Music and Meditation Makes its Debut at the Music Academy of the West

Starting Friday, December 5, at 2 pm, this new series – which we first shared about more than a month ago – finds pianist Antonio Artese and meditation guide Jessica Kolbe (also a prolific Qi Gong teacher) teaming up to create an intimate event where guided meditation meets live classical music. Each one-hour program is designed to quiet the mind, open the senses, and deepen your connection to both the music… and yourself. The small audience of no more than 60 people surrounds the performers to create in MAW’s Weinman Hall an immersive setting – quiet, minimally adorned, and softly lit to enhance focus and serenity.

After a short welcome and introduction, Kolbe will conduct a guided meditation leading into the half hour-plus solo piano performance by Artese, featuring selections by Bach, Grieg and others. After closing reflections, a reception with tea closes out the afternoon.

More info and registration link at https://musicandmeditationsb.com.

Concentric Circles for Contemplation and Community 

Sunburst Sanctuary’s annual Winter Solstice Meditation & Labyrinth Walk – which takes place on Saturday, December 20, just one day before the actual solstice – is a full-evening event, starting at noon with six hours of open meditation and participants asked to come or go quietly at the top of each hour. Dinner is then served at 6:15 pm followed by the labyrinth walk, an experience that invites delving into deep contemplation and reveling in the enchantment of navigating a labyrinth illuminated by brightly colored luminaria (simple paper lanterns made by placing a votive candle in sand inside a paper bag) beneath the night sky. Registration is open through December 11.

Visit www.sunburst.org.

Online Opportunity: Blame be Gone!

Sarah Peyton, the neuroscience educator, constellations facilitator, certified Nonviolent Communication trainer and, perhaps most popularly, the author of the bestselling book Your Resonant Self, has scheduled her annual end-of-year process-work demo – open to all at no cost. “Clearing the Body of Blame: Healing our Broken Father Field,” which takes place 6-8 pm on December 9, is Peyton’s current process exploration, now made available for the public to savor and experience along with her. (A recording will also be made available to all those who register.)

The core of the Clearing process is addressing that when we are scapegoated or abandoned, banished, or bullied, we are seen as the problem, over and over, until even our bones assume the blame. While fathers are presumed to have warmth for us, provide for us and protect us, when trauma interrupts their ability to care for their children there is a basic disruption of the flow of energy that must be restored. The 90-minute free demonstration followed by a Q&A session focuses on releasing the burdens we carry in relationship to our fathers in order to find relief and healing through deep seeing, unwinding, and un-shaming.

Peyton will work one-on-one live with two webinar participants, selected randomly by lottery, while others will have the opportunity to witness the depth and skill of resonance healing, and to experience the “collateral healing” that occurs when bearing witness to this kind of healing work.  

Details and registration link at https://sarahpeyton.com/project/free-december-process-work-webinar.