Dear Friends and Community,
Welcome Fall! A time to fall back into a rhythm of settling in with ourselves again. Is there a harvest to collect and make use of?
How are you doing? How are you feeling? I can only hope that you take some time each day to not only ask yourself that, but also respond. A quick check in. I know it may sound like a bit much to do, but I feel sure you will be glad you did. If you have some time you can journal a bit about how you feel and why. It gives presence to our life and may be the very thing that lightens the loads we are carrying. The comfort and love we may feel we need, may be the very thing we can offer to ourselves.
We are very much like a three story building, and if we do not take some time each day, or at the least a few days a week, to sort out how we are doing, what we are feeling, it might sure look like we are out and about in the world, but we are in essence living from the basement of our building, where there is often less light, and in some cases no light at all.
I will continue with this thought down the page after the weeks schedule and upcoming events.
Some announcements:
Please note going forward that the classes that had been moved to Tuesday during the summer, due to outdoor dining in Media, will now be moving back to Wednesdays. Specifically, Soul HeART, and Co-Creative Writing Coven.
I will be sharing Tuesday’s with a new meditation class every other week. New class begins on October 8th.
This Week in Heart Space:
Saturday Sept 28 ~ 10 to 10:45 AM ~ Qigong Exercise for Balance and Well-Being. (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/qigong-exercise-for-balance-and-wellbeing-2024-09-28/)
Please preregister if you plan to attend.
Sunday Sept 29 ~ 10 to 11AM ~ Rise and Shine Yoga (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/mindful-yoga-2024-09-29/)
Sunday Sept 29 ~ 1 to 3 PM ~ Reiki Share for Reiki Practitioners and Masters/ $20 Donation
If you can please RSVP to Myra Reichel at 610-348-5698
Monday Sept 30 ~ 6 to 7:15 PM ~ Monday Meditation (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/meditation-for-beginners-5-classes-25-2024-09-30/)
No class this Tuesday Oct 1/ Family Birthday
Wednesday Oct 2 ~ 6:30 to 9PM ~ Soul HeArt Creation (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/heart-song-soul-art-creation-4/)
Thursday Oct 3 ~ 7 to 8:30 PM ~ True River Sangha (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/true-river-sangha-2-2024-10-03/)
Saturday Oct 5 ~ 10 to 10:45 AM ~ Qigong Exercise for Balance and Well-Bein (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/qigong-exercise-for-balance-and-wellbeing/) g
Sunday October 6 ~ 10 to 11 AM ~ Rise and Shine Yoga (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/mindful-yoga-2024-10-06/)
Upcoming Events:
Tuesday Oct 8 ~ 6:30 to 7:30 PM ~ Practicing Presence / Breath work and Meditation (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/practicing-presence-2024-10-08/)
Wednesday Oct 16 ~ 6:30 to 9 PM ~ Crystals as Healers Workshop (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/crystals-as-healers-workshop/)
Friday Oct 18 ~ 7 to 8:30 PM ~ Hart 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/ What is behind us loves in us. (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 Circle (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/womens-ways-circle-2024-10-13/)
Wednesday Oct 23 ~ 6:30 to 9 PM ~ Co-Creative Writing Coven (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/co-creative-writing-coven-6/)
Wednesday Oct 30 ~ 6:30 to 9 PM ~ Soul HeART Creation (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/soul-heart-creation/)
Wednesdays Nov 13/20 Dec 11/18 ~ 7 to 8:30 PM ~ Introduction to Shamanism (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/introduction-to-shamanism-3/)
Our Three Story Building…
When we keep ourselves in the basement of our building…our body, in our lower vibrations, we are not usually alone. Our doubts and fears are there with us. Our lesser feelings about ourselves. Anger might be there. We just do not see ourselves very clearly when we do not observe how we feel and the whys that go with it. You know what we usually do with basements? We usually fill them up with what we do not want to see.
Allowing ourselves sometime to be still to observe how we feel. Writing about how we feel, is a bit like allowing steam to escape from a steam pot. It is a observant release of where we are. It is coming up to the first floor of our 3 story building. Allowing some light in. Opening the window to our heart and giving our day and life some needed presence. Giving ourselves the permission to be fully human to feel what we feel and to ask ourselves what we need to feel better. To ask ourselves…to ask our heart.
Our worst feelings about ourselves and our life can for sure be transcended. Once we give presence to ourselves we begin to feel the light that resides within. We understand that we are not alone. We recognize that we might need some help in sorting things out at times. But oh the gift that that journal can offer to us in providing a light to see.
Our living on the first floor of our life is so much better than living in the basement. Learning how to live our life is a true spiritual gift that is obtained from our self love and gratitude for being here. There is no greater gift or inheritance than to know who we are. The the first floor will give us some insight, but it is the third floor that will show us how expansive we truly are.
We can only live so long in this building. No matter how we live it will come to an end. No matter who we are, it will end. Gratitude will create a longing, at some point, for the more there is of us. On the third floor we sure can see further afar with less obstruction. Our heart and thankfulness brings us to the rooftop where our vision is no longer obscured by the basement or first floor. We see what we belong to. The great expanse of life. The sun and moon and stars. The order that exist among the chaos. And the light that exist in us, brighter than the sun, yet never sets. The light that belongs to Light. We are That.We are That.
Just a little writing a few times a week if every day is just not possible will allow you to get there to know that You are That. And what we realize on the third floor rooftop, will inform our life because it fills our life. If you have tried before to journal, try again and again. At some point the formula is found. It is the scroll of our sacred journey to the kindness awareness of who we are. Each of us a bit different, carrying the light that allows each of us to see the same thing. “We are That”!
I feel that there might not be a more perfect time to begin. There is so much happening in our country and in the world that disturbs us. We are holding and feeling a lot. Don’t take it to the basement. No better time than to give it to some paper, pour it onto a page, let it go…allow to evaporate or allow it to expand into something golden. Take it to the rooftop and share it with the sky. Not just a mortal being there, we are That, we are That.
Peace and Blessings,
Denise Yocco
Heart Space at Seven Stones
image: a photo I took on my way upstairs
