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Diana Owens <lovingwaydiana@gmail.com> |
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Relationship As Spiritual Path |
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lovingwaydiana@gmail.com |
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Loving-Way Series Concludes With 'Relationship As Spiritual Path',
June 6 - 8, Clarkdale, AZ
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Dear Friends,
Following
an unusually busy winter of family changes and relationship growth of
our own, Diana and I are really looking forward to sharing with you our
final full weekend installment of the Loving-Way series, "Relationship
As Spiritual Path".
In
our own practice of intimacy and loving regard for one another, as
Diana and I let go of old assumptions and stories, we discover with
amazement that we are each others' best teachers when it comes to
matters of the heart, and being the Love that we want to be.
And, as Maya Angelou said, "When you learn, teach. When you get, give..."
Namaste-Yay,
Glenn
Hi Dear Ones
I feel so alive this spring with the
vibrant green of the trees, the renewed warmth of the sun, and the
songs of the birds heralding new life. Thanks be to the Bringer of Life
and Growth without and within! And Thank all of You who have come to our Loving Way
evening programs. We have had over 20 participants for our 6 programs
and through movement, breath, sound and meditation, we have heightened
our consciousness and expanded our joy and created a community of like
hearted people who have been willing to grow in intimacy with
themselves, their partners, each other and all of Life. We change the
world one person at a time starting with ourselves.
The upcoming Relationship as Spiritual Path retreat will focus on
using our relationship with our life partner for psychological and
spiritual growth. I love this theme as it encourages us to "grow where
we are planted", using the stuff of our relationships and our lives to
really see ourselves, were we shine and where we are stuck. We will be
teaching skills and givng direction through Sky Dancing Tantra
practices to resolve our blocks to higher consciousness and learn how
to deepen our loving and expand our joy and open the door to our
spirits.
Please join us for a joyful spring renewal for ourselves and our
relationship. You deserve this time and we support you in taking time
for You!
Love,
Diana |
Weaving Together Spirit, Love, and Sexuality
In Your Relationship (and Everyday Life!)
Clarkdale, Arizona
June 6th-8th, 2008
Friday 7-10pm, Saturday 10am-9:30pm, Sunday 9:30am-noon
This
is how love ripens us -- by warming us from within, inspiring us to
break out of our shell, and lighting our way through the dark passage
to new birth.
-- John Welwood
In previous generations, our ancestors could explore the deeper
mysteries of life and spirit in the seclusion of hermitage or
monastery. Many societies accommodated the spiritual seeker with
built-in structures of church and community, and throughout Asia it was
a respected practice for an elder who had completed householder duties
to withdraw from the tribe and wander in the wilderness in "earnest
quest".
We moderns do not have it so easy. Not only have the
old ways become irrelevant in our fast-paced pursuit of individual
freedoms, there simply are no more caves left to retreat to! Ours is a
landscape of edges and fences, where every woman and man is left to
figure out the Great Matter for themselves, a proposition that would
have struck our ancestors as the greatest of follies.
And in
this new wilderness of "anything goes", men and women come together in
their relationships, face to face with all their gods and demons. What
to do?
Join us for this timely and magical weekend of
re-uniting with Spirit, as we mutually create a safe haven of trust,
and explore opening to being together with our partners, instead of merely being together. Using breath and meditation, movement and sound , you will deepen into your
unique capacity for open-heartedness and acceptance. With exercises
that you can easily learn and practice on your own (and with your
partner!), we will gently wake up the Sacred Energy of Life, including
sexuality, and practice the amazing opportunity for wholeness and
intimacy that relationship offers. This will be a loose-fitting,
fully-clothed event.
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- Foster a positive, exciting and ecstatic adventure with your beloved partner
- Awaken
your senses, transform old patterns, heal sexual and emotional wounds,
and discover how to transform negative feelings to empower your
relationship
- Enhance your sensuality,sexuality, intimacy and love
- Nurture
yourself in a peaceful retreat setting in the picturesque canyons and
mountains of Clarkdale (one hour from Prescott, twenty minutes from
Sedona)
- Recapture the "Honeymoon Glow" and keep it alive for a lifetime of loving
Early Bird Special -
$275 per Couple!
(Until May 23, $300 afterwards.
Registration closed May 30)
Easy on-line registration HERE
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Diana is
a licensed clinical social worker, certified sex therapist,
relationship coach, trained yoga teacher, and certified Sky-Dancing
Tantra teacher.
Glenn is a musician, writer, and trained Mankind
Project facilitator with over
30 years experience in Re-Evaluation
Counseling. He is also a Sky-Dancing teacher-in-training. Diana and
Glenn are life partners, committed to co-creating
a joyful and peaceful
world, and dedicated to realizing that
this very moment is their Heart's desire.
And yours.
TO REGISTER: go to www.lovingway.net
or call Diana at 928-445-7501 (lovingwaydiana@gmail.com)
or Glenn at 507-649-2488 (gbardo@yahoo.com)
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Relationship Quotes:
Relationship
is a very advanced practice and not for the faint of heart. It's one
thing to practice compassion or loving kindness sitting alone on your
meditation cushion. It's quite another to keep your heart open in the
face of conflict or dissatisfaction with your loved one. In the fire of
relationship, we are challenged to actually put into practice all the
great spiritual teachings. We must learn compassion for ourselves and
for the other. We must learn forgiveness. We must loosen our own
attachments to how we think life should be. We must learn to release
one another from fixed opinions, surrender judgment and come ready to
meet each moment fresh - without the baggage of history, blame and hurt.
http://sacredunion.com/site/?page_id=110
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The
meaning of sexuality is our capacity to love fully...Our sexual energy
heightens our ability to express ourselves fully and lovingly moment to
moment and to unite with another. We all have this capacity and can
live intimately every moment through this process. As we do this, we
start identifying the blocks to our loving, wounds we have that
influence us to close down or numb out. This becomes a spiritual path
where we have the opportunity again and again to choose to continue to
open up and love. This is the heightening of consciousness which is
what spirituality is.
