Homecoming: Living Ritual Practices to Nourish Resilience

Please come home. Please come home.
Find the place where your feet know to walk
And follow your own trail home.

Jane Hooper

What does it mean to come home to ourselves? This is a question I ask myself regularly and one that I love to contemplate with others. This April I will be sharing a 4 week program in which we will explore this topic of homecoming through various lenses and I invite you to join me. 

This program will focus on the topic of seasonal self care and personal ritual as tools for nourishing a sense of inner resiliency. 

Resilience is defined as the ability to recover quickly from challenges or to spring back into shape. To be resilient does not mean we will be unaffected by difficulty or immune to stress, it simply means we have tools that we can draw on that help us to move through life's challenges in a healthy way.

This will look different for each and every one of us and in this program, I hope to support you in discovering the tools that allow you to feel well resourced and able to meet your life as it is.

Some of the tools we will be working with in this program are -

• meditation / mindfulness
• nervous system education
• yoga & somatic movement practices
• self reflection & personal self care rituals
• kitchen medicine & home herbalism

You do not need to have an interest in all of these practices in order to take part in this program, nor do you need to have prior experience with any of these modalities. I have chosen to share the practices that I myself have been using in my own life for the last two decades but I will offer them to you to explore in your own way.

HOW WILL THIS PROGRAM BE DELIVERED?

This online program will run for four weeks, with live Zoom classes on Sundays evenings & Tuesday mornings. These classes will be recorded for later viewing if you cannot make them live.

• Sunday evenings 5:30-7 pm
• Tuesday mornings 9-10 am

WHO IS THIS PROGRAM FOR?

Anyone who has an interest in cultivating personalized practices of self-care that support resiliency. If you have questions or concerns about whether or not this program will be suitable for you please reach out to me directly so we can chat.

WHAT IS THE PRIMARY FOCUS OF THIS PROGRAM?

In this program, I will be working with the theme of homecoming as a primary metaphor for looking at our practices of personal ritual and self care as various ways in which we can come back home to ourselves. This is a metaphor that I have been working with for many years and I think it can be an especially valuable one to work with during this time of global uncertainty. I will share practices and teachings that I have found to be helpful and supportive in my own life and I will support you in making these practices your own. I want this program to feel like a conversation that you can engage with, taking whatever feels valuable as inspiration and leaving behind anything that does not resonate in your own life at this moment.

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?

I am going to share a number of different practices and teachings with you, what you take away from them will be unique to you. It is my hope that you will learn the ways in which you can nourish your own sense of inner resiliency & wellness, specific to your life situation at this time.

Dates: April 3rd - April 26th 2022

Pricing: $120 CAD (12 sliding scale spots at $96 for those in need)

Registration Opening Soon!