Be Ceremonial, North Vancouver, BC (2025)

12/21/2025

This morning, we gathered for our final seasonal ceremony of 2025 ~ the Winter Solstice ❄️

From different corners of the world, we came together online to honour the longest night and set our intentions for the year ahead.

Together, we each wrote down 12 wishes ~ words that held our deepest longings, our hopes for what wants to emerge. We crumpled them into small paper balls, placed them in a bowl, and drew one out without looking.

We burned it.

And we will continue this ritual each day until December 31st, picking a crumpled wish from the bowl and releasing it to the flames, never knowing which one we’re offering to the mystery. Trusting that what we release will find its way back to us in ways we cannot yet imagine.

On the last day of the year, one word will remain. We will open it, read it, and carry it across the threshold into 2026. This word becomes our blessing, our reminder, our intention for the year ahead.

✨ Year of Seasonal Ceremony 2026 is now open ✨

Join me and for 8 gatherings throughout the year:

• 4 ceremonies at each turn of the season (equinoxes & solstices)
• 4 gatherings in between, honouring the quiet, invisible moments of transition

Because the seasons don’t change just because the calendar says so. They unfold slowly, gradually, in ways that ask us to pay attention.

The more ritual attention we bring to these smaller moments of change, the more present and attuned we become ~ to the seasons within us and the seasons around us.

If you’re ready to walk through 2026 with intention, presence, and ceremony, we’d be honoured to hold space for you.

Link in bio to learn more 🕯️

12/19/2025

Start 2025 with clarity, intention, and creativity ~ deeply connected to yourself, nature, and a circle of phenomenal women.

January 15-18 on Bowen Island, BC ~ a transformational retreat designed to help you step into 2026 with purpose, meaning and a vision for the year ahead.

This isn’t just another wellness retreat. This is where ancient ceremony meets modern self-discovery. Where you’ll gather and share stories, move through creative practices, and craft rituals that bring your intentions to life.

🌲 Nestled in nature on sacred Bowen Island

🔥 Release and intention-setting rituals

🧘‍♀️ Embodiment practices & guided meditation

🎨 Creative expression to clarify your vision

🌊 Ocean plunges & forest bathing

🍽️ Nourishing meals to fuel your transformation

✨ A sisterhood of women ready to rise

You’ll leave with:

→ Crystal-clear intentions for 2025
→ Personalized rituals you can practice all year
→ Creative tools to manifest your vision
→ Deep rest with a community of care

Only a few spots remain for this intimate gathering.

Comment “RITUAL” to claim your space.

Your most aligned year starts here. 🕊️

12/17/2025

As we stand in the threshold between what was and what will be, I invite you to pause with me.

I’m convening two workshops this season to honour the liminal space we’re moving through ~ that sacred in-between space, where one year closes and another begins.

This is a time when the veil is thin, when we can feel the shift in our bones. Through ritual, through our senses, through the elements, we remember that every ending is a beginning, every beginning is an ending.

These gatherings are an invitation to slow down. To cross this threshold with intention rather than rush. To witness what wants to be released and what wants to be called in.

To do this work not alone, but held by community.

We’ll attune ourselves through sensory experience ~ taste, touch, sound, scent ~ awakening to the ceremonies already present in the everyday. We’ll play with the elements. The way water cleanses. How fire transforms. The grounding of earth. The clarity of air.

If you’ve been craving space to mark this transition meaningfully, to tend to your own becoming as mindfully as the season tends to its own turning, I invite you to join us.

CLOSING THE YEAR
December 30th 4pm PST

OPENING THE YEAR
January 7th 5pm PST

Details and registration in bio. Limited spaces available.

12/16/2025

CLOSING THE YEAR CEREMONY 🕯️✨

Before you rush into 2026, pause at the threshold.

December 30th | 4-5:30pm PST | Virtual

In the space between years lives a sacred invitation: to honour what was before reaching for what will be.

