Simon de Voil

Join Abbey of the Arts for this experiential webinar with guides Simon de Voil and David Wallace. We will be learning about and engaging with the Book of Psalms through teaching, music, writing, and contemplative listening, with opportunities for sharing and for spiritual companionship. All spiritual wayfarers from any (or no) spiritual orientation or tradition will find wisdom, song, and practice to nourish their life’s journey.

Week 1 — An Intimate Encounter: Engaging with the Psalms as Living Poetry of Our Souls

Week 2 — The Psalmist as Spiritual Companion: Examining the Unique Gifts We Each Bring to The Psalms

Week 3 — The Fullness of Life: Discovering Our Shared Humanity

Week 4 — Embodying the Psalms: Serving as Anam Cara to All Beings.

Cost = $100 (you can pay a little less or more depending upon your income) https://abbeyofthearts.com/calendar/deep-calls-unto-deep/

This online informal, contemplative worship service will focus on the Visio Divina (a monastic practice of sacred reading) but using visual liturgy & Art instead of text. All are welcome to this online event. https://www.crowdcast.io/c/healing-prayers166

On the first Monday of each month at 1pm E/T I will be joining Christine Valters Paintner (Abbess of Abbey of the Arts) to co-facilitate a contemplative worship service on Zoom. All are most welcome. https://abbeyofthearts.com/calendar/contemplative-prayer-service-oct2023/

This event has been postponed and will now take place on Oct 5th. All the other details are the same.

A 4 hour afternoon spiritual retreat into the voice of the land and Heart. According to Greek mystic Pythagoras, “The highest goal of music is to connect one’s soul to their divine nature.” More than mere entertainment, music is a powerful agent for transformation, both personal and collective; song can call us into opening, attune our hearts to a shared rhythm, and stir us to deepen our connection with self, other, and the divine. In this retreat, Rev. Simon Ruth will explore the power of breath and voice to awaken the soul and foster deep connection with the sacred in a variation on the ancient monastic practice lectio divina. The afternoon will include listening and singing together, storytelling, and an orchard bathing walk with time outdoors creating presence and withnessing the land -- finding our place in the web of creation and depth of connection with one another.

This is an in person only event.

Cost is $80

(50% discount available for all who need this - use code 50OFF at checkout)

Please note that there will also be a 6.30pm Concert in addition to the workshop. https://simondevoil.com/event/5182383/645579287/concert-sacred-earth-sacred-song

This event has been postponed to October 5th

I've booked a listening space within Finnriver so that this concert will be an intimate sharing of story and song. Please come and tell your friends.

You can purchase your tickets through this website or at the door.
Tickets are $20 or $10 concession (if purchasing online use code 50OFF at check out to reduce your fee).
6.30pm Pacific time.