Our Team

 
 

Our Founder, Ceremonialist + Soul Guide-Carolyn Griffeth

There is a web of connection, life, and light.  This web is how we stay connected to earth and other worlds.  Connecting to the web feels like being so bound to something. –Sobonfu Somé

In the center of my soul there is a feeling of being bound to something.  This mysterious “something” reminds me that my life is not my own. There is something I came here to serve and contribute and the fulfillment of this mission means everything to me.   

This “something” has become increasingly clear in the last decade of my life.  As a young woman, I dropped out of medical school and spent the next twenty-plus years deeply entrenched in social change work on several fronts.   Around 42, I entered a time of spiritual expansion in which I was visited by a series of dreams and visions that awakened me to a further calling.  In one such dream:

 I climb onto a high roof and from this place, I see within the photos of my phone the ceremonies that I came to birth.   The potency of these ceremonies hits me like lightening!  A delicious and terrible agony overtakes me and can only be relieved by wailing and shouting repeatedly, “I will do this!”

The vision of Earthkeeper Wisdom School came to me similarly.  I was sitting in my yard sincerely praying to be shown my unique medicine for the world, when I saw a cycle of ceremony…

Sobonfu Somé ritualist of the Dagara people of Burkina Faso,  also came into my life as a core teacher during this season.  Of the soul’s journey, she wrote:  It is like looking for a path and suddenly the path takes you.  The path takes you; you don’t take the path. 

I have been taken by the path of catching and co-creating rituals and ceremonies in service to the revival of earth reverent + soul nourishing culture, which is the mission of Earthkeeper Wisdom School.  

The teachings of EKWS flow from my mystical journey, my life in the trenches of social change activism, and my devotion to the web of life.  Additionally, I have been blessed to learn directly from these and other remarkable teachers:

Besides being a ritualist, I serve as a mentor and soul guide. In this capacity I offer deeply attuned listening, intuitive guidance, grief work, nature based soul work, emotional clearing, dream tending, ceremony and most of all, faith, prayer and wisdom. 

If the above draws you in, or you are seeking support with ceremonial co-creation for you or your community,  I warmly welcome you to schedule a free consultation with me athttps://spiritualmentorship.as.me/   or contact me at carolyngriffeth@gmail.com. 

Song Leader + Priestess- Lyndsey Scott

Song welcomes us to Life, now.  It teaches me to Hold each moment as prayer, whatever the task at hand.  It gives me a way to praise this question, this being, this ache, This.  Leading community singing woke me up to my priestess soul!  I love to honor our thresholds, bring beauty to our gatherings, tend the grief in our bones, liberate the pleasure in our bodies ~  all woven in Song, all in service of this great big Coming Home.  My start in art school jostled loose the Weird; my decade as a community artist in St. Louis, MO trained me as a Weaver; my recent adventure as a small-town yoga studio founder honed me as a "just folks" embodiment-based Sacred Space Holder. My love of loooong journey bike-abouts throughout the Heartland teaches me earthspeed Kinship.  My prayer for the abolition of the prison industrial complex requires my commitment to ending internalized and systemic racism and necessitates the tender work of apprenticing to personal and collective Grief.

When I lead us in song, I pray this full transmission comes through to nourish us as we claim and wake into our divine birthright, Freedom, and into our full bandwidth of praise, pleasure, play, and power.  Deepest love and gratitude for my song teachers and mentors, Liz Rog, Lisa Littlebird, Laurence Cole, & Barbara McAfee, who model the path of singing as heart-opening, and to Holistic Resistance, modeling Song and intimacy as tools for ending white supremacy. 

Leading song with Earthkeepers lights me up ~ seeding a repertoire of  "sonic ritual vocabulary" for us to draw on as we deepen into community,  laying a bed of tones and beats for us to freestyle our prayers into, anchoring the field of ceremony as we experiment in co-creation.  Our singing is laced with laughter, reverence, presence, & permission.  Our singing Remembers us into Village.

Find out more about my work at:

https://www.lyndseyscott.earth/

~ prayer for abolition:  Over/Under 

~ patreon: creating Song-ways that nourish the Heartland 

~ instagram: @lila.gaia

 

Collaborative Partners

 

Ancestral medium and Ritualist- Tamira Cousett

Tamira is an ancestral medium and ritual facilitator specializing in supporting folks with remembering the authentic pathways of ancestral connections. Her practices are rooted in ecosystems of Love and Black liberation theologies and informed by her initiations into Afro-Brazilian earth-honoring traditions and West African Ifa Òrìṣà tradition. She enjoys co-weaving communal containers of curiosity, connection, homecoming, and life-affirming rituals with folks and their ancestral ecosystems of care. 

Find out more about Tamira’s offerings at: www.tamiracousett.com