Finding the Light Within: Mary Magdalene and the Labyrinth. A One-Day Workshop with Veriditas Master Teacher Kayleen Asbo

Beware that no one leads you astray saying ‘Here it is’, or ‘There it is’

For it is within you 

that the Light of God dwells

-The Gospel of Mary Magdalene

The Gnostic texts depict Mary Magdalene as the “Woman Who Knew All”, an intimate companion of Jesus who had realized her full humanity and who taught a path of contemplative connection with the divine. In this one day workshop at Grace Cathedral, we will explore the Gnostic perspective on Mary Magdalene and learn ancient spiritual practices for discovering our own inner light, including Lectio Divina, art meditation, journaling, and labyrinth walking. This serves as a qualifying workshop for Veriditas Facilitator training.

Veriditas Master Teacher Kayleen Asbo is a cultural historian who holds master's degrees in three subjects: music, mythology, and psychology. Kayleen is on the collegiate faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Sonoma State University and she lectures for five Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes throughout the Bay Area. She has been a featured lecturer on Mary Magdalene at the Assisi Institute of Depth Psychology in Italy, the Oxford Round Table Conference on Women and Power in England, the Franciscan School of Theology, the Graduate Theological Institute, Bishop's Ranch and the Veriditas Pilgrimage to Chartres Cathedral. Kayleen’s lectures and classes have been lauded as " mesmerizing" , "utterly riveting", " an extraordinarily passionate tour de force of art, music and history" . Read more about her at www.kayleenasbo.com