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Center for Awakening
December 2009 Newsletter
801-694-0787
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Center for Awakening December Calendar:
Wednesday Dec. 2; Take grandparents to shoe store
Monday Dec. 7, 14, 21, 28; Yoga @9am
Monday Dec. 7, 14, 21, 28; Yoga Nidra @6:30pm
Sunday Dec. 13; Christmas caroling at nursing homes
Sunday Dec. 20; Deliver gifts to sponsored family
Sunday Dec. 27; Music Meditation
December Music Meditation
Sunday, December 27
191 East 7500 South
6:30 pm
Join us for a powerful group music meditation that will take us into elevated states of joy and love where we experience being one with all life and the Divinity of our own true nature. The transformative loving energy of the group and the music will create the space to experience the unlimited peace and love that is infinitely within you. After meditation everyone is invited to a pot luck snack celebration. Love offering.
Ongoing Music Meditations are every last Sunday of each month from September through May at 6:30 pm. Mark it on your 2010 calendars. No meditation experience necessary. We welcome people of all spiritual paths and faiths, all are welcome. Optional love offering accepted and 100 % of all donations are put towards charitable projects.
Christmas Project
We will be helping two young girls this Holiday season, Chaneece Lamb, 17 years old and Aubrey Lamb, 9 years old. These two girls lost their mother to cancer this past year and do not know their father. They are presently living with friends because they have no family. So we will be helping them out this Christmas to hopefully make the season a little brighter for them
Soles for Souls Charitable Project!
“Grandparents” are senior citizens who work year round in classrooms at the YWCA child care facility in downtown Salt Lake City. They receive way below minimum wage for their services and live on small social security incomes. We will purchase much needed winter shoes for all the grandparents at the YWCA.
Field Trip
On Wed. Dec. 2 at 1:30pm at we will have a field trip and take the grandparents to a local shoe store to pick out their shoes. Anyone who would like to volunteer to be a part of this field trip please contact Bonnie or meet us at the YWCA on 344East 300 South at 1:30pm Wednesday Dec. 2. We still need volunteers to help drive the grandparents to the shoe store and pick out their shoes. We really appreciate your help.
Holiday Caroling at the Nursing Homes
Everyone is invited to join us as we visit several local nursing homes to sing them cheerful songs of the season and bring them some holiday treats. This will be a fun service activity for all ages, so bring your family, friends and neighbors. We will conclude our outing with a meal together at Sweet Tomatoes in Sandy. Meet at Bonnie’s home at 191 East 7500 South, Midvale at 2pm on Sunday December 13th .
Transformational Relaxation/Yoga Nidra
Yoga nidra is integrative sleep of the yogis-a unique combination of alert awareness and deepest relaxation. It takes you to the higher centers of consciousness far beyond ordinary waking consciousness. In these deep states, the mystical integrative powers of the third eye and ananda or bliss consciousness are activated giving you direct access to the extraordinary powers of your own intuition, creativity, health and abundance.
Yoga Nidra goes beyond wakefulness and dreaming. It is an awakening of the deep, deep stillness of what is asleep within you.
Join us any and/or every Monday evening through the month of December for a transformational yoga nidra experience at 6:30pm at the Salt Lake Center for Spiritual Living, 870 East North Union Ave., Midvale UT.
YOGA with Bonnie
Monday mornings 9 am to 10:30 am
Salt Lake Center for Spiritual Living
870 East North Union Ave., Midvale UT
Monday yoga is a great way to start your week in a conscious way. Every yoga class includes a kirtan, short meditation, pranayam/breathwork, yoga postures and philosophy and savasana/relaxation. All levels welcome!
Costa Rica Retreat
Everyone is invited to the Costa Rica spiritual retreat on January 23 to 30th 2010. We will be staying at the gorgeous brand new Blue Spirit Omega retreat center in the lush jungle on the edge of the Pacific Ocean in Nosara Costa Rica.
This is an all inclusive retreat where we will enjoy classes with some of Omega’s top teachers (described below), also included are three delicious healthy meals a day, a range of elegant accommodations (price varies), miles of white sandy beaches, daily yoga and tai chi classes, evening events and concerts, a salt water infinity pool, library and café.
