Ceremonies
Why Ceremony?
Ceremonies have been a part of our human existence since the beginning of time. In different cultures all around the world, communities have been gathering to mark the transitions together in connection with each other and with the spirit realms. Ceremonies have been a place of deep prayer, celebration, offering, inquiry, resource, connection, and so much more.
In these modern times, when we experience the separation from the ancient and most natural ways of being, ceremony is a space of regaining our own personal connection with deeper intelligence within us and within the majesty of life.
Ritual is called for because our soul communicates things to us that the body translates as need, or want, or absence. So we enter into ritual in order to respond to the call of the soul. ― Malidoma Patrice Somé, Ritual: Power, Healing and Community
Movement Medicine Ceremony
Movement Medicine is a deep contemporary shamanic practice that brings us back into connection. It is a reminder of who we are and what matters to us in this Life. In Movement Medicine ceremony we focus our intention from our everyday lives towards the awareness of our spiritual and material existence, towards what matters to us, and towards something that is greater than us.
Ceremony does not ask for specific beliefs. It is about engaging in our dance and having a direct personal experience. The MM Ceremony takes us through different 'stops,' places of focused attention, including the way of many indigenous traditions when we dance for the Self, for Other, for Community, for our Ancestors and the Unseen World, and for Divine.
It is a space that sometimes whispers in our ears, sometimes picks us up and spins us in our dance, while at other times it expands us through our movement, breath, heart, and mind, and so much more.
A Ceremony is also a space of celebration, good time, enjoying the dance, enjoying Life, connection with each other and with the Great Spirit.
‘In the dance, I felt as if I was trying to walk on a thin line. After many falls from my imaginary but at the same time real line, I thought, ‘you know what? It is okay not to succeed. You keep on failing, so what? Just try again.’ And then something happened. The moment I became focused, I understood through my heart that life is walking on a thin line – that everything in life is possible if I have focus. And at that moment, I felt I started moving; I stopped falling. And I became free.’
-Lana
