Newsletter
October 2008
Hi everyone
As I write this newsletter I am still buzzing with delight about the first Embody workshop held at Boondocks last weekend. I haven’t seen such extraordinary, miraculous transformation in a group since doing Joyspring in 2004. I had sensed that the body was the key to our next spiritual step, but I didn’t realise to what degree stepping out of the pain and shame carried in and about the body can reveal our natural joy and purpose.
A huge thank you to Garrick and Bee for their beautiful, enabling, support as well as to Sue Fuller Good, my magical co-facilitator, and the ten inaugural (very brave!) participants. You humbled me time and time again. I have included some of the stories from Embody below.
We had a rather unusual (very short!) group reading in White River last week, which suggested that the energy available that night - Tuesday 13 October – was so vast that we not spend it on a reading but instead do a physical and emotional activity that would allow us to feel opened up. It felt like a polite way of saying ‘buzz off, we’re busy’, though subsequently this understanding has been echoed by a number of channels and teachers across the world and deeply intuited by many of you I’m sure. I don’t know exactly what is going on, except that the energy around at the moment is very, very potent and has the tone of a merger. I can suggest that you use every opportunity you can to open up – your body, your emotions, your mind, your sense of spirit. Choosing to be closed or rigid, in any way, is going to create tough consequences. I have included a few ideas on how to do this below.
I will be offering readings and talks in the following areas over the next few months:
White River 20 – 22
November 2008
Cape Town 3 – 7 December 2008
Bloemfontein 19 – 21 December 2008
Durban
4 – 9 March 2009
Much love
Angela
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Johannesburg
Personal Readings
Book now for appointments in November, select Saturdays are also available. Contact Garrick on +2784 460 8667 via email.
Group Reading
Group readings are affordable, un-intimidating and great for newcomers to channelling. They tend to bring out brand new information and will focus on what is relevant to that particular group, and humanity in general, at the time. Everyone who attends also gets the opportunity to raise their own question and we end the afternoon with a chat and some sharing about what the reading has opened up. The last group reading in Cape Town devoted ten minutes to each attendant, with some gentle, powerful insights about each individual.
Sunday 30 November
4pm – 5pm
Northside Lodge, 31 Knox Street, Waverley
R100.00pp
Please contact Garrick to book on +2784 460 8667 or via
email.
Accessing Your Inner Wisdom Workshop
If you have ever wondered how to read the signs in your life, how to make sense of patterns that you see and how to get in touch with your own internal guidance system, then this is a brilliant one-day workshop for you.
Accessing Your Inner Wisdom will incorporate the techniques from my previous channelling workshop, and I have added two completely new sections (Body Wisdom and Everyday Wisdom) that are based on what I learnt from the readings last year on this subject. The knowledge is brand-new, the exercises are fun and you’ll have the chance to investigate a real-life question that you want some insight on. I keep the numbers small, so please contact Garrick soon to book or for more information.
Saturday 1 November 2008
10am to 4pm
Northside Lodge, 31 Knox Street, Waverley
R450.00pp
To book contact Garrick +2784 460 8667 or via
email.
Transformation Game
The Transformation Game was designed at the renowned Findhorn Retreat and is a wonderful way to play out your life. You can find new perspectives, test out your intuition and receive divine feedback – all while playing a board game. Garrick and I offer facilitated Transformation Game Evenings by request for groups of 4 to 8 people. A lovely and lively evening for bookclubs, or groups of colleagues and friends.
Available on Request.
Cape Town
Personal Readings
Thursday 4 December – Monday 8 December 2008
If you would like a personal reading in this time, please contact
Garrick via
email
or at +2784 460 8667.
Public Talk
Discovering Your Life Purpose
As a channel, one of the most frequently asked questions by my clients is ‘what am I supposed to be doing?’ All of us intuit a sense of purpose to our lives, but what does that mean and how are we supposed to find it? In this interactive seminar, I will share some understandings about Life Purpose that have emerged from responses to these questions.
We’ll explore topics such as:
Is there such a thing as a pre-determined Life Purpose?
If so, how do I know what that is?
Should I leave my comfortable job and follow my dreams?
What will it feel like when I’m ‘on purpose’?
I will also share a practical, and profound, way to explore what your highest path is using the analogy of unwrapping the three layers of a gift: the sticky tape (Life’s Disappointment), the wrapping paper (Life’s Packaging) and the tissue paper (Imagination). This analogy was given in a reading and remains, for me, one of the most powerful ways to uncover your own sweet spot.
