2013-14
Newsletter Archives
August 7, 2014 (Volume 4, Issue 2)
In our retreats, the goal has been to educate women and to expand their awareness of spiritual practices and tools that help to wake us up and be more conscious of our behavior. We do this work—letting go of old hurts, dropping judgments, forgiving ourselves and others, so that we can heal and change our perspective on life. In the end, we see better, feel better, know better, and love better. I kept doing “the work” and even though I couldn’t see the light, I could feel its warmth. Through self-observation, self-forgiveness, and a willingness to let go of the past, the sadness dissolved and joy took its place. No more waiting for the other shoe to fall. Click here to read entire newsletter.
In our retreats, the goal has been to educate women and to expand their awareness of spiritual practices and tools that help to wake us up and be more conscious of our behavior. We do this work—letting go of old hurts, dropping judgments, forgiving ourselves and others, so that we can heal and change our perspective on life. In the end, we see better, feel better, know better, and love better. I kept doing “the work” and even though I couldn’t see the light, I could feel its warmth. Through self-observation, self-forgiveness, and a willingness to let go of the past, the sadness dissolved and joy took its place. No more waiting for the other shoe to fall. Click here to read entire newsletter.
July 7, 2014 (Volume 4, Issue 1)
You are more powerful than you can dream or imagine and when you direct your energy appropriately, every atom and molecule in the universe aligns to support you. Every day, through your thoughts, you get to create the experience of better living. Be the peace you want to see. Be the love that you desire. Be the joy that you are missing. Be the spark, be the fire. Be the healed and the healer. Click here to read entire newsletter.
Image Credit: Dr. Maya Angelou
June 7, 2014 (Volume 3, Issue 12)
Last week Dr. Maya Angelou left us but her soul lives on forever in her numerous poems, books, movies, quotes, photos, and more. I am eternally grateful for all that she provided and for being a major source of inspiration throughout her precious and complex life. Phenomenal woman we will miss you and all you have done to remind us Click here to read entire newsletter.
Last week Dr. Maya Angelou left us but her soul lives on forever in her numerous poems, books, movies, quotes, photos, and more. I am eternally grateful for all that she provided and for being a major source of inspiration throughout her precious and complex life. Phenomenal woman we will miss you and all you have done to remind us Click here to read entire newsletter.
Image Credit: Delilah Grayer
May 7, 2014 (Volume 3, Issue 11)
Your intuition is a way of acquiring knowledge about yourself and the world around you that is beyond all logic. It is a rich resource that allows you to make the best choices for yourself and your family. By listening to your intuition when you ask for help or insight, you tap into your Higher Power for wisdom and “Divine Guidance”. How do you know when it is an intuitive response and not some worrisome thoughts that parade through your minds? Following are a few tips: Click here to read entire newsletter.
Sarah Almitra Hakeem
APRIL 7, 2014 (Volume 3, Issue 10)
Yoga for You: Optimum Health at Any Age! Sara Almitra Hakeem (Shantibindu)...... "Your health is your most precious asset. Investing in maintaining a strong balance and a healthy you is always the right choice at any age. You will learn practical, accessible ways to increase physical and mental well-being. As a certified Satyananda Yoga level one teacher, I will work with foundation movements that are safe and comfortable for your body. . . . As you learn to ease into a yoga practice that steadies your body, steadies the breath, and quiets the mind, this allows you access to your own personal peace, calm, freedom, and bliss.” Click here to read entire newsletter.
Shirley Nelson and Sarah Collins Rudolph
MARCH 7, 2014 (Volume 3, Issue 9)
After many years of suffering for a crime that she did not commit, Sarah Collins Rudolph is creating a path to freedom by telling her story of the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963. “The Diary of a Sole Survivor” is a program that was hosted by Tri-C Metro campus on Tuesday evening, February 25, 2014, and at Tri-C eastern campus on .... Click here to read entire newsletter.
FEBRUARY 7, 2014 (Volume 3, Issue 8)
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who can come alive.” ~ Dr. Howard Thurman. I want to know what makes you come alive? What inspires you and makes you feel a tingling in your soul that might cause you to lose your self control? What’s running through the blood in your veins that’s calling you to play, to be bold and adventurous without ... Click here to read entire newsletter.
Mosaic by Margie Shaheed
JANUARY 7, 2014 (Volume 3, Issue 7)
MOSAIC poems by Margie Shaheed is a collection of eleven storytelling poems that are spiritually uplifting and is a word coming of sorts that pays homage to the Goddess who resides in each and every one of us. As well, many of the poems speak to the African philosophical theme of birth, death and rebirth. As I read MOSAIC I was led to the rhythm of the drum, our essential breath and heartbeat. I welcomed the voice that captured clearly the music between the notes—pictures painted with words that touched the depth of my soul. And for Yoruba practitioners, there are several poems dedicated to the Òrişà. Attached in an excerpt from the chapbook, a poem entitled "Rapture". Click here to read entire newsletter.
