Seasonal Celebrations
Eye of the Heart celebrates each season with intentional events to help us move through life in the ways each season shows us how to.
Music, dancing, and lanterns by the river
Sunday, February 2, 2024, 6:30 - 7:30 PM
Crosby Farm Regional Park (meet by shelter)
Cost: Free. Donations appreciated.
Winter Water Blessing
A blessing for the year to come.
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.
The Winter Water Blessing is inspired by ancient European custom of blessing the water at the New Year, a tradition that continues as an Epiphany Day celebration across Eastern Europe. This year’s blessing takes plan on the eve of Chinese New Year.
No experience necessary. All genders and cultures interested in this tradition are welcome.
Emily Jarrett Hughes is a mother, dancer, healer and wisdom teacher. She completed a two-year intensive training in women’s ritual dances with Laura Shannon. The weekly dance circle and seasonal celebrations she leads through Wisdom Dances are dedicated to joy, community, and connection to nature. She gets tremendous satisfaction witnessing how the dancing helps women cultivate their inner authority, a grounded sense of purpose, and ease amidst change.
Move into the gifts of Winter.
Winter Rest:
An invitation to fertile darkness.
Winter is a powerful time for resting, spiritual growth, and listening to the fertile dark. It’s a time for slowing down. The only trouble is that it can be such a busy time.
Winter Rest offers you the support of community to create space for darkness and winter rest. As the Winter Solstice appraoches we will gather on Zoom for about 10 minutes to ritually unplug and prepare ourselves to enter into the dark together. The rest of the hour - or the evening if you like - is for you to rest.
Thursday, December 19, 2024, 7:30 PM CT
FREE
The Mystical Metaphors of Christmas
An Online Retreat
Whether you identify as Christian or no longer align with your Christian lineage, you might be surprised at the universal wisdom the sacred stories of Christmas reveal about the path of the mystic. Each morning of the retreat, we’ll immerse ourselves in the rich metaphors through visual art, music, storytelling, guided visualization and reflective writing. Take a break from the busyness and baggage of the holiday season and center yourself in the wisdom of your own experience.
Saturday mornings, from 10-11:15 AM CST
December 7, 14, 21, 2024
Live participation encouraged, but recordings available if you’re not able to be present.
Cost $65
Bask in the joy of summer! The Mid-Summer Celebration happens when the flowers and herbs are at their peak. It’s not only peak beauty, it’s peak potency. It’s time to store up the glory and power of summer in the form of healing herbs as well as memories that will warm us through the winter.
Mid-Summer Celebration
Seasonal Celebrations
are vital to understanding our own seasons in life.
