…What if you could find clarity, purpose and calm by simply connecting with the ocean?
…What if you were guided by a deep faith – in yourself and the world around you?
…What if you knew you were always lovingly supported on your soul path?
An Ocean Altar is
~ A sacred home for your dreams and intentions
~ A sanctuary of ocean healing, soul listening, and intuitive empowerment
~ An offering of devotional practices and mindful ritual
Join me from 10 January to find greater peace, purpose and power as we pause at three powerful Ocean Altars…
…the ocean altar that always exists within you
…an ocean altar you will create in your own home
…an ocean altar I will hold for you by the sea
My invitation to you
I know that times have been hard. That sometimes you feel so very alone and lost. That sometimes you doubt yourself – and feel powerless to create the change you want to see.
I know that life can be overwhelming, and you get pulled off course. That sometimes it can be difficult to find the beauty, ease and joy. That in the struggle, you’re sometimes unkind to yourself. When love is what you really need.
Come, tender soul. Softly, sweetly, gently. Sit with me here at the edge of the sea. Rest your head on my shoulder. And simply be. Held by the water. At the altar of yourself.
Let us honour the ocean that lives within you. And the ocean that flows through all things.
Let us make space to hear the whisperings of your heart. And act on the guidance you receive.
Let us awaken the power of devotion. As you step quietly into the year ahead.
What is the Ocean Altar?
There are two parts to this new offering. And you can choose to join me for one or both…
In January, you can join Ocean Altar: The Ocean Ritual.
This is a 20 day ocean ritual for 2025 running from 10 to 29 January. It’s light touch, but powerfully held. You set your intention, create a simple altar of your own at home, and pause here for a few moments daily (or as often as you’re able).
In this space, you build your awareness and relationship with the divine ocean altar that exists within you. As you do so, I will be creating sacred space for you here by the sea. And holding you throughout in ritual and blessings.
From February onwards, you can join Ocean Altar: The Journey.
This ongoing monthly offering will support you to deepen these practices, and ripple the impacts out as action.
If you’re ready to commit to creating deeper change, you can also choose direct one-to-one support with me. Find out more below.
I’m already holding space at the ocean altar for you and your dreams. I hope our hearts meet there soon.
JANUARY 2025: Ocean Altar: The Ocean Ritual.
Be held with love by me, Pippa Best, in a 20 day ocean ritual for 2025.
You might like to think of Ocean Altar: The Ocean Ritual as a soft and nourishing space in which to gently transition through the winter towards the light. Or, if you want to bring a stronger energy to the altar, this can also be a sea super-charging of your intentions for the year ahead.
We will begin on 10 January, when I will open and hold sacred ocean space for us all. In the days leading up to the full moon on 13 January, you’ll consider your intention, and anything that you would like to release in order to move smoothly towards this – and share these with me so that I can hold these too.
During our time together, I will conduct some ocean rituals to support us all energetically (these are practices that I do alone with the sea on your behalf, no participation is required) and offer gentle healing. You will create an ocean altar at home, and explore practices to clear and connect to the ocean altar that exists within you.
We’ll complete our ritual with the new moon on 29 January 2025 – also the start of the Lunar New Year.
You’ll end the month feeling clearer, calmer and more supported. With a deeper faith in your connection to the sea. And in your own capacity to tend to your needs and move forward.
THE OCEAN ALTAR
Let the waves clear the altar within you.
Let us meet at the sea shrine of our hearts.
And there, share in an ocean
of devotion, moon prayer and magic;
Our hopes, our guiding star.
Ocean Altar: The Ocean Ritual: what you will receive:
- An Ocean Altar welcome video – including journal prompts to set an intention and identify what needs to be released
- An Ocean Altar PDF – featuring practices to clear your internal ocean altar; and create and tend to an ocean altar of your own at home
- Devotion, moon prayer and magic – you will be held lovingly throughout
- Gentle persistent encouragement and updates – by email
How will you participate in Ocean Altar: The Ocean Ritual?
