I care with every fiber of my being that you, a creature of soul and soil, are trying to thrive in systems not designed for you. Where ancient wounds of disconnect, inherited traumas, and misalignments with our over-culture leave you feeling out of place, too much, or like a canary in the mine, I see invitations back deeper into your own aliveness; vital next steps to a wiser, more relational future. Let’s navigate your big questions and transitions together. I’ll support you living meaningfully in this world even though you may feel like you were designed for a different one. I’ll keep you orienting to the truth, heart, and essential wholeness of who you are at the edge of great joy and when you need your feet held to the fire of your own journey. You can see what I offer: www.wildsacredjourney.com and sign up to get a little bit of me, direct to your inbox!
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Hello, dear one!For many years, we (at least in the U.S.) have operated on the assumption that health, wellness, healing are individual endeavors. Where we experience pain, suffering, disease, we (whether consciously or not) assume or apportion the full blame, burden, and responsibility for our experience and its repercussions to ourselves and our immediate relationships, often failing to account for inherited, systemic, or cultural wounds. It wasn't always this way. While self-responsibility is always ours (and should be); we are each a living, breathing environment in constant relationship with the wider living, breathing environment. Our experiences and their ripples are rarely solely ours. We belong to each other - past, present, and future - in deeply interdependent ways. Our ancestors knew this and built this knowing into their cultures. As epigenetics proves that ancestral trauma and its inherited effects are a thing, the notion of 'ancestral healing' is becoming increasingly mainstream. Recognizing and naming an ancestral pain when a pain I'm experiencing feels bigger or more 'charged' than proportionate to my lived experiences has unlocked new levels of wholeness and possibility for repair in me. I'm all for ancestral healing. I'm also all for the more titrated and sustainable school of healing which says that while we're busy removing, releasing, transmuting, transforming the things we don't want, we also need to be building up what we do want. For a while now, as my personal journey and some of the focus of my work has been shifting in the direction of being ancestral work, work to shift inner and outer culture, I have been sitting with the 'why' of it. Given that nothing in the past was perfect and we're faced with a future that feels pressing and urgent, why look back? Why seek elders and their rememberings? Why seek to revive endangered languages? Why learn to farm, to weave, to cook, to sing, to drum, to craft? What I'm landing in for now: these are old ways which still hold the vibration, the encoding of old wisdom - the wisdom of slowness, of reverence, of relationship to land which is also relationship to story, song, culture. Turns out, as we stop running from the wounds our ancestors experienced, the displacement and disconnection, we become available to remember the wisdom and the gifts. Ancestral rememberings are the salve, the balm, we can apply to our ancestral traumas to help ease their transmutation. Ancestral Songs and Stories of Scotland begins this Thursday, May 18th (live class times are at 1:30pm ET). 8-weeks of learning from elders, culture bearers, story and song carriers (one of whom played the bard in Outlander!) - people dedicated to holding the link to our remembering so the wisdom of those who came before us, so dearly earned over thousands of years, doesn't get lost in our modern quest for perpetual newness and youth. You do not need to be a singer or storyteller to join - this is not about performance or 'getting'; but rather about allowing yourself to be moved and awoken through receiving the ancestral transmissions. You do not need to prove or even have Scottish ancestry to join - only feel a calling to, respect for, or resonance with these wild, sacred lands and the wisdom and culture encoded within. I can't make any promises about what this journey will offer you or where it will take you. It's too deep and too responsive to you and your own calling and engagement with it for that. Nor are guaranteed, measurable outcomes a particularly ancestral way of discernment. All I can say is, if you feel the call - this is an amazing opportunity and totally worth it. Join us? I'm so excited to be learning and acting as community support for this round and would love to share in this experience with you. Much love, Kate P.S. The links I share here for Ancestral Songs and Stories of Scotland are affiliate links - if you do feel called to join, using this link lets them know I sent you and something comes back to me in a beautiful web of support. Weaving Remembrance programs seek to build ancestral wisdom into the very structure and systems of the programs. I do the same in my own business, to the best of my ability, and love when others are seeking to walk their talk as much as possible, too. I would also never back a program I didn't fully believe in and where I hadn't felt the value. <3 P.P.S. We're halfway through May already and the June 4th day-long retreat at Shine Yoga in Winchester, VA is fast approaching. Join us (in person!) for a day of communing, of slow and caring exploration, of wisdom transmission - a day that will feel like gathering around the village fire to experience Divine Love. Early bird pricing is here until the end of the month! |
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Hi! I'm Kate - an intuitive, medicine woman, and guide for embodied Presence
I care with every fiber of my being that you, a creature of soul and soil, are trying to thrive in systems not designed for you. Where ancient wounds of disconnect, inherited traumas, and misalignments with our over-culture leave you feeling out of place, too much, or like a canary in the mine, I see invitations back deeper into your own aliveness; vital next steps to a wiser, more relational future. Let’s navigate your big questions and transitions together. I’ll support you living meaningfully in this world even though you may feel like you were designed for a different one. I’ll keep you orienting to the truth, heart, and essential wholeness of who you are at the edge of great joy and when you need your feet held to the fire of your own journey. You can see what I offer: www.wildsacredjourney.com and sign up to get a little bit of me, direct to your inbox!
Dear ones - It's the beginning of a new month so here's our October overview email - complete with a tarot card for our little collective for the month. Tarot card for October: Shadowscapes Tarot by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law and Barbara Moore I always encourage folks who get my readings to look at the card themselves first and notice what comes up in their bodies. What emotions or sensations are stirred? What thoughts and stories seem to pop to mind? What do you find yourself repelled by or drawn...
Dear ones - This email is coming to you only a day after I arrived back in Scotland - a return journey which in many ways began almost immediately after I left last year. Some places take a hold of you, get in under your skin and into your bones more deeply than you would ever have imagined. This is that place for me. At least for now. snacking on wild blackberries while foraging along the Fife Coastal Path - photo by Jack Benedetto My body is needing plenty of rest after all the travel and...
Dear ones - Did you see the email or my video on YouTube and social media from last week, talking about how safety isn’t the same as sanctuary and protection isn’t the same as refuge? I’m curious - what do you think of my thoughts there? And what does sanctuary mean to you? What does it feel like in your body? Do you know it when you feel it? One of my favorite parts of our last cohort of Sanctuary was exploring what the word meant to us over the course of the six months we gathered. It...