Shield Workshop 2010

When: Friday, March 19th

Time: 9:00am – 5:00pm

Where: Virginia’s home

-contact for address-

West Hartford, CT

Cost: $75.00 per person

Includes materials for a 12 – 18” shield. Lunch provided

Bring feathers, crystals, and beads for decorating your shield

RSVP: Virginia 860- 523-8943

www.ElandraArts.com ~ 860-523-8943

Create your own personal power shield, family shield, or gift shield.

During this full day workshop of interpersonal exploration and creative adventure, Virginia will guide you using Native American techniques that have been passed down to her to share. Connect with your own personal power animals, guides, totems and sacred symbols through guided journeying. We will create sacred space together and receive inspiration from Spirit on this special day. You will be creating the hoop with branches or vines and painting your vision and inspirations on leather that is strung onto the hoops. The shield will then be decorated with sacred objects that will be provided, or that you choose to bring from home. Together, we will share our shields, and ceremony with them to seal in the energies.

No art experience is necessary, only the willingness to fully participate in this Sacred Hoop of Life…come and let Spirit lead the Way!

After registration, you will receive instructions for creating your shield hoop from a branch or vine. Please register no later than March 12th by mailing full payment to Virginia.

Weave Your Life

An Earth-based workshop series offered by our Red Tent Sister, Audrey.........

Weave Your Life

Earth Based Workshop Series

This workshop series will focus on learning ways to honor the earth in various ways throughout the spring and summer seasons. You will learn to open sacred space, practice mindfulness exercises and participate in earth honoring ceremonies to bring you into a deeper relationship with the Earth and all its inhabitants.

Each workshop from 10:00 - 11:30 has a focus on one of the elements (earth, water, air, fire). There will be education about tribal, First Nations and eastern cultures. We will discuss ways to notice reciprocal ties with either human, animal, mineral or plants (all our relations). 

We will explore a mindfulness exercise (which focuses on one of our senses: sight, touch, smell, etc) and end with an earth based ritual/ceremony. 

Bring a bagged lunch and soft drink/water. We will break for lunch from 11:30-12:00 noon. The last hour will be ceremony. Dress in layers and according to the weather as we will be both outside and indoors. 

You can attend one or all. These workshops are meant for people who are seeking a greater connection to the natural world around them and to develop a spiritual understanding of the Natural Way.

Saturday March 28 10:00 am-1:00 pm

Early Spring-The Color of Mud and Straw-Sight-Earth-Human

Our earth seems dormant and un-alive during the winter. We look forward to Spring to welcome back new growth and life. In this workshop we will take a walk out in nature to observe the changes in the natural world since the Winter. We will also discuss various ways First Nations peoples around the globe honor the changing of this season and talk about what inner work we may have done within during the winter. We will hold an earth honoring ceremony and practice a mindfulness exercise which you can continue on your own time to come into greater harmony with the Earth.

Saturday April 18 10:00 am- 1:00 pm

Spring-Welcoming Evidence of Hope -Hearing & Touch-Water- Animal

Now that Spring has fully arrived, we are able to see and observe the natural worlds changes. The buds are on the trees and some species of birds are seen daily (Like the Robin) This workshop is focused around tuning our mindfulness skills into the unobserved changes, to look deeper into the ways Spring has been continuing to become. We will walk in nature and observe a natural setting around a water source. We will hold an Earth honoring ceremony making natural prayer sticks and discuss ways First Nation peoples use prayer sticks and ties.

Saturday May 30 10:00 am-1:00 pm

Getting Ready For Summer-Taste & Smell-Air-Winged-Mineral

The ending of May and bridge into summer. We will walk in nature and learn a mindfulness practice which focuses on using our taste and smell senses to notice subtle changes. We will discuss ways First Nations peoples honor the great Mystery in the air and the ethers. We will hold an Earth honoring ceremony to bid good-bye to Spring and welcome in Summer sending our intentions into the air. 

Saturday June 20 10:00 am - 1:00pm

Summer -Developing Intuitiveness- Energetic Body-Fire-Plant

This workshop will focus on an inner journey and basic skills development of intuitive awareness. We will discuss various cultural ideas about the energetic body we have and we will hold an Earth honoring fire ceremony. (location to be announced)
 

Each Workshop $30.00 pre-paid by the 7^th of March , $40.00 thereafter

All (4) workshops $120.00 pre-paid by the 7^th day of March $160.00 separately.



