Meghan Yates - Interspiritual Community Minister

Meghan is ordained through The Chaplaincy Institute of Maine -- and is an active community minister I am a certified Reiki Master/Teacher in the Usui tradition.

Ministry -- I have much experience and take great pleasure walking with people of different faith walks or no faith. Ordained through the Chaplaincy Institute of Maine as an interfaith minister in addition to being a notary of the public, I am available for working with couples of All kinds to create meaningful weddings and commitment ceremonies, naming ceremonies, spiritual companionship, sacred

art retreats, workshops and concerts. Healing -- My practice is multidisciplinary -- with an approach that holistically meets each person. Hands on healing, spiritual companionship and meditation are the main components of a session. Reiki - sometimes classified as an alternative healing modality - is a practice in which the practitioner places their hands over or on a clothed recipient for the purpose of transmitting healing energy. This healing energy is sourced from the "universal life force energy" and is conducted through the practitioner - going where healing is needed the most. Reiki works on all levels of a persons being: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. If a physical symptom has arisen in response to a stress caused by an emotional or spiritual "root", Reiki will address the "root," thus alleviating the effect of the physical response. In addition to Reiki, I am also an intermediate Integrated Energy Therapy practitioner. I.E.T. is the next generation of energy healing that addresses healing at the cellular level. Attunement at the intermediate level enables the practitioner to draw out physical, mental, emotional and karmic imprints in a clients field and to restore and "reprogram" wellness at a cellular level. I/E.T is a wonderful compliment to Reiki, and naturally enhances the efficacy of the work. My healing work is also informed by a level three certification in Jackie Major's Aura Hygiene meditation modality. Through this training, I am able to provide some tools for self energy management, empowerment and healing. In addition, I am able to perform a clearing of "cords" ( information that is linked with others) that are ready to come out. This work heightens the awareness of the client, permitting them to see, feel and sense for themselves how their energy body works and gives permission to begin integrating healing tools that continue to develop in addition to sessions. This winter, I am working with Sandra Chaussee (shamanic practitioner and sound healer) as her apprentice for sound healing. This work adds greatly to my healing practice and my creative expression as a singer. I will be offering sound healing sessions starting this spring, and will be weaving this work into my present practice. Feel free to contact me if you would like more information. "Meghan was the perfect person to officiate our wedding ceremony. She listened to our thoughts and feelings, offered words of wisdom and deep insight and collaboratively crafted a unique ceremony that combined words, music and ritual genuinely reflecting our love. It was everything we imagined and more." Will and Alicia Ethridge

10/23/2017

A sweet endorsement from a couple who I walked with in spiritual companionship sessions and held space as a singing co-officiant for their ceremony this last summer: "We were grateful to have Meg offer spiritual guidance in the weeks proceeding our marriage and wedding ceremony. By listening, witnessing and asking intuitive questions, Meg held the space we needed to slow down and connect to each other and the commitment we were about to make. We would highly recommend Meg Yates to any couple seeking to galvanize their spiritual connection to one another."

Ministry Connection is my calling to ministry. Communion through spontaneous and planned ceremony, conversation, and silence. A desire for more connection with the Earth, myself, and others lead me to the path of ordination through the Chaplaincy Institute of Maine as an interfaith minister. My walk has been...

11/03/2016

Words from my amazing sister-in-law Shulamis on her wedding service I officiated a couple weeks ago:

"Meghan delivered such a heartfelt, kind, and honest wedding ceremony for my husband and I that multiple guests and myself were in tears. We were truly moved by her words. She has a way of seeing into hearts and celebrating the joy she finds there, while also soothing and healing the pain she encounters along the way. Her vision for marriages stretches beyond the cliché romantic aspects, and includes the realistic and often unspoken hardships. This honesty made a huge impact on my husband and I as we stood at that alter, and it has given us strength as we embark on our life partnership." - Shulamis Rosenblatt

04/14/2016

Excerpt from Nine Jewels of Night by Beverly Lanzetta

"Silence was deeper than prayer. I had a need for pure emptiness. How different this was than false silence, the silence deafened by what was not said, by what was not truthful!...This silence pulsated within me, a depth not my own that opened out to a boundless expanse of light.
How small and insignificant is the self in comparison to All That Is!

