What we’re about
Braided Root Waters Healing Sanctuary is a place for transformational healing and re-connection to the Earth, to Spirit, to Fire, to Beauty, to Purpose, to Truth, to Ourselves, and to Each Other.
The energetic heart of the Land is a large Medicine Wheel with a Fire Circle at its center. We are growing a community of people who love the Earth and who deeply feel the Earth’s and our own pain in these extreme times. Come gather so we can know we are not alone. Come gather so we can make a difference.
Current and Future Opportunities*:
Despair and Discovery Circle (ongoing since January 2019)
Individual Shamanic healing sessions (ongoing since July 2019)
Quarter and Cross-Quarter Season Celebrations
Wailing Circle
Shamanic Workshops
Turtle Healing Lodge gatherings (community build coming soon)
Rites of Passage (coming soon)
Somatic Therapy Programs (coming soon)
Founders:
Betti Rooted Lionheart (Lambro): I am a Shamanic Healer and a Minister of the Church of Earth Healing. I help people transform personal and collective (planetary/ human condition) trauma and despair so they can access meaningful and lasting change in their lives and find their inner power, purpose, and joy. I bring people together around Fire.
Anna Di Pilla: I am a trauma-informed bodyworker, embodied yoga guide, somatic therapies practitioner, and shamanic healer. I guide people into the waters of their emotions and support them as they explore the messages in their bodies, alchemize the wisdom they unearth, and unravel liberated expressions of self.
Riannon Zorn : I am an interconnective groove greaser, a radiator of reverence, an intentional weaver of worlds and a maker of spectacular mistakes. With a bone-deep commitment to letting intuition lead the way – and a background in curriculum development, movement therapeutics, shamanic healing, life coaching and relational growth – I am dedicated to soothing challenged souls, forging innovative connections, and being of the highest service.
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- The Despair and Discovery CircleFoundation of Light, Ithaca, NY
An opportunity to share your post-election despair! There is much to feel grief and anger and all the hard feelings about right now, as always…
And now you can also join via zoom! (please register first so I know to get the zoom link to you!)
From the Planetary to the Personal, all despair is interconnected.
Come experience the Work That Reconnects, a beautiful process for feeling and sharing the depth of our emotions for the ecological, humanitarian, and personal tragedies unfolding all around us on this amazing Planet.The Despair and Discovery Circle is a place to witness and be witnessed; to be real, together. It is an opportunity to be with, feel, and express our despair in a Circle of truth-telling and compassion. This transformational experience can unlock within us a new way of being in the world.
The Despair Circle has been an ongoing opportunity since 2019. In 2025 there will be 6 opportunities to come together in this Circle at the Foundation of Light in Ithaca- every other first Monday of the month starting in February.
Monday, December 2, 6:30 - 9 pm
Location:
Foundation of Light
391 Turkey Hill Rd
Ithaca, NY 14850To Register:
www.thefoundationoflight.orgCost:
Suggested Donation of $10-20 per person supports the Foundation of Light and Braided Root Waters Healing Sanctuary. Thank you!
Facilitated by Betti Rooted Lionheart and Elizabeth Sullivan.Betti Rooted Lionheart (she/her) offers powerfully transformative one-to-one Shamanic Healing Sessions. She also teaches Shamanic Journeying so that you are empowered to heal and transform yourself, remember your power and purpose, and take aligned action in service of the Earth and All Life. Betti can help you reclaim the Divine Feminine through developing your own Earth and Goddess-centered Shamanic Spiritual Practices.
Betti is passionate about working with Teens, Queer People, and anyone who feels despair for the Earth and Humanity. She is a Shamanic Healer, a Minister of the Church of Earth Healing, a Spiritual Empowerment Activist, a Fire Weaver and Fire Priestess, a Writer, a Facilitator of the Work That Reconnects, the Mother of two Sons, and the founder of Braided Root Waters Healing Sanctuary in Trumansburg, NY.
https://sacraltransformations.com, [email protected].Elizabeth Sullivan is an ascension seeker who discovered creative visualization as a teen, practiced Buddhism as a young adult, explored a number of energetic healing modalities thereafter, and most recently unearthed Shamanic healing – a journeying she perceives as the coveted pathway home or return to the self, unfettered and joyous. Elizabeth is devoted to healing, transformation, and empowerment in this lifetime. In the Despair and Discovery Circle she fosters others by holding space for the transmutation of deep grief and despair into unbounded grace and love.
