Greetings

Imagine that developing a personal awareness practice is like playing in a garden. In a garden, there is a basic form composed of all of the shrubs and trees that remain year round – the foundation. This foundation is the structure upon which the rest of the garden elements, like perennials and annuals, evolve over the cycle of the seasons and from year to year. At the same time, the foundation grows too! As the tenders of these gardens, we watch the colors and textures of the individual elements play-off of one another in an unfolding parade which responds to the cycle of nature and to our personal attention and actions.

Our favorite part of tending the garden is the play that begins once the foundation is set. The fun comes in watching the composition mature, and then shifting elements and adding new components according to the rhythym that inspires our imagination in the moment – moving perennials from here to there, adding new textures and colors, acknowledging a composition that was perfect then, and embracing a new composition that is perfect in this moment.

Why all this talk of new growth now, in autumn, when plants and shrubs begin to fade back and turn inward to prepare for winter? Because now, as our gardens seem to go dormant, much needed refocus and rejuvenation is taking place. We humans are the same way. As autumn unfolds, we now have the opportunity to turn our attention inward with the clear memory of the past summer’s bloom and can begin to imagine where we would like our garden to go next year. What new colors and experiences do we want to create and what awareness and action can we take now to support this new creation? Our clear observation, some pruning back of past-bloom elements, and returning our energy inward is what is requried to prepare for another cycle.

Let’s translate this garden model into a personal awareness tool kit for the fall:

• Check-in with your basic awareness structure.What is the condition of your foundation? Do you have a practice of breathing, meditation, or CoreConnecting which enables you to connect with your center, observe your own actions and make choices in alignment with your heart’s desire?
• Look back on the past growing season. What worked for you and what did not? Which choices and actions felt in alignment with the quality of life you desire and which did not? Pull the weeds, remove spent flowers and prune the dead wood – gently release the attitudes and actions that are past, that no longer require your energy and attention, and which no longer serve you in moving forward.
• Make a commitment to nurture yourself through the coming season. Till the soil, add compost, create new edges, and blanket the gardens with lush mulch. Allow your roots, limbs and spirit to receive, gather and re-focus energy inward so come next spring your creativity and outward expression is well nourished and strong.
• Dream! Spend this season imagining, with your entire body, the quality
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  of life you desire. How do your days feel? What do your relationships look

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  like? Make a list, create images, and focus your intent. Continue to prune and gently release the self-created thoughts and structures which do not align with the quality you dream. This pruning is not only about addressing what we see on the outside, it is first and foremost about what we believe on the inside. After all, what we believe creates what is to come.

Join Laura & Luca’s friend and mentor Rita River Fox for the screening of Awaken! Rita shares her wisdom along with

the multi-tradition teachers included in the film.

Date:

Saturday, October 9th, 2010

Location:

Film: Cinema Salem, 1 India Square, Salem MA, 01970

Workshop: St Andrew’s Church, 135 Lafayette St, Marblehead MA, 01945

Click here for tickets and information:

Awaken The Film