Nourish Your Heart
There are stories, songs, art and spiritual practices passed down through the centuries that can awaken our imaginations and offer a well of  solace, resilience and hope during challenging times. Join me to share these timeless treasures  in a journey that unites your inner world with the deep threads of beauty and meaning woven throughout history.
K​ayleen Asbo, Ph.D is a cultural historian, musician, writer and teacher who passionately weaves together myth, psychology, history, and the arts with experiential learning. To learn more about Kayleen, click here
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Photo by Thomas Dodd used with permission


​The Arts of Grief: 
How Creativity Can Save Us From Despair
A four part series Mondays on zoom
 Beginning November 30
10:30 am - Noon PST

​What do we do with anger, sorrow, fear, betrayal and abandonment? Is there an alternative to despair or medication?  We will explore in this 90 minute class a survey of how the great artistic spirits across the centuries have transformed their broken hearts into works of beauty that offer wisdom, healing and hope for our aching world. We will encounter the sculptors Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin, the painters Artemisia Gentileschi and William- Adolphe Bouguereau,  composers Antonin Dvorak, JS Bach and Ludwig Van Beethoven and poets Dante, Rilke and Mark Nepo.
​Available on a sliding scale
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REGISTER HERE 


Odes to Joy: Advent Through the Arts
A four week webcourse of art, music, poetry
Saturdays, Nov, 28- December 19
10:30 am- Noon
​Click here to learn more and register

The Still Point: A Daily Online  Advent Calendar

Begins on November 30- learn more

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  Hildegard of Bingen and Carl Jung:  Awakening & Illumination
Thursday, December 3 and 10
6- 7:30 pm PST
Salon series with the Salome Institute of Jungian Studies
Learn more and Register Here

The Wisdom of the Heart:
A one day workshop of Contemplative Practice
Sunday, December 20, 1 pm- 5:30 pm PST
Details coming soon

Finding Our Way Through the Dark Woods:
​A Virtual Retreat with Dante's Divine Comedy

A self-paced retreat of story, myth, art, music, guided reflection and ritual
 Available soon as a videotaped series!

TS Eliot: A Condition of Complete Simplicity, Costing Not Less Than Everything
Tuesday Mornings, 10:30 - NOon PST
Beginning January 12- February 16
A six week course on  the poetry of TS Eliot from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" to the Four Quartets Registration coming soon!


Click here to read an article about Kayleen's journey as an interdisciplinary scholar,  published in the Pacifica Post  ​

Kayleen is the featured speaker for Humanity Rising- her talk on Hildegard of Bingen and Pythagoras begins on the video tape above at 22.00, following Kim Rosen's recitation of poetry.
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St Francis by Marie Aguilera
 Canticle:  Poetry and Songs for the Earth
Sunday, October 4, 10:30 am - Noon PST
​with poets and musicians from around the world in an interfaith celebration of St Francis and Creation
Watch Here

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