Focus Inner Eye and more

We are pleased to inform everyone that there is going to be a new structure to our workshops and our circle starting from next week the 6th of June.  We will be doing alternate weeks that is to say one week Thursday evening and the next Tuesday evening.  plus a series of workshops on the Tuesday once a month, which will encompass a whole range of subjects including auras, colour, pendulums, scrying including  water readings and sand readings  etcetera including of course linking with spirit. The classes start at 11.30 in the morning and we will be there until 8.30 in the evening on those days so our timetable will be as follows. 

These are the dates below as I said starting on the 6th June with our Progressive Awareness Group and our closed circle (www.woodfordchurch.com)

Thursday 6th June      )   
Tuesday 11th June    )
Thursday 20th June  )      Times 7 pm to 8.30 pm
Tuesday 25th June    )
 
Then on Tuesday's 11.30 am to  2.30 pm
                                 3.30 pm to 6.30 pm

Do note there are lots of circles and workshops at Woodford Spiritualist Church and my advise to anyone joining a circle is to try them all as each teacher is unique and will teach in their own way (www.woodfordchurch.com).  There are circles on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday as well as a new six week course with Paul Bathgate starting on the 11th June from 7.30 pm until 9 pm (no need to book) entitled " Foundation Course In Self Development and Mediumship "

I would also like to recommend a workshop tomorrow at St. Albans Spiritualist Church with Alan Albiston (see picture above)  Alan is an excellent medium and teacher.  The workshop is only £15 and starts at noon.  For more details visit their website (http://sasc.webs.com).

Our next workshop at Epping will be on the 22nd June at 1.30 pm with doors opening at 1 pm and is entitled " Drawing With the Inner Eye " with Daniel Naughnane

I found several interesting bits on the internet which I thought might interest people some abut creativity and others to do with the trees plus one relating to music, which I felt I had to share (https://bigthink.com/news/ever-get-the-tingles-from-listening-to-good-music-that-part-of-your-brain-will-never-get-lost-to-alzheimers).  Now to the creativity, which I find very interesting (https://www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/even-minimal-creative-activity-boosts-wellbeing-research-finds).  Now to my great love of trees and I know Carol Winmill,  Gillian Holland and Alan Albiston will resonate with me on this  (https://returntonow.net/2018/04/29/trees-have-a-heartbeat-scientists-discover/) and this piece too (http://soultravelrules.com/2018/09/29/study-says-trees-have-feelings-like-to-cuddle-and-look-after-each-other-like-an-old-couple/ and finally for those of you and your pets this may come as a surprise or not (https://consciousreminder.com/2018/06/11/scgence-confirms-that-nats-and-dogs-can-see-spirits-and-frequancies-that-humans-cant/)

We are looking forward to our trip to Rochester to felt a fairy or an angel with Faye Luminesence Lamb of Unravel and Unwind. 

                   

            

            

 

 

The times they are a changing

Quoting a song by Dylan "the times they are a changing" in our case the circles times and what we are doing.  As some students can't make Thursday nights we have decided to alternate weeks that is to say one week Thursday and another on Tuesday plus doing an all day session for those who cannot make the evenings.  We will still be running our closed circle and the progressive awareness group.  These changes will start on the Tuesday the 11th of June.  We will publish each month the days so you can't get confused and also put them on facebook. Anyone who would like them emailed please comment below or message me on yourcreativeself@outlook.com or text 07927 288904.  Watch for these in our next post. 

We are not doing too well with some of our intentions.  I am sure some of you will remembers we set some of these earlier this year.  We have managed to add a new tutor to our list last weekend and are looking out for workshops with new tutors.  We have not however visited any new churches and we will this coming month endeavour to do this.  However we are learning felting both wet and dry in various workshops and with different tutors and on Sunday 2nd June we will be heading for Rochester to do a workshop with Faye Luminesence Lamb of Unravel and Unwind to felt an angel or fairy.  Its also Dickens weekend in Rochester so anything could happen. 

In one of the next two posts we will also be reviewing a CD called Legacy with Reg Miles plus letting you know anymore interesting workshops. Talking about CDs we still have our meditation CD for sale https://youtu.be/3BoJH9moddI.
Don't forget Alan Albiston has a workshop on the 1st June at St.Albans Church and we have asked Alan to do a similar work at Epping in July. 
I found a couple of interesting bits which one about trees and the other in relation to creativity the latter which really resonates with me and you may well find with yourselves.  I will be very interested in what you think (https://bigthink.com/personal-growth/art-life-skill).  Next the one about trees and this will interest Gillian Holland and Alan Albiston (ww.wakingtimes.com/2018/11/26/ecologist-says-trees-talk-to-each-other-in-a-language-we-can-learn/)

A Colourful Life

Our next workshop is " Intuition and Colour" which starts at about 2.30 pm on Sunday 26th May. It is workshop suitable for all levels and will help you link in intuitively as well as using it for your own everyday life to enhance well being.  After all Great Spirit did not put the colours here by accident.  Before this we have a workshop with Terry Finnegan entitled "Finding Yourself  Through Colour" which starts at noon and finishes at 2 pm. He has come to me highly recommended so I will be interested to see what transpires. So come to one or both of the workshops (www.woodfordchurch.com).

