“Making a Home for the Mystic Heart”
with the October discernment, “Concentration”
For our first Sunday worship in October, the SiSiWiss Medicine circle will be led by SiSwinKlae, Laurel Boucher, long time practitioner of the ancient spiritual practice of SiSiWiss (Coast Salish/NW Coast spiritual practice, SiSiWiss translates as sacred breath or sacred life). Please join us for a participatory prayerful and song filled time with much sharing of music and teachings lead by SiSiwnKlae.
Please dress comfortably, and bring hand drums and or rattlers if you have them. This medicine circle is open to all persons, all backgrounds, denominations, all ages!
ABOUT SiSwinKlae:
SiSwinKlae, Laurel Boucher is a leader/facilitator of SiSiWiss (translates as sacred breath or sacred life) Medicine circles and ceremonies. SiSwinKlae has been a practitioner of SiSiWiss for over 35 years. SiSwinKlae is of Ojibwa/Irish descent. SiSwinKlae began training in the customs and traditions of the Coast Salish/NWCoastal and spiritual practice of SiSiWiss in 1984. There had been a period of approximately 20 years of immersion into the the training and practice of Coast Salish/NW Coastal SiSiWiss spirituality, local tribal customs, traditions, and practices that included much travel and direct training from different elders and teachers.
SiSwinKlae shares the knowledge that has been shared with her, with all those of open heart and open mind and willingness to learn the ways of the First People of our beautiful Coast Salish/NW Coastal region. SiSwinKlae offers the sharing and learning through SiSiWiss Medicine Circle and various ceremonies. SiSwinKlae leads/facilitates an on-going SiSiWiss Women’s Medicine circle (women, children/youth) offered online every Tuesday, and second Tuesdays in person at Interfaith Community Sanctuary and online. She leads/facilitates an open SiSiWiss Medicine circle for all men, women, children/youth every last Wednesday of the month at the Interfaith Community Sanctuary.
SHARING OUR WEALTH
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Land Acknowledgement:
We would like to acknowledge that we gather today on the ancestral homelands of the Coast Salish Peoples, who have lived here from time immemorial. Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude for our Indigenous neighbors, for their enduring care and protection of our shared lands and waterways.
The Coast Salish is a group of ethnically and linguistically related Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, living in the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon. They speak one of the Coast Salish
