Events

Community Sharing Circle

With Waves of Wisdom we gathered with nature and the elders to listen to their wisdoms on how to weave a new relationship of living, to bring our human community into a balanced and harmonious relationship with all of Mother Earth’s communities.

Since then our brothers Christopher Wesselingh and Jim Graywolf Petruzzi have been out on the trail deepening, creating connections and listening deeply to the messages of guidance from Mother Earth. Meanwhile our sister Alyen Leeachum Foning has been deeply embedded in trans-generational connections and creations listening to the guidance and the messages coming from the sacred land and ancestral spirits.

Now it is time to turn to our community, our tribe, to listen deeply to your experiences, needs, expectations and requirements. What restricts your connection to nature, to the land, the ancestors and community? What enables your connection? What can we learn from you to assist connection in others? How can we serve you better in aiding your connections?

We are offering 2 listening circles online to enable easier access across the globe. Circle 1 is at 8am PST 20th December 2023, Circle 2 is at 4pm PST 20th December 2023, please click the relevant button below to register and receive the zoom link.

Whilst both of these circles are free for all to attend, we would be delighted if you feel drawn to make a donation to our organisation to aid in the work that we are doing.

Waves of Wisdom

September 9-10 2023

We are living in a time now when the people of the Earth are slowly coming together as a united voice to be able to collaborate and create a varied body of works to commemorate our interconnection and oneness to nature and each other. Instead of segregation there is integration, as we work together, without threat or competition, to slowly pick up the pieces and creating new ones where there are missing ones. Celebrating our uniqueness, genuine passion and reverence for where we come from. The Earth is calling us to unite in awareness of our dwindling natural heritage while joining together in remembering, celebrating and reconnecting to her and her biodiversity, in order to honour, preserve and protect her.

We start the weaving of the cloth of One Wisdom with our Waves of Wisdom 2 day gathering. It will occur Sept. 9 and 10, 2023 in Sedona.

We at Sanctuaries of the Earth Mother decided to spend two days with Wisdom Keepers and Earth Speakers to hear the wisdom of the Earth Mother around weaving a new, better walk on Earth together. Our partners Sedona Center for Shamanism will be partnering with us.

We are keeping it inexpensive and ask only $111 per ticket for the 2 days available here. We would humbly invite gifts of donation to our non-profit from all whom can afford it. These funds will be used to assist elders and wisdom keepers to make the journey to future One Wisdom Gatherings and for SOTEM to create other teachings, offerings, events and the all important Sanctuaries of Life, that is our aim and vision.

We have Indigenous speakers and performers lined up, as well as leaders in nature based knowledge, healing and photography, including singers, dancers, hoop dancers, drummers, story-tellers, rain makers and more ready to lead and follow.

We will be looking to weave better roads ahead for humanity – moving towards a more harmonious and balanced living relationship with each other and our mother earth. Sharing our joy, creativity, prayer, healing and ceremony. There will be opportunities to sit with nature and with elders of many cultures learning to create and weave deep connection.

The plan so far:

We envision opening the morning of the 9th with an opening prayer by a male and female elder. Then a performance from a local cultural person or group. Followed by some time discussing the vision for the One Wisdom Gathering Movement and the weekend we are sharing together. Some more ceremonies and performances and then breaking up into smaller groups to go sit under the Red Rocks with and elder and allow the natural wisdom to enter and move us. People are invited to bring their lunch. Then we will speak to past times and the prophecies about the times we are going through now and present days… how to best navigate the chaos. We will be streaming the event as well and home to have a large screen so some creators of this movement can join in for a zoom discussion. We may break for performers or storytellers or a ceremony when we feel the need. The joyful element! We intend to allow this time to grow organically, within some common-sense requests. At the end of the day we will gather together for a drum circle, led by the Community Healing Drum of Jim Graywolf. This will be shared by over 100 drum circles around the globe.

Day 2 we will again start with openings by elders and some ceremony and performances. Then again some time with an elder in the nature around us. Coming back together we will be led in a meditation for a while after which we will share what we felt from the Mother. What nature spoke to us. What we learned from each other. Together we can embrace these nuggets of wisdom and direction to ripple them out to all other groups wishing to work with us.

We will share performers names soon. We have 15 commitments to date. This format is getting a lot of interest. Be with us in this first physical happening of the One Wisdom Gathering. Come with heart and spirit. Come an open bone. Come in unconditional love.