Join us this Indigenous People’s Day for a moving meditation on The Wheel of the Year, the significance of the season ahead, and the timeless natural women’s magic of rhythms and cycles, movement and stillness, manifestation and surrender. We will enjoy nourishing herbal elixirs for renewal and finding strength to face the blessings and challenges of a new season with courage and curiosity.

Our evening will be guided by myself and my dear sister Golden Drake . For the past year, Golden has been journeying deep in the realms of breast cancer. She has shown us all what it means to stay present and unflinching in the face of adversity and made a great leap toward embodying the bolder aspects of Goddess consciousness that are asking to be known and honored in these times. She is transmuting cancer into educational and liberating art by dancing through it alllll, including  the huge stack of unpaid medical bills Golden stares at every day, as a solo mom with teenagers and a lot of big healing still needed. This community has been amazing with many sisters stepping up to host fundraisers, and, continued support is still very much needed!

And so, 100% of the proceeds from this Women’s Moonlodge will be donated to Golden Drake’s medical bills fund. To register for the Moon Lodge, follow the link in our profile and sign up to make a one time donation of $20 or more or an ongoing donation of $2 or more a month to help Golden pay off her medical bills and rebuild her life after her recent surgeries. Please email a screen shot or email confirmation of your donation to detailsdevi@medicinemandala.com by 11 am on Monday October 1st to receive the address and gain admittance to the event.

Sisters who for any reason can’t make it out to sit in circle with us, and any Brothers out there who would like to stand and be counted as co-creators of this culture of care we are continuously working on weaving, you can click the link below and donate as well- your donations and help sharing this opportunity to contribute are so deeply appreciated!

New Year’s Broom Making Workshop and Blessing Ritual

Brooms are used around the world for daily and ritual cleansing of spaces. A broom is an important part of making a safe and sacred space. In this industrial modern world handcrafts of all kinds are being replaced by machine made goods. The broom is no exception. Handcrafted brooms are on the brink of extinction. 

On this New Years Day, we will gather together with Erin Rivera Merriman and special guest instructor Bethany Ridenour at Bridge Temple (Newly relocated to Elder Farm in Descanso, CA) for a day of slowing down, celebration, and study of the time honored craft of broom making. 

Each attendee will make and take home their own turkey wing style whisk broom (shown in center photo above) and participate in a sweeping ritual that will assist us in clearing and resetting ourselves to greet the new calendar year with fresh eyes and open arms. 

*** Please dress in warm layers, bring water, and a healthy snack to share with your sisters during our break. Cost includes all materials used to make your broom, covers Bethany's cost for travell and help offset the cost of the specialized tools she has created that enable us to create beautiful, long lasting, functional art/ritual objects with ease. 

Join us at Elder Farm on Saturday November 25th for a day of winter medicine making where Vicky of Grandmother’s Medicinewill introduce us to herbal allies for the winter season and guide us in an afternoon of hands-on medicine making. In addition to expanding your natural medicine cabinet, you will also gain the skills to create these remedies yourself, so you can share them with your community and give them as holiday gifts.

Once our medicine making is complete, Erin of Active Culture Family will lead us in a short plant spirit meditation and discussion of what our winter plant allys have to teach us about boundaries, the best medicine we have yet to discover for experiencing multidimensional well-being in the holiday season.

Bring warm layers, a notebook, pen, waterbottle and snack.

We began growing our practice community in our home in Ocean Beach, and have spent the past year focused on building an off the grid dedicated temple space in Descanso, CA, because we feel strongly that this work belongs in nature and that the immersion in nature is the real medicine.

We hope you will join us for an intimate, less formal gathering in celebration of a dream made manifest as reality. We will share Kava*, and ancient guide to establishing and maintaining healthy communities, and a council on the topic of community- what it is, what its not, our hopes and fears, our needs and prayers for this emerging sacred space. All genders welcome. We look forward to connecting with the partners, allies, and friends of our sisterhood.**

Please feel free to bring a drum, flute, maraka or other sacred instrument, warm layers, and a healthy dish to share afterwards.

( * Pregnant and nursing women, and those taking prescription anti-depressant/ anti- convulsant and related prescription medications are advised to refrain from injesting Kava, and are welcomed instead to come and connect with the medicine in spirit. **Yes, we will continue to hold women’s only spaces in the future because there is a lot of really detailed knowledge of how energy moves in the feminine vessel that is evident when we can be together around the explicit intention of experiencing what we share in common as women, but for our first public circle, we would like to seed a future in which men and women have places where they can go to learn together. )

All ticket sales and donations collected in exchange for tea, snacks, and other offerings will be donated to rebuilding communities in Puerto Rico, where much of my extended blood family resides and faces daily hardship in the aftermath of hurricane Maria.

A private group ceremony for students of The Gaia School of Healing and Earth Education.

Every religion, every tradition, every lineage on the planet is but a portal, a temple, a gateway or access point into the mysterious. loving, magical depths of the universe- into connection with God/Goddess/Creator/ Self/ All That Is. Your body is also a portal. If we can move beyond the goal of pleasure and release, intimate relating has the capacity to open us to direct communication and communion with the divine.

