Dr. Marie Mbouni
The most meaningful ceremonies aren't created by perfect rituals... but by your deepest authentic presence.
Learn the living art of ceremony through an immersive, embodied training that develops the practical skills, ethical confidence, and creative inspiration to responsibly guide people through important transitions with compassion and care.
Have you ever felt called to create a space where something truly meaningful could happen?
Perhaps you've imagined gathering people to honor an important transition, bless a new beginning, grieve a profound loss, or simply create a space where people feel deeply seen, connected, and changed...
… yet wondered how you could learn to guide such moments with confidence, authenticity, and care.
Or maybe you're already supporting others as a coach, therapist, healer, facilitator, or community leader, and you've sensed that something essential is missing. Not another technique, but a deeper way of guiding experiences that help people feel genuinely safe, present, and even transformed.
According to spiritual guide, physician, and renowned ceremonial teacher Dr. Marie Mbouni, the heart of ceremony isn't found in the ritual itself.
It's found in the ceremony keeper.
Long before an altar is created, a prayer is spoken, or a ceremony begins, your body, your breath, your nervous system, your presence, and your capacity to listen are already shaping the experience. That's why the most meaningful ceremonies don't begin with learning what to do.
They begin with becoming the person who can truly hold them.
Join Dr. Marie for this immersive 18-week live video training in the art of ceremony, where you'll develop the practical skills, embodied presence, and creative confidence to guide authentic, beautiful, and deeply transformative ceremonies.
Over 18 weeks, you'll explore every layer of the ceremonial experience, from the quiet preparation that happens before anyone arrives... to the smallest details that help people feel welcomed, safe, seen, and held.
You'll discover how breath, prayer, voice, movement, sound, symbols, the elements, and thoughtful integration become part of a living ceremony that people don't simply attend… they remember.
Rather than memorizing rituals to repeat, you'll learn the underlying principles that allow every ceremony to become a genuine expression of your own gifts and an attunement to the moment.
Along the way, you'll discover how to design meaningful ceremonial experiences, guide life's most important thresholds with compassion and discernment, support emotional integration with care, and create spaces where transformation can unfold naturally.
Week by week, you'll create the building blocks of your own ceremonial practice, developing altars, invocations, elemental and sound practices, rites of passage, ethical frameworks, aftercare plans, and ultimately a complete Ceremony Blueprint you can continue refining throughout your life.
Even more importantly, you'll cultivate the qualities that give every ceremony its true power: grounded presence, compassionate witnessing, sacred voice, creative expression, ethical leadership, and trust in your own inner knowing.
This holistic training offers a way to remember the medicine you've come here to carry... and the confidence to bring it into the world with beauty, humility, and devotion.
Who This Training Program Is For
Dr. Marie considers this a true online apprenticeship, designed for people who feel called to bring greater intention, beauty, and meaning to the way they guide others through life's most important moments and transitions.
Whether you're deepening your own spiritual path or weaving ceremony into the work you already offer, you'll gain a practical, embodied framework for creating experiences that people carry with them long after they're over.