Join me for an interactive talk with lots of opportunity for questions, insights and fun!
Wednesday 3 December 2008
8 O Clock Club, Claremont
Details to be circulated in November.
Accessing Your Inner Wisdom Workshop
If you have ever wondered how to read the signs in your life, how to make sense of patterns that you see and how to get in touch with your own internal guidance system, then this is a brilliant one-day workshop for you.
Accessing Your Inner Wisdom will incorporate the techniques from my previous channelling workshop, and I have added two completely new sections (Body Wisdom and Everyday Wisdom) that are based on what I learnt from the readings last year on this subject. The knowledge is brand-new, the exercises are fun and you’ll have the chance to investigate a real-life question that you want some insight on. I keep the numbers small, so please contact Garrick soon to book or for more information.
Saturday 6 December 2008
10am to 4pm
R450.00pp
To book contact Garrick +2784 460 8667 or via
email.
White River
Personal Readings
Book now for appointments on 20 and 24 November 2008. Contact Garrick on +2784 460 8667 or via email.
EMBODY
A workshop for those whose hearts are big enough to fall in love with their bodies.
Some of the feedback from the participants of Embody I on 17 – 19 October 2008:
Being a participant on Embody at Boondocks was a profound experience. On the workshop I experienced how my body is a precise compass for my own joy. If we are prepared to listen and respond when our body communicates what it wants and what it does not want, we are certain to live the life that is most satisfying to us. Every ounce of unexpressed pain, rejection, anger and love along with all the other emotions we experience are cumulatively stored in our bodies until we are ready to deal with them. On Embody I learned to communicate, touch and listen to my body in a brand new way. Thank you Ang for your deep wisdom and your relentless passion for personal growth. The sense of freedom and confidence that everybody left Boondocks with is something I will never forget. I love my body and especially my Belly!
After a wonderful sleep last night, today is a brand new start. I find my awareness of my body, which I now fully appreciate as the home of my-self, is functional after having been asleep for so very long. Thank you, thank you for providing Embody, in all its facets, for me to do this. I am so very grateful.
The Embody workshop was more, much more than anything I could have imagined. I signed on the workshop because I have had a sore, aching body as far back as I can remember and despite the self work I have done, which is a lot, I just never seem to get to the understanding of the pain. It stops me from so much of my life, I was worn out and fed up. I did not know what the workshop would entail and was sufficiently desperate to try. Had I known the detail of the program I would have backed out because it confronts the deepest personal resistances anyone can have, and that is their body. Now that I have completed Embody I am in awe of everyone who participated, particularly myself because we were wonderful, magnificent, beautiful and freed beyond imagination. I have returned home with a new view of myself and a deeper understanding of the ways in which I was damaging my body. I have seen how I have carried responsibility for my adult children, family and friends far too long. At last I begin to feel a freedom which allows me to be an authentic friend and to follow my path without illusionary burdens.
For me that is the optimim space for anyone to embark on Embody. It is best not to know detail about the program other than you are willing to give it your best shot. You will not be disappointed, your faith will be restored in humanity and you will come away loving yourself and life unconditionally with incredible excitement. What a gift.
E- ELATION
M- MAGICAL
B- BRAVERY
O- OPENNESS
D- DELIVERANCE
Y- YOUTHFUL
My weekend at Boondocks, carrying out the EMBODY workshop was more than life-changing. Each process allowed me to take a step forward towards my own devine beauty. Never have I felt so free in all 34years of existance on this earth. Every step I took was magical and it unlocked a new aspect of deep understanding to the questions I have always asked regarding my body. WHY, is my body the way it is? Never will I need to ask that question again. I have discovered my new best friend (my body). The miricles have continued into my everyday life and GRATITUDE is the only word that comes to mind when I think of my weekend at Boondocks.
Thank you Angela from the bottom of my heart.
Thank you, thank you.
Driving home in the car just now I was thinking of the weekend and what
I have learned from it. The first thing that came into my mind was the
money I invested. It is probably the best money I have ever spent. To
put it into perspective, I bought a dress for a wedding the other day
for R2020. Where did that get me???
I have taken so much away with me, too much to really write down in a
paragraph.
Some of the breakthroughs that stand out for me the most are as
follows:
Needing to nurture my inner child at the age that I was abused, to allow
safety and one of the tools to a better sex life.
To find a career that brings me joy will allow my body to unblock and
shift.
To listen to the messages my body gives me regarding pain and food.
