Melbourne Inclusive Church

Naomi Pryde has been living and working in Northern India and Northern Thailand for the past 10 years running Jesus devotional spaces and Ashrams. In these spaces of safety and questioning , the beauty of Christ is shared with spiritual wanderers, hippies and travellers through contemplative and monastic spiritual embodied practice. Naomi was raised in Sydney in a strong evangelical/Anglican family, attended Sydney Missionary and Bible College and whilst always slightly rebellious, always embraced by the church. Over the past 10 years Naomi’s faith has fallen apart, deepened and been refined by a number of experiences that have led her into the safe arms and mystery of her beautiful Jesus in which the certainty taught in her early Christian life began to unravel. The spiritual life, more of a journey than a destination, has led her into wilderness spaces, in which the Spirit has nudged and stirred in her heart to get uncomfortable. She has been challenged to live a life of integrity, risk her belonging, lo