walk right into your health & dreams

I went for my morning walk today and discovered that my favorite sycamore tree atop the hill began blooming.

It wasn't blooming yesterday morning, as I've kept an eye on it and worried a bit about it. Slow bloomer, I guess.

Maybe we all are.

It took me a long while to discover the goodness that Bones for Life offers. As you probably know, I made fun of my mom for taking Bones for Life classes.

But when I took one -- finally -- I discovered that an old nagging pain disappeared in five minutes. Hmm, I thought.

Bones for Life has offered me a whole toolkit of ideas to take away pain and to get me to the top of the hill every morning to visit my tree-friend. An old classmate the same age as me lives nearby and makes fun of me for walking that hill every morning. "No one walks that hill for enjoyment," he says.

I beg to differ!

I'm offering two Intro to Bones for Life series beginning next week:

Intro to Bones for Life®

Tuesday mornings from 10:30 – 11:45a on April 30, May 7, May 14, May 21

Thursday evenings from 6:30 – 7:45p on May 2, 16, 23, 30

> cost = $81 (your choice of Tuesdays or Thursdays)

> register by paying here (‘donate’ $81 + do not make your payment ‘Anonymous’)

> questions? call/text Brian at 513.300.5174

And these can be your gateway to joining me for the first in-person Bones for Life Immersion 1 I've offered since before the pandemic. We've offered about 15 of them on Zoom...but in-person offers a whole new range of possibilities. Check out the details here: https://vitalitycincinnati.org/programs/bones-for-life-classes/

And if you sign up for one of the April/May Intro to Bones for Life series and want to continue on to Immersion 1, I'll count the series-fee toward your tuition!

Bones for Life can help you get to where you want in life -- to visit a favorite tree, to explore a dream city on foot (as I did in the photo), to saunter a delicious beach, to simply be able to walk through the grocery pain-free.

What do you want in your life? What's your dream, your desire? Bones for Life can help you walk there with more ease and even pleasure.

Questions? Curious? Reach out!

Brian Shircliff

* donations for our drop-in programs help us pay our rent, and we know $10-20 could be too much for someone...all gifts welcome, from the change you found on the sidewalk today to a check if you won the lottery...no one is ever turned away for our drop-in classes...all truly welcome!

by Brian Shircliff

writing

We have a number of books coming out in the next few months - yay!

I'll share more about them and the parties to celebrate them as we get closer.

The books often spring out of our Inner Journey circle that meets on Zoom every month.

But of course, not everyone shows up to write a book. We simply gather and enjoy conversation, take some time on one's own to contemplate and write or draw or whatever one likes, and then talk so more.

It's a lovely circle and we invite you!
Zoom Inner Journey journaling!
hosted by Penny TONIGHT! at 6:30pm ET!
all are welcome
by donation ($10 - 20)*

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86501049196?pwd=M09nenVwU3RPWUNsN3dZSUw4QXNQZz09
Meeting ID: 865 0104 9196
Passcode: 215933

We have some exciting news to announce later this week about our Bones for Life® offerings - including a new series that will begin on Tuesdays at 10:30am next week - stay tuned.

Until then, may we continue to marinate in all the goodness of this beautiful new season!

Brian Shircliff

by Brian Shircliff

grow love

It's going to be a big year.

I've heard that from a lot of different people lately, people from all walks of life, from all over Earth.

We will probably be invited to a lot of change...from elections to climate change to who knows what.

All the more reason to know more and more and more some sense of love, to be fresh with it, as if a baby for the first time recognizing it.

One way our little circle of VITALITY shares love and grows love in the world is by offering donation-based opportunities for health, for love, for insight.

Tomorrow night we have our monthly evening...
45-minute Healing Touch Sessions for the Public
Tues/tomorrow, April 16 at 6 & 7 pm
$20 donation requested*
reply to this email to make your appt
very limited spots available
because we have limited practitioners

Resting on a table wearing your clothes while our volunteer-practitioners use their Healing Touch training to help you relax by gentle touch or, if you prefer, using their hands just above your body...it's wonderful.

Growing that well of love now in the calm of Spring could be important as the days and frenzies heat up.

Do you feel called to grow love in the world?

Brian Shircliff

PS And Thursday...
Bones for Life® Come-See...for Free!
Thurs, April 18 from 6 – 8pm
- RSVP by replying to this email! -

by Brian Shircliff

the pleasure of walking

We have had one beautiful Spring -- some say the best yet.

Are you out enjoying it? Walking among the still flowering trees? Touching or smelling the tulips?

Bones for Life has helped me and many all over the world to find gentle and easy ways through aches and pains so walking is pure pleasure.

Your whole world could open up!

Explore with Andrea Tutt and me twice this week...
Bones for Life® Come-See
tomorrow ! Sun, April 14 from 1 – 3pm
Thurs, April 18 from 6 – 8pm
and they're free!!!
- RSVP by replying to this email! -

You'll walk away with three easy-to-learn things you can do to make walking a pleasure -- and we'll even let you make a short one-minute video with your phone so you can remember it more easily.

