SoulStream’s Living from the Heart Course

Deepen Your
Spiritual Connection

Deepen your connection to God, yourself, and others through the Living from the Heart learning community.

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Connection

Guidance

Transformation

Do you long to come home?

You’re not alone. Many of us experience a restlessness, a desire to come home to ourselves and to God. We grapple with the masks we wear, and at times feel disconnected from our authentic selves in Christ. It’s a journey we all navigate, and together—during the Living from the Heart course—you will be invited to explore and experience a deeper sense of belonging and purpose.

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Why Choose SoulStream’s Living from the Heart course?

Living from the Heart offers a learning community that invites participants to deepen their experience of intimacy with God, self, and others.

Opening to God’s heart of love with our whole heart, especially in our most broken places, brings a healing integration within and provides the courage to offer our lives in loving compassion to the world around us.

More reasons to consider Living from the Heart…

Personal Encounter

Experience the Way of the Heart that integrates body, soul, mind, and spirit.

Enhanced Receptivity

Learn to embrace God’s presence more fully and overcome what inhibits your spiritual openness.

Transformation

Peel away the masks and discover your deepest self in God.

Guidance

Blend contemplative prayer practices and actionable insights with experienced course facilitators as your guides.

Community

Journey with other participants and facilitators who are willing to be authentic, vulnerable, and supportive.

Impact the World

Discover an inner freedom that nurtures a contemplative response to the world.

Comments from Living from the Heart Participants

“I will cherish this experience forever in my heart.”

“God’s love has grabbed me! I thought I knew it before, but the knowing I’ve experienced now is very different.”

“The transformation that has taken place in me feels remarkable. I sense I Iive with greater freedom and compassion.”

“To travel with a community of fellow journeyers has been a gift—sharing honestly with vulnerability, and laughing too!”

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Participating in SoulStream helped Annie and Ricki navigate uncertain and difficult times. They were provided a safe place and the guidance needed to work through the changes happening in their lives at the time.

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Participating in SoulStream helped Annie and Ricki navigate uncertain and difficult times. They were provided a safe place and the guidance needed to work through the changes happening in their lives at the time.

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Participating in SoulStream helped Annie and Ricki navigate uncertain and difficult times. They were provided a safe place and the guidance needed to work through the changes happening in their lives at the time.

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Receive Support and Guidance

Discover the transformative power of contemplative living and spiritual direction within a supportive community. Join us on a journey of growth and connection as we explore the way of Jesus.

  • Receive authentic and vulnerable teaching by facilitators who share their own experiences of challenges, discoveries, and real life. 
  • Engage in reading and prayer, reflection and conversation.
  • Benefit from mutual support through community gatherings.
  • Embrace a countercultural path that will nourish your soul. 
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Your Living from the Heart Journey in 3 Steps

01

Sign Up

Registration is open.
2024 – 2025 Living from the Heart Cohort is online.
(See below).

02

Explore

Dive deep into teachings, contemplative practices, and immersive spiritual experiences with a cohort (online) over 8 months.

03

Transform

Embrace a life enriched with spiritual awareness, transformation, and deeper connections.

FAQ’s

The mission of SoulStream is to nurture contemplative experience with Christ leading to inner freedom and loving service.

Real, honest experience — all the daily stuff with its endless opportunities to open to God’s love, the beautiful surprises to savour, and all the brokenness that we share in common and that calls forth compassion.

We seek to live authentically with Jesus by encouraging one another to receive the gift of God’s intimate and loving presence in all of life.

To that end, SoulStream offers courses such as Living from the Heart, spiritual direction training courses and workshops, a committed contemplative community of partners, and other ways to nurture an awakened, receptive, trusting experience in the face of all the opposing pressures of the world we live in.

For more, see https://soulstream.org/about-soulstream/

Living from the Heart offers a learning community that invites participants to deepen their experience of intimacy with God, self and others. Biblically speaking, the heart is the very core of life out of which intellect, emotions, and intentions flow.

Opening to God’s heart of love with our whole heart, especially in our most broken places, brings a healing integration within and provides the courage to offer our lives in loving compassion to the world around us.

Learning & Teaching Approaches:

A variety of collaborative learning and teaching approaches are used including: mini-presentations; short, structured written personal reflections on assigned reading; demonstrations; small group discussion and activities.

Participants will be invited to engage their imaginations with the use of textures, colours, music, poetry, prayers and plain old fun! Between teaching times, we encourage mutual support among participants through community gatherings. The small team of facilitators will provide feedback on reflection papers and offer what they teach honestly and vulnerably, sharing experiences from their own lives.

