Rites of Passage
In each society an individual goes through many transitions: between youth and adulthood, between celibacy and marriage, between belonging and not belonging to a group, between travel and return. In non-industrial societies, such transitions are an essential constituent relating to the well-being of social life, they often symbolise potential dangers, roles and responsibilities. They are not carried out individually, but as a community ritual. They are essential for the individual and the community to test and recognize the skills and responsibilities needed in the next stage of transition, for the dynamic health of the community.
Often something 'dies' in a rite to make way for the new. Rites of passage are types of ceremony that test and celebrate the social movement of individuals into or out of groups, marking the transition from one state to another in life. Most of them focus on a transition stage, a border or threshold, and are related to the needs of the community. This means the protagonist taking the risk of leaving some old security and asking for help from the community to support the transition. Most of the rituals in our modern culture have lost or distorted any significance to sustaining the health of the community. Specifically in this Training, we create the appropriate rites to support the process of each student, marking and celebrating their progress.
Birth, puberty, marriage and death are common occasions to celebrate in different cultures because of their public significance. Not only the person making these changes is involved, but their environment also must adapt. Its function is to recognize all the new relationships that arise or are modified.
In No Way, we create the appropriate rites to support the process of each individual, marking and celebrating their progress. We have spent years facilitating rites of passage, men's and women's groups, working with Shamans and dancing life cycles. We bring this experience to ensure that your rites are significant and mark a real step in your life. Our priority is to create rituals that are real and meaningful for participants, linking them with the cycles of the earth and the community in which they live. To best enable this we meet you at an early stage to define the symbols, dances, words, songs and actions appropriate for your ritual.
We construct and perform customised rituals and ceremonies for your important moments:
In designing your ceremony we rely on some traditional models that we adapt to your current situation in the modern world. Rituals usually include some of the main components of traditional rites and celebrations, for example:
Prayer – serious declarations using the right words, that recognize and appreciate your process and context
Song - involve the community repeating and supporting some these words with rhythm and music to strengthen the intention
Eating – helps us to "embody" and fully assimilate the process ... whatever is to be digested and embodied in the community
Dancing - Celebrating through movement. Sacred and profane dances representing and 'moving' the energies of the community in the process. This might include dance-dramatisation of the important symbols and events implicated.
Often something 'dies' in a rite to make way for the new. Rites of passage are types of ceremony that test and celebrate the social movement of individuals into or out of groups, marking the transition from one state to another in life. Most of them focus on a transition stage, a border or threshold, and are related to the needs of the community. This means the protagonist taking the risk of leaving some old security and asking for help from the community to support the transition. Most of the rituals in our modern culture have lost or distorted any significance to sustaining the health of the community. Specifically in this Training, we create the appropriate rites to support the process of each student, marking and celebrating their progress.
Birth, puberty, marriage and death are common occasions to celebrate in different cultures because of their public significance. Not only the person making these changes is involved, but their environment also must adapt. Its function is to recognize all the new relationships that arise or are modified.
In No Way, we create the appropriate rites to support the process of each individual, marking and celebrating their progress. We have spent years facilitating rites of passage, men's and women's groups, working with Shamans and dancing life cycles. We bring this experience to ensure that your rites are significant and mark a real step in your life. Our priority is to create rituals that are real and meaningful for participants, linking them with the cycles of the earth and the community in which they live. To best enable this we meet you at an early stage to define the symbols, dances, words, songs and actions appropriate for your ritual.
We construct and perform customised rituals and ceremonies for your important moments:
- Births
- Baptisms: the child comes into the community
- Male and female puberty: the child becomes adolescent
- Adulthood: the adolescent becomes an adult
- Marriage: The union of two people in a loving life plan
- Divorce: Closing a loving life plan
- Elder: Reaching the wiser and less active phase
- Death: Celebrate life and the ending of life
- Puberty for schools and colleges
- Elder programs for Senior Citizen Centres
- Celebrating the changing seasons: Solstices and Equinoxes
- Vision Quest: adolescent and adult levels
In designing your ceremony we rely on some traditional models that we adapt to your current situation in the modern world. Rituals usually include some of the main components of traditional rites and celebrations, for example:
Prayer – serious declarations using the right words, that recognize and appreciate your process and context
Song - involve the community repeating and supporting some these words with rhythm and music to strengthen the intention
Eating – helps us to "embody" and fully assimilate the process ... whatever is to be digested and embodied in the community
Dancing - Celebrating through movement. Sacred and profane dances representing and 'moving' the energies of the community in the process. This might include dance-dramatisation of the important symbols and events implicated.