Joy as a Spiritual Practice
21 Day Journey
A 3-week journey into cultivating joy as an alchemical, embodied path.
Welcome, dear seeker.
This is not a self-help challenge or a productivity hack. This is a homecoming. Over the next 21 days, you will not be adding more to your life — you will be peeling back what was never yours to carry.
Joy is not something you earn; it is something you remember. Each day, you will be invited to drop into deeper presence, aliveness, and resonance with the ecstatic truth of who you are.
This is an Invitation from your joy body to bring more joy into your life.
Joy and love are energetically some of the highest vibrations as we cultivate these frequencies we raise our vibration and therefore the field around us.
An Alchemist is one who lifts vibration, vibrating free ecstatically.
The Essenes treated joy as a spiritual practice. Lightening up on the spiritual path supports En-lightenment. It vibrationally shifts the frequencies of duality into hilarity. Laughing at the cosmic joke of separation.
JOY IS A CHOICE
There is nothing that can make you happy if you choose not to be. And there is nothing that can prevent you from being happy when happiness is your choice.
There is no need to delay the joy of living until some future, imagined, ideal time when conditions are perfect.
Now is when you are living your life, and now is your opportunity to live with genuine joy.
No position or possession or experience or set of circumstances will make your life good. Your life already is filled with magnificent goodness that's yours to be experienced to whatever degree you allow.
Worrying about the future achieves nothing other than to rob you of joy in the present. Feel the wonder of your being, right here, right now, and fill your awareness with its richness.
Instead of looking for reasons to be envious or resentful, see in each moment all the opportunities for joy. Instead of avoiding or delaying what must be done, step enthusiastically forward each time you have a chance to make a difference.
Joy is a beautiful, life-affirming choice that you can always make no matter what. Choose to live with joy, and give yourself a life that's truly rich.
See today as a pivotal day in your soul's journey. A day where you are choosing JOY! A day that you begin to make your life a Masterpiece of Joy.
Next to love, joy is the highest and strongest frequency. The counterpart is fear with all its facets such as anger, frustration, lethargy, indifference, guilt, shame, etc. When we are in full joy, we are one with our Higher Self.
Due to the upheavals, control mechanisms and massive irradiation, it can sometimes be difficult to stay in joy. Then our vibration drops and we usually enter a state of stagnation.
Let's use the next 21 days to anchor more joy in our lives! If we embody this energy it ripples out and affects all areas of our life. If you are in joy and enthusiasm on every level, abundance will come automatically.
(Sarah uMA lightbody activation)
WEEK ONE: EXCAVATING JOY
Discovering your innate joy beneath the noise of the world.
Day 1: Remembering Joy
Reflection: Joy is not something we have to earn. It is our birthright and our baseline.
Practice: Sit quietly and breathe for 5 minutes, remembering a moment you felt real joy.
Affirmation: “I remember joy lives in me.”
Quote: “Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.” – Teilhard de Chardin
Day 2: The Joy Compass
Reflection: What lights you up, even in small ways?
Practice: Make a list of 10 tiny joys in your life.
Affirmation: “I follow what makes me come alive.”
Quote: “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive.” – Howard Thurman
Day 3: Laughter is Medicine
Reflection: Laughter is a physical prayer.
Practice: Watch something funny. Laugh out loud. Let your body shake.
Affirmation: “I allow laughter to heal me.”
Quote: “Laughter is carbonated holiness.” – Anne Lamott
Day 4: Joy as Rebellion
Reflection: In a heavy world, joy is a radical act.
Practice: Express joy publicly today—a smile, a kind word, a dance.
Affirmation: “My joy is powerful.”
Quote: “Joy is an act of resistance.” – Toi Derricotte
Day 5: Childlike Wonder
Reflection: Return to beginner’s mind. Be curious, not correct.
Practice: Go outside and find something beautiful with beginner’s eyes.
Affirmation: “I delight in wonder.”
Quote: “Stay close to anything that makes you glad to be alive.” – Hafez
Day 6: Joy in the Body
Reflection: Joy is not a thought—it’s a felt sense.
Practice: Dance for 10 minutes to music that makes you feel alive.
Affirmation: “I let my body speak joy.”
Quote: “The body says what words cannot.” – Martha Graham
Day 7: Joy in Stillness
Reflection: Joy is not only found in movement—it’s also in the quiet.
Practice: Silent meditation, focusing on your breath as a source of peace.
Affirmation: “In stillness, I find joy.”
Quote: “Within you, there is a stillness and sanctuary.” – Hermann Hesse
WEEK TWO: EMBODIED JOY
Living joy through your body, senses, breath, and presence.
Day 8: Dance of Delight
Reflection: Movement awakens your inner joy memory.
Practice: 15 minutes of unstructured dance to a joyful playlist.
