Ceremonies

Ceremonies

Susan M Savell: Marriage Ceremony

Since ancient times ceremonies and rituals have been crucial parts of the human experience. Regardless of a person’s spiritual or religious beliefs and practices, ceremony plays a role in their means of celebrating birth, death, marriage, graduation, anniversaries, and countless other life transitions.

The Center for Earth Light Healing provides ceremonial and ritual possibilities to a wide sector of our human family. Examples of rituals and ceremonies that CELH can customize and guide you through are:

Coming of Age Ceremonies for Girls and Boys (group or individual)
Graduation from a school, a program, or completion of a project
Blessing of home, office, or other space
Clearing land of any negative influences
Blessing domestic animals
Ceremony during butchering of livestock
Blessing gardens, fields, and plants
Divorce, or letting go of relationship ceremonies
Funerals/Memorial Services/Honoring the Dead
Fire Ceremonies for any event
Family Soul Retrievals or Healing Ceremonies
Community Ceremonies
Marriages for heterosexual and same-sex couples performed by Susan Savell
Welcome to the world ceremonies for infants and children

Dory Cote has many years of experience in leading ceremonies of all kinds. Fire Ceremonies can be performed at The Center for Earth Light Healing's space in Brunswick, Maine, or at The Barn in Topsham, Maine. Sometimes clients prefer that we come to their home to perform fire ceremonies and this is also an option. If there is a ceremony you would like to create and have led by Dory Cote or other faculty from CELH, please contact us for further information regarding fees, our schedule and availability.

Susan M Savell, an ordained minister, and founder of The Peace Church, a non-denominational, intentional spiritual community, is authorized to perform legal marriages anywhere in the U.S. Because Susan’s marriage ceremonies are customized for the individual couple, the experience is one of total immersion in the unique loving qualities of the marriage couple. Susan has also married many gay and lesbian couples and, although this experience is not yet legal in most states, it is one that is binding in love and powerful for the couple and within the community committing to support the couple in their lives together.

Stacey and Mark Power

Susan’s music can be an element of any marriage ceremony. Susan has 4 professional recordings and has performed live for audiences of thousands throughout the US and Europe. She is a talented musician and has the capacity to move her listeners to a space of grace, openness and wonder.

Dory and Susan have also performed marriage ceremonies together, like that of Stacey and Mark Power. At the request of couples who want drumming and other shamanic or more native rituals as a part of their ceremony, Dory and Susan craft a ceremony that meets the needs of both persons in the partnership.