Sarah Hoskin Clymer
I love to walk and journey - open space trails, pedestrian path and sidewalks, sacred pilgrimage paths, labyrinths. I love to journey alone, especially with my dog. I also to love to explore and journey with fellow explorers/wanderers, my family and cherished women friends.
I live by two adages - "Solvitur Ambulando" - it is solved by walking - and "The Path always guides and provides." I have walked hundreds and hundreds of kilometers/miles over the past four years. I also have received many times over the generous gifts and clear guidance from the path - resolution, wisdom, intuition, insight, forgiveness, gratitude, clarity, connection, to name a few!
I am committed to sharing the experience of sacred walking and the gifts from the path with others - whether we walk together on the Camino, the Mary Line in England, to a labyrinth, on one of the Chakra Walks, or simply on a path outside our back doors, with or without Nordic Pole Walking sticks!
One can always invite the sacred and receive the gifts - wherever and however you walk! What's important ~ actually essential ~ is that you WALK!
A little bit more about me...
I am a Pilgrim*. I walk the Camino and other sacred pilgrimage paths in England. I am also a mother, wife, sister, friend. I am a life coach, writer, sacred adventurer, and an entrepreneur. I am English and American. I live in America and long to live in England. I love to walk, explore, connect, travel, teach, bake, cook, read and write.
I have always been a Bedouin*, a wanderer, a walker. Born in England, I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, before attending college in Vermont. I then lived for a year in England, 9 months in Washington D.C., 6 months in Australia, 2 years in Cincinnati, a summer in Montana before moving to Colorado where I have lived for 26 years. I will admit, though, I have moved around my family around to 5 different houses over these 26 years!! Finally, I had to pay attention and honor this aspect of myself and give myself over to my deep desire and longings to travel, explore and live an extraordinary life...even to live in England again!
I am a Nordic Pole Walking Instructor. After developing a severe case of "walker's legs" on my Camino in 2010, I was guided to use walking poles. I started using them the next day, and now never walk without them. I love my walking poles - and also love to teach others to use them as well. There are so many benefits and reasons to use walking poles - plus they just make walking more fun!
I am a certified and intuitive Life Coach*. I believe with all my heart that we should all get to imagine our lives 20 years from now, and live, create and attract that beautiful life to us...now. This is why I am a life coach - so that we can all have an ally to support us to create a fulfilling, passion-driven, creative- and love-centered, fully funded and supported life.
I am a Sacred and Courageous Dreamer. When I was training to become a life coach five years ago, I was taken through a process to imagine my life 20 years in the future. In my vision, I found myself living in a beautiful cottage in Cornwall, England, with windows that reveal a magnificent view of the rocky coastline, a small, manageable garden abundant with varieties, colors and textures, surrounded by a stone wall, with a path leading through fields and woods to a nearby village. It was my sacred refuge where I could live a quiet life and get to be quiet, walk, write, and also to eat delicious fresh and local foods with dearly loved friends and family who come to visit. I loved the vision, but also questioned how I would get there from my full and busy life as mother, wife, entrepreneur, and coach? I also worried that what I was longing for - peace, quiet, beauty, creativity, time - would mean that I would be alone, divorced, lonely, sad. How could I bring together what I truly, deeply longed for and desired with my equally valued relationships within my family?
In essence, how could I allow myself both the longings of my soul and the treasures of my life as mother, wife, even daughter, sister, friend? How could I balance my bedouin, gypsy longings with my life at home? How could I actually allow and make room for both?
Living into this questions quickly and unexpectedly provided the path to my deep desire to live in the both/and, or as I call it ~ living in the ampersand ...
I live by two adages - "Solvitur Ambulando" - it is solved by walking - and "The Path always guides and provides." I have walked hundreds and hundreds of kilometers/miles over the past four years. I also have received many times over the generous gifts and clear guidance from the path - resolution, wisdom, intuition, insight, forgiveness, gratitude, clarity, connection, to name a few!
I am committed to sharing the experience of sacred walking and the gifts from the path with others - whether we walk together on the Camino, the Mary Line in England, to a labyrinth, on one of the Chakra Walks, or simply on a path outside our back doors, with or without Nordic Pole Walking sticks!
One can always invite the sacred and receive the gifts - wherever and however you walk! What's important ~ actually essential ~ is that you WALK!
A little bit more about me...
I am a Pilgrim*. I walk the Camino and other sacred pilgrimage paths in England. I am also a mother, wife, sister, friend. I am a life coach, writer, sacred adventurer, and an entrepreneur. I am English and American. I live in America and long to live in England. I love to walk, explore, connect, travel, teach, bake, cook, read and write.
I have always been a Bedouin*, a wanderer, a walker. Born in England, I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, before attending college in Vermont. I then lived for a year in England, 9 months in Washington D.C., 6 months in Australia, 2 years in Cincinnati, a summer in Montana before moving to Colorado where I have lived for 26 years. I will admit, though, I have moved around my family around to 5 different houses over these 26 years!! Finally, I had to pay attention and honor this aspect of myself and give myself over to my deep desire and longings to travel, explore and live an extraordinary life...even to live in England again!
I am a Nordic Pole Walking Instructor. After developing a severe case of "walker's legs" on my Camino in 2010, I was guided to use walking poles. I started using them the next day, and now never walk without them. I love my walking poles - and also love to teach others to use them as well. There are so many benefits and reasons to use walking poles - plus they just make walking more fun!
