In this Month's Newsletter
Happy Valentine's Day
Year of the Tiger: February 14, 2010 and ends on February 2, 2011
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Workshops & Events
At The Divine Mine, we are dedicated to assisting you in reaching your goals for healing and growth. Through our monthly workshop series, we offer you opportunities for physical healing, personal growth and deepened spiritual connection.
Please click on the blue links below to learn more about each workshop.
February 2010
Click here to go to our February workshop list on our wesbite.
Friday, February 5th: 6:30 - 8:30pm
CRYSTAL CLEAR MONTHLY MEDITATIONS
WITH THE ANGELS
Facilitator: Kristyne Dahl; Cost: $15
Sunday, February 7th; 9am - 5pm
REIKI LEVEL THREE
Facilitator: Dawn Pitt; Cost: $183.75
Monday, February 8th; 6:30 - 9:30pm
CRYSTAL CLEAR LOVE
Facilitator: Kristyne Dahl; Cost: $42
Friday, February 12th; 6:30 - 9:30pm
HEALING FOR HAITI MEDITATION
Facilitator: Susan Lippert; Cost: By donation
Saturday, February 13th; 6:30pm - 9:30pm
LUNAR ASTROLOGY 101
Facilitator: Carl Klimuk; Cost: $42
Monday, February 15th - CLOSED
Friday, February 19th; 6:30 - 8:30pm
TONING NIGHT
Facilitator: Natalie G; Cost $15
Saturday, February 20th; 6:30pm - 8:00pm
KIDS MEDITATION
Facilitators: Kristyne Dahl; Cost: $15
Sunday, February 21st; 9am - 5pm
REIKI MASTER LEVEL
Facilitator: Dawn Pitt; Cost: $262.50
Sunday, February 21st; 6:30 - 9:30pm
ANGEL FIRST AID: Releasing the Past
Facilitator: Kristyne Dahl; Cost: $42
Monday, February 22nd; 6:30pm - 9:30pm
RITUAL & MAGICK WORKSHOP
Facilitator: Lasma Star; Cost: $42
Tuesday, February 23rd; 12:30pm - 8pm
INTRODUCTION TO ARC BODYWORK THERAPY
20 minute mini sessions for $20 by appointment only
Facilitator: Heather Faris
Saturday, February 27th; 6:30pm - 8:30pm
ASTROLOGY BASICS
Facilitator: Carl Klimuk; Cost: $42
Sunday, February 28th; 9am - 6pm
REIKI LEVEL ONE
Facilitator: Dawn Pitt; Cost: $183.75
Sunday, February 28th; 7:00pm - 8:30pm
FULL MOON MEDITATION
Facilitators: Kristyne Dahl & Noah Purves-Smith; Cost: $15
To register for these workshops call 403-279-9555 or register online.
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We have been nominated for 3 Calgary Choice Awards!!
- Best in Arts & Culture
- Best Retail Experience
- Best Small Business Employer
If you agree with these nominations please go online and vote for us!! Visit www.calgarychoiceawards.ca and click on the "vote for a business" tab and look for our name in the voting lists. Voting closes February 19th.
The Calgary Choice Awards will salute Calgary businesses on Saturday, March 6, 2010 at Flames Central, located on Stephen Avenue. Public nomination starts on November 15 through to December 15, 2009. Calgarians will cast their votes beginning January 11, 2010. Voting will close on February 19, 2010.
The gala brings together businesses, small and large, media and the public to celebrate excellence. The gala was designed by Calgarians for Calgarians rewarding and recognizing businesses for distinction in a variety of industries and categories. Winners are nominated and selected by Calgarians in an assortment of categories ranging from Customer Service and Entertainment to Arts and Culture to Heart of the New West.
Proceeds from this gala benefit the Green Learning Foundation (GLF), a registered charitable organization devoted to children’s education. The foundations mission is to facilitate children learning how to become true innovative, critical thinkers. GLF supports breaking away from the traditional method of education, giving students the opportunity to explore the world around them according to their individual learning preferences.
If you would like to attend this event please email tickets@calgarychoiceawards.ca or call 403.245.6693.
Thanks for voting!!
