Upcoming Week in Heart Space at Seven Stones
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Hi to All in this Sacred Community,
Below is our weeks classes and events followed by my weekly reflection. Going forward I will endeavor to get this out by Saturday, early Sunday the latest.
Monday ~ Mindfulness Meditation w/ Gloria Sheperd ~ 6:30 PM
http://sevenstonesgallery.com/events/meditation-monday-mindfulness-630-pm-11/
Tuesday ~ Massage and Body Therapy w Amanda Weisel~ 2 to 6PM
http://sevenstonesgallery.com/events/massage-body-therapy-tuesdays-2-6pm-11/
Speak to Heal…VENT TO ACT ~ 7PM
Group discussion and circle for personal healing and story telling.
http://sevenstonesgallery.com/events/speak-to-heal-vent-to-act/ (http://sevenstonesgallery.com/?post_type=event&p=1734&preview=true)
Wednesday ~ Slow Flow Yoga w/ Natalie Strickler ~ 10AM
http://sevenstonesgallery.com/events/good-morning-slow-flow-yoga/
Wednesday ~ Consciousness Exploration Meditation 7:30PM w/ Pooja Naidu ~ Let the Soul Fly
http://sevenstonesgallery.com/events/consciousness-exploration-meditation-2/
Friday ~ Vinyasa Yoga w/Natalie Strickler ~ 6 to 7:15 PM
http://sevenstonesgallery.com/events/level-vinyasa-yoga-6pm-12/
Saturday ~ Yoga for Kids w Susan Whiteside
http://sevenstonesgallery.com/events/yoga-for-kids-3/
These times…
I feel like I am in the middle of two very important life events. I suspect you may feel the same. The one life event is my life and my history and my story of getting to this place, where each week I feel honored and blessed to share sacred things.You being here informs me that we are in shared and sacred community with each other. This is where we speak of practice and expanding our vibration of love. How we each do that, what modality works best, and what more we need to keep growing, in increments, not by leaps and bounds, just to go and grow a little further as we each journey through our own life and our own time, with the goal of assisting and supporting others in and through their life path.
So there is that ,and then there is what we are facing in our country. When those of us who have been on a path of sustained doses of spiritual healing find our awareness and consciousness being pulled into the concerns and conflicts of our time, to this time that will have historical impact and will inform future generations of the comprehensive history of what was experienced.
In the middle of those two worlds I struggle every day to find relevance…to find me. To keep expanding my love and in doing so, not ignoring my humanity that impels me to plunge into this darkness to see where more light can be found. And in doing so I realize that being in that darkness exist the work of not only establishing what form of democracy we have grown into, and where we as yet need to realize where it falls short, but in the very dark shadow is still the work we have left undone on ourselves. The work of wanting what we want and getting what we want. Whatever that may be or look like. The work of voting for our own self interest. The work of ignorance and intolerance. The work self acceptance and self love that allows us to accept and love others. The work of religious superiority. The work of judgement towards others. The work of fear. The work of mind over heart or heart over mind. The work of understanding where we we can do our best work in finding our way
through these times.
We must make a determination of where and how to engage ourselves while living through these times which are in the early days of this new time, while still advancing our own healing from within
Depending on how much you will allow in determines how far into this river of sadness you are. Some of us have swallowed our fear and jumped in. We have decided to push back in a strategic way through actions and groups and marches. Working hard and sacrificing much of whatever personal time we once had we try to cut a path towards the many changes that must take place just to feel safe again. Some of us are watching, some are praying, some are staying in their practice of meditation and holding space for the highest vibration of love and kindness to cover and take over. Some don’t see the danger some don’t want to look.
What can we do from where we decide to be in this? We can honor and respect each other. We can hold each other in love and in light. Each persons role in this is an expression of love and we just need to honor that expression, however it is made.
Each of us need to be strong. We all need to be brave. Sad things are happening. Bad things are happening. We should not allow ourselves to ever normalize hate, or hate crimes. No one has earned that behavior. Racism in any community diminishes the human spirit and moves us away from Source. If we don’t resist, we allow. And so , yes there are good and great things happening too. Our resistance will vibrate from and through all of our actions and practice and prayers and meditations and marches and ceremonies. Let us see the heart of our humanity in all of it. We are all supporting one another if we allow love to overtake us. If on the alter of our life, yours and mine, we place all things sacred and worth preserving for ourselves and our families, for our communities, for all of our neighbors, for people of all races and colors and religions, for our Earth, for our Country, for our World…for life and for peace, for us here now and for generations to come.
When sitting in Heart Space, practicing yoga or being in meditation,or moving in meditation, speaking in circle, workshop or doing heART work, we allow ourselves to leave the conflicts of our times outside and we enter the sanctuary of sacred space to be still. We allow ourselves to heal and rejuvenate. We fill our hearts, we reset, we settle down…we breath together and visit with our oneness. Hope to meet you here.
Love, peace and blessings
Denise
PS. My deep thanks and love to my tech Buddha, Charlie Strickler, for patiently helping me to make my work and service to this community easy and more time efficient. Our new Heart Space website will be our next big leap. I am excited!
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