saturday, february 22, 10am - 3pm et
Rituals for Resistance
A VIRTUAL INTENSIVE WORKSHOP EXPLORING EXTRACTION, SOVEREIGNTY, POWER LOSS & RETRIEVAL THROUGH THE LENS OF COLLECTIVE LIBERATION
Rituals empower us, personally and collectively.
Rituals help us navigate deep feelings, mark major life events (rites of passage) and connect us with our shared humanity, our ancestors, the Earth and Divine Mystery.
And yet the more “modern" a culture, the fewer rituals it typically has. Why? Rituals tend to disrupt the quiet drudge of capitalism and its focus on productivity, the accumulation of wealth and distraction from what truly matters. Who benefits from people being disconnected from themselves, their humanity and the cosmos? Empire.
Rituals help us remember who we are, who we belong to and empower us to move toward our highest vision for ourselves. During this one day virtual intensive, we'll explore how rituals can be reclaimed to dismantle the systems that oppress us and co-create a more compassionate and just world.
What will we explore?
A working framework for creating ritual & setting ritual intention
Attachment, extraction & possession of people, land and the collective
Sovereignty as a personal and collective liberatory practice.
Grief rituals as power and soul retrieval
Liberatory storytelling as a curse unravelling
Protection rituals to strengthen personal & collective power
spots are limited.
Rituals For Resistance
This is a virtual online intensive workshop exploring Extraction, Sovereignty, Power Loss & Retrieval through the lens of collective liberation.
The training will be on Saturday, 22 February from 10am-4pm ET. A recording will be sent out afterward if you want to revisit the material or for those who can't join live the whole time.
$197
scholarships & sliding scale available based on location & need.
please email [email protected] for more info.
Sasha
Heron
ancestral Healing practitioner,
psychopomp & death doula
As a healing arts practitioner trained in advanced ritual skill, I learned how to navigate power and soul loss for myself and my clients – and how to retrieve lost/ stolen power and soul parts.
While my training was focused on personal healing, I find my practice desiring rituals for collective power loss and collective soul retrieval.
Practitioners often underestimate how systems of oppression (empire, cis-hetero-ableist dominant culture, colonialism & supremacy culture at large) extract from our personal, communal & collective resources.
I'm interested in developing collective rituals to combat empire, and I look forward to exploring this more in this space with you.
optional add-on session
middle world journeying
For those who complete this training, there will be an additional 2 hour workshop on middle world journeying. Middle world journeying is for mature ritualists who are comfortable in journey space and have an established relationship with the Divine, their ancestors and helping spirits. During this session, I'll guide you through a middle world journey where you'll meet your middle world protector and practice “merging” and journeying in the liminal realms.
ABOUT
SASHA HERON
Most people know me for my grief and resistance work. At my core, I'm a healing arts practitioner weaving through the worlds to create a more compassionate and just existence for all people.
I'm a lover of humanity, our sacred Earth and the Divine. My ancestors were death workers, community organizers, psychopomps & sound healers who come from what's now the Philippines, Germany, China and the UK. I lived in the Middle East for almost a decade and remain enamored by those lands and people.
I'm the mother of two incredible children who I'm raising in a wonderful community in Durham, North Carolina, traditional homelands of the Eno and the Occaneechi peoples.