“In the Indigenous way of knowing, we say that a thing cannot be understood until it is known by all four aspects of our being: mind, body, emotion, and spirit. ”
As the sun’s journey wanes and daylight shortens, autumn invites us into the tender threshold of release, remembrance, and renewal. This is the season of composting—when what has fallen away nourishes new life beneath the surface. It is also the season of shadows, when grief walks close and the unseen brushes near.
Roots and Remembrance: An Autumn Threshold Series offers a four-week online journey into the wisdom of autumn. Together we will slow down, listen deeply, and honor the threads that connect us to Earth, ancestors, and each other.
Through seasonal mindfulness, nervous system care, and gentle ritual, we’ll explore how autumn teaches us to move between contraction and expansion, dysregulation and self-regulation—just as trees surrender their leaves and prepare for winter’s rest. In community, we’ll tend grief and gratitude side by side, cultivating resilience and remembrance.
What We’ll Explore
Seasonal Mindfulness – attuning to the waning light and the medicine of descent
Ancestral Reverence – safe, ethical pathways to meet and honor our well ancestors
Self- & Community Care – tending nervous system rhythms of contraction/expansion, and practicing presence with grief as teacher
Ritual Guidance – support to create your own Samhain or Samhain-like ceremony at home, rooted in your heritage and grounded in place
Earth-Honoring Wisdom – reflections on living as good future ancestors and respectfully acknowledging Indigenous peoples of the lands we inhabit
For those called to explore further, the Deep Diving section of each week will offer gentle threads into shadow work, colonization, and ancestral repair—approached with care and discernment.
Who It’s For
Those seeking a deeper connection to the turning seasons
New or experienced meditators drawn to earth-honoring practices
People longing to reconnect with their ancestors in safe, ethical ways
Changemakers and caregivers seeking grounded inner resources
Anyone wishing to reshape seasonal rituals to honor both heritage and place
Weekly Focus
Week 1: Root in the Season – Listening to Autumn’s Call
Attuning to autumn’s rhythms of descent and release. Grounding presence with the living Earth and learning from the waning sun.
Week 2: Crossing the Samhain Threshold – Ritual Preparation & Seasonal Mysteries
Exploring Samhain as a time of liminality. Preparing rituals that honor ancestors and spirits of place with reverence.
Week 3: Ancestral Threads – Honoring Our Lineage
Meeting well ancestors as guides, tending lineage blessings and burdens, and discerning pathways of repair.
Week 4: Living Earth-Honoring Holidays – Indigenous Wisdom & Remembrance
Reimagining cultural holidays, weaving gratitude and reciprocity, and centering Indigenous wisdom in how we honor the season.
Format
Weekly live 75-minute Zoom sessions (recorded for replay)
Optional 45-minute group sharing circle after each session
Guided meditations, journaling prompts, and informal practices each week
Samhain Ceremony Toolkit for at-home ritual
Resources for honoring Indigenous roots of the land
This is a season to remember that what falls away also nourishes, that grief can compost into wisdom, and that our presence—together—is itself a form of ritual care.
COST OF SERIES
This 4-week online journey is offered on a sliding scale. Please choose the amount that feels right for your circumstances:
Community Access – $75 (available for Patreon members & early registrants, ends Oct 12)
Sustainer – $95 (standard rate, supports the true value of this offering)
Supporter – $125 (helps make the series accessible to others and sustains future offerings)
My Seasonal Hearth Patreon
Consider joining my Patreon: Any tier unlocks the Community Access rate of $75 for this and all future seasonal online programs. Click the link below for more details
“The most remarkable feature of this historical moment on Earth is not that we are on the way to destroying the world—It’s that we are beginning to wake up, as from a millennia-long sleep, to a whole new relationship to our world, to ourselves, and to each other.
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