Sitges Women's Circle Saturday October 29th

Join us for the Women's circle this Saturday:

4:30pm to 7:00pm at C/Escolas Pias17, 2-1, Sitges (the narrow glass door).

The theme is “Honoring the Ancestors.” Share a memory, song, dance, read a poem, put photos on the circle altar or what ever you'd like to celebrate the lives of those that have come before us. Honor the women who have fought for our rights or died because they were healers as well as family members….  After those offerings we will do our monthly Sufi healing prayer and silent meditation, followed by tea. Please bring a healthy vegetarian snack and clothes or small household items for passing along to others in the group. Any leftovers will go to Caritas.

Suggested donation 15 euros—but give what you can. Be part of the discussion about where this seasons donations will go. 

Once again we will be placing a group order for calendars by Elena Caballero , her theme the 2017 calendar is “Cuerpo de Mujer/A Woman's Body.” The wall calendar and agenda are 13.50 euros each (including postage.)
Please bring exact change and let me know which format you would like.

There will be a small selection of Elenware ceramics if you are looking for a special gift.

Feel free to share this information with other women. Please confirm your attendance.

You can find us on Facebook here. 

Saturday September 24 Women's circle new season starts

I'm looking forward to starting the fall season of the women's circle Saturday September 24. We will continue to meet at the same time and place: from 4:30 to 7:00 at C/Escolas Pias17, 2-1, Sitges (the narrow glass door).

I will be honored to share the water ceremony teachings of Ojibwe Great Grandmother and Water Carrier Mary Lyons and the teachings of the other Wise Women Elders I recently studied with.

We will do our Sufi healing prayer and silent meditation followed by a pica-pica. Please bring something vegetarian and healthy to share. Also any unwanted clothes or household items for exchange among the group with whatever is left going to charity.

We will also discuss which charity we will be supporting with our donations for the rest of this year. Recommended donation 15 euros, but what ever you can give is welcome.

Save these dates for the following circles
October 29th
Novemeber 26
December date to be decided later

You are most welcome to share an activity (presentation, dance, song, recipe….)  lasting any amount of time up to two hours at the following circles, please let me know what and when you would like to offer it to the circle.

You are very welcome to share this information with others.

Blessings to you and looking forward to seeing you.  

Above photo of Elenware Heart Spiral Goddess necklaces

Spring Equinox and Water Day Ritual Circle March 19th

This month we are celebrating the Spring equinox, which is exact at 5:30 Sunday the 20th. We will also celebrate World Water Day which Tuesday the 22nd of March.

We will join together in a Spring Ritual, think about a goal or wish you would like "planted, grounded in Mother Earth", Please feel free to share a short prayer or song.  To celebrate World Water day we will also do a blessing over water given by the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers.  You are invited to bring an object representing you wishes for Spring and a lidded bottle or jar for water to put on our altar. You will take these things home with you.

As always we will do our Sufi healing prayer and a silent mediation. With the changing weather, it's a great time to sort through your wardrobe and bring any clothes you don't want or household items to exchange or be donated to a local charity.

Donations from the circle will go to Calaid Barcelona who are helping in the refugee camps in Greece.  

Circle held at c/ Escoles Pies, 17, 2-1,  Sitges , the narrow glass door.

Save these dates:
April 30th
May 28
June 18

Please share this information with friends and confirm your attendance.

You can also join our virtual circle on Facebook.

There will be a small section of Elenware Holy Sheramics on offer.

2016 Women's Circle dates and January meeting

Greetings of the new year.
I hope everyone had a lovely holiday season. The tentative dates for the first half of 2016 are:
January 30
February 27
March19
April 30
May 28
June 18

We will continue meeting from 4:30 to 7:30 at c/ Escoles Pies 17 2-1 in Sitges—at the narrow glass door.

December's vegetable soup was so yummy. We will continue with it for the next two or three months. I ask that everyone bring some vegetables cut and prepared to go into a pot of soup or a desert. You are also welcome bring your unwanted clothes for our exchange.

At our January circle I would like include a discussion of 1 Billion Rising:Revolution (http://www.onebillionrising.org/about/campaign/) and how we can contribute to this global event. We will also do our Healing sufi prayer of the heart, silent meditation and pica-pica. 

