Angela Deutschmann Newsletter
January 2010
Hi everyone
As the New Year reading so accurately pointed out, a year is somewhat
of an arbitrary concept in the bigger scheme of things and it’s not as
if everything changes energetically just as one form of human calendar
ticks over from 31 December to 1 January. Yet, our culture gives the
event a lot of meaning and you can use that energy to make this time of
year - however arbitrary - about significant new choices.
A friend reminded me, though, that you can’t expect different results if
you keep on doing what you have always done. So if, in 2010, you keep on
organising your time in the same way, reacting to money in the same way,
approaching spirituality as you have been doing, prioritising the same
things and taking no risks in your relationships then you can expect the
year to deliver to you, in amplified fashion, exactly what 2009 did.
For those who would like new results and are brave enough to precede
that by new choices, there are many ways to go about it. For some it
might mean aligning yourself with a spiritual teacher, for others
distancing yourself from a spiritual teacher; for some it means making
life all about relationships, for others it means making life all about
money. All of those, and many others, can be legitimate steps (for now)
in the direction of higher joy.
How will you know what’s best for you? My Bull’s Eye below talks about
how to discern what you really want and positions all the different
interventions that I offer along that grid.
In particular my JoyBoard (this Thursday night) and
JoyMap processes can reveal to you
a great deal about your next step, but bear in mind that you will never
uncover your joy unless you have also uncovered your pain.
Shadow Work,
Coaching and
Readings will assist with
the latter and Embody will do both! The first
Embody of 2010 is on 29 – 31 January:
I dare you to prioritise your relationship with your body by taking this
powerful step.
NEW!! This year I am offering group readings in a different format. I
will still be doing a group reading every month but instead of
physically attending these you will be able to subscribe to them and
receive a recording plus the transcription of a reading in your Inbox
every month for R100.00 per month. Those who would like to receive both
of those plus a set of notes and suggested exercises that I write in
relation to the reading will pay R135.00 per month. The newsletter at
the end of January will contain all the details as well as a free sample
of both of these options for you to try. Subscribers will start
receiving a set of brand new, cutting-edge insights every month from
February 2010 to enjoy and work through in your own time.
I’ll be in Cape Town from 4 to 11 February, in Durban in March and at
Boondocks as often as possible so please book sessions well in advance
to ensure that we can accommodate you.
Prices for readings, coaching and weekend workshops remain unchanged for
the first half of 2010 and it is also now possible to have coaching
sessions over Skype. Two more places remain for those who’d like to
commit to journeying with a small group in a
Spiritual Growth Club. We start
soon so please contact us immediately if you’re interested.
I look forward to sharing many courageous, funny, wild and sacred
moments with you this year.
Much love
Angela
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Upcoming Events
Joy Board Evening – a lovely New Year’s gift to yourself or a friend
The value of my Joy Board process (previously called Vision Board)
lies in its ability to access insight from your right brain – using
silence, images and guided visualisation. You will not just be pasting
pictures on a board of what you think you want - you will be engaging
with the gems of awareness from that seldom-used, delicious field of
your imagination. In this way, your board might tell you a few things
about what you want in 2010 that you don’t yet know you know.
Each person attending will receive a personal reading of their board
from Angela.
Johannesburg
Date: Thursday 14 January 2010
Time: 7pm to 10pm
Venue: 42 Tyrone Avenue, Parkview
Cost: R250.00 per person payable in advance. Includes tea, coffee and
all materials.
Minimum 6 participants, maximum 10.
To book: Contact Garrick at +27844608667 or admin@angeladeutschmann.com
Cape Town
Date: Monday 8 February 2010
Time: 7pm to 10pm
Venue: TBA
Cost: R250.00 per person payable in advance. Includes tea, coffee and
all materials.
Minimum 6 participants, maximum 10.
To book: Contact Garrick at +27844608667 or admin@angeladeutschmann.com
JoyMap Workshop – leave resolutions behind once and for all!
In my experience, most New Year’s resolutions 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’
Johannesburg
Date: Saturday 23 January 2010
Time: 9am to 5pm
Venue: 42 Tyrone Avenue, Parkview
Cost: R700.00 per person payable in advance. Includes tea and coffee.
Minimum 6 participants, maximum 10.
To book: Contact Garrick at +27844608667 or admin@angeladeutschmann.com
Shadow Work
All of us have internalised the idea, to greater or lesser extents,
that there are qualities, emotions and experiences that are wrong –
envy, cruelty, certain desires, laziness etc. This has resulted in most
of us suppressing or controlling these feelings to such an extent that
we swallow instead of express them and, in so doing, push them into the
shadow. After a while of pushing parts of ourselves away from our
conscious recognition, we begin to be very fragmented resulting (most
commonly) in fatigue, confusion or irrational self-sabotage.
