Living Life Sacred - by Tess | Being Moved

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Living Life Sacred

With Tess | Being Moved

Welcome to this course on exploring living our life in a sacred way. We will look at the gifts that being connected to life brings and how it can bring an increased sense of belonging, beauty, and wonder into our day-to-day reality. At its core, living a sacred life means to live with a sense of connection- to ourselves, to those around us and to the wider web of all life. Living with sacredness is a pathway of being present to the gift of life (even when times are tricky), to our own life force energy, and to move towards living a life where we are present to the preciousness of each and every moment We start by looking at tools and techniques to support us in coming into greater contact with sacred moments in our days. We then move into exploring what our own relationship with the sacred is and how we can develop a deeper sense of meaning and aliveness through cultivating that connection in a way that is personal to each of us. This course does not require any faith, religion or belief system- only a willingness to come into closer contact with the world around us, with the mystery that moves through all things and with the deeper currents of life. Be warmly welcomed to join us. "I believe in the sacred because I simply no longer have the strength to sustain disbelief. It takes too much energy to deny the sacred, to defend against grace; too much time to block out poignancy, to explain away love. So somewhere along the way I just gave up and admitted that life is too poetic to be explained in prose and the sacred is too manifest to be denied." - David Elkins


Meet your Teacher

Tess is a Soma-Source trained Rites of Passage Facilitator; a Buddhist Eco-Chaplain and is currently Operations Manager at the School of Lost Borders -a USA based rites of passage organization that has been taking people out on desert wilderness quests for over 40 years. Tess is a Spirit Rock-accredited Dharma & Yoga facilitator with 25 years of regular Insight Meditation practice and has a specialty in practicing out in nature. She is an accredited 5Rhythms dance moving meditation/conscious dance guide who facilitates mindful movement events in nature via "silent disco" technology. She has a BSc in Psychology and a Post Graduate Diploma in using art and metaphor for therapy and education. She is published writer and well loved on Insight Timer for her abilities with sacred speech, skilful guidance and wild-word crafting. Tess has designed and led her own 3 month long Rites of Passage program for young women- using nature and mindful movement to support them through major life transitions and to orientate them towards living lives of inspiration and contribution; supporting them in living life in a sacred way, amidst being deeply grounded the day to day. Tess holds a deep and soulful space for people to connect deeply with what matters most to them. She loves facilitating people to embody their own experiences and move more mindfully through the world. She warmly invites you to join us on this course.

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7 Days

1.2k students

4.9 stars

15 min / day

Awakening

English


Lesson 1

Cultivating Our Connection - Coming In Closer To A Sense Of The Sacred

In this session, we start to explore what the sacred is for you personally and begin to explore how we might live in a way that we come across more moments of living life with this sense of sacredness. We look at the notion that sacredness doesn't have to only happen in faraway places or special occasions- but that perhaps we can train ourselves to come in closer to the mystery and wonder of it all each and every day.

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Lesson 2

Attention And Allowing- Making Space For The Sacred

In this session we will learn a simple breathing technique to slow our minds and open our hearts. We invite in a sense of wonder into each and every moment. We will see how becoming more present and making space amidst the busyness of the day to day, increases our likelihood of noticing the sacredness that is all around us.

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Lesson 3

Being In A Body- Exploring The Sacredness That We All Have Within Us

The way that we experience the sacred is by being here- present with what is right in front of us. Our body is amazing in all that it does and how it lets us touch in to all the experiences of being human. In this session we do an embodiment exercise to bring us fully present and practice coming in close and listening to what our body might want to say to us.

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Lesson 4

Sacred Beauty- How The World Shows Us The Sacred

Sometimes we get stunned into a sacred moment by stumbling across a moment of beauty so large that it silences our minds and brings us to our senses! Sometimes a wide expanse of horizon, or a glimpse of the night sky, or a moment of majesty can bring us to touch into the sacred- seemingly by chance. In this session we look for the places and things in the external world that can reliably transport us into a sense of the scared.

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Lesson 5

Wild Wise Words- A Way To The Sacred

In this session, we look at all the forms of creativity that can take us closer to sensing the sacred. When we know what lifts us up, we are given reliable resources that we can turn to in times of need. We will find our own channels of inspiration that we can tune in to whenever we want to take time for a sacred moment.

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Lesson 6

Praise And Prayer- Speaking To The Sacred And Coming Into Direct Relationship

In this session, we look at the power of our own speech and words to create more sacred moments in our lives. We will look at the gift of giving our attention as a way to magnify what we see, and at how praising the simple things in our day-to-day lives is the pathway to presence and experiencing more sacred moments.

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Lesson 7

A Conscious Commitment To Allowing An Awe- Letting And Wonder-filled Life

In this final session, we make our own personal commitment to living life in a sacred way- whatever that means for each of us. We consent to allowing more awe in our lives- to seeing how we can look out from the sacred; and so call forth more sacred moments in our lives. We appreciate, allow, and accept sacred moments when they come; and intend to live in that place more and more of the time.

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Recent Reviews

theodora

November 8, 2025

Would that my earbuds could be constantly connected to the sacred as described by your words.

Maree

October 24, 2025

Beautiful course .

Patricia-Violet

October 8, 2025

The lessons have been a magnificent journey! Thank you

Angela

October 5, 2025

I could listen to her talk about just anything. Her voice and how she weaves ideas is simply magical. Total gratitude to have found this course.

Stuart

September 29, 2025

This is a Beautiful and transformative series. Thank you Tess!

Tanya

September 14, 2025

Beautiful. Thank you for putting words to the feelings that have been swirling ✨

Talli

September 5, 2025

Gorgeous practices and invitations to meet, greet, see, embrace the sacred in the life we are living. Very rich!

Catherine

July 24, 2025

I loved this course!

Keisha

May 19, 2025

This course allowed me to get back into the flow of meditation. I looked forward to the sessions every day. Thank you

Karenmk

May 12, 2025

Lovely course!! Thank you 🙏❤️🌼👏🦚

::Bethany::

April 19, 2025

This was wonderful, thank you.

Antonio

March 19, 2025

Wonderful course ! Thank you 🙏🏽 ! Yes this issue that you brought us is most relevant ! The more we live close to the sacred, the more we live life intensely ! I know what you mean because I have lived it in some time in my life. But thanks to you this wonderful issue has come again into my life. Thank you 🙏🏽 thank you again !

Lillian

January 3, 2025

Thank you for this course. I appreciate having a few moments each morning to focus on the sacred and what that means to me.

Lydia

November 6, 2024

Thank you for such a beautiful course 💜

Glenn

October 7, 2024

Thank you

Anne

January 22, 2024

Lots of good advice and exercises to work on.

Olivia

December 18, 2023

Thank you for the tender, sweet message this course was.

Kim

December 18, 2023

All that I want is to be more of who,what, where and why I Am. The great I am. Thankyou for this course Tess which has helped me to live life more sacredly. To stop and wonder at the sacred precious moments where/when we get/are given a glimpse of eternal love and wonder/love back. So grateful.

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