Regularly Scheduled Groups and Classes
Healing
Reiki Healing facilitated by Cheryl Shortridge
1st Saturday 10 am-12 pm,
Fee: donation
Reiki is a widely known form of healing through direct application of chi. Chi is the term used by healers and martial artists for the underlying energy of which the universe is made. A session can ease tension and stress, and can help support the body to facilitate healing on all levels—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Anyone who wants to experience the benefits of Reiki Healing Energy is invited to come for a treatment.
Yuen Method Healing with Dick Mueller
3rd Sunday 12:15 pm ,
Fee: donation
This session is an opportunity for Yuen Method practitioners to facilitate healing, and for people who would like to experience the Yuen method.
Pet Communication and Healing with Catharine McKibbin
Tuesday 10 am-5 pm by appointment,
Fee: $25 / hr
This session uses Reiki healing on pets (wild and domestic) for physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. All owners must be accompanied by their pets.
Support Groups:
Lupus Share & Talk with Brenda Angle
Quarterly Meetings March, June, September, December
(Call 440 997-5353 for specific meeting time)
The diagnosis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus has a major impact on the patient, as well as family and friends. At Lupus Share & Talk, we share a warm, friendly atmosphere where we express our hopes, fears and concerns. Coping with a chronic illness can be very lonely, so plan to attend our fun-filled gathering. Bring a family member or friend. Refreshments are served. For more information about this or to make reservations for a new patient class, contact Brenda at 440-964-5458.
LIVING!..with Cancer Support Group (LwCSG)
Weekly support Friday 10:15 am
Potlucks 1st Friday Noon and 3rd Tuesday 5:00 pm
Come share the fellowship, ways of living with the process, and the support of others who share the experience either as patient, survivor, caregiver, or family member. All activities are free.
Spiritual Growth:
A Course in Miracles with Vince Lisi
Tuesday 7:00 pm
Fee: $10
A Course in Miracles has helped many transform their lives. Anxieties have been lifted, despair replaced by hope, and negativity replaced by a positive mental outlook. Students find miracles taking place in their own lives.
Exploring God's Heart at Bill Bruehl's Home 4082 Huntington Court, Ashtabula
1st & 3rd Sunday 7:30 pm
Fee:Donation
Join us in exploring our relationship with God and one another. Let's find a place that allows all kinds of insights to mingle as we make this spiritual journey. Come! Discover new paradigms as we share insights about Life that have helped us handle some of our life challenges.
A New Earth with Vince Lisi
Tuesday 1:30 pm
Fee: $10
Optional Meditation 2:30-3:00 pm
We invite you to join us for our discussion group on Eckhart Tolle's latest book, A New Earth. This book was featured on Oprah Winfrey's interactive website, and focuses on how each of us is able to contribute to the opportunity to birth a new, more loving world. The group is facilitated by Vince Lisi, a professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University and Penn State University. Vince has a wide background in consciousness awareness, and has led groups at WTLC and in the tri-state area for ten years.
IHH: Integrating Head and Heart inspired by Jim Royster
4th Thursday 7:15 pm
Fee: Donation
May through October
This group, an outgrowth of the class Activating Head and Heart series that Jim Royster led, is continuing to explore the theme of coming to know more fully who we are as spiritual beings.
Shamanic Extra-Terrestrial Initiation Meditation with Ron Bracale
3rd Monday 7:15 pm
Fee: Donation
The enlightened beings of the galaxy are watching and waiting for humanity to wake up and join the civilized community. The enlightened beings of the galaxy are present in the all-pervasive telepathic web. Come join in a meditation as we seek as a group to open our minds and feel the message. This is an hour-long meditation, to the music designed for this purpose: “Shamanic Extra-Terrestrial Meditation.”
Exploration:
Crafts with Alice with Alice Miller
1st Wednesday 2:00 pm Pre-registration required.
Fees: Variable
Alice will provide the supplies (unless otherwise mentioned) and instructions. Come enjoy yourself while completing an inexpensive project that is also useful or decorative.
Expressions in Acrylic with Cynthia Ziegler
3rd Thursday 2:00 pm
Fee: $15
In these classes Cynthia will provide the instruction – frame-able painting guaranteed! Anybody can paint. Anybody can produce a work of art. All they need is desire and faith in themselves. Come prepared to enjoy putting paint to canvas.
Digital Photography with Gary Cartner
1st Thursday 7:15 pm Donation
Gary Cartner will provide instruction on digital camera use for better pictures, and use of computers to enhance those images. New participants need to arrive at least 45 minutes early to catch up with the class. Bring your digital camera, its instruction book, and your laptop computer if you have one.
