By Melanie P. Moore, et al.
Each month, we publish a listing of upcoming contemplative and spiritual opportunities recommended by folks here at The Abbey. Many of us have floundered around in the past looking for community and deep engagement with other pilgrims on the spiritual path. Here we share a curated list of what we are finding, hoping you might find some of it helpful on your journey. We’ve included a Comments section with each listing detailing what we as participants have liked. If you know of something coming up in June or July and would like to have it listed here, please email the information as shown below to [email protected] by May 18 to be included in the post at the beginning of April. Please note that all times are listed in Central Time.
May
Death, Let’s Talk About It (from ABODE)
Dates and Times: Tuesdays, April 22 (recording available) – May 20, 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Registration: Open
Cost: Free, donations welcome
Frequency: Weekly
Duration: 5 weeks, 1 hour per session
Format: Online
Recording Available: Yes
Description: ABODE Academy 8 is all about death. The logistics of death, our fears around it, what to expect as our bodies move through the final months, weeks and days of life, how our medieval relatives viewed death and expressed their thoughts through art – and finally, your questions answered! A session of audience questions and answers – ask us anything!Join us for five complimentary sessions (via Zoom). Session Topics are: Everybody Dies – Yes, Even Us! (Here’s What to Know); Before You Go: Getting in Touch with Our Mortality; Fears of Death; Going…Going…Gone: The Dying Process; Memento Mori: Art & Death Through the Ages; Questions That Make Us Squirm
Comments: We’ve done previous series with this group and found them meaningful. For those who are interested, there aren’t often many opportunities to have this kind of discussion. The groups are usually small and where intimate conversations occur, recording of the session is stopped.
The Many Faces of Christ: Who Do You Say That I am? (from Homebrewed Christianity)
Dates and Times: Thursdays, April 24 (recording available) – May 22, 1 p.m.
Registration: Open
Cost: Contribution
Frequency: Weekly
Duration: 5 weeks
Format: Online
Recording Available: Yes
Description: This comprehensive online course invites you to engage with pressing Christological questions through the lens of Reformed, Liberal, Feminist, Black, and Process theologies. Whether you’re a pastor, seminary student, church leader, or simply someone curious about deepening your understanding of Jesus Christ beyond conventional narratives, this course offers intellectual stimulation and spiritual enrichment. No prior theological training required—just an open mind and heart ready to engage with challenging questions.
Topics covered are: The quest for the historical Jesus and contemporary historical approaches; The humanity and divinity of Christ including traditional and innovative interpretations; Gender and Christology including how feminist, womanist, and queer perspectives reimagine Jesus beyond patriarchal frameworks; Ecological Christology focusing on Christ’s relationship to creation and implications for environmental ethics; Liberation and justice diving into how Jesus’ life and teachings challenge systems of oppression and call for social transformation; Salvation and the meaning of the incarnation, cross, and resurrection across theological traditions; Christ and religious pluralism including theological responses to a religiously diverse world.
Comments: Homebrewed Christianity is a project of Trip Fuller who also does the “Ruining Dinner” podcast with Diana Butler Bass. We like the varied lenses included in this offering. The speakers for each session have deep experience and unique perspectives.
Introduction to the Welcoming Prayer
Dates and Times: Saturday, April 26, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Registration: Open
Cost: $30
Frequency: One-time event
Duration: 3 hours
Format: Online
Recording Available: Yes
Description: The Mary and Martha story is an example of the focus we can bring to everyday life activities. As the Welcoming Prayer 40-day practice booklet reminds us: “To assist this process, we need complementary practices. Centering Prayer teaches us consenting in stillness; the Welcoming Prayer practice teaches us consenting in activity.”
“The Welcoming Prayer practice is a way of letting go into the present moment in the ordinary routines of daily life. It is used when your needs for security, affection and control are frustrated or gratified and cause emotional reactions. It is a way of turning everything over to God …” Thomas Keating, Open Mind, Open Heart.
The presenters are part of the community of the Center for Contemplative Living in Denver, CO. Over the years, they have been blessed through the presence and teachings of Thomas Keating, OCSO, and Mary Mrozowski, as well as many other spiritual leaders.
Comments: We always enjoy programs from the Center for Contemplative Living and this is a great opportunity to practice, or learn for the first time, the Welcoming Prayer.
