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Living Life Sacred
With Tess | Being MovedWelcome 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
Connecting to a sense of the sacred, each and everyday.
About this course
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.