WINTER SOLSTICE EMBODIMENT RITUAL: KUNDALINI DANCE & CACAO CEREMONY
Winter Solstice is on it’s way...the shortest day and the longest night, where the darkness reaches its absolute peak, a new solar cycle commences and, bit by tiny bit, the Sun makes its reappearance. As the days grow lighter and longer and warmer, it is a time of acknowledging the growth of the year, celebration, re-emergence and of giving way to the new to be re-birthed, encoded with the learned and embodied wisdom of what has been.
We gather in sacred ceremony as a circle of sisters at this potent portal of communion between endings and beginnings, the dark and the light, the masculine and the feminine, the Sun & the Earth.
This fusion of rituals and practices, including meditation, womb activation, cacao, ecstatic dance, energy healing and personal ritual to mark this occasion in a powerful and embodied way.
When we anchor into the cyclical rhythms of the Earth, we discover a resonance that reflects our inner worlds, a map that supports our psyche and intuitive knowing, and in turn a tangible resilience is built. We train our wise warrior hearts to anchor into the creational, gestational field of the womb space, recognising that there is a time for life, death, and re-birth in equal capacity, in everything.
From the depths of the womb of the Earth and deep within the collective and individual womb space, it is time for us to tend to our inner lights and plant powerful prayers for hope for the coming year. You are invited to make space in your body, mind and soul for the impending re-emergence.
THE JOURNEY INCLUDES:
Winter Solstice Wisdom
Womb-Heart Activation Meditation
Cacao Ceremony + Cacao Recipe & Ritual
Kundalini Dance Journey: Dancing with Life, Death & Re-Birth
After-ceremony Integration: Winter Equinox ritual for 21st December + playlist download
Together, we’ll
make space to honour and revere the journey of our bodies, minds and souls this big ol’ year that has shaken up and re-shaped all of us and the planet.
allow ourselves to be initiated and held by the Great Mother / Dark Mystery and be taken on a journey through the inner Crone & Maiden archetype
have the space to feel into the uncomfortable, release old stories and heavy energy that we wish to intentionally let go of before the new year.
ignite and renew our soul fire, unfurl what matters most and plant potent seeds of the new deep in the womb space
welcome and celebrate the return of the sun and open up to receive the highest benevolent light, energy and divine guidance available to us
truly feel into and embody the future we are individually and collectively creating and align our life force through the kundalini dance practice.
Feeelin’ it?! Read on for a bit more about the practices and get in touch with any questions whatsoever! Keep an eye on my socials for more juicy info and downloads about the processes we’ll journey through.
KUNDALINI DANCE
Kundalini Dance is an ecstatic embodiment dance practice: a process that supports you to awaken your divinity and reclaim your naturally occurring creative, sensual and sexual life force current. There are no moves to learn, the invitation is to surrender to the beat of the music and respond to your internal rhythm...the rest is an unravelling and returning to your essence.
You’ll be guided through a process to drop deeply into your body, cultivate shakti fire / sacred feminine life force and create space for its transformational current to move through you. You’ll invoke and fan the flame of this fire with intention, prayer, intuitive movement, breath and sound. It is a dance of inner sacred union, of marrying the feminine and masculine polarities within and raising your vibration to that of creation. You’ll dance to invite in healing and re-patterning around your connection to your sense of safety and belonging in your body, connection with the Earth, receptivity to life, and enhance your capacity to drink in the abundance that is your birthright.
CACAO CEREMONY
Assisting us with unravelling the wisdom our bodies have to share, you are invited to make a Cacao brew. Sweet heart medicine, cacao is chocolate in its purest and most potent form, and has been used in sacred, shamanic way in Central and South American as well (as other equatorial cultures across the globe) for centuries as a way of communing with the divine.
When we drink cacao with intention, meditation, breathing and movement, it is a profound yet subtle and sweet teacher plant, inspiring us to open to more bliss and love in our lives. It can assist us with unblocking emotional, negative or misaligned energies and find space, stillness, and compassion. She is a perfect comrade for Kundalini Dance. The cacao will assist us with activating the heart-womb-body connection, allowing us to embody our intentions for the dance, transmuting that which no longer serves us back into love.
Purchase your Ceremonial Grade Cacao from Forever Cacao via this link: https://www.forevercacao.co.uk/?ref=womblovecacao and input the code ‘womblovecacao’ for a discount on your purchase. They deliver promptly, however do get your order in as soon as possible due to Christmas post delays.
You will receive a cacao recipe and preparation ritual download ahead of the session to prepare just before we meet.
PRACTICALITIES
Date: Sunday 20th December
Time: 10am-12pm GMT
We’ll meet on Zoom (downloadable to your laptop, phone or tablet - https://zoom.us/) and you’ll be sent all of the details - your link to register, how to prepare yourself, your equipment and your space the day before we meet.
Having your video on or off is up to you - I do recommend having it on when we dance, share and connect as a circle to create as ‘real’ an atmosphere as possible, as we’d obviously see each other in real life! However you are welcome to have your video off if that would be more comfortable for you, your privacy and space is totally respected.
COST
The cost for one space: £15
For you and a friend: 2 for £25
On the booking system you’ll be prompted to select the add-on to bring your ticket up to £25 - please message me with their name and email address so they can get prep info directly.
If you are unable to make the cost, and feel a strong call to be involved, please do get in touch.
REPLAY
If you cannot attend live, select that option on booking and I will send a replay + playlist + guide. (Note: for those attending live - only my view will be recorded)
PREPARATION
You’ll receive a comprehensive email before the session (on the 19th) outlining everything you need to prepare, including your cacao recipe and tips for a mindful morning pre-ritual.
WHO’S IT FOR?
This workshop is open to womxn at all stages of life and menstrual cycle, peri and post-menopause, with or without a womb. If you are pregnant, get in touch.
No experience required, if you feel a calling to try it out, trust that! We all began life within a womb space and are all connected to nature and allow her inspiration to feed our creations. Regardless of where you are at in your womb connection journey, you have access to the energetic womb space within, and the cosmic womb that holds us all.
You may consider womb healing if you desire to:
Reclaim all parts of yourself as your own
Connect to your femininity, feminine energy, body and sensuality
Enhance your intuitive connection to yourself
Give your body space to rest and unwind
Support a fertility and conception journey
Energise and sustain vitality and energy
Improve menstrual cycle symptoms and relationship to your cycle
Create nourishment and balance to support PCOS, fibroids or endometriosis
Support yourself with a way to process trauma related to sexual abuse, miscarriage, abortion or childbirth.
In this workshop, you will:
Release blocks and suppressed emotions
Bring loving and attentive awareness to womb
Guided to drop into the womb of the divine mother
Supported to drop into your deep feminine power
WANNA CHAT?
Feel free to get in touch to make sure it’s for you… email me on raya@womb.love or DM me via the womb.love FB page / @womb.love on Instagram.
Looking forward to sharing this powerful, magic morning with you.
Love,
Raya
xxx