by Celeste Yacoboni | Sep 25, 2014 | News
What a wonderful email Celeste Yacoboni received from a reader: Dear Celeste, I am IN LOVE WITH your book. It has become part of my morning meditation ritual to read one or many of the entries and have it inform my heart in how my own practice unfolds that day. I have earmarked so many pages as the book is filled with layers and layers of inspiration. I have shared the book with most of my spiritual friends and we are all using it. THANK YOU! The inquiry into how you pray is so beautiful. My friend Kimberly and I were just asking each other that question a couple of weeks ago as we have been exploring prayer as a more active practice. Literally the next day she received an email from Sufi books highlighting the publication of your book. We took it as a big synchronicity and each got the book. I’m very much in the inquiry and am looking forward to when I am moved to write an entry. Just the process of consideration feels very fruitful and expansive. I would love to send you something in the mail. Could you possibly provide me with a mailing address? Also when are you coming to NYC to read?? I promise to invite everyone I know and help to fill the room… All the best to you and thank you for your contribution to my spiritual life! Andrea Martin Co-Founder Cook for America® www.CookforAmerica.com About the book: How Do You Pray? was born from a vision in which Celeste Yacoboni was told to ask the world, “How Do You...
by Celeste Yacoboni | Sep 18, 2014 | News
Here is a great interview of author Celeste Yacoboni with Cyrus Webb on BlogTalkRadio: Author Celeste Yacoboni discusses HOW DO YOU PRAY on Conversations LIVE Check Out Books Podcasts at Blog Talk Radio with Breakfast With Books on BlogTalkRadio Host Cyrus Webb welcomes author Celeste Yacoboni to Conversations LIVE to discuss the conversations surrounding her book HOW DO YOU PRAY? and what she hopes readers glean from it. Cyrus Webb reviews the book: It is both a simple and profound question, and one that is sure to spark all kinds of responses and reflections. It is that question that Celeste Yacoboni was given 6 years ago, and the answers as found in her book HOW DO YOU PRAY? will both inspire and intrigue you. I think for myself as a believer in one God who created all things and is in all things, the question and the answers show that we are all on a journey to recognize and appreciate something larger than ourselves and our circumstances. As I was going through the book I came to better realize that no matter where you are from or what your thoughts are about the Divine there is a sincere longing to be heard and recognized that we all share. How Do You Pray? Inspiring Responses from Religious Leaders, Spiritual Guides, Healers, Activists & Other Lovers of Humanity. About the book: As we evolve, so do our prayers; as our prayers evolve, so do we. This is the evolution of illumination, the collective voice of the soul of the world. How Do You Pray? was born from a vision in...
by Celeste Yacoboni | Sep 10, 2014 | News
Harvesting Happiness with Lisa Cypers Kamen brings to the airwaves a fresh talk radio approach promoting happiness, well-being and global human flourishing by presenting a diverse and proactive collection of the greatest thinkers and doers who have devoted their lives to creating a better world in which to live. Celeste Yacoboni was honored to be on the show: Prayer, Intuitive Intelligence, and Creativity with guests Celeste Yacoboni and Elaine Clayton During this week’s show you will learn about: The power of appreciation in blessing. Research on the connection between healing and prayer. The connections between intuition and creativity, imagination and empathy, dreams and daily life. “Intuitive stream drawing” HarvestingHappinessLIVE_2014-09-10.mp3 Right Click to Download Interview Celeste Yacoboni is a Minister of Walking Prayer, ordained by the Center for Sacred Studies in Sonora, California. Her work focuses on guiding and supporting people through transitions by creating a space of awareness, presence and inspiration which integrates body, mind, spirit and emotions. She maintains a thriving private practice in Santa Fe, NM in which she facilitates healing and wholeness through Massage Therapy, Chi Nei Tsang, Qigong, Women’s Breast Health, Plant Essences, the Hawaiian practice of Ho’oponopono, and the inquiry “How Do You Pray?” Celeste leads “How Do You Pray?” workshops in which people share and experience different ways of prayer and connecting to Source. On her Ho’oponopono CD, Celeste sings a Hawaiian healing practice which creates a space of love, compassion, forgiveness and gratitude. Celeste lives in New Mexico. Click here on information about the How Do You Pray?...
by Celeste Yacoboni | Sep 8, 2014 | News
Celeste Yacoboni shares this insight from the road: Interspirituality on the rise! Look at this – both of these books in the bedside drawer at a motel in Eugene,...
by Celeste Yacoboni | Sep 7, 2014 | News
Celeste Yacoboni joined the congregation of Unity in Ashland, Oregon on Sunday Sept 7, 2014. Her report: Unity in Ashland, Oregon rocks! We had a deep and delightful service as I shared How Do You Pray? and the musicians Richard and David sang and played their prayers. Thank you Rev Norma Nakai Burton for the invitation and all of the community for the warm welcome and support. They will be forming Circles of Eight, where they read the book as a group and sit in the inquiry and discussion. Great...
by Celeste Yacoboni | Sep 6, 2014 | News
Unity of the Valley, Eugene Oregon – September 6, 2014 A Prayer Enrichment with author Celeste Yacoboni. Join us in the Sanctuary on Saturday, September 6 from 10:00 am to Noon. Celeste’s presentation will include information and insights about prayer from spiritual guides, religious leaders, healers, activists, and other lovers of humanity who were asked the question How do you pray?” There will also be Q&A time and a book signing. From Celeste: Unity of the Valley in Eugene, Oregon gave us a warm welcome on the How Do You Pray? book tour! Thank you Rev Inge Tarantola, Rev Sherry Lady, Gena Duel and all the wonderful...
