Browse Free Spiritual Event Listings For: Peace https://spiritualgrowthevents.com/tag/peace/ Free Mon, 27 Feb 2023 23:01:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 https://spiritualgrowthevents.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-fsge-logo-32x32.png Browse Free Spiritual Event Listings For: Peace https://spiritualgrowthevents.com/tag/peace/ 32 32 Improve Your Ability to Manage Personal & Global Change With Powerful Energy Medicine Tools – With Ellen Meredith https://spiritualgrowthevents.com/events/discover-energy-medicine-tools-create-lasting-change-ellen-meredith/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 06:48:03 +0000 https://spiritualgrowthevents.com/?post_type=mec-events&p=15612 Discover Energy Medicine Tools to Create Lasting Change Ellen Meredith During your lifetime, has there ever been a period of greater polarity than what we’re facing in today’s world? Energy medicine expert Ellen Meredith, a medical intuitive and author, teaches that to skillfully navigate change at this crucial time in our evolution… …it’s important to learn how to fully activate the internal guidance systems that are already built into your body-mind-spirit… … and to connect with all the voices of your soul so you can see a deeper truth from a broader perspective, and find your own True North. Ellen believes that we can all break through the obstruction of polarizing, or what she calls “binary thinking,” with energy medicine tools that help us cultivate a more spherical consciousness… … so we can awaken and thrive as the world transforms, and follow the path of our greatest potential. In this spiritual class, you’ll be guided to, tap into your inner compass, and work with your energies …so you can move beyond an either/or way of walking through the world, and ground energetically into wholeness. =================================== ↘️ Click Here To Register For Free ↙️ =================================== During this virtual healing class, you’ll: Be guided in a powerful energy practice that supports your body, mind, and spirit in the transition from binary thinking to spherical consciousness Discover how to use energy medicine tools to activate the internal guidance system that already exists within you Learn how to work with your energies to navigate these rapidly changing times so you can emerge transformed and thriving Gain a new perspective on the change that’s happening in our world as part of a larger global evolution in consciousness Understand that constructs fall apart in order to reformulate and make space for a new, more resilient way of being =================================== ↘️ Click Here To Register For Free...

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During your lifetime, has there ever been a period of greater polarity than what we’re facing in today’s world?

Energy medicine expert Ellen Meredith, a medical intuitive and author, teaches that to skillfully navigate change at this crucial time in our evolution…

…it’s important to learn how to fully activate the internal guidance systems that are already built into your body-mind-spirit…

… and to connect with all the voices of your soul so you can see a deeper truth from a broader perspective, and find your own True North.

Ellen believes that we can all break through the obstruction of polarizing, or what she calls “binary thinking,” with energy medicine tools that help us cultivate a more spherical consciousness…

… so we can awaken and thrive as the world transforms, and follow the path of our greatest potential.

In this spiritual class, you’ll be guided to,

  • tap into your inner compass, and
  • work with your energies

…so you can move beyond an either/or way of walking through the world, and ground energetically into wholeness.

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During this virtual healing class, you’ll:

  • Be guided in a powerful energy practice that supports your body, mind, and spirit in the transition from binary thinking to spherical consciousness
  • Discover how to use energy medicine tools to activate the internal guidance system that already exists within you
  • Learn how to work with your energies to navigate these rapidly changing times so you can emerge transformed and thriving
  • Gain a new perspective on the change that’s happening in our world as part of a larger global evolution in consciousness
  • Understand that constructs fall apart in order to reformulate and make space for a new, more resilient way of being

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You’ll discover that you can teach your subtle energies to operate in a synergistic manner that reflects an awareness of interconnection…

This allows you to not only cope with change, but to thrive within it and contribute to the healing and transformation of our world.
Ellen will help you truly feel your interdependence with everyone and All That Is…

…and build your awareness of what needs to be born now to support change from the inside out.

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About Your Spiritual Teacher – Ellen Meredith

Ellen Meredith, Doctor of Arts, is a conscious channel, medical intuitive, energy medicine practitioner, teacher, and author. She has been in practice since 1984, helping over 10,000 clients and students across the globe tune in to and communicate with their own energies, hear their inner guidance, and heal.

Ellen is renowned for her down-to-earth, yet out-of-the box thinking. Originally trained as a healer by her inner teachers (Councils), Ellen later became an Eden Energy Medicine Advanced Practitioner (EEM-AP) and is an emeritus member of Donna Eden’s faculty.

Ellen brings humanity, humor, and insight in many forms to the world of energy healing. Her approach to self-healing with energy medicine offers students ways to understand and get to the heart of their health and life challenges, and work compassionately with their body, mind, and spirit. She builds on everyday experiences and common-sense frameworks, believing that life reveals more of its meaning if you treat it as an evolving story, and see yourself as a unique character helping to co-create it.