 Our next workshop at Epping is on the 22nd June and its " Drawing with the Inner Eye" No need to be able to draw and is suitable for all levels.   Starts at 1.30 pm, but doors open at 1 pm for meet and greet. The venue is the Friends Meeting House, Hemnall Street, Epping, CM16 4LL, which we are so lucky to be able to hire.  This venue has such a special energy and atmosphere it wonderful.  One workshop I will recommend to you is with Alan Albiston on the 1st June at St. Alban Spiritual Church "Working with Energies and Auras".  It starts at 12 noon.  I have also asked Alan to repeat this workshop at Epping on the 20th of July so those of you who can't get to this one can come to Hemnall Street (See picture of Alan at the Island of Light).  We also have a workshop booked with Lucya Starza on making poppets at Epping on October 5th again it will probably start at 1.30 pm.

We are looking forward to the workshop in Rochester on the at 2nd of June with Unravel and Unwind.  Especially as it's the Dickens Festival , which is always fun.  We will be making an angel or fairy in felting and we are also going to Greenwich Market on the 28th May between 11 am and 3 pm to felt strawberries with Mec and Marcia.  No doubt we will be updating you early next week on the workshops. 

  

Lack of Workshops

The workshop last Saturday  turned out to be very interesting and  perfect timing of  the spirit world.  The picture on the right is just a small part of a picture reading which was produced.

We are going to be quite busy this week starting with Thursday 23rd May when we have an afternoon workshop at Woodford Church "Your Creative Self".  Then on the following Sunday the 26th May we have a workshop with Terry Finnegan entitled "Finding Yourself  Through Colour" which starts at noon and finishes at 2 pm.  After a half hour break I will be running a workshop called " Intuition and Colour" which will go on until 5.30 pm.  So come to one or both of the workshops (www.woodfordchurch.com).

It seems there are very few churches who do workshops these days and we would be interest in hearing from those who do in or around London.  I think the main churches offering these are Woodford of course, Balham and West Wickham. Its a great pity there aren't more.  

Our felting course last Sunday or that is to say the last part of our for week course was quite interesting and also I managed to needle felt a wee bit more of my picture.   We all produced a small scarf and the colours were not only inspirational, but inspiring, as you can see from the picture on the right.  They were all so different. A very interesting technique.  The beautiful flowers at Woodlands Farm as you can see here makes this place special and I would recommend every to pay it a visit if you get the opportunity. It is certainly a beautiful venue.

We have got one booked at Unravel and Unwind in Rochester with Faye making a fairy or an angel, which is on the 2nd June.  We really enjoyed her last workshop and are looking forward to this .  It is nice to get a variety of different methods of working with felt from different tutors.  I believe  Marcia and Mec are offering a drop in strawberry felting event at Greenwich Market on the 228th May.  Will check this out.

 One workshop I will recommend to you is with Alan Albiston on the 1st June at St. Alban Spiritual Church "Working with Energies and Auras".  It starts at 12 noon.  I have also asked Alan to repeat this workshop at Epping on the 20th of July so those of you who can't get to this one can come to Hemnall Street.    

Magical Dolls

We are really looking forward to the workshop at Epping on Saturday 18th May and we hope it will be well attended.  Don't forget it starts at 1.30 but doors open at 1 pm for meet and greet.  The day is just £20 which includes any materials used plus light refreshments and a free raffle ticket.  Workshop entitled "Your Creative Soul" in which we will also be combining a wee bit of sound healing at the start of the day to calm everyone from the outside distractions. We are now in the process of planning other events as the venue has got some repairs which need doing.  It now looks as if these will go ahead in August so we can make plans one of which we have already arranged and it is " Making a Magical Doll" (poppet and how to use it) with Lucya Starza on October 5th, which will start at 1.30 pm.  The cost will be £20 which will include all materials, there is a suggested donation for materials of £2.  I am also hoping Lucya will have a copy of her book for sale. We will need to know numbers for this as obviously materials have to be brought.   We are also planning a workshop with Anita Panayiotis on animal healing.  Hopefully by my next post we will have news of that.  Now back to ourselves and on Thursday 23rd May we will be at Woodford during the afternoon with "Your Creative Self"  which will start at 2.30 and 6 approx. and then at 7 pm is our normal circle.  We are planning at some stage to take it back to Tuesday's as we are gearing it around medical appointments.  I would also like to mention several specials which will be taking place at Woodford Church in aid of the church.  The first of these will be on the 6th July at 7 pm with Raymond Prendergast and will include a free raffle and refreshments.  Time for making friends and seeing an excellent medium. More details nearer the time.  Advanced notice on September 14th there will be an amazing trio of three being Alan Albiston, Alfred Hunt and Ruth Lipkin.  More details nearer the time, but it will include refreshments and time to make new friends.

