Starting this evening in the Heart Room, Heidi Jo, is offering a new 5 week series that plays with the expressive arts and embodiment practices that support the full flowering of the feminine essence. Curious? Stop by tonight for a free introductory class!

More on Heidi Jo…

Heidi Jo blends her lifelong studies of the Expressive and Healing arts together to create dance classes that invite full embodiment of the head, heart, and pelvis; the mental, emotional, and instinctual energy centers of the body.  Heidi is interested in empowering people to live in the aliveness of their spirit, the juiciness of their physicality, the freedom of their dreams, the playfulness of their child within, and the magic of their creativity.

Heidi Jo has studied Expressive Arts Therapy at the Tamapla Institute, Creative Dance and Brain Dance with Anne Green Gilbert, and Essence work with Kim Lincoln.  She has an extensive dance training that includes dance forms from around the globe, including Bellydance, Ballet and Modern, African Dance, Orissi, Flamenco, Samba and folk dance.

Heidi Jo teaches to all ages from toddler to elder, and offers different classes to different populations.  All the classes begin with a foundation of Brain Dance, a gentle movement warmup which goes through the Neuro-Developmental movement patterns that we learned as babies and use for all our movement.  Practicing the Brain Dance assists in the grace and ease of movement, and can be used therapeutically.

Heidi Jo is the creator of Movement Magic LLC. creative dance for kids, and Sacred Embodiment, movement and conciousness work for adults.

Look for these classes in the coming months:

Creative Dance for kids

Bellydance for girls

Brain Dance Intensive for men and women

Shimmy Shake for both men and women

We are happy to welcome Heidi Jo to the Heart Room!

Do you make your living or spend a significant amount of your time helping people? If so then you know how good it feels to give of yourself for the benefit of others. It feels so good because it is natural. Modern science corroborates what all the various spiritual traditions have always known: we have evolved to be of service to each other.

But no matter how natural it is, no matter how intrinsic and essential it is to our human beingness, and no matter how deeply fulfilling it can feel, a life of giving and being of service is not always easy.

Sometimes you can do everything you can and still nothing makes the difference you want it to make. Other times you can give so much that you end up exhausting yourself and forgetting your own needs. No matter how much you love helping people, in the midst of the ongoing drama of everyday life it is remarkably easy to lose track of your alignment and inspiration. And worn down by the daily grind, it’s no surprise that you can easily end up feeling overwhelmed and exhausted.

You know in your heart that it doesn’t have to be this way. You know in your heart that it really is possible to wake up excited to go to work, to spend your day giving as deeply as in your heart you know you want to give, and to come home feeling more energized and inspired than when you left. It really is possible to rest your head at night feeling deeply fulfilled and at peace with yourself and the world. And it really is possible to remember who you most deeply are and to reconnect with the source of inspiration that defines and motivates you.

You know in your heart that all this is possible. In fact it is not only possible but reliably attainable, and what makes it so is not some kind of magic but rather a set of practical, teachable set of skills that anyone can learn.

With practice, you can learn how to:
•    remember why you want to help people, and why it feels so good
•    wake excited to go to work, stay inspired through the day, come home energized
•    give as deeply and as fully as you want to give, without feeling drained
•    help others with their pain and problems without holding on to them yourself
•    radically amplify your power to help others, even in not ideal circumstances
•    be at peace with yourself and inspired by your journey in life
•    remember your innate nature and your deep source of inspiration
•    say yes to the real possibility of who you most deeply are
•    stand strong for what you love and for the truth that love reveals through you
•    give from overflowing so that the more you give the more you receive
•    discover your embodied presence as an effective diagnostic and therapeutic tool
•    differentiate between pain and suffering and learn healthy responses to each
•    differentiate between earthly and Divine love and their roles in healing
•    safely be a wide open channel for the unlimited abundance of Divine love
•    have clear boundaries and protect yourself without making separation
•    safely cultivate earthly love and warmth without creating confusion

These skills can transform your practice and change your life. They have done so for me and for many of my colleagues. But there is no magic involved and you don’t need to have special powers to succeed. All that is required is sincerity and a willingness to keep practicing in the midst of your everyday life.