The Five Remembrances with Frank Ostaseski (from Upaya Zen Center)
Dates and Times: Sundays, April 27 (recording available), May 18, June 8, and July 20; 9 a.m. – 11 a.m.
Registration: Open
Cost: $200 for the series ($50 deposit required to register)
Frequency: 5 sessions
Duration: Each session is 2 hours
Format: Online
Recording Available: Yes
Description: The Five Remembrances wake us up to the importance of how we care for ourselves and others as we grow older, experience changes in our health and relationships, grieve for what we love and lose, and, finally, face into our own death. They ask us to honor what and who really matters in our one precious life. They invite us to listen and learn by heart, to share the wonder and wisdom of compassionate practice.
Considered to be among the foundational teachings of Buddhism, Frank will help us go beyond a conceptual understanding to bring these five facts of life into our everyday awareness and actions. Embracing their truth encourages and supports us to live with greater intimacy: to act, speak, touch, and love one another in ways that deeply reflect an understanding of constant change, freeing us to be more alive and present.
This five-session course may be of interest to clinicians and caregivers. The course may be equally appealing to individuals, regardless of age, wanting to explore their personal relationship to death and the wisdom therein for living life fully. This course is a co-sponsored event with Upaya Zen Center and the Metta Institute. All are welcome, and no previous experience is required.
Comments: Frank Ostaseski is one of our favorite presenters and this is an important topic for many in this time. While the description states it may be of interest to clinicians and caregivers, we have found his presentations to be accessible to all.
Rethinking Religion in an Age of Science: From Institution to Evolution (from the Center for Christogenesis)
Dates and Times: Friday, May 2, at 6 p.m. – Sunday, May 4, at 11 a.m.
Registration: Open
Cost: $140 (Early Registration, reduced cost)
Frequency: Annual Conference (One time in 2025)
Duration: 1 Weekend (Friday evening – Sunday midday)
Format: Online
Recording Available: Yes
Description: According to recent Pew Studies, religion is waning as spiritual secularism is rising. While the data has sounded alarm bells, there may be good reason why religion has become irrelevant while spirituality has become a cultural icon. This conference aims to suture the relationship between religion and spirituality by relocating religion at the heart of cosmic life. Religion has not gone away but it is advancing in new ways. Formal or institutional religion has sidetracked the modern person by placing constraints around religion and segregating its core energies in creeds and doctrines. Teilhard de Chardin realized that religion is essential to the direction of evolution. We will explore how a renewed sense of religion in evolution can reinvigorate planetary life, especially in an age of technology.
Speakers include: Bayo Akomolafe, Diana Butler Bass, Ilia Delio, John F. Haught, Grace Ji-Sun Kim, and Thomas Jay Oord.
Comments: This is an annual online conference. This organization is founded and led by Ilia Delio, one of our favorites, a brilliant scientist and theologian. She is a great teacher and presenter–a format where her work is in many ways more accessible than her books. The conference always has a compelling lineup of presenters. We highly recommend this if you are able to participate.
Awareness in Action: “Solidarity” with Roshi Joan Halifax (from Upaya Zen Center)
Dates and Times: Sunday, May 4, Noon – 1:30 p.m.
Registration: Open
Cost: Donation requested
Frequency: One-time event
Duration: 1.5 hours
Format: Online
Recording Available: Yes
Description: Upaya’s Abbot, Roshi Joan Halifax, offers this session of Awareness in Action, bringing the importance of growing solidarity as one of the means for keeping our democracy open. Solidarity is expressed through compassion, signifying mutual support and shared responsibility in actively working towards collective well-being. She will remind us to activate our collective power—the one that manifests in how we live, create, and narrate—to imagine and build a future where interconnection is the key to freedom and well-being.
About Awareness in Action:
Upaya is a Buddhist center dedicated to bringing together contemplative practice with social and environmental responsibility and action. With the radical shift in our political climate and the ongoing suffering and violence in Ukraine and Gaza, our Abbot, Roshi Joan Halifax, felt that we needed to address what has been going on nationally and globally by calling out structural violence, its roots, and its transformation. This gave rise to the Awareness in Action Series, which focuses on recognizing and ending violence in relation to war/genocide, racism, climate suffering, the economics of exploitation and extraction, othering, and our own delusion that we are separate from any being or thing. We invite you to register for this important program and share it widely with your community.
