Blog
This is where we share resources, rituals, education and stories from our community to showcase how ritual and ceremony can be woven into moments and milestones across the life cycle.
Ceremony Stories ·
My Crone Ceremony
I was initiated as a Crone on my 60th birthday on a glorious day surrounded and held by the elements of fire, earth, water and air.
Ceremony Stories ·
A Pet Loss Ceremony
Losing both of my cats just four months apart led me on a journey to find peace, acceptance, and healing through ritual and ceremony.
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Miscarriage Rituals
On Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Day, Megan Sheldon shares her three miscarriages and the forest ritual that helped her hold her grief.
Ceremony Stories ·
The Dawn and the Twilight
Karen Faith on her granddaughter’s birth and her father’s death 15 months later, and why we welcome the dawn of life better than its twilight.
Ceremony Stories ·
A Stillbirth Ceremony
We moved through the ceremony creation process slowly, giving the parents time to choose rituals that felt meaningful for their baby.
Our Values ·
Appropriation or Appreciation?
How can you ensure that the rituals and ceremonies you're participating in aren't causing harm or appropriating from another culture?
Ceremony Stories ·
Holding Space For Grief
We live in this death-denying, grief-denying culture. We are all going to die, and yet we rarely talk about it.
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Our Ceremony Acknowledgment
This is our ceremony acknowledgement and commitment to being in right relationship with ritual and ceremony.
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Breaking Free from Convention
Jordan Kallman on two weddings, one in Portland and one at Burning Man, and breaking free from convention to design a ceremony about love.
Education ·
Love in the time of Covid19
How do we honour life's transitions when we can't gather in person? Ideas for personal, family and community ceremony in a time of social distancing.
Our Values ·
Being Ceremonial
Being ceremonial is like a muscle. Megan Sheldon reflects on finding ceremony without religion, and why a daily ritual practice prepares us for life's big moments.
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Becoming a Mother
Joy F. on years of silent pregnancy loss, what she wishes for other women going through it, and becoming a mother through adoption.