You Are the Medicine

When: 6 Thursdays, May 24th thru June 28th, 7:00-9:00PM
Where: The Heart Room at Heart of Wellness
Cost: $120 ($90 before May 17th)

register now for this class series

email me for more information: fred@radicalwellness.org

Fred Klemmer is an acupuncturist, practitioner of East Asian medicine, a Sufi teacher, and a wellness and relationship coach. He teaches classes and workshops and offers healing and coaching for individuals and couples based in practical and proven methods developed through an in-depth study of multiple healing and wisdom traditions. Fred has helped hundreds of people find their way through their problems to rediscover their own innate connection to health, happiness, wholeness and inspiration.

Our denser 5 senses [sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell] are limited reflections of our eternal spiritual subtler senses [visionary, frequencies, potencies of substance, sensation, and essential scents]. These inner, subtle organs of perception are the intention and qualities of our behavior, and the levels of our consciousness, considered our limitless senses.  It is necessary in order to develop and grow our connection with these subtle and refined capacities to give ourselves neutral spacious timeless time and allow ourselves to just be. Any position we take that reinforces our limitations is self castrating and dis-empowering, which is a way we shut down to avoid the change which can naturally arise if we give ourselves to the felt spaciousness that letting go supports. To address this one needs to face the seemingly scary feeling of lack, or whatever the conditioned belief is, which is what space can reveal, inviting our awareness to reconnect with what we believed was lost. In this work we are accessing and differentiating what we think we know with the knowing of our inner guidance through the senses, thus freeing us from the bondage of delusion.

This is a choice-point where only we can make a difference in growing into our fuller potentiality. What we do and don’t do makes all the difference.We have to desire and allow ourselves to be it even if we don’t know how. It’s a paradox. Yet through surrendering to and meeting what’s present, can we accept the feeling of vulnerability and give it a chance to grow up before striking it down again. Without that, we will just keep attacking and punishing ourselves proving we are ‘right’ about what we don’t know, can’t do, and everything we judge is wrong with us, which is feeding the lie, or say, reenacting historical traits of deficiency that interfere with our well-being. This limitation; the lie, is not us. It is not the limitless potentiality of being; it’s simply a learned or conditioned pattern that by feeding it gets us stuck in the groove of the old program again like a broken record.

So each time you catch yourself playing the old tape of what’s wrong with you and what you can’t change, or do, stop mid-track, just stop, and drop it like a hot potato! Then be with whatever sense is present. And pause with that. By showing up again and again you will learn to be pro-active rather than re-active~ the more you do it, the better you feel and the better you feel, the more you’ll do it! That’s what we can do!! So we’re not getting rid of doing, but rather, our doing bows in service of our being. Over time you will notice that as the tenacity of the limiting pattern lessens a genuine sense of confidence grows. You will become more self-aware, and your intuition will be more available and open, giving way to a new you and expanded possibilities of being!

Join us in the Gifts of Being classes the 1st 3 Mondays of each month 7-8:30 pm in the Heartroom~ Also, a new subtle energy training series will begin in Sept. ‘The Latiaf Training’, where we will explore the subtle energies of our essential nature and grow our relationship to that!. For questions call 360-866-9234.

Yoga illuminates my soul.

Focusing on my breath, I am present

Breathing brings me ease

Following my breath brings me home

Being home,

My heart radiates joy

With a joyous heart,

My body moves with the steady rhythm of my breath

As I breathe,

My body moves

As my body moves

My soul is Vibrant.

Yoga is for everybody and for every body.  I believe this is true, but that does not mean that the practice that is right for a 25-30 year old is appropriate for someone who is 50 years old or someone with health issues.  Individuals at midlife and older have special needs, just as those with health issues and women who are pregnant have special needs.   It is possible to develop a practice for each specialized group/person that is best for their unique situation and their body profile.

• Monday VibrantBeing Chair Yoga 10:30-11:45 am is an example of a modified practice that fits the needs of a special group.  This group is ageless and individuals that attend may or may not have medical issues (arthritis or weight), the body may be less flexible and is seeking new ways to move with ease, or yoga may feel like a wonderful practice that will bring the mind-body back into balance.  For whatever reason, offer yourself the gift of vibrant well-being and a returning home– to yourself,    through a gentle Chair Yoga Practice.  Personal well-being investment $5 per class.   Chair Yoga is my sacred reciprocity or ayni–with the community.  My intention is to encourage anyone and every one to begin a regular yoga practice.

