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Quotation of the Week
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson  Soul Friends The Voice of a Different Kindred Spirit Each Week  Claire BeaumontSan Diego, CA Hi everyone! I've been doing SoulCollage® for about two years now. I wanted an art process that would reveal my soul and I liked collage so I googled the words "collage" and "soul". Who knew! My favorite thing about SoulCollage® is the serendipity and power of the Readings. They never, ever fail to amaze and inspire me. Because I am in the grip of the Great Mother archetype at this stage of my life, SoulCollage's greatest help to me has (not surprisingly) been in this realm. From releasing fear about parenting and pregnancy, relating to my partner as a co-parent, relating to other mothers (including my own), to opening up to the joys and love of children, SoulCollage® has created positive change especially in my Mothering. My advice to other SoulCollagers? Work the process with a group if you possibly can. The benefits are exponential. Here are two of my cards:  Post Partum Depression Committee Suit I am the one who suffered after the birth of my first born. I am the one who was stalled and stuck and desperate. I am the one who craved the anonymity of homelessness. This card could only be made after the fact. I didn't realize how sick I was until I wasn't sick anymore. Making this card was important for me to do before I had baby number two. I had a great amount of healing to do before I could sustain a pregnancy again and SoulCollage® played a big part in that.  Lost
Boy Committee Suit I am the one who fears losing my child to "something better or nicer." I am the one who feels I have left my baby to cry in the nest and have wasted the clean slate of preciousness of his young childhood. This card was made in the process of transition for my only child becoming one of two when his brother was born. It was very stressful and I had a lot of guilt and fear. Funny now he and I recently read Peter Pan and enjoyed it so much. Things are good now and this card feels different to me now than when I made it. I understand more about how there must be natural conflict in relationships for them to grow. I understand the naturalness of a child growing up and a bit away from their parents. I love how our cards grow with us and continue to serve us! "The reality is that changes are coming. They must come. We must all share in bringing them." -John Hersey
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| Our Next Tele-Class Using the Wisdom of the Medicine Wheel in Your SoulCollage® Journey, Presented by Alexa Singer-Telles, SoulCollage® Facilitator in California 
The Native American Medicine Wheel offers us a sacred container to honor the
wisdom of the seasons and cycles of life, the elemental qualities, and the
guidance of animals and archetypal energies. We will imagine ourselves
sitting in the center of our own medicine wheel, inviting in the elements of
the four directions in relation to the four SoulCollage® suits as a gift of
support.We will work with the guidance of the Visionary, Healer, Teacher, and Warrior as they represent the energies of the four directions. Our time together will be experiential, with lots of time for questions and sharing. Alexa has led women's rituals including rites of passage for over twenty years using the medicine wheel as the sacred container to hold the experience. She has been actively engaged in the use of dreamwork, movement, and expressive artwork (both personally and therapeutically) as a process for guidance and healing. This call is this Friday! Date: Friday, May 15, 2009 PHONE NUMBER to call: 1-218-936-4700 Access code: 334477# Time: 8:00 pm Eastern, 7:00 pm Central, 6:00 pm Mountain, 5:00 pm Pacific, 2 pm Hawaiian, 1 a.m in London, 2 a.m. in Rome, Saturday 10 a.m. in Melbourne Australia and Saturday 12 noon in New Zealand
Upcoming Tele-Classes and Presenters:
June 7, 2009 (Sunday, 5pm Eastern) - Meditation and SoulCollage®: How Each Enhances the Other, with Marti Beddoe, Meditation Teacher and SoulCollage® Facilitator in Illinois. For new as well as experienced mediators. Marti will share with us some ways that her SoulCollage® practice has benefited her meditation practice, and vice versa. If you are looking to deepen your SoulCollage® work, this is the class for you! July, 2009 - SoulCollage® and the Art of Sacred Listening, with Laura Hegfield, SoulCollage® Facilitator in New Hampshire. Consider allowing silence to be the container that holds your SoulCollage® practice. I believe that silence can open us to a more intimate listening experience, ultimately allowing us to drink a more satisfying cup of the sweet wisdom our cards have to offer. During this tele-class, Laura will offer some practical tips for incorporating more silence into your life and your SoulCollage® practice (alone, with friends or as a facilitator in workshops). Laura is a SoulCollage® Facilitator, Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach, Yoga & Jewish Spirituality Teacher, Artist, Blogger, Wife and Mom practicing the sacred art of "life" in Southern NH. Please visit her blog, Shine the Divine to get to know her better before the call. (Date and time to be announced, please stay tuned.) Kindred Spirits SoulCollage® Retreat  Come As You Are:Nurturing Self-Acceptance with SoulCollage®, A Weekend Retreat June 25-28, 2009 Rolling Ridge Retreat Center Andover, Massachusetts There are only TWO spaces left.... is one of them for you? Everything you need to know is on this KaleidoSoul page. | ||||||||
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SoulCollage®
Expressions
, by Kurt Van Sickle. Beautiful chanting CD for the mother and child within you.
, by Jane Goodall with Phillip Berman. This is Jane’s memoir that she wrote with an expert on comparative religions. Fascinating and wise, it is not just about her work with the chimps. She writes about mystical experiences, her amazing discoveries in Tanzania, the risk of environmental destruction, and her mother’s and grandmother’s religious faith. Definitely gives us all a
reason to hope.
, by Suzie Gilbert. Suzie chronicles the years of her chaotic household-cum-bird-hospital with delightful wit, recounting the confusion that ensued as her husband and two young children struggled to live in a house where parrots shrieked Motown songs, nestling robins required food every twenty minutes, and recuperating herons took over the spare bathroom. Gradually, however, the birds came to represent the value of compassion and the importance of pursuing even the most unlikely of dreams. Often funny, sometimes painful, Gilbert's encounters with these beautiful creatures reveal profound truths not only about animals but also about our own lives—lessons of birth and death, suffering and empathy, holding on and letting go. If there is a winged creature in your Animal Companions Suit (or even if you don’t!), you’ll find this book inspiring and insightful.
