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She’s a saint!  She’s a sinner!  She’s a sister in Sophia.  

Mary Magdalene has been a central character, captivating people’s imaginations for millennia.  She has taken on so many forms of feminine archetypes– both those in the light and in the shadows.  She has been cast as both sinner and saint, whore and sacred partner, liberated woman and fallen repentant.  But who is she really?  And what’s her medicine for us today?  What happens when we remove her from patriarchy’s clutches and relate to her as sister, friend, sovereign to herself, and powerful teacher in her own right?  What are the energies we might tap into, and embody ourselves?  

In celebration of her feast day, join us for a mini-retreat diving into her mystery, her magic and her mastery. 

Sunday, July 19th, 2026

12 noon - 3:00 pm Central Time 

Zoom retreat space-- option to attend in live time or receive the recording 

I’s of the Soul

This is the journey of the spirit through the body. We bring awareness to the space within as we carve our path through our existence. When spirit has the space to move freely, we find ecstasy. Ecstasy, not as an escape or a high, but as embodied awareness and presence.

“The path to ecstasy is up through the five layers of consciousness, the five levels through which energy most naturally flows from purely physical existence to its highest spiritual potentials. “  ~ Gabrielle Roth Maps to Ecstasy

The 5Rhythms will be our container and guide. Flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical and stillness are the teachers that will inform our exploration. The 5Rhythms is our practice and our ritual.

Join me on this I-map of the soul’s journey to ecstasy as we explore inertia, imitation, intuition, imagination and inspiration together on the dance floor.

laura martin-eagle has been studying, performing and teaching various dance forms for over 60 years.  She is an accredited teacher of 5Rhythms® Waves (2001) & Heartbeat (2010) and Cycles (2025).  She is a member of the 5Rhythms Teacher Association(5RTA).

“Authentic” is a word that’s thrown around a lot these days, so much so that it can easily become performative. But what if we could reclaim it, in the way only the true wisdom of our body, our soma, really can?  What if we let ourselves get back down to the basics– this breath, this stretch, this impulse towards motion, this funk that overtakes the body and makes us MOVE?  What might it do for our nervous systems, and for the world, if we get to just BE who we are?  Join us to explore all the many ways we might be our authentic selves, in sacred dancing community.  Join us to become more human, more awake and alive, the dancing way!  

7 Wednesdays, starting March 24th 

March 25th; April 1, 8, 15 (BREAK– No Class April 22), 29th ; May 6 & 13th 

6:30-8 pm 

Hope Chapel, First Unitarian Church STL (5007 Waterman Blvd.) 

Each week we will dance into a movement of the Evolve Ecstatic Dance Arc: 

Week 1: Enter the you of you 

Week 2: Explore the multiplicity 

Week 3: Engage what’s most alive 

Week 4: Expand into Life 

Week 5: Evolve the whole

Week 6: Emerge more you 

Week 7: End and enter again 

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.  If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost.  The world will not have it.  It is not yours to determine how good it is;
nor how it compares with other expressions.  It is your business to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work.  You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you.  Keep the channel open. 

No artist is ever pleased.  There is no satisfaction whatsoever at any time.  There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others. 

--Martha Graham to Agnes De Mille

Read more about SoulDance and Erin Duffy-Burke here.

"It takes discipline to be a free spirit."  -Gabrielle Roth

5 Tuesdays of Easter: 

April 28th; May 5, 12, 19, 25th 

6:30-8:30 pm Central Standard Time 

Zoom retreat Room (option to attend live or receive the recording) 

Embodied Soul Care.  Prayer & Practice. Wisdom Sharing.  Co-creative Community.  

Week 1: The Resurrection.  Believing the Women & Birthing New Life 

Week 2: The Ascension.  Caught & Carried  in the Love of Thousands 

Week 3: The Descent of Sophia.  The Birth of the People of Goddess

Week 4: The Assumption.  The Constant Communion of Love.  

Week 5: The Coronation.  The Queen Reigns.  

Celebrating the long days of summer, the heat of life, and this embodied becoming 

Friday, June 26th, 6:30-8:30 pm 

Hope Chapel, First Unitarian Church of STL 

(5007 Waterman Blvd.) 

$33 standard rate // $22 - $44 + sliding scale 

Summer approaches… how are you feeling about that?  Even though I was born in late summer, under the blazing July sun, I was also born under the dark balsamic moon… I prefer the dark!  I have to intentionally lean into summer… appreciate its heat, welcome its warming power, embrace the growing light.  How is it for you?  

Summer brings us so many gifts… berries bursting from vines, fruits ripening, flowers blooming, lots of excuses to go to the pool, float in the river, enjoy the waters of earth.  With summer comes celebration– festivals and farmer’s markets, plays in the park and long days to enjoy time with friends.  

In this SoulDance ceremony, we welcome a spirit of celebration!  We lean into the seasonal heat that is so sacred for our human and earth systems, our sweat prayer pouring forth, our dance that is a step by step, beat by beat journey into expanding wholeness, this season and every season!  Join us.  

Learn more about SoulDance here

Friday August 7th, 6:30-8:30 pm 

The Hope Chapel, 5007 Waterman Blvd. 

Everyone’s included in the bountiful sharing 

nobody’s left out of the beauty and richness

walls don’t separate the haves from have-nots

there is nothing to have to do to deserve the gifts … 

-JoAnne Dodgson

What if you knew it is always, entirely enough?  That you are always, entirely enough?  How might this abundant holding invite you to dance?  

Late summer calls us into lusciousness, into harvest, into the complete surrender to heat and humidity and even, the over-ripe.  It’s when fallen fruit starts to get mushy and seeds start the mad race for next year’s life.  How do these rhythms and ways of being live in your body? What is it, for you, to dance with the super abundant, with the surrender to life, what wants to be given and eaten and called home?  Join us.  

Learn more about SoulDance here.