• Wednesday VibrantBeing Gentle Yoga 5:30-6:45 pm is another example of an ageless modified integrative yoga emphasizing the health and wellbeing of our heart, mind-body.  This class is for those who have entered mid-life and/or for those seeking a practice that will improve flexibility, strength, energy, and bring an inner sense of peace and serenity.  Gentle Integrative Yoga includes more warm-ups and movements with the breath to invite a more meditative aspect of yoga inviting you to tune into what needs more awareness and more spaciousness in our bodies. The use of props: blocks, straps, blankets and the wall, are not only suggested but encouraged and demonstrated as supportive tools inviting the body to come into a pose with grace.  The stretching and strengthening poses are practiced with special attention to protecting and preserving our physical and emotional wellbeing.                                      Personal well-being investment $10 per class.

Both the Chair yoga Class and the Wednesday VibrantBeing Gentle Yoga Class are open to all and are on-going.  It is best to show up at least 10-15 minutes before class, so that you have plenty of time to check in and get settled before class begins.  Heart of Wellness has a wonderful supply of yoga mats, blocks, straps, blankets and eye pillows if you do not have your own at this time.

I invite you to make a personal commitment to attend a yoga class for at least three months.  That will give you an opportunity to discover how a regular practice of yoga can alleviate stress, offer you a peace, and an overall sense of holistic well-being.

Yoga for Cancer Recovery Class Coming Soon to Heart of Wellness

As a Registered Radiant Health Yoga® Teacher & Cancer Exercise Specialist, Debbie is delighted to offer Yoga for Cancer Recovery Class.  Participants need not have any previous yoga experience to attend.

This small group class will include gentle yoga poses, along with breathing techniques, meditation, restorative yoga poses and Yoga Nidra (deep relaxation or yogic sleep) designed specifically for students coping with cancer.

Class will meet once a week for 90 min.   Day and time to be determined soon.

Yoga for Cancer Recovery can help students:

• Regain strength and flexibility

• Stimulate lymph flow

• Prevent osteoporosis

• Manage menopausal symptoms, weight gain, neuropathy, and other side effects caused by surgery, chemotherapy, and/or
radiation therapy

• Improve the ability to cope with stress

• Increase mental focus

• Help re-discover sense of well-being and joy

Call Debbie at 360-894-1626 or Heart of Wellness 360-570-0401 to reserve your space in this class.

This specialized class requires a doctors release form (obtained from Debbie) to participate.  If you are a cancer survivor yourself or have someone dear to you that has survived cancer call Debbie at 360-894-1626 to sign up for this class.

“The research – from the MD Anderson Cancer Center, at the University of Texas – showed that women practicing both the meditative and physical aspects of yoga, had better health, lower stress, and an improved attitude, compared to those just undertaking simple stretching. [Results Lorenzo Cohen]

What the team found was that those women taking up either yoga, or simple stretching, showed lower levels of fatigue than those who didn’t exercise at all. But those in the yoga group had the best overall health levels and saw their experience in a more positive light. They also had the largest falls in cortisol – an important stress hormone. Given that breast cancer patients are very susceptible to higher levels of stress hormone – which often results in worse outcomes for their disease  the reduced levels of cortisol seen is an important result.” (www.earthlinks.org, Yoga boosts…Martin Leggett May 18, 2011)

Debbie Barnes-Allan RYT-CES
VibrantBeing Yoga & Ayni Shaman Energy Medicine Practices

Heart of Wellness 360-894-1626

Attention Holistic Health Care Professionals:

How would it feel to work in an environment that reflects your values, with a group of colleagues with whom you can create real community, and who will support you to take your practice to new levels of depth, efficacy and prosperity?

Life is too short not to live your dreams.

That is why we created Heart of Wellness. We invite you to consider joining us. To learn more about our available room please contact: info@heartofwellness.org.

Heart of Wellness is a group of practitioners sharing a common vision for providing health and wellness care based in generosity, prosperity, community, excellence, self-responsibility, integrity, resonance, alignment and service. Our wellness center is located in an urban oasis just minutes from downtown Olympia. Our building is timber-framed, green-remodeled, rests on a bluff surrounded by trees, and has plenty of onsite parking.

There are 32 bars of energy that run through and around your head. They store the electromagnetic component of all the thoughts, ideas, attitudes, decisions and beliefs that you have ever had about anything. There are Bars for healing, body, control, awareness, creativity, power, aging, sex and money; just to name a few. Each thought, idea, attitude, decision or belief that you have fixed in place solidifies the energy and limits your capacity to be generative in that area and to have something different show up in your life with ease.