I am a certified and intuitive Life Coach*. I believe with all my heart that we should all get to imagine our lives 20 years from now, and live, create and attract that beautiful life to us...now. This is why I am a life coach - so that we can all have an ally to support us to create a fulfilling, passion-driven, creative- and love-centered, fully funded and supported life.
I am a Sacred and Courageous Dreamer. When I was training to become a life coach five years ago, I was taken through a process to imagine my life 20 years in the future. In my vision, I found myself living in a beautiful cottage in Cornwall, England, with windows that reveal a magnificent view of the rocky coastline, a small, manageable garden abundant with varieties, colors and textures, surrounded by a stone wall, with a path leading through fields and woods to a nearby village. It was my sacred refuge where I could live a quiet life and get to be quiet, walk, write, and also to eat delicious fresh and local foods with dearly loved friends and family who come to visit. I loved the vision, but also questioned how I would get there from my full and busy life as mother, wife, entrepreneur, and coach? I also worried that what I was longing for - peace, quiet, beauty, creativity, time - would mean that I would be alone, divorced, lonely, sad. How could I bring together what I truly, deeply longed for and desired with my equally valued relationships within my family?
In essence, how could I allow myself both the longings of my soul and the treasures of my life as mother, wife, even daughter, sister, friend? How could I balance my bedouin, gypsy longings with my life at home? How could I actually allow and make room for both?
Living into this questions quickly and unexpectedly provided the path to my deep desire to live in the both/and, or as I call it ~ living in the ampersand ...
along the path of the Heart Chakra Walk
Many years earlier, Shirley Maclaine's book, Camino, had fallen off a bookstore shelf into my hands. I bought it, took it home and read it immediately, and said to myself "some day, one day, I want to walk that path." And then promptly got re-absorbed into my busy life with a nursing baby, and three other children! Years later, in the same coaching program mentioned above , I remembered my "some day, one day" desire to walk the Camino. As I also was turning 50 the following year, I was asking myself in a deeper level what my dreams were, and what did I really want from my life. And I remembered the Camino! Or perhaps the Camino remembered me! Either way, I felt called to walk the Camino de Santiago, this sacred pilgrimage path in Spain and used my turning 50 as my excuse and permission to do something so out of the ordinary!
I have now walked the Camino three times. The first time, in 2009 right after I turned 50, I walked the last 170 kilometers into Santiago de Compostela. I also took by train a sacred journey from Santiago up through seven sacred sites in Spain, France and England to Rosslyn, Scotland. I call this Camino the Celtic Camino. I had discovered this journey as I was researching the Camino, and knew when I saw the map that this "pilgrimage of initiation" was actually my life's journey and soul's path, and the Camino into Santiago was but a preparation. At the time, I also thought that I was to journey by train. Soon after returning, it became very clear that I was to actually walk this entire path. And that no matter how long it took me to complete, it was to be my life's multi-year, multi-leg sacred journey.
I returned in 2010 to walk the first leg from Santiago across Spain, over the Pyrenees into Saint Jean Pied de Port.
I returned again in 2012 to walk from Saint Jean through the foothills of the Pyrenees to Auch, just shy of Toulouse, France.
I then was guided to return to my ancestral roots in southwest England, and in June 2013, I walked several pilgrimage paths in Cornwall - the Saints Way, St. Michael's Way (which I have fondly named the Cornish Camino), and the first leg of the Mary Michael Pilgrims Way in Cornwall.
The pilgrimage path has become my path, and is also my literally walking into the life I long to create ~ to living in the both/and, and weaving my worlds together into an integrated whole, one step at a time.
I have now walked the Camino three times. The first time, in 2009 right after I turned 50, I walked the last 170 kilometers into Santiago de Compostela. I also took by train a sacred journey from Santiago up through seven sacred sites in Spain, France and England to Rosslyn, Scotland. I call this Camino the Celtic Camino. I had discovered this journey as I was researching the Camino, and knew when I saw the map that this "pilgrimage of initiation" was actually my life's journey and soul's path, and the Camino into Santiago was but a preparation. At the time, I also thought that I was to journey by train. Soon after returning, it became very clear that I was to actually walk this entire path. And that no matter how long it took me to complete, it was to be my life's multi-year, multi-leg sacred journey.
I returned in 2010 to walk the first leg from Santiago across Spain, over the Pyrenees into Saint Jean Pied de Port.
I returned again in 2012 to walk from Saint Jean through the foothills of the Pyrenees to Auch, just shy of Toulouse, France.
I then was guided to return to my ancestral roots in southwest England, and in June 2013, I walked several pilgrimage paths in Cornwall - the Saints Way, St. Michael's Way (which I have fondly named the Cornish Camino), and the first leg of the Mary Michael Pilgrims Way in Cornwall.
The pilgrimage path has become my path, and is also my literally walking into the life I long to create ~ to living in the both/and, and weaving my worlds together into an integrated whole, one step at a time.
¹Pilgrim – a person who journeys, especially a long distance, to some sacred place as an act of spiritual devotion; a traveler or wanderer, especially in a foreign place
²Bedouin – a wanderer, nomad
³Nordic Pole Walker - one who walks with walking poles to receive the support and multiple benefits from using their poles
⁴Intuitive - one who has a sense of “knowing” or sensitivity beyond the physical world
⁵Sacred Dreamer - a person who courageously walks and lives into the sacred dream of their soul.
²Bedouin – a wanderer, nomad
³Nordic Pole Walker - one who walks with walking poles to receive the support and multiple benefits from using their poles
⁴Intuitive - one who has a sense of “knowing” or sensitivity beyond the physical world
⁵Sacred Dreamer - a person who courageously walks and lives into the sacred dream of their soul.