Maja Apolonia Rode 4/14/21 Maja Apolonia Rode 4/14/21

There Is a Place

video | 6 min — a song about coming Home

I wrote this song after a 5-night silent retreat. It speaks of where we meet in the wordless, spacious field of the One Heart.

Maja Apolonia Rode 4/12/21 Maja Apolonia Rode 4/12/21

What Love Will Make of You

poem | 235 words — a message to a friend who is working hard

Maja Apolonia Rode 4/5/21 Maja Apolonia Rode 4/5/21

Stop Mandala Time-Lapse

video | 3:32 min — a mandala emerging

Watch this (mostly) unplanned mandala coming into form. Commissioned by someone who had a deep spiritual "sign" that he wanted to honor and remember with a mandala.

Maja Apolonia Rode 4/5/21 Maja Apolonia Rode 4/5/21

The Self-Love Sanctuary

program | small groups — with Sacred Space Facilitator, Kate Foley

Join Kate Foley for a deep dive into The Reality of Self Love.

Maja Apolonia Rode 4/1/21 Maja Apolonia Rode 4/1/21

Creative Presencing

Live Online Series | August 2021 — tap into the creative field of our collective presence

One of my lockdown projects was initiating “The Creative Centre” in the Rebel Wisdom sense-making community online forum. There I connected with other artists of consciousness, and a few of us have been developing a collective practice of deep-dive downloads . . .

Maja Apolonia Rode 3/26/21 Maja Apolonia Rode 3/26/21

How to Make a Sri Yantra Mural

video | 4 min — watch the creation step-by-step

Since ancient times, yogis of India have considered the Sri Yantra to be the most potent geometric embodiments of the divine, bestowing life energy, good fortune, and even enlightenment to those who view it. Here's how I painted a massive Sri Yantra on my wall.

Maja Apolonia Rode 3/26/21 Maja Apolonia Rode 3/26/21

One Kind Breath

audio | 3 min — a message to soothe my scared and tired parts

As you know, words don’t do much good when what you need is a warm and gentle hug from that inner goddess . . .

Maja Apolonia Rode 3/10/21 Maja Apolonia Rode 3/10/21

Divine Dice

offering | oracle game — inner wisdom oracle and meditation game

Divine Dice are your magical compass for inner space exploration! Each roll reveals one of 1728 unique Facets of Presence perfectly “chosen” to soothe your soul, align your energies, and lift your spirits.

Maja Apolonia Rode 3/4/21 Maja Apolonia Rode 3/4/21

A Good Place To Start

video | 3 min — a rhyming revelation about the nature of being

Look all around you, take in the scene.
Can you say for certain that it's not a dream?

Maja Apolonia Rode 3/2/21 Maja Apolonia Rode 3/2/21

Playing with Palindromes

gallery | 16 riddles — making sense of nonsense

My inner 10-year-old goofy word nerd came out to play and create a bunch of riddles that make sense of odd palindrome phrases. Can you solve them?

Maja Apolonia Rode 11/11/20 Maja Apolonia Rode 11/11/20

Emergent Wisdom Writing

exercise | access inner wisdom through writing

When I have a question in life requiring wisdom that seems beyond my reach, sometimes I turn to this process of emergent writing. Here’s how . . .

Maja Apolonia Rode 11/2/20 Maja Apolonia Rode 11/2/20

Writing My Little Book of Love

essay | 450 words — coming to terms with love and truth

Back in 1995, One Love was the culmination of a decade-long journey with unconditional love as the guiding aspiration of my life. Now in 2022, there’s more to the story.

Maja Apolonia Rode 10/1/20 Maja Apolonia Rode 10/1/20

Every Day Is Christmas

video | 3 min — a fun and heartfelt Christmas carol

“Made me want to hug my mom.” :)

Reinventing Christmas #2: For many years I led Christmas carols at the annual gathering of Adyashanti's nondual meditation community. I wanted to include some fun songs in the mix, but all the truly fun songs lacked depth of meaning. So I wrote my own!

Maja Apolonia Rode 9/5/20 Maja Apolonia Rode 9/5/20

The Blind Men and the Elephant

video | 4 min — the ancient tale set to rhyme by John Godfrey Saxe

It was six men of Indostan
to learning much inclined
who went to see the elephant,
though all of them were blind,
that each, by observation,
might satisfy his mind . . .

Maja Apolonia Rode 9/1/20 Maja Apolonia Rode 9/1/20

A New and Ancient Christmas Story

video | 3 min — in honor of the divine feminine

“I got chills.”

Reinventing Christmas #3: In the wintertime of 2014, I noticed that in our “western” culture there is no archetype of the holy girl child. I thought, What if Jesus was a girl? This poem unfolded over the next 6 years or so.

Maja Apolonia Rode 6/1/20 Maja Apolonia Rode 6/1/20

Reason for the Season

video | 4 min — a rap about the true meaning of Christmas

“Ahhhh this was slammin’! I love it!”

Reinventing Christmas #1:
We’ve all heard the story about the guy
with the first name Jesus and the last name Christ.
Born long ago, yet we still remember
with a birthday party at the end of December. . .