Restorative Staycation Faerie Experience in Northwest Ohio

THE ENCHANTING OF THE GREEN

Location: Bowling Green, Ohio - south of Toledo

Tuesday, June 24 - Fairy Day - thru Saturday, June 28, 2008
a time to honor the enchanted nature realms with fairy-special displays, fey fare, music & general merriment & the wearing of faerie costumes, ribbonry & face glitter at work, play & on the streets

The Fey/Fairies/Faeries are nature’s angels
Nature = Gardens, Parks, Creeks, Rivers, Wildlife = Earth
= Us

Tuesday, June 24: Enchanting the Green Launch: a wee Parade for Fey Folk. Gathering 5:30 p.m. Happy Badger Trading Portal, Fairy Headquarters, corner Clay & Main Streets, Bowling Green, Ohio (Main Street is Route 25, Dixie Hwy)
see fairy tree; leave a fairy love letter; photo ops & general portal browsing. Parade departs 6:00 p.m. via sidewalk path and finishes at Wood County District Public Library

Library features:
Outside: fountain & gardens, entrance to Fairyland
Inside: Fairy Display by Whitehouse nature potter Nancy Beeman and BG Fairy Weaver of Yarns Melanie Stinson.
Don’t miss the Fairy-big bug & Castle. At 7:00 p.m. attend Story Time “Ant”-ics (ages 3-6). Other activities throughout the week.
Discover faerie through a book or other enchanted readings & see what else is buzzing for the week.

Squeakers Vegetarian Cafe & Health Food Store: Enchanted salads, Brownies, Rapunzel “Let Your Hair Down” Smoothies and more.

Grounds for Thought: Loch Ness Monster drink, Black Swamp Blends, Snickerdoodle, Highland Grogg & edibles. Place for enchanted reads and gatherings.

Aardvarks: fairy-special threads window display

Don’t miss Coyote Beads’ Fairy Window or the Water on the Wall, Fairy Dust necklaces & enchanted orbs inside

Thursday, June 26, 4:00 p.m. Perrysburg children’s poet Yolanda Danyi Szuch will read from her published work and popular fairy tales. She will be joined by Melanie Stinson, who will read from The Middle Princess and fairy tales. Both are members of the Northwest Ohio Writers Forum.

Saturday, June 28, Noon - 4:00 p.m. Fairy Card Readings at the Happy Badger with Fairy Lady Weaver of Yarns. Fairy insights into life & our s\Elves. Have a question? Ask. Donations appreciated.

We hope you will make these five days enchanted. Strolling troubadours, dancers, actors & musicians are invited & may politely seek tokens of appreciation for their performances.

EVERYDAY BLISS

Are you one of those people who only go for a massage once a year?

Are you too busy to go for a massage because you have to undress and then worry about messy oils in your hair? Too much hassle?

We have solutions for you:

• Do a free online mini-session of Crystalline Consciousness Technique (CCT)  and anchor in the intention of:

I intend serenity, stillpoint, ease, openness, and flow or something similar that comes to you from your heart and intuitive sense

• Follow one of the links  on this site and enjoy a variety of relaxing forms from art and music to Reiki, sound healing and meditation
• Set up a lunch hour session of energy realignment from a CCT/Reiki practitioner and breeze in and out without having to undress, re-dress, or worry about messy oils (in northwest Ohio, click here)
• Look at your life differently. Perhaps this will help you: Author G.K. Chesterton once said, “In everything that yields gracefully, there must be resistance. Bows are beautiful when they bend only because they seek to remain rigid. Rigidity that slightly yields is all the beauty of the earth. Everything seeks to grow straight, and happily nothing succeeds in so growing. Try to grow straight and life will bend you.”

Let us and others know what worked for you so we can pass along the good vibes, or click on the donate button to give us an energetic thank you for the service we provided.

In northwest Ohio, set up an appointment with a CCT or Reiki or Faerie Realms Reiki practitioner at Kneading Time Holistic Therapy. Need a name to mention? Try Melanie.

STAYCATION or SPA VACATION DAY

You choose the wording, and you make it sing!

