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Community for Spiritual Living: Communicating with Heart

Tom Goddard — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:19:00 -0400

Start: 08/02/2008 - 4:00pm

End: 08/02/2008 - 8:00pm

Timezone: US/Eastern

Many believe that the heart is at least as important an organ as our brain. This month's gathering will explore how signals from the heart can positively affect how we deal with stress, anxiety, insomnia, and even improve cognitive and athletic performance.

Leda Cummings, longtime CSLer, is a trained PhD research scientist who is licensed to teach a technique called "emWave" technology. She will demonstrate this technique and guide us in experiencing heart-based communication. One real benefit is seeing how it enhances intuitive intelligence, which in turn positively affects relationships.

Here is a chance to learn some new techniques to help us access the wisdom of the heart. We are a blessed community to have so many good teachers in our midst! This should be a different approach that most of us have never experienced. Come join in the curiosity and fun.

Community for Spiritual Living: Drumming Circle

Tom Goddard — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:00:52 -0400

Start: 06/07/2008 - 4:00pm

End: 06/07/2008 - 8:00pm

Timezone: US/Eastern

It's time again to light your rhythmic fire this coming Saturday. Dan Petersen will again lead us in a drumfest. Note that no experience is necessary, and everyone can participate in the drumming (or movement, if you like--in fact, last time we had some delicious belly dancers!). You can also just meditate and let the communal beat carry you into a transcendent space.

Bring one or more drums or percussive instruments if you have any. If you don't, there always seem to be extras to pass around. So just come!

Stay for POTLUCK FROM 6 TO 8PM-be sure to BRING A DISH FOR 8 PEOPLE (main dish, salad, side dish, bread & beverage, or dessert).

Invite along a friend if you like. Can't make it at 4pm? - then just stop in at 6pm for the potluck! No Need to RSVP.

Community for Spiritual Living: Improv for the Spirit

Tom Goddard — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:04:20 -0400

Start: 09/06/2008 - 4:00pm

End: 09/06/2008 - 8:00pm

Timezone: US/Eastern

Improvisational theater principles and practices offer a great way to deepen our understanding of ourselves while having fun. We can laugh with others as we learn more about ourselves. We've been trained, traumatized and socialized out of the natural spontaneity of our spirit. Improv takes us out of our habitual interactions, time frames, structures, and ways of being and delivers us back into the fully alive NOW. Learning to feel comfortable in the unplanned flow - letting go of controls and judgements and surrendering to the moment - opens us up to our inner creative wellspring and nurtures our spirit.

Community for Spiritual Living: Alexander Technique

Tom Goddard — Fri, 02 May 2008 08:39:52 -0400

Start: 05/03/2008 - 4:00pm

End: 05/03/2008 - 8:00pm

Timezone: US/Eastern

We are exquisitely designed for movement with a capacity for ease, flexibility, power and expressiveness, whether we are dancing, singing or working at a computer. All too often, however, we unwittingly interfere with this design resulting in tension, effort, and fatigue. Diana Bradley, a skilled practitioner, will lead us in explorations in the discoveries of the F.M. Alexander Technique to restore our natural coordination and poise.

Wear comfortable clothes, bring a beginner's mind, and be willing to question, and perhaps release old myths about moving with "good posture." We will explore ease in sitting, walking, standing, bending, yoga, meditation, and anything else you love doing in your lives. Through verbal coaching and gentle hands-on guidance you will gain heightened kinesthetic awareness and a sense of belonging in your body.

Community for Spiritual Living: Balancing Light and Shadow

Tom Goddard — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:09:07 -0400

Start: 04/05/2008 - 4:00pm

End: 04/05/2008 - 8:00pm

Timezone: US/Eastern

Spring is a time of balance between the light of day and darkness of night, as the death of winter gives way to the new growth of summer. How can we explore the balance between the light and shadow in ourselves? What if instead of hiding from our own shadows we explore them and play with them? Who would we be if we balance both our light and our shadow sides? Many of us find ourselves to be more powerful when we are aware of all sides of ourselves! And some of our juiciest growth experiences have come out of the painful fire of shadow work. Afraid of your own shadow? Well, what better reason to come to CSL to explore it in a safe environment with others! Michael Smith will be leading us through a series of engaging processes from 4 - 6 p.m., followed by our usual, fun pot-luck dinner.

Community for Spiritual Living: Sacred Sexuality: Masculine & Feminine

Tom Goddard — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:14:39 -0500

Start: 03/01/2008 - 4:00pm

Timezone: US/Eastern

Somewhere in the struggle to find "equality" between men and women over the last 40 years, we began to dilute our essential masculine and feminine qualities. "Good" male/female relationships were modeled as 50/50 compromises. Could it be, however, that we lost something along the way?

Barra Kahn and Roger Telschow will lead an exploration this Saturday for women and men in the community. With the support of our peers, the intention is to honor and celebrate the sacred masculine and feminine in ourselves and in the opposite sex. You are invited into a dance of yin and yang that can enliven our relationships and rekindle a passion for life.

Community for Spiritual Living: Men & Women Coming Together

Tom Goddard — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:51:19 -0400

Start: 11/03/2007 - 4:00pm

End: 11/03/2007 - 8:00pm

Timezone: US/Eastern

"I'll never understand men/women!" is a popular refrain in our culture. The other sex is indeed a mystery to most of us, irrespective of our sexual orientation, or partnership status. I'll lead this month's gathering, not with the intention to figure it all out, but to offer a rare opportunity to safely and confidentially explore the questions and curiosities we all have about the opposite sex. Only when we see and honor the differences of who we are as men and women can we begin to see the divine in each other. This sacred awareness provides the foundation from which real intimacy, vulnerability, and relationship can emerge. Guided by Shalom Mountain's Principles of Loving, we'll talk with others in an individual and group setting. Women will be able to present their curiosities to men and vice versa. All responses in this setting are of course voluntary. Join us in a session sure to be wonderfully rich and full of honest and heartfelt sharing!

Community for Spiritual Living Winter Holiday Party

Tom Goddard — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:13:41 -0400

Start: 12/15/2007 - 5:00pm

End: 12/15/2007 - 9:00pm

Timezone: US/Eastern

Come one, come all, to the Winter Holiday Party at the Community for Spiritual Living! More details soon!

Community for Spiritual Living: The 1-2-3 of God

Tom Goddard — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:59:36 -0400

Start: 10/06/2007 - 4:00pm

Timezone: US/Eastern

What's your relationship to the Divine? Is it an intimate, personal friendship? One of distant awe? Perhaps you experience yourself as Spirit, a component of Spirit, or all this and more. Or maybe you long for a relationship with the Divine, but are struggling to establish one.

Join us as Tom Goddard leads us through a series of experiential processes in which we will examine not only our existing relationships (or lack thereof) with the Divine, but also alternative perspectives that may enrich our relationship. Informed by wisdom traditions from across the globe and from throughout the centuries, these processes may take you from what you know about God to perspectives you've never known, or haven't tapped into in years.

Community for Spiritual Living: Drumming Circle

Tom Goddard — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:24:38 -0400

Start: 08/04/2007 - 4:00pm

End: 08/04/2007 - 8:00pm

Timezone: US/Eastern

Last February, participants in the Community for Spiritual Living ("CSL") had a great time at our first ever drumming circle. The most memorable comment was "when can we do this again?" Well, the time has come.