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TELE-PLAYSHOPS

Did you miss our tele-class last week on Dialogue with the Mysteries: The Hero's Journey, led by Robin Cooper-Stone? Well, we missed you too! But we recorded it for you, and you can listen to it anytime you like in your Member's Only Audio Library. Enjoy!

OCTOBER

Dialogue with the Mysteries: Part 2-
Personal Mythology (The Local Story)
with Robin Cooper-Stone, SoulCollage Facilitator in Virginia.

Due to the popularity of last month's tele-playshop, Robin has agreed to continue her discussion with us in October. We will discuss what Seena Frost calls "the local story," the Committee and Community suits, relative to our own personal mythologies. To paraphrase William Blake, "We must more consciously create our own myths or be enslaved to the myths of another." Towards this end, we will be answering questions with the potential to open new vistas in our SoulCollage work.

Robin Cooper-Stone, M.F.A., taught The Heroic Quest in freshman composition courses at theUniversity ofAlabama. A few years ago, she took a workshop with Dr. James Hollis, author of Tracking the Gods: The Place of Myth in Modern Life. She is one year into her personal SoulCollage journey and trained to be a SoulCollage Facilitator with Seena Frost. She lives in Virginia with her husband and two children.

Date: Monday, October 15, 2007
Time: To be announced

Save the dates now. All of our tele-playshops are FR*EE for members, always! And remember, don't worry if you can't attend... we'll be recording them and you can listen to them anytime in your Member's Only Audio Library.

Upcoming SoulCollage Retreats

All Things Bright & Beautiful- April 10-13, 2008 in Essex, MA. You asked for it, you got it! A three-night retreat focusing soul-ly on the SoulCollage Animal Companions Suit.

If you're longing to bring the wisdom of the Animals into your life in a creative, personal way within the safety of SoulCollage.... please join us!

Special for Members Only- you can pay in 6 smaller payments instead of all at once if you like. Also, your cost is $50 less than non-members are paying.

More details are on your Members Only Retreat Info Page .

SoulCollage Challenge

Inspiring You To Look At SoulCollage® In New Ways

Reel to Real

Make a list of your favorite movies. Who are your favorite characters in these films? What characteristics do they bring out in you? Allow one of them to inspire a SoulCollage card for your deck. It might be a Committee Suit card representing one of your inner voices. Or it might be a Council Suit card, symbolizing one of the archetypes that have been active in your life for a long time.

NOTE: There are more SoulCollage Challenges on the KaleidoSoul Blog, Inner Surprises. Simply click on "SoulCollage Challenges" in the upper right side of the screen, in the lavender column.

Soul Nourishment

Resources to support your inner work
as you dive deeper into your beautiful soul

Books:

Rock Your World with the Divine Mother, by Sondra Ray. Subtitle: Bringing the Sacred Power of the Divine Mother into Our Lives. As a fusion of feminine qualities from all religions and traditions, the Divine Mother can be a nurturing presence and a powerful guide along your individual spiritual path. Through stories, prayers, and teachings, Sondra Ray enthusiastically escorts you into the profound reawakening of the sacred feminine in the hearts and minds of seekers throughout the world.

How Did I Get Here? by Barbara DeAngelis. An uplifting, inspirational handbook for anyone of any age going through change, challenge, or reevaluation in any aspect of their lives. It is about finding your way to renewed hope and happiness from wherever you are. Renowned transformational teacher Barbara De Angelis masterfully guides you through an understanding of your own life lessons, and teaches you how to successfully use whatever you're going through as a springboard for regeneration and rebirth. Don't let the cover of the book turn you off, as I did for many months. When I finally read it, I was bowled over by this author's wisdom and insight.

Fit From Within, by Victoria Moran. Through personal experience, the author has found that maintaining weight loss is more about honesty and courage than counting carbs. In this book she presents a body-mind-spirit approach to losing weight, showing how to find self-acceptance and break the blame cycle that surrounds "forbidden foods." Start living your life today with this beautiful book.

Birds in Fall, by Brad Kessler. This beautifully-crafted novel is about several people who come together at a Bed & Breakfast inNova Scotia to mourn the deaths of loved ones who died in a tragic plane crash nearby. Each person grieves in their own way, yet they are bonded together in their grief. Kessler writes so gracefully about death and about loss and love, nature and relationship. Recommended by Kindred Spirit Jane in MA.

Affirmations for Artists, by Eric Maisel. This little book is chock full of meditations, quotations, affirmations and guidance for creative and performing artists, and for the creative voice that lives in each of us. Very useful and inspiring too.

Music:

The Journey Home, by Aeoliah. Beautiful, lush, soothing music with dolphins, bells and incredible electonic sound effects. Any music by Aeoliah will enrich and uplift your soul.

Websites:

The Great Cosmic Happy-Ass Card Company- I found one of this company's greeting cards in a store last weekend and loved it so much I didn't want to send it off in the mail (but I did). So I went online to this fun site and found many more cards. Some are funny, some are profound and wise, some will simply touch your soul, but you must at least look at them!

Comfort Queen- Pop on over to the colorful, creative site of best-selling author Jennifer Louden (that's my SoulCollage to honor her on the right). You will indeed be comforted by the wide array of tools and resources for anyone interested in self-care of the sweetest kind!

A Good Day, with Brother David Steindl-Rast. This short You Tube presentation is an excellent pause in a busy day, to remind you about the power of gratitude. Shared with us by Kindred Spirit Elaine in MA.

More Than Mermaids: Artwork by Karen Bagnard. Color-washed line drawings that reflect the artist's love for fantasy and fairy tales. Not just mermaids, although they are here too.

CD Baby- abundant music to inspire your souls. Their customer service is awesome; their shipping prices are less than Amazon's; you can listen to samples of the music before you buy it; they're a big company with a great sense of humor and an excellent attitude toward their customers. All you have to do is buy there once and you'll see what I mean! Their New Age Music Collection is very broad, and perfect for background music while you're making those beautiful SoulCollage cards.

More Resources

Ongoing resources that our Kindred Spirit Members
find helpful

Inner Surprises Blog: Anne Marie's blog full of an intimate glimpse into her SoulCollage Deck. There also are bimonthly SoulCollage Challenges posted here. You can read past Challenges by clicking on "SoulCollage Challenges" in the right column.

Soul Songs, Your Fr*ee Monthly SoulCollage Newsletter: The August issue is all about our Inner Critics! You can also read all back issues at the link above. The topics are listed with each issue, so this is a guaranteed excellent resource for you as well!

KaleidoSoul Community Yahoo Group: This is a safe place where you can post your cards (if you want), ask your questions, and virtually "meet" other Kindred Spirits.

Final Gems

Soul Treasures is brought to you by KaleidoSoul,

Spinning the fragments of your world

into wholeness and beauty through SoulCollage.

SoulCollage^® cards are made either from one's own art or from images found in materials which have been bought by or given to the SoulCollage card maker.
These collaged cards are used only for the cardmaker's own inner exploration. SoulCollage cards are not sold, traded, bartered, or copied (except as a back-up for the cardmakers own use) as is stated in the Principles of SoulCollage^®.
Where SoulCollage cards are available to be seen by others,
it is for the purposes either of demonstrating the SoulCollage process
or of sharing the cardmakers' inner process in the context of community.
SoulCollage^® is grateful to the artists and photographers
who make this deep awakening process possible
and in all ways SoulCollage^® seeks to be respectful of their rights.

Published by KaleidoSoul.com
and Anne Marie Bennett.
Please do not reproduce or forward this newsletter in any way.
Inner Journeys, copyright 2007, by Anne Marie Bennett.
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