A ritual act can be as simple as placing your hands palm to palm, kissing the earth or looking up at the Sun. A ritual can last as long as an exhale, the strike of a match, the time it takes to proclaim the syllable AH! And then there are more elaborate rituals, like a daily meditation practice, or making bows and prayers at a particular time of the day. With mindfulness and attention preparing a meal can become a ritual, eating a meal can be too! So can going for a walk, having sex, commuting and doing chores around the house.

Dreaming is this mysterious night-time process, that begs our attention if we are interested in healing, transformation or awakening arts.

Our dreams are our most intimate mental impressions. They come through wordless, loaded with delicious imagery, symbols, feelings and movement.

Dreams have a way of amplifying our neuroses, and I say this with the utmost respect and intrigue. Who are these dreams meant for? Who is dreaming these night-time dreams?

Ceremonies are ways of marking great life transitions, seasonal changes, hallmarks in a life, beginnings, endings, grief and loss as well as transformations. Each ending in our life, is also a beginning. Each fresh start, also marks an end. Life is full of these transitions. Ceremonies help us keep a hand on the sacred thread, help us remember that we are part of a process, that our Earth is also in cycles of transition and that we will also be held in its movements.

Dreams come from the wilderness, the mystery, the unknown. Dreams invite us to see that all is part of this wilderness, this mystery, this unknown. Things are not as they appear.

We receive dreams all the time. The presence of a cosmos flower, the eye of a cat, a touch, a cricket chirp. The dream of the world is knocking on the self-centered dreaming, saying--hey you what are you doing? We are in this together, dreaming the great dream of all beings.

The climate crisis asks us to confront the basic existential questions, who are we? What are we? Why are we here? What is life? What are we doing with this life? It also asks us to feel. Part of being human is loss. We are all initiated into the human soul through loss. As we learn we don’t always get what we want, as we grieve the loss of loved ones--died too early, unexpected and sometimes in ways we can’t understand or justify…