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23/06/2023

A Ritual for St John's Eve

Sunset on the 23rd of June marks St John's Eve, traditionally a time for lighting bonfires. A friend shared a ritual that she has been doing all her life at this time of year. Gather flowers and herbs from field or garden to place in a vessel of water -I've used a wide bowl. Leave it outside to be exposed to the dew of night. Meanwhile take some pieces of paper and write on them anything from your past that you want to let go of. Light a fire of some sort- a bonfire, a candle or maybe just take a lit match, and burn your pieces of paper. Set your intention to let them go as the flames burn.
In the morning use the flower water to wash your face, symbolising a cleansing and meeting life refreshed and renewed.

30/03/2023

How do you cope when circumstances feel out of control?

How do you sustain yourself and heal when events occur in your life, or in the outside world, that leave you feeling destabilised, afraid, or grieving — as if you’ve been thrown off your path with no roadmap to follow?

According to beloved chantress Nina Rao, spiritual seekers have for centuries turned to the ancient devotional practice of chanting mantras to cultivate a powerful internal container — providing a sense of sanctuary and the kind of inner refuge we’re all longing for.

Even in our busy modern world, the discipline of a daily chanting practice can help you access this space of strength, comfort, and safety within yourself whenever you need to.

Chanting offers spiritual sustenance that feeds and supports you — providing inner strength and peace that you can return to time and again when life throws you off your axis.

On Tuesday, April 11, join Nina for a nourishing hour-long event where she’ll share the sacred practices of both Vedic and kirtan chanting, which you can carry with you into your own practice.

You can register here for The Sound Medicine of Sacred Vedic & Kirtan Chanting: Find Refuge, Dispel Fear & Open Your Heart With Mantras: https://shiftnetwork.infusionsoft.com/go/svkc/gretairving

During this illuminating experiential workshop, you’ll:

Learn how Vedic mantras are precise and rule-driven,which helps you develop stronger concentration, deepen your practice, and honor the ancient tradition… compared to the kirtan that most of us are used to hearing (and singing!) in the West
Discover how mantras create an auspicious inner state of gratitude, intention, and wellbeing — a sanctuary for refuge and sustenance in times of duress
Hear Nina chant one verse from the Sri Rudram, the invocation of Rudra in the Vedic style — to cope with the karma of life and ask Shiva for his blessings
Sing Om Namah Shivaya with Nina in kirtan style — call and response — repeating the name of God to calm your mind, open your heart, and help realize your inner Self
Experience the dispelling of fear, and the peace and love that can wash over you as you chant mantras
Chanting helps you develop a loving heart of kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity. As a form of prayer, mantras guide you to exercise your true free will, turning what can feel like helplessness into positive action.

With Nina’s guidance, you’ll experience for yourself the exhilarating truth that chanting is an expression of your own innate devotion.

You can RSVP for free here: https://shiftnetwork.infusionsoft.com/go/svkc/gretairving

Greta

P.S. In The Sound Medicine of Sacred Vedic & Kirtan Chanting: Find Refuge, Dispel Fear & Open Your Heart With Mantras with Nina Rao…

… you’ll experience an auspicious inner state of gratitude, intention, and wellbeing through the ancient devotional practices of Vedic and kirtan chanting — to access fortitude, focus, guidance, and inner peace during life’s most challenging times.

I hope you’re able to catch the event as scheduled. But if you register and miss it, you’ll receive a downloadable recording as soon as it’s available: https://shiftnetwork.infusionsoft.com/go/svkc/gretairving

04/01/2023

John O'Donohue
January 1, 1956 - January 4, 2008

By Pat O'Donohue
(John's brother, on behalf of the O'Donohue family)

‘Unknown to us, there are moments
When crevices we cannot see open
For time to come alive with beginning.’
John O'Donohue

'A beginning is a beautiful thing,' John would say, 'and even though the journey ahead is unclear, a beginning will always remain true to itself.' We are all called to be artists in our own destiny, learning to flow with the current and sometimes swim against other currents. Many years prior to its publication, John opened himself up to a new beginning which was to become Anam Cara and his many books beyond. These books have brought an embrace of minding, healing and light around all of our own new beginnings.