This is an incredibly nurturing and relaxing process, undoing limitation in all aspects of your life without any effort.

At worst you feel like you have just had the best massage of your life. At best your whole life can change into something greater with total ease.

In this full-day class you will learn Access the Bars™ with total ease. Class includes:

• coaching by a Certified Access Consciousness™ Bars Facilitator
• viewing “Access The Bars” DVD where founder, Gary Douglas personally demonstrates the technique
• you will receive Bars twice and you will run another person’s Bars twice
• 8 CEU’s available

In addition, you will be provided with a Manual, charts and other information to assist you in running Access Bars, on your own, for other people. And if you attend a total of three Access Bars classes, you are eligible to be a Certified Bars Facilitator. Many people have created successful businesses or supplemented their existing business with this unique, gentle-touch therapy.

Class $200. If repeating the class or kids 16-18 $100. Kids under age 16 free.

Registration and information www.accessconsciousness.com Valentinah- 360- 894-5584 access2you@ymail.com

Workshop: Sunday May 13th, 2012  10AM – 6:00PM (9:30 Registration)

Evolutionary Astrology comes to us from Jeffery Wolf Green.  His first book, Pluto: The Evolutionary Journey of the Soul, came into print in 1985.  Since then, it has been translated into many languages and spread across the world.  There is a reason this is the most widely spread astrology book: it teaches an astrology like no other before or after it.

Recently I was sharing about an upcoming talk on Evolutionary Astrology.  The person asked “Where does this come from?”   Hmmmm…that is a good question.  Jeffery Wolf Green spent years and years lecturing and teaching and writing about this material.  The start of it – the material which became Pluto Book One was brought to Jeffery in dream in the form of sanskrit from Sri Yukteswar.

Pluto: Evolutionary Journey of the Soul begins with a quote from Sri Yukteswar:

“A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual karma.  His horoscope is a challenging portrait, revealing his unalterable past and its probable future result.  But the natal chart can be rightly interpreted only by men of intuitive wisdom: these are few.”

Swami Sri Yukteswar became known in the western world mainly through Paramahansa Yogananda’s famous “Autobiography of a Yogi”.  This autobiography beautifully paints a picture of what it was like for Yogananda as a disciple to Swami Sri Yukteswar.  Sri Yukteswar is a liberated soul who moved on from the samsara of earthly living through full God realization and mastery of the physical world.  At the time of the transmission of the Pluto material to JWG, this soul was liberated from human living on earth 40 years prior.

We can see that the true origin of Evolutionary Astrology is the Divine Source.  One of the beauties of EA is that folks do not need to be spiritually inclined to benefit from it.  The more I study the life of Jeffery Wolf Green, the more I realize how truly amazing it has been for a soul to bring these teachings to the masses.  The language of the soul is universal; the truth resonates deepest.

Jeffery’s main focus has always been to help others.  The employment of this knowledge quickly assisted thousands, and now millions, in personal evolution, growth and soul healing.  When someone needs help and is seeking answers, they do not need to embrace any doctrine or beliefs to be nourished from the soul wisdom EA has to offer each and everyone.

At the moment of desire to make changes to improve one’s life, taking a step on a path of growth – evolutionary astrology can be a tool to put into context the bottom line of “what is this path to grow and how do I become aware of this?”.  Real growth that counts is soul evolution. EA will also give us the karmic WHY – the stories of past lives are reflected in the chart.  When folks do not know why they are experiencing what they are, there is an answer.  Unless you are in direct line of knowledge to the Divine Source, EA may be one of your best tools in answering these age old questions of the seeking soul.  After an EA session, it is not uncommon for someone to say “you shared that with me in one hour. It took 4 years of counseling and therapy!”

I write to you today because I have been so blown away by the ability to become aware of the soul’s desires and path of evolution – and to have a paradigm which can communicate this knowledge to others in a simply direct way.

Bradley offers workshops in the Heart Room at Heart of Wellness. His next presentations are: May 12th 5:30-8 p.m and June 10th 10:30 a.m. -12:45 p.m. For more info visit his website at: http://www.bluedragonartsastrology.com/

We are pleased to welcome Thea Elijah to Heart of Wellness. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to work with this extraordinary teacher of teachers right here in Olympia.

March 10-11, 2012 – 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Heart of Wellness
$275 ($250 before 2/10/11)

Visit PerennialMedicine.com for registration and to download a free audio sample.

