In celebration of Ceremonial Work, I would like to share more about my personal reasons for falling in love with ceremonies…
Sometimes surprising pathways open when you least expect.
For me, I never had the intention of sitting in ceremonies – I did not even know they existed! However, I was deeply committed to my healing journey and learning several modalities to support myself and others with effective and lasting transformation.
I found myself in my first ceremonies completely unaccustomed to the experience. Like most people who show up to ceremonial work for the first time, my intention was to heal. And yet, there was much more happening – like energy activations, connections with guides, and spiritual gifts awakening.
Healing happened too. I reconnected with parts of myself that had been lost, facilitated the flow of love in my ancestral line, remembered more of my purpose, and came into unconditional self-love. Layers shed. Metamorphosis occurred. I came home.
While my personal healing journey is a lifelong path, at some point I felt pretty darn great. After dozens of ceremonies, there was less and less heavy lifting. More joy, flow, and alignment was my norm in daily life.
So, wonderful! …Now What?
At some point there was a shift, and Collective Healing became my overarching intention – how could I help others to find the same inner peace and happiness that I had? I felt so blessed, and wanted that blessing to extend out.
That is about the time Sophia Circles came into my life. I was ready to be of service to the greater good! I mean – I had always wanted to be of service, but now I was ready. I knew who I was, what my gifts were, and how I could best be of service to Collective Healing.
Now, when I enter a ceremonial space, my prayers are for the Earth, humanity, and all life. My focus has shifted out from me, to we, as my capacity has grown to see beyond my personal limitations and begin to address the collective forgetting, disconnection, and lack of love that creates so much destruction in the world.
This is where I find the most excitement about ceremonial works—how can we shift the world through our prayers, our hearts, our songs?