Blessings to All,

May your hearts be filled with the blessings of gratitude for the simple and quiet miracles in your life. I would like to bring to your attention some special announcements, which will be followed by reflections on feeling the Sacred Presence in our souls.

 

Special Announcements

 

Women’s Winter Retreat on St.Croix: Body, Breath, & Prayer

March 17-23. This will include Sacred Movement, Sacred Sound & Toning, Meditation and swimming! This is being offered at a very special price due to a colleague’s generosity.

 

Assisi Pilgrimage: The Sacred Body

May 24-30. We will visit the sacred sites of St.Clare and St.Francis. We will enter into Elemental Breathing in the olive groves, body & soul clearing techniques on Mt.Subasio, and soak up the sacredness of Assisi and the energies so palpable and powerful there.

Limited to 10 people.

 

Spiritual Direction:

I am now pleased to offer Spiritual Direction, an age-old tradition, designed to support and nourish your deep soul growth on a monthly basis. This is a commitment that the divine honors seriously, and all manner of wonderful things emerge when we commit.

Please email: teresaretreats@yahoo.com for a registration form. Limited to 8 people.

 

Please see www.mysticpeace.com for full descriptions of the above retreats. Other retreats and workshops offered locally in the Northeast and other states listed below and on website.

 

FEELING THE SACRED PRESENCE

 

“Place your heart in the figure of the divine substance

and, through contemplation,

transform your entire being into the image

of the Godhead itself.” – Clare of Assisi

 

 

Recently, a number of pilgrims and myself, ventured on a pilgrimage to Assisi, Italy. Here is a city where the Sacred Presence is palpably felt with no effort. All that was required was to be open and to create the spaciousness to feel. Some also saw this Sacred Presence with physical eyes in etheric forms. Clare and Francis both made their presence felt and folded each one us into the love that they know so well. Many blessings, deep transformations and healings were experienced by all.

 

One of the pilgrims upon returning remarked that the pilgrimage was singularly the most deep spiritual experience that she had encountered, and she said she wanted to retain and keep that alive. She did not want to return to the old ways of the mind and its creations. The same thing that was required in Assisi is required no matter where you live, that is, the openness and the spaciousness. We must create the space for the Spirit to be known and felt. The Sacred Presence is around and within us at every moment, but often we are simply too busy distracting ourselves with other “important” things to even notice.

 

While on the pilgrimage we did Body Prayers and breathing practices, consciously feeling the Sacred Presence in front and behind us, beside, above and below us, within and without. This constant presence of the sacred does not change or leave. Looking at the quote of Clare, she gives us the instruction for knowing and becoming the Sacred Presence. By placing our heart in the divine substance and through contemplation we can consciously be aware of who we are and what presence we are carrying within.

 

All traditions – Buddhist, Sufi, Hindu, Christian – all have some form of this contemplation, where they join their hearts and energies to a deity or sacred presence outside of themselves and activate that same energy within – they become that deity, they become that Godhead. As a pilgrim said to me, “I am falling in love with Clare, and with the Clare in me.”

 

May we all take the time to “notice” the Sacred Presence surrounding us, may we practice the conscious recognition of it within us, and may we gently radiate this out into our world, which is hungry and crying for this conscious sacredness to return.

 

Sending Blessings to All

Megan