Episode Details

This week our minds are blown and our hearts are expanded by Day Schildkret, author, artist and teacher behind the Morning Altars movement, who inspires tens of thousands of people to make life more beautiful and meaningful through ritual, nature and art. Day talks to us about ritual, meaning making, presence, beauty, remembering, curiosity and more in this gorgeous conversation.

Show Notes: 

• Morning Altars
• Day’s Books and Art
• Teacher Training 
• Day’s Instagram 
• Grief Ritual Series

Key Topics

• The origin story of Morning Altars and its healing modality
• The role of thresholds and thresholds in personal transformation
• The importance of meaning making and ritual in everyday life
• Reciprocity and the back-and-forth of giving and receiving
• The relationship between vulnerability, nature, and ritual

Chapters
00:30 The Power of Ritual and Nature
01:44 Thresholds and Transitions in Life
10:32 Meaning Making Through Creativity
14:46 Rituals: Boundaries and Simplicity
18:21 Cultural Challenges to Rituals
22:12 Personal Journey with Rituals
23:48 Exploring Sacred Ground and Relationships
27:56 The Concept of Reciprocity in Rituals
32:35 Vulnerability and Connection with Nature
36:45 Grief and the Role of Ritual
41:30 Grief as an Invitation to Transformation
44:51 Creating Alternative Spaces in a Capitalist World