The Alchemy of Death and Rebirth
MAY 10TH 2025
6:00PM - 10:00PM
NAVA FARMS, AUSTIN TX
A guided ritual and embodiment container, safely held for you to come surrender and alchemize something that is dying and ferry it into rebirth.
Open to all genders.
Your Guide
Arivind Abraham
The Participant
This experience is for you if...
You're navigating life's most challenging transitions and feel caught in the disorienting space between what was and what will be.
You've lost someone precious and find yourself ambushed by grief in unexpected moments. The morning brings that painful moment of remembering all over again. Their belongings remain untouched because moving them feels like a second goodbye.
Your significant relationship has ended, leaving your future suddenly unwritten. You oscillate between relief and profound loneliness while well-meaning friends offer platitudes when you're still struggling to breathe.
You're shedding an old identity – whether through career change, empty nesting, health challenges, or other major life shifts. You question who you are now and wonder if this discomfort is normal as "Who am I?" follows you everywhere.
If you're exhausted from pretending to be "fine" when you're not, if you feel isolated in your experience, or if you're searching for meaning in your transition – this circle was created for you.
The Experience
How We Guide You Through This Transition
When words alone aren't enough to process your experience, we use gentle yet powerful practices to help you move through grief and change:
Guided attention helps you notice where you're holding emotion in your body rather than just thinking about it
Visualization where you can safely explore difficult feelings
Breathwork anchors you to the present moment
Sound opens pathways where words cannot reach, releasing tension you didn't know you were carrying
Gentle movement helps release grief stored in the body when sitting still feels impossible
Shamanic meditation connects you with deeper wisdom that helps transform your relationship with loss
These practices work together to help you acknowledge what's ending while creating space for new beginnings—turning raw pain into something meaningful that can be carried differently.
No experience is needed. We'll guide you step by step through each practice with sensitivity to wherever you are in your journey.
The Transformation
Where You Are Now:
Disoriented in unfamiliar emotional territory without a map
Caught between clinging to what was and fearing what might be
Exhausted from pretending to be "stronger" than you feel
Isolated in your experience even among those who care
Questioning your identity, purpose, and path forward
Struggling to make sense of a story that's been disrupted
Overwhelmed by both emotional turmoil and practical decisions
Where You'll Be After Our Circle:
Grounded in new rituals that honor both what was and what is becoming
Connected to others who have walked similar paths and hold space for your truth
Equipped with personalized practices for your hardest moments
Finding pockets of unexpected peace amid ongoing change
Reclaiming agency in authoring the next chapter of your life
“I was blessed to be invited into one of Ari’s circles. It just so happened to align with a major life transition, and I was feeling stuck and disconnected from myself. I was suspended in that liminal space: between the old me and the new me, the old life and the one still emerging.
As much as I’m usually able to hold space for myself, I knew I needed someone to hold me through this threshold so I could root into the new me that was being birthed.
His masterful guidance and impeccable space-holding is rare and powerful. I can’t recommend his work enough, especially for anyone in a time of transition, and for practitioners or space-holders who long to be held in their own unfolding.
Ari brings a huge heart, a gift for language, and a depth of presence that opens portals and creates the safety needed to explore the deeper realms of your being.”
Meghan Makena
Founder of The Amba Method
ARIVIND’S GUIDES
Amir Khalighi
Amir Khalighi is the founder of Embodied Masculine™ (EmbodiedMasculine.com), a global community that supports empowering and connecting men to their highest sense of self, the natural world, and in living purpose-driven lives. His work with men started at the age of 23. Through his 20s and 30s, he worked with hundreds of men centered around shadow work, addictive behaviors, and also through the discipline of martial arts. Subsequently, his work has evolved and now encompasses Jungian archetypal psychology, somatic, shamanic, and embodiment methodologies. His passion for men’s work has been most influenced by mythopoetic men’s work, Sufi mysticism, yogic intimacy, Celtic mythology, Shamanism, and Hermetic Qabalah.
He is a men’s coach, speaker, teacher, husband, and father to 4 daughters. He also founded BelovedPoetry.com, an online space dedicated to sharing the original rendered works of such Masters of love as Rumi, Hafez, Kabir, Neruda, and more.
Kai Karrell
A mystic, a medicine carrier, a practicing medium, and a passionate writer who strives to help people fall in love with themselves. My life has been a mythical story of devotion and awakening, a journey into the ends of the universe and the innermost depth of my heart.
After studying for a few years with different Shamans, teachers, medicine circles, and traditions, whether Brazilian, Peruvian, Colombian, or others, I have come to the conclusion that for me to truly develop and grow within this path, I need a different set and setting, where the spoken language is one I understand, the prayers and teachings are more direct and guided, and the integration of the experience into my life is constant and continues beyond the scope of the ceremonies. After consulting with my teachers and following their guidance, I founded the Church of the Celestial Heart. A syncretic church based on the teachings of Santo Daime and Umbandaime yet offered in English, bringing forth an even deeper focus on guidance and instruction within the ceremonies themselves.
In order to develop the church, its doctrine, and its theological foundation, I have devoted my life to the continuous study, initiation, and practice of the different traditions which constitute the syncretic nature of its faith. I frequently visit my teachers in Brazil, primarily our Santo Daime mother church, Fraternidade do Coração, led by my dear friend and teacher, Padrinho Sergio Negri; our main school of Umbanda, Barquinha, and mediumship – Arca da Montanha Azul, led by Mestre Philippe Bandeira de Melo, and many others.
I am enthusiastic about helping others walk the journey of a thousand petals – a journey toward self-acceptance and the discovery of self-love.
Kai is the padrinho of the Umbandaime Church of Celestial Heart.
Come Gather And Alchemize All That No Longer Serves you
FAQs
What do I need to bring ?
Meditation zafu, pillows, blankets, yoga mats, backjacks - anything that you need to be both seated and laying down comfortably outside throughout the practice.
Participants also require blindfolds or shawls that can be used as blindfolds.
You may also want to bring a journal and pen, crayons, and/or any other medium you like to capture insights in during integration. Just know you might be in very low light conditions outside.
What do I wear?
Comfortable clothing you can move in and be warm. No jeans.
Are there payment plans or scholarships?
Not for this offering at this time.
If you have any other questions, you can reach out to :
Arivind.abraham@icloud.com
calebaustintx@gmail.com