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We hope that these prayers will be a powerful companion on this Lenten journey and suggest you listen to this meditation while walking as they are traditionally experienced. You are also invited to pause between stations to extend this prayer session as long as you like. We are grateful to The Rt. Rev. Frank and Victoria Logue for writing these beautiful prayers and for recording these stations. A...

Podcast Series: Run the Race - Meditations for Movement Course Instructor: The Rev. Kristen Ostendorf   In This Episode: This visioning exercise follows the advice Paul gives his followers in 1 Thessalonians 5: 17-18: to pray without ceasing. Following this pre-movement meditation, a walker, hiker, or runner will write a prayer that follows a traditional format of Christian prayer - called a colle...

Podcast Series: Run the Race - Meditations for Movement Course Instructor: The Rev. Kristen Ostendorf   In This Episode: Using Proverbs 11:25-26, you'll be led through how to do a prayer/walk/run. The focus will be on the refreshment that can come by praying for others. Full course page including introduction video and additional resources here: https://www.thehiveapiary.com/run-the-race Music  by...

Podcast Series: Run the Race - Meditations for Movement Course Instructor: The Rev. Kristen Ostendorf   In This Episode: According to our belief in the bodily resurrection, our bodies matter. Using the approach of a body scan, you'll be guided through a prayer of gratitude for the body. Using the wisdom in Genesis 1 (that we are created in God's image) we'll do a body scan that can be done with or...

Podcast Series: Run the Race - Meditations for Movement Course Instructor: The Rev. Kristen Ostendorf   In This Episode: Using Hebrews 12:1-2, you'll be lead through a lectio divina exercise to find a focus phrase for prayer or meditation during your run/hike. Full course page including introduction video and additional resources here: https://www.thehiveapiary.com/run-the-race Music by: 1000 Hand...

Podcast Series: Run the Race - Meditations for Movement Course Instructor: The Rev. Kristen Ostendorf   In This Episode: In this episode Kristen introduces the course by outlining how to use this class and things you should keep in mind. Watch the video version of this episode on https://www.thehiveapiary.com/run-the-race ------ Support The Hive by becoming a Patreon member:  https://www.patreon.c...

A Return to Essence, Receptivity, and the Sacred Invitation of Presence Podcast Series: The Enneagram Map to Your Deeper Self: A Book Club Series Host: Alicia Divers | Somatic Practitioner & Enneagram Teacher Guest Author: Sandra Smith   In This Episode: In our final episode, we take a step back from the individual types and return to the deeper invitation of this work: to move beyond type and tow...

Types Five, Six, and Seven – Navigating Fear, Trust, and Inner Freedom Podcast Series: The Enneagram Map to Your Deeper Self: A Book Club Series Host: Alicia Divers | Somatic Practitioner & Enneagram Teacher Guest Author: Sandra Smith   In This Episode: This week, we step into the Head Center—Types Five, Six, and Seven—and explore how each of these types navigates fear through thought, planning, a...

Podcast Series: The Enneagram Map to Your Deeper Self: A Book Club Series Host: Alicia Divers | Somatic Practitioner & Enneagram Teacher Guest Author: Sandra Smith   In This Episode: This week, we move into Chapters 3, 4, and 9 of Sandra Smith's The Enneagram Map to Your Deeper Self —exploring the Heart Center types: Three, Two, and Four. Alicia guides us through the tender terrain of the Heart Ce...

Podcast Series: The Enneagram Map to Your Deeper Self: A Book Club Series Host: Alicia Divers | Somatic Practitioner & Enneagram Teacher Guest Author: Sandra Smith 🎙️ In This Episode: This week, we move into Chapters 6, 7, and 8 of Sandra Smith's  The Enneagram Map to Your Deeper Self —and begin our exploration of the Body Center types: Nine, Eight, and One. Alicia introduces the core patterns of...

Podcast Series: The Enneagram Map to Your Deeper Self: A Book Club Series Host: Alicia Divers | Somatic Practitioner & Enneagram Teacher Guest Author: Sandra Smith 🎙️ In This Episode: This week, we step into Chapters 2 and 3 of Sandra Smith's  The Enneagram Map to Your Deeper Self —shifting from presence to pattern, and beginning to explore the shape of the Enneagram itself. Alicia walks us throug...

