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Dear Friends and Community,
Welcome to all those new to this community and email. I send it out once a week with the weeks schedule, announcements, and upcoming events. I also offer a reflection…for lack of a different word…
thoughts and words that have called to me during the week, that I am then guided to offer. I endeavor to reach the part of you that is the same part of me…the place of spirit…the pure and formless in us all.
To free that part of us, we must also free up the mind…our minds. All that we are bound and attached to by way of what we believe. We do reach a time in our life when belief will evolve towards our personal experience measured against our true intelligence…the heart and soul of us, that we each have. I think we call that, “finding ourselves”, or “awakening”, “personal growth”. All apply and are true. This for most of us is not an easy time, depending on what we might be opening into. But it is how we make perfect use of our human birth. Essentially to find out who we are and to offer our unique awakening of human growth and potential to self and others.
I will offer more down the page, after the schedule and other business, as to how one can know with utter certainty they are moving towards that growth and potential. We are never left to guessing when it is the best of life we seek. We are given the experience of knowing as a gift.
Announcements: One new thing on our website now is a fund raising link to World Central Kitchen (https://donate.wck.org/team/612310) . After donating to them after the Helene, I decided to make that a feature on our website for others to easily donate to them so they have the resources they need to keep feeding those in need of food the world over wherever their services are needed. The link appears in the upper left hand corner of the face page above the Heart Space logo. All donations go directly to World Central Kitchen. I hope you will join us in supporting the essential work they offer to those in devastated place with the nourishment of good food.
“God shows up as food to those that are hungry”. ~ Ram Dass from Neem Karoli Baba
There will be no Yoga on Oct 20.
In Heart Space:
Saturday Oct 12 ~ 10 to 10:45 AM ~ Qigong Exercise for Balance and Well-Being (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/qigong-exercise-for-balance-and-wellbeing-2/)
Sunday Oct 13 ~ 10 to 11 AM ~ Rise and Shine Yoga (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/mindful-yoga-2024-10-13/)
Monday Oct 14 ~ 6 to 7:15 PM ~ Monday Meditation (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/meditation-for-beginners-5-classes-25-2024-10-14/)
Wednesday Oct 16 ~ 6:30 to 9 PM ~ Crystals as Healers Workshop (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/crystals-as-healers-workshop/)
Please preregister, or let me know you plan to attend by Monday Oct 14.
Thursday Oct 17 ~ 7 to 8:30 PM ~ True River Sangha (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/true-river-sangha-2-2024-10-17/)
Friday Oct 18 ~ 7 to 8:30 PM ~ Heart Space Drum Circle (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/heart-space-drum-circle-2-2024-10-18/)
Saturday Oct 19 ~ 10 to 6 PM ~ Family Constellation Workshop (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/family-constellation-workshop-what-is-behind-us-lives-with-us/)
Sunday Oct 20 ~ 2 to 4 PM ~ Women’s Ways Workshop (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/womens-ways-circle-2024-10-13/)
Upcoming:
Wednesday Oct 23 ~ 6:30 to 9 PM ~ Co-Creative Writing Coven (https://heartspacemedia.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a64900216e01a06d063bad531&id=35dd226dd3&e=b38f18b3a8)
Wednesday Oct 30 ~ 6:30 to 9 PM ~ Soul HeART Creation (https://heartspacemedia.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a64900216e01a06d063bad531&id=e54b4a1902&e=b38f18b3a8)
New:
Saturday Nov 9 ~ 2 to 3:30 PM ~ The Language of Astrology (https://heartspacemedia.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a64900216e01a06d063bad531&id=d46fc8025c&e=b38f18b3a8)
New:
Wednesday Nov 13 ~ 7 to 8:30 PM ~ Intro to Shamanism (https://heartspacemedia.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a64900216e01a06d063bad531&id=755fbffee4&e=b38f18b3a8)
This is the 1st class of 4.
Movement Into Gratitude…
I spent a few days at my daughters house this week taking care of our youngest grandchild while her parents were away. I was coming off a cold and still had hardly a voice in its aftermath. I wondered how I could rest my voice with a 6 yr old. Actually there is very little rest of any kind with a 6 yr old. So,needless to say, my throat is still trying to get back to normal.
