Welcome Family to your January letter from me!

To be in ceremony, what is that all about?

According to good old Wiki, a ceremony is a unified ritualistic event with a purpose, usually consisting of a number of artistic components, performed on a special occasion.

Amongst us New Agers this word ceremony is being thrown around a lot these days. I’ve been told by my peers that life is the ultimate ceremony or that certain challenging events is a ceremony or that everyday is a ceremony. This word has even become a verb because I’ve been told to “stay in ceremony” when I make a conscious decision to do something physically uncomfortable for the sake of cleansing or purifying my body, mind and/or soul (like doing a detox cleanse for 21 days). As if being in ceremony gives you a direct life line to the divine so that you can be carried through anything and reach enlightenment within the ceremony and/or on the other side of it. But is this true?

My relationship with plant medicine is beginning to inform my own understanding of “ceremony”, how we can truly be in ceremony and what the benefits of ceremony are.

Up until this year the only “recreational drugs” I had ever tried were alcohol and marijuana. I stopped drinking alcohol more than 4 years ago and around the same time I stopped consuming THC in a recreational way and was only using it for the medicine that it is, to help me sleep and to ease tension in my body. I don’t consume THC and CBD often, only in phases of my life where I experience high stress and need support sleeping, typically during times of great transition. In early 2022, I decided to sit with Ayahuasca, my first time ever ingesting a psychedelic and since then I have gained a greater reverence for plant medicine and a deeper understanding of what it means to be in ceremony.

My first ceremony with Ayahuasca, or Aya or Grandmother if you will, was rough. I was totally scared of what psychedelics may do and that my soul or my brain might get lost and never come back to me. There was a reason why I never tried psychedelics before and it was because I really appreciated the way my brain worked without such chemical influences, AKA I liked being in control. And so by the time my first ceremony came around I wasn’t quite ready to fully surrender. I subconsciously held onto control and ultimately I had a really uncomfortable experience where I got real sick real fast, purged and then proceeded to sit in a sober stillness, with slight resentment, while watching my peers experience complete bliss and commune with the divine… for 7 hours! What fun… it was clear that Grandmother’s lesson for me was to stop trying so hard, do less, rest, trust and surrender.

So, the next few months following my first ceremony I practiced just that. Do less, trust more, surrender and flow. I chanted mantras to the ocean on my surfboard almost everyday. I sat in two more ceremonies facilitated by stewards of plant medicine, one with Psilocybin and one with Changa (the concentrated extract of DMT from the Ayahuasca plant). In these ceremonies I was shown how to melt into my body and in turn let my body melt into the Earth. I was shown on a visceral level what it means to surrender and be held by the Earth, I was taught to take that with me and melt into the ocean. To be more like my namesake, the Beluga whale and truly flow, letting my body become fluid with the Ocean whenever I’m playing in her waters. And I was taught to take that with me and let my voice open up more fluidly in song whenever I play music.

When it came time to sit with Grandmother again near the end of 2022 I had no issues softening into surrender. The meaning of the saying, “Surrender is not trying harder, it’s trusting more” became not just a piece of intellect in my head but a visceral intelligence in my body. I embodied trust, I let go of all desire to control and this time I was given a lifeline to the divine which left me feeling the limitless and eternal love that we come from, that we are always surrounded by and that ultimately, we are. I knew now how to melt into my body and in turn let my body melt into the Earth, feel into the astral realms and to surrender to the spirit of the plant. Like water, my body flowed as her energy moved through me, deploying my body as an aid to help move the energy of what was being purged from myself and others in the space.

Since this last Ayahuasca ceremony, I have sat with Cannabis a few times in my own conscious and intentional ways. I’ve set my intentions before taking her in, and I’ve prayed to her spirit for love and guidance and I’ve offered my thanks to the wonders of our plant allies. It was very recently while communing with Cannabis that I began to understand the components that make up a conscious ceremony that provides healing and deep communion with the divine. Outside of intention setting and prayers, I remembered that ceremony(with or without plant medicine) is about two things.

One, feel into every crevice of your body and the energy it holds, feel into every felt sensation and trust that there is medicine for you in this. Being in your head is all about giving yourself a sense of control, but this is just an illusion that your ego craves to try and keep you safe. Surrendering is learning how to be in your body while cultivating and maintaining your own sense of safety so that you can continue to go deeper. Your body holds a vast amount of wisdom, intelligence beyond what our human minds can even comprehend. We limit ourselves from expanding our consciousness to its full capacity by living in our heads and not in our bodies. The sensations in your body are also expressions of the divine coursing through you and feeling into them will most likely result in a consistent and intimate relationship with God, Source, Spirit, the Universe or other names you may have.

Two, making meaning of what you experienced during the ceremony. This means committing with unwavering devotion to mindfulness around how you have been in the past and how you be in the present and the future. To learn from your past ways of being, your way of being during ceremony and making a commitment to recreating yourself in every single moment into a way of being that aligns with the fullest expressions of present and future you.

