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Summer Solstice Peace Circle

Celebrating the Abundance of I am Enough

“If you know who you are, people cannot tell you who you are.”

Naike Forde and her father Samuel Forde

Summer Solstice is the celebration of the longest day, the time where in the Northern Hemisphere we bask in the warmth and beauty of the sun for 14.5 hours.
“Our sun is at the centre of our solar system. Our planet and our lives revolve around its cycles of light and dark. Our inner and outer biological rhythms – as well as the rhythms of every animate and inert part of life – are ruled by this celestial force. Traditionally, it has been associated with warmth, light, happiness, joy, hope, enlightenment, illumination, truth, cheer, goodwill.”  Denise Linn, Sacred Destiny Oracle.
The sun carries the deepest energies of expansion and abundance. So it is fitting to take this opportunity and celebrate this solstice to celebrate our abundance within … that we are enough.
 
Naike Forde, a certified yoga instructor, a registered psychotherapist and a wonderful friend will share her story of going home to the Motherland, to Ghana, to connect with Elders and be among her original people. It was a journey of coming home to herself and being more grounded in who she is today. She came to know she is enough in reconnecting with the place of her original roots and to the light and land of her ancestors.
 
As in all circles, we will share something of ourselves, make space for journaling, do ceremony and ritual together, and nurture our spirits and hearts and minds and bodies as we take in the story of abundance that we are enough.
Tuesday, June 21st, 2022  6:30-9:30pm [Toronto/NY EST]
Online, ZOOM meeting
PAYMENT  or DONATION OPTIONS:

If you would like to join me, please let me know at shirley@shirleylynnmartin.com. I’ve decided that with the all the concerns that have become ever heightened in the last 2 years through the pandemic, I am offering you some options in registering. Pick the one that best works for you. Those who identify as BIPOC or LGBTQ+ may join free of any fee. If you still wish to contribute towards your community in some way, I am grateful for you to find a good way to do that.

1. Pay $55.00 (taxes included) for attending this Peace Circle to me at shirley@shirleylynnmartin.com as the normal fee or donation for my time (e-transfer).

To Pay Online

2. Or instead…Give a gift of time, talent, treasure ($), true ally/friendship to a cause supporting Indigenous language and knowledge learning, MMIW, finding the residential school children who never came home, or building and empowering black and brown communities, LBGTQ+, or towards anti-Semitic policy work, or your local food bank or animal fund for those who need veterinary care (ie. Farley Foundation).

3. Offer a donation to my Angel Trust Fund which offers BIPOC clients the gift of Reiki and whole life therapies from me or pay for your friend to attend Peace Circle now or some other time. (Ask me more about this fund if you wish to contribute).

Summer Solstice Peace Circle and Ceremony: Rising Rooted in Love’s Radiance

Summer Solstice is the longest day of light in the Northern Hemisphere. The Solstice is a time to celebrate the light, and the warmth of the sun which nourishes and stimulates growth and abundance in our environment and in ourselves. Song, dance, play and gardens of goodness and beauty feast our eyes and bodies. In the spring we planted our seeds, our imaginal seeds of our dreams for ourselves, our community, our Earth. We have been nourishing and nurturing our soil, so our seeds can do what they are meant to do. Nothing lofty. Nothing untrue. Joyfully and simply, we have been nurturing what we have planted. Come and celebrate the blooms of your imaginal seeds, your intention and dream to offer gratitude for everything that has supported you along this journey.
Summer, the direction of the south, the place of the child who in wonder, spontaneity and curiosity, in play and laughter delights in the Mother Earth. They learn to rise rooted as they bend down to explore the ant, witness the works of art in the clouds and story themselves in the Mother Earth’s love and abundance while rolling around in her grassy lap. Come, and restore the rooted place of the child within, the hidden radiance of love and in the warmth of the solstice, let your radiance and your dream flow. Come, join us in peace circle and ceremony this summer solstice and rise rooted in Love’s radiance.  

Benefits and Takeaways:

  • community of like minded and genuine hearts gathering in celebration, respect and harmony
  • ceremony to strengthen, sustain and bless your spirit
  • a time to pause, slow down and return to centre
  • get grounded to rise rooted
  • return to the radiant child within, your essence and restore the wonder and love for life.

Monday, June 21st, 2021 7:00-9:30pm

(Zoom Room opens at 6:30pm for hellos and greetings)

Cost: $40.00 plus HST ($45.20) to be pre-paid via e-transfer

or via PayPal (please note a user fee will be applied)

To Pay Online

Upon registration and payment, circle members will receive an email of preparation and reflection questions and activities intended to encourage circle members to join with open and warm hearts, open and wondering minds, open and grounded bodies, open and brave spirits.

