Ceremony is more important now than ever before, time to change the story.

For thousands of years ceremonies were held by all peoples on this planet to tell a story, help them through challenging times, for celebration, healing, mourning, birth, unions, peace and even death.  But a colonization process took over and replaced all of those ceremonies with ones meant to disrupt our connection to Spirit and each other.  Ceremonies are living, breathing ways to tell stories, share knowledge, connect with one another and connect with spirit.

For all time people have created and performed their own ceremonies for a wide range of reasons and most of them have since been colonized, hidden, manipulated or lost.  We lost our connection to spirit and each other through that processes.  What is required now is new ceremonies, ones designed specifically to help us deal with the decolonization process so that we can return to spirit and find a balance between the spiritual and physical realms.  

We are facing a critical need that has no ceremonies.  This process that we are now working on is new to our collective experience.  It is time to create these ceremonies to help the healing process.  These ceremonies must help us to break free from the programming and indoctrination that the violent and oppressive systems have beat into our minds and bodies for all these years.  Healing must take place within so that we can then start to express it outside of ourselves so that we can reconcile ALL of our relationships.  These decolonization reconciliation ceremonies must involve healing components as healing is the first step towards freedom, peace and independence.

By building ceremonies to help with the decolonization process, we build processes, protocols and boundaries into them to help us heal our conscious and subconscious mind so that we have the tools to reject the violence and oppression of those who work hard to control and enslave.  

The colonization story has been told for far too long and it is full of lies, deceit and violence that separates us all.  It is time for us Spiritual Warriors to change the story as story telling is important.  As we create our own story, it needs to be told, shared and heard.  This story will be important as we share about people getting together to heal and help others do the same, no matter their background, color, language or beliefs.  We are told lots of stories that are harmful.  Time to tell new stories that are helpful, healing, loving and important.    

TIME TO CHANGE THE STORY 

The Tawatinaw Initiative for Peace and Independence (TIPI) Stewards are prepared to provide a platform so that our voice is heard as we all have stories to tell.  We are working hard to build retreats and new ceremonies to support the healing process and foster peace and independence so that we can heal from the violence and oppression of the colonial system.  We have ALL been colonized, some longer than others.  The multi-generational trauma must stop here and now.  The tribes of the world are being called upon to start the healing process so that we can find peace, independence and freedom as we stand as sacred stewards of Mother Earth for the prosperity of all life on this planet.  

We need to be heard.  We need to heal.  We need ceremony.  We need reconciliation!  TIPI Stewards are looking to start this process on the weekend of July 21 & 22 as we hold a simultaneous men's and women's retreat on the banks of the Tawatinaw Valley in northern Alberta (near Perryvale).  The idea is to hold the women's retreat on the east side of the valley on the land of @harvardhomestead and the men's retreat is 2 1/2 miles due west on the other side of the valley on the land that Carey and I steward.  There will be opportunities to interact with one another as we will work to ensure that we are in service to one another at different points throughout the weekend.  Costs and details have yet to be worked out but will be shared in the coming week or two.

More details will follow.  I've also started the process to create a steem account for the initiative to share event information, protocols, ceremonies, stories, insights and other information.  The account name is @tipi-spirit and should be active in a week or so.  

I've asked the @goddesseslair facilitators to join us in creating this first Spiritual Warriors Circle retreat AND to help facilitate the Warrior Heart retreat that will follow (similar to the one I attended in April) and the Spiritual Mind Retreat that will follow (similar to the one I attended just a few weeks ago).  These three retreats will serve as the core offerings for anybody wanting to pursue peace and independence through this initiative.  

I've also setup a TIPI discord server where more information will be shared and discussions can take place.  

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