Essentials for Animist Practice
Remembering the Living World
Part One in a Self Directed Study Exploration
1st Course
What if the world around you was not silent…but alive, aware, and waiting for you to return?
Re-membering the Living World is the first doorway in returning to animist perception in the Essentials for Animist Practice series.
It offers a gentle, self paced, grounded introduction for those who feel the tug toward living in relationship with a sentient cosmos.
Course 1: In this 4-lesson course, you will learn to sense a living world, awaken subtle intuition, and build foundational ritual skills for reciprocal relationship with the unseen and more-than-human.
- Sensing the world as a community of living persons
- Reawakening the subtle and clair senses
- Listening with the body as an instrument of knowing
- Cultivating relationship with the Spirit of Place where you live
- Understanding how patriarchy, colonialism, racism, ableism, class divides, and collective amnesia have shaped our perception
- Establishing foundational ritual skills for safe, respectful connection with the unseen world
This course is both a remembering and a beginning, a re-entry into the relational fabric that has always held you.
What's Included
Four Core Lessons (Recorded)
Foundational teachings on animist perception, embodied knowing, subtle senses, and building reciprocal relationship with the Spirit of Place.
Guided Practices for Each Lesson
Whole-body listening, Six-Sense Meditation, offering rituals, and an Invocation of the Senses to anchor learning through experience.
Mythopoetic
Story
Original oral-tradition stories that open each lesson and shift participants into relational, imaginal awareness.
Cultural & Lineage-Aware Guidance
Decolonizing perception, honoring land and ancestry, understanding collective amnesia, and cultivating ethical, non-appropriative animist practice.
Reflection
Questions
Thought-provoking prompts that support integration, self-inquiry, and embodied processing.
Curated Resource
Library
A condensed list of books, essays, poems, and podcasts to deepen relational perception and expand understanding.
Foundational Ritual Skills
Beginner-friendly practices for respectful engagement with the unseen world, including boundaries, offerings, consent, and relational reciprocity.
Mighty Networks community space
Rooted in Red Earth’s animist ethos, this community invites meaningful exchange and mutual support as we prepare to gather in reverence and relation.
What’s Included
Four Core Lessons (Recorded)
Foundational teachings on animist perception, embodied knowing, subtle senses, and building reciprocal relationship with the Spirit of Place.
Guided Practices for Each Lesson
Whole-body listening, Six-Sense Meditation, offering rituals, and an Invocation of the Senses to anchor learning through experience.
Mythopoetic Story
Original oral-tradition stories that open each lesson and shift participants into relational, imaginal awareness.
Cultural & Lineage-Aware Guidance
Decolonizing perception, honoring land and ancestry, understanding collective amnesia, and cultivating ethical, non-appropriative animist practice.
Reflection Questions
Thought-provoking prompts that support integration, self-inquiry, and embodied processing.
Curated Resource Library
A condensed list of books, essays, poems, and podcasts to deepen relational perception and expand understanding.
Foundational Ritual Skills
Beginner-friendly practices for respectful engagement with the unseen world, including boundaries, offerings, consent, and relational reciprocity.
Four Core Lessons (Recorded)
Foundational teachings on animist perception, embodied knowing, subtle senses, and building reciprocal relationship with the Spirit of Place.
Guided Practices for Each Lesson
Whole-body listening, Six-Sense Meditation, offering rituals, and an Invocation of the Senses to anchor learning through experience.
Mythopoetic Story
Original oral-tradition stories that open each lesson and shift participants into relational, imaginal awareness.
Cultural & Lineage-Aware Guidance
Decolonizing perception, honoring land and ancestry, understanding collective amnesia, and cultivating ethical, non-appropriative animist practice.
Reflection Questions
Thought-provoking prompts that support integration, self-inquiry, and embodied processing.
Curated Resource Library
A condensed list of books, essays, poems, and podcasts to deepen relational perception and expand understanding.
Foundational Ritual Skills
Beginner-friendly practices for respectful engagement with the unseen world, including boundaries, offerings, consent, and relational reciprocity.
Investment
We kindly ask that you enroll by clicking on which option best meets your current financial experiences.
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
Sustaining
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need prior experience?
No. This is a beginner-friendly introduction to animist perception, embodiment, and relational ritual.
Is this based on Indigenous traditions?
No. The course teaches animist worldview without using closed or culturally specific rituals. Cultural considerations are woven throughout for ethical, respectful practice.
What if I don’t feel intuitive or connected?
Perfect. Subtle sensing is a relational skill, not a special ability. You’ll learn to develop it gently through body and attention.
How long is the course?
Four lessons, each 45–75 minutes, completed at your own pace.
How long do I have access?
Once you’re enrolled, you’ll have ongoing access to the course for as long as it’s hosted on our site. While we may update or transition older teachings over time, we’ll always do our best to give plenty of notice if anything is changing. We deeply value your learning journey and aim to support your connection to this work for the long term.