Limited spots available so register early. Register with Shirley Lynn at shirley@shirleylynnmartin.com

An Angel Scholarship Fund has been set up for to anonymously welcome and support Black, Indigenous and other racialized persons, as well as LGBQT2+ people with limited financial resources to be able to attend Peace Circles.

For anyone who is able, an additional $5, $10, $20 (or whatever amount you would like to contribute) toward the Angel Scholarship Fund for current and future Peace Circle scholarships, will be received with deep gratitude. Contact Shirley Lynn for more details and to contribute.

Spring Equinox Peace Circle and Ceremony: Nurturing the Soil of our Emergence

Join me in this online Peace Circle and ceremony. Through ritual, ceremony, reflection and connection with the freshness of spring and light, we will nurture our spirits and the seeds of our soul’s dream.

Spring Equinox is a time of celebration where day and night, light and dark are in near equal balance. The Light is getting stronger and warmer as we in the North tilt towards the Sun. As the sun crosses the ‘celestial equator’, the increasing light triggers birds to sing and the sprouting of new life. With fertile soil, and seeds that have been nurtured over the winter, we have the ingredients for richness and abundance. This is an ancient and proven process – plant seeds in rich soil, tend with care, allow Nature to follow its own blueprint – and thus we plant the way for food, medicine and shelter. These are the first blessings of Life.

In this Spring Peace Circle, we will gather in circle and ceremony to support our inner/outer soil and our inner/outer environment to sprout and give fresh life to our planted seeds (dreams and goals). The quality of our soil is the quality of our (seeds) emergence and sprouting to new life.

We all have been impacted by the pandemic, by its heaviness, its longevity and its required awakening to the great inequities in our society. We have experienced many losses, many inconveniences, and for too many, deep disparities of available and essential resources. We need ceremony and ritual to restore hope in our spirit. We need circle and ceremony to be in heart-centred relations, dialogue and honest listening to the real stories shaping our lives. Because one day we will emerge from this pandemic – let us emerge with fertile soil and quality seeds sprouting to what will be the gift of new life.

Benefits of Peace Circle and Ceremony:

  1. Circle and ceremony renew us in its magic!
  2. An invitation to return to your authentic centre and listen for what seeks to emerge in spring’s freshness.
  3. Rituals of spring and a cup of tea …

What We Will Do Together:

  1. Listen to heart stories that transform our own experience and spirit.
  2. Be still and offer gratitude for what is and what has been and what will be.
  3. Join in the collective dream of building a kinder and more honest world together.

Monday, March 22nd, 2021

7:00pm – 9:30pm

(Zoom Room opens at 6:30pm for hellos and greetings)

Cost: $40.00 plus HST ($45.20) to be pre-paid via e-transfer

or via PayPal (please note a user fee will be applied)

Online Purchase

Upon registration and payment, circle members will receive an email of preparation and reflection questions and activities intended to encourage circle members to join with open and warm hearts, open and wondering minds, open and grounded bodies, open and brave spirits.

Limited spots available so register early. Register with Shirley Lynn at shirley@shirleylynnmartin.com

An Angel Scholarship Fund has been set up for to anonymously welcome and support Black, Indigenous and other racialized persons, as well as LGBQT2+ people with limited financial resources to be able to attend Peace Circles.

For anyone who is able, an additional $5, $10, $20 (or whatever amount you would like to contribute) toward the Angel Scholarship Fund for current and future Peace Circle scholarships, will be received with deep gratitude. Contact Shirley Lynn for more details and to contribute.

Introduction to Peace Circle Podcast # 1

Join Shirley Lynn Martin, Karen McCarthy (Peace Circle Keeper) and Tonya Noble (Peace Circle member, psychotherapist and more) as we offer a brief experience of Peace Circle.

This podcast is the first in a series of three. We invite you to listen as though you are in Peace Circle with us, to cross the threshold of ordinary time into sacred time and space, a place where the heart speaks, listens and is. You will experience the ‘ceremony’ of crossing into sacred space with us.

Once we open Peace Circle, we start with the question, Why Peace Circle? What is it to me? Listen in as we pass the ‘talking piece’ and share the wisdom and beauty in our hearts, and so in yours.

Thank you for joining us in this series. For more information about how you can join a live event, please visit Peace Circles for upcoming dates, themes and locations.

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