Revival A Solstice Celebration

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. —Rumi

One of the most mysterious aspects of self-love is that we tend to land on it only as a last resort, when everything else has failed, when we have truly hit bottom, when our yearning to be rescued by others has led to disappointment again and again and again.

In this workshop, we will consider the possibility of stepping into deep and profound self-love RIGHT NOW. We will stare straight into the paradox of our resistance to self-love and in doing so we will glimpse the sovereignty that awaits us by shedding the barriers we have built against it.

Being a human is the most challenging journey any conscious being could ever undertake. Were it possible to travel to all the galaxies of this universe and study all the intelligent life forms it contains, we would not find a single creature who faces a journey of existence more challenging than our own. No human can bypass this predicament. Deferring, ignoring or evading it only complicates our task in the long run.

But there is one thing that we can do to simplify the journey immeasurably—we can commit to the practice of self-love. It is a big commitment, it is a scary commitment, it is an unconventional commitment. It is a commitment that all of our social conditioning dismisses and devalues.

And yet the rewards are immense. For how can we love others before we have learned to love ourselves? How can we know what we are called to do in this lifetime before we know ourselves? How can we connect with the magical wonders of this universe if we cannot connect with ourselves? How can we be truly free until we are SOVEREIGN?

Each of us is like a tessera, a beautiful and unique piece of colorful ceramic, carrying the potential to become part of a stunning mosaic. Yet we cannot land on our own sovereignty until we know where our individual tessara fits. Just as we must patiently pivot and turn a tessera, so too must we explore our inner landscape with curiosity and compassion. This workshop is an invitation to journey inward with love, to let go of our resistance, to allow that “click” as we place our tessera into the mosaic of life.