In this hour-long event, Mark introduces Writing to Awaken as a time-honored path of insight, healing, and self-realization. You will be guided through a series of personal writing exercises designed to make your shadow conscious, to reveal the power in your hidden parts. We frequently judge, deny, suppress, and hide those aspects of ourselves that are the most original and unique. As Carl Jung put it, “We do not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the shadow conscious.” This workshop will help you explore your secret places, give language to hidden thoughts and feelings, and move toward a more awakened life. Mark teaches, “When you tell the truth, your story changes. When your story changes, your life is transformed.” Writing is an unsurpassed tool for personal growth, as you will learn in this thought-provoking hour.

In this workshop, you will:
Discover the power of expressive writing as a proven tool for insight and healing
Explore key aspects of your personal shadow and why they have been suppressed
Witness the power latent in your shadow material when you make it conscious
Learn to integrate those parts of yourself you’ve pushed into the shadow
Practice un-censoring your thoughts and feelings for the sake of being truthful

The seasons offer us turning points or doorways – the solstices, equinoxes, and the four cross-quarter days known as the Celtic harvest festivals – which are thresholds when the veil between worlds is thin. This means the Otherworld is closer and more accessible. In this free webinar, an introduction to Christine’s four part program Writing with the Ancestors, you will be introduced to these threshold moments that mark the year’s unfolding and be invited to engage in some writing explorations as a way of attuning to how the seasons can nourish the creative and intuitive process.

Over the last several years of “lockdown” and social-distancing brought on by the Corona pandemic, we have found ourselves more or less isolated as a society, unable to come into close contact with each other and often fearful of the very intimacy we crave—and need—for our mental and spiritual health. In this gathering, we will explore several remarkable letters in which Rilke explores what he called “Einsamkeit,” variously translated into English either as “solitude” or as “loneliness”— the difference, of course, is not insignificant. In this, as in so many important things in our lives, our capacity to find an inner grounding for our lives is crucial, particularly when we find ourselves alone or afraid. We’ll turn to several poems in which Rilke invites us to transform the hurry and worry that so often consume us. We’ll also consider how “living the questions” allows us to embrace our lives with greater curiosity and compassion.

You are invited to make time in your life to bathe in a resonant sound-field. Deborah offers vocal tones in harmony with crystal singing bowls to create a soulful, nurturing atmosphere. We will have a short opening circle to set intentions, then the rich musical vibrations will begin to flow. You will have the choice to rest, reflect, create or inner journey during this time. We will return to the group to integrate the experience.

**For full audio quality, use earbuds, headphones or external speakers. If you want to engage in a creative practice, have writing or art materials ready.**

Comments from past participants:

“Your sounds moved past the throbbing in my temples and into the reservoir in my heart…reminding me that everything is frequency and the place of power is not out there… it is here in my deepest Self.”

“I find the vibrations soothing, calming and grounding. Very helpful to keep me focused and connected to spirit while I’m writing.”

Have you ever wanted to learn to understand what birds are saying? Do you wish you could find where wild animals are hiding or where birds are nesting nearby? Join us for a free evening session with bird language expert, Dan Gardoqui. Dan will share some of his uncanny bird mimicry skills; tips and tricks for interpreting the language of nature; and a question and answer session to discuss the session as well as his forthcoming on-site bird weekend at Rowe.

Humans are made to engage in life-affirming conversation with the whole, holy web of life. But, this great conversation, as evolutionary theologian Thomas Berry calls it, has been broken: “We are talking only to ourselves. We are not talking to the rivers, we are not listening to the wind and stars.” Breaking this conversation has devastating consequences for the creatures and bio systems of our planet. This disconnection also has severe consequences for our spirituality and vitality as human participants in the interconnected web of life.

In this online talk, Victoria Loorz, a Wild Church Pastor, co-founder of Seminary of the Wild and author of Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred, will introduce you to spiritual practices that will allow you to experience the natural world as teacher, companion, and kin and to enter into an actual relationship with specific places and living beings that can provide an embodied, rooted foundation for your transformation and that of the Earth.

With over thirty years of experience as a medical and spiritual intuitive, medium and licensed counselor, Katie has developed a unique way of helping people heal physically, emotionally, and spiritually by activating their innate intuition. In this one hour online introduction, Katie will share some of these techniques and talk about how they helped her heal from Lyme disease, family trauma, an eating disorder, and depression. She will also answer questions related to her five week course based on her forthcoming book, “Heal from Within: A Guidebook to Intuitive Wellness.

This presentation is open to people of all levels of experience with healing intuition, psychic mediumship, medical intuition, spirituality, health and wellness.