Simon de Voil

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: The Celtic spiritual tradition is a spiral way, one that honors non-linear consciousness and intimately follows nature’s rhythms of rising and falling, of fullness and emptiness. When we open ourselves to this way of being in relationship to time’s unfolding, we discover a profound wisdom that honors our own seasons of flowering and fruitfulness, as well as seasons of release, surrender, fallowness, stillness, and mystery. It empowers us to live in a way that deeply honors both body and soul. This is a radically counter-cultural way of being in the world.

This is an online event facilitated by Dr. Christine Valters Paintner & Rev. Simon Ruth de Voil

Price: General Public: $ 100.00 | One Spirit Graduates and Students: $ 90.00

https://www.1spirit.org/workshops/live-workshops/spiral-year

On the first Monday of each month at 2pm 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-may2023/

This 90 min experience workshop will be online and in person. Scholarships will be available to both the public and members of SDI.

Workshop description: 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 the Celtic Bardic tradition, music is understood to be a divine gift, intrinsically linked with community-based rituals and with individual spiritual practice. Music belongs to and arises from each of us, regardless of our training—we all carry soul-songs. This participatory workshop will consist largely of shared music and shared contemplative silence, including the opportunity to experience audio divina, deep listening as a form of prayer, and to optionally join in chanting and song, exploring the power of breath and voice to awaken the soul and foster deep connection.

https://www.sdicompanions.org/sdi-events/conferences/conference-2023/workshops-a/#a9

Simon de Voil and Kenneth Steven, musician and writer respectively, share on the theme of Iona's pilgrim monks the Papars. Iona has been part of who they’ve become and what they believe, and in this time of sharing poetry and song they will talk together about what inspires them about these early Celts monks. 2pm ET or 7pm UK. Cost will be $20 (or $10 concession - use code "monk" at checkout to receive 50% off)

Tickets and more information will be available soon.