IN PURSUIT OF JOY
FROM JOY PEOPLE ARE BORN, FOR JOY THEY LIVE, IN JOY THEY MELT AT DEATH. - YOGANANDA
Joy is the most effective tool for living well. And yet it’s so hard to come by. So much can get in the way of our joy; overfull schedules, physical and emotional pain, sheer social media overwhelm, you name it.
In this course I’ll teach you everything I know about joy:
How to incorporate joy into your professional and personal life for effective work and play
Joy as a modern practice of resistance and revolution
How the great masters - Judas, Magdalene, Mary, and Jesus - accessed and used joy
How the Hindu scriptures, medieval mystics, and modern poets use joy for powerful transformation
How to weave joy through your own practice for better relationships, work, and health
How to access the flow state of joy, and more
WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?
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Incorporating joy into your practice can lead to effective, transformative, and positive outcomes for both you and your clients. Specifically:
Creating a Safe and Supportive Environment: Joyful practitioners contribute to creating a safe and supportive therapeutic environment. Clients are more likely to open up and explore vulnerable aspects of themselves when they feel the presence of joy, trust, and positivity in the therapeutic space.
Professional Stress Management: The counseling professions can be emotionally demanding. Cultivating joy equips you with effective stress management tools, promoting resilience and preventing burnout.
Building Trust and Rapport: Trust is fundamental in any therapeutic relationship. Joyful practitioners naturally build trust and rapport with their clients, creating a foundation for honest communication.
Fostering Client Empowerment: Joy is inherently empowering. By having a joyful practice you empower clients to take charge of their own happiness and well-being. Joy becomes a source of strength for clients as they navigate their personal journeys.
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Having a joyful coaching or guiding practice can help your clients accomplish their goals in the following ways:
Building Empathy: Joy is a powerful catalyst for empathy. By cultivating joy you’ll better understand and connect with your client’s emotions and experiences, which forms the foundation for effective therapeutic relationships.
Positive Role Modeling: Clients look to you as a role model. A joyful practitioner is an inspiring example of how to navigate challenges with resilience and maintain a positive outlook. This can motivate clients on their own journeys toward joy and well-being.
Enhancing Communication: Joyful individuals tend to communicate more effectively. By cultivating joy you improve your communication skills by conveying empathy, understanding, and encouragement to your clients.
Facilitating Positive Transformation: Joy is a transformative force. By integrating joy into your practice you help clients explore positive change. Joy becomes a guiding light on the path to personal growth, healing, and self-discovery.
Holistic Well-Being: Joy is a holistic concept that extends beyond mental well-being to physical and spiritual aspects. Practitioners who embody joy can guide clients in a holistic approach to well-being.
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As a creator, joy can enrich your creative process, infuse your art with meaning, and have a deeper connection to your craft and the world around you in the following ways:
Overcoming Creative Blocks: By exploring the spiritual dimensions of joy, you’ll can tap into a state of heightened inspiration, helping you express yourself authentically. Joy helps you break through creative blocks and self-doubt. In this course, you’ll learn practical techniques to overcome blocks and foster a more liberated artistic process.
Infusing Art with Meaning: Joyful living is inherently meaningful. Through joy, you’ll gain insights into how to infuse your work with meaning and purpose, creating art that resonates with your audience.
Inspiration from Everyday Joy: Everyday moments of joy can be a wellspring of inspiration for your work. You’ll learn to find beauty and inspiration in the ordinary, helping your work transcend the canvas.
Connecting Emotions and Art: Joyful living involves a rich tapestry of emotions. You’ll gain insights into the link between emotions and artistic expression, learning how to channel a range of feelings into your work and create art that resonates emotionally with others.
Artistic Joyful Living: Shift the perspective on art from a product to a process that contributes to joyful living. This class guides artists in understanding how their creative pursuits can be a vehicle for personal joy, fulfillment, and spiritual growth.
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This course offers modern spiritual seekers a pathway to joy and practical tools to enrich your spiritual journey, including:
Balancing Spirituality with Modern Life: These practices work seamlessly with the demands of modern life. You’ll have practical tools to balance your spiritual journey with daily responsibilities.
Joy as Resilience: The spiritual path is full of challenges and uncertainties. Joy becomes a source of resilience. This course gives you tools to navigate life with a joyful and empowered mindset.
