A Journey of Reflection and Renewal
The Death Lodge Experience
December 19th, 2025, 11am – 4pm Eastern
A one day ritual event on the winter solstice.
It is the season of stillness, when the Earth folds into herself, blanketed in dormancy, resting until the first whispers of spring. The cold arrives like a stern teacher, unyielding and clear, reminding all that to live in alignment with the rhythms of nature is to prepare, to tend, to honor the cycles. Without foresight, one might fall to hunger, to frost, to illness. The days grow brief, shadows stretching endlessly, and the world seems as though it has forgotten the warmth of the Sun.
Yet, even in the depths of this long, dark night—this Winter Solstice—there hums a quiet truth: the Sun will return. The Earth knows this. Our ancestors knew this. The light will once again tiptoe into the world, stretching its fingers into the soil, awakening seeds and spirits alike.
How, then, do we ready ourselves for this return of light? What offerings do we place upon our altars of becoming? How do we prepare the soil of our lives to welcome the sprouting of what we long to grow, even as the weight of unfinished stories and old regrets lingers in the shadows?
Join the Sacred Way of Becoming
Our ancestors understood that in order to receive, we must first release. They marked this time with ceremony, visioning, and sacred transitions—rites that guided one from the fullness of life as Mother to the reflective wisdom of Crone, from the striving of spiritual adulthood into the deep-rooted stillness of elderhood.
In winter’s embrace, when food stores run low and the world asks us to move closer to the hearth, we are taught to live sparingly, wisely, attuned to what truly sustains us. It is a time of composting—letting die what no longer serves so that fertile ground may emerge beneath the frost. It is a season of dreaming, of honoring the sparseness so that new life can one day take hold.
The Solstice invites us to track our own Becoming, to listen for the cracking and turning of the seeds within the Earth’s belly and our own. What whispers in winter’s dreams? What waits to be born with the thaw? This, to me, is the heart of ritual tending—the tending of both release and renewal, the liminal space where the soul stretches toward awareness, connection, and a deeper relationship with the more-than-human world.
Together, at The Death Lodge, we’ll step into the rich darkness of this threshold, welcoming the light as both a guide and a promise. This is a time to allow ourselves to be transformed—drawn closer to the Earth, to each other, and to the wisdom of the cycles that cradle us.
The Death Lodge Experience
… is more than a turning point; it is a profound invitation to pause, reflect, and transform. Death Lodge offers a one-day online workshop designed to guide participants through the sacred cycles of life, death, and renewal. Rooted in ancient wisdom traditions, this immersive journey provides a safe and nurturing space to honor your life’s story, confront attachments, and embrace a clearer, more purposeful path forward.
Drawing from the concept of the “death lodge,” a symbolic space for deep reflection, participants will engage in experiential practices, storytelling, and introspection. Together, we’ll explore what it means to release what no longer serves us, awaken our inner wisdom, and align with the promise of the returning light.
Through this Sacred Work Participants will…
Gain profound insights into their life journey and legacy through guided experiential practices.
Reflect on mortality and its power to transform and illuminate through story and stillness.
Cultivate clarity, and resourcefulness and alignment with their destiny with the aide of their helping elder forces.
Explore the terrains of release and renewal with a dedicated workbook preparing them for transformative ritual.
This is a online event, Where full participation is required and it will not be recorded to preserve the intimacy and immediacy of the Experience.
Investment
WE’RE HAPPY TO OFFER 3 PRICING OPTIONS IN CONSIDERATION OF THOSE WHO ARE IN FINANCIAL NEED.
As spaces are limited to 25 participants, we kindly ask that you enroll by clicking on which option best meets your current financial experiences.
Generating: For those folks with comfortable financial means to contribute more, we are deeply appreciative of your generosity which assists in making this accessible for those who may otherwise not be able to attend.
Sustaining: This is the actual cost for us to offer this program and sustain what we do. We are grateful if you are able to enroll at this rate.
Supported: We invite folks with leaner financial means to enjoy programs at a reduced cost and are delighted you are here.
If you need a reduction beyond what is provided or a payment plan, please reach out directly to shannon@redearthhealing.org
Generating
For those who are able to support othersSustaining
For those with modest meansSupported
For those facing Economic HardshipFacilitator
Shannon Willis, M.Ed
Shannon will be your guide for this immersive. Her work lives at the wild confluence of dream midwifery, oracular listening, ancestral reverence, and ritual arts. She’s the Ritual Director at Ancestral Medicine, and an initiate in the Òrìṣà tradition of Yoruba-speaking West Africa, she has also apprenticed herself to the dreaming wisdom of her own bloodlines and to teachers of Jhanki Shamanism.
Shannon writes and weaves spiritual accompaniment for emerging leaders and cultural edge-walkers—those drawn to the holy work of remembrance, repair, and rooted resistance. She dwells with her son and their furred companions near the mist-kissed shores of the Salish Sea, on the ancestral and living lands of the Twana-Skokomish people.
