Gather with neighbors to plant seeds of intention and release the heavy energies of winter.
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Spring Equinox Fire Ceremony
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Shamanism 101
A provocative four-part primer of humanity’s oldest spiritual technology— and its implications and benefits for modern people. Offered weekly through the Knowledge Market.
Knowledge Market at the Nyack Center: Meet and Greet
Find out more about this fresh and engaging series of classes, discussions, and interactive workshops, including Shamanism 101.
Shamanic Journey Circle
Experience a shamanic journey for insight, healing, and guidance
Initiations
You have been through some things, I know, and you have such a story to tell. You’ve survived intense, life-changing things and come through to the other side. You’ve reinvented yourself through career, relationship, parenthood, death and loss, or spiritual transformation. You…
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Solstice guidance for dark times
In the northern hemisphere, we are about to enter the darkest day of the year: Solstice. This day brings the opportunity for introspection and the release of what has outlived its usefulness. We use the darkness to enter silence and holiness, review…
Words of benevolence, post-election
How are you doing? I hope you’re okay. I know it’s been stressful for most of us – please hang in there with me. I’ve felt like Alice all week, through the looking glass into another universe (and not in the…
Grief Ritual
The following is a personal reflection that includes some (but not all) of the details from a Dagara grief ritual held in Rockport, MA in May 2016. I have begun facilitating grief work in a similar ritual format: please check out…
You are not alone
You are never really alone. You are connected to people you have never seen, in ways that would fill you with wonder and joy. Someone somewhere in the world is offering a prayer right this second. Someone is in ceremony,…
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