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Live and Online in.Gratitude course
Saturdays, May 3rd to June14th, 2025 | 10:30am-12:00pm PST [NOTE: No class on the holiday weekend Saturday May 17th. Recordings for all sessions included] Intention Wares' (intentionwares.ca) in.Gratitude course is a 6-week online live interactive inquiry into the world of gratitude and all it offers. This experience includes an additional powerful setup session to help you prepare. Throughout the course, you'll deepen your relationship with gratitude, strengthen your connection with yourself and others, and embrace the richness of life. Why join the Gratitude inquiry? This course is a meaningful gift to yourself in so many ways: 1. It's an investment into you; your personal growth, life satisfaction and well-being. 2. It's a lifeline for navigating things when life get 'lifey'. 3. It enriches your daily life by enhancing your quality of living even during mundane or difficult times. 4. It's a way to live more fully, engage deeply, and interact meaningfully with your experiences. 5. It provides a simple and effective approach to get clear and create your future. 6. It fosters access to meaningful, connected relationships. 7. It's an uplifting contribution to the collective energy and humanity as a whole. Investment $90 (50% goes to the Jeneece Place; a fully donor run Homes away from Home Victoria, BC Canada. Jeneece Place services Vancouver Island children and their families traveling to Victoria, BC for treatments)  Course Details and Dates
Establish a Meditation Practice 8 week course instructed by Szara Turpel of Life Artist .School. All dates are online zoom meetings. Starts Feb 22nd through to April 12th. Cost for 8 week Establishing your Meditation Practice Course: $80 (all monies collected will go to a collective donation to an initiative supporting well being/peace/unity that the group collectively chooses) To register please fill out the following online form: https://forms.gle/NrncqgyP3mrnzBWE6 Why establish a meditation practice?
This Establishing a Meditation Practice Course will focus on Samatha meditation. Samatha is a 'Pali' word that translates as “tranquility of the mind; mind calmness”. Samatha is developed by Samadhi (“Concentration; one pointedness of the mind; mental discipline”). Through focusing our attention, developing our concentration, mindfulness and mental discipline, we gain expanded access to stay present and ‘be in and with the moment’ without engaging in whatever distractions our environment or mind creates for us. It supports breath or spaciousness in our state and awareness to bring a heightened level of responsiveness vs reactivity. With practice we have greater access to an experience of calmness, clarity and tranquility. Samatha is the foundation of any good meditation practice including Vipassana (insight meditation). We will touch on Vipassana and incorporate the fundamentals setting you up to practice in the later weeks of this course. In this course you will: Learn and experience the many benefits of a meditation practice, Learn varying types of meditations and best use for yourself, Establish your location, timing, rhythm and practice that works best for you and your life, Learn the basics of breathwork and chakras, Work with a mantra, Develop a walking Meditation Practice, Develop a sitting Meditation Practice, Develop an open, insight Meditation Practice, Learn in Community, Have a structure for accountability and support “Meditation is similar to a water filter that removes impurities from the water, leaving the water suitable for drinking, which is essential for good health. Meditation acts as a filter removing negative thoughts and emotions, reducing stress and anxiety, which is essential for good health.” ~Luangphor Viriyang Sirintharo, Master Teacher Course Schedule and Expectations (All times listed are Pacific Standard Time) Please note that daily practices are expected and part of establishing your practice. You will choose your length of time for your daily practice and it is recommended for at least 15 min daily. (I personally recommend 30 min per day) Week 1 Saturday Feb 22, 9:30am-11:30am Optional Group Practices: Tuesday Feb 25, 8am-8:30am | Wednesday Feb 26, 12pm-12:30pm | Thursday Feb 27, 5pm-5:30pm Week 2 Saturday March 1, 9:30am-10:30am Optional Group Practice: Tuesday Mar 4, 8am-8:30am | Wednesday Mar 5, 12pm-12:30pm | Thursday Mar 6, 5pm-5:30pm Week 3 Saturday March 8, 9:30am-10:30am Optional Group Practice: Tuesday Mar 11, 8am-8:30am | Wednesday Mar 12, 12pm-12:30pm | Thursday Mar 13, 5pm-5:30pm Week 4 Saturday March 15, 9:30am-10:30am Optional Group Practices: Tuesday Mar 18, 8am-8:30am | Wednesday Mar 19, 12pm-12:30pm | Thursday Mar 20, 5pm-5:30pm Week 5 Saturday March 22, 9:30am-10:30am Optional Group Practices: Tuesday Mar 25, 8am-8:30am | Wednesday Mar 26, 12pm-12:30pm | Thursday Mar 27, 5pm-5:30pm Week 6 Saturday March 29, 9:30am-10:30am Optional Group Practices: Tuesday Apr 1, 8am-8:30am | Wednesday Apr 2, 12pm-12:30pm | Thursday Apr 3, 5pm-5:30pm Week 7 Saturday April 5, 9:30am-10:30am Optional Group Practices: Tuesday Apr 8, 8am-8:30am | Wednesday Apr 9, 12pm-12:30pm | Thursday Apr 10, 5pm-5:30pm Week 8 Saturday April 12, 9:30am-11:30am Please note: 1. The first class Saturday Feb. 22nd is a mandatory attendance class. For any class not able to attend thereafter it is asked that you request a fellow participant to go over the class missed with you BEFORE the next class so you are up to date and get an opportunity to share and support your practice. 