Kava Temple is s a place where we experientially explore Kava and its ability to facilitate healthy communities by gently guiding us into healing conversations. This ceremonial conversation will center around the important role that our sexual energy can play in our spiritual awakening process if we allow it. 

Join Me and Adrianna Rizzolo (www.adrianarizzolo.com, @artofloving ) at The BE Hive in Los Angeles, CA for a special New Moon Kava ceremony, where we will be working/playing with the power of sacred plant medicine ( in this case Kava) and sacred sound together as sentient energies capable of recalibrating us energetically and guiding us into deeper levels of awareness, receptivity, alignment, and purpose. The evening’s ritual represents an alchemical blend of teachings on Kava, an astrological weather report, sister sharing, and traditional Hindu devotional singing all offered with intentions for your journey to total spiritual liberation in this lifetime.  Space is limited, click here to register.

Looking to deepen your commitment to aligning your life with the rhythms of the natural world? The support and accountability of regularly sharing earth based ritual with likeminded community is a beautiful way of symbolically communicating your intention to the helper spirits that surround us so that your reality can become an experience that is co-created with the entirety of the natural world and you may feel yourself to be held and supported in the web of life.

Join ceremonialist Erin Rivera Merriman as she brings a series of monthly new moon gatherings to The BE Hive to share kava as a 3000 year old tool for creating and sustaining healthy, diverse communities bonded together in a sense of shared values and deep spiritual purpose.

Open to all who identify as women. Kava will be served via vapor inhalation. Registration for this offering constitutes a legally binding agreement that you are not currently pregnant, nursing, drinking alcohol or taking prescription anti-depressant or anti-convulsant medications. Pregnant or nursing women who wish to sit and participate in the vibration of ceremony without ingesting the kava are of course welcomed.

Join us for a night of redefining sexuality, where guest facilitator Jennifer Laurin will guide us through a series of breath, sound and movement exercises designed to awaken the flow of sexual energy within your own body. This self-awakening of your own energies allows you to create a deeper living relationship with the great mystery of your sexual sensual self.  You will emerge from the evening with new tools to connect, nourish and energize yourself and a deeper understanding of the relationship between your feminine heart and your sexual energy.

* Just a note that there will be no nudity at this event. Dress in a way that makes you feel both beautiful and comfortable and bring a cup, plate, utensils, and a small dish or beverage to share afterwards.

Looking to deepen your commitment to aligning your life with the rhythms of the natural world? The support and accountability of regularly sharing earth based ritual with likeminded community is a beautiful way of symbolically communicating your intention to the helper spirits that surround us so that your reality can become an experience that is co-created with the entirety of the natural world and you may feel yourself to be held and supported in the web of life.

Join ceremonialist Erin Rivera Merriman as she brings a series of monthly new moon gatherings to The BE Hive to share kava as a 3000 year old tool for creating and sustaining healthy, diverse communities bonded together in a sense of shared values and deep spiritual purpose.

Open to all who identify as women. Kava will be served via vapor inhalation. Registration for this offering constitutes a legally binding agreement that you are not currently pregnant, nursing, drinking alcohol or taking prescription anti-depressant or anti-convulsant medications. Pregnant or nursing women who wish to sit and participate in the vibration of ceremony without ingesting the kava are of course welcomed.

Bridge Temple and Elder Farm invite our extended San Diego sisterhood to come together in Ocean Beach this January to share our fullness by the light of the Full Moon in our cozy cliffside temple space, celebrating with eachother and the elements, ritually acknowledging and honoring the seasons, the turning of the wheel of the year, and each other for the courageous heart centered actions we are taking to propell ourselves forward into the reality of our choosing. Click Here to register!

*The Bridge Temple and Elder Farm Quarterly full moon gathering will be held on the first full moon of each new season either in OB or Descanso, depending on the season, please read above description carefully! Babes in arms and teens genuinely interested in this work welcome. Dress comfortably and bring a beverage, snack, or dish to share afterwards, as well as your own cup, dish, and utensils.

Join me at AY^AM in Playa Del Rey, CA for a special full moon ceremony, where we will be working/playing with the power of sacred plant medicine ( in this case Kava) and sacred sound together as sentient energies capable of guiding us into deeper levels of awareness, receptivity, alignment, and purpose. We are blessed to be joined by Kirtan leader Adrianna Rizzolo ( www.adrianarizzolo.com , @artofloving ) to assist in bringing sound and vibration to our evening of healing exploration. Click here for full description and registration.

“Not Every Empty is for Filling” ~Eve Bradford

Join Esoteric Women’s Health Practitioner Erin Rivera Merriman, and Restorative Yoga Instructor Sibyl Buck for a Women’s New Moon Kava Ceremony in Topanga, CA.  Nestled into a beautiful, luminous space lined with fleeces and pillows and surrounded by nature, we will work with breath, relaxation and sacred plant medicine to connect with the peace and beauty within us.  Space is limited. Click here for full description and registration.