Comments: We always like the programming from Upaya and especially enjoy programs led or stewarded by Roshi Joan Halifax. This session on Solidarity is especially compelling in our current moment.
Metanoia Journey’s Sunday In-Person Contemplative Gathering
Dates and Times: Sunday, May 4, 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Registration: Not required
Cost: Free
Frequency: Monthly
Duration: 1.5 hours
Format: In person at The Seminary of the Southwest’s Christ Chapel 501 E 32nd St., Austin, TX
Recording Available: N/A
Description: The format of this gathering will include 20 minutes of Centering Prayer, a scripture reading from the sacred texts, a “message” offered by the ministers or guest speakers, community communion, and contemplative music. We invite anyone who wants to participate in performing a role to let us know. Otherwise, just come, rest in God, and receive.
This is a “contemplative service,” with 20 minutes of silent, meditative prayer. For those that attend that have not practiced Centering Prayer before, we have a copy of the brief Guidelines to practice the prayer available at the entry to the Chapel for people to follow along.
At this time, we do not have an area for children to gather separately or have a children’s ministry. Older children are certainly welcome if they can rest in silence during that time.
Comments: This is an opportunity to connect with other contemplative practitioners in person in Austin. While these are primarily Christian contemplative services, all are welcome.
Celtic Spirituality: Why It Matters Now, With John Philip Newell (from Earth & Soul)
Dates and Times: Wednesday, May 7, 4 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Registration: Open
Cost: Free, donations welcome
Frequency: One-time event
Duration: 2.5 hours
Format: Online
Recording Available: Unspecified
Description: Celtic Spirituality: Why It Matters Now, in which the internationally renowned spiritual teacher John Philip Newell presents on Celtic Wisdom for this moment in time in relation to Earth and the human soul. Newell calls us to be aware of the sacredness of Earth and every human being as key to the way of transformation and healing in our lives and world today. This event will outline the main themes of his award-winning book Sacred Earth Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the World.
Comments: We like John Philip Newell’s work and this is a great opportunity to hear him discuss the themes of his latest book.
Wisdom Overflowing: Exploring the Universal, Perennial Truths Alive within All Contemplative Traditions (from Closer Than Breath)
Dates and Times: Wednesdays, May 7 – 21, Morning (10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.) and Evening Times (5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.) available
Registration: Open
Cost: $60
Frequency: Weekly
Duration: 3 Weeks
Format: Online
Recording Available: Yes
Description: Join this 3-week course to explore Interspirituality, the Perennial Tradition, Contemplative Prayer, and the shared mystical heart of all world religions. We’ll explore frameworks of unity expressed in Aldous Huxleys 4 unifying assumptions and Thomas Keatings “8 Points of Agreement.”
Week 1: What is the Perennial Tradition?
Explore foundational ideas of Interspirituality & the Perennial Tradition through Aldous Huxley’s 4 Unifying Assumptions and their relevance in today’s world.
Week 2: The Universal Call to Awakening
Explore the universal invitation to Unity & nonduality through contemplative prayer & meditation.
Week 3: Living the Perennial Truths
Integrate what you’ve learned and explore how to embody these truths in daily life.
Comments: We always enjoy the offerings from Closer Than Breath and for those interested in other faith traditions, this is a wonderful opportunity to explore the commonalities.
Imaginal Activism: Exploring Cynthia Bourgeault’s Charge to Occupy the Essential Human Post with Heather Ruce (from The Contemplative Society)
Dates and Times: Thursday, May 8, 8 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.
Registration: Open
Cost: $45, or “pay from the heart”
Frequency: One-time event
Duration: 2.5 hours
Format: Online
Recording Available: Yes
Description: As humans, we exist intertidally within this earthly realm and the imaginal realm, also known as the Kingdom of God co-arising within the Ray of Creation. Our task as True Humans, should we choose to accept it, is to responsibly navigate this intracoastal territory as, in the words of Cynthia Bourgeault, “surrendered beings who can exert force.” Call it the death of modernity, the Second Axial Age, the emerging Integral Structure of Consciousness, or something else, the disorientations humans are experiencing in an exponentially complex and intense set of outer and inner conditions calls for a reminder of our essential human post. Through practice, teaching, and reflection, this evening retreat will be a time of strengthening our Whole True Human Selves to continue to say yes to this task.
