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An Annual Rite of Resurrection and Renewal
Celebrate The Spring King's Return
featuring
Sacred Stories of Salmon + Potluck Feast + Honoring the Bones
Sunday, April 27, 2024 | 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Olympia Sacred Fire House
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Join us for this family-friendly rite of renewal, including
storytelling around the fire, a potluck feast, and an
optional walk through our forest to Woodard Creek, where we will honor the Spirit of Salmon with a ritual
Open Your Heart to Salmon's Spirit, Generosity and Wisdom
In August 2020, Grandfather Fire gave Olympia Sacred Fire two special stories:
The Sacred Story of Salmon and Humans
and
How Salmon Teach People to Live a Good Life
As the Sun rises higher in the Sky each morning, and the great Spring King Chinooks make their way upriver to their spawning grounds, it's time to share these wisdom tales with everyone in a celebration!
Reserve your spot for this special event
so we can prepare for you.
Come for a mid-day fire event. Arrive at 11:00 am.
We'll begin with the storytelling and marvel at the generosity, strength and purpose of the Salmon People and their gift to the human and other-than-human beings in the South Salish Sea.
Then around noon, enjoy a Potluck Lunch around the fire.
We'll enjoy a specially prepared Salmon from your hosts. Please bring a delicious lunch entrée, side dish or dessert item for this special Celebratory Feast.
After our Potluck meal, everyone is invited on the Ritual outing
to return the bones of the Salmon people to Woodard Creek, which flows to the Salish Sea at the Woodard Bay estuary. This is a short, level-ish, quarter-mile walk through the second-growth forest and meadow that separates the Sacred Fire House grounds from Woodard Creek.
When we arrive, we will re-enact the Original Agreement between the Salish Sea Salmon People and the Human People as told in the Sacred Story of Salmon and Human People.
Depending on our group's pace, this outing will take 45-60 minutes, and marks the close of our time together.
Please reserve your spot for this special event
so we can prepare for you.
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The Olympia Sacred Fire House
3010 12th Ave NE
Olympia, WA 98506
Directions using GPS - NOTE Google maps is not accurate for this address
- Set the destination to "Skateland, Olympia, WA" (12th Ave NE at South Bay).
- When you arrive at Skateland, turn right off South Bay and drive east up 12th (past Skateland) to the dead end gravel drive.
- Follow the gravel drive to the very end. At the Y, drive to the left to park at the Red Barn. Park in back. Walk up the path past the tiny house to find the Fire House. Our new rope lights make it easy to find your way.
Without GPS:
- I-5 to Olympia and exit on Pacific Ave.
- Turn right toward Olympia (and away from Lacey).
- At your first street light (Pattison, turn right.
- Cross over Martin at the stop sign.
- Take Pattison to the "T" stop at 8th; turn Left on 8th.
- Take your first right, on Fenske.
- Take Fenske to the "T" stop at 12th, turn right on 12th Ave NE.
- The road immediately becomes a gravel drive.
- Follow the gravel drive to the end. At the Y, drive up the hill to the right to park at the house or to the left to park at the barn.
- Parking at the house means more car congestion and a steeper but shorter walk. Parking at the barn means no parking issues and a flatter but slightly longer walk to the fire house.
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 In 2001, Peter and Sharon Brown were initiated as Granicero, Weather Workers, in the Nahua tradition of Mexico's central highlands. For over 20 years, they regularly perform ceremonies that build and balance relationship between the human people, Earth, and Sky beings for the mutual benefit of all our relations.
In 2004-5, they both made life-long commitments to hold sacred fire circles monthly. Trained and initiated as firekeepers by Sacred Fire International, they received permission from the Huichol peoples (Mexico) to hold sacred space using a traditional fire consecration ceremony. Sacred Fire transforms lives through the gift and medicine of Fire (sacredfire.org).
In 2008, Peter received his first of two initiations as a Mara' akame, a healer in the tradition of the Huichol Indians of the Sierra Madres. Both he and Sharon are Tepahtiani, traditional Nahua healers; after an 8-year apprenticeship, Peter received his full initiation in 2022; Sharon is currently completing her Tepahtiani apprenticeship. In 2019, Sharon received her Certificate in Process Work and opened her spiritual counseling practice Following Heart. In 2024 she received her Certificate in Polarity Somatic Energy Medicine. and began offering bodywork to support her Nahua traditional spiritual counselling.
For questions or more information, contact Peter (peter@peterbrownhealing.com / 360-561-8772) or Sharon (sharon@followingheart.com / 360-561-8773) .
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