Weekly Sacred Circles
For details on these weekly circles, please click here.
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We Treasure You, Our Community
Some groups are meeting at The Red Shoes, some circles are meeting only on Zoom and some are gathering in person and on Zoom. However you choose to join us, we hope you find your experiences meaningful. If you wish to join us on Zoom, please register online the day before the start of class and we will email the link prior to class.
Yoga will remain in person and on Zoom.
We are eager to welcome you into our sacred space and into our warm, supportive community.
Wendy Herschman, Executive Director
Morning Yoga
Monday-Saturday
8-9 am
Hybrid
Facilitated by Nichole Mena-Rovai, RYT 200, Jo Ann Ray, RYT 200,
Beth Tomlinson, RYT 500 and Tina
Ufford, RYT 200.
$8 per class / 7 classes $48 (one class free)
One month unlimited $75
Register
Dream Discovery
1st & 3rd Thursdays
Beginning December 1 & 15
10:30 am - noon
Hybrid
Discover more about yourself as you learn to work with your dreams. The language of dreams offers valuable insights into understanding your relationships, your choices, your past and your future. Basic elements of Carl Jung’s work are a part of this exploration. While studying and sharing dreams, we learn ways to interpret and understand them in a meaningful way.
Facilitated by Joan McCaskill, Spiritual Director, MA.
Monthly $40
Register
Spiritual Journey Circle
Thursdays Weekly
Beginning December 1
5 - 6 pm
Hybrid
As a circle of seekers, we immerse in diverse spiritual teachings. Share in discussions that enrich life on a deep, personal level. A study of thought-provoking writers and luminaries enhance this spiritual journey. Return weekly for spiritual connection and community.
Facilitated by Wendy Herschman, Executive Director of The Red Shoes, & Spiritual Journey Circle members.
Monthly suggested donation $20
Gentle Yoga
Thursdays Weekly
Beginning December 1
5:30 - 6:30 pm
At The Red Shoes
In a supportive setting, enjoy a gentle practice that will help quiet the mind, increase your energy and stretch your body. Yoga weaves together body, mind and spirit in a healing and refreshing way. Classes include a combination of yoga postures, breathing practices and meditation. All levels are welcome.
Facilitated by Nichole Mena-Rovai, RYT-200.
$8 per class / 7 for $48
AA Open Meeting Meditation
Thursdays Weekly
Beginning December 1
7 - 8 pm
At The Red Shoes
Together we explore guided meditation and share our experience, strength & hope toward living a Sober Life.
This Is Your Life: A Legacy Writing Workshop
Saturday, December 3
10:30-12:30 pm
At The Red Shoes
How do you imagine that others will remember you when you're gone? While we are powerless over the reality that at some point we will all die, we do have control as to what we leave behind once we're gone. Legacy projects are a wonderful way to preserve the memories and traditions that represent your and your family's life story. A legacy project passes on your values and hopes for the future to the generations to come.
Using writing prompts and exercises, we will begin to tell our stories and plant the seeds for an ongoing legacy project that you can continue to work on.
Facilitated by Robin Palmer Blanche. In addition to publishing 12 novels and being a produced screenwriter, Robin is an INELDA-trained end-of-life doula and legacy memoirist. Her website is youwereheredoula.com.
$35
Sunday Sacred Circle: Matters of the Heart
Sundays Weekly
Beginning December 4
5-6 pm
1st Sunday at The Red Shoes only
Other Sundays by Zoom
Nourish your spirit: a time of introspection, ecumenical and inter-religious unity expressed through prayer, chanting, inspirational readings and silence with Spirit.
Facilitated by inspired members of the circle.
