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Summer Solstice Celebration

Opening the Heart, Honouring the Earth

Saturday, June 21, 2025

People gathered around a bonfire, surrounded by colorful flowers, with a prominent sun in the sky. Each person is adorned with floral crowns and colorful clothing, exuding a celebratory and ancient ritualistic atmosphere.

Celebrating the Return of Summer

As the sun reaches its peak and the Earth hums with life, we gather in sacred celebration to honour this powerful turning of the wheel. Rooted in ancient rhythms and the spirit of renewal, this evening invites you to soften into your heart, awaken your senses, and remember your connection to all that is alive. Through music, movement, prayer, and presence, we step into the light of who we truly are—free, embodied, and woven into the greater dance of life. Surrounded by nature and kindred spirits, come as you are, and leave more deeply yourself.

Saturday Evening | 6:45 – 10:30 PM

The Celebration Includes:

🌺 Sacred Cacao Ceremony: Heart-Opening, Healing & Connection - Elemental Vocal Soundscape with Lorenna Bousquet-Kacera

Cacao, revered as the "Food of the Gods," has been used in sacred ceremony for thousands of years as a powerful plant ally. It opens the heart, fosters emotional healing, and deepens spiritual connection. In this ceremony, we honor cacao not just as a drink, but as a wise teacher, inviting us to soften, release, and align with the natural rhythm of the heart. Through its nurturing energy, we are reminded that healing often comes not through force, but through gentleness, sweetness, and presence.

Elemental Vocal Soundscape
Weaving the Elements for the Summer Solstice

As the sun reaches its highest point in the sky and the land hums with the fullness of life, Lorenna invites you into a powerful Elemental SoundJourney on the sacred grounds of The Living Centre. This soul-centered experience is a living prayer in sound—an invitation to gather, listen, and attune to the deep intelligence of Nature.

🔥 Sacred Fire Ceremony: Illuminating Your Intention

As the Summer Solstice fire blazes, we gather around the flames in reverence, setting powerful intentions for the cycle ahead. Fire, the great purifier, transforms and illuminates, inviting us to bring our deepest truths into the light—what we are ready to release, and what we are ready to embody.

In this ceremony, we offer our intentions to the fire, allowing them to be seen, blessed, and fueled by the transformative power of the flames. This is a moment of clarity, courage, and devotion—where our desires meet our deepest commitment, and the spark of our next becoming is ignited.

Held in a sacred container of music, intention, and guided meditation, the ceremony aligns us with our inner truth, awakening joy and restoring our connection to the Earth and all of life.

Closing with Gratitude & Silence Under the Stars

Held in a sacred container of music, intention, and guided meditation, this ceremony offers a space to align with your inner truth, awaken joy, and remember your interconnectedness with the Earth and all of life.

Saturday Evening 7:00 - 10:30 PM

By Donation: $45, $55, $65. Children under 12 are free. Thank you.

Please RSVP - Register below

Expect to be captivated by the wonders of Nature. Children are most welcome.

🌻Special Solstice Weekend🌻 June 20-22, 2025 - Rooted Radiance: A Summer Solstice Clarity Quest

Join us for a soul-nourishing weekend retreat at the height of Summer Solstice - a powerful time for clarity, renewal, and reconnection. Through sacred ceremony, heart-opening cacao, wild earth movement, and grounding rituals, you'll shed what no longer serves and align with your deepest truth.

Held at The Living Centre, where nature is your guide and ally, this journey invites you to return to your body, your breath, and your purpose - rooted, radiant, and ready for what’s next. Click here for Complete Information & to register

☀️ About the Summer Solstice:☀️

The Summer Solstice is when the sun is at its highest. On that day, the Northern Hemisphere receives more sunlight than on any other day of the year. This marks the astronomical start of summer in the northern half of the globe. Traditionally people celebrated the summer solstice, the day plants were said to have healing and magical properties. Bonfires were lit to protect against the forces of darkness. It was a festival to celebrate Nature and, more specifically, Summer.

Lorenna Bousquet-Kacera is an eco-somatic guide and ceremonialist who weaves together elemental wisdom, sacred movement, and Earth-honoring ritual to support personal and collective transformation. For over four decades, she has guided people into deeper connection with their bodies, the Earth, and the cosmos through embodied practices rooted in nature’s rhythms. She is the co-founder of The Living Centre and founder of Shamanu: Earth Wisdom Teachings®. Lorenna brings a rare blend of feminine power, mystic insight, and grounded joy to every circle she holds.

🌿 Wild Earth Ecstasy Dance with Snappy Homefry DJ

In this sacred dance, we reconnect with the primal rhythms of the Earth. The Wild Earth Ecstasy Dance invites us to let go of inhibition and fully embody the freedom and vitality of our bodies. Through movement, we return to the pulse of nature and the ecstatic joy of being alive, allowing the Earth’s energy to guide us into deeper connection and inner clarity.

Snappy is a self-acclaimed sound alchemist who believes in the power of sound and music to shape our consciousness, activate our hearts, nourish our spirit and bring us together for social and global change.

Bringing three decades of musical exploration as a multi-instrumentalist, sound engineer and owner/operator of Playhouse Studio in Toronto, Ontario, Snappy Homefry is known for his technical prowess and romantic sensibility to melody and texture.

A long-time friend of The Living Centre. This is not the first time Snappy has offered his heart-opening Earth-rhythms Ecstatic Dance at the Centre. Helping you to deepen your connection with the Earth, yourself and participate in a joyous community celebration to mark this powerful time of year.

Shantree Kacera, D.N., Ph.D., has been hosting Summer Solstice celebrations for over 45 years, creating sacred spaces where people can attune to the rhythms of nature and the wisdom of the elements. As a lifelong steward of Earth-honoring traditions, his guidance is rooted in a deep love for the land and the regenerative power of the seasons. Through ritual, storytelling, and elemental connection, Shantree invites us to remember our place within the great web of life. His presence brings ancient remembrance and grounded magic to the heart of this celebration.