LIVE Workshop via Zoom | Tuesdays, March 10, 17, and 24, 2026 from 6:00 - 8:00 PM ET
The Sacred Space of You and Me —An Introduction to Intimate Relationship as Spiritual Crucible
With Rev. Melanie Smith
An introductory-level workshop to approaches of shining light on the shadow self as a way to enrich and enliven relationships with self, partner, and the Divine.
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In this workshop…
You will explore a grounded approach to consciously integrating spirituality into your relationship through your shadow self.
This introductory workshop is for spiritually oriented couples who would like to consciously uplevel their relationship into a more authentic relationship with each other and with the Divine. We will embark on this journey by exploring intimacy, commitment, shadow work, and how that opens a portal to enhanced spiritual connections.
The workshop will be a playground for learning, mutual support, deeper connection, contact with Spirit, and personal growth.In this deep exploration, we will ask ourselves:
How committed am I to my own growth?
How committed am I to my partner’s growth?
What am I willing to do differently to ensure a successful relationship?
What scary thing about me am I willing to share with my partner, in the spirit of greater unity, growth, and connection?
What will we, separately and together, receive as a result of working through our scariest places?
Am I living fully in my integrity in this relationship? Are there areas where I am not being honest with myself or my partner?
What spiritual practices can I do with my partner and on my own to specifically support our relationship?
The idea is to abandon old, habitual concepts of relationship in favor of a more enlivening, evolutionary, playful, spiritual-travelers-together foundation. The approach prioritizes the greatest and highest good for the partners by expanding partners’ visions of what their relationship can become.
This workshop is for…
Anyone in an intimate relationship who wants to incorporate spirituality as an essential aspect of successful relating. Those who are fundamentally spiritual but have not incorporated spirituality as a partnership practice. Partners who are becoming distant, whose relationship may be lacking vitality, and who want to get that vitality back into their partnership. Partners who are suffering in silence because they don’t feel seen or understood in their relationship. Partners who have continual trigger patterns with each other.
Attendees can look forward to leaving this workshop with a spiritual framework and practice that can offer a path forward towards deeper relationships with self, others, and the Divine.
What you’ll Explore
What it means to create “The Sacred Space of You and Me” and to bring spirituality into your intimate committed relationship
Examining and refining the practical, personal, and spiritual reasons for being in an intimate relationship
Consideration of our shadow selves and how those show up with partners as an essential area of growth
What you’ll Experience
Guided meditation(s) especially designed for partners to deepen their inquiry, connection, and learning
Micro-journaling exercises
Spiritually connecting practices between partners
Methods to approach the material presented for shadow work, including exercises, embodied skills, meditations, and prayers
What you’ll Integrate
A deepened understanding of what it means to be in an intimate, committed relationship
A spiritual shadow work practice
A greater and articulated awareness of why you are even in a relationship at all.
The beginning of a living document expressing your relational ideals to each other
What you’ll Receive
Simple tools for moving from dysregulation to regulation with each other
A culminating update to relationship agreements that incorporate spirituality.
A toolkit for enhancing and growing your intimate relationship using grounded skills and spiritual practices.
The Sacred Space of You and Me, Three Sessions
Session 1: Introduction to Creating the Sacred Space of You and Me
In the first module, we will identify and unpack your ideas about how intimacy and commitment function in your relationship, look at models of relating, and begin building your “Sacred Space of You and Me.”
Session 2: Lighting the Fire— Entering Your Crucible Together
In the second module, we will introduce the concept of the spiritual crucible, and how intimate relationship creates a profound opportunity to explore our shadows — and thus strengthen our connections to each other and to the Divine.
Session 3: Your Alchemy Formula— Manifesting the Blessings of the Crucible
In this third and final module of this introductory workshop, we will embark on the path this work opens up by developing spiritual practices, awareness practices, and proposing an opportunity to revise and renew your foundational agreements. We will discuss the blessings that are only available in a committed relationship as a result of creating the crucible.
About the Presenter,
Rev. Melanie Smith, MACP, LMFT
holds a master’s degree in integral counseling psychology and is also a licensed psychotherapist, sound healer, and an OSLA-ordained interfaith/inter-spiritual minister.
She is a couples counseling specialist, the founder of Expert Relationship LLC, and the author of From Despair to Repair, a couples communication skills course. She has been a relationship specialist on 94.5FM KKOB radio and an invited presenter at medical, legal, and mental health conferences.
An award-winning photographer and former instructor at the Colorado Institute of Art, Melanie weaves her passion for creativity with the art and science of healing.
“I am offering this workshop because I care very deeply about how intimacy, commitment to a relationship/partner, and shadow work can lead to greater connection with self, partner, and the Divine.”
Where can I access the workshop?
All One Spirit workshops are hosted on Hylo - our online community platform. Workshop access will be provided via email after registration is complete. Please check your spam and/or promotions folders for your confirmation email from One Spirit. You will be guided to create a Hylo account, if you don’t already have one, and then given access to the Course Hylo Board, where you will find the Zoom Link, Course Materials (when posted), and Course Recordings (within 72 hours of the live class).