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Highlights of this issue:  Quotation of the Week
Life is less about getting somewhere
and more about being somewhere. --- Alan Cohen 
Inner Journeys with Anne Marie Bennett Integrating the Practice of SoulCollage® Into Our Daily Lives What I Learned While Riding the Metro Last month my husband Jeff and I spent a delightful week in Washington D.C. on vacation. After visiting Jeff’s brother a few hours west of the city, and then bopping around Williamsburg, a few hours south of the city, we ditched the rental car and journeyed on the Metro. What a fabulous experience! Besides being shiny clean, remarkably fast and easy to follow, it seemed to me to be a lesson in life, in living, in humanity. Here’s what I learned:
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Our Next Tele-Class 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.
Laura believes 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 Hegfield 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 New Hampshire. Date: Sunday July 19, 2009 Time: 7:00 pm Eastern, 6:00 pm Central, 5:00 pm Mountain, 4:00 pm Pacific, 1 pm Hawaiian, 12 midnight in London, 1 a.m. in Rome, Monday 9 a.m. in Melbourne Australia and Monday 11 a.m. in New Zealand
Upcoming Tele-Classes and Presenters: August 16, 2009 (Sunday, 4 pm Eastern) - Power Animals, with Michele Lessirard, shamanic teacher/practitioner and SoulCollage® Facilitator in Florida. Last evening, just before dusk, I (Michele) looked out our family room window to see two great horned owls dancing on the ground by our palm tree. Owls rarely come down out of the trees to such a vulnerable place. What does the Owl dance mean? How would you work with the Owl's message? There are two main types of helping allies that shamans consult and work with in their journeys: power animals, also known as guardian spirits, and teachers in human form. In this teleclass we'll explore SoulCollage® and the relationship of power animals beyond the body chakras. In building relationship with our helping allies we come to know our true essence; from this place of power we feel more connected and grounded, better able to move out into the world in service to our family and community. During the teleclass we'll explore Nature, power animals and the SoulCollage® process. Michele will talk about power loss, power animals and the soul retrieval process using your SoulCollage® cards. September, 2009 - Movement and SoulCollage®: Blossoming Your Inner Dancer, with Lisa Thornbury-Clark, SoulCollage® Facilitator in Ohio. Your body is a powerful vessel of your wisdom, your life journey and your own unique expression of the Divine. Add movement and dance to your SoulCollage® practice, and you'll create a multi-sensory journey which will deepen your experience. Join us as we explore playful and sacred ways to connect your inner-dancer to your card-maker self. This tele-class will include experiential movement activities as well as discussion. That's right, we'll be moving instead of just sitting and listening! You'll learn creative ways to add movement and dance prior to card making as well as ideas and suggestions for conducting solo and group movement and dance "readings" with your SoulCollage® deck. Please attend this call in a room where you have some space to move freely and safely, and use a phone with speaker-phone capability if possible. It would be helpful to have a yoga mat or blanket for the session as well as your SoulCollage® cards nearby. No previous movement or dance experience necessary. Invite your inner-dancer to come out and play! Date and time to be announced, please stay tuned. October, 2009 A lively teaching on the chakras, and how they relate to SoulCollage® within the context of the Companions Suit. Facilitated by Jenni Holloway, SoulCollage® Facilitator in San Diego. In Jenni's SoulCollage® workshops, she combines the principles of developmental psychology, yoga philosophy & Chakra Energy Healing. A fascinating topic for one and all. Date and time to be announced, please stay tuned. New England SoulCollage® Facilitator Training October 9-11, 2009 in Chester, Connecticut  If
you've been longing to take your SoulCollage® practice out into the world by
becoming an "official" Facilitator, then please join us for a beautiful fall
weekend at The Guest House
(so named for Rumi's famous poem).
Training participants make cards, share cards, and use their own processes as teaching examples for the group in learning how to facilitate SoulCollage® work. You'll learn how to facilitate "readings" which use our own intuition to deepen self-knowledge. You'll learn creative applications and how to adapt the SoulCollage® process to different populations. We'll work towards constructing a plan that fits each participant's intended uses of the technique. No degree or other credentialing is needed to register for this course. Enthusiasm for the process and its use in one's own life are the chief criteria for participation in the training To make this Training more accessible and affordable, we've added an option for you to pay in four smaller payments. Make your first payment on or before July 1, save $50. There's more information on this KaleidoSoul page. | ||||||||
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SoulCollage®
Expressions
, featuring Hugh Grant, Toni Collette. Based on Nick Hornby’s best-selling novel, this film is the story of the rich, hip, single and immature thirty-something Will (Hugh Grant), who makes an unlikely friendship with an isolated 12-year-old boy Marcus (Nicholas Hoult) who has problems at home and school. The two learn a significant amount from one another: Will teaches Marcus how to be cool, and Marcus teaches Will how to be responsible. There are some
humorous moments along the way – and also some melodramatic ones brought on by the condition of Marcus’s mother (Toni Collette).
, by Kay Leigh Hagan. Although this book appears to be no longer in print, if you go to the link on the title line here, you’ll see that it can be purchased from sellers on Amazon for a lot less. I am thoroughly enjoying my copy. Lots of food for thought here. Contains lovely and wise journaling prompts (52 in all) and 3 open pages for your response in words or art. Meditative, with lots of space for your own practice.
, by Barbara Crafton. A lovely book, just the right size for pocket or purse. Written by an Episcopal priest in New York, I found it right on target with much of the soul of a woman’s life. It will make you laugh out loud, and it will make you think, and it will remind you of the beauty that is your life.
, by Mary Alice Munroe. If you like fiction books with some meat to them, then this one is for you. It's also for you if you are in any way attracted to birds as totems. The story takes place at a South Carolina Conservation Center for Birds and it's about a doctor who cares for injured wild birds. You'll learn much about owls, eagles, raptors, crows, vultures, and there's even a white rooster who is one of the main characters! This is a love story on many levels- man and woman, woman and child, father and daughter, humans and nature. 