Podcast Series: The Enneagram Map to Your Deeper Self: A Book Club Series Host: Alicia Divers | Somatic Practitioner & Enneagram Teacher Guest Author: Sandra Smith 🎙️ In This Episode: We begin our six-week journey through Sandra Smith's The Enneagram Map to Your Deeper Self by slowing down and starting exactly where the book does—with presence. In this opening episode, Alicia reflects on what pres...

In this Hive Cast Podcast interview, Hillary has a conversation with Carrie Allport and Kirstin Swanson about developing hope in uncertain times. ------ Support The Hive by becoming a Patreon member:  https://www.patreon.com/thehiveapiary Visit our website and join our Membership Community!  thehiveapiary.com Subscribe to the Hive's email newsletter for more great content:  https://bit.ly/thehivee...

Surviving and Thriving Winter is often an analogy for death in literature. While we see evidence of death in barren trees and notice the absence of our animal friends as they use the time of winter for hibernation, life is thriving beneath the surface. Join us for this study using the book "Wintering" by Katherine May. This course will consist of a podcast reflection to accompany a self-directed r...

Light, Dark and the In Between Times Winter is often an analogy for death in literature. While we see evidence of death in barren trees and notice the absence of our animal friends as they use the time of winter for hibernation, life is thriving beneath the surface. Join us for this study using the book "Wintering" by Katherine May. This course will consist of a podcast reflection to accompany a s...

Welcoming Rest and Space Winter is often an analogy for death in literature. While we see evidence of death in barren trees and notice the absence of our animal friends as they use the time of winter for hibernation, life is thriving beneath the surface. Join us for this study using the book "Wintering" by Katherine May. This course will consist of a podcast reflection to accompany a self-directed...

Winter is often an analogy for death in literature. While we see evidence of death in barren trees and notice the absence of our animal friends as they use the time of winter for hibernation, life is thriving beneath the surface. Join us for this study using the book "Wintering" by Katherine May. This course will consist of a podcast reflection to accompany a self-directed read of the book, intent...

Starting Sunday, December 1st for Members! Check out this preview of the upcoming course, "The Great Wait - Celtic Advent Meditation."  Course Description: ​ Join us for a contemplative journey through the sacred tradition of Celtic Christianity in "The Great Wait." This course invites participants to explore the four sacred readings from the Christmas Eve Vigil, immersing ourselves in the rich ta...

Class 4 In the Book of Job, we hear God ask, "Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook or tie down its tongue with a rope? Can you put a cord through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook?" (Job 41:1) The Leviathan is just one of the metaphorical chaos monsters that are mentioned in the book and they show us just how unknowable the whole universe is. In Job, we learn that true union with God is...

Class 3 In Ecclesiastes 1:1, we hear, "vanity of vanities! All is vanity." The word for "Vanity" in Hebrew can also be translated as smoke or mist. In this Book, we hear a wise voice ask just why is it that bad things happen to good people, and how are we to learn to dwell in the mysterious reality that we may never fully know the answer to that question on this side of the veil. This powerful vol...

Class 2 In Proverbs 9:10 we hear that, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding." In the Biblical wisdom tradition, the most terrifying thing seems to be chaos--a world that has no meaning and where the good suffer but the bad succeed. But Proverbs shows us that the "fear of God" actually leads us to discern God's order and how we can avoid m...

Class 1 What does Biblical wisdom even look like, and how is it a mystical path of spiritual maturation? This class will give us an introduction to both the 3-fold mystical path of the classic Christian tradition and why mystics have been using it to face the "dark night of the soul" for generations. Activity: Naming our fears Want the full course including the associated activities? Become a Memb...

Check out the trailer for our new Membership Course on The Hive! We'll be releasing the classes on the pod, and if you're interested in watching the videos and participating in the associated activities, consider becoming a Member ! All new Memberships start with a 7-day free trial.  In our lives, we face real fears, pain, and suffering. These things can feel like metaphorical monsters lurking in...

Every year in the summertime, we are greeted by the loud songs of the cicada broods. There's normally about seven different broods at any given time who hatch underground after having lived five years or so underground. For many of the broods, they come up to the surface, they mate, they die. This year, however, we're also being visited by 'Brood 13' and 'Brood 17', and the sound is deafening. Thi...

Welcome to "the Way of Light!" This is a service found in the Episcopal Church's Book of Occasional Services (Published by Church Publishing) celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus. We hope that these prayers will be a powerful companion on this Easter journey and suggest you listen to this meditation while walking as they are traditionally experienced. You are also invited to pause between station...