Rites Of Passage - by Tess | Being Moved

COURSE

Rites Of Passage

With Tess | Being Moved

This course uses the Rites of Passage map to support you in mindfully moving through a time of transition and change- (be that chosen change- or one that was imposed by outer factors). At times life can seems like it is working us and stretching us in some way that we can’t yet understand and we don’t have a framework for what it is that we are going through. In this course we will learn about the rites of passage map and how it can be used to navigate us through a time of deep personal transition our own lives. We will learn about the stages of a rites of passage and how it can support us through testing times amidst our contemporary 21st century lives. We will explore and normalize the processes of deep personal change that happen in times of major transition. We will explore grief, grace and how to spot the gateways that open up in times of transition. We will look at how to be with hard feelings, explore forgiveness and see how we can increase self-responbility moving forwards. There will be practices to support us on the journey, plus potent poetry and prose to keep us company and sustain our soul along the way. We will explore how honoring a time of transition as a rite of passage can support us in emerging from a tricky time feeling that we have been grown in good ways, that we have found strength and self-confidence, and that we have many gifts to give back to our community

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Meet your Teacher

Tess | Being Moved
Santa Cruz, CA, USA

Tess has been supporting people through major life transitions for the last decade. She is a Soma-Source trained Rites of Passage Facilitator; a Buddhist Eco-Chaplain and is currently Operations Manager at the School of Lost Borders -a USA based rites of passage organization that has been taking people out on desert wilderness quests for over 40 years. Tess is also a Spirit Rock-accredited Dharma & Yoga facilitator. She has 25 years of regular Insight Meditation practice and has a specialty in practicing out in nature. She is an accredited 5Rhythms dance moving meditation/conscious dance guide who facilitates mindful movement events in nature via "silent disco" technology. She has a BSc in Psychology and a Post Graduate Diploma in using art and metaphor for therapy and education. Tess has designed and led her own 3 month long Rites of Passage program for young women- using nature and mindful movement to support them through major life transitions and to orientate them towards living lives of inspiration and contribution. Tess holds a deep and soulful space for people to connect deeply with what matters most to them. She loves supporting people to embody their own experiences and move more mindfully through the world. She warmly invites you to join us on this course.

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10 Days

721 students

4.8 stars

17 min / day

Authenticity

English

Lesson 1

Contemporary Rites Of Passage - Starting From Right Where We Are

This session is an introduction to the rites of passage process and the various stages that we will move through. We will explore this ancient archetypal map and how it fits with our contemporary lives. Many of us yearn to mindfully mark moments of change lives, to honor what is shape-shifting. Yet for most of us, time alone in the wilderness for a multi-day rite of passage alone in nature not easy/realistic to achieve amidst our day to day tasks; so in this course we will deeply honour a personal rite of passage, right from whatever we are listening from, in the midst of our day to day lives. In this session we will begin with severance – looking at what we are letting go of, seeing what is being shed and starting to honour what is happening in our hearts and lives.

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Lesson 2

Threshold - Marking This Time Of Transition

In the Rites of Passage map there is a threshold moment- a time when we step away from our lives as they have been and head out on our journey into the unknown, without knowing how it will unfold form here. This was traditionally marked by “leaving the village” – a time when individuals would go alone into the wilderness to find their way forwards, to seek their own path and to come to trust in the ground under their feet again. In contemporary times we will need to find skillful ways of marking the threshold amidst the day to day duties that we are tied to, to take time to claim that we have crossed a threshold amidst all of our daily roles and responsibilities. In this session we will take time to honor that we are in a threshold moment in our own lives. We will name and claim the personal threshold that we are walking through; acknowledging that things are not what they once were, and yet not yet what they will be – and that we are heading into unknown territories in between.

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Lesson 3

Holding Our Center- Learning To Self-Regulate Amidst The Uncertainty Of The Unknown

Rites of Passage are notorious for asking something from us, for challenging us and working us internally in some in way that we may not yet know how to do. We will normalize that these times of major life transition can feel like they are stretching and testing us. New ways of being are needed and we may feel that we are having to rethink everything that we thought that we once knew, as our lives rapidly shape-shift. Today we will learn a simple “ABC” centering practice so that we can self-regulate when fear and anxiety arises. We will deepen our relationship with our inner world by staying with our bodily sensations; and find new ways that we can witness and show up for ourselves as we go through this time of change.

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Lesson 4

Moving Through The Wild Terrains Of The Heart - Grief And Unlocking Our Fullness Of Feeling

Grief is a natural and inevitable part of change. Sometime the grief is upfront and obvious to us- following a death, an illness or the loss of a beloved person, place, role. At other times the grief is subtler in the way that it shows up in our life; or perhaps we may have been so busy moving towards something we may not notice what it is we have moved way from and the grief may hit us long afterwards. However it is showing up, grief will likely take its toll on us. Knowing what to expect can be a key part of the healing process. In this session we will look at different models of grief and the pathways through grief that we are moving through. We will befriend our personal grief and learn to be kind to ourselves when we are full of feeling. We will honor that these terrains are tricky and even though at times it may feel like we are losing our mind, maybe we are actually finding our hearts.

