Opening Ceremony
‘Ritual moves and moves and moves and moves a thing until it becomes a different thing.’ -adrienne maree brown
Ritual has been with human beings from the beginning and Pollinate Women’s Weekend is built around this powerful part of the human experience. We practice many different rituals to bond us, help us explore, help us transform and help us build new community and new vision. If you do not have a consistent ritual practice our hope is that you will find something here to begin with. If you do have a ritual practice we invite you to explore and grow in that practice with us.
Opening Ceremony prepares us for the journey ahead and introduces us to our fellow travelers. Please bring a talisman to the ceremony that represents you. A picture, stone, special jewelry, book, a item from nature . . . something that speaks about your soul to others.
The Water Ritual
Pollinator Lindsey Good leads this special ritual using the power of immersion in water in combination with several other modalities including breath work and meditation. This ritual will help MAidens connect to the stillness/quietness of the morning and create a meaningful transition period into the day. Interrupting the habitual rituals of the day and introducing a new awareness on a physical, mental, chemical and spiritual level.
The Body Ritual
Deep Receiving Cacao Ritual
The BackPack Ritual
Trail of Fire Ritual
Anger Break
Ritual
Closing Ceremony
our body is constant communication with us, hold joy and trauma, and is with us our whole life. this ritual, created & led by pollinate founder kathryn dickel, will help young women build a positive relationship with their bodies. This ritual is conducted in two separate age appropriate groupings
Giving is easy, but receiving is whole different story. maidens will Explore ways to give and receive verbal affirmation and ways to approach consensual/safe touch. Cacao is the purest form of chocolate and made into a hot chocolate-type beverage.
What are you carrying day in and day out? Is it yours or someone else's? Kathryn will lead this powerful ritual where we explore our lives from the unique perspective of a backpack. participants will hike approximately for 30 minutes with a backpack. PLEASE BRING A BACKPACK WITH YOU TO THE RITUAL.
There is nothing more powerful than to witness and be witnessed in authentic space. Trail of Fire is a time devoted to witnessing. this special and moving ritual is the weekend’s high ritual. Core team members will offer poignant experiences from their lives and how they moved through them in a healthy and loving way.
Have you ever been so angry you could throw something? In this ritual we invite maidens to do just that! it is healing and liberating, and maybe just a little fun.
In Chinese medicine, anger is associated with the liver and there is no sound that calms the liver better than the sound of a plate or cup or bowl crashing to the ground.We’ve been taught that expressing ourselves in this way is unruly or crazy but it’s actually a physiological response to our anger and allowing yourself to break something can help get the energy in your body back into a balanced state.
Uniquely, this ritual will come full circle when we all sweep up the pieces at the end of the weekend and later, Ritual creator Lindsey Coyne and ritual artist Ted Lyddon Hatten will put them back together to create a beautiful ephemeral sculpture for the PWW community. This will be an opportunity for pollinate women to come together during our integration process and make a temporary mosaic from the shattered pieces of our frustrations, demonstrating that a woman’s anger is beautiful.
Closing Ceremony is essential to help maidens ground, integrate and transition back to the everyday world.