Subject: Inspiration Community: Fall Awakenings Class 2015 - ***ORANGE WEEK***
From: "Ian Katz" <[email-masked]>
To: "Inspiration" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Heather Davis" <[email-masked]>, "Eric J. Meyer" <[email-masked]>, "Grace Meredith" <[email-masked]>, "Tyson Macdonald" <[email-masked]>, "Eric Radom" <[email-masked]>, "ian katz" <[email-masked]>, "Kathy Deacon" <[email-masked]>, "elaine wujcik" <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>, "Robert Korman" <[email-masked]>, "Mark Huslage" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 20:45:51 -0400

Dear Awakening Travelers,

*Here are a few reminders for orange week:*

   - Eat, drink, breathe, and wear orange with shameless, abandon.  Immerse
   yourself in orange!

   - Inhabit your body without shame!  Shed the shame that cloaks your
   deepest desires. Open to the full sweetness of life.  It’s OK for you to be
   fully alive!

   - Do your transformational exercise (the one that your small group
   designed for you during the exercise in class) at least 3 minutes a day.
   This is very important!

   - Do the  meditation that Jessica taught you for at least 5 minutes each
   day, as follows:

Take an initial breath of red.  Next, take in a breath of orange.  Then,
with each inhale, experience a central source of all energy in the
universe, like a big ball of light or central sun.  Picture a beam of light
emanating from the core and going into the top of your head and down to the
base of your spine (root and belly chakra).  With each exhale, visualize
the light rising from the base of your spine up and pouring  out the top of
your head like a fountain in 360 degrees to be given away onto the
earth/everything.  Repeat.

   - Do the homework assignment on the orange hand-out sheet about
   sensations.  I’ve attached some details and an example of the exercise as a
   pdf attachment named “Scanning Exercise Orange Week.”  Please call a guide
   (we’re all listed on the class roster) if you have any difficulty with this
   exercise.

   - Take steps to change a relationship in your life by becoming aware of
   something you would like to create in that relationship.  Initiate the
   change for that relationship,without any attachment to whether or not you
   get the change you want.   Remember the exercise from class about reaching
   and getting and also reaching and not getting?  That act either makes a
   unique identifying mark on us, like those you used to identify your orange,
   or we obtain what we want, but either way we stay open to wanting.

   - Stay awake and notice how the universe is supporting your awakening.
     Continue to pay attention to your dreams.  If you have any that you feel
   are related to our class, jot them down and bring the notes with you next
   week.

   - If you haven’t done so already, make an appointment with your
   breathworker as soon as possible.  Make every effort to schedule at least
   two appointments before the our overnight weekend on Nov. 6-8.

*For our class next week:*

   - Wear yellow to class.  (If you’re really into it, wear two layers -
   top layer orange, second layer yellow, so as we make the energetic
   transition to yellow you can make the physical transition as well).

   - Bring a water bottle.  It is important to stay hydrated while doing
   this work.  I encourage you to bring a reusable bottle rather than a
   disposable one.

   - Bring the notebook that Jessica gave you.

   - Please remember to be alert as you enter the property and drive gently
   to protect the other life with which we share it.

   - If you arrive late for class, please approach the room in silence.  If
   the class has begun the opening meditation, please wait outside until it is
   finished.

A guide will call you during the week to check in with you.  Please return
their call if they need to leave a message.  Also, please don’t hesitate to
call one of us at any time.  You’ll receive an updated class list in a
separate email.  If you were new to the class this week or if you made
corrections to your contact information, please check the list to make sure
all your information is correct.

The breeze at dawn
has secrets to tell you.
Don't go back to sleep.

You must ask
for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep.

People are going back and forth
across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.

The door is round and open.
Don't go back to sleep.

                                    Rumi

Have a great Orange Week!

With love,
Heather

Swadhisthana -Belly Chakr