Find Your Center, Find Your Feet

A Guided Imaginative Mediation with Birds

Imagine that you are outside walking and you notice a bird soaring high above you. You focus on its wings and the way it holds itself up in the air, gently gliding. Join us for this guided presence practice using birds as a metaphor.
Imaginative meditation inspired by NCHPAD. Poetry by Jennifer Hoffman and Mary Oliver. 
For more information about Moravian Theological Seminary's Spiritual Direction Program: https://www.moravianseminary.edu/academics/certificate/spiritual-direction
Music by Robert Long: robertjohnlong@gmail.com
 

A Conversation with Dr. Cindy Lee, author of Contemplative Witnessing: BIPOC-Centered Spiritual Direction

An interview of Dr. Cindy Lee author of Contemplative Witnessing: BIPOC-Centered Spiritual Direction. Rev. Mia White joins the interview, as a graduate of our MTS Spiritual Direction Program, and as a member of the BIPOC community.
As a Taiwanese American, Dr. Cindy Lee has a PhD in Practical Theology in Spiritual Formation from Claremont School of Theology and a DMin in Transformational Leadership from Bakke Graduate University. Cindy Lived in Beijing and Taipei for 6 years, and currently resides in LA, while serving on the SDI Board.
In Contemplative Witnessing, Lee explores how BIPOC people can experience a liberating spirituality so we can settle into our own bodies, experience the traditions and spirituality of our cultures, and engage with communities that reflect our sacredness back to us. Contemplative Witnessing serves as a guide for spiritual directors to facilitate such encounters. This book equips spiritual directors, to journey with and within, and to serve as witnesses as BIPOC people encounter our most sacred and honest selves. 
For more information about Moravian University School of Theology Spiritual Direction Certificate Program: https://www.moravianseminary.edu/academics/certificate/spiritual-direction
Music by Robert Long: robertjohnlong@gmail.com
 

A Whole Body Relaxation Mediation for Fall

Join Pam Robertson for a whole body relaxation mediation for fall. I am Listening poem by Macrina Wiederkehr and Joyce Rupp from Circle of Life: The Heart's Journey Through the Seasons. What Makes a Fire Burn poem by Judy Brown, from The Sea Accepts All Rivers. 
 
For more information about Moravian Theological Seminary's Spiritual Direction Program: https://www.moravianseminary.edu/academics/certificate/spiritual-direction
Music by Robert Long: robertjohnlong@gmail.com
 

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Poet, Teacher and Speaker

A  conversation with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, poet, teacher, speaker. She is a writing facilitator who co-hosts Emerging Form, a podcast on creative process, which is also on substack. Her daily audio series, The Poetic Path, is on the Ritual app. Her poems have appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, O Magazine, American Life in Poetry, and Carnegie Hall stage. Her recent collections are All the Honey and The Unfolding. In 2024, she became poet laureate for Evermore, helping others explore grief and love through poetry. Since 2006, she’s written a poem a day, sharing them for FREE on her daily blog, AHundredFallingVeils.com.  The link to the video shared at the end of the podcast of the poem Because: https://youtu.be/dVu-HHUqIng
 
For more information about Moravian Theological Seminary's Spiritual Direction Program: https://www.moravianseminary.edu/academics/certificate/spiritual-direction
Music by Robert Long: robertjohnlong@gmail.com
 
 

50 Thin Days of Easter with Cynthia Bourgeault

50 Thin Days of Easter with Cynthia Bourgeault, a modern-day mystic, Episcopal priest, writer, and internationally known retreat leader, teaching and spreading the recovery of the Christian contemplative and Wisdom paths. In this podcast Cynthia offers another teaching on the 50 Thin Days of Easter, the Easter-tide days between Easter and Pentecost, particularly focusing on the final 10 days  between Ascension and Pentecost. Cynthia invites us to honor this Ascension Season of Holy Hush and to listen deeply within, almost tuning into nothing but the subtle and let the world with all its predictable dramas go for a while, and pay attention to watching trees budding and leafing out.
For more information about Moravian Theological Seminary's Spiritual Direction Program: https://www.moravianseminary.edu/academics/certificate/spiritual-direction
Music by Robert Long: robertjohnlong@gmail.com
 
 

An Interview with Christine Valters Paintner

Christine Valters Paintner is the Abbess at the Abbey of the Arts (www.abbeyofthearts.com), an online global monastery without walls, offering retreats, classes, books, and resources to nurture contemplative practice and creative expression. A writer, artist, spiritual director, retreat facilitator, and teacher, she earned her PhD in Christian Spirituality from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and her professional status as Registered Expressive Arts Consultant and Educator (REACE) from the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association.
For more information about Moravian Theological Seminary's Spiritual Direction Program: https://www.moravianseminary.edu/academics/certificate/spiritual-direction
Music by Robert Long: robertjohnlong@gmail.com
 
 

A Conversation with Jennika Eckhaus, University Chaplain

Jennika Eckhaus, Moravian University Chaplain, is an ordained presbyter in the Moravian Church. She is a 1998 graduate of Moravian University and a 2001 graduate of Moravian Theological Seminary. She also graduated with her Certificate in Spiritual Direction from Moravian in 2020 and on May 3rd she will graduate with her Doctor of Ministry Degree, also from Moravian. As Chaplain, Jennika works to build communities of belonging on the University campus, offering prayer and worship opportunities as well as pastoral counseling for students, faculty, and staff. This summer she will be transitioning to become the Dean for Spirituality and Inclusion and Director of Moravian Church Relations for the University.
For more information about Moravian Theological Seminary's Spiritual Direction Program: https://www.moravianseminary.edu/academics/certificate/spiritual-direction
Music by Robert Long: robertjohnlong@gmail.com
 

A Guided Meditation to Easter Your Spirit!

Join us for a guided meditation to easter your spirit! A lectio divina with Macrina Weiderkehr's poem, Listening to Spring and a daily Examen of the last twenty four hours of your life. 
For more information about Moravian Theological Seminary's Spiritual Direction Program: https://www.moravianseminary.edu/academics/certificate/spiritual-direction
Music by Robert Long: robertjohnlong@gmail.com

A Guided Grounding Meditation

Find a quiet place and join us for a guided grounding meditation! Inspired and adapted readings from Valerie Kaur, Sherry Zak Morris and Jack Kornfield. Blessing of Angels by John O'Donohue and Change Is In The Air by Melody Beattie. 
For more information about Moravian Theological Seminary's Spiritual Direction Program: https://www.moravianseminary.edu/academics/certificate/spiritual-direction
Music by Robert Long: robertjohnlong@gmail.com

Nancy Bieber: Author of Decision Making and Spiritual Discernment: the Sacred Art of Finding Your Way

Nancy Bieber is Author of Decision Making and Spiritual Discernment: the Sacred Art of Finding Your Way. Nancy rooted in her Quaker tradition, is a spiritual director and psychologist, a writer and teacher. She has taught at the School of the Spirit (Quaker), Oasis Ministries (ecumenical), and Lancaster Theological Seminary. She has frequently led retreats and workshops for groups around the country. Nancy has written 3 books: Decision Making and Spiritual Discernment: The Sacred Art of Finding our Way; Fianna’s Story: A True Story of Love, Grief and Faith (the story of her grandparents); and the book Those Who Came Before (a story of her ancestors).
For more information about Moravian Theological Seminary's Spiritual Direction Program: https://www.moravianseminary.edu/academics/certificate/spiritual-direction
Music by Robert Long: robertjohnlong@gmail.com