New Presentation: Spiritual Practice: Discipline, Balance, Surrender? - Jacqui Avery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vuYQ1ulx0s
Jacqui talks about the wide variety of spiritual practices she has explored over her 40-year path from atheism, through conservative evangelical - then mystical / contemplative - Christianity, to kundalini awakening. Guided by the question, ‘What brings you to life and what deadens you?’, she considers what makes a practice a spiritual one, whether or not it is necessary to choose and commit to one spiritual practice, and when to let go of all spiritual effort. There is no one-size-fits-all answers, but some pointers towards opening out the spiritual journey through creativity, embodied wisdom, the power of symbol and the importance of longing.
Link to the current version of the Spiritual Accompaniment course mentioned in the presentation:
About Jacqui
Jacqui originally trained as a musician and for most of her career taught music, performing arts and religious studies in sixth form colleges and secondary schools, also working with students with additional learning needs. She has worked as a pastoral mentor in a college and as the spiritual wellbeing lead for a Christian charity. She has a diploma in spiritual accompaniment, having completed a ground-breaking training course where people from many different spiritual traditions listened to, learned from, and accompanied one another.
She now has a ‘portfolio career’ working as a qigong teacher, spiritual accompanier and creativity coach, leading retreats and workshops on various aspects of spirituality, creativity and meditative movement.
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Thanks Sameer. It was a great presentation and I look forward to watching the recording! 😀