Serving Oregon's Great North West, from the Pacific Coast to the Cascades - Eugene, Portland & beyond!
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We the ministers of Rising Heart, strive to bring back rites of passage through peoples lives, from coming of age ceremonies to any other rites one might desire for their life. We will custom create rites or ceremonies for your needs; rites of passages from all stages of life from birthing, through our end of life celebrations. Contact us with ideas, so we can design a Rites of Passage that is specific for you, and build onto our repertoire of offerings for others.
Choose a ritual that suits your needs and and contact your preferred minister. Your minister will work directly with you to support your needs to help you create a beautiful meaningful unique and honoring ceremony.
We are here to help! For assistance, either text Kenneth A. Cater at 503-470-0069 for an immediate response, or call 541-349-0202 to contact owner and director Lisa L. Burtraw. We set up your free consultation with the officiant of your choice.
Most all of our ministers are able to travel to anywhere in the world; travel fees and air travel apply.
Travel rates begin round trip from each minister & service provider’s base location, at $50 per hour.
We offer International or Domestic Travel beyond a drive.
If you would like to work for Rising Heart in another city or state, or Become an Ordained Minister yourself!
Officiant Bio’s
Our Officiants are highly skilled Ceremonial Ministers with have many years of experience. We are heart centered diverse healers, who offer a holistic approach to their ministering, utilizing all their skills with compassion and warmth.
Passionate and devoted, we bring forth a refreshing approach to a new world model of ministry services in a truly meaningful way. Transforming from the ordinary to the extraordinary. Believing that each unique situation be met with an open heart and mind, they offer a refreshing genuine approach to ministering which honors, legitimizes and recognizes the sacred in us all.
Rev. Lisa L. Burtraw, LMT, CST & Shamanic Healer
Based out of Eugene Oregon
Ordained in 1998 through the International Assembly of Spiritual Healers and Earth Stewards Congregation, and Hearth of the Dancing Drum. I am an Ordained Minister, spiritual healer, ceremonial officiant, owner and visionary behind Rising Heart Ritual & Ceremonial Officiants.
I am a 4th generation Eugene Oregon native. I offer healing work to transform the body and spirit, and ritual work in all rites of passage, weddings and end of life transitions, to transform mundane ideas around our major life transitions in ways that are deeply meaningful and refreshingly alternative to the traditional approach.
My healing journey began as a full time licensed massage therapist through the State of Oregon in 1994, my CranioSacral and Shamanic Healing Training not long afterwards. To learn more, visit Shamanic Healing & Massage & Healing. I produced a CD called, “Hearth of the Dancing Drum, Drumming and Songs for the Shamanic Journey,” in 2014, and am currently working on the next one, along with a number of books and classes in the above subjects.
I create and officiate customized unique Wedding ceremonies, as well as all Rites of Passage, integrating my healing abilities to bring about moments of deep sacredness & meaning.
Minister’s Statement ~ Honoring all stages and transitions in life through rites of passages including, birth ceremonies, coming of age ceremonies, cutting cord ceremonies, and ceremonies to discover your truth and inner path. In addition, I support you in the pursuit of love and committing in marriage with your life partner in ways that are unique to you. These are all important aspects of our human journey, to be recognized and honored. It brings me great pleasure to support you in life’s magnificent journey, to bear witness as ceremonial officiant, as you honor yourself and those around you by weaving deeper meaning into your life through sacred rites of passage and vows of commitment. I am honored to officiant your ceremony, and together we will create an unforgettable event.
Rev. Kenneth A. Cater – Astrologer, Artist
Based out of Eugene Oregon
Astrological Ritual & Rites of Passage Services
“Take care of the beginnings and the endings, the middles take care of themselves.”
1. Selecting the most auspicious date and time for the beginning of your new adventure based on thousands of years of astrological wisdom, to support communication, understanding and durability.
2. Astrological readings to examine the energies operating in your life: the attractions and the challenges, the needs and the gifts each brings.