Donations Appreciated
Book Study: The Wisdom of Not Knowing
Mondays Weekly
Beginning December 5
noon -1:30 pm
Hybrid
Currently reading: Discovering a Life of Wonder by Embracing Uncertainty by Estelle Frankel
Are you ready to look more deeply into your life and sense the sacred in ordinary things? Join as we begin exploring a remarkable book, Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life by psychotherapist, former monk and author Thomas Moore. In it, Moore uses archetypal psychology and mythology to examine the connections between spirituality and the issues facing individuals and society. While the message of this book regarding caring for yourself and your soul is straightforward, its implications might surprise you: you are a unique, complex individual and all aspects of that complexity must be allowed, even embraced, if you are to engage life with satisfying depth.
Facilitated by Joan McCaskill, MA, Spiritual Director.
$40 / For 4 Weeks
Spiritual Ecology Circle
Mondays Weekly
Beginning December 5
6:00 -7:15 pm
Hybrid
The evolution of Spiritual Ecology Circle has brought us to choose our new book Spiritual Ecology: THE CRY of the EARTH, a collection of essays by authors who fostered the emergence of the "Spiritual Ecology Movement". We will be learning from the writings of Joanna Macy, Thich Nhat Hanh, Wendell Berry, Bill Plotkin, Sandra Ingerman & Others.
Through weekly discussions, we will reclaim and strengthen our capacity to face planetary crises and respond with unexpected resilience and creative power.
To find out more about the Spiritual Ecology Circle, click here.
Facilitated by members of Spiritual Ecology Circle.
Monthly suggested donation $20
A Course in Miracles
Mondays Weekly
Beginning December 5
6:30-8:00 pm
Zoom Only
Seeking happiness and peace? Our weekly study of A Course in Miracles is a powerful, life-changing course. This universal spiritual teaching offers daily exercises to raise awareness of love’s presence, and through forgiveness, heal relationships. Join us to discuss the daily exercises and build a circle of support for this transformative inner work.
Facilitated by Jamie Allison, who has studied A Course in Miracles for many years.
Monthly suggested donation $20
To Receive the Zoom Link: Register
Compassion in Action
Wednesdays Weekly
Beginning December 7
10:30 am -12:00 pm
Hybrid
Currently Reading: I Ain't Doin' It: Unfiltered Through from a Sarcastic Southern Sweetheart
Compassion In Action gathers to expand awareness and support one another into action on the social issues we're confronted with in our society today. Join this thought provoking discussion as we begin a new book study focusing on the socially-constructed concepts of feminism, as explored in Roxane Gay's book, Bad Feminist, on the right and wrong ways to be a feminist. With humor, we will begin to see new and complex aspects of this important issue.
Facilitated by Compassion in Action Circle members.
Suggested Monthly Donation $20
Lynn Woodland’s Miracles Course
Wednesdays Weekly
Beginning December 7
7-8:15 pm Central Time
Zoom Only
Live your miraculous life! Miracles take us out of the predictable and into the extraordinary where frequent serendipities, personal breakthroughs, and joy become the new normal. We are all capable of living a miraculous life.
Sessions include information and exercises for applying spiritual principles to everyday life. They are experiential and interactive with opportunity to ask questions and receive personal input. Join any time. Drop in or attend regularly.
Facilitated by Lynn Woodland, creator of the Miracles Course, is an international teacher and human potential expert whose particular expertise is in what gives rise to miracles and in teaching ordinary people to live extraordinary lives so that miracles become, not just possible, but natural.
Lynn is donating this year long study to The Red Shoes to support the growth of our Red Shoes community.
Suggested Weekly Minimum Donation $10
Volunteer: Greater Baton Rouge
Food Bank
Tuesday, December 13 10 am - 12
pm
Location: 10600
S Choctaw Dr.
(Fraenkel Center)
Can you offer two hours that will make a big difference? Join our team, register to volunteer below. Help The Food Bank achieve their mission to feed the hungry in Baton Rouge - especially at this time when the need has grown. All food must be sorted and categorized for distribution. That is where we come in: we will meet at the food bank to sort or bag food.
Wear Closed-toe shoes/No Fee