Re-birthing, re-wilding, re-storying our feminine journeys together - as One
“I am the fiery life of the essence of God; I am the flame above the beauty in the fields; I shine in the waters; I burn in the sun, the moon, and the stars. And with the airy wind, I quicken all things vitally by an unseen, all-sustaining life. For the air is alive in the verdure and the flowers; the waters flow as if they lived; the sun too lives in its light; and when the moon wanes it is rekindled by the light of the sun, as if it lived anew: Even the stars glisten in their light as if alive.”
Hildegard of Bingen -11th Century Abbess
For many of us in our spiritual journeys, we have become aware of our need for an incarnational faith that flows freely through our body, spirit and soul; daily life that has roots in earth and draws deeply from our sacred traditions. This feminine aspect of our being, both the nurturing and relational self, and the wilder, more instinctual self is in all of us humans and often repressed culturally. ‘Women’s ways of knowing’ do not exclude men, but clearly it tends to be the feminine spirit who understands through ritual, ceremony and earth-wise ways, being guided intuitively by ‘inner’ body conversations and her unique experience.
This exploratory series of contemplative women's circles will be based on the Circle of Trust approach, guided gently by Carol Kortsch who has a decade of experience leading circles of many kinds. Carol is committed to facilitating a safe and challenging space where we can each listen to our lives speak and has as our purpose together:
to pay attention, recognize and name the thresholds of our lives: both the spiritual/liturgical seasons and the nature-based passages of our personal lives as women who desire more connection to our bodies and our earth-place as community
to honor the “thin places” - that realm, that ‘wild’ earth rhythm where the visible and invisible meet
to join in soulful relationship as women, to honor, remember and re-story the ancient ways of both our Judeo-Christian tradition and earth-based rituals, especially of Celtic tradition
to reclaim the deep and often forgotten connection of the Divine feminine in the earth of our bodies and the stories of our land and people
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*no lunch, but coffee and tea offered.
When the female voice is repressed and stifled, the entire community can easily find themselves cut off from the sacred feminine, depriving themselves of the full image of god.
Rob Bell"Changing the dream may really mean to see the world completely differently – as indigenous people do. They see a world that is totally sufficient, animated with spirit, intelligent, mystical, responsive, and creative—constantly generating and re-generating itself in harmony with the great diversity of resources that support and collaborate with one another through the mystery of life … each human being having an infinite capacity to create, collaborate, and contribute."
Lynne Twist - from the Soul of Money