

Alchemical Vessel = Creative Container
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. [We are creating sacred space together.]
Joseph Campbell

Creating Soul Space
A container is actually what we are! We contain the energy, purpose & essence of our soul or essential self. This deep dive into containment has ideas & hopefully inspiration to help.
We need to create sacred space as a temonos for our time. Without it we fragment and fall apart. Even as we are falling apart at the seams now, we need to create circles of containment for the crises to come. From ecological grief & catastrophe to epidemics in homelessness, suicide, depression, addiction & anxiety, we need additional containment to help our center or soul hold us together, just as we hold each other in community . . . our ultimate vessel.
There are many forms of containers and ways to create them, layers within layers like a nesting doll. We need these layers because we need to grow & transform rapidly to meet the rapid change around us & within us.
There are many forms of containers and ways to create them, layers within layers like a nesting doll. We need these layers because we need to grow & transform rapidly to meet the rapid change around us & within us.
Creating a Container.
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New material drops in & notifies you!
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Group Process with Live Discussion
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Guided activities & flexible directions
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Videos orient you
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The soul is the sacred space where my head and heart meet, where God lives. [God, goodness by any name]
Brene Brown


Creating Soul Space. LIVE


alchemical vessels are needed to hold the power of soul & help us navigate our times safely
Containering Tools
We learn to create in the image of our soul, but we are imperfect vessels, pieced together or fragmented from the wounds of our past. Yet the gold of soul can heal us and allow us to hold the power of soul without shattering us or misdirecting the soul's energy. It is a matter of safety for us & others that we create containers.


Learn & play with different ways to vessel your soul
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Videos for the 6 types + Introduction.Orientation
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Examples & Activities
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Boundary Setting 101
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Applications & protection
Containing Paradox:
Containers allow us to open & close our heart & lives. They separate & protect us but also unite & connect us. Containers create healing community.
= Gift Economy is a container
Economy comes from oikos ("house") + nemein ("management"), to create a home of shared resources. That is what the earth is & we are doing.

If the goal of therapy is to create a container to hold our fragmented (wounded) parts together & remember or atone them as a whole, nature is our therapist.
Heather
Biomimicry is our best guide & the earth our container
Create a CONTAINER together
We are creating a vessel for soul together, collaborating with each other & nature.
- Create containers to bridge differences & hold the tension of opposites/diversity
- Unite masculine & feminine containment for healing power and wholeness
- Clarify your vision & make an intention to hold your container
- Create an imaginative container for yourself as you transform
- Learn how to create circles & containers of wholeness to facilitate transformation
- Explore new ways of containment for safety, connection. . ?

Appropriate Containers: an acorn becomes an oak
Acorns are containers that hold an oak's potential. The point is that we grow into who we are & are meant to become, given the right conditions. You cannot become a weeping willow if you are a poplar (though you can try). Yet too often we are born in a container (home, family, society, etcetera) that calls us to be something & someone that we are not. If unchecked, this causes distortion, stunted growth & lost potential. (Now is not the time to bonsai your children!) A container is meant to help us grow & protect us, giving us time to grow up & root down into ourselves. Containers are vital.


Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world. [Another form of containment.]
Ramana Maharshi
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We co-create earth as sacred space
Your body is a divine container that will change over your lifetime. Revel in this! Notice it! This is the way of things: the softening of the shell so the soul may emerge.
Sara Wiseman

Breath
3 breaths with association:
release past, future, present
Body
Drop into your body & heart to root deep & branch high
Circle
Create a circle around you for protection & strength
Light
See or imagine it filled with light & all that you need
We contain our soul & vice versa.

2. Individual
We have to first contain ourselves
Ex. Go in, breath
Ex. Go in, breath
Relational
Reconnect to heal relationships
Ex. Greet, hug
Ex. Greet, hug
Family
Families are our building blocks
Ex. Gather, meal
Ex. Gather, meal
Community
Called to contain the vulnerable
Ex. Share, help
Ex. Share, help
Planet
Our planet is our only home
Ex. Honor, sustain
Ex. Honor, sustain
Space
Expand into the space beyond
Ex. Imagine, Gaze
Ex. Imagine, Gaze


3. Body
Your body is your primary container
Ex. Love, touch
Home
Create a support structure for YOU
Ex. Tend, relax
Ex. Tend, relax
Room
Your room is your sacred sanctuary
Ex. Create, decor
Ex. Create, decor
Altar
Altars contain & orient you to soul
Ex. Honor, play
Ex. Honor, play
Nature
Nature models growth & change
Ex. Observe, be
Ex. Observe, be
Diary
Keep your treasures safe
Ex. Write, free
Ex. Write, free


4. Threshold
Ritual thresholds create a container
Ex. Make meaning
Boundary
Boundaries make us empathetic
Ex. Make & hold
Ex. Make & hold
Belief
Find your church (whatever it is)
Ex. Reflect & find
Ex. Reflect & find
Ritual
Superconscious soul container
Ex. Create & do
Ex. Create & do
Wall
Contain growth with boundaries
Ex. Contain, new
Ex. Contain, new
Nature
Holds life in natural containers
Ex. Model, make


5. Art
Mandalas & other art containers
Prayer
Affirmation & Meditation
Write
Write to process, reflect & learn
Meditate
Treat your body as a soul temple
Visualize
Envisioning is a form of creation
Gratitude
Give gratitude daily or ?


6. Sunrise/set
Day opening & closing
Moon
Phases of the moon & calendar
Sun
Transitions of Solstice & equinox
Worldview
Days, months, holidays &
Marker
Time's passage in critical moments
Zodiac
Move with the cosmos & signs

"Sacred space" is another way of saying 'with intention'"
S Kelley Harrell


Relationships Contain & Teach Us
Seek those who support you as YOU
Love is our Gold & Glue
Holding us together body & soul (essential containers)
Time Container
Creating your day, body & life as a vessel for your soul with time-tested practices.

Morning Practices & Prayer
Open your day with an affirmation of your purpose
Circle & Mandala
Hold trauma imaginally through creative practices.
Mid-Day Dedication
Create a ritual affirmation to align to your soul
Visualization & Imagination
Create a safe soul container when you need it most.
Evening Practices & Prayer
Connect to your dreams & soul to gain insight and seed dream incubation overnight
Boundaries & Thresholds
Boundaries create empathy & thresholds facilitate transformation by ritual
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