Seasonal Celebrations
Eye of the Heart celebrates each season with intentional events to help us move through life in the ways each season shows us how to.
All Souls Online Meditation with Carolyn Kolovitz
What messages of wisdom and strength can our familial, cultural & spiritual ancestors offer us during these days of waning sunlight and stressful current events? Join us for a guided visualization, music and imagery that grounds us in the peace and compassion of those who came before us.
October 31st from 10-11am CST
Gathering at the Threshold with Wisdom Dances
As the growing season comes to a close and the darkest part of the year begins, come into the woods to pause, move, remember, and celebrate the ancestors whose lives made ours possible.
Through music, traditional women’s dances, nature, and simple practices of intention and reflection, we’ll create a space to honor both where we come from and what we are becoming.
This celebration invites you to:
Mark the turning of the season
Savor the quiet and beauty of the woods
Move your body in ways that are restorative, joyful, and grounding
Remember and honor loved ones who have died
Connect meaningfully with others
Feel your place within the larger web of generations
Reflect on what you are carrying forward—and what you hope to leave for those who come after you
Traditional women’s dances have a remarkable capacity to hold the fullness of life. Sorrow and joy can live side by side. The dances give us a way to move with what cannot easily be spoken, while bringing the body back to a sense of wholeness, vitality, and connection.
Sunday, November 1, 3 - 6 PM
Led by Emily Jarrett Hughes
Music by Greg Herriges
Program will be within a walled picnic shelter with a large central fireplace.
Past Seasonal Celebrations
Bask in the joy of summer! The Mid-Summer Celebration happens when the flowers and herbs are at their peak. It’s not only peak beauty, it’s peak potency. It’s time to store up the glory and power of summer in the form of healing herbs as well as memories that will warm us through the winter.
Thursday, July 9, 2026, 6-9 PM
Location will be announced soon!
FREE - pre-registration appreciated
Mid-Summer Celebration
Earth Day Dance Celebration
You don’t want to miss out on the spring surge of energy. It’s a chance to clear your heart if it has grown heavy with the burdens of winter. It’s a time to set your intentions for what you wish to cultivate in the seasons to come.
Come, enter into the miracle of spring through dance!
Even if you doubted spring would ever return, it arrives as a gift. As much as you may need and long for spring, the springtime Earth also is grateful for your support. It’s a time to remember that your whole life is in partnership with the Earth, and your gratitude and prayers for the Earth make a difference.
Sunday, April 25, 10-11:30am
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.” Liturgy led by Fanny Prema Manishi Fernandez and Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew. Movement led by Emily Jarrett Hughes.
Saturday, April 18th 6:30 AM
The Mystical Metaphors of Mary Magdalene & the Easter Stories: Online Retreat
with Carolyn Kolovitz
Whether you identify as Christian or no longer align with your Christian lineage, you might be surprised at the universal wisdom within the stories of Mary Magdalene & Easter. Each morning of the retreat, we’ll immerse ourselves in the rich metaphors through visual art, music, storytelling, guided visualization and reflective writing.
Saturday mornings, from 10-11:15 AM CST
March 22, 29 and April 5
Live participation encouraged, but recordings available if you’re not able to be present.
Cost $65
Seasonal Celebrations
are vital to understanding our own seasons in life.
Music, dancing, and lanterns by the river
Sunday, February 2, 2024, 6:30 - 7:30 PM
Crosby Farm Regional Park (meet by shelter)
Cost: Free. Donations appreciated.
Winter Water Blessing
A blessing for the year to come.
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.
The Winter Water Blessing is inspired by ancient European custom of blessing the water at the New Year, a tradition that continues as an Epiphany Day celebration across Eastern Europe. This year’s blessing takes plan on the eve of Chinese New Year.
No experience necessary. All genders and cultures interested in this tradition are welcome.
Emily Jarrett Hughes is a mother, dancer, healer and wisdom teacher. She completed a two-year intensive training in women’s ritual dances with Laura Shannon. The weekly dance circle and seasonal celebrations she leads through Wisdom Dances are dedicated to joy, community, and connection to nature. She gets tremendous satisfaction witnessing how the dancing helps women cultivate their inner authority, a grounded sense of purpose, and ease amidst change.
The Mystical Metaphors of Christmas
An Online Retreat
December 6, 13, 20
Whether you identify as Christian or no longer align with your Christian lineage, you might be surprised at the universal wisdom the sacred stories of Christmas reveal about the path of the mystic. Each morning of the retreat, we’ll immerse ourselves in the rich metaphors through visual art, music, storytelling, guided visualization and reflective writing. Take a break from the busyness and baggage of the holiday season and center yourself in the wisdom of your own experience.
Winter Solstice Celebration with Wisdom Dances
Affirming the Joy and resilience of life even in our darkest season
Live music, reflection, and the healing power of circle dances.
Let’s 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.
This year’s celebration will begin and end with dances that honor Mary, evoking her fearlessness, her faith, and her presence with us as we cross over one threshold to the next. There will be opportunity to reflect on your past year’s highs and lows and small group sharing. Dancing by candlelight will help us attune to the inner light within. We will also continue the Wisdom Dances tradition of drawing a word which can accompany you through the year.
Friday, December 19, 6:30 – 8 PM
Olivet Congregational Church.
1850 Iglehart Ave, Saint Paul
Led by Emily Jarrett Hughes
Music by Greg Herriges
Move into the gifts of Winter.
Winter Rest:
An invitation to fertile darkness.
Winter is a powerful time for resting, spiritual growth, and listening to the fertile dark. It’s a time for slowing down. The only trouble is that it can be such a busy time.
Winter Rest offers you the support of community to create space for darkness and winter rest. As the Winter Solstice appraoches we will gather on Zoom for about 10 minutes to ritually unplug and prepare ourselves to enter into the dark together. The rest of the hour - or the evening if you like - is for you to rest.
Thursday, December 19, 2024, 7:30 PM CT
FREE
