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Sensuality, Sexuality, & Spirituality:
A Heart Circle
November 20, 2008, 7:30 PM ~ 9:00 PM
Salt Lake City, UT
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This Heart Circle will be an exploration of the stories we carry about our sexuality, sensuality and Love for each other. Simply come prepared to share and participate in this discussion. Light refreshments will be served.
What is a HEART CIRCLE?
Heart circle is one of the central traditions of faerie community and is quickly becoming a favorite Queer Spirit Activity. We come together in a circle to speak from the heart, and to listen to one another through our hearts. Usually a talisman of some kind (a talking stick, a shawl, a day-glo bubble wand) is used to identify who is speaking -- as long as that person holds the talisman that person speaks, without interruption or feedback, and everyone else listens, with as much attention and compassion as we can muster. In some heart circles the talisman is passed around the circle and each person has that opportunity to speak or to pass the talisman. In other circles when one person is done speaking, any other person may ask for it. Either way, passing the talisman is an intimate exchange, often accompanied by a hug or a kiss. Speaking from the heart is difficult to define, but we know when we're doing it, and when we're not. The quality of a heart circle comes as much (or more) from the listening as from the speaking. Many of us have had some or our most deeply emotional, healing, transformative experiences in heart circle.
