Taking a ‘time out’ for self care is a wonderful way to support your healthy body and mind. Here’s such an opportunity:
I am part of a group of five Sonoma County women experienced in varied fields of health, well being, creativity, and personal potential leading NOURISH, A Retreat for Women, October 16-19, 2008, at beautiful Westerbeke Ranch nestled among old oaks in Sonoma, California. See photos of Westerbeke at http://www.westranch.com and http://www.westranch.com/scrapbook.html
The retreat is based on the deep need for women to take time off from nurturing others and allow themselves to be nourished. Women will have many opportunities to choose abundant forms of nourishment. Attendees can revel in sensory pleasures of healthy, scrumptious meals, casual comforts, rolling hills, and sprawling oaks at family-owned Westerbeke Ranch, rejuvenate through soul-satisfying experiences of yoga, relaxation, hot soaks, swimming, hiking, massage, reading, napping, walking the labyrinth. Women can choose to reinvent themselves through discussions and exercises on visioning, nutrition, creativity, healing herbs, feng shui. There will be time to focus on planetary health and global outreach, reconnect with Spirit through abundant TLC, ceremony, camaraderie, journaling, and delightful surprises. Participants will return home with tools and inspiration to live in passion, health, joy, and authenticity. I hope to see you there.
Fall Into Sacredness
Silence. Drink in its nourishment. Stop A moment and be. Pause Striving for perfection and Feel The flawless joy of life, Sacred, In this moment and always. Listen. The pulse of being, precious and divine, Calls. Embrace the rising flood of love to Share With unceasing abundance, Needing nothing to exist.Fall Into the miracle of yourself, The sacredness of being. Now.
©2004 Book, Star Kissed Shadows, and CD, Sweet Tongue by Sher Lianne Christian
Contact: Cathleen Springer, (707) 206-9779 or (800) 930-2331 for more information, including Early Bird pricing or to register. Enroll by June 1 and pay $695. Price from June 2 to Sept. 1 is $740.
I listened to an interview with Deborah Johnson, Reverend and author of “Your Deepest Intent”, on New Dimensions Radio yesterday. She shared that it is more important to purify our intentions than achieve our goals, that “our intention goes through the door before us” and everyone, except maybe us, knows what it is.
My intention in sharing through this blog, my book and CD, and my voice is to share the inspiration of spirit that moves through me as creativity, joy, awareness of sensory grace, as well as the opportunities to learn and grow through life experiences. I also intend to create financial prosperity through helping others experience more joy, do what I love, and fulfill my life purpose.
Deborah also said it is essential for us to do that which connects us with Spirit often and thus build our “spiritual Immunity”. Reading, writing, and speaking my poems with music connects me most powerfully with my heart. I also love to read stories about miracles to my husband. We have an enjoyable ritual of reading something inspirational every day after dinner.
I wrote this poem in Nevada County as I looked out the window at our beautiful countryside. May you be blessed with an appreciation of the beauty in your life.
Quiet Settles Softly
Quiet settles softly as down on a cloud. My soul hungers for this silence which feeds a deep need to know this moment. A coyote hurries along the sloping hill, leaving thoughts of his medicine, a trickster reminding us how we fool ourselves, resist authenticity out of fear. Awareness softens muscles, sinks into my body which contains the truth, not always easy to embrace, but freeing, nonetheless. A tiny bird poises on the tip of a leafless poison oak which bends with her slight weight. The trees are still and await nothing,content to live. Branches drink in the sky, not to take, but to graciously receive and give, simple as breath in and out. Quiet settles deep like roots underground. I find all is well.
©2004 Star Kissed Shadows, book, and Sweet Tongue, CD Sher Lianne Christian
Note: Our store will be up soon. In the meanwhile, if you want information on ordering, please e-mail me at poetrysher@gmail.com
You can listen to these mp3s from our CD “Sweet Tongue”. See a review of Sweet Tongue on the Feb. 5 post. Our store is not working yet. Please email poetrysher@gmail.com for information on ordering my book Star Kissed Shadows, our CD Sweet Tongue, and/or John’s music CD Behind the Mask.
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Hello, I listened to an interview with Arjuna Ardagh on New Dimensions Radio about his new book, “Awakening Into Oneness: The Power of Blessing in the Evolution of Consciousness”. He said to be touched by grace, we must relax frantic doing and acquiring, take our hands off the wheel. He believes and I do that we live in a field of grace.
