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Ep. 167 Creating Sacred Ritual for the Winter Solstice

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In today’s solo episode, your girl Katie talks about the spiritual meaning of the winter solstice. The longest night of the year doesn’t have to be a dark night of the soul, but it is a time for deep inward journeying. Katie shares practical ways that you can tap into the spirit of the season by creating sacred rituals. Learn what the most solstice advice and practices on the interwebs are missing, and what to avoid on this sacred day.

From Yule alters to setting your intentions for 2024, Katie helps you create solstice rituals that are personal and sacred to you.

In this episode you’ll hear: 

~ Download Katie’s Winter Survival Guide to learn the exact products and practices she uses to stay vibrant all winter long!

~ Registration for Level 1 Ayurveda School is open for just a few more weeks! Join us to learn how to align your life with the solstice and other cycles of nature!

~ The significance of the winter solstice

~ How to tap into solstice energy

~ Why most New Year resolutions don’t work

~ The most nourishing solstice rituals

~ How to create a personalized solstice ritual

~ What to avoid on the solstice 

~ The significance of the Yule log

~ How to set up a Yule alter

Learn more:

~ Click here to register for the free webinar, A New Year for Awakening to Your Inner Feminine, on January 5th

~ Katie’s new book, Glow-Worthy: Practices for Awakening Your Inner Light and Loving Yourself as You Are—Broken, Beautiful, and Sacred is available now!

~ Join us in our monthly membership group, Spirit Sessions

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What were your biggest soul-lessons from 2025? 👇🏼⁠
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Now is the time for reflection on the most deep, heart–truth lessons learned from 2025. It’s also time for sacred seed planting for 2026. ⁠
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This is the season of descent, when the invisible roots grow stronger and the unseen realms speak more clearly. ⁠
⁠Join me for a free upcoming class where I’ll be sharing about the spiritual and energetic currents of this time of year and the lessons of heartbreak, grief and rebirth. Together we will explore how the very places we feel most broken often hold the spark of our greatest awakening.⁠
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Our Winter Solstice Initiation: Your Wound Is the Way is happening on December 21st (the solstice itself) from 2-3pm Eastern US Time⁠.
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🌙 Comment DARKNESS to get the link and save your spot now.⁠
We would love to have you at our FREE live Winter We would love to have you at our FREE live Winter Solstice Initiation this Sunday December 21st at 2pm US Eastern time. This class is a sanctuary for anyone walking through darkness who is ready to discover the light within it. Comment DARKNESS for the link 👇🏼❄️🌑🕯️❤️‍🔥
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We will be exploring how the darkest night of the year becomes the brightest portal for healing and transformation. Join us for the Season of LIGHT. 🌟⁠
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The Winter Solstice marks the longest night and the return of the light, a moment revered in feminine-form spiritual traditions and Ayurveda as a sacred threshold where deep healing becomes possible. It is the season of descent, stillness and inner illumination. A time when the invisible roots grow stronger, and the unseen realms speak more clearly.⁠
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Through feminine-form spiritual practice, Ayurvedic psychology and ritual practices aligned with this potent seasonal gateway, you’ll learn how your pain becomes your power, your teacher and your path.⁠
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Raise your hand if this is you the second the days Raise your hand if this is you the second the days start getting longer again…🌞

It’s like “Okay I’ve cried, I’ve dissolved, I’ve stared into the cosmic mirror of my soul. It’s time to put on a little bronzer and do this thing!” ⚡️🔥🌑

If you’ve ever felt like the darkness of winter and the threshold of the solstice really does something to your psyche… you’re not alone.

This is the time when that tiny spark of light slowly starts returning, broadening you beyond the limits of the prior year and expanding your heart even wider.

If this is tugging at you, I invite you to join us for a free live gathering on the Winter Solstice. In this live solstice initiation I’ll guide you through…

🕯️How the Solstice teaches us to honor darkness, stillness, and the “pause between breaths”
🕯️Why your wound is not a flaw but a map, especially in this season of deep introspection
🕯️How suffering becomes spiritual compost in the winter cycle
🕯️How we can, through rituals and sacred pauses, TRULY turn this season into a time of celebration, joy and new life and light. 
🕯️The alchemy of scars becoming a mark of inner spiritual authority
🕯️How to work with the emotional currents that winter naturally surfaces
🕯️Figure-8 and spiral body practices that circulate Shakti and melt emotional contraction

✨ Comment DARKNESS for the link to save your spot. The light always returns.
We are officially in the countdown to 2026 Ayurved We are officially in the countdown to 2026 Ayurveda School and this is what I want you to know:⁠
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You become a force for good in the world when you actively seek health, peace, presence, clarity and love inside yourself.⁠
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When you stop blaming others.⁠
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When you start to take action. ⁠
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When you hold radical responsibility for your own emotions and reactions. ⁠
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So, here’s your invitation: step into your calling and become a force of LOVE in the world.⁠
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There is less than one month left to enroll in our 2026 Ayurvedic Wellness Coach certification program – we begin on January 14th.⁠
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🌿 Comment AYURVEDASCHOOL (one word) below for all the details.

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