SHINE: Your Power & Purpose
ENGAGE the technology of Ritual, Prayer, Ceremony and a creative practice as you ACTIVATE your life force.
In this 6-week online adventure to becoming a conscious creator in our times.
This is a call to the Conscious Creators:
the temple keepers, visionaries, healers, bridge builders,
seed planters, and seed tenders.
Who is this class for?
Whether you’re writing a novel,
opening a new restaurant
or creating a social movement — this space is for you.
This is a call to all those who seek
to create the most beautiful world
we know is possible.
SHINE: Power & Purpose
6 Weeks
May 17th - June 21st, 2022
Tuesdays 11am-1pm Pacific Time
Guest Teachers on Thursdays 11am - 1pm PST
Now more than ever we need a sanctuary.
A territory for our fullest emergence, where we can align
with the truth of who we are and the divine creative life force
available to all of us. Through the stories we tell, we can create
the world we most want to live and love in.
RECEIVE MY STORYLETTER
and join the sacred storytelling community
SHINE: POWER & PURPOSE
A 6-week online intensive, is the 4th module of an 11-part Sacred Storytelling program.
This workshop is committed to revealing your architecture as a creative,
removing obstacles from your creation process,
and providing access and avenues to
amplify your gifts in the world.
THE JOURNEY
This 6-week SANCTUARY module invites us inward to explore our inner world as it relates to the relationship between sexuality and creativity as we focus on where the energy is liberated and blocked in our 3rd chakra. The Core Chakra is located just above the pubic bone and is responsible for passion, sexuality, intimacy, money, creativity, and joy. The balance of the Sacral Chakra allows us to improve our relationships with ourselves and others. We will explore your relationship to how your creativity, and sexuality, has been defined by the world around you, and make our way to your true essence and how it wants to be expressed through you and the stories you tell as you reveal how these energies are lived and expressd by you. We will explore your stories about sex and sexuality: we'll listen for the stories that yearn to be expressed, shared, healed, and liberated. What gifts and shadows are living in your 2nd chakra? Where do you source your creativity? How do you lose your life force, leak it, or give it away?
What stories about your sexuality and sexual experiences are jamming your psychic space -- blocking the fullest expression of your creativity? What stories are you unconsciously projecting about your unprocessed internal belief systems? The place in our home we will focus upon will be your bathroom; as we create this space as sacred space, and one of healing your relationship to tender self care. All along the way we will engage creative practices, ritual, and practices to transmute and transform these energies as we prepare to emerge to tell the story.
This is a journey through the body, what stories live with in us and make and break us. As we make sense of what is ready to be released, and liberate the parts that have been contained or stymied, we regenerate and our stories shift and transform as we prepare to share them with the world. We move like the ocean, in a steady rhythm of ebb and flow, going in to discover and reveal and recode, and then come out to give the gems we discovered through the form of sacred story.
We do this work through an embodied practice of creating Psychic Silence as you redesign and redefine your home as a living Sanctuary and sacred space. You’ll learn how to listen deeply as you build altars, ritualize your intentions, weave sacred commitments, and engage your mythos to transform your home and reveal your unique Creator Matrix and Creator Archetypes.
THE JOURNEY
SHINE is the 5rd module of an 11- module sacred arts program. The regeneration codes of Starfish is what guide the design and structure of how we learn.
This is a journey through the body, what stories live with in us and make and break us. As we make sense of what is ready to be released, and liberate the parts that have been contained or stymied, we regenerate and our stories shift and transform as we prepare to share them with the world. We move like the ocean, in a steady rhythm of ebb and flow, going in to discover and reveal and recode, and then come out to give the gems we discovered through the form of sacred story.
Our journey begins in an embodied practice of creating Psychic Silence as you redesign and redefine your home as a living Sanctuary and sacred space. You’ll learn how to listen deeply as you build altars, ritualize your intentions, weave sacred commitments, and engage your mythos to transform your home and reveal your unique Creator Matrix and Creator Archetypes.
Each week you’ll be guided through rituals for your home, and then in class we’ll integrate your discoveries through a transformational storytelling process. We’ll explore:
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A step-by-step process for clearing your channel and understanding your limiting and liberating thought patterns
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Core principles of creating prayers and blessings and how to integrate ritual into your creation process
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Earth-based practices for collaborating with the land as you create your intentions
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Meditations and prompts that open your creative channel
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Muse-invoking articles, podcasts, books, and music that will support you during this revelatory practice
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Systems to reveal and then play with the old stories, patterns, unconscious belief systems, and behaviors living between you and your activated Creator Matrix
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Rituals for cleansing and clearing, anointing, healing, forgiving, and addressing wounds within the masculine and feminine
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A supportive community that has gathered at a unique moment in time to focus on bringing theirs gifts (and yours) to the times we are living in
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SHINE: Power & Purpose $550
THIS WORKSHOP INCLUDES:
- 6 live, interactive class sessions on Zoom (12 hours)
- 5 live, interactive classes with guest master teachers
- A private accountability group with other participants who will support you outside of class
- Guided meditation and creativity practices
- Private online platform for gathering outside of class
- Recordings of all classes
Power & Purpose + Wisdom Stories $825
All of the above, plus WISDOM STORIES:
A 4-week storytelling & workshop class (April 5th - April 26th).
You will emerge with a Wisdom Story for the times we are living in.
We will workshop your stories, develop your storytelling skills, and cultivate your unique storytelling style.
