The steps you need are ones that peoples across time and cultures used to heal places and subsequently their communities. With us you will learn: to recognize the storied landscape of a place; draw upon that healing pattern to clear it through ritual motion; and then craft the necessary sacred objects to hold the power in that re-storied place.
The resulting circular exchange of energy strengthens the bond between land and community as each re-stories the other through land-based ceremony.
The mission of AltarPlaces is to heal and empower our world by Listening to the Wisdom of the Land. By deep interchange with the Land in ceremony, we clear the wounded story, align with the power of the Living Earth, and resonate life-sustaining action in our communities. We welcome people from all Reiki and Shamanic lineages.
We believe the Living Earth is a totemic, shaping force that still speaks. Each place is aligned with certain transpersonal fields that attracts a particular:
- Story
- Ritual
- Image
to be expressed, learned, and honored to heal our world.
Story Medicine. The ecology of a place holds not only the biological dimension, but an energy dimension as well. Story is the interpretation of the Earth’s subtle fields into a shared language for the community. The Australian Aborigines call it Dreaming tracks or songlines, the ancient Ainu of Japan call it iworu, and Vajrayana Buddhists call it terma.
Story is a map of the sacred, natural, and subtle worlds. Each river, mountain, and forest has a unique healing story that can gather despair, re-balance life, and reveal our highest potential.
Ritual Motion. Each place requires a certain spiritual movement in the physical world to usher in deep change. Ritual is a primal, embodied prayer a community shares to call in those shaping, etheric forces. Think of it as “walking the map” of a place’s story. Through ritual action we use our bodies to transfer spiritual energy into the living places of our world.
Image Sensibility. In order to maintain the new story and revitalized relationship with the Land, sacred objects may need to be made and “planted” on the land. Theses images may be holographic and archetypal symbols arranged on an altar; they may be offerings buried in special locations; or they can be a form of prayer ties. The presence of these images will aide the on-going spiritual care of a place by revealing the Land’s spirit story for those who come to tend it in times to come.