With these two ingredients we can turn anything into a ceremony, at least the kind of ceremony that plant medicine intends for. A ceremony that is intended for communing with Spirit and for healing. To me the word ceremony is sacred and it is not to be taken lightly. I use it to call forth unwavering devotion from myself and others. I use it to call forth intentionality and mindfulness. To make your life a ceremony is to literally, in every moment, surrender your sense of control so that you can feel into your body, receive the wisdom your body and Spirit have to offer and to practice mindfulness as you make meaning of your experiences and your ways of being within those experiences. Sure, we can commit our lives to this but let's be realistic about just how often we are actually able to live into this intentionality. For me, I’d rather choose to be in ceremonies during set times, on those special occasions and commit to doing it wholeheartedly with full embodied unwavering devotion through the entirety of the time and space I have set aside for it. And I’d like to help others do the same.

It is over the course of this past year of being in various kinds of plant medicine ceremonies and creating ceremonies of my own(again with or without plants) that I have come to know to the core of my bones that this path of guiding others through their healing, self growth and purpose manifestation was predetermined for me before I chose to come to Earth. And it seems as though this deeper understanding of what ceremony means to me are the key points to focus a majority of my attention towards in order to fulfill this path.

I know this life was chosen for me so that I can teach others how to feel safe and empowered as they drop deeper into their bodies. The relationship I have with my own body makes this so clear to me. The fact that I don’t dissociate from my body during extreme trauma. The fact that I have lived with chronic pain and that that pain has kept me tethered to my body, never allowing me to forget about the physical form I live in because the pain signals my body sent to me were a constant reminder. The fact that most plant medicines that allow others to astral project and leave this earthly realm do almost the opposite for me, bringing me into every crevice of my body, fully feeling its truth whether those truths be pain or pleasure. And that, for me, in order to surrender to the plant and to God only comes from fully feeling into my body and getting out of my head. The fact that I’m Trans and that naturally we Trans folx have very intricate and complex experiences of what it means to be in a human body. The list goes on…

Its through coming into deeper relationship with my body and even the nuances of what that means as a Trans person that I’ve been able to discover the Truth of who I am, that I have been given a compass to always go deeper in my own healing, that I have come to know God, that I have come to know my purpose and what it takes to follow through on my purpose day in and day out.

It makes so much sense to me now why the offerings I have been working on creating have been taking time, so that the full manifestation of them would come at the same time that I have this clear and visceral understanding of where my focus should be and why.

With that being said, all has finally come into full alignment for me to share with you what I’ve been working on and I couldn’t be more stoked!

The earliest upcoming offer I have is specifically for Trans and Nonbinary folx and supporting my siblings with freeing ourselves from the burdens of our past while increasing our connection to Spirit and creativity.

What I’m offering first is part of a four phase group program intended to create community, to teach people how to regulate their nervous systems and live in their bodies, to guide people through transforming trauma and to coach people through manifesting purpose.

Phase one is starting in a few weeks and its sole focus is on teaching you somatic regulation skills, how to cultivate nervous system resiliency and live into your body while experiencing safety and comfort. If you are Transgender or Nonbinary and you know that creating a more comfortable relationship with your body is important to healing your dysphoria, giving more to the world and supporting your creative flow then you’ll really get down with this program.

​Click here to learn more about it. By clicking here you will begin to receive emails by me written in real time where I will share my thoughts around why embodiment is so important as it relates to healing, spirituality and manifesting purpose and where you’ll receive formal invites into the program. This will be an interactive process where we can connect and I can answer any questions you may have as I write. (please ignore this link if this isn’t for you right now)

For now, I’d like to close up by saying thank you as always for your time and attention. Whether you opt in to hear about my new offerings or not, I hope what I’ve shared with you, the ingredients that I believe can make up a potent ceremony, can inspire your own ideas around rituals and ceremonies. May you cultivate deeper experiences of healing and a more intimate connection with the Divine whenever you intend for it to be so.

Also, I still plan to share with you about some further rebranding I’m experiencing and how that will involve more collaborations between me and my life and business partner, Kyle. I know I said January but it might make more sense to share a little later, I’m now shooting for February. Thank you for being flexible with that and letting me recalibrate so I can stay in integrity with what I say.

If you have questions about anything please respond to this email or maybe you want to let me know if you’d like me to write on any of the topics I've covered today in more depth, maybe the plant medicine journey….?;)

Wishing You Blessed Ceremonies,

Leucas

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P.S. I have two more upcoming offers that are also centered around this idea of ceremony, living into and listening to our bodies, healing more deeply, transforming trauma, communing more deeply with Spirit and using all of that to live into our purpose with more consistency and action.

One is for anyone who is ready to go through a four stage process of ceremony, embodiment, transforming trauma and full power manifestation of purpose in a private setting. Click here to be the first to learn about it when it's ready to be published.

The other is to bring together a community online and eventually in real life centered around transforming trauma, studying the mystic arts and crushing the human game by learning how to live most masterfully in our personal and professional lives. Click here to be the first to learn about it when it's ready to go public.