Entries by jzbadmin

Join Me in Magical Santa Fe – Special Invitation & Discount!

Want to come to magical Santa Fe March 10-15, 2025 for some much needed spiritual renewal, world class beauty and awe? Great News! If you’re on the fence about joining me for this wonderful experience in Santa Fe, MEA is offering a 20% discount. Just register on the link below and use the code SOUL20 at checkout.  Feel […]

Time for the retreat of a lifetime with Joan in Santa Fe

Want to come to magical Santa Fe March 10-15, 2025 for some much needed spiritual renewal, world class beauty and awe? Follow Your Soul’s Compass to the celebrated Modern Elder Academy (MEA), at their magnificent 2600 acre Rising Circle Ranch. Time magazine named it one of the World’s Greatest Places in 2024. Check it out. […]

Love, Serve and Remember – An Invitation

The late great spiritual teacher Ram Dass described our purpose as human beings in just four words: “Love, Serve and Remember”.  Please join me live online December 6-7, 2024 for this intimate program designed to open your heart and inspire your highest self. REGISTER HERE Through a soulful process of meditation, reflection and spirited conversation […]

Summer Greetings from Joan

I hope you’re having a wonderful summer in spite of heat, fire, floods, tornadoes, and all the rest of the unrest. My summer continues to be a blessing, heat dome and all. It’s been filled with fun and heartful visits with family and friends. As my husband Gordon and I transform into vintage elders, every […]

Holiday Love from Joan

Blessings of the Festivals of Light (Solstice, Hannukah, Christmas) And a Happy Health New Year from our hearts to yours A Shaggy Dog Tale Mitzi the Poodle, as you can see in the photo, is tall and wiry like a greyhound. She is a svelte 57 pounds. Little Lola is shorter and stockier- 65 pounds […]

The Summer of Being: Awash in the Miraculous

“I don’t think anyone “finds” joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that strengthen our hearts so we can keep them open to what is difficult” ― Dawna Markova I am one lucky duck. Last year at this time I had surgery to remove a honeydew melon […]

A personal note from Joan

“I do not at all understand the mystery of grace. Only, that it meets us where we are, but does not leave us where it found us.”                    – Annie LaMott It’s late June as I write, birds singing outside our antique adobe home (the little mud hut […]

A Personal Invitation from My Heart to Yours

https://joanborysenko.com/wp-content/uploads/Embed-Post-Launch-2-GOSM-Reachout.mp4 Author Elizabeth Jarret Andrew describes the three unique qualities of spiritual memoir: 1. The intention is to uncover, probe and honor what is sacred within your unique life story. 2. Venturing into the mystery become the means for spiritual growth. 3. The expression of vulnerability and risks can lead to surprising and rewarding revelations. […]

A Personal Update from Joan Borysenko

It’s a beautiful late summer’s day here in the mountains of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The first of the leaves are turning yellow, the skies are azure blue, the nights are cool, and the kids are in school at long last.  Back in the day, returning students usually wrote a short essay entitled, “What I […]