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Join us for our 6th Annual Online Winter Retreat 2021: Making it from Scratch! February 12-13-14.
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As many of you know, I am the admin for this website, as well as the Founding Director of The Holistic Homestead. What you may not know, is that before I started the Homestead, I lived as a Buddhist Nun…
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Category: Headlines, Winter Retreat
Tags: 7 healing stars, arwen ek, black hawk, catholic tradition, christian mysticism, inspiration, meditation classes, meditation for beginners, online retreat, sacred dance, shamanic rituals, spirituality and health, tara mandala, winter retreat, yoga
Whether you’re going for one more day of juice fasting, or if you are ready to ease your way out of this transformative cleansing experience – I wanted to offer you another tool to help keep you on track with…
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Category: Headlines, Spring Cleanse
Tags: cleansing breath, cleansing yoga, detox, easy yoga poses, gentle yoga, Holistic Health, inspiration, natural wellness, self care, spring cleanse, yoga for detox
“Historically one is inclined to look upon science and religion as irreconcilable antagonists…I maintain that cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest incitement to scientific research…The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion…
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Category: Headlines, Winter Retreat
Tags: Albert einstein quotes, deepak chopra, health benefits of meditation, health benefits of prayer, health benefits of spirituality, inspiration, integrative cardiology, medical surgical nursing, nursing, prayer, quantum healing, religion, science of spirituality, spirituality and health, why meditate, winter retreat
Join us for our annual winter retreat! Starting on Sunday, February 18th and ending on Sunday, February 25th, we will spend 8 days sharing prayer, yoga, meditation and inspiration online and in-person. THIS IS OUR MOST POPULAR EVENT OF THE…
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Category: Headlines, Winter Retreat
Tags: aditi devi ma, benefits of meditation, emotional health, holistic spirituality, inspiration, lean in, mantra, mental health, spiritual practice, winter retreat, yoga
Grant Writing is one of my favorite pastimes. Seriously. I turn the lights down, put on some sweet, mantra-laced techno/trance beats, and I’m in the “Homestead Zone”. “How does your nonprofit benefit the community?” “How many people does your nonprofit…
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Politics aside, any nationwide healthcare system – as an organized attempt of a nation to truly care for its citizens, that is – must ultimately consider it’s sustainability, it’s ability to care for human beings who are born, get sick,…
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Today is the last day of our retreat together! It has been such a pleasure to feel your presence with us as we work toward cultivating greater compassion. What caught your attention? What did you connect to? What practices will…
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Category: Headlines, Winter Retreat
Tags: aditi devi ma, compassion for beginners, compassion is contagious, cultivating compassion, extraordinary compassion, inspiration, jack kornfield, meditation practice, mother teresa, namaste, pema chodron, religion, self love, spiritual practices, spirituality and health, the dalai lama, thomas merton, winter retreat
“I do not pretend to give such a deed; I only lend it to you. When you […] meet with another honest Man in similar Distress, you must pay me by lending this Sum to him; enjoining him to discharge…
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Category: Headlines, Winter Retreat
Tags: benefits of generosity, cultivating compassion, emma seppala, give back, health benefits of compassion, inspiration, pay it forward, practice generosity, share kindness, social connection, spiritual practice, the science of happiness, winter retreat
Have you ever walked into a room and suddenly felt inexplicably happy? And then walked into a different room and felt agitated, or angry, or even depressed? I used to think it was all me, and then I learned about…
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Category: Headlines, Winter Retreat
Tags: compassion, cultivating compassion, heart chakra, heart light meditation, inspiration, limbic resonance, relationships, religion, spirituality and health, the limbic system, the science of compassion, wikipedia