Gifts of Being

Offered Mondays 7-8:30 pm

Contact Kim Lincoln at 360-866-9234 or www.terrainofessence.com

Family Yoga

This class is for parents and children to connect in a fun and relaxed environment. Through yoga, dance and song we deepen our sense of well being while connecting with each other.

Come strengthen and relax your body, mind and spirit together!

Offered Thursdays 11:30-1pm

For more information contact Kristen Rubis at:  www.sacredtransitions.org or call 360-534-4716

Yin Yoga

Yin Yoga is a simple and profound system that uses breath and long held floor postures to improve flexibility and stimulate the deep connective tissues of our bodies.  This powerful yoga will particularly improve movement in the thighs, pelvis and spine.  The postures work with the energy meridians of the body to also improve the health of internal organs and the endocrine system.  Accessible to new students and the most experienced, Yin Yoga is an excellent complement to the muscular and dynamic forms of Yoga prevalent today.  Yin Yoga is especially helpful for competitive athletes, martial artists, dancers, those recovering from injuries, and individuals that wish to deepen their meditation practice.

Class times are Tuesdays 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. and Fridays 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.  Michael can be contacted at: farleyihf@hotmail.com  (360-352-1191)

Wednesday Evenings 7:00-9:00pm at HOW

Shaman Earth Medicine Studies
Experience the Magical…Renewal, Peace, Harmony, Oneness

May 5    6-8:30 pm Evergreen College( Google driving directions &map at Evergreen)
Special Event in the Longhouse
For the Next 7 Generations: a film screening and talk with Grandmother Margaret Behan: Red Spider Woman
Margaret Behan is a spiritual elder who is Arapaho-Cheyenne and a fifth generation of the Sand Creek Massacre.  Through her work as an indigenous elder stateswoman, Margaret has gained international recognition through her work as part of the Council of the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers-a group of spiritual elders, medicine women and wisdom keepers since its founding in 2004.  The film is about the work of the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers.

May 12
Journeying Circle:  Modern Visionary’s Tool
Open to all who wish to connect with their spirit guides & helpers& who wish to connect with that deep inner wisdom.  The wisdom connected to the Oneness of all.

May 19
NO CLASS :We are attending further training out of town.

May 26
Shamanic Reiki Share/ Meet-up
Open to all levels of Reiki training and to those who are interested in experiencing a Reiki healing session.
©     Interested in receiving Reiki I or Reiki II training and attunements.
Call Debbie or Max for information about classes
AYNI Shaman Energy Medicine Practices           360-894-1626

June 2 The last class until July.*
Shaman’s Way of Healing:  Three Core Practices

*We will be traveling with the Qer’o along the Inka Trail in Peru from June 9 to June 30.  We will carry all of you with us in spirit as participate in ceremony and visit sacred sites. Join with us once again  in July.

For more information:  http://www.aynishaman.com/

Flow Yoga

Flow yoga is an opportunity to find more self awareness through movement and breath no matter what your holistic goals are. This is an all levels class that incorporates a sense of flow with various postures and movements.  My classes focus on opening your heart to the present moment as you connect with your breath and spirit. Flow yoga increases strength and flexibility in the body and mind and invites you to be in the flow of the present moment.   This class is enriched with meditation, pranayama, brain-based movement patterns, deep asana stretches, sun salutations, inversions and ends with a relaxing Savasana.  Reunite your whole body-mind with your own unique flow!  I incorporate sound acutonics and aromatherapy into the classes for a more holistic experience. Namaste.

Flow Yoga is offered on Tuesdays from 5:45-7 p.m. For more information regarding her classes please contact Kristen at (360) 534-4716 or visit www.sacredtransitions.org

 

Latiaf Training

 

NEW GROUP FORMING FOR THE FALL OF 2010

 

“Navigating the Subtle Organs of Our Soul”

 

The Latiaf Training provides the basic elements needed to support and grow an authentic life. Through awakening and cultivating our ability to tolerate and navigate this perceivable and palpable terrain of essence, the subtle body of our soul, we gain the confidence to reclaim and actualize our true nature.

 

This training will provide the tools and skills necessary to ground, differentiate, discern, and facilitate ways of reconnecting and re-sourcing our own inner guidance. Through inquiry, as well as additional practices and exercises we will learn to recognize the subtle and not so subtle ways in which we fall in and out of alignment with Source energy. This energy, which is soul, is comprised of various emanations and essences; Latifas, each corresponding to specific attributes, aspects, and capacities inherent in our true nature. These colors are not a passive impression, but are the intrinsic language of the soul to itself. And it is here that we become unfolded, transmuted, and self-realized in the pure presence of this truth. As a process of self-exploration and liberation, the Latiaf Training is available to all who are sincere and ready to claim, cherish, and live an essential life.

 

These daylong workshops will meet in Olympia once a month for ten consecutive months. The first will be an Orientation and each class thereafter will focus specifically on one of each of the nine Latifas, with a followed-up two and a half hour meeting, your choice of either Monday evening or Wednesday afternoon. Class time will include discussion, and experiential exploration.

 

Kim Lincoln

360-866-9234

www.TerrainOfEssence.com

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“In a subtle way I’m invited to go where I need to go, and am empowered to participate in my own healing. The self-authenticity piece you provide in your work is huge. Thank you so much for your work. It is profound and transformative.” -DAVE LANGSTON

*Date for each month’s workshop is posted is posted on the Heart of Wellness Calendar.