This training is especially valuable for:
- Coaches who want to incorporate meaningful ceremony into their client work and group programs
- Therapists, counselors, and trauma-informed practitioners seeking ceremony-based approaches that thoughtfully complement their existing modalities
- Energy healers, Reiki practitioners, and holistic health professionals who want to expand the way they guide healing and transformation
- Yoga teachers, meditation teachers, and retreat facilitators who want to create richer, more intentional group experiences
- Artists, musicians, writers, and creatives who feel called to express their gifts through ceremony and ritual
- Women's circle facilitators, educators, and community leaders who want to cultivate greater confidence for designing gatherings that foster connection, healing, and belonging
- People who want to honor life's thresholds through meaningful ceremonies for themselves, their loved ones, or their communities
- Anyone who feels called to live and share their unique medicine through creativity, service, and ceremonial leadership
- Anyone who senses they're being called to help people mark life's most meaningful moments with greater presence, beauty, and care
What You’ll Explore in This 18-Week Training
Throughout this immersive training, you'll discover how to:
- Build the Inner Foundation for Ceremony
Develop the nervous system resilience, embodied awareness, and emotional steadiness that allow you to guide others with calm, clarity, and care - Learn the Living Architecture of Ceremony
Understand how meaningful ceremonies are shaped, from opening sacred space and creating altars to designing ceremonial arcs that flow naturally from intention through integration - Deepen Your Capacity for Sacred Listening
Strengthen your ability to receive guidance through your body, dreams, symbols, intuition, the elements, and the subtle wisdom that emerges during ceremony - Guide Life's Thresholds With Compassion
Learn how to accompany grief, celebration, healing, endings, beginnings, and other profound transitions with sensitivity, discernment, and respect - Discover Your Authentic Ceremonial Expression
Explore how voice, silence, movement, sound, creativity, beauty, and prayer become natural extensions of your own way of serving - Create Meaningful Ceremonies for Life's Important Thresholds
Learn practical approaches for guiding rites of passage, celebrations, endings, beginnings, healing journeys, and other significant transitions with reverence and care - Work With Confidence and Ethical Care
Develop clear boundaries, trauma-aware practices, and thoughtful approaches that help participants feel respected, supported, and emotionally safe - Design Ceremonies That Reflect Your Own Gifts
Complete your Ceremony Blueprint, participate in a guided practicum, and learn how to create ceremonies that feel authentic to you rather than following someone else's formula
Tools You’ll Receive
Throughout your training, you'll gradually create a complete ceremonial toolkit you can continue using and refining for years to come, including:
Foundational Frameworks:
- Dr. Marie's complete Ceremony Architecture Framework for designing meaningful ceremonies from opening through integration
- The Golden Vessel framework for cultivating the inner qualities of an effective ceremony keeper
- Ceremonial Ethics and Safety framework grounded in consent, healthy boundaries, and trauma awareness
Embodied Practices:
- Grounding and nervous system regulation practices for preparing yourself before ceremony
- Somatic Mapping exercises that deepen self-awareness and emotional regulation
- Sacred Listening practices for working with dreams, symbols, intuition, nature, and the unseen
- Personalized pre-ceremony preparation rituals
- Elemental ceremony sequences working with earth, water, fire, air, and spirit
- Sound, rhythm, and voice practices that support transformation and integration
Creative Ceremony Resources:
- Altar templates rooted in symbolism and elemental wisdom
- Opening invocation frameworks
- Threshold and rite-of-passage designs
- Aftercare and integration plans that help participants embody what ceremony has opened
Your Completed Apprenticeship Portfolio:
- Your own Ceremony Blueprint
- A collection of ceremonial sequences and practices you can continue adapting throughout your life
- A live practicum experience with supportive feedback to strengthen your confidence as a ceremony facilitator
Create Your Own Learning Experience
Join the Livestream – or Enjoy Flexible Access to the Recorded Sessions Anytime, Anywhere!
Connect with Dr. Marie and experience her teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device.
Not able to attend the live sessions? No problem! With our flexible access options and Dr. Marie’s in-class demos as support, you have the freedom to create your own classroom experience on your own terms.
Whether you want to dive deep into regularly scheduled weekly training sessions or savor the journey over an extended time period, you can choose how to best benefit from this one-of-a-kind training program:
- Tailor Your Experience: Watch the sessions at your own pace, whenever it suits you. You can mix and match, replay your favorite parts, or spread out the content in a way that works best for your schedule.
- Ultimate Flexibility: Whether you’re an early bird or a night owl, the recorded sessions are available to you 24/7 so you can create a learning experience that fits your schedule.
Here’s What You’ll Receive
EIghteen 120-Minute Class Sessions With Dr. Marie Mbouni
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from trauma-informed ceremonies and integration facilitator Dr. Marie Mbouni. Program sessions are on 2026-10-08 1:00:00 pm.
Video and Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
Video and audio recordings will be available for you to stream in a high-quality digital format after each live class session. You’ll never have to worry about missing a class, and you can access the sessions anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive an auto-generated transcript shortly after each session is completed, making it easy to review, search, print, and highlight important insights and practices from the course. Your transcripts will be accessible via your Course Homepage and the Shift Companion mobile app for convenient learning and review anytime.