Comments: We are very familiar with and always welcome new opportunities to learn more from Cynthia Bourgeault and her teachings. This program is led by Heather Ruce, a Wisdom Spiritual Director who works closely with and often co-presents with Bourgeault. We have always enjoyed programs led by Ruce.
In Search of a Way: Walking the Spiritual Path, with Douglas Christie (from The Church of Conscious Harmony)
Dates and Times: Friday, May 16, 6:30 p.m. – Saturday, May 17, 12:30 p.m.
Registration: Open
Cost: Suggested donation $50
Frequency: One-time event
Duration: 2 days (Friday evening and Saturday morning sessions)
Format: Online and In-Person (Austin, TX)
Recording Available: No
Description: At the very heart of Christian spirituality stands the image of a path: the hodos or “way”; a key to understanding both the identity of Christ (“I am the Way”) as well as the life of faith (“the Way, the truth, the life”) and the meaning of community (Christians were often known simply as “people of the Way.” Walking or journeying have remained in the Christian spiritual imagination. Not only among those who take up pilgrimages but also for those who envision the encounter with God – in prayer and in community living – as a kind of path or journey: the early monks’ journey into the desert; the long, difficult passage through the darkness envisioned by Gregory of Nyssa in his Life of Moses; Bonaventure’s elaborate and subtle Itinerarium: The Mind’s Journey into God; John of the Cross’ intense path of purgation outlined in his Ascent of Mount Carmel; Teresa of Avila’s long descent into union with God evoked so beautifully in her Interior Castle. There is a recurring sense here that walking, of following a path, traveling along a route both familiar and strange, is somehow essential to our capacity to grasp the meaning of our own spiritual experience, to help us know who we are in God. We will reflect on how learning to “walk the path” can draw us closer to God and one another in love.
Comments: While we are not extremely familiar with Douglas Christie, we are are intrigued by the topic of walking the spiritual path. We like the offerings from the Church of Conscious Harmony, a local contemplative community.
Does God Need Us? Rethinking the God-World Relationship with Teilhard de Chardin with Ilia Delio (from The Well)
Dates and Times: Wednesday, May 21, 4:30 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Registration: Open
Cost: $10
Frequency: One-time event
Duration: 1.5 hours
Format: Online
Recording Available: Yes
Description: Classical theology states that God freely creates, that is, God creates with no other motive than God’s own desire and delight. God is in relationship with us but God does not depend on us. Teilhard de Chardin reflected on God’s relationship to the world and concluded that God and world are in mutual relationship. God is not so much delighted by the world but dependent on the world for God’s own fullness of life. We will explore Teilhard’s insights with regard to the significance of the cosmic Christ, Christian life and the Church.
Comments: Ilia Delio is one of our favorite presenters. This is an event presented by The Well Spirituality Center. A member of our “Trove” team recently attended a program Delio led and said, “She gets better and better every time I hear her.”
Wisdom School: A Wisdom Way of Knowing with Cynthia Bourgeault (from Mercy Center, Berlingame)
Dates and Times: Sunday, May 25, 10 a.m. – Friday, May 30, 10 a.m.
Registration: Open, online only; Registration Deadline – May 18
Cost: $450
Frequency: Daily
Duration: 1 week – 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. on Monday – Thursday; evening on Sunday, May 25, and morning on Friday, May 30
Format: Zoom
Recording Available: Yes
Description: This Wisdom School lays the groundwork for understanding the vital role of Wisdom in today’s world. Led by Cynthia Bourgeault, participants will delve into the Christian Wisdom tradition, exploring two key spiritual streams: the ancient Benedictine monastic model of “Ora et Labora” and the Gurdjieff Work’s concept of three-centered knowing and presence. Cynthia will illuminate how Wisdom serves as a precise and transformative spiritual science, offering both theoretical insights and practical tools for embodying Yeshua’s teachings—the Way of the Heart.
Through an integrated daily rhythm, this Wisdom School fosters an embodied “wisdom way of knowing,” incorporating periods of Great Silence, teaching sessions, Centering Prayer or silent meditation, mindful work, mindful movement, and contemplative free time.
