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Listen to the Voice That Likes You ~ The Mighty Companions Hour ~ 02-02-25

Please join Rev. Yolanda as she continues to share her beautiful voice and heart during The Mighty Companions Hour. This is a program she and her late, beloved husband, Rev. Glen Ganaway began in 2020.

Rev. Yolanda Mapes, who is an interfaith minister, shares a delightful, funny, and inspiring hour of A Course in Miracles. Come join in on the fun, the laughs, and the music while unlearning the ego through the lessons and chapters of ACIM. You can find out more about the Mighty Companions on the website: themightycompanions.com

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*We ask anyone who feels called to please help support our beloved Rev. Yolanda as she walks through this difficult time. Donations are now being accepted. Please clink on this link https://gofund.me/545d958a 

Personal Retreats at the Awakening Together Retreat House

Personal Retreat Opportunities at the Awakening Together Retreat House in La Veta, CO

Group retreats not your thing? Would some time in silence and stillness serve you? Feel the desire for more intimate one on one time to support your journey?

When the Retreat House reopens for the season in April and during times when an organized retreat is not scheduled, the Awakening Together Retreat House is open to support you in taking your next step with God. Whether you would like to support your journey with some time in silence, share the joy of being around friends on the path, request one on one support, deepen in your contemplation practice and perhaps hike or explore in the afternoons, the Retreat House is here to serve you.

With John Mark and Cindy Stroud serving as the Awakening Together Retreat House caretakers for the 2025 season, we all have a wonderful opportunity to spend time with them as they live a life of wakefulness. From the joy and responsibilities of daily life to the blessings and opportunities of relationship, Love enfolds and expresses through all aspects of life. There can be great joy and peace found in living a life of wakefulness.

If private one on one time with John Mark and/or Cindy is desired, it can look like sitting in a one on one session at the Retreat House, taking a walk around the nearby lake or a hike in the local area. There is a $100 donation for these private sessions. Whether you are lodging at the Retreat House for a personal stay or live in the local area, if you are interested in a one on one session with John Mark and/or Cindy please contact the Retreat House here for more information and availability.

John Mark and Cindy Stroud
from One Who Wakes

To apply to stay at the Awakening Together Retreat House for a personal stay, please visit our Lodging Options page.

 

“Contemplating the Thoughts of Awakening ~ A Daily Devotional Practice”, #33 Contemplation

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Join Rev. Michele Hojnacki, Sami Ross and Jai Segal for their program, Contemplating the Thoughts of Awakening – A Daily Devotional Practice. This year-long daily devotional program began on January 1, 2025, and is held seven days a week from 8:30am – 9:00am ET / 6:30am – 7:00am MT.

The group’s aim is to support one another in a daily practice of inner listening using the Thoughts of Awakening. This group could benefit those new to inner contemplation or anyone wishing to enhance their practice. Daily, we will contemplate a single Thought of Awakening with our inner teacher. Following Regina’s recommendation, we’ll write it down and carrying it with us for reflection throughout the day, as well as reflecting on and putting into practice guidance received from our own inner teacher.

The invitation to join extends to all, even if attending the daily sessions is not possible.

Thoughts of Awakening by Regina Dawn Akers is available for purchase on Amazon. Click here to purchase the book.
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Registration Closes TODAY: “Introduction to Tao Te Ching”

REGISTRATION CLOSES TODAY.

We are excited to share with you the newly developed course for the Ministerial Preparation Program which utilizes Regina Dawn Akers’ translation and interpretation of the Tao Te Ching. All who are called to this spiritual classic are in invited to join.

Here’s an excerpt from Regina’s book description:

“…What is the Way?

The only way to know the Way is to live as one with the Way.

[This] translation of the Tao Te Ching is an interpretive translation designed to help the reader comprehend, contemplate, and live from the Tao Te Ching’s teaching.

According to tradition, the Tao Te Ching was written by Lao Tzu when the Chinese Zhou dynasty was in decline. Although a city gatekeeper asked Lao Tzu to write the Tao Te Ching, Its spiritual wisdom is directed at the emperor’s officers and officials. Therefore, it speaks to the reader as a leader.

It’s important to realize we are all leaders, even if you do not find yourself in an official leadership position. We are all leaders because we are all connected through the Way. How we each live affects everyone and everything. Chapter Eight of the Tao Te Ching teaches that those who dwell in the Way are good for the earth. Through their way of being, they benefit everyone and everything. Therefore, regardless of your position or role in the world, the best way to be helpful to everyone and everything is to live centered in the Way. This clear and easy-to-understand translation was designed to help you do just that.”

In this class you will:

1. Become familiar with the classic Chinese work, Tao Te Ching.

2. Contemplate chapters from Tao Te Ching and realize effective leadership.

Course Duration: 6 weeks

First Class: February 14, 2023 from 3-5 pm ET

Homework Begins: February 7, 2025

Last Day of Course: March 21, 2025

Facilitators: Revs. Cyndi Krupp OR Michele Hojnacki

Individual Homework Time Commitment: 6-7 days per week, 30-60 minutes per day.

Structure of Course: Zoom class with 6 weekly 2-hour sessions.

Textbook needed:  Tao Te Ching:An Interpretive Translation to Live By with Regina Dawn Akers. Purchase Here.

Holiday Breaks: No breaks are scheduled

Cost: $180

Registration closes: February 3, 2025 @ 5 p.m. ET

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Deepening into Clarifying the Teachings ~ “Looking For the Thought Behind the Feeling” 2-2-2025

Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert facilitates this weekly program.