Classes and workshops available on week four:
John Perkins
Achieving Peace Through Higher Consciousness
Before writing and teaching about shapeshifting, shamanism, and ecology, John Perkins worked for the World Bank and the United States government. He left when he realized he was part of a system that was transforming the once respected American republic into a feared empire. Having worked with shamans and indigenous populations around the world for four decades, Perkins, author of the best-selling Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, shows us how to achieve personal and global peace and prosperity by expanding our consciousness and shapeshifting our institutions.
Alan Lowen
The Art of Being®
Learn to love the life you are living with The Art of Being®. Created by Alan Lowen, The Art of Being is a down-to-earth way to restore full connection with your nature, heart, being, and soul. Through dynamic meditations, trance journeys, music, inner explorations, and sharing, we bring healing to the wounds of our childhood, transcend self-limiting beliefs, and open our way into living vibrantly in an ever-deepening and expanding state of presence.
Judith Ansara, MSW, and Robert Gass, EdD
Relationship as Spiritual Practice
Do you long to create a loving and satisfying relationship? Join internationally-known consciousness teachers and creators of Sharing the Path workshops for couples, Judith Ansara and Robert Gass, for an enlivening and practical training in the art of embracing relationship as a spiritual practice. As you learn to bring your heart, mind, body, and spirit into your relationship, you will delight in increased intimacy, connection, and joy in your union.
Judith Ansara, MSW, and Robert Gass, EdD
Sacred Chant Celebration
Come sing your heart open, dance your prayers, and let your spirit soar! Judith Ansara and Robert Gass, creators of the best-selling chant CDs Om Namaha Shivaya and Ancient Mother, lead us in the deep, ecstatic practices of sacred chant, movement, and meditation. As we chant in joyful communion together, we each open to the possibility of directly experiencing bliss, devotion, and inner peace. Beginner and experienced chanters alike are welcome.
Jane Fryer, RYT 500
Inward Bound Yoga
Are you ready to take your yoga practice deeper? Join Jane Fryer, creator of Inward Bound, for an active and deeply restorative yoga and meditation practice in the tranquil setting of Nosara, Costa Rica. With her extensive background in Kripalu, Iyengar, Sivananda, and Anusara yogas, Fryer guides us to personalize our yoga practice and discover our sacred inner essence. Beginner and experienced yoga practitioners alike are welcome. Bring your own yoga mat.
Annette Knopp
The Free Heart
As human beings living in a conditional world, we tend to look outside of ourselves for perfect love, freedom, and peace. Guided by spiritual teacher and counselor Annette Knopp, we use meditative inquiry, experiential exercises, and deep communion to rediscover the natural love, clarity, and space that is already present at the core of our being. As we discover our free heart, we make peace with all aspects of reality and let go into “present-moment-openness” and authentic connection with ourselves and others.
Steven Michael Pague
Easy Qigong & Tai Chi
At Play in the Fields of Elixir
With Steven Michael Pague, longtime codirector and host of Omega’s winter programs, we work, cultivate, and play in the wonderful mystery of qi. Through easy-to-learn yet profound movements and meditations of qigong and tai chi, we begin to discover how to access “the elixir within,” our inner medicine. Together, we cultivate a foundation of practices that can be readily duplicated at home to increase vitality, strengthen immune function, enhance creativity, and achieve more harmony and balance.
Stephan Rechtschaffen, MD
Living Fully in This Moment
Physician and cofounder of Omega, Stephan Rechtschaffen, teaches holistic approaches to time, longevity, stress reduction, and well-being. Through visualization techniques, mindfulness practices, and awareness exercises, the author of Timeshifting: Creating More Time to Enjoy Your Life and coauthor of Vitality and Wellness, shows us how to slow down and come into the authentic and natural rhythms that are the result of living fully in the present moment.
Register for the Costa Rica retreat by going to eOmega.org/winter or call Omega directly at 800-944-1001.
Please let me know if you register for this retreat; Bonnie 801-694-0787
Monthly Community Events
Music Meditation
Sunday, December 27th, at 6:30 pm
191 E. 7500 So., Midvale, UT
Love offering
Dances of Universal Peace
Saturday, December 12th, Inner Light Center located at 4408 South 500 East, 7pm.