The last of our felting course at the Woodlands Farm will take place this weekend a selection of what was produced is also above. 

Next event at Epping will be on the 18th May and its with our good selves Daniel Naughnane and Patricia McNally "Your Creative Soul". Usual venue in Epping, which is The Friends Meeting House, Hemnall Street, Epping, Essex CM16 4LL.  We are so fortunate in being able to hire this venue as the energies inside are wonderful.  It starts at 1.30 pm, but doors open for meet and greet at 1 pm. As usual entrance includes light refreshments and a raffle ticket.  Following this on the 26th May at Woodford National Spiritualist Church at noon there is a workshop with Terry Finnrgan  called "Finding Yourself Through Colour" and following "Intuition and Colour" with myself (www.woodfordchurch.com).  Full details on the website. The Healing Week at Woodford went quite well and I understand that the Healing Power of Laughter with Sharon Law was well attended.  As was was our own and also Elizabeth Gale (see small photograph with Daniel. Towards the end of the week on Friday numbers dwindled and sadly Sharon only got two for the meditation and so did Brenda Hodgson for her mini workshop.  The next day it gain more in numbers with Anita Panayiotis and Valerie Coates's workshops.  Incidentally Anita will be doings an animal healing workshop at Epping later in the year and Lucya Starza is doing a poppets one in October and we will be giving more details in a later post. Last Sunday morning we sent at the Woodlands farm on our felting course, which is where the beautiful clematis was and the sheep too.  Details of this and our makes will be in our next post in a few days time when we might have more news of the two workshops mentioned. 

We are looking forward to taking part in the Woodford Church Healing week and we will be there nearly all day tomorrow.  At 12.00 I will be leading a mini workshop called entitled Healing with the Archangels (suggested donation £3),  which will start at 12.00 until 2 pm.  Then at 2.30 pm Daniel will be leading a workshop with Sound Healing and this will finish around 5.30 (suggested donation £5).   There will then be a break until 7 pm when our normal circle time will be devoted to a mediation and a discussion on various forms of healing again (again suggested donation of £3).  We understand that the first workshop the "Healing Power of Laughter" with Sharon Law.  On Friday our good friend Liz Gale is doing a workshop called "Healing with the Universal Energy", which starts at 3.30 pm. For full details of the rest of the workshops please look at the Woodford Church website (www.woodfordchurch.com). 
The workshop after that will be at Epping called "My Creative Soul", which will be on the 18th  May at 1.30 pm and doors will open at 1 pm for meet and greet.  Full details will be found on one of the posts next week. Cost just £20 which includes teas and light refreshments plus a raffle ticket, 
I have posted some more pictures from the Woodland Farm and we are there again this coming Sunday and when we are making a bowl. As I have said previously it is a splendid venue.    We are also going to book another workshop in Rochester and that will be to felt an angel or fairy with Unravel and Unwind.   

We had a very fruitful day at the Woodland Trust and almost finished a picture. It is certainly worth looking at some of the events there and so do take a look. (https://www.thewoodlandsfarmtrust.org)  Viv and Sylvia certainly packed a lot into the morning and we are looking forward to making a bowl next Sunday. We also had an interesting talk about the farm itself and how much it cost to run it (a bit scary I might add)  I would also like to recommend courses with the following organisations, which I believe they are both members of the following organisations http://www.southeastlondontextiles.wordpress.com and  http://www.seyalondon.wordpress.com.  You can see from the other picture how intent Daniel was with his wet felting.  I also have added some picture of the creatures hanging from the education room in the Woodlands as they run numerous classes for children.

Our next workshop is part of healing week at Woodford Church on Thursday 9th May at noon with "Healing with the Archangels" lead by myself and then when it finishes there will be a half hour break and at 2.30 until 5.30 Daniel will lead a  "Sound Healing Workshop". Following this will be a meditation with a discussion about various forms of healing such as reiki, angel reiki, kiniesology and other forms of therapies, which will start at 7 pm and finish around 7.30 pm.  all of these events are by donation as its the healing week.

