Shifting Your Consciousness: Transform Your Heart Through Ceremony
Published: Wed, 03/04/20
Greetings ,
The reasons I love shamanic ceremonies is because they are a vehicle for expressing
gratitude...reciprocity...connection...community...love...and so much more!
In the Andean traditions which I follow, ceremonies are also a way to move energy and shift what's happening. They are a way to focus your intent and work in reciprocity with the spirits as you seek
transformation; they are a way to open to the bigger picture and
practice non-attachment to outcome. Like meditation, ceremonies bring us into the present moment
with open hearts and deep respect.
Weaving Spirit and Nature
I'm excited that my two loves—honoring the Earth and working with spirit—are coming together ceremonially in expanded ways this spring, and I hope you'll consider participating.
Sound Healing and a Grief Despacho Ceremony on March 18
If you can't make these, I encourage you to make your own ceremonies. The Equinox March 20, World Water Day March 22, and Earth Day April 18 are great possibilities, for you'll know that many others on the planet are celebrating with you!
Spring Ceremonies: Grief, Gratitude, and Reciprocity
in the North Bay
Join us for Sound Healing and a Grief Despacho Ceremony
March 18
We will use intent, sound, and a traditional despacho ceremony to release the energies that no longer serve us. You will be invited to offer your personal grief and loss and your grief for the world as gifts to the universe.
The despacho is a traditional Andean offering that transmutes energy. It will help you open to lighter energy that will carry you forward in these times of transition, challenge, and opportunity. Your shifts will reverberate vibrationally in your body and cells, and change you somatically, emotionally, and spiritually.
We will feed the power of the despacho with our personal and communal intent, receive its sweet blessing, and offer it to the earth. Our intentions and prayers become energetic compost, transformed and transmuted as we let go.. Bring: a very small biodegradable offering for the despacho that symbolizes your grief. A rattle. Your intent to release personal and world grief and loss. Ancestral soil if you have some.
As an extra gift, participants will receive a vial of Sacred Waters of the World, collected and blessed in ceremonies for over 30 years, just in time for World Water Day (March 22).
This ceremony is part of the 6-month Sound Heals Grief Ceremonies, facilitated by six different sound healers, in the North Bay.
Join us in Eldridge (the former Sonoma Developmental Center) on April 4 or May 3 for a ceremony of reciprocity and gratitude to Sonoma Mountain.
We will create an offering together—a living mandala called a despacho—to honor all that the Developmental Center has been. Invoking the land, history, residents, staff, wildlife, and community, our gathering is a way to give back and appreciate what lies ahead.
When you participate in this traditional Andean ceremony, the energy moves. You make space for the new; you reconnect in ways that can carry you forward in these times of change. It is a wonderful way of focusing your intent and giving back to the Earth. It is a gift to the universe.
The ceremony will be led by SMP Chair Meg Beeler, who has been creating despacho ceremonies on Sonoma Mountain and around the world for 25 years.
Grief, even when we avoid and turn aside from it, is pervasive in the world right now.
If you are struggling to acknowledge or process your grief about species extinction, politics, family trauma, fire, destructive winds, or anything else, each of my three recent blogs offers ways to transform & transmute your grief, as do the ceremonies.
"Grief arises. Experience it. Open your heart to it. You will notice that your reactions shift: the tears stop after a while, the despair flows away, and you are breathing more deeply. Everything changes, so let yourself move on. Use your deep love to fuel your resolve to act..."
"Our collective grief builds up and weighs on us. We may pretend it's not there, try to get on with our lives, and shut down. Or we can try to open our hearts with compassion..."
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Meg Beeler—Author, Shamanic Guide, and Spiritual Mentor—helps you heal your spirit and find your luminous presence through mentoring, training, healing, and community ceremony. She is a lifelong explorer of shamanic, animist, and meditative consciousness who practices Earth-centered, nature-based, ancient wisdom ways, and studied Andean mysticism extensively with the Q’ero in Peru. Meg is the creator of Energy Alchemy™ & founder ofEarth
Caretakers Wisdom School. Author of Weave the Heart of the Universe into Your Life: Aligning with Cosmic Energy, she is a contributing author and photographer to Where the World
Begins: Sonoma Mountain Story and Image. Meg lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. megbeeler.com.
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