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A Year in Ceremony

Soul-Deep Transformation & Apprenticeship for Sacred-Space Holders

A 10 month journey within a deep, immersive learning cohort for those called to ritually tend to life’s sacred thresholds, to the wholeness of their communities, and to the balance between the human and more-than-human-world.

Now accepting interest forms for 2027/2028 cohort!

“There is a deep longing among people in the West to connect with something bigger — with community and spirit. People know there is something missing in their lives, and believe that the rituals and ancient ways of the village offer some answers.”

Sobonfu Somé

A Year in Ceremony is for those who acutely sense the lack of soul within our culture and who long to recover a more beautiful way of being human together.

Intuitively, you know that reclaiming a sensual life of deep ritual is key to nourishing your soul and serving the regeneration of culture. 

Perhaps you also feel called to deepen your role of sacred space holder, ritualist, sacred activist, healer, artist, or priestess and long for a community to accompany you as you embody your calling in ever fuller and more aligned ways. Additionally, given the complex legacies of colonization and the lack of resonant modeling, you may feel a bit awkward and even weary as you seek to embody this role with authenticity and integrity.

If you feel this calling and long for your gifts to grow and mature in ways that are deeply-rooted and profoundly potent, A Year in Ceremony offers you a lovingly-held apprenticeship and inspirited practice ground.

Pillars of Practice >>

1. Intuitive Ritual Craft

What are our rituals to reconnect with Earth, soul, ancestors, and all that supports us to grieve, to become more whole, and to co-create a more just and beautiful world?

2. Devotion to the Sacred Web of Life

“A success metric (of ritual) is if the fibers of the universe hum along.” — Josh Schrei

3. The Art & Soul of Community

“Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.” — Grace Lee Boggs

4. Liberatory Praxis

“Ritual, that is life affirming, dismantles systems of harm and supremacy.— Tamira Cousett

5. Song As Medicine

“We are all Singers — each  in our own way, naturally seeking ways to join the Great Sound of Creation.” — Michael Meade

6. Embodied & Emergent Sacred Space Holding

“Enlightenment needs embodiment. Wide-open insight needs deep-rooted instinct. As above, so below.” ― Kris Franken

The template of our journey together is The Cycle of Soul-led Change, which reweaves bonds of belonging with the great web of life, draws forth the gifts of our souls, and inspires transformative action in the world.

Each of our in-person gatherings focuses on a part of the cycle — and includes potent teaching, soulful group work, and earth-centered ceremony, all infused with the beauty of song and dance.

This inspired flow of ceremony includes: Grounding in Gratitude, Embracing Grief as Medicine, Allowing Soul to Lead, and Surrendering to Service

What’s Included

Four In-Person Gatherings

Four 4-day seasonal gatherings near St. Louis, MO

Immerse in deep and often ecstatic ritual practice within a community that is held with great intentionality and care. Each in-person gathering is from Thursday to Sunday, and will take place at Springs Ecozoic Center near St. Louis, MO,

Gatherings begin Thursday at 1pm CT and end Sunday at 2pm CT. To accommodate those who are traveling or longing for a slower settling-in, you are welcome to arrive Wednesday afternoon before our gathering.

Twice Monthly Zoom Gatherings

3 hours per month over 10 months

Our 90-minute twice monthly online gathering has two alternating forms:

1) During “Ritual Check-In” we share what is stirring in our souls around our ritual practice and we practice the art of sacred space holding with one another.

2) During “Song Power Hour” we share songs, prayers, and practices of connection. Family and friends are warmly invited to join us for this gathering.

Two 1:1 Soul Guidance Sessions

Grow in intimacy with your Soul!

Carolyn serves as a soul guide, and mentor to visionary humans around the country. Soul Guidance Sessions will support you to grow in intimacy with your soulful depths and to integrate the deep ritual work of which you will be engaging.

Meals, Lodging & transportation

Housing and food for all four in-person gatherings is included in your tuition.

This includes:

  • A total of 36 nutritious, homemade meals made by our community chef, John.

