Angela Deutschmann Newsletter
February 2010
Hi everyone
What with spotting the Gautrain, scoring World Cup tickets, Daniel
starting playschool, the birth of a special baby girl in our lives and
the launch of our new subscription service, Insights From The Edge, the
beginning of my 2010 has been really exciting and all about moving
forward. I hope yours has been too - although if you’re struggling with
moving forward in a particular area, or just in general, read the
interesting take on this in Finding the Wind, my Bull’s Eye below.
I’m delighted to announce the launch of a new service to you called
Insights from the Edge. Each month I will channel a full reading on what
is most pertinent to humanity at the time, which can range from health,
money and parenting concerns to suggestions for personal and global
evolution. Those of you who have had readings with me before, will know
that the information is both cutting-edge and deeply loving; profound
and also surprisingly practical. It’s exciting for me to enable people
to work with themselves, at their own pace, in their own homes. Insights
From the Edge will be available to you in two forms:
• Option One: The audio file (MP3) plus the text transcription OR
• Option Two: The audio file, text transcription and an extra set of
notes written by me on how to apply the reading in your own life
See below for subscription options, the link to February’s
Insights From the Edge and the
appetizer for March.
Last month’s Embody saw 9 committed
people shed tears, weight, shame, self-doubt, secrets, guilt and fear to
take one of the biggest leaps of their life so far. I’m delighted to
share some of their testimonials below and to invite you to join us on
the 19th March for the second of four Embody workshops in 2010. Embody
grads also keep connected after their workshop and regroup with me three
times a year to maintain and boost the results of the process.
We’re going to be introducing a new website and Facebook profile soon.
For now details of upcoming Shadow workshops and other growth options
can be found below or on our current site.
Please let us know if at any stage your details change so we don’t lose
touch.
Much love
Angela
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Insights from the Edge – NEW
Each month Angela makes available a full-length reading on whatever
is most 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.
To subscribe to Option 1 for 12 months costs R 1000.00. Once a month you
will receive a link to a brand new reading and transcription.
To subscribe to Option 2 costs R 1 400.00. Once a month you will receive
a link to a brand new reading, transcription PLUS some notes on how to
apply the reading to your life.
You can also purchase the products above on a once-off basis for R200
and R250.00 respectively from our online store as of March 2010.
South African residents who wish to sign up for the Insights From the
Edge please use the
EFT
option that is also available. Please mail Garrick for more
information.
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.
Click Insights From the Edge
for a free sample or to sign up.
The March 2010 Insights From the Edge is called ‘The Walk of Life’. It
starts off with an interactive story and ends up offering a fascinating
new way to choose, listen and live…
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.
Two recent graduates’ experiences:
Not in my wildest dreams could I have anticipated the powerful results
of the Embody workshop. This unique experience has helped me to finally
shift the years of self-loathing and body issues I have had and believe
me I have tried on many occasions to shift them!
In her usual gentle, compassionate yet firm way, Angela encourages one
to delve deep into the self with a series of powerful processes and she
creates an amazing, safe space in which to do this. The best thing about
Embody is that the changes literally happen overnight!!! This is without
a doubt the most phenomenal workshop I have ever done in terms of
personal self-growth. I feel more alive and more free than I have ever
done before and I do not hesitate to recommend it. If you are drawn to
Embody - go for it!!
You will not be sorry. Di
Ang, thank you for your patience and more for your encouragement on the
workshop with me. Your presence was so beautiful, calming and it
radiated from you so effortlessly. It kept me safe and I felt really
cocooned in that love. It was nurturing, so kind and all loving!
Yes, you pushed when you knew you could [how do you do that?] and the
pain and hurt were difficult to go through, but once that was done – it
was done and I no longer felt burdened and heavy. The chains were
broken. I was free just to feel again. Not submit to the state numbness
that settles on so many of us because we are carry such hurt and we feel
as if we have nothing else to give.
I FEEL, I really feel so much beauty, love, joy, sadness, etc. that is
amazing! I haven’t been able to shut it off. I’ve found back the joy of
the morning breeze, a beautiful sunrise, the birds and frogs singing and
it’s so magical. The new Desh is beautiful and stronger, the journey has
begun, I’ll have to see where the path leads...can’t wait!
You can also read more about this pioneering process, including stories from graduates, at Embody Workshop
Next Embody:
Date: Friday 19 - Sunday 21 March 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
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
Introductory Shadow Workshop
Date: Thursday 11 March 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
Cape Town
Introductory Shadow Workshop
Date: Thursday 6 May 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 8 May 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
Advanced Shadow Workshop
Date: Thursday 18 March 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
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. R650.00 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: 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. R650.00 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).
Bull’s Eye
February 2010
Finding the Wind
Or How to ACTUALLY Move Forward
Earlier today, a very dedicated man drove all the way from Franschoek
to Constantia for a reading. He later admitted to me that, on the way
there, he had been firmly instructing the powers-that-be to tell him
exactly what to do in various areas of his life in order to move
forward. ‘I just need you to tell me what to do, and I’ll do it’, he
bargained with an unseen (but hopefully not un-hearing) force.
