Description
This 2 hour class includes three experiential segments. Once you sign up and pay, please watch your email (including junk and spam) for emails from ritualgoddess.com as Theresa will be sending you a worksheet, instructions and information you will need for the class. If you do not receive these emails, please reach out to theresa@ritualgoddess.com
For a deeper and more coherent experience, it is recommended for participants to purchase the book, Membranes of Hope. It is discounted here, available for order through bookstores and in print and ebook format on Amazon.com. If you are local to the Sebastopol area, it is available at Many Rivers Books and Tea.
Membranes of Hope
The membrane is the bioenergetic container, boundary, barrier, skin, that protects what is inside from that which is outside. The membrane is permeable, with an intelligence and discernment to decide what gets in and what stays out. The membrane acts as a filter, shield and gatekeeper for what is within the membrane. All lifesystems have membranes from the simple cell to the multicellular, to the complex lifesystems we humans are embedded within. Lifesystems held within membranes are nested within other life systems and connected to other membranes as networks . Membranes exist at all these levels and interact communicate and remain in relationship to teach other and the whole.
The Village Membrane
Here in the west we may use the word community in place of village. A sense of community is longed for by many. Many want to create community but do we know that community is a container that needs nurturing, care and protection? If we are willing to tend to our communities in this way, perhaps it would be easier for us to experience community. We all belong to and inhabit many varieties of community. Whatever level of community you are actively engaged in, they all need tending to. Community is not passive. It is active. Community can arise organically but once it does, its membrane and interiority still need care and subtle tending.
We can support our communities by tending to the village membrane.
The village membrane is held by the trees and other big elements in the system, including mountains, waterways and other important features on the local landscape. Caring for the village membrane means collaborating with and being in close relationship with these components of our ecosystem. The village or community also has an interiority or soul which we will learn to locate and listen to.
While public works takes care of the water, energy, and organization a village needs to operate, the medicine person tends to the soul of the village and its corresponding bio-energetic membrane. Keeping it strong keeps the village protected.
Want to learn more about the concept of the Membranes? Below are links to several informational posts.
A Shrine for the Village Membrane: activating a nexus for collaboration and care
The Village Membrane: Caring for the Spirit of a Place
Caring for the Spiritual Well-Being of Your Multilayered Family: The Family Membrane
Interview on Twisting the Plot podcast about Membranes of Hope
Hey Spirit Worker, Your Village has a Membrane that Needs Care
A Teaching Gifted to me by my Great-Grandmother, the Strega
The Personal Membrane is the Bio-energetic Womb that Carries Us Through Life
Personal Membrane Work Is Soul Work
Ancestors and the Family Membrane
Clearing Family and Ancestral Karma You are Carrying in Your Body: Healing the Family Membrane
Future classes will focus on the earth and cosmic membranes.
The membrane is a fractal reality of the container—contained space. When everything is in balance and healthy, we are held within countless containers of safety, we are held with layer upon layer of membranes that are permeable, yet protective.
