The full moon ritual of release series offers a safe and potent ceremonial space for release, renewal, and the reclamation of our deep intuitive gifts and magical self care tools. Starting with a platica (a talk and teaching on specific topics), we will learn techniques for emotional well being and the flowering of our most sacred potential.

Then, engaging the month's theme, we will enter into deep ritual to align with the full moon, a powerful time to release the excessive energies and emotions we have collected, in order to restore balance and make room for the full flowering of our dreams and intentions.

Topics covered stem from the rich traditions of Curanderismo, Nahualismo, folk herbalism, and magick. Come join Melusina Gomez of Metzmecatl for sacred practices to increase our perceptual skills, to heal, and to rejuvenate ourselves.

December: Bathing with Plants and Flowers, and Bajos Herbal Steam Ritual. We are in the season of the Winter Solstice, a perfect time for purification, cleansing the stagnant emotions and traumas that have kept us ill, numb, or closed to new possibilities in our lives. The plantitas and flores have powerful and nurturing medicine for us during this time. We will listen deeply to them, learning how to bath with them all throughout the seasons for emotional healing and balance, and engaging in a full body steam. Bajos is traditionally a yoni steam, effective for clearing energies from sexual traumas,
violations, energies of past lovers, infections, and other emotional and physical health issues. All genders are welcome, as this plant medicine offers powerful healing for our whole system, and is good for anyone looking for deep clearing, and the softening of the walls around the emotional heart. Bring a skirt or sarong, a large blanket, a towel, a large or medium sized clay, porcelain, or glass bowl, and fresh, warm clothes for after.

Melusina Gomez is a curandera and practitioner of Nahualismo. Coming from a deep love of mysticism and ancestral medicine, she has dedicated the past 20 years to studying and practicing the healing forms of her Mexican lineage. In recent years she has specialized in addressing personal and generational trauma, ritual art making, and dreaming arts, and currently has a private healing practice at Heart Tribe in Fairfax.

For more information, please visit www.metzmecatl.com