30-Minute Interactive Group Practice Sessions
With live class attendance, there will be a 30-minute optional interactive practice session immediately following each class. You’ll be placed in a small, intimate Zoom group with a few other participants to interact, reflect, and share around a weekly topic, helping you more fully integrate the lessons. Practice sessions are not recorded. Whether or not you attend the live sessions, the online community group provides a space for you to connect with each other and arrange alternative times to interact.
Energetic Practices and Reflection Questions
Between class sessions, you’ll have the opportunity to complete energetic protocols, practice new tools, and reflect upon your experience to accelerate learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your program materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
About Dr. Marie Mbouni
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Marie Mbouni, MD, has been called the entrepreneur’s shaman. She is a spiritual guide, a consciousness coach, and a trauma-informed sacred ceremony and integration facilitator.
Dr. Marie is founder of Heart Leadership and the Source Codes Mystery School. She is a leading expert in guiding high-performing leaders, entrepreneurs, founders, and creatives to get reconnected and manifest their fullest expression — where true healing happens — so they can achieve higher levels of performance, holistic success, alignment, and joy.
Dr. Marie has boldly opened up to the power of the heart and mind, the beauty of intuition, and the all-encompassing power of love. She's now stepped into her destiny as a healer, embracing her potential beyond the confines of the mainstream.
A philanthropist, Marie is passionate about sacred reciprocity and giving back to help the world evolve into a better place.
Program Details & Curriculum
Course Sessions are on 2026-10-08 1:00:00 pm.
This immersive apprenticeship combines live teachings, experiential initiations, guided ceremonial practices, creative laboratories, Sacred Listening Quests, and live Q&A with Dr. Marie to help you develop both the practical skills and inner presence of a ceremony keeper.
The training unfolds through four interconnected phases, each building naturally on the one before it:
1. Learn the Essential Ceremony Skill
Explore the essential elements of ceremonial practice—from ritual design, symbolism, and the natural elements to voice, rites of passage, ethics, and integration — while gaining practical tools you can begin applying immediately.
2. Embody the Teachings
Each lesson is paired with a guided initiation or ceremonial practice so the learning becomes a lived experience. Through Marie's ceremonial journeys and Solar Woman illuminations, you'll experience the work yourself before guiding others.
3. Develop Through Creative Practice
Through Ceremonial Artistry Labs and Sacred Listening Quests, you'll transform insight into experience by creating altars, invocations, sound practices, ceremonial sequences, and reflective rituals while strengthening your creativity, intuition, and confidence.
4. Integrate and Facilitate With Confidence
In the final modules, you'll integrate everything you've learned by developing your personal Ceremony Blueprint, participating in a supported practicum, and receiving guidance as you facilitate your own ceremonial offering.
Throughout the apprenticeship, you'll receive clear step-by-step instruction, experiential practices, creative feedback, opportunities for reflection, and live Q&A to support your growth every step of the way.
By the end of the program, you'll have far more than a collection of ceremonial techniques. You'll leave with a complete framework for designing and facilitating meaningful ceremonies, a personalized Ceremony Blueprint you can continue refining, practical tools for guiding life's important transitions, and the confidence to bring your unique gifts into every ceremony you create.
The apprenticeship concludes with a graduation celebration that honors your journey and blesses the path ahead as you carry this work into your own life, community, and practice.
PART ONE
THE VESSEL: Becoming the Body That Can Hold Ceremony (Modules 1-4)
The Ceremony You Are Here to Hold: Awakening Your Personal Call to Ceremony & Recognizing the Medicine Already In Your Life (2026-10-08 1:00:00 pm)
Before learning to design or lead ceremony, you'll be invited to listen: to the call that brought you here, the medicine already moving through your life, and the unique quality of sacred space your presence naturally creates.
Through the Call to Ceremony Initiation, you'll begin exploring why you've been drawn to this path. Dr. Marie will introduce the Golden Vessel archetype - not as a concept, but as a living presence you'll return to throughout the program.
In this session, you'll:
- Learn the essential distinctions between practice, ritual, circle, ceremony, and sacred space, exploring why each one matters when creating meaningful ceremonial experiences
- Experience the Call to Ceremony Initiation to clarify why you've been drawn to this path and recognize the unique medicine you're here to bring
- Meet the Golden Vessel archetype as a living presence that will accompany you throughout the 18-week journey
- Create your Ceremony Calling Map to identify the people, places, passages, and moments your unique medicine may be here to serve
- Begin a Sacred Listening Quest to notice where ceremony is already present within your body, creativity, prayer, relationships, and daily life
Anchor Your Body, Steady Your Presence: Preparing Your Body, Breath & Nervous System to Open Sacred Space (2026-10-15 1:00:00 pm)
Your body is the first altar and the first container of ceremony. Before a word is spoken, your breath, nervous system, and presence are already shaping the field.