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Book of the Month
Law of Connection: The Science of Using NLP to Create Ideal Personal and Professional Relationships
by Michael Losier
Married couples...dating couples...parents and children...teachers and students...office workers...management and staff...business to business...
There is a simple solution to improving your communication and buiilding better, healthier relationships. It's called Law of Connection. Make it work for you!
Are there certain people you cannot seem to communicate with--at home, at work, or in your community? You say one thing, they hear something different. You simply do not understand one another, and you cannot explain why. The only thing you are certain of is that the lack of connection leads to disappointment, frustration, and conflict.
Now in LAW OF CONNECTION, Michael J. Losier gives you the key to successful communication. Using the principles of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), you will soon master the few simple skills needed to create better understanding with people in every aspect of your life.
With tips, tools, exercises, and scripts to guide you, you will discover:
the three conditions for connecting
techniques for calibrating your conversations
four easy methods for effective communication
tips for creating positive rapport in all kinds of situations
a special section for teachers, trainers, and anyone who makes group presentations.
Bring LAW OF CONNECTION home to your family and introduce it into your workplace. Watch and listen as communication improves wherever you are, and your relationships become fuller, richer, and free of conflict.
About the Author
Click here to purchase "Law of Connection" on the Divine Mine online store.
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CD of the Month
The Secret to Attracting Love
By Kelly Howell
Attract True Love Like a Magnet
In order to attract your true love, you have to believe you are able to attract the right person into your life. True love comes to you, not by chance, but through who you are. Thoughts and feelings emit vibrations that literally act as magnets drawing in people and circumstances that resonate with what you think and feel about yourself.
Through the power of proven visualization and reprogramming techniques, you’ll overcome inner obstacles to receiving love. As your heart opens to experience more joy and fulfillment, you’ll exude a radiant energy field that attracts the love you desire.
Click here to purchase "The Secret to Attracting Love" on the Divine Mine online store.
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Tea of the Month
Sowmee White Tea
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Choice Grade #1 |
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Delicious toasty character with body reminiscent of Oolongs. Lingering taste that encourages another cup. |
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Luxury white tea.
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White tea is very different from other types of tea such as green or black tea. White tea leaves are plucked from a special varietal tea bush called Narcissus or chaicha bushes. Secondly the leaves are not steamed or pan-fired (the process used in green teas) or fermented and fired (the process used in black tea). The leaves are naturally withered and dried in the sun. If mechanical drying is required it is a baking process at temperatures less that 40’C. Thirdly only special ‘two leaves and a bud’ are selected. These leaves must show a very light green almost gray white color and be ideally be covered with velvet peach fuzz down. Sowmee is one of the lower grades of white tea, but despite this it has the properties attributed to white teas. The leaves for Sowmee are plucked during late April, May and June. The lack of processing and hand selection is evident in the leaf appearance of Sowmee as it is somewhat mixed and tending flaky and flat. This Sowmee has a more pronounced taste profile - almost oolong tea-like. Many white tea drinkers prefer this cup in that there is a ‘substance’ to the taste compared to the delicate nuances of other white teas.
Researchers at the Linus Pauling Institute in Oregon tested white teas on selected rats to test for the ability of white tea to inhibit natural mutations in bacteria and to protect them from colon cancer. Interestingly, white teas were found to be more effective than green tea in inhibiting the early stages of cancer but researchers pointed out that their study was on rats and the effects should not be extrapolated to humans. The researchers also found that white tea contains higher levels of caffeine compared to green tea brewed under the same conditions. They suggested that this could occur because white tea oxidizes during withering whereas in green tea the oxidation process is stopped early in the tea making process by steaming or panfiring.
The western cosmetic industry is beginning to make a white tea extract to be worn underneath your moisturizer. The reason is that it seems white tea has been shown to be more effective in mopping up free radicals that cause skin to sag. One tea expert has been quoted as saying ‘unlike black or green tea, it isn’t rolled or steamed, this preserves its antioxidant properties’.
