Join us for monthly community healing rituals on fourth Saturdays – June 27 thru Oct 24.
― Malidoma Patrice Somé, Ritual: Power, Healing and Community
Join us for this monthly community healing ritual led by Erica Thibodeaux, MS, LPCC. No experience is necessary. Everyone is welcome.
During these events, we will come together and create a ritual that emerges from the rhythm of all who are gathered, their current needs, and the guidance and support of the elemental beings of the fire (ancestors), water, earth, nature, and mineral.
What gets created in group ritual arises out of the participants voices. Together, we will create something NEW based on the relationships each participant carries with them into our circle from their own inner wisdom that may or may not be already known.
This event is highly participatory. You are asked to arrive with an open heart and mind and a willingness to learn from the Elements themselves, as well as willingness to support your fellow participants. Alcohol and drug use are not allowed during these events.
Cost: These rituals are donation based + the entrance fee to Kinstone ($10). Our hope is to keep these accessible to any who are feeling the call to community and nature-based healing. If the cost of entrance to Kinstone is prohibitive, please reach out, we have a scholarship fund for those in need.
No pre-registration is required; just show up with your Kinstone admission (pay in the Visitor Center before the event or check in at the Visitor Center if you have paid in advance or have your season pass) and bring a free-will donation for Erica (cash is appreciated and will be collected by Erica during the event). Note that Erica shares all donations with her elders to aid in the continuation of their work.
Date: August 22
Time: 4:00pm to 7:00pm
If you’d like to learn more about the language of ritual, join us in the parking area at 2pm before each event to help with set up, planning and to begin learning the Language of Ritual.
Kinstone Location: The Great Stone Circle
Theme and Element: Wisdom in Our Bones (MINERAL)
This is a monthly series; all the dates, locations and themes in the series are listed here:
June 27 | The Pond | Shape Shifting (WATER)
July 25 | Under the Pines by the Yurt | Burial and Re-bEarth (EARTH)
August 22 | The Great Stone Circle | Wisdom in Our Bones (MINERAL)
September 26 | The Dolmen | Tending the Ancestral (FIRE)
October 24 | The Three Witnesses | Return to Authenticity (NATURE)
About the leader:
Erica Thibodeaux, MS, LPCC, is a licensed professional counselor in private practice Winona, MN. Erica has taught mindfulness meditation in diverse settings such as universities, corporate environments, and local organizations. She uses creative and empowering methods to evoke client-centered transformation and provide individuals, couples, and families with tools to take and use over their lifetime. Some of the methods she uses are group and community ritual facilitation, somatic and body-centered therapy, focusing, spiritual re-wilding, earth and nature-based therapy, and Indigenous African technologies. Ritual is at the core of all that she offers.
Erica’s awareness and knowledge of ritual and her relationships with the Elements have been inspired and encouraged by her teachers, Dagara Elder Malidoma Somé and Elder Theresa Sykes Brittany. Read more about Erica at her website https://ericathibodeaux.com/.