Through the Earth Sun Initiation, you'll practice being fully received by the Earth. Dr. Marie will also introduce the Somatic Map of the Ceremony Keeper, helping you recognize your own patterns before holding sacred space for others.
In this session, you'll:
- Learn how to ground your body, breath, and nervous system so you can enter ceremony with greater steadiness, presence, and self-awareness
- Experience the Earth Sun Initiation to practice being fully received by the Earth before holding others
- Explore interoception, proprioception, and kinesthetic awareness to expand your somatic sensitivity and recognize your patterns under pressure
- Create your own Somatic Map of the Ceremony Keeper to better understand the energetic field you bring into sacred space
- Build a personalized Pre-Ceremony Grounding Ritual based on what your somatic map reveals
The Alchemy of the Inherited Self: Releasing Old Roles, Softening Lineage Patterns & Reclaiming the Self (2026-10-22 1:00:00 pm)
The ceremony keeper never arrives at the threshold empty. You arrive carrying your lineage: the gifts your ancestors passed forward and the wounds they could not heal.
Through the Womb Sun / Belly Witnessing Initiation, Dr. Marie will guide you in meeting these inherited patterns with compassion rather than force, opening the door to greater freedom, presence, and self-reclamation.
In this session, you'll:
- Explore how inherited roles, family expectations, and ancestral silences may shape the way you hold space for others
- Experience the Womb Sun / Belly Witnessing Initiation to meet inherited patterns with compassion and embodied presence
- Discover how the Golden Vessel's shadow of over-responsibility and absorption can be reinforced by unexamined lineage patterns
- Practice witnessing what your body has carried without allowing those inherited patterns to define who you're becoming as a ceremony keeper
- Create a Belly-Witnessing Ritual that supports ancestral tenderness, release, and self-reclamation
The Heart That Can Hold Without Collapsing: Awakening Compassionate Steadiness & Learning to Witness Emotion Without Losing Yourself (2026-10-29 1:00:00 pm)
One of the most essential, yet least taught, skills in ceremonial leadership is learning to remain present with emotion without absorbing, rescuing, fixing, or collapsing into it.
Through the Heart Sun Initiation, Dr. Marie will guide you in discovering that true compassion doesn't require carrying another person's pain. Instead, it asks you to stay warm, open, and grounded enough to witness it without losing yourself.
In this session, you'll:
- Learn how to hold emotion with compassion, coherence, and steadiness so you can remain fully present without losing your center
- Experience the Heart Sun Initiation to awaken the capacity to witness tenderness without collapsing into it
- Explore how rescuing, fixing, emotional merging, and over-holding first appear in the body, helping you recognize these patterns before they take over
- Practice the difference between empathy and absorption, discovering how to remain connected without carrying what isn't yours
- Identify your personal signs of collapse and create a compassionate holding practice you can return to whenever grief, shame, or strong emotion arises in sacred space
PART TWO
THE ARCHITECTURE: Giving Form, Beauty, Voice & Direction to Ceremony (Modules 5-8)
Map the Structure of a Meaningful Ceremony: Designing With Intention, Flow & Care From Opening to Closing (2026-11-05 1:00:00 pm)
Every ceremony has an anatomy: a living arc that moves from intention through opening, practice, integration, and closing. When that arc is held with care, people naturally feel safe enough to go deeper.
Through the Vision Sun Initiation, Dr. Marie will guide you in sensing the shape a ceremony is asking to become, allowing your designs to emerge with both clarity and aliveness.