Introduction to Yoga

The class will introduce the basic principles of yoga including breathing exercises, warm-up expercise, beginning positions or asanas, final relaxation and a short meditation.

We will experience physical correctness of posture, mental and physical relaxation and proper breathing. Yoga is practiced with no competition or forcing. Any Age is invoted because "we are as young as our spines are flexible".

Wear comfortable, loose fitting clothing, bring a towel or mat and a wrap or shawll for the final relaxation.

Offered Tuesdays 3-4pm by Jean Rae Garwood, Certified Yoga Teacher.

Radical Wellness

Are you tired of trying to take care of yourself and done with giving your power away to others?

Have you noticed that every time you try to pull yourself up by your bootstraps you ultimately end up falling on your bum?

Getting healing treatments is great. Self-help techniques are great. Personal growth is great. But these are surface responses. If you want to get to the root of what it means to be happy, healthy, free and fulfilled in life you really have no choice but to learn something else instead:

HOW TO LET THE UNIVERSE TAKE CARE OF YOU

Call it God. Call it Tao. Call it Source. Just call it.

THIS IS THE KEY THAT ALLOWS STRETCHING TO BECOME REAL YOGA, TURNS MOVEMENT INTO DANCE, AND ALLOWS YOUR LIFE TO BECOME A GIFT TO YOURSELF AND TO OTHERS AROUND YOU.

This is an EXPERIENTIAL class filled with practical exercises for cultivating true wellbeing in relationship to everything from knee pain to emotional crisis, from fatigue to financial difficulty.
These classes are an EXPERIENTIAL introduction to an applied practice of letting go and letting God. The classes are filled with practical guidance and exercises that will help you to let go of many of the ways through which we commonly lose heart in life, and will help you instead to say YES to the life of real happiness and true wellbeing that is your birthright.

Let go of:

- struggle
- suffering
- overwhelm
- self-blame
- resentment
- depression
- stress
- anxiety
- worry
- fatigue
- trying too hard
- manifesting what you think you want


And say YES to:

- the actual felt experience of living true to your soul's purpose
- the flowering and fruitful expression of real wellness in your everyday life
- your unique expression of a divinely-inspired life of purpose and passion
- opening to receive more from God than you could ever give yourself

Suggested Donation: $10, offered Thursdays at 5:30

I pray that you are given everything you need to go to the root of your healing, so that your life can flower into the fullness of real happiness and true wellbeing that is your birthright.

Fred Klemmer LAc

Sufi Healing Circles

Weekly Sufi Healing Circles (Dhikr) at Heart of Wellness
Mondays 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Thursdays 7:30 - 9:00 PM

Have you ever read the poetry of Rumi or Hafiz?  Rumi has for many years been the most popular poet in the United States.  And yet he was a 13th century Islamic scholar and mystic!

This may seem strange but it really isn't. I look around and I see many hearts aching to live the kind of life Rumi and Hafiz themselves aspired to live: a life of deep integrity and vast ecstasy held gently in the heartfelt peace that comes from a felt experience of relaxing in the limitless ocean of God's mercy.

I used to read Rumi and Hafiz and wonder about what spiritual practices they must have engaged in to be inspired to such wisdom and passion. Now I no longer wonder because I am blessed to be able to turn each and every day to many of the same practices that inspired Rumi and Hafiz.

These are the practices of Sufism, the mystical heart of Islam.  But you don't need to be a Sufi or a Muslim to benefit from these practices. Whoever you are, and whatever your faith, these simple practices will help you to open your heart ever more deeply and ever more widely to the limitless ocean of love and mercy that is available to you in every breath.

Our weekly Sufi Healing Circles are an introduction to what was traditionally considered to be the first and last and best of these practices: what in Arabic is known as group dhikr, or the remembrance of God (and a felt experience of our relationship with God) using the recitation of sacred phrases and the holy names of God as a reminder.

The version of group dhikr that we practice on Mondays from 12:00 - 1:00 PM is a traditional practice know as the wird that has been practiced in the same way every day for hundreds of years by the Shadhuliyya lineage of Sufis. The Arabic word wird means well or watering hole, and this is a very appropriate name since it is a practice that relieves the thirst of the soul and helps the soul to find deep renewal in the wellspring of Divine love and truth.

The version of group dhikr that we practice on Thursday evenings from 7:30 - 9:00 PM is an ancient form of a traditional practice known as the hadra or standing remembrance. It is a powerful and profoundly healing practice that helps bring deeply rooted renewal and helps us to feel washed clean in the holy light of Divine love and truth.

Cost is by Donation.

Thank you for your time in reading this. I would ask you now to take a moment and feel how your heart feels about what I have been sharing. As Rumi says, "Let yourself be silently drawn by the deeper pull of what you truly love."

May the peace and blessings of God fill your hearts and your days,

Fred

Tai Chi For Health

Tai Chi for Health emphasizes getting in touch with and developing one's internal energy, or Chi, through carefully selected exercises and chi kung practices. In addition, Carol Kautzmann will be teaching a Taoist form of Tai Chi learned from her study with Master Mantak Chia, which consists of 13 movements in 4 directions done both to the left and right. She will also introduce several breathing meditation practices including the Micro-cosmic Orbit meditation and the Smiling-Down Meditations.

Carol also has a background in Chinese medicine which she integrates into her class, revealing an added dimension to the practice of Tai Chi. She is eager to share with newcomers and experienced practitioners alike.

Tai Chi is offered Mondays from 10-11:15 a.m.