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Highlights of this issue:
 Quotation of the Week
It is only possible to live
happily ever after on a day to day basis. --- Margaret Bonanno
Inner Journeys with Anne Marie Bennett Integrating the Practice of SoulCollage® Into Our Daily Lives Happily Ever After  When I was a little girl, I loved to read fairy tales, especially that too-familiar last sentence:
And they all lived happily ever after (I always was a pushover for a happy ending!).
In my thirties, I discovered a Stephen Sondheim musical, Into the Woods, which creatively combines a fascinating montage of fairy tale characters (Cinderella, Jack and the Giant, Little Red Riding Hood, the Baker, the Wicked Witch...etc) into one story. And here's the best part: Act One ends with and they all lived happily ever after, and Act Two is all about what happens NEXT! Needless to say, things don't turn out all peaches and cream for anyone in this story. What happens is that LIFE happens to each and every one of them, and they in turn must choose how to respond. They each much decide how to create their own "happy ever after." I like Margaret Bonanno's quote (above) so much because it swims into a very clear middle ground between these two extremes: everyone lives happily ever after, or no one lives happily ever after. The fact of the matter is, I believe, that we ALL can live happily ever after.... but since we don't know what curves life is going to throw us tomorrow or even in the next hour, we must claim our current happiness for the precious gift that it is. May each day bring you a new opportunity
to discover your own Happy-Ever-After, right Here-and-Now, in this One-and-Only day that you've been given.  SoulCollage® ExpressionsIdeas and Challenges to Spice Up Your SoulCollage® Practice Challenge of the Week Try journaling with the questions below. Or simply print them out and set them where you can see them often. Sometimes just living with questions like these is enough. 1. Is your life tuning out exactly like you thought/planned it? 2. If so, what did you do to make it happen? If not, name the things that got in the way of this ideal "happy-ever-after" life. 3. Can you find a way to make room in your life for these things that got in the way of what you thought was going to be a happy life? Can you find space to accept these things somehow? 4. Make a list of all the things in your life right now (today only) that bring you happiness in spite of how differently things turned out for you. Make space in your life for these current happiness-bringers. Truly notice and embrace them, and watch what happens. 5. Make a SoulCollage® card for any part of you that comes up while working with these questions. It could be any of these: the one who believes in happy endings, the one who hates fairy tales, the one who savors each moment as it comes, the one who creates her own life.... Or anything else that feels right to you.
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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! For more information about Lisa, please visit this page. For a simple and beautiful movement activity YOU can do at home, before or after your SoulCollage work, check out this page on Lisa's website 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 process and its use in one's own life are the chief criteria for participation in the training There's more information on this KaleidoSoul page. |
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, by Robert Moss. Have you ever said something was "only a dream," "only a coincidence," or "only my imagination?" In this book you'll discover that these "only" things can be keys to finding and living your bigger story. You'll learn to tap into the nine powers of dreaming, the nine rules of coincidence, and the seven uses of imagination. You'll be inspired by stories of how innovators and world changers have used these gifts, and you'll learn wonderful games to help you access your intuition, heal yourself, and bring juice to your everyday life.
