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. In 1996, Don David Wiley’s life was profoundly altered when who would later come to be recognized as the Spirit of Fire, often called Grandfather Fire, appeared before him as an apparition in the garden of a meditation retreat center near Cuernavaca, Mexico. Grandfather sent David to study with two indigenous elders, Don Lupe Ríos Gonzales of the Wixárika (Huichol) tradition of Mexico’s Sierra Madres and Don Lucio Campos Elizalde of the Nahua tradition of the central highlands in formal medicine and ceremonial apprenticeships in these two ancestrally related shamanic paths. As a result, David received an initiation as a mara’akame – or a shamanic healer, counselor, and ceremonial leader in the Huichol tradition. He was also initiated as a quiapaquiz (caller of the sky-waters, in Nahuatl) or granicero – or weather worker in Spanish, ceremonial leader, and healer from the Nahua path.
Concurrent with Don David’s immersion in this traditional medicine path work, Grandfather Fire asked David to serve as a traditional spiritual medium, or Axihuatakame, so Grandfather could provide his teachings while speaking through Don David’s body during special gatherings. Over the years, Grandfather Fire inspired Don David and the community growing around Grandfather’s wisdom to spread traditional lifeways worldwide through two nonprofits – Sacred Fire, which trains Sacred Firekeepers and hosts events, and the Blue Deer, a retreat and healing center for nature’s medicine.
Through all of this, and his experience with elders of these traditions, Don David has developed a comprehensive spiritual perspective on the phenomenon, power, and importance of prayer from the most practical aspects to the spiritual processes that empower this way of engaging life and living.
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This course was created by Sacred Fire Co-Founder Don David Wiley, informed by his more than 25 years of experience as a Nahua and Huichol traditional healer, ceremonial leader, teacher and elder. His comprehensive spiritual perspective on the phenomenon, power, and importance of prayer incorporates both the practical and the spiritual, empowering people to fully engage in their day-to-day lives.
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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.