gleaning?
VITALITY-friend and co-founder Mike Eck had a dream to begin gleaning in the Cincinnati area.
What's gleaning?
Well, join us tonight and find out!
Monday, Oct 3
7 pm EDT
in-person at Bellarmine Chapel or via Zoom
free registration by clicking here
Imagine thousands and thousands of pounds of local, farm-fresh food being harvested by volunteers and driven to soup-kitchens and food pantries and La Soupe, and now nourishing people with some of the best food on the planet. Often without those volunteers, those thousands of pounds of food go to waste.
Thanks to Mike's vision, gleaning was begun just a few years ago in Cincinnati and now VITALITY-friend Sue Plummer has a full-time position organizing tri-state volunteers and our yoga-friend Fran helps out too, both of them paid by the Society of St. Andrew, the national gleaning network. You can reach out to Sue through the website to get involved!
And at tonight's talk you can also hear from the great Mary Laymon, a longtime friend of VITALITY. Many of our yoga-grads have shared yoga and gardening at her beautiful Tikkun Farm.
What wonders can come about among a circle of friends!
Brian Shircliff
image below of Sue Plummer (right) and Stephen Dienger of Our Harvest Cooperative who generously allows volunteers to glean their farms
encore!
Three encores!
Firs encore...our 12th anniversary party was scrumptious in every way -- lovely Autumn weather, wonderful friends, fun remembering, and the food! My goodness! Thanks to Bones for Life friend Lindsay Wilson for capturing this image of the cake!
Second encore...today is the last free day of the Feldenkrais Summit -- you can experience anything from the past 10 days for free! Catch the stories about Moshe yesterday? Oh goodness -- so, so beautiful. You won't want to miss any of them. Register here to experience it all:
https://vitality--futurelifenow.thrivecart.com/2022-unlimited-digital-access-mbfb-oto/
VITALITY is an affiliate for this event. If you register with this link above and purchase the upgrade at some point, VITALITY may be paid a small commission for referring you.
Third encore...tonight/Tuesday is our Inner Journey journaling/meditation at 6:30 pm EDT...
come by Zoom or in-person in Walnut Hills
led by the great Penny Costilla
$10 donation welcome
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86501049196?pwd=M09nenVwU3RPWUNsN3dZSUw4QXNQZz09
Meeting ID: 865 0104 9196
Passcode: 215933
What in your life is begging for you to ecstatically bellow out ENCORE! ENCORE! ENCORE! to a Universe that wants to give it?
There's more, friends, there's more -- and in a circle, we celebrate the invitation to it and the receiving of it, of all that each of us wants to experience in this life.
Brian Shircliff
being 12
What goodnesses do you remember when you were 12?
This month, our VITALITY circle celebrates being 12 years old/young.
It's been an incredible journey of friends. And in many ways, we're just getting started...
What were you like when you were 12?
Two opportunities to wonder about that...
VITALITY's 12th anniversary potluck-party
this Sun, Sept 25 at 12:30pm EDT
at Gorman Heritage Farm's Outdoor Pavilion (rain or shine!)
10052 Reading Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45241
all are welcome!
Gorman requests no balloons please
(for their animals' health)
Consider bringing a photo of yourself when you were 12, or share a memory!
At 12:30 we'll mingle and eat. At 1:30 we'll invite everyone into a larger circle to share memories and finish by 2:30. Weather looks lovely, so let's luxuriate in this new season together!
and...
this Tuesday night is our next Inner Journey journaling/meditation...
Inner Journey
Tues, Sept 27 at 6:30 pm EDT
come by Zoom or in-person in Walnut Hills
led by the great Penny Costilla
$10 donation welcome
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86501049196?pwd=M09nenVwU3RPWUNsN3dZSUw4QXNQZz09
Meeting ID: 865 0104 9196
Passcode: 215933
Of course at Inner Journey we can write/draw/contemplate about anything we want to, anything that's interesting for each one of us....though maybe recalling something of being 12 might offer a gift!
