Sacred Ceremonies

Life is filled with profound transitions, each deserving to be acknowledged, celebrated, and held with intention. Sacred ceremonies provide a way to honour these rites of passage, offering healing, empowerment, and connection to the sacred within ourselves and our communities.

Whether you are stepping into motherhood, navigating a life transition, or seeking closure and healing, sacred ceremonies create meaningful spaces to reflect, release, and embrace transformation. Each ceremony is uniquely designed to align with your personal journey, incorporating rituals, offerings, and holistic practices such as reiki, sound healing, and intuitive guidance.

Ceremony Offerings

  • Mother Blessings

    Celebrate the transition into motherhood with a Blessingway Ceremony—a nurturing, heart-centered ritual that honours the mother-to-be. This ceremony focuses on tending to and pampering the mother, offering her adornments, blessings, and gifts from loved ones. Unlike traditional baby showers, the blessingway is about supporting the woman’s journey into motherhood and creating a space of love and empowerment.

  • Closing of the Bones Ceremony

    This traditional ritual nurtures and heals women after birth or during significant life transitions. Through rebozo sifting, womb massage, and body wrapping, it helps bring the body, mind, and spirit back into balance. Honouring rites of passage such as postpartum, loss, fertility challenges, menarche, menopause, or other life changes, this sacred ceremony fosters healing and reconnection.

  • Rites of Passage

    Life’s transitions deserve to be celebrated with reverence and intention. I offer ceremonies to honour milestones such as: Menarche (First Bleed): A celebration of a girl’s transition into womanhood. Peri and Menopausal Transitions: Acknowledging the journey to becoming a crone, a wise woman. Birth Reclamation: Healing and empowering ceremonies for those seeking to reclaim their birth stories or reconnect with their birthing power.

  • Loss and Early Birth

    For those experiencing loss, including early pregnancy loss, I offer ceremonies to honour grief, process emotions, and find healing. These deeply personal rituals create space to acknowledge loss with love and care, supporting the journey to healing.

  • Support for Intentional Pregnancy Release

    I provide nonjudgmental support and sacred ceremonies for those choosing an intentional pregnancy release. These rituals offer space to honour this choice, process emotions, and find peace.

  • Significant Life Events

    Sacred ceremonies can be created to honour any life event meaningful to you, such as: marriage, separation, moving into a new phase of life, or any transition you wish to mark with intention. Together, we will craft a ritual that reflects your story, values, and desires.

  • The Remembering Sessions

    Holly Damara and partner Craig Johansen bring together the divine masculine and feminine wisdom to offer a unique and holistic healing experience in the Shuswap community. Through a blend of reiki, therapeutic touch, intuitive coaching, spirit messages, and sound healing, this sacred session helps you release barriers that no longer serve you, empowering you to become the healer of your own journey and to remember the innate magic within you.

  • Intuitive Healing Sessions

    Step into a space of pure feminine energy with Holly Damara’s intuitive healing sessions, designed to gently guide you toward clarity, healing, and inner alignment. Using her unique blend of reiki, therapeutic touch, spirit messages, sound healing and intuitive coaching, Holly holds space for you to explore and release emotional blocks, reconnect with your inner healer, and embrace your highest potential and purpose. These sessions are deeply nurturing, focusing on the intuitive, flowing, and compassionate energy of the divine feminine.

  • Women's Circles

    The Shuswap Women’s Circle, is a welcoming community for women to come together, celebrate their journeys, and find strength in connection. Rooted in the natural rhythms of the new and full moons, these gatherings offer a unique opportunity to align with your inner self and the collective energy of sisterhood.

Sacred Rituals for Empowerment and Healing

Ceremony is a timeless way to connect with ourselves, our loved ones, and the sacred. Through intentional rituals, we create space to honour, release, and transform. Whether you’re celebrating joy, navigating loss, or embracing change, these ceremonies offer an opportunity for deep healing and empowerment.

"In every woman’s life, there are moments of profound transformation—rites of passage that mark her journey from one phase to the next. Ceremony offers a sacred space to honour these transitions, to grieve, to celebrate, and to heal. Whether closing the chapter of birth, embracing the wisdom of menopause, or navigating loss and renewal, rituals connect us to our deeper selves, our ancestors, and the universal rhythms of life. Through ceremony, we remember our strength, reclaim our power, and create space for intentional growth and healing."

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