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Quotation of the Week
 

I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
---Virginia Woolf
  

 
Soul Friends
The Voice of a Different Kindred Spirit Each Week


Maggie Cahoon
Marlow, NH
 
For as long as I can remember, I have been creating art. My love of fiber and color has always been strong and led me in many beautiful ways. For 28 years I was a handweaver, creating and selling my work up and down the east coast at high-end craft shows. Slowly I moved from that form to doing fibercollage with mixed media: framed wall art embellished with beads, shells, objects made of polymer clay, and other natural objects. This work has always been very spiritual, as I try to express my understanding of Mystery. It has been a large part of my soul-work this lifetime.

Although I was not searching for any new medium to play with, one day (while paging through a catalog) I noticed a class for something called SoulCollage®. I was intrigued and signed up for a class with Anne Marie. Immediately I knew this was for me. I fell in love with my cards and many seemed to pour right out of me. I loved the form and the structure of the whole process. When I decided to do the Facilitator Training, I knew that I could teach this form. In 2004, I had built a straw-bale Studio/Sanctuary, and I would use that for my classes.

My experience teaching this modality, is that people are hungry for soul-work that is textural, sensorial, and a bit mysterious. There is just enough structure, and much freedom. I stress that there are no rules, and give people lots of freedom to explore and express themselves. The I Am The One Who... exercise offers a window into what might otherwise be an unknown.

My students return time and again. They, too, feel the value and depth of this work. It has helped open up hidden places, unlocked trauma and released it, expressed grief, enabled growth through humor, and much more. Students are delighted, amazed, magnetized, reverent, moved, and hungry for more.

It is my pleasure and honor to hold space for this work to be done, both my own and that of others.

Please visit my website, Inner Artifacts. 

Here are a few of my favorite SoulCollage® cards:

Innocence
 
In October 2008 I fell head first off of a second story deck and broke both wrists and my neck. With the intention of releasing some trauma locked in my cells around the fall, I started cranial-sacral treatments a few months later. On the table I experienced that I was not victim of the accident, but that I was innocent.

I am the one who is innocent. I am the one who is open. I am the one who is clear as water. I am the one who can welcome all kinds of experience with wonder. I am the one who can transform and grow. I am the one who receives my life.






Freedom

I am the one who finds great freedom in growing old. I am the one who finds joy in releasing my worry, my concern as I age. I am the one who loves my hands with a passion. I am the one who uses my hands to express my freedom, my joy, myself.


 
 

 
SoulCollage® Expressions
Ideas and Challenges to Spice Up
Your SoulCollage® Practice

Idea of the Week

Close One Eye

Our idea this week is borrowed from Suzie Wolfer's fr*ee monthly newsletter, SoulCollage® Inspirations, which I encourage you to subscribe to.

Try this at home. What you'll need:

1. Your journal
2. A pen
3. Something to cover one eye with like an eye patch, or just a silk scarf covering one eye
4. Your SoulCollage® cards

• Select one card at random
• Select your favorite card
• Cover your right eye and write down what your card says starting with the words "I Am the One Who..."
• Then immediately cover your left eye and repeat the same reading, letting go of expectations and deeply listening to the other brain hemisphere speaking to you through your SoulCollage® card
• Next do a third reading with both eyes viewing the card and just notice what you feel in your body
• Repeat with the second card
• For a bonus, ask your cards a question that engages them in a dialogue with each other. For example, "What could I be doing to better support you?" And do this with one eye covered each time and be prepared to receive some surprises.
    
   

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