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Rev. Camilla Sanderson

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Growing up, I intuitively knew my own inner divinity – the same inner divinity that exists within us all. I connected with my divinity during times of presence: sailing our twelve-foot Laser on Pittwater where I grew up in Sydney, hiking in the Australian bush, running and playing softball on the sand flats with my three sisters, playing my flute by the waterfall near our home. It happened most often in nature. I wasn’t brought up in any particular religion, but went to a Waldorf school that honored body, mind, and spirit.
During my twenties to early-forties I worked in the publishing industry while living in Greenwich Village with my American husband Jamie Jones. We were lucky to be able to periodically escape the city and spend time in nature with Jamie’s family in Cape Cod and at Treetops, a log cabin in the woods of Temple, New Hampshire. In 2004, Jamie’s parents told us they planned to sell Treetops. We asked them if we could buy it. After exchanging contracts, while still living and working in New York City, we spent many work-at-home Fridays and weekends at Treetops. In 2011, after Jamie recovered from cancer, we both quit our jobs and lives in Manhattan and moved here.
Serendipitously, I was led to study world religions for two years with Rev. Dr. Stephanie Rutt and some now life-long soul sisters. I was ordained an interfaith minister in 2014. Feeling called to write, I then completed an MFA in creative non-fiction writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2017. I’m the author of The Mini Book of Mindfulness published in 2016 by Running Press/Hachette and am presently in the process of revising, Treetops and the Buddhist Monks Across the Road: An Interfaith Memoir.
Rev. Stephanie advised us that the most important aspect of seminary was to establish a daily spiritual practice, which I found life-transforming. In essence, each day I created a space to connect with my inner divinity. Also transformational was our study of the ancient Hindu sacred text, The Bhagavad Gita where I learned about dharma. We do not even have an exact equivalent English word for the Hindu concept of dharma, but it centers around the idea of our “sacred duty,” or “the great work of our lives,” or our “personal legend” as Paulo Coelho puts it in The Alchemist, or as the poet Mary Oliver writes, “What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” 
Samples of my writing may be found at:
​www.clippings.me/users/camillasanderson2014
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  • Home
    • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Our History
    • Our Founder Rev. Dr. Stephanie Rutt
    • Our Presiding Minister Rev. Linda Goodman
    • New Leadership >
      • Rev Ahjan Grossman - Incoming Seminary Director
      • Rev. Deb-Ellen Brown - Associate Minister
  • Join us
    • Worship Services >
      • Upcoming Worship Services
      • Worship Service Proposal Form
      • Archive
    • Classes and Offerings >
      • Seekers Book Club
      • Conversations in the Wilderness
      • Monday Meditation
      • Dream Works
      • Spiritual Resiliency for Everyone
      • Presiding Minister’s Office Hours
      • Interfaith Spiritual Practice
      • Lil Bits of Heaven
      • Class Proposal >
        • Class Proposal Form
        • Program Presenter Contract
      • Our Sacred Call
      • Archived Classes at the Temple >
        • Writing Personal Essay and Memoir as a Spiritual Practice
        • Braver Angels - Depolarizing Political Conversation
        • SEVA (Service Project) 9 week Free Yoga with Carol Gaudreau
        • Fall Classes for 2019 >
          • Building Your Yogi Toolbox
          • Cooking Basics for Health & Wellness
          • Introduction to the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
          • Writing Personal Essay and Memoir
        • 2019 Classes at the Sparrows Nest: Owned and Operated by Rev. Dr. Stephanie Rutt, our Presiding Minister >
          • On the Shaman's Drum
          • Pray Without Ceasing
        • Spring 2019 >
          • Chakra Vibration - An Inner Journey
          • Grief Yoga - Moving to Empowerment
          • The Secret Garden
          • What is Happiness - How do we find and nurture it
          • Psalm 23
          • Yoga Nidra
        • Winter 2019 >
          • Spiritual Dowsing
          • Tai Chi
        • Fall 2018 >
          • Call of the Morning Dove
          • Gentle Yoga
          • Interfaith Approach to Christian Mysticism
          • Hinds' Feet on High Places
          • Lord's Prayer in Aramaic
          • Mala Workshop
          • Our Relationship with Food
          • Soul Collage
          • The Hero-Heroine's Journey
          • Writing Personal Essay and Memoir
    • Membership >
      • Membership Overview
      • Becoming a Member
      • 2021 Membership & Pledge Drive
      • Ministers Roster
    • Our Community >
      • Volunteer Opportunities
      • Our Ministries/Our Lives >
        • Carol LaChance
        • Stephanie Rutt
        • Camilla Sanderson
  • Interfaith Seminary
    • The Vision: We Are Called
    • The Seminary Program >
      • Curriculum
      • Spiritual Practice
      • Community Service
      • World Religions
      • Ministerial Duties
      • Seminary Guides
    • The Seminary Overview >
      • Fees , Scholarship Aid & Applications >
        • Seminary Application
        • Scholarship Aid
      • Bookstore >
        • Seminary Core Curriculum
        • Suggested Reading
        • World Religions
    • Seminarians' Reflections >
      • 2020
      • 2018
      • 2017
      • 2015
      • 2014
      • 2013
      • 2012
      • 2011
  • Interfaith Collaboration
    • World AWAKE
    • Interfaith in our neighborhood
    • Community Outreach >
      • A Gift from the Light
  • Donations
    • Donations for us
    • Donations for Seminary Scholarship Fund
    • Donations for our neighbors