Cultivating a Deeper Relationship with Divine through Prayer
Online Via Zoom
Sun, March 16, 2 - 3:15 pm ET (US)
Register Here
There is a new offering coming to Sacred Fire local communities!
A four-part workshop on prayer, developed with the blessing and guidance of Grandfather Fire, will be offered in multiple locations beginning in 2025.
As a precursor, join us on March 16th to hear community elder Don David Wiley speak on the fundamental importance of prayer as the background of a healthy life.
In our lives we can experience a sense of disconnection from the fundamental force behind life, creation, and all of its movements, acknowledged by many names such as God, the Gods, or Spirit. Since the beginning, traditions throughout the world have worked to create a process to bridge that gap and ask for help through what is recognized as prayer.
At the heart of this process, which nowadays has largely been forgotten or misunderstood, lies an understanding of the principles of how prayer works to produce a deeper relationship and the potential for receiving support.
We are offering an opportunity to rediscover this sacred approach to engaging with Divine once more.
In this 60-minute online event, you will hear David Wiley speak on prayer, and also get to meet the workshop facilitators, Megan Montero and Christina Gravelle. Come reflect on your own relationship to prayer, and learn about the details of participating when this offering comes to your location.
Schedule
March 16, 2:00 – 3:15 pm ET (Americas)
Price
Sliding scale $10-$25
For more information
For more information, contact Sherry Boatright at sacredfirelifeways@sacredfire.org
Featuring
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Christina Gravelle has always longed for connection with Divine. Raised in a Catholic family, her youth was steeped in Faith, and the value and beauty of prayer.
This early grounding in spiritual life inspired Christina to continue to explore relationship with Divine as an adult. A long-time student of Siddha Yoga and member of the Sacred Fire Community, she is currently studying to be a Firekeeper. For years, she has been a volunteer and Guest Services coordinator for the Blue Deer Center, a home for Ancestral Wisdom in the Catskill Mountains. Chanting, community service, and devotional prayer are important practices and sources of joy for her.
Christina has a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition from Bastyr University. She lives in Plymouth, MA near her family and Grandmother Ocean.
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Don David Wiley is a teacher, elder and a founder of the Sacred Fire community. He is well-
known in traditional circles as one who lends his body as a human vessel to be the
“god-speaker man” for Grandfather Fire. He is a healer, ceremonialist, and ritual leader
in two ancestrally related indigenous traditions from Mexico—the Huichol mara’akame
path and the Quiapaquiz path of Nahuatl weather working and a Tepahtiani or healer in
that tradition. He has devoted his life to fulfilling the task given to him by the Spirit of
Fire, “Reach out to the people of your modern world and provide help while teaching
how to live life more aligned with Spirit and the nature of the world through awareness,
connection, and engagement.” He is considered an initiated elder in these two
traditions, as a Tsaurixika in the Huichol path and a Temachtian or teacher in the Nahua
tradition, along with being a Tlamatinimel, or knower of the Nahua ways. He performs
baptisms for the children, initiation of young men into adulthood, and funerary work for
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Megan Montero. Megan’s devotion to the practice of prayer began in 2007 when she was initiated as a Granicera or Weather Worker in the Nahua tradition indigenous to Central Mexico. As a Nahua ceremonial leader and healer, prayer is a big focus of her healing and ceremonial work. Currently Megan offers community rain ceremonies where she lives in Santa Cruz, California and is a Sacred Fire firekeeper in training.
Megan also has a background in the fine arts and has been a Feng Shui practitioner for over 20 years.