 

Donations from January's meeting with go to 1 Billion Rising or a 1 Billion Rising cause. Then from February donations with continue going to CalAid Barcelona, helping refugees in the camp in Lesbos, Greece.

Each one of you is welcome to share a special activity that lasts no more than two hours. Please contact me in advance if one day you would like to offer some sort of mini-workshop in massage, dance, kirtan, astrology or anything else.

Please share this information with your women friends and remember to confirm your attendance to the event with either an email response and/or on our event page on Facebook. If you haven't joined our virtual circle please do and feel free to post other events and things that are important to you. https://www.facebook.com/Circulo-de-Sanacion-para-Mujeres-461014710617561/?ref=hl

Looking forward to seeing you.

Solstice Circle, Saturday December 19th

Solstice Circle

Saturday December 19th from 4:30 to 9:30
C / Escolas Pias, 17-19, 2 º 1 ª

We will be celebrating solstice (which is actually Dec. 21st) with a ritual to the 6 directions. If anyone is interested in facilitating one or more of the four directions for our ceremony and/or sharing another ritual related to Solstice, please let me know. Feel free to bring something to put on our altar to "charge" with the ritual's energy.

Also, if you have time, ponder the parts you inhabit: mother, teacher, wife, healer, sister…Could your feelings about how you personify these improve? Each of us will have the opportunity to offer our roles up to the sacred fire to birth a new and better way of living them in the coming year.

Antonia will lead us in a song and we will also do our silent sufi prayer of the heart and meditation.

I ask that you bring a vegetable cut up and ready to put in a pot to make a soup or if you want to bring a desert that's welcome as well.

Make space for the new by clearing out your unwanted clothes or things for us to trade or pass on to charity.

After todays circle our donations with go to CalAid Barcelona (https://www.youcaring.com/calaid-barcelona-465594) to help with their work at the refugee camp in Lesvos, Greece.

Suggested donation 15 euros.

If you are looking for a unique gift, made with love there will be Elenware Holy Sheramics and Ritual incense available for purchase.

Samhain Women's Circle October 31st

This month we are meeting on October 31st (from 4:30 to 7:30 pm) which coincides with Samhain. Samhain is the Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter or the "darker half" of the year. Later it became associated as a Wiccan celebration of the ancestors. These themes will be the subject of the first part of our circle. You are welcome to bring a short poem, song, dance, blessing (or whatever) to share, as well as photos of your ancestors for our circle altar.

We will be meeting at c/ Escoles Pies 17 2-1 in Sitges—at the narrow glass door.

As always, our gatherings will include a Sufi healing prayer, silent meditation and snacks as well as our clothing exchange. Please bring a healthy snack and any clothes or small household items you no longer want.

Save these dates:

November 28

December 19

I invite all of you very talented women to share what you love with us--be it family constellations, dance, a kind of massage, breath work, a recipe… The possibilities are infinite. It should be an activity that we can complete in 2 hours or less. I just need to know what it would be at least one day in advance.

For the rest of this year donations to the circle will be going to Calais Aid and action Sitges. Their facebook pagehttps://www.facebook.com/events/895413857192854/ mentions what is needed by the refugees. There will be a van leaving from Sitges in a few months with donated tents, clothes, supplies etc.

Sitges women's circle starting up again Saturday September 26th

I hope you all had a fabulous summer. I’m looking forward to our monthly women's circle starting on September 26th from 4:30 to 7:30pm. We will share a short ritual to celebrate  Meetings will be on the last Saturday of the month until December when we will meet on the19th.

We will be meeting at c/ Escoles Pies 17 2-1 in Sitges—at the narrow glass door.

Our gatherings will include a Sufi healing prayer of the heart, silent meditation and snacks as well as our clothing exchange. Please bring a healthy snack and any clothes or small household items you no longer want. Have a look at the list of items being collected by Calais Aid and action Sitges below and on their Facebook page.

