Angela Deutschmann Newsletter
June 2010
Hi everyone
This month I revisited shadow work with my Growth Clubs and was
reminded of a wonderful teaching that came up in a reading a while back.
The issue being addressed was that of feeling ‘less than’ – not only in
relation to other people but in relation to anything: institutions,
governments, even divinity. If you feel ‘less than’ something or someone
- for whatever reason at all - the first thing you will do is give your
power away to them, either by becoming infatuated with them or by
resisting / fighting them (both of which are disempowered positions).
I’m sure that most of you have realised by now that considering yourself
‘less than’ does not allow you to be free, energetic, creative or
powerful in that relationship.
But there’s another repercussion to feeling ‘less than’ that I hadn’t
realised until this particular reading. Internally, your essence will
eventually begin to feel uncomfortable with an inferior position to
anything or anyone because, of course, it isn’t truth. So at some stage
your ‘less than attitude’ will become painful and how do most of us make
that pain go away? By creating a reason or a situation to become more
than the other. We do this by pointing out their weak points, finding
secret delight in their failures, asserting ourselves against them,
making them ‘betray’ us or taking the moral high ground. The way we
respond to celebrities epitomises this teaching: initially the media
presents us with reasons to become infatuated / feel less than a
celebrity and then it revels (and so do we) in exposing the weaknesses
or failures of the very same person. A part of us needs to make them
wrong or flawed or ugly to make the pain of inferiority temporarily
disappear. Notice in your own life where you have felt less than someone
or something and how you have eventually, perhaps subtly, created
reasons to make yourself ‘more than’.
This less than /more than cycle prevents intimacy and real connection
and so we simply swing back and forth with a person, or the world in
general, between the two poles. We can avoid this tempestuous and false
reality by never consenting (because it’s always a consent) to feeling
less than, or more than. This may still be an unusual way to be in the
world but it is deeply liberating and is the only way to create full
intimacy with the world, or another, or God.
This month’s Insights From the Edge,
which you can subscribe to or buy on a once-off basis from our
online store, is
called Celebrating the Question – I love it! It calls
on us to value our questions as the mechanism for forward movement and
to be careful of overvaluing answers / solutions as well as the
providers of answers / solutions i.e. our teachers. The reading also
raises the question of whether the purpose of life is to achieve
something and explains clearly the three effects of being motivated by a
destination, rather than a deepening.
Here’s the line-up of activities for the new few months. You can find
out more about them by clicking through to our website,
contacting Garrick or reading the details below:
Spiritual Growth Club 2010 / 2011
– register by 30 June for a transformative year
JoyMap – a workshop to identify
and commit to your top 8 Joys on Saturday 24 July
Advanced Shadow Workshops on Tuesday 3 and Wednesday 4 August at 7pm
JoyBoard Evening
– a revealing, creative evening on Tuesday 17 August
Jump – an intimate,
intense weekend to break through what contains you. 24 – 26 September
Embody – a weekend workshop to fall
in love with your body forever. 12 – 14 November
Much love
Angela
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Each month Angela makes available a full-length reading on whatever
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aspects about the human condition from health, money and parenting to
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Previous Insights From the Edge
March 2010: ‘The Walk of Life’ – an interactive
visualisation offering 23 new, insightful perspectives on how we choose,
listen and live on a daily basis
April 2010: ‘The Art of Surrender’ - explains clearly
what surrender is and isn’t, lists the Four Steps to Surrender as well
as its magnificent effects: stillness, grace and being in the middle of
the flow of love.
May 2010: ‘Living Lightly’ - more than just inviting us
to recognise that in a state of play we are more receptive to learning,
creativity, risk and imagination, this teaching takes the notion of
lightness right to the cliff-edge when it asks whether we will play our
big roles in life better or worse after putting down our ‘backpack full
of rocks’ (burdens).
Jump -NEW
Since 2008 I have closed off yearly Spiritual Growth Clubs by
offering the group an intense ‘letting go’ weekend at
Boondocks Mountain Lodge and
Labyrinth just outside Barberton in Mpumalanga. In September 2010 Jump
will available to anyone who is willing to look honestly at what they
allow to contain them (relationships, fear, attachment to a role, guilt
about others and low self esteem amongst others) and break a pattern.