In this session, you'll:
- Learn the essential ceremonial arc of intention, opening, practice, integration, and closing - and discover what each phase asks of you as a ceremony keeper
- Experience the Vision Sun Initiation to practice sensing the natural shape a ceremony is asking to become
- Explore how thoughtful structure creates greater presence, flow, and trust without limiting a ceremony's aliveness
- Discover where your ceremonial arc tends to thin, rush, or lose coherence, revealing your next edge as a ceremony keeper
- Create your first Ceremony Architecture Sketch as the foundation for designing meaningful ceremonies
Create an Altar That Holds the Heart of Your Ceremony: Focusing Intention, Beauty & Sacred Attention Through Symbol, Element & Prayer (2026-11-12 1:00:00 pm)
The altar is the living heart of a ceremony, where intention becomes visible, the unseen is given form, and beauty speaks in ways words cannot.
Through the Earth Sun / Beauty Sun Altar Journey, Dr. Marie will guide you into a deeper relationship with sacred beauty, offering, and prayer, helping you create altars that embody meaning, presence, and devotion.
In this session, you'll:
- Learn how to create an altar using Earth, water, fire, air, and meaningful ceremonial objects, choosing each element with intention and care
- Explore how an altar focuses intention, blesses the space, and steadies the ceremonial field before a word is spoken
- Discover what your natural approach to altar-making reveals about your medicine and your unique ceremonial voice
- Create a simple Altar Template for your own ceremonies, circles, and sacred spaces
Reclaim Your Ceremonial Voice: Letting Your Voice Become a Clear Instrument for Presence & Sacred Space (2026-11-19 1:00:00 pm)
Your voice is more than a way of delivering words. It's a ceremonial instrument, carrying steadiness, presence, and blessing before the words themselves are heard.
Through the Voice Sun Journey, Dr. Marie will guide you in speaking from devotion rather than performance, helping your voice become more grounded, trustworthy, and available for sacred space.
In this session, you'll:
- Learn how breath, tone, silence, pacing, and sacred language can open and orient the ceremonial field
- Experience the Voice Sun Journey to awaken truth, blessing, and authentic ceremonial expression through your voice
- Explore the difference between performing and allowing your voice to become an instrument for sacred space
- Recognize what happens to your voice under pressure, noticing where it tightens, retreats, rushes, or loses its steadiness
- Create and practice your own 3-Minute Opening Invocation using language that feels authentic to your own ceremonial voice
Elemental Alchemy in Motion: Letting Elemental Wisdom Shape the Rhythm, Movement & Experience of Ceremony (2026-12-03 1:00:00 pm)
Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Spirit are more than symbols. They're living intelligences that can support a ceremony in different ways as it unfolds.
Through the Fire Sun / Elemental Body Journey, Dr. Marie will guide you in allowing energy to move naturally rather than trying to manage it, awakening your elemental body as a vessel for transformation, renewal, and sacred participation.
In this session, you'll:
- Learn how to recognize which element can best support a ceremony at different moments and how to invite it with intention rather than force
- Experience the Fire Sun / Elemental Body Journey to awaken your elemental body and deepen your relationship with the elements
- Explore how the elements influence rhythm, release, blessing, and return, enriching the flow of ceremony
- Discover your natural elemental affinities and blind spots, recognizing the elements you instinctively work with and those you may be called to develop
- Design a short Elemental Ceremony Sequence rooted in your own elemental medicine
PART THREE
THE FIELD: Sensing, Witnessing & Guiding What Moves Beneath the Surface (Modules 9-12)
Listen Beneath the Surface: Attuning to Body, Symbol, Silence, and the Living Field of Ceremony (2026-12-10 1:00:00 pm)
The most powerful ceremonies aren't designed from the mind. They're received through sacred listening.
Dr. Marie will guide you through the Vision Sun / Sacred Listening Journey, helping you cultivate the discernment to receive guidance from your body, symbols, silence, dreams, and the living field. As you deepen your capacity to perceive what lies beneath the surface, ceremony begins to emerge naturally rather than being constructed from concept.
In this session, you'll:
- Learn how to attune to body sensations, symbols, silence, dreams, and subtle cues as trusted sources of ceremonial guidance
- Experience the Vision Sun / Sacred Listening Journey to deepen your trust in what you perceive beneath the surface
- Explore how to discern what's meant to be shared and what's simply inviting your own quiet attention
- Discover how dreams and symbols can inform ceremony without forcing interpretation or closing what's meant to remain open
- Create your own Sacred Listening Quest to guide your next ceremonial choice
Witness Without Exposure: Holding Shame, Grief & Vulnerability With Dignity, Nourishment & Care (2026-12-17 1:00:00 pm)
Shame fears being seen. Grief fears being rushed. Vulnerability fears becoming spectacle. The ceremony keeper who knows how to witness tender moments with dignity creates the conditions for genuine healing rather than performed release.