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Hot tea brewing method: When preparing by the cup, this tea can be used repeatedly (à la chinoise) - about 3 times. The secret is to use water that is about 180°F or 90°C. Place 1-2 teaspoons of leaves in your cup and let the tea steep for 3 minutes. Then begin enjoying a cup of enchantment - do not remove the leaves from the cup. Once the water level is low - add more water, and so on - until the tea flavor is exhausted. Milk or sugar
  
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Spotlight on Services:
ARC Bodywork Therapy
 ARC (A Return to Consciousness) Bodywork Therapy is a unique blend of Energy Work combined with body-centered dialogue and creative journeying. If you’ve ever had the experience of ‘knowing’ all about your issues and ‘understanding’ how your past is affecting you but nothing seems to change, ARC Bodywork Therapy is for you. ARC Bodywork is a body-centered approach to therapy that facilitates a deep internal knowing or awareness by gently by-passing the intellect and allowing the body to speak. ARC does this through incorporating BodySpeak™, a body-based dialogue technique that allows the practitioner to converse with the client in a safe, nurturing way, deepening the client’s bodywork experience.
ARC creates the possibility for change at a systemic level, accessing the resources within us that carry the knowledge of how we are being limited in life, both emotionally and physically.
ARC brings balance as it strengthens our sense of internal Self-Leadership, allowing us to tend to parts of ourselves that have been neglected or shut out. It is these neglected parts and learned ways of coping that cause stress to the body, often showing up as physical discomfort and disease. By allowing these parts a voice or connection to all of who we are they no longer need to vie for attention by expressing themselves physically through pain or disease. In this way our symptoms can be viewed as messengers, letting us know when things are out of balance. Click here for more information.
Practitioners:
Heather Faris, ARC Bodywork Therapist. Click here to read Heather's bio.
75 minute session…………$100
Prepay 3 sessions….……...$270
Heather will be offering Introductory ARC Bodywork Therapy mini sessions on Tuesday, February 23rd from 12:30 to 8pm - 20 minutes for $20 by appointment only. Appointments will book up quickly - call 403.279-9555 to reserve your spot!
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Free From Fear
By Susan Verhoogt, Reiki Master & Intuitive Life Coach @ the Divine Mine
First of all I would like to wish you a wonderful, blissful 2010! May it be nothing like you expected, yet full of wonder and miracles! May you live each moment to the fullest with the freshness and curiosity of a child.
This is month three at Nithyananda’s ashram, I can’t believe how fast the time flies by. Like every morning, this morning we started off with a Nithya yoga session. During this session I had a major break through that I would like to share with you. My wish is that it will be inspiring for you to realize you can do anything!
First a little bit of history about me. In 1996 I had a car accident which resulted in me having a whiplash. My neck hurt tremendously. In spite of different forms of healing, it had never fully recovered. Last year I ended up in the hospital with a bulged disc in my spine, I was in so much pain, it was unreal. Even though I did recover from that mostly, my back and leg still hurt, sometimes a little bit and sometimes quite a bit. But, like I said in the beginning of the paragraph, that was a little bit of history about me.
Now, a bit more about my yoga session this morning. Even though we do not do rigorous yoga postures, there are a lot of postures that really stretch me. (no pun intended) Yoga practice is so much more then just body movement. It is so beautiful as it is a way to bring awareness in to our body, bringing awareness to our inner processes. What I noticed was whenever the postures were explained, immediately resistance and inner chatter would come up: “Oh no, I can never do that, I am not flexible enough” and so on. Then, when it comes down to performing the posture, the inner chatter continues with on top of that a huge fear. I noticed how, not only in the yoga practice but for years, I have been bracing my body, especially my neck and back, out of protection. I was not able to just relax and go with the posture to see what would happen, as my body remembered the pain from the past. It was bracing itself with tension for something that hadn’t even happened yet, based on memories.
This morning, there was a tremendous shift for me. The posture we were about to do was a backward bend where you sit on your heels, back bent backward with the top of your head touching the floor. Somehow for the first time I’ve come here, I was able to just stay in the silent space within, relax into the posture without any of those disturbing, limiting thoughts and do it. I just relaxed and did it, after having tried this for many times over the last few months but never been able to succeed. To my amazement and joy I was able to just do it, without any pain at all, not even afterwards. Pretty amazing considering that not even a year ago I was in bed for about a month not being able to move at all, and in the hospital on morphine because of a bulged disc in my lower back!
