Everyday Sacred, The practical art of working with Anointing Oils and Prayer to Sanctify your life with Arinn Testa

About this Event

Anointing oils have a long tradition in history across cultures from Egypt, Greece, India, Peru, and China. They were used as healing medicines, gateways to higher consciousness, spiritual tools for initiation, baptism, and other religious rites, beautification, and vitality. The state of being anointed was the act of being infused by the divine. The Christ archetype is represented in many spiritual traditions, cinema, and literature, in both male and female form, and directly translates to The Anointed One. Alchemy is the transmutation of lead into gold and this sacred science has become an analogy for personal transformation, purification, and wholeness. We will apply the sacred mysteries of alchemy through the infusion of the living consciousness of plants, elementals, symbol, Light, and our own infinite nature to deliver us into a deeper connection with all that is.

We’re in an extraordinary moment in time that’s bringing forth the essence of the Goddess and the Sacred Feminine. It’s a potent time to alchemize our hearts and souls - awakening into a collective consciousness and connecting us to all living beings throughout the world.

This earthbound ascension process is a reemergence that’s manifesting in many dimensions, through community wellsprings, exposure of the shadow, and the favoring of inclusiveness over division. As above, so below, before, in this life, and next.

This workshop will facilitate your inherent wisdom for healing and growth through the alchemy of spiritual mysteries, the neuroscience of sensory systems, plant medicine, and archetypal symbolism. We will create rituals of depth and awaken the sacred in everyday moments through the art of anointing.

Though you’re sure to leave the workshop with many tools to deepen your practice, the most precious tool we’ll tune into is your own precious life. This workshop includes:

- Traditional/historical use of plants in spiritual practice, meditation, and healing

- The use of elementals to deepen our connection to all of life

- Archetypes, animal spirits, and symbol in plant alchemy

- The Neuroscience of smell

- Emotion and sensation as an inner compass

- Plant energy fields

- Rationale for the Essential Oils included in Route Five’s Sacred Alchemy Essential Oils

- The power of intention to heal, release, connect, and manifest

- Suggestions for anointing - integrating the sacred in everyday moments

Suggested materials and environmental setting:

- Comfortable loose clothes that allow for skin to air contact

- A comfortable place to either lay down or sit in ceremony with pillows, blankets, etc.

- Eye mask

- Notebook & pen

- An oil of some sort - can be coconut, hemp, olive - or whatever you have that’s

comfortable to rub on your skin

- Essential oil of your choosing - if you don’t have this I’d recommend a citrus fruit, foraging around your home for plant material or resins - such as Eucalyptus, bay, basil, sage leaves, lavender, fragrant flower petals, pine needles or rosemary, etc. You don’t need much - just enough for you to connect to a few different scents.

- Water, tea, cacao, or other nourishing drink.

Registration is donation based and donations can be submitted thru Eventbrite. All donations will be used to support and assist the physical space of The Eleventh House.

While donations are welcomed and encouraged, we know that these times are challenging and that financial resources may be scarce. If that is the case, we want you to know that this summit is offered fully to support you in receiving the tools, practices and teachings available thru the Eleventh House. If you are not able to financially contribute please do not let that stop you from receiving these gifts and teachings – please choose a Scholarship Ticket.

Zoom A Zoom Access Code will be provided upon registration. If you have not received the Zoom access code by the day of the event, please email info@theeleventhhouseca.com

This Workshop is part of the Eleventh House Summit, an online summit focused on providing tools, techniques and practices that support one in staying centered and grounded within one’s sense of self- especially in transformative times. To see offerings for the entire Summit, please visit the main eventbrite page

About Arinn Testa

I’m a licensed Doctor of Psychology, Alchemist, Neuroscience Researcher, Healer, and Mother. My life has been defined by stepping into the unknown, exploring the mysteries, and being of service. I have a deep prayer to live a Sacred life where every breath, every heartbeat, is a ceremony, and moments of rest or action are imbued with reverence. Plants have always been a source of medicine and fascination along my journey. As a child rolling in the mud and tall grasses, beneath the weeping willows, the sun warming my bones, birds in song, and the mixture of sweet grass and cheery blossoms in the summer breeze of my grandmother’s farm, I was aware of the subtle energies circulating through Mother Earth - feeling held by its web of interconnectedness. As a young adult, I moved to Guatemala to expand on this inherent knowing working with midwives and studying plant medicine and esoteric traditions with shamans, awakening to my own mystical nature, as I accessed deep wells of intuition, magic, and connection. Nearly two decades since, my explorations with plant medicine and spiritual practices continue to guide me to the sacred shores of their healing and compel me to share this abundant wisdom with others, I have a deep, empathic manner combined with an innate, relentless love for all living beings that has been both my light and shadow.

In 2018 I founded the Non-Profit, Route Five developed for the objective of to advocating for whole-person healthcare that addresses Five integrated Routes of health - physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and action, I’ve designed workshops, blogs, podcasts, and products that support others in experiencing the pleasures of life through their sensory systems, archetypes, and contemplative practices. In addition to a holistic psychology private practice at Gathering Thyme in San Rafael, California, I’m the Director of Research and a Master Trainer for Emotional Brain Traning, an Usui Reiki Master, and a professor of doctoral students providing innovative, multidimensional instruction that galvanizes fertile opportunities for learning. I’ve navigated through tremendous adversities in my life, processing immobilizing grief and the consequences of trauma, and reclaimed an awe for the absolute unimaginable beauty of life as it is and always has been.

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