Storywork
Storywork sessions engage somatic and earth-based ritual practices such as guided meditation, altar building, herbalism, and divination.
Storywork sessions can stand alone, provide foundation for a mythopoetic tattoo, or accompany a pre-channeled design.
There are two main containers for Storywork sessions: Creation Myth and Four Directions.
“A person without a myth is a person without a home.”
Sharon Blackie, Medicine Stories
Mythopoetic Tattoo
A two-part process of Storywork and Ceremonial Tattoo.
Informed by your myth unearthed in our Storywork session, your guides and I co-create a tattoo design for you. We then hold a ceremonial tattoo session 1-3 weeks later to enflesh your myth, accompanied by a custom herbal blend and poetic invocation.
What are body-myths?
Stories are woven in our body. They may be generative and take the shape of ancestors, loved ones, and beyond human kin; some may perpetuate extraction or harm held as trauma, shame, and conflict; and others unearth as complex mycelial memories that span geography and generations.
In Storywork, we access these body-myths and offer curiosity, compassion, and paths to integration and re-negotiation.
Common Storywork Threads
- Ancestral (re)connection, reconciliation, and ethno-autobiography
- Life path, transitions, and sources of reciprocal power
- Learning to be held, seen, and vulnerable
- Mixed-lineage belonging
- white-bodied reckoning, repair, and returning to wholeness
- Queer/Trans embodiment
- Ecosensuality and erotics – embracing pleasure and desire
- Sacred grief and rage
- Love, compassion, and connection::kinship
What To Expect
Each session is attuned to your unique somatic landscape based on our connection call, the season we are collectively in, and the container you choose. Expect:
– Intention setting, calling in guides/ancestors
– Breathwork
– Guided Meditation
– Divination (tarot or oracle)
– Integration and follow-up
Virtual or in person (in the wilds or studio).
Book a free connection call to explore how storywork and intuitive tattoo can support you in your journey.
“Indigenous peoples are those who have creation stories, not colonization stories, about how [they] came to be in a particular place – indeed how [they] came to be a place”
Tuck and Yang, Decolonization is Not a Metaphor
Storywork Containers
Mula Sa Binhi: Creation Myth
What place are you?
Mula Sa Binhi (From the Seed) is a practice in ethno-autobiographical mythweaving to invoke your creation story through an ancestral and place-based lens. For non-indigenous folks, this is intended to be a gesture in an ongoing process of uncolonization, decolonization, and commitment to rematriation/land back.
In session we will thread your unique tapestry of ancestry, imagination, earth memory, cosmos, community, and dreams. We may explore chosen and genealogical ancestors, plantcestors, place-based and mixed lineages, grief and belonging.
Four Directions: Generative Power
How do we disrupt systems of domination?
We reclaim our sources of reciprocal, regenerative power.
The four directions are the origin of medicine stories across cultures and earth-based practices. They connect us to the elements and help re-orient and nourish us amidst forces of oppression and separation.
In session we will:
–attune to the rhythms of the season we are in
–explore which direction(s) are calling to partner with you in this season of your life
–give reverence to the medicine stories and directional relations of your lineage and the Indigenous land we’re on
Ethnoautobiography is the practice of re-membering connection to “ancestors, myths, nature, place, history, storytelling, spirituality, community, and dreams” to be whole and satiated against the backdrop of extractive culture that gorges through consumption to fill emptiness.
Manang Strobel,
Back From the Crocodiles Belly
Jump To….
$ Energy Exchange $
StoryWork Session
Virtual – 75 min
$125-175 sliding scale
- Intention setting + calling in guides/ancestors
- Breathwork
- Guided meditation
- Divination (tarot/oracle)
- Integration practices
In Person – 95 min
$175-250 sliding scale
- Meet coastal or inland in the wilds, or at haven’s studio
- Includes virtual process items plus:
- Tea ceremony
- Collaborative altar building
Storywork + Mythopoetic Tatu
Starts at $675-925
Storywork session + Half-day (3.5 hours) of tattoo time and medi(tea)tion ceremony (30 mins). I usually reserve a full day for these ceremonies, so we can be fully present and nourished in ritual time.
EXCHANGE BREAKDOWN
(sliding scale low – high)
| Story-work | 75min virtual or 95min in the wilds. | $125 | $250 |
| Intuitive Tattoo Drawing | On avg takes me ~4-6 hours. Revisions done on ceremony day or drawn on. | $100 | $100 |
| Cere-mony | 30 min medi(tea)tion on ceremony date. | $50 | $50 |
| Tattoo | 3.5 hrs of tattoo time ($150 for first hour, Sliding scale $100-150 for next 2.5). | $400 | $525 |
| Total | $675 | $925 |
Beyond 3.5 hrs of tattoo time, the remaining exchange is $100-150/hr sliding scale, including across multiple sessions.
PAYMENT PLAN + TRADES
✦ payment plan: payment plans are available for mythopoetic tattoos to increase their accessibility. this is completed through written accountability contract. $350 minimum due on ceremony date. book a connection call to inquire.
✦ trades: please see booking portal to view goods/services I am interested in trading.
Testimonials
Explore Ceremonial Tattoo and Storywork containers best aligned with your intentions.
View completed tattoos and ceremony testimonials from beloveds ❤
Explore designs channeled with reverence to creative spirits, ready to be awakened 🙂
Storywork Origins
Storywork is a weaving of practices from my engagement in Embodied Social Justice (Transformative Programs 9-month cohort, 2022), LAKAPATI Herbalism and Ancient Somatics (2023-2024), Transformative Justice organizing, 5 years experience in abolitionist mental health work and crisis intervention, plantcestral poetics, and ancestral and collective murmurations. Please see reciprocity to learn more about my rhizome of mentors, containers, and co-liberators.
luya entangled 