Life As Spiritual Practice

Lauren Burdette
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  • Spirituality

Conversations about how to experience every day life as a spiritual practice

  1. 03/23/2020

    Quarantine As Spiritual Practice

    Whether it's quarantine, shelter in place, or social distancing, how could this challenging and extraordinary time become a spiritual practice? I share some ideas of ways I am opening curiosity and vulnerability in what is an uncertain and scary time. I hope you'll join me, and then share the ways that are helping you keep your heart open in this season.

  2. 03/03/2020

    Playing Games As Spiritual Practice

    We think of game-playing as frivolous, indulgent, child-like. Game store owner and philosopher Kylie Prymus shares how games have changed his life, and will leave you wanting to find a game to play with your loved ones, to experience the rich field of relationship-building and spiritual insight that awaits you on the board. SHOW NOTES Games Unlimited Reiner Knizia Theory of Fun for Game Design by Raph Koster The Grasshopper: Games, Life, and Utopia by Bernard Suits TED Talk by Jane McGonigal Center for Play and Exploration We also mentioned the games Hanabi, Medium, and Mysterium

  3. 02/18/2020

    Honoring Mess As Spiritual Practice

    "Honoring mess" is a surprising phrase, one that jars with our mental image of a spiritual life that is structured, orderly, quiet. Mystic and change agent Preeta Banerjee shares how her experience with the divine feminine has invited her into a flexible, collaborative, creative way of being. You will find tools and inspiration to embrace every bit of life's messy reality in this interspiritual, inspiring conversation. SHOW LINKS Preeta’s Website Life As A Mix Master by Preeta Banerjee Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly “The Guest House” by Rumi The Mystic Soul Project Idea 2 Form Collaborative Design Studio Brené Brown The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

  4. 02/03/2020

    Photography As Spiritual Practice

    Photography can be a place of intimacy and relationship with the holy, if we slow down and open up to the image before us. Stephanie Bell shares her own transforming experiences with photography as a spiritual practice, and offers ways to play with this practice in our daily life. SHOW NOTES Stephanie’s Website Allen Ginsberg Eyes of the Heart: Photography As a Christian Contemplative Practice by Christine Valters Paintner The Open Door Garfield Community Farm Earth Monastery Project Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer This Life That Is Ours by Lauren Burdette

  5. 12/16/2019

    Enneagram As Spiritual Practice

    In this conversation, Chichi Agorom makes the Enneagram accessible, shares her own journey from skeptic to teacher, and beautifully captures the graces she has experienced from engaging with this ancient tool. Whether you’ve never head of the Enneagram or have been studying it for years, you’ll find food for your soul. Show Notes Chichi’s Website The Narrative Tradition of the Enneagram Richard Rohr’s reflection on language and metaphor Online Enneagram test The Enneagram: Understanding Yourself & Others In Your Life by Helen Palmer Book a Type Discovery Session with Chichi

  6. 12/04/2019

    Brewing As Spiritual Practice

    How can a hobby become a way to connect with God? Pastor BJ Woodworth shares his journey with home-brewing, revealing how fermentation is a metaphor for the spiritual life, and inspiring us to listen for ways to enjoy time with God in new ways. Show Notes Into the Silent Land: The Practice of Contemplation by Martin Laird Lost in Wonder: Rediscovering the Spiritual Art of Attentiveness by Esther De Waal On Celtic prayers over daily life The Great Good Place by Ray Oldenburg Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander by Thomas Merton Isaiah 30:15 A Vow of Conversation by Thomas Merton Cooked by Michael Pollan

  7. 11/13/2019

    Re-Telling Your Story As Spiritual Practice

    Dr. Diane Millis joins me for a conversation about the power of telling more life-giving stories. As Diane says, the nature of our lives is narrative. We are inherent story-tellers, but all of us have stories that don’t serve us well. Diane shares her own experience of learning to tell more expansive stories, how that has shaped her knowledge of the holy, and offers tools to explore and expand the narratives within which we live. SHOW NOTES Diane’s website Re-Creating a Life: Learning How to Tell Our Most Life-Giving Stories Psalms for Praying: An Invitation to Wholeness by Nan C. Merrill Dan McAdams Kintsugi pottery Frederick Buechner Richard Rohr Yoga with Adriene StoryCorps

  8. 10/29/2019

    Singing As Spiritual Practice

    I am joined by a very special guest - my mother! Lou Ann Horstman shares her story of embracing her love of singing. You will be inspired by her journey with singing, how she traveled from seeing it as "decoration on the liturgy" to a rich and valid way of experiencing God's presence. Her story will make you want to sing more, and will ignite your curiosity about what practices might already exist in your life that are simply waiting to be taken seriously. SHOW NOTES The Institute for Applied Meditation on the Heart Threshold Choir On the neuroscience of singing Women Who Run With the Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes Learning to Fall by Philip Simmons The Library Book by Susan Orlean Although House of St. Michael the Archangel is no longer an organization, I have inherited our publications and CDs. You can contact Lauren if you are interested in purchasing CDs. They are $10, and all proceeds will go to Caroline Becker, the widow of Tim Becker, the founder of the House.

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Conversations about how to experience every day life as a spiritual practice

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  • Creator
    Lauren Burdette
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2020
  • Episodes
    16
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright Lauren Burdette
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    Life As Spiritual Practice