During this program, we listen to a portion of each previously recorded “Clarifying the Teachings” program. Afterward, we spend time contemplating and teaching ourselves what is most alive for us in the moment. We may also spend time practicing what Regina is teaching. And…we start at the very beginning.

Bring your journals, openness, and curiosity as we explore what is most alive in us and ready to be seen. We hope you feel inspired to join.

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02-02-25 Weekly Gathering, “From Inhibited to Inhabiting: Trusting True Nature” with Rev. Anne Blanchard

Title: “From Inhibited to Inhabiting: Trusting True Nature”

Description: As Angelo DiLullo writes, “[w]hen it comes to the subject of awakening, it can be immensely valuable to investigate the most basic assumptions we have about ourselves, about life, and about reality.”  While most spiritual students will nod and agree with this statement, many often have no idea how to actually practice the pointing.

So how exactly can we undertake such an investigation in a sustained and intentional way given our busy, full lives? Moreover, how is it even possible to investigate that which we often are not even aware of?

In this week’s message, Rev Anne Blanchard will share how she lucked into a very direct practice early on in her spiritual journey which not only exposed her own deepest assumptions but allowed them little-by-little to be brought fully into consciousness and hence begin to weaken.

Reading: Fran Hamilton read from Awake – It’s YourTurn, Chapter 8, “Practices & Techniques” by Angelo DiLullo MD.

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“Contemplating the Thoughts of Awakening ~ A Daily Devotional Practice”, #32 Contemplation

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Join Rev. Michele Hojnacki, Sami Ross and Jai Segal for their program, Contemplating the Thoughts of Awakening – A Daily Devotional Practice. This year-long daily devotional program began on January 1, 2025, and is held seven days a week from 8:30am – 9:00am ET / 6:30am – 7:00am MT.

The group’s aim is to support one another in a daily practice of inner listening using the Thoughts of Awakening. This group could benefit those new to inner contemplation or anyone wishing to enhance their practice. Daily, we will contemplate a single Thought of Awakening with our inner teacher. Following Regina’s recommendation, we’ll write it down and carrying it with us for reflection throughout the day, as well as reflecting on and putting into practice guidance received from our own inner teacher.

The invitation to join extends to all, even if attending the daily sessions is not possible.

Thoughts of Awakening by Regina Dawn Akers is available for purchase on Amazon. Click here to purchase the book.
Every Morning, 8:30am-9:00am ET / 6:30-7:00am MT
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“Contemplating the Thoughts of Awakening ~ A Daily Devotional Practice”, #31 Contemplation

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Join Rev. Michele Hojnacki, Sami Ross and Jai Segal for their program, Contemplating the Thoughts of Awakening – A Daily Devotional Practice. This year-long daily devotional program began on January 1, 2025, and is held seven days a week from 8:30am – 9:00am ET / 6:30am – 7:00am MT.

The group’s aim is to support one another in a daily practice of inner listening using the Thoughts of Awakening. This group could benefit those new to inner contemplation or anyone wishing to enhance their practice. Daily, we will contemplate a single Thought of Awakening with our inner teacher. Following Regina’s recommendation, we’ll write it down and carrying it with us for reflection throughout the day, as well as reflecting on and putting into practice guidance received from our own inner teacher.

The invitation to join extends to all, even if attending the daily sessions is not possible.

Thoughts of Awakening by Regina Dawn Akers is available for purchase on Amazon. Click here to purchase the book.
Every Morning, 8:30am-9:00am ET / 6:30-7:00am MT
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“Contemplating the Thoughts of Awakening ~ A Daily Devotional Practice”, #30 Contemplation

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Join Rev. Michele Hojnacki, Sami Ross and Jai Segal for their program, Contemplating the Thoughts of Awakening – A Daily Devotional Practice. This year-long daily devotional program began on January 1, 2025, and is held seven days a week from 8:30am – 9:00am ET / 6:30am – 7:00am MT.

The group’s aim is to support one another in a daily practice of inner listening using the Thoughts of Awakening. This group could benefit those new to inner contemplation or anyone wishing to enhance their practice. Daily, we will contemplate a single Thought of Awakening with our inner teacher. Following Regina’s recommendation, we’ll write it down and carrying it with us for reflection throughout the day, as well as reflecting on and putting into practice guidance received from our own inner teacher.

The invitation to join extends to all, even if attending the daily sessions is not possible.

Thoughts of Awakening by Regina Dawn Akers is available for purchase on Amazon. Click here to purchase the book.
Every Morning, 8:30am-9:00am ET / 6:30-7:00am MT
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Audio & Homework ~ Gentle Healing Year 1 with Revs. Melody Brauninger & Erica Joy West – Week 5

Revs. Melody Brauninger and Erica Joy West guide a group of committed students through year 1 of Gentle Healing who want to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy, and love. This group meets weekly on Fridays from 10am-12pm ET/8-10am MT. All members are committed to specific assignments and practices between group meetings.

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Homework for week 5:

  1. Homework Assignment A: Workbook lessons 29-35.
  2. Homework Assignment B: Read NTI Colossians, p. 355-362.
  3. Homework Assignment C: Nondual Awakening Meditation – Who am I? by Gary Weber, which is a video in the Awakening Together Gentle Healing Playlist in YouTube.

 

Read Regina’s Tips. The tip should be read after reading the lesson on your own. Here’s a direct link: https://devwp.awakening-together.org/interact/gentle-healing-group/reginas-tips/

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