Brian Shircliff
PS...Enjoying the Feldenkrais Awareness Summit? https://vitality--futurelifenow.thrivecart.com/2022-unlimited-digital-access-mbfb-oto/ Just past the halfway point and plenty still to enjoy. VITALITY is an affiliate for this event. If you register with this link above and purchase the upgrade at some point, VITALITY may be paid a small commission for referring you. I share this incredible event because it is an incredible opportunity to grow and learn — and help VITALITY to grow too! Please share it with friends too!
morning sounds...TODAY's the day!
The crickets sing me to sleep at night and sing me into my mornings.
I arose this morning with their sound and wanted immediately to get out there with them, in these cooler mornings that late summer bring.
But I felt kind of twisted and crunched. Must have slept kind of funny with that wild dream I had. Hmmm. What could I do to make that walk feel better?
Well, I remembered there were some short, free Feldenkrais lessons available through this week's Move Better Feel Better Summit so I tried one and 15 minutes later -- voilà -- I stood up so tall and felt so much better.
Out I went to join the sounds of the crickets and explore what this new day in the Great Outdoors might offer me...and what I might offer this day.
Hope you've registered for the Move Better Feel Better Summit -- it's free, it's online, it's a wonderful way to remember that the Earth is round and massively large and at the same time small in this internet age where we can Zoom with so many all around our world.
I'll be on with Lavinia Plonka and Violet van Hees TODAY at 6pm EDT as we enjoy a LIVE conversation about the Great Outdoors and Feldenkrais and many things! Hope you'll join us:
https://vitality--futurelifenow.thrivecart.com/2022-unlimited-digital-access-mbfb-oto/
And hope you get a taste of the forest tea Duncan is offering today with the Summit!
Brian Shircliff
PS...save the date for VITALITY's 12th anniversary potluck-party on Sun, Sept 25 at 12:30pm at Gorman Farm! More details coming :)
And another PS...I'm thrilled to be included with the Summit this year as you'll see through the images below. VITALITY is an affiliate for this event. If you register with the link above and purchase the upgrade at some point, VITALITY may be paid a small commission for referring you. I share this incredible event because it is an incredible opportunity to grow and learn — and help VITALITY to grow too! Please share it with friends too!
that sheet thing...global and local!
Did you enjoy how a sheet or towel could revolutionize your ability to walk with more ease, confidence, even with a little swagger or attitude in your step?
If you missed it, here's your chance for a couple more days to try out that movement exploration from Bones for Life before it disappears when the Summit begins THURSDAY -- woot woot!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uH7P8YrkzA
We had over 400 people join us LIVE from around the world!
It's an example of VITALITY reaching our circle around the world.
At the same time we have this knowledge that things that are local are important too...our Inner Journey journaling experiences led by Penny Costilla are a great example.
Perhaps you feel called to join us for our next Inner Journey journaling gathering...
this Tues, Sept 13
6:30pm
and you have the luxury to join us in person at our Walnut Hills space OR via Zoom:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86501049196?pwd=M09nenVwU3RPWUNsN3dZSUw4QXNQZz09
Meeting ID: 865 0104 9196
Passcode: 215933
RSVP is appreciated! $10 donation welcomed!
Do you need to be an extremely good writer to participate?
Nah! Most of us just write for fun or draw or paint or even simply sit and contemplate by watching the paint dry. All are very welcome!
What might show up on the sheet for you?
Brian Shircliff
PS...save the date for VITALITY's 12th anniversary potluck-party on Sun, Sept 25 at 12:30pm at Gorman Farm! More details coming :)
And another PS...Sign up for the Move Better, Feel Better event that kicks off Sept 15! It's free, just click here: https://vitality--futurelifenow.thrivecart.com/2022-unlimited-digital-access-mbfb-oto/ I'm thrilled to be included with the Summit this year as you'll see through the images below. VITALITY is an affiliate for this event. If you purchase the upgrade at some point, VITALITY may be paid a small commission for referring you. I share this incredible event because it is an incredible opportunity to grow and learn — and help VITALITY to grow too! Please share it with friends too!
improve your walking TODAY with a sheet!
Bring a bedsheet, a bath towel, or a Bones for Life wrap and let's discover if your walking, your breathing, and your whole life could improve with such a simple thing!
a free Bones for Life pop-up event
sponsored by Future Life Now,
creators of the Move Better, Feel Better Summit!