Beading Workshop facilitated by Jody Smith
1st Saturday 2:00 pm
Fee: $5
Come one and all to learn techniques of making your own jewelry.
Movement Classes:
Yoga with Vickie Giangola
Tuesday 5:30 pm-6:30 pm
Fee: $11/$10 for members
Yoga is a mind, body, spirit experience. Vickie teaches a gentle to basic hatha style yoga, flowing from one pose to the next. Emphasis is on asanas (postures) and breathing. This class is suitable for any level of experience, using modifications if necessary.
Stretch for Health with Suzanne Isco
Thursday 8:30 am 45 minutes
Fee: $8/$7 for members
Participants should wear a comfortable, non-restrictive T-shirt, shorts, cotton pants or sweats, comfortable shoes or socks. Every day you depend on your body to move in all different directions. Help your body help you, by exercising your muscles through stretching. Awake, relieve, relax, and rejuvenate your body by doing simple stretches for the muscles of the upper and lower body. Stretching can: Aid the circulation of blood flow through your body. Warm your body, increase flexibility, ease stiffness.
Pilates with Rebecca Monda
Monday 4:15 pm
Fee: Donation
This is an exercise system founded by Joseph Pilates which is based on engaging the body's powerhouse. The powerhouse is the unit of muscles comprised of the abdomen, the buttocks, inner thighs and lower back. Posture is perfected through breathing while using movements in a slow, graceful flow. Anyone interested in mat Pilates beginning again, please call WTLC at 997-5353.
Chi Kung Energy Classes with Henry Story
Monday-5:45 pm
Tuesday- 9:45 am
Thursday- 9:45 am
Friday-5:45 pm, fee: $7.50
Special Offer:
1 person/10 weeks/2x a week $50.00
2 persons/10 weeks /2x a week $65.00
3 persons/10 weeks /2x a week $105.00
Special Needs:
1 person/1 hour: $ 7.50 1 person/10 weeks /2x a week $30.00 All are invited for one free class.
Chi Kung is movement with body-mind awareness. These exercises teach: - Non-aggression and relaxation - Self-control and self-confidence - How to make right choices - Improved relationships
T'ai Chi with Susan Deak
Monday 1:00 pm Thursday 11:30 am
Fee: $5/$3 Seniors
Seniors are welcome in any class.
T'ai Chi becomes a moving meditation. Come, feel the energy!
Dance with Brenda with Brenda Angle
Private Lessons by Appointment: Singles or Couples $25/hour Groups (minimum of 6) $35/hour
Learn the joy of dancing from this pro. If you can walk, you can dance. Whether you dance or NEVER dance, Brenda can teach you basics to transform your style. She teaches Fox-trot, Waltz, Disco, Swing, and your requests!
Hawaiian Dance with Louise Torok
Tuesdays, beginning 9/15/09 4:30 pm,
fee: donation
Hawaiian dance is gentle and graceful, giving the dancer an opportunity to stretch muscles not often exercised, and to reduce stress. Hawaiian dance tells stories with hands and feet. Come, learn the Kahola and Hela steps for fun and fitness.
Circles:
Poets' Circle with Colleen Crawford
2nd Sunday 2:30 pm
Fee: $5
Discovering the undiscovered. Exploring insights, feelings and questions. Accessing and hearing the poetic voice within. To form a circle around our felt-senses and their expression is to create a pathway to places we have perhaps not even imagined.
Drum Circle with Bob Sabo
1st Saturday 8:00 pm
Fee: $5
A drum circle is many things. It's a journey to healing, relieving stress, and a whole lot of fun. The main focus of this drum circle is to send out healing energy to the earth, people, and universe. We will have a prayer or maybe a short meditation. Come! Join us on a wonderful journey with the spirit of the drum. Bring hand drums, rattles, other percussion noise makers, and most importantly—yourself!!
Mediumship Circle with Ann Bartlett
2nd Thursday 2:00 pm
Fee: $5
Learn how to directly connect and receive guidance with your deceased loved ones in Spirit. Our loved ones stand very close to us and are eager to help us. They know our lives and situations we face. Each month a new technique for connection will be explained and practiced with the group. Techniques included are light meditations, psychometry, photograph reading, inspirational art and writing, prophecy and others. The class is designed to provide a safe and comfortable environment for you to learn, connect and experience. I feel all people have the innate ability to connect and receive information from their deceased loved ones. Please bring a notebook and join us for this very rewarding and educational class.
