Welcome Winter!

Scroll down to find classes and resources to support yourself this Winter Season

Yesterday we entered the threshold of Winter Solstice.

The sacred darkness meets us here for a well-deserved pause, before we embark on our journey back towards the light.

Solstice means “sun stands still,” as it appears that the sun hovers for a few days on the horizon line before making its journey back upwards.

We are still in the Solstice portal now for a couple days.

A portal where we get to feel how death transitions to birth.

Where the great mystery of darkness whispers blessings upon us for our awakening, whispers seeds of creation that only we can realize.

In the stillness of dark, these seeds of awakening are planted.

And in this fresh season of Winter, we incubate.

Like the Earth, during these first gentle weeks of growing light it is so nourishing for us to go slow. To stay close to the wisdom of the darkness.

Winter is guided by the element of Earth. Slow, stable, steady, and comforting.

What if you were Earth in motion? How would you move? Would you move at all?

The medicine of stillness and slowness is so liberating, as it extracts us from the unsustainable pace of modernity, and enters us back into direct relationship with our deep inner landscape.

We are invited to notice and observe, to expand our perception, and drop deeper into relationship with the living world around us. Mindfulness is one of the juiciest bits of Winter's medicine.

With mindfulness, we make slow, careful, deliberate preparations for our prolonged journey of unfurling towards the light.

We are tender with the seeds the darkness planted deep in our bellies.

With Earth's oversight, the winter season is all about growing the containers and structures in our lives in order to support the dreams we are dreaming for the coming year.

Winter and Earth invite us to tend to our body, to nourish ourselves in all the ways we need, create rituals that fortify us, and grow the capacity to carry forth our visions for the year.

What did Darkness plant into your belly this year?

Ways you can explore your relationship with Winter + Earth:

1) Become a free member of The Golden Stone Wisdom School to access the Library which now has a section with writings on Exploring Winter’s Medicine, including a video on How to Celebrate Winter Solstice with Ritual and Plant Medicine.

2) Go deeper into the lived ritual of the seasons through Winter’s Inner Well. In this course, you’ll be guided to explore your personal relationship with the energetics of Winter more deeply, through guided embodied rituals, meditations, and reflective prompts. This course takes you on a specific journey of unfolding through the season of Winter.

Until Jan. 1, receive a FREE Sacred Seasons Winter Guidebook when you sign up for Winter's Inner Well.

Check out Winter's Inner Well

3) Join us Jan. 3rd for a New Year's Circle with Lavender + Quartz. In this healing ceremony we'll commune with the spirit of lavender via the plant tincture, and I'll guide us in a collective ceremony to program healing into the earth with the help of the spirit of Quartz.

You'll also have an opportunity to charge your personal intentions into physical quartz crystals, and plant them in the Earth after the ceremony. A great way to plant your dreams for this coming year.

In deep bows of slowness,

Amy Terepka