Sunrise Communions

I dance and bathe my heart with the first light of the sun. Since June 4, 2016, my priestess birthday and the beginning of my initiation journey, I have been following the mother invitation to discover a daily sunrise dance ritual. In the beginning I interpreted the directive literally, and pushed myself to get up every morning before the munchkins woke up—then a 1 year old Wonder and a nearly-two year old Bloom—and dance for 90 minutes. I would do this intense practice for 6 to 8 days consecutively, and then be exhausted! And then be like, “ok, now I have to start over!”

At the time I felt that I had to complete 365 consecutive days of dancing with the sun. I thought that was the “assignment” of my initiation. That if I could do that, then I would have arrived at my fullness of this priestesshood. Nearly 6 years into this experiment, and I’ve yet to reach an uninterrupted flow of sunrise devotions. What has unfolded though is a lush, fertile ground of awakening and understanding as it relates to the sun, the cosmos, and our fertile majesties. Everything is born of the sun and its precious generosity of warmth, of light, of radiance.

In this collection I am gathering the stories, voice notes, sermons, journal entries and videos of me deepening into the sunrise communion labors. In what I once lamented as an on-again-off-again movement practice, I now celebrate as a long labor of navigating the “wobbly orbit” of birthing a sustainable rhythm.

In November 2021, in the midst of my Sacred Return season after the protostar birthing in September, I returned the sunrise communion ritual after more than a year away from it. This reinitiation is the softest beginning I’ve had in nearly 6 years of learning how to nurture my sunrise communion. From this softness, so much is being born and created. I am grateful!

This season of cultivating my sunrise movement practice has been so generative! In this space I will document the continuous evolution of these labors, and also share the journeys inside the Luminous Expansion and the Lumens rituals, movement practices that were born from the sunrise devotionals and that happen inside the sunrise communion.