Through the Papaya Medicine / Womb Sun Journey, Dr. Marie will guide you in discovering how sweetness, nourishment, and compassionate presence allow vulnerability to be received with care.
In this session, you'll:
- Learn how to hold shame, grief, and vulnerability with compassion, steadiness, and respect, without rushing, fixing, or overwhelming what is unfolding
- Experience the Papaya Medicine / Womb Sun Journey as a ritual of sweetness, dignity, and feminine repair
- Explore how physical, energetic, and relational nourishment supports integration after tender emotional release
- Discover what your own body needs when vulnerability arises, helping you become a more grounded and compassionate presence for others
- Create a Dignity-Restoring Nourishment Ritual using fruit, water, breath, and blessing
Where Sound Carries What Words Cannot: Letting Rhythm Support Movement, Memory & Transformation in Ceremony (2027-01-07 1:00:00 pm)
Sound reaches places in the body that words cannot. Rhythm supports what the nervous system is already processing, often before the mind has words to explain what's happening inside.
Through the Amaru Sun / Drumbeat of the Body Journey, Dr. Marie will help you deepen trust in your body's innate rhythm, discovering how voice, humming, toning, repetition, and simple instruments can become sensitive ceremonial allies that support movement, remembrance, and transformation.
In this session, you'll:
- Learn how to work with voice, rhythm, silence, repetition, and simple sound to support what is naturally unfolding in ceremony
- Experience the Amaru Sun / Drumbeat of the Body Journey to deepen trust in your body's innate rhythm and its capacity to carry transformation
- Explore how pacing, sensitivity, and discernment help you work skillfully with rhythm, repetition, and intensity in sacred space
- Discover your own relationship with sound as medicine, recognizing where it comes naturally and where it invites greater trust
- Create a short Sound or Rhythm Sequence to support grounding, release, remembrance, or return in your own ceremonies
Thresholds, Transitions & Rites of Passage: Honoring What's Ending, Blessing What's Beginning & Guiding the Passage Between (2027-01-14 1:00:00 pm)
Every meaningful life transition carries the structure of ceremony: an ending, a threshold, and a becoming. A ceremony keeper who understands rites of passage can create sacred containers for some of the most significant moments in a person's life.
Through the Fire Sun / Amaru Sun Threshold Journey, Dr. Marie will guide you in meeting change with reverence, so you can help others honor what is complete, cross the space between, and welcome what is ready to emerge with clarity, tenderness, and care.
In this session, you'll:
- Learn how to recognize the ending, the threshold, and the becoming within any life transition, creating ceremonies that honor each stage of the journey
- Experience the Fire Sun / Amaru Sun Threshold Journey to meet life's transitions with reverence, presence, and trust
- Explore language that supports release, blessing, renewal, and sacred transition without rushing what is naturally unfolding
- Discover what your own relationship with endings and beginnings reveals about the way you guide others through change
PART FOUR
THE RESPONSIBILITY: Ethics, Artistry, Integration, Practicum & Completion (Modules 13-18)
The Responsibility of Holding What Opens: Creating Safety, Consent & Clear Boundaries Without Carrying What Is Not Yours (2027-01-21 1:00:00 pm)
Holding sacred space is an act of profound responsibility. A ceremony keeper who understands consent, boundaries, scope of practice, and the difference between caring and carrying creates safety for everyone who enters the circle.
Through the Heart Sun / Responsibility Gate Journey, Dr. Marie will guide you into a deeper understanding of ethical holding, helping you protect dignity, honor the limits of your role, and release what was never yours to carry.
