Art of Ceremony
A path of practice drawing from traditional medicine, psychology, and the meditation paths to bring us closer to our own true nature, and to hold that nature for others in ritual space.
Next Workshop: Saturday, October 3 · 10 am – 5 pm · Woodacre, Marin Co. · Self-Clearing and Protection
A community of practice for the rhythms of healing
Siripiari is a community of practice. We do the practices that carry our inner work and our communion with the divine, in step with the natural cycles and seasons: meditation and mindful movement, therapeutic relationship, and ritual in nature. The Art of Ceremony is the craft within that path.
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.
Three ways in
Lunar circles. Free monthly gatherings on the moon: meditation, movement, and a short ritual in the rhythm of the season. The open door of the community; come as you are.
Daylongs. In-person days of practice for anyone on the path who wants to go deeper into the craft. Each is complete in itself. Fall 2026: Self-Clearing and Protection (October 3), The Field: Making Deeper Spaces (November 21), Holding the Sacred in Ritual Spaces (December).
The training. A six-month apprenticeship for those who hold ritual space for others: a monthly in-person daylong plus a weekly one-hour online circle, January through June 2027, cohort of 10–12 by application. Begins January 23. Details and an information evening in December.
Who is this for?
The daylongs are for practitioners of the path: therapists, guides, somatic practitioners, ceremonialists, teachers, and serious students of ceremony and life who want to root their practice in earth, ritual, and contemplative depth. A guide and a seeker sit in the same room.
The training is for those who will hold the room for others.
It is for people who suspect the dominant therapeutic and spiritual paradigms are not enough, and who want to learn what else is possible. Here we slow down, feel the body, and learn to listen to the way Reality guides the work.
No prior experience with ceremony is required. What is required is the willingness to arrive — and the intention to hold this for others.
If you are seeking healing rather than training, you are warmly welcome in our lunar gatherings and counseling. That is where the community practices together or where we can advise on personal healing; this training is for those who want to learn to hold the room.
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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Upcoming Session Details
Next Session Date: Oct 3, 2026, 10 AM - 5 PM PST
Cost:
$285
Scholarships available (please inquire)
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
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 Fall Daylongs
Three in-person days of practice, one for each turn of the season. Each is complete in itself; together they form a foundation in the core movements of ceremonial work. Come to one, or come to all three.
December 19 / Holding the Sacred: An Inquiry into Our Own Mystical Heart
Prayer, altar, and relationship with the more-than-human world.
Every ceremony rests on something that can't be taught as technique: the facilitator's own living relationship with the sacred. This day is an inquiry into that relationship. We'll explore prayer, how we call upon and work with guides, making real relationship with the earth, with archetypes, and with the more-than-human realm that ceremony has always depended on.
October 3 / Subtle Body Self Care: Clearing and Protection
Sensing, clearing, and protecting the energetic body. For everyone who leaves a room carrying what isn't theirs. Learn to sense the subtle body, release what you've absorbed, restore your own center, and build the kind of protection that comes from presence rather than armor. Movement, stillness, sound, and time in the ritual field.
November 21 / The Field: Making Deeper Spaces
How coherent ceremonial space is built, entered, and held. The presence field is the basis of all ceremony. Learn how a field is established, what deepens it, what breaks it, and how to hold it steady for others as they go further than they could alone. We'll work with the ritual grammar of Grounding, Clearing, Expanding, Listening, and Close, and practice building a space together.
Go deeper into the Art of Ceremony
For those who feel called to go deeper, the fall daylongs prepare the ground for the Art of Ceremony training: a six-month apprenticeship in earth-based contemplative practice and ceremonial craft. It begins January 23, 2027 and combines a weekly one-hour online circle with a monthly in-person daylong, in a cohort of 10 to 12 by application. It is for practitioners, guides, and serious students who will hold ceremonial space for others, in their work, in their communities, and in their lives. Details and an information evening in December.
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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No. The daylongs are open to anyone drawn to this work; the practices are taught from the ground up. Experienced practitioners will find plenty of depth, and newcomers will be met where they are. The six-month training does ask for some prior practice, which we talk through in the application.
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 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 November and December daylongs and the January 2027 Art of Ceremony program.
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