Highlights of this issue:
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Meet Soul Friend: Lisa Schad - Mentone, Alabama
- Kindred Spirits' Glorious Give-Away Extravaganza
- NEXT FR*EE ZOOM CLASS: Elemental Chakras in Your Cards
- FEATURED PRODUCT: $10 OFF IMAGE PACKS - 1 WEEK LEFT
- NEW! MOONCIRCLES™ ONLINE TRAINING WITH CAT CARACELO
- Upcoming SoulCollage® Community Zoom Schedule
- Upcoming SoulCollage® In-Person Facilitator Retreats & Trainings - New Mexico + Texas
- Soul Nourishment (Resources for SoulCollagers)
- Contact Information
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Everyone who lives outside you lives within you.
That is where healing occurs.
~Alan Cohen
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Soul Friends
The Voice of a Different Kindred Spirit Every Other Week
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Lisa Schad
Mentone, Alabama
Fifteen years ago, I was attending a class at Rising Phoenix in western Maryland and I saw a lot of cards hanging on the wall. I was told they had come from a recent SoulCollage® workshop. They were so powerful and drew me in so much that I googled them and signed up for a class with Kathryn Johnson! The process fits my processing mode of Visual, Kinesthetic, Audio. I see images, collage/massage them and then can speak with them. I finally felt understood—by me, to me, for me.
My advice to other SoulCollagers is to soften boundaries/rules that you think exist, either from your own experience or rules from the outside world.
From the card making perspective, I discovered three things that set me free:
- Tearing images (instead of cutting with scissors)
- Using ONLY the part of the image that I wanted (you don't have to fit it all in or cut around every hair)
- Welcoming the synchronicities that occur (making a mystery card of a beach in Italy, forgetting about it, and then travelling there. Did I foresee it? Or manifest it? Or trust guidance from Source?)
I am so grateful to Seena for trusting in her creation of this process. I keep diving deeper and deeper into a synchronistic and healthier life through SoulCollage®. I also am enjoying the growing community here at KaleidoSoul. I was just reminded by former students of how powerful this work has been for them. I really enjoy hearing these stories.
As for my process, I make cards when I feel called or when I’m attending a class. Sometimes a theme presents itself, and sometimes I feel the making of the card is an alchemical process that usually leaves me with a “mystery card.”
I recently processed an event in my life using SoulCollage®. I was invited to a small social event of five ladies. Upon arriving, I was clearly the fifth wheel. I practiced being the Observer, realizing that there was a dynamic going on that did not include me. I excused myself, went home and processed the event, welcoming five Neters (cards) to speak. Because I was able to quickly diffuse the situation for myself through the card making, I was able to have a very loving conversation with the hostess the next day.
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Break-Through
Committee Suit
I am the one who is excited about doing SoulCollage® a new way. I am the one who trusts that there are no rules in SoulCollage. I am the one who trusts in my creativity. I am the one who feels empowered to break through old ideas of how I thought I should be doing SoulCollage. Or anything else. I am the one who is inspired to rethink about breaking through a lot of other stuff in my life. I am the one who trusts that I will not get cut by glass when I break through. Although I might feel like I will die---I won't. And I can try it again. I am the one who feels so light and happy to embody this new truth.
This card was born early on, about fifteen years ago. It changed how I did SoulCollage®. It truly was a breakthrough in techniques and perceived barriers.
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Thyroid Healing
Community Suit
I am the one who is learning how to speak her truth. I am the one who is learning how to ask for help. I am the one who is grateful for my healing team. I am the one who is proud of myself for taking responsibility to get myself better. I am the one who learned how to sing my truth, healing myself and the world. I am the one who stepped up and took this health issue seriously. I am the one who orchestrated a healing event for myself. And trusted my decisions about what I felt would be helpful and not. I am the one who knows that with one touch, with one note, with one blue wave, everything can change.
