January 1, 2025
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There is much wisdom that emerges when women gather together in community and share how their personal stories connect with the writings of women who have explored their inner journeys. We invite you to join us this year for our "Gathering of Women: Wisdom for Our Inner Journeys" as we consider the writings of Sue Monk Kidd and Clarissa Estes with Rev. Lee Ireland.
Lee Ireland has been leading groups of women through the beautiful autobiographical words of Sue Monk Kidd in When the Heart Waits for over 15 years. Everyone who has read it has been grateful to experience inner healing within the comfort of their own homes and in their walk with others who resonate with all she shares. Sue Monk Kidd moves from her earlier Christian understandings as a child through a mid-life crisis into greater freedom and love. It’s a poignant and invitational work. She came upon a cocoon at one point and discovered the symbol that could lead her through her own transformation.
Following 4-5 sessions reflecting onWhen the Heart Waits, wewill then consider the "Vasalisa" story in Dr. Clarissa Estes's Women Who Run with the Wolves.
The old Russian tale, “Vasalisa,” is a woman’s initiation story. It is about the realization that most things are not as they seem. As women, we call upon our intuition and instincts in order to sniff things out. We use all our senses to wring the truth from things, to extract nourishment from our own ideas, to see what there is to see to know what there is to know, to be the keepers of our own creative fires, and to have intimate knowing about the Life/Death/ Life cycles of all nature – that is an initiated woman.
We hope you will join us this next year (September 2024-June 2025) to experience your own liberation during our monthly Saturday morning Gathering of Women: Wisdom for Our Inner Journeys. Rev. Lee A. Ireland will facilitate this opportunity ONLINE on the 2nd Saturdays of every month from 9:30-11:30 AM eastern.
Please join us and explore and connect with your own intuition and instincts which will guide you into your future years.
Cost: $159 for the series which includes 10 online monthly sessions. No part-time rates for participation are available.