Walking on Your Sacred Path
An Apprenticeship in Soul Midwifery
Join Deborah Sullivan and a beautiful community of women
for a nine-week online journey.
September 19th through November 14th.
Now is the Time. . .
and the Time is Now.
Walking on Your Sacred Path is an apprenticeship to let go and follow the footsteps of your soul. To step into the unknown mystery of life and trust yourself, your intuition, guidance, light and shadows, and the rhythms that resonate fully with your heart.
We feel the longing for something deeper, something more alive, intimate, and real to stir and take root. Something that is just beyond the veil, close yet hidden in the unseen, in the liminal spaces. We yearn, ache, and feel called to cultivate and tend the unborn seed of our becoming.
As a community, we will invoke the seen and unseen worlds as we enliven and embody, the spirit of the feminine within each of us. Together we will evoke our medicine gifts through our relationship with Her presence, guidance, and blessings by:
Communing with the Holy Ones, the sacred elements, and Mother Earth as living beings that guide your beauty walk.
Cultivating a relationship with the field of loving that empowers your vision, instinctual nature, intuition, and imagination.
Creating ritual offerings and practices that deepen your relationship with the sacred cycles of life and bring spirit into your daily living.
Collaborating through an interpersonal and collective journey for deep belonging as you build relationships with an intimate community of sisters.
Discover More about this Upcoming Apprenticeship
Registration for the September 2020 Apprenticeship in Soul Midwifery is closed. A new journey will be open in early 2021.
Please fill in the information below and I will contact you when registration opens.
In our nine-week apprenticeship journey we will explore:
Grounding and centering yourself—embracing uncertainty as a portal into transformation. Growing opportunities for new dreams, energies, and possibilities.
Attuning with Mother Nature and the Cosmic Mother to receive messages through prayer, dreams, visions, silence, and everyday moments.
Discovering unseen resources to restore balance and beauty, as you re-connect and re-align your rhythms within the womb of Gaia, the cosmic forces, the sacred feminine, and the cycles and seasons of life.
Surrendering into the great mystery, to source experiencing ways of living that deepen and embody the art of soul midwifery.
Activating unseen forces within as you peer beyond the veil calling on the multidimensional resources from the Holy Ones, spirit guides, plant and animal relative allies, the divine feminine and the divine masculine.
Reconnecting and reigniting your instinctual nature, intuition, and imagination by restoring your wild, wise, and holy woman birthright.
“Our soul is a bridge, an isthmus between the seen and the unseen, the within and the without, and the above and the below. As we navigate this precious and precarious earth walk, we experience ourselves as both earth beings and light beings, terrestrial, and celestial beings. Trusting the medicine of our soul takes intention and practice as we listen to the language of our soul and feel it in our bones. What soul prints do you want to leave as a legacy for the next seven generations and beyond?”
Benefits you will receive
Listening deeply to your heart and inner wisdom.
Deepening your intuition, vision, and loving presence,
as you come home to your true nature.
Choosing simple ways of honoring and
integrating the sacred into your daily life.
Identifying your soul gifts and making ritual
offerings to honor their medicine into your earth walk.
Strengthening your interconnectedness with the natural world,
the holy elements, and the sacred web of life.
Becoming a midwife of the sacred feminine receiving her guidance
and wisdom as yourself.
Bringing presence, balance, and beauty into your daily routines.
Exploring, enacting, and embodying your deep heart’s longings
to commune with the mystery, magic, and medicine that is your innate wisdom.
Clarifying your soul’s gifts to empower your unique
contribution to the world one step at a time.
Creating personal rituals and sharing them
with your loved ones and community.
Navigating anxiety, fear, and uncertainty with
the vibrational frequency of
setting an intention through prayer.
“Build an altar that connects, relates, sustains, nourishes, animates, and expands you, your medicine ground, your energy field, and your luminous body. Through this living vessel, you will perceive, enliven, harness, and manifest your medicine gifts and soul work.”
