Dear Community and Friends,
I took this photo quite some time ago. I believe this Tree has since succumb to time and the elements. It had always grabbed me at my roots, asked questions of me that begged answers, that at the time I didn’t have. But good teachers ask questions that we do not forget, and along the way, when we might think the question is gone, the answer arrives. And we remember.
All around us in nature, in all of life, in our bodies, and in the world are myriads of teachers with questions, holding up mirrors for us to see where all of us meet, begging for us to realize that we cannot heal through separation. And healing is vital for us all of us to thrive together. When did we stop thriving?
I will continue down the page after the weeks schedule and upcoming events. Please preregister for classes or let me know through this email that you plan to attend.
Saturday Oct 5 ~ 10 to 10:45 AM ~ Qigong Exercise for Balance and Well-Being (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/qigong-exercise-for-balance-and-wellbeing/)
Sunday Oct 6 ~ 10 to 11 AM ~ Rise and Shine Yoga (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/mindful-yoga-2024-10-06/)
Monday Oct 7 ~ 6 to 7:15 PM ~ Mediation Monday (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/meditation-for-beginners-5-classes-25-2024-10-07/)
Tuesday Oct 8 ~ 6:30 to 7:30 PM ~ Practicing Presence…Meditation and Breathwork (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/practicing-presence-2024-10-08/)
Thursday Oct 10 ~ 7 to 8:30 PM ~ True River Sangha (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/true-river-sangha-2-2024-10-10/)
Saturday Oct 12 ~ 10 to 10:45 AM ~ Qigong Exercise for Balance and Healing (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/)
For Reiki classes and sessions please contact Myra Reichel at 610-348-5698
Upcoming Events:
Wednesday October 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 ~ 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/)
What lives behind us, lives within 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/)
New:
Saturday Nov 9 ~ 2 to 3:30 PM ~ The Language of Astrology (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/the-language-of-astrology/)
New:
Wednesday Nov 13 ~ 7 to 8:30 PM ~ Intro to Shamanism (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/introduction-to-shamanism-3/)
This is the 1st class of 4.
WE Are In Need of Healing…
Thriving means different things to different people I suppose. But essentially it is the growing of the person into a human being. Developing ourselves. Rooting ourselves into the Earth that feeds us. Rooting ourselves into our humanity,and our humanity into our communities, as well as our realizing the roots we have in a spiritual life, as a spiritual being. The roots of family,both here and the somewhere out there…our spiritual family. We each have a vastness…rooted in so many ways to so many things.
We are here to learn these things. These are the things that allow us to thrive. We grow, and blossom. Healing takes place in unity. A body heals when all aspects are in balance. When a unity is met within the body we feel whole, well, healthy. The Earth will heal when it is in balance again. Humanity will heal when we come together and stop waging war with each other. What are we doing in harming one another in the ways that we do? What growth has been missed along the way to becoming adults?
Does it not just seem so childish to not like, malign, and do harm to people because of their race or color, gender preference, religion, status or education? When we do this we betray the deeper intelligence that was given to us. Which person among us wins the prize of being the one we all should be like? Or the one we should fear? Or the one that is right, all the time?
I want the the beauty of the whole garden.The diversity of every being. What would happen if we just let that garden grow and diversity thrive? Do we not realize that there has been a model for some time now to eliminate what we imagine is competing for the spaces we live in, and the food we eat? To systematically extinguish what some feel threatened by. To ignore the law of existence, and imagine that we are the lords of the lands, and then determine who is gets to live there as well as who doesn’t.
And while the law allows the pendulum of life to swing back and forth before finding balance time and time again, it is not the wrecking ball that humans have devised to destroy their own kind. To weaken, banish and even exterminate them. And we are so silly to think that one day that wrecking ball will not decide that we are not the right color or race or religion or whatever to be next. And so some might live in fear, and might capitulate to the lowest ideology and believe that “those people” are taking what belongs to us.And the beat goes on. History repeats instead of us learning from it.
I am disappointed in our lack of intelligence. I am disappointed by our racism. I am disappointed in our lack of wisdom. I am disappointed in our lost-ness that has burdened our Earth with such a great illness, that it too now suffers. I am disappointed in our lack of trying to heal all the broken parts of us.
And who am I to be disappointed you may be asking. I am those roots entwined with yours. My healing is yours as yours is mine. I know how hard it seems. Our world and culture are now conditioned by the illness of separation. But what would happen if we began to care for one another, rather than living opposed to each other? If we loved rather than feared? If we shared rather extinguished? If we granted everyone their freedoms and the voice of choice, and respected our differences and learned to live in harmony with each other? What would happen if we tried harder?
Many here on this page know this stuff. Nothing new. I know you are disappointed too. We also have to try harder. Be better teachers and instructors, better partners and better friends, better parents and family members. Ask better questions and care a whole lot about healing each other. Everyone is showing up to be healed of something. We are each, in some way, with ourselves or with someone we love, navigating a healing threshold. That makes our time together quite precious.
“We” are suffering together because there is no us and them. There is only We. And we will heal when we allow our “me” to realize the “we” we are. It is a divine model and we do have what it takes to realize it. Is our healing worth it? I feel pretty certain it is.
Peace and blessings,
Denise Yocco
Heart Space at Seven Stones
