Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë | Yorkshire Moors, England

In June of 2019, we will be returning to England to read Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë's masterpiece, as a sacred text while engaging in one of the most ancient of traditions: a walking pilgrimage. We will go to the Brontë parsonage museum, to the village schoolroom where Charlotte taught, to locations that are said to have inspired sites from the novel such as Ferndean Manor, and wander in the West Yorkshire Moors the way that the Brontë sisters did. 

We will spend these days asking ourselves one key question: what is the home that you are looking for? We will ask this question of ourselves, of each other and of Jane Eyre. Each day will include some opening words from Vanessa Zoltan, co-host of Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, and local experts about Jane Eyre and Charlotte Brontë.  It will also include a substantial walk through the moors with sacred reading and reflection practices.

We will share our meals together, and most days will include either a museum visit or a visit from an local expert. We will have time and space for writing, reflection, reading, silence, ancient reading practices like lectio divina and PaRDes and of course, for walking.