Save these dates:
September 26
October 31 (we'll celebrate Samhain together)
November 28
December 19

I invite all of you very talented women to share what you love with us--be it family constellations, dance, a kind of massage or breath work, a recipe… The possibilities are infinite. It should be an activity that we can complete in 2 hours or less. I just need to know what it would be with at least one day’s notice.

For the rest of this year donations to the circle will be going to Calais Aid and action Sitges. Their facebook page https://www.facebook.com/events/895413857192854/ and  below mention what is needed by the refugees. There will be a van leaving from Sitges in a few months with donated tents, clothes, supplies etc.

Also in the same space as the Women's circle, starting Wednesday Oct. 8th, I will be teaching a weekly class on Wednesdays from 7pm to 8:30pm for women called: Connecting with the Divine Feminine/Encuentros con la feminidad divina . (this is already translated elsewhere)We will exercise our bodies and spirits using meditation techniques and yoga as well as practicing different types of healing. The goal is to connect us with the divine feminine.

Recommended donation 10 euro per session.

For either event, call or send me a message to confirm your attendance or if you would merely like more information.


Hope you can make it and please share this information with friends.

Beautiful circle painting used with permission by Aussie Artist/Poet/Teacher Arna Baartz. Visit her Facebook page Arna Baartz Artist and website to see more of her art and fascinating projects. http://www.artofkundalini.com/

Women's Circle celebrating Mother Earth, Saturday April 25

This month our circle meets on Saturday the 25th of April at our usual time from 4:30 to 7:30p,  We will be celebrating Mother Earth and Earth Day. Think of all the little things you do to make the environment around you cleaner or ways you conserve what there is and come share with us. Other activities or rituals are also welcome.

We will be meeting at c/ Escoles Pies, 17, 2-1,  Sitges , the narrow glass door.

Our gatherings will include a Sufi healing prayer of the heart, silent meditation and snacks as well as our clothing exchange. So please bring a healthy snack and any clothes you no longer want. It's a great time to go through your wardrobe.

I invite all of you very talented women to share what you love with us--be it family constellations, dance, a kind of massage or breath work, a recipe or… The possibilities are infinite. It should be an activity that we can complete in 2 hours or less. I just need to know before the day.

The circle dates for the rest of this season are:
May 30th We'll watch the documentary For the Next 7 Generations about the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers.
June 20th activity to be decided

Come Fall the Circle will need to find a new home. If you have any ideas about this, please get in touch with me.

As usual, donations from the Circle will go to support The Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers and their upcoming meeting in Gabon.

Beautiful tree-goddess image by Francene Hart
http://www.goddessgift.net/banners-by-francene-hart.html

Spring Equinox Women's Circle Saturday March 21st from 4:30 to 7:30pm

This month we meeting on a very auspicious day, the first full day of Spring. The equinox is exact at 22:45 on Friday. We will also celebrate World Water Day which is Sunday.

We will join together in a Spring Ritual. Please feel free to share a short prayer or song.  To celebrate World Water day we will also do a blessing over water given by the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers.  You are invited to bring an object representing you wishes for Spring and a lidded bottle or jar for water to put on our altar. You will take these things home with you.

As always we will do our Sufi healing prayer and a silent mediation. With the changing weather, it's a great time to sort through your wardrobe and bring any clothes you don't want to exchange or be donated to a local charity. I have already been given a large bag for the up-coming circle.

Donations from the circle will go to the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers as they are preparing for their next meeting in Libreville Gabon, Africa.

There will be a small section of Elenware Holy Sheramics on offer. Above image is an Elenware piece.

You can also join our virtual circle on Facebook.


Circle held at c/ Escoles Pies, 17, 2-1,  Sitges , the narrow glass door.

Save these dates:
April 25th the circle celebrates Earth Day
May 30th We'll watch the documentary For the Next 7 Generations about the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers.
June 20th activity to be decided

Please share this information with friends and confirm your attendance.

November 29th the Women's Circle meets again

The next women's circle is Saturday Nov. 29th at our usual time from 4:30 to 7:30.
Teresa will be sharing wisdom from Jean Shinoda Bolen's latest book
Like a Tree: How Trees, Women, and Tree People Can Save the Planet.
Then we'll see what else that comes up.

