11:00am Breath Magic & Equinox Balance with Rev. Minerva At the Spring Equinox, light and shadow meet in sacred balance. This opening workshop invites participants into gentle breath practice and reflection as a way of attuning to the season's quiet awakening. Together, we will create a cord integrating light and dark, symbolizing the interdependence of both within ourselves and the world around us. 11:00am Song & Spring Craft - Family Programming in the farmhouse with Rev. Florence & Emily Families will share a spring story time, learn a seasonal song to offer later in ritual, and create simple handmade instruments. Through craft, music, and imagination, children are invited to take part in the awakening of the season in ways that are joyful and embodied. 12:15pm Cooperative Community Egg Hunt! Our all-ages egg hunt emphasizes cooperation rather than competition. Eggs will contain small, wrapped treats as well as the collaborative word and symbol elements that tie into the day's theme. Bring your basket! 1:00pm Vegetarian Stone Soup: A Communal Spring Meal Participants are invited to bring a prepared vegetarian ingredient to contribute to a shared stone soup. Give your ingredient to the cook upon your arrival. As the soup simmers, we reflect on what each of us brings to the collective and how shared nourishment strengthens community. This meal serves as our midday gathering and an embodied reminder that tending one another is part of tending the season. Resource shop will open at 1:30pm until 2:00pm. 2:00pm Stirring the Circle with Truly Circles mark both boundary and belonging. At the Spring Equinox, when light and dark meet, we gather to consider how movement, rhythm, and shared intention shape the communities we inhabit. This teaching will reflect on the meaning of stirring, the power of collective presence, and the ways seasonal turning invites us into deeper participation. 2:00pm Waking the Land & Energy in Motion - Family Programming in the farmhouse with Rev. Florence & Emily Families begin outdoors, using their handmade instruments to greet the land and stir the season awake through sound and movement. Indoors, children will explore a gentle yoga story, simple breath practice, and playful energy awareness activities that invite them to notice balance between earth and sky within their own bodies. 3:00pm Break - Resource Shop will be open. Wake yourself up! Stretch, hydrate, move around or even take a quick walk to Brigid's Spring! Enjoy the land! 3:30pm Blessing of the Hands: Honoring the Work of Spring with Lacie Across traditions, spring is marked by gestures of cleansing and dedication. We gather to honor our hands as instruments of tending, creating, mending, planting, and caring. Through simple words and symbolic blessing, we awaken our hands for the work of the coming season. 4:30pm Welcome Spring Closing Ritual with Rev. Becky Malke We gather to close the day by honoring the wider world we belong to. As light and dark stand in balance, we reflect on what has been stirred awake within us and consider how we carry that awareness back into the world beyond this circle. Child will offer their spring song and instruments as part of our collective celebration, weaving the voice of the next generation into our shared blessing. 5:30pm Clean-up and Final Departures The day is not done until the last task is complete. Teamwork helps builds our community so please join in with the volunteer staff and help with take down and clean-up before you journey home!
REGISTRATION FOR ON-SITE EVENT: https://circlesanctuary.org/event-6581581 REGISTRATION CLOSES AT MIDNIGHT ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT MARCH 18TH! Look at our Events Archive for information on prior years' festivals! |
