Art of Ritual

6 Week Live Online Coaching Course

 
 

Amplify Your Own Energy and Life Force

IN THIS WORKSHOP WE WILL DISCUSS THE HISTORY OF RITUAL FROM ANCIENT TRADITIONS AND ITS EVOLUTION THROUGH THE LENS OF MODERN CULTURE.

We will then learn practical and powerful ritual skills, including grounding and centering, creating a sacred container, and catalyzing transformational practices that can be incorporated into your daily life, enhance your spiritual practices and help to build conscious community.

Learn to Create Healing Rituals to Invoke Joy, Empowerment & the Sacred

Without the symbols and places of solace people often turn to in difficult times, many feel numb, voiceless, isolated, and disconnected from their usual points of grounding right now. 

Maybe you feel yourself shifting into survival mode, head down, trying to stay afloat and stay safe amidst the crises of our time.

What if there were experiences you could create, for yourself and others, to bring yourself into empowerment, and reconnect with a sense of community and Oneness? 

Immerse yourself in the power of rituals and learn how to create your own — to help yourself and others move from grief, isolation, and disempowerment, to personal agency, reconnection, sacred activism, and the constant presence of the Divine. 

 
 
 

Practicing ritual can drop you into a sacred place — grounding you, shifting your consciousness down to the very cellular level, releasing stuck emotions, healing trauma, and offering you a sense of resilience and connection to the world.

The Transformative Power of Ritual

Join me in a powerful experiential 6-week exploration of the aspects of ritual for any circumstance in your life… using tools, sacred containers, and, most importantly, your voice. 

You’ll develop a comprehensive understanding of what exactly rituals are and why they’re so important at this moment. As I guide you through the elements and experience of rituals — taking them outside the context of religion — you’ll see how adding them to your life can bring the Sacred into any situation.

You’ll create rituals for a variety of occasions... and learn which rituals to use for cleansing, grounding, releasing trauma, reclaiming your expression, invoking the ancestors, and inspiring yourself and others toward action for change and healing. I’ll show you many ways to incorporate rituals into your everyday life to help you appreciate and treasure the divinity and inherent joy in all things

 

6 Weeks of Life Changing Work

  • These are intense times filled with loss, confusion and a growing need for sacred connection with yourself, others, and Source. 

    This opening session begins by acknowledging the impact of the current dramatic circumstances we’re living in and exploring ritual as a healing force in our own lives and in the world.  You’ll explore how many of us have been separated from a sense of the Sacred... and ways to counter that separation with rituals of connection. 

    You’ll discover simple tools designed for cleansing, grounding, and opening to experience a more regulated nervous system... so you can begin to access your inspired and creative soul.

    You’ll also learn how to: 

    • Release grief, fatigue, and overwhelm and support a more resourced nervous system


    • Apply cleansing and grounding tools to clear and amplify your own energy and life force


    • Develop a grounding and centering personal practice


    • Become your own spiritual authority, able to connect with the Sacred 


    • Tap into your innate health, creativity, and intelligence


    • Participate in a cleansing and grounding practice 


  • What is ritual? How do we craft containers for transformation that are both effective and participatory?  

    In this second week, I will offer numerous definitions of ritual and how to cultivate the presence of the Sacred in your everyday life. You’ll explore the history of ritual and how it has evolved. I will present the common elements of rituals worldwide, and discuss the important topic of respecting but not appropriating the sacred practices of the world.  

    I’ll also guide you in a step-by-step method for creating rituals that are practical, nourishing, and authentic

    In this class, you’ll: 

    • Learn how to build a ritual from start to finish by following Suzanne’s “ritual recipe” — and understand why ritual is so important


    • Experience your own felt sense and enhance your empathic abilities and self-awareness  


    • Create powerful containers for transformation 


    • Practice creating a container, sensing yourself and the space around you 


  • In this session, you’ll learn how trauma and stress impact your body and our world. 

    I will show you how to use simple trauma healing tools to release and shift trauma into resilience. You’ll explore how to access, move, and amplify your own life force and your self-expression as the main tools for building rituals of healing.   

    We will call your voice back from whenever you’ve relinquished it, or where it’s been taken from you — and learn to use your own sensitivity and resilience to catalyze personal and collective healing.

    During this session you’ll: 

    • Use embodied ritual to release trauma and reclaim your expression 


    • Discover how to run your own energy in healing and potent ways 


    • Experience using simple trauma tools as magical helpers 


    • Start to awaken, strengthen, and reclaim your voice as your power 


    • Practice raising, changing, and containing energy and reclaiming your voice 


  • In this module, I will guide you to explore the power of the word to create and change us. I’ll show you how to use your words to deepen and support the intention of your ritual.  