Then as always we do our Sufi healing prayer of the Heart,  silent meditation, pica pica as well as our clothing (or household goods) exchange.

Dates for the rest of the year:
December 20 at 4:30 for a special Solstice Celebration.

I invite you all to share anything you like, from a poem, song, dance, ritual or type of therapy ,with the group. It should be an activity that we can complete in two hours or less. Please let me know in advance when and what you would like to share with us.

I also invite you to think of what our  women's circle could do to participate in One Billion Rising February 14th.

Once again donations from the Circle will go to support The Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers.

We will be meeting at c/ Escoles Pies, 17, 2-1,  Sitges (the narrow glass door).

Listen to Jean Shinoda Bolen's short talk Urgent Message from Mother: 
Gather the Women, Save the World here.

Fall/Winter 2014 Sitges Women's Circle update

The women's circle will be starting it's Fall/winter sessions on  Saturday Sept 27th at our usual time from 4:30 to 7:30. At our first circle we will practice a very powerful Osho/Sufi dynamic meditation in addition to our regular practices.

Dates for the rest of the year:

October 25

November 29

We will meet on Sunday December 21 at 7 for a special Solstice Celebration.

Our gatherings will include a Sufi healing prayer of the heart,  silent meditation, tea as well as our clothing exchange.

I have many different activities I look forward to sharing but I invite all of you very talented women to share what you love with us; be it family constellations, dance, a kind of massage or breath work, a recipe, a song  or ???? The possibilities are infinite. It should be an activity that we can complete in less than 2 hours. Please let me know in advance when and what you would like to share with us.

Once again donations from the Circle will go to support The Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers. We can discuss supporting other causes as well.

We will be meeting at C/ Escoles Pies, 17, 2-1, Sitges (the narrow glass door)

Times, dates and location subject to change. Please always confirm your attendance.

Please join our virtual circle on facebook and share your wisdom with us.

First Women's Healing Circle of 2014: Saturday January 25th

I hope you can come and share with us this coming Saturday 25 January from 4:30 to 7:30
We meet at C / Escolas Pias , 17, 2 º 1 ª , Sitges (the narrow glass door ) .

    We'll watch a short video about 1 Billion Rising 2013 and talk about "1 Billion  Rising for justice in 2014", the global project initiated by writer Eve Ensler. We will also read the Sufi tale , Moshkel Gosha. Moshkel Gosha is an ancient Persian story that teaches how we can help remove obstacles in our lives.

    * In each circle we:

    practice a Sufi prayer of the heart and a silent meditation

   ask for a donation  that goes to a non-profit we will choose together

Also, remember to bring something to share for tea/snack and clothes you no longer want to exchange  with other women in the circle or give to a local charity.

Winter and spring dates ...

    January 25
    February 22
    March 29
    April 26
    May 31

  The dates and topics may change .
If you have a topic or activity you would like to share with the group you are very welcome. Please contact me well before the date of the circle you are interested in sharing at.
 

Elenware Holy Sheramics will have a selection of pottery on exhibit  with a percentage of the sales going to Casa Mantay.
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Women's Healing Circle in Sitges dates for fall/winter 2013

Fall/Winter Circle news.......

I hope all of you had a lovely summer and are ready for the wondrous changes that autumn brings.
The women's circle will begin its autumn/winter sessions starting
Saturday Sept 28th at our usual time from 4:30 to 7:30.

Dates for the rest of the year:
October 12
November 30
December 21 Solstice Celebration (this ritual-themed circle will start at 7:30)

All circles will meet at my house unless there is an activity that needs a bigger space. It is vital that you confirm your attendance in advance. This will allow me sufficient time to contact everyone if the circle needs to move to a different location.

Our gatherings will include a Sufi healing prayer of the heart, silent meditation and snacks as well as our clothing exchange.

I invite all of you very talented women to share what you love with us--be it family constellations, dance, a kind of massage or breath work, a recipe or… The possibilities are infinite. It should be an activity that we can complete in 2 hours or less. Let me know asap, so we can find an appropriate space if my home is too small.

Like before, donations from the Circle will go to support The Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers and their upcoming trip to New Zealand.

