The Golden Hour
Where wisdom comes into being
Mary Angelon Young
Formally trained in Jungian and archetypal studies, Angelon Young, MS, has a master’s degree in transpersonal psychology; she taught mythology, dreamwork, and Jungian studies at Prescott College in Arizona and at Avalon Institute in Boulder, Colorado. She has published over ten books of nonfiction on timeless themes of the spiritual path and four novels of historical fiction/fantasy with a spiritual bent. A mother and grandmother, Angelon continues to write and teach from her off-grid home in the high desert mountains of Arizona.
Angelon is a writer, elder and storyteller whose spiritual journey began in childhood. In 1987 she embarked on a mystical path affiliated with the tantra and bhakti culture of the Bauls, the heretical and wild poet-bards of Bengal, India. For the past three decades Angelon has traveled extensively on pilgrimage with forays to temples and sacred sites of India and Europe. During those “wandering years” she had rare opportunities to spend time in the company of saints, spiritual luminaries, teachers and experienced practitioners of many different traditions, including her mahaguru, Yogi Ramsuratkumar (1918-2001) of Tiruvannamalai, south India.
Today, her lifelong passion for song, mythopoetics and symbolic language combines with the art of storytelling to create space for unexpected divine moods to arise. Her commitment to opening doors for individual direct experience of innate wisdom combines with years of immersion in the wisdom teachings of both East and West to enrich her groups in the U.S. and Europe with soulful warmth, imagination and joy.
Devi Cavitt Razo
Devi Cavitt Razo, MA, has been immersed in the world of spiritual practice and transformation her entire life. As a teacher and director of the world-renowned Hoffman Process for, she evolved a unique understanding of the value, as well as the challenge, of integrating inner work and spiritual journeys of all kinds with the practical demands of everyday life.
Devi holds a degree in psychology emphasizing archetypal and depth studies (from Prescott College) and a master’s degree in Organizational Systems (Saybrook University), she is the co-founder of the School of the Essential Self, a non-profit educational program for developing young people on the threshold of a daunting adult world. She is also the co-founder of Aurum Leadership, an international endeavor that teaches wholehearted, whole-being leadership and systemic health in organizations. Her wise and warm approach to communication, vision, and self-awareness comes as much from her lived experience of a vibrant, loving family life with her husband and three adult daughters as from her active professional life.
The transformative work Devi offers to individuals and groups is embodied, deep and soulful. Her pallet of skillful means includes circle process, ritual, constellations, psychodrama, voice dialogue and expressive arts. Her experience includes holding space for intentional journey work with entheogens toward the unfolding of an authentic individual spiritual path. Underpinning all of this is a profound commitment to the evolution of aliveness, compassion, joy and presence in every human being.
Together
Angelon and Devi have been friends on the spiritual journey for three decades. Our relationship began as mentor and mentee; over time it has evolved into a deep and everlasting friendship on the transformational path. We take great joy in holding a space of sanctuary and kinship for and with those who feel an inner call to a deep, intentional journey through life.
The Golden Hour Integration Circle is truly a service and work of our hearts. Our intention is to offer a space of holding, being, seeing, integration and imagination that invites profound sharing and authentic presence. Together, we have a combined 75 years of experience in leading and facilitating journey work in a multitude of ways and forms, including workshop and educational forums. But what is dearest to our hearts is to share our calling to create and hold sacred space for primordial energies to arise from the wellspring of self and melt back into the vessel of the human body as the nectar of transformation. Attending to ourselves in a circle of individuals, together we may play a part in the mending, renewal and revisioning of the world in a troubled era of unprecedented change.