brothers and our children.
Our Blood Mysteries give us a different lens from which to view the world. Come learn these Feminine truths – and know we each carry a piece of the Mysteries within us to share with our sisters. When we (re)member that which has been shamed is actually that which gives us our power..we will be able to dance instinctively, unabashedly, with whatever moves us in this moment.
We will come together as women to shed that which is dying, dead – and to plant the seed for the next cycle. Life to death to life – the cycle never ending.
BROTHERS: Please note that us sisters are inviting you to STILL be part of this with us. We would love for you to – if you wish –
* Share this work with other women you know and care about in your life
* energetically hold the space for us
* We actually – as sisters – have dreams that you would start your own Moon Lodge and hope this will inspire you!
IMPORTANT: SIGNE UP HERE to ensure you get all the info you will need for each week – including carpooling! Commit to yourself, to me and to the women for the entire series please. Talk to me in advance if this isn’t possible and you still want to join.
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