“The world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our feet, and learn to be at home.”
~Wendell Berry
Tending the Soul through Contemplative Rose Path.
We are in interesting times. Many are reorienting to a direct, inner experience of God; growing in understanding, gnosis, and reconciliation of this ever sustaining creative Source. We are healing, we are seeking meaningfulness, and longing to get clarity in a world of distraction and deep wounding.
The Contemplative Rose Path is a merging of spiritual direction and feminine somatic healing arts.
As a contemplative coach, I support women in spiritual formation, help them learn to feel safe in their body, safe to be seen by themselves and a loving and benevolent divine presence. I offer pastoral counseling as they face their grief, help them get comfortable in slowing down.
I inspire women to empower their quietude, their reflective nature, their devotional life, their relational intimacy with Spirit, and to cultivate their prayerful-playful-potent sacred life.
Hello, my name is Lauren. Welcome to Sacred Living Arts.
Here’s a little about me…
I am a life long spiritual seeker—a mystic, contemplative, monastic, and watery dreamer. I work as a certified spiritual director, grief companion, ordaining priestess with Feminine Healing Ministries, yoga teacher, and the list goes on (I’ve been at this professionally for nearly 30 years.).
My personal path of spiritual renewal through mid-life transition came after divorce. I was married with three children, one adopted.
Life was on a wild ride which took me out of alignment with the truth of God. A truth I knew so intimately since my early spiritual formation when I began my meditation practice at eleven-years old.
The further I strayed from my authentic self, the more my spirit dimmed, despite all efforts to conform, to push, to meet other’s expectations, I became unknown to myself and even those closest to me.
One thing I know for certain, is that God never gives up on the plan which is laid out for you. It is never too late for healing and renewal.
The spaces I walk in with most transformation is contemplative in nature. It is in my design and one which I believe can bring us back to the pulse of our original design and guides us to feel truly connected with our human experience.
This is why my work offers, you too, an opportunity to walk the contemplative path..
To meet Spirit in the hard places, hard times, with hard questions.
To simple come into the Mystery and be received.
To receive to grace, wisdom and discernment through sacred reading, yantras, sound, somatics, holy listening, temple care, meditation, and retreat.
“Here in the body are the sacred rivers; here are the sun and moon, as well as all the pilgrimage places. I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body”
~ Saraha, Great Adept of the Tantric Buddhism, 9th C
The Contemplative Rose Path is for the feminine soul. The rose is a symbol of feminine beauty and pure love.
I find that the feminine has a unique personal, physical, spiritual and collective experience which requires specific tending to. Healing our wounded feminine allows us to return to the union we all seem to seek in our lives in or outside of religious/spiritual life.
There is a need for us women to understand and acknowledge ourselves and our relationship to God more deeply, more authentically, beyond the limitations of our past, social norms, or familial constructs.
We need a safe place to explore all facets of ourself for reconciliation, restoration, transition, renewal, and growth.
We need a perspective of God which helps reunite us to her exquisite cyclical and archetypal nature.
The feminine is transformation, magnetic, creation, and life force…
She comes willingly to the Mother to live, die, and be reborn.
She comes for her soul’s revealing.
She comes to unfurl her divine essence.
She comes to become Mastery.
She comes to be a Holy Woman.
She comes to know her BODY as a sacred temple.
She comes to offer her soul gifts.
She lives in devotion.
She comes to heal and to restore self-LOVE in order to expand to her fullest divine potential for her sacred service.
What might it look like when we work together?
As a certified spiritual director I am qualified and experienced in holy listening and spiritual formation. Yes, there is an art form to holding space and bearing witness for your precious soul to be heard, honored, and held as spirit comes in for your receivership and guidance. There is an art to understanding how we each uniquely open to divine encounter and presence.
We create a safe and sacred space for your to enter your inner sanctuary.
We invite the divine spirit to express itself within your inner sanctuary for direct guidance.
We learn to dance with sacred pause and sacred action.
You’re invited to love yourself exactly as you are. The first step is to allow yourself to become still, in order to feel...we’ll get there together.
We come into ritual and ceremony for you to reclaim your sanctification—divinely resourced, radiant, sovereign. We honor the rites of passage in life which add meaning to this holy life.
You are invited into personal retreat to build intimacy with self and God, building the cultivate contemplative attitude.
Join the Community in the ROSE SANCTUARY
Meet for weekly contemplative—devotional deepening.
Two Pathways to Work with Me:
1:1 Individualized Sessions
Group Mentorship through CONTEMPLATIVE ROSE PATH.