Programs Catalog
Infuse beauty and play into your spiritual life.
Discover the spiritual practices within your creative craft.
Make meaningful connections with other creatives and seekers
Try something new with opportunities to continue deepening.
Explore the program areas offered by Eye of the Heart Center founders.
Join us at one of these upcoming events!
Weekly & Monthly Classes
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Wisdom Dances
Women’s traditional dances for healing and transformation. Led by Emily Jarrett Hughes and based on Laura Shannon’s research.
Drop in any Thursday!
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Writing Your Sacred Journey
Join Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew to explore the art and practice of spiritual memoir writing. Classes occur monthly.
Online & On-Site offerings in Spring & Fall
Retreats & More
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Earth Day Celebration
Join Wisdom Dances for a roving dance celebration that honors the earth, water, and our communities.
Dance is not only an expression of aliveness; to dance is to participate in aliveness. Life is a dance and by dancing we give energy to life. You are not the only one who is renewed and energized through the joy of dance. Even if you have never danced with us before, you can participate in consciously directing the power of singing and dancing for the benefit of all beings.
Sunday, April 27, 1:00 - 4:00 PM -FREE
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Celebration on the Altar of the World
Celebrate Earth Day with a sunrise contemplative liturgy that honors the Divine presence in all of creation. Through bilingual readings, gesture, music and silence we will hold together the joy and suffering in the world. This is a contemporary re-rendering by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew of Teilhard de Chardin’s personal “Mass on the World.”
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Crone Carnival
Celebrating women of a certain age with a joyous festival of art-making, music, laughter, games, dancing (and an introvert yurt if you’re not in the mood).
2025 Date TBD
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Mid-Summer Celebration
Bask in the joy of summer with Emily Jarrett Hughes. Live music, dancing, a personal blessing, and more!
Sunday, July 20th, 2025 - coming soon!
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Winter Water Blessing
Bless the New Year by blessing the water that is the source of all life. We bless the water, and ask the water to carry our blessing to all of life, bringing healing and joy in our world. In honor of the special energy of 2025, the theme of this year’s celebration is the Winged Woman, she who can travel between realms and bring blessing.
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Mystical Metaphors Online Retreats
Whether you identify with Christian lineage or not, there is a lot to learn within ancient stories and wisdom. Whether exploring the Advent stories or the stories leading up to Easter, seasoned facilitator Carolyn Kolovitz will guide you with music, meditation, and more.
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Winter Solstice
Gather for an evening of beauty, connection, and reflection to welcome the return of light. Gorgeous music and meditative circle dances have a calming power that can break through the hectic or heavy energy of this season. This embodied, participatory celebration awakens connection to life energy that embraces and flows through all the ups and downs of life.
Sunday, December 15, 2024.
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Reflective Pilgrimages
Community pilgrimages with creative reflection that connect women to the source of our healing.
Click below to see past events!
Upcoming Writing Opportunities
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Creative Writing to Form Community, Reduce Loneliness, and Keep You Inspired
Reignite your creative spark and connect deeply with others in a space free of judgment. Using The Narrative Method (TNM) developed by Shari Foos, seasoned facilitator Elizabeth Philipose will gently guide participants through a prompt-based, short-form writing practice followed by sharing in small groups. Shared witnessing strengthens our voices and teaches us how much our creative voice matters.
Next session beginning May 7
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Writing Your Sacred Journey
Join Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew to explore the art and practice of spiritual memoir writing. By creating stories of your past, you can re-create your present and find agency for a meaningful future.
In-Person & Online. Upcoming Themes:
May: Dialogue
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Writing the Sacred Journey: An Introduction to Spiritual Memoir
In this two-part introductory class, we’ll ask, “What is memoir, and how is it different from autobiography? What makes memoir spiritual? How can the practice of writing memoir, either for an audience or for no audience, support spiritual growth?” Using writing exercises and readings from model writers, we will get started with the basics. We will also discuss how to sustain spiritual memoir writing moving forward.
May 15 & 22, 12:15-1:30 at Plymouth Congregation, 1900 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis, MN
Explore Other Writing Opportunities
Want to take online writing classes
at your own pace?
Want a taste of Eye of the Heart’s Writing Programs?
Take our free online writing class, The Gifts of Writing Micro-course. This short class will orient you to the gift of writing that you both receive and give as a gift to others. Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew, author and writing teacher, will lead you through four short lessons to orient you and open you and your writing up for transformation.
Note: this link will take you to join the Eye of the Heart online community space, but you do not have to stay to enjoy free access to the course.
Online Writing
Community
Bring your creativity, doubts, questions, and willingness to connect into an online community that names the world as gift. Creation thrives in a flow of giving and receiving. In this space, we orient our hearts toward the gifts of writing–insight, healing, growth, and meaningful presence. Each of us is a gift to the whole, and our best gifts to others are hearts widened by creativity.
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Take a short, free writing course from Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew, which will put all community members on the same page as we gather online together.
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After you complete the course, you’ll be invited to join the writing community, where we will host events, classes, and foster a space for writers to encourage one another.
Groups
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Medial Women's Circle
This group will focus on gathering women together for creative, soulful connection built on mutual trust and spiritual curiosity.
Currently running. Begins October 2024.
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Gathering: a Circle for Writers
Gathering creates space, inspired by contemplative practices, for those who identify as women to reflect on our work, with companionship of other writers.
Registration closed
In-Person in Minneapolis
Conversations
We believe connection happens over curious conversations, so we seek to foster those both in person and online. These conversations often leave us in awe of the creative capacity we humans are gifted with.
For online conversations, we record the conversations every chance we can get, but only leave them up for 30-days publicly. After that, we shift them into our online writing community.
Past Conversations:
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This in-person event in Minneapolis featured film-maker Lucy Mathews Heegaard for an immersive film and conversation experience centered around her documentary, Diplophonia: A Diary of Voice Loss.
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Charity E. Yoro left us wondering about how poetry can help us channel our rage and reverence both in a world that is falling apart at the seams, or at the very least, seems to be. Listen and be inspired by her poetic voice and learn about how writing can be a transformative practice—for all of us.
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Long-time writer friends Mona Susan Power and Elizabeth Fletcher discuss the part intuition plays in their writing practices. Readers often imagine that creative writing is a wholly cerebral enterprise where each step of the way authors make conscious choices regarding craft, character, and plot. In reality, some writers surrender to the mystery of a process that can never be controlled, but rather is accessed by an open-hearted trust in the deep intelligence of our connection to all beings, past and present.
