Your Private Retreat for Direct Inner Knowing

Ojai Soul Arts, and the work of spiritual author, Ronda LaRue, is featured this month in the prestigious Asia Spa Magazine as one of ten top retreats in the world for our individually-tailored spiritual retreats!

In this short article, Ronda LaRue, shares the secret behind why her very natural and unassuming Ojai Soul Arts has received such a dignified feature and beckons you to your own inner soul arts quest in a free demonstration of the art of soul.

STORY FEATURE FROM ASIA SPA MAGAZINE:

Soul Arts in California

"The connection between art and spirituality is well documented around the world, and can be individually developed at the Soul Arts centre in Southern California, where spiritual author, Ronda LaRue holds private spiritual retreats. Three-and-a-half-day retreats include one-on-one SoulSpeak insight sessions designed to unlock one's inner wellbeing and spiritual truths.  The on-site spa, art studio and meditation [hut] help take guests into a different world, concentrating on what lies within rather than without. Six-month and 18-month retreats are also available, designed for those who feel called to heal and work with others to empower and inspire. http://www.OjaiSoulArts.com"
- as printed in Asia Spa Magazine, Jan/Feb, 2007

Ojai Soul Arts Salon is a unique private artisan home sanctuary in Ojai California designed for private spiritual retreats and mystery school apprenticeship training programs (non-denominational, embracing world-wide sacred texts and wisdom traditions) hosted and facilitated by internationally recognized author, artist and spiritual guide, Ronda LaRue, M.S.

Ojai Soul Arts is a place that honors deep spiritual listening, playful creative arts, flamboyant visionary notions as well as the difficult challenges, transitions, and sufferings that so often come to us on the very precipice of recovering our Soul's greatest longing to live fully. Many who come to work with Ronda at her private retreat are faced with major life transitions, health crisis, and the desire (as one man diagnosed with stage four lung cancer put it): to learn what it is to fully live and love before I die.  Isn't that what we all want to learn?

As Ronda says on her  Ojai  Soul Arts web site introduction: It doesn't matter what key brings you to this doorway of remembering who you really are. It may be labeled as depression, anxiety, troubled relationships or divorce; a health crisis; a career change, addiction, or the soul longing to reveal its truth for your life.These quests are each, at their root, a spiritual journey to find the "peace that passes all understanding" through reclaiming the lost and wounded parts of self that bring you to wholeness and unique living mastery.

What Ronda has discovered and helps to facilitate in those who come to work with her, is the key to finding your own natural healing wholeness, passionate artistry, and deepest life purpose.  As Ronda puts it, we're all artists just waiting to be discovered.

In the short remainder of this article, Ronda shares with you a specific exercise she says can quickly lead you closer to discovering that unique creative genius and purpose that is YOU!

A Soul Quest Quickie:

Take just a moment, and with a willing "leap of faith", set your intention to know your deepest soul's purpose, and then ask yourself this one questions:

1) At my deepest core, or from my heart, what is the one thing I most deeply long for in my life?

If your initial answer seems a bit trite or confused ...or just plain "not there", take 7 very slow deep breaths into your body, settle your focus of attention into your lower belly, and ask your body (not your mind) this same question again...And just see what comes up! What you see, sense or, intuit.

2) Then, sometime yet today (critically  important!), find at least a few minutes more and create some kind of direct and symbolic action, or ceremony, that you feel reflects and "stands vigil" for what you have seen/felt.. In the symbolic action you create, be as imaginative and close as possible to touching the truest depth of feeling in what you answered to this question.

3) And then, for the next 2-3 weeks, just notice what starts to come up in your life, your dreams and your thoughts, feelings and observations around this "vigil" you have created...

If you do this with heart and gusto and attention, I promise, you'll be amazed!

...And if you feel so inclined, please feel free to contact me and let me know what you have discovered. Blessings to you on your sacred passage to wholeness!
 - Namaste! Ronda LaRue, http://www.OjaiSoulArts.com