Our next Tucson Animist Minister Training will begin March 2026
In Tucson, AZ at the Web of Life Center- 1st & 3rd Wednesday evenings for one year.
Begins Wednesday, March 4 6-8pm
Welcome to the first in person (Tucson, AZ) Animist Minister training since 2020! This 2026 round is open to anyone who already has a relationship with Web of Life or have attended Web of Life events.
Support your Earth honoring community as a legally Ordained Animist Minister.
Earth Web Media’s Web of Life church was founded to empower and protect the sacred beliefs, eco chaplaincy practices, spiritual healing work and Earth honoring life ways of those who know they are connected in the web of life, and that the variety of these ways are equal to what others call their “religion”.
We use the word “Animism” to generally describe the varied and similar life ways of our collective human ancestors. Navigating through this challenging era calls on the best in us, and the role of Animist Ministers within Animist churches can play a growingly important role in creating the best possible unfolding. This Training is designed to inspire you to discover and creatively express your Unique Nature of Service (“ministry”), that supports, serves and advocates for yourself, and your Earth connected communities at this time of deep need.
At this time, Earth Web Media’s Web of Life church has ordained Ministers in AZ, OR, WA, ME, MT, CA, NM, NY, AK, KS, TN, MA, MI and WI in the U.S., Sonora, Mexico and Ontario & Quebec in Canada
“Reclaiming animism is an important antidote to the “sickness” of colonized time. It offers balance against disconnection & isolation from the world community (ALL members of the world, not just humans). This disconnection causes so much pain, and reconnecting through animism is healing, for me.”
What Can You Do As an Animist Minister?
You can legally and professionally officiate:
~Weddings and Commitment Ceremonies ~ Memorial Services in person and virtually~ Ceremonies and Rites of Passage ~ Land/Home Blessings and Clearings ~ Holding space for Animal companion grief and passings ~ Earth grief tending
“This training will only deepen what you already know and certainly it will better your experience in being human.”
Lucia, Minister in Canada
FULL CIRCLE ANIMISM
Traditions of Teaching at the Web of Life
Each of us is within the community of the Web of Life. We practice the tools that consistently show themselves in Earth honoring cultures, including: honoring the sacred circle, activating trance with a consistent rhythm, dreaming, honoring the Earth and Sky cycles, elements and directions in Nature, intuition, trance, soul restoration, ritual, interaction with spirit world, ceremony, divination, storytelling, connecting with animal and plant allies, blessings/prayers, dance and sacred singing. Each person consults their own inner guidance about how to practice these arts.
This path is for anyone, but can be especially helpful for anyone who is the first generation in their family, after numerous generations of silence/denial, who openly feels their connection with the Sacred Web of Life. When you learn to connect to it, Spirit World teaches and guides each person in their healing and each Animist in their sacred arts. In these times we are called to remember what our ancestors knew, and enact these ways in our daily lives. In this time, we are coming “full circle”.
Becoming a minister is something we do for ourselves and for me, that gift has been huge: stabilizing and validating in the truly mysterious ways of those called to serve. Loving begins at home and the minister training is a beautiful bridge from self to vocation that I highly recommend if this life journey has awakened in you the hooves of wild mustangs drumming down your path beside you.
Linda G, LCSW, DCSW
TOPICS COVERED
Areas of Animist Ministry – Your Nature of Service:
As an Animist Minister, your sacred Life Ways, and Nature of Service are Unique to YOU. The ways you understand the 24 sections below help you Support, Embody and Promote Animistic ideas in your self, your communities, and the world around you.
Throughout the year we will approach each topic of Ministry in our live meetings with discussion, introspection, ceremony and community support exercises.
