Sisters of the Burning Branch Goddess Gallery Presents...

Jesamyn Angelica, HPS

A Self Portrait

This Witch alone, of stars and sea
Of herbs and dirt
She calls to me

This Witch together, of hands and hearts
Of support and love
She will not part

For I am both, like wind and rain
Like schools of fish
Like lonely plain

My Level IV High Priestess Initiation Altar

Transformational Ritual: Hands-on Healing Circle

Friday, March 17, 2017

Ritual Flow

Grounding and Centering

Returning to our breath, reconnecting with Earth and Sky, feeling ourselves as the sacred pillar, the holy channel, between both. Feeling into our bodies and spirits to see where we are called to receive healing tonigh

Returning to Resonance with One Another

Ma chant

Pass the Rattle:

As Louise Hay says:

Now, dear ones, why would you want to hold on to such pain? Holding on to it isn’t going to change the situation. It isn’t going to bring happiness. The only way to heal is to let go of the pain. That is how we heal our relationships with others. 

What grief, emotional pain, or physical pain are you willing to release tonight?

About our Hands-on Healing Process

All of us here innately Energy Workers, each of us with the ability to channel Divine Energy for physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and etheric healing, both for healing ourselves as well as others, whether we have formal training or not.

Firstly, I offer my deep gratitude and praise to Vicki Noble for many of these words, and for teaching me all of these techniques. She says:

Being a healer means to be a lightning rod, the big energy is available but it needs to come through something, to focus into the planet and that something is us, so if you make yourself into a healer you learn to make yourself stay present in your body, even in an earthquake, even when things are very scary, you stay, you don’t go. We women are taught to leave our bodies, really it’s an uphill struggle, we have been conditioned to do the opposite, to fly out, either to rescue or to be rescued, but either way we are not in.

Tonight we are going to work with a Transformational Healing Ritual—a powerful group form developed by Vicki Noble through over three decades of studying and practicing shamanic healing and teaching these techniques it to others. The primary components of this contemporary healing ritual are our voices, our instruments, and a simple form of hands-on healing that anyone can do without special training, done over an extended period of time. We will drum and rattle and hold a simple chant, keeping a steady rhythm and a deep focus on healing.

This is a shamanic practice, and shamanism is a service vocation. Once exclusively a women’s province, shamanism is a sacrificial practice in which the shaman uses her body as a vessel for powerful energies to flow through her for healing and magick. In ancient times, women performed this function collectively in ecstatic rituals and communal ceremonies involving—and on behalf of—the entire community. This is a practice of the ancestral wisdom of our sacred women's intuition, healing, and amazing strength.

This ritual becomes a tribal experience, bringing us together in a trance-like state, transporting us—shape shifting—to another level of reality. It's as close as most of us get to tribal healing in these modern times. You don't have to be a “healer,” just a Sister-Queen with your heart open. As we participate in this ecstatic, intuitive, vibrational healing work, it boosts our immune systems, lifts our spirits, and brings us into deeper connection and resonance with one another and with Goddess.  During the course of this healing magick, our body temperatures rise, our hands get hot, and we may even sweat profusely. Together we enter a state of consciousness associated with physical changes such as a slower heart rate; if measured, perhaps even our brain waves would show changes. Generally everyone comes away from this rite feeling rejuvenated and in better health.

We will each have the opportunity to relax and rest easy, lying in the nest in the center of our Circle. When it is your turn, simply relax and allow yourself to be cared for by your Sister-Queens and to receive the many benefits of Female Life Force (also known as shakti, chi, qi, prana, nyama and/or hado), as we channel to you the power of the four Elements of Air, Fire, Water, and Earth.

We’ll be singing continually, drumming, rattling, dancing, using oils, sacred waters, feathers, sage, bells, and crystals. Reiki and all other energetic healing modalities are welcome. While we are acting as the Healers, let’s be sure to have one woman at the both the head and the feet of the woman who is receiving the healing energies. Holding simultaneously at the hands and feet during a healing is also called “the battery;” this helps to ground the powerful energies running through the body. When doing the healing work, be free to dance or move around the room if you feel so called.

We will each take our turn in the center, going popcorn-style. You may identify your specific concern to us, or just simply choose to receive powerful amounts of this healing energy for overall strengthening, wholeness, and vitality. Those who have participated in this ritual feel the effects of the work powerfully. Some speak of it as “the Mother,” or as being held in the arms of the Universe.

I will mark the time by ringing a bell near your head—please do not worry about anything but receiving as a Queen when it is your turn; relax and open yourself into the experience. When your time in the center is ended, please be gentle with yourself. Sisters, let’s help and guide the Sister-Queen to a comfortable space to just sit and come back to center before returning to the healing work.

Are there any questions?

Creating the Tapestry of Sound

Drumming, rattling, etc. Singing: I am a Circle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTe-HSaFToM)

Hands-on Healing

Pass the Rattle

Grounding

Dessert!

Copyright Jesamyn Angelica HPS
April 2017 

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