Ellen is the author of The Language Your Body Speaks: Self-Healing with Energy Medicine… Listening In: Dialogues with the Wiser Self (channeled book)… In Search of Radiance: Learning to Stand with Your Wiser Self (channeled class audiobook)… and the soon-to-be-published book, Your Body Will Show You the Way: Energy Medicine for Personal and Global Change.

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Discover the Mystical, Feminine Map to Transformation Hidden in Christianity’s 4 Gospels – With Alexander John Shaia https://spiritualgrowthevents.com/events/transformation-in-christianitys-4-gospels-alexander-john-shaia/ Thu, 06 Jan 2022 00:29:04 +0000 https://spiritualgrowthevents.com/?post_type=mec-events&p=15544 Transformation in Christianity's 4 Gospels - Alexander John Shaia Are you feeling more hopeful these days? Or, perhaps you’re in need of hope… If you’re a seasoned seeker, you know that beyond hope there is something deeper… a way of being that helps us better navigate life’s difficulties — and welcome its joys. Even experiencing incredible moments of awakening may not prevent us from slipping back into old patterns — if we don’t know how to embody their powerful transformative energies and weave their gifts into our lives. To get to that sweet spot beyond hope, we need to learn to trust — our journey, life circumstances, ourselves, and that we will come to see the light in the darkness even in our most difficult moments. In this profoundly illuminating hour with author and renowned thought leader Alexander John Shaia, PhD, you’ll discover the universal 4-path journey — recognized by every major spiritual tradition, from Shamanism to Judaism, and by mythology and psychology — as a powerful and reassuring guide to transformation for these times. =================================== ↘️ Click Here To Register For Free ↙️ =================================== Alexander John reveals uncommon wisdom about these mystical paths — profoundly feminine teachings hidden in Christianity’s gospels, many of which have been “lost” for over a thousand years — that illuminate a vital life map leading us to inner freedom, safety, respect, and a profound connection with God. You’ll discover a way to live with a trust that is beyond hope in the face of change, loss, fear, overwhelm, and discontent — that's available and applicable to everyone, regardless of gender, ethnicity, orientation, spiritual tradition, or no tradition. You’ll also experience a powerful guided meditation — a journey of emerging from darkness into the dawn of a new day to access the beauty and power of the 4-path teachings and the ease and joy...

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Are you feeling more hopeful these days?

Or, perhaps you’re in need of hope…

If you’re a seasoned seeker, you know that beyond hope there is something deeper… a way of being that helps us better navigate life’s difficulties — and welcome its joys.

Even experiencing incredible moments of awakening may not prevent us from slipping back into old patterns — if we don’t know how to embody their powerful transformative energies and weave their gifts into our lives.

To get to that sweet spot beyond hope, we need to learn to trust — our journey, life circumstances, ourselves, and that we will come to see the light in the darkness even in our most difficult moments.

In this profoundly illuminating hour with author and renowned thought leader Alexander John Shaia, PhD, you’ll discover the universal 4-path journey — recognized by every major spiritual tradition, from Shamanism to Judaism, and by mythology and psychology — as a powerful and reassuring guide to transformation for these times.

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Alexander John reveals uncommon wisdom about these mystical paths — profoundly feminine teachings hidden in Christianity’s gospels, many of which have been “lost” for over a thousand years — that illuminate a vital life map leading us to inner freedom, safety, respect, and a profound connection with God.

You’ll discover a way to live with a trust that is beyond hope in the face of change, loss, fear, overwhelm, and discontent — that's available and applicable to everyone, regardless of gender, ethnicity, orientation, spiritual tradition, or no tradition.

You’ll also experience a powerful guided meditation — a journey of emerging from darkness into the dawn of a new day to access the beauty and power of the 4-path teachings and the ease and joy they can bring you.

Alexander John is an intrepid scholar whose inspiring perspective on the mystical feminine in Christianity’s gospels may best be described as very human and loving.

His lifelong practice of prayer, woven with his extensive knowledge of anthropology, psychology, spirituality, and ritual work, makes him a unique thought leader well worth getting to know.

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In this eye-opening spiritual class, you’ll:

  1. Discover the beauty and power of the 4-Path Journey underlying all great spiritual traditions — and how it awakens us to a deeper reality that liberates fear and cultivates trust
  2. Experience a profound guided meditation welcoming you into the rhythm of a 24-hour cycle as you imagine a dark time in your life, yet arrive at the dawn of a new day, feeling more grounded and at ease
  3. Excavate gifts for your transformation from Christianity’s mystical feminine teachings hidden beneath the shadow of patriarchy
  4. Learn how the Story of John may have been written by a woman
  5. Find out if you’ve been lured by The Dangerous Beautiful, Alexander John’s phrase for spiritual bypass or the inability to properly embody and express the high-voltage energy of awakening

During the hour, you’ll also learn about a brand-new 7-week online course with Alexander John.

