Every monday evening (except bank holidays)
The Coffee Lounge
Manvers Street Baptist Church.
7.00pm – 10pm
£5
There is no need to book. Just pop along whenever there is a talk of interest. It’s a Lovely, friendly and relaxed atmosphere, everyone is welcome. Refreshments included.
Format for the evenings:
Welcome and introduction 7.30pm (tea and biscuits available on arrival)
Topic of the evening 7.45pm
Social and (more) refreshments 9.00pm
For full details of all upcoming talks please visit positivelivinggroups.co.uk/BATH.html
Or visit the interactive online community ‘Positive Living Groups Network’ at PLGN.co.uk
Saturday 22nd May 2010
Radford Mill Farm
8pm to Midnight
£7/£5 concs
Contact Denise on 077233 29414
The creative feast is a quarterly open space bringing together an eclectic mix of original performances, scrumptious cakes, delicious drinks and good company! The gorgeous creative gathering At just outside Bath is back!
Delicious morsels to delight, enchant and inspire. MUSIC, POETRY, DANCE, THEATRE, FILM, FIRE.
Featuring:
Master Mbira Player CHARTWELL DUTIRO, Omer Makessa, Alex Harvest, Denise Rowe, James Watts, Alex Michelson & more!
For info or if you have something you’d like to show contact Denise, 077233 29414 de8fish@yahoo.co.uk, www.tolokotolo.com
When: Thursday 20th May 2010
Where: Milsom Room, Manvers Street Baptist Church, Bath
Time: 7.30pm – 9.30pm
Cost: Donation
Looking for a healing, health or spiritual change?
Would you like to join a group or find a workshop?
The 2nd of the healing groups evening. The first, in April, was very successful. Many groups in Bath united to inform individuals and other groups of their existence. If you’re looking for a group or a workshop related to body. mind, spirit, then do come do this event.
An opportunity for individuals, healing and workshop groups in Bath to come together for an evening of meditation, sounds, short talks and getting to know one another.
Format for the evening
- Welcome
- Short talk/meditation/sound/chant (speakers welcome)
- Group introductions
- Tea, biscuits and chats
I was surrounded by heart centered people and delicious raw food treats. What a fabulous way to end the weekend.
I’m not a raw fooder (I’m not even a vegetarian) but I have dabbled with raw food it a little and it was really great to get together with likeminded people and share our raw food recipes and experiments.
For anyone who is interested in healthy eating; be you non veggie, veggie, vegan or raw food, these evening will be just up your street.
Please see the positive peoples website for more details:
Claire Stevens will lead us into a guided visualisation
Then some speakers briefly talk about their group work: Liz Josey from Positive Living Groups with Positive Living Bath introducing themselves as they are launching their group in April. Leora Sharp will introduce about Bath Practitioners Group. Barry McGuiness from Enlightenment Intensives.
If there’s enough time, then others can introduce themselves, but it`s mostly about finding out what groups are available, as there will be those who want to join a group, or those who feel inspired to start a group.
There may be a finishing gong performance.
Bring a mat or blanket if you would like.
Drinking water provided.
A friend / massage colleague of mine mentioned she went to an amazing Ashtanga yoga class last week in Bristol, led by Nicole Aaron. I have subsequently found out that Nicole will be doing some classes in Bath at The Love Lounge behind The Bell on Walcot Street. Events there are organised by Positive Living Bath. I met Ian a few months back at a Kundalini Yoga class in Larkhall and I’m really happy to see he and his team have got this good thing going.
They are doing great things…various types of Yoga classes, Raw Food get togethers, a Transition group and workshops.
This song makes me feel so good (video and lyrics below). It’s only now that I’m blogging about it and watching the video closely (and repeatedly) that I realise its about about death…and therefore life as well I guess.
I love the feathers, the fans, the landscapes and the embracing of different cultures. There are hints about our inner wisdom (which I’m working with right now) and “believing”, love and adventure and goodness that runs in all our veins. I love the way every time they say “Reminiscing other times of life” my brain wants to swap the words around and say “other life times”…which is quite fitting to the subject matter.
I can listen to it on repeat for a good while. It makes me feel really good.Does it do the same for you?
We can remember swimming in December,
Heading for the city lights in 1975,
We share in each other,
Nearer than father,
The scent of a lemon drips from your eyes
We are the people that rule the world.
A force running in every boy and girl,
All rejoicing in the world,
Take me now we can try.
We lived an adventure
Love in the Summer,
Followed the sun till night
Reminiscing other times of life,
For each every other
The feeling was stronger,
The shock hit eleven
Got lost in your eyes
I can’t do well when I think you’re gonna leave me,
But I know I try,
Are you gonna leave me now,
Can’t you be believing now.
Can you remember and humanise,
It was still where we’d energised,
Lie in the sand and visualise
Like its 75 again,
We are the people that rule the world.
A force running in every boy and girl,
All rejoicing in the world,
Take me now we can try.
I can’t do well when I think you’re gonna leave me,
I’ve watched Debbie Ford’s, The Shadow Effect DVD a few times now and she mentions the poem below, which likens being human to a guest house with new emotions arriving every day. I think this poem is a great one to have in our diaries so when we’re having a hard day, we can read it and remind ourselves to accept what is and that all from all hard times, good things arise.
I think this runs parallel with what Eckhart Tolle suggests in The Power of Now (Page 218); “Become and alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.”
The Guest House
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
~ Rumi
(The Essential Rumi, versions by Coleman Barks)
I’ve also been reading Debbie Ford’s The Dark Side of the Light Chasersand participating in a virtual book club with Liz Foster, who has been working closely with Debbie for some years now. I’m finding the book and the book club offers me a wonderful opportunity to understand those ‘shadows’ that bring me down. Debbie’s words help us realise that each shadow is indeed a guide and a gift which, if we embrace enthusiastically, we can use to forgive ourselves. So, we use it, instead of it using us.
I was inspired by MasterChef Professional (well done Steve Groves, you’re brilliant) to try spin some sugar. Turns out it’s pretty hard. Professionals always make things look easy!
My book told me to dip the pan in water before spinning but it seems to cool the syrup so quickly. Any chefs out there got any tips?
Also, it was pretty challenging to figure out how to avoid getting blobby bits.
The ones below are my favourite. Especially top left and centre, as they are 3d swirls rather than just flat. I did that on the back of a spoon handle. A fat handle of course.
Then I created a monster.
And then a bowl on the back of a ladle.
Which I promptly broke before I could even photograph it. Managed to fake it though.
What I did figure out is that they fingerprint easily so you’ve got to handle them really carefully. That help avoid breakages too as I discovered.
They need to be handled even more gently than someone needing a gentle massage that’s for sure.
1. Preheat the oven to 180°C, gas mark 4. Lightly grease a 1kg loaf tin and line the base and ends with a long strip of baking parchment.
2. Place the butter, honey, eggs, bananas, cinnamon and flour in a food processor and blend until smooth. Alternatively, beat by hand with a wooden spoon. Add the nuts, and pulse or mix until just combined.
3. Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and smooth the top. Bake for 35-40 minutes until a skewer inserted into the centre of the loaf comes out clean, and the bread is golden and well risen. Allow the loaf to cool in the tin for 10 minutes then turn out. Remove the baking parchment and cut into slices. Delicious served warm or cold, spread with butter.
Every monday evening (except bank holidays)
