Ren + Spiritwork

You’ve been looking at a lot of weird websites and following all sorts of witchy folks on social media. You’ve got the stack of books on meditation and journeying. You know you should have a spiritual practice, but you’ve gathered so much information, it’s hard to know what to prioritize.

But then, here I am offering even more information.

Animistic practice? Ooh, I’ve heard of animism. Maybe I need to be practicing that, too!

I love your insatiable desire for deeper waters, free spirit. I love your endless quest for rare knowing. I love it.

Here’s the good news: animism isn’t just another cool thing to add to your ever-growing want-to-do list. Animistic spiritwork offers a new way of relating to your want-to-do list, of communicating with your desires, and bringing your spiritual journey to life!

Through animistic spiritwork, we can ask our spiritual practice what it wants. More importantly: we can ask it why. What are we practicing for? Is our spirituality just a hobby, or do all of these pieces we’ve been gathering add up to something more?

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Join me this Thursday (January 2nd) @freespiritwork on Instagram for completely free week-long introduction to animistic spiritual practice. @freespiritwork is a private account, so you'll need to register before you can get access.

This class is for beginners and advanced practitioners alike. Beginners will enjoy the simple, straight-forward, easy-to-understand language and approach. Advanced practitioners will recognize that simplicity is another word for clarity—something hard-won in the hidden realms.

In which Sarah Magdalena Love and I chat about spiritwork, black sage, and the awesomeness of Scorpios. Who is your best plantfriend?

Also, why did I write a spiritwork program based on the phases of a human life instead of something more mysterious and woo? 👶+👧+👩+👵+💀 

Spirit: I have many names, some of which only the wind can speak.

Spirit: Most refer to me as a name that is foreign to your tongue and would be hilarious to watch you even attempt to mutter.

So excited to listen and re-live this wild conversation with my new witch-friend Sarah Chappell over at Heal Yourself, in which we talk about spiritwork, the winding road to spiritual business, how to encounter money as a spirit, pokemon, rubbing goats together, ancestral bootstraps, and the smell of a dollar bill. 😂

#Repost @sarahmchappell (@get_repost) ・・・

Sometimes you find someone's work and just spiral into a fangirldom so deep you're afraid you'll never escape! That's how I felt when I discovered @renspiritwork in an online marketing group. I was thrilled to see another business-minded witch, and dove right into her free eight week Spiritwork course. Ren's work has felt like a real homecoming for me; I've long pushed aside more traditional witchcraft due to being ostracized as a child, and Ren's dogma-free approach to skills like trance and ritual has been so freeing for me both personally and professionally.

Ren is a Spiritworker. Not sure what that means? Well, give the episode a listen! For Ren, Spiritwork is a natural extension of an animist world view, and when her witchy skills started to seep into her massage practice, a new business was born. Ren shares about discovering she is a witch, growing into that path, and now creating online apprenticeships to help others learn the tools of Spiritwork. Ren also offers some tips on how to work with one of the most difficult spirits of all: money.

There is plenty of witchy cackling, talk of goats and Pokemon, and much, much more. This episode is a touch NSFW so be an adult and listen at your own risk. If you enjoy the podcast, please leave a review on iTunes so more folks can join us around the fire.