Love offering
Taize
Wednesday, December 30th, at 7 pm
Salt Lake Center for Spiritual Living
870 East North Union Ave., Midvale UT
Love Offering
Weekly Community Events
Yoga
Every Monday 9 am to 10:30 am
Salt Lake Center for Spiritual Living
870 East North Union Ave., Midvale UT
Love offering
Yoga Nidra
Every Monday through December2009 at 6:30pm
Salt Lake Center for Spiritual Living
870 East North Union Ave., Midvale UT
Love offering
Deeksha Blessings
Every Tuesday at 7 pm
SLCSL 870 East North Union Ave. Midvale, UT
Love Offering
Meditation in Nature
Every Friday from 9:30 to 10:30am
3489 South 2000 E.
Anna 801-647-8311
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Meditations at Cottonwood Heights
Wednesday evening 7pm and Sunday morning 9:30am
2174 Villaire Ave. Cottonwood Heights.
801-365-2422 or 801947-1871
Meditation
Every Sunday from 6:30-7:30 p.m.
SLCSL 870 East North Union Ave. Midvale, UT
Mike @ 435/513-9008.
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3rd Saturday of each month 11-2pm
The Salt Lake Center For Spiritual Living
807 East No. Union Ave. (South of Ft Union Blvd)
Contact Leesa Myers for more info: 801-824-0774
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Travel Agent Services- Take the vacation of your dreams; call Diane Cunningham at 801-561-0634
Yoga Classes
Every Friday at 8:30 am and 10:30 am at the Inner Light Center, 4408 South 500 East, SLC, UT
Virgina has been teaching kripalu style yoga for many years and is wonderful. $8.00 per class
Grounded Soul Massage
1 hour………………..$45.00
80 min…………………..$60.00
30 min Reiki………..$35.00
Kaley Tallman, L.M.T. 801.698.2534
Massage in the comfort of your own home.”
If you would like to advertise on next months newsletter please email your ad to awakeningmiracles@msn.com by the end of the month; Please keep your ad to a few short lines and I will cut and paste what you send me onto the newsletter.
During this busy time of year amidst all the hustle and bustle of the season, remember to take time out to be still and touch the absolute divinity and magnificence that dwells within your very soul. Much love and light to you all during the celebration of Christmas, Hanukah, winter solstice and all the other December spiritual holidays.
Center for Awakening
October 2009 Newsletter
801-694-0787
centerforawakening.wordpress.com
October Music Meditation
Sunday, October 25
191 East 7500 South
6:30 pm
Join us for a powerful group music meditation that will take us into elevated states of consciousness where we experience being one with all life, all Divinity and enjoy the peace, love, joy and transformative energy of the group. After meditation everyone is invited to a pot luck snack celebration.
There is no charge for meditations, voluntary love donations are accepted and all donations will go towards the Soles for Souls charitable project.
Ongoing Music Meditations are every last Sunday of each month from September through May at 6:30 pm. No meditation experience necessary. We welcome people of all spiritual paths and faiths, optional love offering accepted and 100 % of all donations are put towards charitable projects.
Fun Fundraiser Activity
Sunday Oct. 4 from noon to 5pm at Jean’s house at 4440 Atherton Dr. (1100 West) Murray, UT, everyone is invited to help us make dream pillows to raise money for the Sole for Souls charity. We’ll have a fun time and we’ll be making a difference. Any time you can offer your help, even an hour or two is great! Afterwards we’ll visit and laugh together with lasagna and garlic bread and admire our accomplishments.
Soles for Souls Charitable Project!
“Grandparents” are senior citizens who work year round in classrooms at the YWCA child care facility in downtown Salt Lake City. They receive way below minimum wage for their services and live on small social security incomes. We will purchase much needed winter shoes for all the grandparents at the YWCA.
Once we have raised enough money we will have a field trip and take the grandparents to a local shoe store to pick out their shoes. Anyone who would like to volunteer to be a part of this field trip helping the grandparents is welcome.
Transformational Relaxation/Yoga Nidra
Join us any and/or every Monday evening for eight weeks for a transformational yoga nidra course starting on November 9, 2009 at 6:30pm at the Salt Lake Center for Spiritual Living, 870 East North Union Ave., Midvale UT.
Yoga nidra is integrative sleep of the yogis-a unique combination of alert awareness and deepest relaxation. It takes you to the higher centers of consciousness far beyond ordinary waking consciousness. In these deep states, the mystical integrative powers of the third eye and ananda or bliss consciousness are activated giving you direct access to the extraordinary powers of your own intuition, creativity, health and abundance.