What modern science dismisses as the Placebo Effect is actually a practical, teachable set of skills which anyone can learn. This “inner aspect” of medicine has always been considered an essential part of any traditional healing modality, worldwide, until modern times. Because of this, you are potentially your most powerful healing tool/asset. The ability to connect with others from the Healing Presence within yourself allows others to connect with the source of healing in themselves.

This workshop is designed to teach reliable methods of accessing the Healing Connection with anyone. The skills taught will also be fully applicable to “healing” situations outside of formal health care contexts, including family life, classrooms, activism for social change, and work within organizational structures. All that is required of the student is sincerity.

“Having studied with Thea I can tell you that she is like no other in her extraordinary sensibility to the nuances of the energetics of life. … Even if you are new to the concepts of Chinese Medicine, her wide open heart full of love, her keen intellect, and her boundless generosity will give you all you need to embrace the wisdom of Chinese Medicine. It will dramatically change your perception in your work with patients.”
David London, MD, Integrative Holistic Psychiatrist
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University

“This is the process of medicine without form. Connecting with source in ourselves. Connecting with source in the other. Bringing them  together and especially bringing them together in places where it hurts.”
Thea Elijah

We are honored to welcome Rebecca (Becky) Combs, LMP to HOW!

Here is more from Becky:

I attended Brenneke Massage School in Seattle, WA, graduating from the 1000 hr program in 2007. On the day of the graduation ceremony, I was beginning Mayan Abdominal training and soon completed the professional training.

I view the body more in fascial terms. Fascia wraps around cells, tissues and organs, tying everything together rather like very strong plastic wrap. If it sticks together in one spot, it will pull at the fascia from all over the body. I follow the lines of tension and come to the place where the adhesion is and with a little time, pressure and movement, the adhesion releases and you get relief.

I love my work and plan to do it for as long as I can. In my practice, I focus on the Mayan work and treatment work, but I also do relaxation work.

Schedule with Becky at: 360.918.2450. To learn more about her services and more about Maya Abdominal Massage visit her website: http://www.mayanbelly.com

Friday February 17th, 8pm at Heart of Wellness

Suggested donation $10-$20

Come Enjoy a most extraordinary performance by John of his orginal songs he has written in the past year.

Having had the privlege of hearing his process of writing and refining the lyrics, and evolving the guitar playing till the song shines, I can not encourage you enough to come receive his gift of song writing and masterful guitar playing. I have to tell you part of his process in trying out whether he has truly polished the gem in the song till it fully shines is to invite me in to hear the current version. If I am not moved to tears of inspiration then he keeps working on it till it passes, “the Robin test”. All those who come will leave feeling deeply fed and inspired.

The songs range from lively rockin to sweet expression of his beautiful voice that moves into Singing Medicine.

I will be up in Seattle at the Women of Wisdom Conference in the art show and healing arts area, so unfortunately I will miss this rich performance with high quality sound in the Heart Room at Heart of Wellness.

Don’t miss this chance to hear John offering this music! Tell friends, make it a party!

Here’s a bio John wrote:

My great friend Hawk Bjorn and I sold 250,000 cds as the duo Bounce The Ocean in the 90′s. We were being played on the radio across the country. I knew I had a gift for writing songs but did not like the music business. I was having constant anxiety attacks from the stress and expectations I had put on myself. I quit the business and started working at the Olympia Job Service.

This was quite the shift from working with some of the world’s most successful music producers and writers. At the time, it seemed 25% percent of the material on the radio was written by people that I knew. I really tried to put it all behind me and live a ‘normal’ life. The attempt to be normal is probably always a mistake for anyone because normal is a weird illusion that no one can actually measure up to. But I gave it my best shot.

For most of my 30′s I had chronic sinusitis and was almost constantly sick and stressed. I had an awakening when I was 39 that I am still integrating and broadening. It felt like my life started over at this point. The first few years of this awakening were tremendously painful as I shed layers of beliefs, habits, and pretenses that I had gathered over the years. It felt more like dying than waking up.

Slowly I re-organized my life around what is more deeply true. Ah, what a relief.

I have my wife Robin to thank for showing me how to create music from the right place, for letting it come through me rather than from me – and for experiencing how singing can be a form of medicine and healing.

From this new place I have these new songs that feel very vital and real to me and are ready to be shared.

John Utter offers Singing Medicine and Life Coaching at HOW. Read more at: http://www.yourbrilliance.net