Overcoming the Ego: Joyful living can help transcend the limits of the ego. Through practical exercises, you’ll learn how to find and release these limiting beliefs, allowing joy to become a guiding force on your path.
Creating Sacred Rituals: Joyful spiritual practices can be incorporated into all your sacred rituals. You’ll learn how to infuse rituals with joy, creating meaningful and uplifting ceremonies that bring you closer to the divine.
COURSE OVERVIEW
WHAT YOU’LL TAKE AWAY:
Concrete Skills and Practical Wisdom:
A spiritual toolkit full of easy back-pocket practices rooted in ancient wisdom which are perfect for personal and professional use
Practical wisdom about how to spot joy in the ancient scriptures and use those teachings in modern life
Concrete actions for integrating joy into your daily life to sustain your modern practice
Material from many contemporary spiritual teachers who can continue to guide you in the way of joy
A new community of fellow joy seekers building a new world together
Spiritual Takeaways:
New seeds for inner transformation which have the capacity to sprout into a joy-filled spiritually enriched life
A guiding inner light for the path no matter where you’re headed next
The felt sense of being woven into the ancient tapestry of mystics and spiritual seekers since time first began
A more artistic and creative sense of yourself who finds inspiration on a daily basis
All art is hyperlinked and can also be found here: Top image is “Erosion of Self” by Jeffrey Smith, middle image is “Outlookers” by Robin F. Williams, bottom image is “Pentecost” by Kbrystyna Kvyk.
WHAT FOLKS ARE SAYING
“Rev. Cindy’s work is deeply connected to whatever larger and kinder thing is at play in and around us. Her warmth, wisdom, intention, and graceful skill are immediate; undoubted; imbued with care and truth. In working with her, I began to believe in something a little stronger, like strengthening a muscle.”
- Lyric L., client
“Cindy is excellent at what she does. Her application of cross-cultural intelligence grounds the undeniable precision in her work. It’s clear she’s been honing her craft for a while and I am incredibly grateful to have access to her work.”
-Jess D., client and colleague
“Sitting with Cindy is such a delightful, grounding and refreshing experience. I, myself, am a skeptic and have a difficult time receiving guidance from teachers and trusting healers. Yet I feel I can trust Cindy because she embodies her teachings and overflows with sincerity.”
-Bright H., retreat participant and client
“If you have joy you have everything.” - Yogananda
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Week One - What's Blocking Your Joy?
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Week Two - The Mystical Roots of Joy
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The Ancient Joy of Yahweh and Yeshua
We’ll explore how the ancient mystics of the Hebrew and Christian traditions taught about joy as an essential part of divine union. Together we’ll look at joy as resilience, transcendence, and completion of a spiritual path.
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Bliss of the Hindu Upanishads
The ancient Hindu scriptures teach joy as the essence of our ultimate divine nature. Together let’s explore how the Upanishads reveal joy to be the source, the bridge, and the cosmic truth of our very being.
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Book Your Clairvoyant Counseling Session
Book your session for anytime in the next two months so we can dig into any joy-blocks to eliminate and joy-flows to amplify. You can learn more about a Clairvoyant Counseling session here.
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Week Three - The Masters of Joy
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Catalyzing Joy - Mary and Gabriel
The angels are the masters of joy and Mary was no slouch either. This lesson we dig into how these two used joy as a catalyst to create a life that would change the planet.
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The Joy of Fulfilling Destiny - Judas
A teaching from the Gospel of Judas, how he greeted Christ with Joy in the garden, and how we can use joy to fulfill the truth of our own destiny with power, love, and humility.
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Joy that Brings Clarity - Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene is often employed as the sad, repentant, clumsy follower of Christ (see: the Spikenard incident!). But she was actually a spiritually master and used joy as one of her major tools. This week, we’ll learn how she did it.
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Week Four - The Purpose of Joy
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Drunk with Joy
One of the purposes of joy is freedom. In order to get there we need to let ourselves get a little ‘drunk’ on joy. This lesson explores some of the greatest joy-drunks - Mirabai, Hafez, Rumi, and St. Teresa of Avila - to inspire you to find your own surrender into the wildnes of joy.
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The Angels of Joy
Every time an angel appears in scripture the first thing she says is “Be not afraid.” Which probably means they are very scary looking. Yet they are the ones closest to God and thus filled with the most possible joy. This lesson we learn how to be as scarily joyful as the angels.
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Week Five - Joy is a Flow State
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Week Six - Joy is the Path to Spirit