The realization that came was how we go about our lives, bracing ourselves for what is to come, based on past memories. When we live this way, we miss out on life!!! While we are in fear we cannot see what we are capable of doing, how much we can enjoy, that all we have to do is to relax into the fear. Notice it, relax, and do it anyway. The fear and resistance will simply melt away, making way for the inner intelligence to move through and do what it needs to do to bring health and well being back into your life. Whatever area that might be. I used my yoga practice as an example, but we can apply this in any area of our lives. All we need is some awareness, that’s all. Just notice when fear or resistance comes up, feel it (do not suppress it, just allow the experience to be what it is), relax into it and do it anyway, in spite of the fear. With no expectations, just for the sake of doing it. And then watch our lives unfold! We are able to do anything, it is only the fear that is holding us back. By doing this, we are setting ourselves free, taking steps to lead a joyful, conflict free life!
Love and smiles,
Susan
Click here to learn more about Susan and the services she provides.
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Sun in Aquarius 2010
By Carl Klimuk, Astrologer, Master Herbologist & Wholistic Practitioner @ the Divine Mine
Aries
This is a month to be sharing with friends. Don’t be surprised if more friends come to you asking for your advice or help. If you’re feeling stressed spending some time in nature and natural remedies may prove particularly healing this month. This is also a month for problem solving investigation and research. You may also be asked to share more of your time, energy or even money with others.
Taurus
This is a month to grow and explore, especially in areas concerning your creative potential. You will also feel like you want to have more fun, entertainment & sports are prominent. You will have the energy to engage in more physical activities. This is a good month for you to lighten up and remember that all work and no play makes for a dull life!
Gemini
Time to roll up those sleeves and get to work! The time of procrastinating is done, projects & work that have been put off now come back to get done! Don’t be surprised if there are breakdowns in the home front that require repair work. This is a month for you to remember where your responsibilities are, be a leader not a follower.
Cancer
Socializing is a key word for you this month. Expect unexpected or last minute invitations. Perhaps someone you haven’t heard from in while says hello! You’re diplomatic skills within personal relationships may also be tested. For some, personal relationships could go through a bit of a shakeup, but only where it’s needed.
Leo
You are in a creative & artistic period. This is a good month for you to escape from the world for awhile & entertain yourself. Go out and find a good movie, go to a play, a museum, a sports game or anything that reminds you about the importance of play. This is also a time to believe in yourself & your potential.
Virgo
Be a leader this month especially within your home. You may have to find the courage to emotionally express yourself to someone who is stirring up personal insecurities within you. This is also a time to change or renovate something within your home. Find a space within your abode that needs a good cleaning or simply needs a new look!
Libra
This is a good time to comfort & pleasure yourself, so don’t feel bad if you seem to be eating slightly more cheesecake or comfort foods than usual. Find comfort & pleasure through entertainment & play. The urge to gamble & play games of chance may beckon, but only those who budget will win! Learn to value and appreciate what you have and not what you want.
Scorpio
Throw a party within your home or don’t be surprised if you simply get invited more often to other people’s homes this month. Expect more people to come in and out of your home; the phone may be ringing more than usual! This is also a time to communicate or express your feelings more, if not to someone then to yourself, a good time for journaling.
Sagittarius
Fixing this & repairing that, don’t be surprised if there are a few breakdowns within your home or personal property, then again this could be a good time to simply do some badly needed cleaning in certain areas of the home. On a personal note maybe you find yourself overanalyzing your feelings a little bit too much lately, that’s okay just remember that feelings can’t be understood logically!
Capricorn
Boost your confidence this month by working out more. A healthy body equals a healthy mind as the old saying goes! This is a good month for you to change something about your appearance or how you express yourself. Get some new snazzy clothes, change your hairstyle or simply go out and do something that you normally wouldn’t do, in other words find an escape from the routine.
Aquarius
Take the time to focus on your health, a balanced diet & exercise routine will do you wonders! This is also a good to time to repair or heal broken relationships or parts of a relationship that need healing. Find the beauty in the work that you do. You may have to be a little more diplomatic in your work environment.
Pisces
You need to balance your work with your health. Don’t overdo things too much, balance & patience is key. You may also feel like you have to fix everybody’s problems, just remember to balance others needs with your own. You may find yourself spending more time with work related colleagues.
Click here to learn more about Carl and the services he provides.
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