Angela Deutschmann

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Angela Deutschmann Newsletter

January 2011

Hi everyone

All the best of 2012 for all of you reading this first newsletter of this celebrity year. Below I have posted the transcription to the 2012 New Year Reading conducted at Boondocks on 31 December, which speaks of humanity entering a ‘new season’, though firmly encourages us not to pay more attention to what is to come than what already is so that we don’t miss the gift/challenge of our present reality. Thanks to all the special folk who made it up to the top of the hill for this amazing teaching and some play in the rain!

Some other fascinating concepts from the reading include:

You cannot manipulate or control your futures with just your thinking.

Your here and now is your only doorway to your transcendence.

The moment you realise it does not get better than this, it does.

Every time you step into another degree of freedom for yourself you are taking humanity with you.

You don’t need to change yourselves, you need to meet yourselves.

If this kind of teaching appeals to you, there are ten such readings available through the year on our Insights From the Edge subscription, which works like this:

• One year’s subscription to Insights From the Edge (will be TEN issues), which includes recording, transcription and tips on application: R 400.00 per person
• Pay-as-you-go purchase of the above teachings: R50.00 per issue via online store
• The above subscription PLUS access to a webinar discussion on each teaching: R 1 000.00
• Pay-as-you-go access to an Insights From the Edge webinar : R 100.00 per login

Please contact Garrick if you’re interested in subscribing.

One of our professional and personal commitments for 2012 is to give more permission for stillness. Silent Retreats in beautiful spaces with no agenda or structure is unquestionably one of the more powerful ways to make space for stillness. If you want to share in this miraculous, ultra-accessible path for awareness and peace, we will be hosting Silent Retreats at Boondocks on:

16 – 18 March
1 – 3 June and
3 – 5 August

If you’d like something more active and engaged, consider joining a Spiritual Growth Club for 12 months of structured, edgy and supported growth in a group of six people. I keep on seeing folk give permission for the most inspiring changes in the year that they belong to Growth Clubs, but you’ll have to hurry as applications close in a few days.

Those of you who have spent time at Boondocks and learnt to love it as we do, may be interested in being part of the new Boondocks mailing list, which will share all events and specials happening throughout the year. Please mail stuart@boondocks.co.za if you want to subscribe.

Lastly, I would like to dedicate this newsletter to Marinda Butler, a Growth Club and Embody graduate and my very dear friend, who died yesterday.

Much love to all of you for a sparkling and growth-ful 2012

Angela

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Upcoming Events

Spiritual Growth Clubs 2012 – one place left!

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 a small group (no more than 6) 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. Growth Clubs walk through an intimate 12-step journey in personal growth with themselves and each other, guaranteeing a year of breakthroughs and new steps.

‘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

Contact Garrick to register for a 2012 group (Johannesburg only) or to learn more.

JUMP!

The opposite of Joy is not pain, sadness or fear. The opposite of Joy is containment.

Jump is an intense, intimate workshop to uncover what contains you and to take a real jump off the edge of it.

For some of us what contains us is an experience or relationship from the past that quietly keeps us in habitual sabotage.

For others, it is a fear of what might happen and the consequent need to control, plan and be on top of things.

You may be contained by an image of yourself, a role you play, an outdated belief, the need to be approved of or the way you play relationships.
On Jump you will be exposed to liberating processes, the splendour of the natural environment (outdoor pools, stone labyrinth), Angela’s respected intuition and small group dynamics to assist you to identify what contains you and to take the risk of letting it go.

With two experienced facilitators dedicated to only 8 people, unique and personalised processes and the power of the Boondocks environment, Jump will touch and stretch the deepest parts of your identity. It is a weekend that will require vulnerability, courage and honesty – and breakthroughs are guaranteed.

If you can risk your stories, safety nets and stuckness; if you can tell the whole truth and be fully seen and if you are willing to leap into a light and joyful existence – come and Jump!