Ocean Altar: The Ocean Ritual will run for 20 days from 10 to 29 January 2025. You can commit just a few minutes a day or longer to the activities below – you choose, based on the time you have available. I’ll be contributing loving presence throughout, for the moments when you can’t.
~ As we start, you’ll define an intention to pursue, and a block to release. As we progress, you’ll also notice any challenges that arise, and identify a specific area in which to receive some healing.
As you share these with me, I will include them in my ritual ocean practices (more about that below) and hold them in the sacred space of this container. If you’re unable or don’t want to share these, don’t worry – I will call in general support from the sea for you instead.
~ You’ll make a home ocean altar
You’ll create a space in your home where you can connect physically to the sea during our time together. It can be blissfully simple – a beloved shell, a photo of the sea with a candle, or something grander, it’s entirely up to you.
~ You’ll tend to your inner ocean altar
You’ll receive some short practices that you can do in just a few minutes a day, to clear and honour your internal ocean altar. This is the space within you that understands your deep connection to all things, and especially – to the sea.
As you slow down and regularly tend to this inner ocean altar, you soothe your nervous system, and form new neural pathways. You create space for your soul intuition to be heard. This is one of the most powerful parts of the practice.
~ You’ll act on your intention
As you practice honouring your intention at both of your altars – and I hold this for you in our sacred ocean space – you will start to attune to the ocean’s guidance. You’ll use this guidance to take action that moves you forward.
YOU ARE THE ALTAR
Sit now before your Ocean Altar
where the yearnings of your heart are heard.
Accept the vastness of the waters
and the soft grace of the birds.
Catch your divinity here, lift it high;
in awe that you are but the sea,
made human on earth.
How will I hold the sacred space for you?
Behind the scenes, I will be thinking of you throughout these 20 days, and carrying out a series of rituals privately to support the group.
I will offer blessings to you and your intention, and hold you in loving presence – often, by the sea.
Here are some of the practices that I intend to carry out on behalf of the group. I’ll be guided by the sea as to the specific details of these, and will share more about them by email.
- INTENTION TENDING ~ Your intention will sit on my home ocean altar, where I will honour it daily.
- FULL MOON OCEAN RITUAL TO RELEASE AND CALL IN ~ As we begin, I will offer your intentions to the sea
- HEALING RITUAL ~ As you deepen your practice, I will offer a distance reiki healing to the group, bringing gentle awareness of an area of challenge for each person.
- NEW MOON OCEAN RITUAL OF COMPLETION ~ I will return to the sea to offer final blessings on your path, and to renew the calling in of your intention.
Join Ocean Altar: The Ocean Ritual
You can join Ocean Altar: The Ocean Ritual as a one-off experience for £33.
You could also combine Ocean Altar: The Ocean Ritual with a membership for Ocean Altar: The Journey that begins in February.
If you would like to combine the two, I have a special offer for you! Sign up for these together by 10 January, and receive a reduced price for both – you can find this under the special offers below.
To purchase your place on Ocean Altar: The Ocean Ritual as a standalone experience, click on the button below.
COMING SOON…
FROM FEBRUARY: Ocean Altar: The Journey
Ocean Altar: The Journey is a monthly membership to ripple out the benefits of these ocean practices into February 2025 and beyond.
This is where we get to go deeper together. And where you can choose to work with me individually to support your progress. As the months unfold, you’ll receive wave after wave of consistent ocean support. Each experience building on and strengthening the one before.
Often, we begin a new year with a sense of possibility – and by the end of January, that passion and purpose has dissipated. But in Ocean Altar: The Journey, you’ll be supported to stay connected to the sea, to yourself, and to your path.
Month by month, you’ll move the guidance you receive at your Ocean Altar into action. You’ll regularly refresh your intentions, uncover new layers to be released or healed, and deepen your capacity for connection, clarity and calm.
This offering will start in February. To reserve your place, and benefit from the January special offer for booking Ritual and Journey together, you can sign up now, using the links below.
First, choose the level of support you would like on this journey.
Ocean Altar: The Individual Journey
Is this a time of change (or desire for change) in your life?
