CREATIVE CEREMONY & ritual
MARKING THE MOMENTS OF OUR LIVES WITH SACRED EXPRESSION IN FUN & MEANINGFUL CUSTOMIZED RITUALS FOR LIFE AND WORK.
Dr. Litwak is an experienced leader of spiritual ceremonies and consultations:
She offers seasonal wheel of the year ceremonies for women and girls and
Custom built rituals for life and work for anyone celebrating a sacred passage or a transition.
She also offers individual Tarot and Oracle Card Readings.
For Women who are interested in spirituality, creative modes of change, being part of a circle of embodied sisterhood: You are a good match if for this program if any one of these things are true:
You are curious about how to use symbols, rituals and physical metaphors to mark occasions.
You enjoy feeling connected to others in safe and nurturing community
You want to increase your sense of spiritual presence and the guidance of your higher self
You like to make things with your hands
You are interested in learning more about mythology, the elements and a variety of global healing practices.
If you are interested in Personal and Professional Growth, Creativity, Spirituality, Accessing the Divine Feminine, Empowerment, Recovery from addiction, Overcoming Trauma, Being part of a nurturing community, Increasing Productivity and Experiencing freedom & JOY.
If any of these things are true, Creative Ceremony is for YOU.
“Over the past several months, I’ve been fortunate to take part in the virtual women’s circles Jessica facilitates. It’s a beautiful and therapeutic practice to gather regularly (especially in this time of isolation) to slow down, celebrate the turning of the seasons, and connect with ourselves and each other. Jessica is wonderful at creating a meaningful space in which women can express themselves and feel supported.”
Ritual is a creative way to set goals by engaging with spirituality and art in a safe, inclusive and nurturing environment. A Creative Ceremony is a guided community gathering or an individual experience that centers on four things:
1. Building a safe and nurturing space to express feelings in confidentiality and trust.
2. Honoring a specific event, season, or person with elements of interfaith or secular ritual
3. Discovering and declaring specific goals for desired change and growth
4. Creatively constructing symbols to help inspire and manifest change and growth
Some of the custom ceremonies Dr. Litwak has created and conducted include rituals for:
Birth
Moving
Wedding
Wedding and Baby Showers
Brisses and Christenings
New Job
New Business
Transitions
Healing and Health
Birthdays
New House
Separation
Life Change
Office Blessing
Fertility
Using aspects of various spiritual traditions (Judeo-Christian Traditions, Yoga, Buddhism, Native American Traditions, West African Traditions and Pagan Traditions) Dr. Litwak guides the group through a simple yet rich event that is specific, meaningful and fun.
From learning how to create altars and how to build community to letting go the past and calling in the future, to focusing on the creative core of the ritual, participants will have the opportunity to enjoy an immersive experience while taking away a tool box of ceremonial skills.
“The specialness of a gathering which has form without expectation. How rare and precious that is. Most ritual, or ordering, processing systems carry with them a contract with the participant to behave in a certain way. Instead, this space feels free and yet bounded. Liberating and yet safe. Comfortably paradoxical and warmly familiar in its newness and individuality. I feel excitingly alive in the specialness of being part of a particular moment with a group of people that is absolutely unique, and held by Jessica.”
Custom Creative Ceremony:
Dr. Litwak will conduct an intake conversation with whomever is desiring the ritual to fully understand the purpose of the ceremony and the participants who will be attending. She will then create a ritual for the specific occasion complete with all of the elements and materials. Finally she will conduct the ceremony, leading participants through the experience.
This is accompanied by a follow up coaching session.
Seasonal Package: Join Dr. Litwak’s four seasonal rituals (Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall) and become part of the ongoing circle of women who support each other through the wheel of the year. Can begin the year at any of the four seasons.
What do you get?
A new set of skills for planning and creating rituals,
A customized ceremony, a series of group ceremonies and coaching
Counseling sessions devoted to goal setting and the use of ritual in daily life.
A Creative way of marking important occasions in life and work.
What is included in the Package?
*A pre-ritual coaching/counseling session.
* Admission to The Wheel of The Year (4 group rituals for each seasonal change for one year)
*A virtual or in person customized ceremony which will be an unforgettable event honoring a life passage for you and as many guests as you would like to include.
*A post ritual coaching/counseling session to maximize the usefulness of the ritual going forward.
* A Ceremony Box filled with ritual elements (earth, air, fire and water) to create your own ritual.
* Materials and tools for an ongoing practice.
Contact Dr. Jessica Litwak about pricing details below.
Readings:
Jessica also offers individual oracle and tarot readings as part of the coaching and/or ritual packages, or on their own. She is a trained and accomplished reader. Her focus is on spiritual and personal renewal and growth. She engages with clients very individually with the cars based on whatever it is they need/want to develop and discover.
For questions, inquiries, or information on pricing, please send Dr. Jessica Litwak a message below.
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Additional testimonials
“Rituals led by Jessica are transcendent in their ability to make you feel truly connected to yourself and others, no matter your level of “spiritual” connection. If you are open to that spiritual connection, these rituals also are a gateway to engaging with the Divine. What I learned from engaging in rituals is how to make gatherings of any size meaningful. Ritual has changed the way I interact with my friends and has changed the way I choose to engage in ceremony and moments of importance. I bring elements of ritual with me when I host a birthday party or a baby shower. I’ll try and create moments of truth and vulnerability with those I love by using things I have learned from the ritual. Songs, sharing of hopes and dreams, engaging in creative exercise, all after making sure space has been established where everyone feels safe and seen. Ritual has helped me feel confident about the woman I am and has also made me more capable of seeing others in their beautiful individual moments of joy and grief.”
“As women, we know: “Circles are living and breathing beings”. And a circle in motion, progressing and cutting across time and space is a Spiral; motivated by wisdom and courage - yielding love, light, and sanity. Jessica is a curator of such cyclical spirals and her season rituals are the pinnacle of her capacity to generate a safe and prosperous space for a community of women to come together and manifest. Each season Jessica thoughtfully summons her community — a collection of powerhouse women, no less — and sets forth the sacred and auspicious container, and space for the group to co-create a witnessing and Being-ness - Together. The circle and community are in a purposeful union, celebrating our divine femininity, women ancestors, elders, archetypes, poets, and even the divine feminine parts of ourselves - all of which knows no bounds. The container Jessica is able to yield is limitless, especially in its opportunity to call attention to your intentions for the season ahead. Also- invitations and group support in letting go of that which is blocking, not serving, or resisting the transformation you seek. What Jessica curates in her seasonal multicultural ritual(s), is an arts-based intention setting circle where bright minds and hearts of haven come together to hold, nurture, and cherish other women. Jessica’s genius is in how she cultivates a sacred and precious space where women foster the growth and Spirit of other women. Healing happens. Period.”