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Quotation of the Week
I trust the tempo of my unfolding.
---Julia Cameron   Inner Journeys with Anne Marie Bennett Integrating the Practice of SoulCollage® Into Our Daily Lives Trusting the Tempo of My Unfolding  When
I first read this quotation above, my heart practically leapt out of my chest in
recognition of its deep inner truth for me. I doodled over it for several days
in my art journal and hung my favorite page near my altar. When I can truly trust the tempo of my unfolding, then I can yield to it. But it's all about trust. It's all about letting go of my own preconceived notions of what I think my unfolding should look like, and allowing it, instead, to be what it is. For example, maybe I am thinking that making several SoulCollage® cards each week will be conducive to my unfolding, but what is really happening is that my sister-in-law's father is very sick and I have been spending all of my time with her in the hospital, lending support, bringing her coffee and sandwiches, holding her while she cries. A few years ago I might have spent unnecessary energy judging myself and finding myself lacking for not being able to make as many SoulCollage® cards each week as I originally intended. But today, I step back. I step aside from myself and I see the bigger picture- that my "unfolding" is happening no matter how many SoulCollage® cards I make or don't make. My soul is going to blossom and expand as long as I am willing to step back and let it happen, as long as I give myself permission to trust the process. Reflection Activities: How do you try to control your inner growth with preset rules and judgments? What does your unfolding look like today? How can you express this unfolding using words or images? Make a SoulCollage® card for your unfolding self, and/or the part of you that is learning to trust that gentle unfolding.  SoulCollage®
ExpressionsIdeas and Challenges to Spice Up Your SoulCollage® Practice Idea of the Week I have two 6-drawer rolling carts w/images sorted in each drawer. The drawers can be removed if needed for easy "rifling thru"...so I have fewer images all over the place when searching. It makes for quick clean-up too. 
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Our Next Tele-Class Spicing Up the Soul of Life: Random Play with Your SoulCollage® Deck Presented by Laurel Aston, Creativity Coach, Artist, and SoulCollage® Facilitator and in California  Join Laurel as she guides us to discover ways to use play and random ideas to rejuvenate our relationships to our SoulCollage® decks. Sometimes we just don't have time or energy to do a full-fledged reading with just the right question, but we'd like a little interaction with our cards. Sometimes we may just want to juice things up. These little exercises will catalyze you to use your intuitive nudges on the fly, and you'll be surprised at the renewed excitement you have about the Neters you get to know better. Please bring with you to the call:
Time: 6:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 pm Central, 4:00 pm Mountain, 3:00 pm Pacific, noon Hawaiian, 11 pm in London, midnight in Rome, Monday 8 a.m. in Melbourne Australia and Monday 10 a.m. in New Zealand
Save the date now. All of our tele-classes are FR*EE for members, always! And remember, don't worry if you can't attend... we'll be recording it and you can listen to it anytime in your Member's Only Audio Library. We will give you the phone number and access code to call in that week's issue of Soul Treasures. Upcoming Tele-Classes and Presenters: May 15, 2009 (Friday, 8 pm Eastern) ? Using the Wisdom of the Medicine Wheel in your SoulCollage® Journey, with Alexa Singer-Telles, LMFT, SoulCollage® Facilitator in California. The Native American Medicine Wheel offers us a sacred container to honor the wisdom of the seasons and cycles of life, the elemental qualities, and the guidance of animals and archetypal energies. We will imagine ourselves sitting in the center of our own medicine wheel, inviting in the elements of the four directions in relation to the four SoulCollage® suits as a gift of support. We will work with the guidance of the Visionary, Healer, Teacher, and Warrior as they represent the energies of the four directions. Our time together will be experiential, with lots of time for questions and sharing. Alexa has led women's rituals including rites of passage for over twenty years using the medicine wheel as the sacred container to hold the experience. She has been actively engaged in the use of dreamwork, movement, and expressive artwork (both personally and therapeutically) as a process for guidance and healing. June 14, 2009 (Sunday, 5pm Eastern) - Meditation and SoulCollage®: How Each Enhances the Other, with Marti Beddoe, Meditation Teacher and SoulCollage® Facilitator in Illinois. For new as well as experienced mediators. Marti will share with us some ways that her SoulCollage® practice has benefited her meditation practice, and vice versa. If you are looking to deepen your SoulCollage® work, this is the class for you! July, 2009 - SoulCollage® and the Art of Sacred Listening, with Laura Hegfield, SoulCollage® Facilitator in New Hampshire. Consider allowing silence to be the container that holds your SoulCollage® practice. I believe that silence can open us to a more intimate listening experience, ultimately allowing us to drink a more satisfying cup of the sweet wisdom our cards have to offer. During this tele-class, Laura will offer some practical tips for incorporating more silence into your life and your SoulCollage® practice (alone, with friends or as a facilitator in workshops). Laura is a SoulCollage® Facilitator, Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach, Yoga & Jewish Spirituality Teacher, Artist, Blogger, Wife and Mom practicing the sacred art of "life" in Southern NH. Please visit her blog, Shine the Divine to get to know her better before the call. (Date and time to be announced, please stay tuned.)
Kindred Spirits SoulCollage® Retreat 
Come As You Are:Nurturing Self-Acceptance with SoulCollage®, A Weekend Retreat June 25-28, 2009 Rolling Ridge Retreat Center Andover, Massachusetts There are only TWO spaces left.... is one of them for you? Everything you need to know is on this KaleidoSoul page. | |||||||
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by don Miguel Ruiz and Deepak Chopra. Powerful affirmation phrases woven into
uplifting, heartwarming music. I've been playing these driving back and forth to
work and am completely amazed by their power to change the course of my outlook
and my entire day. Highly recommended. 
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by John Lee. Shows you how anger can be expressed safely and completely so that
it leads not to pain but to strength, increased energy, deeper communication,
and personal serenity. 
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by Laurel King. Excellent and fascinating book about one of our Inner Committee
parts: the wild woman. Laurels identifies and confronts the fears that all too
often keep us from owning and embodying our true natures. She talks about the
grief that so many of us experience as we let go of our familiar ways and begin
to welcome and rejoice in our wild side. Included are many creative ways to
bring our uninhibited and sometimes disruptive "whistling woman" back into our
lives and relationships. Highly recommended. 