Creating and maintaining an altar can be a simple and effective way of shifting our focus from an outer world of doing to an inner world of being.
Exploring the Sacred
When pilgrimage is approached with intention to connect with the sacred, it alters the energy of the journey. If we seek to find the sacred, we need to understand what it is that is that we find sacred. What is it that you find sacred? Discovering the answers to this question is an important part of the whole experience.
Awakening to the Call
The soul has a way of urging us forward to learn our life’s lessons. Sometimes lessons come in ways we just can’t miss – like when tragedy strikes and we have to grow a part of ourselves to get through it. But sometimes our growth comes from new opportunities, new practices, or new ideas – if we have the courage to explore them. When the opportunity, or just the idea of it, comes knocking at your door, how do you respond?
The Power of Meditation: 7 Reasons to Quiet the Mind and Promote Peace in Your Life
Anyone on the spiritual path is familiar with the practice of meditation, taking time to sit and quiet the mind. As the practice of quieting the mind becomes more widespread and popular we are finding [...]
Public Schools Catching on to the Power of Meditation
By Amanda Walsh Dennis In the heart of one of the poorest and most violent neighborhoods in San Francisco, middle school and high school kids are learning to access the peaceful stillness through the practice [...]
Meditation with Seed: The Heir to the Mystical Way
When on the road to enlightenment, meditation is an indispensable discipline. Through regularity of its practice, we eventually discover a deeper and more spiritually enriching part of ourselves. The art of meditation helps us to [...]
Nourishment as Healing: An Essential Practice
Eating as a Sacred Act Eating is a sacred act. Something living dies, we take it into our bodies, and it becomes part of us as we become part of it. Plant or animal, hunted, [...]