Devotional Compass Workshop,
November 2025
For 6 Sundays from Nov. 9 to Dec 14.
Create your own personal Devotional Compass to navigate these liminal times with integrity and artistry.
It'll definitely make your life weirder
like, in a good way.
Register at the verrrry bottom of this page.
Throughout a Sort-Of Poem
Life always, always bears our curiosity,
our deeper leaning-in.
Have you noticed?
In every direction is some kind of fascination.
Flaking canyons of tree bark
in great swaying forests.
Glimmer-tip hairs on the cat’s tail,
playing with the kicked winds of history.
The shiny, hungry matrix in your pocket,
and still: the broad and star-soaked sky.
Everything is forever and nothing will ever be the same,
a crease blooms in the face of the beloved.
Pay attention.
What is the Devotional Compass?
The Devotional Compass is a personal orientation tool for navigating the open waters of living in a conscious and aligned way. It marries the apparent openness of endless-choice reality with the grounding honesty of being a real person living in a real place at a real time, who wants to live in their own integrity.
The 6-Week Workshop guides participants in articulating their specific and personal devotions in the spirits of each of the 8 Directions with which we work, and pairs that verbal articulation (Mantra) with the movement-articulation of the body (Kriya). The workshop is designed to support participants’ movement towards embodying conscious devotion and integrating it into their daily lives.
Live Workshopping Sessions
6 Sundays Online 3-5:30pm PT; 4-6:30pm MT
Nov 9 – Devotional Compass Intro + Cohort Weaving
Nov 16 – East-West
Nov 23 – North-South
Nov 30 – Above-Below
Dec 7 – Center-Edge
Dec 14 – Closing Ceremony + Turning the Wheel
Optional Practica for Workshopping and Q+A
Wednesdays Online — 5:30-7pm PT; 6:30-8pm MT
Come for an Info Call!
All answerable questions answered:
Sunday, October 26th, 3-4pm PT, 4-5pm MT
(register here for Oct 26th)
Especially, especially, especially
—these days—
when we swim in an ocean of hypnosis
amid a great famine of meaning.
(Meaning is a feast best shared with friends.)
Out of our forever-hungers
for Real fire,
for Real movement,
for Real relationship,
for Real story,
we sniff for cold crumbs of food, meaning, family, myth
in personalized palm-fires that we carry around in our pockets,
always lit.
We cannot pay attention that’s already spent,
and thieves of attention pillage in both public and private.
It’s so hard to remember;
it’s so easy to forget.
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In a world of accelerating complexity and spiraling uncertainty, how do we wisely navigate our lives in relation to something we can trust? We are in a profound period of collective disorientation as anything resembling a consensus reality is unraveling before our eyes. Perhaps you recognize the cultural norms and patterns of living you inherited no longer fit your present circumstances particularly well. Your navigation system needs some updating. Maybe you are feeling pretty disoriented and want support centering and orienting yourself in a shifting landscape. You might have clear intentions for how you want to reorient yourself, but are finding it challenging to make the transition to living it in an embodied way.
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Clarify and sharpen your deepest devotions that bring you into alignment with yourself (your center) and your purpose (your edge). Receive support crafting and refining your personal compass to bring your devotions into relationship with the body of the Earth by anchoring them in the cardinal directions and the sovereign axis mundi of above and below. Learn to root your devotional compass into your body and soul through the ritual repetition of enacting your embodied compass.
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Draw inspiration from being in an intentional cohort of devoted humans supporting each other to uncover shared threads of collective intention, mutuality of care, depth of presence. Fortify your self-inquiry by witnessing others in theirs. We're not meant to do this alone, and participation in the group field heightens your attunement to your own innate wisdom.
a timelapse example of what a Devotional Compass May look like without the words:
So, here we are.
Ancestrally tuned for relationship to the Real:
made for fascination, for ecstasy, for awe,
made for living labor, creative labor, loving labor,
made to be together and to have it matter.
Meanwhile, in the “grand scheme of things”
NO ONE actually knows the fullness of what’s happening right now,
much less, what to do about it.
With a Devotional Compass, you can at least know where you stand,
orienting to your center and from your center,
in conscious devotion to what you love most.
From there, the compass can help you make way to your centered edge
where growth and evolution happens,
where inner and outer meet.
Meet change with courage.
You will grow.
With Your Liminary Facilitators:
Josie Siegel
and
David Chott
Josie is an impractical mystic and teacher of mystery. She is a ritual artist and philosopher of revolutionary, feminine, ecological ontologies. She is devoted to becoming specific to her nature, her people, and her place. Josie is a threshold guardian, death doula, and conflict (re)mediator with certifications and degrees that corroborate the natural, fermented knowing that comes from her listening deeply and loving the Earth, our real (edible, cultured, devouring, responsive) god.
David is a practical mystic and student of mystery. He sees us as living in a time between worlds, and works to build culture that includes awareness of our intuitive felt sense and the invaluable wisdom it provides to navigate our collective challenges. He has been facilitating presence-centered group work for 8 years. David became a certified circling facilitator with Circling Europe in 2017, and completed his coaching certification with them in 2021. He trained extensively in Surrendered Leadership in the Avalon field, and has deeply explored men's work for 15 years. He's a current student of John Churchill in Planetary Dharma, and studies with Lynda Caesara in her remarkable Energy Class.