Igniting Devotion with Chloe Mckinnon founder of OM Rituals
As part of our 30 Love Stories series, featuring women entrepreneurs, creatives, and healers from our community.
Meet Chloe McKinnon, founder of OM Rituals, whose dharma is Igniting Devotion.
Chloe makes herbal therapy rituals, designed to connect us to spirit through the practice of ritual with the assistance of plants. Her story of how she arrived here is one of the most beautiful we have heard.
After a surprise twist in her life path, Chloe found herself living on a farm in Sechelt, BC, with nature as her greatest teacher. She spontaneously began blending herbs into her meditation practices. The plants assisted her in presence. In preparation. In attuning to the body.
In meditation she asked: what would you have me do? Where would you have me go? Eventually she heard a voice say, share this. She looked down at her ritual and understood: this practice of devotion was the answer.
"To share even just a moment in pure surrender to that which beats our heart is my deepest wish for OM Rituals."
What are you excited about right now?
Working one on one with people to assist them in creating their own medicine bundles designed for a particular focus. Recently I assisted a client to create a bundle for grief. The parts were carefully chosen by her inner guidance with my assistance. In this way she is empowered by her own creation and supported by plants as spiritual medicine.
What inspired you to do this work?
In two words: Nature and Devotion. I went to Indonesia the year before I created OM Rituals. In the weeks before my trip I had spontaneously begun a very specific ritual with particular elements that I had never done before. When I arrived at the Ashram in Bali and practised their traditions, I saw that my ritual was almost identical to the Balinese Hindu traditions. I felt a sweet laughter inside. This knowledge lives in all of us. It is waiting to be tapped.
What is one daily ritual you are practising?
I sit in meditation, have tea with God, and play my wooden flute.
What is your dharma in two words?
Igniting Devotion.
For people to awaken to the beauty of ritual as a way to connect to Spirit. Eventually every meal, every painting, every act becomes seeded in devotion to the underlying life force in all things. Devotion does not end after the ritual is complete. It spills over the whole life.
A Piece for This Threshold
Virgo Moon Kaftan
For the ritual. For the devotion. Close-fitting linen that settles against you and asks nothing in return. Women put it on and visibly change. Not perform. Change. Three colorways: Off White, Dark Moon Black, Clay.
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