It’s impossible to know your passion, for example, if you have not
really known your anger because anger and passion are two sides of the
same coin. By the same token, if you are repressing your pain you are
undoubtedly also repressing your joy. For those of you who are
courageous enough to begin seeing what parts you have pushed into
shadow, I will be offering an introductory Shadow Workshop where we will
work practically with these concepts in a small group. You can expect
the processes to be uncomfortable, and you can also expect to leave the
workshop deeply relieved and released.
From a recent reading; Knowing now that you cannot be emerged or born
into the light until you have encountered all your resistances, gives
you more permission to do so. Make that a priority. We cannot think of
what would be a bigger priority than going fully into your own
resistances, into your own pain, and coming out the other side, because
without that your emergence is not possible.’
For personal stories on my own shadow work you can read the articles
“Vampires and Vultures’ and ‘From Holy to Wholly’ on
http://angeladeutschmann.wordpress.com.
Johannesburg
Advanced Shadow Workshop
For those who completed and found value in the above Introductory
workshop (or Growth Club session), I have created a full-day, more
intimate opportunity to explore and integrate your shadow.
Join me for some games, group work and face-to-face contact with your
resistance to launch you firmly into more wholeness and freedom.
Date: Sunday 14 February 2010
Time: 9am to 5pm
Venue: 42 Tyrone Avenue, Parkview
Cost: R700.00 per person payable in advance. Includes tea and coffee.
Minimum 6 Maximum 10 participants
To book: Contact Garrick at +27844608667 or admin@angeladeutschmann.com
Cape Town
Introductory Shadow Workshop
Date: Thursday 4 February 2010
Time: 7pm sharp to 10pm
Venue: Venue to be announced
Cost: R250.00 per person payable in advance. Includes tea and coffee
To book: Contact Garrick at +27844608667 or admin@angeladeutschmann.com
Advanced Shadow Workshop
Date: Saturday 6 February 2010
Time: 9am to 5pm
Venue: To be announced
Cost: R700.00 per person payable in advance. Includes tea and coffee.
Minimum 6 Maximum 10 participants
To book: Contact Garrick at +27844608667 or admin@angeladeutschmann.com
White River
Introductory Shadow Workshop
Date: Monday 1 February 2010
Time: 7pm sharp to 10pm
Venue: To be announced
Cost: R250.00 per person payable in advance. Includes tea and coffee
To book: Contact Garrick at +27844608667 or admin@angeladeutschmann.com
Advanced Shadow Workshop
Date: Wednesday 25 February 2010
Time: 9am to 5pm
Venue: To be announced
Cost: R700.00 per person payable in advance. Includes tea and coffee.
Minimum 6 Maximum 10 participants
To book: Contact Garrick at +27844608667 or admin@angeladeutschmann.com
Embody
You can download a free talk about
Embody from our website, which speaks of the origin and philosophy
of the process, and answers lots of questions.
The Embody workshop is the result of my personal pain about my body. For
years I was so confident, sure and present in my mind and spirituality
and at the same time, so ashamed, disconnected and undeveloped in my
body. I opened up all this pain and transformed it into an exceptionally
powerful and unique workshop that puts you back in touch, in
conversation and in love with your body even if you haven’t been there
for years.
Our bodies, like everything else, are communicators to us. They
communicate our divinity, in an immediate, uncomplicated manner. Our
bodies are as profound a source of wisdom to us as our minds and
spirits. They are faithfully attuned to our highest path, even though we
are ashamed of them, hate them and, more often that not, attempt to
control their expression.
It is not us who are meant to shape our bodies, it is our bodies which
are meant to shape us
If you are brave enough to fully see and own your own body,
compassionate enough to accept the bodies of others and wild enough to
fall unconditionally in love with your body – forever - then I invite
you to Embody.
One participant’s experience:
‘My Embody experience is best described when I think of the story of
Beauty and the Beast! How the beast needed to find the love for who he
was before he physically transformed into the gorgeous prince. I can
truly appreciate what Embody puts on the table in terms of concepts and
processes. Having my life structured in such a way where I am required
to be constantly intellectual in all that I do and how I approach left
me disconnected from my body and my basic right to FEEL as God / My Soul
/ Higher Power intended.
Looking back my journey at Embody, I realise how I needed to shave the
layers away to start feeling again. How I needed to cut away the
restraints and allow for all that was great within me to naturally
surface to the light to be experienced and integrate into my
consciousness. No amount of positive thinking, visualisation or any
intellectual approach could have leaped me forward as Embody allowed me
to be. FEELING, being PRESENT in my own skin and AWARE of my body's
voice was all I needed. I had to learn to step into pain, shame and at
some points even hatred! But that is the beauty of life as I realised on
Embody. You feel that pain / shame / fear / hatred and then transmute
and so you make space for greatness and all that is good! Amen!
