The Grounding Cord Improves:
Archive, Newsletter Signup, and Profile Updates!
Frequently we are asked for past issues of The Grounding Cord. Maybe you wanted to share an article with a friend that was deleted from your Inbox-- or just wanted to catch up on your reading.
We listened! We are excited to report that all monthly issues of the newsletter are now available from November 2007 at The Grounding Cord Archive at http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs088/1101566361745/archive/1101919623882.html.
There is also a prominent link at the bottom of the Archive page for signing up to the newsletter. If you are a volunteer or instructor, we ask that you refer new students to this page so that they can sign themselves up for the newsletter. That way they can indicate the email lists they would like to join and their contact information.
You can always change your own email address or list preferences using the link at the bottom of every newsletter. Take a look, it's really cool!
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For suggestions, article submissions, or schedule submissions contact any member of the editiorial committee.
Submissions are due the 5th of each month. Thanks!
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Dalai Lama in Ann Arbor!
His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be in Ann Arbor on April 19th and 20th, 2008. He speaks in conjunction with the Peter M. Wege Lecture on Sustainability, on environmental issues.
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| All Region Schedule
for Intensives and Teleconferences!
1/16
Planes of Consciousness Teleconference(Practice is held the 3rd Wednesday of each month)
8 p.m.
To participate, call 712-775-7000, and follow the first prompt which tells you to enter 139522#. Be sure you hit the # sign. Ignore the next prompt that tells you that you may hit the 4 button to get further instructions. John will mute all participants during the session.
$12.50
Note: If you have attended an Intensive, and want to be on the reminder list for these teleconferences, click Update Email/Profile at the bottom of this newsletter and select the appropriate check box.
5/2 - 5/4
Spring Intensive in Ann Arbor
Save the date! The Spring Intensive is booked for the first weekend of May. Friday evening is the first, optional, session. Full day sessions are held Saturday and Sunday. More details to follow!
There is an opportunity for inexpensive housing with the Anthroposophical Society of Ann Arbor which is located at 1923 Geddes, Ann Arbor, MI 48104. Space is limited to 11 people. There are two double rooms available, each containing two twin size beds. There are also seven single rooms. The housing also includes a shared bathroom with a couple of showers and an industrial-sized communal kitchen.
The cost for a person staying in a double room is $20/night. The cost of a person staying in a single room is $30/night.
Please contact Cynthia directly at Cynthia@anthroposophical.org if you are interested in reserving a room. If you don't have access to email, call Cynthia and leave a message at (734) 662-9355, Ext. 14. Confirmation and directions are made via email. Please express our gratitude for the opportunity to use their facilities if you do take advantage of this great deal.
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Southeast Michigan Schedule
Meditation Practice (Level I & II) is held the second Tuesday of every month. Reading Practice (Level III) and Channeling Practice (Level IV) are held alternate months, on the fourth Wednesday of every month at Genesis of Ann Arbor (2309 Packard, Ann Arbor, MI 48104) in room 9/10 in the second lower level of the main building. The room is listed in the daily events posting by the elevator on the main floor. Please refrain from wearing perfume, aftershave, or oils.
1/23
Reading/Channeling Practice
NOTE: Location of the January 23 practice may change. Details will follow in the practice reminder that will be sent out the Sunday prior to the practice.
Channeling/Reading practice must have four confirmed attendees to be held. Please call Rose at (734) 709-3243 or email John at fried2sahi@aol.com by 5 p.m. on January 21 to RSVP. Thank you for your cooperation.
$10
2/12
Meditation Practice
Details above
$10 Snow Policy
If there is inclement weather (or it is predicted) you can find out whether practices are being held by calling John at (734) 429-6008 after 4 p.m. the day of the practice.
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Jan 17
Thurs
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Level IV Practice
Channeling/Boundaries/Identities |
7-9pm
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Clifton
$10 |
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Feb 7
Thurs
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Level I/II Practice
In-depth Clearing/Group Discussion |
7-9pm |
Clifton
$10 |
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Feb 14
Thurs
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Level III Practice
Reading/Boundaries/Identities |
7-9pm |
Clifton
$10 |
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Sat/Sun
February 16 - 17
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NEW Class II: Deepening Clairvoyance:
Essence Communication, 8 - 12th Chakras/Layers, Space and Neutrality
with Gloria Hemsher
February 16 - 17 |
Early registrations: $195
Regular registration: $225
for more details goto:
http://psychicdevelopment.cc/
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Cincinnati
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To register make check payable to Gloria Hemsher and send to:
Gloria Hemsher
6134 Cherokee Drive
Cincinnati , OH 45243 |
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Minnesota Schedule
Level I: Energy Awareness, Boundaries and Flow
C. Carole Morning Smiley
Mondays. Feb 4, 11, 25 and March 3
6:30pm to 9:00pm
Normandale Community College, Bloomington MN
Registration through Normandale's Continuing Education Department, www.normandale.edu/continuingeduation
Call C at 952-897-1847 for more information
Single, new registrant: $190
New registrant with 1 friend (registrations must arrive together): $350
Person repeating Level I: $95
For a complete description see the website at www.creapresents.com.
