A collection of stories, reflections, home practices, and more from circle members and facilitators of the Way of the Circle Centre.
Over the past couple years of pandemic isolation, uncertainty and stress, I was feeling disconnected from myself and I was hoping that the retreat would help me “reset” and feel nourished.
What I experienced at Heartwood was beyond my expectations. Although I had a strong feeling it would be a special experience, I was surprised by how deeply the retreat impacted me.
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Have you ever wondered why circle members come back to 4-day Heart Foundation programs season after season? It’s so the deep transformation we experience in a circle has a chance to anchor in our daily lives. As we build onto a strong foundation, we can continue to evolve the practices and deepen our understanding of connection for embodied living.
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A week after a Heart Foundation retreat, we host a call for all participants to join. It helps to see each other again and collect the wisdom and insights we received. At the end of this call, we often close with someone weaving what’s been shared into a closing statement. Sometimes, like at Heart Blossom
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The recent Heart Flow retreat began with an invitation to ‘‘Wander with Wonder’ connecting with what was emerging in the natural world around us. Engaging our childlike wonder is a key to transforming heaviness into lightness from fiddleheads to wonder wands, we were creating space for new life to emerge. What might it be like to
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A guide to evoking your inner wisdom. By Trae Robinson When answering the phone at the Way of the Circle Centre the first words we often hear on the other end of the line are, “Hi, I am looking for a Shaman”. Equally, calls come from compassionate people who say, “I am a Shamanic Healer.
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“I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.” – Oriah Mountain Dreamer This line from the poem ‘The Invitation” comes to me, as I navigate the unpredictable times in which we are living. I go to the bookshelf to locate the book the famous poem is in. Of
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What might it be like for all of us to be willing to pull apart some of the layers of experience in our heart? And what might it be like to let love put it back together again?
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Guest Post by Debbie Hope, Circle Member “My Reflection” by Debbie Hope I am a spiritual warrior. My battles are many. My battles are with myself. As I grow, I leave behind…worry, lostness, failure, guilt, shame, old habits and patterns that I have created. The dream weaver has woven the colored threads in my life
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Inspiration Guided by the footsteps of the ancestors we evolve with the energies of the land, creating trails as we clear our inner pathways of the heart and soul, opening the way for future generations to live in their potential. September 6, 2020 was the 25th anniversary of a new beginning on a new path,
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Written by Martha Lucier & Jan Beaver Martha’s Dream: A year ago, I was preparing to go on a journey to Australia. While actively dreaming, I found myself in a cave at Uluru, a massive sandstone monolith in the heart of the Australian Northern Territory, sacred to it’s indigenous custodians; the Anangu, considered the oldest
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