Sacred Spaces Retreats

“I love my life and enjoy living it today.”

“I assert my right to feel, experience, and enjoy pleasure.”

“I embrace and celebrate my sexuality and sensuality.”

“I am creative and am attracting to myself the life I have always wanted.”

“I am open to experiencing and sharing with others all the goodness of life.”

“I am grounded and connected and feel a sense of being safe and at home.”

“I value my body and accept it completely in its current condition.”

“I am committed to nurturing my body, mind and spirit.”

“I have all that I need within me to be healthy, happy, and aware.”

“I belong in this body and on this planet and have everything I need to survive.”

As part of the Sacred Spaces Retreat we will be walking the Spiritual Labyrinth for one of our times of meditation. At its most basic level, the labyrinth is a metaphor for a journey to the center of one’s deepest self and back. A journey to the center and back can provide both opportunity and inspiration for quiet meditation, reflection, prayer, and self-awareness.

Found in almost all religious traditions around the world, labyrinths have re-emerged from the ages as a spiritual tool for creating sacred space, for journeying inward, and for reconnecting with the Earth/Cosmos. Ancient labyrinth patterns, which date back to 4500 B.C., are found in Northern Europe, India, Peru, Greece, and the American Southwest.

We only have a few spots left for our March 16-18 meditation retreat at Grailville and would love to have you join us.

Register online today at http://www.sacredspacesretreats.org/

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We are only a month away from our March 16-18 meditation retreat at Grailville. We have a few spots left and would love to have you join us.

Register online here. http://www.sacredspacesretreats.org/

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“This fresh perspective of ourselves and our role in the universe motivates us to move out from a night’s rest and into the prayers of each new day with a desire to be of ultimate service to the world around us. It is likely that we have plenty of experience in giving away ourselves to our fellow man. We live in a time and a place where altruistic thought and action is not uncommon and opportunities for such are endless. But having laid the groundwork for deepening our spiritual perspective we now see our ability to be agents of peace, love, compassion and service to our communities taking on new levels of effectiveness. We come to see service to others more as a joy and a privilege than as a burden or sacrifice.” (Principle Six – Copyright Sacred Spaces Retreats)

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“In varying degrees, dependent upon the levels of honesty and readiness we have brought to this effort of developing our capacity for conscious awareness we may now find ourselves influenced by a spiritual attentiveness that seems new to us. We may be subtly or overtly aware that our attitudes toward life and work, rest and play, relationships and possessions are in the process of being transformed. We may be struck by a welcome lack of concern around projected outcomes of our various ventures and ongoings; all is as it should be and we are not responsible for the results. We may also be surprised at a new sense of freedom and happiness, a lightness of being that follows our every doing. We may feel strongly that we have been living with a limited ability to enjoy life and be useful to others but that we are now at the threshold of seeing that change.” (Principle Six – Copyright Sacred Spaces Retreats)

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“So, how do we go about finding these pockets of fellow travelers that can hearten our journey and allow us to expand our abilities to love and accept others? It may not be as difficult as one might think. In fact, such a fellowship may already exist in our neighborhoods and we have yet to discover it because we haven’t looked for it. There are spiritual, therapeutic, recovery, religious, wellness, exercise and yoga groups galore. These might be a good starting point from where to begin our search and we might find some kindred spirits there waiting for us to show up and help launch something in a new direction. It might be as easy as asking a few close friends if they would like to gather on a regular basis for the purpose of intentionally sharing life and conversation together. It might be as simple as joining an online group that has regular cyber gatherings with opportunity for individual contact as well. This integral fellowship we seek may already be part of our everyday lives and we simply haven’t identified it as “spiritual community”. If we find that we are frequently meeting with a handful of people who allow us to be ourselves and who share their laughter, pain, frustrations and joys with us then we may already have that which we seek. Utilizing the law of attraction, which theorizes that “like attracts like”, another valid option would be to pray or establish an intention for some such community to find us. Keeping open to the possibilities and being willing to make an effort are the keys. However it occurs for us, spiritual community is a vital piece to increasing our capacity for conscious awareness.” (Principle Five – Copyright Sacred Spaces Retreats)

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“The words we uttered as toddlers, “I can do it myself” plague many of us well into adulthood and keep us from growing in conscious awareness. While there have been historical exceptions, for most of us spiritual growth rarely occurs in a vacuum. Without the nurture, love, and the frictional challenges of human relationship we just don’t grow at the pace we innately desire. Others offer a mirror for us to see our progress or our lack of development. They can also provide inspiration and motivation to live out our truth and to realize our highest potential. A community of like-minded, albeit motley, souls gives us a well of strength and resources from which to draw that is deeper and perhaps sweeter than we can access without their help. Of course, it is the prerogative of every human being to choose to remain in whatever state they find themselves comfortable (or uncomfortable). At this point in the Six Principles for Developing Conscious Awareness, however, it is assumed that participants will want to be stretched beyond the contented confines of the familiar state of isolation.” (Principle Five – Copyright Sacred Spaces Retreats)

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“Secondly, we commit to the idea of choosing a different course than the one we normally take when circumstances arise which lead us to think, feel, believe or act in familiar, though unhealthy patterns. The path we want is the one less traveled, the one that goes contrary to our habitual way of thinking, feeling, believing or acting. Rather than waiting for the desire to change to “hit us”, when at the crossroads of decision we lean into or even leap toward a new behavior, trusting this intention to release the power we need to live the truth that exists within us. This truth is waiting to be coaxed from us with faith, hope and love and, with time and repetition, will form new and more satisfying life patterns. We are pleased to discover through this process that we actually have the power within us to co-create ourselves into the persons we have always known we could be. Let the transformation begin.” (Principle Four – Copyright Sacred Spaces Retreats)

Register online for our March 16-18 meditation retreat in Loveland, OH. http://www.sacredspacesretreats.org/