Bloom with us this season!

Brian Shircliff

by Brian Shircliff

about to be eclipsed

All the wars, all the unhappinesses for millions of reasons, all the worries about elections, all the fears about what havoc our changes to the climate might wreak on us this year...

all of that and more is about to be eclipsed here in the Ohio River Valley and across a huge swath of North America by something much greater.

Of course, solar eclipses happen a lot on Earth. But rarely do they come to one's own neighborhood, I guess.

And they invite a deep reflection, don't they?

How often we forget that we take part in something much larger than we realize -- a few human beings on a small pitch of grass on a planet spinning around the Sun in an ever expanding Universe.

It's enough to make wars stop for a moment. It's enough to let go of sour thoughts about so-and-so. It's enough to forgive oneself for whatever silliness that was a big deal yesterday but now in the grander life of things is next to nothing.

I suppose every moment can be that -- an invitation to change course, to realize that what I'm doing or thinking doesn't have to be that way. Often my writings about YAHWEH and the wind are just that...I suspect the ancient prophets/ecstatics of the Bible were onto that kind of realization with their bordercrossing ways of life.

How flexible is your thinking?

Well, we have two more opportunities this week to invite new perspectives...

Lunchtime Healing Touch Sessions
tomorrow/Tuesday at 12 noon
$20 donation for a 45-minute experience of resting on a table
while a trained volunteer assists

Spring Retreat
this Saturday, April 13 from 10am - 2pm
gentle yoga, Healing Touch self-care, journaling,
lunch, & a slow and quiet Spring walk
$75 - registration closes this Wed at 6pm!

Claim your spots for each experience by replaying to this email!

What needs eclipsing in your life? Will you join the larger life of the Universe or continue to get caught in the webs of trifles?

A Spring-led life awaits you and me, all of us!

Brian Shircliff

image by Drew Rae, made available for free use on Pexels - grateful!

by Brian Shircliff

it's a gift to know

I've been traveling a bit the past few weeks and woke up with a sore neck the other day.

Shouldn't be surprised -- awkward seats, lugging a bunch of things up and down stairs, the hustle and bustle of all these other people trying to get places too, all that.

A decade ago I would've been a little panicked about a sore neck -- can I get into my chiropractor? maybe a massage would work? what happens if one of those doesn't work?

Like anyone else, I'm not a fan of being in pain.

But the other day I noticed my sore neck didn't panic me. I knew things I could do for myself, my toolkit of Bones for Life processes.

So I got on the floor and played with one process and then used that spiraling-to-stand process to get up and walked around to discover that my neck was 50% better. Great news! From just a few minutes of something.

Then I remembered another Bones for Life process that got me curious -- maybe that would resolve it?

I played with that process, one we do in standing, and voilà! Better!

It's a gift to know these things -- and you can too!

Why wait any longer? Why continue rushing off to a chiropractor or massage therapist or whomever and giving your power over to them when Bones for Life can help you discover ways to take care of yourself most of the time?

Are there times it's nice to have a massage or Healing Touch session or whatever? Of course! But if, with every ache or pain we have, we need to run off to someone else to take care of us...that way of proceeding seems to lack some maturity, doesn't it?

Maturity comes when we can take care of ourselves most of the time, right? When we discover we have a personal toolkit that we can adapt to ourselves, to the situation, to the moment...now that's living!

Is it time for you?
Bones for Life® Come-See
> tomorrow/Sun, April 7 from 10am – 12 noon <
Sun, April 14 from 1 – 3pm
Thurs, April 18 from 6 – 8pm
and they're free!!!
RSVP by replying to this email!

Are you ready to mature into full flowering bloom?

Brian Shircliff

* if you can't make it tomorrow but want to talk in person sooner than later, we have our new Healing Touch lunchtime sessions happening this Tuesday, April 9 at 12 noon. $20 donation for the 45-minute appointment. Claim your spot by replying to this email!

by Brian Shircliff

hope, possibilities

And with all that Autumn and Winter pruning, such beauty is possible.

What are your hopes and dreams for this new season?

Perhaps you'd like to explore them tonight with our Inner Journey journaling/contemplation/conversation circle?
Zoom Inner Journey journaling!
hosted by Penny
6:30pm ET - TONIGHT/Tuesday
all are welcome
by donation ($10 - 20)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86501049196?pwd=M09nenVwU3RPWUNsN3dZSUw4QXNQZz09
Meeting ID: 865 0104 9196
Passcode: 215933

And just keeping these Bones for Life® Come-See opportunities on your radar.

When I'm out and about and walking for pleasure or for exercise or simply to get somewhere, I watch people walk all the time.

Bones for Life helps so many people -- from people who exercise regularly for health or fun to Olympic athletes seeking peak performance to people who really struggle with walking.

How could it help so many people?

Bones for Life uses early human development movement patterns. Those moves are what built who you and I are today. And one's ability to walk is built upon those early moves.

To return to those moves in gentle and curiosity-led ways invites that innocence to shine through again -- and voilà -- you begin walking so fluidly and easily again.

