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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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Special Event: Half The Sky
March 4th, 6:30 pm
Celebrate International Women's Day and be inspired to help women and girls everywhere turn oppression into opportunity. Women and men all over the country will simultaneously view a one night movie event inspired by stories from the New York Times bestseller "Half the Sky," by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. Hosted by Andrea Mitchell and featuring musical performances, celebrity commentary and the world premiere of "Woineshet," a short film by Academy Award® winner Marisa Tomei and Lisa Leone. Also with appearances from India Arie, Maria Bello, Michael Franti, Dr. Helene Gayle, Angelique Kidjo, Nicholas Kristof, Marisa Tomei, Sarah Duchess of York and others.
Denise Dojka will be hosting a gathering meeting at 6:30 at Clarus Center, and leaving for the AMC theatres right across the street at 7:15. Rima Imburgia will be doing the same in Chicago at the AMC River East 21 Theater on Illinois Street (near Navy Pier).
The movie itself begins at 7:30 p.m. and runs until 9:30 p.m. You can buy your $12.50 ticket on-line by visiting www.FathomEvents.com. When prompted to "enter zip to buy ticket," entering 60540 will bring up the AMC Cantera theatres.
For more information, contact Rima at 312.953.0398, or Denise at 630.393.9800, x.212. |
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A Mindful Course™
Classes in 2009-10
Dates: 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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Sacred Middle Eastern Dance
A Joyful and Spirit Filled Journey
Sundays, 6:00 p.m. to 7:15 p.m.
March 14,21,28, April 11,18,25
$20 per class or 6 classes for $105
In this gathering Sacred Middle Eastern (Belly) Dance is taught with an honoring of the Deep Feminine. We invite Mindfulness which offers the opportunity to witness our felt sense experience in the present moment. The movements generate from within while we learn the outer dance. Come join together in common unity through this ancient form of dance.
Included in our time together are:
A Movement Meditation that will stimulate and restore our centers
A mindful Moving Into the Body that is our 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 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 ~ Drop Ins Welcome ~ May join class at any time ~ Make checks payable & send to: Francine Passias @ 719 Austin Street Apt. 1E, Evanston, IL 60202
Francine Passias is a Certified Hakomi Body Centered Experiential Therapist. She is trained in Continuum Movement, Living Dance, Somatic Release, Middle Eastern Dance, and Traditional Earth Energy Medicine.
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