Lesson 1 - Video - Theme - Beltane Mythopoetic Exploration

Let’s ignite lust for life in this beautiful, eros filled season, with symbols, archetypes, and mythology, and an inner journey of pleasure and passion to enliven and enchant our world. This video is about an hour and a half long. Feel free to take this talk on a walk, to listen to it when you’re cooking or cleaning, or to fill a bath and bring this in there with you. Make it work for you. This is a ceremony you can stretch over a long period of time. You can go to the next one right away or come back to it another day.

Lesson 2 - Video - Embodied Beltane - Ether

In this sacred space we will orient ourselves toward our center, move, meditate, chant, and contemplate, ritualize our breath, and connect to our holy desire as we receive life and generate love. This ceremony is crafted in a way that invites you to dive deep and stretch wide over as long of a period as you'd like. You can go to the next one right away or come back to it another day.

Lesson 3 - Video - Embodied Beltane - Air

Breathe and bring yourself into relationship with all of life. Turn to the east and the rising sun, the element of air, to the power of life in the form of your breath. This session will invite you to refresh, renew, and revive. Bring the unfamiliar to the familiar and reignite desire through pranayama, asana, mantra, movement, mudras and the art of ritual. This ceremony is crafted in a way that invites you to dive deep and stretch wide over as long of a period as you'd like. You can go to the next one right away or come back to it another day.

Lesson 4 - Video - Embodied Beltane - Fire

We turn to the south and the element of fire, and spark passion, ignite flames of desire, burn through what keeps us stuck, breathe inspiration and strength, alchemize the inner conversation, and enliven our will power. This ceremony is made so you can stretch it over a while. You can go to the next one right away or come back to it after a few days.

Lesson 5 - Video - Embodied Beltane - Water

Water gives life, it connects us to our cyclical nature. With water we shape shift. We drink the soma - the intoxicating nectar of the moon, of our aliveness. With the fountain of life we plunge into our sensual nature, we generate the liquidity that keeps life flowing. As we turn to the west and the waters of our lives, we create a sacred, soulful relationship with our embodiment and with the season. This is a ceremony you can play with and engage with over a few days or a few weeks. You can go to the next one right away or come back to it another day.

Lesson 6 - Video - Embodied Beltane - Earth

With the earth we come to our flesh and bones, the planet, and the stones. Our body, our breath, our belonging. This ritual practice is a love spell - Earth is filled with Eros, gravity tells us that we are in a dance of desire with the ground, and pleasure is our magic ingredient. Come back to these lessons whenever you feel called to. This somatic ceremony is yours and is meant to support your sacred space within and around you.

Lesson 7 Beltane Prompts

These prompts are opportunities to contemplate the season and where you are in your life. Use them to journal or as conversation starters with loved ones or with strangers. Take your time. You can do a prompt a day, or one in the evening and one in the morning, or you can move through the list in one go, or take a few on a walk here and there. Make this process yours, because it is!

Lesson 8 - Bonus Video - Beltane meditation, pranayama, mantra, mudra

In this bonus session we will focus on Beltane - the portal of Mid-Spring - through breath work, chanting, and meditation with mantras and mudras, to receive the magic of the season, and to generate the growth and transformation we desire. Come back to this ritual practice as much as you want. Use it for your morning meditation, practice in the bath, play it out in nature, or whenever/wherever you feel it calling you.