What is a Staycation? Literally what it says: you stay around or in your locale for your vacation. A Spa Vacation Day or Weekend is a bit different.

It can be an adventure that starts here–online–as you gather information about what you want to experience that’s restorative or says spa and vacation to you (and members of your family if they or someone else is included).

Here are some ideas:

Pampering

Delicious food: depending where you are–Souen in New York City;
                Poco Piatti in Perrysburg or Toledo; Nagoya Japanese Steak House

Spa products

Being on a beach, near water, or in nature: Wildwood Preserve in Toledo, Wintergarden St. John’s Woods in Bowling Green, Ohio; Nyack State Park, Rockland State Park or Central Park in New York

Exploring new places like a local bookstore or magical shop like The Happy Badger Trading Portal in Bowling Green, Ohio or East/West Books in New York City, or discovering little nook art galleries like Spectrum in the Toledo Botanical Gardens, the latest show at the Toledo Museum of Art, or something else equally cool and inspiring and maybe inside on hot summer days (such as after strolling through the Crosby Arts Festival). Smelling the roses is a fine way to go.

Something exotic

Going shopping

Seeing a Broadway show or something similar

Visits to local haunts, favorite or new: Try the 577 Foundation in Perrysburg for community gardens and an awesome biodome. There’s also a children’s garden that the fairies adore!

 

Need directions?

Make your list, and then you invent and intend. You can even try the lens “Give Yourself That Million Dollar Treatment” and ask for a spa vacation. See where it takes you–mentally, physically, energetically, spiritually.

If you’re into spending a little bit on yourself because you’re that worthwhile, you might start by having breakfast at a new little nook that seems exotic. Maybe that’s a Paneras, or Cafe Marie’s, or if you’re in Bowling Green, Ohio, Call of the Canyon.

Or maybe you’ll rise at dawn, pack up your camping gear and head for your backyard or that campground a few miles away that you always intended to visit but never have. Or maybe today’s a visit to the Butterfly House to inspire that butterfly or fairy garden you’ve been meaning to create.

You could literally give yourself a session in a spa or with a practitioner who you know brings heaven on earth, or you could travel to your bathroom, local health food store, or a beauty products haven and pick up some aromatherapy products–candles, bath beads, whatever catches your eye–and, you could also visit your local flower farm or florist or your own garden and use what you have: rose petals, any fragrant flower for a bouquet (or stay outside on your lounger and inhale, relax, visualize, and meditate). 

What totally awesome Sex in the City kind of drink comes to mind? Get the ingredients and make one. Or better yet, watch the movie and get re-inspired. Have a Girls’ Night Out. You might even add some get happy entertainment like a fairy or angel reading.

You can also play some inspiring music. Some of my favs include: Enya, Rob Thomas, Yanni, musicals like Hair Spray or Mary Poppins, and classical music like anything Mozart.

I’m listening to Josh Groban as I write this–remembering the rain and the train of thought that says, “After the Rain” Christopher Wheeldon choreography and poetry like Rumi, a night on the town, and later, some moon, cloud or star-gazing.

Hopefully this will get you started and maybe some tunes or books (curling up with a great book is vacation material to me).

Whatever you do, think “enchanted” and you’ll find something magical comes your way, for sure. Don’t forget after your power nap, to open your eyes and ears and heart to receive it!

Check out: Restoratives or

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Fairy Day, June 24, 2008

In Celebration of Fairy Day on June 24th
A PLACE FOR US & Kiss of the Fairy are offering the following specials

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LETTING GO

Change is a given. We have cycles and seasons. We can resist these natural occurrences, but that will not stop them from occurring. Saying such things and even reading them, however, doesn’t always help us in the process of recognizing and letting go of resistance and being open to change.

Law of Attraction and Abraham say, “What we resist, persists.” Abraham and Esther and Jerry Hicks have all sorts of techniques and tools for changing our perceptions, point of view, and thoughts.

But sometimes all it takes to move past resistance is to take a different view and thus, a different path. Think of this old song… The Bonnie Banks O’ Loch Lomond or listen here…

Some folks call it taking the path of least resistance… the road not taken. One teacher told me, “When it doesn’t feel good or if it feels really bad, make another choice. Go in a different direction–with your thoughts, your point of view, or literally.” But you can walk; you don’t have to run.