DECEMBER 7, 2013 (Volume 3, Issue 6)
People are sitting around and they don’t even know how they got through the year, and they’re worried. We don’t have to look back at the past year and dwell on the way it could have been, should have been, or would have been. We don’t have to suffer. What is done, is done. Let it go. . . .“...when all seems broken and we can’t bear to feel one more thing, the heart is always deeper, larger, stronger than we think; it is ready to hold us like a great substantial shore. And when we feel we have nothing left to give, this is just when the gift that only we contain is about to show itself, like an edible flower breaking ground after the storm.” —Mark Nepo Click here to read entire newsletter.
NOVEMBER 7, 2013 (Volume 3, Issue 5)
I Am Malala . . . In this season of thanks giving and being aware of the blessings that abound, I am grateful for many things. In a country where freedom of speech is taken for granted and education is the rule of the day, it’s hard to believe that there are places in the world that will shoot a young girl in the head for going to school. In October 2012 Malala Yousafzai almost lost her life working to give a voice to girls who were banned by the Taliban from being educated in her home country of Pakistan. She was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, and she has inspired countless people worldwide to stand up for what they deserve. Malala says that the shooting has taken away her fear. "I have already seen death and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me," she says. "Before this attack, I might have been a little bit afraid how death would be. Now I'm not, because I have experienced it." Click here to read entire newsletter.
I Am Malala . . . In this season of thanks giving and being aware of the blessings that abound, I am grateful for many things. In a country where freedom of speech is taken for granted and education is the rule of the day, it’s hard to believe that there are places in the world that will shoot a young girl in the head for going to school. In October 2012 Malala Yousafzai almost lost her life working to give a voice to girls who were banned by the Taliban from being educated in her home country of Pakistan. She was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, and she has inspired countless people worldwide to stand up for what they deserve. Malala says that the shooting has taken away her fear. "I have already seen death and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me," she says. "Before this attack, I might have been a little bit afraid how death would be. Now I'm not, because I have experienced it." Click here to read entire newsletter.
OCTOBER 7, 2013 (Volume 3, Issue 4)
Waitressing in Sacred Kitchens, by Meg Barnhouse . . . I love for a waitress to call me “Hon.” It’s comforting. She doesn’t know me, and I don’t know her, but we fit into well-worn, ancient categories: I am the “Hungry One” and she is the “One Who Brings Nourishment From the Unseen Source.” . . . . I need to have a surly waitress inside myself that I can call on when it seems everyone in the world is waving an empty coffee cup in my direction. My Inner Waitress looks over at them, keeping her six plates balanced and her feet moving, and says, “Sorry, Hon, not my table.” Click here to read entire newsletter.
SEPTEMBER 7, 2013 (Volume 3, Issue 3)
Writing as a spiritual practice will reveal some of your greatest fears, but don’t let that stop you, because it can also reveal your deepest passions. Writing is a solitary spiritual discipline and, like meditation and prayer, no one can do it for you. Writing is a form of therapy and it can be cathartic and liberating. It is healing. Research has shown that when a person describes the details of a traumatic experience, the simple act of putting words down on paper often brings considerable relief. In fact, it’s so effective that many enlightened practitioners, such as Carl Jung, were known to click here to read entire newsletter.
Writing as a spiritual practice will reveal some of your greatest fears, but don’t let that stop you, because it can also reveal your deepest passions. Writing is a solitary spiritual discipline and, like meditation and prayer, no one can do it for you. Writing is a form of therapy and it can be cathartic and liberating. It is healing. Research has shown that when a person describes the details of a traumatic experience, the simple act of putting words down on paper often brings considerable relief. In fact, it’s so effective that many enlightened practitioners, such as Carl Jung, were known to click here to read entire newsletter.
AUGUST 7, 2013 (Volume 3, Issue 2)
In last month’s newsletter we talked about "I Don’t Know Land" which is, for many, a place of transition that might cause us to feel unsettled and out of sorts with the world. "I Don’t Know Land" can be a little scary especially when the roots beneath us that were once so firm are shaken to the core—sometimes violently. Whether or not our time in this strange place is a day, a week, a month, or years, it is quite valuable. Although we can’t always see it, this is a time of intense growth whereby spiritual muscles are significantly strengthened. Click here to read entire newsletter.
JULY 7, 2013 (Volume 3, Issue 1)
"I Don’t Know Land" is when you stop going along with the crowd and start realizing that there are a lot of things about yourself that you didn’t know and may or may not like. You start feeling insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or two, but then get scared because you barely know where you are now. You start realizing that people are selfish and that, maybe, those friends that you thought you were so close to aren’t exactly the greatest people you have ever met and the people you have lost touch with are some of the most important ones. Click here to read entire newsletter.
