| A Six-Week Series of Women's Circles May - August 2010 I know it's the time of year when people start going away on vacations but I can't wait until fall for the supportive community of the circle, can you? Let's meet in person and open to the possibilities that come from playing together. Playing means there's no product in mind although often something substantial results. I also call this play time, moodling or cottage time. Ideas emerge, we get in touch with our inner wisdom, and we're quiet enough to feel the gentle tap of intuition. |
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You can sign up for all six or or the dates on which you're available. In the circle I'm calling Your Own Wise Self, we'll use divination tools, create a mandala of our day, play with flower essences, make some poems, write in our journals and end with a pot luck on the final evening. Throughout, we'll open to curiosity, spontaneity and serendipity.
| 2010 Dates: | Thursday, May 20 Wednesday, June 16 Tuesday, June 22 Monday, July 12 Wednesday, July 28 Thursday, August 12 |
| Time: | 7 to 9 p.m. |
| Location: | The Three Cat Be & Be, 3350 Hickman Place, Nanaimo |
| Fee: | $25 each week or $125 in advance for all six weeks. Please send your cheque made out to Mary Ann Moore, 3350 Hickman Place, Nanaimo, B.C. V9T 3Y1 |
| RSVP: | Mary Ann at 729-2630 or by email at creativity@maryannmoore.ca |
The circle themes are included below and even though I'm specific about each, every circle will be a blend of all that's mentioned.
Follow your inner voice - the quiet, guiding expressing of your Higher Self. It is found in the heart, the home of the Divine intelligence in your physical body. . . . Your inner voice is not a personal one, but is instead your private connection to the Divine Spirit we all share. It is available to guide you at all times. To connect to its wisdom, simply focus on your heart and listen.
Sonia Choquette
Soul Lessons and Soul Purpose: A Channeled Guide to Why You Are Here
(Hay House)
An introduction to the circle, to one another and the wisdom of Sophia. You'll use the Raven Essences manual as a divination tool, honing your own intuitive skills. The wisdom of Nature, through the flower essence descriptions, will offer you some fresh insight about whatever question you may pose. I'll introduce you to the Dream Saver.
You'll create a mandala of your day, based on the Celtic medicine wheel, which will becomes your own soulful daytimer. Discover a guide and a flower essence for each direction.
Brigid, the goddess of healing, poetry and the fire, will be our guide. I see that fire as the alchemy of creativity. You'll visit the poetry bazaar (right here at the Three Cat Be & Be), and make your own poem as inspired by music and the poetry and words of others.
. . . patch a few words together and don't try
to make theme elaborate, this isn't
a contest but the doorway
into thanks, and a silence in which
another voice may speak.
From "Praying" by Mary Oliver
By this time we will probably have already done some kinesiology (muscle testing). This week you'll spend some time with muscle testing, the use of the pendulum and chits as inspired by Meg Lundstrum's new book: What To Do When You Can't Decide (Sounds True).
You'll create a vision board or maybe more than one as you focus on what you desire. Doing this in a group offers some added insight and support for your vision.
Our final circle and celebratory pot luck. Whether you've been to one circle or all of them, let's get together and share what we now know about ourselves.
The Circle Way: A Leader in Every Chair
by Christina Baldwin & Ann Linnea (Berrett- Koehler Publishers)
Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation
By Sandra Ingerman & Hank Wesselman (Sounds True)
You'll find my review is in the May/June 2010 issue of Synergy magazine.
Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words
By Kim Rosen (Hay House)
You'll find my review here.
The Vision Board: The Secret to an Extraordinary Life
by Joyce Swartz (Collins Design)
You'll find my review on the Synergy magazine site.
Lifelines: How Personal Writing Can Save Your Life
By Christina Baldwin (Sounds True)
You'll find my review on the Story Circle Book Reviews website.