Transforming Experiences

Join us Friday January 24th at our home!!

Our friend, Rabbi Noah, is in town leading some Scripture circles next week, and we'd love to have you join us, if you're in the Denver or Colorado Springs area!

If you’d like to join in a three-hour Circle, we have the following times we’d love to see you (and feel free to join for more than one):

Saturday, January 18 at 1 pm in Colorado Springs - Details & registration here: https://tinyurl.com/OpenSCJan18COS

Sunday, January 19 at 1 pm in Lakewood - Details & registration here: https://tinyurl.com/OpenSCJan19

Wednesday, January 22 at 6 pm in Colorado Springs - Details & registration here:
https://tinyurl.com/OpenSCJan22

Or, if you’d like an immersive full-day experience, we invite you to join in study on Friday, January 24 from 9 am-3 pm in Colorado Springs - Details & registration here: https://tinyurl.com/OpenSCJan24

For more information on Scripture circles in general, you can wander over to our website: https://anamcara.com/scripture-circles/

And if you are NOT local, and would like to join an ONLINE Scripture Circle, we have one on the first Wednesday of every month (next one is Feb 5th), and you can sign up here: https://anamcara.as.me/open-circle-wednesday

Artistic Afternoons: BODY FLOW

Allow yourself to let your breath guide your body movement today.

Take a moment to notice how you feel and how you are breathing.

Notice if you are taking shallow breaths. Stand up and take several deep inhales, raising your arms to touch the sky and dropping them to start again—filling up the lungs and belly as deeply as you are able.

Perhaps you're feeling anxious, and your breath is short and quick. Is your body tense and tight? Breath some deep slow breaths for three minutes, shaking your body after each one. Release any tension as you move.

Maybe your body is energized and wants some flowing movement, matching your breath to your movement. If you are jumping perhaps you will want to take short quick breaths.

Dance for a bit and notice when your body requires more breath.

Is your mind foggy and distracted? As you allow your lungs to fill with breath, lean your head back and breath more deeply. Allow your body to lead the breath. Perhaps take your hands to your rib cage and imagine pulling them open to create more expansiveness, bringing in more oxygen with each breath. Breath in the right nostril for a few minutes, awakening the brain.

[When you are done with this exercise, take some time to write about the experience. What did you notice? How did you sense the Breath of Life, moving in and out of you? Did anything surprise you? Awaken in you that had been unattended previously? How did your body feel at the end of the exercise, as opposed to before you began? Write it all out; record your experience in some way.]

This is our final guest post for the week, from spiritual director and breathwork facilitator, Kim Nielsen Van Natta. If you would like to learn more or experience Sacred Breathwork, please contact Kim at [email protected] or book a 75 minute session at https://calendly.com/kimteltd/30-minute-integrative-breath-clone.

Thanks for sharing your words and wisdom in this space, Kim!