Podcast: Finding Wisdom with Adam Laufer and Erin Everett

Enjoy this May 2024 podcast interview with us — Adam Laufer and Erin Everett — to learn more of our personal stories and callings, the journey of courage, our elders and teachers, and the network of healing, weather and community that supports our work and invites you to participate.

Healing, Ceremony, WeatherErin EverettMay 21, 2024media

Prayer to the Snow in January

It is January, the dark time is shifting slowly towards the light, but we are still dreaming in darkness. In the deep realms of Creation, the Sun struggles in his epic battles with the Lord of the Dead.

After all, in order for there to be a hero in the sacred story, the tension between Inner and Outer, Dark and Light, and Cold and Heat must play out.

On the surface, that means that the land longs to rest. It needs its long Winter sleep, in order to prepare for its awakening in Spring. We have prayed for this, both in our Harvest Ceremony last October, and in our daily longing for balanced weather. So, let’s give thanks.

Weather, NatureErin EverettJanuary 19, 2024Winter, PrayerComment

Our Journey to Our Source to Bring Back Abundance for You, Our Community

As we always do in late October and early November, we made the long trip from our Appalachian home to Mexico City. This time, we met companions there and explored the many sacred treasures at Teotihuacan, a sacred city to our spiritual ancestors where they lived and acted out their awareness and honoring of the sacred patterns of this human life that we, like they, live in this beautiful realm.

CeremonyErin EverettNovember 11, 2023ceremony, climateComment

Welcome Home: House and Land Clearing

As you know, house maintenance on the physical side requires attention, periodically and often. But, what has happened in your house over the years that has left a spiritual residue that could be affecting you and your family? Their Nahua traditional path enables Adam and Erin to bring you and your family unique specialized rites that offer relief and blessing through bringing your home and land back into balance with you and the surrounding environment.

Home and LandErin EverettAugust 10, 2023houseComment

Our Sacred Journey to Our Sources of Blessing

This spring, we flew through the sacred clouds to attend our annual Spring Ceremonies for the twenty-first time. There, in our tradition’s homeland in Mexico with our compadres, we called the rains to bless those dry lands and renewed our commitment to our ancient Nahua tradition. Now, we have returned, ready to pray for beneficial weather and mediate destructive drought and storms here in our beloved Appalachian region.

CeremonyErin EverettJune 24, 2023ceremonyComment

Three Ancient Secrets for Facing Your Demons

Life can be scary, especially in our rapidly changing world.

Perhaps it’s time to address those unknown forces—those demons within and without—so that you can show up for the world with courage, gusto and joy. Try these three ancient secrets on for inspiration…

HealingErin EverettJune 2, 2023healingComment

Sticking In: Erin's new article in Sacred Fire Gazette!

I am so honored to be featured, along with some outstanding and dedicated folks, in this newspaper created by Sacred Fire, an international organization that connects people to Heart through their relationship to sacred fire. Enjoy!

MediaErin EverettOctober 24, 2022media, FireComment

We Love Weather, and Weather Loves Us.

Last night, I dreamed about a bird. I was standing outside on the deck on the third floor of our home. Our home is located high in the sky on the side of an Appalachian mountain.

A dark gray falcon that I had seen before flew to a nearby tree. It was small, but fierce, trim, vital and beautiful in its humble gray feathers. I could see its hooked beak and its yellow eye. It flew nearer, to a branch I could almost touch….

CeremonyErin EverettOctober 7, 2022ceremony, Heart, FireComment

What's a wise way to live into the future?

In the past, by honoring the seasons, through guidance and help from elders and community, and in daily relationship with sacred, societies found their center in a shared understanding of what’s most important in life. Today, we are offered information galore, but wisdom is harder to come by.

HealingErin EverettFebruary 28, 2022healingComment

I Am the Weather.

As leaders of these events, we are always amazed by the wisdom and deep emotion that arise from within people as we open up about our experiences with weather, explore traditional perspectives, and share the stories of our hearts together.

Erin EverettFebruary 21, 2022Comment

Burdens of Impossible Weight and Immense Promise

Someone I cared about who was part of my spiritual tradition, someone who had been initiated into this ancient and complex, simple and demanding lineage of people entrusted with the unique gift of working with weather: she sent an email yesterday.

LifeErin EverettJanuary 16, 2022life, pathComment

Climate crisis…or communication?

Is the Weather getting your attention? Looking at weather extremes as a "climate crisis" is one way to consider it. The connection with the Weather in the true, ancient way of living tradition can also provide real solutions to the issue of weather extremes, which may be a crisis...or it may be communication.

Weather, NatureErin EverettJanuary 10, 2022climateComment

Limpia: ancient healing ritual of the Aztecs

The man raises the conch shell to his mouth and blows into it, its haunting sound saluting the spirits as he turns to the six directions. Turning with him, women in embroidered blouses and long skirts raise smoking incense burners to the east, west, north, south, earth and sky. This call begins the ancient ritual of the temazcalli, or Aztec sweat lodge. Before entering the lodge, the women say a prayer and brush each person with incense smoke.

Media, CeremonyErin EverettDecember 27, 2021healingComment

Cultivating everlasting human ways

Sacred Seeds Blog

Life can be scary, especially in our rapidly changing world.

Perhaps it’s time to address those unknown forces—those demons within and without—so that you can show up for the world with courage, gusto and joy. Try these three ancient secrets on for inspiration…

I am so honored to be featured, along with some outstanding and dedicated folks, in this newspaper created by Sacred Fire, an international organization that connects people to Heart through their relationship to sacred fire. Enjoy!

Last night, I dreamed about a bird. I was standing outside on the deck on the third floor of our home. Our home is located high in the sky on the side of an Appalachian mountain.

A dark gray falcon that I had seen before flew to a nearby tree. It was small, but fierce, trim, vital and beautiful in its humble gray feathers. I could see its hooked beak and its yellow eye. It flew nearer, to a branch I could almost touch….

In the past, by honoring the seasons, through guidance and help from elders and community, and in daily relationship with sacred, societies found their center in a shared understanding of what’s most important in life. Today, we are offered information galore, but wisdom is harder to come by.

As leaders of these events, we are always amazed by the wisdom and deep emotion that arise from within people as we open up about our experiences with weather, explore traditional perspectives, and share the stories of our hearts together.

Someone I cared about who was part of my spiritual tradition, someone who had been initiated into this ancient and complex, simple and demanding lineage of people entrusted with the unique gift of working with weather: she sent an email yesterday.