37th AHP/TPA Birthday At Fiddlehead Retreat Center

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SYRACUSE TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY ASSOCIATION...SYRACUSE, NEW YORK

TPA / P.O. BOX 122-TP / LIVERPOOL, NY 13088

FOUNDED 1979

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IN THE SPIRIT

VOLUME 31 NUMBER 6

JUNE, 2016

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Date: Saturday, June 18

Guided Nature Walk: 5:30

Dinner: 6:00 Bring vegetarian dish to share, Beverage, LAWN CHAIRS, DRUMS and the KIDS (No pets, please.)

TPA Community Meeting: 7:00 Meet members of the Syracuse chapter of the Transpersonal Psychology Association as we celebrate 37 years since in inception as the Association of Humanistic Psychology and later transition into the TPA. Learn about Fiddlehead Grove Retreat and Healing Center.

The Gift: Festivities, Solstice Ceremony, Drumming, Bonfire

Place: Fiddlehead Retreat Center

Cathleen Kelly

306 County Route 23B

West Monroe, New York 13167

315-668-6093

Directions: Take I-81 N to exit 32 for NY-

49 toward Central Square. Turn right onto NY-49 E. Pass golf course on left. Turn left onto County Rte 11. Turn right onto County Rte 26 after sharp left curve at cemetery. Turn left to stay on County Rte 26. Turn right onto County Rte 23B. Destination will be 1/4 mile on the left. (Approximately 19 miles from Syracuse.) From North: Rt. 81S, Exit at Parish, turn left onto Rt. 69E. First rt. Turn onto County Rt. 11, then Left onto County Rt, 23B. (approx. 8 miles)

Donation: $5.00

37th AHP/TPA Birthday

At Fiddlehead Retreat Center

Celebrate the longest day of the year by honoring our Mother Earth and the Full Strawberry Moon. Here is a partial list of our activities:

5:30 pm Guided nature walk with Master Naturalist-intraining, Michael Newman.

6:00 pm Food and Festivities/Transpersonal Psychology Association's Birthday

7:30 pm Full Moon and Summer Solstice Ceremony (includes Full Moon Meditation and Healing Ritual). See photo on next page of bonfire and Cathleen's "backyard."

8:30 pm Bonfire at dusk with Drum Circle (Drums provided by Mike Dermody )

Cathleen M. Kelly RN, MSN, HN-BC, RM, is the founder and sole proprietor of the Fiddlehead Retreat Center where she offers complementary healing modalities of Reflexology and Reiki, Classes, and Integrative Health Consultation. She has also been a nurse in many capacities and the owner and chef of the Speedy Greens Organic Food Restaurant with primarily vegetarian fare. Recently, she has earned more degrees in Natural Health and Holistic Nursing and added Kundalini Yoga to her resume with a topic of "Yoga as a means for managing stress-related illness, namely diabetes, hypertension, Alzheimer's, anxiety and depression.

Next Meeting: Sept. 17

Jenna Sawyer

Emotional Freedom Technique

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Summer Solstice

Whether you think of it as the start of summer, the longest day of the year or an excuse to dance, perhaps around bonfires or a maypole, the summer solstice is a celebration of the season. Sure, it marks the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, but it's also steeped in tradition and cultural significance throughout the world. The summer solstice is celebrated in a variety of ways across the globe, from skygazing in Croatia to sun salutations in Times Square.

In several cities and towns around the United States, summer solstice is celebrated with yoga. At Infinitie Light Yoga in Jamesville, Tony Riposo will be doing so from 9:00 am-11:00 am on Sunday, June 19th. In New York's Times Square, they hold yoga classes from sunrise to sunset. In New Mexico, summer solstice is celebrated with yoga for a week. The idea is to escape chaos and re-align the mind, body and spirit. A vegetarian solstice diet of mung beans and rice, yogi tea and potato soup is encouraged.

On the summer solstice, ancient Chinese traditions celebrate "yin" -- earth and femininity -- as opposed to the winter solstice when they celebrate "yang" -- heavens and masculinity. Their summer solstice celebration is called Xiazhi Festival, in which they have a tradition of eating noodles. From the winter solstice to the summer solstice, the days get longer, and during the summer solstice, a saying goes, "After eating noodles on the summer solstice day, daylight gets shorter day by day."

Swedes go all out for summer solstice -- which they call Midsummer. It's a true summer celebration involving flower picking and dancing around a maypole. Women and girls make crowns of flowers symbolizing nature to bring good health throughout the year. The menu includes pickled herring, new potatoes and sour cream with schnapps to drink. Flowers, fish and potatoes are certainly a unique idea for a summer celebration.

In Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, they celebrate summer solstice or "Kupala" with rituals of purification. They hold a night of swimming to symbolize the cleansing of the soul. A bonfire is burned where mothers hope to heal sick children by burning their shirts. Couples holding hands jump over the flames of a bonfire to demonstrate bravery and faithfulness.

Cathleen's backyard.

Stonehenge, England

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Times Square Yoga

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Nancy Gallagher has contributed this poem from Irish poet John O'Donohue. Dale spoke elegantly about John, his IRISH ways and the messages in his work at our April meeting..

For Longing

by John O'Donohue Blessed be the longing that brought you here

And quickens your soul with wonder. May you have the courage to listen to the voice of desire That disturbs you when you have settled for something safe

May you have the wisdom to enter generously into your own unease To discover the new direction your longing wants you to take.

May the forms of your belonging?in love, creativity, and friendship? Be equal to the grandeur and the call of your soul. May the one you long for long for you.

May your dreams gradually reveal the destination of your desire. May a secret Providence guide your thought and nurture your feeling. May your mind inhabit your life with the sureness with which your body inhabits the world. May your heart never be haunted by ghost structures of old damage.

