small business, big moves
Things are in full bloom at VITALITY!
And so can you be...
Sign up for the next Bones for Life® series which begins Tuesday!
From Seriously Stressed & Sore...
to Perfectly Patient & Poised!
a Bones for Life® series hosted by Brian Shircliff
four Tuesdays, each from 10:30 - 11:45am ET
Nov 28 + Dec 5, 12, 19
RSVP required -- 8 participants welcomed in our new space
so reply to this email to guarantee your spot
$81 for the series payable by clicking here
So many newcomers to Bones for Life® have shared with me how amazed they are by the relaxation, awakening, peace of mind, and vitality they found in their bodies from a single session.
And on this Small Business Saturday, check out another way you can support our holistic mission...
We published two beautiful children's books this year:
Adventures of Hope - click here to discover more
Rodney the Rhino - click here to discover more
Great gifts for little ones and adults too! Or consider purchasing our three kids-book-bundle, which includes Mike Eck and Claire Long's With You in Our Dreams!
The holistic vision is an important one during these times when things often seem so fractured by war, by politics, even by medical models that want to divide us into a bunch of parts.
Staying with the vision that it's all WHOLE...now that's a vision that could bloom any time of year!
Bloom with us into delight!
Brian Shircliff
make your moves
Last week we welcomed 25 people from around the world -- Australia, Great Britain, Japan, Norway, all over the US -- to Cincinnati for the Bones for Life® Teacher Training sponsored by Future Life Now...the group who certified me about 8-9 years ago. We convened at Hueston Woods, where I captured this amazing sunset below.
I got to meet each one of these 25 people via Zoom to share Bones for Life® the past few years and what a gift to get to know them in person.
They are brilliant teachers sharing this brilliant work. Each week I teach on Zoom or in person, I become more and more amazed at what Bones for Life® makes possible in making bigger moves in life.
What moves do you want to make? Want to walk without pain? Hike again? Hit the golf ball further and straighter with ease? Play pickle ball? Be able to get up and down from the floor with ease to play with your kids or grandkids?
Bones for Life® offers gentle and easy processes through which to upgrade your ability to do just about anything with more ease on this gravity-rich planet. I don't usually offer drop-in classes for Bones for Life®, though tomorrow I'm offering one for you to discover if it's right for you to consider joining the next series of classes:
Bones for Life® drop-in sessions
hosted by Brian Shircliff
tomorrow/Tues, Nov 14
Fri, Nov 24
10:30 - 11:45am ET
RSVP required -- very limited spots in our new space
so reply to this email to guarantee your spot
$20 donation*
And remember too that our monthly in-person journaling is also...
TOMORROW/Tuesday
Inner Journey with Helen Buswinka
6:30pm (finish by 8pm)
by donation: $10 - 20 suggested*, all welcome
We have all the materials you'll need, just bring you and your curiosity! Zero experience required...you're likely to feel at home whether you are beginner or a seasoned writer/contemplative.
How important is it that we make moves toward health? Look ahead in your life -- one year from now, five years from now -- about what healthy habits might help you to bloom into even more health and vitality...Bones for Life® and journaling might be just what you need.
Make your moves before the sun goes down again...
Brian Shircliff
* donations for our drop-in programs help us pay our rent, and we know $10 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!
there's a lot of hurt
It's been gorgeous here in the Ohio River Valley.
But not everywhere on the planet, I know. Our world is a harsh and tragic place for many of our fellow humans.
What can we do?
There are huge powers at play, of course. There are systems of the-way-it-is that we've inherited that make little sense now, if they ever did. And you and I alone seem so small in these massive and often unkind systems, for sure.
But what would happen if more and more of us began standing taller, continued discovering more and easier ways to be on the planet, began standing more and more every day in our authenticity, began sharing that vision for human life?
It is what we do in Bones for Life®. And it's THE BEST movement system and philosophy I've found yet...and I've gone seeking for decades.
Why do I think it's the best...better than yoga, better than my beloved tai chi, better than all my shenanigans at the gym and in the pool?
Because it stimulates your own very deep intelligence used for standing and walking and improves those systemic movement patterns in deep and gentle ways that make sense to nervous systems on this gravity-rich planet.
Bones for Life® has improved my yoga/meditation, my tai chi, my weightlifting, my swimming streamline, my golf...and has definitely made my walking a pleasure.