Following this the workshop after that will be at Epping and its called "Your Creative Soul" and Daniel and I will be leading it.  That is on the on the 18th May, which starts at 1.30 pm (and doors open at 1 pm for meet and greet). 

Liz Gale is also doing a workshop on Friday afternoon and so is Lucie Steflova for the healing week and I will be giving more details of these in my next post.   I will where I can be adding reviews of these workshops and even if I can't attend it will be nice to get some sort of feedback. 

 

 

 

Workshops and Healing week

Just a gentle reminder that the Woodford Healing week commences on the 6th May with the afternoon service.  Those taking part are Anita Panayiotis, Brenda Hodgson,  Daniel Naughnane, Elizabeth Gale, Lucie Steflova, Sharon Law, myself and the healing leader Valerie Coates.  My workshop is on the Thursday 9th May at 12 noon to 2 pm "Healing with the Archangels" suggested donation £3 and Daniel's will follow at 2.30 to 5.30 suggested donation of £5 "Sound Healing".  Finally from 7 pm to 8.30 pm Meditation and discussion on various forms of healing suggested donation of £3 (all workshops on the healing wee are by suggested donations). 

On the 18th May we will be running a workshop at the Friends Meeting House, Hemnall Street, Epping CM16 4LL which starts at 1.30 pm (doors open at 1 pm for met and greet).  The workshop is "Your Creative Soul" and we are hoping for some lovely art and inspirational verse etc.  Following this on the 26th May we are back at Woodford with a workshop entitled "Intuition and Colour" at 2.30 pm till 5.30 pm.  Before this is also a short 2 hour workshop with Terry Finnegan on colour called "Finding Yourself through Colour".  Find details of this and the healing week on the Woodford National Spiritualist Church website www.woodfordchurch.com

We are looking forward to the second part of our four week wet felting course at the Woodlands Farm in Welling, which is situated in the Shooters Hill.  We really enjoyed last week and it is a lovely venue. On the subject of craft I am sharing on here some of our latest creations, which we will be selling to raise funds for the "Rainbow Healing Sanctuary" 

We found some really interesting links to share with you one on mindfulness and mediation being introduced into schools   http://www.trueactivist.com/mindfulness-and-meditation-will-now-be-part-of-the-curriculum-in-370-schools-in-england-t1/, which I found very interesting the others I feel will be of interest to a lot of people so do click on these two links. This one refers to dancing

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-08-reverse-aging-brain.html and the following to music with those suffering from dementia  https://bigthink.com/news/ever-get-the-tingles-from-listening-to-good-music-that-part-of-your-brain-will-never-get-lost-to-alzheimers

Watch out for more news soon and especially from our class tomorrow. 

Beltane Blessings

Normally I don't blog two days running, but I wish to pass blessings to you all for Beltane and also to suggest places you can look for Beltane Celebrations.  Probably best place we know is Lucya Starza's blog www.badwitch.co.uk as there is always a full list of pagan events and incidentally its a blog well worth reading. Very informative and beautifully written.

We thought we would share a few more photographs of the Woodlands Trust Farm at Welling with you as we will be spending some time there on the wet felting course, which runs for another three weeks. We are looking forward to next Sunday. 

Don't forget this coming week is the healing week at a lot of spiritual churches and South Woodford National Spiritual Church and workshops leaders taking part in this are Anita Panayiotis, Liz Gale, Daniel Naughnane, Sharon Law, Lucie Steflova and myself.  The healing leader is Valerie Coates. Do come along to some of these events and see if the power of healing can help you or just learn about various aspects of healing. Please if you attend one of these events could you write a review.  It would be nice to get feedback about ant of the workshops we organise and I am sure the tutors concerned would be delighted.  In our case any constructive criticism is also welcome. 

Don't forget also those interested in trance there is a workshop on the 11th May with Maggie Jones at West Wickham Church and I believe it starts at 10.30 am until 4.30 pm entrance £20.  Places are limited so contact church as soon as possible.

Our next workshop at Epping is on the 18th May at the Friends Meeting House at 1.30 (doors will open at 1 pm).  Cost £20 which includes the workshop as well as teas, coffees and a free raffle.  I always feel we are fortunate to have such a beautiful place to work. The address is Hemnall Street, Epping, CM16 4LL. The workshop is with us and is entitled "Your Creative Soul"

Following this on the 26th May we are back at Woodford with two short workshops both on colour.  One with ourselves and the other with Terry Finnegan.  More about that in a later post.