A weekend workshop for learning how to create ceremony, Facilitated by Ana Larramendi

Begins Friday at 7pm, ends Sunday at 3pm. Residential and non-residential options.

Prerequisites: A basic journeying class, and the ability to receive spiritual information from spirit teachers and power animals.

In this workshop we will focus on how to bring the sacred into our everyday life. You will learn how to confidently create your own meaningful and personal rituals and ceremonies by learning basic structure, forms and “rules” that create best practices. This will include; proper opening and closing of sacred space, as well as how to construct ceremonies for: Rites of Passage, Personal Initiations, and other personal rituals to demarcate beginnings or endings in our lives. We will also learn proper protocol for building a fire for fire ceremonies, have a fire ceremony, and learn several types of traditional offerings (tobacco ties, prayer arrows) typically offered to the Spirits.

Learning Objectives:

• What is the purpose of ceremony? Why is it done? How does it help? When should it be used?
• Students will learn a more comprehensive overview of how ceremony works, with more detail about ceremony structure and building. How to create a strong ceremonial container: Being conscious of the beginning, middle and end (closure) of a ceremony.
• Identifying the difference between ceremony and ritual– where and how each is used.
• Students learn what types of life events or personal changes are enhanced by creating a ceremony for that event. Students are given ideas for personal ceremonies they can create.
• Group ceremony basics: Understanding the importance of setting the energy field and container for a group of people and how this is different than individual ceremonies. Tools for being a ceremony leader and holding a safe space for a group.
• Tools and enhancements for ceremony: What items are useful to have on hand for ceremonies? Herbs, incense, symbolic items, talismans. Also paying attentions to celestial alignments to enhance the focus of the ceremony (moon phases, solstices/equinox, eclipse or other planetary zeniths)
• Fire ceremony. Students will participate in the full creation of a fire ceremony–start to finish– including fire building techniques and creating a clear intention and purpose for the ceremony.

CLASS SIZE LIMITED TO 10 PEOPLE.

Class cost includes: 5 meals and 2 nights lodging. (non-residential option also available)

Prices vary by lodging choice.

If you have questions about this class, including costs, and would like to be notified for when the next Ritual & Ceremony will next be offered, please contact me and I will add you to the list.