That's the power of a human nervous system. That's the power and nature of one's neurons...the deepest aspects of yourself.

Explore with Andrea Tutt and me in April -- and imagine the possibilities of what your life could be like!

Wait another year and your aches and pains could be worse.
Bones for Life® Come-See
Sun, April 7 from 10am – 12 noon
Sun, April 14 from 1 – 3pm
Thurs, April 18 from 6 – 8pm
and they're free!!!
RSVP by replying to this email!

What are you doing that will bring your hopes and possibilities into full flowering bloom?

Brian Shircliff

by Brian Shircliff

spring

Did Winter prune you back a bit?

Or did you do some of your own pruning and now are readier for what some warmth might offer your deepened roots?

Wandering what you can grow to become?

Perhaps our Spring offerings will pique your interest...
Spring Retreat
Sat, April 13
10a - 2p ET
Gentle Yoga by Logan Probst
Mind Clearing by Helen Buswinka
Journaling Invitations by Tonia Smith
$72 for the experience
registration closes April 3 - very limited spots available
register by clicking here and paying $72
two vegan soups from La Soupe provided, bring something to share!

and another opportunity to share too...

Andrea Tutt and I have loved teaching Bones for Life® together through Future Life Now's very successful Zoom classes. And this Spring, Andrea and I are teaming up to offer some exciting IN-PERSON opportunities...Come-See if Bones for Life is right for you on any of these three times -- but you'd better register early!

Bones for Life® Come-See
Sun, April 7 from 10am – 12 noon
Sun, April 14 from 1 – 3pm
Thurs, April 18 from 6 – 8pm
and they're free!!!
RSVP by texting me at 513.300.5174

I have a lot to share about why I think Bones for Life is the best movement offering out there...save that for the next time.

Have a great weekend! Spring!

Brian Shircliff

* our next drop-in class is this Tuesday's Zoom Inner Journey journaling at 6:30pm! more details soon

by Brian Shircliff

poem

Our Inner Journey circle has given a number of poets and creators an opportunity to try out, to air out new ideas.

It is something to put such sound and vibration and pause into the air with a poem.

Friends from our circle, Erin Crowley and Evan Underbrink, will have their books coming out here very soon. They would so appreciate your support with your pre-order.

Evan Underbrink's first book Milford was a wondeful offering for our world...and wait until you read his second book Coracle Days. We need 75 friends to pre-order a copy or two to give this book life -- and do that by the end of today and you get your name in the book as a supporter, a patron/matron, a VATRON as we call it.

order Evan's book here: https://vitalitybuzz.org/shop/coracle-days/

Erin Crowley's innerfruit is a beautiful testimony to growing into life. While Erin's book has plenty of pre-orders to get us close to printing it, last call to get your name in the book as a VATRON. You all might remember that Erin is a much loved yoga teacher, a graduate of our Yoga/Healing Touch Internship - she shines!

order Erin's book here: https://vitalitybuzz.org/shop/innerfruit/

It's easy to forget how important poetry and song is to human life on the planet. What song or phrase, what wisp of poetry you're humming or whispering, is already bringing you joy today?

And will I see you here tomorrow at...?

Abundance & Success
from the perspective
of Family Constellations
led by Paula Dunson tomorrow/Friday, March 8 at 10am
for a pay-what-you-can-donation to VITALITY!
RSVP to me by call/text 513.300.5174
2 spots left so claim your seat early!

Brian Shircliff

by Brian Shircliff

touch

It is quite something to be touched. Especially in a way that demonstrates and feels like care.

It's way more than a touch then. A touch like this can remind us we are whole, that you are whole and I am whole.

Pure gift.

Healing Touch involves touch, though we can receive benefits even when the practitioner works in the space just above one's body. That might seem strange, right? Healing Touch without touch and someone can still get benefit?

And it might tip us off to some sense of our map of the Universe could be enlarged or more detailed. I used to think things like Healing Touch were ridiculous...until a tai chi teacher told me that we could touch someone or even send someone love/energy from a distance.

"Oh, like prayer!" I thought.

Huh. My old map of what I thought life was needed to be expanded or more detailed based on the idea from my tai chi teacher. And that prayer could be more than reciting someone else's words and hoping for the best.

And my map continues to grow, and I hope yours does too! Our world needs us, our growth.

Many of you have come in and rested on our Healing Touch tables and allowed a trained practitioner or two to work with you, all of it touching safe places on your fully clothed body and only with your permission, all of it with you as the participant in charge of the session.

We welcome you to our monthly evening sessions...for your own healing/wholing or simply to learn more about all that Healing Touch offers....
Healing Touch Sessions for the Public
$20 donation for 45-minutes
tomorrow/Tuesday at 6 & 7pm...claim your spot by replying to this email

We have one session left at 6pm and one session available at 7pm. Claim yours now! And know we are working hard to expand our offerings too to some daytime possibilities.

What might your life look and sound and feel like with a little Healing Touch 'care' and an invitation to a larger and maybe even more nuanced map of all that is?

Brian Shircliff

by Brian Shircliff