There is also lots of magic around if you are willing to catch it with the little ones…younger ones. Part of it is to forget about ones bigness…or adult-ness. It is a tricky situation, because you are shapeshifting back and forth as needed. At some point you have to be the adult, because they are always the child. Big work, that I realize more now, than I did when I was the actual parent to my young daughters. Parenting is hard work and I understand how it can get the best of us. Loosening our grip on the outcomes of small things and being sure we are tight to keep them safe, and to help them grow well and strong, a true challenge. In there somewhere is not the perfect parent, but the total one.
The weather has been perfect to be outside for us. So we played outdoors. In their backyard is the added magic of Weeping Cypress trees…more than a few. One I feel sure is 50 ft high, the others not far behind…majestic and beautiful and full of wisdom and knowing. I had more than a few photo shoots with them. I stepped under them, touched their skin…put my back on them. I told the little lady that if she should make friends with them, talk to them. She didn’t not listen. She sort of smiled at me, but I know she heard me too.
What does any of this have to do with gratitude you might, at this point, be asking.
Everything! We are alive and often we forget that everything else is too. That every part of us and every part of everything else is here for the purpose of moving us into our interior, to pry us away from the mind and ego that allows us to forget that our aliveness…our life, our breath, is sacred.
We live in harmony with life when we hear the orchestra of existence playing all around us. To allow ourselves to be just where we are in any moment with the awareness of the orchestra playing. Our ability to be alive and in love where we stand, will make the difference in what we hear. Do we hear the symphony of life and all living things offering to us what they are here to offer? Do you recognize yourself in that orchestra, part of that symphony, creating your sound, the integrated harmony of your presence? We cannot be separated out of it with any success in feeling full or content or thankful.
Gratitude is not just being thankful for the obvious great and awesome things in our life. But also realizing where the mournful and sorrowful things have the potential to lead us. The violin section is always ….moving.
They make us feel with our very being. Make us cry and shed the layers of sorrow attached to us. We all have them. All of us.
The harmony is to know that. The harmony is to realize that. That is a movement into our growth of human potential, into our own experience, not to be separate from each other, but to realize the harmony we offer from our section of the orchestra to create the “together sound” of a symphony, while realizing the concerto …the agreement and understanding that each instrument …each section, offers to the whole.
Gratitude for every thing that opens a new door to our own understanding. It is not about winning or losing, having or not having, it is about us growing towards our true wealth, which is the gift and treasure of our human birth growing towards the inheritance of our spiritual forever-ness.
At this time we have this human birth…this lifetime. We have had plenty. We are here again because we missed the wisdom again the last time. We will each come to it in our own way….though our own experience, and for some a million incarnations will not be enough.
You know you are close when gratitude opens the heart and ears in such a way to hear and feel the movement of the sound of each other into the wisdom of what is total rather than perfect. The weeping opening us to compassion, the sorrow moving us to console, the losses opening us to to give, the disparity opening us to understanding, prejudice opening us up to intelligence, death opening us up to being alive, violence opening us to peace, and fear opening us up into love. We will only find contentment in accepting things as they are. And when we can do that, and be thankful for everything that got us to this moment of realization of sacred existence we will be pressed into service for the good of all of us together…doing what we love, loving who we love, being present to become bigger or smaller, as any moment might suggest, to add to the harmony of of life, rather than succumb to the chaos.
There is way more harmony than there is chaos. Attune your heart and ear to where you can raise the volume to hear it more clearly, while at the same time, tuning the chaos out.
I am thankful for everything that has brought me to this moment in my life that allows me be here with you. Saying that, each of us knows what that means for any of us to say that.
Looking up the the wisdom of the Weeping Cypress; in part, to realize the transformation that exist in grief and mourning. Sentinels to the dark night of the soul, a refuge of comfort through truth and the uplifting of the human spirit with the possibilities of eternal life.
While we honor Nature for its beauty and wonder, Nature sees our beauty and wonder as well and longs to see the true nature of each of us. It misses what it once was able to see more readily long times ago. Getting back to Nature…I will save that for another day.
Bless this day,
with peace and gratitude,
Denise Yocco
Heart Space at Seven Stones
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