Creating a bridge between the seen and unseen.
Ceremony
Ceremony holds the sacred within the mundane to create a bridge between the seen and the unseen. Ceremony allows for the heart of creation to be immediate and present, spinning threads together that make up the fabric of our lives.
Why Create Ceremony?
In ceremony we have an opportunity to truly remember who we are in the bigger sense of creative purpose and that life is about all our relatives in life and not just the human ones.
In ceremony we are granted permission to enter that world that proceeds the physical and thus participate with intention, into something far greater than ourselves.The Shamanic understanding is that matter arises out of vibration and light.
Ceremony is a place of healing where the natural forces conspire to readdress and rebalance our mind, body and spirit.
Ceremony is an opportunity to welcome in all the changes and transitions we go through with inspiration, hope, recognition and gratitude.
Ceremony allows us to move from disconnection to belonging, from the manmade to the wild and intelligent nature that we live within. From dissolution and perceived confusion to relationship and love… This for me is found in the landscape of ceremony and is an expression of sheer beauty.
Ceremony is a way of life. A way of celebrating and being present to what is encircled around us in swirling prayer of possibility, uplifted in song of connection and then made real in intention and in action. It is a large and sweeping gesture of love, devotion, dedication and deep gratitude and is open to all that step through the ceremonial threshold in trust and faith of being held.
COMMON TYPES OF CEREMONY
Blessing Way : honoring the transition from maiden to mother
Marriage Ceremony: honoring love and the joining of two souls in marriage
Coming of Age : honoring the transition from child to adult
Celebration of Life: honoring the passing of a loved one and the transition out of the physical body
Earth Ceremonies : celebrating and giving thanks to the earth and all her inhabitants
Reach out to Sarah to plan a private ceremony
Whether you’re planning a marriage ceremony, right of passage, celebrating a loved one or any threshold or initiation in your life, together we can create a custom ceremony to honor you.
“Why Ceremony?” Sarah shares about the importance of Ceremony in our lives and in these times.
The Night Turtle Dance
Sarah Maclean Bicknell’s annual ceremony
How the Dance came into being…
The Night Turtle Dance is the realization of a vision experienced by Sarah MacLean Bicknell, a powerful teacher, healer, and shamanic practitioner who walks the mystical path with practical feet. In 1997, while on a vision quest, Sarah received a beautiful vision that would not go away: She saw dancers all clad in white flying over the grass like geese on the back of a huge turtle. She shared this vision with a few people and they began to pester her to bring it into being. Finally, in 2009, she made it happen in the woods of Duvall a few miles east of Seattle, Washington. It worked. Despite the sudden arrival of rain, thunder, and lightning, the dancers moved in perfect formation all night long in a series of patterns, with a stamina that surpassed even their own hopes and dreams.
All over the world, people participate in ceremony to honor tradition, to learn about themselves and to be in community. Ceremony is an important part of every culture and serves to remind us of our humanity, our heritage and our connection with all living things.
The Night Turtle Dance is a celebration of life, the earth and our link to the natural world.
By integrating the elements of drum, songs, dance, and symbolism, this ceremony invites us all to develop greater meaning and deeper spiritual connection. The Dance is emotionally embedded to imprint the totality of the event deep into the earth, using shared intention and prayer as the gateways for a higher level of global consciousness.
