August Community Healing Ritual - MINERAL

For the August Community Healing Ritual at Kinstone we will gather at the Great Stone Circle and step into rich and inviting circle of standing stone elders.
In this setting, we will connect with the wisdom we carry in our bones. Each person is born with deep memories that they bring with them selves into this life.
Bones carry the stories of those who came before us. The bones of the Earth are the minerals and rocks that we see.
According to my teacher, Elder Malidoma Somé, "To know the true story of our earth, including the story of ourselves, is to listen to the rocks. They are the conduit through which earth passes information onto us."
The Mineral element reconnects us with our true essence and purpose. It reminds us of the unique brilliance that longs to move through us, and it awakens the stories our spirits are here to tell.
About Community Healing Rituals at Kinstone:
Monthly schedule:
2026 Rituals will be the fourth Saturday each month from June 27 through October 24
Time:
4:00pm to 7:00pm
If you’d like to learn more about the language of ritual, join us in the parking lot before each ritual to help with set up and planning. We gather at 2 pm prior to the ritual for Learning the Language of Ritual.
Date | Location | Element
June 27 | Pond | Shape Shifting (WATER)
July 25 | Under the Pines by the Yurt | Burial and Re-bEarth (EARTH)
August 22 | The Great Stone Circle | Wisdom in Our Bones (MINERAL)
September 26 | The Dolmen | Tending the Ancestral (FIRE)
October 24 | The Three Witnesses | Return to Authenticity (NATURE)
Cost: These rituals are donation based + the entrance fee to Kinstone ($10). Our hope is to keep these accessible to any who are feeling the call to community and nature-based healing. If the cost of entrance to Kinstone is prohibitive, please reach out, we have a scholarship fund for those in need.
“Ritual is called for because our soul communicates things to us that the body translates as need, or want, or absence. So we enter into ritual in order to respond to the call of the soul.”
― Malidoma Patrice Somé, Ritual: Power, Healing and Community
During these events, we will come together and create a ritual that emerges from the rhythm of all who are gathered based on the group's current needs, and the guidance and support of the elemental beings of Fire, Water, Earth, Nature, and Minerals.