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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
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, and BJ Sadtler.
*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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Private yoga sessions for Integral Health
Practice Customized for
Your Mind, Body and Spirit
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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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Sacred Middle Eastern Dance
A Joyful and Spirit Filled Journey 
New Locations and New Days in the Greater Chicagoland Area
For more information on this and other Healing Movement events, contact Francine Passias at mindfulmovement @earthlink.net or call 847.332.1766 | |
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Clinical Perspectives on Sleep Disorders
with Dr. Ravi Nemivant
Free lecture
Friday February 12, 11am to noon
The National Institute of Health estimates that 20 percent of adult Americans suffer chronically from Obstructive Sleep Apnea (absent or blocked breathing while sleeping), and over 40 percent of people over 65 have this condition. But most people who have the condition don't know they have it -- because it happens when they're asleep.
During the last few years there's been much media coverage about this condition, because it's as common as adult diabetes and asthma. But is sleep apnea really a health-threatening problem? And if so, is there a successful treatment that everyone with the condition should be diligently applying?
Dr. Ravi Nemivant will address these and other questions in this free public lecture. A dedicated and specialized physician, Dr. Nemivant brings pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine proficiency to his role at DuPage Medical Group. Dr. Nemivant's professional experience is highlighted by numerous teaching awards, research and being published in medical journals. His clinical interests include caring for the critically ill, asthma, cystic fibrosis, emphysema, lung cancer, thoracic oncology, all pulmonary diseases and adults suffering from sleep disorders - specifically sleep apnea and snoring.
Dr. Nemivant received his medical degree in 1998 from Rush Medical College in Chicago where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society. In 2002, he completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Chicago's Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center where he was intern and resident of the year. He was named Chief Resident in 2001-2002. He completed fellowship training in Pulmonary & Critical Care medicine at Loyola University Medical Center and Hines Veterans Administration Medical Center in Maywood from 2002-2005. He was named Chief Fellow at Loyola University Medical Center 2004-2005 and elected Fellow of the Year in 2005. Dr. Nemivant is a member of the American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Chicago Thoracic Society. He is affiliated with Central DuPage, Edward and Good Samaritan Hospitals and is on the academic staff at Loyola University Medical Center.
To reserve your seat for this free lecture, please call Clarus Center at 630.393-9800, ext.100, and leave your name.
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Basic Tools:
Class continues on Sunday February 7th, from 1-5 pm.
For questions or more information, contact Garrett Walters via email at info@garrettwalters.com; cell: 847-477-0444; landline: 608-205-0246; mailing address: 3448 County Road A, Stoughton, WI 53589.
For more information about Garrett Walters and his work, please consult his website www.garrettwalters.com
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A Mindful Course™
Classes in 2009-10
Dates: February 4, 11, 18, March 11, 18, 25
All day retreat, Saturday March 13th, 2010
Time: Thursday eves for 6 weeks, 7:00-9:15
Saturday retreat 9-4pm
Would you like your stress to work for you? Would you like to increase your energy and find some spring in your step? Could you even hope to improve your work-life balance given all of your commitments? You can, and here's how: Begin by developing a regular, daily practice of mindfulness meditation.
Mindfulness meditation provides you with a proven way to enhance your overall health and well-being. Through this practice, you will create a physical and mental foundation to get the most out of your life by being fully present in every moment.
· Awareness: Enhance self-awareness of your own mind-body connection.
· Stress Resiliency: Learn to focus your energy on creating positive solutions to situations that tend to worry you.
· Clarity of thinking: Address complex problems more effectively, increase your creativity.
· Pain Management: Relieve the pain of headaches, anxiety, chronic pain, depression and more.
Course participants will develop a daily discipline of meditation and relaxation through classroom instruction, sitting and walking meditations, gentle yoga and one full-day immersion retreat. A Mindful Course™ includes six weekly two and a quarter hour sessions including classroom instruction, sitting and walking meditations, gentle yoga, and one all day retreat. Two private consultations with the instructor are also included, one before and one after program completion.
Tuition: Course fee of $500 includes: pre- and post-interviews, practice CDs, course materials, Jon Kabat-Zinn's book, Full Catastrophe Living, and all day retreat. Statement for insurance can be prepared.
To sign up for A Mindful Course™ or for more information, please call Chris Johnson, PsyD., 630.368. 0122. Information on the course can also be found at www.amindfulcourse.com. Spring Classes will begin in April with sign up beginning in mid-March.
The instructor, Chris Johnson, PsyD. employs a proven curriculum based on work of Jon Kabat-Zinn as expressed in Full Catastrophe Living and more than 30 years of research from The Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She also brings her advanced training from the Strozzi Institute in somatics-the study of the mind-body-spirit connection-to this work.
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Mindful Movement
~ A joyful and spirit filled journey ~
A 'Moving Into the Body' movement group
SUNDAY ~ FEBRUARY 28, 2010
2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
COST: $45
We begin promptly at 2:00 p.m. so please arrive by 1:45
This is a movement group. No dance experience is necessary.
There is great joy in the knowing and healing of ourselves
when we experience a full felt-sense presence in our bodies - a coming home. We may have moved away from, or may have forgotten how to move into this space - this body - that is an essential resource. This movement journey invites us to remember, deepen,
and integrate our instinctual knowing.
IN THIS GATHERING WE WILL:
Establish mindfulness
Witness our inner experience through movement
Embrace the wisdom of our own dance
Embody our sense of self
Join in common unity
MOVING INTO THE BODY are individual three to four hour workshops or weekly classes, which will move us into our bodies utilizing several movement methods that acknowledge the power of self- healing and the body's capacity to reveal. We will engage in the practice of Mindfulness, which is the development of an alert inner quiet that allows us to witness our individual journeys gifting us with safety and a deeper awareness of our own inner truths.
Mindful Movement groups incorporate a number of movement methods and give us the opportunity to witness and track our inner experience in the present moment. In all movement groups we create an environment for each of us to respectfully explore and savor our experience.
Francine Passias, CHT is in private practice in Chicago. She is Certified in Hakomi Experiential Psychotherapy, Advanced Certified Hypnotherapy, and is trained in Internal Family Systems Therapy, Matrix (Group) Leadership, Living Dance Seminars, Continuum Movement, and Somatic Release in Resolving Trauma. She teaches Sacred Middle Eastern Dance. She created Moving Into the Body and Embracing the Deep Feminine retreats, The Body as Resource (a unique support group for trauma survivors) and Mindful Movement classes. Francine acknowledges the body as vessel which carries spirit into the physical world.
TO RESERVE YOUR SPACE CALL FRANCINE PASSIAS @ 847.332.1766 or Email mindfulmovement@earthlink.net
Make checks payable & send to: Francine Passias @ 719 Austin Street Apt. 1E, Evanston, IL 60202
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