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Lesson 5

Times Of Transition- Letting Ourselves Be Lost And Trusting In The Mysterious Unfolding Of Things

In this session we will explore the role of liminal space in the Rites of Passage process- and honor that it may feel like we are spending time “betwixt and between”- unsure of what shape the future will take. In this session we will learn a technique to resource us through a long journey, so we can find a regular place of refuge within us. We will practice using our bodily senses to bring us present and to develop trust in this “pause place”. We will learn how we can better be with what is, whether that is beautiful or brutal; and we will tap into the strength and care that we each contain within us.

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Lesson 6

Good Guidance And Helpers On The Way - Coming Into Community And Finding Support Structures

In traditional rites of passage there is often a “wise one in the woods” who gives us good guidance for our specific personal quest. So many folks are yearning for mentors, elders and those who have walked the path before us to offer us some good guidance. The online and offline world is full of possible teachers – some with great wisdom- and- some offering things that won’t be a great fit for us personally! We must develop our inner discernment! In this session we will practice self-responsibility by identifying what our new needs are and by daring to take steps to get those needs met. We will focus on the importance of finding a supportive community who knows what you are going through at this time and can share wisdom from the road ahead.

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Lesson 7

Forgiveness As The Key To Finding Our Way Forwards

In today’s session we look at anything that we might need to let go of before we can move into the next section of our life as we move through our personal Rite of Passage. We look at forgiveness as a powerful way of shedding what has been holding us back and creating space for the new to come into our lives. We will come into right relationship with ourselves and others, as best we can; clearing the way for bright new beginnings.

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Lesson 8

Harvesting What We Have Gained - Noticing The Gifts We Have Been Given

This time of transition is likely working us on ways we wouldn’t necessarily have wished for. The challenge of change is real and can be hard to handle; sometimes we may even feel like life is being mean to us or this struggle is meaningless. We may need to give up seeing ourselves as victims within the process of change. In this session we take our power back by choosing to turn towards what is hard and to step fully toward the lessons we are being given to learn. We will name and claim the lessons that we are learning and how we are growing.

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Lesson 9

The Return Threshold- Honouring What Needs To Be Honoured

We crossed a threshold out at the start and as we prepare to finish this series we will need to cross back across a threshold- to "belong ourselves" back to the day to day world. We will look at self generated ceremony to mark the moments of change before we return, as we also acknowledge how much we have grown and gained on this journey.

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Lesson 10

Incorporation - A Life Long Learning Journey

When we return from a Rite of Passage period in our lives we may need to navigate our day to day lives in new ways -and that this is a key part of the process of assimilating the change. Part of a Rite of Passage is claiming who we are and what is true for us. In this session we will claim the life that is ours to live and we will keep turning towards what is true for us as we find our way forwards.

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Ask your teacher

This course includes 13 community questions and 8 audio replies from Tess | Being Moved. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Karen

October 13, 2025

This course is wonderful. I will save it and go through it again. It helps with making me aware that life happens in cycles. I have learned it's best to be open to new opportunities but not all opportunities are a good fit for everyone. Be self aware and evaluate situations and people so you know when a cycle is ending or needs to end.

Vicki

September 21, 2025

Beautiful. Thank you

Dymphi

April 18, 2025

The content is quite good. The delivery (quality of the audio) was unfortunately quite distracting. The volume of the narrator’s voice keeps changing from louder to softer which wasn’t very pleasant to listen to. I hope she records it again, without the issues with the volume changes.

Glenn

January 22, 2025

Thank you nice course🙏🏻🙏🏻

Patricia

August 13, 2024

Beautiful and wise insight & guidance to support my inner soul in my personal rite of passage; thank you!🙏🏼❤️

Sarah

May 3, 2024

Absolutely transformational! This spoke to me on such a deep level as I face a second tumultuous divorce. Thank you for the rich poetry and sincere, soulful guidance shared in this course. I will revisit it again soon!

Deddou

January 11, 2024

This has been the most beautiful and powerful course I've completed so far on Insight Timer. Thank you for your warm and kind hearted guidance. It's been an intense, deep, humbling and uplifting journey. Thank you.

Marijo

December 24, 2023

What a course…with a voice, wording and concepts that are so magical and luminous! It felt like a hand that took mine to go through the changes and grievances I experienced - it took my fear away! It felt like a comforting caress on my painful body and soul with the just and peaceful words - it brought me hope! Infinite thanks Tess for your guidance that created a spark in me to live my current long COVID condition as a rite of passage instead of only surviving it. 🙏🪷🫶

Shawn

November 23, 2023

Thank you Tess🙏🏼beautiful course worth going back to time and again ❤️Grief it’s heavy and it sucks the life out of me! Grief is love with no where to go, I feel that and I carry it with me! Your voice is so soothing and I was very touch by this course❤️

KC

November 6, 2023

A beautiful and necessary pause to honor, grieve, sit with, and move through changes in my life. Intentionally marking and honoring this change has been really important in my being able to step across the threshold into what’s next, even as that next thing still feels uncertain, and without color or form. Still, I feel drawn into something new, and can honestly say I’m excited about it!

Sue

October 29, 2023

Life changing! 🙏🏼

Karey

October 27, 2023

Such a lovely path you have forged for me through this life change of mine. I am open to the gifts of this fiery journey. Thank you.

Olivia

October 7, 2023

What a powerful journey. You were a sensitive and inspiring guide. Thank you!

Teresa

October 1, 2023

“What a beautiful way to see your life. A wonderful and heart felt thank you.” With much love from Southern Oregon.

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