CEREMONIALIST CHRISTINA MICHELE RIOS
Christina Michele Rios is an Intuitive Ceremonialist certified in Sound Meditation, Breathwork, Yoga Nidra, Theta Healing®, Intuitive Healing, Australian Bush Flower Essences and Reiki. Her philosophy is rooted in ancient indigenous rituals and the proven science behind how and why they work.
She facilitates Ceremonies – an ode to her Latin and Native American roots. She aims to provide a safe space for compassionate introspection, cultivation of the intuition and transformation of the relationship with self. She aspires to empower individuals to be their own healer, remembering the innate ability that lives inside us all. The sessions can be arranged as 1-on-1 and for groups, both in-person and via Zoom. Lunar ceremonies can also be arranged for each new and full moon of every month. Follow Christina here.
What does well-being mean to you?
Well-being to me means being at peace with ourselves and the world around us. In a state of acceptance. This does not mean that we are necessarily happy with what is happening around us, but that we accept the current state. Dancing with the present state or season of life - even during challenging or testing times. As we cannot bypass this, these more difficult times are inevitable. Well-being is not a linear journey, it is cyclical or spiral. We too endure our own internal seasons with our well-being – Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn. To know at the deepest core of our being that all is well and that everything is temporary. This comes with balancing our holistic layers of being – mind x body x spirit – as they are all connected. Knowing that everything is a lesson and everyone is a teacher.
How do you practice well-being.
My entire life is a practice of embodied well-being. My life is a well-being Ceremony. How this looks changes on a day-to-day basis as I too evolve and change on a daily basis – all humans do. To live is to change and transform. I intuitively tap into what my mind, body or spirit need on that specific day and then apply the corresponding tools or practices. I follow what my heart and soul are drawn to or wherever I feel there is an imbalance.
My tool kit consists of modalities I am certified in – aromatherapy, breathwork, sound meditation, acupressure, yoga nidra, meditative journaling and theta healing®. I also incorporate nature walks for grounding, swims in the sea to incorporate flow, bath rituals for setting intentions, ancient fire rituals for release, intuitive movement or dance for expressing emotions that are stored in the body on a cellular level, body work – cupping, acupuncture, massage and craniosacral. Cooking food that nourishes the soul is also one of my favourite well-being practices, I find it to be one of the deepest forms of self-love. Cooking is meditative for me.
I believe well-being is a journey. That there is no one size fits all. What makes one feel well varies from person to person and can change and evolve over time. It is important to give ourselves permission to find what works best for us and to allow ourselves to try new things, to explore and to release tools or practices when we outgrow them or when they no longer resonate. This is an inevitable part of life! Be open. Use your intuition – it is your inner compass and will never lead you astray.
Would you like to share any practices, meditation, books, beauty and health tips to our readers?
Books:
Who Am I?: Exercises to Develop Self-understanding
When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DK2QSWG/?coliid=I147ZTE23W8T0G&colid=11F371KU2EOUR&psc=0&ref_=gv_ov_lig_pi_dpWild Mercy
Women Who Run With The Wolves
Rituals:
Sound Meditation in Nature for Inner Peace
Instructions: Put away your phone. Take off your socks and shoes. Sit cross-legged on the ground in easy pose. Draw the shoulders back ever so slightly, and allow them to fall away from the ears. Allow your palms to lie gently atop each knee, facing up towards the sky. Flutter your eyelids closed. Feel the root of your spine connect with the earth beneath you. Scan from your head to your toes, observing any tension present in the body. Be a neutral observer without labels or judgement. Envision roots extending from the soles of your feet into the Earth. Feel Earth holding you, supporting you. Inhale this grounded energy through the soles of the feet into the body. Breathe it up into the body all the way up to the crown. Envision this energy extending from your crown – beaming out around you. Release the visualisation. Tune into the sounds of nature around you, observe how they impact your inner state.
Being in nature, tuning into the sounds, connecting with the earth realigns us and creates equilibrium in seconds. It re-entrains our brainwaves to a slower, more harmonic and meditative frequency of 432 Hz – the frequency of nature.
Fire Ritual for Release
On the eve of the Full Moon (which happens once a month), make a list of all that you would like to release. Use pen and paper. Holding yourself accountable for all that is misaligned. Anything from fear, self-doubt, anxiety, shadow traits you have, faults, etc. As you write, write in an active and present voice (language we use matters and impacts our subconscious). Write "Tonight I release..." and just flow. Allow whatever feels heavy to spill out onto the paper. Sign your name and date it on the bottom.
In a fireproof container, burn it under the light of the Full Moon. Envisioning all you are releasing truly being let go Afterwards, shower, energetically cleansing yourself of this. Envision it being washed down the drain. Once the ashes are completely cooled off, return the ashes to the Earth – to the soil.