“I found the JUMP weekend to be nothing short of BRILLIANT. I’ve never said that about any course I have ever attended (& I have attended many valuable & intense courses over the last 15 years). I felt that Angela’s brilliance radiated in an un-paralleled fashion. Garrick, as a co-facilitator, was also an incredible asset, and the weekend would certainly not have been brilliant without him in the mix.”
Joni Peddie, Head of Enneagram Institute SA

Upcoming JUMPs:

Date: Friday 27 January to Sunday 29 January 2012; Friday 24 February to Sunday 26
Venue: Boondocks Mountain Lodge, between Nelspruit and Barberton
Cost: R 5 800.00 includes full accommodation, delicious meals, over 30 hours of personalised input from two expert facilitators and exclusive use of this magnificent lodge and labyrinth for maximum 6 participants
Payment plans available.

To book: Contact Garrick at 0844608667 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.

‘ Wow! What a profound weekend! I just wanted to thank you from the depths of my being for the incredible transformation that you facilitated in me this weekend. Today I feel like I am actually present in body! Words cannot express how grateful I am for the healing, integration and the incredible realisations that I had. It is most inspiring to see you living out your genius and complementing each other so well as a couple. Angela your intuition/ spiritual connection is phenomenal and you are truly gifted at creating such appropriate exercises, selecting such apt songs and creating an incredibly safe space for people to step into their fears and give permission for new options and opportunities. Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you!!!’ Nicky, Life Coach, Corporate Trainer and Demartini Method Facilitator

You can also read more about this pioneering process, including more stories from graduates, at Embody Workshop

Upcoming Embodys:

Date: Friday 10 February to Sunday 12 February; Friday 30 November to Sunday 2 Dec
Venue: Boondocks Mountain Lodge, between Nelspruit and Barberton
Cost: R 5 800.00 includes full accommodation, delicious meals, over 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 0844608667 or admin@angeladeutschmann.com

Insights from the Edge – for continuous self-teaching

Insights from the Edge will inspire you, challenge you and equip you to live in the middle of the risky, new and wild place that is Joy.

Ten times a year I make available a full-length teaching on a topic pertinent to humanity at the time. The topics cover a range of aspects about the human condition from health, money and parenting to personal and collective evolution. The insights are radical, yet gentle; profound yet surprisingly practical, and attract interested readers from all over the world.

Subscription information for 2012:

• One year’s subscription to Insights From the Edge (will be TEN issues), which includes recording, transcription and tips for application: R 400.00 per person
• Pay-as-you-go purchase of the above teachings: R50.00 per issue via online store
• The above subscription PLUS access to a webinar discussion on each teaching: R 1 000.00
• Pay-as-you-go access to an Insights From the Edge webinar : R 100.00 per login

Please contact Garrick if you’re interested in subscribing.

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. R700.00 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. R700.00 after-hours

Please contact Garrick if you are interested in booking a distance reading or a one-on-one session in Johannesburg. It is available to have a coaching session over Skype or while walking around Zoo Lake.

It is also available to have a coaching session over Skype.

Parenting Lightly

I’m delighted to have made available my first ebook: ‘Parenting Lightly – the Five Pillars of Raising Children with Joy’, which can be purchased for R55 from our website.  This book does not examine parenting techniques but, more importantly, a fundamental parenting philosophy. It invites you to be truly available to your child rather than internally enslaved to an idea of who they are supposed to become or what kind of parent you’re supposed to be. I have also turned this approach into a talk if any of you / your networks would be interested.

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

Bull’s Eye

January 2012

Insights From The Edge December 2011

2012 New Year Reading

Losing your power to the future

Oh we are mightily, mightily pleased and excited. You may presume that what we talk of is the future, that when we say we are mightily pleased and excited that we are referring to what is to come. Much of humanity romanticises or glamorises what is to come. For many human beings it is of far greater interest to consider what is to come than to be fully engaged with what is. And so as we begin here suggesting to you that we are mightily pleased and full of excitement, we are not referring to the future, we are referring that which already exists now and here.

If you put the words now and here together you create nowhere. That is indeed a beautiful and paradoxical truth for you. If you are now and here and more interested in now and here than you are in what is to come, then you create a state of nowhere and everywhere simultaneously. We know that much of this has been said in many ways before, but we say to you again that our pleasure and your pleasure is not based on what is to come. Why should you presume that what is to come is necessarily more beautiful, better, and more interesting than what you have access to here and now? We are not suggesting that what is to come is less than what is here now, not at all, but allow us to insist just one more time on this paradox: the very best way to take care of what is to come is to pay more attention to what already is than what is to come.