Join us for an intimate ceremony to consciously close 2025, releasing what no longer serves and celebrating the wisdom you’ve gathered with others.

This isn’t about resolutions. It’s about completion. It’s about connection. It’s about community.

What we’ll explore:
~ Guided reflection to harvest your year’s wisdom
~ Release rituals for letting go
~ Community witness and sharing
~ Sacred space for both grief and gratitude

Bring: Paper, pen, bowl of water, something that represents your year (photo, object, or symbol), and a sparkler if you can! 🎇

$20 CAD | 50% off for Be Ceremonial members

Can’t attend live? You’ll receive the recording.

The year is ending whether you mark it or not. Why not cross the threshold with intention and community.

Link in bio to register 🔗

12/12/2025

Congratulations to Wendy and Elli of ~ you have both won a 1:1 ceremony coaching call with Megan 🎉

Thank you to everyone who filled out our community survey, offering insight and ideas on how Be Ceremonial can grow into 2026 and beyond.

Johan and I are so grateful to our community of seekers and guides, creators and connectors. This is so much bigger than an app ~ we are building a ceremonial community of care ✨

Stay tuned for all of the exciting things we have in store, and join us Dec 30th as we close the year with intention and connection. Link in bio to apply 💞

12/11/2025

Today I got to hand-deliver the latest edition of The Death Volume to my dear friend while enjoying lunch at .yvr in North Vancouver, and it felt like coming full circle.

Many years ago, Felicia photographed me in the forest as I honoured my three miscarriages. Those images became part of my healing, part of my story in this issue ~ a story about the rituals and ceremonies I created around my pregnancy losses.

Felicia has gifted her time, energy, and 📷 expertise to families navigating pregnancy loss, stillbirth, and infant loss. She doesn’t just take photographs, she creates future gifts, wrapping people in love and care during their most tender moments. She documents what might otherwise be lost to time, ensuring these babies and these moments are seen, held, remembered.

Together with Felicia and .ca, we started the pregnancy loss ceremony boxes that are given to each family who loses a pregnancy or infant child at Lions Gate Hospital

Together, we have brought our community together to talk about pregnancy loss and infant loss, finding ways to bring these conversations out of the dark and into the light.

Felicia’s work now with means that our community is held differently. She brings a presence that only she can bring, one of quiet reverence, deep care, and profound understanding of what it means to witness grief and love existing together.

Thank you Felicia, for everything you are and everything you give. And thank you to for featuring such tender, expansive stories around grief, loss and death. Each story is a gift 🎁

12/09/2025

✨ “Ritual is a mechanism for memory.” ✨

In our conversation, earth artist and ritualist explores the profound difference between going through the motions and creating moments that anchor us in meaning.

While routines keep us functioning, rituals invite us to pause, to witness, and to weave memory into the fabric of our lives.

Through his practice, Day reminds us that ritual doesn’t require complexity, just presence. When we arrange what the land offers with intention, we’re not just making something beautiful. We’re creating containers for remembering: who we’ve been, what we’ve lost, what we’re becoming.

This is a 90-second glimpse into our tender conversation about the power of ritual to transform grief into beauty and help us mark the transitions that shape us.

Full interview available in the Be Ceremonial app 🌿

11/26/2025

Ritual for Christina Baldwin means slowing down and paying attention.

Oh how I loved this interview with one of my teachers and mentors. Christina and Ann's movement The Circle Way has long inspired me and has completely informed how I convene ceremonial space.

I loved her simple and yet poignant description of ritual and ceremony in this clip. You can watch the full interview in the Be Ceremonial App (www.app.beceremonial.com) along with other mentors and teachers of mine.

This work continues to expand my experiences of ritual in the world, and I am forever grateful I get to be in conversation with so much wisdom and grace.

How do you define ritual or ceremony? I have a project I'm exploring for 2026 and would love to hear from as many people as possible!

11/25/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined me last night for my Grief Rituals & The Holidays gathering.

