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New Class at Unity Church of Hawaii starts Oct.6
Taught by Jo-Anne West Lewis, MSCP, MST
Dancing with our Shadow: Recognizing and engaging Hidden Pieces of our Personality so as to experience more fully our spiritual heritage and integral beauty.
We will utilize “Shadow Dance” by David Richo as a text, to serve as the basis to support our class activities, including gentle processes of mindfulness. These processes, a variety of simple and engaging exercises, will allow us to address and befriend the shadow. They will open our subconscious to reveal the collection of unacknowledged aspects of self, which, remaining hidden, has prevented us from realizing our greatest gifts. And so, our focus will be to bring them to Light.
In transforming negative or undesirable traits, or those which we admire in others, but disavow in ourselves, we are able to live more authentically and happily. By releasing mis-held energy, we allow ourselves to move out of dis-ease, into greater health and flexibility. In the transmutation of darkness into light we enhance the quality of our lives, improving relationships with others, as well as the one with self.
Affirmation and prayer will be interwoven with the activities in the search for our authentic selves.
Contact Jo-Anne West Lewis at jaluznine@gmail.com
David Richo, PhD, is a therapist and author who leads popular workshops on personal and spiritual growth. Known for drawing on Buddhism, poetry, and Jungian perspectives in his work, Richo is the author of How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving and The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find in Embracing Them. He has also written When the Past Is Present: Healing the Emotional Wounds that Sabotage our Relationships, Shadow Dance: Liberating the Power and Creativity of Your Dark Side, The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know, and Being True to Life: Poetic Paths to Personal Growth. Richo lives in Santa Barbara and San Francisco.
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