Affirmation: “I move with joy.”
Quote: “Dance is the hidden language of the soul.” – Martha Graham
Day 9: The Sacred Yes
Reflection: What in your life is calling for a deep YES?
Practice: Say YES to something today that brings authentic joy.
Affirmation: “I trust the joy in my YES.”
Quote: “Say yes to the open door.” – Rumi
Day 10: Touch of Grace
Reflection: Your body is a temple of sensation.
Practice: Give yourself a nurturing touch—hand on heart, a warm bath, or mindful lotioning.
Affirmation: “I touch joy, and joy touches me.”
Quote: “Touch comes before sight, before speech.” – Margaret Atwood
Day 11: Joyful Nourishment
Reflection: Food is a celebration of life.
Practice: Eat one meal slowly, savoring each bite with gratitude.
Affirmation: “I savor the joy of nourishment.”
Quote: “Let food be thy medicine.” – Hippocrates
Day 12: Sound of Joy
Reflection: Sound vibrates joy through your cells.
Practice: Hum, chant, or sing out loud for five minutes.
Affirmation: “My voice is an instrument of joy.”
Quote: “The voice is the muscle of the soul.” – Alfred Wolfsohn
Day 13: Breath of Bliss
Reflection: Breath is your most direct access to joy.
Practice: Practice joy breath: inhale for 4, exhale with a smile for 6. Repeat 10 times.
Affirmation: “I breathe in joy. I breathe out peace.”
Quote: “Feelings come and go like clouds. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” – Thích Nhất Hạnh
Day 14: Joy Rituals
Reflection: Ritual brings sacred rhythm to joy.
Practice: Create a 3-minute morning joy ritual (light a candle, say an affirmation, dance).
Affirmation: “My life is a joyful ceremony.”
Quote: “Ritual is the passageway of the soul into the Infinite.” – Algernon Blackwood
WEEK THREE: RADIANT BEING
Radiating joy through service, creativity, presence, and purpose.
Day 15: Joy as Service
Reflection: When shared, joy multiplies.
Practice: Offer a spontaneous act of joy to someone today.
Affirmation: “My joy is a gift to the world.”
Quote: “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Gandhi
Day 16: The Creative Pulse
Reflection: Joy and creativity are intertwined rivers.
Practice: Create something joyful—art, poem, meal, altar.
Affirmation: “Joy flows through my creativity.”
Quote: “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” – Einstein
Day 17: Grateful Heart
Reflection: Gratitude is the soil where joy grows.
Practice: Write down 5 things you’re grateful for and FEEL them.
Affirmation: “Gratitude is my gateway to joy.”
Quote: “Gratitude turns what we have into enough.” – Melody Beattie
Day 18: Joyful Relationships
Reflection: Who brings you joy? Let them know.
Practice: Reach out to one person and share a joyful memory or blessing.
Affirmation: “I cultivate joyful connections.”
Quote: “A joy shared is a joy doubled.” – Swedish proverb
Day 19: Presence as Joy
Reflection: The more present you are, the more joy can enter.
Practice: Do one daily task with full attention and heart.
Affirmation: “I bring joy to this moment.”
Quote: “Wherever you are, be all there.” – Jim Elliot
Day 20: Lightbody Activation
Reflection: You are made of stardust and spirit.
Practice: Visualize your body glowing with golden joy light.
Affirmation: “I radiate joy in every cell.”
Quote: “You are the light of the world.” – Matthew 5:14
Day 21: Becoming Joy
Reflection: You are not seeking joy. You are joy.
Practice: Sit in silence. Feel yourself as joy. Nothing to fix. Just be.
Affirmation: “I am the radiant joy of being.”
Quote: “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?” – Rumi
Final Blessing
Thank you for walking this path. May joy be your compass and companion, your teacher and transmission.
You are joy. You are light. You are love.
You didn’t “complete” a course — you awakened a way of life.
Joy, grief, dance, rest, laughter, and death all exist in the circle together.
You are that circle. Now go live it.
The gift of the Inner Marriage is:
✨ Freedom ✨
✨ Wholeness ✨
✨ Unity consciousness ✨
✨ Ecstatic embodiment ✨
You may well be aware that we all have two polarities, male and female, that live within us. But did you know that bringing these polarities into balanced union within creates balance and harmony in your inner and outer world?
These two polarities are divinely designed to seek resolution, integration and union, rather than to remain separate. The process of coming into integration, harmony and balance with these two polarities is called in Alchemy, The Great Work, the Sacred Inner Marriage.
The practice of alchemy has been used for thousands of years by many ancient cultures. Physically, it is the process of turning lead into monoatomic gold; spiritually, it is a metaphor for turning our leaden human experience into spiritual gold.