In that spiritual course, you’ll be immersed in the powerful Christian teachings of the four gospels to experience the 4-Path Journey as a means to traverse inner and collective challenges with grace, courage, and assuredness… traveling beyond hope to a richer, happier, more purposeful life.

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About Your Spiritual Teacher – Alexander John Shaia, PhD

Born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, Alexander John Shaia was part of a large extended family that had emigrated from Lebanon a generation previously. He grew up immersed in the ancient traditions of Middle Eastern Christianity (Maronite Catholicism) and was expected to become a priest, a family tradition since the year 1300. He was led otherwise.

Alexander John attended the University of Notre Dame and received a degree in Cultural Anthropology. Next came a brief time in seminary followed by a master’s in Counseling Education, a master’s in Religious Education, a graduate certificate in Pastoral Psychotherapy, and a PhD in Clinical Psychology.

His extensive psychological training across many modalities finally led him to Switzerland where he studied with Dora Maria Kalff, a Jungian analyst and founder of Sandplay Psychotherapy. Alexander John became the first U.S. man, and openly gay man, admitted to the International Society for Sandplay Therapy — and continues to serve as a senior Certified Teaching Member of the organization.

Returning to the United States, he undertook years of private practice, teaching parish and retreat ministry, and further study. Integrating his lifelong practice of prayer with many cross-disciplines — anthropology, psychology, spirituality, and ritual work — has shaped him into a unique thought leader, prolific author, and widely sought-after consultant, trainer, and inspiring keynote speaker.

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I Can’t Do Anything About the Pandemic (Or Can I?) – A Spiritual Story By Srikumar Rao https://spiritualgrowthevents.com/pandemic-response-a-spiritual-story-by-srikumar-rao/ Tue, 21 Dec 2021 03:27:42 +0000 https://spiritualgrowthevents.com/?p=15472 It has doubtless not escaped you that we live in strange times. For me personally, the pandemic has had little impact. My talks were delivered by Zoom and Microsoft Teams and my course went virtual. But what about those who cannot ‘go virtual’? What if your profession comes to a screeching halt? Do you simply throw in the towel and cry yourself to sleep? Let me tell you the tale of one person who did not bow down. He has been an inspiration to me for decades and I will tell you more about why in a future column. Benjamin Zander is the musical director of the Boston Philharmonic. The coronavirus shut down all orchestras cold. Musicians could not assemble on stages. Music lovers could not gather to hear them play. It was the end of the road for Zander. At least, it was for a while ’til his irrepressible spirit broke out. Locked at home with time on his hands, he called some of his musician friends over and suggested having a performance on his front lawn. They came and brought their own instruments with them. And had a fine time. They did again. And again. Soon they drew crowds of spectators. The state government frowned on this. It ruled that it was OK for Zander to conduct but not OK to have an audience. So he started live streaming it on his Facebook account. The online audience grew and soon the concerts were listened to avidly in 20 countries. And Zander’s neighbors bonded together in a community. While I was speaking with him Adele Bacow, wife of Harvard President Lawrence Bacow, swung by to drop off some muffins. She waved me a cheery hello. The son of the French ambassador to the United Nations was interested in music...

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It has doubtless not escaped you that we live in strange times.

For me personally, the pandemic has had little impact. My talks were delivered by Zoom and Microsoft Teams and my course went virtual.

But what about those who cannot ‘go virtual’?

What if your profession comes to a screeching halt? Do you simply throw in the towel and cry yourself to sleep?

Let me tell you the tale of one person who did not bow down. He has been an inspiration to me for decades and I will tell you more about why in a future column.

Benjamin Zander is the musical director of the Boston Philharmonic. The coronavirus shut down all orchestras cold. Musicians could not assemble on stages. Music lovers could not gather to hear them play.

It was the end of the road for Zander.

At least, it was for a while ’til his irrepressible spirit broke out.

Locked at home with time on his hands, he called some of his musician friends over and suggested having a performance on his front lawn.

They came and brought their own instruments with them. And had a fine time.

They did again. And again.

Soon they drew crowds of spectators. The state government frowned on this. It ruled that it was OK for Zander to conduct but not OK to have an audience.

So he started live streaming it on his Facebook account.

The online audience grew and soon the concerts were listened to avidly in 20 countries.

And Zander’s neighbors bonded together in a community. While I was speaking with him Adele Bacow, wife of Harvard President Lawrence Bacow, swung by to drop off some muffins. She waved me a cheery hello.

The son of the French ambassador to the United Nations was interested in music so Zander wrote him an explanation of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony. In the last movement a child wakes up in heaven to an abundance of food. Zander described how music is the most abundant food for the soul.