  • Lovely bedrooms (single or shared), as well as camping, according to your preference.

For ease of travel, we will do our best to coordinate rides to and from Lambert airport and the St. Louis train station.

Program Facilitators

Lyndsey Scott
Song Leader, Priestess

Lyndsey Scott (she/her, cis-white womxn) is an artist + songleader, born raised and residing in central IL, devoted to priestesSing the Heartland, (literal and figurative). She weaves community singing to empower earth-based spiritual consciousness, and gathers soul circles that, through Song and sacred listening, decompose oppressive scripts that get in the way of freely living the Love we are. With jams that get you skipping easily between the sacred, sexy, and sssssilly : your inner child, exiled banshee, and wise elder are all very invited to the circle! Listen to her album Well Held for twelve luscious singalong earworms to nourish your journey. Visit her website lyndseyscott.earth to learn more, or check out her Patreon to support this prayer-in-process.

Full Bio & Lineages

Carolyn Griffeth
Ceremonialist, Soul Guide

Carolyn Griffeth (she/her, cis-white woman) serves widely as a mentor, soul guide, dream worker, and intuitive ceremonialist. She is also honored to serve as a spiritual minister within Spirit Rising, an all-inclusive, womanist community in St. Louis, MO. Carolyn’s native habitat is the radical edge of visionary culture creation! This explains her twenty plus years of living in community and working for social change on several fronts. Her prayer now is for purity of heart so that she might become a more usable channel for Spirit. She is often called upon for soul guidance, dream work, grief tending and intuitive ritual craft.

Full Bio & Lineages

Micaiah Hambley
Relational Bridge to Earth and Soul

Micaiah is an earth mystic, energy healer, soul-guide, and relational bridge to the wilds. At 19, he began training in Buddhist Monasticism and embodiment-based healing modalities. At 23 he left the monastery to embark on a series of multi-month to year-long solo retreats in remote nature. Here the mountains became his primary teachers, guiding his journey of soul initiation and maturation. Now in his thirties, Micaiah serves Earthkeepers as an Earth-connection facilitator and all around assistant.

Find out more about his story and offerings at:

Seren
Ritualist, Muse, and Web Tender

Seren lives in wild devotion to Earth, to all of their kin, and to the great mystery. They joyfully express this devotion through writing, song catching, beauty-making, and practicing deep loving relationality with all life. Seren serves Earthkeepers as earth connection facilitator, tender of social ecologies, ritualist and resident muse. You are welcome to call upon them for energy healing, grief tending, and ritual dreaming.

Learn more about Seren’s work at:

Rebeccah Bennett
Guest Teacher and Anti-Racism Consultant

Rebeccah Bennett is founder of InPower Institute, a Center for Community Healing & Well-Being in St. Louis, MO and its spiritual community, Spirit Rising. A highly-regarded community healer, spiritual director and life coach, Rebeccah has committed herself to the liberation and healing of the human spirit. For nearly 25 years, she has inspired, coached, trained, and helped tens of thousands of people in countless communities, always working to elevate human consciousness and improve the human condition.

Tamira Cousett
Guest Teacher and Ancestral Medium 

Tamira is an ancestral medium and ritual facilitator specializing in supporting folks with remembering the authentic pathways of ancestral connections. Her practices are rooted in ecosystems of Love and Black liberation theologies and informed by her initiations into Afro-Brazilian earth-honoring traditions and West African Ifa Òrìṣà tradition. She enjoys co-weaving communal containers of curiosity, connection, homecoming, and life-affirming rituals with folks and their ancestral ecosystems of care. 

Find out more about Tamira’s offerings at:

We invite you to imagine…

A deeply heart-connected community;
Honoring Earth, Soul, Spirit and all the sacred beings there-within;
Creating beauty through song, dance, and creativity;
Breaking open to collective transformation through co-created ceremony;
And offering together our souls’ gifts in service to the world’s healing.

Does this vision resonate with a dream you are carrying? If so, we warmly invite you to apply for A Year In Ceremony!