TODAY, Sept 8
10 am EDT
use this Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87395500747?pwd=RWI2dHptL0FPUmViQnFDOE9hOHM0UT09
Meeting ID: 873 9550 0747
Passcode: 721702
This pop-up event replaces the usual 11am Thursday class today, and today's recording will be made available for just a few days before the Summit begins Sept 15 so catch it while you can :)
Improve your walking and the whole world grows!
Brian Shircliff
PS...save the date for VITALITY's 12th anniversary potluck-party on Sun, Sept 25 at 12:30pm at Gorman Farm! More details coming :)
And another PS...Sign up for the Move Better, Feel Better event that kicks off Sept 15! It's free, just click here: https://vitality--futurelifenow.thrivecart.com/2022-unlimited-digital-access-mbfb-oto/ I'm thrilled to be included with the Summit this year as you'll see through the images below. VITALITY is an affiliate for this event. If you purchase the upgrade at some point, VITALITY may be paid a small commission for referring you. I share this incredible event because it is an incredible opportunity to grow and learn — and help VITALITY to grow too! Please share it with friends too!
circles and spirals are different...
Circles and spirals.
In 2012, I visited by family’s homeland in Ireland, my first time. I circled and spiraled through Galway and something within me knew the town as if I’d been there before…even though it was my first visit.
Circling through this land spiraled forth a new sense of life within me. I was changed.
These photos of Knowth I took on that trip reveal a 5000-year old human interest in circles and spirals. You might recall that in Bones for Life we play quite a bit with spirals…after all our bones spiral and our very DNA is a spiral…the deepest nature of who we are.
Everything we offer at VITALITY has the circle of gathered friends in mind. It’s a different way of proceeding when every voice is invited, where we sit in the quiet together and breathe and wonder and discover what wants to be born.
Such a thing only happens in circles, much different from sage-on-the-stage and teacher-student models. When we are all learners and discoverers, something special happens.
Perhaps you’d like to explore how our circle might help you spiral more authentically onto your path…
Inner Journey
journaling…meditation…conversation
led by Penny Costilla
tomorrow/Wednesday, 8/17
7pm, via Zoom
$10 donation requested
Penny will gather us for awhile in our Zoom-circle and then there will be time on our own to write, paint, draw, compose, dance, stare at the wall and watch the paint dry. It's always a lovely and inspiring time.
What might show up for you…to spiral you into ever richer life?
Brian Shircliff
PS...did you sign up for the Move Better, Feel Better event that kicks off Sept 15? It's free, just click here: https://vitality--futurelifenow.thrivecart.com/2022-unlimited-digital-access-mbfb-oto/ VITALITY is an affiliate for this event. If you purchase the upgrade at some point, VITALITY may be paid a small commission for referring you. I share this incredible event because it is an incredible opportunity to grow and learn — and help VITALITY to grow too! Please share it with friends too!
Move Better, Feel Better is coming soon!
I am incredibly excited to announce that I’ll be a panelist for September’s Move Better, Feel Better Summit: Feldenkrais® Awareness 2022 on the third day, Sept 17!! And VITALITY-friend & inspiring author Krista Powers is a speaker!!
This event will help you recognize the roots and causes of anxiety, find new ways to experience the world around you, unleash creativity and ease in your body, bump your happiness with exhilarating movements and so much more.
It’s a 10-day virtual event featuring 3-4 talks each day with 53 empowering expert speakers and will cover new and niche topics such as:
- Sexuality and how it affects self-image
- Tai-chi for arthritis taught by a world-renowned expert
- Reducing anxiety and increasing freedom within Feldenkrais
- Open the great outdoors through somatic explorations like kayaking, hiking, cycling and forest bathing -- where I'll be a panelist!
- Feldenkrais and letter writing, gardening and fiber arts
It’s a jam-packed event that’ll be bursting at the seams with information - and it’s 100% free to attend!
Plus, each day's replays will be available for 48 hours after the event for you to catch up and complete on your own time (if you’d prefer).
If you’d like to support this cause and check out this 10-day event, starting September 15th,
just click here: https://vitality--futurelifenow.thrivecart.com/2022-unlimited-digital-access-mbfb-oto/
Life changing goodness!
