Mary Alice O'Connor

I Love My Body, I Love MyselfSM
Re-awakening to our true natures and expanding our life choices

A Workout for the Inner Levels
Awakening to Our True Nature

Our bodies are worthy of the best life has to offer.
—MAO

Strength, Stability, Flexibility, Endurance, the keywords of the fitness industry have as much to do with us operating on mental, emotional, spiritual and physical dimensions as keeping fit with aerobics and weights. Bringing a practice of spiritual fitness into our lives lets us count on ourselves during difficult times. This class brings to awareness the many ways we disapprove of ourselves and blame it on our bodies and ourselves and offers ways to see ourselves in a new light, the light of true self-esteem. We do this through teachings, conversation, meditation and written work.

Our Earth as Art . . . Bahamas by Satellite

We will:

• Learn the four levels of experience – mental, emotional, spiritual and physical and how to journey through them without getting snagged by habitual response.
• Send the critic to bed and forget to set the alarm clock.
• Find intimacy with our true selves and our spiritual nature.
• Tend to our bodies through the regenerating love we are experiencing for ourselves.

Where we are going in this class and the bottom line is to become gaga about ourselves and our bodies so that we can love and appreciate ourselves exactly as we are. How about a little radical self-acceptance? Energy flows through every cell in your body and lets us sense life in all its forms. What shall we feed that life force in our bodies? We require more than resolutions, more than good water and food, more than a physical workout.

Some of us forget our bodies as much as possible or judge them against cultural norms. We think and speak badly about our bodies forgetting that they are the very vehicle that we travel in through life—our temple, our closest ally, and our first home. What happens when we feed our bodies loving life-filled words and thought? That energy or life force will respond in kind. Through new ideas, using practices that we may already know, teaching, conversation, meditation and homeplay learn to:
• Speak gently to yourself
• Increase self esteem and release self-judgment
• Use the creative power of your word to your own best interest

Four group sessions – $150 includes workbook. Deposit required to hold your place. Payment plans available.

Where: Pleasant Hill

When: Beginning again in June 2012. 6:45 PM to 9:00 PM

Registration: Call Mary Alice at 925-256-9787 or email maoministry@gmail.com