This card was born a year ago when I discovered I had a thyroid goiter, and had it scanned, then biopsied for cancer. In the three months between those tests, I did a slew of healing activities which I believe led to the "no cancer" result. Despite most folks telling me it was “no big deal,” it was a big deal for me and I wanted to practice what I preach. This card represents the process, the event of my healing, which involved many folks in my community. So that's why I put it in the Community Suit. It could go under Committee as something like I am the one who asks and accepts healing help. I used to embellish a lot because I am a mermaid and I love bling, and then I stopped, but this one needed a healing crystal at the throat.
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Prayer Before a Focused Reading
To the Many and the One: Thank you for these cards that have come to me to share my journey. Open my mind and my heart to receive the message and the meaning you have for me as I ask a question of you, the Many and the One. Guide me to see the Many and the One in these images. I honor the Many and the One created within me and beyond me. I am the one who was created, is created, and will be created anew again within this circle of love. So might it be. Amen.
~ Shared by Kindred Spirit Dot Everhart, Facilitator from Pennsylvania
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Upcoming Community Gathering Dates
on Zoom
for Kindred Spirits
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June 11- Community Card Share @ 2 pm Eastern. Theme: Home. Zoom here.
June 22- Monthly SoulCollage Zoom Workshop: @ 2 pm Eastern. A Chakra Exploration with Sheila Southon. More info >>>>>
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Featured SoulCollage®
Audio
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Laughter is Good Medicine
with Sandy Guderyon,
This FUN tele-class is filled with laughter and good news! You’ll learn about the Stress Cocktail as well as Laughter Boosting, and the practice of using laughter to prepare for stressful events. Sandy also helps us give voice to the mental, emotional ,and spiritual benefits of laughter, and how these can be expressed in our SoulCollage® Decks.
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⬆️⬆️ LAST WEEK TO SAVE ***
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Kindred Spirits
Glorious Give-Away
Extravaganza
Every month we give away several gifts, so please be sure to renew your membership on time!
Winners are chosen randomly at random.org. We'll announce all winners in each month's first issue
of Soul Treasures.
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Our 7 Glorious Gifts for May 2023:
- Path of Light (digital album) from member Norma Budinski
- Beautiful Handmade Clay Piece from member Suzan Thompson
- Goddesses of Self Care, by Stephanie Anderson Ladd
- Calming Chill Pillow, from member Sue in Texas
- 1 Small Handmade Journal from member Carol in Oregon
- To Bless the Space Between Us, by John O’Donohue
- Creativity is Contagious Pass It On Sticker Sheet
If your Kindred Spirits
renewal payment is due this month,
please be sure to send it in
soon so you are eligible
for one of these fabulous 7 Gifts!
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Next * FREE * 90-Minute Video Class
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Elemental Chakras in Your
SoulCollage® Cards
with SoulCollage® Facilitator
Sheila Southon from Quebec City, Canada
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Learn a new way to see your cards through qualities associated with the energy centers of your body-mind. Through presentation and guided meditation, Sheila will open our inner eye to clues embedded in cards we've already made, and inspire new images to create.
Prepare your space with scents, sounds, and images that inspire you. Dress comfortably, and have on hand a nourishing snack and drink. We'll use it all to open to Presence for this shared experience.
Please bring all of your cards and current journal, and create a working space in case you "just have to" make a card while we talk. You might find you go deep with this experience.
Thursday, June 22, 2023
Time: 2 pm Eastern
How to access this 90-minute Zoom
Video Class:
Meeting ID: 837 2509 7996 Passcode: 886128
Or Telephone: US: 669 900 6833
or 646 558 8656
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MEMBERS ONLY CARD SHARE
Theme: Home
Sunday June 11
2 pm Eastern
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Join us for a community card share where we'll be sharing cards that have something to do with the theme of Home. Even if you don't have any cards on the suggested topic, please join us anyway... you'll find yourself inspired in many ways, plus you'll feel more a part of the community than ever!
Think of ALL the Kindred Spirits
you'll get to meet and all the SoulCollage® cards you'll get to see!
