14. RITUAL PRACTICE: Listening to Intuition as a Creative Force with Intuitive Guide Mara Branscombe

How do we listen to Intuition as a creative force?

Confusion and Fear have an uncanny way of pulling us away from our own Inner Knowing, drawing us into our past wounds or pushing us forward into a scary and unknown future.

Emotional Alchemy Coach Kat invites Intuitive Healer Mara Branscombe to share her extensive depth and breadth of knowledge around transformative spiritual practices that anchor, create rhythm and feed your intuition.

We will learn that by accessing our stillness and inner wisdom of the Heart, we are able to see ourselves and our circumstances as they truly are. We can see ourselves, our Truth and the conditioning we have to work with. Our pains transform into our strength. This conversation is a deep remembrance of your own ability to self-regulate, anchor and embody your own healing journey.

What You’ll Learn From This Episode:

• Get a basic understanding of Intention to root ritual and spiritual practices
• Understand the intentionality between ownership and stewardship when it comes to practicing rituals or ceremony that is not part of our cultural or genetic heritage
• Tap into the energetics of using the body as a channel and guide in ritual medicine
• Discuss the Metal Element in relation to the cultural shifts that are happening right now with the coronavirus outbreak and the Black Lives Matter movement 
• Mara leads us on a 5 minute guided visualization 

Mara Branscombe is a mother, writer, yogi, dancer, mindfulness leader, ceremonialist and spirit coach. Her ability to guide others along the path of self-transformation is her greatest gift. She is passionate about weaving the art of mindfulness, self-care, creativity, mind-body practices and earth-based rituals into her offerings.

Mara is an active faculty member for GAIA and has over 40 yoga and meditation videos on their channel. Recently, she led a mindful energy session at TEDX SFU. 

• Mara's Website // Instagram 
• Mara's "Art of Ritual" Online Course

Kat HoSoo Lee is an Emotional Alchemy Coach, Spiritual Business Mentor and host of The Emotional Alchemy Podcast.

She loves playing in the space where science and spirituality converge because this is where we get to experience emotional alchemy. In her work, she educates space-holders about somatic physiology and environmental biology so they can deepen their practices of listening and presence which ultimately helps them expand their capacity to hold space for others.

As a Spiritual Business Mentor, she guides soulful entrepreneurs to approach their business as a spiritual practice. The work bridges the emotional landscape with practical tools which allow them to cultivate businesses that are rooted in conscious values, relational marketing and purposeful service.

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• Instagram

Chapters

• 6:16 Mara leads us in a land acknowledgement
• 8:45 Introduction to Mara Branscombe
• 11:40 Kat to Mara — What are your rituals and practices these days?
• 13:08 Mara talks about cycles and nature and her ritual practices
• 14:43 Ritual is the call to stay in real-time
• 15:59 Ritual is rooted in intention
• 19:22 Kat reflects her history with ritual and the permission to approach ritual with open-mindedness
• 20:15 Conditioning may not be serving anymore.
• 22:45 The disruption of habitual patterns that feed unconscious bias and holding oneself with compassion and forgiveness
• 25:23 Conditions as survival tools
• 28:53 The curiosity of a 3-year-old
• 31:25 Mara’s history of gymnastics and contemporary interpretive dance and how it informs her embodiment practice today
• 34:17 Kat talks about the medicine of witnessing yourself
• 36:19 Mara: “What is the practice that lights you up so that you can go out to do your work?”
• 37:34 Is it right for us to practice rituals that are not from our genetic or cultural heritage?
• 44:55 Ownership vs. Stewardship
• 47:25 The evolution of our moment in history - the gift and privilege of being able to choose
• 49:08 Body as a channel
• 51:59 In the time of unprecedented mixing of cultures, we have to take responsibility to transmit what is our birthright to transmit
• 54:45 The wood has been gathered for the work but it hasn’t been lit
• 56:03 Connecting to your ancestors
• 57:28 We are in a collective autumn
• 58:44 Metal Element
• 1:01:58 We are all connected
• 1:03:20 Societal constipation
• 1:04:47 Lungs in Metal Element
• 1:06:59 Mara talks about developing intuition
• 1:12:10 Bringing Heart/Lung consciousness into the spine
• 1:16:44 Follow the desire, release the outcome
• 1:21:20 Guided Visualization with Mara
• 1:29:08 Mara’s Website
• 1:29:25 Mara's Instagram