Greetings Friend,
As I juggle about 8,000 responsibilities in my back-to-school rush, I find myself missing “me time”. I’m not complaining—the myriad things I have to do are mostly exciting and enjoyable, but I’ve found that I have to adjust to not having an hour to journal, read, or contemplate. I miss that checking-in with myself that I used to do. By the time I actually get a second to sit down and be alone, I won’t even know where to begin!
In light of that feeling, I found this sentence in
Normandi Ellis’s article particularly moving “Too often we do not take the time to leave behind our day to day social and business biographies. We go out into the world looking for the Spirit that has been the Truth, the seed that dwells within us all along.” Though she’s writing about spiritual autobiography, it somehow feels applicable to us overbooked folks, as a gentle reminder to remember that sometimes the solution is found within. As Ellis writes, “Who we are becoming is much more important than who we were, yet all that we have felt, all that we have touched, all we have loved [...] has created the constellation of this vessel we inhabit.” Normandi Ellis is a widely accomplished author who will be at LFAC as part of the
Fellowship of Isis: Goddess Festival, where you can commune with your inner self.
Janice Lewis’s
Labyrinth Walk, which she hosts monthly at LFAC, might seem like a paradoxical way to find peace, but as Lewis says, “labyrinths are not mazes”. A maze wants to you get lost, where in a labyrinth the intention is to travel inside yourself and find a way out again, either literally as in walking the labyrinth, or figuratively (as I hope to do as soon as I sit down and open my journal).
There are many ways to get in touch with oneself, and LFAC has a lot of them covered.
5Rhythms Movement Practice lets you feel and understand your body, and we’re hosting an event with Karyn Garter on September 24. If you’re confused as to what body you’re actually in (and who doesn’t feel like that some days?),
Kurt Leland’s astral projection workshop September 25 will give you a greater understand of your auras and layers of consciousness. And
Joan Forest Mage’s Foundations: Energetic Projections course September 24 helps you learn about your energetic and spirit body.
However you choose, sit down, and spend a few minutes alone. And while you do, I’m grabbing my pen and a notebook to do the same.
is an author, speaker, traveler, translator and workshop leader. She will be presenting at the
on October 1st. Check out
, which will also be the opening chapter in her new book, coauthored with Gloria Taylor Brown.
will be released by Bear & Company in November 2011.
, a monthly event she hosts at LFAC. The centuries-old meditative practice of walking a labyrinth is a way people around the world quiet the mind, recover balance in life, and peacefully integrate the body, mind and spirit.