Would you like one to one support to uncover what comes next?
And clearer guidance on how to move your dreams into action?
Ocean Altar: The Individual Journey offers you invaluable individual support to move forward – practically, physically and spiritually.
Each month, you’ll receive a one-to-one Sea Soul Coaching session by zoom, an intuitive personal oracle card reading, a distance reiki healing session, and all of the additional elements of the Group Journey described below.
I’ll draw on all the gifts I’ve received from the sea. And hold you in loving presence all the way.
This Individual Journey pathway provides a compassionate and powerful space in which to meet and move through your blocks and edges. Like the sea clearing the shore, so that you can uncover the magical gifts in your path.
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Each month of Ocean Altar: The Individual Journey includes:
~ A 3-card Sea Soul Blessings Card reading for the month ahead
Explore and reflect on the deeper flow of your journey with the sea as we move through each month. You’ll receive this as an audio recording in the first week of each month, so that you can revisit the ocean’s guidance as the month progresses.
~ A 60 minute sacred Sea Soul Coaching session live by zoom
Be held by me in loving presence as you clear your inner ocean altar, hone your deepest intentions, identify and overcome challenges as they arise, plan the detail of your next steps, and open up to new possibilities. Together, we’ll define actions and practices to move you forward. You’ll act on these during the month. Step by step, you’ll create change that ripples out into your wider life.
~ A 40 minute distance reiki healing
Rest and be nurtured at the month’s midpoint. Receive some additional energetic healing to boost your overall wellbeing and release any energetic blocks. Some gentle empowerment to support you as you journey toward your intentions. You don’t need to do anything other than lie down somewhere comfortable for 40 minutes – and speak to me briefly at the start and the end of our session.
~ Ocean Altar: The Group Journey
You’ll also receive everything offered in Ocean Altar: The Group Journey below. The ritual practices of the group journey are likely to hold a deeper resonance for you as we work together.
Ocean Altar: The Group Journey
What if you could move forward with trust and clarity?
What if you knew you were always gently held?
By the sea – and by yourself.
The Group Journey pathway continues the powerful practices we will share in Ocean Altar: The Ritual. And adds some more, including an individual oracle card chosen just for you every month.
The Group Journey will also feature a monthly group reading from the Sea Soul Journeys Oracle Cards – and regular weekly emails direct from the ocean altar here in Cornwall.
You’ll be supported by the ocean all the way. And receive fresh new altar practices every month – powerful intuitive tools to deepen your capacity to work with your internal and external altars.
I will open sacred space for the group at the start of every month. And continue to support the group’s intentions energetically with a private ocean ritual and a group reiki healing session. I will also hold an active Ocean Altar for your hopes and dreams as they unfold.
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Each month of Ocean Altar: The Group Journey includes:
- WEEK ONE ~ An audio recording of this month’s group card reading, plus an individual card chosen just for you as support as you revise and share your intentions.
- WEEK TWO ~ A selection of new ocean altar practices by email (expect blessings, ocean messages, songs, sea sounds, images, I’ll share whatever the sea guides me to offer you…).
- WEEK THREE ~ A call to identify an area in which you wish to receive healing.
- WEEK FOUR ~ Journal prompts to reflect on your progress and set your next intention.
- ALWAYS ~ Energetic loving support and sacred presence via the practices below.
How will you participate in Ocean Altar: The Group Journey?
As always, you choose how much time you wish to devote to your Ocean Altars and the practices below.
~ You’ll continue to individually reflect and revise your intention, to identify challenges in your path, and to release what stands in your way.
You’ll share these with me to be included in my ritual ocean practices. (And again, if you don’t wish to share these, I can call in general support for you instead.)
~ You’ll tend to your home ocean altar.
Each month, you’ll take a pause to refresh your ocean altar. You might simply clean and clear the area, you might rearrange, add or change something. You might choose to reflect the theme of the Sea Soul Journeys Oracle card that I draw for you here. As the weeks progress, you’ll continue to pause and connect to the sea here often. You’ll use this sacred space to ground and reconnect you.