This year, we honor Anam Cara with the twenty-fifth anniversary edition. Still going strong, this beautiful book is a blessing of love that draws the reader toward an awakening to the uniqueness of the gift we are to ourselves, each other, and this amazing earth. A person's time on this earth never really ends; it becomes transfigured and reabsorbed back into eternity. One aspect of time is as a unit of measurement that records the events of our lives, how we grow and change and the length of the seasons of Mother Earth, which holds and nourishes our fragile human lives. The life of a person is a droplet from this fountain of eternity, but in the act of loving one another this moment stretches back into the eternal spring. At this time of closing of the old year and stepping onto the threshold of the new year, we look back at what has passed for us and forward towards our new 'begin-again.'

We thank you for the support, care and appreciation in which you hold John's beautiful gift to us all.

Beannachtaí na hathbhliana,
(Blessings of the New Year)

Pat O'Donohue

25/10/2022

Deeply grateful for this lovely floral expression of appreciation from my group of learners last week. We spent 5 days together learning about being Executive Coaches. As ever the thing that moves me most are the moments of personal learning and new self awarenesses that come through for learners on these events

15/08/2022

Your heart is more than just an organ that circulates blood throughout your body — many in modern science believe the heart is more powerful, healing, and transformative than we ever realised.

Research by HeartMath Institute shows that the patterns of our heart rhythms are reflected in our emotional states. When we’re hit with a stressor, we fall out of sync, which impairs mental functions and can send us into “fight, flight, or freeze” mode.

Our sympathetic nervous system mobilises energy, while our parasympathetic system works to return the body to its “rest and digest” mode. When these two systems are out of sync, we experience erratic and chaotic heart rhythms, which leads to internal discord that can take a tremendous toll on our body and mind.

Dr. Rollin McCraty’s work as a psychophysiologist and director of research at the HearthMath Institute shows that feeling positive emotions like love or gratitude can put our body back in harmony and stabilise the rhythms of the heart. In this ideal state of coherence, the heart’s electromagnetic energy transmits waves of healing, inner peace, and wellbeing that not only affects us, but others around us.

On Saturday, August 27, Rollin will show you what it takes to achieve “heart coherence.” You’ll discover how to reach a state of balance in which the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems stop playing an unhealthy game of tug-of-war with one another, and allow you to shift into a heart-coherent state to quickly help you focus, feel calm, and improve your state of mind.

You can register here for Discover the Science Behind Your Heart’s Intelligence: Experience a Heart Coherence Practice to Shift From Stress & Negativity to Calm & Wellbeing: https://shiftnetwork.infusionsoft.com/go/yhi/gretairving

In this heart-opening online event, you’ll discover:

What heart coherence is and the power of it
How one of the most effective ways to be heart coherent is through emotional self-regulation
The ways in which negative and positive emotions can impact your hormonal and nervous systems
How heart coherence can positively transform each of us — and simultaneously improve social and global harmony
A quick and simple practice you can use on the fly anytime you want to self-regulate and shift into a more heart-coherent state
Rollin will show you how you can apply “coherence” — when the heart, brain, and nervous system operate in sync with each other — to be more conscious and intuitive about how you respond to external situations instead of with your same old stress-induced responses and behaviour patterns.

You’ll learn different ways to better manage anxiety, improve cognitive performance, and connect with a deeper intuitive awareness — so that you can walk through life with more ease and grace.

You can RSVP for free here: https://shiftnetwork.infusionsoft.com/go/yhi/gretairving

Greta

P.S. In Discover the Science Behind Your Heart’s Intelligence: Experience a Heart Coherence Practice to Shift From Stress & Negativity to Calm & Wellbeing with Dr. Rollin McCraty…

… you’ll learn what it takes to achieve “heart coherence,” where the heart, brain, and nervous system are aligned and in sync, gifting you with inner peace, a renewed sense of energy, clearheadedness, and a stronger immune system.

We hope you’re able to catch the event as scheduled. But if you register and miss it, you’ll receive a downloadable recording as soon as it’s available: https://shiftnetwork.infusionsoft.com/go/yhi/gretairving

What if you had a powerful set of tools and techniques to regulate your emotions and reactions — quickly, in any given moment of stress — that would help you walk through life with more ease and grace?

