Autumn Equinox Deep Rest: Surrender
Sep 19, 2025 @ 4:00 pm IST – 6:00 pm IST –
with Simon de Voil, Cassidhe Hart, and Aisling Richmond
This mini-retreat is part of our four part Deep Rest series exploring the energy of seasonal turning points and the gifts of deep rest. The Celtic hinge points of Autumn Equinox, Samhain, the Winter Solstice, and Imbolc offer the wisdom of living into a rhythm that honors the importance of times of rest as essential to our personal and collective wellbeing. Register for one or all of the mini-retreats.
Contemplative Prayer Service: St. Francis and The Gift of Song
Oct 6, 2025 @ 5:00 pm IST – 6:00 pm IST –
with Simon de Voil and Deirdre Ní Chinnéide
Join us each month for an online contemplative prayer service and deepen into the moment through song, poetry, prayer, and silence.
Cultivating Seeds of Liberation Prayer Cycle Day 4 Audio Podcast ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dearest dancing monks, artists, and pilgrims, Over the past few weeks we have released the audio podcasts for the first three days of our Cultivating Seeds of Liberation Prayer Cycle. This prayer cycle is deeply rooted in our commitment to contemplative practice as a way to ground ourselves in loving action. Today we are excited to […]
Writing on the Wild Edges + Prayer Cycle Day 2 Audio Podcast ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dearest dancing monks, artists, and pilgrims, In pre-pandemic times, John and I used to lead pilgrimages in Ireland (and Austria and Germany) and one of my favorites was called Writing on the Wild Edges on the island of Inismor off the coast of Galway. The retreat was inspired by the story of St. Brendan, who […]
Easter and the Journey to Joy! ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dearest dancing monks, artists, and pilgrims, Easter blessings my friends! We are in the midst of extraordinarily difficult and cruel times and it is essential we do not bypass the profound sacred grief and holy rage we feel. Easter is not about denying these realities. Easter also celebrates how in the midst of our struggles […]
Feast of Sister Thea Bowman ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dearest dancing monks, artists, and pilgrims, Today is the feast day of Sister Thea Bowman, an amazing woman whose vibrancy still radiates to us today, calling us to shine our lights in a world that is often hard to bear. Even in the midst of a slow and painful death from cancer, she embodied joyful […]
Blessing for Theotokos (God-Bearer) ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Note: Click cc turn closed captions on or off. Dearest dancing monks, artists, and pilgrims, This Tuesday is the Feast of the Annunciation and I want to share an adapted excerpt from my book Birthing the Holy: Wisdom from Mary to Nurture Creativity and Renewal. My book explores 31 archetypes of Mary and this one is […]