Rising Consciousness
Membership Supporting Women's Spiritual Awakening through Ancient Wisdom - Deepening Connection to Soul and Spirit
Vedic Philosophy Quarter (Jan - Mar)
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Your soul is calling you to step fully into your purpose, your truth, the reason why you're here: your dharma. This book will guide you through the journey and lead you to a life of happiness, abundance, joyful service and fulfilment. Sahara Rose shares her unique approach to discovering your dharma through the Doshas (the Ayurvedic mind-body types) and the chakras (energy centres of the body). Take the 'What's Your Dharma Archetype?' quiz and use your Dharma Blueprint to unlock the code of what you're meant to do next, in your relationships, business and every facet of your life. Discovering your dharma is the most important work you can do. This is the perfect introduction to living in alignment for all spiritual seekers and anyone looking to become more self-aware.
Available to purchase on kindle/audio/paperback here
This valuable book provides a complete manual for the study and practice of Raja Yoga, the path of concentration and meditation. This new deluxe printing of these timeless teachings is a treasure to be read and referred to again and again by seekers treading the spiritual path. The classic Sutras (thought-threads), at least 4,000 years old, cover the yogic teachings on ethics, meditation, and physical postures, and provide directions for dealing with situations in daily life. The Sutras are presented here in the purest form, with the original Sanskrit and with translation, transliteration, and commentary by Sri Swami Satchidananda, one of the most respected and revered contemporary Yoga masters. In this classic context, Sri Swamiji offers practical advice based on his own experience for mastering the mind and achieving physical, mental and emotional harmony.
Available to order here
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: Commentary on the Raja Yoga Sutras by Sri Swami Satchidananda https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0...
World-renowned philosopher and spiritual teacher Ram Dass--author of the ground breaking classic Be Here Now--presents the contemporary Western audience with a lively, accessible guide to the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita, the classic Hindu text that has been called the ultimate instruction manual for living a spiritual life.
Available to buy here Paths to God: Living the Bhagavad Gita: Amazon.co.uk: Dass, Ram: 9781400054039: Books
Guest Speaker - Janine - Iyengar yoga and the sutras
Workshop - Yoga Sutras
**BONUS** Ayurvedic Retreat to Relax and Restore
Retreat - Letting go of the beliefs that no longer serve us
Workshop - Paths to God - Giving and Receiving
Metaphysical Spirituality Quarter (April - Jun)
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Mark learns from wonderfully unlikely characters, from a billionaire to a beautiful topless waitress, and manifests an enormous financial windfall. But can his material success hold his family together? Mark embarks on the ultimate quest to understand how our values influence events.
Author William Whitecloud brings a dazzling range of knowledge and experience — from a childhood in Swaziland immersed in supernatural worldviews to hermetic philosophy and esoteric speculation on the financial markets — to bear on this practical and magical look at what we really want, and how to get it.
Book of the month May - Dr. Wayne Dyer's, Real Magic Shows readers how to achieve a higher level of consciousness in order to create miracles--quitting smoking or drinking, achieving job success, finding a happy relationship--in every aspect of everyday life Real Magic: Amazon.co.uk: Dyer, Dr. Wayne W.: 8601409754956: Books 
Awakening Practices
April Online Retreat - releasing judgement to increase vibration
Women's circle May
May Online Retreat - The universe is working for you
Women's Circle June
Summer Solstice Eve June
Here's the music playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5LZbqE8lyFHvbg846ZtbbB?si=00e79761ebe14275
Buddhism Quarter (Jul - Sept)
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One of the most inspiring spiritual teachers of our time offers simple, practical advice for living with less fear, less anxiety and a more open heart. Bought in a hotly contested auction, The Places That Scare You is now available in massmarket, taking Pema Chödrön ’s spiritual teachings to a wider audience.
We always have a choice, Pema Chödrön teaches: we can either let the circumstances of our lives harden us and make us increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kind.
This unique book shows us how to awaken our basic goodness and connect to others. In her lively, contemporary voice, Chödrön translates the wisdom of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition for the layperson.
Her wisdom cuts across all traditions and religions – appealing to everyone from the Dalai Lama’s followers to ordinary people trying to make sense of their lives.
This title has gone straight onto the bestseller lists in the USA, where it has just been published. Recently profiled in Oprah’s O magazine, Pema Chödrön is a spiritual teacher for anyone – whether they have a spiritual path or not. Her heartfelt advice and wisdom (developed in her 20 years of practice as a Tibetan Buddhist nun as well as her years previously as a normal ‘housewife and mother’) give her a wide appeal. Particularly in these difficult times, this advice strikes just the right note, offering us comfort and challenging us to live deeply and contribute to creating a more loving world.
A simple yet profound guide to establishing a transformative and sustaining Zen meditation practice.
