To commence the year and in light of the significant turmoil of recent world events we have decided to offer a very gentle and hopefully generative Ritual/Vigil for Peace as our Summer Clinical Workshop which is scheduled for a Zoom gathering on Sunday February 4th, 10-12pm, so fast approaching.
Weaving together a Prayer Bundle For our World, will be a simple ritual where we each have the opportunity to weave in our prayers and hopes, dreams and visions for the fraught and ravaged parts of our world.
Perhaps a short meditation and a song to begin, to gather us into a shared resonance, and then a simple opportunity/invitation to offer up a poem, song, prayer, artwork, reflection, peaceful action, any offering of hope or balm, grief or praise, or even simply your heartful presence, that you are moved to share. Something that brings you inspiration or relief, solace or hope amidst the turmoil of our global experience right now.
To bring our offerings through into the manifest realm there will be a little boat/raft/basket woven from reeds/rushes from the riverside. A flower/leaf/ feather/riverstone shall be woven in, offered up, as you speak/share to imbue the vessel with your prayers and this will then be offered back into the flowing river of life, probably in Warburton, up near the source of our beautiful Birrarung (Yarra River) and offered into the universal current of our collective co-becoming.
In respect to the gravity of current events this is offered up uniquely as a very intentional space and , as for any ritual space, we will not be extending it into a broader discussion of world events. May we come together to create a very simple and purposeful gathering of collaborative and prayerful intention for our world, that can hold to everyone’s diverse experience.