So many of you do it the other way around. But trying to ensure that your futures are good – better - by placing your attention there is the very opposite way of how actually to take care of it. Why? Because if the gift-challenge - we will explain that some more in a moment - if the gift-challenge of this moment is not received, used, celebrated, then it will extend and simply be delayed for you, for your use, into the next moment. And so, if you are suspending your joy, your excitement, your wellbeing, your richness, if you are suspending that for the future you are indeed delaying it. We know very well the strangeness, the paradoxical nature of what we are saying, yet divine truth sits in the middle of a paradox always.

And so, as we begin here, we are suggesting to you that we are mightily pleased and excited, not because of what is contained in your futures, but because of what you already bring here. Until you are able to trust that your here and now is where your power and your joy are located, then you will be delaying this joy and power for yourself.

When we say we are mightily pleased and excited, it is because of what already exists, what has already been brought here, what collectively you have access to this moment of this day, not about what is going to be coming. So our first invitation to you here is this: we invite you to be courageous enough - because it does require significant courage - to be more present here than you are in what is possibly to come.

The courage of presence

There are some common reasons why human beings refuse to do this. The most common is to avoid what must be faced, felt, owned and experienced in the here and now if you were to really be here and nowhere else. That’s why we say that it is the courageous who do not suspend their joy, or their hope or their power. It is very courageous not to wait, but to create. It requires a tremendous amount of courage because it means you will be standing still with everything that is in this moment. You will be standing still in the centre of what you perceive to be your inadequacies, you will be standing still in what you perceive to be your lack, you will be standing still within what you fear and what pains you, you will be standing still amongst that which you think you cannot stand still within. And that is the source of your power.

Where your power is

You do not need to be blessed by some other aspect of life that you presume to be bigger than you, more wise than you, more beautiful than you, more enlightened than you. You do not need to receive blessing from that which is somehow more than you, not at all. You have a tremendous well of personal power to reach into, to generate, all of your own, each one of you. When we speak of power we talk about the ability to bring into existence that which you would like to bring, that is all power is. And every single one of you have a wellspring of power on which to draw, you do not need to be given this, but you do need to stand still where you are and to own of what you experience right here and right now: inside your relationships, inside your bodies, inside your emotions, inside your reactions to the world around you.  That is where you draw power from.

Claiming the gift-challenge of the moment

Earlier we used the notion gift-challenge to talk about what is available to you in this moment here. Every moment contains for you a gift-challenge: an aspect or a feeling, a realisation, a conversation, a dream, an intuition, an exchange, an ache, a lack. Every moment contains for you something that is designed - intricately and intimately designed - to allow you to expand one more step, to emerge one more degree into who you most wish to become. But so many of you -especially as you have become more intellectual - so many of you duck out of the gift-challenge of any moment by locating yourself in what is to come. In trying to plan, control, strategize, affirm what is to come many of you are missing what already is.

All gifts are wrapped in challenge. All challenge bears gifts. There is no need to run from the gift-challenge in this moment. There is no need to run from your shame, from your inadequacies, from your fears, from your worries, from your doubt. There is no need to run from these experiences into a hoped-for future. Your future is only ever the result from what has already been. So stay, stay where you are. Stand still for long enough to let yourself tell the full truth about this here and now. Stand still for long enough to access the creativity, the innovation, the joy, the excitement of here, of now. As you do that you generate power in your field, in your electromagnetic field, that changes your vibration. That and only that changes your future.

Positive thinking is not enough to change your future

You cannot change your future by your thinking alone. Your thinking is but one aspect of your vibration, only one. Your emotions, whether conscious or subconscious, are another part of your vibration. Your bodies are another part of your vibration. So are your dreams and so on and so on. Therefore you cannot manipulate or control your futures with just your thinking. It’s your whole vibration that shifts quietly and subtly, which shifts the future you will enjoy further down the line.

So how is it that you can expand your vibration? Only one way, only one way. Transcendence happens only one way, and that is through the gateway of your reality. Another paradox. Reality is the only doorway to what is beyond. Your here and now is your only doorway to your transcendence.
And so we invite you here today to play with this. Yes, play – there is no seriousness in expansion, there are no requirements, no obligations, this is not homework, your growth is not something you need to project-manage and get right. Play! Play with permission to be here instead of suspending your wellness for some mythical point in some future which cannot come to pass unless are already you allowing some of it.

