SEASONAL RITUALS

The Spring Equinox, also known as Ostara, is a time of balance, renewal, and awakening. It marks the moment when day and night are of equal length and invites us to reconnect with nature’s cycles. ...

The Power of Women’s Leadership

The Power of Women’s Leadership: Leading from the Heart, the Gut, and a Deeper Knowing In a world that often equates leadership with dominance, speed, and relentless drive, women are redefining wh...

Rites of Spring

According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, Spring is a Yang (upward moving, joyful, exciting, bright, productive) season, associated with the wood element, the gall-bladder and the liver, making ...

Winter Reflections & Journal Prompts 2023/ 2024

The Year of the Wood Dragon … …is upon us and this coming year promises us power, confidence, abundance and strength while asking us to be flexible, to surrender to the flow of our lives in order t...

Autumn 2023 Rituals

As the days grow darker, we turn our focus inward to delicious stillness and to sweet peace once again. In Finnish culture, there is a reverence for the morose, sad or dark that I feel we are miss...

Rites of Spring: Five Rituals for Grounding into Spring

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair! -Khalil Gibran Can you feel it? The tremendous upward moving energy of spring is upon us ...

Ritual: Five Rituals for More Magic in the New Year!

This year we have endured a global pandemic and the lack of human connection that comes with it. We have witnessed political upheaval in the United States, financial loss and too many persona...

Ritual: Five Rituals for the Winter Solstice: Finding Light in the Darkness

“This magnificent refuge is inside you. Enter. Shatter the darkness that shrouds the doorway. Be bold. Be humble. Put away the incense and forget the incantations they taught you. Ask no perm...

Ritual: The Art and Ritual of Tea

Tea is an ancient plant spirit medicine— a balm for the body, a tonic for the spirit and a salve for the soul. Whether you are sipping a meditative bowl of matcha, a lively chai or leaves plucke...

Ritual: Five Daily Rituals from Finland for Connecting to Nature and Increasing Your Life Force!

Because we are born from Mother Nature, we are able to increase our life force when we connect with her elements, cycles and rhythms. This connection raises our vibration and makes us become ful...