Hearth circles
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THE HEARTH PROJECT
Community Gatherings and Healing Circles Project Director: Melanie Ryan, LCSW, SRMT HEARTH – "HEART, EARTH and ART" HEARTH is the fire, the central place of the home where food is prepared, and where the family gathers to be nourished and warmed. A HEARTH Circle is a community circle where everyone is welcomed to be nourished mind, body and soul. It is our spiritual home, where we come together in community to support a profound connection with our Hearts and the Earth. HEARTH is a gathering, where through practices and sharing, we find our way back home to Heart and Earth. We nourish in the HEARTH’s warmth, igniting our inner wisdom fires, so we can share our “Art” - our unique, embodied, creative expression that honors all life. Art is also about honoring and supporting the natural beauty of the Earth, in all its expressions. We kindle our passion for nature in community; smaller circles reverberating to larger circles. |
HOW DO HEARTHS WORK?
HEARTH Circles, which are independently operated, support OMEC's mission. HEARTH Circles are facilitated by one or more individuals and can be conducted in a variety of ways. Often offered monthly, a HEARTH facilitator(s) will typically gather local energy and/or holistic healers to join together to provide a container for a community healing circle. Many model their circle according to the Community Healing Circle format, as described in the book Shamanic Reiki (Roberts & Levy).
At a HEARTH our feelings are witnessed and held sacred. We may simply share in circle from the heart and receive hands-on healing from local practitioners, or experience a shamanic journey or meditation. We may share food and stories, dance and laughter, silence and incubation. We may conduct spiritual ceremony to honor natural cycles and the Earth, and our deep soul longings. Gathered as a HEARTH, we ignite our inner wisdom fires and share gratitude and inspiration in larger community.
HEARTHs can be small and intimate or gatherings of one hundred or more people. They can be held indoors or outside or in nature, and can facilitated by one, or by several individuals.
THE WISDOM IS IN THE CIRCLE
At OMEC, we feel this is a very important time to gather together as communities to honor the Earth and to tap the deep wisdom that arises when like-hearted people join in sacred circle.
HEARTH Circles, which are independently operated, support OMEC's mission. HEARTH Circles are facilitated by one or more individuals and can be conducted in a variety of ways. Often offered monthly, a HEARTH facilitator(s) will typically gather local energy and/or holistic healers to join together to provide a container for a community healing circle. Many model their circle according to the Community Healing Circle format, as described in the book Shamanic Reiki (Roberts & Levy).
At a HEARTH our feelings are witnessed and held sacred. We may simply share in circle from the heart and receive hands-on healing from local practitioners, or experience a shamanic journey or meditation. We may share food and stories, dance and laughter, silence and incubation. We may conduct spiritual ceremony to honor natural cycles and the Earth, and our deep soul longings. Gathered as a HEARTH, we ignite our inner wisdom fires and share gratitude and inspiration in larger community.
HEARTHs can be small and intimate or gatherings of one hundred or more people. They can be held indoors or outside or in nature, and can facilitated by one, or by several individuals.
THE WISDOM IS IN THE CIRCLE
At OMEC, we feel this is a very important time to gather together as communities to honor the Earth and to tap the deep wisdom that arises when like-hearted people join in sacred circle.
Melanie Ryan, Director of the HEARTH Project, together with HEARTH Project Committee Member, Debbie Philp, are working to expand HEARTH Circles to communities throughout the world to support OMEC's mission to reconnect with the deep mystery, and to:
1) Encourage a sacred and responsible relationship with the Earth
2) Preserve the ancient wisdom ways of indigenous people, and ancestral lands
To find out more, or to list your community HEARTH Circle, please contact MelanieRyanLCSW@gmail.com
Below find a listing of HEARTHs. We hope you join us!
1) Encourage a sacred and responsible relationship with the Earth
2) Preserve the ancient wisdom ways of indigenous people, and ancestral lands
To find out more, or to list your community HEARTH Circle, please contact MelanieRyanLCSW@gmail.com
Below find a listing of HEARTHs. We hope you join us!