A very strange way, but a very good way, to sum up this aspect of our conversation here is this: the moment you realise it does not get better than this, it does. That is a paradoxical statement and closer to truth than nearly all the words we have ever uttered through the mouth of this channel. The moment you realise it does not get better than this, it does, because it means you have located your consciousness here. It means you are giving full permission to feel all that you feel here now, to express all of who you are here now, to play with your creativity, your leadership, your intuition, your joy here now, instead of suspending these things for a future that is gobbling up your attention. And so we offer this to you as you move into a phase in which much of humanity does traditionally contemplate the future.

Releasing yourself from the future is not irresponsible

This is not to say that there is no value at all in, firstly, identifying your desires and, secondly, taking steps towards them. Not at all, that is very much what we are inviting you to do here. You will see in yourself possibly and in those around you, that the people always focused on what is to come are not also the ones actively building their own dreams brick by brick, moment by moment, every here and now taking another chance to experience, to expand, their joy. So it is not true that if you locate your awareness fully here and now that you are not responsible, that you are not going to be building anything, that you are not going to be creating something of worth in the long term. It is simply not true.

Where to direct your might

Play it for yourself. There is no need ever to believe anything given in this context or in any context. Sometimes we are so aware of how much more we respect you than you let yourselves respect yourselves. We would never expect obedience from you. We would never demand allegiance, subtly request belief, loyalty, not at all, because we experience you as mighty.
You do not recognise yourselves as you gather here as mighty. You do not recognise all you have to draw upon -not sometime later when you are somehow better, but already now! Do you know the depth of your compassion? Do you play on the edges of your creativity? Do you let yourself drown in your joy? Do you bask in your own love? If you did you would recognise yourself as mighty, the way that we do.

We use language very carefully and deliberately in these conversations, so we are using the word mighty very specifically here. Historically, mighty has been associated with battle. Historically groups of human beings have drawn on their deepest resources in order to defend themselves. Historically you have roused yourselves, remembered your might, only in order to battle. Oh today, and this is our second invitation, we are saying to you that you do not require your might for battle. You do not need to be mighty in order to be defended, safe, protected as you move into the new season of earth, no. Use your might to create what you desire, to bring to the world how and who it is you wish to be. Use your collective might to create what would delight you, not to defend yourselves against what you fear. The only reason you would be worried about defending yourself against what you fear is because you haven’t yet faced it. And that is because you are not here and now.

Step in instead of shelter from

Let us tell you a secret, let us tell you that every day we bring to you the chance to be free. And that does not mean the same thing, not for any single one of you here. Every day we bring before you the illusions that you have setup as your greatest fears, the things that worry you the most, frighten you the most, shame you the most. Every day we bring you a chance to step through that veil and to be one degree more free, every day. And we will do it again, and again, and again. The only reason you do not benefit from these gift-challenges is because you are not here. Or if you are here you don’t wish to step in, you wish to shelter from. How much more can we invite humanity to step in instead of defend against?

This is not about some global war. It is not about that level at all. It is about stepping into your personal illusions of pain and fear. And in doing so you are taking global steps. Every time you step into another degree of freedom for yourself you are taking humanity with you, every time. You don’t need a loud speaker or a podium. You don’t need to call yourself a teacher or a healer. You are welcome to these things if they please you, but that is not the way to lead humanity forward into more light. Just lead yourself forward, but in order to do that you will have to be willing to stand still and face what we have brought you. And this is not mystical, you do not require a channel to tell you what life has brought you. You just need open eyes, open ears, an open mind, and above all an open heart that is strong and courageous enough to face what life brings you every moment.

And so we invite you - our second invitation - to use your might not to defend yourselves any longer, but to face what life brings you to face, whether that is a memory, a feeling, a fear, a relationship, a jump, a choice. Face that so that you may begin to create what delights you. If you create what delights you, you specifically, you with your particular life history, you with your particular strength and weaknesses, you with your particular style and taste and loves, if you begin to create what delights you, you are taking humanity and her planet into the next era consciously and happily.

Stop running!