Mercy Center’s Centering Prayer and Christian Wisdom Practices Program, in partnership with Wisdom Waypoints, presents this rare opportunity to engage the foundations of this Wisdom lineage.
Comments: This is a hybrid online and in-person Wisdom School. The online option is the only one still available for registration. We have participated via Zoom in a Wisdom School and found it to be a meaningful and instructive introduction to this Wisdom lineage.
The Tears of Things: Integrating the Prophetic Path (from The Center for Action and Contemplation)
Dates and Times: Self-paced
Registration: Open
Cost: $100 (or $80 or $60, based on financial circumstances)
Frequency: Self-paced with 9 prophetic themes)
Duration: Varies
Format: Online
Recording Available: Yes
Description: A self-guided online course based on Richard Rohr’s new book, “The Tears of Things.” Explore the wisdom of prophets from ancient times to modern day, and discover how we can transform our anger into compassion in our modern “age of outrage.”
“The Tears of Things: Integrating the Prophetic Path” will lead you on a journey from righteous anger at injustice, through grief for the world’s suffering, and—for those committed to the path—finally to grace-filled love for everyone and everything.
Students will explore themes from “The Tears of Things,” like radical grace, collective evil, and the alchemy of tears. Discover deeper meaning in the Hebrew prophets and find inspiration from today’s truth-tellers like Martin Luther King Jr., Dorothy Day, Etty Hillesum, Howard Thurman, Joanna Macy, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Oscar Romero.
This self-guided course offers a flexible online learning experience to explore prophetic themes from the sacred space of your home. You can enroll anytime and access all course materials through CAC Connect, our new online learning platform. Engage with the material in a space that’s safe for questions and deepen your understanding alongside fellow seekers.
Comments: We’ve previously enjoyed many offerings from the CAC and Richard Rohr. This offering is an online, self-paced program based on his new book, but we are not sure if he is speaking in it. There doesn’t appear to be a live portion of this course and we are not sure if there is online interaction (though they usually do offer that).
June
Metanoia Journey’s Sunday In-Person Contemplative Gathering
Dates and Times: Sunday, June 1, 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Registration: Not required
Cost: Free
Frequency: Monthly
Duration: 1.5 hours
Format: In person at The Seminary of the Southwest’s Christ Chapel 501 E 32nd St., Austin, TX
Recording Available: N/A
Description: The format of this gathering will include 20 minutes of Centering Prayer, a scripture reading from the sacred texts, a “message” offered by the ministers or guest speakers, community communion, and contemplative music. We invite anyone who wants to participate in performing a role to let us know. Otherwise, just come, rest in God, and receive.
This is a “contemplative service,” with 20 minutes of silent, meditative prayer. For those that attend that have not practiced Centering Prayer before, we have a copy of the brief Guidelines to practice the prayer available at the entry to the Chapel for people to follow along.
At this time, we do not have an area for children to gather separately or have a children’s ministry. Older children are certainly welcome if they can rest in silence during that time.
Comments: This is an opportunity to connect with other contemplative practitioners in person in Austin. While these are primarily Christian contemplative services, all are welcome.
July
Metanoia Journey’s Sunday In-Person Contemplative Gathering
Dates and Times: Sunday, July 6, 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Registration: Not required
Cost: Free
Frequency: Monthly
Duration: 1.5 hours
Format: In person at The Seminary of the Southwest’s Christ Chapel 501 E 32nd St., Austin, TX
Recording Available: N/A
Description: The format of this gathering will include 20 minutes of Centering Prayer, a scripture reading from the sacred texts, a “message” offered by the ministers or guest speakers, community communion, and contemplative music. We invite anyone who wants to participate in performing a role to let us know. Otherwise, just come, rest in God, and receive.
This is a “contemplative service,” with 20 minutes of silent, meditative prayer. For those that attend that have not practiced Centering Prayer before, we have a copy of the brief Guidelines to practice the prayer available at the entry to the Chapel for people to follow along.
At this time, we do not have an area for children to gather separately or have a children’s ministry. Older children are certainly welcome if they can rest in silence during that time.
Comments: This is an opportunity to connect with other contemplative practitioners in person in Austin. While these are primarily Christian contemplative services, all are welcome.