    You’ll discover the importance of engaging with elemental energies, directions, seasons, and other cycles — to align with the natural forces that can amplify our healing rituals.  

    You’ll learn how to honor and invoke ancestors as your sacred allies, and create powerful and specific invocations and prayers that support the shifts you’re seeking.  

    I will help you:

    • Incorporate the nature elements as practical and magical tools 


    • Honor and invoke ancestors and tap into the great stream of all beings 


    • Align with the directions, seasons, and cycles of the year 


    • Cultivate a connection between personal will and Divine will 


    • Craft short, beautiful, and effective invocations 

  • This class was created to explore the history of myth, story, and Deity as a way to understand the human experience. You’ll experience how ritual can lead you into mythopoetic realms of consciousness.  

    You’ll have the opportunity to tell your own story — working with your pain, resilience, tipping points, and course corrections — and begin to view your life as mythical and powerful. And as you reclaim the narrative from the modern entertainment industry, you’ll learn to perceive your own life as a story worth living and telling. 

    You’ll also explore the many kinds of transformations that can occur within ritual spaces, and how to work with myth and story as a way to understand and transform your own human experience.   

    This session will offer you the opportunity to:

    • Reclaim your story and share it through the lens of myth and poetry


    • Work with one myth to investigate and catalyze your own growth 


    • Learn about the many uses of ritual... such as healing, release, purging, honoring, celebrating, and more 


    • Cultivate relationship with Deity and your inner guidance 


  • As this course comes to a close, you’ll examine the process of designing different rituals for numerous settings and occasions. I will guide you to create rituals to bring forth a sense of the Sacred in subtle and seamless ways.  

    You’ll come to understand the need for and power of collective joy in these times... and engage your own innate creative abilities to vision a world of justice, connection, nourishment, and joy. 

    In this final session, you’ll learn how to:

    • Design rituals for many different settings


    • Create stealth rituals that bring connection and healing to the most unlikely of situations 


    • Ignite the power of collective joy


    • Trust your own creative abilities 


    • Create a ritual to vision the co-creation of a more sacred and just world 

 

In Art of Ritual, you will learn…

  • What exactly ritual is and why it’s so important

  • The “ritual recipe” that gives you the framework for creating your own sacred practices

  • How to create a sacred container

  • Rituals for cleansing, grounding, calling in the Sacred, and amplifying your own energy and life force

  • How to empower your own and others’ sense of spiritual authority

  • Embodied ritual to release trauma and reclaim your expression

  • Incorporate the nature elements as practical and magical tools

  • Ways to honor and invoke ancestors and tap into the great stream of all beings

  • How to reclaim your story and share it through the lens of myth and poetry

  • Learn about the many uses of and settings for ritual... such as healing, release, purging, honoring, celebrating, and more

  • How to turn your own experience of the Sacred into inspired action for change and healing

  • The many ways to create rituals for a more sacred and just world that are practical, inclusive, and engaged

“… an amazing ability to inspire a deep sense of the sacred for all who experience her work.”

Suzanne is an incredible artist. From large group gatherings to intimate private settings, she has an amazing ability to inspire a deep sense of the sacred for all who experience her work.

— Chris Deckker, Founder of Earthdance Intl.

How it Works

Six 90-Minute Class Sessions With Suzanne Sterling 

Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from the founder of Voice of Change; co-founder of Off The Mat, Into the World; singer and ritualist Suzanne Sterling — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a live streaming video option and guides you to discover specific skills to enhance your capacity for sacred activism as you learn how to create your own rituals — to help yourself and others move from grief, isolation, and disempowerment, to personal sovereignty, reconnection, and the constant presence of the holy.

Six Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the digital video will be available for you to stream in your own time. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.

Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson

Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.

Online Community

Our exclusive Facebook online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.

One-Year Access to Art of Ritual Membership Area

All your class recordings and worksheets will be kept in our Membership area for you to access for up to one year.

Art of Ritual Online Live Course

We believe in a justice pricing model. Which means, if you can’t afford the course fees, please contact us here. And those that have the ability to do so, we ask that you consider donating at check out to our scholarship fund.

Here’s what past students have to say about Art of Ritual

Testimonials

During the chanting at the end I started to tear up and then cry! I initially tried to suppress this, but the more I chanted, it just came out. I was embarrassed at first, but at some point, I just let it go. You then asked that people reach out to others and a few people reached out and touched me. Which was calming (thank you for that).

