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The circle is one of the most potent medicines we possess for healing ourselves and our planet, but most leaders still have little understanding of how circles function and how to use them effectively. If the circle is a generator of power, they're tapping just 20 percent of its capacity. This is why for the last two decades, I've been on a mission to educate people about the value, importance, and skillful use of circle gatherings.— Jalaja Bonheim List of Events List of Upcoming Events 2011Nov 9, 5.15-7.15, Circle at the Fingerlakes School of Massage. This is a closed circle for staff only.November 18 - 20, Meeting the Goddesses, Rowe Camp and Conference Center, Rowe, MAJalaja 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... [read more]List of Events 2012 (more to come)May 19, 2012, Women's Circle with Jalaja, Shelter Rock Unitarian Universalist Church, Long Island, NY. For more information, please contact Seena Axel at (516) 942 0419.Sep 28 -Oct 3, 2012, Circlework Leadership Training, Light on the Hill, Ithaca, NY The circle is one of the most potent medicines we possess for healing ourselves and our planet, but most leaders still have little understanding of how circles function and how to use them effectively. If the circle is a generator of power, they're tapping just 20 percent of its capacity... [read more]
Meeting the Goddesses November 18 - 20, 2011Rowe Camp and Conference CenterKings Highway Road; PO Box 273Rowe, MA 01367Jalaja 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.
CW Leadership Training | Sep 28 through Oct 3, 2012Circlework Leadership Training, Light on the Hill, Ithaca, NYDo you want to work with groups in ways that foster authentic, transformative connection?Do you want to contribute to the creation of a peaceful global community?Are you ready for a radically non-religious, inclusive approach to spirituality?Are you committed to healing, personal growth, and peace?Do want to connect with other powerful women?If so, taking the Circlework™ Training may be your next step. Used skillfully, circle gatherings are a potent medicine for healing ourselves and the planet. Jalaja Bonheim, the originator of Circlework™, teaches throughout the US and Canada, as well as in Israel, where she helps Jewish and Palestinian women connect in life-changing ways. The Circlework™ Training empowers women of all ages and professions to lead circle gatherings, be it in schools, hospitals, businesses, churches, or any other arena.The Circlework Training will:Empower you as a woman, leader, and peacemaker.Help you clarify your direction and goals.Give you a new perspective on the extraordinary transformation our planet is currently undergoing, and your role in it.Immerse you in a field of nurturing, healing energy.Prepare you to bring a greater sense of sacred presence to all your relationships.Clear inner blocks that hold you back from stepping into your full power.Teach you to use circle geometry as a tool for healing and awakening.Help you respond skillfully to the most common challenges that circle leaders face.Provide a wealth of practical tips and tools, including body-centered and non-verbal practices.Connect you with a beautiful community of powerful, open-hearted women.The Circlework™ Training includes theoretical sections and discussion, as well as hands-on experiential practice. You will explore your personal relationship to the circle and identify your challenges and your calling in working with circles. Subjects addressed include boundary and safety issues, creating sacred space and invoking spirit, the historical development of Circlework, the geometric elements of the circle, working with ritual, symbol, and myth; Circlework and the healing of the feminine, and the role and challenges of leadership. Light on the Hill is one of the most beautiful retreat centers in the US, located on over 300 acres of rolling hills with hiking trails, ponds and endless vistas. Accommodation in a private room and gourmet vegetarian food is included in the price of $1800. Scholarships may be available; please inquire. The closest airport is Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport. We are happy to pick you up from the Ithaca airport.For more detailed info about Circlework and the Circlework Leadership Training, including registration, scholarship information and testimonials, and much more, please visit the website of the Institute for Circlework: www.instituteforcirclework.org and click on Circlework/Circlework training.
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