Storied
Engaging the soul tools of story & ritual to deepen into the fertile darkness
Saturday, December 20, 2025
4 – 6 pm US Eastern Time
Online Via Zoom
A winter solstice ritual with NikiAnne and Siobhan
Where there is perfection, there is no story to tell. ~ Ben Okri
Each of us is woven with stories. We are woven with the stories of our ancestors. They live in our bones and blood. And each day of our lives, we harvest more stories. Everything is story. We are storied. Story and ritual have been tools through time to invite us into deeper territories of ourselves, so that we may tend to the threads that are weaving our collective basket.
Stories offer roadmaps to navigate hardship, the initiations we go through as humans. Using metaphor, the language of our soul, stories can invoke and support the metabolization of difficult experiences. They offer a powerful gateway into our feeling bodies, to reflect on the ordeals of one’s life, descend into something unfamiliar and challenging, and re-emerge carrying some new wisdom, a gift for your life and community.
We unconsciously carry stories, but as we listen from the heart, we have a hand in changing and altering the story of our own lives, and the story of the culture we’re creating together.
Here, in the belly of winter, we will engage an old story as a way to get in touch with and tend to our personal stories. Together, through a ritual space and an invitational presence, we aim to deepen intimacy and coax the story wanting to come out of hiding. All faiths and belief systems are welcome; sharing is optional; everyone’s heart and experience will be held with love and compassion. Expect guided ritual practice and the space to be held with compassionate presence to all that is.
Restorying is the work of welcoming and aggrandizing the small voice that emerges when we unhinder ourselves from the spells others have cast on us.
Donations and registration
This program is offered by donation because we want this ritual experience to be widely accessible to any and all who are longing to traverse into deeper territories of themselves, tending the threads that are weaving our collective basket. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Registration is required to receive the Zoom link.
Facilitators
Siobhan Asgharzadeh
Facilitator
Siobhan is a certified birth and death doula and life passages mentor. She is also a pilgrim and has walked her prayers for over 20 years since her first pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago. Siobhan is dedicated to re-enlivening the old way of walking as journey into soul territory carrying wonder and curiosity as her pilgrim staff.
Seeing the deep cultural need for more grief-literate support for those who have experienced loss, Siobhan became a grief doula and created Grief Pilgrim, a pathway to a more generative and soulful relationship with grief. Working with old initiation stories, poetry, land sojourns, ritual, crafting, and council Siobhan works with individuals and groups to re-imagine a cultural relationship with grief that supports people in their becoming.
Because of her love of the wild lands and the heartbreak she carries around the impact of humans forgetting how to be good stewards of the land, she feels devoted to awaken herself and others into a more generative relationship with life. Dance, song, plants, prayer, myths, legends, dreams, rivers, trees, songbirds, adventure, and poetry have been her greatest teachers.
NikiAnne Feinberg
Director, Founder, Facilitator
Throughout the last two decades, NikiAnne has dedicated much of her life energy to facilitating transformative learning journeys, particularly in community settings, and with folks in transition — between vocations; stages of life, including death; and those working to live into new, more life-giving stories of the world and themselves. In all her work, NikiAnne partners with the ancestors, the natural world, the power of ritual, and others to best serve the whole.
Register
Complete the registration form once per participant.
After your registration is processed, you will receive several confirmations…
- An automatic confirmation of receiving your registration, which includes the Zoom link for the event.
- If you made a donation, a payment confirmation from our card processor