AWAKENING TO YOUR SOUL
AND THE SOUL OF THE WORLD
Friends, there is no mistake that we are alive in this time of Great Change. An evolutionary time incomparable in human history. Indigenous wisdom-keepers, spiritual teachers, and the stars and planets themselves, foretold a shift in humankind. A New Story. A New Ancient Story. A quantum leap. From the head to the heart, from logic and linear thinking to intuitive knowing and spiral movement. From the masculine pole to the rise of the feminine, and a synthesis between them. From the primacy of the left hemisphere of our brain, which sees in parts and definition, to the right, which sees in wholes and the unknown.
Hagia Sophia, ancient Greek for Divine Wisdom, calls us to reawaken to the embodied guiding presence within and in all of nature. Through various modalities, I offer eco-spiritual guidance into your soul, your home where wisdom dwells, into your particular genius and purpose. And into the interconnected reality with Gaia, the living organism of our beautiful planet.
Sophia is an ancient feminine reality that is the creative life-giving force weaving its way through history, re-awakening for this particular time we are in.
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This work is rooted in the sacred ecology of soul. It involves attuning with the living earth, with the microscopic cells of our bodies, and with the cosmic circuitry of planets and stars. Living from this landscape liberates our highest purpose, transforming the relational fields in which we are interconnected. Changing the world.
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Hagia Sophia calls the wild You, beyond the domain of roles, fears, norms, habituation, or
patterns of the mind.
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In the wilderness of the unknown, we stand on a threshold of what has been and what is not yet, both in the outer world and within. Between who we have been, and what we are, individually and as a civilization. Between a culture created by the illusion of separation and the reality of our interconnected web of belonging. Within this unknown, a potent invitation emerges from the wholeness that is You, to live within and from a deeper awareness within.
Deeper into our personal and collective fear and shadow
Deeper into the inherent gifts held
within the very cells of our being.
Deeper into the alive world within and around us.
Deeper into Mystery.
Into a living relationship with our soul and with the soul of the world.
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We are alive for such unprecedented times of epochal change. As we open to soul, we become co-creators of an emergent new world. A world led by courageous open hearts, embodying Sophia, the feminine principles of receptivity, relational competency, and reverence for all beings. This is a revolution of a different order, where the alchemy of love and presence transforms, transcends, and includes.
about hagia sophia
Awakened to your Wild Soul,
your lived life is the crucible of transformation
Join me on a Journey into our collective awakening
Through a global online and embodied journey hosted by the Gene Keys, The Sage's Golden Path, you are invited to join me, and other like-hearted kin, into the sacred codes of transformation through the Gene Keys. This virtual live retreat will be the last one offered with Richard Rudd, the creator/transmitter of the Gene Keys synthesis.
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Beginning in January 2026, this journey begins into your specific codes of consciousness related to your life's gift, your evolutionary path, your particular radiance in the world, and your core stability through your purpose, interconnected with the web of life. During a time of intense global unrest and change, this is an opportunity to work through your shadows, fears, and those old stories that limit your potential, into the true gifts you carry in service to this time of transformative change, awakening your own divine nature within.
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You can choose to register for the full 18 months or for the first 4-month journey into your Activation Sequence. Whichever you choose, your registration includes full participation in the online retreat with Richard Rudd, all curriculum, and once per month small group sessions with me to process, contemplate, and integrate what you are experiencing through eco-spiritual and intuitive energetic practices of deep listening and active participation in your own unfolding. Find out more by clicking below!
Spiritual Guidance
with Gene Keys
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Spiritual Guidance
with Gene Keys
If you live in the Rockingham/Augusta county area, consider this an invitation to connect with others on a journey back into the sacred embodied reality of our true essence, re-membering our innate interconnection with the rest of the Living World, and with our soul. Shenandoah Valley Church of the Wild is an emerging expression of community among the human and other than human inhabitants of the Shenandoah River, Dry River, and North River watersheds, a "church" without walls on the edges of wilderness and civilization. Our teachers are many, and include Black Oak and the Eastern Cottonwood, cardinal and caterpillar, ancient lichen and river stone, one another, and our own souls. Recognizing the sacred in all of creation, we re-member our kinship with all beings as holy and necessary practice in a time of socio-ecological destruction. Our free gatherings occur once a month. For more information, visit our website at www.churchofthewildshenvalley.com.
Founded and facilitated by Valerie Luna Serrels
"In every moment we can glimpse the Light that was in the beginning and from which all things have come... The threshold is always near.”
~ John Philip Newell
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PLEASE NOTE: Hagia Sophia offers spiritual guidance. This is distinct from licensed clinical therapy, treatment, diagnoses, or professional counseling. While the work we offer is healing and can be therapeutic, in the sense that it opens the door to integrating your whole Self, it does not come from a purely psychological model. If you are experiencing an emotional/mental crisis, please seek assistance from a licensed clinical therapist.
Bridgewater, VA