by Celeste Yacoboni | Sep 4, 2014 | News
The Jivamukti Yoga School NYC, located at 841 Broadway 2nd floor, in New York, NY has announced that Celeste Yacoboni will be speaking on November 3, 2014. Here is the announcement: There are as many ways to pray as there are human beings. As Rumi has written, “There are one hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” Interspirituality is respect for all these ways, participation in the rituals of communion, and union with our divine essence in all forms and practices. Join spiritual director Celeste Yacoboni – who thinks of God as the Grid of Divinity that we are all part of – in an interspiritual communion/community experience as she shares from her new book How Do You Pray? and larger vision of creating a prayer field of unity that embraces humanity’s diversity. How Do You Pray? Inspiring Responses from Religious Leaders, Spiritual Guides, Healers, Activists & Other Lovers of Humanity. Sharon Gannon is a featured contributor. Click to register online. About the book: As we evolve, so do our prayers; as our prayers evolve, so do we. This is the evolution of illumination, the collective voice of the soul of the world. How Do You Pray? was born from a vision in which Celeste Yacoboni was told to ask the world, “How Do You Pray?” She reached out to leading spiritual, shamanic, scientific teachers, guides, and activists and asked for their response. Culled from those responses is an original and deeply personal collection of essays. Talking intimately and candidly about how they pray, these personalities encourage the reader to contemplate the intention of prayer in their own...
by Celeste Yacoboni | Aug 31, 2014 | News
Celeste Yacoboni appeared in her first TV interview with Frank Mallicoat CBS KPIX 5 in San Francisco to discuss How Do You Pray?: Inspiring Responses from Religious Leaders, Spiritual Guides, Healers, Activists and Other Lovers of Humanity. Reviews of How Do You Pray? “If you want to learn how to be more creative, study Leonardo da Vinci or Thomas Edison. If you’d like to improve your cooking skill, watch Michael Symon or Cat Cora on “Iron Chef.” And if you want to enrich your inner life, immerse yourself in the beautiful examples of prayer from spiritual teachers, visionaries and thought leaders in this exquisite volume. How Do You Pray? offers creative inspiration and rich nourishment for all seekers.”–Michael J. Gelb, author of How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci and Innovate Like Edison “This is a book that many will be putting into their pockets and carrying with them to inspire them on a daily basis. This is a book that not only inspires, but reminds us of the inner connection that powers this world of reality. Celeste Yacoboni has planted a seed to awaken our memory! Let our hearts unify as we celebrate our diversity and the spiritual nature we walk with.”–Jyoti, Spiritual Director for the Center for Sacred Studies and Ambassador to the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers “Each humble seeker will discern the language of prayer, the language of the heart, in his or her own way, guided by the Love that interpenetrates all existence. Nonetheless, we are richly fed and inspired by the words and witness of others in their explorations and practice within...
by Celeste Yacoboni | Aug 27, 2014 | News
The Fall 2014 issue of Parabola is titled “Spiritual Practice” and features excerpts from the How Do You Pray? book. From the editor: FOCUS | From the Editor Spiritual Practice, Volume 39, Number 3, Fall 2014 As children, my brother and I were taught to place our slippers far under our beds each night. Our parents hoped that when we reached for those slippers the next morning, we’d find ourselves in a kneeling position and would remember to say our morning prayers. Why is it that engagement with the higher, the sacred, the spiritual, requires practice? Call it the veil of Maya, sleep, original sin, monkey mind, or ego, there is something within us that blocks us from direct apprehension of the divine. We practice to allow this something to find its proper place, to make room within us for the sacred, and also to remember to go beyond apprehension to living the truth, practicing the truth. Spiritual practice is universal yet culturally specific and widely varied. Nearly all humans pray. Some kneel, some prostrate themselves, others bow or sit or stand, praying silently or aloud. We chant, we sit in meditation, we pursue sacred dance, we go to mass, we fast, we tithe, we undergo initiations, we go on pilgrimage, we do yoga, we perform sacrifices and acts of kindness, and much more. This Fall 2014 issue of Parabola explores the world of spiritual practice with the guidance of accomplished teachers and practitioners. Our interview is with Mirabai Starr, a bright new voice in interfaith studies who as a teen lived at the Lama Foundation, where she studied...
by Celeste Yacoboni | Aug 21, 2014 | News
Mirabai Starr announced the How Do You Pray? Book in her newsletter, Unity in...
by Celeste Yacoboni | Aug 20, 2014 | News
Celeste Yacoboni takes a moment during her busy book tour to share a story: We had a wonderful evening at East West Book Store, Mountain View on Tuesday for a How Do You Pray? book talk and signing. The next evening Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox who is a contributor to the book was there speaking about his new book “Meister Eckhart: A Mystic-Warrior for Our Times”. Matthew quoted Meister Eckhart in How Do You Pray? “If the only prayer you say in your whole life is ‘ Thank You,’ that would...
by Celeste Yacoboni | Aug 15, 2014 | News
The How Do You Pray book by Celeste Yacoboni has been featured by Bioneers.org as a Summer Read! How Do You Pray? Bioneers Founders Nina Simons and Kenny Ausubel are featured in the newly released essay collection How Do You Pray? by Celeste Yacoboni. Theirs are two of 129 inspiring responses to the title question from religious leaders, spiritual guides, healers, activists and other lovers of...