RADIANCE
A Spring Ceremony of Sacred Sensuality and Feminine Rising
The Season of Arousal
Spring is a threshold between the fertile void of Winter and the ripe-to-bursting bounty of Summer.
It’s a gateway of becoming. A season of arousal.
Spring reminds us that the essence of Eros is innocence—that sensuality is nourishment and sexuality is the song of Life aching for expression.
Earth exhales, sap flows, blossoms unfurl.
During this Spring ceremony we will honor the sacred process of feminine arousal and awakening.
We’ll slow down so that we can savor.
We’ll soften so that we can open.
We’ll attune to our pleasure, embody our longing, and receive so that we may ripen.
Together, we’ll awaken and rise.
A Ceremony of Beginnings
Spring is not forceful. It’s a thawing. A greening from within.
What lay dormant in the fertile dark now quickens with desire, aching to emerge reborn.
This ceremony is an invitation to nourish the Life that’s stirring within you by embracing the pace of your own becoming and savoring the sensation of your desire.
Through sensual movement, guided reflection, and sacred ritual we’ll listen deeply to the pulse of Eros rising in our bodies, arousing our senses, and sparking inspiration.
With ceremonial care, we’ll clear away the husks of Winter–familiar but lifeless beliefs, versions of ourselves we’ve outgrown–making space for the new.
By tending rather than rushing the stirring within and around us, we easefully expand our capacity to hold the new Life we’re birthing and to embody abundance with ease.
This is Radiance: the luminosity that shines from within when we allow ourselves to be nourished by Life.
What You’ll Experience
This ceremony is designed as a gentle yet powerful journey into sensual presence and feminine awakening.
Through guided practices and seasonal ritual, you will be invited to:
• Lovingly attune to subtle sensation and reconnect with your body’s divine intelligence
• Connect deeply with your intuition and inspiration
• Honor and release versions of yourself that you’ve outgrown
• Identify and move stuck energy and stagnant beliefs, feeling lighter and freer
• Reset your nervous system and expand your capacity to hold what you desire
• Awaken Eros as a source of vitality, creativity, and nourishment
• Explore feminine embodiment practices that invite softness, receptivity, and pleasure
• Engage in guided meditation and inquiry that deepen your relationship with longing, desire, and aliveness
• Reclaim sensual and sexual energy as nourishing, magical, and good
This is a space to slow down, feel deeply, and receive.
Remembering the Living Earth
This ceremony honors the ancient rhythm of emergence.
As we gather, we remember that sensuality connects us to Source.
When we slow down enough to feel, we remember:
That pleasure is a pathway of awakening.
That our bodies are wise.
That Life unfurls with ease when nourished.
Your Guide
Kirstin Hotelling Zona, PhD is a sought-after Certified Embodiment Coach, Spiritual Mentor, Transformational Facilitator, and the author of Modern Mystic (Substack). In all of her work, Kirstin blends spiritual wisdom and scholarly depth, drawing on her 25 years as a professor and poet, as well as her training in the ancient arts of the Sacred Feminine and the Isis-Magdelene-Rose Lineage.
Kirstin also teaches and speaks about women’s sexuality, desire, and pleasure, and is a “demo” model for OMGYes, the widely known online instructional platform co-hosted with the Kinsey Institute that explores and educates about female sexual pleasure. She mentors private clients, runs intimate group programs and trainings, and has hosted over 35 retreats and sacred pilgrimages in both the U.S. and abroad.
At once intuitive and intellectual, sensual and spiritual, she has helped thousands of students and clients embody their eros and realize their soul-aligned impact. Committed to evolving our collective consciousness through the reclamation of eros and the Divine Feminine, Kirstin loves dance, writing, the coast of Maine, her two grown kids, and connecting with other truth-seekers who yearn to feel fully alive.
Ceremony Details
March 27, 6:30 - 8:30 pm EST
Free • Online via Zoom • Replay Available
What to Bring
• Candle & lighter/matches
• Metal or glass bowl for burning
• Small pieces of paper
• A small branch or piece of green wood
• A small bowl of water
• Journal & pen