Reading, writing, and speaking poetry often brings me into an awareness of grace. Here’s one of the poemsfrom my book and CD that embraces this idea.
You Can’t Have Everything
but you can have a tongued velvet kiss beneath tall cedars and oaks flushed with new leaves. You can have a graze of caress up your thigh, the soft brush of summer on honeyed skin. You can have muscles sleek with love and bliss in the buttery sun of morning. You can have birds singing in tree canopies, squirrels that leap, vibrant lobelia and petunias. You can have the smell of lavender and lemon thyme crushed between your fingers.
You can have a window seat with pillows and books of poetry. There are always your dreams of the writer’s studio that overlooks the ocean and delicious words to fill cracks chiseled by disappointment. You can’t clean the house with a twitch of your nose and will it to stay pristine, but you can have pineapple chunks of sunshine through your windows, bowls of rosy peaches, nectarines, ripe tomatoes. You can have a doe and two spotted fawns, a fox and her mate, blue jays, hummingbirds and coveys of quail.
You can’t make parents live forever, though for now, you can have the touch of love in your mother’s voice, the stories of your father’s triumphs that improve each year. You can’t force your sister to stop using meth, but you can send her love through her sieved holes of darkness. You can’t rescue loved ones from their unhappiness, but you can wipe away their tears and remind them to drink in the fragrant beauty of earth and sky.
You can’t stop the effects of aging, but you can view heart-soaring mauves and blues of Eastern Sierras that sweep from desert expanse, camp beneath Mammoth pines. You can thrill with an intake of breath at the sight of a massive bear. The mind’s song may wind notes of want, yet you can sing gratitude for moments full of grace.
©2004 Star Kissed Shadows, Divining Poetry, (book)and Sweet Tongue, Assorted Poetry and Music (CD), 2007 by Sher Lianne Christian
To order our CD Sweet Tongue, Assorted Poems & Music and my book, Star Kissed Shadows, e-mail me at poetrysher@gmail.com
Tips are welcome at http://.www.paypal.com in our account raindance@nccn.net
I’m excited to announce the first review of our CD. Here is a copy of it.
Sweet Tongue, Assorted Poems & MusicReviewed by: Bill Gainer
Sweet Tongue, Assorted Poems & Music A spoken-word CD by: Sher and John ChristianReleased: 2007
]”Sher and John Christian’s new spoken-word CD, Sweet Tongue, Assorted Poems & Music, is an enchanting showcase of Sher’s poetic talents and John’s musical craftsmanship. I first ran across a sampling of these poems a couple of years ago in Sher’s book Star Kissed Shadows and was teased at the possibility of a CD when seeing her perform live, at a local bookstore, to John’s keyboard accompaniment. Sweet Tongue, Assorted Poems & Music is a collection of twenty-three wonderfully crafted poems of place, each representing a location, time or moment in the lives of two people who find a deeper meaning of self, love and each other as they travel into the unknown. The poems chronicle the insights, awakenings and discoveries experienced as Sher and John hooked their camp trailer to the back of the car and journeyed from West Coast to East – simply in search of the next discovery. While Sher uses a unique blend of sensual expression and spiritual insight to convey the confessions, observations and emotions of her poems, John brings a splash of musical styles (Cajun, Jazz, Blues, Rock and Country) to ground her words in the moments lived. He whispers when needed, boogies when called for and romances his keyboard as Sher untangles the mystery and magic of a night’s firefly dreams. Though Sher and John’s, Sweet Tongue, Assorted Poems & Music is a collaboration of two hearts, it sounds as if it is of one voice. There is a soothing romantic tone to this collection that invites the listener to surrender to the moment and allow the words and music to carry the imagination to a safe place. Sher and John remind us that all things are possible, especially love.For this reviewer, Sher and John Christian’s new spoken-word CD, Sweet Tongue, Assorted Poems & Music, is an invitation to light the candles, pour the wine and pull the one I love close; an invitation well worth the listening.” To listen to three poems from our CD Sweet Tongue on mp3s go to www.mp3poetry.org E-mail me at poetrysher@gmail.com for information on ordering my book and our CD and having John and I perform for your event.
*I will read poetry at Women Spirit Thursday, February 14, 9:00 am to 11:00 am in Santa Rosa, CA. Check the web site for information http://.www.WomenSpiritNetwork.com
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