~ You’ll tend to your inner ocean altar.
Whenever you have a moment, you’ll also clear and honour your inner altar. You might try a new practice I share that month – or simply strengthen those practices that already work for you.
~ You’ll tend to your intention.
The more you honour and listen at your ocean altars, the more you’ll connect to the ocean’s guidance and to your own intuition. As the year progresses, you’ll use this deepening connection to sense into your purpose with compassion and clarity, and to take action that moves you forward.
How will I hold the sacred space for you?
- INDIVIDUAL CARD CHOICE ~ I will select a Sea Soul Journeys Oracle Card as an intuitive focus for you at the start of every month
- INTUITIVE GROUP READING ~ using the Sea Soul Journeys Oracle Cards
- OCEAN RITUAL TO OPEN AND RELEASE ~ I will offer your refreshed intentions to the sea, releasing and calling in the ocean’s support for each month
- HEALING RITUAL ~ as you step into deeper action, I will offer a distance group reiki healing to help clear any blockages
Decided which pathway to take?
Here’s how to sign up
Choose your pathway below. In the 24 hours after your payment confirmation, you’ll receive a welcome email from me. Our journey together will begin on 10 January.
Ocean Altar: The Group Journey will cost £29 per month from February. But there’s a SPECIAL OFFER for joining the Group Journey and Ocean Ritual together before 10 January:
~ £29 for Ocean Ritual
~ £24 monthly for Individual Journey
Note: Your first subscription payment will include a one-time fee of £5 to bring the January total to £29.
Ocean Altar: The Individual Journey will cost £188 per month from February 2025. But there’s a SPECIAL OFFER for joining the Individual Journey and Ocean Ritual together before 10 January:
~ £29 for Ocean Ritual in January
~ £166 monthly for Individual Journey for February onwards
Total payment in January: £195
Note: Your subscription payments of £166 will automatically renew in March 2025, and each following month you continue. You can cancel your subscription beyond February at any time.
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About your Ocean Altar host
I’m Pippa Best of Sea Soul Blessings.
My spiritual connection to the sea has transformed my life for the better in every way.
My morning swim has become my prayer. And the benefits of this devotional time with the ocean have consistently rippled out into the world around me.
In loving the sea, I have learnt that I too am worthy of my own devotion. And that when I honour myself, I have greater capacity to respond lovingly to the dark and light of the world around us.
In recent years, I’ve trained as a reiki and EFT practitioner, in the practice of self-compassion and shamanic journeying.
I’ve also explored many powerful practices such as mindfulness, yoga, breathwork, tarot, dance, song and sound. I’m constantly curious, and always learning. One of my favourite practices of all is the hug!
My daily meditation, prayer and altar practices ground and support all that I offer here at Sea Soul Blessings. They also support me as a mother, wife, friend, community member and global citizen.
In 2018, my connection to the ocean led to me creating the first Sea Soul Blessings cards and book as a way to share the sea’s gifts with others. In 2022, my Sea Soul Journeys Oracle Cards were published worldwide by Welbeck, as was my Sea Soul Journal (including ocean rituals and mindful practices) at the end of 2023.
For many years, I’ve worked as a writer, coach and retreat host here by the sea in Cornwall – and online. I often work as a script editor, mentor and writing consultant. I’m an ICF accredited Blue Health Coach and trained life coach. I’ve been creating and hosting group coaching programmes and transformative experiences here in Cornwall in the far west of the UK (and online) for over 10 years.
So you can probably guess by now that I’m good at listening deeply – to others, to myself, and to the sea. Loving presence is my superpower. I’ve learnt that when you listen deeply and lovingly to another being, you bring a power that gently supports them to transform.
I have had many wonderful teachers over the years. And the ocean has been my greatest. In sacred reciprocity, I act as an ocean advocate and operate as a plastic-free business. I donate 10% of all sales made here – including monthly subscription fees – to environmental causes. I’m also a passionate sea swimmer, and keen eco-activist synchro swimmer with Out of Sink.