3. Collaboration in crafting a unique ceremony appropriate to your life paths and spiritual needs.
4. Ceremonial Ritual Officiant.
Rev. Kenneth Cater combines, “Inner Compass Astrology,” with ministering, since 1982. He is an intuitive Sufi mystic, skilled in the dynamics of personal relationships, clarify timing of important decisions, counseling people of all ages to help clarify their strengths, talents and challenges, crisis management in relationships, work and spiritual direction, and can offer an overview of the upcoming year to anticipate changes in all areas of life. With nearly 40 years of experience, he integrates astrology with all ceremonies, as a clear guide.
For your Ritual, Kenneth not only acts on your behalf as officiant, but also integrates his astrology skills to create a meaningful written ceremony filled with ritual specific to you, based on your vision, specific birth charts and personal dynamics of all concerned and involved in your ceremony. Date and time of your ceremony can also be important considerations that he can help you with, as well as pre- and post- marital relationship counseling.
Please inquire with Kenneth regarding his astrology counseling fees, which are separate from the officiant fees.
If you are interested in an Astrology Reading with Kenneth, contact him directly on his mobile phone (TEXT first) at 503-470-0069
REV/RDA. Le Alan, RN, MA, PHD – Shamanic Healer, Artist
(Ingles o español)
Based out of Eugene Oregon/Basado en Eugene Oregon
Since obtaining ceremonial ministers license and certification in 1992, it has been my privilege to participate in and witness the bonding power of love shared by people of all ethics and faiths in the ancient tradition of marriage.
Listen to your heart and choose life partners wisely is the admiration I offer. As a ceremonial minister, registered nurse (RN), Counselor (MA), health educator (PHD), and Shamanic Practitioner of the healing arts.
The circle of life is woven of colored threads of light reflecting choices made with every breath exchanged in the vibrant world of living energy. What a value!
From legal registration to validation of family bonding, spiritual communion or initiation of community witness and celebration, the purposes of Ritual are many and varied.
Creative Ritual & Rites of Passage ceremonies, therefore, are offered which best harmonize with your lifestyle, values and vision you may have for life together. Ceremony can be elegantly simple or as expressively expansive, as you wish.
Above all, however, let it be a seal of faith and trust in yourself, of one another and of what you together may offer to life!
Le Alan travels only within the Eugene/Springfield area to perform ceremonies, and offer chapel locations at the Unitarian Church & The New Zone Art Gallery, as well as any and all locations that suits you.
REV/RDA. KATHERINE BRAGG
(Ingles o español)
Based out of Eugene Oregon/Basado en Eugene Oregon
Su boda será una ceremonia única y memorable, y puede crearse en torno a sus deseos más profundos de expresar amor, armonía y belleza. Es un día de celebración y anticipación, centrado en ustedes, en su amor, sus vidas, su familia y amigos, y su compromiso. Katherine Amina Bragg, una ministra interreligiosa ordenada desde 2010, puede dirigir la ceremonia de acuerdo con sus deseos: basándose en ustedes como pareja, su sentido de familia y comunidad, su espiritualidad. Los símbolos que tienen significado para usted se entrelazarán en el servicio: ¿podría querer cuentas de oración o un rosario, pétalos de flores, velas, un poema en especial, canción o cántico? Puede elegir si desea incluir o no escrituras, oraciones o letras. Katherine Amina Bragg ha sido ministra interreligiosa (ordenada como sufí cheraga) desde 2010 y ha ayudado a dirigir bodas de diferentes estilos. Algunos incluyen cantar, canciones sencillas que crean un sentido de conexión entre los asistentes. Algunos permiten períodos de silencio o meditación. Otros son minimalistas y cortos. La boda puede ser tan participativa como deseen. Se les puede pedir a los invitados que contribuyan con deseos, bendiciones y consejos. Pueden contribuir con lecturas u otras ofrendas. Su boda se llevará a cabo de acuerdo a sus preferencias y se oficiará con respeto tanto por la solemnidad como por la alegría de esta maravillosa ocasión. Se puede guiar la ceremonia en español si se desea.Con sede en Eugene Oregon.
