Ritual shifts your mental and emotional awareness back to the present moment.

From my experience of studying many different traditions, approaches and practices of ritual, I’ve found that many of them are based on the form. The form is an individual or group of individuals having a powerful experience and then offering it to others so that they may also have a meaningful experience. The amazing thing about traditional forms are that they create a potency that connects people across time and space who are also doing this form. The challenge is that in a patriarchal sense of hierarchy and a focus on right and wrong, too much focus on form can leave us disconnected from the resonant connection.

Qoya rituals lean in the direction of trusting the earnestness in your own heart. The intention of each ritual is reverence and resonance. There is less focus on doing it right or wrong and more focus on noticing how you feel, expanding your sensitivity to the subtle energy at play, and reclaiming the right as a human to honor whatever is in front of you as sacred with the loving power of your attention.

When was the last time your soul was moved by a ritual? Can you remember a time when you were softened by a ceremonial fire,
whether it was a bonfire or candles lit for Shabbat or on your birthday cake? Have you ever wept tears of gratitude during a
wedding ceremony? Have you been invited to be a witness to another powerful practice of prayer that moved you?

What rituals and traditions have you created in your life that connect your reverence of form with the resonance of the formless? Do you yearn for more rituals with reverence in your everyday life? If so, you’re in the right place.

Rituals offer a sacred container to bring our intentions, prayer, and action together. The ritual creates a structure for the soul to feel free. A ritual or ceremony can be understood as a step taken outside of our fast-paced ever-moving lives into the space between moments. In this infinitely quiet and ever-expanding place, we can celebrate, grieve, release, expand, heal, dance and remember. Rituals are marking stones, celebrating our histories and opening gateways to new beginnings.

For those of us who follow sacred lineages, ritual can help us merge the traditions of the past with where we live in the present in order to make a holy investment in the future.

For those of us who are sacred seekers, ritual can be a pathway to communion with a personal divine through a felt moment of recall, a remembrance in our bones of a time when all our ancestors danced around the fire.

For those of us who find the sacred in the eternal now, ritual is a way to come into the bell-like clarity of being fully here, in every moment, in every beat, in every breath.

Ritual can unite us in the sacred center of all the myriad journeys we all dance. It’s an invitation back to the beloved essence of whatever it is that we are called to gather around.