Two Part Ceremony: January 11th 4-5:30pm & March 19th 7-8:30pm
As we move into 2026, we are inviting in a deeper and more aligned way of honoring nature’s rhythms by listening more closely to our bodies and winter’s quiet intelligence.
In years past, we’ve gathered in January to mark the turning of the year. But this year ahead feels different. It’s asking for more reverence rather than momentum (not jumping into January with resolutions and strict absolutions). It’s moving with the pace of patience rather than urgency. Winter is not meant to be rushed. She is the season of darkness and stillness, of warmth drawn inward, of dreams incubating beneath the surface. A time for conserving energy, simplifying, restoring, and protecting what is tender and becoming.
Nature reminds us that nothing truly sustainably blooms without this pause.
And so this year, our journey unfolds in two sacred movements, aligned with the rhythms of the Earth herself—Winter and Spring.
Illuminated Space has been a cherished decade-long standing annual thread of community, reflection, and renewal—recreated to meet the moment we are in as we step into 2026.
Part One: Winter — Tending within
Our first gathering takes place in the heart of winter. This is a time to soften the edges, to slow the breath, to listen more than we take action. Winter energy invites us to rest, to nourish our inner worlds, to compost what has been lived, and to tend the quiet dreams that are not yet ready for the light.
Together, we’ll move through:
Gentle, grounding breath practices
A guided reflection ritual to lovingly close the energy of 2025
A sacred ceremony to protect, tend, and honor the visions forming within you
This time carries particular significance.
2025 was the Year of the Snake—a cycle of shedding, releasing, and allowing old skins, identities, and ways of being to fall away. It asked much of us. It required surrender, honesty, and deep inner transformation.
And not to add that this takes us into midpoint of this decade, this wild decade.
Winter gives us the container to hold all of this with care—without rushing to define what comes next.
This ceremony creates a pause. A place to be held. A moment to honor everything this year has offered—its teachings, initiations, and turning points—and to let them settle into the body as wisdom.
Part Two: Spring — Breath, Awakening & Direction
Our second gathering takes place the night before the Spring Equinox, when light and dark find balance and life begins to stir again. This is the moment when the seeds tended in winter begin to receive breath.
2026 arrives as the Year of the Horse—carrying the energy of vitality, freedom, confidence, and forward motion. This ceremony is about where we direct our life force. Where we choose to place our breath, our attention, our devotion.
Here, we awaken what has been resting.
We energize what has been dreaming.
We begin to move—with clarity, intention, and trust.
Through embodied ritual, breath, and intention, we will consciously send our breath of life into:
The visions we are ready to animate
The paths we are choosing to walk
The ways we want to feel, move, and live in 2026
The Experience
We gather as a virtual circle—woven across time and space—to explore our intentions, desires, dreams, and visions for the year ahead. This is a sensory, embodied experience, designed to awaken the whole body and align heart, breath, and direction.
Our time together creates space to welcome all of you—your lived experiences, your inner knowing, your becoming. Rooted in the wisdom of winter and carried forward by the breath of spring, we step into the new year not rushed, but resourced.
This is not about forcing clarity.
It is about allowing life to rise—naturally, seasonally, and in rhythm with the Earth.
THIS TWO-PART CEREMONY WILL BE HELD IN OUR ZOOM COCOON. LINK WILL BE SHARED THE MORNING OF 1/11/26