Kundalini Workshop
John Friedlander
Saturday, Feb 2 from 8:45am to 6:00pm
Sunday, Feb 3 from 8:45am to 3:00pm
Room 326 in Opus Hall
University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis MN
Early registration date is Jan 14: $225 per person ($50 deposit/or call C at 952-897-1847)
Registrations received after Jan 14: $250
To pay with Visa/MC via Paypal, contact Royce Kail at 612-655-0817 or rmkail@comcast.net
For payment plans, call C.
For a complete description see the website at www.creapresents.com.
CREA Monthly Mediation Practice
Facilitator: C. Carole Morning Smiley
Mondays. Jan 14, Feb 11, March 10, April 14, May 12, June 9
6:45pm to 8:00pm
Room 330 in Opus Hall
University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis MN
NO CHARGE
INFORMATION FOR TELECONFERENCING
1. Please call about 2 minutes after 7pm
2. Please call this NEW number: 712-775-7100 and use this NEW access code: 1048469# (please do not forget the # symbol!!).
3. To mute your phone, please enter "6".
Check out the Minnesota schedule at : http://www.creapresents.com/current.htm |
Foundations in Psychic Development I: Boundaries and Flow
Learning how to be aware of, and how to transform our aura transforms our love and life experiences. In this seminar, every exercise furthers the development of at least one of the two basic abilities: finding one's own psychic energy (one's own authentic impulses); and clearing blocks to progress. Students learn how to ground and run energy, how to clear blocks, how to find, clear, and repair the chakras, and how to explore deeply the entire volume and frequency range of the aura (called the layers of the aura).
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Foundations in Psychic Development II:
Space, Seniority, Neutrality and Spiritual Fuel
In this two-day workshop, we will develop a deep understanding of how we use our own aura space to create our reality. We begin with psychic explorations that familiarize us with our space, and how we subdivide it through resistance to others. We can then learn to create our aura space through awareness rather than resistance. In the resulting neutrality, we become able to create our reality less and less through resistance to another, and more and more from our own spiritual fuel.
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Foundations in Psychic Development III: Seeing Auras
In this two-day workshop we will explore the psychic anatomy of clairvoyance, or seeing auras; how to activate and empower this perception; and several ways to use this ability in making decisions, in healing oneself and others, and in deepening one's understanding of oneself and others. We will then move to actually doing comprehensive, systematic psychic readings in partnership with fellow students. Participants usually find they can easily increase their ability to perceive genuinely useful aura energies in just this one weekend, and that they are well started on the adventure of a lifetime.
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Foundations in Psychic Development IV: Channeling
Learn the clairvoyant mechanics of skillful channeling -- how to prepare your space for channeling by running an ever clearer white light vibration while still owning and governing who and what occupies your space. This requires clearing psychic agreements, karma, and thought forms that distort both ordinary awareness and channeling.
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Health and Happiness: Connect with Your Body!
"Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood," said baseball great, Satchel Paige. This amazing athlete was so in touch with his body that he could actually sense the health, or lack of health, of his blood stream. We also can begin tracking aspects of our body not normally available to conscious awareness such as: where in our body do we have imbalances of heat, cold, damp, etc. as spoken of in Chinese medicine; where is a there a blood vessel that could use a healing; or what "hormones" can we mentally increase or decrease for better health or mood, and how we can, in fact, influence their flow and amount.
Developing such an awareness allows us to heal ourselves and others more effectively. Great healings can be done without this kind of physical awareness by using energies of higher planes, and in other seminars we study how to access and use those higher plane energies. However, something unique and richly meaningful is added when we stretch our awareness and gain that intimacy and direct experience of the body in its own realm.
As part of this overall exploration of the body in its natural realm, we will explore how different emotional states like sadness, hunger, joy and happiness arise in the brain and body, and begin to explore how we can alter these states, to some extent, intentionally. One benefit of developing such an awareness is that we become less rigid in responding to emotional states, we become more creative, appreciative and playful with our emotions.
This seminar will allow you to begin to develop a skill set over time to connect with and benefit your body in ever deeper, more meaningful and more joyful ways.
Prerequisite: Level I |
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The Grounding Cord, teachers and affiliates of John Friendlander and Gloria Hemsher will never share, distribute or sell your name, email address or other contact information. We are committed to your online privacy. |
We encourage recipients of the newsletter to pass it on to anyone who might find the information valuable. It is our hope to find more people and their energies to include in our practice mediations. Not only will it be of benefit to the new members, it will add to the group energy as a whole. We welcome you to join us!
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