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Temenos Center ~ Temple of the Sacred Feminine
April 2, 2009
Maryland Events for May & June
Temple 2009-2010 |
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 Portals of Sacred Feminine Initiation
Exploring and Empowering Our Sacred Amazon
with
Sheila Foster
Sunday May 17, 2009 ~ 12-5pm ~ Sophia Center ~ $125
Please register by April 20
The bright Amazon lives and acts from her heart and knows how show up for herself, for others, and for what she has committed herself. She can help us to set and maintain boundaries with people, food, money, time, energy, etc. She challenges us to be scrupulous in our inner work, faithful and devoted to something beyond our own ego, and to the underlying, impersonal Truth. Amazon energy calls and strengthens us to meet our fears, our traumas and wounds, and to face our shadow. The bright Amazon supports us in being clear, assertive, decisive, honest, responsible, and courageous. She can help us to make a plan, carry it out, and meet hostility or aggression in another with compassion. She empowers us to surrender to right action or, sometimes, to non-action.
We can call on our Amazon to provide strength and protection to the child within. She is essential to creating the safety needed for our inner children to come forth. Amazon boundaries are also essential to creating healthy friendships and intimate relationships. Often our greatest Amazon challenges are to be faithful to the Truth as we know it, especially when our ego doesn't like it or want it, and to not abandon ourselves, to stay present to ourselves. The first step is telling ourselves the Truth.
For Full Flyer:
Click here to read more about the Amazon and listen to a short meditation
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Collaborating with the Mystery: Making Art from Spaciousness
A Non-Residential Retreat for Men & Women
June 18-20 ~ Sophia Center, Lineboro, Maryland
11-5pm each day
Are you longing for stillness? Are you longing to express yourself through art, or to prime the pump of your creative expression? Are you feeling a deep desire to give expression to emotion or explore an experience, a theme, a dream, a poem with your hands and art media? Are you willing to step into the UNKNOWN and see what happens??
I find that making art takes me deep into stillness and, paradoxically, doer-less doing: I am, my hands are moving, things are happening as if no one is doing them. It's just happening. "I" disappear in the making. When I step into my art studio, I look around, and see what calls to me. I might have a loose idea, a theme or intention to investigate, or not, but never a fully developed plan. In Making Art from Spaciousness we experience the serendipity of odd materials coming together, things that the thinking mind could never have imagined: coffee-dyed cheesecloth and antique lace, golden thread, an old photo, a pressed pansy, a beloved poem, a precious, old love letter. Hands move to start tearing paper or strips of canvas, paint begins to flow in the most luscious sunset colors, yet it feels like it is simply 'happening' without a 'me' involved. Spaciousness happens. Curiosity arises. "Wowees!!" occur even as a deepening inner quiet expands.
Click here for flyer, to see photos of my art, and early bird tuition |
~ Summer Solstice Retreat Day for Men & Women
~ Sophia Center, Maryland ~
June 21 ~ 12-5 pm
Information will be coming soon!
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Sacred Feminine Initiation
September 2009 - May 2010
Information about the next temple year, will be available soon!!
Sacred Feminine Initiation is a path of direct experience in our human, feminine, embodied lives. It is a radical, life-changing, paradigm-shifting experience for every woman who participates. It is both a deeply personal, intense journey of direct experience, and a training in skills and ways of healing and nondual awareness-all of which enhances women's lives, relationships, work, and presence in the world. Every aspect of life in a human woman body is touched and a woman's 'gift' to life is revealed.
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