• Be given creative tasks between modules to take us further and ground the workshop experiences and make ritual a part of your day-to-day lives
• Be part of a network of support as the wheel of the year turns and actively encouraging each other to take the steps we need to take
• Take part in specific ceremonies such as medicine lodges, fire-walking, burial ceremonies and all-night prayer rituals.
Ritual
There are many forms and languages of everyday and cyclical rituals. A common theme is the human need to mark change on a personal and collective level. Our work is to make our own connection to the web of life and energy around us. Our main language is movement though you will also study other forms of ritual and alchemy. Some rituals are very personal and others are more community based. During the course, we will examine some of the ways in which you can find and use ritual that is meaningful and helpful to you in the context of your lives and the times we live in.Creating Ritual to acknowledge our connections to the Elements as the immanent face of spirit on earth is a blessing. We bless life and we are blessed by it. Our own story re-appears in the wider and archetypal context to which we also belong. In this act of communicating with the unknown, we are embraced and fortified by it so that we can return to our lives to continue our offering, whatever that may be. Movement Medicine offers an approach to shamanic ritual that is contemporary, practical and effective. Intent
The intention of Ritual is to continually find ways to acknowledge our challenges and our wounds, and keep moving through them into a place where we are strengthened by our experiences, not weakened by them. Our stories then become a resource rather than an excuse. Life is the Great Choreographer and it is our practice to keep dancing on the edge between our own will and the deep surrender that the dance demands.