Yoga Nidra goes beyond wakefulness and dreaming. It is an awakening of the deep, deep stillness of what is asleep within you.
Costa Rica Retreat
As many of you know I have been exploring options for a spiritual retreat in Costa Rica, this has been in the planning for several years initially inspired by Jim Sorenson at a board meeting a few years ago. Many of you have put down deposits on the retreat. With the intended property donated to us by Jim Sorenson not coming through it would be very expensive for us to have our own retreat, costing around $2,500 per person for one week, not including airfare. Therefore I will be organizing a retreat to Costa Rica for everyone who is interested through Omega. An all inclusive week long retreat with a personal tent, all meals, all workshops, daily yoga, evening events, use of all the facilities including library, pool, beaches etc. is $1,195 per person. You can register for the retreat directly through Omega, however in our next newsletter I will let you know which week this winter the Center for Awakening will be attending Omega as a group.
For all those who put a deposit on the retreat, (I have a list of all of your names), regardless of how much you paid, as promised, I will pay $100 towards your 1010 Costa Rica retreat at Omega.
Go to eOmega.org/winter for more details
New Blog for Center for Awakening!
Go to the site below today and
sign up to be a member of our new blog site.
You can read daily posts with New Thought insights
Centerforawakening.wordpress.com
Yoga with Bonnie
Monday mornings 9 am to 10:30 am
Salt Lake Center for Spiritual Living
870 East North Union Ave., Midvale UT
Monday yoga is a great way to start your week in a conscious way. Every yoga class includes a kirtan, short meditation, pranayam/breathwork, yoga postures and philosophy and savasana/relaxation. All levels welcome!
Bonnie 801-694-0787
Community Events
Music Meditation
Sunday, October 25 at 6:30 pm
191 E. 7500 So., Midvale, UT
Love offering
Dances of Universal Peace
Saturday, October 10, Inner Light Center located at 4408 South 500 East, 7pm.
Love offering
Taize
Wednesday, October 28 at 7 pm
Salt Lake Center for Spiritual Living
870 East North Union Ave., Midvale UT
Love Offering
Ongoing Weekly Events
Meditations at Cottonwood Heights
There is nothing like opening to the indescribable joy and love of God. ”Go to God” with us in our charismatic spiritual light sessions. Wednesday evenings 7PM. Sunday mornings 9:30AM, 2174 Villaire Ave. Cottonwood Heights. 365-2422 or 947-1871
Yoga
Every Monday 9 am to 10:30 am
Salt Lake Center for Spiritual Living
870 East North Union Ave., Midvale UT
Love offering
Deeksha Blessings
Every Tuesday at 7 pm
SLCSL 870 East North Union Ave. Midvale, UT
Love Offering
Community Advertisements
Ad by Leesa
The mind body soul experience is a group of certified healing professionals covering a wide range of healing modalities from intuitive readings, spiritual counseling, energy work and more. We come together once a month to offer an introductory experience of our services at an affordable price. Our goal is help people find the healing tools they are seeking to assist in their own personal growth.
3rd Saturday of each month 11-2pm
The Salt Lake Center For Spiritual Living
807 East No. Union Ave. (South of Ft Union Blvd)
Contact Leesa Myers for more info: 801-824-0774
Ad by Anna
Meditation in Nature
Join us for sitting meditation in a beautiful Millcreek backyard,
Sitting quietly for 40 minutes is such a great thing to do.
It’s a great place, and a great group.
9:30 – 10:30 AM Fridays
3489 S. 2000 E.
Hope to see you!
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Ad by Mike
Meditation every Sunday from 630-730 p.m. at the Salt Lake Spritual Center. All levels of experience welcome! Questions? Call Mike @ 435/513-9008.
If you would like to advertise on next months newsletter please email your ad to awakeningmiracles@msn.com by the end of the month; Please keep your ad to a few short lines and I will cut and paste what you send me onto the newsletter.
May you see the glory of this now moment, living deeply now, grateful for all the gifts and miracles this moment offers. Blessings and love, Bonnie
Center for Awakening
September 2009 Newsletter
801-694-0787
centerforawakening.wordpress.com
September Music Meditation
Sunday, September 27
191 East 7500 South
6:30 pm
Join us for a powerful group music meditation that will take us into elevated states of consciousness where we experience being one with all life, all Divinity and enjoy the peace, love, joy and transformative energy of the group. After meditation everyone is invited to a pot luck snack celebration.
