Spirit Creative Services Inc.
Peace Nouvella
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Spring 2014 Newsletter
Volume #139: 3-14 © March 2014
Newsletter © March 2014
* Announcements: Special offers and events preview * Peace Nouvella™ Message: Peace Pointers™ and letter to readers * Consulting Services and Products: Corporate Consulting: Creative Arts, Healing Arts and Performing Arts Services, Products and Trainings Individual and Group Consultations: Creative Arts and Healing Arts Services and Trainings * Events and Courses: Weekly, Monthly, Yearly Events and Educational Programs
ANNOUNCEMENTS Peace Nouvella™ Courses: Spring - Summer 2014
The Spring 2014 schedule includes the new CREATIVE ARTS SALON on Saturday, April 5, 2014, 1:00pm - 3:30pm. This program offers an opportunity for anyone interested in the creative arts to come together to share their artistic endeavors with others. Students who have taken any of the following courses I offer are invited to attend: Children's Book Illustration & Design Levels 1-2, Creative Journaling, Peace Nouvella Players™, Creative Arts as Healing Arts, Creativity Intuition and Inner Guidance plus the various visual arts media courses I teach. Bring creative projects with you for instructional feedback, collaborative interaction, insight and inspiration. All forms of creative expression are welcome including visual arts, writing, journaling, storytelling, music, dance, and theater projects. Discussion, feedback and interaction will be based on the interests of those attending.
The next Peace Nouvella™ Introductory course will be held on Saturday, April 26, 2014. The Peace Nouvella™ full course of study includes creative arts, healing arts and performing arts courses as a comprehensive program. These include the Inner Peace Treaty™, Peace Pulse™ and Peace Nouvella Players™ educational programs. Visit the Programs webpage for additional courses and descriptions. Please remember to register at least a week in advance for all courses. The yearly Inner Peace Treaty Anniversary Event (16th) will be on Saturday, June 21, 2014 as a Program and Pot Luck Social. This is a cosponsored by Spirit Creative Services Inc. (consulting business) and the American Healing Arts Alliance Inc. (AHAA non-profit). Details to follow in the next newsletter.
Peace Nouvella™ Sessions This quarter's special offer is a free one hour individual consultation for the first two callers within 24 hours of receiving this newsletter. All free sessions need to be scheduled within 30 days of the offer. Consultations can include an: individual instruction, intuitive guidance, life purpose coaching, subtle energy field scan and assessment and the Peace Pulse™ subtle energy hands healing. Individual and Group Consultations can be in-person, over the phone at (410) 956-1117, email or video Skype.
A Course in Miracles: ACIM-AHAA study group, 1st & 3rd, Sundays, 2-3:30pm. The ACIM book study group meets as a healing circle, miracles sharing and support for self-study of the book A Course in Miracles. See Events for details. Consulting Services: Consulting services links to become familiar with are under these headings: Healing Arts, Creative Arts, and Performing Arts Detailed descriptions and registration information can be found on the Programs webpage. All readers are encouraged to visit the full website at: www.spiritcreativeservices.com.
Discounted Resort Stays We still have an abundance of timeshare resort weeks and no time to use them ourselves. These resort stays can be booked at numerous locations in the US and international at destinations around the world. You can make reservations to use one or multiple weeks as short or long stays. Email for details at info@spiritcreativeservices.com or call (410) 956-1117.
