Selkie Sanctuary
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The Selkie Sanctuary is a seaside art studio, bakery, ceremonial space, and cottage on land that is ritually engaged with and cared for. It is a place where many have come to restore their sealskin/soulskin. A place where intentionally created offerings come to life. Where medicine is made.
The story begins in 2017 as "The Sanctuary", a place of solo solace and community ceremony. Many hands and hearts gathered here often, always with intention, always seeking decompression, soul-tending, restoration, and connection. Everything from Solstice celebrations to weekend medicinal painting retreats. From labyrinth meditation walks to wild dance movement late into the night. 2019 saw the cottage welcome a family, a love story unfolded of the mythic storytelling kind, and with that, a larger volume of conscious artistic work began to be created here. The easels are now always up, the kiln is waiting, the apothecary is full, and the seasonal altar is always holding good space. Medicine is being made here more and more and more to travel out and meet people wherever they are. In this way, the "Selkie Sanctuary" came into being. And more is coming too. Our story is just getting going and it's really really good! Touch back in on these pages or follow us on Instagram as we begin to show more of the medicinal creations that move through our hands and out our doors. |
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Juliette Woods
She perceives subtle shifts in the wind with a turn of her fingertips Speaks stories from unseen realms to listening hearts and ears She navigates the currents of the natural world, Re-membering and Witnessing Slow cooks rich brews for soul food feasting Makes marks of medicine and births Beings with purpose Hears the tide change its course and sings to the seals from the shore She senses Rightness through the hairs on her arms and the touch of her Beloved when afar A truth teller, a way shower, a holder of sacred space she has been called teacher, spiritual leader, mother, lover she has been named Bean Feasa, earth selkie, Sovereign Weaver, dream maker Juliette walks between and within worlds in ceremony and reciprocity |
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As Spiritualist
Juliette is a west coaster with a life long affinity for the natural world and the mystical stories passed to her from the women in her family. At home in the intertidal zone of the shoreline or tucked up in the Selkie Sanctuary, she is dedicated to living a soul-filled life both personally and professionally.
As a young child she began experiencing visions and premonitions which woke her personal awareness to the realm of Spirit. Now she is a mother to beautiful children, a multi media artist, teacher, writer, and ceremonialist, adept at weaving the sacred into daily life. Her call to the 'shamanic' path was recognized after a combination of traditional factors, with the most symbolic element presenting as having received many venomous spider bites from three kinds of spider ~ Black Widow, Brown Recluse and Hobo. In the case of the Black Widows, her body was completely covered in bites, yet through these situations, she did not suffer lasting deleterious effects. Ultimately, these experiences lead her to a formal western 'shamanic' training and richly personal animist lifestyle.
As Creatrix
Juliette is a sacred tool maker of medicine rattles, frame drums, talismans, medicine pouches, intentional non-permenant art and mandala-like natural offerings. Her channeled art is created as a means of spiritual connection. Paintings full of symbols and markings etched into the paint around whimsical animals, mushrooms, and landscapes, or as intricate colour-filled mandalas that hold specific medicinal intentions for the viewer’s well-being. She brings form to wildish spirit dolls made from natural and found materials, as beings come forward with a supportive essence and purpose. Ceremonial ceramics to facilitate energetic tending and spiritual practice come through her hands with intentions pressed right into the clay as each piece is being formed.
Juliette is a west coaster with a life long affinity for the natural world and the mystical stories passed to her from the women in her family. At home in the intertidal zone of the shoreline or tucked up in the Selkie Sanctuary, she is dedicated to living a soul-filled life both personally and professionally.
As a young child she began experiencing visions and premonitions which woke her personal awareness to the realm of Spirit. Now she is a mother to beautiful children, a multi media artist, teacher, writer, and ceremonialist, adept at weaving the sacred into daily life. Her call to the 'shamanic' path was recognized after a combination of traditional factors, with the most symbolic element presenting as having received many venomous spider bites from three kinds of spider ~ Black Widow, Brown Recluse and Hobo. In the case of the Black Widows, her body was completely covered in bites, yet through these situations, she did not suffer lasting deleterious effects. Ultimately, these experiences lead her to a formal western 'shamanic' training and richly personal animist lifestyle.
As Creatrix
Juliette is a sacred tool maker of medicine rattles, frame drums, talismans, medicine pouches, intentional non-permenant art and mandala-like natural offerings. Her channeled art is created as a means of spiritual connection. Paintings full of symbols and markings etched into the paint around whimsical animals, mushrooms, and landscapes, or as intricate colour-filled mandalas that hold specific medicinal intentions for the viewer’s well-being. She brings form to wildish spirit dolls made from natural and found materials, as beings come forward with a supportive essence and purpose. Ceremonial ceramics to facilitate energetic tending and spiritual practice come through her hands with intentions pressed right into the clay as each piece is being formed.
* Further Creator Introduction Arriving Soon! *
