The Reverend Dr. Alla Renee Bozarth Receives Gracie Award from Ageless Grace, LLC

HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. - June 6, 2013 - PRLog -- Hendersonville, N.C.—The Reverend Dr. Alla Renee Bozarth, director of Wisdom House in Sandy, Ore., is the recipient of an annual “Gracie” Award for Gracious Active Aging.  The award is presented by Ageless Grace, LLC, located in Hendersonville, N.C., to honor individuals who exemplify the core values of Ageless Grace: living a life--whatever one's age--of comfort and ease, with beauty and in grace.

Bozarth is an Episcopal priest, poet, and Gestalt therapist certified by the Gestalt Training Center of San Diego. She is the founder and director of Wisdom House, which, since 1976, has been a 501(c)3 religious non-profit corporation.

The author of 40 books and seven audio albums, Bozarth's work is known worldwide, and brings Wisdom House visitors from other countries in addition to countless telephone and Internet consultations from around the globe.

Bozarth earned her academic degrees at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, read for Holy Orders at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, and was among the barrier-breaking, history-making women first ordained priests in Philadelphia in 1974.

Bozarth's framework of service is that of a soul caregiver, contemplative poet and priest celebrant in the Creation Centered tradition of the Judeo-Christian religions, with deep ecumenical respect and appreciation for other compatible and meaningful expressions of the human soul whenever it moves into modes of reverence and service.

Bozarth's commitment is deeply rooted in her own life as a Christian priest in the expressively Catholic and intellectually lively tradition of the Episcopal Church. Serving at Wisdom House, infused with study and understanding of depth psychology in her soul care practice of 40 years--committed to creative disciplines, particularly poetry as prayer, and devoted to a feminist theology of the Divine Feminine as articulated in the Jewish and Islamic traditions and in Celtic Christianity.

Wisdom House, Bozarth's spiritual center, is a place of peace that forms the inspiration for her writing, which has become the focus of her ministry in her later years. She has been retired from active public ministry involving travel and speaking engagements since 1994 when her health demanded it. She claims that the more physically limited she has become, the more creative output she produces. That remains her primary expression of service to souls.

She has 20 published books, though some are out of print awaiting re-publication, and she has been working on 14 large new poetry collections, as well as six or seven small volumes of poetry and prose, including two children's stories. It is her hope that with the ongoing publication of these gifts, her ministry will not be limited but merely more sharply focused in a form that can expand more widely into the lives of the people whose life journeys resonate with themes addressed in the books: loss, grief, passion, physical illness, chronic pain, the problem of suffering, the problem of human immaturity and evil, internal conflict and conflict in relationships, love, sensitivity to beauty and the deep need for Grace that humanity shares within itself, and with all creation.

Ageless Grace®, a fitness program based on the cutting edge science of neuroplasticity, is a set of 21 simple movements, or “tools,” that can be performed in a chair. The tools are all organic, un-choreographed, and they incorporate movement, memory, imagination, and humor, to encourage lifelong comfort and ease.  A short video introduction to the program can be viewed at www.agelessgrace.com.

Since January 2011, Ageless Grace creator and founder, Denise Medved, has trained and certified more than 500 educators around the world—in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and South Africa—who are teaching the program in schools, retirement centers, gyms and fitness centers, spas, and in churches and synagogues.  

A scholarship to a certification event has been created in Bozarth’s name, and she will receive a set of the Ageless Grace® materials (the Ageless Grace® Playbook, a set of three DVDs, and a flashcard deck), as well as a gift set for someone of her choosing.

To celebrate the award, Ageless Grace, LLC is offering a special 10% discount on a complete set of materials. To order, go to http://www.agelessgrace.com/Products.html.  When prompted, use discount code “wisdom” to receive the discount as well as free shipping.

Additional details about the award are available at: http://www.agelessgrace.com/GracieAwards.html