SALT WORK
holy salt and ancestral reconnection
Join us this Samhain season for a devotional exploration into the deep ancestral relationship of our lineages, our bodies, with beloved Salt.
All of our ancestors have deep rooted relationships, practices and rites with SALT. Together in this session we will explore some of these cultural pathways; we will dive into the salt’s potency – their lore, history, magic, power. We will feel for the salt in our bodies and the salt around us. We will explore how collaborating with salt is a beautiful pathway toward ancestral reconnection when undertaken with respect and reverence.
Salt is holy, salt is home, salt is blood, salt is tears, salt is cum. Salt of the sea, salt of my body. the practical and the sacred embodied in one.
Together we will meet salt as ancestor and revel in salt’s offerings to all aliveness. If you are seeking practical ways to connect to your cultural lineage, this is for you. If you are seeking openings to connect with the wild holy through deep relationship, this is for you. If you are made of salt, this is for you, this is for me, this is for us.
This session will be experiential, incorporating community dialogue, embodied practice, and personal reflection.
Salt is holy
Salt is poetry
Salt is song and dance
Salt is ritual
Salt is nourishment
Salt is ancestor
Salt is foodway
Salt is magic
Salt is medicine
Salt is essential to all life
Salt is miracle
Salt is wise one
Salt is a pathway home.
WHEN / WHERE / HOW MUCH
This digital infoshare and community exploration will take place on Oct 30, 2024, 6-8pm ET / 3-5pm PT.
This session will take place over Zoom. It will be recorded for participants to keep.
There will be closed captioning available. The workshop will be facilitated in English.
This will be a gentle and lovingly held container. Folks are welcome to be on or off screen, participate or not as they feel called, and are free to utilize the unmute or chat functions to contribute. Come as you are.
The cost of this infoshare is $44.
This session is free for Attune Community members.
WHO IS THIS FOR?
This workshop is open to all, although it is intended to support white settlers of Western European descent on Turtle Island/N America reconnect to cultural lineage and relations with the sacred.
HOW TO SIGN UP
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Space is limited for the sake of intimacy.
Salt tending is both lineage pathway & seasonal devotional practice. Together we will open to ancestral practice and relationship of reverence with salt.
SALT AS KIN
Working with salt – building relationship, learning and unlearning, singing and praying and cooking and writing and ceremony – has been one incredibly potent pathway to ancestral reconnection for me.
untangling webs of consumption & extraction, learning histories of relationship across cultures & continents, learning lore & practices of my ancestors (Irish, Scottish, Sicilian), learning about ritual & foodways, and weaving holy salt into my everyday life is a long, beautiful process. It’s a gift. Deepening with salt is a gift.
Salt is another potential guide for ancestral reconnection for folks of disrupted cultural lineage – and it is a potent one for folks of settler diasporic descent. Because it holds histories of reciprocal relationship AND settler colonial, white s*prmeacist power over. Cultures throughout time and across regions have had both types of relationships; dominant US culture today has an incredibly extractive relationship to salt and salt production under global capitalism.
Through collaborating with salt personally, on a 1:1 level, we can engage in the daily lifelong practice of unsettling. with respect, reverence, and devotion, salt may guide us toward embodying our values more deeply, moving through the world with greater intention, and making change around what we care about. With whatever pathways of deepening into relationship that make sense for each of us – research, ritual, writing, dancing, foodways, medicine, creativity, visitation, etc – salt can support our deepest desires for connection & belonging.
Salt holds so much wisdom and healing, and offers us so generously opportunities for personal and collective healing, if we only choose to open. ?Salt is a gift and a guide and an invitation and a powerful spirit. ??
Hail Salt, hail holy wise one. Thank you, thank you.
together as community,
we retrace ancestral steps
of deep inter-relations
with the holy world
Who is facilitating this offering?
For folks new to me & my work –
my name is rowan (they/them) and I’m a qt herbalist, writer, researcher, big nerd and devotee to plant kin. I deeply believe in justice, radical community care, and embodying our values even under pressure.
The threads of my work include politicized ancestral reconnection for settlers on Turtle Island/N America, queer healing, ritual and devotion with the holy, navigating chronic illness, long-c & DJ, cultural traditions and ethnobotany, and more. I’m a white-bodied 3rd gen US person who comes from Irish, Lithuanian, Scottish & Sicilian lineages. I base my work off of my lived personal experiences, relationships with the holy wild, and deep research. I love researching and learning, and then sharing what I’ve learned with community.
thanks for being in community with me, for your support of my ongoing work, and for being a part of this broader weaving.