2. This course will be recorded and shared publicly. If you do not want yourself to be on the recording please do not share, use your name on screen or have your video on. You can still join and participate and ask questions before and after recording is on (or ask in the chat box). 3. The information and direction provided in this course is for educational purposes only. Szara Turpel, or Life Artist .School, is not liable for any risks or issues that arise from using the information. Consult a medical or health professional for all health related concerns, including mental and emotional health and well-being. You are of balanced health (body, mind and emotion) and it is appropriate for you to take this course. (if unsure please speak to your health/medical professional).  we invite yoU in.
we invite you in right now. we invite YOU in; inBODY, inMIND, ine.motion, inSPIRIT, inCONSCIOUSCREATION. we invite you inCONSCIOUSNESS. me, myself and mIne invite you, yourself and yoUrs in.  an invitation to interested. truly purely inTERESTed. an invitation in. interested is your lens to dig in. cultivate inTERESTed. utilize inTERESTed. be inTERESTed. definition of interested
1. having the attention engaged 2. being affected or involved word play:  me, myself and mIne | you, yourself and yoUrs with all that I am, was and will be | with all that yoU are, were and will be Love Dis.Covered
Love is everywhere. It comes in many forms of itself. Some forms are so evident it demands of my attention; I fall into; I fall in love. Some forms of love have me question is love here at all; leaving me in despair or resignation, jaded to the idea of love itself. Sometimes love looks like the absence of love; the lack of love; and it’s not. It’s love cleverly disguised. The ‘absence of love’ or lack of love is the contrast to bring love to being, to bring love to form. To bring love to be seen. It’s the sandbox of love. Make this moment freaking count! 'k?
Seriously! You are just too precious not to. This life, this year, this month, this day, this moment; RIGHT NOW. It is YOURS and yours alone. This is your experience; yours to create, yours to say. Sure you don't have much of a say in what happens to you; those bumps that you hit along the way. BUT you sure have a say in who you are about those bumps and how you say it goes from there. And you get to experience it all! All of what it is to be human, the whole range. It is all yours to dis.cover. This moment, this life, it is yours to dis.cover; it is yours to play. This moment is yours to celebrate; it is yours to create. It is literally what you say this moment is that shapes this moment. Reality forms around you. You are creating your reality right here, right now, in this moment. And moment by moment you shape your life. You say. This moment is YOUR moment. Love ya! ~Szara This world is contrast
This world is a perfect place for me to discover. In it’s darkness, in it’s pain, in it’s suffering, I get to feel out all that is here. I have it that this world is here for me to create myself and to rise but really I am already created. I am discovering that creation, that which I really am. I get to discard everything that is not really me. In this world I get to dis.cover me; these pieces of myself; my definition. I can define and refine. It is only with this contrast that I can do this. What am I not comes before what am I. Though what I am was there in the beginning. In contrasting all that I am not I get to see what I am. With contrast I can see. With this contrast I dis.cover. I bump up against everything I am not. I react. In that reaction, *if* I can observe, I get to see what is not me and what is. I get to see what is important which is whispered ever so lightly or roared fiercely. I get to choose what is me once witnessed. I get to choose to let go that which I am not. I get to choose that which I am. In contrast I get clear. I get defined. I get dis.covered. Oh how I love to get mad at the world for not delivering that which I wish for, what I long for. When in fact the world is delivering perfectly. It gives me the walls to bump up against, the contrast to find my edges, to dis.cover my definition, dis.cover the creation I am. And I get to create… not create me as I already am created. I create from me in this ever expansive universe. I create more of the story, the telling of the tale, I create the living form. Living is my art form, life is my medium. I get to dis.cover; I get to play. Thank you beautiful ugly contrasting world for the space you hold for to me dis.cover to create. ~Szara To be seen is the ultimate.
