Newsletter
May 2007
One of my strategies for dealing with the cold is to laugh. That just
seems to get the blood flowing and my muscles relaxed enough to receive
it! In honour of that I bring to you a brand new workshop called ‘Your
Lion, Your Witch and Your Wardrobe Self, which is a very funny process
designed to give you brand new insights into yourself and your next
steps.
I’m also excited to announce that my Spiritual Support Groups will be
underway again soon in Johannesburg, Cape Town and as a virtual,
email-based process. Working with the groups last year was powerful, fun
and, for many participants, a catalyst of enormous change. You’ll find
more information and application details below. For those who have
already completed a 12-month support group, an advanced level option is
available. Please note that the application deadline (or should I say
lifeline!) is 1 July 2007.
There are very few sessions left for my week in Cape Town (18 – 23
June), Please be in touch with me if you would like to reserve one for
you or a friend. The full schedule of events is listed in this
newsletter.
I am back into a full schedule of readings once again and I would like
to give away one complementary reading this month. You’re welcome to
mail me before 1 July with the name of a person to whom you’d like to
gift a reading, and the reasons why. The submission that most inspires
me will win! Come on, make me feel warm and fuzzy…
As always, welcome to the new subscribers; please reply to this
newsletter with ‘Unsubscribe’ in the Subject Line if at any stage you
wish to discontinue receiving it.
Much love to all of you
Angela
+27 (0) 83 743 0208
Seminar Series – NEW
The Angela Deutschmann Seminar Series is a series of talks that will
introduce radical new concepts to shift you out of old paradigms and
into new degrees of responsibility and personal power. Every seminar has
an interactive component where you are welcome to pose personal
questions to me and encouraged to apply the knowledge to your own
circumstances there and then with exercises and games. So bring along
your journal and your friends and join us for an evening of light
learning.
Next Seminar (Cape Town)
What Does It Mean to be ‘Spiritual’?
What with all the chanting, chakras and charmers out there, things can
seem a bit kooky to someone wanting to start exploring their spiritual
growth. Angela Deutschmann cuts through the new age jargon to provide a
clear look at what it means to ‘be spiritual’ and how to distinguish the
adventure from the adverts. A must for those who are new on the
metaphysical highway, or those who are getting weary of the trek.
Date: Thursday 21 June 2007
Time: 7pm – 9pm
Venue: Erin Hall, 8 Erin Road, Rondebosch
Cost: R60.00pp
Next Seminar (Jo’burg)
Exploring your Life Purpose
The most frequently asked question by modern-day seekers is ‘what am I
supposed to be doing?’ All of us intuit a sense of purpose to our lives,
but how the hell are you supposed to find it? Angela Deutschmann
discusses the concept of life purpose from a whole new angle, providing
liberation, clarity…and lots of homework!
Date: Wednesday 4 July 2007
Time: 7.30pm – 9.30pm
Venue: 31 Knox Street, Waverley
Cost: R60.00pp
Transformation Game Evening
Imagine gaining new personal insights, testing out your intuition and
receiving divine guidance – all while playing a board game! The
Transformation Game was designed at the renowned Findhorn Retreat and is
a wonderful way to play out your life. Garrick and I are offering
facilitated Transformation Game Evenings, which you can join as an
individual or as a group of 2, 3 or 4. It’s personal growth at its most
fun!
Next Game Evening (Johannesburg)
Date: Friday 15 June
Time: 7.30pm to 11.30pm
Venue: 10 Northwold Manor, Northwold Drive, Saxonwold
Cost: R100pp, includes coffee and cake
ONLY 2 PLACES LEFT
Next Game Evening (Cape Town)
Date: Wednesday 20 June
Time: 7pm to 11pm
Venue: TBA
Cost: R100.00pp, includes coffee and cake
ONLY 4 PLACES LEFT
Travelling Light
Cape Town
18 – 23 June 2007
Personal Readings
Monday 18 June 2007 – Friday 22 June 2007
Please reserve your personal session ASAP as there are few left
R480.00pp
Transformation Game Evening
Date: Wednesday 20 June
Time: 7pm to 11pm
Venue: TBA
Cost: R100.00pp, includes coffee and cake
ONLY 4 PLACES LEFT
Seminar: “What Does It Mean to be ‘Spiritual”
This will also be the launch of my Cape Town Spiritual Support Groups
Thursday 21 June 7pm
Erin Hall, Erin Road, Rondebosch
R60.00pp
Workshop: Your Lion, Your Witch and Your Wardrobe Self
Saturday 23 June 2007
9am – 3pm
Door in the Floor Bookshop, 42 Trill Road, Observatory
R475.00pp (includes tea and notes)
RSVP
Spiritual Support Groups – Deadline for Application 1 July 2007
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.
