One of the most traditional ways of healing is through creative storytelling and ritual expression. When an imbalance exists in your life, either physical illness, an emotional crisis, or the intensity of a significant concern or ending, a ritual can help. We spend an incredible amount of time fighting the reality of a situation. For change to occur, we must admit what is true and accept it, even if it is unpleasant. Only when surrendering to the existence of the darkness of reality can healing begin.
Rituals
THE POWER OF SANCTUARY AND MEANING
While there are as many definitions, I define ritual as an embodied symbolic act that helps us create meaning to changes that have happened, are happening, or may happen. Especially during threshold moments, when one is standing at the doorway between endings and beginnings, a ritual will slow us down and allow us to step out of the ordinary and into the sacred.
All rituals center around transition: changes that may happen, are happening, or have happened. From there, rituals are divided into five different categories:
- Beginnings (Help balance the fearful transition between old and a new way of being)
- Mergings (Help balance and enlarge the relationship between two separate entities)
- Cycles (Help us balance our lives by increased understanding of our relationships with time and with larger forces)
- Endings (Offer a way to deal with the polarities of life and death)
- Healing (Whenever we touch the energies that fuel and direct life, healing can happen)
La Loba Soul Support offers rituals that focus on endings and healings; however, it is important to understand while each category has its own purpose, oftentimes it simultaneously involves elements of some or all of the other categories. Therefore, creating a ritual is not a “one size fits all” process. By being open to differences and possibilities, each ritual is individually designed to help you and your loved ones through life’s transition. They are created to give you a personalized experience of being connected with your center, your purpose, your relatedness to other loved ones, our universe and Spirit. In order to get the full benefit from a ritual, we must give it our entire focus. One of the mostimportant aspects of any ritual is intention. In preparation for a ritual please consider the following:
- What meaning does this hold for me?
- What do I want it to mean?
- What do I wish to honor, celebrate, grieve, or remember through this act?
Bringing a ritual into your life is empowering as it allows you to gain a different perspective onchange, a grasp on relatedness, and a greater sense of balance. All rituals are designed to serve as an alchemical catalyst of change in the attempt to return you to a sense of wholeness that the transition has altered.
- Pregnancy loss
- Recovery and addiction
- Letting go (child leaving home, leaving a job, moving from a home, retirement, moving an aging parent into long term care)
- Honoring a loss that feels like a death (friendship, divorce, tragic accidents, ending of a dream, mastectomy)
- Receiving a diagnosis
- Beginning or finishing a treatment plan for long term illness
- Honoring the loss of one’s independence (such as the ability to drive)
- Rituals during vigils
- Navigating a death
- Honoring a death anniversary
“Let us be reminded to stop and recognize that something is happening. To feel, create distinction, to be discerning, to remember, to grieve, to heal, and ultimately, to begin again and again. In doing so we embody the heartbreak as a form of love worth our reverence…”
Jennifer Zona
Service Details
Discount for First Time Clients
First time Reiki clients are offered a 45-min session for $40. This offer is good to all new clients for their first session only.
Intake
A scheduled intake meeting will be held to understand your story and begin to build the design elements
to your ritual by using your words and ideas. I will provide guidance for options, advice for readings,
music selection, and location if needed. During this time we will finalize and sign an agreement and
a deposit for services will be made.
- 90 minute session
- In person is preferred however online is available
Drafting The Ritual
A personalized ritual will be created to include all the components that were agreed upon during the intake.
This is your personalized ritual and any alterations will be made till you are completely satisfied.
During this time you have access to contact me to discuss details regarding the ritual.
- Drafts will be provided to the client for approval within ten days
“The times are urgent; Let us slow down…”
BÁYÒ AKÓMOLÁFÉ