Acknowledged. Validated. Witnessed. I am here. I see you. I hear you. Thank you. I love you. We are here to see life. We are here to experience life. To juice every last inch of it. Every corner. Every crack. Savoured. We are here to BE life. Our ultimate purpose it to be here right now. Experiencing life itself. Life begs of us to experience it. It calls to us. To see it, to hear it, to taste it, to smell it, to touch it, to FEEL it, to witness it. We humans are but life itself in form, this vessel of experience. Begging to be seen, to be heard, to be tasted, to be touched, to be felt, to be witnessed. It is like the code calls the reader who is written in code which calls to be read. Matched in sequence. The code calls to be seen. Life is code and we are the reader. Life is the DNA and we humans are the transcribers. To be seen is to be met where I am. I move forward into it as it moves into me. I am life and life is me. Where does one end and one begin. I see you, I hear you, I taste you, I touch you, I feel you, I witness you. I witness you witnessing me witnessing you witnessing me. I live. I breathe. I witness. I am here. Now. In experience I live. Witnessed. ~Szara Premise
We only have this one life… The one and only life you get to be you in this form, in this body, in this life. WOW, what an honour! What a reason to celebrate. LIVE it! Out loud and proud! Life is here right now to be lived, danced with, fully experienced, savoured, REVERED. You might be thinking… ‘That’s all nice and everything, but that is NOT how my life looks.’ How life tends to be going: I sure know what it feels like and looks like when I’m not connected: Frustration is right there on the edge (at least annoyance), so much feels hard or out-of-reach, reactivity and snappiness can seep in, and this melancholy or lack-lustre feeling keeps lurking in the background. Oh… And don’t forget the tiredness and overwhelm that is right there to be managed. But it’s okay. I am thankful, as I have it better than a lot of other people. I trudge through making the best of things. I smile and think positive, I’m okay. I hold it together. We can’t always have everything, you know. Plus things will get better…. Right? But freaking HOW!?!?! And WHEN? This might sound just too simple and it is. Simple, but NOT easy!! What can we do Be real right now in this moment. Really, how are you feeling? What do you really think? How are things really going? Stop sugar coating and happy face stickering! Experience yourself fully right now, all of it; the good, the bad and the ‘ugly’ (you’d be surprised how beautiful ‘ugly’ is and how great it feels!) Be with it. Honour it. BARE it! Real and Raw. And right then in that moment, we Bare…. We WITNESS. We witness our Whole Self. We witness All of our Humanity. We witness Life…. And everything lives here. In Bare Witnessing, we bring to form; we experience, we contrast, we rise. We VOICE. We LIVE. We CREATE. ~Szara Hello. My name is Szara (say star a few times and take out the t.... sar and now add an a. That's it; szara. the z is silent) Here is a bit about me to give you an idea of who I am, what gives me and my life, and how I have arrived at some of the teachings and learnings I offer. ~enJOY Born a lover of learning | living; (feeler) of life. Szara is a Life Artist | an Alchemist Living is her artform, Life is her medium and Moments are her currency. Szara is WOMAN | girl, sister, dear friend, auntie, daughter | MOTHER. Szara is gotten by life. She has been mesmerized and captivated by the inquiry of what is it to be a human being? what is it to be alive? what is it to be an inLIFE human being at this time and on this planet? what are we here for? what am I doing with this life? She has been swimming in the deep end for many years now; diving deeper into inBODY, inMIND, inSPIRIT, ine.motion, and inCONCIOUSCREATION. Szara's Training Bio Medical Science Meditation Instructor Variety of Holistic Health Modalities Communication Facilitator Law of Attraction Life Coach Performance Life Coach Team Management and Leadership and mumma of 5 boys... that is a training program in itself ;)
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