“In this apprenticeship, you will. . .harness and hone a clear and deeper alignment with your soul’s sacred rhythms and purpose as you cultivate your medicine gifts and strengthen your relationship with the natural world and the unseen beings. As you listen to your intuition, imagination, and instincts you empower your agency, authenticity, authority, and aliveness.”
Cycles of our Apprenticeship
Phase One
September 19th 1:00 - 2:30 PDT
FOUNDATIONS - OPEN SACRED SPACE - BUILDING YOUR MEDICINE GROUND
Stepping into your journey with the sacred by invoking the sacred feminine and opening to the qualities of your medicine gifts. Building and coming into a sacred relationship your medicine ground mesa (altar) activating, and engaging your energy field and luminous body. The most basic mesa reflects a cosmovision that honors a sacred center surrounded by the four directions placed upon a consecrated ground. Attuning and aligning our sacred walk with the cycles of the moon and autumn equinox.
Phase Two
September 26th 1:00 - 2:30 PDT
WISDOM GATHERING CIRCLE
Our circles are invitations to reflect on the wisdom incubating within you from your experiences and ritual practices as you conceive, incubate, and give birth to your soul medicine.
Phase Three
October 3rd
PAUSE FOR REFLECTION, PRACTICE, AND INTEGRATION
We will not be meeting online this week as we take this space to pause.
Phase Four
October 10th 1:00 - 2:30 PDT
THE ART OF CREATING PRAYER, RITUAL, AND CEREMONY
Invoking and anchoring the seven directions in your medicine space. A personal or community honoring, such as a ritual or ceremony helps us adjust to change. We recognize a clear end of one phase or stage of life and the beginning of another. A ceremony during the equinoxes and solstices also helps us transition to a new season.
Creating and releasing through a transformation ritual. Letting go of what is holding you back and calling in the creative forces that usher in your soul medicine with the sacred feminine. Create sacred space and simple rituals to offer prayers to the elementals earth, water, air, and fire.
Phase Five
October 17th 1:00 - 2:30 PDT
WISDOM GATHERING CIRCLE
Our circles are invitations to reflect on the wisdom incubating within you from your experiences and ritual practices as you conceive, incubate, and give birth to your soul medicine.
Phase Six
October 24th 1:00 - 2:30 PDT
THE SACRED CENTER - NUNA (SOUL) - THE ART OF ALCHEMY
Entering Phase Six of our journey we are befriending and sanctifying our sacred center, Nuna (soul). This is the place where our medicine gifts are called into sacred service. We unite, bring together our soul presence with all worlds for the restoration of wholeness within ourselves and the multiverse.
Phase Seven
October 31st
PAUSE FOR REFLECTION, PRACTICE, AND INTEGRATION
We will not be meeting online this week as we take this space to pause and metabolize.
Phase Eight
November 7th 1:00 - 2:30 PST
EVOLVING and EMBODYING PRECENSE - WISDOM GATHERING CIRCLE
Our circles are invitations to reflect on the wisdom incubating within you from your experiences and ritual practices as you conceive, incubate, and give birth to your soul medicine.
Phase Nine
November 14th 1:00 - 2:30 PST
THE ART OF COMPLETING - ENVISIONING A NEW EARTH
Closing this cycle of your sacred walk with prayer, ceremony, and wisdom sharing. Setting an intention for your next steps as you manifest and bring your gifts out into the world remembering that your transformation contributes to the collective healing of the planet.
Wisdom Gathering Circles
“Our circles are invitations to reflect on the wisdom incubating within you from your experiences and ritual practices as you conceive, incubate, and give birth to your soul medicine. Together we will weave the sacred space that creates an alchemical vessel and portal for our circle of reflection, sharing, and transformation. ”
We will deepen our capacity to listen, witness, and be witnessed, and speak our truth. As our exploration deepens and we activate our creativity and awareness we will also be experiencing the opposites: the dark, the shadow, or dissolution. When we have learned from these dense, heavy energies they are ready to be recycled, transmuted into light, or compost to be recycled and fed to our Mother Earth.
