Spiritual Direction, Rituals and Ceremonies

The work of a spiritual counselor is to facilitate a stronger relationship between a person and spirit. Many personal challenges stem from a lack of connection with spirit, which can create obstacles to deeply connecting and recognizing the most authentic parts of the self. Spiritual direction can offer relief and clarity; a spiritual counselor works to find and listen to the voice inside of you and eventually help you recognize it as your own. Spiritual direction is to assist others in connecting with their heart and with something larger than themselves.

Spiritual direction is especially healing during times of grief. Loss, tragedy, or drastic life changes can lead to a person separating themselves from spirit, questioning how a higher power could allow the loss to happen. Spiritual counselors listen with compassion and offer insight into how people can seek deep answers directly from spirit, and thus how to move forward.

In addition to spiritual direction, I offer guidance in and facilitation of ceremonies and rituals, including house blessings, solstice/equinox, marriage/commitment, graduations, birth, and death. Ceremonies and rituals are healing, empowering, and transformative and help us to clearly acknowledge and move through these important transitions.

Rituals

Rituals are actions we undertake with intentional repetition. They may be solitary endeavors or occur with others. Daily meditation or prayer is a ritual for some; certain songs are ritually sung, like hymns, chants, or even a birthday song; and the lighting of candles can be a call to bring in light and the divine, illuminating the understanding of the ritual.

Ceremonies

Ceremonies and rituals may welcome an expanded identity. For example, marriage or commitment ceremonies welcome in the identity of “we”—of being a couple. Both ceremonies and rituals touch upon the whole of our being, including our unconscious and the Jungian collective unconscious; in other words, they touch the great mystery—the sacred. The seen and unseen workings of ceremony and ritual alter our consciousness and enact a kind of alchemy available to us all. They change lives.

Ceremonies and rituals can help us recover what has been lost and bring in fresh new life. I am deeply grateful for the rituals, initiations, and ceremonies I have been graced with and know the power of these undertakings. It would be an honor to prepare you or your group and to facilitate a life-changing practice or event.