Today initiates the holy purge. Shadow work is not only softness, it is also fire, trembling, catharsis.
Many of your shadows were built in moments when it was unsafe to express what you truly felt. This practice opens space to feel that backlog, to move it with reverence, and to let it burn in a container of safety. Then, with ash still warm, you’ll be guided into the deeper fire: forgiveness.
Not because they deserve it. Not because you forget. But because you are ready to stop carrying what was never yours to keep. This is the sacred medicine of flame and freedom.
🔥 Releases trapped anger and grief
💧 Clears emotional congestion from the body
🕯 Awakens clarity through catharsis
💗 Softens the heart toward forgiveness
🌬 Creates space for renewal
🕊 Cultivates freedom from old energetic contracts
1 • Ignite the Flame
1. Rage Ritual Prep
2. Expressive Movement + Sound
2 • Grief as Water
1. Tears of Memory
2. Write the Ashes
3 • Forgive with Fire
1. The Forgiveness Invocation
2. Body Blessing
Ignite The Flame
1 • Rage Ritual Prep
1. Set your sacred space.
🛋️ Pillows
🧣 Towels
🧘 Yoga mat
2. Play music that evokes raw emotion
🪘 Primal
🎻 Instrumental
3. Speak aloud:
🌊 “I give myself full permission to feel what I have buried.”
2 • Expressive Movement + Sound
1. Begin moving the body
💃 Strong, rhythmic gestures
🕺 Stomping
🌪️ Shaking
💥 Punching the air or pillows
2. Let sound accompany the movement, whatever needs to rise.
😱 Scream
🐺 Growl
💦 Cry
🦅 Wail
🔁 Continue for 3 to 5 minutes or until intensity softens
3. When finished, fall to the ground in stillness.
✨ Let the silence integrate the release
Grief as Water
1 • Tears of Memory
1. Close your eyes
💕 Bring into your heart a moment where you felt:
💔 Abandoned
🔪 Betrayed
🤫 or Silenced
2. Say silently:
🫂 “You are safe now. I am here.”
💦 Let tears fall if they come
🪷 Let the body be soft
2 • Write the Ashes
1. Retrieve your journal.
✍️ Write what you are ready to release
🪢 From others
🧑🧒 From yourself
🕰️ From the past
2. Fold the page
🪨 Place it under a stone
💧 In a bowl of water
🔥 Or burn it safely if called
3. As you let go, say aloud:
🌬️ “This no longer belongs to me.”
Forgive with Fire
1 • The Forgiveness Invocation
1. Light a candle or sit in front of a flame
💫 Speak the words:
“I forgive not to forget, but to be free.
I release not to erase, but to return to peace.
I bless not to bypass, but to bless myself.”
2 • Body Blessing
1. Gently touch your body. With each touch, say:
✨ “You are free. You are forgiven. You are holy.”
🫀 Heart
🤰 Belly
👔 Throat
🦵 Thighs
👕 Shoulders
2. Sit in stillness.
🔥 Allow the warmth of freedom settle into your cells
“I set fire to what no longer feeds me.
I scream for the child who could not speak,
I cry for the versions of me I buried in silence.
And when the flames die down, I rise from the ash,
not empty, but holy. I am the blessing I waited for.”
✨ What anger have I held because it was never safe to express it?
✨ Who or what am I still carrying in my body through resentment or grief?
✨ Can I forgive not to excuse, but to return to my own peace?
You have walked through your own fire and made it sacred.
This is not about getting over the past. This is about no longer letting it own your nervous system, your breath, your future.
Rage and grief are not shameful, they are signals that you have loved deeply, hurt deeply, and are now healing honestly.
Let today be the day you unclench. Let it be the day you rise from flame into freedom.