We are living through difficult times, and our connection to each other and to nature is needed more than ever. As you invite a deeper ocean connection into your life and honour the wisdom of the earth, so you develop the capacity to be the change that the world needs right now.
If you have any questions, please get in touch.
About our Cornish Ocean Altar
How wonderful it is that there are billions of Ocean Altars, all around the world. My favourite (other than the altar within me) lies just a few minutes from my house, here in Mounts Bay, in the far west of Cornwall. This is where I will hold our sacred space together.
It isn’t the prettiest of beaches, the most dramatic coastline, or a favoured holiday destination (thankfully – that means I often get it to myself!). Though it’s a favourite local spot for storm-watching when the waves crash against the granite promenade. And it has one of the most unique and varied collections of pebbles of anywhere in the British Isles.
I am not the only regular visitor to this altar. It is often claimed by seals and sandpipers, cormorants, pilchards and tiny eels. Sometimes swans, egrets and herons. More rarely, dolphins may be spotted in the distance. In recent storms, we saw a pilot whale. Underneath the water of this altar, spring gardens grow – a magical underworld of dabberlocks, sugarkelp and seagrass. This altar shows me our soul connection to nature, over and over again.
On the horizon lies the fairytale outline of St Michael’s Mount. A striking rocky island, topped by a castle and chapel rebuilt from ancient monastery stones, reachable only by a causeway at low tide. And by Penwith’s pilgrimage route, St Michael’s Way, which connects the Mount to the Camino de Santiago. On their journey to my altar, the waters will also have passed through several energetic ley lines that connect Mounts Bay to sacred sites not just within Penwith, but around the world.
With so much sacred magic colliding in one place, perhaps it is no surprise that this particular Ocean Altar has awakened a deeper sense of devotion and spirituality in me. Or that it has shaped such a powerful desire to pursue and share that here at Sea Soul Blessings – even when that feels a little scary.
As I have sought to find a deeper trust in a world that contains so much grief and horror, the more devotional parts of my ocean practice have deepened and expanded. In acknowledgement that we are all connected. That our actions – and our thoughts, blessings, prayers – have impact. In the truth that none of us are free until all are free.
Each morning, I respectfully ask the sea for permission to enter. I honour the ocean’s gifts with beach cleans, with my work here, and by raising funds for environmental projects. As I swim, I offer out my love.
By the sea, I claim the power of ritual alongside the change-making. I expand my practice of compassion and self-compassion. I increase my capacity to witness, learn, come together and transform.
And so, each morning, I find myself singing to the waves, slowly laying stones as blessings, or sending heartfelt wishes as invisible ships that race to the horizon. I pause to release what is ready to go as the waves draw back. I practice forgiveness, and listen. Breathing in with the waves’ return, I call in fresh guidance.
That guidance has led me on a wild and wonderful, life-changing journey so far. And now, that guidance calls me here, to share these Ocean Altar practices with you.
May you be an ocean altar
May your life be a sea prayer.
May you know you are worthy of your own devotion.
Ready to join Ocean Altar now?
Ready to meet at the Ocean Altar? You have three options.
Join us in January for Ocean Ritual only:
Join us in January for Ocean Ritual, and continue from February on the Group Journey pathway:
Join us in January for Ocean Ritual, and continue from February on the Individual Journey pathway:
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Testimonials
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Ocean Altar is brand new, so I have no testimonials for it yet. But here are some words from participants of my previous offering, The Sea Circle.
“In just a week I have settled into the sea meditations and felt the waves support me, my sleeping has improved, stress and anxiety has almost gone and I have booked a retreat in October.” Elaine
“Thank you for all the wonderful sea soul gifts that you have sent to me over the past couple of years. It’s been such a comfort to me to feel close to the sea even when I am not!” Simone
“Your words are so touching and the sound of the sea so soothing.” Lori
“Thank you for the ocean love letters and other media, I so look forward to these already! I love the reflection opportunity, and my journal is becoming my own personal love letter to the sea, a living, breathing being that already has a place of special importance in my life. The clarity your communications have prompted is making a big difference already and it’s only the 14th January, how incredible!” Ali
“You have certainly made a real impact on me. I listened to the meditation yesterday, started the journal prompts, and I’m even taking up sea “dipping”! And it’s all thanks to you for inspiring me – thank you!!” Tara
“I feel grateful for being part of this journey. Thanks for bring hope through cleansing water and rising sun, we need it.” Marion
“Your monthly letters help create space for me to pause and breathe with the sea” Tanya
“Love everything about it. Your words are extraordinary, and you give SO much in it. WOW! Absolutely brilliant!” Tiana
More questions?
