Walking with Awareness Walking with awareness is about being aware of everything around you at all times. Walking with awareness is about physical walking, yes, but it is also about all aspacts of our life. It is about our walk through life. When we walk with awareness: We are often walking with more purpose and life life often takes on a more sacred character We walk with more heart and spirit. We more easily hear and follow the calls of the Spirit and from deep within our heart. We seek to find out our deepest truths to define our sacred path. We learn more from life's daily lessons. We more readily walk with joy and acceptance of all the variety that comes along our path. This site is about listening to and being aware of lessons spoken from every corner and every opening of our lives and incorporating those lessons into the walk, the pilgrimage, of our life. Often we hear lessons we have known from earlier times and reinforced over and over by the experience of our daily lives. But when we listen closely we can also discover lessons that can bring an altogether new facets into our life experience. Each of our lives are unique. When we choose to listen to everything around us and find, define, and follow our own path we are much better off than when we fail to listen and instead follow the paths others have laid out for us. We can benefit by listening to others but in the end we need to listen closely and search for our own path and walk it with the devotion of a zealot (knowing we will fail at times). We offer you the content of these pages and our workshops, walking classes, slide shows, and books to help you listen to and discover, define, and refine and walk your life with more awareness and depth We offer you the following. You can choose these options here and from the menu on the right side of each page. Slide Shows Hear the call and follow your heart - a reflection on our pilgrimages along the Camino de Santiago. A Pilgrimage to St. Peter's Keys: Walking from Germany to Rome. - a reflection on our pilgrimage walk over the Alps to Rome. Walking your sacred path - a reflection on pilgrimage of life. History of slide shows and workshops. Workshops and classes Spiritual and practical preparation for walking a European pilgrimage. Walking your sacred path - a workshop encouraging you to search for your unique path in life. Walking with Awareness walking classes - mornings and evenings in Paso Robles - four-week walking classes exploring different modes of walking including slow and meditative walking. Comments participants in our workshops left afterwards in Germany (in German). History of Slide Shows and workshops. Books Germany to Rome in 64 Days: Our Pilgrimage, a book chronicaling our 2006-07 pilgrimage walk to Rome from our front door in Germany. Preview and purchase it here. Walking Life: Meditations on the Pilgrimage of Life, a book inspired by Mike's pilgrimage walks. Preview and purchase it here. Walking links, a growing list of links to pilgrimage and walking sites. Reviews of books and other items we have used, items that you might also find useful. New! About us. We're in the press - June 17, 2008 article about us in the San Luis Obispo Tribune by Leah Etling. Our pilgrimages. Camino de Santiago. Rome Pilgrimage Walking East - California to Jerusalem We're in the press. Contact us. What's new? WorksAndWords.com - Mike's other web site, Works and Words. Go there when you want to explore his writings, photography, and coin club links. Check out Mike's eBay offerings also. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions Click here to call or email us. Return to top.