Silence is singing
Treasure of the lament
Tarot tune
A song based on a tarot card, intended for use as guidance, inspiration, or for entertainment purposes.
5 of Cups
Loss ☆ Grief ☆ Disappointment ☆ Regret ☆ Failure
When you are gone, you are never really gone.
For I carry you, all ways, in every place.
And when you are quiet, you are never really quiet.
The silence is singing to me your name.
And when you are here, you are never really here.
From your cold face, there peeks out a warmer face.
But when you are gone, you are never really gone.
Through a space, there’s an echo of company.
When you are gone, you are never really gone.
For I carry you, all ways, in every place.
Offerings
Talks, workshops, courses, and other ways to receive guidance or ritual support from me.
Courting Inspiration: A Monthly Play Space for Creative Intuitives
Courting Inspiration is a monthly subscription-based community for creative intuitives to cultivate creative potency and skill through ritual practise.
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Soma Metaxy: Three Dynamics of the Extended Body
The "extended body" is an experience we have at the intersection of the soma, the imaginal, and the environment.
As a ritual movement practise, Soma Metaxy (which translates to "body between") can help us rebuild our sense of communion with the more-than-human world.
In this 2.5 hour class, I will lead a group of 30 humans through guided movement practises for dropping deeply into centre, exploring our periphery, and meeting the edges of our sense-gates. I will give you a set of practises designed to support the authentic expression and full aliveness of the body.
Artists, musicians, dancers, and performers of all kinds will especially benefit from this exploration of the threshold between the imaginal and the somatic.
Join me on May 31st at 6:30 PM to learn these techniques, which are inspired by Butoh, Laban-Bartinieff Movement Analysis, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and more.
Admission is $25. Check out the event page to learn more and sign up.
Note: this is an in-person workshop. If you won’t be in Asheville, NC in-person the day of the event, don’t sign up!
Guidance & Ritual Support
“Scout gracefully dances these aspects of the unconscious and so much more into the light of conscious awareness, so they can be seen, held, metabolized and integrated. If you're seeking communion, connection, and clarity on your journey, I highly recommend working with this Old Soul Friend.”
- Jen Peer Rich, long-term client and fellow wordsmith
It took me a while to stop blaming myself for hitting dead ends in therapy.
I figured for a while that I wasn’t trying hard enough, that I simply didn’t want to get better.
It turned out there was nothing to fix.
It turned out that I was simply bursting with flowing power—power that had nowhere to go.
It wasn’t until I added a consistent ritual element to my life that that flowing power stopped being destructive and started being creative, generative…
Magical.
There is only so much we can get by focusing on our inner worlds, personal experiences, and traumas.
So much of what moves through us comes from beyond us.
Who we are is more than who we think we are.
We are continuations of those who came before. We are stories for those who will arrive after.
Ritualists have more than just an abstract understanding of the interconnectedness of things.
They have a felt knowing of this interconnectedness.
And the more we practise, the stronger this connection gets.
The clearer our purpose in life becomes.
The easier it gets to enact who we are and build what we’re here to create.
I provide ritual support for highly sensitive intuitives looking to boldly surrender to the truth of why they are here.
I’m here to make it easy. To make it obvious.
To make it unfold like magic.
To give voice to the hidden forces moving through you.
To give voice to the ancestors walking beside us.
To give voice to the rocks and the rivers.
To give voice to the sun and the stars.
This is why you come to work with me.
In a world founded upon fragmentation from the cosmic forces, ritual practise is the missing piece of the puzzle. It’s the doorway to re-awakening our sense of purpose and connection to the more-than-human.
I use my knowledge of ritual theory in conjunction with my personal experiences & the teachings I have received over the past 5 years to support highly sensitive intuitives in creating rituals for deeper self-knowledge, ancestral connection, and ecosomatic attunement.
To get started, book an Insight Session and learn how I can be of service to you.
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