A collection of writings and recordings produced by the staff of Rites of Passage Council.
As I sat in my medicine room to write this newsletter having no idea what I would write about. I found myself in a memory as if it were my own but from another time and place. I realized after looking over what I had written that it reflected scenes from this past year with the passing of my mother and a visit I made several years ago to the sacred site of New Grange in Ireland.
Read More(Video) Kedar offers these ceremonies of preparation for Vision Quest, as a way to deepen into the initiatory waters, in service to your ancestors and those of this world that you go up the mountain for.
Read More(Video) If you are feeling a call to restore your ancient connection to the land, live a more authentic and inspired life, enhance your sense of belonging to the world, you must detach from the modern world and enter one where we feel the connection to the Earth. Learn more about the upcoming June 24-26 weekend.
Themes: Initiation Into Our Unique Gifts ● Grief As Healer ● Ancestral Healing & Connection As Etiquette ● Ritual & Ceremony
Read More(Video) In this rich conversation, Kedar gracefully walks us through the lost sacred art of "following your name" as we take a look through an ancient and integrative lens, imagining what it might be like to live into the unique medicine that we came into this world with.
Themes: Initiation Into Our Unique Gifts ● Grief As Healer ● Ancestral Healing & Connection As Etiquette ● Ritual & Ceremony
Read MoreTake a moment and get to know Kallie Brown, Rites of Passage Council staff member and Guide for Vision Quests and other nature-connection programs. Be is a heart centered, nurturing and potent ceremonial midwife and wilderness therapy guide. She finds mindful loving presence in Nature and community to be a doorway to Re-Membering true essence and connection with the Divine
Read MoreTake a moment and get to know Teresa “Tree” Thomas, a Rites of Passage Council staff member and Guide for Vision Quests and other nature-connection programs. Teresa is a gentle, powerful ceremonial midwife and wilderness therapy guide who finds nature to be a reliable and resourceful healing salve. She uses nature’s power as medicine to move through stuck places in her life, and helps others do the same. When a problem presents itself, she turns to the elements of nature and leans into the natural rhythms and guidance.
Read More(Video) This recording of a live online storytelling facilitated by ROPC Founder Kedar Brown features an old German fairy tale that has circulated for decades among men’s initiation circles.
Read More(Video) This recording of a live online storytelling facilitated by ROPC Guide Kallie Brown, telling an old story that dates back to horse-Goddess cults that predate classical Greek culture.
Read MoreTake a moment and get to know Kallie Brown, Rites of Passage Council staff member and Guide for Vision Quests and other nature-connection programs. Includes a brief bio, interview, photos and links to more info.
Read More(Video) Seasons of Womanhood facilitators Be & Tree engage in conversation about the new program Seasons of Womanhood, which starts on Tuesday, February 1. In particular, Be & Tree share their early experience working through the archetypes and how that work helped them, as well the origin and goals for the program.
Read More(Video) This recording of a live online storytelling features Daniel Simmons, with a delightful tale of remembering that you are more than what you think you are, and the journey of re-membering is one of deeep listening to that which is calling in your life.
Read More(Video) This recording of a live online storytelling features Kedar Brown reflecting on indigenous traditions about origins, ancestors, and old wisdom teachings. What is your true gift? How can you re-member it? What medicine do you carry to share with the community?
Read More(Video) This recording of a live online storytelling features Kat Houghton reflecting on the stories of Selkies, and how they can help us learn how women have had to shapeshift to fit into a man's world and what we need to belong, to feel at home in our skins.
Read More(Video) This recording of a live online event features Kedar Brown discussing relationships with ancestors, building connections, and offering an ancestral line clearing ritual.
Read More(Video) This recording of a live online event features Kedar Brown and Kat Houghton of Rites of Passage Council, and is a great introduction to the concept of rites of passage, and the sorts of knowledge and medicine they can help us rediscover within ourselves.
Read More(Video) ROPC Founder Kedar Brown offers an interactive talk on Vision Quest ceremony, the cosmological medicine wheel, the structure and content of the ROPC Guide Training program, underlying philosophy, and his background and initiation into this work.
Read MoreTake a moment and get to know Kat Houghton, Rites of Passage Council staff member and Guide for Vision Quests and other nature-connection programs. Includes a brief bio, interview, photos and links to more info.
Read More(Video) Stories are some of the oldest healing art forms that exists. Like old medicine bundles woven together, braided and scented with sweetgrass calling us home through waters of remembering, healing and belonging. In a culture that emphasizes the keeping up of appearances and denies the more challenging aspects our lives and those of our ancestors we are not given the tools to go deep and claim the soul-treasure that is our birthright. The story offers reflections on the initiatory descent of soul. ~Told by Kedar Brown
Read More(Video) In this Global Summit Daniel Barber interviews Kedar Brown as they walk a conversational journey through a landscape of music and song as a way of both activating and realigning you to your souls calling.
Read More(Video) Do you feel a yearning to know your Wild One? The part of yourself that operates on gut instinct, that engages sensually with the world, that knows how to be free? This old medicine story helps us know our own Wild One more deeply and begin to learn how to integrate in with the Domesticated One and so access more of our humanity. Rites of Passage Council Guide, Kat Houghton tells the Tatterhood story in a recorded live webinar.
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