Where do I sign up?
Book your place on Ocean Altar: The Ocean Ritual from 10 – 29 January HERE.
Book your place on Ocean Altar: The Ocean Ritual from 10 – 29 January and subscribe to Ocean Altar: The Group Journey using the SPECIAL OFFER HERE
(£29 for January now, then £24 per month from February)
Book your place on Ocean Altar: The Ocean Ritual from 10 – 29 January and subscribe to Ocean Altar: The Individual Journey using the SPECIAL OFFER HERE
(£29 + £166 now; £166 from February)
How do the Special January Offer subscription payments for Ocean Altar: The Journey work?
When you subscribe to Ocean Altar: The Group Journey using the SPECIAL OFFER, you will be charged £24 plus £5 (making £29 in total) for January. From February, and on the same day each subsequent month, a payment of £24 will be made automatically for your Journey subscription, until you choose to cancel or change this.
When you subscribe to Ocean Altar: The Individual Journey using the SPECIAL OFFER, your payment for January’s Ocean Ritual (£29) and February’s Individual Journey (£166) will be taken as a total payment of £195. No payment will be taken from your account in February. Monthly payments of £166 will resume in March, and continue monthly until you choose to cancel your Individual Journey subscription.
Can I unsubscribe from Ocean Altar: The Journey?
Yes, of course! I encourage you to join either pathway for Ocean Altar: The Journey for at least 3 months so that you can experience the benefits of being held in this space over a period of time.
But I know that sometimes life gets in the way. You are free to unsubscribe whenever you need – just cancel your subscription before the end of the month to avoid a payment being taken for the following month. Any problems, let me know.
How long do you recommend I follow the Ocean Altar: Individual Journey pathway?
You can choose to take this path a month at a time, and continue with this level of support for as many months as you like. My recommendation would be to take this path for 3 months or more – as you are likely to get the most from this one-to-one support when we have time to create and revise your action plan and practices over a number of sessions together.
You can also switch between the pathways on a monthly basis. So you might begin with the Individual Journey for a couple of months, then shift to the Group Journey for a period of time, and then return to the Individual Journey again. That way, you get to take a pause to reap all the benefits, but stay connected and supported by me and the sea via the Group Journey.
Can I join up again later?
Yes, you can! My intention is to open Ocean Altar: The Journey to new members just four times a year, in order to preserve the energetic group connection to the sea over each three month period.
Are bursaries available?
It’s important that I honour the energy required to hold this sacred space for you – and I also want to reach those who need it most. To meet that need, I’ve kept the pricing as low as possible. And created the Special Offer for January – in which I am offering Ocean Altar: The Ocean Ritual and Ocean Altar: The Group Journey at the lowest price possible for me at this time.
If this Special Offer price is still not possible for you, or you wish to solely participate in Ocean Altar: The Ocean Ritual, please contact me. I will hold a waiting list for any bursaries that might become available via donation.
Can I fund a bursary for someone else?
That would be amazing! If you would like to donate a bursary place for someone else to attend Ocean Altar: The Ocean Ritual, you can do so OVER HERE (at a reduced price of £29), and I’ll pass it on to a sea soul in need.
If you’re able to be even more generous, and would like to donate an Ocean Altar: The Journey subscription to support someone who would not otherwise be able to attend, that would also be deeply appreciated!
Please sign up via one of the SPECIAL OFFER links above, and then please contact me to let me know that this is a bursary donation.
Any other questions?
Do ask – I would love to make it possible for you to join me at the Ocean Altar. Contact me here.