Do you have a sacred space? In these rapidly changing times many of us are needing to carve time out for Self Care on the daily. Fast paced and frenzied living calls for stillness. Within stillness is a return to our nature: we are pure light. Creating a relationship with the four elements through building an altar is a simple way to get quiet through building sacred space.
Our job titles, our relationships or lack of relationships, our hobbies, and even our desires can assume so much real estate in our identities, but who are we when we take off all those masks? When we are alone and in a safe space, who do we choose to be? Sacred space - sanctuary - is vital to our integrated well beings. The practice of building altars is a technology used in wisdom traditions worldwide to help clarify the mind and open the heart. Yes, altars can be used for rituals, ceremonies, and magic.
The highest form of magic is creating love, harmony and peace inside. So we create altars to bring harmony in physical, spiritual, and supernatural inner worlds as well as our living space. An altar can be charged with your intention to perform any function. So whether you are seeking purification, empowerment, protection, healing, stability, or manifestation, building an altar is a great tool to assist you in the journey.
In this two hour workshop we will learn how to:
- Build a collective Altar for the Summer Solstice and Summer Season
- Activate the Altar through invocation of the four elements & directions
- Work with the Altar technology
- Close in meditation and blessing with our Altar.
Participants are asked to bring at least one of the following:
- Feathers
- Incense
- A Candle
- A small basin or chalice for water
- A crystal or stone
- Flowers
- Sacred Herbs
- Tobacco
- Anything that has to do with Summer
- Sacred Talisman or objects to charge on the Altar
- A notebook for your use
You can learn more about working with Seasonal Altars here.
Exchange: $25.00
PURCHASE
Nicole Adriana Casanova is a student of Maestro Manuel Rufino, a Taino Elder who founded the Golden Drum educational center in Brooklyn, New York. Nicole is a writer, poet, and storyteller, a 200 RYT Yoga Alliance certified Yoga and Meditation Teacher, a certified Reiki Master in the Usui and Karuna Reiki Riojo, a Shamanic Practitioner, a Human Movement teacher, and Magical Awakening Practitioner. Nicole blends decades of expertise in the wellness and holistic field to create one of a kind empowerment experiences in groups as well as one-on-one settings. As a Soul Architect, Nicole bridges practices and teachings from various wisdom traditions around the world, with intuitive knowledge and practical know how to create one of a kind blueprints of empowerment, healing, and remembrance.
Alyona Mindlin is a wellness leader who has dedicated her life to assisting human beings remember and activate their pure essence, which is light. She works mainly with movement and sound. She has over 10 years experience teaching yoga, sacred movement and meditation. Alyona is the founder of awakenmheart, Shamanic Thai Bodywork, an active member of the Golden Drum Community and Dream Seed. She has travels around the globe studying and teaching practises of purification and consciousness. She is a dedicated student of Maestro Manuel Rufino and Nikki Costello.