Halloween is one of the most powerfully spiritual, beautiful holidays on the calendar, but you wouldn't know it by looking at the marketplace. It’s the time of deep personal transformation, of asking the large questions about your life’s purpose and your destiny. It’s the time of cleansing old wounds and spiritual toxins, of letting go of that which holds you back.

If you are looking for a beautiful, healing, mysterious “shamanic” experience of Halloween, you are heartily invited!

November 2, 2013

7:30 PM (doors open at 7)

One Yoga Studio

721 West 26^th Street, Minneapolis

(½ block west of Lyndale on 26^th)

Space is limited to 75, and this event will sell out. We recommend paying in advance to reserve your spot. We will have a few sliding fee tickets available at the door. Come and pay what you can. 

Everyone drums (bring your own, or borrow ours). No drumming skill or experience is needed. Just show up. We will drum for about an hour and anyone who wants to dance can dance as freely and wildly as they need to. Then we will move into a ceremony that honors the mysterious powers of life and death. We will honor the “Dark Mother” – that face of the Great Mother who comes to “take away what which must be taken.” We will honor, nourish and heal our ancestors - even the ones that brought us pain, and even the ones we never met or know nothing about.

The ceremony is fun and safe but also deeply mysterious. Leave logic at home tonight. You are moving into the realm of the irrational, of the mytho-poetic, of image and emotion. You can enter into the experience at your own comfort level - you don't have to believe or do anything that doesn't feel right to you. But doing ceremonies like this can be very powerful and it can work on you in ways you would never expect.  It can re-align ancient energies and help you change patterns in this life. Just be open. 

Feel free to wear a costume or mask, especially one that honors the powers of nature, or honors your ancestors. You absolutely don’t have to dress up.

Feel free to bring a small offering for the spirits of nature, the spirits of mystery, and the spirits of transformation. Anything biodegradable works:  any compostable pleasurable food (not meat), flowers, herbs, seeds, candy, alcohol, an object made by you - whatever feels right to you. It doesn't have to be a lot.

Feel free to bring a photo of one of your ancestors, or a drawing, or words written to them, or any object that represents them.  If you don't know anything about your ancestors, feel free to bring a piece of paper with words written on it - any words, but one suggestion is "I want to know you...." Or “I wish you well.”

And of course, you don’t have to do any of this. Just show up.

Mostly bring your love for the immensely mysterious adventure of life and death (and life and death…on and on?), this cosmic conundrum of where we go when the dark wind blows. Come with a love for this awesome earth and a love for Spirit - however you define that. And with love for those who came before us who, like us, lived hard lives of pain and joy, of the need for love and wonder, lives with bitterness, disappointment – and surprise. 

There is a suggested donation of $20. Space is limited to 75, and this event will likely sell out. We recommend paying in advance to reserve your spot. However we will also reserve some sliding scale tickets at the door and you can pay what you are able to pay for those by just snowing up.

One Yoga has several parking spaces nearby and parking on the street. (Click here for a parking map). It’s the awesome Wedge neighborhood, and parking can sometimes be a challenge. Please allow time for finding parking and walking two blocks.

Questions? Email Jaime: drummingthesoulawake@gmail.com