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Bath Positive Living Group

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Bath Positive Living GroupEvery 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

The Creative Feast

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

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

Body, mind, spirit groups in Bath

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

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

Contact Liza:    info@lizaharwood.com     07789 880 415
lizaharwood.com/events-bath-bristol

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Raw food pot luck at The Love Lounge

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

I made it last night to the Positive Living Bath’s Raw Food Pot Luck at the Love Lounge behind The Bell. This is a monthly event organised by Alison, Jonathan and Ian.

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:

http://www.positivelivingbath.co.uk/

I think I’d definitely going to have to make it to the raw chocolate party, April 30th

Joint healing group meeting, Bath, March 11th

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Unity and Connection.
The Milsom Room, Manvers St. Baptist Church, Bath
Thursday 11 March 2010, 7.30 – 9.30pm

Contact Kim Coles - 07749 921118 or kim@healwithin.co.uk

An opportunity for all healing groups in Bath to come together for an evening of meditation, sounds, talks and getting to know one another.

An opportunity to get up and talk about yourself and your group. Speakers welcome.

An opportunity for those who just want to find out what healing is, and maybe join a group.
Basic format for the evening

  • Greeting by Kim Coles
  • Ammaprema will give an opening gong performance
  • Shirley Smith will give a brief talk on spiritual healing
  • Elizabeth Griffin will lead a group recital
  • 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.

I’ve just discovered these positive people in Bath

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

positivelivingbath 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.

I’m going to check them out as soon as I can!!

http://www.positivelivingbath.co.uk/

Sat Nam, Namaste, Shanti Shanti Shanti.

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It makes me feel so goooood!

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

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,
But I know I try,
Are you gonna leave me now,
Can’t you be believing now.

I know everything about you,
You know everything about me,
Know everything about us.

Welcoming, understanding, accepting and transmuting our emotions

Monday, December 7th, 2009

guesthouseI’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 Chasers and 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.

Spinning sugar…not as easy as I thought

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

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.

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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.

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Then I created a monster.

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And then a bowl on the back of a ladle.

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Which I promptly broke before I could even photograph it. Managed to fake it though.

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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.

Looking for a great banana bread recipe?

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

bananabread…then try this recipe from Watirose. I made it once again recently and it goes down a treat.

Ingredients:

100g organic butter, softened
175g Waitrose Organic New Zealand Forest Honey
2 organic eggs, beaten
2 large ripe organic Fairtrade bananas, roughly chopped
½ tsp organic ground cinnamon
225g organic self-raising flour
50g pack organic walnut pieces
50g pack organic Brazil nuts, roughly chopped

Method

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.