The first time I tried to meditate as a young person, I felt everything relax and followed this feeling of relaxing and letting go till I arrived at the top of my head. Suddenly, I had this thought that was something like, “if I let this piece go, I will die.” I abruptly jumped out of the relaxation place and stopped the whole process.

This experience scared me so much that I did not meditate again for a long time–knowingly. Unknowingly, I was meditating every day by creating art, and by a single-minded focus on writing–a story, book, article or blog–in which everything else fell away.

Later, as I studied movement meditation, I began to understand awareness and mindfulness. I learned about these as I read works by Krishnamurti, Eknath Eswaran, and others.

Today, I had an experience exactly like the one that scared me. However, it was different in one way. This time I was not scared. I had a different outlook. I was also older and have talked to a lot of people. When I was a child, I had no one that I felt I could talk to about what I was doing because no one I knew practiced meditation.

Today, I worked with a meditation to heal childhood anger from a book by Deepak Chopra. As I looked at how anger had played a part in my life, I came to the part of the meditation that suggested that I play back the video of my life until it went black. This was a time before there was fear, anger, worry… It was actually possible to go there. It would be a time when everything was bliss and when there were no boundaries between myself and my surroundings.

As I opened to the experience, I felt myself relaxing and letting go. I recognized the meditation attempt in my youth, and how I had once perceived it. What came next astounded me within the peacefulness I felt.

The experience of oneness with my surroundings simply meant I didn’t hold onto myself–anywhere–and I didn’t hold on to my perception of anything or anyone.

What that feels like is being your energy field, being the field.

Everything you see is there, surrounding you. However, you are not “attached” to it because you are not holding on to anything in you or anything that “appears” to be outside of you.

You are free and your surroundings are free, and in that openness, allowing and letting go, you are one. Harmony. One verse. Universe.

“Oh! ye’ll take the high road and
I’ll take the low road,”
and we’ll all get there together…

Grace

There is a wonderful blog, the science of energy healing, by gia combs-ramirez, which offers meditations and information about energy. The blog from April 21, 2008 has a meditation that is powerful and can help you move into a place of grace from which to appreciate your life, your self and your day.

MEDITATION

There are many types of meditation. So if you’ve had trouble with one type, there are others to try to suit your lifestyle and personality.

The main types of meditation are those which you do by yourself.

1. Walking meditation. You focus on placing your feet as you walk. There are other types that have a broader focus - simply on being aware (mindful) of feeling yourself in space, on what crosses your path, on allowing what arises in your mind to arise and flow on. This can be done with other activities, such as canoeing, biking, swimming.
2. Seated meditation. You might focus on your breath. You might focus on an object, like a candle. Again, thoughts arise and you allow them to arise and flow on.
3. Movement meditation. Can be a walking meditation. Can begin seated, lying down, or standing, allowing movement to arise from your core, from the breath. In some cases, you allow the movement and sounds (laughter, crying, growling) to come out that your body needs to release. This is both healing and balancing. See Katsugen
4. Creative Arts Processes. These can actually be forms of meditation when the focus is on creating a piece of pottery, a drawing, a poem, a journal entry in which the thought process falls away and one is present with the creating. Or, it may be following a piece of music with the mind.

Some people, actually a great many people, have difficulty with meditating on their own, especially in the beginning. If you’re one of these people, you might want to try meditation-in-relationship.

This is meditation in which you work with a teacher or guide. The focus arises from within you and the teacher gently guides you through questioning and sometimes healing touch to follow it.

Some types of meditation-in-relationship are or can be:

1. Rosen Method Bodywork
2. Reiki
3. CCT, Crystalline Consciousness Technique, whether done in a self-healing session, or with a CCT practitioner, you get in touch with your inner source which directs the focus of the session and culminates in intentions.
4. Healing art meditations via video/DVD or specially created for youtube.com Check it out
5. Katsugen, Authentic Movement, Tai Chi, Chi Kung. Movement meditation done in a class situation or at least with a teacher.

Look for practitioners in your area.

