Newsletter
April 2009
Hi everyone
For me, the last two weeks has been a time of breakthroughs. The Embody workshop astounded me (again!) with the phenomenal shifts it created – well done to the unbelievably brave and committed group of participants whose miraculous stories I will be sharing on the website shortly. I’m also witnessing big, big leaps in many of my clients for whom the pieces of the puzzle are starting to come together (and usually this only happens when they’ve been willing to tear it all apart first). Finally, in my own life I’ve had the privilege of a breakthrough conversation with friends (expertly facilitated by Sue Fuller-Good), and being privy to Garrick’s realizations post-Embody. Seeing as I thrive on breakthroughs, you can imagine that I am very excitable and energized right now!
This is NOT the state I was in during my week away at the beach recently. I found myself heavy, resentful and resorting to my Martyr archetype after a few days on what was supposed to be a holiday. I realized eventually that being too far away from my Joys – even if in a stereotypically nice environment – is going to have that effect on me every time and everywhere. I had to step in, wrench myself away from being right (about blaming everyone else for what was happening or not happening) and rescue my own holiday. For me, that meant exchanging an afternoon sleep for two hours of writing, playing hooky with my husband (which involved a surprisingly delicious chocolate martini) and resolving to have more say in our holiday plans next time. If you’re interested in the concept of joy as a model for living, my Bull’s Eye below will begin to answer some of the questions I am most often asked about this. You may also like to ‘joyn’ us for JoyMap, a fun and fulfilling workshop to identify your top eight Joys, which will be offered in White River and Jo’burg next month.
I hope to see you at a group reading or for personal sessions in Johannesburg and Bloemfontein (on 10 April). Please note that I will be travelling between 9 and 20 April and access to email will be sporadic in that time.
May the next few weeks be filled with lots of breakthroughs (and chocolate!)
Much Love
Angela
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Upcoming Events
Personal Readings and Spiritual Coaching Sessions
A personal, or couple’s, reading is a session where I channel insight from your higher self about what is most dominant in your ‘field’ at that time. This can include patterns you are holding, some of your life themes, blockages in your body, the particular cycle you are in at the time or what thought patterns may be holding you back from feeling free. Usually there is an opportunity to ask specific questions if you wish to, but the reading will take on a particular direction or set of themes right from the start. The energy of these conversations is gentle, incredibly loving yet also full of humour and practical suggestions.
Time required: 1 to 1.5 hours
Cost: R550.00 in office hours
A baby blessing, which can be done at a baby shower or as a regular reading, is a conversation with an unborn child. They are normally shorter than an hour, though this depends very much on the chattiness of the child! Best time to have one is between 20 and 35 weeks pregnant.
A spiritual coaching session does not involve direct channelling. It is an opportunity for you to bring specific issues to the session, perhaps those that came up in a previous reading but not necessarily, and to work with my questions and ideas on these. I don’t follow a specific coaching methodology and will work with what comes up in the moment using discussion or physical movement or conscious dreaming or anything else that can move you forward. A warning: I’ve been heard to say ‘I couldn’t give a damn about your success…I’m only interested in your Joy’!
Time required: 50 minutes
Cost: R350.00
Contact Garrick on +27844608667 or via email if you are interested in booking a distance reading or a one-on-one session in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Bloemfontein or White River. A waiting period of 4 to 6 weeks can be expected.
Group Reading
You can download the latest group readings from our website to hear the kind of insight that is available in that environment. The March group reading starts off with a reminder about the significance of our attention and a suggestion to be aware and deliberate about what we do with it. The majority of the conversation after that focuses on the aspect of eating and food, with clear and radical information about becoming truly empowered in this area of our lives. The questions also deal with eating and open up even more detail about how to approach food in a free way. There is a third point raised about parenting and how to be 'responders' rather than initiators to our children.
Group readings usually convey a tremendous amount of information in a short space of time – I like to think of them as the espresso of my work – and are mostly attuned to what the particular members of the group or broader humanity are experiencing at the time. They are affordable and a good way to introduce newcomers to the beauty and value of channelling. There is often an opportunity to ask a personal question. The cost of attending a group reading will remain unchanged at R100.00 for the third year running so that these events are as accessible as possible. Please note, however, that this is an attendance fee and the right to sell or distribute the information remains with Travelling Light.
Next Group Reading in Johannesburg
Date: Sunday 26 April 2009
Time: 4pm to 5.30pm
Venue: Northside Lodge, 31 Knox Street, Waverley
Cost: R100.00 pp
To book contact Garrick +2784 460 8667 or via email.
JoyMap Workshop
In my experience, most New Year’s resolutions or any kind of goal-setting exercises, are likely to fail for two reasons: Firstly, they are usually based on what you think you should do, rather than what you deeply want to do. In other words, the goals are set only from your head. Failure to sustain these resolutions breeds a sense of self-recrimination, your esteem drops and a cycle of subtle disappointment begins. Secondly, even when your goals are truly aligned with your joy, they may be unrealistic and difficult to integrate into your life as it is now. Why not do it differently and begin to sculpt your life – practically - from joy?
