NEWSLETTER FALL 2009
CONTINUUM VANCOUVER – NEWSLETTER FALL 2009
With our beautiful and leisurely summer time coming to an end for this year, we turn towards the lessening of the light and the approaching dark time of the year, the entry into autumn and retreating within.
Michael Meade’s latest CD, “The Light Within the Dark Times” has inspired me, as Michael often does. He speaks of two movements, ascending into light/spirit and then descending into dark/soul and the need for both. In these difficult, dark times of our world (which is being reflected in many personal lives), our souls are calling us to gather and to deepen into ourselves. “If you’re falling fast, the only way to react is to dive down deeper.” Spirit is connected to faith and we are seeing a loss of faith in the systems, in our culture’s ways of interacting with our world. The soul brings the healing, the reconnecting to the eternal world, the world behind the world, touching once again into the mysteries.
This will be the theme of my second Mini-Workshop in November, recreating the path through our somatic realm to the depths of soul and the eternal world. The initial descent is through the body, perceiving through the senses which takes us part of the way, the soul the rest. That is the place of surrender, entering endarkenment, allowing the soul, moving from the inside out, to find the way.
From Rumi, You are uneven in your opening, sometimes closed, sometimes unreachable, sometimes with your torn shirt of longing wrapped around your heart. Your discursive intellect dominates for a time, then the universal, beyond time and intelligence, begins to come again. So sell your questioning talents and buy more bewildering surrender.
Following are my fall offerings for your contemplation. Would love to have you join us – we can perceive and descend together. Wherever people gather, it is a ceremony!
With love & blessings, DORIS
August 27, 2009
CONTINUUM CLASSES IN NORTH VANCOUVER
FREE INTRODUCTORY CLASS – Monday morning, September 21, 9:30 -11:45am @ Alchemy Centre, #3-431 Mountain Hwy. ONGOING SERIES – September 28 – December 7 (no class October 12 & 19 & November 9) – 8 classes: Investment $225. To register for classes @ Alchemy, contact Anna Kemble, anna@annakemble.com, 604-781-6040. $50 deposit to reserve your space.
CONTINUUM CLASSES IN VANCOUVER
FREE INTRODUCTORY CLASS – Friday morning, September 25, 9:30 –
11:45am @ Yoga on 7th, 156 E 7th (between Main & Quebec – enter @ side off alley). ONGOING SERIES – October 2 – December 4 (no class October 16 & November 6) – 8 classes: Investment $225. $50 deposit to reserve your space. To register for Vancouver classes contact: doris@dorismaranda.com
DROP-INS – $30 – no drop in after the first class of the series unless you have Continuum experience.
WEEKEND MINI-WORKSHOPS IN VANCOUVER @ Yoga on 7th
Saturday, October 24th – 2-5pm – Theme – PERCEIVING AS KNOWING
Saturday, December 5th – 2-5pm – Theme – DESCENT INTO SOUL
Investment fee: $45 each or $80 for both workshops.
DISCOUNTS: Students & underemployed: 20% off
$25 off if you bring someone new to Continuum.
DORIS MARANDA, MA, is an authorized Continuum Movement teacher (www.continuummovement.com), a Registered Clinical Counsellor and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (www.traumahealing.com). “To me, this work is a spiritual practice and has opened me up to possibilities of living embodied that I had only begin to envision in my work as a psyche/soma therapist and educator. It is the basis for everything that I do. In movement, there is no separation and as we begin to live, breathing, moving and expressing our experiences, there comes a joining and a wholeness that leads to healing and to a creative excitation that counteracts the insanity and fragmentation that we encounter in the world around us.”
PRIVATE COUNSELLING & SOMATIC MOVEMENT EDUCATION
SESSIONS WITH DORIS BY APPOINTMENT
604-254-0147 or doris@dorismaranda.com
Free phone consultation.
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