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Highlights of this issue:
 Quotation of the Week
Inside everyone
is a great shout of joy waiting to be born. ---David Whyte
Inner Journeys with Anne Marie Bennett Integrating the Practice of SoulCollage® Into Our Daily Lives Diamond in the Darkness Twenty years ago, in a Twelve Step Meeting, a man named Steve told the group something that has remained with me and embedded itself in my soul.  He believed that inside every one of us, at our deepest core center, lives a clear, pure, unsullied, bright jewel-of-a-thing, and that this jewel reflects us exactly as God intended when He/She created us. I loved that image so much that in my quiet-time meditations then (and since) I have been led to visualize a large, perfect diamond nestled in a tray of soft purple velvet, presented on a crystal pedestal in a beautiful room several floors beneath the surface in my own personal (imaginary yet real) Inner Sanctuary. That diamond represents
the real me, the true me, the most authentic core of my being. It is precious, valuable, and perfect
exactly as it is.
Over the years, my Diamond became dirtied and seemingly "flawed" with the fears and insecurities that I inherited from my parents and from our media-influenced culture. I wasn't taught to value its worth to me, and to those around me, so I turned off the lights and locked my inner diamond away in that small, dark room beneath the surface of my soul. I didn't even want to open the door and look at it because that room was so filled with emotional trash and garbage from my past: memories that had not healed, emotions that had never truly been felt, falsehoods and lies I’d been telling myself for years. As the years went by, however, my healing journey continued with the help of many more Twelve Step Meetings and my church community. Little by little, I was able to venture down into that special room, turn on the lights, and clear away some of the garbage, until I was able to recognize that Diamond again as my own true center. When I think about the SoulEssence card that is one of the three Transpersonal Cards, I remembered this story about my own personal Diamond in the Darkness and realized that I knew exactly my own SoulEssence is.  SoulCollage® ExpressionsIdeas and Challenges to Spice Up Your SoulCollage® Practice Challenge of the Week This week spend some quiet time investigating your own precious Diamond in the Darkness. Have you locked it away as I once did? Is it darkened with the dust of neglect and self-abuse? Can you clear away some garbage from the past in order to actually see it again? Or if your own inner Diamond is easily accessible because of the inner work you've been doing over the years, how can you help it to shine a little brighter? How can you "light it up" a bit more this season? If you don’t have a SoulEssence card yet for your Deck, begin searching for images that represent this to you. If you are interested in learning more about the SoulEssence card, and the other two transpersonal cards (Source and Witness), I highly recommend listening to the audio recording of Mariabruna Sirabella's wonderful tele-class from November 2008. It is available in the Members Only Audio Library.
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Our Next Tele-Classlass 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! Check out this page on Lisa's website for a simple and beautiful movement activity YOU can do at home, before or after your SoulCollage work. Date: Sunday, September 20, 2009 Time: 7:00 pm Eastern, 6:00 pm Central, 5:00 pm Mountain, 4:00 pm Pacific, 2:00 p.m. Hawaiian, Thursday 12:00 am in London, Thursday 1:00 am in Rome, Thursday 11:00 am in Melbourne, Australia and Thursday 1:00 pm 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: October 4, 2009 (Sunday, 2 pm Eastern) - SoulCollage® Through the Chakras, with Jenni Holloway, SoulCollage® Facilitator in California. In this tele-class, Jenni will introduce you to the Chakra Energy system, providing you with information on where each chakra is located and how they influence your body, emotions, actions, relationships, belief systems and relationship to the Divine. Jenni will highlight ways you can create SoulCollage cards using the Chakra System as a powerful organizing principle. Jenni Holloway leads yoga, SoulCollage® and chakra workshops in the San Diego area. Her specialty of combining yoga philosophy & chakra energy healing with contemporary models of developmental psychology & expressive healing arts create sacred experiences of self-discovery & transformation. November 17, 2009 (Tuesday, 7 pm Eastern) - SoulCollage® as Prayer, with Catherine Anderson, SoulCollage® Facilitator in North Carolina. In this tele-class, Catherine will guide you through simple exercises that will enable you to hear and record the prayers you have already captured in visual form in some of your SoulCollage cards. Using SoulCollage cards you have already made, you will create prayers that allow you to become more aware of the blessings in your life as well as prayers asking for help from your Higher Power. Catherine Anderson has been a SoulCollage facilitator since June, 2004. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina where she teaches SoulCollage, Creativity and Photography workshops. She is also a partner in the business Whole Brain Consulting, an organization whose mission is to bring creativity and intuition into the business world. More information is available on www.catherineandersonstudio.com or www.wholebrainconsulting.com 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 p rocess 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 two smaller payments. There's more information on this KaleidoSoul page. |
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, by Caroline
Knapp. Excellent set of intelligent, personal and
grace-filled essays. Topics include family,
friendships, dogs, grief, loss, sobriety, the state
of the world, solitude, shyness, and loneliness. A
perfect glimpse into an imperfect life.
