THE INVITATION

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Embodied, Trauma-Informed

Journey through Advent

Advent invites us into sacred season of preparing, waiting, and remembering that healing and grace are already unfolding within us.

The Invitation is a four-week series that weaves together reflection, movement, and meditation to help you rest, receive, and reawaken to Hope, Peace, Joy, Love, and Light.

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What This Journey Offers

Each week of advent includes:

Mindful Movement

Each week includes an on-demand, Scripture-led yoga practice with gentle, floor-based movement designed to help you create space for renewal and restoration. This is a safe space for breath, grounding, and rejuvenation for both beginning and experienced practitioners.

Guided Meditations

Weekly meditation practices will be available to help your nervous system soften and your spirit rest in the Divine Presence. These guided meditations are intended to counter the hustle and bustle of the holidays as you soak in the invitations God has for you this season.

Reflective Liturgy & Prompts

Based on the Lectionary Year A readings, the weekly reflection guide includes Scripture, candle-lighting liturgy, devotional themes and prompts, embodied practices, and gentle invitations to prepare your whole being to fully experience the gift of the Incarnation this Christmas.

A Season of Sacred Rest

Advent mirrors the natural cycles of healing. Moving gently between longing and peace, shadow and light.

Through embodied awareness, we learn that rest is not passive but sacred: a practice of trust, presence, and renewal.

Here, grace is not earned; it is remembered.

Sneak Peek into The Invitation Reflection Guide

An Introduction to Advent as a Sacred Journey

Advent is a sacred journey of preparation, waiting, and incarnation. It is a season that invites us to slow down, breathe deeply, and rest in the holy rhythm of becoming. It is more than waiting for Christmas; it is the embodied practice of preparing our hearts and our nervous systems to receive Hope, Peace, Joy, Love, and Light again. This time of contemplative rest and embodied renewal allows our bodies to remember safety, our spirits to reawaken to hope, and our minds to find stillness in the promise of grace.

From a trauma-informed lens, Advent mirrors the natural cycles of healing. Just as the nervous system moves between activation and rest, Advent holds space for both longing and peace, grief and joy, shadow and light. Here, rest is not passive but sacred. It is a practice of trust. In resting, we remember that God’s grace is already moving within and around us.

In Wesleyan theology, we understand this movement as grace upon grace: prevenient grace awakens us to Divine presence, justifying grace heals and restores us as children of Light and Love, and sanctifying grace transforms us as co-creators within the Kingdom come. The themes of Advent reflect these sacred movements, inviting us gently toward wholeness and oneness.

This reflection guide was created to be both contemplative and embodied. It has been designed to accompany you alongside the mindful movement and meditation offerings (or used as a stand‑alone resource) throughout this sacred season with Scripture, devotional reflections, grounding practices, and gentle invitations to experience God’s healing presence.

Whether you use it alone, with a small group, or alongside the other practices offered as companions for your journey, our prayer is that it will be a space where you rediscover your capacity for renewal and transformation.

The Invitation. An Embodied, Trauma-Informed Journey through Advent. Reflection Guide, based on Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) - Year A.

Begin Your Advent Journey

Take time this season to slow down, breathe deeply, and receive what is already being offered.

Discovering this after 11/30? No worries! All of the content will be available through the end of December, so you can start this journey anytime!