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Honoring the Guest Interfaith Worship Celebrations welcomes SiSwinKlae Laurel Boucher, founder and facilitator of the SiSiWiss Women’s Medicine Circle sharing a SiSiWiss Open Medicine Circle for our worship experience this Sunday.
Our spiritual discernment for 2023 is Transforming the Body, Heart, and Mind, a contemplative, exploratory inquiry and discovery.
Our November focus: “Harmonizing the Heart”
The NW First Peoples spiritual practice called SiSiWiss (pronounced See See Wiss), translated into English means sacred breath, or sacred life. The SiSiWiss spiritual practice originates from the San Juan Islands and spread as a spiritual practice all through western Washington down to Siletz, Oregon. SiSiWiss traditions also spread to many of the Gulf Islands, including Vancouver Island and much of the NW coastal areas of B.C. The practice of SiSiWiss is understood as a medicine way or path, medicine meaning healing path.
SiSwinKlae as our guest worship presenter on the first Sunday in November, will offer the morning Reflection, share drumming, music, prayer, song, stories, and teachings. SiSwinKlae will be joined by members of her SiSiWiss Women’s Medicine Circle. This Open Medicine Circle and all are welcome!
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ABOUT SiSwinKlae:
As a leader and facilitator of SiSiWiss Medicine Circles and ceremonies, SiSwinKlae Laurel Boucher, has been a practitioner of SiSiWiss for over 30 years. SiSwinKlae is of Ojibwa/Dakota/Winnebago/Irish decent and customarily adopted into Tulalip family. SiSwinKlae began training in the customs and traditions of the Coast Salish 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/SiSiWiss spirituality 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 region. SiSwinKlae offers the sharing and learning through SiSiWiss Medicine Circle and various ceremonies.
Follow this link for more about the SiSiWiss Women’s Circle gatherings meeting on Tuesday evenings at 6:30pm PST.
https://interfaithcommunitysanctuary.org/gatherings/ongoing-gatherings/
Honoring the Guest Interfaith Worship Series ~ exploring diverse spiritual traditions began at this location in 1998. Monthly we invite lay and clergy from many traditions to share with us so we grow and learn!
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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 languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast_Salish_languages
