Cultivating an inner haven where we can hear our soul speak and receive our soul’s imagery is vital to cultivating our resilience and equanimity as well as our capacity for discernment. Seasons of our lives such as loss, grief, fear, insecurity, intense transitions and injustice can overwhelm us, making it difficult to feel hopeful steadiness within. The emotional intensity of such seasons can also seem to silence the soul’s voice; it still speaks yet our ears and heart may be full of other sounds.
One mindfulness practice that can build paths to and from our soulful centers involves words: truthful, heartfelt, body-infused words. By writing down what we experience and receive from our sacred center, we can continue to receive this sacred sight—absorbing daily and integrating the soul’s knowing with greater awareness.
Guiding and inspiring us through this process will be carefully selected poems. Think poems with rhythms and metaphors, pauses and sensory experiences. Think poems that speak clearly to personal experience, offering their words as a way for you, for us to write our way toward inner haven.
In this multi-hour experience, we will gather in a circle with our journals or writing notebooks. We will read aloud and hear the soulful expressions of fellow human beings living the emotional energies of joy and grief, uncertainty and rootedness. We will write our own truths, and share them, if we choose, within our affirming, hospitable Circle. Incorporated into our session will be walking the Prairiewoods labyrinth.
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