Meeting ID: 417 760 3470
Passcode: Wupsd3
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*1 MORE WEEK *
$10 OFF IMAGE PACKS FOR COLLAGE WORK
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Use coupon code IMAGES10
from Paloma Sylvan
Coupon expires THIS FRIDAY 5/26/23
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MOONCIRCLES™ ONLINE TRAINING WITH CAT CARACELO
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Dive deep into your Lunar Nature!
Become a MoonCircles™ Facilitator in the comfort of your home + get everything you need delivered to you, including the MoonCircles™ Guide Training Classroom, expanded kit, bonus class and much more!
This training is a rich source of new ideas, materials, and expanded learning with complementary creative ways offered as a powerful opportunity to expand your work with the magic of the moon! The materials are now expanded with two brand-new card types. Over 90% of the already-trained MoonCircles facilitators are also SoulCollagers, and expanded process is offered in the training!
Kindred Spirits (that’s YOU!) --- use code MOON to save $100.
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Upcoming SoulCollage® In-Person Facilitator Retreats & Trainings
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MASSACHUSETTS * 2 Spaces Left *
Surfing the Waves of Life with SoulCollage®
Westfield, Massachusetts
June 15-18, 2023
Led by: Anne Marie Bennett, Anne Boedecker, Rita Benson
We will use SoulCollage®, journaling, small group sharing, ceremony, and card readings in order to explore the theme of resilience as we surf the waves that life sometimes throws at us. There will be LOTS of time for card making, sharing our SoulCollage® cards and card making ideas, as well as doing readings with our Decks. The card making tables will be set up round the clock all three days, so you can make SoulCollage® cards while breakout sessions are going on and in your jammies by the light of the moon if you want! Lots more info here. *** REGISTRATION DEADLINE JUNE 1 ***
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NEW MEXICO
SoulCollage® and Soul Journaling Retreat
Taos, New Mexico
November 30 – December 4, 2023
Facilitator: Kat Kirby, Deborah Milosevich
Join us at the iconic Mabel Dodge Luhan House for five days of creative exploration and enjoyment. In the mornings and afternoons, we’ll spend time in the spacious, light-filled studio creating a journal about you, making SoulCollage® cards, and journaling with words and images that describe what makes you the unique person that you are. Deborah and Kat will encourage and inspire you through a variety of prompts, poems, and personal stories to set the stage for your own creative expression. Evenings can be spent wandering into town, reading, creating in the studio, or relaxing by the fireplace.
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AUSTIN, TEXAS
Art and Soul Equinox Retreat
September 24-28, 2023
Facilitator: Cat Caracelo
Experience the pleasure of coming into a creative community as we explore and embrace joy in the journey. Feel the energy of renewal, expand your soul stories, experience creative curiosity and sacred play in the verdant landscape, where we celebrate the shifting energies of the Autumn Equinox. Gather with kindred women for an immersive and expanded experience. Explore creative play, expressive arts with SoulCollage® and more. Work with archetypal presence and elemental energies that will enliven your life and spark possibilities. Visit this page for lots more info now.
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Soul Nourishment - (Resources for SoulCollagers)
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Womanscapes- from Eco Artist Jeanne Simmons. Wow! Dubbed “phemeral poetry in the shape of land art,” Jeanne’s work uses hillsides, grass, and the female body shaped into stunning designs that I think you’re going to gaze on in wonder and appreciation. Amazingly creative!
Soul Balm- Soothing music and visuals for a relaxing experience. Let go of any stress and anxiety that’s accumulating in your body or mind this week.
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Spinning the fragments of your world
into wholeness and beauty through SoulCollage®.
SoulCollage® cards are made either from one's own art or from images found in materials which have been bought by or given to the SoulCollage® card maker. These collaged cards are used only for the cardmaker's own inner exploration.
SoulCollage® cards are not sold, traded, bartered, or copied (except as a back-up for the card maker's own use) as is stated in the Principles of SoulCollage®.
Where SoulCollage® cards are available to be seen by others, it is for the purposes either of demonstrating the SoulCollage® process of sharing the card maker's inner process in the context of community.
SoulCollage® is grateful to the artists and photographers who make this deep awakening process possible and in all ways SoulCollage® seeks to be respectful of their rights.
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