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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Adventure in Kindness
Explore kindness as transformational practice. Led by Emily Jarrett Hughes.
New dates coming soon.
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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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Freedom From the Inner Critic: An Introduction and Interactive Series
This introduction (one session) and interactive series (six session) is designed for artists, we will delve into understanding, confronting and ultimately liberating ourselves from the relentless inner critic that stifles creativity and spiritual growth.
Free Introduction: February 18th
Series begins in March
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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Earth Day Celebration
Join Wisdom Dances for a roving dance celebration that honors the earth, water, and our communities.
Dance is not only an expression of aliveness; to dance is to participate in aliveness. Life is a dance and by dancing we give energy to life. You are not the only one who is renewed and energized through the joy of dance. Even if you have never danced with us before, you can participate in consciously directing the power of singing and dancing for the benefit of all beings.
Sunday, April 27, 1:00 - 4:00 PM -FREE
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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
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Winter Water Blessing
Bless the New Year by blessing the water that is the source of all life. We bless the water, and ask the water to carry our blessing to all of life, bringing healing and joy in our world. In honor of the special energy of 2025, the theme of this year’s celebration is the Winged Woman, she who can travel between realms and bring blessing.
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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!
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.
