FULL MOON Monthly Sacred Circle: Cacao, Connection, Medicine Song, Authenticity. Open Circle.
Schedule
Thu May 23 2024 at 06:30 pm to 09:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
30 Whitburn Cres, Nepean, ON K2H 5K8, Canada | Ottawa, ON
Dear Sisters & Beloved Brothers!*Add all the dates on poster in to your calendar! Receive & bring the support you desire. What will a year of monthly ceremony awaken in us all?
We also offer Women specific circles around the New Moon time. All events and updates are on Awakened Bear Facebook page.
The invitation is for us to gather in brotherhood and sisterhood in a ceremonial way around the sacred altar of life.
To remember (re-member) who we are and why we are here. Each one must define that for ourselves. With mutual respect, we honour each human as being the exact miraculous star light they are meant to be.
We don't always know the brilliance dormant within ourselves and one another. We all space and are held by the circle to uncover this, gently.
The medicine songs are designed to awaken the frequencies that align up to our true Selves.
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About the Songs:
We express our united hearts, through our voices and offer/receive the blessings & healing medicine songs of various lineages, cultures and traditions. You are welcome to bring a heart song that you feel called to lead the group to sing together.
We will open and close the circle together with guided grounding practices, silence and/or meditation. We will open the circle for authentic sharing to help integrate & embody any inner shift.
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What to bring:
- Anything you need to be comfortable, cushion, comfy clothing .. we have a lot of blankets, cushions & sheep furs.
- musical instruments (hand drum, rattle, guitar, etc...)
- your favorite cup/small cacao mug (we also have some)
- a journal if that feels supportive
These circles have a shape of their own and each one of us brings a special sweetness or medicine that makes each gathering unique.
There will be beings of various ages and stages. This is welcomed and celebrated as together we bring our unique perspective.
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The gathering tends to happen in this way:
6:30pm (please enter from the back door)
- Arrivals, mingle, settle in. This is part of the time together. It's best to arrive by 6:30.
7:00pm (order of events may differ)
- Open the circle with an intro and sharing activity
- Grounding practice (meditation or other)
- Cacao Ceremony
- Song circle (we aim for 75-90 minutes)
8:45ish
- Closing circle
9:00pm
- Mingle
- Peruse shop for Cacao products, Floral mists, and other locally crafted items.
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Heart Offerings:
Sliding scale: $20-$40
Please send e-transfer to LBchristine (at) Gmail dot com or bring cash for the donation basket.
DM to let me know you're coming so I can plan accordingly.
Note that this event is PRIVATE. Please use your judgement and discretion when inviting your dear ones. Please be sure to communicate with me to ensure we have the capacity to welcome each person. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.
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About your host:
Christine Bear Lamothe has been holding the sacred circle since 1997 when she started teaching girls break dance classes. Many circles have been formed since then, throughout the places she’s lived… Ottawa, Montreal, France and Nunavut and now back to Ottawa!
Christine is steeped in shamanic studies, mainly through her Celtic lineage with Avalon Mysteries, as well as a number of other cosmologies from Latin America and observatory and experiential wisdom gained from her 11 years among the Inuit of Nunavut.
Christine is a Massage Therapist, ceremonialist, dancer, teacher and light worker. She is currently deepening her studies in Earth Based Spirituality; specifically through the Avalon Middleworld Druidic lineage. She also works with Plant Medicine allies; both medicinal and psychoactive.
Christine lives with and cares for her greatest shamanic teacher, Lise, her adoptive mother who has lived through the lens of what is called schizophrenia all of her life.
Christine Bear Lamothe lives authentically and passionately and helps opens the door for others to do the same!