Normally he would not have had the time to do this. But now, thanks to the pandemic, he did.

The French couple told him later that their younger son, about six years old, listened to the story with rapt attention. And then he attended an entire concert without fidgeting. Zander is revising his notions of the age at which persons can appreciate music.

Where will the ripple effects of this impromptu adventure end?

Who knows?

But here is a question for you: What have you done to use the changes wrought by the pandemic to spread sweetness and light?

Peace!

This article and spiritual story is from Professor Srikumar S. Rao. You can learn directly from him during his free masterclass “A System To Totally Eradicate Stress & Anxiety.”

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Do Your Actions Match Your Beliefs? – A Spiritual Story By Srikumar Rao https://spiritualgrowthevents.com/do-your-actions-match-your-beliefs-a-spiritual-story-by-srikumar-rao-2/ Tue, 14 Dec 2021 03:52:42 +0000 https://spiritualgrowthevents.com/?p=15456 We are all a mess of contradictions. Frequently we do not even recognize that we are such a mess. In our heads we are rational, sensible, and consistent. So, we get annoyed when someone points out the inconsistencies that are a big part of our life. You would probably agree that you are a citizen concerned about the environment and willing to do what you can to prevent global warming. But, do you also like long, hot showers? And going on vacation to far flung places? I rest my case. In my course, Creativity and Personal Mastery, I have an exercise where I ask participants to examine their life and identify areas where what they do is inconsistent with what they believe. Or what they say they believe. Watch this four minute video for many more examples: Don’t beat yourself up as you see how far you are from what you believe you are. Become aware of these incongruencies in your life. Gently, gently, modify your behavior so that you are more aligned with your values. You will fail many times. You will simply forget. Each time you remember that you ‘forgot’, just come back to your new behavior. Be patient and persistent. And, in six months or so, you will discover that your actions are much more aligned with your beliefs. And your life will be less stressful and more joyous. Peace! This article and spiritual story is from Professor Srikumar S. Rao. You can learn directly from him during his free masterclass “A System To Totally Eradicate Stress & Anxiety.” Click here to register for Professor Rao’s free masterclass

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We are all a mess of contradictions.

Frequently we do not even recognize that we are such a mess.

In our heads we are rational, sensible, and consistent.

So, we get annoyed when someone points out the inconsistencies that are a big part of our life.

You would probably agree that you are a citizen concerned about the environment and willing to do what you can to prevent global warming.

But, do you also like long, hot showers? And going on vacation to far flung places?

I rest my case.

In my course, Creativity and Personal Mastery, I have an exercise where I ask participants to examine their life and identify areas where what they do is inconsistent with what they believe.

Or what they say they believe.

Watch this four minute video for many more examples:

Don’t beat yourself up as you see how far you are from what you believe you are.

Become aware of these incongruencies in your life. Gently, gently, modify your behavior so that you are more aligned with your values. You will fail many times. You will simply forget. Each time you remember that you ‘forgot’, just come back to your new behavior.

Be patient and persistent. And, in six months or so, you will discover that your actions are much more aligned with your beliefs.

And your life will be less stressful and more joyous.

Peace!

This article and spiritual story is from Professor Srikumar S. Rao. You can learn directly from him during his free masterclass “A System To Totally Eradicate Stress & Anxiety.”

Click here to register for Professor Rao’s free masterclass

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How to Be More Humble – A Spiritual Story By Srikumar Rao https://spiritualgrowthevents.com/how-to-be-more-humble-a-spiritual-story-by-srikumar-rao/ Tue, 07 Dec 2021 01:28:38 +0000 https://spiritualgrowthevents.com/?p=15440 I am constantly amazed by the games we get caught up playing. I recently had someone ask me – seriously! – how he could be more humble. He had read a book on leadership that said humility was a trait of great leaders and he wanted in on this trend. I asked him how humble he wanted to be and if he wanted to be more humble than all of his peers and bosses. I was being jocular, but he took me seriously and nodded his head. He really wanted to be more humble than all the rest. I remember reading somewhere – Catch 22 perhaps? – that, even in a group of average people, the protagonist stood out as being more average than all the rest. I had a good, long laugh. All inward, of course. I did not want to hurt his feelings. And then I answered his question. Humility is not a trait you can cultivate. You can certainly cultivate the appearance of humility, but you cannot cultivate humility. The very act of trying to acquire it, banishes it. And, our society, with its emphasis on individual accomplishment, is not fertile ground for humility. Look at politicians feverishly trying to take credit for everything from the economy to the performance of national sports teams to understand this. So, if you want to be humble, ruminate on impermanence. Everything rusts, everything corrodes. Your youth and physical vitality will leave you. Your teeth will drop out and even your dentures will become loose. You will need a walker and stairs will become obstacles. Whatever you have accomplished will be forgotten. Whatever you have painfully acquired will be stripped from you. As Shakespeare said: Imperious Caesar dead and turn’d to clay may stop a hole to keep the wind away. And when you have truly...

