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Creativity, Nature & Ceremony

Three of the important resources we must take with us in our Inner-world backpack, as we move through our Hero’s Journey, are:

  • The Creative Force
  • Engagement with the Natural World
  • Intentional Ceremonial Ritual

We use and develop these marvelous assets as we move through each challenge and opportunity.

Creativity

The Creative Force is what keeps our inner fire burning and helps us manifest our dreams. It develops our much-needed Intuition. Intuition arrives like a lightning bolt, without the need for pondering, and if we pay attention and trust it, it is a miraculous resource and a truthful guide. It is instinctive, and powerful. The Creative Force brings about movement, manifestation, some destruction, that ultimately makes room for reconstruction. She is birth and death and birth. She digs away at the unseen. Creativity is the life force itself. We are creating in each moment, in our thoughts and actions. Problem-solving a challenging situation is creativity.

Engaging with Nature

Nature is the poem that gives clarity to our existence and life experience. Nature becomes the bridge back to ourselves. In Nature we find our breath and bearings. It is often a guide to our healing.

The natural world is a mirror for our own lives and personalities. It offers us support and has wisdom and messages to share. We call upon the trees, birds, animals, flowers, the water, wind and the sky to inspire us. We feel the ground holding us. The sky reminds us that clouds appear and disappear, and that our lives are filled with night and day, darkness and light.

Ceremonial Ritual

Ritual is the tangible and symbolic embodiment of intention. Ritual is a practice that puts our purpose and dreams into focused action. We learn rituals based on Chinese Five Elements. Each season correlates to our own internal and external seasons. Water, wood, fire, earth, and air are a part of our physical and emotional being. We use practices from indigenous earth honoring cultures to aid in letting go, creating intentional goals, or offering gratitude. Any and all invocations of belief and metaphor are included in our work.

As an ordained minister, therapist and using my theatre background I have devoted myself to helping others realize profound, sacred and very intentional weddings. These have ranged from a rooftop wedding in Mexico, under the stars, overlooking a lake with Mayan ruins nearby, to a costume party wedding, to a multi-cultural, multi-religion synthesis wedding, to weddings in nature, same-sex weddings, or conventional weddings that are non-denominational and shaped to fit the couple and their styles.

  • Ceremony celebrations for rites of passage, stepping from one decade to the next.
  • Pre-birth blessings and naming rituals for babies.
  • Divorce rituals with a kind, honoring closure of a relationship.
  • Moving rituals, Changing jobs, Space cleansing –taking with and leaving behind.
  • Death and Dying Rituals.

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“All important ideas must include the trees, the mountains, and the rivers.

To understand many things, you must reach out of your own condition.

 

– Mary Oliver