Facing Our Mortality: A Year to Live – with Ruby Grad, CSL and Sandy Reynolds, CSL

Based on the book "A Year to Live" by Stephen Levine, the group will undertake a practice of living for one year as if each member were given an unspecified medical prognosis of having one year to live. The group will meet monthly to work with what emerges.

Join us for an upbeat, heart-centered discussion on how we can honor the friends who shaped our journey, cherish our shared history, and warmly embrace the art of making rich new connections today.

Join Brenda Lyons and Christian McEwen for a three-part series designed to harmonize body, mind, and spirit. Combine the practice of Qigong with mindful writing and walking, and experience the transformative power of slowing down.

Grounded in the Conscious Living Wheel from the award-winning book "Midlife, New Life: Living Consciously in Midlife and Beyond", co-authored by Dr. Paul Ward, this 6 month program offers a spacious, reflective journey through the essential dimensions of conscious living. Participants will meet twice a month, Jan. 7th - June 17th.

Learning to fully embrace the impermanent nature of reality is a key aspect of the perennial wisdom teachings and a central task of conscious living. In a caring, supportive learning community, we will come to terms with our mortality, learn to celebrate our lives, and explore ways to joyfully serve the sacred mystery that is beyond concepts of life and death.

It’s not an accident that the concept of service looms large in so many of the perennial wisdom traditions. Service activities remind us not to become too absorbed in our inner processes and not to get lost in trying the save the world in a naive and unrealistic way.

Living into one’s 90s can be a time of continued growth if one seeks and allows for it. As with every other aspect of life, it has its own environment of accumulated experience and daily self-maintenance chores. However, time expands and contracts differently in Later Aging; concerns and satisfactions too. During this session, Anne Wennhold will share the tools and stories that so far have supported her moving into the Later Aging years of the 90s.

Please join Rachael Freed to begin to explore legacy writing to clarify our values, our resilience and hope, forge deeper connections with our communities, and impart to future generations our experience, values, and blessings.