BONUS CLASSES
NIEMA LIGHTSEED
Disarming Our Language: Transforming internalized Oppression & Reclaiming Your Power
NICHOLAS ADAMSKI
The True Voice: Searching For The Jewel
ALECIA DATTNER
Shine Your Light: The Power of Humor
MAYA LUNA
Embodying Ferocious Devotion: Intuitive Writing
WEEK ONE - RECALIBRATE
Our journey lives inside of a wisdom story. In our first session you will be given a story. This mythic story will hold us and serve as our guide as we explore our unique archetypal role in creating and tending sanctuary on our planet. You will be guided step-by-step through the Creator Matrix process, which will reveal the stories, conscious and subconscious, that influence how you are showing up as a creator and manifestor in the world. You will learn clearing and cleansing rituals that provide the structure to examine your energy and capacity to create.
WEEKS 4 & 5 : RELEASE & REDESIGN
As you release and compost the barriers you are working with, you will free up more energy to catalyze the gifts you came to give. All along the way you will re-story your life through individualized assignments, you will work with story as a healing modality to address your unique discoveries.
WEEKS 2 & 3: REFLECT, RESTRUCTURE, & RECREATE
As you recreate your space, you will step onto the path of the temple keeper. You will learn practices to bless and prepare your sacred space and how to listen to your own inner wisdom on how to do this. You will generate earth-based rituals to meet each barrier and block you identify (forgiveness of self and others, healing your relationship with the sacred masculine and feminine, or other challenges you face).
WEEK 6: RECALIBRATE, REGENERATE, & ALCHEMIZE
Our course will culminate in your designing and building the Altar of Your Becoming in your sacred space. You will present one of the transformational medicine stories you created over the span of our time together. You will leave understanding your unique Creator Matrix, the gifts and the challenges your Matrix presents, and your Creator Archetype.
WHY THIS? WHY NOW?
Our planet is going through a radical transformation. How do you engage your life force in a time of rapid transition?
This course is designed to meet the unique times we are living in and provide skills and techniques to thrive in a quickly changing planet.
Calibrating to these times requires evolving to meet the moment. Slowing down and engaging in reflective processes so you can consciously repattern based on your discoveries is the name of the game.
As you gain clarity on what is in your psychic space, and then engage the tools to heal, release, transform, and compost energies that don’t serve you, your life force is liberated and more accessible, increasing your power to share your gifts with the world.
Your Guide
LEAH LAMB
Leah Lamb learned about how stories could be allies and friends when she was a child wandering the fields, creeks, and ponds of a rural farm in Vermont. Her first loves were writing and theater. Leah experienced first-hand how stories can unite when her play about suicide, “Berries,” was produced by VA Young Writers for The Theater. She went on to study the Eric Morris technique and the Meisner Technique at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City and interned at Williamstown Theatre Festival. Her love of the environment led her to study at Prescott College, where she earned a double major in outdoor experiential education and environmental education through performance. After she worked with youth at risk for many years as a wilderness guide with Outward Bound and other programs, her commitment to social justice led her to earn a master’s degree in social work from Virginia Commonwealth University.
"Nothing could have prepared me for the immensity or inner treasures unearthed during Sanctuary. I only knew my soul was calling from the desert, aching to be known and its secrets to be unleashed. I do not consider myself a storyteller nor came to tell stories. Medicine is what I needed. The kind you find in sacred arts, rituals, symbols and in the sacred mother of life.
The journey weaved together the scattered parts, the preciousness and beauty surrounding me, and the soul crafting needed to claim the truth of my existence.
Leah masterfully guides the birthing of what has been calling you."
- Devi W, Participant in Sanctuary
“Leah’s guidance is finally allowing me to find my true voice, which has transformed my life in ways I never thought imaginable. Through the lens of sacred storytelling and meditation, Leah approaches my chaotic thoughts with care and grace, creating a space that truly nurtures growth. She has a knack for spotting the gifts of others, and her methods are perfect for bringing out the unique potential in each of us. Aided by her consistent and stable anchor, I am gently pushed to succeed at forming real process and long lasting discipline. With Leah’s help, I’m finally learning how to flow with my creative life and connect to my muse in ways that are nothing short of magical...she is an absolute gift to this world and it is an honor to work with her. She has catalyzed me to find my own unique use of language and creative expression through storytelling.”
- Elora Lydia, Animator and storyteller.
“I’ve learned with Leah that being a Sacred Storyteller is about so much more than telling stories well. It’s a way of Being in life—of being in service, available to the Divine, in the specific ways that are truest to our own natures. Leah is a masterful guide and a committed advocate for creators and for the Creator in us all and has taught me a new way of being in partnership with inspiration and wisdom. Speak the Spark has been an experience so much more profound than I expected. I’m so grateful for the gifts! “
- Grace Boda
“I not only learned how to write my own stories and perform them confidently, I also learned how to LIVE story. Leah supported me in getting to know a story so well that it embeds into my skeletal structures, flows through my emotional waters, burns through to a personal truth, and finally affects the way I live and breathe. I have loved stories my whole life, and still Leah introduced me to the mysterious transformative power of stories in a way no other teacher has."
- Melinda Bielas, Storyteller in the 2019 Performance Intensive
This course is a prayer
For the people
To remember the truth
of our belonging
To remember our place
in this Sanctuary
And our role as tenders
of this Sanctuary.
