Art of Ritual:
Laying Patterns in the Soul & Expressing Community Values Through Ritual
A Diana’s Grove Creating Community Class
Facilitated by Michelle Solvej

What draws you to offer ritual?
What ritual skills are you looking to improve?
Do your rituals currently express your community values...or would you like them to?

Take Transformation into your Hands...

The Diana's Grove style of ritual is a prayer; it is a tool for personal growth, a tool for building community. This class teaches Ritual Artistry tools for expressing community values through earth-based ritual.

"Ritual is a multi-sensorial prayer to lay new patterns in our souls."
--Cynthia Jones, Diana's Grove

Topics will include:

• Learning how ritual changes us and lays new patterns in our souls
• Understanding the Diana’s Grove co-created ritual style
• Learning the 7-circuit labyrinth pattern of rituall
• Expressing your community values through ritual
• Facilitation skills for co-created ritual planning

Earth-based spirituality honors nature, the natural rhythms and patterns of our world. Ritual honors the natural rhythms of our humanity. Rites of passage such as birth, death, becoming an adult, marriage....the cycles of the land, the sap rising up in the roots of the trees, the flowering of spring, the heat of summer, the fruit of the harvest, and the return of the land to slumber in winter. Life and natural cycles are sacred. Ritual honors these natural cycles in ourselves and in the land around us. Ritual helps us to connect to mystery.

"Ritual is a container for magic. it is a format, a process, a spell in action. Diana's Grove rituals are based on involvement, on your participation. Involvement gives us the gift of energy. In that circle, we increase our life force by breathing, singing, dancing, drumming, feeling, caring, speaking, dreaming, and interacting."
--Cynthia Jones, from "Myth, Magic, and Community."

Through engaging discussions and exercises, this class will demonstrate tools for creating inclusive and ecstatic ritual. Participants will have the opportunity to take an active role in their own learning, practice effective communication, and take responsibility for themselves, their actions, and the impact they wish to have.

In the Ritual Artistry class, Michelle Solvej will provide opportunities, exercises, and a structure to support your learning and growth.

Will you take transformation into your hands? Contact Michelle to find out more about this class.

Date: Please contact for future dates
Location: Kansas City, MO

Additional resources:
An overview of Diana's Grove Philosophy >>
An introduction to the Diana's Grove philosophy of ritual arts >>