What Does It Take To Be Truly Alive and Whole?

Reflections on a 2-Year Miracle in the Making...

What if you were offered the opportunity to directly experience and know (INSIDE YOURSELF) what it means to still the mind, inwardly connect to wisdom, open to breakthrough healing, and take on the responsibility of embodying one's own unique genius and life of awakened artistry?   Would you do what it takes???

If you were given the choice right now of a "quick comfort-band-aide" to your struggles and worries,  or the realization of inner wisdom and your own uniquely creative genius... which would you choose?

One of the things I've discovered in my own evolution as a spiritual teacher and through my own inner process of self-discovery, suffering, and self-realization, is that most of us simply need help in learning how to "step up to the responsibility being one's Self".   It takes something of you, in you, from you if you want to LIVE a soulfully whole life. 

And even though spiritual awakening, healing transformation, and enlightenment can occur in an flash of insight... the realization of such an instant, the embodiment of being present to such "seeing" is a lifetime journey and a continual blooming evolution of consciousness.  It never ends. There is no "there"  It always is unfolding right "here"...

So what does it take to be truly alive and whole?  It takes:

• "spiritual muscle" (the ability to lift your awareness) 
• "soulful stamina" (the vigilant commitment to holding attention)
• "an inspired heart" (a greater desire for love over fear/ for Soul over identity)
• "the realization of grace" (a willingness to release into the Unknown Mystery)

What would you give to truly heal, free, and transform your life?   Would you give 2-years?  Not many in today's culture would... 

I have just entered into such a sacred relationship with a group of 12 women and men in a SoulArts Master's Program.  I hope my initial reflections here may pave the way for igniting your own spiritual muscle, soulful stamina, inspired heart, and the realization of grace...

SOULARTS Master's Group:  2 Year Miracle Making in Process

(Offered in Awe and Gratitude for our "SoulArts Familia" and All Sojourners of Soul...)

Imagine a small group of 12 women and men, with busy full lives and the same financial issues and personal doubts, struggles and fears we most all face these days, coming together and committing to a 2-year apprenticeship program in the art of awakening to a life of wisdom, wholeness, and soulful daily living.

Imagine a group of individuals coming together - and agreeing to stay together ("no matter what") in order to learn what is is to truly quiet the mind, heal the body, awaken to the soul's wisdom, and learn what is is to live in this authentic awareness in everyday life!

This is just what has begun with the 2-year SoulArts Masters Apprenticeship Program with Ronda LaRue.

...For the next 2 years this precious SoulArts Masters "Familia" of 12 will be following together the thread of inner wisdom in every day living. We will be doing this through our ongoing online "distance learning" graduate master's program, combined with meeting every 6 months for a week-long in-residence retreat intensive, where we will meet to deepen this embodied energetic.

I have just bid farewell to our SoulArts Master's group after our first 6 night retreat together. This morning each are traveling back home to their famiies, their work, their friends. This morning each carries the sure knowing of a kindred safe haven in our Master's Group; and each carries a deeper light of spirit.

And as we sojourn together-apart for the next 6 months, I am in awe at the courage and heart and miracle of each one who has joined this process.

In the last week together, we each witnessed many miracles, in ourselves as in each other. I will share here just a few of mine and entrust you to share yours in reply...

• I saw someone tortured by "the insanity of the mind" grow still and finally see and know in herself, "the peace that passes all understanding"
• I saw energy too big for the body -- and a body who that learned to embrace such a big love.
• I saw wisdom come through the door of innocence and wonder, returned.
• I saw angst and chatter turn into insight and compassion
• I saw grief washed clean in clear seeing
• I saw self given over to soul and pain given up for joy
• I saw projection released and humility realized as courage
• I saw unbouded joy in the simplicity of preparing a meal
• I saw illness overtaken by love
• I saw the moment of dawn
• I saw the flame of creative inspiration unleashed
• I saw 12 hearts willing to hold the light together in life...

In gratitude and love...

ronda