Calendar of Event
Power of Breath
Saturdays in May
Meditation Group
first Sunday of the month
Common Ground Lecture
May 3rd
It's Not My Disease
May 5th
Women of Spirit
May 15th
Guided Gong Gathering
May 17th
Middle Eastern Dance
May 17th
S.T.O.P.
Workshop
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Host Your Event at Clarus Center
Located in Cantera Office Park, Clarus Center offers meeting space for up to 45 persons. Enjoy views through floor-to-ceiling windows of the surrounding wetlands and trees.
Visit http://worktopia.com/
for pricing and availability of our meeting Space
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DIALECTICAL BEHAVIOR THERAPY GROUP
Tuesday evenings, 6:00 - 7:30 at Clarus Center
Participants learn skills to:
* Regulate Emotions
* Increase nterpersonal Effectiveness
* Cope with and Tolerate Distress
* Enhance Mindfulness
For more information, please contact Janet Levitt, 630-393-9800 ext. 206
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 Yoga
to Reduce Stress and Deeply Relax
Join a Four Week Series at Clarus Center
Saturdays in MAY 9:00 - 10:15 AM
May 2, 9, 16 and 30 (skipping Memorial weekend)
$15 per class or $50 for all 4 - Pre-registration is necessary
Enjoy the heart and soul of yoga by simply laying on the floor with pillows and blankets and following a meditative journey. This form of yoga, called Yoga Nidra, is being recognized around the country as a powerful method for deep relaxation and healing. It may be a great time to de-stress in a safe, secure and beautiful setting in the Clarus group room.
Contact BJ Sadtler @ 630.334.7826 or bjsadtler@breatheinc.com
Your teacher - Barbara (BJ) Sadtler, MA, RYT, Teaching since 2001 and member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists
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Private yoga sessions for Integral Health
Practice Customized for
Your Mind, Body and Spirit
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DESTRESS - DETOXIFY - REJUVENATE
with POWER OF BREATH
A TWO-DAY WEEKEND RETREAT
May 2nd 10:15am to 4pm
and
May 3rd 9:30am to 12:30pm
· Are you Stressed, Unhappy?
· Are you feeling Fatigue, Low-Energy?
· Are you having Anxiety/Panic Attacks or Depression?
· Are you living with Pain?
Don't wait, join us for a two-day retreat to experience
Peace, Happiness & Vibrant Healing Energy by learning:
· Simple/Powerful Yoga Techniques
· Pranayama Breathing Techniques
· Guided Meditation Techniques
· Acupressure Techniques
· Yog-Nidra
· Laughter Yoga Therapy
· Yogic Diet
· Scientific Approach to Yoga
· Holistic Healing
During the 1st day of retreat, the following services will also be provided:
Meditative /Ayurvedic Massage - Meditative Lunch
Immerse yourself in the ideal yogic environment
RELAX... RELEASE ... RENEW...
-Envision & Explore Endless Possibilities and Joy!
-Learn the complete art of Healing Physically, Mentally,
Emotionally & Spiritually.
-World-Class Instruction-Personalized Attention
-Experience the Best Naturally-Extraordinary
DONATION : $150
FOR REGISTRATION CALL 630-717-6188
It's the simple choices you make every day that have the power to transform your world.
If for some reason you have not yet succeeded to create a life that everyone dreams of....don't give up,
give one more try. This could turn into the most powerful experience of your life.
WWW.POWEROFBREATH.ORG
EMAIL: BREATHE@POWEROFBREATH.ORG
Power Of Breath instructors have taught yogic techniques for over ten years, throughout the USA. So far, the team has taught over 30,000 people.
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From Common Ground: Suffering and Happiness in the Buddhist Perspective
with Jim Kenney
Sunday, May 3, 2009
1:30-3:30 pm
$12
Buddha began his very first sermon by describing the nature of human "dissatisfaction", its origins, its cessation, and the path to that blissful end. What is often ignored is the strong Buddhist message about happiness. We will take up both aspects of human experience as we explore the existential ground of Buddhist thought.
Jim Kenney is the Executive Director of the Interreligious Engagement Project (IEP21), working with global religious communities to address the world's critical problems through cooperative partnerships with government, business, education, media, intergovernmental organizations, and civil society. Currently, he's organizing a major international conference on Globalization for the Common Good, to be held in Chicago in 2009.
Dr. Kenney is also the Executive Director of Common Ground, an adult study center focusing on the world's great religious, philosophical and spiritual traditions and their implications for every dimension of human endeavor and experience. He lectures widely on a variety of subjects relating to politics, religion, history, and culture. He serves as Co-Editor of Interreligious Insight: a Journal of Dialogue and Engagement, published internationally four times each year in the US and the UK by the World Congress of Faiths, the Interreligious Engagement Project, and Common Ground. Jim is former Global Director of the Parliament of the World's Religions (one of the world's major interfaith organizations) and a current trustee of the International Interreligious Peace Council.
