Programs Catalog
Infuse beauty and play into your spiritual life.
Discover the spiritual practices within your creative craft.
Make meaningful connections with other creatives and seekers
Try something new with opportunities to continue deepening.
Explore the program areas offered by Eye of the Heart Center founders.
Join us at one of these upcoming events!
Weekly & Monthly Classes
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Wisdom Dances
Women’s traditional dances for healing and transformation. Led by Emily Jarrett Hughes and based on Laura Shannon’s research.
Drop in any Thursday!
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Healing Waters Qigong
Community and inspiration for your qigong practice. Led by Emily Jarrett Hughes. No experience necessary.
Outdoors and Online: Wednesdays
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Writing Your Sacred Journey
Join Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew to explore the art and practice of spiritual memoir writing. Classes occur monthly.
Online & On-Site offerings in Spring & Fall
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Story as Gift: Writing to and for Friends and Family
This two-part workshop will provide structure and space for crafting a brief personal story from your life to give as a gift for someone dear to you. Both sessions will include time to write and opportunities to reflect on and share your work with other participants.
Monday, Dec 2, and Mon, Dec 9, from 6-8pm
Want a taste of Eye of the Heart’s Writing Programs?
Take our free online writing class, The Gifts of Writing Micro-course. This short class will orient you to the gift of writing that you both receive and give as a gift to others. Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew, author and writing teacher, will lead you through four short lessons to orient you and open you and your writing up for transformation.
Note: this link will take you to join the Eye of the Heart online community space, but you do not have to stay to enjoy free access to the course.
Online Writing
Community
Bring your creativity, doubts, questions, and willingness to connect into an online community that names the world as gift. Creation thrives in a flow of giving and receiving. In this space, we orient our hearts toward the gifts of writing–insight, healing, growth, and meaningful presence. Each of us is a gift to the whole, and our best gifts to others are hearts widened by creativity.
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Take a short, free writing course from Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew, which will put all community members on the same page as we gather online together.
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After you complete the course, you’ll be invited to join the writing community, where we will host events, classes, and foster a space for writers to encourage one another.
Want to take online writing classes
at your own pace?
Groups
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Medial Women's Circle
This group will focus on gathering women together for creative, soulful connection built on mutual trust and spiritual curiosity.
Currently running. Begins October 2024.
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Gathering: a Circle for Writers
Gathering creates space, inspired by contemplative practices, for those who identify as women to reflect on our work, with companionship of other writers.
Registration closed
In-Person in Minneapolis
Retreats & More
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Winter Solstice
Gather for an evening of beauty, connection, and reflection to welcome the return of light. Gorgeous music and meditative circle dances have a calming power that can break through the hectic or heavy energy of this season. This embodied, participatory celebration awakens connection to life energy that embraces and flows through all the ups and downs of life.
Sunday, December 15, 2024.
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Reflective Pilgrimages
Community pilgrimages with creative reflection that connect women to the source of our healing.
Click below to see past events!
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Mid-Summer Celebration
Bask in the joy of summer with Emily Jarrett Hughes. Live music, dancing, a personal blessing, and more!
Sunday, June 14th, Crosby Farm Regional Park, Saint Paul, MN
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Crone Carnival
Celebrating women of a certain age with a joyous festival of art-making, music, laughter, games, dancing (and an introvert yurt if you’re not in the mood).
July 20th, 2024
Conversations
We believe connection happens over curious conversations, so we seek to foster those both in person and online. Upcoming conversation events:
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Join film-maker Lucy Mathews Heegaard for an immersive film and conversation experience centered around her documentary, Diplophonia: A Diary of Voice Loss.
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While you’re waiting, watch our previous conversations at the link below.
