March 15 - Wood Day + Community Fire

Sacred Fire is inclusive of all people. In the presence of community, Sacred Fire helps us digest life, move emotions, and calm the mind so we can experience heart awareness, courage, grief, joy, gratitude, awe and connection. Community Fires, hosted in the Council House in Weaverville, NC by local Sacred Fire Firekeepers Lisa Lichtig & Patrick Hanaway offer an opportunity for personal and group transformation.

TIMING

• 5:30 - 7:00 pm = Set-up Sacred Fire Council House, Hike the land, Potluck & Huichol Art for sale in our home. Children welcome.
• 7:00 pm until ~ 10:30 pm = Sacred Fire. Adults only - Teens optional.

Doors close after fire is consecrated, please arrive on time. To receive the most benefit, It is ideal to stay until the end to complete our process together. However, we understand if you need to leave early.

COST - While listed as a free event, donations even as small as $5 are really helpful. Funds collected help offset the expenses involved in hosting monthly fires and events. Suggested donation of $5 - $20 can be made in onsite in the "fire gourd" or via paypal - please select friends and family to avoid service fees. Thank-you for your generosity❣️

CHILDREN - We love children though our monthly community fire process is for adults only (teenagers optional). Younger children & infants are welcome to come for the potluck portion. Once the fire is consecrated, we ask parents to bring their children home or enjoy time at the firekeeper's house (under the guidance of an adult). Note - nursing babies w/ mamas are welcome throughout the fire.

Children can benefit from Sacred Fire without being there through being around adults who are more present and connected with the help of the medicine of fire and community. We will continue to create more family friendly events and welcome your ideas.

VIDEO - WHY FIRE NOW

THE INVITATION - Fire embodies the spirit of heart and connection transcending all that divides us. As human beings, we have gathered around fire for millennia for its light and warmth, to cook our food, to share our lives, tell our stories, and connect. Fire holds a spiritual quality that can open hearts and forge courageous, compassionate connections with oneself, others and nature.

Engaging the sacred fire in the presence of others is one of humanity’s oldest traditions, where people from all walks of life, religions, traditions or no tradition are welcome. Community fires provide a space to connect with oneself, each other, nature and the world around us. When properly facilitated, Fire unlocks doors to personal healing and life improvement.

Community fires are hosted by Firekeepers, Lisa Lichtig or Patrick Hanaway who are part of the International Sacred Fire Community. They are trained, initiated and receive continuing education in the time-honored principles of "Fire Work" —a method of connection through skillful holding space and working with Fire’s power of illumination and transformation to facilitate both personal and community growth and healing.

Throughout time, this method of connection – which we call Fire Work – has helped societies form wise and balanced cultures and traditions. As today’s world grows increasingly complex, the advantages of this humans-and-Fire relationship have largely been forgotten. Sacred Fire offers all people the opportunity to experience Fire’s benefits.

Sacred Fire offers a safe place where

• we can be vulnerable with our doubts & fears.
• our load of concern, shock, fear, grief or anger is relieved.
• our numbness can transform into a sense of well-being.
• joy and connection emerge.
• you can be you.

Come with your concerns or questions, your play, your songs, your stories, your gifts, your laughter, your tears, your presence and your silence. Each community fire has a different flavor or spirit that is created by the ingredients of the world around us, nature, and the people who participate that evening.

QUESTIONS - contact one of our firekeepers
Lisa:(828) 768-3302
Patrick: (828) 713-1553
[email protected]
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TO LEARN MORE ABOUT

SACRED FIRE : https://sacredfire.org/

BLUE DEER CENTER : https://www.bluedeer.org/

LOCAL - SACRED FIRE ASHEVILLE : https://www.sacredfireasheville.org/

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DETAILS AND REMINDERS

Registration: For practical reasons, we ask each person to reserve a seat via Eventbrite. If we are full, add your name to the wait list as we can generally accomodate you.

Weather: With the great blessing of the Council House (a semi- outdoor, covered structure), we gather rain or shine, unless roads are dangerous to travel.

Directions: Address & parking sent after registration.

What to bring: What you need for your own comfort. We provide drinking water, chairs, blankets & back jacks for sitting on the ground.

What not to bring: Drugs, alcohol, fire arms - not permitted.

Help with Set-up: We always need 2-3 people to arrive 30 minutes early and help set up. Set- up list on the clipboard in the Council House. Will you help this month?

Venue: You will be coming to the land where we live. Drive slowly on the dirt road into our neighborhood.

Immerse in Nature: You are welcome to arrive early and immerse yourself in nature along 2 miles of trails and river (walk at your own risk and do not cross the small creek onto the neighbors land down by the river). Maps of the trails are in the box at the large woodshed near the main parking area or in the Council House.

Camping: Arrange by special request. Please see camping guidelines.

Animals: While we love 'em, please leave furry friends at home.

Media Disclaimer: We periodically take photographs at our events for outreach purposes. Please let the firekeeper or event host know if you do not feel comfortable with photos and we will honor your request. Otherwise, when you register for an event, you agree to your photograph possibly being used in our materials.

Cancellations: If you need to cancel, please do so ASAP so others have an opportunity to participate and we can better plan for our time together. Go to the Eventbrite confirmation email.

1. Click on "View event details".
2. Upper right corner, click on little person icon - see your name.
3. Click on the "Tickets", and choose "Cancel Order".

THANK YOU FOR YOUR CARE.

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MEET YOUR ASHEVILLE AREA FIREKEEPERS

Patrick Hanaway is a community leader, healer and teacher. For over 25 years, Patrick has served as a functional medicine family physician, educator and thought leader around the world. In the midst of his medical career, in 2002 Patrick received an ancestral calling to serve people as a traditional shamanic healer & ceremonial leader in the Wixárika tradition and was initiated as a Mara'akame in 2009. In 2003, Patrick received a further calling by fire to be of service to community and was initiated as a firekeeper for Sacred Fire. He has been hosting and facilitating fires for over 20 years. Patrick is also the Board Chairperson for the Blue Deer Center, a sacred place for retreat in the Catskills of NY which is one of Grandfather Fire's projects affiliated with Sacred Fire. He immerses himself in nature, community and family.

Lisa Lichtig, a devoted student of Grandfather Fire for 25 years, is also a medical doctor, midwife, traditional shamanic healer and mother. Lisa serves community as a Firekeeper for Sacred Fire hosting monthly community fires, womens’ fires and specialty fires. She and her husband, Patrick, are keepers of Grandfather Fire's oldest consecrated hearth within Sacred Fire. Lisa also serves on the Sacred Fire Women’s Initiation Council, which offers a formal process to guide adolescent girls and young women into adulthood. She also serves community as a Mara’akame (traditional shamanic healer and ceremonial leader in the Wixárika Tradition). She lives on a beautiful knoll in the Blue Ridge mountains of western North Carolina and carries the scent of fire wherever she goes.

Inquiries or Feedback, Contact:

Lisa or Patrick
(828)768-3302 or (828)713-1553
[email protected]

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