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Highlights of this issue:
 Quotation of the Week
To move freely,
you must be deeply rooted. --- Bella Lewitzky
Inner Journeys with Anne Marie Bennett Integrating the Practice of SoulCollage® Into Our Daily Lives Rooted and Grounded  Sometimes a quotation takes on a different shade of meaning when I learn a little bit more about who actually said it. So here's what I learned about Bella Lewitzky: she was a world-famous dancer and choreographer. She founded the Dance Theatre of Los Angeles as well as the Lewitzky Dance Company.
Ahhhh... now it makes even more sense to me. Even if you're not a professional dancer (and let me say right now that I am not!), you can probably remember a time when you did a little dancing yourself. Maybe not perfect ballerina plies, or totally syncopated jazz moves, but still.... don't you sometimes love to just turn on the music and MOVE to the beat? And in order to move your body truly freely to music, you need to have a grounding point of some sort. Usually it's a sense of your feet touching the earth, or of your Root Chakra at the base of your spine. And the same is true in our daily lives. Unless we are grounded/rooted in something bigger, something more solid and stable than we are, it's really difficult to move freely through our hours and days and weeks. and lives.
May each day this week
ground you in community, faith and love... May you be given grace to move more freely through your life.  SoulCollage® ExpressionsIdeas and Challenges to Spice Up Your SoulCollage® Practice Challenge of the Week 1. Pay attention over the next few days to your own internal and external sense of groundedness. Notice what makes you feel connected to the earth, the ground, the human family... and notice what makes you feel disconnected. 2. Also become more aware of what makes you feel internally grounded/rooted to your own sense of self. It's kind of like a feeling of being anchored in place. What makes you feel that way? Some things that make me feel this way are: meditating, listening to music, yoga, writing, and creating art. Remember, these are just examples. Your list might look very different! 3. Make a list in your journal or art journal of everyone and everything that gives you a sense of being rooted in your most authentic self. 4. Spend some time dancing to your favorite music! 5. Notice how becoming conscious of your own groundedness affects your ability to move in the physical world, and in your internal world. Is anything shifting for you because you are consciously becoming more grounded? 6. Create a SoulCollage® card for this part of you who is rooted and grounded, or to honor someone in your life who makes you feel this way.
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Our Next Tele-Class SoulCollage® Through the Chakras, with Jenni Holloway SoulCollage® Facilitator in California.  The Chakra System organizes various aspects of our being in a way that allows for holistic healing & transformation. In this tele-seminar, Jenni will highlight ways you can create Soulcollage cards using the Chakra System as a guiding principle. using the elemental magic of each energy level.
In this workshop, Jenni will provide you with an introduction to the chakras, and the elements governing each energy level of being. Through guided visualization, you will explore how each chakra is present in your physical, emotional, mental & spiritual being. At the end of this session, you will have a list of themes you can create SoulCollage cards around, growing your personal deck through the lens of the chakras. 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. Date: Sunday, October 4, 2009 Time: 2:00 pm Eastern, 1:00 pm Central, 12pm Mountain, 11am Pacific, 8 am Hawaiian, 7am in London, Monday 4 a.m. in Melbourne Australia and Monday 6 a.m. in New Zealand
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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: 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. New England SoulCollage® Facilitator Training October 9-11, 2009 in Chester, Connecticut  2 spaces left... 1 more week to registerIf 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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- featuring Holly Hunter and Tim Robbins. This warm, witty, sometimes-funny, sometimes-sad film is about people who choose to say "no" to living the life that everyone thinks they "should" lead. The two leads play people who really deeply know who they are, in spite of how others see them.