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I am constantly amazed by the games we get caught up playing.

I recently had someone ask me – seriously! – how he could be more humble. He had read a book on leadership that said humility was a trait of great leaders and he wanted in on this trend.

I asked him how humble he wanted to be and if he wanted to be more humble than all of his peers and bosses.

I was being jocular, but he took me seriously and nodded his head. He really wanted to be more humble than all the rest.

I remember reading somewhere – Catch 22 perhaps? – that, even in a group of average people, the protagonist stood out as being more average than all the rest.

I had a good, long laugh. All inward, of course. I did not want to hurt his feelings.

And then I answered his question.

Humility is not a trait you can cultivate.

You can certainly cultivate the appearance of humility, but you cannot cultivate humility. The very act of trying to acquire it, banishes it.

And, our society, with its emphasis on individual accomplishment, is not fertile ground for humility. Look at politicians feverishly trying to take credit for everything from the economy to the performance of national sports teams to understand this.

So, if you want to be humble, ruminate on impermanence.

Everything rusts, everything corrodes. Your youth and physical vitality will leave you. Your teeth will drop out and even your dentures will become loose. You will need a walker and stairs will become obstacles. Whatever you have accomplished will be forgotten. Whatever you have painfully acquired will be stripped from you.

As Shakespeare said: Imperious Caesar dead and turn’d to clay may stop a hole to keep the wind away.

And when you have truly become one with the notion that all things will pass and nothing lasts forever, you discover that humility has come in by the backdoor.

Peace!

This article and spiritual story is from Professor Srikumar S. Rao. You can learn directly from him during his free masterclass “A System To Totally Eradicate Stress & Anxiety.”

Click here to register for Professor Rao’s free masterclass

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Discover The Power of Trauma Releasing Exercises – With Steve Haines https://spiritualgrowthevents.com/events/trauma-releasing-exercises-steve-haines/ Tue, 03 Aug 2021 18:57:03 +0000 https://spiritualgrowthevents.com/?post_type=mec-events&p=14002 Discover The Power of Trauma Releasing Exercises - With Steve Haines Explore a unique physiological approach to healing that activates your body’s natural reflexes to alleviate deeply held stress, tension, and trauma… While bolstering your built-in capacity for regulating your own wellbeing. Click here to register for free. What You'll Learn During “Discover the Healing Power of Trauma Releasing Exercises” Imagine moving through painful trauma, stress, and tension, and discovering a heightened state of wellbeing, ease, and joy… You were designed to naturally live free of painful emotions and trauma… and your body’s natural reflexes may hold the key, says Steve Haines, a teacher of Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE®), a gentle therapeutic technique that has helped thousands of people around the world. TRE assists the body in releasing deep muscular patterns of stress, tension and trauma, which calms down the nervous system. After doing TRE, many people have reported feelings of peace and wellbeing. Numerous healing modalities focus primarily on the mental or emotional causes of trauma, requiring that you relive or understand the associated stress and pain as a means to overcome it… In contrast, TRE engages your primitive reflexes to reveal where trauma is residing in your body. You then “shake it out,” releasing long-held tension patterns and experiencing feelings of connection and peace. During this free experiential workshop with Steve, you’ll explore how harnessing the power of your reflexes can release trauma and neutralize your own fear-based patterns while calming your nervous system and easing your body back into a state of balance. You’ll experience the effectiveness of TRE firsthand, and participate in a moving meditation that will wake up your body and connect you to yourself in a new way, enabling you to embrace feelings without being dominated by them. According to Steve, our fear of feeling our feelings leads to dissociation with ourselves, which...

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Explore a unique physiological approach to healing that activates your body’s natural reflexes to alleviate deeply held stress, tension, and trauma…

While bolstering your built-in capacity for regulating your own wellbeing.

What You'll Learn During “Discover the Healing Power of Trauma Releasing Exercises”

Imagine moving through painful trauma, stress, and tension, and discovering a heightened state of wellbeing, ease, and joy…

You were designed to naturally live free of painful emotions and trauma… and your body’s natural reflexes may hold the key, says Steve Haines, a teacher of Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE®), a gentle therapeutic technique that has helped thousands of people around the world.

TRE assists the body in releasing deep muscular patterns of stress, tension and trauma, which calms down the nervous system. After doing TRE, many people have reported feelings of peace and wellbeing.