Angela Deutschmann offers you the opportunity for continuous integration
and expansion of your growth in the form of facilitated, spiritual
support groups. Groups are kept small and meet monthly under the
facilitation of Angela who will structure the 12 sessions according to
themes. Activities include games, visualisation, questionnaires, group
sharing, book and film reviews….and surprises! Please see
the website for more information on the support groups and
be in touch with me directly for an application form. You are welcome to
apply as a pre-formed group or as an individual and those who are not
from Jo’burg or Cape Town can join my virtual, web-based group. For only
one meeting a month, isn’t your personal growth worth it?
Deadline: 1 July 2007
Bull’s Eye
Whole-some Living
I’d like to share with you what I did this morning. It took some courage
but left me feeling uplifted, inspired and sure of myself. After
resisting the experience sharply, I eventually surrendered and took what
I think is a big leap towards creating my dream self. Truly, it was
nothing less than pure transformation.
I went to have my hair done.
Hopefully for most of you this is a relatively normal activity. But, for
me, committing time, energy and money to having my hair done requires
surrender, risk and a leap out my comfort zone to the extent that I can
call it a spiritual experience. Not because I got high on the peroxide
fumes or braved Sandton City on a Saturday morning, but because my story
about who I am has excluded beauty for a long time.
For reasons that are too complex to mention beauty is an aspect of
divinity that has never seemed to belong to me. I have an uncanny (and
certainly not coincidental) knack of being surrounded by beautiful
family, friends, and even my own sons, but I’ve never managed to own
what was being reflected to me. So for a long time, I reacted to beauty
the way many of us react to what we secretly want but think we can’t
have. We make it wrong! It was much easier for me to call beautiful
people superficial than to face my own sense of lack and much more
convenient to label those girls who did embrace their beauty, sluts,
rather than begin the sticky, scary journey of embracing my own.
So I worked hard to carve an identity that positioned itself as somewhat
opposite to beautiful. I developed the serious, intellectual, spiritual
side of myself so that beauty in relation would look frivolous and
meaningless. But, of course, that lack of wholeness repeatedly comes
back to bite me on the bum! In a reading this weekend, it was gently
suggested to me that my struggle with marketing myself and my work is a
direct reflection of my own firm belief that the content (the inner) is
far more important than the packaging (the outer). Ouch! But, in the
practical, playful tone that is characteristic of the readings, I was
advised not to judge myself for that (mis)belief but instead to do
something I’d secretly wanted to do for ages – and without guilt! That’s
why I found myself spending the morning with my head under a dryer
rather than under a book.
There are many ways to look at what aspects of yourself you’re
suppressing. An obvious one is to observe the labels you most often put
on yourself and consider what the opposite of that might be. Do you
think of yourself as clever, middle-aged or spiritual? Perhaps you’re
missing out on the benefits of being a little silly, youthful in your
thinking, or commercially minded? A friend of mine exemplified this to
me when she took some time out from her two-year-old to shop for shoes.
She consciously looked for the pair of boots that seemed the most
UNmother-like and she feels wild and sexy each time she puts them on.
Just for the sake of feeling that it was a good thing to do, but the
value goes even beyond the feeling. Being in touch with that side of
herself is going to be extremely useful as she embraces her fledgling
career and needs a sense of toughness to draw on, or when she has to
muster up the self esteem to speak out. Most often, it is our repressed
selves that hold the key to our next step in business, relationships or
personal growth.
What small choice can you make this month to express who you think you
are not? I guarantee you learning, liberation and a great deal of fun!
Those who would like to explore this topic in more detail, as well as
discover and play out their own hidden selves, may be interested in a
personal consultation with me or in doing my workshop ‘Your Lion, Your
Witch and Your Wardrobe Self.’ Please contact me for details.
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