Imagining Your Advent
What is Advent for you?
Is it a Christian tradition related to Christmas? Is it a wreath and candles? Is it a calendar with little windows to open? Is it simply the last weeks of the year,( in the US) the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas? Is it a mood of soul?
For me, for my soul, Advent is a mood that is complex, sometimes confusing.
My Advent mood is full of contradiction like anticipation and reflection, sadness and happiness, bleakness and richness, silence and trumpets, stillness and urgency. I want to think and contemplate. I want to do and create. I want to feel deeply finding a wise harmony of soul. Likewise, I want sink into the delight of a child wondering through
Toyland.
How do you design and balance the contradictions of the Advent season?
Five years ago, my need for design and balance at this time of year inspired me to create an Advent activity called Inner Advent. It makes meaning, significance and purpose of this time of year and the complex moods of the season.
Inner Advent guides you through a creative and powerful process for recollecting your year. You will learn ways to review your year and discover what it was all about. You will then release the perceptions and energies of 2014 like a sweet celebratory exhale and a kind forgiving sigh.
Celebrating Inner Advent prepares the soul, cleanses self-doubt, cultivates self-awareness, nurtures self-discovery in a way that allows us to enter into the mystery of the twelve Holy Nights with real openness. Working with your past year is working on your future year.
Inner Advent brings creative
closure to your year
- makes sense of your year on many rich levels – work, relationships, changes, difficulties, emotions.
- provides a surprisingly objective knowledge of your truth
- forms an evolving picture of your feeling life
- acknowledges your accomplishments
- helps free you from limiting identities, stories and reactions
- reveals the love and freedom of your soul’s year
- gives you a feeling of completion and liberation
- encourages inner development and inner
maturity
- opens you up to receive the gifts of Inner Christmas
Here are two comments from Inner Advent participants:
Lynn, thank you so much for
this. this audio content is as a vessel through which flows profound healing; it encourages me in an inviting way to live the processes of releasing the inner year gently and with love. I am so thankful for the way in which even small steps, beginning gestures - whatever had been possible - are actually far-reaching in effect... The work of celebrating, mourning, attending to regrets and awakening self-forgiveness are described so beautifully. I also cherish the inclusion of the shadow in a
'just right' way - in an honouring way. Lynn that you have deeply meditated and pondered on anthroposophical insight such that it bears fruit in this way moves me and awakens wonder and thankfulness. It is living. It is as grace. It enables my inner process. Anne D.
I've learned through this process that what happens in my "outer world" or contexts is important and is fun to reflect on but that the rich stuff is what's been going on in "the deeds" or my inner world :) I'm really enjoying creating my mandala. I too am using photoshop for the work. I love this class Lynn! It's excellent!! Melissa M
Please give yourself the gift of Inner Advent.
LEARN MORE & REGISTER HERE.
An Advent Gift for You
If you want to know more about the
season of Advent and the wonderful rituals that can enrich and deepen your Advent experience, I have a gift for you. It is an audio about an hour long. Download it to your phone and take a nice long late Autumn walk.
Advent - A Beautiful Preparation
and
new this year
I've designed
The Inner Year Mandala.
It is an elegant and inspiring design for gathering your thoughts, feelings, deeds and contexts, during Inner Advent and over the coming
year.
I love this!
Place it on a wall in your study, your bedroom, mine's in the kitchen! and it is a beautiful reminder to notice and record your inner life.
Order Your Mandala Here
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