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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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| MATRIX LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE!
FREE 2-HOUR PREVIEWS
Thursday April 29 at 7 p.m. - Saturday, May 8 at 2 p.m.
Matrix Leadership Institute is conducting three 2-HOUR FREE PREVIEWS over the next two months, hosted by Clarus Center.
Attending a Preview is a great way to begin to explore interconnection, relationship-building and open communication. We encourage all who have an interest in understanding the power and aliveness of living systems to join us. The Preview also offers a taste of what we teach in our Matrix Experience weekend workshop, scheduled for May 21-23, 2010.
PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED ~ R.S.V.P. to Carol at 773.612.9505. More info available on our web site! www.matrixleadership.org
Matrix Leadership Institute is committed to teach participants how to mend and restore the social fabric in any family, work, and community setting. Experience these benefits...
Some Personal Benefits:
· Personal growth beyond what meditation or 1-on-1 relationships/therapy can provide
· Increase your ability to belong to a group with more ease and without giving up being your unique self
· Learn how to become a new kind of leader by fostering connections in any group setting
· Learn how to transform any group into one with greater health, sustainability, and enjoyment
Some Group Benefits:
· Enhanced resilience & sustainability through chaos, change & growth
· Conflict redefined as essential creative differentiation
· Shared, highly collaborative leadership and membership
· Increased collective intelligence and collective creativity
If you, or someone you know, might be interested in attending one of our upcoming workshops or trainings, the free preview is a great first step. Perhaps a friend, family member or colleague may be interested in the life-changing experience of Matrix Leadership. If so, we encourage you to bring them as your guest!
Matrix Leadership offers a map for realizing the consciousness of interconnection and true collaborative leadership. Join us in changing the norms of our culture - one person, one relationship, one group at a time. See you soon! |
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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Advanced Tools
with Garrett Walters
April 11, April 25
1:00-5:00 p.m.
Advanced Tools is the continuation of this winter's Basic Tools series. The class builds on the foundation that we have already created and adds more techniques as well as more practical experience that you can use to grow your ability to be safe and amused in your body. This class is limited to people who have already completed the Basic Tools. For those of you intrigued but not yet qualified, I will be offering another Basic Tools at Clarus Center later this year. For more information about me and my work, please consult my website www.garrettwalters.com . . | |
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Sacred Middle Eastern Dance
A Joyful and Spirit Filled Journey
Sundays, 6:00 p.m. to 7:15 p.m.
April 11,18,25 May 16, 23
$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."
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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Silken Dimpled Flesh or Cellulite?
A Historical Perspective on Women's Body Image
Friday, April 16, 6 - 7:30
Cost $10/person or $15/parent-daughter pair.
Come alone, come with friends or come with your daughter (high school age and older), but do come! This is an opportunity to look at a slide show presenting women's bodies from the first primitive statue to current times. We will discuss historical and current cultural influences that literally shape women's bodies - or at least tell us which type is "in."
Presenter: Lucia LiCavoli, Ph.D., founder of Clarus Center has worked with clients struggling with Eating Disorders and Body Image since 1988. She has given presentations on Body Image to numerous audiences over the years, and is passionate about getting into a good dialogue about helping ourselves and our daughters live with confidence and freedom in the world, even if our particular body image is not "in" at this time.
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SPRING into Yoga and Yoga Nidra
Tues.evenings 7:00 - 8:15
April 6, 13, 20, 28
and May 4 & 11, 2010
A gentle practice for Stress Reduction and Deep Relaxation
Join the Six Week Spring Series at Clarus Center
$90 for all 6 classes - Pre-registration is necessary
Contact BJ Sadtler @ 630.334.7826 or bjsadtler@breatheinc.com
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Mindful Movement:
A joyful and spirit filled journey
A 'Moving Into the Body' movement group
This is a movement group. No dance experience is necessary.
SUNDAY ~ APRIL 18, 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
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.
Pre-Registration Required 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
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. |
NAVAJO WEAVING:
A One-Day Workshop
Saturday, May 1
10 am to 6 pm, $160
"Spider Woman came and taught the people how to weave and in so doing, taught them how to live."
We will create a warp of a single thread, and begin to weave..... gathering our hopes, our dreaming and our Knowing as we Remember.......how to live.
Make checks payable and mail to: Dolores Diaz, P.O.Box 502, Evanston, Illinois 60204, doloresdiaz@mac.com
Dolores Diaz is a Licensed Massage Therapist and a Flower Essence Practitioner with a Private Wellness Practice in the Chicagoland area. She has practiced and studied with traditional healers and has a deep respect for and a trust in the body's natural ability and desire to heal on all levels. She was welcomed into Daughters of Navajo Weavers in a Blessing Way after study and travels to Navajoland since 1999 and has taught Navajo Weaving since 2003. Dolores teaches by request of her Navajo teacher, mentor and friend, Annie Kahn.
