Grounding + Becoming
A Soulspace Wisdom Cross-Pollination
Listen for what is already in you, the seed within reaching toward sunlight
What I need for the terrain ahead seems to be mysteriously sprinkled around me days, weeks, months, or even years before I need it. There is an inexplicable resonance—a knowing that doesn’t conform to my linear timeline and context.
I recognize it.
Wisdom cannot be known with the mind alone; it animates within me. I am known, and I know.
And still, I forget.
Practices draw me back to the center. I return. I drink deeply. I remember.
There is spaciousness inside to keep going.
Follow what draws you.
Notice what stirs.
What is recognition like for you?
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A Spacious Audio Meditation: Bruno Barnhart + “Home” by Sara Bareilles
A spacious audio meditation pairing Bruno Barnhart and Sara Bareilles’ “Home.” An invitation to presence and deep heart listening.
Two: A Meditation by Bruno Barnhart
A Wisdom Collage: Bruno Barnhart meditation read-aloud by Kirsten, an evocative image, and a cover of Everyday Life by Audrey Assad and Moda Spira. What catches your heart’s eye?
The Maximum: An Audio Meditation
An contemplative invitation to the now: Kirsten reads a meditation from Bruno Barnhart’s Second Simplicity, “The Maximum.”
Somewhere Along the Way
Somewhere along the way, I started relating to myself compassionately. And it shows.
Montana Sky Time, An Audio Reading
Kirsten reads Montana Sky Time by Rob Baker in a voice memo.
Can’t go under it. Can’t go over it. We’ve got to go through it.
My heart is magnetized to keep returning to the felt sense of these paradoxes, and so I do, over and over. In twenty-minute increments of silence, I climb into dissonance and breathe with it.
What My Soul Already Knows: A Simple Poetry Practice for a Dark Night of the Soul
A simple practice for drawing on wisdom beyond rational thinking and pro-con lists — a steadying anchor for the disorientation of a dark night of the soul.
Something Else: A Spiritual Director on Holding Obscurity & Disorientation
If you are in the thick of obscurity, holding inner tensions that cannot be resolved, or feeling disconnected from your deepest knowing. If you are disoriented as the sands of time flow through the hourglass at a dizzying pace and there is no rest in sight, please open to this possibility with me: a taste of something else may also be very nearby.
Strong Winds Pose No Threat, A Dimensionally-Layered Practice
Vibrant beauty that once took away breath is a backdrop now; you search for novel sacraments.
Practicing Presence with Abstract Art
Contemplating abstract artwork is a way to wake up our hearts and find a doorway into the inner landscape. It offers us something quieter, deeper: a wordless language.
Glimmering Landscape Time: Spacious Spiritual Practices for Disorienting Times
How do I hold this _______________? (chaos, obscurity, grief, disorientation, restlessness, dark night of the soul…)
Collaging Signals From a Creative Universe
When the gut-punch of anguish hit me hard, I collaged wisdom that called to me in songs and images.
Listening From the Depths: Bibliomancy as Spiritual Practice
Feeling a sense of inner stuck-ness? Here's a simple spiritual practice for deep listening.
Wisdom Collage Cards: A Spacious Way to Listen to Your Heart (Step-by-Step)
A simple, art-based spiritual practice for listening to your inner experience and moving from head knowing to heart knowing.
Contemplative Curiosity: Neil Theise on Complexity
A 10-ish minute spiritual practice -- bringing curiosity to a quote on complexity by Dr. Neil Theise.
The Places We’ve Loved: A Guided Reflection
Here, I know that all will be well. Here, I’m reminded that courage will meet me step by step.