Reader,

I saw a video earlier this week, and I wish I could find it again to share the source material. But you know how algorithms are - you click away, they reset, and poof, it’s never to be found again. But I digress.

In the video, a scholar of mythology and folklore, explained that one of the purposes mythological stories and even traditional fairytales served in our life was to put us in touch with danger, evil, and/or terror, in a way that helped us contextualize what it felt like.

She described the somatic experience of the story as a way to help us touch what feels risky and dangerous without the danger, but also prepares us to meet these things in our lives.

I couldn’t help but think about Mythosomatic Sanctuary (because I’m obsessed) and how this space emerged as a place and way to hold both whimsy and terror.

Work in the Embodied Realms is bone and muscle, blood and nervous system. It’s joy and rage, and how your body holds and translates all of that through your personal and generational mythology.

This isn’t a fantasy of endless spring.

It’s not, “let’s only find the good things in the DNA.” Or, “look this way instead so you don’t see the harm hiding into the cupboard of your rib cage.”

You will meet yourself in ways you cannot predict.

You will find kinship with what you thought was silent.

You will discover that your body has always been telling the story.

The mythosomatic body respects both your story and your lived experience without making them the problem. It says:

“Here’s what’s alive and available. This is what I’m afraid of, and this is what I’m excited for. This is the new story I want to live into.”

The Mythosomatic Sanctuary was created to hold and contextualize, to uncover and integrate with rhythmic intentionality the long body of your life and lineage. This is your storied self unspooling itself slowly through energy, sensation, words, and rhythm.

This is wing and tooth.

Myth and soma, braided.

Animist awareness, embodied.

Explore the Realms of Embodiment with continuity of season, belonging, and community.

The MythoSomatic Sanctuary is where you step into rhythm with the Embodied Realms instead of chasing healing in fragmented parts.

It moves in seasons and stories.

Each season is an entry point. A chance to step through the gates with a constellation of people and beings that you will journey with.

Meet the seasons and guides

I’ve mentioned that the Mythosomatic Sanctuary moves in seasons, but I don’t necessarily mean winter, spring, summer, and fall. Yes, the seasonality of this space aligns with that, but it came forward as periods of time to hold, journey with, and nourish our Embodied Realms and whole selves without a northern/southern hemisphere distinction.

Each season prioritizes two different Realms, with an entire season to rest, integrate, allow everything to come together, or venture deeper into one of the Realms independently (I lovingly call this rest season/guest season).

During each season, a guardian stirs to steer you and protect you through this work.

I’ll start with the upcoming season, and go “forward” from there.

The Ancient Storyteller guides and holds us through Marrowkeeper Season (December - February)

As a Marrowkeeper, when your Bone Realm howls its ancestral hymns and your Organs reach for ecosystems of belonging, an ancient storyteller anchors your work and weaves it together with unending patience.

In this season you visit your independence and interdependence. You are the floor beneath the community and the community itself.

The Elder Weaver sits beside us at the loom of our bodies through Kinwoven Season (March - May)

An elder weaver sits with you in Kinwoven season as your Muscle Realm stretches, ruptures, and comes together in a new pattern, and as your Nervous System Realm threads the harmonious frequency of your soul.

This is your season of connection and communication. You are the support, the supported, and the soul whisper weaving it all together.

The Oracle holds and imparts the vision during the Season of the Dreaming Field (June - August)

During your season of rest, you reside in the temple of the Oracle. Vision visits and what is to be rises to the surface, unhurried, but ready.

This is your season of nothing and everything. You exist and you are becoming. You are whole and healing. You are beginning and ending. You are fallow, and you are fertile.

The Voyager rows and guides you through the map of your terrain during Season of the Bloodline River (September - November)

There is a voyager who protects and watches over your journey as you visit the Bloodline River.

As your Fluid Realm meanders and your DNA flickers like galaxies around you, this guardian stays steady.

This is a season of omnipresence and omniscience. You are both the sea bird and the birds-eye view.

The Mythosomatic Sanctuary is Invitational in nature

Everything in the Mythosomatic Sanctuary is an invitation, so if working with these guides doesn’t feel like your cup of tea, then there’s no pressure.

But if the idea of having a Being guide your ship or weave your energetic threads on your journey (beyond me and the community!) relaxes every muscle and soothes your nervous system, then they’re here for you.

Their purpose, the reason they stepped forward, is to help you navigate what arises and safely guide you through the story.

Excitedly preparing to open the gates,
Ash