The Maciel School of Embodied Spirituality offers practical, systematic training for people who want to deepen their spiritual life through meditation, self-knowledge, and direct experience.
The School is built around three guiding principles:
- Know Yourself.
- Quiet the Mind.
- Explore the Possible.
Its courses are designed to help students understand the workings of consciousness, develop greater inner stability, strengthen their relationship with God, and bring spiritual insight into the realities of everyday life.
The approach is Christ-centered but nonsectarian, drawing from Christian mysticism, esoteric philosophy, comparative religion, and modern scientific thought. Rather than treating spirituality as an escape from ordinary life, the School emphasizes embodiment—allowing spiritual realization to transform the body, character, relationships, responsibilities, and choices of the person who receives it.
The goal is not merely to acquire spiritual ideas, but to develop a disciplined inner life and a more conscious way of being.
Meet Michael Maciel
Michael Maciel is an ordained priest, spiritual teacher, and author with more than five decades of experience in meditation, Christian mysticism, esoteric philosophy, and spiritual development. He is the author of World Priest—Bringing Heaven to Earth and The Five Vows—Raising Your Spiritual Commitment to the Next Level.
As founder of the Maciel School of Embodied Spirituality, Michael teaches a practical and systematic approach to meditation and inner development. His work helps people quiet the mind, deepen their relationship with God, understand the workings of consciousness, and bring spiritual realization into everyday life.
Michael received his formative training in the Holy Order of MANS, an esoteric Christian school of initiation, where he later became a priest and teacher. His approach is Christ-centered but nonsectarian, drawing from Christian mysticism, Rosicrucianism, Theosophy, Kabbalah, comparative religion, and modern scientific thought.
His guiding conviction is simple: spiritual realization must become embodied in character, relationships, responsibility, and the life being lived.