I have designed a number of unusual, innovative processes to assist you to see what you really want (which is notoriously difficult to do) and to find real, creative and achievable ways to integrate this into your current life with nothing needing to change.
Two participants’ experiences:
‘Being the OCD personality type, I am constantly making lists and
working towards “goals” and setting new year’s resolutions throughout
the year, because how else can a person exist…. Ha ha – I found a
delicious way yesterday…I spent the day with Angela, a friend and wise
woman, and started learning about me and what I am passionate about as
opposed to what I think or believe I have to be passionate about…
The word goal didn’t even enter my mind and yet I have these BIG dreams
that I announced yesterday and have started towards them…not because I
have to, but because I cannot wait any longer …
I would love for you all to experience this joy and excitement…Go on,
give it a bash – the way you look at your life for the next year will
astound you!’
‘I am still taking in the incredible gift of the JoyMap workshop. I found the insights I gained profound and far reaching in terms of how I want to see my life unfolding. It certainly has a) given me permission to focus on my joy without feeling guilty and b) made joy so much more of a focus in my day to day life’
White River
Date: Thursday 7 May 2009
Time: 9am to 4pm
Venue; TBA
Cost: R650.00 per person (includes all materials and teas, please bring
a light lunch)
Minimum 6 Maximum 10
Johannesburg
Date: Saturday 23 May 2009
Time: 9am to 4pm
Venue; Northside Lodge, 31 Knox Street, Waverley
Cost: R650.00 per person (includes all materials and teas, please bring
a light lunch)
Minimum 6 Maximum 10
To book contact Garrick +2784 460 8667 or via email.
Separate Togetherness
I work with a number of couples in my practice and friendship circles that are looking for new ways of having intimate partnerships - ones which are based on ‘wild love’ and real (not token) freedom rather than the more typical model of co-dependency and ‘blaming, shaming or taming’ (Gill Edwards). But there are few role models of such partnerships and most of us default to what we learned in our own childhood homes, especially when we are tired, overwhelmed or scared.
My Separate Togetherness workshop is for 10 people (5 couples) who are committed to their own joy and to creating a relationship which truly supports that.
I am not taking a purely theoretical approach but will instead build what I have learnt about healthy partnerships into processes focussed on the real-life gifts and challenges of the relationships in the room. Garrick and I will also share our own experiences of partnership and what we are discovering about being separately together.
This workshop will require honesty, courage and commitment, and will therefore deliver life-changing results. It is not specifically intended for relationships in trouble, but rather for couples who value their partnership enough to want to work on and deepen it.
Follow-up support after the workshop will be available.
Separate Togetherness Workshop
Date: Next workshop: Friday 2 October – Sunday 4 October 2009
Venue: Boondocks Mountain Lodge, between Nelspruit and Barberton
Cost: R 8 500.00 per couple includes workshop, full accommodation,
delicious meals and exclusive use of this magnificent lodge and
labyrinth.
Maximum 5 and minimum 3 couples. Please book soon.
To book contact Garrick at +27844608667 or email.
Embody
A workshop for those whose hearts are big enough to fall in love with their bodies.
The previous Embody Workshops yielded some miraculous and dramatic shifts in participants’ relationships to self-esteem, eating, exercise, sexuality, pain, relationships and awareness of life purpose. To read more about this pioneering process, including more stories from graduates, please click here.
If you are brave enough to fully see and listen to your own body, compassionate enough to accept the bodies of others and wild enough to fall unconditionally in love with your physicality – forever - then I invite you to Embody.
Date: Friday 21 – Sunday 23 August 2009
Venue: Boondocks Mountain Lodge, between Nelspruit and Barberton
Cost: R 5 800.00 includes full accommodation, delicious meals, 30 hours
of personalised input from two expert facilitators and exclusive use of
this magnificent lodge and labyrinth
To book contact Garrick at 0844608667 or via email.
Half of the places on this workshop have been booked as of April 2009 so please reserve your spot soon.
At the same time as Embody, Sue Fuller-Good and Ellis Levin are offering a workshop in the bush at Boondocks called Brilliant Freedom.
Brilliant Freedom is a workshop that works on the physical side of you to bring harmony in your body, soul and mind. It takes place on a glorious game farm, Boondocks and uses connection with nature, wild animals and being one with the earth to assist facilitator and healer Sue Fuller-Good to help you to break through any physical or mental limitations to a place of total confidence and trust in yourself and your body. Sue Fuller-Good is a physiotherapist and has a deep understanding of the body and of the energy system. She will coach you and coax you as you break through the prison bars of your self held beliefs about your body and what you can do with it.
