Compost & Cauldrons
Collaborate with the energy of Mid-Autumn to create an environment for contemplation, compost, transformation, and regeneration - physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and creatively.
Cultivate a sacred space to be with that which is dying, to put to rest and decompose that which is falling off of your life.
Get grounded, receptive, and generative through this powerful, in depth, muse-filled ritual. Move your body and your breath in ways that support your life, give you time to process and integrate, and weave an inspired, intentional movement into your day-to-day living through this seasonal ceremony.
Samhain is a journey to the underworld - a celebration of the last harvest, a festival of sacred dissolution.
Invite the nourishment of darkness into your body, heart, mind, spirit. Feed your creative spark, and bless that which is dissolving.
Build a sanctuary for decay
Cast a spell for regeneration
Developing a relationship with the rhythms and cycles of the natural world helps us cultivate a meaningful relationship with ourselves and our environment. The seasons teach us to constantly and continuously adapt. As we attune to the earth, we become more conscious of how we treat ourselves, how we treat others, and how we impact the land through our actions.
The land is becoming dry and desolate. The season is shifting deeper into darkness, the energy within and around becomes both quiet and wild. The days are shortening as nighttime lengthens. Mid-Fall offers a softening; an opportunity to surrender, an invitation into deep wisdom.
There are things we need to grieve. There are things we must release and give back to the earth. Some of the seeds that are falling off need to be gathered, collected, and kept for next year’s planting season. That which we let go of can nourish whatever comes next. It’s time to cook, to stir a brew in the cauldron of transformation, to cast a spell for regeneration .
Ritualize the season
Gratitude & Grief
A Somatic Ceremony invites your body to remember that it is a part of an ecosystem.
Ritual helps us commit and recommit to what we care about, release stress, receive strength, break down what needs to be repurposed, initiate or reignite a journey of transformation, and dismantle patterns that keep us stuck. Engage your whole being in this process and it will support you in making healthier choices for yourself, for your relationships with others, and for the earth.
When we move our bodies with the rhythm of the season, and invite the changing season into the body (through activities, food, practices, contemplation, observation, conversation, imagination, movement, and stories) we become more present, we are more able to make the changes that we want, and we connect more deeply to the natural world. We become stewards of the land. This process is transformative, empowering, and supportive.
This Somatic Ceremony invites you to move your body with the receptivity of the land, to cultivate courage, to gather, to scatter, and to create something nourishing for yourself and for the world around you, and to allow that which is falling off to break down as you add it to your compost pile.
Samhain moves the season deeper into its archetypal, symbolic expression
This time of year calls for both the courage and humility required in the process of surrendering that which no longer belongs in our lives.
Darkness whispers an incantation that pulls the energy down into the soil and deep into the soul, the days are shorter, and sunlight is softer. Life’s power exhales, and we’re moving into death.
With the cyclical, recursive nature of existence, we’re reminded that life and death are never separate, that light and shadow are intertwined, that love and grief are nestled within one another.
Samhain is the peak of Autumn.
This time of year moves us into the liminal space between the seen and the unseen, between life and death, between death and rebirth. It is said that the veil between the worlds is thin. We are moving into the underworld, into the depth of disintegration and the power of reintegration, into the darkest time of the year.
Through contemplative ritual practices of movement and meditation, we will turn every breath into a meaningful exchange with the environment, into an event of embodied reflection, and receive the energy of the season as an ally in the process of making changes in ourselves and in our lives.
This is the season of the WITCH
The CRONE takes a seat on her throne
Take flight on your BROOM
The earth is the TOMB.
The earth is the WOMB
Magic of DEATH and decay
Ignite a fire of ALCHEMY
Surrender to the DARK
The LIMINAL space offers deep wisdom
Dissolution and REBIRTH weave the tapestry of existence
Seasonal Somatic Ceremonies are journeys that integrate the personal and the planet, the self and society, the sacred and the secular, the natural and the cultural, where you are in your life, where you’re coming from, and where you want to go.
Join us for an intentional, immersive experience in the liminal space of Mid-Autumn!
with asana (yoga poses), pranayama (breathwork), meditation, contemplation, mantra (sacred sounds and chants), mudra (hand gestures), and magic!
In this Somatic Ceremony we will turn toward the teachings of Earth in Mid-Fall, and bring symbols, myths and metaphors inspired by the season into the body through breath and movement.
This ceremony is made of eight sections. You can take your time with it, or do it all at once. It is created to support you, and crafted to fit the needs of a busy life, without sacrificing depth.
Whether you take a few hours to move through the whole process, or take your time with this seasonal ceremony and spread it over a few days or even weeks, this journey will nourish your soul and enliven your soma.
What you’ll get:
Video: Theme
Contemplation of the season
Explore mythology, symbols, and teachings from the natural world as they relate to the peak of Autumn. This video is 60-90 minutes. You can take it on a walk or on a drive, to the bath or to your house chores, or you can make tea, light candles, and sit with a journal to take notes.
5 Videos: Practice
Five multi-modality practices
5 videos to embody the mythopoetic magic of Mid-Fall through practice (yoga based - asana, pranayama, mudra, mantra). Each practice video is about 30 minutes. Each practice relates this moment in the season to an element in nature, and brings it deeply into the body.
Text: Prompts
Journal / Contemplation Prompts
Prompts to help you engage in the season on a personal and a collective level.
Video: Meditation
A meditation & pranayama practice.
One video with meditation, pranayama, and chanting, to support you through the second phase of Autumn.
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A deep process of integrating self and environment, nature, the body, the mind, the heart, the creative force, and society.
Samhain Somatic Ceremony
$66
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Somatic Ceremonies are created by Hagar Harpak as a weaving of storytelling, movement, breath, and reflection, to support bodies, hearts, minds, and creativity in tuning into the changing season, receiving the gifts and the wisdom of nature’s cycles, and living in deep relationship with soma, soul and soil.
Your teacher
Hagar Harpak
Hagar Harpak is a mama of two, a kitchen witch, a storyteller, a ceremony facilitator, a yoga, meditation, and breath-work teacher, an explorer of the intersection of Mother Nature, mythology, philosophy, poetry, magic, seasons, and somatics. She’s been weaving myths into movement since 2004.