Zen master Julian Daizan Skinner guides the listener through a sequence of meditation techniques that can safely lead even a complete novice through to advanced levels. Based on his own long experience of the Rinzai Zen tradition, as taught by the great 17th-century masters Hakuin and Bankei, Daizan highlights the key points for success and addresses the pitfalls. Structured around a traditional teaching framework called 'the two wings of a bird', Daizan clearly lays-out how these methods build and combine to create a transformative and sustaining practice.
The work of a master, the audiobook speaks at a deep level, with utmost simplicity.
Most accounts of spiritual enlightenment end at the moment of illumination. But what happens after that? What is life like after the ecstasy? How do we live our understanding with a full heart? In this unique mix of practical and spiritual wisdom Jack Kornfield, author of the bestselling A PATH WITH HEART and one of the most respected Buddhist meditation teachers in the West, sets out to answer these crucial questions. Drawing on discussions with abbots, lamas and Western meditation masters, Kornfield describes with refreshing honesty their different experiences of the moment of enlightenment and what life lessons they - and we - can learn from these - as each of us seeks to fulfil the true path of compassion on earth.
Awakening Practices
Women's Circle July
You can access the Om Mani Padme Hum chant here https://open.spotify.com/track/6RBph39HU1HKJruii8FSLg?si=88aaea8a15814246
Online Retreat July (Koan Questions)
Womens Circle August
Online Retreat August (Loving Kindness)
Women's Circle September
Online Retreat Sept (Equinox review)
Shamanic Wisdom (Oct - Dec)
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AWAKENING TO THE SPIRIT WORLD -
Today, practicing shamanism doesn't mean you have to live in a rain forest or a desert. Thanks to a modern renaissance of shamanic spirituality, practitioners from all walks of life now use powerful indigenous techniques for healing, insight, and spiritual growth. With Awakening to the Spirit World, teachers Sandra Ingerman and Hank Wesselman bring together a circle of renowned Western shamanic elders Tom Cowan, Carol Proud foot-Edgar, Jose Stevens, and Alberto Villoldo to present a comprehensive manual for making these practices accessible and available in our daily lives, including; How the original practice of shamanism shaped the world's spiritual traditions and why it is still relevant today The art of the shamanic journey a time-tested meditative method for experiencing important spiritual lessons and truths Guidance for avoiding common pitfalls of shamanic practice Instruction for working with your dreams, connecting to your spirit guides, healing yourself and your environment.
Awakening Practices
Womens Circle - Oct - Soul Retrieval Prep
Womens Circle - Nov
Online Retreat - November - standing stones
Medicine Wheel
The Medicine Wheel and the Four Directions
The Medicine Wheel, sometimes known as the Sacred Hoop, has been used by generations of various Native American tribes for health and healing and similar constructs are present in many other indigenious traditions.
It embodies the Four Directions, as well as Father Sky, Mother Earth, and Spirit Tree—all of which symbolize dimensions of health and the cycles of life.
The Medicine Wheel can take many different forms. It can be an artwork such as artifact or painting, or it can be a physical construction on the land. Hundreds or even thousands of Medicine Wheels have been built on Native lands in North America over the last several centuries.
Meanings of the Four Directions
Different tribes interpret the Medicine Wheel differently. Each of the Four Directions (East, South, West, and North) is typically represented by a distinctive color, such as black, red, yellow, and white, which for some stands for the human races.
The Directions can also represent:
Stages of life: birth, youth, adult (or elder), death
Seasons of the year: spring, summer, winter, fall
Aspects of life: spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical
Elements of nature: fire (or sun), air, water, and earth
Animals: Eagle, Bear, Wolf, Buffalo and many others
Ceremonial plants: tobacco, sweet grass, sage, cedar
I invite you today to use the medicine wheel as a reflection tool to consider what change you want to invite in in the forthcoming year and here are some prompts to help you journal, draw, speak this out or just meditate on....
East
- Do you have the depth of spiritual connection or practice you desire?
- What is your over all vision for your life and the legacy you want to leave behind?
- Where are you avoiding looking at the big picture?
- What seeds of growth are you looking to plant for next year?
South
- What is your relationship with your emotions?
- Where are they supporting you and hindering you?
- If the labels of wife, partner, mother, daughter, friend, sister, job title all fell away - who would be the you that was left?
- What is your relationship with yourself?
West
- What thought patterns are running the show?
- Are you thoughts empowering or disempowering?
- Where are you avoiding taking the actions that you know will support you long term?
- Where are you waiting for opportunities instead of creating them?
North
- How strong do you feel in your body?
- Knowing your body is the vessel that supports you to live, how do you take care of it?
- What mental and emotional strengths do you want to embody more fully this coming year?
- What boundaries with yourself and others need to be put into place?