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It's Not My Disease 
A Workshop for the partners, supporters & family members of those afflicted with Bipolar Disorder or other Mood Disorder Don't fall victim to a disease you do not have!
DATE: Tuesday May 5, 2009
TIME: 7 pm - 9 pm
LOCATION: Clarus Center, 28379 Davis Parkway, Suite 801, Warrenville, IL
TAKE THE FIRST STEP OF THE JOURNEY FROM WHERE YOU ARE NOW to WHERE YOU WANT TO BE! Once you begin to accept that your loved ones mood disorder is not your disease, only then, can you let go of the guilt, the anger, and the uncertainty that has infected your life. Join us for this interactive introductory workshop for partners and/or supporters of those afflicted with Bipolar Disorder and/or other Mood Disorders. Together we will:
Explore the ways that this disorder has affected 8 key areas of your life.
Determine what small simple steps you can start to take to move toward the life and relationship that you want to have. You will also take with you a very valuable personal assessment tool along with the comfort of knowing that you are not alone! COST: $10
Space is limited.
Please register early by contacting:
Kathleen at 312-420-8310 or
Kathleen@gentlyshiftingsands.com
As the owner of Gently Shifting Sands Kathleen provides Life Coaching services with an emphasis on partners, supporters & family members of those afflicted with Bipolar Disorder, PTSD and other Mood Disorders. For more information go to:
www.gentlyshiftingsands.com
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| Women of Spirit!
Hosted by Unity in Naperville
Friday, May 15, 7-9pm
Suggested Offering - $5
Join us for the launch of Unity in Naperville's new Women's Group, Women of Spirit! We'll meet monthly to explore our inner sacred potential and share our unique spirit with one another. Your ideas, gifts and talents are welcome in future programs.
This month, Stacey Hurst, Counselor and Dance/Movement Therapist, will create a safe space for us to share from our hearts and experience the Divine around us, within us and within others. She will lead us in an experience to identify what open's and close's our hearts. Music, meditation and movement will be offered within this growth opportunity.
Invite a girlfriend along for this inspirational and empowering gathering of Women of Spirit!
For more information, call Rev. Kitty Benson at 630-718-1318, email RevKittyBenson@comcast.net or visit www.unityinnaperville.org
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Guided Gong Gathering
Sunday,May 17
10 A.M.-12:30PM
Cost: $45
Nancy Ging, Holistic Psychotherapist
Kenny Kolter, Gong Master
Join us Sunday, May 17 for the next Guided Gong Group -- Harmonizing Your Body-Mind at the beautiful Clarus Center in Warrenville.
NOTE: This program will include a NEW guided imagery process for strengthening the immune system!
Nancy Ging, LCSW, Holistic Psychotherapist, healer, author and poet and Chicagoland's beloved gong master, extraordinary percussionist Kenny Kolter will lead you through this unique and fascinating experience in vibrational cleansing. Nancy will pave the way with input about energy psychology along with guided imagery and body-centered meditation to prepare bodies and minds to welcome the magical effects of the gong vibrations. Such vibes flow over and through the body in various degrees of intensity. Spirits can soar, deep peace may be found during and after these unique vibrational adventures. The response from the members of the first 5 groups who have experienced these events has been highly enthusiastic. We hope you'll join in with this movement to nurture yourself . Let your energy field be cleansed and release unnecessary mental-emotional-physical burdens with this experience.
What to wear and bring: Wear comfortable clothes and bring an exercise mat and blanket or pillow as most prefer to lie on the floor during during the gong experience.
CEU's available: Virginia McDonough, LCSW of Healing Arts of Park Place in Naperville will again co-sponsor this event making it possible for us to give Continuing Education Units (CEU's) for an additional, separate fee of $10 made out to Virginia McDonough. Contact Nancy Ging if you are interested in CEU's as she will need your professional license number.
Your registration for the May 17 program will have happened when Nancy receives your check for $45 in the mail at her Hinsdale office (address: Nancy Ging, LCSW, 110 South Washington St., Hinsdale, IL 60521). Space is limited to 20 people in each session so handle this registration soon if you plan to participate.
Please pass this email on to your friends. Share the good vibes and an opportunity for another level of bliss and liberation at our May event.
With blessings and harmonizing vibes to each of you,
Phone: (630) 323-5402 or email: nancyging@aol.com
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| Sacred Middle Eastern Dance
A Joyful and Spirit Filled Journey
Sunday, May 17, 2009
4:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
$40
In this gathering Sacred Middle Eastern (Belly) Dance is taught with an honoring of the Deep Feminine. Ms. Passias invites Mindfulness which offers the opportunity to witness one's felt sense experience in the present moment. The movements generate from within while participants learn the outer dance. The objective is an experience of common unity through this ancient form of dance.
The workshop will include:
-A Movement Meditation to help stimulate and restore one's center
-A mindful Moving Into the Body that is seen as one's essential resource
-A joyful and spirit filled learning of the dance!
