Opening Ceremony Podcast with Jess May
Podcast blurb
Welcome to ‘Opening Ceremony Podcast’ with me, your host, Jess May.
I'm on a mission to keep ceremonies alive! Join me to hear all about why!
In the UK people are giving up on ceremony and I believe it is making us sick.
I don’t want that for you and that is why we’re here.
Ceremonies remind you that you belong here, you’re precious and you’re never alone.
I hope that this podcast will do that too.
On my podcast we connect with Academics, Professionals, colleagues, friends & clients share their life events, passions, careers and the ceremonies associated with them.
Ceremonies hold power to create meaning and are a vital source of connection and belonging for human beings.
As cultures evolve, ceremonies do too, how we approach that shift matters, because even as they disappear and change shape, they continue to hold power for both good and bad.
I want to empower you to create ceremonies which honour your values and remind you that you and yours belong in this world.
Good ceremonies tell your own story and help you to find your own meaning by reflecting who you are, healing you and showing you how much you matter.
But they can also be used in damaging ways.
If you don’t claim that power and choose your own way of celebrating your life and telling your story, someone else will do it for you.
Even as they fall from fashion, they will continue to matter to us societally, historically, personally & culturally.
There is never a time in human history where people don’t use them somewhere in the world for myriad reasons.
Focusing on ceremony shows us the interconnected multitude of human lives throughout history and across cultures. Ceremonies help us to hear those voices, their differences and similarities and understand the world-views behind the ceremonies they create.
Jess May is an Award Winning Celebrant who started her career in 2013 creating hundreds of life changing ceremonies for every occasion.
Join the Opening Ceremony constellation to learn more about why ceremonies still play a central part in human and animal societies.
Opening Ceremony Podcast with Jess May
Exploring Plant Medicine & Ceremony with Nigel Pedlingham!
Let me introduce you to Nigel Pedlingham he is an incredible person and we are very lucky to have an opportunity to hear all about his ceremonial experiences.
He is a change maker and social justice advocate, a consciousness guide, ceremony leader and psychedelic facilitator
As well as being a loving husband and father.
He is the founder of MAGUEY, a practice for healing and growth based in Amsterdam. He is also the chair of the Guide of Guides Netherlands.
A lover of nature, stillness, and the unknown
A modern mystic in the making
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Nigel brings a unique blend of experience to service, formed from 50 years of a well trodden path.
A journey with many twists and turns he has lived in the UK (London and Brighton), The Netherlands, and Nicaragua, and worked and traveled extensively across Europe, The Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. His work experience spans the corporate, non-profit, volunteer and the healing and self-development sectors. He has worked from the board room to the bush and everything in between, working with CEOs, government ministers, community health workers, digital human rights campaigners, the homeless, the queer community, spiritual seekers and those in search of healing.
Along the way have been a few serious burnouts, some broken hearts, a coming out and the finding of true love - all of which have contributed to his personal process emergence and growth.
Now as a coach, ceremony leader and psychedelic facilitator he enjoys supporting others to develop a more conscious and authentic connection with themselves and what’s around them. He truly believes that healing and broadening horizons at the individual level not only fosters individual growth and creativity but actively contributes to the collective of our society.
In 2020 he founded MAGUEY, a practice for healing and growth based in Amsterdam. MAGUEY supports seekers to connect more deeply with Self, Surrounding and Spirit. At its heart are a number of transformational coaching programmes that supports those who wish to consciously integrate psychedelics into their pathways of growth.
A lover of nature, stillness, and the unknown, Nigel is a modern mystic in the making �
Contact
nigel@maguey.nl
Psychedelic coaching programmes - https://www.psychedelicselfdiscovery.com/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/maguey_healing/
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigelpedlingham/
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