For far too long many of us have been oblivious to our own unwitting participation in systemic racism, sometimes ignorant of our history and our privilege, and often blind to our subtle acts of exclusion.
It is time for us white folks to step up – to stop relying on people of color to teach us about racism. It is our work to do.
Come join us for inner healing work, a Zoom circle to unpack our collective grief, with small steps toward reparation in healing inequity and injustice.
Please commit to all four sessions.
For questions contact jeannerstrong@gmail.com
Limited enrollment.
Register required:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqcumqqDkoGdQ_winmCCqU33gKSuCvASIT
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Our circle is about “discovering what death can teach us about living fully.” It will include reading, sharing thoughts, questions, inspirations evoked by the reading. It is not necessary to read the book ahead of time. The circle is open, participants come when they can. The conversations tend to be deep, meaningful, moving, funny, thought provoking–even life changing.
This circle is currently full. If you’d like to be waitlisted please contact info@healingcircles.org
COVID brings new challenges to our being and new opportunities to transform, heal, reduce stress and embrace health. In the MELTT practice way we learn through many different modalities and traditions to transform ourselves and transcend our habitual patterns of human experience.
Each month we will post the theme of our weekly practices. Each week will vary allowing for ease of dropping in as it feels spacious to you. We will explore qigong, yoga, somatic body experiences, meditation, breath work, isometric strengthening, awakening the hands and feet, functional movement, chanting, sound and vibrational experiences, neuroscience brain plasticity concepts, communing with nature, etc. This offering will be coordinated by three experienced hosts who offer different learning opportunities. We will also invite guest hosts as the MELTT experiences unfold over the coming months. Come ready to explore your being!
For the months of October and November we are exploring the nature of Harvesting: what we bring in that nurtures our being, what we let go into the earth for composting, and what seeds we sow for new growth. We will open each session with the Self-Care Agreements and explore through our practices our own internal Harvesting process.
Thursdays, 3:30- 5pm.
- Self-Care Agreements
- Opening practice creating safe space and personhood.
- Embodiment Practices/Movements
- Monitoring for Self-Care
- Breath Practice
- Finding, softening and MELTTing into “the edge”
- Cultivating spaciousness and joy in the practice (giving up cultural values of giving 100%– finding the 10%)
- Closing Integration and Conservation
*Helpful (but optional) in-home props include: Yoga mat, yoga blocks, comfortable chair, blanket, pillows, large towel and hand towels, and candle.
** Please remember to wash your hands prior to practice. We will do practices which involve face touch.
*** By participating in these free, donation only offerings, I agree to waive and hold harmless Healing Circles Langley and all hosts, sponsors and providers of the offerings. I understand my participation in these offerings constitute agreement to all posted waivers. AGREEMENT OF RELEASE AND WAIVER OF LIABILITY FORM
For information and to register e-mail: info@healingcircleslangley.org or peaceqicd@gmail.com
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/
Meeting ID: 206 024 399
Password: 011618
Offered by Sarah Manchester
https://zoom.us/j/497440907
Until we can meet again in person, we are Meeting with Zoom. Send an email to Tim Clark: at icelu@icloud.com and he will send you the link to join the Zoom Meeting.
Tim Clark holds an MA in Applied Behavioral Science. He is a retired Island County Designated Mental Health Professional, CDMHP, and life-long mindful meditator.
For further information email Tim at icelu@icloud.com
Whidbey Island Insight Meditation Group
Mindfulness meditation in the insight tradition is about seeing life as it really is, free from belief and delusion. By gently noticing and investigating sensations, thoughts and emotions, it trains the mind and opens the heart.
Intended for new and experienced meditators, this circle will support you in creating and sustaining your own regular meditation practice. Everyone is welcome.
This fall, we will explore the Ten Perfections of Buddhism. Also known as the Paramies, these qualities are very helpful for anyone on a spiritual path and can be developed and applied in any situation.