You are going anyway, seasons change even if you resist them, even if you are trying to stay in the old season, the season is changing anyway. Your choice in the matter is whether to participate consciously and joyfully, whether to be influential in what gets created in the new conditions, or whether to resist and to become defended. That is your choice. There is no judgement on this choice either, play it as you wish, play it as you wish. But our invitation to you is to move into the new season open to your here and now, no longer running from anything.

Try this at this at home. Try this at home: not to run away from anything that comes up, any shameful memory, any fear, any meanness that you find in yourself. Try not to run. Be a warrior in the face of your own self, and your own shadow, and your own past. Be a warrior. This does not mean fight, it means meet it. That’s all. That’s all you need to do. You don’t need to change yourselves, you need to meet yourselves. Lovingly! Preferably laughing, so that you are no longer trapped by your own fears and your own shame. And when that is so, or even largely so, you can begin to create in the world what it is that delights you.

That is your quest, that is your quest. Why do you think you are alive at this change of season? Why do you think you are alive at this change of season? Not every human life experiences a global change of season to the degree that you’ve all been experiencing it already for some years. This is a privilege. You have asked for this. You have asked to be here at this time because it’s fun, because you could not think of anything more exciting than taking humanity forward through a change of season. In that sense you are pioneering spirits all of you. All of you here will recognise, and some of you even more than one, previous experience through a pioneering stage of human evolution. All of you here whether you know it or not have pioneering hearts or you would not be here. The trick is to play instead of to worry, to busy yourselves with creating instead of defending, to engage with the here and now to such a degree that you access who you are right now, instead of waiting somehow for it to arrive or for the world to end.

The world ends every day

The world ends every day. Every day the world as it was this morning is over. None of you move in exactly the same form into the next day, none of you. The planet has not ever stayed the same, not in the history of her existence. She has never stayed the same. She has never kept the same climate over and over and over again. Her landscapes have never been stagnant or dormant. Nothing in creation stays the same. Everything dies and ends all the time. It just happens to be a significant global change of season, this is all.

Many parts of this change of season you are already used to, the ones here. You have already recognised it years ago. You’ve already been adapting yourselves, already. You couldn’t help it, it was no longer working the other way. Many aspects of the new change of season are familiar to you already. They are not going to crash down on you at an appointed time according to an arbitrary calendar, no. Think bigger than this, and smaller.

What we mean by that is this: understand the change of season in the biggest context, but do not rest there. If the picture of the future of humanity, of the earth, of the year, is taking up too much of your attention then you are not focused on your own gift-challenge of this moment and you then have missed it. It will come again, but that will mean you keep on repeating your current way of being, your current circumstances for longer than is necessarily fun. This change of season that is not new but has been happening slowly and steadily for some years will accelerate in intensity, yes, but you will be so prepared by then that you may not even notice it, those here. And our invitation around this shift in season is: think big about it and then think very small, come right back down into this here and now, take ownership of your feelings here and now, your thinking, your relationships, the way you are embodied, your truth-telling. And take care not to suspend your joy, or you will suspend it forever.

The permission you give in this moment is what your future will be full of

The permission you give in this moment is what your future is full of, let us say that again. The permission you are giving in this moment is what your future is full of. If you are giving permission in this moment for only partial honesty, then that is what is in your future. If you are giving permission in this moment to be at your most wildly creative then that is what is in your future. If the only permission you are giving in your live at this moment is to be entertained or distracted, then that is all that is in your future, and you do not require a crystal ball or a channel to show you that path.

That is how powerful you are, that is how powerful. That what you give permission for here is that which will be present for you in amplified version in your future. That is all you need to do in other words, take care of standing still in this moment. We say to you also clearly those of you - and there are many here - with the heart’s desire to bring light to the world. We see you here. We say to you take care not to let this motivation take you out of your here and now. You, your own little life, your own wellbeing, your own heart’s desires, you are as much part of the light of the world as anyone else. Your own healing, your own wellness is as imperative to the wellness of existence as anything else is. So take care that your motivation to bring light to the planet does not in fact become a mask for you. That it does not in fact become an escape for you out of what it is that we are bringing to you moment by moment to face, to play with, to own, to express.

Your light is the light of the planet. It is! The brighter you shine in your own existence, whatever you are doing, whatever, the brighter you shine in your own existence, the greater the light of all of existence. Trust that. Trust in your own magnificence to the degree that we do.

Thank you.

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