Nothing is wasted, all energies have a place in the web of life. What was an impediment to us becomes nutrients in the cycle of life, death, and rebirth. Our experiences are here as teachers for us to befriend, to enter into a relationship with, and to grow and expand our soul's consciousness. As we transform in the alchemical cauldron, we rebirth—giving birth to the light of our divine authentic nature.
As the beloved, Sufi mystic Rumi reminds us our wounds are the place where the light enters us . . .and through all love, our pain turns into medicine.
We let go of the old stories and ways of being, habits, and activities that no longer serve our soul calling. We release feelings of not enough or too much, or of not being worthy. As we dismantle the scaffolding of these old imprints, we invite more spaciousness for the truth of our becoming to emerge. We collaborate, create, and conspire with love, light, and beauty restoring our wholeness.
Reflections on Deborah’s Work
“The world needs the felt & embodied presence of wise older women such as Deborah Sullivan. Deborah is a compassionate elder and wise guide with over forty years of hands-on experience weaving sacred space for women to journey inward and connect to their sacred selves.”
“Deborah Sullivan is a bare feet on the ground, wise wind in the leaves, sacred space artist who will orient you to the beauty of the interconnected beating heart. Journeying with her she will perch by your soul until you know who you really are. She will encourage your understanding and nurture your wholeness. And then she will laugh joyously with you. Journeying with her is simultaneously limitless and centered. She is a humble guide of extraordinary value in our world today. Her blessings will become your blessings and the flow will cycle and cycle in regenerative potential. The balance of nurture and care can be restored and your soul can find its body, it’s home. She has been in “all the shoes” and is not afraid of yours but may ask you to kick them off for your own comfort. I am blessed to call her friend.”
“Everything Deborah does in her work with women’s circles brings to light the world of beauty and the sacred. She calls upon the divine feminine to access her intuition and her wise woman to craft circles that guide you to your own unique intuition and deep self-knowing. I have complete trust in her as my guide to the magic of finding my own medicine gifts and the deep soul work that entails. You will emerge from her guided meditations and rituals refreshed, ready to imbue your mesa with the miracle of transformation.”
“Deborah is an incredible midwife of the soul. She brings such a deep authenticity to all that she shares as her life itself is a prayer of sacredness. Deborah lives and breathes her life in ceremony and in reverence and honor of our beautiful earth which deeply inspires me to do the same. Even though we are oceans apart, the depth of connection we have shared has been magical. It feels like her heart has been journeying right next to mine, gently and encouragingly guiding the way as I birth my dreams into being. I recommend working with Deborah from the depths of my heart and soul, and I am forever grateful for her beautiful mentoring and presence in my life.”
The Online Apprenticeship Journey Includes
LIVE ONLINE GATHERINGS
We will meet online on the Zoom platform for 90 minutes. There will be video and audio downloads for the gatherings available after we meet. (The Wisdom Gathering Circles will only be live to respect the intimacy and confidentiality of the group). If there is a journey during that time that will be available to you.
PACE YOURSELF MOVE AT YOUR RHYTHM
Experience sacred rituals, with step-by-step guidance, to connect you to a sense of the sacred and the beauty of gestating and birthing your soul gifts. You are supported to move with your unique rhythms and explorations. I will be sharing some of the rituals that have brought reverence and renewal to my body/being, my mesa, and medicine ground. You will also be guided to create your own prayers and rituals.
WALKING ON YOUR SACRED PATH INCLUDES
Video and Audio recordings of each gathering and journey experiences
Deepening Practices
Ritual Practices
Self-Care Rituals
Prayers, Poems, and Readings
And PDFs for you to download, including
A Guide to Creating a Mesa (altar) and Medicine Ground
Aromatic Cleansing and Aligning Rituals and more. . .
Resource Links to Support Your Explorations
WHAT YOU WILL NEED FOR THE APPRENTICESHIP
Prior to our first gathering choose a journal that you can write in to reflect on your journey.
Choose a basket to hold sacred offerings that you will collect during your nine-week apprenticeship.
Each week has its own supply list provided for you prior to the start date.