05/08/2022

Calling all Clean Language enthusiasts - Very excited to be promoting this event in September.

James Lawley says: "David Grove was a great admirer of Gregory Bateson and Gregory's *way of thinking* has had a massive influence on my approach to all things Clean. Gregory's ideas were groundbreaking enough, but it was his *way of seeing the workings of the world* that I have spent 30 years learning to acquire. I'm delighted to have this opportunity to share some of what has been most important for my development, and the development of the field. "
In this one-day workshop for the Clean Language community, James Lawley will take us on an exploration of Thinking like Gregory.
James' focus will be on how Gregory's way of “looking through” the foreground to what’s happening in the background meant he could come up with far-reaching ideas such as:
• Levels of learning
• Patterns that connect - thinking systemically
• An ecology of mind
• Double binds
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/384490801337James

The London Clean Modelling Group presents a workshop for the Clean Language Community

04/02/2022

My friend and colleague Sherine Lovegrove is running a free training today. Click the image to go to her feed for more information.

FREE LIVE TRAINING TODAY! 🗣

Live Training Today on 'How to Crack the Code on your Imposter Hyper-achiever Saboteurs.' 💡

Looking forward to you join me LIVE Today in my FB Group on achieving Harmony in your Life 🤗

DM me for the link to my group to join the training ⭐️

08/10/2021

Excited to be offering a CPD session today at NHS South East Leadership Academy Faculty of the Future Event


https://lnkd.in/dK6w-hHB

Excited to be offering a CPD session today at NHS South East Leadership Academy Faculty of the Future Event ...

21/06/2021

A free event about the Science of the Heart's Intelligence

Cultures around the world have believed the heart was the epicenter of the body and responsible for our feelings, thoughts, and behavior.

Interestingly enough, science today is starting to support this perspective, finding that our energetic heart — not our brain — acts as the gateway to our higher self.

Rollin McCraty, PhD’s work as a psycho-physiologist and Director of Research at the HearthMath Institute illustrates that feeling positive emotions like love or gratitude can put our body back in harmony and stabilise the rhythms of the heart.

In this ideal state of coherence, the heart’s electromagnetic energy transmits waves of healing, inner peace, and wellbeing that not only affects us, but others around us.

On Wednesday, June 30, Rollin will show you what it takes to achieve “heart coherence” in Discover the Science Behind Your Heart’s Intelligence: Experience a Heart Coherence Practice to Shift from Stress & Negativity to Calm & Wellbeing.

You can register here: https://shiftnetwork.infusionsoft.com/go/shi/gretairving

In this one-hour event, you’ll discover:

What heart coherence is and the power of it
How one of the most effective ways to be heart coherent is through emotional self-regulation
The ways in which negative and positive emotions can impact your hormonal and nervous systems
How heart coherence can positively transform each of us — and simultaneously improve social and global harmony
A quick and simple practice you can use on the fly anytime you want to self-regulate and shift into a more heart-coherent state
You’ll discover how to reach a state of balance in which the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems stop playing an unhealthy game of tug-of-war with one another, and allow you to shift into a heart-coherent state to quickly help you focus, feel calm, and improve your state of mind.

You’ll also learn different ways to better manage anxiety, improve cognitive performance, and connect with a deeper intuitive awareness.

You can RSVP for free here: https://shiftnetwork.infusionsoft.com/go/shi/gretairving

Greta

P.S. In Discover the Science Behind Your Heart’s Intelligence: Experience a Heart Coherence Practice to Shift from Stress & Negativity to Calm & Wellbeing, you’ll learn what it takes to achieve “heart coherence,” where the heart, brain, and nervous system are aligned and in sync, giving you inner peace, a renewed sense of energy, clearheadedness, and a strong immune system.

We hope you’re able to catch the event as scheduled. But if you register and miss it, you’ll receive a downloadable recording as soon as it’s available: https://shiftnetwork.infusionsoft.com/go/shi/gretairving

Cultures around the world have believed the heart was the epicenter of the body and responsible for our feelings, thoughts, and behavior. Interestingly enough, science today is starting to support this perspective, finding that our energetic heart — not our brain — acts as the gateway to our hig...

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