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PEACE NOUVELLA™ MESSAGE
Peace Pointer
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In the spirit of the first principle of miracles, “All expressions of love are maximal” (A Course in Miracles T-1.I.1:4)….it does not matter how superficial or significant an encounter is, the content of love remains the same, gently adapting to the form appropriate to the circumstance. This consistency of love is the hallmark of true heroes, and is what distinguishes them from those whose fear still blocks the free flow of love to all things of the world, animate or inanimate, large or small, significant or insignificant. - Kenneth Wapnik PhD (The Lighthouse Newsletter, Vol. 21 # 3, September 2010, pg. 6).*
A Love that is all encompassing and "passeth all understanding" in this world is within us all. This has direct meaning to me whenever I remember an experience I had on May 10, 2005 of becoming aware of myself as not fully containable in a bodily form. For a few brief minutes I unexpectedly experienced myself as one with a loving seamless Light that pervaded everything. I had been prayerfully asking for help with severe chronic pain the day before and felt gifted with this experience as my answer. This was not the first time I had experienced a loving Light as a powerful Presence. The difference this time was that I experienced an all encompassing loving Light as one with my mind without any borders, boundaries or limitations. This may sound fanciful or hard to believe, however, once anyone has experienced themselves as not bound by space and time the idea of our oneness makes "perfectly clear sense", to use a cliche. The irony here is that during the experience I had no awareness of any sensory limitations since without a body to contain a separate "me" – I did not need my five senses. This experience changed my life as have many of the direct spiritual encounters I have experienced with non-physical realms of reality. I have had countless encounters with non-physical beings that range from highly manipulative disturbed entities to extraordinarily loving divine presences ever since I had an unexpected psychic opening on August 1, 1987. The creative mind can certainly imagine such things but direct experience can take such experiences out of the realm of imagination into a whole Mind awareness. As with my seamless Light experience these outside of space and time events can occur unexpectedly and spontaneous as "clair" (French for clear) sense awarenesses. They can also occur as part of an inner and outer world quest for the answer to meaning of life questions about the purpose our of existence. This quest can quite literally take you out of this world and into a fuller understanding of why we are here including where we go when we leave this earthly existence.
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As a creative artist and healing arts practitioner and teacher I have read numerous accounts of other people's unexpected meditative mind expanding or spiritual encounter experiences that occurred spontaneously. Since a child I have known to stay away from any drug or alcohol chemically induced means or sought material world methods to achieve altered states of consciousness. I must have sensed at an early age that I was a latent intuitive "sensitive" since it took very little exploration to open my mind up to expansive states of consciousness. This unexpected ability has since been intentionally cultivated by spiritual studies and the consistent meditative practice of going within and asking for higher Self guidance from God. Just as the sun's light, we each have within us a radiant light that can literally shed an illuminating Light on the purpose of our life. To emphasize again, this illumined mind awareness can occur without any mind-altering drugs or libations. Heightened states of awareness can occur without ever leaving your home or having to climb a mountaintop in Tibet or Peru or travel to golden domed cathedrals in modern or ancient cities. I will tell you that they do not come consistently or naturally by seeking ways to escape reality. It is a road to confusion to seek mental distractions that take you away from the present moment. Chemically induced mind numbing or addictive "highs" that are unsustainable are not the reliable path to a present moment enlightened awareness. When enlightenment is sought without forced means as a fuller whole Mind awareness it can come quite naturally – today – right now. Mindful awareness can occur daily from moment-to-moment, on brief occasions or just once within a lifetime. If fully understood as a transcendent understanding of the oneness of creation and our interconnectedness equality – once can be enough. Once can be enough to no longer view time and space as limited. The daily unmindful distractions that used to take me out of the present moment now do not have any appeal as desirable escapes. I no longer count the hours until a workday is over, or days until a holiday vacation comes. It takes no time at all to see that past or future time limits, spatial demarcations or place destinations are any permanent fixed points of reference – at any time or anywhere. That can seem scary to anyone who thinks the unseen is threatening or unknowable. Some of my students and clients have asked me what it is like to be an intuitive with clairvoyant, clairaudient, clairsentient, clairgustant and clairscentist abilities. This can be hard to describe using physical world references. The best symbolic description I can offer is that I no longer see clear hard edge distinctions around objects or life forms but rather soft edges that appear more like shimmering glitter or dancing light like pixels on a computer or TV screen. Sounds no longer are ones that I can only hear with just my physical ears alone.
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A previous fear of the "unseen" has now shifted to realizing that I am not bound by space and time or ever alone without a loving spiritual Presence watching over and gently guiding my life. Throughout the past twenty-seven years there has never been a day when I have not been aware of loving helpers that are with me in spirit 24/7. It has become a natural way of experiencing myself as "being in this world – but not of this world". To assist me through times of emotional turmoil, worldly concerns and distractions that still come, it helps me to recognize the consistent "content of love" as Kenneth Wapnik's words suggest in the opening quote. There is great comfort in knowing that "the content of love remains the same, gently adapting to the form appropriate to the circumstance". And, that it is only my own decision to be in "fear (that) still blocks the free flow of love to all things of the world, animate or inanimate, large or small, significant or insignificant."* .... seen or unseen.
