Orenda School For Inter-Spiritual Living

07/20/2025

Join the "Tap Into Your Inner Practical Mystic" workshop from July 21st to 29th, 2025. This free 9-day series is designed to help you reconnect with your authentic self and navigate your spiritual journey amidst daily life. Participants will engage in shamanic energy healing, breathwork, and practical tools for alignment. Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your spiritual gifts.

Email from Orenda School for Inter-Spiritual Living 9-Days of Soul-ful Teachings & Powerful Experiences w/ Alethea Devi     Tap Into Your Inner Practical Mystic - 9 Day Series Online FREE Workshop - J

05/02/2025

Join us for a transformative 7-day online workshop, "Tap Into Your Inner Practical Mystic," from May 12th to 18th. This event is designed to help you connect with your authentic self and explore your spiritual gifts through shamanic practices, breathwork, and intuitive development. Don't miss this opportunity to gain insights and tools for navigating daily life with a peaceful mind. Register now for the Zoom link.

https://conta.cc/42CZjmU

04/10/2025

Send a message to learn more

04/10/2025

We often take pics of ourselves when we're having fun or to mark a special occasion. It's a "Snap Shot" of how our lives are filled with lots of busy activity, relationships, commitments, conversations, problem solving, racing off to the gym or the shopping mall. Why not take a moment to capture what your face, your body, your energy field looks like when you actually take a moment to slow down to be still in deep repose. I took this Selfie to remind me of the time I was away on retreat this Spring, and how I experienced a profound difference in my whole being.- one of a deep connection to the great Mystery.

I invite you to notice how different your face and body will look as you have given yourself the gift of REST. Your usual aches and pains- (stuck energies held in the body) will be far less intense. You may even stand up straighter and perhaps taller, and your face will look more relaxed (Less squinting or grimacing etc) when you give yourself a well-earned Time-Out from your busy life.

We are conditioned to be Doing and Doing and More Doing as a justification for our existence. When we focus only on the activity of the human-made world, we loose our perspective of a greater process at work. Our lives can change, our possessions can be replaced - homes, spouses, jobs, careers, clothes, clients, money, community, artwork, even our treasured sacred objects are replaceable. The Only things that are Not replaceable is your Time and Energy.

We - I forget this, and then we kind of remember it intellectually, until we come face to face with our Divine Humanity during a time away. I needed a time out from my own racing mind. The Empath in me was tired out from being triggered so much. I was feeling numbed by the overwhelm and enormity of what is unfolding right now.

So how do you make the shift from being in the busy world back into the sacred world of Spirit? I will share some of my personal practices with you in my next post.

Meanwhile, Go and talk to the trees, sing to the birds, laugh with the rain drizzle, and be filled with Gratitude for BEING…Alive.

Send a message to learn more

04/08/2025

Rest In the Silence April 8th, 2025

I recently enjoyed attending a week-long silent retreat, (a “Khilvat”) with several close Sufi friends on lovely forested lands in Washington State. This was the perfect “time out” from the busy world of Doing. It felt like finally getting something to drink after being so thirsty for way too long. I relished the idea of not having to attend to the needs of others and focus on myself - to recharge my batteries, my enthusiasm, my vitality, gain some clarity and REST. I was there on this land to be in prayerful silence, to dive more deeply into the mystery of my Self, to stop mental chattering distraction and doings -to make room for slowing down of all movements, and thoughts, to merge into a focus on an unending moment of Being.

Each day I wandered the land. Lake Flora was waiting to greet me with her mist and tranquil waters. She is surrounded by the frilly thickets of grasses and willow that decorate her edges. A trail beckoned me to explore, while birds calling to each other fluttered pass me. The winds rustled the trees to dance, while the lushly dense mosses and ferns decorated my path.

Through the movement of my body, in a relaxed tempo of my strides, i easily slipped into the a favorite state of Connection with All Creation - an expanded felt-sensing of the energies I was moving in. Deep breathes brought smiles with a returning ease and inner calm. I looked along the shore for a suitable place to do my ritual, one that was not too muddy, perhaps with a rock or log to sit upon?

