Christy Modita Engels and Safire Rose Collection
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BIOGRAPHY
Christy Modita Engels and Safire Rose are spouses living in Los Angeles, California. Christy and Safire have attended many spiritual retreats and gatherings over the years in Ojai, Taos, Los Angeles, and other places. Christy has led storytelling events about Hanuman at Bhakti Yoga Shala in Santa Monica.
Safire is a graduate of the Holmes Institute School of Ministry, and the University of Santa Monica Soul-Centered Living Certificate Program in Spiritual Psychology. She is a coach through Alan Cohen’s Foundation for Holistic Coaching, and Anne Deidre’s intuitive coaching program. Safire received her Juris Doctor degree from Southwestern Law School, and a Master’s degree from the University of California, Irvine where she specialized in women’s history and African-American history. In the corporate world, Safire served as a general litigation paralegal for private law firms and governmental agencies, working in such areas as employment litigation and municipal law. Safire Rose is a poet and the author of the poem “She Let Go”.
As part of her path, Safire has immersed herself in the inclusive truth teachings and practices of all major spiritual traditions, and of New Thought. In her daily life, Safire practices the Presence through mindful awareness, meditation, metta (loving kindness), kirtan (chanting the names of God), and spends time in silent retreat.
Safire has taught several workshops including Relationship as a Spiritual Path, The Heart of Forgiveness, Sexual Orientation and Spirituality, and Be Still and Know—a Day of Mindfulness, and has been a guest speaker at Agape International Spiritual Center, and several Centers for Spiritual Living throughout Southern California. chrSafire has regularly contributed to Agape’s inspirational monthly publication, Inner Visions, and has contributed daily meditations and articles for the Science of Mind Magazine.