The processes are intimate and completely customized to the needs of the
particular group.
Using the magnificent stone labyrinth, outdoor and indoor experiences,
large and small group work, and a great deal of intuitive guidance,
Garrick and I will create for you a context in which to look at your
fears and Jump off your own personal edge into joy. We love it!
Next Jump:
Date: Friday 24 – Sunday 26 September 2010. Please book soon
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 for a maximum of 8 participants.
25% secures your place, payment plans available
To book: Contact Garrick at +27844608667 or admin@angeladeutschmann.com
JoyMap Workshop
In my experience, 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.
One participants’ experience (click here for more
personal stories)
I signed up for Angela's Joy Map workshop because it sounded like fun
and the title was intriguing. At the end of that day I came to the
shocking realization that my business, where I spent 80% of my time and
energy, did not figure anywhere on my Joy Map! So if it wasn't bringing
me joy and it certainly wasn't bringing me money, what on earth was I
doing it for! In a gentle yet probing way Angela had us take a long hard
look at what truly is joyful for us.
The result of that day was that I made a decision to close my business
and that decision has made me feel freer and more joyful than I ever
expected it to! The workshop gave me the precious gift of clarity and
insight into what truly brings my Soul joy and I shall forever be
grateful to Angela for guiding me to this space. A space where I am
filled with excitement, anticipation and joy!!! I had asked for a sign
about the way forward and boy, did I get it with this very profound
workshop. Thanks doll!!! Love Di
Johannesburg
Date: Saturday 24 July 2010
Time: 9am to 4pm
Venue; 42 Tyrone Avenue, Parkview
Cost: R700.00 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
Spiritual Growth Clubs
An increasing number of people are committing themselves to
conscious, responsible and empowered living. The number and variety of
spiritual workshops and therapies attest to this. Yet, more is required
to manifest awareness in action than just a once-off intervention.
Personal transformation is a dynamic and ongoing process and requires
consistent integration and support, whether that is in the form of
honest feedback, access to new knowledge or motivation. Often we
attempt, or feel we are forced, to pursue our spiritual development in
isolation. Besides the fact that this reinforces a consciousness of
separation, it can also leave us blinkered to our own stumbling blocks
or gifts or next steps.
My popular Spiritual Growth Clubs provide a rare opportunity to walk
your personal path in fellowship with like-minded people who are open to
learning, sharing and growing as much as you are. They also come with
expert facilitation and access to all the new insight with which I work.
The groups require courage and exposure and will reward you with deep
support and stretching.
Contact
Garrick before 30 July to register for a 2010 / 2011 group starting
in July (Johannesburg only) or to learn more.
‘It has been very difficult to put into words how best to describe my experience in a Growth Club. The Growth Club provided me with a safe and respectful space to express my deepest pain and emotions - a place to be real, raw and authentic. Through this year long process I was able to grow, to shift, to gain such huge awareness about myself, learning to trust myself, to respect and honour my intuition and to fully experience the rawest of emotions that I would ordinarily never have had the space to do so. Angela’s exceptionally respectful and honouring approach is hugely appreciated and her gentleness and beauty permeates in everything. I thank her for giving me the cushion to "land safely" through the year and my Jump process and to gain inner strength and depth. I value the privilege of having been given this blessing to learn and grow with her. A very privileged Club to be in. Thank you’ Ilana, owner Magical Moments
Joy Board Evening
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.
Date: Monday 28 July 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
Shadow Work
Advanced Shadow Workshop (this is a six hour workshop split into two evenings)
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 you
will be introduced to the concepts and do some exercises on your own.
After that you can take it further at the Advanced Shadow Workshop where
you will work interactively in a group. You can expect those processes
to be uncomfortable, and you can also expect to leave the workshop
deeply relieved and released.
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
For those who completed and found value in the 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: Tuesday 3 AND Wednesday 4 August 2010
Time: 19h00 to 22h00
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
The Advanced Shadow Workshop is limited to ten people all of whom must have completed the Introductory workshop.
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 12 - Sunday 14 November 2010. Please book soon to
make sure you get your place
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: R650.00 in office hours. R700 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: R500.00
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: R650.00 in office hours. R700 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 R250.00 per box set (Exclusive Books sells them for over R300.00 when you can get them and they are R931.00 on Kalahari).
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