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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #3598db;"><strong>Join Jes in celebrating our Winter Solstice.</strong></span></p>
<p>This is the darkest and shortest day of the year but also a celebration for the return of our Sun.</p>
<p>We will align with ourselves with natures rhythms by moving through a series of yule rituals to connect to this winter solstice energy. We will start our practice with thoughtful reflection and writing intentions of what we want to let go of, enjoy a nourishing restorative yoga session, and cap it off with a warm wassail as we burn what we want to let go of. You will leave this circle with a yule wand to take home to continue your practice during the season and a new list of intentions to reflect what you want to welcome into your life moving forward from this solstice. </p>
<p>*A wand is another word for smudge stick. Can be thrown in the fire (best option if accessible), burned and used like a smudge stick (recommended only if have experience as cedar tends to crack and pop) or boiled to fill and cleanse your space with winter solstice aroma.</p>
<p>Ritual Fee > $40 . (Includes, restorative yoga, yule wand, wassail)</p>
<p>1.5 hrs</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><em>More info:</em></strong></span></p>
<p>For those unfamiliar with Yule, it is simply another term for what we call “Christmas time” (Yuletide) as a Pagan holiday marking the winter solstice. A time of feasting and merry-making. This is the time where we have our darkest and shortest day of the year but celebrating this turning point where the sun starts to return and with it, the rebirth of our lands. It is a time of remembrance that earth and human are kin, and Yule is a time to celebrate that kinship. As far back as the 8<sup>th</sup> century it was a festival to celebrate with various rituals, some being lighting lanterns as a celebration of the return of light, bringing greens indoors as a symbol of the rebirthing of the land, making warm wassail for feasting and merry-making ( hot spiced beverage that originated as a borrowing from the Old Norse salutation “ves heill”, corresponding to Old English hál wes þú or wes hál – that translates as 'to be in good health' or 'be fortunate') , and yule log burning to symbolize releasing any negative energies we don’t want to bring into the new year. Yule season is about magic, rebirth, renewal, as the sun makes its way back to the earth, and our kinship to nature. In our honoring we will practice some of these rituals and celebrate this time of new beginnings through magical workings!</p>
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