Women's Healing Circle Saturday April 27 from 4:30 to 7:30

*I'm so looking forward to our next circle. I wanted to thank the women that came last month. We joined voices chanting the vowel sounds and went from there straight into our healing prayers and meditation.

When I thinking what we could do in addition to our prayers for healing and silent meditation this month, it came to me, it's best to create it in the moment. We'll let the alchemical magic of the women in the circle decide. There are infinite possibilities. We could chant some more, do some inner healing work using the breath. We can share the projects we're working on both professionally and personally. There are many inspiring videos to watch and discuss. So many choices. What a treat to join together on a Saturday afternoon  share, listen and heal. 

Please remember to bring a healthy snack for tea and any old clothes you no longer want to share with the women in the circle and/or donate to charity.

Suggested donation 15 euros. All donations go to support the Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers.

The circle meets at my house. Please confirm your attendance and I will send you the address.

Saturday April 27 from 4:30pm to 7:30pm

Next Circle: May 27

We're over 80 members in our virtual circle on Facebook. Please join and share with us there.

*This is one of my Goddess pendants embellished by a jeweler named Sergio in Southern California.

The Giving Tree

The Giving Tree

This is my giving tree
She stands in a lot
on my path to the pool.
She's my reminder,
my friend.
I rest in gratitude
on her trunk.
Giving thanks for all
that is life
and this planet.
Asking the Divine to guide me.

One Billion Rising!!! One week away!!!!!

I have had the honor of helping organize the 1 Billion Rising event in Barcelona, Thursday February 14th from 7 to 9 pm. We will be dancing and singing and celebrating that the time has come for women to stop living in fear of rape and violence.
I am rising because I know too many women that live with the scars of such abuse. I'm rising because I want to live in a world where girls have the same right to attend school as boys, where women feel safe to dress as they like and be out as late as they want without fear.
Below is a message by Eve Ensler, founder of this global event. For more information and to find an event near you visit http://onebillionrising.org/

Blessings for 2013: Circle dates and The Grandmother's Council in Nepal

Dates for the Women's Circle in Sitges Monthly on the last Saturday of the month from 4:30 to 7:30 January 26, Feb 14th Special 1 Billion Rising Dance event in Barcelona. Learn more about it here and keep up with our participation on our facebook page Feb. 23 March 23 April 27 May 25th The donations from the Women's Circle go to support the works of the International Council of Indegenious Grandmothers.

What is your best tip for meditation?

I got carried away answering the above question in a facebook group I belong to. Meditation and prayer are such an important part of my life, I wanted to share the full essay here.

For me, there is often no difference between prayer and meditation and many sages and prophets have talked about making everything into a prayer or meditation. I practice different kinds of meditation throughout the day and try to make many events during the day a meditation.

 Since I've begun practicing SRI seriously, each day when I wake up I center and connect to myself with Stage One and then I do one of my Kundalini yoga meditations.
When I am walking on grass, in the sand or sea water I make a practice of being grateful.  While swimming,  I unite my movement and breath with a Sufi mantra.  The practice of moving to mantra has been called "Celestial Communication" byYogi Bhajan. Native peoples all over the world have danced as a method of prayer and trance-dance is considered a form of meditation. When I used to perform as a dancer or play drums for kirtans, it was simply becoming one with the the music, surrendering to the vibration. The experience of being one with the music, whether spinning Dervish-style or connecting in some other way to music can transport me to a place of incredible unity--where there is no time, no "me."  As a ceramicist, becoming one with the clay as I knead it, work on the wheel, decorate it and let it speak to me is another one of my meditation practices.
*The beautiful collage for this post was created by Shawn McSweeny.

Colors of Calcuta

I am honored to have started collaborating with the charity Colores de Calcuta by their selling my sacred symbol necklaces at their fund raising events in and around Madrid. The Spanish/Indian Anahata Foundation, through which Colores de Calcuta functions works with women and children offering health and education services in the poorest part of the poverty striken city of Calcuta. The video below shows some of the amazing work they do.

12th Grandmothers Gathering for Peace

Support the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers' Prayer for Peace in the Land of the Buddha - Kathmandu, Nepal, November 8-11, 2012.