Welcome to The Sanctuary
Welcome to The Sanctuary — a private space designed for reflection, learning, and renewal.
Here you’ll find guided meditations, seasonal rituals, and downloadable resources to deepen your practice of sacred living. This evolving library also includes carefully curated books, podcasts, and teachers whose work illuminates the path of mindfulness, connection, and Earth-centered living.
From inner transformation to ecological awareness, each resource invites you to remember your place within the greater web of life. Every recommendation is chosen to nourish your body, mind, and spirit — helping you stay rooted, inspired, and aligned with the rhythms of nature and your own soul.
Let The Sanctuary be your quiet corner of restoration — a place to replenish, remember, and return home to yourself and the living world.
Explore monthly Ceremony Circle themes inspired by the turning seasons, each accompanied by a ritual and guided meditation to deepen your journey of sacred living.
Discover a range of guided meditations designed to restore presence and connection, from short moments of mindfulness to longer journey meditations that invite restoration, clarity, and connection with the sacred.
A thoughtfully gathered collection of books, podcasts, and teachings to inspire reflection, awaken awareness, and nurture an Earth-centered way of living.
Ceremony Circle Collection
Each month we gather in Ceremony Circle to honor the turning of the seasons and the wisdom of the Earth. This collection offers companion materials to deepen your experience — monthly themes, rituals, and guided meditations to support your journey between circles.
Return here whenever you wish to reconnect with the energy of the season, revisit a teaching, or weave the practices into your daily rhythm.
October's Offering - Entering the Portal of the West
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The West is the place of the setting sun — the realm of Water, emotion, and intuition. It calls us to release, to soften, and to listen deeply to what moves beneath the surface. As the light wanes and the world turns toward rest, this is the season of surrender and renewal — a time to honor the beauty in endings and the wisdom that arises in the quiet.
This ritual and guided meditation invite you to journey inward, crossing the threshold into the West to meet your own inner waters. Through breath, reflection, and stillness, you’ll be guided to let go of what no longer serves and open to the deeper current of your soul’s knowing.
Let this be a moment to pause — to trust the descent, to remember that within every ending lives the seed of beginning.
Meditations & Journeys
The Library
Featured Book of the Month
Each month in The Sanctuary, we spotlight a book that invites us
to see the world, and ourselves, through a wider lens.
Goliath’s Curse: The Great Price of Power by Luke Kemp
This month’s selection, Goliath’s Curse, explores the rise and fall of civilizations and the unseen forces that shape their destinies. Luke Kemp’s work asks a vital question for our times: what if collapse is not failure, but a turning point in the human story?
In true Sanctuary spirit, this book offers perspective beyond fear—reminding us that endings are often the fertile ground for renewal. It’s a powerful mirror for those walking the path of sacred living in an age of unraveling, calling us to meet decline with wisdom, humility, and the courage to imagine what comes next.
BOOKS
This One Wild and Precious Life is Sarah Wilson’s rallying cry for reconnection in an age of distraction. Through her own journeys across wild landscapes and deep inner questioning, she explores how modern life has left us fractured — from ourselves, from one another, and from the Earth.
With honesty and hope, Wilson invites us to slow down, simplify, and choose aliveness over apathy — to remember that our task is not just to survive these times, but to wake up fully to this one wild and precious life we’ve been given.
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer is a luminous weaving of Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the language of gratitude. A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Kimmerer invites us to see the Earth not as a resource, but as a generous teacher and relative.
Through stories of plants, seasons, and her own life, she reveals how reciprocity — giving and receiving with reverence — can restore the broken relationship between humans and the living world. Both poetic and practical, this book is a call to remember that when we live in respect and wonder, the Earth responds in kind.
The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler
In this seminal work, Riane Eisler offers a profound re-visioning of human history—one that reveals our species was not always built on domination, but once thrived in partnership. She traces the shift from life-honoring, goddess-centered societies to the hierarchical, war-based systems that came to define civilization as we know it.
The Chalice and the Blade is both an excavation and a remembrance—a reminder that cooperation, reverence, and care are not new ideals but ancient human truths. For those walking the path of sacred living, it invites us to imagine what it means to restore balance between the masculine and feminine, and to participate in the great work of cultural regeneration already underway.
When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone
In this groundbreaking and courageous work, Merlin Stone uncovers a buried history—one in which the divine was once understood as feminine, and the Great Mother was revered as the source of all life. Drawing from archaeology, myth, and early religious texts, Stone reveals how patriarchal systems systematically replaced goddess worship with male-centered theologies, reshaping our collective understanding of power, creation, and the sacred itself.
When God Was a Woman is an invitation to remember what was lost and to feel into the deep knowing that still lives within us. For readers devoted to the path of sacred living, it illuminates how recovering the feminine divine is not about returning to the past, but about healing the rift between spirit and matter, Earth and sky, woman and god—and reweaving a wholeness that has always been our birthright.
PODCASTS
On Being Podcast - John O’Donohue The Inner Landscape of Beauty
John O'Donohue was a poet, theologian, and philosopher. He authored beloved books, including Anam Ċara and Beauty: The Invisible Embrace. To Bless the Space Between Us, a collection of blessings, was published posthumously. A wonderful book drawn from his voice in conversation, Walking in Wonder: Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World, was published in November 2018.