Alchemy is about raising your vibration and transmuting the shadow with love.
Balancing and raising the vibration of these inner polarities is a powerful means to create fulfillment within you and in your relationships.
Discover the Beloved Within.
Connect with True Love.
All relationships are reflections that hold the possibility of offering us heightened inner awareness and growth. If, however, you are looking only to relationships outside yourself to complete you, fulfill you, or make you whole, you are unlikely to find it.
You may recognize that your projections point out the places where you are identified and thus emotionally react to assist you in seeing more fully where you are still not whole.
Doing the work of the Inner Marriage, in essence, alchemically assists us in activating higher consciousness which sees its unity within the Whole.
This course will help you deepen your understanding of what projection is and how it plays out in your movie and in your relationships.
With these rituals, we are both invoking and celebrating the rebalancing of the masculine/feminine energies within each of us welcoming in this new state of Being and Wholeness.
You will see where these imbalances begin.
Discover ways to love and forgive these aspects and open to the compassionate heart .
Seeing where these patterns and beliefs began is a step to freedom.
As we love ourselves more fully we begin to open to that love being reflected outside us and create healthy loving relationships.
“Archetypes are form constants that exist in and define a field of consciousness which is beyond time, space and the individual.” Carl Jung
You will receive:
Alchemical Tune-ups: Ways to Shift Vibrationally and Lighten up! En-Light-enment is about lightening up. You will receive an Alchemical Tune-up aligning you with the highest frequencies of the Divine Feminine or Divine Masculine and in the end, dropping those names and ways of identification, emerging in wholeness and oneness.
Archetypal Activations: Each week you will be working with different archetypes. Archetypes are large mythic containers of consciousness that are the structural energetic form behind the manifested form in physical reality. Archetypal energy heals, catalyzes and transforms at a vibrational level of consciousness that goes beyond what the mind can cognize.
Archetypal Tools for Transformation: You will receive tools to connect to this archetypal aspect.
Alchemical Affirmations: Daily Affirmations that will begin to reprogram your thoughts and therefore your perception and you will begin to see life a little bit differently.
Somatic Embodiment Practices
“The power of this potent alchemical journey is beyond measure. This is the second deep dive into this work I have experienced with Uma as a guide. I can testify to the miraculous transformation that takes place when the journeyer is willing to surrender and meet the depth of her Love.
The invocations, meditations, calls and energetic support create an ethereal container that is absolutely tangible in the physical experiences of the process, regardless of the distance 'time and space' create in the virtual world. The connection Uma and Orion create is beyond all constraint, and the results are reflected in a feeling of both clarity and lightness.
I could not recommend this course more highly for those desiring self-knowledge, reflection and a great rebalancing of both shadow and light qualities...to become the fullest essence of ourselves.”
Greyson Kirby
“Sarah Uma is such a masterful guide on this deep transformative journey into the divine masculine and feminine. Every call feels like a prayer being sent out into the collective mind field for the embrace and awakening of these powerful aspects within us all.
The depth at which we are exploring our inner landscape and archetypes is creating a deep clearing and balancing within. Like a radiant loving light has been turned on to shine into unconscious shadow patterns and behaviors....cultivating a deep spaciousness and honoring the uniqueness of my being....to be newly birthed in Love. Deep gratitude for bringing this work out into the world. It is so needed on the planet right now.”
Natalia
“Taking the marriage of inner alchemy course has offered me a worldview that I have been seeking for a long time. It's been very valuable to dissect the inherent natures of feminine and masculine and understand each energy in both unhealed and healed states.
Creating and witnessing my own inner alchemy manifest is a beautiful journey and these tools have been indispensable to direct me and connect to my inner guide. I have a better understanding of not only my own internal workings, but as we are all connected, the universe is guiding me to assist others in their personal journeys. I have always felt that any investment in self-work turns into service for others, but through this course I have been able to articulate more difficult to express energies.
Everyone is looking for ultimate fulfillment in life. Yet, it's so difficult to find words and expressions to heal these blocks and wounds within all of us.... these lower vibrations that prevent us from our highest expression of ourself. With the tools gained through taking this course, I can now more clearly identify these energies and transmute them into a higher frequency.
I believe that the Divine is working thru Uma and Orion to offer these incredible healing tools of self-love. They create a safe space to do this deep work and their love, wisdom and experience has been extremely valuable to my journey. Words cannot express how truly grateful I am for the opportunity to take this course. I know I will be developing and cultivating these tools from this course for the rest of my life. Blessed be.”
Chandra
“For balance, wholeness, communion and the deep healing of ourselves and the planet. Join my dear soul sister Sarah Uma and Orion Hawthorne for this powerful offering.”
Sarah Eden Amadora, Priestess, Singer, Archetypal Artist of the Soul
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