There is no charge for meditations, voluntary love donations are accepted and all donations will go towards the Soles for Souls charitable project.
Ongoing Music Meditations are every last Sunday of each month from September through May at 6:30 pm. No meditation experience necessary. We welcome people of all spiritual paths and faiths, optional love offering accepted and 100 % of all donations are put towards charitable projects.
Fall Reiki Master Course Fundraiser
Become a Reiki Master, two day course in which you will receive Reiki I through Master attunements. Reiki awakens the healing energy within your soul and you become an immediate healer. Help friends, loved ones, start a private practice or use Reiki on yourself. This is a transformational course you will use for a lifetime.
Proceeds from this course will go to the Soles for Souls charity.
$300 for the entire course
No experience necessary.
Soles for Souls Charitable Project!
“Grandparents” are senior citizens who work year round in classrooms at the YWCA child care facility in downtown Salt Lake City. They receive way below minimum wage for their services and live on small social security incomes. We will purchase much needed winter shoes for all the grandparents at the YWCA.
Once we have raised enough money we will have a field trip and take the grandparents to a local shoe store to pick out their shoes. Anyone who would like to volunteer to be a part of this field trip helping the grandparents is welcome.
Fun Fundraiser Activity
Sunday Oct. 4 from noon to 5pm at Jean’s house at 4440 Atherton Dr. (1100 West) Murray, UT, everyone is invited to join us for a craft party making dream pillows that will be sold during meditations to raise money for the Sole for Souls charity. Any time you can offer your help is great! We’ll have fun and there will be snacks!
New Blog for Center for Awakening!
Go to the site below today and
sign up to be a member of our new blog site.
You can read daily posts with New Thought insights
Centerforawakening.wordpress.com
YOGA with Bonnie
Monday mornings 9 am to 10:30 am
Salt Lake Center for Spiritual Living
870 East North Union Ave., Midvale UT
Monday yoga is a great way to start your week in a conscious way. Every yoga class includes a kirtan, short meditation, pranayam/breathwork, yoga postures and philosophy and savasana/relaxation. All levels welcome!
Bonnie 801-694-078
Community Events
Music Meditation
Sunday, September 27 at 6:30 pm
191 E. 7500 So., Midvale, UT
Love offering
Dances of Universal Peace
Saturday, September 12, Inner Light Center located at 4408 South 500 East, 7pm.
Love offering
Taize
Wednesday, September 30 at 7 pm
Salt Lake Center for Spiritual Living
870 East North Union Ave., Midvale UT
Love Offering
Ongoing Weekly Events
Meditations at Cottonwood Heights
There is nothing like opening to the indescribable joy and love of God. ”Go to God” with us in our charismatic spiritual light sessions. Wednesday evenings 7PM. Sunday mornings 9:30AM, 2174 Villaire Ave. Cottonwood Heights. 365-2422 or 947-1871
Yoga
Every Monday 9 am to 10:30 am
Salt Lake Center for Spiritual Living
870 East North Union Ave., Midvale UT
Love offering
Deeksha Blessings
Every Tuesday at 7 pm
SLCSL 870 East North Union Ave. Midvale, UT
Love Offering
Community Advertisements
Living the Life You Love Course.
It is not too late to join this life transforming course. This 8 week course meets weekly on Wednesday nights from 7:00 – 9:30 PM in a Murray location. We will be discussing 8 Key Areas of Your Life :: Self, Relationships, Creativity, Support People, Career, Wisdom, Self Knowledge, Wealth, Prosperity and Fame/Reputation. Each class stands alone so you can pick and choose your areas of interest. Each class is $40.00. For more information, contact Diane Cunningham, Life Coach & Holistic Health Practitioner at (801) 561 -0634.
Pampered Chef Party, Saturday Sept. 12 at 4:00
Annette has started a delicious new business called Pampered Chef that your stomach will definitely want to learn more about. So bring your appetite and your curiosity to a Pampered Chef party at Bonnie’s house at 191 E. 7500 So. Midvale on Saturday Sept. 12 at 4pm. All are invited! Call Bonnie or Annette at 801-694-0787 801-580-0783