Bones for Life® invites curiosity, play, wonder...and so much of what might be needed to begin a revolution of tenderness, of self-love and love for others on this amazing planet Earth.
If we stood tall and looked into each other's eyes more often, would life on this planet would be much more interesting?
And in that standing tall with ease and authenticity, might we all discover together new ways that make more sense for equally cherishing the lives of our neighbors on this amazing planet Earth?
We have three drop-in opportunities this month to check out Bones for Life® before our next series begins at the end of this month...hope you'll consider exploring with us.
Bones for Life® drop-in sessions
hosted by Brian Shircliff
this Wed, Nov 8
Tues, Nov 14
Fri, Nov 24
all of them from 10:30 - 11:45am ET
RSVP required -- very limited spots in our new space
so reply to this email to guarantee your spot
$20 donation*
What might your life and mine look and sound and feel like if we knew better our own standing tall with ease, knew better our own authentic voices?
Sometimes it's the slightest difference that makes the biggest difference...that welcomes an entire phase transition....
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!
how do you want to move?
How would you like to move?
What are the ways you'd like to move that have become difficult?
Well, Bones for Life® could have the remedy for you to move in the ways you'd like no matter your age.
Why?
It's blends stability and flexibility and allows your super-intelligent nervous system to notice the differences between the two and how much of one is needed than the other...so much of this happening beneath your day-to-day noticing.
For instance, do you think about what percentage of flexibility and what percentage of stability are needed through your whole body to stand up from a chair?
Your deepest neurons in your nervous system are figuring that out -- you are figuring that out at a very deep level.
Bones for Life® gives you experiences that speak that language, that speak to that level of your nervous system in ways that yoga and even my favorite tai chi do not.
Bones for Life® is steeped in developmental patterns...all the moves we made at such a young age to move from helplessness to rolling to creeping to crawling to climbing to standing and walking. You created your nervous system with every one of these moves. And you can continue to create your nervous system through something like Bones for Life®.
Curious? Want to move how you want to move?
Consider joining us tomorrow/Tuesday...we have 2 more spots available if you register asap!
my next Bones for Life® series
5 total sessions: Oct 3, 10, 17, 24, 31…Tuesdays from 10:30 - 11:45am EDT
class size limited to 8 people!
register: $101 for the series payable by clicking here
Reach out if you want to chat about how Bones for Life® might help you to do all you want to do with your life. Give yourself a pleasant surprise!
Brian Shircliff
sweet new places
With the weather gently changing here in the Ohio River Valley, are you being invited to discover new places to hang out this beautiful Autumn?
I feel that nudge. And I noticed two of my little friends were also finding that on this morning's dewey goldenrod. Notice the adorable ways they get comfortable here in the photo.
We have three new opportunities this week to dive in and discover goodness and ease for yourself...
my next Bones for Life® series
5 total sessions: Oct 3, 10, 17, 24, 31…Tuesdays from 10:30 - 11:45am
class size limited to 8 people!
register: $101 for the series payable by clicking here
Learn Healing Touch for yourself or your family…
this session will focus on headache-relief & stress-relief
Saturday, Oct 7 from 10am - 12:30pm, hosted by Helen Buswinka & Brian Shircliff
this little taste of Healing Touch offered for a $25 donation
RSVP required by Monday 10/2 at midnight to this email
Urban Thrive Festival TODAY!
I'll be offering some free tastes of yoga & Bones for Life
2 - 6pm
details here
Where we hang out shapes our whole experience of the world and one's own self. May we all discover golden possibilities and embrace them!
Brian Shircliff
who heals?
No one can heal you.
You are already whole.
Someone wise once told me, "Anyone who says they can heal you -- might be best to smile and run. Or at least walk away quickly."
But anyone or anything who reminds you and me that we are whole…that person or thing is well worth their salt. And then some!
And that’s what we do at VITALITY. We offer circles where people can discover the resources within one's own self for what is needed.
That's powerful!
Tomorrow/Tuesday night we host our first Zoom Inner Journey of the new Autumn season, Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere anyway.
Can you feel the new possibilities in the air? Well, come write about them, meditate/contemplate about them, draw about them, talk about them, let them swirl a bit within you and kick up the leaves in playful ways!
