Winter Solstice ~ A journey to the stillpoint within

Your Guidebook for the Winter Lives within You…

Welcoming in winter.  Just how do we continue to thrive and not just survive during winter?  How do we keep our dreams and visions alive in the dark through the heart? How do we stoke the fire that burns and keeps us vital and alive throughout the cold and dark winter months here in the northern hemisphere?

Preparing for winter is an art form that is as unique to you as your visions, dreams, hopes and shadows are.  Winter is the menstrual time of the year, we know what is shedding - we can feel it in our bones, stitches unraveling throughout the sinew of our bodies and we can feel the glow and hope of light in what is to come.  Stillness, quiet and dark beckon our return to the otherworld and for some, without knowing how to traverse this magical and potent time it can feel chaotic and relentless…  There is another way through this time of year that is filled with wisdom, grounded support, hope, love and guidance. 

You can traverse a winter in good health, in joy and hope and with all people and experiences that nourish you.  In a society that celebrates indulging this time of year - it is no wonder that many miss the very magic that exists in the mundane quiet and stillness that is gifted to us.  Spring ensures that there will be plenty to do and lots more emerging than you can even anticipate at this moment and winter gives us the opportunity to allow our internal waters a moment to settle. . 

Imagine yourself as the vessel of all life, all creativity, holding, metabolizing, digesting, and gestating all of your experiences and dreams throughout the year.  You are a body of water containing it all.  Throughout the year, all of these energies become stirred up throughout the body and the psyche.  As the sun wanes and we are invited slowly into the depths of our being.  The dark stimulates our pineal gland and each day our auntie melatonin ushers us into a softer, restful way of being.  We are invited into our roots, our dark psyche - the feminine realm we energetically menstruate and create space for all awaiting to be rebirthed through again and again. 

How to winter is an art form and the map to traverse the deep incubatory days of the deep are within you.  When we cease fighting against the slow and gentle pull down and inward and lean into the grace and buoyancy that holds us in this time through our roots and water - we become epic channels of creativity and possibility. Exchanging your energy mindfully and gently this time of year can lead to greater reserves of vitality and less susceptibility for illness and deep fatigue. 

The days leading into the winter solstice and after, hold potent energy for us as we come into the still point of the year.  Winter Solstice translates to the sun stand still.  Solstice heralds its modern name from the latin, solstitium. It’s the moment where all of the sediment of the experiences we have journeyed with since the summer solstice settle at the roots.  I keep having this vision of a snow globe that has been shaken and all the snow settles at the bottom during this time and another of a beautiful serene body of water that has been stirred which had become cloudy and again we begin to see the primal earthy soft floor once again - we can see straight to the bottom of the vessel. This is the winter solstice.  

Each day, after the winter solstice we can play and pray with the illuminating fiery energy of the sun to stoke our dreams, creativity and intentions as we lead back up to the summer solstice which is the ovulatory phase of the year - where conception happens.  It is this small yet powerful time just before and after the winter solstice where we can invite our full being into ceremony and ritual to name what is calling to be released or transformed be it habits, behaviors, traditions and or relationships and to hold up to the new born sun within (the fire within our hearts), what is calling us to create and name what we are calling in.  This is a time to be very clear and articulate in our releasing and reevaluation of what we are being called to… if it isn’t clear at this time that is absolutely okay.  The key is to name what it is that is being experienced.

I invite you to take a 5 day solstice journey “A Journey to the Still Point Within” that begins on Thursday, December 19th through Monday, December 23rd, 7:00pm - 8:00pm EST every evening.  In the comfort of your own home, or wherever you may be during this time you can take a small moment of each day to tune in, center your being and create ritual within your life to support you throughout winter and the year to come.  This is a spiral journey.  Life is not linear it is a spiral journey of life, death and rebirth over and over again.  In this time we use the symbology of the spiral of light waning and growing to journey with. On day one and two, we spiral into the center of our own hearts through the dark, getting familiar with what energies we are bringing into the still point of our lives; what is calling for release and transformation.  On day three, the solstice, we sit in the center of the stillness and listen to the delicate places the new born sun illuminates within.  On days 4 and 5 we spiral out from the stillpoint, with the touchstone of light shining on what gifts we will bring forward in the coming months.  I was called to create something that you can weave into the fabric of your own traditions and events during the holy days, something simple yet deep, tangible yet magic… so that it feels gentle and nourishing, something just for you!

Remember, what is meant for you will always find its way to you.  This experience is an opportunity to remain open to the possibilities that are available to you by clearing the pathway to see with clear vision and an open heart. 

We will meet live online at 7pm EST each day for 1 hour.  If you cannot make the live time, a replay will be sent.

Day 1: Herstory of the winter solstice and how this time of year nourishes us for the year to come. Introduction to the deer path as a way of dream weaving. (The reindeer aren’t just for carrying Santa’s sleigh, they hold an ancient medicine of leading life through compassionate feeling and sensing). Creating ritual. Setting up your solstice altar with a candle and other elements. Intentional sacred altars hold energetic frequency and this will support your solstice journey. 

Day 2: Journeying within. Connect with what has been beckoning your attention and what is living within your energetic field. 

Day 3: Winter Solstice.  Meditation: Feeling the still point, the void.  We will meet the craniosacral rhythm - the ebb and flow of gestational waters as they inform your every vital function and listen to the subtle rhythm as it touches possibility and contraction.

Day 4: Meditation: Visioning the way through felt sense.  Tune into the body rhythms that inform you.  What does it have to say about what calls you ahead?  This is where we meet the places that you will be doing your homework on throughout the winter. You’ll receive your blueprint of sorts to your own unique path.

Day 5: Closing. Open share and group witnessing and reflection. 

If you wish to tune in more to the deer path as a mystical way of dreaming and creativity I suggest this book, Following the Deer Trods: A practical guide to working with Elen of the Ways by Elen Sentier.  

“Deer trods are the footprints of deer, the cloven-hoof prints you sometimes see when out walking in wild places.  They are one of the tracker’s signs that deer are in the neighborhood; they can also tell how long ago the deer were there, the size of the animals, perhaps something about their gender and species, which way they were going, whether they were running or walking or jumping.  They are full of information if we can only read it.  In this book, they refer specifically to the footprints of Elen of the Ways, the deer goddess.  Working with them we can learn about life, the universe and everything.”  ~Elen Sentier

A multi experiential journey awaits you to tap into body physiology/wisdom (body mapping), intuitive nurturing (trusting the felt sense) and spirituality (connecting to Divine Source wisdom).

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