Peace Nouvella,
Alice Yeager
May a new peace be scripted in your heart co-authored with God as – Peace Nouvella™. * http://www.facim.org/acim/newsletters/20102103.pdf
CONSULTING SERVICES AND PRODUCTS CORPORATE & INDIVIDUAL CONSULTING/TRAINING * Healing & Creative Arts Consulting/Training * Business & Individual Life Coaching/Mentoring * Commercial & Fine Art Services/Products * Peace Nouvella Players™ Programs INDIVIDUAL & GROUP CONSULTATIONS * Intuitive Guidance * Subtle Energy Field Assessment * Peace Pulse™ Hands Healing Sessions * Training, Life Coaching & Mentoring
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EVENTS Monthly and Yearly Events are co-sponsored by Spirit Creative Services Inc. (consulting business) and American Healing Arts Alliance Inc. (AHAA non-profit).
WEEKLY EVENTS Peace Nouvella™ free introductory twenty-minute consultations. Introductory sessions are held at Peace Point by appointment only. For details visit Individual and Group Consultations or Contact Us.
MONTHLY EVENTS
A Course in Miracles: ACIM-AHAA study group, 1st & 3rd, Sundays, 2-3:30pm. The ACIM book study group meets as a healing circle, miracles sharing and support for self-study of the book A Course in Miracles. With nearly 2,000 study groups around the world and translations into 17 different languages thus far this remarkable course of study published by the Foundation for Inner Peace has helped millions find more inner peace and experience miracles in their lives. Visit the www.acim.org, www.facim.org/, www.miraclecenter.org/, www.miraclesmagazine.org/ and www.youtube.com/user/FndtnACIM websites for information.
YEARLY EVENT Inner Peace Treaty™ 16th Anniversary Event: June 21, 2014, AHAA Program and Pot Luck Social. Spirit Creative Services Inc. is a corporate sponsor of the American Healing Arts Alliance Inc. non-profit’s Monthly, Yearly and Special Event educational programs. Donations to AHAA and additional corporate sponsorships are appreciated. Please Contact AHAA if you are interested in volunteering for AHAA.
COURSES: by Title See detailed descriptions under Courses for those listed here in alphabetical order. For additional course details see the Programs webpage.
Creative and Performing Arts CREATIVE ARTS SALON CREATIVE JOURNALING for Self Expression and Reflection HOW TO DESIGN & ILLUSTRATE CHILDREN'S BOOKS: Levels 1 & 2 INTUITION, CREATIVITY, & INNER GUIDANCE THE PEACE NOUVELLA PLAYERS™ THE CREATIVE ARTS AS HEALING ART
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Healing Arts CREATIVE JOURNALING: For Self Expression and Reflection HANDS HEALING: Introduction Level 1 HANDS HEALING: In-depth Level 2 INTUITION, CREATIVITY, & INNER GUIDANCE NATURE AS HEALER: A Co-Creative Journey MEDITATION: Creating More Inner Peace & Health PEACE NOUVELLA™ Introduction & In-depth Study THE CREATIVE ARTS AS HEALING ART
COURSES: by Location/Date/Title/Description ANNE ARUNDEL COMMUNITY COLLEGE Instructor: Alice Yeager Registration: Visit http://www.aacc.edu/coned/ or call (410) 777-2325
HOW TO DESIGN & ILLUSTRATE CHILDREN'S BOOKS: Levels 1 & 2 Course #'s: Level 1 ARS #TBD, Level 2 ATS #TBD Location: Arnold Campus Date/Time: Level 1 Thursdays June 5 - July 10, 2014, 6:30pm - 9:00pm Date/Time: Level 2 Thursdays July 17 - August 14, 2014, 6:30pm - 9:00pm Cost: See AACC Summer Continuing Ed. Catalog, CEUs 1.30 awarded Descriptions: Level 1: Learn how to layout, illustrate and design your own children's book. Review current trends in the children’s book publishing market. A suggested supply list, bibliography, topics covered and goals for each week are handed out at the first class. Level 2: Advance and refine the skills learned in Level 1. Develop a multi-page layout with theme and character development, illustrations and design elements. Discuss selfpublication, submission to a publisher and current publishing trends.