I can't put into words how deeply your class affected me. I am a singer, drama teacher, and performer. Now a full-time stay-at-home mom. I forgot how much music, movement, sound, and expression was me at the core. I want to do what you are doing! You have seriously inspired me.

I have been practicing yoga just over a year now and I practice 4 to 5 times per week. I have added morning chanting meditation and due to that I was interested in your class after reading the class description about vibration and using mantra for purification of the 5th chakra. I have never been able to sing. But in your class, you invited us to allow ourselves to step away from the inner critic and step out of our comfort zones.

The bottom line is.. I wanted to rock this with my throat chakra wide open and you took me to a new place. I hadn't realized how stuck I was! Also... after your class, my sinuses and ear congestion felt completely cleared! I have not felt that unstuck in ages! You are a brilliant shining light sister. Thank you for sharing the light! From the truest place in my heart... NAMASTE!

Suzanne taught me that my voice is connected directly to my thoughts and to my heart. Through her mind-body asana sequencing and the practice of using singing and chanting, I realized that my voice is an expression of my own inner world. I learned how to listen to my own vibration and how to find the quiet to listen to others. I now recognize when my body posture and my own sounds show what is going on within.

This work with Suzanne has been life changing for me

Voice of Change is a brilliant course.

Suzanne's work and the voice of change modality is LIFE. CHANGING. Going through it myself I felt like a part of myself that had been missing had been found again. So grateful for Suzanne's work, this program, and community.

I am filled with emotion hearing the beauty of our chant, 'may we remember, who we really are.' I am very grateful Suzanne, for your authenticity and the incredible and practical wisdom of your sharing. I feel transformed physically, emotionally, and spiritually much more than two days worth. These big shifts have me seeing my world with very new eyes. I am slowing down to ask and question what is in my life. I am so happy to be re-connected with the amazing healing power of sound and to feel my own voice opened, stronger and clearer.

I haven't been able to sing for months because of this and it was really depressing as a singer being able to use my voice is my medicine. Suzanne's workshop was transformative - I would say my life depended on it. I have been symptom-free since I left, and will be going back to work on October 3rd. Suzanne's spirit and courage is contagious.

The voice workshop you did with us changed everything for me. The opening you created, the fearlessness, the creative power, the absolute joy - I took all of it with me. Everything in my role as a teacher has changed since then in a way that opens up so much potential to do exponentially more for so many kids. I just know I would not be here without you that weekend. Thank you

I just wanted to share how much I'm enjoying this course. I'm currently living in the same environment that I'm trying to heal and move on from (long story) and with the tools given in just the first 3 wks I'm feeling more grounded, focused and much lighter. So grateful for this opportunity! Thank you!!!!

The voice workshop you did with us changed everything for me. The opening you created, the fearlessness, the creative power, the absolute joy - I took all of it with me. Everything in my role as a teacher has changed since then in a way that opens up so much potential to do exponentially more for so many kids.

This workshop was about finding not only our authentic physical voice, but about finding our authentic truth, and being courageous enough to share that rawness in community. We were pushed to the edges of our comfort zone in what we thought we could do with our voices and with our bodies. For me, I learned a deeper practice of how sound heals, how each note lives within my body, how poetry is written when you least expect it, and I left inspired to share what I learned with others, to create community and to serve all life.

Suzanne Sterling’s Voice of Change class was transformational for me. Suzanne’s practice – and the practice she shares with students – is both expansive and grounded, practical and profound, unabashedly mystical at the same time it is very much of this life, in present time and place. She teaches a practice that embraces both acceptance of what is and imagination and curiosity about what might be. Suzanne is unerringly compassionate and welcoming. She holds space that is as safe and conducive to personal exploration as is possible, without shying away from the uncomfortable and scary aspects of rigorous self-inquiry.

Suzanne's work and the Voice of Change modality is LIFE. CHANGING. Going through it myself I felt like a part of myself that had been missing had been found again.

FAQs

  • While this is a fully participatory and engaged course that will be “live” on Zoom, we will be recording the sessions so that if you miss one, you can catch up with the work as we progress. We do ask that you plan to attend in person to receive the full benefit of the experience.

  • Each class will include lecture, exercises and ritual practice and will be held in Sacred Space. We will incorporate the skills we learn into the classes through embodied practices, writing, guided meditation, deep prayer, joyful song and more. After each class you will be guided in ways to deepen and practice these skills in your daily life through homework and Contemplation Questions.

  • yes. Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.

    In addition, our exclusive Facebook online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.