Tuesday, September 22 2020 5:00 – 6:15 pm: Introduction to the Paramies
Tuesday, September 29 2020 5:00 – 6:15 pm: Generosity
Tuesday, October 6 2020 5:00 – 6:15 pm: Morality
Tuesday, October 13 2020 5:00 – 6:15 pm: Renunciation
Tuesday, October 20 2020 5:00 – 6:15 pm: Wisdom
Tuesday, October 27 2020 5:00 – 6:15 pm: Energy
Tuesday, November 3 2020 5:00 – 6:15 pm: Patience
Tuesday, November 10 2020 5:00 – 6:15 pm: Truth
Tuesday, November 17 2020 5:00 – 6:15 pm: Determination
Tuesday, November 24 2020 5:00 – 6:15 pm: Universal Friendliness
Tuesday, December 1 2020 5:00 – 6:15 pm: Equanimity
Tuesday, December 8 2020 5:00 – 6:15 pm: Wrapping Up
Please email Kate for Zoom log in information at: katherinestefaniedavies@gmail.org.
Hosted by Kate Davies, http://www.katedavies.org/, who is a certified mindfulness meditation teacher and has had a meditation practice for about twenty years.
“…Poetry has redemptive power for me, as it does for millions of people. Poems have provided life jackets to keep me from drowning, ballast to keep me from ascending to altitudes where there’s not enough oxygen to support life, and maps to keep me from getting lost in the wilderness….”
Parker J Palmer
We will stock up the shelves of our Poetry Apothecary with poems that comfort and heal. Come and join us to help weigh, measure and distill poems for their healing properties so we can store each one in our apothecary. Bring poems that have helped you, that perhaps have companioned you through the ups and downs of life, through loneliness, loss, overwhelm, wonder, the healing power of nature, despondency, fragility, forgiveness, and inspiration. We will mine the storehouse of poetic literature and we will also look at poems which you may have written yourself as a way of finding resolve.
To join this circle online, contact info@healingcircles.org
Hosted by Judith Adams, Peter Martin & Gary Vallat.
Our circle is about “discovering what death can teach us about living fully.” It will include reading, sharing thoughts, questions, inspirations evoked by the reading. It is not necessary to read the book ahead of time. The circle is open, participants come when they can. The conversations tend to be deep, meaningful, moving, funny, thought provoking–even life changing.
This circle is currently full. If you’d like to be waitlisted please contact info@healingcircles.org
COVID brings new challenges to our being and new opportunities to transform, heal, reduce stress and embrace health. In the MELTT practice way we learn through many different modalities and traditions to transform ourselves and transcend our habitual patterns of human experience.
Each month we will post the theme of our weekly practices. Each week will vary allowing for ease of dropping in as it feels spacious to you. We will explore qigong, yoga, somatic body experiences, meditation, breath work, isometric strengthening, awakening the hands and feet, functional movement, chanting, sound and vibrational experiences, neuroscience brain plasticity concepts, communing with nature, etc. This offering will be coordinated by three experienced hosts who offer different learning opportunities. We will also invite guest hosts as the MELTT experiences unfold over the coming months. Come ready to explore your being!
For the months of October and November we are exploring the nature of Harvesting: what we bring in that nurtures our being, what we let go into the earth for composting, and what seeds we sow for new growth. We will open each session with the Self-Care Agreements and explore through our practices our own internal Harvesting process.
Thursdays, 3:30- 5pm.
- Self-Care Agreements
- Opening practice creating safe space and personhood.
- Embodiment Practices/Movements
- Monitoring for Self-Care
- Breath Practice
- Finding, softening and MELTTing into “the edge”
- Cultivating spaciousness and joy in the practice (giving up cultural values of giving 100%– finding the 10%)
- Closing Integration and Conservation
*Helpful (but optional) in-home props include: Yoga mat, yoga blocks, comfortable chair, blanket, pillows, large towel and hand towels, and candle.
** Please remember to wash your hands prior to practice. We will do practices which involve face touch.
*** By participating in these free, donation only offerings, I agree to waive and hold harmless Healing Circles Langley and all hosts, sponsors and providers of the offerings. I understand my participation in these offerings constitute agreement to all posted waivers. AGREEMENT OF RELEASE AND WAIVER OF LIABILITY FORM
For information and to register e-mail: info@healingcircleslangley.org or peaceqicd@gmail.com
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/
Meeting ID: 206 024 399
Password: 011618
Offered by Sarah Manchester
https://zoom.us/j/497440907