Locations: Blue Trails, Plymouth/Harwinton & Flanders nature Center in Woodbury.

Contact: Audrey Bennett LCSW, LADC. (860) 819-8570

For your payment convenience you can visit my web site and utilize Pay Pal

http://audreybennett.vpweb.com e-mail: weaveyourlife@audreybennett.vpweb.com

Youth Welcome

The 4th Alternative ~ Couples workshop in Newtown

Dr. Paul Dunion and Connie Jones Dunion invite you to empower your relationship this fall:


A One-Day Workshop for Couples

The 4th Alternative

Saturday October 4, 9 AM - 4 PM
Sticks and Stones Farm, Newtown CT 06470

When couples face challenges in their relationships, they commonly resort to 3 ways of interacting:

~attempt to influence others;
~become adaptive;
~avoid or withdraw physically and/or emotionally.

This workshop focuses upon strategies for
interrupting each of these intimacy-reducing patterns.
Couples will have an opportunity to identify which patterns are most active in their relationship,
and how to provide themselves with the safety necessary to deepen intimacy.
They will also be given specific skills for creating and maintaining
individual and collective empowerment.

Facilitators: Dr. Paul Dunion and Connie Jones Dunion
Fee: $180 per couple - includes lunch! Please send a $75 deposit to hold your space.
For complete information, directions, and registration form, please see
http://www.pauldunion.com/schedule.html

Intensive Journal Workshop, New Fairfield, CT

Progoff Intensive Journal Program of Self-Development

with Dolores Mitch

Introductory Workshop: September 6-7, 2008, 9:30am - 5pm

Great Hollow Conference Center

Begin a Journey in Your Life.....

Experience a life-changing process to give your life greater direction, vitality, and purpose.

Developed in 1966 by Dr. Ira Progoff, our nationally recognized program has helped 175,000 people lead more fulfilling lives.

Discover resources and possibilities you could not have imagined.The Intensive Journal method can help you:

~Gain a foundation and perspective to realize the continuity and direction of your life. Build a solid basis for future decisions.

~Connect more deeply with your personal relationships, career and interests, and body.

~Use dreams and imagery as a guide in your unfolding process.

The Journal can be your honest friend in the creative process of shaping your life.

Life Context (Part One):

Gaining a Perspective on Life

Learn how to use the Intensive Journal method through a direct experience in your own life.

Connect with the continuity and movement of your life. Develop awareness as you explore prior events, memories, and feelings. Realize possibilities and interests.

Gain insights about major areas of your life:

-Relationships with others

-Career and special interests

-Body and Health

~Your facilitator will guide you, step by step, through the exercises.

~Your writing is private; no one comments or judges your life.

~Use the method on your own afterwards.

Helping you in many ways.....

~Decision making, Self Esteem, Energy and momentum, Healing, Intuition, and Creativity ....

Two days of deep self discovery in a beautiful setting at the Wilderness Sanctuary in New Fairfield, CT. Great Hollow's beautiful landscape will put your spirit at ease as you journey through your own inner landscape!

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The Details:

Cost:$195

Non-refundable deposit: $50

Make payments easily using the buttons at right - be sure to contact me with your registration information as well, (or to pay by check).

I will need your:

Name

Address

Phone

Email

Refreshments served but participants must bring their own lunch. Lodging can be found nearby in Danbury CT.

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Ira Progoff Intensive Journal Workshop - CT

Is set for September!

I am extremely excited to be sponsoring this extraordinary, personally rewarding intensive. I will have a more formal description of it coming soon for you, but for now, since I just added the payment buttons (to the right) I thought I would make a mention. The website has good information if you are eager to see what it's all about: http://www.intensivejournal.org/

The Workshop is a two day process and will be taking place at the beautiful, scenic Conference Center at Great Hollow Wilderness School, New Fairfield, CT. September 6 & 7 are the days to mark in your calendar.

If you are a writer, a parent, a circle leader, a young adult at a crossroads, or growing into your mature years ... this workshop will help you find your most powerful truths and lead you down your most meaningful life path.

Don't Miss out on you!