Diana Owens, Soulful Sex, Weaving Sex, Love & Spirit into Everyday Life, p. 79
My
relationship with my partner is just as fraught with tangles and
triggers as any other relationship I have ever been in. This seems to
be the nature of relationship - working out these tangles. In the past,
when the tangles got too bad, it seemed like the only solution was to
find someone with fewer tangles. Well, I have come to see there is no
such being. We are all eternally tangled. So, how do we stay in
relationship and keep it alive?
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Love
becomes a path of awakening - rousing us from the sleep of old,
unconscious patterns into the freshness and immediacy of living more
fully in the present, in accord with who we really are. -- John Welwood (from a review of the film "Innocence")
http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/films/films.php?id=3089
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Like
the sun's rays that cause the seed to stir within its husk, love's
radiant energy penetrates the facade of the false self, calling forth
resources hidden deep within us. Its warmth wakes up the life inside
us, making us want to uncurl, to give birth, to grow and reach for the
light. It calls on us to break out of our shell, the personality-husk
surrounding the seed potential of all that we could be. The purpose of
a seed husk is to protect the tender life within until the time and
conditions are right for it to burst forth. Our personality structure
serves a similar function. It provides a semblance of security, as a
kind of compensation for the loss of our larger being. But when love's
warming rays start to wake us up, our ego-shell becomes a barrier
restricting our expansion. As the germ of life swells within us, we
feel our imprisonment more acutely.....The brighter love's radiance,
the darker the shadows we encounter; the more we feel life stirring
within us, the more we also feel our dead spots; the more conscious we
become, the more clearly we see where we remain unconscious. None of
this need dishearten us. For in facing our darkness, we bring to light
forgotten parts of our being. In recognizing exactly where we have been
unconscious, we become more conscious. And in seeing and feeling the
ways we've gone dead, we start to revive and kindle our desire to live
more expansively.
John Welwood
Source:
Love and Awakening : Discovering the Sacred Path of Intimate Relationship, Page: 19..20
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Awareness
born of love is the only force that can bring healing and renewal. Out
of our love for another person, we become more willing to let our old
identities wither and fall away, and enter a dark night of the soul, so
that we may stand naked once more in the presence of the great mystery
that lies at the core of our being. This is how love ripens us -- by
warming us from within, inspiring us to break out of our shell, and
lighting our way through the dark passage to new birth.
John Welwood
Source:
Love and Awakening : Discovering the Sacred Path of Intimate Relationship, Page: 20..21
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RELATIONSHIP READINESS FOR SINGLES
A Program to help you enhance your Love of Life and your readiness for the Love of your Life
Whether or not you are a happy and content single or looking for
the relationship of your dreams or both, this fun and lively program
will give you tools to deepen your happiness and strengthen your
ability to effectively attract and keep just the right person in your
life!
- Meet like hearted singles and share who you are in a meaningful, relaxed and fun way.
- Enrich your understanding and appreciation of yourself!
- Learn the essential elements of readiness for a committed relationship and steps you can take to expand your own readiness.
- Become familiar with the 10 Principles of conscious dating and how to apply them in your own life.
WHEN: Wednesday, June 25, 6:30-8:30PM
WHERE: 2520 Shadow Valley Ranch Rd., Prescott
Facilitator: Diana Owens LCSW. Diana is a licensed clinical social worker, success coach and relationship coach.
Co-sponsored by Tri City Singles
Call Diana, 445-7501 for info, or Tri City Singles (LINK)
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RESOURCES FOR OUR READERS
The following are friends and colleagues in the healing and
creative arts field that we highly recommend as resources for healing,
wholeness and enrichment.
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Ortho-Bionomy® Wholistic Bodywork Trauma Resolution
I heartily endorse the healing work of my friend Bettina Seidl
as I have experienced her to be extremely loving, sensitive, intuitive
and gifted with an amazing ability to touch my body and my heart and
soul at the same time. I have received deep healing through the time I
spent with Bettina and suggest that anyone with physical pain or
body/mind/spirit issues consider a session with Bettina.
- Diana
Bettina's Spring 2008 Newsletter HERE
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A SpiritWeaves Dance Retreat
This SpiritWeaves Dance Retreat, hosted by Michael & Anneli Molin-Skelton (from Los Angeles), will explore through
movement
and ritual the very meaning of how and where we belong in our lives and
the places we feel exiled from ourselves and others. Learn how to rest
and listen, trust and surrender, as gravity repeatedly tells us "I have
a place for you, and it is here."
Flyer and Registration Info HERE
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Earl Duque and DeLisa Myles,
(Prescott and Flagstaff)
"A Tango Quickie" - Designed for Absolute Beginners
and for those wanting to review their basics
May 18th, 12:30-3:30pm,
Northern Arizona Yoga Center,
113 S. San Francisco Street,Flagstaff AZ
$25, $20 NAYC Members
Murat and Michelle Milonga Workshop -
Saturday May 31, 2008, Sunday June 1, 2008Northern Arizona Yoga Studio,
113 S. San Francisco Street, Flagstaff AZ
Link HERE
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Contact Information
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or call Diana at 928-445-7501 (lovingwaydiana@gmail.com)
or Glenn at 507-649-2488 (gbardo@yahoo.com)
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Diana Owens Tantra Coaching and Retreats | PO Box 3972 | Prescott | AZ | 86302
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