Your Ritual will be a unique and memorable ceremony, and can be created around your deepest desires for expressing love, harmony and beauty. It’s a day of celebration and anticipation, centered around you, your love, your lives, your family and friends, and your commitment.
Katherine Amina Bragg, an ordained interfaith minister since 2010, can lead the ceremony according to your wishes: based on you as a couple, your sense of family and community, your spirituality. The symbols that have meaning to you will be woven into the service: might you want prayer beads or a rosary, flower petals, candles, a certain poem, song or chant? You can choose whether or not to include scripture, prayers, or lyrics.
Rev. Adrienne K. BENGTSON, LMT, CST – Massage Therapist, Artist
Based out of Portland Oregon
Adrienne is an ordained ceremonial officiant and founder of the Temple of the Coalescing Flames. She has been ordained through the Church of the Hearth of the Dancing Drum, established in 1992 in Eugene, Oregon.
She is grateful to offer her Heart in service to divine union through marriage & ceremonies celebrating Love, to Rituals of Rites of Passage and major life events across thresholds, and ceremonies of rebirth and transformation.
She has always had a natural devotion to ritual and ceremony and the life between worlds: spirit and form… births, endings, rebirths and transformations in all ways. Each transition opens the gateway for us to walk into new life, a wedding being one of being reborn into a decision of conscious union with the beloved. She understands that healing also makes itself known through the power of ritual, bringing change, growth, and meaning to the participants & receivers.
She specializes in non-traditional weddings & handfastings, custom and catered to each individual couple, all sexes and colors, and offers herself as your guide every step of the way through creating your perfect commemoration, including helping you design your very own ceremony and writing your unique vows.
Speak with Adrienne to hear more about her additional offerings, such as:
Designing sacred altars for your ceremony, creating custom bindrunes to represent the energies & prayers you wish to call forth into your life or union with another, custom leather journals to carry your vows & your present and future stories, or other rites of passage rituals.
Adrienne is a Licensed Massage Therapist through the State of Oregon based out of Both Portland & Eugene Oregon. She offers massage and healing services.
Rev. Cynthia Schwell – Psychologist, Performance Artist, Educator
Based out of Portland Oregon
Starting life with a degree in psychology & theater with further practices in healing arts & spirituality has developed services in counseling, performing, teaching, life coaching & sacred rituals. The milestones in life when given the honor & intentional, personally relevant ceremony create the firm foundation to expand through the future with a fortitude that carries through the twist & turns that life brings. I so respect the foundation of marriage & revel in its celebration. To truly acknowledge the uniqueness of each couple in the way that has their joined hearts & souls sing is what I hope to discover, develop & share with all those involved in sealing their union.
When commitment is chosen, witnessed, made sacred, passionate & creatively presented, there is planted an anchor not only for the couple but for more stability in world affairs. I open myself as a vessel to speak the true words of your whole selves in officiating your ceremony as the beginning of a life fulfilling your deepest aspirations.
REV. MAXIME ZAHARA, MSHN
WELLNESS & HEALTH COACH, HOSPICE VOLUNTEER, COMMUNITY LIASION & DEATH DOULA
Based out of Portland Oregon/Basado en Portland Oregon
(Ingles o español)
Josandra McLellan, LMT,
Event Coordinator – Video Photographer
Based out of Corvallis Oregon
(French, Ingles o español)
Planning a multilingual ceremony or event in either French or Spanish and need an interpreter? Josandra has been fluent in both languages for her entire life. A lovely way to help all your guests be inclusive by ensuring they understand every meaningful word you wish them to hear. Her graceful, vibrant, loving and nurturing ways will enhance any occasion.
Josandra has also been a Licensed Massage Therapist through the State of OR for over 20 years, specializing in hospice care. She has many talents as a multi diverse artist, interior designer, video photographer and events coordinator for all occasions. Contact her directly for her massage and hospice services.