On Monday, September 22 from 5:30-7:00pm, join us in beautiful Roberts Hall for a full-sensory evening of guided meditation and sound bathing with Liz Ridgely. Liz will introduce us to ways to mark the turning of the seasons at the Autumnal Equinox, celebrating balance, renewal, and the divine presence in our lives.
This offering is the first in a new series of special events hosted at St. John’s that explore the intersection of physical wellness and spiritual practice. In the busyness of daily life, we are so often pulled away from the ministry of presence; this evening invites you to pause, breathe, and let your heart catch up with your mind and your body.
Cost: $30 (set by the facilitator to cover the program)
This event is capped at 12 participants, and pre-sale tickets are available for purchase by clicking the button below.
Free event parking in St. John's Upper Chapel Street Lot is included in the purchase of your event ticket.
Spiritual guide and yoga therapist Liz Ridgely with her singing bowls which will be incorporated into this event.
In Ridgely's own words:
Autumn brings the harvest
moving from outer light to inner light
from active to receptive
Ripe from summer, this event is an invitation to receive deeply and restore. Let your cells be rehydrated with sound and sensory delight, including herbal tea and chocolate tasting. You will be guided deeper into your internal world with meditation, breath and sound; bringing your body into a receptive place, slowing your brain waves and settling any tension held in your nervous system.
As we approach autumn, the sounds of our world start to shift: the noises of play, motorcycles zooming, cheers, fireworks settle around us as we transition into fall and later winter we are asked to slow, notice the stillness around, the fruitful darkness — allow yourself to be with these transitions and experience the nectar they possess. The energy moves out of the heat of the belly and into the heart of abundance. Our sun-stained insides are ripened with the joy and busyness of summer, and we are given this holy pause to take it all in. Make pie with it, share all your adventures and all you've learned lying by the waters with loved ones.
In life we are often thrown from one experience to the next without time to process and reflect on what our body just experienced. Even though the mind moves forward and onto the next, the body holds the sugary, sticky remnants of whatever was just experienced. We live into these transitional periods in daily life from moment to moment, and within the entire year as seasons shift and change.
The window between summer and winter is one of these thresholds, a time where the veil between worlds is thinned. We have the opportunity to share the harvest with our ancestors and our angels. When we honor these thresholds within our lives, we grow our capacity to rest in the pregnant potential of this present moment, where the holy spirit comes manifest into form.