Numerous healing modalities focus primarily on the mental or emotional causes of trauma, requiring that you relive or understand the associated stress and pain as a means to overcome it…

In contrast, TRE engages your primitive reflexes to reveal where trauma is residing in your body. You then “shake it out,” releasing long-held tension patterns and experiencing feelings of connection and peace.

During this free experiential workshop with Steve, you’ll explore how harnessing the power of your reflexes can release trauma and neutralize your own fear-based patterns while calming your nervous system and easing your body back into a state of balance.

You’ll experience the effectiveness of TRE firsthand, and participate in a moving meditation that will wake up your body and connect you to yourself in a new way, enabling you to embrace feelings without being dominated by them.

According to Steve, our fear of feeling our feelings leads to dissociation with ourselves, which can result in the development of chronic pains and addictions. He affirms that you need to feel to heal.

“Shaking” opens you up to the complex world of feelings. Through TRE, you develop the ability to regulate intense feelings, putting you back in control…

… and helping you live with a sense of ease, joy, love, and connection.

Class Topics for “Discover the Healing Power of Trauma Releasing Exercises”

In this empowering free online event, you’ll explore:

  • A “shaking meditation” that can help you experience your body in a new, empowered way
  • Why TRE is a simple and effective somatic practice that harnesses the power of your primitive reflexes to release stress, tension, and trauma in all levels of your being
  • How overactive fight-or-flight responses hijack mental, emotional, and physical functions — and how you can begin to disrupt this unhealthy pattern
  • Why experiencing feelings as sensations rather than emotions neutralizes fear-based patterns while amplifying your built-in ability to regulate your own wellbeing and avoid feeling overwhelmed
  • How you can learn to overcome trauma without having to talk it out or understand why it happened

What Trauma Releasing Exercises Is And How It Can Help

TRE is based on the growing scientific understanding that all trauma is a byproduct of fear that is triggered by self-perceived threats or danger.

Using a series of exercises that target specific muscles throughout your body, TRE brings deeply held trauma to the surface where it can be released through your natural reflexes…

… while also assisting in rebooting the brain patterns that trigger fear and pain responses, providing a sense of mental and emotional safety as you move through the world.

Steve will gently teach you how to fully experience the sensations in your body and not be consumed by your thoughts about those feelings.

Once you learn TRE, he affirms, it’s as comforting as rocking gently in a rocking chair or swinging peacefully in a hammock on a lazy afternoon.

He’ll also share the modern science and ancient roots of TRE — from its role in the animal kingdom and natural world to the dance practices of the mystics.

With a background in yoga, Shiatsu, and biodynamic craniosacral therapy, Steve’s integrative approach to TRE has helped thousands around the world shake out of overactive fight-or-flight patterns and into their natural, joyous state.

About Your Facilitator – Steve Haines

Trauma Releasing Exercises - Steve HainesSteve Haines, a bodyworker for over 20 years, is the author of the award-winning Anxiety Is Really Strange, part of a series of graphic books that include Pain Is Really Strange, Trauma Is Really Strange, andTouch Is Really Strange.

Understanding the science of pain and trauma has transformed his approach to healing.

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The Naturist Nuns – Spiritual Story by Keith Beasley https://spiritualgrowthevents.com/naturist-nuns-spiritual-story-keith-beasley/ Sun, 25 Jul 2021 15:50:28 +0000 https://spiritualgrowthevents.com/?p=13920 It was a cold February morning when they first met and the solar powered central heating had not yet been commissioned. The refectory looked like that at any other abbey, except that the sisters each wore habits of different denominations; from their original orders. The long wooden tables and benches held the remains of their first meal together. It had been simple but healthy: only empty bowls and platters were left. The reporter from Health & Efficiency looked up to the Mother Superior as she began her speech of introduction. This assignment certainly made a change from the usual reporting of the latest naturist club or clothes optional holiday! “Welcome to Laylum Abbey. It's a pleasure to see so many of you here. Perhaps your old orders were glad to see the backs of you…” she paused to let the laughter die down. Sister Susan bit her bottom lip and chuckled. The H&E photographer managed to capture the rising and falling of her shoulders as she remembered the dressing downs she been given by her previous Mother Superior: “Sister Susan, how many times must I remind you. Sex is a sin. We have taken vows of chastity and purity.” “Yes, reverent Mother” she'd sighed. The simplicity of the live she'd taken to, the regular praying, the hard physical work in the garden, even the lack of male company, but every so often she needed touch. She needed to express that part of her that was most definitely female. It didn't seem natural to deny these feelings. Susan shook her head to clear the memories and to concentrate once again on the head of the new order: “We here are real women” She paused again, this time for cheers. “We acknowledge that God has given us breasts. We acknowledge that our...

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It was a cold February morning when they first met and the solar powered central heating had not yet been commissioned. The refectory looked like that at any other abbey, except that the sisters each wore habits of different denominations; from their original orders. The long wooden tables and benches held the remains of their first meal together. It had been simple but healthy: only empty bowls and platters were left.

