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Dear Friends and Community,
Welcome December! And I welcome the cold, as I was thankful for the rain. Perhaps there will some snow soon…I hope we have snow. This topic, “Abide Your Seasons”, has occurred over the last couple of days, especially as I was preparing the post for the New Years Eve event, and then after a stressful Thursday that saw Nick to the hospital,(he is ok), and an event that happened there when picking him up to go home. Life happening, and taking the time to be present with it.
Present, as in bowing to it. Honoring all that it is, can be, and turn towards. And realizing, how incrementally we do get to experience all that there is to know, that we must bow and make way for life, as it shows up, just as we bow, and make way for the seasons, or time, or moon phases, and night and day, and light and dark, storms and calm, and all the rest that we just move aside for without blinking an eye…we abide.
A little more down the page after the weeks schedule and events upcoming.
There will be some changes to the schedule in December as this is a busy time up in the shop and I will needed there. There will be no HeART Soul Creation or Co-Creative Writing Coven until January
For now we are cancelling Tuesday Meditation, both Mantra and Breath Work meditation. We will revisit in the new year.
Also please be aware that what you see in blue print is a link to the event post to preregister.
Saturday Dec 7 ~ 10 to 10:45 AM ~ Qigong Exercise (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/qigong-exercise-for-balance-and-wellbeing-9/)
Please preregister for this by 8AM on Sat.
Sunday Dec 8 ~ 10 to 11 AM ~ Rise and Shine Yoga (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/mindful-yoga-2024-12-08/)
Monday Dec 9 ~ 6 to 7:15 PM ~ Monday Meditation (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/meditation-for-beginners-5-classes-25-2024-12-09/)
Thursday Dec 12 ~ 7 to 8:30 PM ~ True River Sangha (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/true-river-sangha-2-2024-12-12/)
Saturday Dec 14 ~ 10 to 10:45 ~ Qigong Exercise (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/qigong-exercise-for-balance-and-wellbeing-10/)
Sunday Dec 15 ~ 10 to 11 AM ~ Rise and Shine Yoga (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/mindful-yoga-2024-12-08/)
For all things Reiki, sessions and or trainings please contact Myra Reichel at 610-348-5698.
Also there is Reiki share on Sunday Jan 26, 1 to 3 PM for Reiki 1 and 2 practitioners.
Upcoming events:
Friday Dec 20 ~ 7 to 8:30 PM ~ Heart Space Drum Circle / Solstice Awareness (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/heart-space-drum-circle-2-2024-12-20/)
Sunday Dec 22 ~ 2 to 4 PM ~ Women’s Ways Circle (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/womens-ways-circle-2024-12-08/)
Tuesday Dec 31 ~ 7 to 9 PM ~ New Year’s Eve Gathering ~ Emergence ~ Heart Opening Cacao Ceremony (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/new-years-eve-gathering-emergence-opening-our-heart-with-ceremony/)
Limited Space so please preregister early.
4 Wednesdays in January/ 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th / ~ 7 to 8:30 PM ~ Introduction To Shamanism (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/intro-to-shamanism-four-wednesdays/)
Sat/Sun January 18/19 ~ 12 to 6 PM ~ 2 Day Event / Shamanic Training/ Healing with Spiritual Light (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/two-day-event-shamanic-healing-healing-with-spiritual-light/)
Over the next couple of weeks I will have the post and links up for HeART Soul Creation and Co Creative Writing Coven
Abide Your Seasons…
We want everything to be right. And even convenient. And sometimes for a long stretch it may seem that we are being smiled upon, blessed, fortunate,lucky. It all is going our way and life feels convenient. And yet we have all had our share of times that hurt, or were not so great, or convenient. That is life and we do what needs doing. We go to the hospital, we become a care-giver, we wait and pray. We ask others for support, prayers or healing. And it not convenient or pleasant, because there is memory in it. Memory of the last time and the time before that. There is fear in it. Fear of loss, fear of death, fear of endings, and fear of new beginnings.
These are the seasons of our life. The things that happen and the things that give me pause…give us all pause. The things that stop the day from where it was going. The things that change the mood and temperature. The things that change and mark our life with a stripe of yet another event. And there is nothing else to do but abide. There is no good time for such a pause, but it always seems it is at the worst time. It is never convenient. Yet we must abide.
So to be present is the gift. To listen and know the next best thing to do is the wisdom. To keep your thinking clear, and your heart open to the love you are attending to. To remain positive, and hopeful for the next best thing to be hopeful for. To be aware of the ask in our prayers. To encounter the love without fear of the loss.
And I am saying all this because yesterday was much of that for Nick and I. He is home, somewhat a bit better but not himself. More to know about this event. And it was all brought home by a older gentleman who entered the hospital just behind me. I was hoping to see Nick, and this man, asked the woman at the desk if he could please go back and give his wife another kiss. She had been taken by ambulance and he said he kissed her once but wanted to give her another kiss. And the woman behind the desk said he could do so after she was evaluated. And he said to her, calmly, gently, kindly, “my wife is dying, I want to kiss her again before she passes”.
And I was standing next to him, and I broke down. He touched my shoulder and asked if I had just lost my husband, and I said no. And he said, calmly, gently, and kindly, ” oh you are empathetic, thank you so much”. And I could not go back to see Nick because they were working on this mans wife. And I thought about him all night, as I put Nick into bed and checked on him through the night. And I have thought about his presence and his bowing to the moment, and to his love for his wife, and for the kiss he wanted to give her before she passed. I believe he was able to do that.
I guess I just let you know why the email is getting out so late. I made sure to just sit with the day after Nick got tucked into bed. I made soup while he was at the hospital that he could not eat. I carefully put it away, and cleaned up all the mess I made making it in a state of nervous fear. We sometimes just have to navigate what we are feeling, as there is no negotiating, there is only abiding, and being present to being present. To loving rather than fearing. To squeezing the last bit of life and love into each day, and every event. Convenient or not. That gentle man did just that.
With love, peace and blessings,
Denise Yocco
Heart Space at Seven Stones
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