Crying for love

So many of us in this place for us–planet Earth–are crying for love, attention, emotional support and freedom. But how many of us know where to go to make in roads on these situations for ourselves?

Having received sessions and training in the following touch modalities, I recommend: Rosen Method Bodywork, if you want to know about and fully experience in your body what is behind your crying, needs, yearnings, and desires in a way that feels safe and supportive.

Rosen is immensely spiritual, and, if you’d like to learn how to meditate but need a guide, this is a wonderful form of meditation in relationship.

Choose Reiki, if you want gentle change that feels personal, safe, warm and wonderful…

And Crystalline Consciousness Technique (CCT) if you are ready for the high tech model for change…

Best of all is being able to have the support of energy healing modalities at your fingertips–whether it’s through self-healing (available in CCT and Reiki training) or healing sessions from others or both.

I love how accelerated and yet loving and personal Reiki feels from within the container of CCT. And I’m constantly surprised by how CCT evolves. I’ve moved from being a rather anxious person, lacking confidence in myself, to discovering gifts buried deep inside that allow me to feel joy, delight, and yes, incredulity as I bring them out to show and see people experiencing the same feelings I feel.
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If you don’t understand some of the terms used here, or want to know more, let’s get a little comment session going. Please ask questions below, while you enjoy this space of –A Place for Us.

Crystalline Consciousness Technique ™ is an energy protocol that cuts out the distracting and distorting energies that get in the way of seeing the results of the change you’d like to see in your life in your life. Working with conscious intent and the crystalline system of the body, people using CCT rapidly become the vibration of that which they wish to manifest (that is, they align with what they wish to manifest). And they hold that vibration easily throughout the time lapse between stating their intent and its manifested form. That is the main secret of manifesting in a consistent and powerful way.

A PLACE FOR US… on the air waves

Dedicated to Jerry Robbins and the 2008 Spring Celebration of his work at New York City Ballet

This site has good vibrations… photos and art treated with Reiki…

Do you love clouds?

Image © 2006 M.A. Stinson

Some people would say I’m a clairvoyant artist, a psychic intuitive… I know I can put my hands on a person and know where to go on their clothed bodies to help them relax, release worry, tension and intense headaches. I also “channel” healing images.

But then, I am also highly trained in a variety of massage forms, and psycho-spiritual and energy touch therapies like Shiatsu, Rosen Method Bodywork and Movement, advanced forms of Reiki and Crystalline Consciousness Technique (CCT), and in a sense, all artists and writers are “channelers.”

A friend of mine would say that rather than using intuition or my sixth sense, I am simply connecting into a database of learned information.

What does this have to do with clouds and loving clouds? Well, somewhere and sometime in my life I began to notice clouds, and as I trained further in Reiki and the cutting edge modality CCT, clouds became incredible to me.

I know ancient cultures, including Hawaiians, could read clouds. Clouds spoke to them, and not just about the weather and upcoming harvests or planting times.

A few years ago, I had an extraordinary experience that was, at the time, rather frightening. A flood of information came in that sounded like the greatest fantasy story ever written.

I kept hearing that I was a sylph, which when researched, seemed to be a cloud person, a sky elemental, even though I know, from being a dancer, that sylphs in ballet are woodland fairies.

Whether I’m a sylph or simply have the fantastical mind of an immensely creative person, who is a writer and artist, I don’t know. (I’ve been told I’m from another planet and wanted to live on Atlantis but being out of timing, kind of missed that period of time and landed on earth now.)

If you find yourself drawn to the sky and to clouds in particular, perhaps you’ll find yourself drawn here as my main web site, aplaceforus–thesite.com, makes its transition into this blog site.

Enjoy the mysterious, the mystical, the woo woo and total wonder of our earth, our galaxy and our consciousness, and get connected here to what you need (perhaps its a restorative), want (a tale of en’ light’ en ~ment), or are dreaming about!

Happy trails.

(and in case you came here wanting to know what it means to love clouds… ah there’s a vast repertory of reasons… links to water, air, airiness, a need for connection to inspiration… or perhaps, there are some images in the clouds that could have specific messages for you today or in the days to come)