Art of Ceremony
The foundations of making rituals for healing and communion — drawn from traditional medicine and depth psychology.
Next Workshop: Friday July 17th, 2026 · 10:00am–5:00pm · Marin County, California
Learn the sacred inner workings of making a ceremony
Ceremony is our most ancient technology for human beings to come into balance, to heal, and to commune with the numinous. Moreso, it’s a sacred conversation from our heart to the heart of Creation.
Long before there was a clinical language for trauma, integration, or transformation, there was ritual — a deliberate shaping of space, attention, and energy that in turn changed physical reality. And through this process, we come into conversation with something much deeper and more Real than the habitual thinking mind.
Art of Ceremony is a training in that craft that draws together the tools and traditional ancestral medicines and systemic, body-based, relational psychotherapy.
It teaches the underlying grammar of effective ceremonial structures, offer practices for protecting and utilizing subtle energies, and a community to support you in cultivating these practices over time.
The outcome is that you’ll learn to make a more effective healing ritual with less effort, whether it’s with one person, in a dyad, or in your own private practice.
Who is this for?
This day is for therapists, guides, somatic practitioners, healers, and seekers who feel the limits of work and want to bring the wisdom of earth, ritual, and contemplative depth into how they hold space with the people they serve and how they live their own lives.
It is also for students of ceremony and life — people without formal practitioner roles who feel called toward an embodied, earth-rooted, ritual-literate way of living in balance.
It is for people who suspect that the dominant therapeutic and spiritual paradigms are not enough and who are looking for what else is possible. In these daylongs, we will slow down, feel the body, and listen to way Reality guides our process, while also learning how to listen to Reality.
No prior experience with ceremony is needed. What is needed is the willingness to arrive.
What you will gain
Traditional Medicine and Ancestral techniques woven with modern psychology for optimal healing
Practices from ancient lineages for working with subtle energy
A method for setting up the ritual container that holds the presence field
Presence-based tools for energetic safety, protection, and self-care
An ongoing practice sequence for developing the core inner capacities to hold space
Techniques for studying organicity, unfolding, and the spontaneity of healing
An integrated lens for seeing the science, psychology, and intuition of integration
The felt sense of being part of a coherent ritual field during the day
Take-home practices for your further study
A community to support ongoing learning and practice
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Details
Next Session Date:
Friday, July 17th, 2026, 10 AM - 5 PM PST
Location: Private home in Woodacre, CA (Marin County)
What to bring:
Journal, comfortable clothing for sitting and moving, a light layer for being outside
Lunch Included
Cost:
$285 early bird registered before July 3
$315 standard
$245 BIPOC scholarship fund (please inquire)
Itinerary Overview-
Immerse into the ritual with an aligned community. We will start by actually experiencing and embodying the practices that we are learning. We will practice presence, circulation of energy, following the unfolding of organicity, clearing one’s energetic field, protecting one’s subtle energy, and working with natural allies.
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A catered lunch with a generous window for integration. The land around the house offers forest to walk in, quiet places to rest, and space to be with others. Sauna and Hot Tub at the house will be available.
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Then we will break down the principles to creating such a space, and we’ll learn the practices to build more capacity for ritual building. These practices will include meditations, qi gong movements, and inner inquiry that helps us to open the body and hold more stability of presence and awareness.
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To close the day, you’ll create a ritual to take home with you. We will continue weaving community through the group forum.
The Summer Arc
This daylong is the first of three offered this summer. Each is complete in itself; together they form a foundation in the three core movements of ceremonial work.
Sept 26 — The Presence Field: The Basis of Ceremony
Foundations of coherent ceremonial space. How fields are built, entered, and inhabited.
July 17 — Organicity: Clearing the Field, Following the Living Current
How to work with what arises. Energetic hygiene, clearing your own field, and trusting the intelligence of the work.
August 29 — Integration: Weaving Experience into the Psyche and Life
The art of completion. How ceremonial experience is metabolized into self, into life, and into ongoing practice.
Going Deeper
For those who feel called to go deeper, these summer daylongs prepare the ground for Art of Ceremony, a six-month hybrid training in earth-based contemplative practice and ceremonial craft. The program begins near the autumn equinox and combines weekly online teachings with two in-person weekends. It is designed for practitioners, guides, and serious students who want to develop their capacity to hold ceremonial space — in their work, in their communities, and in their lives.
About Jordana
Jordana is an eco-psychologist, traditional healer, and meditation teacher. Her work draws from over 20 years of rigorous study with the indigenous Ashaninka of Peru alongside training in Zen Buddhism, the Diamond Approach, yoga, and clinical work in somatic psychotherapy.
She teaches courses on ecodharma, ecopsychology and traditional Amazonian healing. Jordana also sees clients as a psychospiritual counselor and writes at The Understory on Substack. She lives in Marin County.
FAQs
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Do I need ceremonial or meditation experience?
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We offer a range of solutions designed to meet your needs—whether you're just getting started or scaling something bigger. Everything is tailored to help you move forward with clarity and confidence.
Will there be plant medicine?
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No. This is not a medicine ceremony. It is a teaching and practice day in the contemplative and ceremonial arts.
What if I can only attend one of the three summer daylongs?
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Each daylong stands fully on its own. There is no expectation of attending the others.
Can I attend if I am pregnant, postpartum, or have a physical condition?
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Yes. The practices are gentle and adaptable. Please reach out so we can support you in the way that's right for you.
What is the refund policy?
Full refund up to 14 days before the daylong; 50% refund 14–7 days before; no refund within 7 days of the event, though you may transfer your spot to someone else with notice.
Will future daylongs and the fall program be announced here?
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Yes. Those who attend will receive priority registration and information about the July and August daylongs and the fall 6 month Art of Ceremony program.
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