You Are What You Believe You Are by Annie Sept 21, 2015 “You are what you believe you are. Your thoughts create your reality.” We’ve all heard or read this by now. But it takes a certain willingness or environment for me to honestly examine what this mind of mine is producing. The looking part is essential or phrases like those can quickly become cliche. What DO I believe about myself, about my world, about other people, about God?...
Read MoreHow is your Shadow? by Keleigh August 24, 2015 I’ve always been drawn to ask people about the things we don’t normally talk about – our deepest fears and most farfetched dreams, the obsessions that keep us awake at night, the “confessions” that tumble out in darkness when everyone else has gone to sleep and it’s just two voices whispering fervently beneath the bedcovers. The meeting of the secret, ineffable realm and tangible, sensate...
Read MoreWake Up To Your Life by Ellen May 4, 2015 I first came to a Level I workshop with the Awareness Institute (then known as the Aspire Foundation) on the advice of my meditation instructor in the Shambhala lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Although I didn’t know it at the time, and although it was not what I was “supposed” to be doing, I had for a long time been trying to use meditation as a tool for what spiritual teacher Michael Browne...
Read MoreStory Time by Colleen June 4, 2015 When I was a child, I lived for story time. I loved the chance to become immersed in the story, in the unknown- I loved the surprises that unfolded. I loved how, for a moment in time, I experienced whatever my imagination added to the words on the page. It was like a teleportation, from my little bed out into an infinite universe of possibility. As I got older, I realized I didn’t have to be read to...
Read MoreCelebrate Life! Bring friends and family for a fun-filled afternoon of connection, play and popsicles. Gather your chairs, blankets and some fruit to share and meet us Saturday, June 20, 2015 @ Curtis Park from 3pm – 6pm. See you there!
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