Christmas Eve Service in San Clemente

Christmas Eve Service in San Clemente.  Doors open at 4:30 and caroling begins at 4:45. Come and join us to celebrate the beauty of the season with our annual candle lighting ceremony. Take time to find that place of peace, silence and beauty within.  Where ever you are on your spiritual journey know that you…

It Actually Was Perfect

Sometimes we get so caught up in crafting the perfect memories we don’t see what is right in front of us. Or “Christmas Television with Ella” or “How I Caught Myself Being A Holdiay Cynic” either way it’s a reminder that sometimes things are just perfect as they are. This is a little memory I…

Thinking About Perfection and Practice

“Well, that sounds like courage” she said. I remember when I first heard “it’s yoga practice not yoga perfect.” It was such a revelation. It was releasing and demanding all at the same time. It meant I could release the need to for perfection but I couldn’t release being present. It meant that I might…

Meditation, Purpose & Emerson

What is your plot of land? This Sunday was our final week in our month on meditation. Rev. Dr. Heather Clark talked about using meditation as a tool to connect with the very essence of who we are and to ask how to manifest our good in the world. To ask “What is trying to…

Words, Intentions and Transitive Verbs

All the World’s a Stage. You write the text. You pick your transitive verbs. Words are powerful. We talk about that all the time. The Intention behind our words is just as powerful, maybe more so. At the Center for Spiritual Living we talk a lot about “Tools for Transformation.” In fact this month is…

Namaste Consciousness in San Clemente

Namaste is more than just a greeting we use in yoga class. Namaste consciousness, a feeling of oneness with all of creation is listed as a side effect of the practice of meditation. Deepak Chopra discusses this quality in Meditation Techniques Demonstrated. How would your day look different if you set your intention to honor…

Meditation: Am I doing this right?

Could 20 minutes a day change your life? This Sunday Rev. Ann Ronan shared that a Buddhist nun who was also a Physicist shared with her that 20 minutes of meditation a day could transform a life. Rev. Ann never forgot that. November begins our theme of Meditation. I am a fairly recent convert to…

Walk the Labyrinth This Wednesday in San Clemente

Experience Sacred Space at Wednesday Wisdom It’s that time of pumpkin patches and corn field mazes, dark nights and candle light. My first visit to the Center for Spiritual Living was to walk the labyrinth. It was this time of year. Dark at night. I drove out to San Juan Capistrano where the center was…