A beautifully illustrated guide for connecting with the earth, your ancestors, and your communities as you come home to your whole self Most modern women feel more alone than ever. We’re unrooted from the land that is our home, untethered from our long line of ancestors, disconnected from our communities, and separated from our deepest sense of self. According to author Becca Piastrelli, much of this loneliness stems from the ways we’ve lost touch with our ancestral ways of living. “Though we live in a radically different-looking world, the needs of our bodies and spirits are the same as the ancestors we came from,” she writes. “We need community, ritual, and knowledge of the earth. We need to remember who we really are.” With Root and Ritual, Piastrelli offers women a pathway back to connection and wholeness through recipes, rituals, and a wealth of ancestral wisdom. In this beautifully illustrated guide, she presents a four-part journey for deepening into your life: Part 1 introduces practices for reconnecting with the land, including crafting with plants and tending your home. In Part 2, you’ll learn to reclaim the gifts of your lineage as you heal past harms and explore the traditional folklore, foods, and arts of those who came before. Part 3 centers around community, helping you cultivate sisterhood and celebrate meaningful rites of passage. And in Part 4, you’ll come home to yourself as you open your intuition, tune in to your body, and awaken the wild woman within.

"Root and Ritual takes knowledge of ancestral traditions and uses it as a doorway to help women reconnect with their own deeply intertwined roots that go back thousands of years as a relevant and critical way of thriving in the modern world. It offers deeply seeded truths to liberate them from the ways of being that aren't helping them thrive, as well as recipes, rituals, and instructions for their journey to feeling rooted and connected. This book also seeks to support the reader in integrating these practices in a progressive, and socially conscious way"--

Discover how to harness traditional folk magick with the help of this friendly and accessible guide. We are all spiritual beings with the ability to connect to the guidance of our ancestors. With The Little Book of Rootwork, you can discover how to tap into your inner power to invigorate your mind, body, and soul. This book offers not only an in-depth exploration of African American folk magick but also provides a fun, practical guide to creating rituals and spells. Author Paris Ajana, a descendant of African American and Filipino rootworkers, guides you on a spiritual journey with advice and techniques for: Altars and sacred spaces Herbs and roots Mojo bags Honey jars Crystals and stones Candle magick Doll babies And more Whether you’re an expert rootworker or a beginner looking to improve love, success, protection, and more, this easy-to-use beginner’s guide will help you manifest the life you want.

Tracing the magical roots of "hoodoo" back to West Africa, the author provides a history of this nature-based healing tradition and offers practical advice on how to apply hoodoo magic to everyday life.

The topic of the origins of theatre is one of the most controversial in theatre studies, with a long history of heated discussions and strongly held positions. In The Roots of Theatre, Eli Rozik enters the debate in a feisty way, offering not just another challenge to those who place theatre’s origins in ritual and religion but also an alternative theory of roots based on the cultural and psychological conditions that made the advent of theatre possible. Rozik grounds his study in a comprehensive review and criticism of each of the leading historical and anthropological theories. He believes that the quest for origins is essentially misleading because it does not provide any significant insight for our understanding of theatre. Instead, he argues that theatre, like music or dance, is a sui generis kind of human creativity—a form of thinking and communication whose roots lie in the spontaneous image-making faculty of the human psyche. Rozik’s broad approach to research lies within the boundaries of structuralism and semiotics, but he also utilizes additional disciplines such as psychoanalysis, neurology, sociology, play and game theory, science of religion, mythology, poetics, philosophy of language, and linguistics. In seeking the roots of theatre, what he ultimately defines is something substantial about the nature of creative thought—a rudimentary system of imagistic thinking and communication that lies in the set of biological, primitive, and infantile phenomena such as daydreaming, imaginative play, children’s drawing, imitation, mockery (caricature, parody), storytelling, and mythmaking.

Highlights the feminine origin of the runes in the context of an immersive course in rune practice. Using inquiry and original translations alongside traditional rune poems and sacred art, Wild Soul Runes invites readers to develop their own wisdom connection with the runes through practice. The book is based on the premise that all of us possess the ability to receive divine information through rune practice. Rather than telling the reader what the runes mean, author Lara Veleda Vesta shares an interactive practice for readers to discover the unique ways the runes speak to them. The book covers the history of the runes, both in myth and through the connection with Old European archaeological findings. This history offers evidence for the idea that the runes have a feminine origin, coming from the well of the Norns, the female triple giantesses who represent the fates in Norse myth. It introduces the concept of the runes as beings rather than simply an alphabet or magical tools. The purpose of Wild Soul Runes is to create a relationship with these beings through ancestral connection, personal gnosis, and ritual practice. Readers will learn how to: Make a rune altar Develop a daily ritual practice with the runes Honor the Germanic/Anglo Saxon wheel of the year Craft a rune set and rune ceremonies for divination v

Embrace the ancient healing power of plants with more than 100 whole-food, plant-based, gluten-free herbal recipes, designed around the most common health concerns of modern women.