Zoom Inner Journey
hosted by Penny Costilla
Tuesday, Sept 26
6:30pm EDT
offered by donation...$10-20 suggested
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86501049196?pwd=M09nenVwU3RPWUNsN3dZSUw4QXNQZz09
Meeting ID: 865 0104 9196
Passcode: 215933
And we're also looking forward to another very special opportunity too...with the registration date fast approaching:
Learn Healing Touch for yourself or your family…
this session will focus on headache-relief & stress-relief
Saturday, Oct 7 from 10am - 12:30pm, hosted by Helen Buswinka & Brian Shircliff
this little taste of Healing Touch offered for a $25 donation, RSVP required by 9/30
The leaves inspire all kinds of possibilities and meanings. May we be wise to notice their teachings, their friendship.
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!
a strange and wonderful universe
What if the Universe were conspiring with you? Pulling you like a thread toward some future of your dreams?
When we gather in our Bengston 'Cycling' Circle at VITALITY we take time to think about things we want to happen in our lives.
Each one of us builds a list privately -- not to be shared.
And then we do something in our imagination with those things we want on our list...what we call 'cycling.' No bikes needed!
It's all in the imagination and it has landed dream jobs and homes and vacations and relationships and healthy outcomes. Cancers can go into remission and never return, illnesses often disappear.
It's strange.
Well, the universe is strange sometimes. If you and I pay attention, it's strange most of the time. And wonderful.
Sometimes it's we humans who can get in the way of the thread pulling us toward the future of our dreams. We are the ones who need to cast the hook and line out there and let the universe take care of drawing us to it, toward the life of our choosing.
Maybe the Bengston Cycling Group can help you...
Bengston 'Cycling' Healing-Circle/Party
tomorrow/Thurs, Sept 21
RSVP required - by donation, $10 - $20 suggested
come at 6:30pm EDT if you're new to Bengston
come at 7:15pm EDT if you're ready to 'cycle' Bengtson-style (we'll wrap up by 8:30)
791 E McMillan St, Cincinnati, OH 45206, USA
What is the future toward which you'd like to be pulled so lovingly?
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!
stand out
Our space is feeling more and more like our home as we return to more and more in-person opportunities and people share their presence and voices in our space.
We are grateful!
Two great opportunities this week...
Healing Touch sessions for $20
come for a 45-minute Healing Touch session at 6 or 7pm EDT register by calling/texting Brian at 513.300.5174
or reply to this email
791 E McMillan St, Cincinnati, OH 45206, USA
You might be surprised just how relaxed and rejuvenated you can become through Healing Touch...click here to learn more.
And we open our Bengston Circle this Thursday too...details in the flier below and I'll share more soon.
Come, discover all that your life can be! Stand out...be outstanding!
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!
the circle opens today
We are so glad so many of you could join us as we opened our doors for the Open House and 13th Anniversary Party!
Today our circle opens a little wider with our first in-person Inner Journey journaling-contemplation-conversation group...
TONIGHT/Tuesday
Inner Journey with Helen Buswinka
6:30pm (finish by 8pm)
791 E McMillan St, Cincinnati, OH 45206
by donation: $10 - 20 suggested*, all welcome
We have all the materials you'll need, just bring you and your curiosity!
As the breeze brings us Autumn, as the Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky air cools with the rain and leaves begin their tumbling nature, what might show up for you on the page?
The less experience you have with journaling/writing, often the more wonderful the insights. Perhaps some insight will show up in your writing that has been waiting for you to discover? Some new star by which to navigate? Just by doodling on the page even...!
Come, be delighted!
Brian Shircliff
* donations for our drop-in programs help us pay our rent, and we know $10 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!
we are 13 today and welcome you!
Thanks for strolling down memory lane with us this week...sometimes the best way to an inner revolution is indeed to revolve back to our roots and wonder about the horizon calling our name to more and more life, goodness.
Maybe you're planning on joining Mary Duennes and friends for their Saturday Tai Chi via Zoom from 9:00 - 9:30am EDT? It's a such a brilliant experience, at every age.
We are 13 today and open the doors wide for you at our Open House...
Saturday, Sept 9
2 - 4 pm EDT
791 E McMillan St, Cincinnati, OH 45206
Happy 13th! Come buy a painting as a gift to yourself!
Brian Shircliff
