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June 1 2017

#5 Joyful Presence 2017

Trish Broersma Practicing Joy

Joy in the World

The Month for Joyful Presence

June 10-July 19

This month we train our imagination to construct a potent sense of the aliveness and immediacy of joy as it surrounds and accompanies us, helping to ensure our growing happiness.

Our guide this month is

Dream Watcher.

She wonders:

What if your sleep dreams are your true reality
and wake time is just an illusion?
If so, would you want to sleep more
or breathe in all the wake time possible?

What choices would you make
even if you knew your dream memories
were hidden in the sunlight?

I am the Dream Watcher,
and I protect your sacred dream life.

I walk in a world of holistic gravity
with invisible limitations
and mythical magic.
My existence is known only to a spiritual world
of believers who learn from their dream life.

Perhaps the idea of two lives
gives new meaning to being in the moment.
Perhaps there is no choice you must make.

Our joyful practice for this month:

Create a personal Dreamwatcher
who attends to every movement,
every touch,
every thought,
every word,
and who invites us to hold the
buoyant element of joy within each atom of
space we fill as we live and love in joy.

Joy in the World

Dreamwatcher and her words are by Patti Kaufman.

The next month is Joyful Dedication, and you’ll meet the guide and the elements of that month in July.
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What Others Are Saying

Peggy Rubin is a master of theater and the art of becoming. Her book – a masterpiece in every way – will hold you spellbound as you discover the drama of your soul and the purpose of your life. The unique expression of your essence – the Divine theophany that you are – emerges almost magically as you read this clear, penetrating, and insightful book and work with the exceptional exercises. Brava, Peggy!"

Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. Author of Your Soul's Compass and A Woman's Journey to God.

"From Sacred Theatre to sacralizing your life's story, Peggy Rubin takes you through an engaging and wonderful process that will expand your perspective in a myriad of ways and enrich your journey forever. We love this book."

Donna Eden and David Feinstein, Authors, Energy Medicine

"I have always been able to employ in real life what I’ve learned in my theatrical training. Peggy Rubin has now made that process available to anybody who reads this book. It’s very readable and I highly recommend it."

Ellen Burstyn, Golden Globe and Oscar-winning actress

"Each of the arts offers models for the composing of lives, but, as Peggy Rubin demonstrates, theater perhaps most of all. This effervescent description of sacred theater should inspire us all as composers of our lives and caring actors in the world."

Mary Catherine Bateson, author of Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom.

"Peggy Rubin’s brilliant elucidation of the nine powers of sacred theatre propels us away from any impoverished tunnel vision about our lives that we may have slipped into in the face of changing times. We find ourselves in a place where we recognize our lives for their full power and wonder, as a lifelong performance of sacred theatre. Peggy gives us tools from the best in theater tradition translated into effective life skills for sustaining and guiding us."

Trish Broersma, author of Riding into Your Mythic Life, Transformational Adventures with the Horse.

“It gives me perspective on what I am in this time in the world, and feeds my sense of vitality; it enables me to go through really tough stuff knowing that sooner or later the scene will change. There’s a different sense of everything when you begin to look from this point of view.”

Life Coach Elizabeth Austin, RN, CPCC, CEC

TO BE AND HOW TO BE presents an entirely fresh pathway to self-understanding. The book delights the ear, heart, mind, and soul, offering the riches of a deep love for the theatre and the harvest of a long and wide-ranging study of literature, spiritual traditions, and brain and energy research."

Lisa S. Nelson, Ph.D. Professor,Department of Political Science and Masters in Public Administration (MPA)Program

“It makes me want to walk on chairs, take delight in playing different roles, and gives me the courage just to step out there. I find it's possible to do things I would never have dreamed of doing.”

EG