Daily I forged a path through digressions and distractions, claiming my right to be in my own energy, in God's energy. Yet I was more involved in life than ever....The more I accepted my way, the way of silence and unsaying, the more energy flowed. Solitude, alone with the divine in my soul's hermitage, was not segregation, but intertwined in everything."
(pp. 186-187)

04/07/2016

Are you getting married this Spring, Summer or Fall?
I take great pleasure in creating and holding ceremony, especially ceremonies centered on Union! Drop a line, and we can see if we're a good match for your special day!

Ministry I have much experience and take great pleasure walking with people of different faith walks or no faith. Ordained through the Chaplaincy Institute of Maine as an interfaith minister in addition to being a notary of the public in the state of Maine and co-ordination that is valid in most U.S. states,…

03/02/2016

In Full Bloom - Sunday Service & Contemplative Self Portraiture Class

Meghan Yates - Contemplative Arts Merging Contemplative Practice with Creative Process

01/22/2016

Holy One, why do people say: you are perfection beyond me, vision too bright for my eyes, nobility too rare for my soul, love too pure to be felt, and knowledge too glorious to be understood? Your immeasurable gift is already stamped in my depth! Even though I fear you are not present, even though I doubt, or have given up hope, your divine spark is eternal in my soul. I long to dissolve my separation: to see with new eyes, to hear with new ears, to feel with a heart burst open in awe!

Hear my prayer: please draw me ever closer to your mysterious intimacy by which and for which I was born. Amen.

~Beverly Lanzetta

01/08/2016

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." - Helen Keller

"Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are." - Rachel Naomi Remen

Though Winter is more a time for quiet reflection, contemplation, restoration -- I'm aware that this season of my life is bringing blossoming and almost innocent curiosity in addition. My heart is opening to a more generous reality -- one that includes more of what is truly me. My work as a healer has companioned me through many shifts, and will likely continue to do so. Companioning other's in their most intimate movements is inherent to me, and a complete joy. Bearing witness to the blossoming of others brings a most cherished, almost selfish and illuminating happiness! Allowing to share in these moments of realization, movement and release has brought me closer to what is Divine than most other practices. Simply participating with the intention of healing moves so much, brings much to the surface and releases the noise that distracts from the true need.

This season in my own life is releasing much noise, removing veils, rewriting the oldest stories, and revealing a most beautiful and joyful essence that has long awaited this freedom to emerge.

Are you ready for more freedom? Are you willing to walk your path without the noise and narrative that has held you from experiencing your wholeness?

Working with a guide and healing companion will NOT bring all of the answers or fix you. It Will offer you pathways to explore, honest reflection, energy for your visions and dreams for yourself, support, and sight of something within you that may not presently be seen. Miracles can happen. Really old junk can move. Dreams can come true.
It's up to you to ask yourself what you really want,
And to trust what you hear.
If you'd like a friend to help you hear and take steps, reach out.

With heart,
Meg

Healing My practice is multidisciplinary -- with an approach that holistically meets each person where they are, with the aim of supporting the journey to wholeness. Hands on healing, spiritual companionship, sound healing, and guided meditation are the main components of session work. Sometimes, art, movem…

01/02/2016

How do you get to Carnegie Hall?

Meghan Yates - Contemplative Arts Merging Contemplative Practice with Creative Process

11/27/2015

Haiku on Bypass and elaborations

Meghan Yates - Contemplative Arts Merging Contemplative Practice with Creative Process

10/01/2015

Love this. There truly is no end.

What is it all about? To get things done? No! Because you do them, and you undo them, and you do them, and you undo them, and you do them, and you undo them... What is the point in all of it? It is the thrill of the process along the way. Physical human minds keeps thinking, "We have to be going towards some end." And you kill each other by the millions trying to decide what is the appropriate end that you are all going toward. And we say: well, there's your flawed premise. Because there is no end that you're going toward. We are all on a perpetual cycle of joyous becoming. We will never get it done, ever, ever, ever, ever.

---Abraham

Excerpted from: Spokane, WA on May 30, 2000

Our Love,
Esther (and Abraham and Jerry)