Ritual and Embodiment — EP55

Ritual at its best brings us towards a feeling of acknowledgment, embodiment, and honoring of our true selves. It bonds us to our values and our deepest self or brings us to shared humanity, purpose, or meaning. In this episode, I explore how rituals can serve embodiment or disembodiment, examining what rituals we already have in place, the rituals I enjoy and designing your own rituals.

This intro episode is followed by three basic rituals that you can try out and integrate as your own or inspire your own ideas.

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Three Rituals:

Space for Self Ritual — EP55a

Give space, tune in and listen to your inner being. A basic daily practice to support embodiment, self-love and clarifying your needs, desires, and congruent action for the day.

Energy and Embodiment Ritual — EP55b

Center, ground, and fortify your alignment to yourself with this three chakra energy and awareness practice. It’s a great way to feel present and that you’re inhabiting your body or find clarity and power in who you are (even if you don’t know who you are).

Body Love Ritual — EP55c

Give healing attention and presence to a part of your body that needs it, allowing the power of our body intelligence to begin to innately heal tension, pain, discomfort or dis-ease.

Sponsored by my Dream Class on Skillshare

One of my favorite rituals is to record and harvest the wisdom of my dreams. ⠀⠀ Dreams are constantly revealing yourself to you and each one brings a whole world of embedded knowledge and wisdom, waiting to be seen and bringing you new energies to cultivate in your life, possibility, and connection. It connects us back to parts of ourselves we have hidden or left behind, forgotten about, or disconnected from, to bring us into our wholeness and true power.

If you’re interested in dreaming, I’ve started a series of dream work classesthat will support remembering and harvesting dreams, and there’s much more to come about embodying the energies, wisdom, and messages of your dreams.

This first class is about the basics: unfolding and awakening your dream life so that you can harness the power of dreams, how to cultivate the ability to remember your dreams, creating intentions and ways to record and harvest your dreams. This class is free through the end of Jan.

Receive two free months of a premium Skillshare account with this link. This is an affiliate link and proceeds go towards the podcast production.

Sweet dreams to you…❤

Learn more at candicewu.com/dreamclass1

Links & Resources mentioned in this Episode

Show Notes

  • 00:00 Intro
  • 00:57 Sponsored by the Dream Class One
  • 04:38 Opening: This Is About Rituals
  • 05:23 New Year to Create Ritual
  • 06:44 Future Plans and New Rituals in Daily Life
  • 08:12 What Does “Ritual” Mean to You?
  • 09:22 What Rituals Do You Have and What Are They Doing for You?
  • 10:12 Rituals Can Be Disembodying
  • 10:56 Attention and Awareness in Rituals
  • 11:15 Anything Can Be a Ritual
  • 12:16 Rituals Throughout History
  • 13:09 Greeting Each Other, Meditation, Circumcision, Yoga as a Ritual (Rituals Can Be Healing or Not)
  • 14:57 Rituals in Different Cultures / Trauma Because Something Wasn’t Complete
  • 17:12 Rituals as a Transition Marker
  • 17:47 The Idea of Belonging: Pressure in Groups to Stay in Belonging
  • 19:19 This Happens in Society, in Families, Everywhere
  • 20:03 Experiences With Gender, Differences, Identity
  • 20:20 What Are Your Rituals That You Love? What Are the Ones You Disagree With?
  • 20:40 Story: My Most Beautiful Rituals
  • 21:47 Honoring and Acknowledgement in Family Constellations
  • 22:14 Rituals Around Death and Greave
  • 22:40 Ritual at It’s Best
  • 23:52 Ritual Supports Belonging and Self Expression
  • 25:01 Rituals That I Want to Create
  • 25:37 We Are All Unique Beings
  • 26:24 What to Do Before Creating Your Own Rituals
  • 27:21 Abhyanga Massage as a Ritual
  • 28:33 One of My Rituals: Speak Honestly
  • 29:01 Healing Rituals Are Important for Me
  • 29:29 Work Sessions: Ritual of Opening With Love and Tuning In
  • 30:11 Using My Pendulum as a Ritual
  • 31:03 Ritual Movements: Lotus Mudra
  • 31:40 Ritual of Embodying and Visualization
  • 32:00 Noticing My Surroundings and Recognizing That I Am Safe
  • 32:43 Having Tea With Myself
  • 32:53 New Rituals in Ireland? Building Trust With Horses
  • 33:29 Connecting With My Spirit’s Song and Dance
  • 34:49 Rituals With My Ancestry and Family
  • 36:40 Let’s Connect With What Makes You Feel Joy
  • 39:03 What Rituals Do You Want to Have in Your Life?
  • 39:46 Jim – Purpose of Life Is to Give Meaning
  • 40:57 Following This Episode: Experientials
  • 41:55 Closing Together: Experiential
  • 44:07 More Episodes & Feedback
  • 44:57 Newsletter & Community
  • 45:23 Dream Class

Intro Music by Nick Werber

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