The course

Every single day and for eight days, you will receive a simple, short practice that helps you to stay in tune with the special energy of the solstice.

We will go through this portal in a conscious way.I invite you to recognize the sacrality of the threshold, to reconnect with your own sacrality.

We pause

We listen

We contemplate

We give thanks for the light that is about to enter our life

We honor the fire of summer

We get ready to harvest the abundance of the season 

 We will get in touch with the cyclical energy of nature that speak to us of life, death, and regeneration.

We will do this through guided visualizations and meditations, simple rituals, creative practices, journaling, and we will celebrate together

Welcome to your natural rhythm

Our fast-paced, frenetic, western way of life, geared toward extreme productivity, alienates us from our natural rhythms, creating a "disharmony" and separation between us and nature (outside and inside us).

I know this all too well. I have lived for many years working, running, multitasking, juggling a thousand things at once, often not even resting on weekends, traveling constantly, and generally living at a very fast pace. The cost of this kind of life to our physical, mental, spiritual and social health is extremely high.

But it doesn't have to be that way!

We can live a life more in harmony and in coherence with who we are and our nature.

We are part of nature and our bodies, as well as the natural world around us experiences natural cycles and seasons. Our energy, sleep, appetite, and vital functions change in relation to the seasons, the light, and the temperature.

As we realign ourselves with natural rhythms, we recover our natural state: coherence, connection and peace.

Paying attention to the cycles of nature around us is a gateway to reconnecting and going back to OUR nature.

Solstices, and equinoxes are portals, helping us to slow down, pay attention, listen and feel. 

The word solstice comes from the Latin solstitium (sol-, "sun" and -sistere, "to stand still". It is the time of year when the sun reaches its point of maximum declination (summer solstice) or minimum declination (winter solstice). 

A planetary event

The solstice is a planetary event: it happens at the same time in all parts of our planet. Each year it is delayed by about 6 hours from the previous year and it realigns every four years during leap years. Due to these adjustments, the date of the solstice varies and may fall on June or 20 or 21 or December 20 or 21. 

Threshold

The solstice marks the transition of the seasons from spring to summer and from fall to winter. It is the stillness that precedes movement. A threshold between what is, and what will be; between past, present and future. On this threshold we can stop, take a breath, contemplate, and then cross.

Rituals

In many cultures, these moments are linked to seasonal rituals, such as dances, bonfires, harvesting herbs and flowers, and watching the sunrise or sunset. Rituals allow us to bring our attention to an event by actualizing it and returning it to sacredness. Rituals help us actualize, process, reframe and rediscover "sacredness" in the ordinary.  

The masculine and the feminine

The summer solstice has always been celebrated with festivals, such as the Litha or the feast of St. John. Generally, these are holidays related to the sun and the fire; and is mainly associated with masculine energy. By looking at the solstice as a "threshold," passage, or transition, we can experience the union of masculine and feminine energy. It is the Yin and the yang, sun and darkness, death and life, the symbol of the goddess, the great mother of the Mediterranean: a representation of a continuous cycle of life, death and regeneration.