HEARTH Circles are operated completely independent to OMEC. They support OMEC, its values, and mission.
CONNECTICUT
Bethel, CT: Shamanic HEARTH Circle at the Workspace Education Academy. Facilitated by Melanie Ryan, SRMT, Adjunct Faculty. Community healing circle, educating homeschooled youth and their families. Mondays 1:30pm-3pm, every week. www.WorkspaceEducation.org
NEW JERSEY
Oradell, NJ: Community HEARTH Healing Circle. Facilitated by Lis Traphagen and Karen Overgaard. Meditation, sharing, hands on healing, community healing, group energy sent out to those people and places that call to us. 86 Wanamaker Ave, Oradell, NJ. Phone: 201-321-4179. Email: listraphagen@gmail.com. Suggested Donation $10.00. Proceeds go to OMEC. Call or email for upcoming dates.
NEW YORK CITY
NYC: One Spirit Shamanic Circle Monthly HEARTH Gathering - 7 pm, Facilitated by Jonathan Hammond with Emily Wallace. Topic: Fundamentals of Shamanism - Shamanic Cosmology, Shamanic Journeying, working with Spirit Guides and special events. 247 West 36th Street, 6th Floor, NYC. A portion of donations support OMEC.
NEW YORK STATE
Mt. Kisco, NY: Shamanic Reiki HEARTH Circle at the Center for Health and Healing. Facilitated by Melanie Ryan and Shamanic Reiki Practitioners. Hands on healing, sharing, meditations, and shamanic journeys, we find our way back to our home deep within. $20 suggested at the door (drop in).
Beacon, NY: Community Healing HEARTH Circle at the Beacon of Light Wellness Center. Facilitated by Alison Jolicoeur. Meditation, Sharing, Hands-On Reiki Healing, Shamanic Journeying, and Sonic Gong Bath. Suggested donation $20. A portion of proceeds support OMEC projects. 4 S Chestnut Street, Beacon, NY. First Friday of every month (weather permitting). Reservation: info@beaconoflightwellnesscenter.com
Keene Valley, NY: Community HEARTH Healing Circle at True North Yoga. Facilitated by Debbie Philp, SRMT. 1073 US Route 9, Schroon Lake and 1769 Route 73, Keene Valley, NY. Sharing, meditation, hands-on healing in mutual support, and a group energy send for your loved ones, situations, and the Earth. Phone: 518-306-1134 Email: debbie@truenorthyogaonline.com
Westchester County, NY: Shamanic Reiki HEARTH Circle with Sarah Brianna Smith, SRMP. Email: Sarah@sarahbrianna.com Phone: (914) 500- 8251. Website: www.SarahBrianna.com Sarah facilitates HEARTH circles at multiple locations. See her website at above linked title, for details.
Croton-on-Hudson, NY: Shamanic Reiki HEARTH Circle at The Organic Teaching Kitchen with Myra Oney. Hands on reiki healing, sharing, shamanic journeying, meditations. 18 Old Post Road South. Contact Myra@DailyLivingReiki.com for more information.
NORTH CAROLINA
Durham, NC: Shamanic Reiki HEARTH Community Healing Circle Facilitated monthly by Carson Efird, Andy Etters + Shamanic Reiki Practitioners. Meditation, Reiki, Shamanic Journeying + Healing Practices, and Sacred Sharing inspired by the seasons, holy days and the currents of life. Suggested donation: $11-18. 70% of proceeds benefit OMEC. Learn more at SahajaSpaceDurham.com
WASHINGTON STATE
Milton, Wa: Shamanic Reiki HEARTH Circle facilitated by Lori Ferry', SRMT at Integrative Healing Arts & Studies Center. Sundays, 4pm to 6pm monthly. Website: www.shamanicreiki4lifenow.com. Email: Reiki4lifenow@gmail.com