In this session, you'll:
- Learn how to work with consent, boundaries, privacy, pacing, and scope of practice to create safer ceremonial spaces
- Experience the Heart Sun / Responsibility Gate Journey as an initiation into ethical holding and clear responsibility
- Explore the difference between caring, fixing, rescuing, over-holding, and carrying, recognizing how each one feels in your body
- Discover where your nervous system is most likely to take on what belongs to others - to strengthen your capacity to remain present without becoming over-responsible
- Create your own Ceremonial Ethics & Safety Framework for the spaces you feel called to hold
Your Artistry Belongs in Ceremony: Letting Creative Medicine Become a Living Offering of the Sacred (2027-01-28 1:00:00 pm)
Creativity is not an extra in ceremony. It is a primary language of the sacred. Art, beauty, voice, movement, writing, food, and prayer become living offerings when expressed with reverence and intention.
Through the Beauty / Creative Sun Journey, Dr. Marie will guide you in allowing your natural gifts to become an authentic expression of your ceremonial medicine, so your creativity feels less like something you add and more like an extension of who you are.
In this session, you'll:
- Explore how art, beauty, sound, gesture, nourishment, and design can enrich and deepen sacred space
- Experience the Beauty / Creative Sun Journey to awaken sacred artistry as an essential expression of your ceremonial medicine
- Learn how creative expression becomes ceremony when it arises from presence and devotion rather than performance
- Discover the unique creative medicine that is distinctly yours, building the confidence to offer it with authenticity and care
- Create one original Ceremonial Artistry Element rooted in your own gifts and ceremonial voice
The Sacred Art of Return: Helping the Body Receive, Ground & Embody What Ceremony Opens (2027-02-04 1:00:00 pm)
Integration isn't what happens after ceremony. It is the second half of ceremony itself. Deep experiences continue unfolding through your body, nervous system, emotions, and everyday life long after a ceremony ends.
Through the Crown Sun / Return Journey, Dr. Marie will guide you in supporting this sacred return with care, helping the medicine become something you truly live rather than simply remember.
In this session, you'll:
- Learn how to create thoughtful post-ceremony care that supports your nervous system, your body, and daily life after profound experiences
- Experience the Crown Sun / Return Journey to cultivate grounding, integration, and an embodied return after ceremony
- Explore why the deepest medicine must be lived, not simply felt or understood, and discover what supports lasting integration
- Discover what your own body needs in the days following deep ceremonial or somatic experiences
- Design an Aftercare & Integration Plan for a ceremony, circle, or sacred experience
Bring Your Ceremony Into Form: Creating a Complete Ceremony Blueprint With Structure & Soul (2027-02-11 1:00:00 pm)
Everything you've learned, practiced, and become over the past fifteen weeks now comes together.
Dr. Marie will guide you in creating a complete Ceremony Blueprint - weaving together your vessel practices, altar, invocation, ceremonial sequence, field awareness, ethics, artistry, and integration into one cohesive design.
Through the Inner Ceremony Keeper Journey, you'll strengthen your trust in the inner knowing that has been growing throughout this apprenticeship.
In this session, you'll:
- Learn how to weave your altar, voice, sound, movement, creativity, and aftercare into one coherent ceremonial experience
- Experience the Inner Ceremony Keeper Journey to deepen your trust in your ability to sense and shape the ceremony you're here to offer
- Practice designing a complete ceremony with an opening, core practice, integration, and closing that flow as one meaningful arc
- Clarify how your ceremony serves a particular threshold, community, need, or sacred purpose
- Create your full Ceremony Blueprint as the foundation for your Week 17 practicum
The First Offering: Practice Facilitating Ceremony With Presence, Pacing, Voice & Care (2027-02-18 1:00:00 pm)
This is the moment when learning becomes offering. Dr. Marie will guide you as you facilitate a short ceremonial element - an invocation, grounding, altar introduction, threshold blessing, sound sequence, or closing - drawing on your own presence, voice, creativity, and unique medicine.
Through the First Offering Journey, you'll step across the threshold from preparation into embodied practice, discovering what it truly feels like to guide sacred space with confidence, clarity, and care.
In this session, you'll:
- Practice facilitating a short ceremonial element with presence, pacing, voice, and relational care
- Experience the First Offering Journey as a threshold from learning into embodied ceremonial leadership
- Explore your timing, clarity, energetic presence, and relationship with the field as you guide others in real time
- Discover what already feels grounded and alive, while recognizing the places where your ceremonial gifts are still unfolding
- Receive thoughtful reflection from the group to strengthen your practice as you prepare for your closing week
Completion, Celebration & Blessing the Path Forward: Completing What You Opened & Carrying Ceremony Forward With Integrity (2027-02-25 1:00:00 pm)
Completion is a sacred act. What's been opened across these 18 weeks deserves to be closed with the same intention, beauty, and care that began it.
