From Lori and Andreea

Center Circle offers women an opportunity to experience a variety of ways to interact with others and ourselves; to get to know ourselves better and continually transform to the newest version of ourselves. Every new day brings an opportunity to change. This circle is a place for you to feel safe to be and discover who you are.

Bring whatever is going on for you or leave it at the doorstep, either way. Practice whatever you want to learn in a safe environment until it feels like a part of you and emerges into every part of your life. Bring the questions you have about anything. Talk about what's important for you right now and what you've always dreamed of doing. Open to new experiences, and in the meantime perhaps discover a new aspect of your self. Relate to your life in fresh and unpredictable ways. Make new friends, create bonds, find common ground. Practice co-creating community. Have a place to go to continue to become the best YOU, you can be.

Get time away from all those other things in life. Think of it as your sacred space. "Your" time. Learn that whatever feels right IS right. Simply feel yourself loving and being loved in your authenticity.

Lori and Andreea

Monday, January 9, 2012

Surround Yourself...

Last night in circle, we set aside time for individual work on goals and intentions for this year.  As we started the activity, blank paper in front of me, my mind wandered the trail of thoughts that I had been collecting on this topic.  Landing on the question "what do I need?" I scribbled some words on the page that came close to describing what I want to experience this year.  I chose words like Tribe and Ohana, trying to capture the idea that I want to be a fully integrated piece of a beautiful functioning community.  I want to belong.  I want to contribute and receive support, love, and appreciation for what I add to the community.  This thing I seek is somewhere between a family and an intentional community.

I went on to write:
I realized yesterday that this year is not so much about becoming and developing or improving myself... it is not so much about creating... or dreams.  This year is for understanding my own needs.  I serve.  I love.  I give.  I create.  This year I want to feel loved.  I want to feel useful, not used.  I want to celebrate my contribution.

Just as I was finishing writing these words, the present moment completely surrounded me.  Still looking at the paper, my eyes focused on nothing as my other senses took over in bringing what they had to offer my brain.  Papers shuffling gently.  Pens and pencils moving across pages around the room.  Quiet flurry of activity as eight women called in the 2012 intentions and the room filled with brilliance.

I felt like someone or something reached into my heart and turned a light bulb on.  That quickly, this energy beamed from my center and all I could do was put my pen down and bring my hands into prayer pose and experience the moment.

"This is exactly what I need right now.  I need to bring the thing that just came up for me and say it out loud.  I need to be heard.  I don't want to do this by myself.  I want a community.  I want to know what it is to be a woman among women.  I want to know this experience.  I want to shape it, practice it, lead it, follow it, be in the middle of it.  I want this."

Tears rolled down my cheeks as I thought of the creation of this group of women; the years of intention that were behind its creation.  "Here I sit in the middle of our creation, feeling love.  Feeling community.  Feeling useful.  Feeling the celebration of my contribution expanding my heart real time. Understanding my need in the very moment of realizing it and watching it being met immediately."


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  1. Meenal KelkarJanuary 9, 2012 at 10:58 AM

    Dear Lori,

    As one of those 8 women who attended last night, I saw you sit with your hands in prayer pose, wondering what it was that had touched you and not wanting to intrude through inquiry.

    Reading your post, I feel a warm expansiveness in my heart in being part of your intention, your manifestation, your insight and your celebration. Those moments are incredibly precious ... thank you for sharing with us last night and again in this post. I cannot find the words to adequately express my gratitude at what you've created, and my blessing to be able to show up in this circle twice a month.

    Meenal

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  2. BillyJanuary 10, 2012 at 10:05 AM

    Thank you for sharing what is in your heart Lori. To do so creates a meaningful and deep experience for us all. Thank you for creating this circle of friends and being the beautiful person that you are.

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