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This Samhain, we gather fireside for a two-hour ceremony of poetry, ritual, and guided meditation exploring how body and spirit have carried each other since your first breath — and how they know how to separate safely, with grace, when the time comes. We meet on the one night the veil between worlds is said to be thinnest, when the harvest closes and the dark half of the year begins — the night our ancestors and loved ones can cross back to us freely. We open around the fire with cacao, a ceremonial plant medicine long used to soften and open the heart. Taken with intention, it quiets the noise of the mind and draws us out of our heads and into felt, embodied presence. We begin this way on purpose: arriving at the unwinding with an open heart lets us go further into it — past thought and into feeling, which is where this work actually lives. From there, we move into a guided meditation — breathing into the heart, the lungs, the brain, the gut, and the skin, then into each of the five senses in turn. We trace how these two partners, body and spirit, have carried each other through life, and how they know how to separate safely, with grace, when the time comes.
This Samhain, we gather fireside for a two-hour ceremony of poetry, ritual, and guided meditation exploring how body and spirit have carried each other since your first breath — and how they know how to separate safely, with grace, when the time comes. We meet on the one night the veil between worlds is said to be thinnest, when the harvest closes and the dark half of the year begins — the night our ancestors and loved ones can cross back to us freely. We open around the fire with cacao, a ceremonial plant medicine long used to soften and open the heart. Taken with intention, it quiets the noise of the mind and draws us out of our heads and into felt, embodied presence. We begin this way on purpose: arriving at the unwinding with an open heart lets us go further into it — past thought and into feeling, which is where this work actually lives. From there, we move into a guided meditation — breathing into the heart, the lungs, the brain, the gut, and the skin, then into each of the five senses in turn. We trace how these two partners, body and spirit, have carried each other through life, and how they know how to separate safely, with grace, when the time comes.