This workshop will enable you to have a wilderness adventure (sleeping under the stars on the land and eating food prepared by your own hands far from the comfort of a kitchen) with facilitation and support. It is a spiritual journey which involves a lot of one on one coaching as well as healing. It takes advantage of the power of group learning as well and because it is experiential it will create cellular shifting and not intellectual learning. In addition to the physical challenges and excitement and Sue’s constant coaching, you will have assistance and input from Angela Deutschmann, who offers insight and teaching obtained from her channelled readings and coaching. Sue and Angela have worked together before with awesome results, each coming from their own very different perspective to create a fusion of understanding. On top of this, flying instructor, stunt pilot and extreme sports man Ellis Levin will be there to encourage you and share his expertise with you. He will draw on his life experience in walking through his own fears as he gently guides you to walk through yours. This team and this setting will provide the ideal space for you to break through and find joy in your physicality. Don’t hesitate to book your place on this life changing journey.
To Book contact Lila on +2711 463 0229 or email. The workshop is restricted to 12 people and already has some attendants so please book soon. 25% deposit secures your booking.
Bull's Eye
8 April 2009
What’s all this about Joy? Part One
This is the first part of an exploration about the theme of Joy in Angela’s work.
It seems like Joy has been a theme in your work recently?
Yes, since about the beginning of 2008, the readings have been raising the concept of Joy more and more. Firstly, to extend an invitation to us to commit to our Joy and secondly, to provide some insight and practical suggestions about what that means and how to do it. And that order is important! Normally, we want to completely understand something before we commit to it, but I’ve learnt that permission for something needs to come before any real kind of understanding and experience of it.
Let’s explore those in order then – what does it mean to ‘commit to my Joy’?
It’s a choice to make the purpose of your existence about Joy, as
opposed to making it about success, obligation, relationships, service
or even growth.
It’s a radical invitation because it profoundly affects how you navigate
your way through the big and small choices of your life. Committing to
your joy means taking the risk to live only for your joy, and knowing
that only you are responsible for the realization of that.
‘Living only for my Joy’ sounds at best frivolous and at worst utterly selfish.
I recognize and respect that the notion brings up huge resistance in many people – from those two perspectives and from others. That’s why I dare to call the invitation radical. If you’ll bear with me, allow me to respond to the two concerns you raise. Though I have no need to convince you of anything nor to ‘convert’ you to this way of being. It has never been spoken of as something obligatory (there is no such directive ever from divinity) and I urge you only to consider this if it rings true…and of course if it contributes to your joy!
Imagine a world where every human being took full responsibility for their own joy, never expecting that any other person or system or religion or government would do so for them. Imagine that you were taught to respect and identify your Joy and supported in your quest to bring your joy into being. Do you think there would be more creativity, production, wellness, harmony in that kind of world, or less? Is that frivolous? Do you think the ‘takers’ in our world - the ones who grab, steal and hurt - are full of Joy or empty of it? My realization has been that if you are not committing to your joy then inevitably you will have an expectation – consciously or not – that someone or something must provide you with that, whether it’s your spouse or your children or your leaders or ‘more privileged’ people - and that is selfish.
Do you think it was selfish of Van Gogh to commit so passionately to creating what brought him joy, even if that wasn’t welcomed or understood at the time? Was Mozart selfish? Tiger Woods? The reason we afford these people the permission to live solely for their joy is because we can recognize their genius. If we recognized our own genius would we give ourselves the same permission?
I can get my mind around that, but what about helping others, being of service?
Service is not a replacement for Joy, it is a natural and inevitable by-product of Joy.
It is impossible for you not to deeply affect the lives of other
people when you are living your deepest Joy. It spills over! Firstly,
because you will be bringing into the world a creation or a product or a
service or a self that is high vibrational (anything created from joy or
love is high vibrational) and secondly because you will be radiating
energy, wellbeing, passion and playfulness, which quietly invites all
whom you touch to choose the same.
That is service! We do not serve others by doing for them what they can
do for themselves or by trying to take care of their joy – we serve
others by inviting them into their fullest selves purely because we make
it seem like so much fun.
I used to have a deep intention to serve the world, and as a result spent years working in NGOs and development-oriented organizations where I wasn’t having all that much fun nor being well taken care of nor using all the academic and other talents I have. Of course, it didn’t work and I got continually sick and found many other ways, too, to duck and dive out of full commitment. Not because those organizations are ‘wrong’, but because it wasn’t really, authentically, my Joy. I eventually gave up my (second) Masters degree, as well as my career in social service (of various kinds) and started to involve myself with what I really love. Now I am serving far more people than before, and I am very well rewarded for it, in all ways. That’s the kind of service that really works and is sustainable.
What are the implications of committing to my joy?
The implications are huge! Essentially, you will be navigating through your life using Joy as your compass – not service or habit or success or spiritual growth or approval or social norms. It’s not that these things are not allowed – it’s just that they should follow joy and not eclipse it. When you navigate with Joy, you will naturally be growing, naturally be of service and naturally be living a purposeful life.
Not that committing to your Joy means taking the easy road – it doesn’t! Your desires are programmed in such a way as to require you to step up (your courage, your risk-taking, your surrender etc) in order to follow them. It would be worth talking about what Joy is and isn’t in another question.
To be continued in a subsequent newsletter.
To find out what your top 8 joys are, and how you can start to live towards them, book on Angela's JoyMap workshop.
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