Brian Shircliff
"I would like to thank you, deeply! for this summit which has been a beautiful, wonderful discovery for me. Thanks for your way of guiding it, for your wisdom, your listening, and for your rich questions and exchanges in each of the tracks … I have already felt subtle changes or acuity in perception; not only physical but also personal, and cognitive. Some kind of shift in my way of being and engaging within reality." - Ana
What will you discover this September?
Note: VITALITY is an affiliate for this event. If you purchase the upgrade at some point, VITALITY may be paid a small commission for referring you. I share this incredible event because it is an incredible opportunity to grow and learn — and help VITALITY to grow too! Please share it with friends too!
sensing life's goodness
We're in the midst of a light rainstorm as I write this. It's lovely, and thankfully easing the heat and thankfully at a rate that the ground can more easily absorb, much different from what our neighbors have been experiencing the past couple of weeks. Our neighbors have been on my mind so much these days. I sense them, even from a distance. Maybe you too? It calls me back to helping with the flood recovery in Newtown in 1997. Memories, textures of sensing.
This morning, I heard the sound and had to go out into it, to be surrounded by that sound, to feel it on my skin, this sound.
My farmer friends tell me that rainwater is better for plants than hosewater -- that each one nourishes a plant much differently. Both feel wet to me, so that makes me curious. What am I missing? Am I really sensing all that I can?
The rainwater this morning felt delicious, unpredictable -- it came at different rates than my shower. Maybe that's something of what these farmers mean. Maybe a different temperature too?
Maybe there's more to sensing the goodnesses of this life than I think I know.
And the other day, these photos above reminding me, these flowers and their precise shadows -- intriguing to me, these different ways of seeing.
We have three (re)new(ing) opportunities coming up, opportunities that invite new ways of sensing...
12:15 Sit-and-Breathe
wherever you are at 12:15pm EST join in a little sit-and-breathe and sense...and know neighbors all over the world are doing the same, whether from our circle or other circles, monastic and more...
it's not led, it's not on Zoom, though every now and then you might catch one of us on facebook LIVE inviting you and more and more to join...
once VITALITY has a permanent space again, we'll welcome people into our space for this too!
what will your life look and feel and sound like if you sit for a few minutes every day and simply feel the lifeforce coming and going so dependably?
busy at 12:15? just sit a few minutes before or after and know others are joining you whenever and wherever we all are, all over the planet, all through the Universe, the One-Verse.
Healing Touch Level 1
Mary Duennes and Stephanie Beck Borden are tag-teaming this brilliant class again, Sept 10-11...we have only 8 spots, so don't delay...click here for details.
Evan celebrates Milford
Poet Evan Underbrink celebrates his new book with friends from around the world on Sat, Aug 13 at 4pm EST. All are welcome!
During his one-year stay at the Jesuit Spiritual Center in Milford, Evan wrote about a poem a day. Fascinating what unwinds within him as he senses more deeply his life in contemplation. What might he inspire within you?
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85918387057?pwd=T1c3cEpBRDRFMzdDdGpYTnFiSlJFQT09
Meeting ID: 859 1838 7057
Passcode: 140332
And how about you? Tell me what you're sensing, what you're discovering...it might be precisely what our human world needs to grow on this planet Earth together! Let me into even more of life's goodnesses.
Brian Shircliff
our shelf is growing!
A friend asked me recently why we've gone into publishing with VITALITY.
It's a great question!
Lots of big names get a lot of attention in our media outlets of all sorts -- but rarely circles of people. Sometimes circles could be wiser than celebrities. :)
And what has sprung out of our circle the past few years is quite extraordinary. Our hearts are full of loving ideas...our shelf is filling and will soon welcome more books by year's end.
We hope you'll consider joining us to celebrate...
Sunday, July 17
12:30 - 2:30pm
potluck * drinks provided
Gorman Heritage Farm Pavilion
all are welcome * rain or shine
Meet a new friend, reconnect with a forever friend. Marinate in conversation and delicious food. Laugh, cry, look into someone's eyes. Let's discover what the life-giving wind does with us when we circle up in person again in a couple Sundays.
Who knows? Maybe an idea will come for you that needs to be offered to the larger world through our growing shelf!
Brian Shircliff
