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For more info about Jalaja, please visit www.jalajabonheim.com.
Nov 9, 5.15-7.15, Circle at the Fingerlakes School of Massage. This is a closed circle for staff only.
Nov 18 - 20, 2011, Meeting the Goddesses: A Workshop for Women, Rowe Camp and Conference Center, MA
Jalaja Bonheim is a masterful group leader, a midwife of women's souls, and a delightful storyteller. This weekend, she will share some of her favorite goddess myths from India and the Middle East with us and help us explore how they intersect with our own life stories.
"I don't approach goddesses as religious figures," she says. "To me, they are mirrors that reveal important aspects of our essential feminine nature: our sensual, erotic power, our indomitable courage, our untamable wildness, but also our heart-breaking vulnerability."
The ancient goddess myths we'll work with are as fresh and relevant today as they were thousands of years ago. Like timeless maps, they can help us walk our path with grace, beauty, and power-provided we know how to read them. Integrating journaling, chanting, movement, ritual, and other practices, Jalaja will help us decipher these ancient maps and harvest the wealth of guidance encoded in their symbols, images, and colors.
We'll not only commune with the goddesses that live within us, but also embody them, allowing their light and beauty to shine through us, heal and transform us. Expect a weekend of magic, mystery, and enchantment!
Equal parts priestess and teacher, Jalaja Bonheim, Ph.D., spent several years studying Indian temple dance and Eastern spirituality in India before moving from her native Germany to the United States. She is the author of four books, with a fifth coming soon. The founder and visionary director of the Institute for Circlework, she is internationally known for her groundbreaking use of circle gatherings as a tool for empowering women, healing communities, and cultivating peace. She is completely intimate with the spirit of the circle, speaking of it as her ally, guide, teacher, and friend. What she calls the spirit of the circle, others experience as a field of tremendous love and compassion, growth and learning, renewal and healing. For over 25 years, she's been training Circlework leaders from around the world, including Afghanistan, Israel and Palestine.
For more information and registration, please contact Rowe Conference Center at www.rowecenter.org or call (413) 339 4954.
May 19, 2012 Women's Circle with Jalaja at Shelter Rock Unitarian Universalist Church, Long Island, NY
For more information, please contact Seena Axel at (516) 942 0419.
