Book of Rites

WE PERFORM CEREMONIES,

to mark important events and celebrate holidays - but our modern approach only skims the surface of their true potential. With The Book of Ceremonies, shamanic teacher Sandra Ingerman presents a rich and practical resource for creating ceremonies full of joy, meaning, and magic. "We are eager to connect with something broader than what we experience through our ordinary senses in the material world," Sandra writes. "By performing the ceremonies, you enter into a beautiful and creative power that you may never have imagined."

The Book of Ceremonies weaves shamanic teachings with stories, examples and helpful insights and addresses:

components of the ceremony - including setting strong intentions, abandoning the worries of everyday life, preparing the space and smoothly resolving the unexpected, instructions for independent work, for work in the community and through virtual ceremonies, invocations of elements, of the natural world, of ancestral spirits and divine energy, ceremonies for weddings, birth, rites of passage, funerals, an honorable ending and new beginnings, ceremonies for energy balance - healing and blessing, to resolve the sacred treaties, getting rid of limiting ideas, creating prayer trees, etc., life itself as ceremony - how to infuse your entire life with ceremonial practice, from tending a garden or renovating your own home or office to helping heal our planet.