Returning to Winter Rituals & Practices

Belonging: Conversations about rites of passage, meaningful community, and seasonal living

Winter is upon us again in the Northern hemisphere, so this week I’m resharing my episode on rituals for winter.
First, I invite you to notice what winter looks and feels like where you live. Because many of us don’t celebrate a “white” Christmas and not everywhere looks like a Bavarian ski village in December.
Then, I invite you to notice what winter feels like energetically in your body. Do you feel exhausted and need to hibernate? Or do you experience a deep permission to turn inward and tend to yourself?
For me, winter is the Dream Time. And during this period of less light, I embrace the fertile void and doing less.
In this episode, I also share my rituals of dream-journalling, being with fire or flame, working with pine essence, winter kitchen magic, sauna or bathing magic, tracking the sunlight, and easeful intention setting.
Resources

• My dream teachers: Liz Migliorelli and Grandmother Sarah Maclean Bicknell
• Milla Prince‘s wisdom of Finnish sauna traditions
• Root & Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self