slow spirituality

Slow spirituality

I got this idea of calling it slow spirituality from ‘slow fashion’ where people are intentional about the clothing they choose, and are focusing on high quality, slowly made items that are also handmade, ethically sourced and created by someone who absolutely is in love with creating it.

The ideas of it being nourishing for both the creator and the recipient, being high quality and long lasting, and returning to real connection with who you are in relationship with for everything, including what you are choosing to adorn yourself with, are all the things that made me love the term ‘slow spirituality’

How does this translate to spirituality?

Its great to have a sound bath or drum circle that you go to once and awhile, its also great to have a magical and mystical weekend away or week long retreat that opens you up in wild and wonderful ways, however, life creeps back in after a couple of hours, days or weeks depending on the experience you had.

Reading a book on consciousness expansion and metaphysical practices are also amazing, but then the way to integrate it into your day to day life so it becomes a part of you instead of something that you do, is missed more often than not.

Whether its because you are off onto the next thing or because it didn’t give you a way to actually integrate it or you forgot about it after awhile,

‘fast spirituality’ keeps telling us that there is another practice to learn, there is new research and now there is this new trend that you have to jump on in order to calm your nervous system, or heal your chakras or connect to your intuition. That there is something wrong with you if you can’t meditate and keep your brain quiet for an hour while you watch your thoughts pass like clouds. Its heavily rooted in the ‘wellness industry’ that is now using a lot of spiritual based practices that are so rich in joy and goodness and depth, stripping them down for parts and repackaged as something that you can ‘get in just ten days’ if you just spend fourteen hours a day on these seventeen practices.

Slow spirituality is the opposite of this.

It is taking these nourishing, insightful, powerful, transformational practices and helping you to connect to them in a way that makes sense for you.

It encourages you to play, to explore, to build on what speaks to your heart and soul and to let go of the rest.

Its delivered in a way that keeps you engaged over time to help you build a relationship with spirit and the rhythms and cycles of nature and the moon. To return you to a more balanced way to live and be in the world.

It takes into account you have a real life, one that requires a lot of you, and helps you to identify what you have capacity for and meets you there. It makes it fun and engaging and has joy as the desired energy.

It builds it all up over time so one day you realize that you have become the spiritually anchored person you have always craved, and it is your way of being now.