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with 21st September each year. They say: “If you haven’t already, please plan how you will be marking Peace Day and help us bring about the largest ever gathering of individuals in the name of peace, what we hope will be the largest global reduction of violence ever recorded on one day – a world record. Help us raise awareness and continue to build on the incredible support gathered so far, by encouraging others to sign up to Global Truce 2012 on the Peace One Day website and on our social media spaces”.
For ideas and inspiration for organising events in your area see:
http://peaceoneday.org
Watch the clinic's Facebook page for progress towards World Peace Day. Cathy Towers Runs Exeter Mind and Body Clinic and has been nick-named 'Stress-Buster' because of her work with posture and Zero Balancing.
www.exetermindandbody.com
cathy.mindandbody@gmail.com 07989 564660 or 01395 278437
INTRODUCTION TO LIVING TANTRA
Relationship expert and intimacy coach, Jan Day, has a signature week long workshop every Easter called Living Tantra 1 which is challenging, nourishing and sexually healing. I did it six years ago and it was the most exciting workshop that I'd ever done because it was so full and so expansive. I felt it put me in contact with a richer way of living on all levels – spiritual, sexual, physical, emotional and societal. Recently, Jan has decided to create a two day Intro To Living Tantra so that newcomers can have a introductory workshop all to themselves.
“I do have other introductory courses,” she explains, “like Inviting Intimacy and Being In Love but they focus more on relating and feeling whereas Intro To Living Tantra will home in specifically on how do I feel about myself as a woman or a man. It will contain a lot of boundary work because it's so important in tantra to know to say 'yes' when you mean 'yes'
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and 'no' when you mean 'no'.We will work with various exercises, some including touch, to explore these
boundaries.This weekend, like the other workshops I offers, is created so that participants open up to what they are really feeling and coming alive in their bodies, but it's particular focus is sexuality.”
At what time in their life journeys do people find themselves being attracted to these courses? “Typically people will be feeling dissatisfied with their lives as they are,” she explains, “they want to experience more of their own aliveness and also more of their spiritual nature. They are disillusioned with consumerism and the world of work, and they want to find out what else there is out there. Often until people are in their 30s, they are still caught up searching for fulfilment in success and achievement in material ways or at work, but there comes a time when they want more meaning and
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