I love creating space for our personal and collective grief to breathe ~ giving us permission to welcome grief in rather than push it aside.

Read my latest blog post for ritual ideas and inspiration this holiday season 🎄 ✡️ 🕯️

https://www.beceremonial.com/blog/welcoming-grief-into-holiday-traditions/

Mary-Frances O’Connor, author of “The Grieving Brain,” reminds us: “Grief is the natural response to being aware of a loss and, during the holidays, you are going to be more aware because we carry out all the rituals we’ve always done with the people we’re close to.”

Ritual turns our private sorrow into something witnessed and held. When we engage in ritual, we’re saying: this matters. You matter. This loss matters.

Rather than pushing grief aside to make room for celebration, what if we invited it to the table? What if we created rituals that acknowledge absence while still making space for joy?

As Francis Weller beautifully writes: “The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and to be stretched large by them. Grief keeps the heart fluid and soft, which helps make compassion possible.”

This holiday season, may you find ways to honour both your grief and your gratitude. May you give yourself permission to adapt, to rest, to cry, to laugh, and to be exactly where you are. And may you remember that by making space for grief at your table, you’re not ruining the holidays. You’re making them more honest, more tender, and ultimately, more human.

11/15/2025

I just watched Come See Me in the Good Light and I can’t stop thinking about it.

Andrea Gibson has this way of making you slow down and really see the world we inhabit ~ the morning light through your window, the way someone you love laughs, the weight of a conversation.

This documentary reminded me that the extraordinary lives in the everyday. That presence is a practice. That paying attention is its own form of love.

If you need a gentle reminder to find beauty in the small, quiet moments of your life, watch this film. It will change the way you look at everything, especially death.

11/14/2025

12 years ago, I attended an Art of Hosting retreat on Bowen Island. We stayed at Rivendell Retreat Centre and had the most magical week exploring, connecting and deepening our practice of convening and gathering.

10 years later, I reached out to Rivendell to host my New Year Retreat in the space that once held and inspired me, and they said yes.

I’ve since hosted 3 retreats in this space and my upcoming New Year Ritual Retreat in January will be my last one (here, at least).

It’s bittersweet, as I reflect on the magic of the lands that surround Rivendell and the intentionality built into the lodge and sanctuary. Every piece of this place was crafted with love and a desire to welcome people into a place of belonging.

Time is an interesting concept ~ on the one hand, that week with , .017 Chris Corrigan and so many more feels like just yesterday…I remember the sunrise and the conversations by the fire, the anticipation and the relief at finding a home for my practice.

On the other hand, it feels like a lifetime ago. So much has transpired since ~ so many goodbyes and new hellos, so much grief and oh so much love.

This is my love letter to Rivendell ~ a place that opened me up, inspired me and held me and countless others as we reflected, contemplated and committed to activating the changes we want to see in our world.

Join me this January for my farewell retreat ~ a chance to experience the magic of this place through my eyes one last time 🥰

🍲 will nourish us
📷 will capture the 2026 version of you
🍶 will help you let go and move forward
🪢 will inspire you to craft your vision for 2026

4 spots remain for my New Year Ritual Retreat ✨ comment RETREAT and I’ll send you a link to apply.

11/11/2025

🌺 When I was a kid, Remembrance Day felt big and heavy, but I couldn’t connect to what it actually meant. It felt so far away from my day-to-day life.

Now raising two kids, I want this day to be more than performative. Rituals aren’t just about looking backward. They’re about choosing what we carry forward.

Today I’m taking my kids to the ceremony I used to attend as a child. Then we’re heading to the beach at sunset. While I swim, I’ll invite them to reflect: What kind of neighbour, friend, person do they want to be? How can we take care of each other?

It’s not elaborate. Just space, time, and an invitation to think.

What rituals help your family connect to Remembrance Day in ways that feel real?

Link in bio (blog) for more ideas on creating meaningful rituals with kids. 🕊️

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