Wednesday Jan 15th
6.30 – 8.30pm
Venue: The Conservatory, Anne Robertson Centre, 55 London Road, Canterbury CT2 8HQ.
“Setting our intentions for the New Year”
ConsciousCafe Canterbury will be looking at what we would like to change about ourselves, our environment and /or our lives in the new year. We need to clarify first what we really want and then we can use the power of the mind and of positive intention. As we start the new year let us set our intentions on the future and on making things better for ourselves and others.
Hannah Nicholls has been studying this topic for many years and will help us to discover how to use the Power of Eight from the work of Lynne McTaggart and also discuss the teachings of Dr Joe Dispenza who wrote the book “Becoming Supernatural”. We will learn tools that can help us to increase our health and happiness.
Refreshments provided.
Next ConsciousCafe London event will be on Wednesday 11 September at 6.30 in Central London. Watch this space.
ConsciousCafe Canterbury hosted a brilliant evening this week on the theme on "Altered States of Consciousness". Host Cora shares her thoughts:
"Afternoon meetings do have a different energy and this one felt particularly bright and lively as the sun flooded into the studio and I was delighted to have a brilliant turnout of people, there were 18 of us in all. This was a lovely surprise especially after so many people had said they couldn’t come because it was an afternoon session!
It was difficult to give a clear definition of what an altered state of consciousness was. It implies a different way of seeing and feeling reality. Andy Wood described it as dreaming while still awake which is the level that the Shamans work at. Helen felt that we needed to shed layers of trauma and stress to find our true state of consciousness which was a state of peace and stillness. Everyday living created a less desirable altered state when there was too much stimulation.
One of our participants recounted how she had reached an altered state of consciousness through holotropic breath work which had been developed by Stanislav Grof. This work sounds fascinating and well worth looking into in more detail.
We can reach altered states through drumming, breath work, chanting, yoga, meditation, hypnosis, dreaming and with drugs like ayahuasca. Andy gave us an experience of drumming as we relaxed with the intention of finding our power animal. Julie recounted how she can go spontaneously into an altered state and within this state she can access other people’s reality which she can describe to them with stories, symbols and archetypal characters. She can use these visions to help a person to gain more self understanding and healing. In our summing up of the afternoon we concluded that altered states can help people to heal, to gain self knowledge, to deal with traumas, to access their creativity and to become generally more complete and whole as a human being.
Thank you so much to Andy Wood, Helen Porter and Julie Stocker for sharing with us the healing work they are all doing.
Someone said as she was leaving that it was the best ConsciousCafe meeting she had been to so far!"
ConsciousCafe Canterbury is hosted by Cora Kemball-Cook and meets once a month on a new topic. You can follow the Canterbury page for updates all the latest events.
Join ConsciousCafe Canterbury for a discussion and exploration of different states of consciousness and how we might discover them. We will look at aspects of Shamanism, dreams, visions and other altered states.
£7.00 in advance (ticket purchase at the bottom of this page), £10 on the door
Refreshments provided.
Venue: Highfield House Yoga Studio, Summer Hill, Harbledown, CT 2 8NH
Further info: Cora Kemball-Cook – corakc@hotmail.com Tel 07711 830275