The Art of Making Sacred Space
Live Workshop Series (Online)
September 20 - December 21, 2025
Facilitated by Ceara MetlikovecArtist and facilitator Ceara Metlikovec guides a three-month journey into the art of making sacred space. We begin at the September equinox, a moment of balance between light and dark, and move together toward the December solstice. Whether entering autumn in the northern hemisphere or spring in the southern, this seasonal passage offers a natural container for orienting inward, clarifying intentions, and cultivating practices of presence. Within this span of time, Ceara invites participants to explore altar-building—learning how to clear, claim, and consecrate a space in the home that becomes a living vessel for prayer, reflection, and connection.Each altar becomes an expression of relation: with the four directions, the elemental forces, the cycles of the moon, and one’s own archetypal nature.
Meeting once each lunar cycle, we will return to our altars as living spaces of presence and devotion. Ceara draws from her lifelong practice of gathering elements, tending fire, and attuning to what emerges in the stillness of sacred space. Through this shared rhythm of creation and reflection, the altar reveals itself as both mirror and threshold—a site of ritual encounter where intention takes root and subtle transformation unfolds across the arc from equinox to solstice.
Cost $325In this workshop
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Be guided in clearing and consecrating a personal altar space in your home.
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Work with the symbolism of the four directions and elemental forces as anchors of balance.
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Work with your natal chart to work with resonant elements.
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Keep a journal of your altar encounters, observations, and subtle transformations.
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Refine your sensual perception and awareness of the subtle and unseen.
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Share and witness the evolving altars of others, cultivating communal practice and inspiration.
Gathering Dates
Live gatherings will take place on Zoom. Participants are encouraged to attend all live sessions as there will be no recordings for this series.
Option 1 —
Saturdays
1 PM PST / 2 PM CST / 4 PM EST /
5 PM BRT & ART
(to best suit participants in the Americas)Saturday, September 20
Saturday, October 11
Saturday, November 15
Saturday, December 20
Option 2—
Sundays
9 AM GMT / 10 AM CET / 4 PM WITA /
6 PM AEST / 8 PM NZST
(to best suit participants in Europe, Europe, Oceania, & Asia-Pacific)Sunday, September 21
Sunday, October 12
Sunday, November 16
Sunday, December 21
Facilitator Ceara Metlikovec
Ceara Metlikovec is an artist and facilitator whose work is deeply rooted in the natural world. After studying at the National Art School and the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, and teaching visual arts for a number of years, she immersed herself in her own practice. Her work has since been exhibited internationally, from Sydney Contemporary and Art Basel Hong Kong to exhibitions in New Zealand and the UK.
Guided by a daily attunement to the earth—its materials, rhythms, and unseen frequencies—Ceara’s sculptures, paintings, and installations carry a quiet, meditative presence. Her large-scale works, such as Ik Tara (composed of more than 5,000 handmade clay bricks reflecting on the electromagnetic field that surrounds all living beings), invite us into relationship with cycles, seasons, and the subtle forces that hold us.
Alongside her art practice, Ceara has been building altars since childhood, gathering elemental offerings and creating spaces of reflection and prayer. Whether intimate or monumental, her practice is always in service of creating space—sacred, subtle, and alive—where we might meet ourselves and the world anew.
Listen to Ceara share her practice with sacred space on our podcast Conversations on Practice
Subtle Practice founder Alma Tetto sits down with Ceara to share how a natural practice of collecting and relating to materials from the natural world evolved into an intentional practice of creating altars in her home and studio, and how this radically transformed both her creative practice and her relationship to self.
In conversation, we explore the nature of sacred space, the practice of receiving guidance from the natural world and in visionary and imaginative practice, and Ceara so eloquently describes how aligning with the cycles and seasons opens us to powerful currents that work through us, opening our creative inquiries and intentions like seeds that inform our inner growth.
✺ Your questions answered ✺
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No experience is necessary. This workshop series is designed to be accessible for beginners while also offering depth for those already familiar with altar practice or ritual work.
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No. To honor the intimacy of the space, sessions will not be recorded. We encourage you to attend the live gatherings whenever possible.
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While we recommend joining each gathering to receive the full arc of the series, you are welcome to participate in the sessions you can attend. Because there are no recordings, each live gathering is an important part of the journey.
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While we recommend joining each gathering to receive the full arc of the series, you are welcome to participate in the sessions you can attend. Because there are no recordings, each live gathering is an important part of the journey.
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No refunds will be offered. Please be sure you are able to commit before registering.
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A quiet space, a journal, and simple objects or natural elements to begin creating your altar. Ceara will guide you in how to select materials and gather what resonates.