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Root to Rise: Initiation in the Great Turning (9 month immersion with 5 in person multi-day gatherings)
November 6, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - November 10, 2025 @ 4:00 pm PST
Event Overview
Root to Rise is an in person, immersive four season initiatory journey (November-August) into remembering and reclaiming our interdependence in the web of life. It is an opportunity to examine, dismantle and transform personal and systemic structures rooted in violence and domination through practices that help us metabolize pain, grow capacity and mobilize our care for the world. The long arc orientation of this process in a group container fortifies our resiliency and emboldens action to serve our collective liberation.
Root to Rise grounds itself in the lineage of deep ecology elder, Joanna Macy, and the Work that Reconnects (WTR). The Spiral Map of the WTR will guide this initiatory journey through the four seasons. Together, we will research and practice somatic and mythic wisdom, regenerative earth practices, and elemental embodied ceremony to support participants in identifying and deepening relationship with a personal compass for direct liberatory action.
Practices in this initiation journey include:
- Ancestral connection and inquiry
- Embodied practices and generative somatics
- Myth, storytelling and improvisational play
- Feminist, abolitionist, decolonial learning
- Food and medicine growing
- Land tending
- Deepening relationship with the animate world
- Handcrafting and ancestral skills
- Elemental ritual, ceremony, prayer and dreamwork
- Council and community practice
- Identifying and engaging with a project that eases suffering and/or protects the web of life
This journey may be for you if you are asking any of these questions:
- What is my ‘north star’ and mine to do at this time? If I already know this, how do I face the challenges when I am on purpose?
- What skills do I need to co-create resilient, life-honoring systems?
- How can tending my ancestral lines clear trauma and liberate energy for creative emergence?
- What ancestral lifeways and technologies are my allies?
- How do we root down so we can rise up?
- How do we gather our courage and grow our capacity to stay with the trouble?
- How can working in a circle across difference strengthen our resilience and deepen our attuned action in service to life?
- How does listening to the living earth support us in acts of solidarity with the global majority?
- In a time where there is so much needed to ease suffering and protect life, what act of service can I focus my attention on right now to participate and make helpful change?
This journey includes four 4 -day in person immersions, a weeklong ceremony that includes a 3-day/3-night solo fast, and multi-hour sessions and 1:1 time with guides in between immersions.
Immersion dates are in person and held in gardens in Sebastopol, California:
November 6-9th – Entering the Bone House: Grounding in Deep Time and Gratitude
February 5-8th – Dreaming the Dark: Honoring our Pain for the World
June 11-14th – Feeding our Wild Gifts: Seeing with New and Ancient Eyes
July 30-August 2nd – Harvesting Flowers that Grow from the Bones: Going Forth in Courage
Meet the guides and learn more…Informational sessions:
Tuesday, September 30th 6:30-8pm pst via zoom
Email root2riseinitiation@gmail.com to register for info session and get the zoom link.
To learn more and apply: