Mirabai Starr
Embrace radical surrender and bask in awe as a modern-day mystic by embodying your humanness — the messy and the sublime — as a living testament of the sacred.
Participate in powerful practices designed to help you unshackle your self-judgments and inner resistance so you can be of service to yourself and the suffering world.
What if your hurts, disappointments, and mistakes are all important aspects of your radiant self?
How would your life change if you stopped minimizing your true spiritual nature and making yourself smaller to try to please others by accommodating their expectations of you?
Spiritual masters and mystics have reassured us that, in spite of life’s appearances and circumstances, we all have the inherent capacity to experience joy, wholeness, and divine love.
It begins with fully accepting ourselves — our humanness and holiness — as the divine beings that we actually are.
This magnificent refuge is inside you. Enter. Shatter the darkness that shrouds the doorway. Step around the poisonous vipers that slither at your feet, attempting to throw you off your course. Be bold. Be humble. Put away the incense and forget the incantations they taught you. Ask no permission from the authorities. Slip away. Close your eyes and follow your breath to the still place that leads to the invisible path that leads you home.
— Mirabai Starr
In this program with beloved modern mystic Mirabai Starr, you’ll experience a bold, new, and empowering perspective on what it means to be an everyday mystic and lead a life you love.
Mirabai herself knows all too well that pain can be a portal to liberation. Pain encourages us to stop, reflect, and re-examine our lives. The difficulties we face can motivate us to question our current beliefs and break out of a stifling daily routine.
The good news is that you can learn to live in the present, free of debilitating self-judgments, and experience the splendor and beauty in your life . You can celebrate the sweet harmony found in everyday events, and bask in a deep knowing that you embody the sacred and sublime.
In this life-affirming course, you’ll plunge deep into your inner world through visualization, meditation, writing exercises, breathwork, and chanting. Mirabai will guide you through the creation of a sacred altar and the daily appreciation of beauty… keeping you awake and aware of the grandeur all around you.
Mirabai is an award-winning author of creative nonfiction and contemporary translations of sacred literature who has taught philosophy and world religions at the University of New Mexico-Taos for more than 20 years. She was named one of 2020’s 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People in Watkins Mind Body Spirit magazine.
During this life-enriching online course, you’ll:
- Embrace the surprising truth that you’re already a mystic — and access the tools to call on and express the true wisdom-keeper within
- Let go of the false beliefs that have kept you from perceiving your true spiritual essence — through guided meditations, chanting, breathing practices, and writing processes
- Gain the courage to powerfully face grief and loss and draw out their healing message
- Find, build, and tend to your tribe as a path of healing, homecoming, and happiness
- Be guided to practice what Buddhists call a “beginner’s mind” so you can live your life from a fresh, untarnished perspective
- Embrace your “brokenness” as a portal for transformation
- Explore ancient spiritual traditions and how their sacred customs can improve your relationships, strengthen your community bonds, and enhance your overall wellbeing
- Lean into what is uniquely yours to contribute to the world and your deeper capacity to help others by clearly perceiving the essential interbeingness of everyone around you
- Learn to create sacred spaces where you can mindfully witness the splendor manifested around you
- Gain a childlike wonder and appreciation of life by removing unrealistic expectations of perfection and allowing your true divine nature to be expressed and celebrated
- Uncover the secret to manifesting your deepest desires
During this transformative 7-module course, Mirabai will guide you to fearlessly “break down the door to your divine encounters,” as she describes it. She’ll encourage you to no longer wait for permission to live an extraordinary life.
Through compelling instruction, you’ll examine and challenge limiting belief systems, constricting roles you’ve accepted, and teachings of religious doctrine that are simply not true.
Through Mirabai’s incomparably gentle wisdom, you’ll discover that you don’t have to abandon humanness to discover your spiritual nature.
She’ll compassionately help you reveal your true self, the everyday mystic, by fully embodying yourself as you are today… allowing you to fully embrace the blessings of the present, both shadow and light.
Dare to reclaim the holiness of your life, and you’ll feel a renewed thirst for the sensuality of every moment. You’ll allow yourself to be creative, inspired, and spontaneous. You’ll awaken to a deep sense of contentment, looking out on a world that is holy, sacred, and stunningly beautiful.
Mirabai masterfully unveils an essential teaching that helps establish trust in life — not by exerting greater control — but through peaceful and conscious surrender that enables the expansive unknown to reveal its gifts, soothing your wounded heart.
There’s a Zen koan that says: “Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.” Infusing the sacred into our daily life is not something that comes to us, it’s an energy that flows from us.
This rebellious acceptance of your whole self gives you energy and clarity that you have everything you need to co-create a loving world, at a time when it’s needed most.
If you’re ready to take your rightful place in a community of fellow mystics, join us for this transformative and heart-opening 7-module course.
During this exploration of mysticism and your life as an everyday mystic, Mirabai will lovingly help you release limiting self-judgments and false beliefs, so you can perceive yourself authentically and embrace your true spiritual essence.
Through thought-provoking and life-affirming exercises integrated with insightful instruction, Mirabai will help you courageously face the circumstances of your life and transform problems, concerns, and challenges into valuable messengers, assisting you in your awakening.
This is a rare opportunity to experience the life that you know is seeking to emerge — and to be truly helpful to others as they strive to reach their own potential.
— Caroline Myss, Spiritual Teacher and Author: “When Mirabai Teaches and When She Writes, It's as if She Floats in a Sea of Holy Poetry”
— Andrew Harvey, Mystic Teacher and Author: “Mirabai Is One of the Best Mysticism Teachers on the Planet”
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Modules
In this 7-part transformational intensive, Mirabai will guide you through the heart-opening exercises and life-changing instruction you’ll need to successfully walk through your life compassionately and powerfully as a modern everyday mystic.
This course will feature step-by-step teachings and experiential practices with Mirabai. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to embrace a new, higher vision of yourself as a modern mystic, embracing the fullness and joy of embodying your human holiness.
Module 1: Discover Your Bold, Sensual Self by Courageously Expressing the Mystic You Already Are
In this opening session, Mirabai will establish a firm foundation for reclaiming your spiritual identity. She’ll examine the traditional definition of what it means to be a mystic, and give you an entirely new understanding so you can see yourself as a modern everyday mystic.
You’ll go on an enlightening journey into the beliefs that often create unrealistic expectations of spiritual perfection, which can result in developing a cycle of self-judgment that actually takes you away from seeing the very thing you’re striving to reveal... your true self.
Mirabai will gently help you perceive the blessings in the messes and mistakes you thought defined your life, with a new realization that every step brings you closer to the truth that you’re already home.
In this session, you’ll:
- Experience a liberating exercise where you’ll embrace your entire being
- Learn that there is no end to achieve — you’re already divine
- Explore the true meaning of mysticism
- Have an opportunity to give yourself permission to express the powerful and benevolent person you were created to be
- Recognize your life as holy ground
Module 2: Cultivate Presence for Deeper Connection to the Sacred
You can transform the routine and ordinary by bringing the sacred into your daily life. You’ll discover that being present to all the feelings, details, tensions, and contours of your life is a powerful tool for transformation. Mirabai will help you embody the tools you need to uplevel the everyday into a mystical experience.
You’ll gain a new perspective of the importance of ancient spiritual traditions and explore how these sacred customs can be valuable to our current relationships and wellbeing. Mirabai will explore the power and influence the feminine has on self-realization, as the feminine establishes a vessel for the expression of the Divine.
In this session, you’ll:
- Discover the impact of honoring the Sabbath — taking a day of refuge by letting the world’s cares and demands pause while you explore your inner life
- Learn how to prepare the body and mind to be a welcoming vessel for the spiritual energies you’re awakening
- Experience the daily practices of noting, observing, appreciating, and contemplating the beauty that surrounds you
- Uncover the power of the feminine approach to spiritual self-examination
- Learn how the body is the meeting place of the Beloved
Module 3: Harvest a Renewed Sense of Awe by Surrendering Outmoded Beliefs About Yourself & the World
Surrender is not giving up. It’s a release, with an awareness that life cannot be controlled. The way of the mystic is to understand the beauty and grace that’s ever-present — and celebrate the divine wonder through childlike eyes.
As you open yourself to the beauty and magnificence of the world, you’ll discover a connection to the essence and power that’s all around you. You may not get more answers — indeed, the unknown and unknowable may seem even more profound. But in that surrendered awareness, you’ll realize that life is not a problem to be solved, it’s a reality to be celebrated.
Mirabai will support and guide you as you pull on the loose threads of your belief systems and let those that no longer serve you unravel.
In this session, you’ll:
- Experience an enlightening and sacred mantra exercise to help open you to your divinity
- Discover that the dark night of the soul is not about overcoming a hard time; it’s about the blessing of being spiritually vulnerable and encountering love itself
- Learn the importance of what Buddhists call a “beginner’s mind” so you can live your life from a fresh, untarnished perspective
- Dismantle the thought systems and beliefs that have restricted your true vision and falsely proclaimed your limits rather than your magnificence
- Develop a trust in yourself with awareness that you’re not separate from the splendor of life
Module 4: Learn Love at the Feet of the Masters and Experience Transformative Love in Your Own Life
Mirabai teaches that the sacred is not an energy outside of you; it can be found everywhere in your everyday life. You can bring the beautiful and the sacred to everything you do. The books you read, the movies you watch, and the music you enjoy are all avenues for the divine to celebrate your life.
This course will encourage you to view life as a mentor that provides you with clues to live expansively, embrace everything, and become the best version of yourself. Mirabai will guide you to let go of limiting self-concepts and old beliefs that claim that once you’re perfect (at some point in the future) you can live an inspired life.
You are not a project to be perfected — you’re a divine, spiritual energy here to express boldly.
In this session, you’ll:
- Experience a powerful exercise to open your heart and reveal a deep connection to the sacred within
- Learn to gain insights and guidance from the relationships, companionship, and communities that are currently in your life
- Discover that there are clues to transformation all around you — and explore how to identify them and activate their loving message
- Find new avenues for spiritual inspiration that are all around you
- Explore the profound truth that everything is holy, just as it is
Module 5: Build & Tend Beloved Community to Take Your Rightful Place in the Circle of Belonging
The era of the lone prophet and single sage has passed. Ours is a time of collective awakening, of reciprocity, of active participation in the interconnected web of our relationships. Each of us has something essential to contribute, inextricably bound with our individual quirks and gifts.
Mirabai will guide you to find, build, and tend to your tribe as a path of healing, homecoming, and happiness. As she puts it, “Lift each other up. See no separation between servant and served. Look to the example of tree root systems and ‘quantum entanglement’ to illuminate what mystics and Indigenous wisdom keepers have always known: we belong to each other.” As you’ll explore, such belonging is a potent antidote to isolation and despair.
In this session, you’ll:
- Experience an ancient meditation to activate and enhance your natural loving kindness
- Understand why it’s essential that we work together to unfold our spiritual natures — and why going it alone is simply too hard
- Learn how to receive guidance, and listen for your invitation from the Universe about how you are to serve
- Discover how you can tap into your force for goodness and help others even when you’re experiencing personal challenges
- Learn how science shows that we’re interconnected — from tree roots and plants to the vastness of the quantum field
Module 6: Use the Transformational Power of Grief to Connect You With Your Soul’s Innate Wholeness
Grief can be a crucible for alchemical transmutation.
Loss has many familiar faces — death, breakups, health, financial, trust, and innocence. When you choose to stay present in the discomfort of suffering, rather than turn away, self-medicate, or try to “fix” it through forces outside yourself, loss and grief can become a threshold to sacred space. Your broken heart can open to deeper love and intimacy with the Divine and with compassion for all beings.
This is the heart of Mirabai’s teaching. She’ll gently guide and support you as you dare to feel everything... not to get rid of your emotions, but to understand them. She’ll tenderly lead you through powerful exercises, inspired instruction, and authentic personal examples in how you can boldly face your grief and use it as a stepping stone to real freedom and sovereignty.
In this session, you’ll:
- Experience a profound breathing practice that transmutes the grief you’re holding into hope and beauty
- Learn that grief and loss are not what they appear to be — and shift to perceiving them as portals to your heart’s sincerest desire
- Understand the nature of grief and the different forms it uses in your life and the lives of others
- Discover how to powerfully face grief and loss and draw out its healing message
- Understand the deeper teaching of grief and transcend the common belief that pain is to be mitigated, rather than embraced, so it can be understood as a path to liberation
Module 7: Embrace Your Messy Humanity as a Way to Embody the Sacred
Living as a mystic doesn’t mean you conform to a preconceived notion of purity and perfection... living as a mystic means you abide in your humanity.
You might still make disappointing choices, lose your temper with people you love, engage in addictive behaviors, get caught in old painful thought patterns, or collapse into hopelessness in the face of catastrophic world events.
Yet living as an everyday modern mystic means you bear witness to your own human condition with curiosity and tenderness. You recognize that you’re an integral member in the vast family of created beings and that this life experience is a school for waking up and growing closer to the Divine... however you experience it.
In this final session, you’ll:
- Practice a day of silence in which you allow yourself to shift your inner paradigm and create a space for powerful realizations
- Discover that patience and compassion begin with you and radiate outward to encompass the world around you
- Reveal the deep teaching that you’re here as a human being, living a divine adventure to discover your true nature — and that mistakes are required to learn all that you came here to learn
- Explore what’s beyond your current beliefs and expectations through a writing exercise that has you contemplate and complete the statement “I never would have believed...”
- Discover that the secret to realizing your deepest desires is fully embracing your whole self — the messy parts as well as the sacred and majestic
The Spiritual Meltdown Course Bonus Collection
In addition to Mirabai’s transformative 7-module virtual course, you’ll receive these special bonuses with leading visionaries and teachers to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
You Are What You Seek
Audio Dialogue With Mirabai Starr & Gangaji
In this powerful teaching, Gangaji, beloved teacher of the nondual path, shares how to discover the “hidden treasure” of your own God-Self. She uses St. Teresa of Avila as an example of finding what you long for as the very essence of what you are. Gangaji, a teacher and author who travels the world speaking to seekers from all walks of life about her own experience of awakening, affirms that it’s possible to discover the truth of who you are and be true to that discovery.
Modest Magical Mysticism
Video Dialogue With Mirabai Starr and Anne Lamott From The Shift Network’s Mystics Summit
In this dialog between soul friends, Mirabai Starr and celebrated author Anne Lamott talk about the sacred and holy in ordinary life. They share their thoughts on the ways mystical experience so often shows up in the magnificence of nature, in stillness and in song, in dreams and in worship. You’ll discover why reading sacred texts, poetry, and good fiction across the spiritual traditions can be a powerful form of prayer. They explore death, grief, and loss as doorways to the deepest experiences of the sacred. And Anne shares a brilliant outline for a life curriculum she calls “Mysticism 101,” created especially for this summit.
What Graduates of Mirabai’s Courses Are Saying...
— Willow Brook: “Mirabai Holds a Space of Incredible Intention and Acceptance and Fierce Love”
— Jenna Darko: “Mirabai Is Wildly Attuned to the Voice of the Mother, the Voice of the Beloved”
— Stephanie Yost: “There Are Storytellers and Then There Are Soul Speakers Like Mirabai”
— Tasleem Jamila: “Mirabai Is a Jewel Walking Amongst Us Today”
— Nina Rao: “Mirabai Gathers the Flowers of Various Mystical Traditions From Around the World Into a Bouquet of Beauty”
— Jaime Grechika: “Mirabai Brings Life and Joy to Her Classes”
“Mirabai’s deep connection with the feminine Divine, her integrity, and knowledge combined to produce a truly inspiring course!”
Mirabai’s deep connection with the feminine Divine, her integrity, and knowledge combined to produce a truly inspiring course! So many resources to add to my practice... an absolute treasure.
— Dayna P., York, Pennsylvania
“I am more patient, more compassionate, and more still.”
The course has definitely benefited me and impacted the way I am in the world. I am more patient, more compassionate, and more still. I do not feel alone in handling challenging circumstances that arise, and feel a deeper connection to others. I feel like this is an ongoing process and that the changes are still manifesting within me so I look forward to allowing this process to continue to unfold.
— Karen, Togo
“As a result of this course I feel a much greater sense of self-respect and confidence in myself.”
I enjoyed and still am enjoying Mirabai’s course. She is always an inspiration to me. This course allowed me to get in touch with the Divine Feminine aspect of self. I loved learning about the mystics and Goddesses and their participation in society and how influential they were in the community that they served. As a result of this course I feel a much greater sense of self-respect and confidence in myself.
— Miriam, Henderson, Nevada
“[Mirabai’s] online presence is profoundly authentic and personal.”
Mirabai Starr is not only a brilliant and profoundly moving author! Her online presence is profoundly authentic and personal. She reaches through the screen, and you feel as if she is sharing just with you a precious, miraculous gift as she conveys information and leads ritual.
— Rev. Jane Anne Ferguson, Plymouth United Church of Christ, Fort Collins, Colorado
“Mirabai is wonderful!”
Mirabai is wonderful! It is a gift to begin again, to read and enjoy the feminine mystics. It is like renewing and re-engaging with my spiritual self. It is awesome and life-giving.
— Carolann Trainor, Ottawa, Canada
“The class was everything, if not more than I expected and hoped for.”
The class was everything, if not more than I expected and hoped for. I was grieving the death of my husband, and when I heard Mirabai’s introduction to the class, it touched me deeply. I had no doubt this course was the path I needed for renewal, healing, evolving, and support.
— M.J., Middleton, Wisconsin
“Sharing presence with [Mirabai] is like an initiation of soul and spirit.”
I can highly recommend any teaching from Mirabai Starr. Her depth, devotion, and authenticity, for me, is transformative in and of itself. Sharing presence with her is like an initiation of soul and spirit.
— Sharri Gaines, Raleigh, North Carolina
“It feels rare and refreshing to learn from someone who both feels grounded and free.”
Mirabai Starr is not only an exquisite and charming teacher, but a gently fierce woman who embodies her own words in living a life connected and devoted to the Divine Feminine. It feels rare and refreshing to learn from someone who both feels grounded and free.
— Monika, Harrisonburg, Virginia
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Mirabai Starr
Experience a unique opportunity to learn from interspiritual author Mirabai Starr, translator of the mystics — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a streaming video option and guides you to discover specific skills and abilities to reveal your true identity as a spiritually empowered modern-day mystic.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each lesson.
The Spiritual Meltdown Course Bonus Collection
- You Are What You Seek
Audio Dialogue With Mirabai Starr & Gangaji - Modest Magical Mysticism
Video Dialogue With Mirabai Starr and Anne Lamott From The Shift Network’s Mystics Summit
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, The Spiritual Meltdown Course
We feel honored that Mirabai Starr has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive online course. This is a unique opportunity to learn from an interspiritual speaker and translator of the mystics whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about awakening to the truth of your spiritual nature and expressing the mystic within, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind course.
If you’re ready to take the next step in evolving yourself, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
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More Praise for Mirabai Starr...
“Mirabai will help open up your heart to love.”
Ever since I met her when she was a teenager at the Lama Foundation, Mirabai Starr has been absorbed in the teachings of the great mystic saints, especially the women. Like her namesake, the poet-saint Mirabai, she brings to her work an intense love of God and a passion for the Beloved. My Guru said, “Love is the best medicine.” Mirabai will help open up your heart to love.
— Ram Dass
“Mirabai Starr possesses passionate eloquence...”
Mirabai Starr possesses passionate eloquence when speaking about mysticism, making the ineffable as tangible and real as eating delicious food that's good for you.
— Jenny Bird, singer-songwriter
“... brings understanding, and especially compassionate wisdom.”
I have been present during Mirabai Starr’s classes at the University of New Mexico in Taos, on both philosophy and the theologies of the major world religions. One would expect from such a background that she has gathered and synthesized a dazzling amount of knowledge, but in addition she brings understanding, and especially compassionate wisdom. These are godsent gifts that are simply given to her. Her life experiences of suffering and love pour into the cup of different levels of understanding, which she offers so generously as a teacher, lecturer, writer, and guest speaker. I’m enriched and honored by her friendship.
— Fr. William Hart McNichols, iconographer and Roman Catholic priest
“... a gentle dynamite for opening and awakening.”
Mirabai's words point toward the ineffable. She has an outstanding gift for language, plus penetrating insight, married to a heart of authentic compassion. Combined, the result is a gentle dynamite for opening and awakening.
— Sara Morgan, psychotherapist and spiritual guide
About Mirabai Starr
Mirabai Starr is an award-winning author of creative nonfiction and contemporary translations of sacred literature. She taught Philosophy and World Religions at the University of New Mexico-Taos for 20 years, and now teaches and speaks internationally on contemplative practice and interspiritual dialogue. A certified bereavement counselor, Mirabai helps mourners harness the transformational power of loss.
Mirabai’s book, Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics, was named one of the Best Books of 2019 by Spirituality & Practice. It’s essential reading for anyone ready to awaken the feminine mystic within and birth her loving, creative, and untamed power into the world.
Mirabai has received critical acclaim for her revolutionary new translations of John of the Cross’ Dark Night of the Soul and Teresa of Avila’s The Interior Castle. She is author of the poetry collection Mother of God Similar to Fire, a collaboration with iconographer William Hart McNichols, and the award-winning book God of Love: A Guide to the Heart of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The transparency of her journey through grief in her memoir, Caravan of No Despair: A Memoir of Loss and Transformation, is a gift to those who are struggling with unimaginable losses.
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