SPIRIT CREATIVE SERVICES Inc. Location: Peace Point, Edgewater, Maryland Instructor: Alice Yeager Registration: On-line Registration Form
The courses held at Peace Point are offered as part of the full Peace Nouvella™ course of study. The Hands Healing Introductory and In-depth courses are pre-requisites for becoming a certified Peace Nouvella™ practitioner, facilitator and trainer. For details see the Peace Nouvella™ course description and Peace Nouvella™ weblink.
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CREATIVE ARTS SALON Date/Time: Saturday April 5, 2014, 1:00pm – 3:30pm Cost: $35 Date/Time: Saturday, July 26, 1:00pm - 3:30pm Cost: $35 Description: This program offers an opportunity for anyone interested in the creative arts to come together to share their artistic endeavors with other students. Interactive feedback is encouraged to foster synergistic learning, insightful observations, idea sharing and inspiration. All forms of creative expression are welcome including visual arts, writing, journaling, storytelling, music, dance, and theater projects. Discussion, feedback and class sharing interaction will be based on the needs of the students who present projects they are interested in getting assistance with to take beyond an idea or in-development stage as well as those seeking to collaborate with others.
HOW TO DESIGN & ILLUSTRATE CHILDREN'S BOOKS: Levels 1 & 2 Dates/Times: Level 2 Thursdays, April 10 – May 8, 2014, 6:30pm - 9:00pm. Dates/Times: Level 1 See the AACC Summer schedule shown above Cost: $130 Level 2 Description: Level 2: This course is open to anyone who has completed the Level 1 course offered at either AACC PGCC or here at Peace Point. Advance and refine the skills learned in Level 1 with more opportunity for additional individual instruction. Develop your multi-page layouts with further theme and character development, illustrations and design elements. Discussion and presentations will include aspects of self-publication, submission to a publisher and current publishing trends
PEACE NOUVELLA™ : Introduction Date/Time: Saturday, April 26, 2014, 10:00am – 3:30pm Cost: $85 Description: Peace Nouvella™ is an international educational peacebuilding project that I have been following inner guidance about since 1994. This class is co-creatively designed as an overview of the full Peace Nouvella™ comprehensive course of study. Individual and group participation includes lecture, discussion and exercises. The words Peace Nouvella™ mean "a new peace scripted in the heart, co-authored with God". This co-authorship involves connecting with the highest aspects of your being for personal growth, healing and creative expression. Further in-depth study includes; meditation, inner peacebuilding, intuition, subtle energy training and hands healing practice called the Peace Pulse™. The training also includes the creative arts for healing through: journaling, art, music, theater and storytelling. Visit the website for information about becoming a Peace Nouvella™ practitioner, facilitator and/or trainer. Bring a note pad, a set of colored pencils and bag lunch.
NATURE AS HEALER - A Co-Creative Journey Date/Time: Saturday May 10, 2014, 10:00am – 3:30pm Cost: $85 Description: Experience a kinship and resonance with nature as a personal cocreative relationship. Through experiential exercises and the use a naturalist's journal, you will have an opportunity to attune yourself to nature's natural rhythms, cycles and subtle interactions. This interactive process will help increase your awareness of the inter-connectivity with all of life and each other. Let a higher consciousness creative source speak directly to you through nature. Bring a journal book &/or sketchbook, a set of colored pencils, bag lunch and dress comfortably and protectively for indoor and outdoor experiences in a woodland waterfront setting. 8
CREATIVE JOURNALING for Self Expression and Reflection Date/Time: Saturday May 24, 2014, 10:00pm – 3:30pm Cost: $85 Description: Learn how to use journaling as a creative self-discovery tool to help you find more clarity, fulfillment, purpose and meaning in your life. Journaling can be used for personal exploration as a form creative expression that balances and harmonizes the left and right brain. It can also spark a fuller awareness of and alignment with your life purpose by utilizing untapped resources of your higher Self mind. When combined with art, music and connecting with nature your creative spirit can soar to new heights of awareness while remaining in a state of calm serenity, inner peace and grace. Bring a journal book or notebook to write in and bag lunch.