"The movements of Belly Dancing enable a woman to understand and experience a natural rhythm. In this dance form, she swings her limbs around the center of her body around the navel of the world, through waves and swinging rhythmical movements of the pelvis, through movements older than any single woman, indeed older than human civilization. The dancer gathers strength for her movements from her belly - the lower part of her body where her balance is centered. She links her lower belly's center of gravity to the earth on which she dances and embeds it in her belly. And every single movement, however tiny, longs to return to this center, the navel of the world."
- Grandmother's Secrets
Francine Passias witnesses and draws from the many healing properties of this dance and deeply acknowledges the body as a sacred vessel, which carries spirit into the physical world. Her passion and gifts are revealed in the dance as she teaches
the age-old art with humor and love.
To reserve your space & to know what to bring contact mindfulmovement@earthlink.net or 847.332.1766
Pre-registration Preferred
Make checks payable & send to: Francine Passias @ 719 Austin Street Apt. 1E, Evanston, IL 60202
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Meditation in Community: A Circle for Peace, Connection and Contemplation
Join Clarus Center facilitators the
first Sunday of the month from
7 - 8PM, beginning May 3rd.
no circle will occur July 5th
No experience necessary. Dress comfortably and bring a blanket or cushion to sit on, or if you prefer, use one of our chairs.
Schedule:
7:00 - 7:15- gather and chat
7:15 - 7:25-pre-meditation warm up*
7:25 - 7:45-silent meditation
7:45 - 8:00 closure**
A $5 donation is requested, but not required. There will be a basket on a counter for discrete and anonymous collection. Funds will be used to support our mission to provide low cost and free public events.
Clarus Facilitators: Nancy Ging, Lucia LiCavoli, BJ Sadtler, Josie Evans, Kim Irle-Kaiser, Julie Zakutansky, Rima Imburgia, and Susan Francis.
*Pre-meditation: this will be led by one of the rotating facilitators and may include gentle movement, music or guided imagery.
**Closure: the evening will end with silence that we will carry with us out the door and into our homes. Facilitators will be available at 7:45PM in break-out rooms to privately respond to any questions or concerns that arise for participants.
Clarus Center: 28379 Davis Parkway #801 Warrenville, Il. 60555. WWW.ClarusCenter.Com. 630-393-9800 x204-Dr. Lucia LiCavoli.
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 S.T.O.P.
Stress - Tension - Obsessions - Pain
A Life Changing Seminar Designed for
Real People with Real Lives and Real Stress
Open to Professionals and Non-Professionals
Date: June 6th 9am-12pm
Learn
· The Anatomy of Stress
· The Body's 3 Internal Self-Preservation Systems "ISPS"
· Adaptive Energy - what is it and how much you have
· Simple Healing Techniques for daily practice using Breathing, QiGong Movement, Shiatsu Stress Points, Essential Oils, Herbs and Nutrition
Restore
Materials include Self-Preservation Manual, Stress Reducing Essential Oil Blend, a free Chinese Medicine Evaluation ($65.00) and a free BEMER Session ($45.00) (Bio-electro magnetic energy resource).
Early Bird Registration Fee: $135.00 (payable in advance - cash or check)
$150.00 at the door
Class is limited to 20 participants - please arrive 15 minutes early Facilitator, Christiana Cagnoni, has 30 years of experience as a healer and educator in Chinese Medicine, Qigong, Shiatsu and Craniosacral Therapy. She is cofounder of the AOBTA and Founder and President of Matter of Flax LLC, raw food snack manufacturing company located in Prescott, AZ.
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Join us for New Pilates Mat Classes at Clarus Center
Whether you are new to Pilates or are currently practicing, the small class size and professionally trained teachers will help you get more out of your sessions in a beautiful and welcoming atmosphere.
Maura Ludeke, Certified through PhysicalMind Institute in New York City, Maura has been practicing Pilates for over eight years. After experiencing first-hand how Pilates helped strengthen her core, relieve her lower back pain, and fundamentally improve her flexibility and over-all fitness she decided to become a certified Pilate's teacher. Maura wants to pass on the benefits of this low impact mind-body exercise to anyone open to improving the way in which they move through life. 
Karen Blecke has over 6 years experience practicing Pilates and Yoga. She has spent years exploring the fitness world and is amazed at the impact Pilates can make on a person's physical and mental well being. She is certified through PhysicalMind Institute in New York City and is a member of the Pilates Method Alliance. She has worked with a wide range of clients from tri-athletes to individuals recovering from injuries and enjoys helping clients achieve their personal goals and improve their quality of life.
One Hour Mat Class Schedule:
M T W Th F
6:45 am M W F
9:30 am M T W TH
12:30 pm M T W TH (1/2 hour express class)
5:15 pm M T W
To register please call:
Maura 312-203-3759
Karen 630-244-2202
Or email
MKStudio@claruscenter.com
$15 per class or $80 for eight - Pre-registration is necessary
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