Returning to Winter Rituals & Practices

Winter is upon us again in the Northern hemisphere, so this week I’m resharing my episode on rituals for winter.

First, I invite you to notice what winter looks and feels like where you live. Because many of us don’t celebrate a “white” Christmas and not everywhere looks like a Bavarian ski village in December.

Then, I invite you to notice what winter feels like energetically in your body. Do you feel exhausted and need to hibernate? Or do you experience a deep permission to turn inward and tend to yourself?

For me, winter is the Dream Time. And during this period of less light, I embrace the fertile void and doing less.

In this episode, I also share my rituals of dream-journalling, being with fire or flame, working with pine essence, winter kitchen magic, sauna or bathing magic, tracking the sunlight, and easeful intention setting.

Resources

• My dream teachers: Liz Migliorelli and Grandmother Sarah Maclean Bicknell
• Milla Prince‘s wisdom of Finnish sauna traditions
• Root & Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self