Ongoing
Contemplative Chant
Dates and Times: Wednesdays at 4 p.m.
Registration: Open
Cost: Free
Frequency: Ongoing
Duration: 30 minutes
Format: Online
Recording Available: No
Description: 30 minutes of contemplative chant from Wisdom Waypoints, with chants led by Susan Latimer and Elizabeth Combs. Chanting is a wonderful practice for bringing both the Moving Center (body, breath, tone) and the Emotional Center (open heart) online. It is a spiritual practice that opens our hearts, nourishes our nervous systems, prepares us for prayer and meditation as a bridge into stillness, and connects us to our innate joy, courage, steadfastness, peace, beauty, truth and goodness. In times of great uncertainty and change, we find chant to be one of the things that most grounds us. These sessions draw chants from Wisdom Schools, various spiritual and religious traditions, sacred texts, old hymns and poetry. Because of the limitations of synching sound on Zoom, all participants are muted except for the one leading. This allows everyone to chant along in their own space. (Great if you are shy about sharing your voice! Fun if you like to try harmonies!)
Comments: Some of us join this contemplative chant weekly and enjoy it very much. We find it a wonderful contemplative practice. Wisdom Waypoints is the wisdom community started by Cynthia Bourgeault, one of our favorite wisdom teachers. Note that this is a small and warm group of regular participants. Therefore, it can be more difficult to participate anonymously.
The Abbey Tuesday Morning Meditation
Dates and Times: Tuesdays at 8 a.m. (Meditation at 8 a.m., optional discussion at 8:30 a.m.)
Registration: Open
Cost: Free
Frequency: Weekly
Duration: Ongoing
Format: Zoom
Recording Available: No
Description: A 20-minute sit, followed by a brief reading and discussion.
Comments: Of course we love this meditation group! It’s The Abbey, our own contemplative community.
The Abbey Spiritual Discussion Group
Dates and Times: Thursdays, 5 p.m.
Registration: Not required
Cost: Free
Frequency: Weekly
Duration: 1 hour
Format: Zoom
Recording Available: No
Description: This group reads books to deepen our spiritual lives and to build community among participants. Newcomers are welcome to join the group anytime. Register on The Abbey website and we will send you a Zoom link.
Comments: The group is starting a new book this month (October), Barbara Brown Taylor’s An Altar in the World. We enjoy this group and the lively discussion both in small-group breakout rooms and with the whole group.
Word of the Week
Dates and Times: Emails sent on Sundays, meets each Tuesday at 8 a.m. and Wednesday at 5 p.m.
Registration: Sign up for weekly emails here.
Cost: Free annual subscription (with recommended donation of $95/yr)
Frequency: Weekly, per above
Duration: One hour
Format: Zoom – link is sent weekly in the email on Sunday
Recording Available: No
Description: A beautiful email is sent on Sundays with the reading of Lectio Divina that will be done. There is a sit and then the Lectio Divina.
Comments: We like this because it’s a chance to revisit the reading for the week—and they always include beautiful artwork (it’s Lectio and Visio Divina!). We like the sense of community. It’s a pretty stable group and there’s a chance to share. We also like the balance of it—they are very mindful of the time, it’s just an hour. There’s a rhythm of it that we like. We read the emails each week and appreciate having the email in advance to sit with it a little before the group reading. There are also opportunities to interact online with the group during the week. We will note that it can be difficult to find the link for the Zoom in the weekly email; it is also spelled out here—the third bullet has link to the zoom with poorly brown highlighted “Click on this link,” but it also provides the zoom code and passcode in the email.
Wisdom Waypoints Daily Centering Prayer/Meditation
Dates and Times: Monday – Friday 9:30 a.m.; Monday/Wednesday/Sunday 6 p.m.; Saturday 10:30 a.m.
Registration: No registration required, join via website
Cost: Free
Frequency: Daily, per above
Duration: 30 minutes
Format: Zoom
Recording Available: No
Description: A collective wisdom pause for “Silence and Stillness.” Wisdom members lead each sit with a brief reading, chant, and meditation/stillness.
Comments: We like this because it is a way to maintain our personal practice alongside others with the degree of anonymity (or not) with which we are each comfortable. Wisdom Waypoints is a part of Cynthia Bourgeault’s network of teaching and practice resources.