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TIRED? STRESSED? NO ENERGY?
MELT AWAY ACHES AND PAINS AND ENERGIZE THE BODY WITH HANDS ON ENERGY HEALING
REIKI
SUNDAY,MAY 2ND, 11am - 1pm
THIS ANICIENT HEALING SYSTEM IS NOW BEING OFFERED IN AN OPEN SETTING AT CLARUS CENTER. THE REIKI CLINIC HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO OFFER AN INEXPENSIVE AND SAFE ENVIRONMENT, GIVING THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPLORE THE WONDERFUL HEALING BENEFITS OF REIKI.
SESSIONS WILL BE ABOUT TWENTY MINUTES PER PERSON. THE PRACTITIONER WILL LIGHTLY PLACE THEIR HANDS ON DIFFERENT AREAS OF THE BODY. YOU WILL FEEL SOME HEAT OR A LIGHT TINGLING AND FEEL VERY RELAXED. MOST PEOPLE FALL ASLEEP. THESE TECHNIQUES BRING ENERGY TO THE BODY AND HELPS THE BODY LEARN HOW TO HEAL ITSELF! REIKI IS CURRENTLY BEING PRACTICED IN HOSPITALS, SPAS AND DOCTOR'S OFFICES.
FEEL FREE TO BRING THE KIDS AND LET THEM DRAW, GIGGLE, OR GET IN ON THE ENERGY HEALING! OUR PRACTICIONERS WILL BE PROVIDING RAINDROP TECHNIQUES FOR CHILDREN. THIS IS A COMBINATION OF
SSENTIAL OILS THAT HELP KEEP THE BODY BALANCED AND THE IMMUNE SYSTEM HEALTHY.
COST: $25 PER PERSON. RAINDROP FOR CHILDREN: $10
BY APPOINTMENT ONLY. PLEASE CALL KRYSSAGE WELLNESS: 630 649-2864. CALL NOW, APPOINMENTS ARE LIMITED
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Faith in the Feminine
April 27, May 4th, 18th, and 25th, 2010
Time: 6:30 - 9PM
Where: The Studio in Cary
Cost: $70/session or $266 (5% discount for the series)
Being equal in "heaven" affects how women treat themselves and each other. It also impacts how they are treated in the world. What would it have been like to grow up in a world where the Divine was imagined to be female?
This four part series has been designed for women who want to explore our spiritual history to understand our present and personal experience as contemporary women. Our goal is to use our past to create a balanced feminine spiritual force in ourselves and in the world that meets and welcomes the masculine and invites change and growth.
Please join us if this calls to you!
Facilitated by Marilyn Dam-Rabolt R.N.,M.S.N. and Shellie Willet-Kruchko, Ph.D.
For more information contact: Marilyn at discovery@womencreatingchange.com or 847-462-0600 OR Shellie at 630-778-1055 | |
| An Introduction to Somatic Experiencing®
Learn about healing trauma naturally... without retraumatization
Friday, May 7, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Growing scientific evidence indicates that the dynamics of traumatic stress and its symptoms have significant biological components. Developed by Peter A. Levine, PhD, author of Waking the Tiger:
Healing Trauma, Somatic Experiencing® (SE) is a powerful yet gentle method for addressing the psychobiology of stress and trauma.
This 3 hour Introduction to Somatic Experiencing® provides a look into a training that offers a comprehensive understanding of our biological capacity to heal and the skills necessary to facilitate
this natural process. Clinical, medical, and health care professionals who deal with the aftermath of trauma can learn how to recognize and support this healing while greatly expanding your knowledge
base. SE® provides an entirely new way of understanding and treating traumatic stress. This bodyfocused approach integrates sensorimotor (body) processing with emotional and cognitive processing, thus accessing the trauma response at the core. SE® restores the ability to self-regulate and return to health and resilience.
ARIEL GIARRETTO, LMFT, CMT, has been specializing in the treatment of both shock and developmental trauma since 1993. She practices in the US, Europe and Canada as a somatic psychotherapist, a Somatic Experiencing® instructor and consultant. For 11 years Ariel was on staff at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur as a workshop and group leader, a private counselor and bodyworker. She has offered trainings to the Trauma Center at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital on secondary traumatization and patient PTSD prevention. Ariel has special training in pre and peri-natal trauma, early attachment and therapeutic touch. She has a successful private practice in the Bay Area of northern California.
For additional information: Suzanne Peroutka, MS
suzatr@comcast.net, 630-305-5702 ext. 2
For more information about Somatic Experiencing® and the SE® training: www.Traumahealing.com
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