Heather Ruce

As you well know it has been a year of the pandemic and of cocooning in the darkness of the womb. Are we ready to emerge? To be birthed?...

Although the pandemic was rolling in already, I remember Friday, March 13th, 2020 as the day it really set in that we were entering into...

We continue on in this Lenten season. Whether you gave up something or took something on for these 40 days, I hope that you were able to...

Our Lenten journey continues. This time of self-examination, fasting or letting go of something, and prayer/meditation. All in service of...

This has been another tumultuous week in America with all that is going on in D.C. and around the world. All hearts and hands are needed...

You may have noticed the blessing at the end of the weekly emails as of late. Many of you now know that it goes with a body prayer of...

Wisdom and Systemic Racism by Heather Ruce As we continue on in the season of Epiphany, the veil still thin, we are invited to bring the...

There is a lot of healing ahead of us and yet we are not through the traumas. Trauma is really about things happening that are too much,...

What a historical week here in the United States. There is so much to celebrate and I think everyone agrees that there is a lot of...

This is another big week. Tomorrow is Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Wednesday is Inauguration Day. There is such a strong need to stay...

This week we moved from the tender twelve days of Christmas proceeding December 25th, in which we linger in the preciousness of the...

It is a new year. Although it may not feel like the fresh start that many have been hoping for as the pandemic surges on and we are still...

I hope that you had a meaningful Christmas amidst what was likely a loss of continuity in traditions and celebrations. I hope that you...

Both light and darkness are emerging, are necessary, are luminous, are beautiful. We are meant for both. Today we enter the final week...

It is the third week of advent, this precious season of waiting, hoping, expecting renewal, preparing, watching, waking up, pondering,...

Today marks the second Sunday of the season of Advent. There are traditionally themes for each Sunday during the four weeks acknowledged...

I hope your week has been full of giving thanks and gratitude for the simple joys of life in the midst of all the changes in holiday...

All is well and all is not well. We are fine and we are not fine. These realities can be true at the same time. . . As we enter this week...

I am encouraged by the spiritual deepening happening in our world. Many people are seeing the need to move beyond our usual ways of...

We all feel the stress, the squeeze, the stretching. . . in very similar and collective ways as well as very different and particular...

I hope that the practices of observing unnecessary tension in the body, emotions, and thoughts have been useful to you. We engage these...

I don’t need to remind you that there is a lot going on in our world. I keep hearing people say, “it’s too much.” I may sound like a...

I hope the practice of observing 'unnecessary tension in the body' was useful to you. This practice comes from the Gurdjieff tradition...

Last week I mentioned that it seems we are in a collective dark night of the soul. Whenever we go through difficult periods, both...