Through the Crown Sun / Blessing of the Path Journey, Dr. Marie will guide you in gathering the wisdom of your apprenticeship, honoring the ceremony keeper you have become, and stepping forward with greater integrity, devotion, and confidence. Here, celebration is not an ending. It is the final expression of integration.
In this session, you'll:
- Experience the Crown Sun / Blessing of the Path Journey to gather the medicine of your 18-week apprenticeship and bless what you're ready to carry forward
- Practice a completion ritual that honors your growth, transformation, and ceremonial practice
- Explore why celebration is an essential part of integration, embodiment, and meaningful closure
- Reflect on what has most deeply changed within you, recognizing not only what you've learned, but who you've become
- Create a closing blessing or vow to carry your ceremonial path forward with intention and devotion
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
When you register by 2026-09-08 11:59:00 pm , you’ll receive special bonus offerings designed to complement Dr. Marie’s transformative 18-module course — and deepen your understanding and practice even further.
The Dream Temple Quest: An Overnight Sacred Listening Practice for Dream Guidance, Symbols & Ceremony Seeds
PDF Guide and Guided Audio Journey From Dr. Marie Mbouni
Begin your journey before the first class with this overnight Dream Temple Quest, a sacred listening practice designed to help you enter dreamspace as a living ceremonial field. Through a beautifully guided PDF companion and 20-minute audio journey, you'll prepare your body, altar, and intention before sleep, then learn to receive and interpret the symbols, images, messages, and "ceremony seeds" that arise through the night. You'll also receive dream journaling pages, morning integration reflections, and guidance for translating what you discover into meaningful ceremonial practice, allowing your dreams to become a source of insight, creativity, healing, and spiritual guidance.
The Altar Oracle: A Sacred Listening Deck & Companion Guide for Ceremony Design
PDF Oracle Cards and Guide From Dr. Marie Mbouni
Created from Dr. Marie's own ceremonial practices, altar wisdom, and intuitive way of working with symbols, beauty, prayer, and the living field, this bonus includes a sacred listening deck, companion guide, and printable reflection pages to help you discover what a ceremony may be asking for before you begin to design it. Each oracle card invites you to attune to an altar element, symbolic message, prayer, threshold, or energetic quality that can guide your ceremony with greater depth and presence. Whether you're preparing for a circle, ritual, client session, creative offering, or personal ceremony, this bonus helps you trust your sacred listening so your ceremonies emerge from authentic relationship rather than imitation.
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The Living Language of the Altar: A Sacred Design Guide for Creating Altars That Speak, Hold & Bless
PDF Guide From Dr. Marie Mbouni
Created from Dr. Marie's own altar practices, sacred design process, and way of listening through beauty, this guide is designed to help you understand the altar as more than a beautiful arrangement of objects. You'll discover how flowers, water, candles, stones, cloth, color, food, images, symbols, and natural elements can become a living language of prayer that focuses intention, honors transitions, blesses a space, and supports the emotional and energetic tone of a ceremony. Complete with altar teachings, symbolic correspondences, design prompts, reflection pages, and adaptable altar templates, this guide helps you create meaningful, living altars that arise from the ceremony you're truly here to hold, rather than simply recreating someone else's design.
The Ceremony Keeper's Invocation Book: Prayers, Openings, and Blessings for Sacred Space
PDF Ebook From Dr. Marie Mbouni
This book offers original prayers, openings, blessings, and closing words to help you feel more confident using your voice in sacred space. Inside, you'll receive invocations for beginning ceremonies, blessing altars and water, honoring thresholds, supporting integration, and bringing ceremonies to a meaningful close. Use these writings as inspiration for developing your own ceremonial language, prayer voice, and way of blessing the field. Designed to complement the 20-week training by supporting the Voice Sun teaching, this guide helps you open, guide, and close sacred space with greater reverence, beauty, and ease.
What Graduates of Dr. Marie Mbouni’s Courses Are Saying…
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Founder of Elemental Resonance and Qigong teacher, London, England
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