Your Ancestry and Personal Agency will guide you as you focus on the following important subjects within your ministry:
1)Animism is Daily Life within the Web of Life
2)Earth Prayers and Advocacy-Sacred Place is where you are
3)Transforming Spiritual Pollution and Clearing Spaces, Minds and Bodies
4)Prayer through Rhythm and Song in community
5)Gratitude for, and building relationships with, Animal Teachers and Allies
6)Dispelling Colonized Mind in Personal and Cultural Consciousness
7)Connecting with Plants as Teachers, Nourishment and Medicine for Body and Soul
8)Your Roots, Trunk and Branches of Animist Ministry
9)Offering Gratitude to the Elements, Seasons and the Seven Sacred Directions
10)Justice, Accountability and Healing for Lineage and Ancestors
11)Sacred Nature Connection-Honoring the Spirits of the Land where you Live Now
12)Creating and Honoring Rites of Passage
13)Strengthening voice and action for Environmental Vibrancy in a time of Extinction
14)Dream and Non-Ordinary Reality Awareness and Skills
15) Birth, Life and Death Tending through Nature honoring Practices
16)Listening to Sickness and Feeding Wellness
17)Facilitating Communication Within the Physical and Non-Physical Worlds
18) Intuition, Empathy, Divination and how it Moves through You
19)Body Wisdom and Sacred Embodiment
20)Trance Induction and “Spirit” World Relationship Maintenance
21)Soul Care for Individuals and Lineages
22)We/They Wisdom Shared and Honored
23)Art = Life-Creativity Creates Life-Animism=Life
24)Reclaiming Ritual and Ceremony grounded in Personal Lineage and Direct Revelation
“As a minister, I serve as a bridge between my community and the spiritual realm, helping individuals connect with their inner wisdom and guidance.” Baba Xanga
“I am deeply grateful for the guidance and teachings of Web of Life. Learning side by side with radiant beings also on the path of healing was encouraging. I was able to address some deeply engrained doubt and stigma and I feel my ancestral connection to my Mexican and Ukranian magik has been restored. These lessons have changed my life journey for the better and I can’t thank you enough. ”
Anya-Spirit Bridge Practitioner and Animist Minister
Included in this Web of Life Ordainment Training:
~24 two-hour meetings in Tucson, Arizona (based at Web of Life space at Wilmot and Broadway)
~In between meetings you are encouraged to explore Self and Ancestral Awareness practices to experience on your own before the next meeting, within a month, or at end, depending upon the assignment. (Approximately 2 hours of self guided time each month)
~Receive support, encouragement and kind reflection for your professional and personal selves
-The companion PDF “24 Branches of Animist Ministry” written by Quynn for your ongoing reference
COST & PREREQUISITES
Donation for this 2026 12 month Program, includes legal Ordainment, is offered by Sliding Scale. See the application for more information.
Prerequisite:
In order to be eligible for this ordainment program, we require:
-Having training and life experience in at least one healing art, mental health and/or spiritual modality, and are currently serving your community in formal and informal ways. You must have current experience holding space for others, either in a one on one, or group settings. If you do not yet have this experience, then please see the “workshops”, “courses” or other “trainings” under Offerings
Your guide, and the creator of this training, is Quynn Red Mountain
founder of Web of Life Animist church
Reflections from Past Trainings:
To be able to say that I have sat in ceremony with other folx, learning, teaching, unfolding, and becoming is a true blessing. I am so grateful for this past year, and all of the healing and teachings it has provided.
I claimed 2021 as my rebirth year where I committed to unlearning old harmful ways that hadn’t always served me best. As the universe would have it, I was introduced to the Web of Life Animist Minister program which was the first “unschooling” opportunity for me. I met a lot of beautiful people with gifts that supported my new journey and taught me Earth-honoring practices that I had not considered or been exposed to before. The biggest value for me was getting to learn and practice my gifts in a sacred online space. This training embodies matriarchal energy of love, support and spiritual intuition which is vital for helping shift humanity into the new paradigm! – Sister Kalisha
This year I made art I healed I cried I felt Joy I embodied myself. It was a magical un-namable ever-present field of support, leaving me with a sense of being a bit more filled with love with confidence with hope thank you.
I have gained a deep sense of Animist community and the charge to further that in my future, and to help bring that feeling to others. I am getting more of a sense of the great potential that a ‘minister’ holds for creating Animist community.
I am realizing and actualizing a practical method of a healing practice to bring to the world, and building a strong foundation for my life grounded in Animist practice.
The Animist Ministers Fellowship has been a great resource. I can reflect on what we discovered during the course of the program when I am experiencing my own grief and trauma and pull myself back into clarity. The tools learned within the program are very valuable to have as a simple guide for my own life and professional practice.
Thank you Quynn for bringing us together for seeing us for creating the space for Magical things to happen I feel for once I belong to the Earth and it is my task to bring this sense of belonging to others.
I really appreciate your leadership and guidance the wisdom you have offered and that you created this at all. So much changed and shifted for me in this last year, and I know it wouldn’t have had you not created this space this program and gave me a reason to trust myself. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
