Women of Wisdom continues to provide resources for women's empowerment! We have created 6 day-long workshops as a beginning. Look for new levels of connection both locally and across the nation in the next few months. We are opening to the abundance of possibilities. Keep updated on exciting developments through the enewsletter and our website.
Sunday, May 20th • 9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
BodySong Healing & Arts Center
The Emerging Design of Your Life
With Flor Fernandez, Karen Fletcher and Carmen Carrión
BodySong Healing & Arts Center
943 N. 89th St. • Seattle WA 98103
$45 for the day ($55 for non-members), $25 for each individual workshop
 9:30 - 11:30 AM ~ Flor Fernandez presents
Calling the Four Great Powers:
A Journey into the Realm of the Spirit World
We will travel around the Native American medicine wheel in search of our personal and collective visions. We will emphasize on "the call of our spirit caretakers and guides." we are not alone ! We are all part of a magnificent web of energies woven as we travel. We are connected and when we follow what are heart truly wants us to do we become the manifestation of spirit.
According to a Hopi legend, the heart is a vibrating organ, pulsing with the vibration of life itself. In his heart man/woman felt the good of life, its sincere purpose. He/She was of One Heart, but there those who permitted negative feelings to enter. They were said to be of two hearts. They were confused and felt lost.
The belly or Solar plexus is the throne of the creator. From it He/She directs all the functions of man/woman. From that power place new designs of energy are created and are woven into the fabric of the new self and emerging mythology.
In this workshop we will realign our bodies to the body of the earth. We will call the spirits to help find our way into the "One Heart" and to guide us into the manifestation of its sincere purpose. Bring a journal and pen. WOW will provide art supplies.
Flor Fernandez Barrios was born in Cuba. She emigrated to the United States in 1970 when she was fourteen years old. She graduated in 1985 from International College with a Doctorate degree in Transpersonal Psychology. She is currently in private practice as psychotherapist in Seattle. In addition to her practice, she is a nationally recognized workshop leader on multicultural issues and spirituality. Her book Blessed by Thunder was published in 1999 and most recently The Mask of Oyá in 2006. Her writing has also appeared in Raven Chronicles, and she was one of the featured writers in Seattle Arts magazine celebrating women of color. Her work has been anthologized in several collections, including Storming Heaven’s Gate: An Anthology of Spiritual Writing by Women, Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals, The Fabric of the Future: Women Visionaries Illuminate the Path to Tomorrow, Face to Face: Women Writers on Faith, Mysticism, and Awakening, I Wanna Be Sedated: 30 Writers On Parenting Teenagers.
Community Potluck Lunch from 11:30 - 1:00
Please bring your favorite dish to share. There will also be activities during the lunch time and afternoon breaks.
 1:00 - 3:00 PM ~ Karen Fletcher presents
Integrating the Soul and Body through Dance and Qigong
The soul is here for its own joy. ~ Rumi
Through dance and qigong, we begin opening and listening to our bodies, the innate wisdom and truth that is, has always been, and will continue to be with us throughout our lives. If we relax our minds, our bodies will move, integrate, heal and speak to us through motion. Our bodies know how to be whole, how to align with our soul, our life purpose, and how to let our Joy shine. We just need to come home, listen, and let our bodies breathe us and be breathed, dance us and be danced by Spirit. This workshop will combine free-form dance, qigong practices to ground and open our bodies physically and energetically, and a partnered dance and witnessing exercise to integrate our bodies’ wisdom with the Shamanic soul work resulting in an embodied understanding and intention that we will ground into the Earth through our own foot prayers.
Karen Fletcher, MPH, dance facilitator and qigong instructor, began her journey in the health and healing arts while recovering from a chronic illness in 1995. Stemming from her personal healing experience with Traditional Chinese Medicine, she went on to learn the Chinese language, study medical anthropology, Tai Chi, Chi Nei Tsang (internal organ massage), and Wild Goose qigong. For over ten years, she has also studied and practiced mindfulness and Buddhist meditation, in both the vipassana and Thich Nhat Hanh traditions. After graduating from UC Berkeley with a Masters in Public Health, in 2005 she met and became a student of Qigong Master Xu Mingtang at Shaolin Monastery in China and traveled with him as his assistant during his seminars, retreats, and healings in Hungary, Germany, Switzerland, and Slovakia in the fall of 2005. She loves the qigong practice and the international qigong community, and is currently teaching Level 1 qigong classes in Seattle.
Karen has also been a lover of dance throughout her life. Dance is her body, spirit, soul and heart’s purest expression of Joy. She has studied ballet and jazz, African dance, 5 Rhythms, and contact improvisation and free-form, ecstatic dance is her passion. Currently, through teaching and group facilitation, Karen combines her love of qigong and dance to guide and inspire other to live their Joy and let their Light shine to the fullest.
 4:00 -6:00 pm ~ Carmen Carrión presents
Naming The Woman Within
How do you integrate body, mind, and spirit through words that resonate with who you are in the universe? And how do you give form to the Emerging Design of Your Life, such that who you are is made larger than who you know yourself to be?
Today we'll explore how language gives form and power to that which you feel or know about your body, mind, and spirit, but which may remain unnamed and not fully seen. We will write from the still, quiet corners of the heart, listen and record the whispers of the spirit, and name the passions that give birth to our life purpose.
Writing exercises, diads, and triads will assist us in naming the woman within so that she emerges to step powerfully into her life path. Please bring writing materials.
Carmen Carrión's roots are in Puerto Rico and her island heritage informs her work, which encompasses poetry, short stories, feature articles, plays, and screenplays. She's been a featured writer at numerous events in the Northwest, including the Ford Foundation Diversity Conference, Bumbershoot, Mira! Latino Film & Video Festival, SIFF, and the A Latino National Conversation. Her writing has been produced and widely published in various publications, including CALYX literary journal, and the anthology A Taste of La Lengua.
To register mail a check to:
Women of Wisdom
PO Box 30043
Seattle WA 98113
Or order tickets online through PayPal:
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All Day $45.00,
Members
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All Day $55.00,
Non-Members
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Flor Fernandez workshop $25.00
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Karen Fletcher workshop $25.00
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Carmen Carrión workshop $25.00
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