Grow* Share* Expand* Change* Thursday’s 6 pm series
An 8-week Growth group and yoga book study
8-week series at Hillcrest Plaza dr. Suite #317 Dallas TX
Explore the eight limbs of yoga to gain insight into your habits and learn practices that develop self-understanding and acceptance. Clarity is gained to help shift defeating behaviors and self-awareness is cultivated. The sutras say, as you develop this practice, you open to the light of intelligence, and steadiness is established within. This series will focus on the sutras, discussion, meditation and pranayama – but will not include a physical asana practice.
Class held at Concorde on The Creek 6750 Hillcrest Plaza Suite 317 Dallas, TX 75230
To register, you must call Paula at (972) 239-4202. Checks made payable for $150 to Paula Weithman and mailed to 5201 Alpha Drive, The Colony, TX 75056.
Must be paid prior to the class session.
Finding the Charge…Your Life Force Power Wednesday’s 6:30pm
An 8-week chakra based mind/body share group. Held at and registered through Dallas Yoga Center.
In this series we will have a chance to connect with each other in a supportive group, practicing chakra based mind/body techniques. We will be reading an excellent book written by Jacquelyn Small and practice some of Anodea Judith’s work, both teachers of mine. Through lecture, book study and self-reflection we notice where the energy is held in our body when we are fearful jealous, insecure, sad, or anxious as emotion is held in our connective tissue.
Observing our energetic charge we can shift cellular memories that are stuck, depleted or scattered. We are able to connect & experience being in our body in a new way. Witnessing our thoughts/feelings together and allowing them to be acknowledged without judgment, we release the tension of our holding patterns to relax into a deeper connection to ourselves. The sacred place that has been waiting to be touched by self-acceptance. A forgiveness that welcomes grace and the reawakening to sense our life force in a more connected way.
Join me as we gain clarity and compassion for ourselves and open into a deeper more integrated place inside our hearts Series will cover:
- Book study assignment & dialogue
- Exploring your body’s developmental & guarding patterns through the chakras system
- Self-awareness practices through buddy system & journaling
- Meditations & bio-energetics techniques
- Increasing self-understanding & love
- Having fun together!
12 Continuing education hours for licensed professional counselors
Concorde on The Creek 6750 Hillcrest Plaza Suite 317 Dallas, TX 75230
To register, you must call Paula at (972) 239-4202. Checks made payable for $150 to Paula Weithman and mailed to 5201 Alpha Drive, The Colony, TX 75056.
Must be paid prior to the class session.
Open Up Workshop Series: The Path of Inner Awareness, Self-Appreciation, Compassion, and Acceptance.
Our lives are full of denial, addiction and that forever need to grasp for more. Open Up is a series of workshops that capture the power behind forgiving ourselves and others to befriend the ego. Letting go, finding acceptance in who we are by understanding our past and valuing that our experiences are essential in the connection to the self. We can change ourselves at a cellular level by shifting our perceptions within and around others. This connection to the self opens the heart. When the heart opens, love enters. Acceptance, forgiveness, and connectedness are three qualities that are imminently present.
But what do we go through when we decide to open to Love? We discover we’ve been out of touch with our true self. We have frozen bodies, frozen emotions, and rigidity of thinking. We’ve separated our feelings from our minds. Hard to accept, but this is the beginning of forgiveness. It is experienced as warmth, radiation, expansion, emptiness and a quiet peacefulness. Our storylines melt and become irrelevant and our identity shifts from “what’s in it for me” but rather “my purpose is to serve”.
The next Open Up Workshops are:
Befriending the Ego
8-week book study workshop
The source of happiness cannot be sought “out there”, but only from within. The way the mind holds our experience is more important in determining our well being than the circumstance. The ultimate guide is one’s always-present wisdom of the true Self.
Overview:
Week 1: Welcome & Introductions
Week 2: Discontent and the Ego, i.e. Superiority, Pleasure, Self-Judgement, etc.
Week 3: Toward Self-Knowledge – the Nature of Consciousness
Week 4: Self-Mastery – Desire, Law of Attraction, Personal Strength
Week 5: Toward Self-Compassion
Week 6: Relationships – Communication Needs/Wants
Week 7: Opening the Heart
Week 8: Closure
Merge Emerge Ongoing Support Group
For those of you who have attended any of my “growth groups” from the past, we merge into one.
This group provides a supportive, healthy environment to maintain open-heartedness. The focus is on staying present to the choice of love. Emphasizing the shifts from old beliefs and attitudes, family patterns, loss, relationship, and communication issues to conscious, intentional choices.
The format includes:
- Lecture (topics from past readings)
- Group share
- Breathwork and meditation
When the heart opens, love enters, melting our frozen bodies and emotions, softening rigid thinking.