The reporter from Health & Efficiency looked up to the Mother Superior as she began her speech of introduction. This assignment certainly made a change from the usual reporting of the latest naturist club or clothes optional holiday!

“Welcome to Laylum Abbey. It's a pleasure to see so many of you here. Perhaps your old orders were glad to see the backs of you…” she paused to let the laughter die down.

Sister Susan bit her bottom lip and chuckled. The H&E photographer managed to capture the rising and falling of her shoulders as she remembered the dressing downs she been given by her previous Mother Superior:

“Sister Susan, how many times must I remind you. Sex is a sin. We have taken vows of chastity and purity.”

“Yes, reverent Mother” she'd sighed. The simplicity of the live she'd taken to, the regular praying, the hard physical work in the garden, even the lack of male company, but every so often she needed touch. She needed to express that part of her that was most definitely female. It didn't seem natural to deny these feelings.

Susan shook her head to clear the memories and to concentrate once again on the head of the new order:

“We here are real women” She paused again, this time for cheers. “We acknowledge that God has given us breasts. We acknowledge that our sensuality is part of our being. To deny it is as much of a sin as to deny the beauty of the flowers and trees.” She looked around to see all the smiling faces and vibrant individuals. It was not her intention to build an order of closeted clones. These ladies must be allowed to live fully, to know their true being. Her eyes moved to the bemused reporter and brought her back down to earth.

“We have one major hurdle to over-come” she went on, her face becoming serious: “We are going to be misunderstood. We are going to be accused of holding full-time orgies, we are going to be threatened, propositioned and ridiculed. We must give the outside observers no cause for such accusations. We must show, by words and actions that we are not nymphomaniacs . . . we are naturists.” She looked amongst her flock to get a feeling for how this had gone down. Most of the women sat at the benches were thoughtful. Sister Fiona, she noticed, sniggered; she made a mental note to keep an eye on her.

As the weather warmed up, habits were shed and the sisters wore as much, or as little, as they needed to feel comfortable. Those on duty in the wash-room were well pleased. Maybe a few more towels to see to, but their work load was well down. As the days got brighter and the sun hotter, many sisters went back to wearing their head gear – they made very good sun-shades!

Wendy, the H&E lady, came back regularly to see how they were getting on and to provide a regular feature for her magazine. At first she'd not taken them seriously, agreeing with the sceptics that it wouldn't last, that it would only be a matter of time before some scandal would force this ‘experiment' to close. When she first saw the nuns wearing their wimples, but nothing else, she just stood and gaped. All her years reporting on naturist from Norway to Norfolk had not prepared her for this. There was such a feeling of natural energy that emanated from them. It was not the innocence that she saw in child naturists on the beeches, it was more than that. Besides, these ladies were no innocents. Many knew more positions from the Kama Sutra than she did . . and that was saying something. They were naked and yet they were respectable; just not into ‘that sort of thing'.

She had thought that most of the naturist she met in clubs were natural and above the sleaze, but here it was at another level. She was pondering the difference as the Mother Superior joined here. She looked deep into Wendy's eyes: “Does it appeal to you?”

Wendy stared into the warm, welcoming, face and felt drawn by the sheer love that she saw there. She nodded. Only after five minutes of this did Wendy notice that this religious leader was naked . . except for a pair of sandals which she'd put on for gardening in. Wendy watched spellbound as the reverend mother picked up a basket and seemed to float onto the vegetable patch. Peacefully and with respect, she picked the runner beans that would form part of their evening meal.

Close to the abbey building a shower (solar heated of course) had been installed. As Wendy watched, Sisters Susan and Fiona returned from their task of mucking out the various animals, their bodies splattered with muck of one
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sort or another. The shower was turned on and they let the warm water flow over them. Susan passed a bar of home made soap to her co-worker “Do my back will you?” Fiona took the soap and worked up a good lather on her hands and applied it to the back of the other girl: first briskly, to remove the sweat and grime, then more gently. As the movements of her hands became caresses Susan turned round and gave a deep satisfied sigh as her sensitive skin received a loving massage. Smiling serenely she took the soap back and returned the compliment.

Again Wendy stood open mouthed. Here, in the garden of a nunnery! The reverent mother glided over and slowly shook her head, smiling “Can you think of a better way of loving each other?”

It was Wendy's turn to shake her head. She watched as Susan and Fiona disappeared into the sleeping quarter together, almost dancing in their joy.

“We wont see much more of them tonight” the Mother remarked, smiling at Wendy again.

Wendy looked around for other signs of such sexual exuberance but saw only nuns working away in the gardens, some singing quietly to themselves, others taking a few minutes rest under the apple trees.

