A collection of writings and recordings produced by the staff of Rites of Passage Council.
Are you feeling called into a new way of living and loving…pulled forward by some mysterious force unconcerned with the comforts of a life you have out grown?
Join ROPC founder Kedar Brown and lead guides Kallie Brown and Dana Rider as they share stories of the calling, severance, threshold and return phases of the journey into remembering who you are and the medicine gifts that you carry for your people.
Read MoreExplore the art of guiding ceremonial rites of passage with Rites of Passage Council founder Kedar Brown, who has helped guide countless people across their personal thresholds and taught many others to do the same.
Learn about the role of a ceremonial midwife in holding space for others during personal transformational processes, creating a strong container for ceremony and being the gatekeeper at the threshold during rites of passage.
Read MoreLearn about the art and practice of Cowry Shell Divination from ROPC founder Kedar Brown. Kedar will share his deep understanding of the elemental ancestors and their various uses in ritual prescriptions, navigating the non-ordinary realms of psychic attunement, and how to use Cowry Shell Divination to help others understand their personal medicine and their relationship to the ancestors, spirit and the greater community.
Read MoreAs I sat in my medicine room to write this newsletter having no idea what I would write about. I found myself in a memory as if it were my own but from another time and place. I realized after looking over what I had written that it reflected scenes from this past year with the passing of my mother and a visit I made several years ago to the sacred site of New Grange in Ireland.
Read More(Video) Kedar offers these ceremonies of preparation for Vision Quest, as a way to deepen into the initiatory waters, in service to your ancestors and those of this world that you go up the mountain for.
Read More(Video) If you are feeling a call to restore your ancient connection to the land, live a more authentic and inspired life, enhance your sense of belonging to the world, you must detach from the modern world and enter one where we feel the connection to the Earth. Learn more about the upcoming June 24-26 weekend.
Themes: Initiation Into Our Unique Gifts ● Grief As Healer ● Ancestral Healing & Connection As Etiquette ● Ritual & Ceremony
Read More(Video) In this rich conversation, Kedar gracefully walks us through the lost sacred art of "following your name" as we take a look through an ancient and integrative lens, imagining what it might be like to live into the unique medicine that we came into this world with.
Themes: Initiation Into Our Unique Gifts ● Grief As Healer ● Ancestral Healing & Connection As Etiquette ● Ritual & Ceremony
Read MoreTake a moment and get to know Kallie Brown, Rites of Passage Council staff member and Guide for Vision Quests and other nature-connection programs. Be is a heart centered, nurturing and potent ceremonial midwife and wilderness therapy guide. She finds mindful loving presence in Nature and community to be a doorway to Re-Membering true essence and connection with the Divine
Read MoreTake a moment and get to know Teresa “Tree” Thomas, a Rites of Passage Council staff member and Guide for Vision Quests and other nature-connection programs. Teresa is a gentle, powerful ceremonial midwife and wilderness therapy guide who finds nature to be a reliable and resourceful healing salve. She uses nature’s power as medicine to move through stuck places in her life, and helps others do the same. When a problem presents itself, she turns to the elements of nature and leans into the natural rhythms and guidance.
Read More(Video) This recording of a live online storytelling facilitated by ROPC Founder Kedar Brown features an old German fairy tale that has circulated for decades among men’s initiation circles.
Read More(Video) This recording of a live online storytelling facilitated by ROPC Guide Kallie Brown, telling an old story that dates back to horse-Goddess cults that predate classical Greek culture.
Read MoreTake a moment and get to know Kallie Brown, Rites of Passage Council staff member and Guide for Vision Quests and other nature-connection programs. Includes a brief bio, interview, photos and links to more info.
Read More(Video) Seasons of Womanhood facilitators Be & Tree engage in conversation about the new program Seasons of Womanhood, which starts on Tuesday, February 1. In particular, Be & Tree share their early experience working through the archetypes and how that work helped them, as well the origin and goals for the program.
Read More(Video) This recording of a live online storytelling features Daniel Simmons, with a delightful tale of remembering that you are more than what you think you are, and the journey of re-membering is one of deeep listening to that which is calling in your life.
Read More(Video) This recording of a live online storytelling features Kedar Brown reflecting on indigenous traditions about origins, ancestors, and old wisdom teachings. What is your true gift? How can you re-member it? What medicine do you carry to share with the community?
Read More(Video) This recording of a live online storytelling features Kat Houghton reflecting on the stories of Selkies, and how they can help us learn how women have had to shapeshift to fit into a man's world and what we need to belong, to feel at home in our skins.
Read More(Video) This recording of a live online event features Kedar Brown discussing relationships with ancestors, building connections, and offering an ancestral line clearing ritual.
Read MoreOnce upon a time in a verdant land of deep green forests and clear running waters there sat a circle of women around a glowing fire.
From daughters to great grandmothers this circle of women knew each other intimately. They’d held each other through birth, menses, childbirth, child death, menopause, death and rebirth over and over again around the woman’s wheel of life.
They knew the rituals for each phase of a woman’s life and passed the sacred blood rites down through the generations. They sat together as a sacred sisterhood.
As they gathered around this fire they saw stories of their ancestors reflected in each other’s eyes and felt comfort in seeing where they were headed in the circle under the moon.
The fire crackled to life as a medicine woman took up the talking stick,
“I have received a vision I must share with each of you.”
The women fell silent as their deep attention extended to this one they loved dear, for they knew her medicine to be strong and clear.
Read More(Video) This recording of a live online event features Kedar Brown and Kat Houghton of Rites of Passage Council, and is a great introduction to the concept of rites of passage, and the sorts of knowledge and medicine they can help us rediscover within ourselves.
Read More(Video) Much ancient European lore sees women as the land and the land as women. As the feminine has been tamed and subjugated so too has the land. This session offers the re-weaving of the feminine and masculine in service of the land. Story told by Kat Houghton
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