In the typically clear-cutting and humorous manner of the readings, the
very first sentence uttered was this: ‘we are not going to tell you what
to do to move forward; instead we are going to give you the conditions
for forward movement’. Frustratingly hard to argue with that! The
analogy given in the reading was of a man trying to sail a boat. Even if
he had excellent instructions, worked very, very hard at doing the right
thing and willed the boat to move, he would not make any real progress
unless the wind came up. In other words, the conditions for moving
forward are more important, or at the very least as important, as
knowing what to do and working hard at it.
I asked Jim if I could share these three conditions here and I’m
grateful to him for making them available to all of us (or maybe he
thinks that appeasing his guides will get him more direct answers than
instructing them ;)
First Condition for Moving Forward:
1. Be sufficiently aware that you are loved
Oh yes, this one sounds a bit old-hat and soppy, but just watch in yourself and others what happens when you don’t feel sufficiently loved – everything you do, consciously or not, becomes a secret or not-so-secret way of getting love (or a counterfeit of love like appreciation, recognition, thanks, approval). Note that it is not important how much love is actually coming your way; it is how AWARE you are of being loved, i.e. to what degree you allow yourself to feel it. There are some people (perhaps you know one) who seem to be popular, appreciated, cherished but don’t act as if they are loveable at all, and there are others whose lives look painfully absent of love to outsiders but who manage high self-worth regardless. The truth is that you can allow anything to love you – a sunset, a salesperson, a peach – because whenever you engage fully with the essence of anything, or anyone, you will find love. Trying to move forward in your life, your career, your personal growth without being really sure that you are loved is a bit like taking a big breath and trying to blow some wind into the sails of a boat – you’ll work very hard for possibly a modicum of movement. Open your eyes, ears and heart to everything around you, drop your presumptions about in which form or from which person love should come and let yourself sink in to the memory of how loved you are by life itself. When you know that for sure you are free to make authentic choices - for the first time really - and you can actually move ahead.
Second Condition for Moving Forward:
2. Navigate by desire, not outcome
It is very normal in our culture at this time to be outcomes-based,
so to speak. We need visions and missions and ten-year plans before we
even move off the starting block. Even in our personal lives, we’d like
to know what our purpose is, thank you very much, before we commit to a
vacation let alone a vocation. In my humble opinion, the major effect of
this need to know the outcome before the start is: paralysis,
immobility, procrastination, indecision (sound familiar?). In short, and
perhaps paradoxically, it is often very difficult to move forward if you
need to either know or control the outcome first.
Navigation by desire, on the other hand, allows you simply to move
toward whatever in this moment would bring you most joy (resting,
singing aloud with your child, immersing yourself in a project, saying
no or saying yes). It means you don’t have to find THE way, you just
have to find A way, here and now. It is much easier to get moving this
way.
If it’s a little tricky to distinguish between desire and outcome,
here are some clear differences between them:
• Desire is a feeling and an outcome is a thought
• Desire is fluid and an outcome is fixed
• Desire is focused on your own joy and outcome is usually about a
hoped-for response from the world
Which brings us to our Third Condition for Moving Forward:
3. Detach from the world’s response to you
If the aim of your life is to be famous or to win a Nobel Prize, then
uh, this one is going to be a bit tricky for you. The suggestion is to
avoid making your life about trying to get or to trying to avoid a
specific response from your family, or friends or the world at large.
This has implications in at least two areas: what you do with feedback
and what you choose to aim at.
If you are going to be eternally swayed by feedback from the world
(whether negative or positive) then you are never actually going to get
moving in the most powerful and unique way you can. This doesn’t mean
you totally dismiss or ignore people’s response to you – this is a
useful feedback mechanism to you from your higher self. But there’s a
difference between using feedback to enhance your joy, and allowing
feedback to replace or dominate your joy. Imagine if Van Gogh had been
painting in order to get a specific kind of feedback from the world
which, during his lifetime, was not forthcoming. We would have been
deprived of significant art. The same is true of whatever your genius
may be – if you are expressing yourself in the world in order to get a
certain kind of response, we are missing out on the truest and most
powerful version of you. Take note of the feedback you get from people,
use this to deeply test your own integrity and truth, and then move
forward.
Likewise if you state your purpose in life in terms of a specific
response from the world, then you are also navigating with other
people’s choices rather than your own. In my JoyMap workshop I don’t
allow someone to declare a joy if it is still being expressed in terms
of other people e.g. ‘I want to write a bestselling novel’ or ‘I want to
heal people’. These may sound like noble goals, but they are dependent
on what others choose (i.e. to buy your book in droves or to heal
themselves). How is this empowered or liberating? On the other hand,
declaring that you want to write at your most humorous, intelligent,
fulfilling best or that you want to master the intricacies of a healing
art, are things that you can do irrespective of the world’s response to
you at the time. If you take your focus off of the response you’ll get
and on to deepening your own fulfillment, you will get moving!
This month, I invite you to remember how loved you are, to navigate with
your desires rather than a long-term outcome and to be a little less
attached to what the world thinks. Go on, put some wind in your sails.
Copyright Reserved Angela Deutschmann February 2010
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