May you come to accept your longing as divine urgency. May you know the urgency with which God longs for you.

~John O'Donohue, from "To Bless the Space Between Us."

John O' Donohue

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......Here I am posing with Marci Shimoff, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Happy for No Reason. We are at the Chicago Book Expo of America and she is holding her new book, Inkspirations for Women: Color Your World Happy--30 Inspiring Designs to Nourish Your Heart and Renew Your Spirit. Did you know that her husband is a Transpersonal Psychologist? I didn't either. We got to talking and she has suggested that I may interview her for our Transcender newsletter!.....Besides the Expo events, I enjoyed walking in Grant Park and visiting a former college roommate in Rockford. Part of the adventure was taking the Lake Sue with Marci Shimoff Shore Limited train....The rest of my month of May was full of adventure and travel as well. Nancy Gallagher and I experienced the Women's Retreat at Chautauqua with Kaye Lindauer--the very last one! The month culminated in a wonderful family vacation at the Yacht Club Resort at Disney World. ALL of us (daughters, spouses and 3 grandchildren) were there.

.......Jo Anne Bakeman and Mark

Hoffmann have been vacationing in Nancy Gallagher at

Europe. England, Germany and Croatia and lazy days by the water

Chautauqua

were part of the agenda as well as visiting with her daugh-

ter, son-in-law and grand kids. They still had energy to go

camping when they got back home!

......Aziz Goksel will be visiting the U.K. after his journey to Turkey. He will be returning about the middle of July......Monica Fricke recently had a pleasant visit from her sister from Germany. Monica is facing another surgery in the fall

.........Michelle Frankel has just returned from 6 weeks in lovely Santa Fe, New Mexico. She took a workshop in pottery making and has returned with many new creations.

.....Ron Newman has a healer friend who went to Boston last weekend and worked on a baseball player who next time at bat hit the game-winning home run! That's a new kind of happy ending. Ron told him he should put "Home Run Massage" on his card. A similar story concerns a healer friend of his, Brian Whitehead, and how, after a treatment by him, a pro baseball player hit the ball out of the park his next time at bat. In addition to prayer and energy point massage, Brian uses the violet ray, biofeedback computer and also microcurrent technologies. There seems to be no limit to what such therapies can accomplish.

........Nick Poulos was recently in Philadelphia attending a Barbara Marciniak workshop. She channels the Pleiadians. A few days later he left for Quantum Healing Hypnosis Therapy training in the Ozarks.

....Cathleen Kelly has recently returned from the American Holistic Nurses Association Conference in Bonita Springs, Florida. Now she and Michael can start gathering wood for the big bonfire similar to the one pictured on page 2!

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......From Joanne Verone: The May TPA meeting was a very interesting presentation by Dr. Kate Laska. She graciously opened her lovely home on Oneida Lake for our meeting. After a wonderful meal, we sat around her family room with a view of the lake and a warm cozy fire in the fireplace. She used a large singing bowl to allow us to go into a deep meditative state. Later, we shared our experiences with her and she did invoke the angels to be with us during contemplation. Dr. Kate is a Chiropractor in Mattydale. She incorporates many types of modalities. She also talked to us about the uses of Young Living Oils. She put the oil "fun"' on us and we did have a very informative and fun time. Thanks again to Dr. Kate for sharing her knowledge and home with our TPA group. It was nice to have Paul Greib, Robin Gross and some of Dr. Kate's, friends Kathy and Irene, join with us. Hope to see them again. Love to all...

.....From Mark Briggs re: May TPA meeting: Because my dog, Rusty, preferred to come with me and stay in the car, rather than stay at home alone, I parked where I doubted that people could hear him barking. I was astounded that Dr. Kate saw him in her meditation and described him!

.....From Gabrielle: just completed the Drum Circle Leadership Certificate offered by Jim Donovan. I attended the training at Saint Francis University in Loretto, PA. Hope to offer a drum circle at one of our future meetings. Unfortunately, I will miss the next meeting. I will be with my friend and her children in Washington, DC. Her son, age 12, received an invitation to a National Youth Leadership Conference. We all will drive him there and stay for an extended weekend doing sight seeing and visiting with my daughter and son-in-law. And my house is on the market and is shown. An exciting but exhausting process." Yeah, I am right now in Loretto. What a beautiful drive and place. I am drumming for 4 days. It's so uplifting and fun. I needed that after all the stress and hard work to get the house ready for the market. Its been as shown several times. I know we will receive soon a purchase offer. I am ready to move.

Calendar: TPA Meetings Sept 2016 - June 2017

September 17 - Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) - Jenna Sawyer - Synergy Center, Manlius

October 15 - DAMANHUR - Nancy & Dale Gallagher - Emanuel Episcopal Church, East Syracuse

November 19 - Special Presentation by Kaye Lindauer - May Memorial UU Society, Syracuse, NY

December Holiday Party - Date TBA - Sue Savion's Home

January 14 - Dancing in Two Realms - Anne Marie Higgins - Martin Otto's Home

February 11 - Alexander Technique of Syracuse - Kathy Miranda - Friend's Meeting House

March - 11 - Mary Magdalene to Music and Song - Beth Miller - Emanuel Episcopal Church, East Syracuse

April - 8 - Mark Briggs - Alien Abductions and the Presence of the Visitors on Earth- Mark Brigg's Home

May - 20 - Bob Yavits - Synchronicity, Non Duality, and The Two Truths of Tibetan Buddhism Carolyn Clarke's Home

June - 17 - 38th Birthday Celebration & Drum Circle - Mary Maitland - The Gathering Place

Farm, Morrisville, NY

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