I am reminded what it feels like to be safe, vulnerable and loved
through my eyes! Reminded how playing big, taking risks and plunging in
enables the sweet bliss of freedom and lightness to find a sweet spot in
my life. Because after all, when we working with the soul and our
bodies, the people that really matter will see my beauty. Thank you to
Angela, Shaun and my Fellow Embody Graduates! I have been gifted with
love and a new level of "being" to operate from. Amazed when one is not
weighed down with the intellectual clutter picked up along the way in
life, how perspective, inspired action, focus and just feeling with
every cell makes one BURN with ALIVENESS and BLISS. I am grateful that I
was able to step into my "beast" and found my "beauty" that I can now go
forward and strengthen’. Brynmore, Management Consultant
You can also read more about this pioneering process, including stories
from graduates, at Embody Workshop
Next Embody:
Date: Friday 29 - Sunday 31 January 2009. Please book before
22nd January
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
Payment plans available
To book: Contact Garrick at +27844608667 or
admin@angeladeutschmann.com
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: R600.00 in office hours. R650 after-hours
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: R450.00
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.
Time required: 1 hour
Cost: R600.00 in office hours. R650 after-hours
Please contact Garrick if you are interested in booking a distance reading or a one-on-one session in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Bloemfontein or White River.
As of January 2010 it will be available to have a coaching session over Skype.
Bird Cards
For those interested in joining my fascination and work with Jane Toerien’s Bird Cards (www.birdcards.net) I am now stocking these myself and you’re welcome to contact Garrick to purchase them at R300.00 per box set (Exclusive Books sells them for over R300.00 when you can get them and they are R931.00 on Kalahari).
Bull’s Eye
January 2010
How do you Know What You Really Want?
I remember realising a year or two ago, after countless readings and
experiences with the issues of many clients, that it is far more
important to be clear about who you are and what you want than to be
told what your purpose is. Essentially, those things are all the same
but it is far more useful, practical and responsible to focus your
attention on knowing who you are and discovering what you want than
trying to discern your purpose, or next step, from stars, numbers,
cards, tea leaves or, um, channels. While those things can be valuable
forms of insight they cannot replace your journey of finding out who you
really are.
That’s all very well but how do you know what you really want? We live
in a time, a culture and a world that values information and rationality
above almost everything. These qualities have undoubtedly raised our
quality of life over the last couple of centuries (unless you’d still
like to hunt for your food, die from a cold and have a life expectancy
of 30…).
What most of us have forgotten, however, is how to hear the still,
delicate voice of our desires in the midst of such an overwhelming of
information, media, experts, goals, facts and education all of which
present us with a bundle of ‘shoulds’.
Maybe you have been full of ‘shoulds’ as you enter the new year – I
should lose weight, I should save more, I should spend more time with my
kids, I should recycle, I should really get fit this year. If these
goals have come from outside of your true desires, or if you are being
blocked by unprocessed pain, then I bet my bottom rand that (just like
last year) your resolutions will fizzle out before Valentine’s Day.
Only when we make choices from a whole (not hurt), true (not
image-based) and joyful (uncontained) place can those choices have
whole, true and joyful results. It is, in fact, very logical – after all
logic and spirit are not different. But to make such choices requires
(1) courage to face our past and pain as well as (2) permission to
really be in touch with all parts of ourselves – spirit, body, mind and
heart.
If you truly intend to do those things, and you demonstrate that
permission by the way you make choices, then I’m a firm believer in the
fact that the mechanism will come to you. There are as many ways to Joy
as there are people on the planet. Simply go with what is available and
attractive to you at any point in time.
Here are the ways in which my work can assist you with those two
approaches:
1. Facing your past and your pain
Shadow Work will assist you to look at the places in yourself and
your life that you’ve been pretending are not there. More than simply
seeing and acknowledging these, my shadow workshops will allow you to
turn your worst hurt into your unique joy. As this is group work the
results can be quick and powerful.
Coaching is a space in which we can explore the details of your past and
current life experience in an extremely safe, private and non-judging
environment. My coaching is largely intuitive and draws on the extensive
amount of readings and one-on-one work I have done with people over the
last 6 years.
Embody, my signature workshop, will go to the heart of any pain you have
been storing in your body and will give you a series of intense and
unique processes by which you can powerfully release that.
2. Getting in touch with your Joy
JoyBoard uses silence, creativity and images to point out to you what
you are really wanting at this particular moment in time. The process
makes use of subtle techniques to access your heart and right brain
instead of simply asking you to list what you want, which inevitably
will come from left brain only. This is why I have re-named the process
JoyBoard because it differs substantially from the traditional Vision
Board technique. A gentle, fun and revealing evening.
JoyMap is a full-day, intense
workshop which also focuses on identifying your top 8 joys. We work our
way through a series of questions and prompts with a great amount of
personal focus on each participant’s responses. I assist you to see the
hidden thread connecting all your responses so that we can uncover your
most fruitful and fun areas of focus for the next year. This is not a
useful process to do if you are currently grieving, depressed or heavily
stressed.
After letting go of what you have been carrying,
Embody creates a rare and
magnificent context in which you can connect more fully and powerfully
with the wisdom of your body than you have probably done since
childhood. The joy is mindblowing!
A personal and / or group
reading will assist you to identify where you are at any point in
time and what next step would most serve you, the value being
particularly that the perspective is so vast, loving and long-term.
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