Gong Immersion

Friday June 10, 7-8:30 pm, Evolve Yoga, Keego Harbor

a healing journey with 8 planetary gongs and chai tea

cinda@evolveyogalove.com

248.420.4331

Community-Building

Thursdays, June 16 - July 21, 6:30 - 8:30 pm, Our Backyard, Sylvan Lake

a collective inquiry experience using the writings of Tej Steiner

shaktival@aol.com

248.346.2014

Gong Immersion, June 10, Evolve Yoga

Come immerse yourself in on ocean of planetary sound. Our bodies conduct sound as light waves. The gong's transmission is fluid, undifferentiated, and whole.

The time will be a combination of sound vibration, self-reflection, meditation, and conversation.

Bring a blanket, yoga mat, or something comfortable for lying down. For those who have never experienced a sound immersion, I have been working with yoga and sound vibration for more than two decades. I've apprenticed with Gongmaster Don Conreaux as well as other gong specialists, and I look forward to being in Evolve's space once again.

Hopefully you can join us. Let’s light a candle, I’ll bring some chai tea, and we can rest together under the sound current of the gongs.

With love,

Valerie

Getting From Human to Humane: Collective Inquiry into Community-Building

Greetings from Valerie

This is some personal context. I came upon these ideas through the twist and turns of a two-year moral struggle which began in the winter ❄️ 2020

Over the past two years, I have reached the conclusion that there was no other moral choice for me than to leave behind a group through which I found personal and professional identity for 25 years. Facing the depth of emotional betrayal and alienation, I entered into Jungian therapy. I also discovered the radical work of Tej Steiner.

Tej was in the same high-demand group that I was in, but he had left before I became involved. His commitment to personal and community integrity has been of tremendous importance to my own ability to be present and real. I have decided to share Tej's work, as he has encouraged me to do.

The only requirement for this summer's backyard offering is that people read Tej's most recent book, Waking Up Wth Everyone Around Us.

Primary Purpose

It is to create an intentional social container in which people practice being Clear, Present, Real, Connected, and Heart-Directed together. Embedded within this purpose is the opportunity for people to change the mass culture agreements now in play.

-- Tej Steiner    

There is no philosophical or spiritual agendas in the time we will spend together. Just a willingness to come as you are and for us to be together.

Our individual and group agreement will be what Tej refers to as "the five ways of being." These are the agreements:

• Wanting to explore each other’s purpose - being clear 
• Wanting more stillness within our selves and one another- being present
• Wanting more spontaneous and authentic togetherness- being real
• Wanting to intentionally practice giving and receiving love- being connected 
• Wanting to support one another in finding and following what we want - being heart-directed

This doesn’t mean we will DO this. It means we make an agreement to WANT these ways of being this way in ourselves, relationships and communities.

We will collectively inquire and provide plenty of space over the six weeks for each person to communicate sincerely and honestly. The conversation itself acts as the facilitator. In time we become more coherent, our defenses are lowered, and the nervous system begins to balance out by simply returning to these inquiries. By sustaining these agreements, trust grows and community is possible.

• Details:
• Where: Sylvan Lake, MI
• When: 6 weeks, June 16 - July 21, 6:30 - 8:30
• Cost: $100 [Venmo (Valerie-Weir-1); cash; or Paypal]
• More information: 248 346-2014

WEEKLY YOGA CLASSES

Tuesdays 6 pm: Samastah Yoga

(Samastah)