Spiritual Direction

Dana is currently accepting personal and phone appointments with women for spiritual direction. Regardless of where you are on your faith journey you will find support and tools to support your inner spiritual pilgrimage.

Contact dana@sacredimagination.com for inquiry or
to schedule your appointment with Dana.

Spiritual direction may be of benefit to you if:

• you are at a crossroads, needing to make an important life decision that calls for spiritual discernment and prayer
  

• you believe God is calling you to something that you can’t quite grasp because of the daily demands of life
  

• your relationship with God feels blocked and you would like to open yourself to a more fulfilling spiritual life
  

• you would like to integrate your spiritual life more fully into every facet of your daily work, relationships, and experiences
  

• you sense you are experiencing an opening to enter into a deeper relationship with God and you are seeking ways to enrich your relationship with the Sacred through spiritual practices
  

• you want to serve God through your work and you are questioning how to do this
  

• you are seeking a companion, guide, or “soul friend” to accompany you on your spiritual journey

There is a time for everything, and a season for
 every activity under heaven. 

--Ecclesiastes 3:1

What is Spiritual Direction?

Spiritual direction is the practice of helping another to awaken to the Mystery called God.  It is the journey of discovering the relationship of how God is working in and through one’s life.  Together the spiritual director and seeker rely on God’s guidance as they discern what is emerging…..where there are blocks and where there are openings to communing with God and how movement and growth are appearing.

In Christianity, spiritual direction is as ancient as Christ’s early disciples, the Christian Desert Mothers and Fathers of the 3^rd century.  It also has roots in  the monastic Rule of St. Benedict of the 6^th century, and the Franciscan tradition that began with the teachings of St. Francis of Assisi.

The world traditions of Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Native Americans also weave spiritual direction through their formation and relationships with the Divine.

 
… a process that helps us recognize God’s guidance
that is there for us if only we are open to it…

--Carol Ochs & Kerry Olitzky
Jewish Spiritual Guidance

Spiritual Direction is…. 

• the ancient practice and process of listening to God with another
  

• the noticing of God’s Presence in your life with a personally chosen guide
  

• the journey of seeking the face of God
  

• the spiritual director’s modeling of a deep relationship with the Sacred, and standing contemplatively in faith and love with the seeker as that relationship reveals itself.
  

• a complimentary process that can work in tandem with psychotherapy and/or 12 step programs. 

Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.

-- Matthew 7:7

With a careful and prayerful shift of perspective, keeping God as the focus, a spiritual director is to the faith journey much like a personal trainer is to a fitness program.  When one is ready to take the step from group exercise classes to more in depth personal fitness, she seeks the support of a personal trainer.  Likewise, to take the leap of faith from group spiritual workshops, or solitary self-help, to the joy of self-permission to ask a spiritual director to join her journey, the woman begins a program of soul fitness, supported through spiritual direction. 

Then you will know the truth,
and the truth will set you free.

--John 8:32

Come to spiritual direction to begin to create peace with life’s pieces.  Come with your questions and doubts, dreams and desires, challenges and joy, faith or lack of faith.  Come to pray or to learn more about prayer.  Come to let God unfold your path before you while blessing the years behind you. 

The seeker’s unfolding story and experiences are prayerfully and confidentially held and acknowledged by the spiritual director who is a committed non-judgmental companion for the inner journey.

Spiritual Direction is not…. 

psychotherapy or a quick fix for all life’s problems.  The focus is rather on the nurturance of one’s relationship with God.  Certain issues in life stem from emotional issues rooted in past trauma and/or early conditioning. A list of referrals for local therapists will be recommended if this need is discerned by the spiritual director.

It is a relationship between guide and seeker through which the guide helps the seeker detect God’s movement within and to appreciate the divine plan that might underlie even the seemingly coincidental occurrences in life.

--Howard Addison, Show Me Your Way 

 

Dana Reynolds, Spiritual Director

 
Dana Reynolds was trained as a spiritual director at the Hesychia School of Spiritual Direction in Tucson, Arizona. She brings twenty years experience as a facilitator of the feminine spiritual/creative process to her work and ministry as a spiritual director. Journaling, meditation, a variety of prayer practices, and sacred art-making are a few of the tools that may be offered according to need. Reliance on God’s guidance in the present moment is at the core of the spiritual direction session.