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Rites of Passage
There comes a moment when the old story no longer fits. When the life you’ve lived begins to whisper: “There’s more.” This is where a Rite of Passage begins.
What's Rites of Passage?
It is an initiatory journey that ferries you from who you have been and opens the way for who you are becoming.
It's a journey where you experience releasing, integrating, and through symbolic meaningful acts, you have a felt shift into what's ready to be fully lived.
A true Rite of Passage includes three core phases:
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Severance: from an Old Self, Story or Way of living
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Threshold: experience releasing and stepping into
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Return: Integrate and embody new self and paradigm
Simply put, Rites of Passage (ROP) is an ancestral practice of marking change... a conscious releasing and becoming that invites us to live more wholly aligned with the truth now ready to emerge.
Why Now
In modern life, most crossings go unmarked. Divorce, loss, aging, awakening... each one a death and rebirth, yet we rush through without witness or ritual.
What should be released clings to us; what wants to emerge cannot.
The soul lingers in the in-between, carrying the weight of unfinished change.
We call it burnout, confusion, emptiness, but it is the ache of an initiation that never happened.
Healing is found in conclusion. Vitality is found in new vision.
What We Do
Every Rites of Passage is personal. We meet you where you are, what you're ready to lean into and how you're called step through.
Through ancestral storytelling, guided dialogue, movement, and symbolic ritual, you will meet the patterns and archetypes that have shaped your story.
You name them, speak with them, and offer them back to the fire. From that clearing, new images and directions emerge... fresh, alive, and unmistakably your own.
Every step is guided.
Nothing is forced.
Each passage ends with reflection and practices for integration, so the transformation becomes lived, not just felt.
This work is both psychological and sacred...
a bridge between the human and the mythic.
It restores wholeness where life has fragmented,
and invites vitality to flow again.
We meet you where you are, what you're ready to lean into and how you're willing to engage, move, and step through.
What We Do:
Every Rites of Passage is personal.
We meet you where you are, what you're ready to lean into and how you're willing to engage, move, and step through.
We provide an ancestral frame that guides you. We help you identify what's ready to release and what you're ready to step into without the past influence. We customize your journey to help you do so.
We use the tools of:
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Story + Symbol – To uncover the deeper meaning of what you’ve lived
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Ritual + Land – To mark the moment in your body and bones
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Integration + Practice – So you return with clarity, not confusion
There's an old knowledge that says:
"You can't enter a world where you don't know its language."
Rites of Passage is as symbolic as it is practical result based transformation. It's the symbolic nature of it that provides such deep healing and transformation. These kinds of journeys have their own language, their own symbology and mythic motifs that draw out the hidden layers, meanings, and reasons.
We help you learn the language, the symbology and how to engage on a deeper level.
Why People Choose This Work
“This gave me more than 10 years of therapy.”
~ Sandra K., Tacoma, WA
This work isn’t for everyone.
It’s for those who feel the ache of incompletion.
The grief that didn’t move.
The identity that never came all the way home.
The hunger for a way of healing that feels… older than words.
You don’t have to explain why you’re still carrying it.
You just have to be ready to lay it down.