Our Group
Intention
"We learn how
to love ourselves and how to honor our Inner Divine in an environment
of loving witnesses. By honoring our Inner Divine, we honor the
Divine within all beings."
- Our standing group intention.
Deerheart
and Ania started this group because we both felt a need to be part of
a continuous group, which works with love, self-love, sexuality, and
spirituality. The two workshops Deerheart and Ania presented about
Sacred Love Rituals clarified further that there was a community need
for such a support group.
Through self-love and through honoring our Inner Divine we become more
open to receiving and giving love from and to others. We also become
more integrated and more whole. As we become more open we then have
more space in our hearts and beings to reflect that love onto others
- and also to see it in others. If we know what it's like to be open
to love and self-love then it's also easier to identify that in others.
So it becomes a circle of honoring and being honored in return.
The Divine resides in all beings...in humans, plants, animals, minerals...in
everything, and that includes the people we can't stand and also the
people who have hurt us deeply. It also includes ourselves with
all our faults and pet peeves...everybody! As we learn to be more centered
in honoring our divine nature it will become easier to have compassion
and love for others and to honor the Divine spark in all creatures.
If we insist or try to love another person, or others in general, without
loving ourselves first, feelings of possessiveness, jealousy, and dependence
may emerge, swirl all around, and tend to dominate. When we love ourselves
though, as is the goal of this group, we understand that love is in
everyone and everything and that love has no boundaries. We will
become more open to sharing love and attracting love.
The more we honor ourselves and accept ourselves as we are, the more
orgasmic we will be. When we are critical of ourselves or any
part of ourselves, then parts of us are fighting each other and our
energy is conflicted, which then inhibits our greatest orgasmic response.
But when we learn to fully accept ourselves, our energy will be unified,
and all guards will be down. It is then that pleasure and orgasm
can be fully experienced.
In this group we envision working with our bodies, minds, and spirits
in developing a strong sense of self. This group is designed as
a support group of sorts and a witnessing circle. And we will
be doing exercises that involve all of us or smaller groups, but initially
the main focus will be to work on ourselves and on honoring our Inner
Divine. The exercises will differ each time and will include touch,
affirmations, meditations, visualizations, dancing, singing, sharing,
breathing, witnessing, discussion, support, etc.
We have created a structure that will remain virtually the same for
all meetings. We will create ritual together by creating a sacred
space, within which we will do our exercises to honor the Inner Divine,
within ourselves, and others. The exercises will vary each time but
the structure around it will remain the same. To insure the safety
of everyone we ask that everyone agree to and sign our Safety
Statement. Within the safe and sacred container which we create
together, we will gradually grow closer and more comfortable with each
other.
As we meet monthly we will grow to know each other and it is the intention
of Deerheart and Ania that we will all feel safe to explore our inner
selves in an environment of loving support. The group is here
to nurture us and to help us achieve more health, happiness, bliss,
abundance, and also fun.
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