About Threshold: From 12/27 - 01/04  you will receive a daily piece of writing, art or a practice from a trusted esoteric practitioner. Our intention is to help reflect on the year you have had, and plant seeds of intention in 2025. Each of these practitioners is someone who I respect and admire, and is also part of the guest faculty for Emanate: Business School for Mystics.

 

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Dear Keeper of the Threshold,

 

Welcome to the fourth day of our 9 Days of Ritual, and Happy New Moon in Capricorn.

 

Today's activity comes from Sirah Mora, an incredible translator of the abstract and the multidimensional to the visual and narrative. I first met Sirah inside the Garden of the Imaginal community.

 

In the past I never wanted to collaborate with anyone else on the visual world of my work because it is such a massive part of how I share my frequency. This changed when I met Sirah. I felt instinctively Sirah could help me refine the way I guide people through my body of work, and I am so glad I listened to myself because now that we have worked together, I can say for certain Sirah possesses the rare ability to crystallize the nebulous without flattening someone or their body of work. The way she reflected what she saw back to me, and then expressed it through storytelling for my website and imagery helped me expand my idea for what was possible, and build more trust in collaborating with others. This is what she will be guiding us through in Emanate.

 

For Threshold Day 04, Sirah created a simple ritual for you to evoke your creativity, tap into the wisdom of your body, and work with the power of your intuition. I hope you find it as transformative as I did. 

 

Take a blank piece of paper or a page in your journal and draw a rough outline of your body. No need for much detail - it’s okay if this comes out looking like the Gingerbread Man.

 

Grab a pack of colored pencils, markers, crayons, paints or pens - whatever is available to you.

 

1. Gratitude: 

Feel into the center of your heart or chest. Take a few moments to breathe deeply into this part of you. Keep breathing until you start to feel a warmth or a fullness wash over this area of you. As you breathe into this part of your body, feel into what you were grateful for this year in 2024. What do you feel deep gratitude for? Take a moment to feel the emotions and sensations of each thing you are grateful for.

 

Exercise 1: When you’re done, color this same area of your drawing with any colors, images or patterns that feel like the sensation of your gratitude. Don’t overthink it - pull the color(s) that come to you first or draw the first thing that comes to mind.

 

2. Release: 

Now, turning your attention to your body again, feel what parts of your body (if any) feel particularly heavy or constricting. This sensation might vary from person to person - it could feel like a tightness, a dullness, a heaviness, etc. - pay attention to where in your body you feel any sensation that is not relaxed or light-feeling.

 

Exercise 2: Take note of these heavier or constricted areas of your body by coloring in the corresponding areas on your drawing. You can color these areas with hues that match what these sensations feel like. Jot down any notes or words of what these sensations might be connected to (i.e. grief, control, anger, burnout, a project that stressed you out, relationship tension, etc.). If you’d like, you can explore these sensations deeper and perhaps ask them what they would like to show you and have you honor. When you’re ready for the next step, draw something over these areas you marked that symbolize a feeling of warmth, care, and love. 

 

This could look like drawing a big heart over each of these areas, for example, or coloring over them with your favorite color. Once you’ve done this, tune into these areas of your body again and imagine these symbols and the feelings of warmth, care, and love washing over these areas of your body as you inhale and exhale deeply into these spaces. You can even place a hand over these areas to help you connect as you imagine your symbols enveloping them. As you do this, you can repeat to yourself “I allow myself to let go of what I’m holding onto here”.

 

3. Creation: 

Now that you’ve released some of what has felt heavy, think about the year ahead. Ask yourself, “what would feel expansive to experience next year?" Maybe it’s moving to a new place, visiting a friend, starting a new project, setting a daily routine for your self-care. Notice where in your body this feeling of expansiveness is occurring. Maybe it’s at the top of your head or in your chest. Take note of how it feels.

 

Exercise 3: When you’re done, color in this same area(s) of your body on your drawing. You can add in symbols, words or other images, as well.

 

Now that you have a visual map of how your body communicates different feelings and sensations to you, you can look back on your drawing through the coming year as a reminder of where to connect with your gratitude, release tension and heaviness, and expand or create new pathways that fill your spirit. 

 

I hope you enjoy creating this map to revisit as you move through 2025. Imagine what it would be like to repeat this same exercise at the end of the year and observe what has shifted.

 

If you'd like to see an example of Sirah's work, you can check out my site, and also look at the gorgeous website where her work lives here. Sirah will be facilitating a workshop called The Art of World-Building Your Brand as part of Emanate, too.

 

Here is a bit about Sirah Mora and her studio, Sacred Hive.

 

Sirah is the Founder and Creative Director of Sacred Hive Studio - a multi-disciplinary creative studio where intuition and strategy converge to create artfully singular brands, experiences, and felt visual worlds. 

As a visual translator, she partners with you to bring a concept or idea into form in the digital and/or physical space through the lens of world-building.

 

 

Here is the first reveal of Sirah's workshop in Emanate.

 

Branding and good design help to forge a bridge between what is useful and what is beautiful. In today's world, where brands and businesses have the power to shape and shift culture, audiences want more than just a good product, service, or offering. They want to feel invited into a thoughtfully considered world and to connect to what makes a brand or person distinct. 

In this 90-minute workshop, you'll learn how to blend art and commerce to create a felt visual world and cohesive brand experience through your positioning, messaging, and visual branding.

 

You can see the Emanate curriculum preview at SchoolofTheImaginal.com with the password EMANATION

 

See you soon for Day 05!

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