To give my body through nakedness, touch, play, sleep, dance, and
pampering (no money need be invested in this)
This weekend has allowed me to truly love my body. I look at it with new
respect, and will treat it so.
It was so amazing working in a group, I learned so much through other
people’s processes.
I have identified that I have replaced sex with food, therefore the need
to eat constantly. Food is my ultimate pleasure, but through putting
into practise the tools and knowledge I have been given over the
weekend, I will eventually find balance.
I have been stretched out of my comfort zone in so many ways, and with
that I have grown and moved forward in my personal development.
I got home this after the workshop and my husband and kids had gone
out to lunch. When they got back my 6 year old daughter drew a beautiful
picture of me. She said to me "'mommy, you are all shiny", I said what
do you mean. She said ‘you have a sparkly dress on because when I first
saw you today, you looked all sparkly".
Isn't that amazing!!!
If you are interested in reading more testimonials or finding out about this life-changing process, please visit the Workshops section of my website or call me directly. The next Embody workshop will be held in late March 2009 and there are 9 places available.
Why do we have bodies?
How do our bodies serve us in our ‘higher’ purpose?
Why did you choose the body that you did?
How do you love an imperfect, ageing, disabled or diseased body?
How can you interpret the messages from your body?
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 our bodies that are meant to
shape us, not us who are meant to shape our bodies"
Angela Deutschmann.
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.
27 – 29 March 2009
Boondocks Mountain Lodge, between Nelspruit and Barberton
R 5 800.00 includes full accommodation, delicious meals and exclusive
use of this magnificent lodge and labyrinth
Contact Garrick at +27844608667 or via
email.
The workshop will be kept very small and already has some attendants so please book soon. 25% deposit secures booking.
Bull's Eye
Suggestions for Opening Up
If you’d like to flow with the powerful river of life instead of trying to ignore, resist or control it here are some practical suggestions for doing so:
Body
Pay attention to any areas of your body that are tight, painful or
uncomfortable and invest time and / or money in understanding what these
are about, and taking whatever actions (stretching, movement, rubbing,
loving, forgiving) that will ease them up.
Hold hands with someone other than a romantic partner.
In a secluded spot, preferably outdoors, spend a few moments naked opening up your body to the elements. Take up positions that open up every part of your body to the sun or moonlight. Notice if and where you are not ok to be wide open. This is what was suggested in our group reading on Tuesday 13 October and it started a chain of events for everyone there - including but not limited to the Embody workshop - that brought on major breakthroughs. It’s uncomfortable! And liberating.
Emotions
If you are not expressing how you feel in any relationship, conversation or environment then you can expect significant challenges there. There is no need for dramatic declarations necessarily, just take the risk of saying a little bit more in the moment of what you might say to your partner or friend when you get home.
Now is the time to open up stored pain from your past, no matter how trivial or sensational you might think it is. Any unexpressed pain stored in the body or heart is taking space away from joy. If you don’t want to, or can’t, confront someone directly, write them a letter using the most real language you can (i.e. not edited, sanitized writing) or share your story with a friend or therapist who is big enough to hold the space without trying to judge or fix any part of your story.
Become aware of the people who have meant the most to your life so far and tell them this in whichever way is available and fun for you.
Mind
Question every presumption you have!
Notice what areas of your life you experience lack in and become aware of the subtle expectations you have in those areas e.g. ‘any partner of mine must be spiritual in the same way I am’, ‘I could never make money from what I love’. Open up to the possibility that what you think you lack is already available to you in a different form from what you are expecting.
What are you stuck on – a neat house, your ten-year vision, particular behaviour and choices from your children, delaying your living until you’ve saved enough or found the right person? Is that stuckness improving the quality of your internal life or not? Open up to whatever joy is available in this moment, even if it’s not going as planned.
Ask the question you really want to ask Spirit.
Keep some open space in your life – in your calendar, in your home,
in your opinions – that will allow for new awareness to filter in.
Open up your whole body to receive your breath.
Reserve one day of 2008, before it ends, to spend in silence.
Other
Open up your home to friends or neighbours or children you want to
treat.
Open up about your financial situation to a friend or family member
(there is often so much secrecy, fear and shame here).
Let yourself be naked.
Tell your children the truth.
Open the bottle of whiskey you have been saving for a special occasion
and create that occasion here and now.
Let yourself touch and be touched, by animals as well as people.
PS, as I was writing this I looked out of the window to see a truck driving speedily past. I didn’t catch the branding of the truck (could have been Miller’s?) but I did see the slogan...OffLoad!
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