Course Content:

  • The Way of the Heart opens us to encounter God personally, integrates body, soul, mind, and spirit, and helps us live out of who we truly are in Christ.
  • Spiritual Awareness and Receptivity: We explore ways to become more open to respond to God’s presence in all of life and identify what inhibits our receptivity.
  • Spiritual Transformation: We gain a deep sensitivity to the dimensions of spiritual transformation into Jesus’ image, coming to freedom in our deepest truth in God, dealing with the masks we hide behind, and cultivating spiritual practices that support our life in God.
  • Contemplative Prayer and Discernment: We come to understand that prayer is responsiveness to the active, living presence of the Holy Spirit; learn ancient contemplative practices; and discover how prayer is integrated into all of life and deepens our ability to discern God’s will.
  • Contemplative Living: As Jesus’ friends, we are called to love our neighbour, care for the earth, and seek justice. With joy we discover, that our response to the world becomes a natural outflow of contemplative prayer and practice.

Please see the “2024 – 2025 Living from the Heart Cohort Options” section below on this webpage.

Anywhere from 10-20.

Absolutely! Call 604-855-1232 or email soulstream1@gmail.com to speak with Audrey Hoehn.

Program Fees and Payment Schedule

  • Tuition: $1450

Tuition fees will be payable as follows:

  • 50% within one month of acceptance to the program ($725). If the application is submitted after August 1, 2024, 50% is due upon acceptance.
  • 50% by September 1, 2024 ($725)

Not covered by program fees:

  • Personal spiritual direction (10 sessions)
  • Books required for the course
  • Transportation

Cancellation Policy

SoulStream recognizes that unforeseen circumstances might arise that may cause participants to withdraw from the cohort. However, the format of the course makes it difficult to fill vacancies left by last minute cancellations and SoulStream faces our own cancellation fees and non-recoverable prepayments. With this in mind, the cancellation policy for Living from the Heart is:

  • Participants who cancel before September 1 will be reimbursed the total cost of tuition.
  • Participants who cancel between September 1 and 7 days before the course begins may defer the tuition payment to the following year.
  • Participants who withdraw after start date will not be able to defer or be reimbursed for their tuition.

2024 – 2025 Living from the Heart Cohort

Online

September 27, 2024 to May 4, 2025

REGISTRATION IS STILL OPEN: ONLY 2 SPOTS AVAILABLE.

Living from the Heart is offered online through Zoom, including two weekend retreats and six full-day Saturday sessions.

Course Fees*:

Tuition: $1,450.00
Application fee: $75

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*All books and cost of personal spiritual direction (10 sessions) not included. Options for fitting this into your life financially can be discussed with our course administrator.

2024 – 2025 Living from the Heart Cohort Options

Online

September 27, 2024 to
May 4, 2025

Living from the Heart is offered online through Zoom, including two weekend retreats and six full-day Saturday sessions.

Course Fees*:

Tuition: $1,450.00
Application fee: $75

Learn More (PDF) Register Now

Intensive
Bowen Island, BC

October 4 – 10, 2024
May 2 – 8, 2025

Living from the Heart is offered in two 6-day Intensives (Friday evening – Thursday afternoon), held at Rivendell Retreat Centre on Bowen Island.

Course Fees*:

Tuition: $1,450.00
Application fee: $75
Accommodation and meals:
$775.00 per intensive

Learn More (PDF)

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.

Lower Mainland, BC

From September 27 to
April 27, 2025

Living from the Heart is offered through two weekend retreats (held at the beginning and end of the course) at Rivendell on Bowen Island and six full-day Saturday sessions held at Highland Community Church in Abbotsford.

Course Fees*:

Tuition: $1,450.00
Application fee: $75
Accommodation and meals:
For both weekends at Rivendell and Abbotsford day use on Saturdays: $750.00

Learn More (PDF)

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.

*All books and cost of personal spiritual direction (10 sessions) not included. Options for fitting this into your life financially can be discussed with our course administrator.

Join Living from the Heart

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We are delighted that you are considering joining the Living from the Heart Course.
Please complete the following application to secure your spot. Kindly note that the application fee of $75 is in addition to the tuition. Thank you for choosing to embark on this journey with us.

Additional Insights

For additional course information see https://soulstream.org/living-from-the-heart-course/

Contemplative Prayer

Understand prayer as a responsiveness to the Holy Spirit.

Discernment

Learn to navigate life’s complexities with wisdom, clarity, and a deeper understanding of God’s guiding presence.

Contemplative Living

Learn to love your neighbour, care for the earth, and seek justice as natural outcomes of your deepened spiritual practices.

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