I love water! I love to connect with waters every time I am near them. I Must get my feet in the water, no matter the weather, season or temperature of the water. In someways, the colder the better. Putting my feet in wild water immediately brings me to my Body. Though my feet may start to feel rather numb, I feel invigorated and grateful to be ALIVE!

In the style of the Sufi, I perform my ritual of ablutions, to purify and bless all of my body, mind and heart. Dipping into the water and blessing each part of me, hands, legs, arms, back, front, face, headband heart with the sacred water. I do get fairly damp. Next In the Andean tradition, I release old dense energies that I hold and allow them to flow out of me and into the Lake waters. Lake Flora loves my “Hucha” my dense energies made from my worries, anxieties etc, because for Her, it is candy. I give her my “Hucha” - to flow out of me thru my tailbone and into the water to transmute for me…and she gives me new “Sami” refined energies to heal and rebalance me. This Sacred reciprocity, creating energetic bonds and friendships with the waters, trees, wind,Sun, Moon, all animals, other people etc is called “Ayni” in Quechua, which is a foundational concept in the cosmology of the South American/Andean Cultures and is the way we heal each other and help build a more loving world.

I would love to show you in person how I do this and for you to experience this for yourself. Join me for the next time I plan to put my feet in the water…
Let’s connect.

Send a message to learn more

04/04/2025

These days, we notice feeling anxious about so many things. This dense energy starts to effect our mental and physical health - our psyche, our relationships, how we care for ourselves and others, even how we dress, walk, eat, and speak about ourselves and others. Our minds and hearts need to have some Order, something more predicable…So what can we do to have a different experience?

There are moments when deep Meditation soothes me. I love Powerful Affirmations to remind me of a positive reality of the larger picture and universal process. There is a place and time for sitting, being still and connecting deeply with the presence of the Divine Mind that activates all things seen and unseen…and then there’s also the time, a need to get up and do something really physical …and do it right now!

I’m talking about taking a focused approach to shifting my energy and mindset. Since I cannot control all the crap going on in the world, especially in our country at the moment, I do have control over what i think and how I respond…

I go and look at the list of projects and goals taped to the refrigerator door. I pick one and burst into action!

Today, I will not only reorganize my office, desk, book shelves, chairs, files, but move it entirely into another room, one that I have used as a therapy room for when I see people in person. I need to be in this room now, giving myself some therapy of Calmness. The walls are a lovely periwinkle purple and the ceiling is a turquoise blue, the perfect colors for all my Art collection. ‘

I mindfully select only the things that are beautiful and will bring me calm when i look at it. No more piles of paper and visual clutter. I am doing myself a favor and only including what gives me JOY!

I create an outer Order that supports my inner Calm…

In the spirit of your Self-care, what can you do to shift your energy, your mindset to create some kind of Order that supports a renewed inner Calm?

Send a message to learn more

04/02/2025

In my childhood, it was my father, Walter Jones, who was "The One Who Calms" bringing his loving energies to a challenging moment.
As the middle child, he was the referee between his younger sister and older brother who often argued about who had to do certain chores, or who got the last cookie from the big jar above the refrigerator.
It was my Dad as a teacher who broke up fights between his students, each being a different skin color. It was my Dad who then retired from teaching to enter the Ministry.
This quiet man thought he was not very strong or assertive in his ways but he filled the room with compassion and love wherever he went. This is what drew people to his church every Sunday. He was an excellent speaker, presenting his sermon with depth and clarity in his heart-centered messages. His Calm brought people together, which touched the lives of all.
He left me with the gift of understanding how a person can leave such a deep impression on others just by being themselves.
Thank You, Dad!
Now, The question I ask you is...Who are you? Not what are you, as in what role you play in your family, community or job, but the deepest part of you, your Soul expression. Bring more of that out for the World to see. We need you!
If you want to explore this further, I am here. Book a FREE Call with me. https://calendly.com/aletheadevi.../connection-call

Send a message to learn more