alchemy of prana

What I carry with me now, into this changing of the light and emergence of the seasons, is this: I am a student of the ceremony and all who walk themselves into and through such potent endeavors. What I found in the basement, in the fertile unraveling, was just that: being a wilderness rite of passage guide is not about teaching; it is about apprenticing oneself to the ceremony and all who enter.

There is an art to how we listen to one another, to how we might open ourselves beyond interpretation and explanation and lean in to the lived experience of another. Really, this can be and has been referred to in many ways throughout human culture.

a collection of recent poetry by tbird

One of the barebones of the ceremony to which we align and were brought into as budding guides is that there are no rules to ceremony–-no...