We are at a point on the planet right now, where we are being invited into an integration process... to metabolize... to undergo an alchemy...
We are also at the point where the ache to find meaning in our own history is acute... but most of us don't know how to untie the knots... and sometimes we get really stuck ... especially in our bodies.
You might have noticed that many of us are inside an ancestral and spiritual lineage that has deeeply unhealed, avoidant aspects to it. And so often... what is unhealed has mutated into further destructive behaviours... and even destructive innovations... so it is no wonder we avoid going toward addressing our past 🤗.
"For every tear we don't release, raises the level of the sea."
If you have Western and/or Christian heritage... whether you are still a Christian or not... sooner or later, there is specific unpacking and transforming to do. And it might be very surprising at how much this process can help your body... and also the body of the whole planet.
Sometimes, if we want to truly step into the fullness of our own life, and into the fullness of this planet's life, part of what that looks like is tenderly touching, and integrating, our own origin story, including our spiritual inheritances. In other words, it is important that we are more than 2 or 3 generations deep!
You learn gently, step-by-step, day-by-day, to go toward rather than away from... to finally open and reclaim that space in your body, not controlled or dominated by outside power, but also not caged from the inside.
Nothing is wrong with you. You simply outgrew the pot you were planted in.
But what we do with our roots... is more important than we think.
Why? Because the energy we use to keep our history away from us, is often the energy we need to transform it.
Why? Because throughout history, as one epoch begins to supersede the other, so far, we have used exiling or avoidant energy to do it.
"With fang of the wolf, we offer our praise."
✔️ You can encounter an inner sensuality, a lightness of being, and an inner freedom, as you heal.
✔️ You can become acquainted with all of your ancestors.
✔️ You can build your inner imaginal fortitude
✔️ You can even be reconciled with the story (and the potency) of the Christic Path, without breaking out in hives every time you consider it 😂.
✔️ You don't have to leave. You don't have to stay. You don't have to "go back". You don't have to erase.
✔️ The invitation in our time, is to willingly step into an alchemical process... because all the wise and ancient stories tell us:
that whatever we exile... or even simply ignore... will mutate, and that mutation, if not transformed, will be passed unreconciled, to the next generations.
✔️ You can grieve. You can laugh without the cynicism. You can be both fierce and peacemaker.
"I'm not an obedient daughter, my body protects the water."
Hello, my name is Alana...
And I companion women who come from a Western and/or Christian heritage, into an expansive, sensual life of alchemical love. I have wandered a challenging and circuitous road that has led me to this deeply expansive, sensual, path... in the midst of ordinary life... in the midst of the patterns of suffering and dominance we see expressing themselves in the human story.
... I am Christian ritualist, Minstrel, Pagan earth-lover on the Bardic path, Depth Huntress, Mother, Lover, Apple farmer... and... I have guided rites of passage, led women's circles, and am trained the path of nondual consciousness, found in the Perennial Tradition.
As a recording artist and songwriter who has walked into the very mouth of the patriarchy - that is the entertainment industry - and as someone who grew up in a mix of being exposed to both great art, and church fundamentalism... and as a granddaughter of Kashubian, Scottish and English Canadian homesteaders (whom I dearly loved) ...
I know what it feels like in that context, to close parts of myself off, and not know how to integrate the complexity of my history.
Through my own journey of struggling to know what the hell to do with this strange story… the story of Western Civilization… of Christianity, of crossing the big water, of being only 3 generations deep in these beautiful lands... I have dedicated much of my life to wrestling… and deep diving. And through willingly allowing myself to go through an alchemical process, I have reconciled my Christian roots with my Pagan ones... to transform the violence, and make peace inside myself. I have learned to thrive-in-the-longing, with the aid of meditation, movement, artistic process, and dreaming up a simple life that burgeons with beauty and plenitude... symbolizing what I intuit is... the wellspring at the heart of all things... I am surrounded by roses, wild and "tame"... berries, plums, pears, grape arbours, and especially... APPLES.
Alchemy is a vessel for wise women... an alabaster jar... a grail... where we will meet every 2 weeks in an online circle, to go through an extraordinary alchemical process.
You will be held inside a private Voxer channel, where you can leave voice or text messages at any time. I will be in there from Monday - Thursday responding and cheering as we go through this transformational process together.
The structure for this embodied curriculum will be held by my 13-song folk opera Cianalas/Tãsknota, and the 7 stages of Alchemy.
All members of Alchemy will receive a membership to the The Wellspring for the year. (More about The Wellspring will be announced soon!)
"Alana has pioneered a multi-dimensional, foundational resource that others will be devoured by, as I am, and we will cling to this at our darkest hours.
Crystal clear, coded, complete. A celebration that is a pilgrim's COMPASSionate collision into a colourful perMISSION to prostrate, at all that remains, despite all appearances.
I love this embodied woman and it breaks my heart that we thought "fallen" was our path, when chosen is the truth!"
Interested in joining 'ALCHEMY' (or a soon to be announced membership area THE WELLSPRING!!!) but still want to think about it?
Please take your time... I want you to check in with yourself, to really sense if this is the right time, or the right space for you. This is YOUR journey. If your journey aligns with this offering, and you choose to do the work in this space, wonderful!
In the meantime, as a recording artist, I invest in offering full albums which are always available for free on all the streaming platforms.
Cianalas/Tãsknota holds deep value and anyone can access it...
"Alana Levandoski and her folk opera are a renaissance. Leading pilgrimage to restoration, declaring emancipation, and a covenant with peace. Her altruism and music integrate mythology and ceremony, transforming legends into guideposts, and folklore into heartfelt contemplations. She reshapes liturgical and secular methodologies... Alana is authentic through and through."
- Phyllis Sinclair, singer-songwriter
PRAISE FOR ALANA'S MUSIC
"Beautiful, profound, and for those who are ready, game changing and life changing!"
- Richard Rohr, OFM
"A masterpiece!"
- Steve Bell, singer-songwriter
"A masterpiece in both the spiritual and artistic arenas."
- Cynthia Bourgeault, wisdom teacher
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Integral /ˈin(t)əɡrəl,inˈteɡrəl/ necessary and important as part of a whole
Alchemy /ˈalkəmē/- the art of working with all ingredients for the purpose of transformation, inner liberation, and change
Metabolize /məˈtabəˌlīz/ - to change food into energy, spiritually, to put all things to good use
Homeopathy / hō-mē-ˈäp-ə-thē ˌhäm-ē - a system of alternative medicine that treats a disease especially by the administration of minute doses of a remedy that would in larger amounts produce symptoms in healthy persons similar to those of the disease
Cianalas (key-an-a-lus) is a Scottish Gaelic word, meaning a sense of longing, or belonging to a place
Tãsknota (task-not-a) is a Kashubian word, meaning homesick