HANDS HEALING: Introduction: Level 1 Dates/Times: Saturday, June 14, 2014, 10:00am – 3:30pm Cost: $85 Description: Develop skills working with your hands to detect and direct subtle healing energies in and around the body. Learn to sense and direct the flow of subtle energy also known as chi, qi, ki, prana, bioenergy or electromagnetic energy. Benefits health care providers and others interested in developing new skills with subtle energy methods to promote well-being and healing.
HANDS HEALING: In-depth: Level 2 Date/Time: Saturday, July 12, 2013 10:00am – 3:30pm
Cost: $85 Description: This course provides a further in-depth study for those who have completed the Hands Healing Introductory course. Emphasis is on developing skills working with your hands as and extension of your mind to detect and direct subtle healing energy flows in and around the body. Exercises are designed for individuals, couples and as a group to heighten awareness of subtle energy and multi-sensory abilities. This includes in-depth practices of sending and receiving healing to others and yourself. Subtle energy medicine, research and professional practices discussed include: Qi-gong, Reiki, Johrei, Therapeutic Touch, Healing Touch, Touch for Heal, Polarity, psychic and spiritual healing and the Peace Pulse™. Bring a notebook and bag lunch.
INTUITION, CREATIVITY & INNER GUIDANCE Dates/Times: Saturday, July 19, 2014, 10:00am - 3:30pm Cost: $85 Description: This introductory course is designed to help increase awareness of inner creative and intuitive resources. This increased awareness can lead to an experience of a deep inner knowing and connection to your whole "higher'” Self. Learn techniques for evaluating synchronicity, insights, intuition, telepathy and creative resources. The seeker and seer in you can awaken to your own inner wisdom as a trusted resource to help you meet life’s challenges. Through demonstrations, experiential exercises and group discussion this course will also help you access and develop your multi-sensory "clair" i.e "clear" sixth sense abilities that go beyond the physical limits of our five senses. The cultivation of this as an inner and outer world reflective process can help foster greater flow, abundant ease and grace in your life.
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CREATIVE ARTS SALON Date/Time: Saturday, July 26, 1:00pm - 3:30pm Description: See April 5th offering above.
Cost: $30
THE CREATIVE ARTS AS HEALING ART Date/Time: Saturday, August 9, 2014, 10:00am – 3:30pm Cost: $85 Description: Discover your inner healing wisdom by increasing your awareness of the creative artist within you. Through the use of inner listening, imaging and heightened sensing through your five senses learn to communicate more clearly with your higher Self. Explore and learn to interpret various symbolic and metaphoric forms of expression through the visual arts (color, texture, line, shape and space) music and story telling to reveal intuitive insights. Multi-sensory experiential exercises are designed to help you access and develop greater your inner knowing and self-healing abilities. Past artistic experience is not required. All beginner to advanced artists are welcome. Bring a drawing pad (9” x 12" approx.), a set of colored drawing pencils and bag lunch.
MEDITATION: Creating More Inner Peace and Health Date/Time: Saturday, August 23, 10:00am – 3:30pm
Cost: $85 Description: Create more inner peace, health and balance in all areas of your life. Develop an understanding of meditative healing practices as they relate to individual and global healing. These include active mind and still mind forms as well as walking and other forms of moving meditation. Techniques using sound, visualization and journaling are also covered combining music, art and writing to help you integrate meditative practices into your daily life. Learn the benefits of both a personalized practice and a supportive group environment to increase vitality, mental clarity, concentration, creativity, wholeness and harmony.
PRINCE GEORGES COMMUNITY COLLEGE Location: Bowie Senior Center (SAGE Program)
HOW TO DESIGN & ILLUSTRATE CHILDREN’S BOOK: Levels 1 & 2 Course #: ART 304 (14 sessions as two consecutive 7 week sections) Date/Time: Fall 2014, Dates TBD, Tuesdays, 12:30pm - 2:20pm. Registration: Visit http://www.pgcc.edu or call (301) 336-6000 Cost: Contact PGCC (SAGE Program)
Additional courses in 2014 PEACE NOUVELLA PLAYERS™ - Ensemble Training & Performances See the Peace Nouvella Players™ webpage for details. YOUR BODY SPEAKS Call for dates and times See the Programs webpage for descriptions or Contact Us. Copyright © 2014 Spirit Creative Services Inc., Alice Yeager, President and Founder 3157 Rolling Rd. Edgewater, MD 21037, (410) 956-1117, Email: info@spiritcreativeservices.com
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