CIRCLES AND SEMINARS ADDED CIRCLE: ARTESIA, NM, JUNE 28TH, SATURDAY 7-9 PM Get in touch with your creative spirit, commune with your inner self, and participate in age-old techniques for personal transformation in a Creative Spirit Circle. Borrowing from simple, enduring practices found in tribal cultures around the world, we will create ceremonies to release the past, receive new inspiration, and manifest our creativity and inner magic. Each circle includes clairvoyant reading and divination, energy release work, and intuition development. All supplies and tools provided (dried sage, fresh rue, divination tools, beeswax candle to take home.) Limited to eight, there are a few spaces left. For reservations call Elissa at 505-982-3294. Seasonal Circles: This year the Santa Fe Circles will be right before the season turns, so we can get a sense of the nature of the coming time and how to grow in it. Dates: Saturday, March 15th, Saturday, June 14th, Friday, September 12th, and Friday, December 12th. There's parking in the back or across the street. 7-9 pm at 514 E. Palace Ave., $45, limited to eight, email your reservation to elissaheyman@earthlink.net. SUMMER CIRCLE: SANTA FE, NM, JUNE 14TH, SATURDAY 7-9 PM Get in touch with your creative spirit, commune with your inner self, and participate in age-old techniques for personal transformation in a Creative Spirit Circle. Borrowing from simple, enduring practices found in tribal cultures around the world, we will create ceremonies to release the past, receive new inspiration, and manifest our creativity and inner magic. Each circle includes clairvoyant reading and divination, energy release work, and intuition development. All supplies and tools provided (dried sage, fresh rue, divination tools, beeswax candle to take home.) ...from an Oklahoma City Circle participant, Fall 2007: "The experience of being in your group intuition circle for 2 separate sessions was very enlightening. Both circles were composed of 8 people who were committed to being explorers of the inner life. Both groups were different both in content and in composition. From the first group, I benefitted from the group reading and the individual messages you gave us. Group sharing was also great. In the second group, I loved the tree exercise we did and the stone reading we did as a group. Again, the sharing was very helpful as was your input that came from that part of you that is so very wise. Thank you for the experience." -Nancy Brawner MSW A description of circle work from improv artist and writer Ruth Zaporah. (www.actiontheater.com) "I lead workshops in improvisation physical theater. Last June I invited 15 highly skilled performers/former students to come to New Mexico practice for 2 weeks, and then do a show for the Santa Fe community. I invited Elissa to bring herself into this process, suspecting that her skills would add to the furtherance of the group's process and the individuals’ capacity to listen, see and intuit. These same capacities are required of improvisors. . I didn't know what to expect. Early in our process, the second night, Elissa came out in the evening and we formed a circle out on the land. Her way with us was relaxed, unpretentious, humorous, yet deeply responsive to the place, the collective and the individuals. Her contemporary chanting was welcoming, true and of herself. It brought us all to a relaxed, open and connected space. Knowing these people, I was amazed by her ability to access information about them and the compassionate yet direct way she spoke. The next day in practice I noticed a change. Everyone had dropped down into deeper places within themselves and loving places with each other. Just about everyone signed up for private sessions with Elissa, some more than once. One participant in particular was having trouble, speaking negatively, staying apart, causing ripples in the circle. After her session with Elissa, she became accessible, open- hearted, fun. The day we spent in the white cliffs of Abiquii, Elissa again formed a circle, chanted her beautiful, jazzy melody, dusted each with her giant feather and prepared everyone to again see and listen, to be open to the place, its voice, its messages, teachings. The stories people returned with were profound, rich, clear instructions for the turning of their lives. I am having another group come next month. Without hesitation, I invited Elissa to again be part of the process." -Ruth Zaporah, Action Theater, international performance artist and teacher   Are you interested in a circle or workshop? Check to current newsletter for location details, or contact me at 505-982-3294 or in the form below.