November 7 (11am PT/2pm ET/7pm UK) to November 8 (11am PT/2pm ET/7pm UK)
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The Virtual Mysterium is an invitation to 24 Hours of Time out of Time within the chalice of a worldwide group with shared intention. Step away from the high alert, screen-driven urgency and listen deeper. It is FREE and donations are welcome.
An opportunity to step out of time and listen to your deepest nature. In solidarity with a community of kindred spirits and simultaneously in the solitude of your own home, you are invited into an immersion in presence, poetry, doing nothing, writing, silence. We give up all timepieces, technology and adherence to schedule of any kind — in order to follow the inner rhythms. We Do Nothing. We open to what is.
Set down the steering wheel of your life for 24 hours and let yourself be guided. Speak poetry to a tree. If you choose to have music and dance, go for it. If you want to spend some or all of your time outside, or even in a wilderness — fantastic. If you can arrange to be physically with others also in the Retreat, yes!!
First and foremost this opportunity is an invitation to the radical act of RESTING. As the planet seems to be resting and rejuvenating through the diminishment of human activity, so too we are called to REST and discover our true nature.
Retreats begin and end with a 1.5-2 hour gathering by means of an internet platform that allows both video and call-in options. There we share ritual, experience and support.
This Mysterium will be a benefit for the Safe House Education (S.H.E.) Fund's Family Emergency Fund. All donations will go towards supporting Maasai young women and their families during the lockdown due to COVID-19. Donations can be made at paypal.me/shecollegefund and are 100% tax deductible. More information can be found at shecollegefund.org.
In the words of participants:
"The Virtual Mysterium is staying with me so potently. I came out of it having opened up the dam of withholding, and feeling buoyancy for the first time since the quarantine began. There's so much more space in me now to feel, dwell in, and draw from. Thank you. Your guiding was just a beautiful blend of deep presence, skillful orientating for a range of participants, and just enough experiencing to midwife us into it and out of it. "
"It was the loveliest of experiences to spend those 24 hours virtually connected with you and all the other beautiful souls. It was healing for me and diving into poetry and writing my heart out was extraordinary."
"Still finding words to express how NOURISHED, FED, QUENCHED, HELD. HOW BLESSED I FEEL FROM POETRY- MEDICINE that is still taking ROOT!!!"
"Thank you for holding such a beautiful space, the poems, the music, so nourishing and needed at this time. Even though there were others in the house there was a quietness I felt inside and I felt held somehow by all those faces I had seen in the opening zoom gathering. I was aware of breaking a rhythm, shaking things up, expectations, holding boundaries. "