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Happy for the Holidays

A Winter Solstice Workshop with Bridget Boland Join shaman, writer and Forrest Yoga instructor Bridget Boland for a truly “enlightening” workshop including soulful ritual, yoga, vision journeying, seasonal music, and light snacks. You’ll make lanterns and portable altars to aid you in celebrating throughout this season…

GongLab Holiday Celebration

GongLab Holiday Celebration Sunday, December 6, 6:30pm to 9:00pm: Skylight Event Space, Heartwood Center Featuring: The Gong Bath Shadow Tale “Sleeping in the Forest,” Hot Tea & Pastries, and a very Special Preview Performance of a New Collaborative Work! With Musical Guests: Suwan Choi, Byoung Kim, Rick Kubes and Khar…

My passion for and practice of restorative medicine is based upon the belief and experience that the body can and will heal itself if function is optimized in the following five areas: Hormones Nutrition Toxin Clearance Mind; and Body All symptoms and disease come from imbalances in the above-mentioned five areas. The…

Remember that 90 % of communication is via body language. Make sure your body language and your words are congruent Make eye contact. Make ‘I ‘ statements. Take responsibility for your own feelings and actions. Remember no one else makes us feel anything.( our feelings are our inner reaction to external stimuli ) Speak…

WALKING THE PATH OF THE BUDDHA LOPÖN BARBARA RYAN SATURDAY NOVEMBER 21, 2015 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM The path of the nine yanas (or journeys) provides an overview of the Buddhist teachings and was generously taught by H.E. Mindrolling Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche on her recent visit to Osel Ling. This one-day program will provide…

Couples Counseling

Couples counseling can be thought of as an educational process for effective communication between any two person system. This would include spouses, lovers, siblings, parent-child or co-workers. Effective communication by two people will involve clear messaging that is hearable and specific. It requires that while one…

Your Feelings Matter

Hi, my name is Lesa Spravka and I’m a psychotherapist here at Heartwood Center. I want to tell you a little bit about a therapeutic technique I was recently trained in called The Completion Process. This process was created by Teal Swan (tealswan.com) who developed it to assist herself in recovering from some horrific…

Imagine building your inner strengths to deal better with stress, frustration and change. Do you ever notice the feeling of relief in your body when you’ve arrived at a good decision or feel the tension when you’re uncomfortable about something you are about to do? We are always being guided by our inner experience and…

After a particularly challenging session last week, I asked myself the other day how many times along the journey of becoming a therapist someone wiser, more experienced and often older in years told me to “Trust the process.” By the third stressful year of graduate school, hearing that phrase led to feelings of anger,…

Summer is going by so quickly and mid August is fast approaching.This is the month when families prepare for the new school year once again. Every August brings big changes to families. Perhaps your child is preparing to go to school for the first time. Perhaps you are preparing to send your first child off to college.…