Cultivating Seeds of Liberation – Prayer Cycle Launch and 20th anniversary celebration!
May 2, 2025 @ 4:00 pm IST – 5:30 pm IST –
with Christine Valters Paintner and guest writers and musicians
Join Abbey of the Arts for this free event as we celebrate the start of our 20th year of supporting monks and artists in transformative living! We will also be launching our brand new prayer cycle of morning and evening prayer on the theme of Cultivating Seeds of Liberation.
Writing Your Spiritual Memoir ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dearest dancing monks, artists, and pilgrims, This Friday, September 13th, we are pleased to welcome Wisdom Council member, clinical trauma specialist and expressive arts therapist Dr. Jamie Marich to lead us in a mini-retreat on Writing Your Spiritual Memoir. In this mini-retreat experience, Jamie will use several expressive arts facilitation strategies to help us start or […]
Soul of a Pilgrim Video Prayer Cycle Day 6 ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Blessing for Beginning Again*Spirit of the fresh morning air,allow us to see all the places where newness is being born into the world,the bud of a flower just breaking open its petals,the turning of the sea’s tides,a gaze into the eyes of another and seeing their beauty,the river stone being rubbed smooth. Help us to […]
Soul of a Pilgrim Video Prayer Cycle Day 4 ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Blessing Each Step*Journeying One,you help us to navigate the path, placing one foot in front of the other, even when the way ahead is not visible. We set aside our desire for maps, GPS, and guidebooksand surrender to an inner knowing and directionsparked by the deepest longings of our hearts. We know the desire for […]
Entering Silence Through Breath Prayer ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Blessing for Silence and Solitude* Holy Source of Silence, beneath the clatter and din of the everyday you offer your mysteries to our hearts. You call us to pause, to slow down and listen to the true longing planted in each of us by you, a seed of holy desire. Support us in letting go […]
Day 7: Ancestral Earth and Deep Time & The Love of Thousands
Prayer Cycle / The Love of Thousands / Day 7 Video, Audio and Written Guides for Morning and Evening Prayer Morning Prayer Evening Prayer Make A Donation Buy The Love of Thousands book Journey with the Companion Retreat Morning Prayer: Ancestral Earth and Deep Time OPENING PRAYER We are descended from thousands of generations of people, […]
Day 6: Cosmology, Myth, and Song & Becoming Wise and Well Ancestors
Prayer Cycle / The Love of Thousands / Day 6 Video, Audio and Written Guides for Morning and Evening Prayer Morning Prayer Evening Prayer Make A Donation Buy The Love of Thousands book Journey with the Companion Retreat Morning Prayer: Cosmology, Myth, and Song OPENING PRAYER As birdsong streams through the morning air, we remember […]