September 2009

Spread the Light At the Pittsburgh Center for Complementary Health and Healing our mission is to positively impact our community through improving the health, wellbeing and quality of life for our clients and the world in which we live.

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Celebrating Women’s Wisdom, Day of Workshops

Here is a great event that the Pittsburgh Center for Complementary Health and Healing is excited to be a part of, right here in Regent Square!

CELEBRATING WOMEN'S WISDOM

Join us for a day of workshops connecting, celebrating and honoring women’s wisdom. 

Saturday, October 17, 2009

9:30 am to 5pm

Environmental Charter School, Regent Square

829 Milton St.  15218

Facilitated by Cindy Petrakis-Mason and Diane Feliciani

$45 (includes lunch) or $40 (bring your own lun

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 The Mass Meditation for Peace was created out of a need to have a response to the G20 Summit that was both spiritually modivated and politically conscious. There has been a lot of fear and chaos around this Summit coming to Pittsburgh. We wanted to provide a venue that would make people feel comfortable to participate and express thier concerns about the Summit through just being present.

Our message, in the words of Thich Nhat Hanh, is "Peace in Oneself, Peace in the World". We will be gathered to show the importance of creating peace within oneself.

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Toy Drive for Serbian Orphanages

In mid-October, I will be travelling to my parents’ homeland, Serbia and visiting 3 orphanages.  I plan to bring 2 big suitcases of toys to the children.  If you, like most of us American families, have an overabundance of toys in your house, imagine the joy they could bring to the faces of parentless children living in an eternal daycare. 

I am looking for small, clean items without much written English (no books) such as:  puzzles, games, stuffed animals, coloring books, mazes, crayons, markers, little cars and trucks, legos, crafty items, beads and string, etc.

The de

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New Light on a Very Old Poem

I recently came across and old friend; a poem I read about 10 years ago and never forgot.  It is called “The Guest House” by the 13th century Sufi mystic, Rumi.  Some of you may remember it since it was often used in spiritual growth circles.  It was short and powerful and emotionally translated to a more modern vernacular by Coleman Barks. 

Last Christmas my husband bought me a new collection of Rumi poems (The Rumi Collection: edited by Kabir Hemlinski) that were painstakingly translated to resemble as much of the original poetry as possible.  When I got to ”The Guest House” I was moved by

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