Phil Gardner
Listening for Home
Listening for Home
A path involving ritual, deep listening, mythopoetic writing, shrine building, tending, and walking the path that soul lays out.
Who this is for:
Anyone who is seeking the truth of who they are;
anyone seeking home.
There is a journey we are all on, whether we know it or not, and it is to follow the call home. This isn't simply following a path, nor navigating a landscape to a particular destination. Because the journey heads inwards and outwards at the same time. Home is not a place we move towards, but a remembering of our true essence. And once remembered, it is our responsibility to step into the role of creator of this world, to begin to make it our home, each and every day making it a little more beautiful, a little more sacred, and coming into deeper relation with everyone and every thing, so that you live a life that supports all beings.
The journey is done in ritual and involves five key elements:
Listening
Writing
Building
Tending
Walking
(A period of listening deeply to the land you inhabit, being in dialogue with me about the essence of your path so far, writing poetry and story to honor that path, building a shrine, tending to it each day, walking the path laid out by spirit).
This work closes the gap between the personal, the worldly and the spiritual, allowing the elements and nature to work deep inside you, in subtle but powerful ways.
"Shrines provide habitations for sacred presences within the everyday world."