What is Contemplative Rose Formation?
Each foundation becomes a Portal—a threshold through which the practitioner enters deeper coherence, devotion, and formation. Contemplative Rose formation offers a new path for spiritual growth, devotional living, and leadership. The Contemplative Rose Path walks you into the self-initiated path of the Contemplative Rose Priestess. She journeys through the stages of the rose as a living embodiment of Christ’s resurrection and renewal codes. Together we delve into:
The Seven Gates of the Rose form as our architecture of devotional stability.
The 5 Sacred Rites which initiate us and offer others ministry through MONASTICA.
The MONASTICA archetypes that structure us.
The Gates sustain us.
The Center (the Divine) anchors us.
Rose Formation is a contemplative path for women who desire to learn a deeply rooted tradition and spiritual structure that offers a sustainable way to live, lead, create, and heal, from a place of spaciousness, coherence, and sacred rhythm.
As our modern culture accelerates fragmentation, Rose Formation restores natural rhythm, so we can live in a capacity of authentic faith-filled presence.
The Rose opens through practiced awareness. The rose invites us to embody the living blossoming of Love through radical presence.
Our Sovereign Structure for Via Feminina (Path of the Feminine)…
The Desert — The Unbinding initiation with Magdalene and Desert Ammas. They teach us how to unbind from social, cultural, and institutional conditioning that do not hold us in alignment with God as we know God
The Anchorhold — Is our stabilizing Presence with Mother Mary and the Anchoress Julian of Norwich. They teach us how vital presence is in a world of chaos and how to create our life around the noise and stand steadfast in our own truth.
The Benedictine — The Formation of our spiritual life comes through Christ (Yeshua and Sophia, word and wisdom) and the Benedictine model of monastic living. Here we learn to restore routine, rule, discipline, and ease in our devotional life, so that we may be in joy as we steward the land and host our fellow sentient beings.
An integrated woman, fully formed through MONASTICA, has walked through the desert, can remain anchored in pressure, and lives by cultivated rhythm.
She does not swing between intensity and collapse. She moves in spiritual maturity.
Presence — The Gate of Seeing
Rose Movement: Turning toward the center
Formation Function: Stabilizes awareness
Attention is the first vow of MONASTICA rose formation.
Nothing transforms util it is seen without distortion.
Practices offer us structure for growth in awareness. They are not the goal, but a way of deepening.
Contemplative practices that we might encounter to develop self-awareness and divine awareness are:
Lectio Divina
Visio Divina
Centering Prayer
Holy listening
Mindfulness - noticing, naming, beginning again
Chanting
Rose Teaching
What you attend to, you tend.
What you tend, you become.
Breath — The Gate of Regulation
Rose Movement: The pulse that opens the petals
Formation Function: Regulates the nervous system
Our breath is framed not as a technique, but as Spirit moving through the body.
Through the living spirit, we guide our breath for regulation, inspiration, and unification.
Our breath is a prayer, a companion, and forms our rhythm, safety, and coherence.
Practices
Breathing for Autonomic Nervous System regulation.
Learning the Elemental and Seasonal breath rhythms.
Embodying the holy spirit through breath awareness.
Motion within the stillness
Body — The Gate of Incarnation
Rose Movement: Petals incarnating form
Formation Function: Grounds wisdom
The Rose does not bloom outside the body. Formation here restores trust and consent through sensation.
Contemplative practices open us up to the living body temple:
Body scans
5 Element Somatic Rhythms
Somatic Prayer
Biomacy/Eco Somatics
Body Sanctification
Rose Teaching
The body is not an obstacle to God, but the place God chooses to dwell.
Emotions — The Gate of Integration
Rose Movement: Sap and circulation
Formation Function: Integration rather than bypass
Emotions are energetic information, not identity.
We work with the element of water to move and restore emotional regulation and purity of heart.
Through body mapping, we learn emotional literacy.
We learn the language of the energy body through the 5 elements and how emotions are expressed as grief in the lungs, or anger in the liver, or joy in the heart, etc.
We build an energetic capacity to feel without collapse
We hold our emotions compassionately and long enough for integration. Here, truth arises, is witnessed, and transmuted in appropriate timing.
Practices:
Naming + locating emotion
Elemental emotion mapping
Holding emotions in prayerful awareness
Emotional Energetic Hygiene/Feminine Purification Rites
Entering the cave of the heart
Heartfulness — The Gate of Abiding
Rose Movement: Stem and structure
Formation Function: Devotional Stability
This is where monastic rule meets modern life.
This is the discipline of relational presence with God, with self, with others — without armor, performance, or abandonment.
Heartfulness is the movement from defended living to devotional living.
Regulated openness helps us learn that love is safe.
We allow the heart to become a stable altar for love through all experiences in life.
Practices:
Energy boundaries that help us stay present in relational tension
Compassion without co-dependency
Devotion without self-erasure
Boundaries without fear and anger
Rose Teaching
The rose opens because it is well-rooted and has sound structure.
Heartfulness is more than what we can feel; it is what we are capable of holding.
“Abide in me.” — John 15:4
Christ demonstrated regulated tenderness under pressure.
Abinding is heartfulness.
It allows us to remain.
Communication — The Gate of Relational Integrity
Rose Movement: What the Rose offers the world
Formation Function: Embodied, Integral, non-harmful expression
Contemplative speech is vital as it is the voice that shapes reality.
This portal refines tone, timing, and truthfulness.
Listening is elevated to a sacrament.
Practices:
Discernment through three-centered knowing (learn the three grail centers for discernment: womb, mind, heart)
Holy listening
Contemplative Dialogue
Speaking from the body
Silence as communication
Elements of fire and water for authentic expression.
Healing the feminine voice
Rose Teaching
“In the beginning was the Word…”
Speech is sacred architecture.
Say only what builds.
Light Body Living — The Gate of Stewardship
Rose Movement: Receiving nourishment
Formation Function: Embodied reverence
Nourishment is formation. This is not diet culture. It is sacred tending.
Building your tenets of light body living:
Moving from consumption to communion.
Food becomes relational, not compulsive.
The Rose draws only what it needs from soil, no more.
Practices:
Mindful eating and food preparation
Eating in harmony with what the Earth offers most freely
Natural hygienic practices for keeping the body clean, inside and out.
Blessing food as life-force
Tracking how food affects prayer, mood, and clarity.
Observing other ways that nourish/harm our body—social media, entertainment, relationships, spiritual practices, etc.
Rose Teaching
Christ broke bread.
Eating is covenantal, not casual.
The body is the monastery.
What enters it matters.
Women who move through Rose Formation experience:
Increased emotional steadiness
Greater relational clarity
Stronger boundaries rooted in love
Renewed spiritual depth
A felt sense of inner anchoring
Strengthens devotional capacity and intimacy with God
In a deeper calling to monastic life, women may be positioned as Guardians of Holy Ground.
These are women who feel called to anchor the frequencies of Silence and Stillness for collective healing and calibration.
In Exodus 3:5, Moses encounters the burning bush. God speaks to him from within the fire and says,
“Do not come any closer…Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”
As a Guardian of Holy Ground:
You encounter the wilderness
You witness a fire that does not destroy
You are silent before speaking
Moses did not create holy ground; he became aware of it.
The ground was already holy, presence revealed…
“Formation is not self-improvement.
It is the steady turning of the soul toward Love, until the rose within you opens.”
– Lauren Kimberly
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