“It's knowing how to keep it in perspective, that's the key” her guide explained. “I was worried about Fiona, but Susan's taken care of her. Helped her to put her love into everything she does. She used to be a prostitute you know. She gave her love the only way she knew. Then she had a bad experience with a client and joined a convent in Shropshire to try to forget it all – never did quite fit in there. But look at her now!”

Looking around Wendy saw other nuns busy and happy in their respective activities. They didn't consider them chores. Besides the gardening, cooking and laundry, a number worked in, and for, the visitors centre, that they ran: partly to help with the running costs, but also to help spread their particular message about God and nature.

Each day they opened a different part of the abbey up to the visitors, careful not to over expose any particular sister. There was no rule about dress on open days, it was up to each nun to decide for themselves. The public knew what to expect. Few of the sisters took much notice of the open mouthed visitors. The avowed ladies carried on with the weaving and painting, smiling, laughing and talking to those who wanted to

At first there had been problems. Youths coming to ogle. But the sisters merely looked the young boys in the eyes. Few continued their cat-calls after that. To one or two of the persistent voyeurs an invitation was offered “Strip off and join us”.

“Better to have converts” the Mother Superior had argued … but most of the lads had run away never to be seen again.

Wendy had done them proud with tasteful photos and a very positive series in the naturist press. She'd done quite well out of it, selling her story to the national weekend magazines. It wasn't long before the Sport and Sun were poking around trying to find an angle for their ‘readers.' The sisters took it all in their stride, smiling sweetly at the cameras. They knew that by sticking to natural poses, that they would come across as open people, not as sex objects. They were above board … the gutter press soon lost interest.

As with many religious orders they relied on the skills of their members as painters, and potters. They sold photos and poems, and any spare produce. And they also ran workshops and offered counselling. Gradually they expanded their holistic services to include massage and herbal remedies, relaxation techniques and so on. Their reputation for bringing their visitors back from near breakdown to full health was growing. Professionals from all walks of life came and experienced, first hand, true naturism. Not only the physical freedom of feeling the sun and wind on a naked body, but the mental freedom from expectations. Back into conventional medicine, engineering, even politics, went rejuvenated men and women. Individuals changed for good by their brief stay at Laylum Abbey. In the past they, like their colleagues, would have got angry and frustrated over trivia, now they just remembered the sparkle in the eyes of the naturist sisters. Whatever the provocation, the response was the same … a warm smile.

Over lunch Wendy finally blurted out the questions that had been building up inside: “How? Why is it working so well?”

The Mother Superior laid her hand gently on Wendy's arm and smiled at her. “It's taken a long time. A lot of hard work. By all of us”. Wendy was still looking puzzled, so she went on “These eyes” she gave Wendy a sample of their brightness and sincerity “are windows from the souls. We have all been around on this world, and others. We have seen suffering, we have suffered. We have experienced desire … and the pain of loss. We have learnt that as everything is important, so nothing is that important. We live to love others, to share our knowledge. To help others to see the beauty in all things.”

Wendy felt the weight of the world lift from her shoulders and she cried. Tear of relief, of freedom, flowed freely. Her new friend gave her a long reassuring hug. She searched around for something on which to dry Wendy's cheeks:

“That's the one problem with going naturist” she said “There's nowhere to put a hankie!”

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This spiritual short story written by Keith Beasley shows how beautiful life becomes when we are are true to our selves, and that as we become one with that inner-most self, those who observe us become more respectful while expanding their own boundaries, and sometimes even thier expanding their consciousness. If you enjoyed this spiritual short story, then you might also like the book The Fifth Sacred Thing.

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ACIM Quotes And Reflection: Rev Up My Practice (Day 2) https://spiritualgrowthevents.com/acim-quotes-and-reflection-rev-up-my-practice-day-2/ Wed, 02 May 2018 17:31:52 +0000 http://www.the-course-in-miracles.com/acim-forum/?p=641 This is the video for Day 2 of ACIM student M. Lyn Johnson's "Ten Days to Rev Up My Practice" review. These quotes are based significantly on lessons 6 through 10. Also touches on "My Thoughts Do Not Mean Anything."

Topics include: Peace, Illusion, Upset, Judgment, Forgiveness, The Past, Love, Present Moment, Time, Vision, Choice, Creation, Music is "Wind" by Brian Crane.

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This is the video for Day 2 of ACIM student M. Lyn Johnson's “Ten Days to Rev Up My Practice” review. These quotes are based significantly on lessons 6 through 10. Also touches on “My Thoughts Do Not Mean Anything.”

Topics include: Peace, Illusion, Upset, Judgment, Forgiveness, The Past, Love, Present Moment, Time, Vision, Choice, Creation, Music is “Wind” by Brian Crane.

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