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WHAT’S NEW? End of the summer? Time to plan fall travel!
I am so excited about our upcoming new trips – if you haven’t opened the newsletter in a while – do check out all the new trips we have coming up! with summer ending – NOW is the time to book your upcoming retreat or journey!
Blessings & love, Sheri
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EVENTS, JOURNEYS + WEBINARS!
Mastering the Tao Nature Within:
Wudang Mountain, China
November 6–18th, 2017
Join Terry Hodgkinson for a powerful journey to China where you’ll learn ancient methods for inner balance. We’ll be focusing on the art of Tai Chi, which will bring clarity and calm to your mind.
The art of Qigong will be introduced into your lifestyle, enabling you to find your true self and place in this world. And Taoist meditation will clear your energy body and have you feeling more rooted to the earth.
Wudang is located in Central China’s Hubei Province and this location houses thousands of years of Taoist practice. The atmosphere is ripe with Tao and finding your inner Tao is easily grasped in this ancient place with so much support. The complex was specially designed to fit the Taoist principle of harmony between man and nature.
Magnificent buildings of ancient Chinese design and thought and are located all over the mountain and there are more than 2,000 Palaces and Temples, making this complex the world’s largest Taoist center.
Trip tuition: $2,497 USD based on double occupancy, single occupancy: $3,197 USD – many meals included.
Details for China on Terry’s website!
Black History Matters:
A Spiritual + Historical Journey for Women of Color to the Roots of our History, Destiny & Power
October 5 – 9, 2017
Imagine heading to the beautiful Gullah Islands on the coast of South Carolina with an intimate group of amazing soul sisters. From Beaufort to Charleston, together you’ll explore the richness of the Gullah Culture throughout the diverse Sea Island region with Regine Monestime.
The soul connections are instantly felt. The familiarity of your lives and similar journeys are comforting. No need to explain yourself-you feel immediately accepted by this sisterhood of women.
Picture yourself sitting on a beautifully decorated verandah, one of Beaufort’s magnificent Colonial Era Bed & Breakfast’s shaded by majestic oak trees. The night breeze cools you and you look out onto the perfectly manicured garden. You and your newfound sister-friends drinking your mint julep cocktails; sharing stories and remarking that 100 years ago, this scene would not have been possible.
Trip tuition: $2,497 USD per person single occupancy – breakfast included.
Details for Gullah Island on Regine’s Website!
The Magic of Thailand:
Awaken and Nurture Your Inner Buddha
November 12 – 21, 2017
Are you ready to open to a higher spiritual path, take your next steps and be able to receive and radiate more light and love? Are you ready to play a bigger role in the world and to deepen your contact with your true, innermost Self?
Then this Spirit Journey with Esther Bartkiw is perfect for you.
Feel more empowered, settled and comfortable with your Authentic Self, bursting with compassion and the desire to create peace and harmony where ever you go. It’s easy to forgive others and see past their outbursts showering them with love and acceptance; creating more peace and joy in your own life.
Strengthen the connection with your inner Buddha able to move forward living as the Love that you are; Love being the highest vibration. Gain knowledge of ancient wisdom, cultures and traditions thus cultivating acceptance of people and practices different from your own; more harmony.
Infuse Elephant Medicine into your mind, body and energy field crumbling away issues, beliefs and blocks standing in your way of living the juicy life that you desire while filling you with confidence and the art of gentle communication.
Trip Tuition: $4,250 USD – double occupancy (+ $100 for internal flight, charged separately) $700 USD – single occupancy supplement (+ $100 for internal flight, charged separately)
OUR FEATURED ARTICLE
The Process of Progress
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
Everything happens at exactly the right moment,
neither too soon nor too late.
You don’t have to like it… it’s just easier if you do.
~ Byron Katie
For over a month and a half, the fig tree in my front yard has shown the promise of producing a rather prolific harvest. Every week I’d walk out to the yard, stand underneath and look for signs of ripening. Yet, with every viewing I’d see the same sized green spheres clinging to the vine – no ripening in sight. Why do I not see progress?
I stopped the randomly scheduled viewings. I stopped comparing the time frame that my tree in Alabama produced to this one in Georgia. I stopped thinking about it altogether.
Walking up my driveway this morning, I happened to turn and look at the tree and lo and behold, it was covered with beautiful ripened figs.
Byron Katie’s quote above reminds us that everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late – everything. Nature consistently offers up its wisdom by teaching us to trust. It inherently understands the brilliance of the process. The wisdom within the fig tree knows.
The wisdom within us knows as well.
Life invites us all to relax into the process of progress. As evolutionary beings, we are and will always be in the midst of our own natural growth spurt. In other words, we will eternally be in the midst of personal progress. But our trust in the process of our progress tempers the entire experience.
Journalist Paul Sweeney commented, “How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners and instant cameras teach patience to its young?” The world of “I want what I want when I want it” hardly ever works harmoniously with the schedule of Infinite Intelligence.
I recall innumerable times in life when certain ideas and plans that I’d bargained on, sweated over and efforted to make happen, didn’t, only to breathe deep sighs of relief over how detours and delays worked together for my greater good.
Currently, I see myself involved and devoted to greater and greater arenas of passionate expression. I visualize enthusiastic, committed supporters for my school in Cambodia. I see channels of revenue opening up that I never conceived of. I see myself allowing surprise and expansive thinking for bringing about solution for Khmer Child Foundation and the ever-growing population of children deserving education.
I see this mentally AND, like so many of us, I tend to want that funding yesterday.
Admittedly, part of me is metaphorically walking up to my tree of expansion and not always seeing the results I yearn for. Yet, I am reminded that the right moment has already been created – our solution does exist and that harvest is inevitable.
I must remember Nature’s wisdom. I’ve decided to use the visual of the fig tree to create a mindfulness practice. These weeks, as the tree continues to produce more and more fruit, I take it all in, breathe and whisper to myself, “Everything is unfolding perfectly.”
The Universe encourages me to relax – let go of my timeline and open up to the Infinite’s timeline. It’s potent wisdom to pass on. Whatever we are involved in individually and collectively – it’s unfolding right on time.
Blessings & Love, David Ault
For 30 years David has traveled the world as a New Thought musician, keynote speaker and workshop/retreat facilitator. He is currently the Senior Minister of Spiritual Living Center of Atlanta in Georgia.
David has spent the last ten years traveling back and forth to Cambodia. His outreach began with the digging of fresh water wells throughout the outlying villages of Siem Reap and expanded into developing and offering free education programs for the children abandoned by any educational system or skills training. Through the years he established Khmer Child Foundation – a stateside 501c3 that helped fund and build a non-government regulated school right in the heart of Siem Reap. David’s mission is to empower the lives of Cambodian children through free education and quality of life assistance. You can learn more on his website.
Join him in Greece for his upcoming Magical Greece – Land of Myths and Gods!
May 7 – 16, 2018. ♥
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