The Ritual of Breath was presented at Stanford Live, an original co-commissioner of the work. At Stanford, community rituals were offered over the course of the week prior to the performances, and led by community partners. They included a listening/noticing ritual designed to develop practices that regenerate intuition, enchantment and eco-social repair; a session on grief as sacrament, honoring the wisdom, grace and companionship that grief offers at a time when we have been systematically separated from traditions of collective grieving; and a procession of breath from the Black House to Bing Concert Hall before the first performance, with choreographed movement and song.