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Events
October 23 (Sunday), Noon - 6PM. SWIHA's Body-Mind-Spirit Celebration. Maria will be "Running the Bars" and selling her books and healing bundles at one of the booths at this event. Go to this link to see details. Southwest Institute of Healing Arts is located at:
1100 E. Apache Blvd.; Tempe, AZ 85281. Phone: 480-994-9244.
February 3 (Friday), 5-8PM & February 4 (Saturday), 12 - 4PM
Book Signing at Andrea Smith Gallery, Sedona, AZ
336 State Route 179 # D102 Sedona, AZ 86336-6175 Phone: (928) 203-9002
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Presentations
December 12 (Monday), 6:30 - 8:30 PM: Conversations on Death without Dying
with Shamanic transformational guide, Giselle Suarez
The Zen House in Sedona (VOC): 115 LaBarranca Drive
RSVP needed: Call Maria (928) 284-4192 or Giselle (928) 274-1391
December 14 (Wednesday), 5:30 - 9PM: Maneuvering Change with Grace, Ease, & Joy!
Presentation for the Saddlebrook Metaphysical Group at Saddlebrooke Country Club Activity Center
64518 E, Galveston (corner of Samaniego Dr. & Galveston), in Saddlebrooke, Tucson, AZ
Contact person: Louise Sample - (520) 825-4037
Light food social time at 5:30; Presentation will begin at 7PM.
December 15 (Thursday): Maria will be doing sessions of her energy work in a Casita at Saddlebrooke. If you're interested in having a session, please contact her directly.
January 6 (Friday), 5:30 - 7PM: Maneuvering Change with Grace, Ease & Joy!
Presentation for the Sedona, AZ Elks Club in W. Sedona at the Sedona Elks Lodge #2291
110 Airport Road; Sedona, AZ 86336. Phone: (928) 282-3030
January 26 (Thursday), 3:30 - 5:30PM: Maneuvering Change with Courage, Grace, and Joy!
Sedona Library: 3250 White Bear Road; Sedona, AZ 86336 (Love Offering)
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Community Seminar:
End of Life Transitions
Are you and your loved ones prepared emotionally and spiritually for the most important day (moment) of your life? Join us for an inspirational evening of conversation around the topic of end-of-life care and spiritual readiness. Rev. Maria Dancing Heart Hoaglund has visited Sunrise View over the years to visit her patients. She is impressed by the loving, compassionate care that the residents of Sunrise receive from the cheerful and upbeat staff!
Dancing Heart has written several books. And she has a passion for sharing the holistic healing and relaxation tools that can assist people to relax at the end of life. Come and hear about the many ideas and resources that Dancing Heart has to share from her many years of experience in her field. (Books and Soul Baskets/Bundles will be available for purchase at end of program.)
Grief Seminar:
The Transforming Power of Grief
It has been said that if all the women of the world could cry at once, we would have peace in an instant. If you have lost a loved one, you know what a challenge and opportunity it can be to let go. What can grief teach us? How can we help one another move through this process? What are some ways to ease the pain and let go with grace and ease? Come join us for a creative discussion about grief and it's "cousin" death -- with the Rev. Maria Dancing Heart Hoaglund.
Teleconference:
Tele-conference on "Making Friends with Death." Anyone curious about death, grief, and the afterlife is invited to join us for this 1-hour seminar. We will touch on how the divine feminine rising in our society is helping us make friends with the shadow sides of life, including death.
Workshops:
Making Friends with the Last Adventure of Life
It has been said that if all the women of the world could cry at once, the world could have peace in an instant! If everyone who needs to cry could cry, we could create more peace-full communities. Come and join us for an exploration of the power of grief and death ("letting go" of all kinds) in our lives. Maria Dancing Heart, author of The Last Adventure of Life, will lead us through an exploration of how to help ourselves and others better express the unshed tears and "pent up" losses in our lives. Together, we will renew our spirits as we share our stories and healing tools around the "final transition" and the grief & letting go process. A powerful process of transformation is now marking our entire world. We will create an interactive time to move deeper into issues around transformation, grief, and death.
"The Last Adventure of Life: Bringing Death Back to Life"
Dinner Program at the Center for Education, Stanford Hospital & Clinics
Standford, CA
In this engaging seminar, you will hear inspirational stories, anecdotes, and gleanings from a spiritual and bereavement counselor's many years of experience with hospice. In these times when it feels like we're moving through major transitions of one kind or another, we can learn a great deal from what death teaches us. We will reflect together on how we might better prepare for death as we explore different cultures and traditions and how they approach death and grief as well.
In this course you will also learn some simple "tricks" for relaxation and healing from some of the many and varied complementary and integrative modalities. If you can relax enough, you can maneuver through any change, even the biggest change of your life!
CEUs Now Available
1 CEU is awarded for each 10 hours of workshop time.
Bridge to Dreams, in partnership with The Heritage Institute (THI) awards continuing education units (CEUs) to professionals required to maintain their professional licenses. THI, PO Box 860, Clinton WA 98236, has been reviewed and approved as an Authorized Provider of CEUs by the International Association of Continuing Education & Training (IACET), 8405 Greensboro Drive Suite 800, McLean VA 22102. THI awards one (1) CEU for each ten (10) hours of work successfully completed. CEUs from IACET are accepted by most state licensing departments, departments of education, school districts and professional associations. Please check with your state or professional office prior to taking courses to determine their policy on IACET CEUs.
IACET website: www.iacet.org
THI website: www.hol.edu
For more information please contact Dancing Heart.
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Interviews
Interview with Sue May of Canon Hospice in New Orleans.
Interview with Lynn Thompson of Living on Purpose of Women's Radio.
Guest Appearance on Co-Creator Radio Network with host Leigh Kubin.
Guest Appearance on "Forever Family Foundation" Radio Show, Interview with Betty Kovacs (author of The Miracle of Death) -- Can We Face Death With Courage and Curiosity?
Guest Appearance on Co-Creator Radio Network with host Leigh Kubin.
Second Interview with Joseph Varley Presents, "Home and Back", KLAY (1180 AM) Tacoma, WA
Interview with Joseph Varley Presents, "Home and Back", KLAY (1180 AM) Tacoma, WA
Interview with Pamela Marie Edmunds, "Bridge Between Two Worlds" Radio Show (Contact Talk Radio Network)
Interview with Conversations Live with Vicki St. Clair, KKNW (1150 AM & 98.9 HD). Listen here.
Interview with medium and spiritual guide Eva Ravenwood now available.
Interview on "Tell Me Your Story" with Richard Dugan available to listen to now.
Interview with Deborah Beauvais of Dreamvisions 7 Radio Network. Listen here.
Interview with Rev. Anne Marie Evers, the "affirmation doctor," at Contact Radio, 106.9 AM, HD Channel. Listen here.
Interview with Darren Main, Yoga teacher and fellow author (through Findhorn Press) on his show "Inquire Within." Listen here. |
Day Seminars:
JOYFUL TRANSITIONS: Bringing Death and Grief Back to Life
One could say that the entire world today is "on hospice." We are all being called to let go of the old aspects of our lives and ourselves that no longer serve us. This seminar will help you discover new ways to let go and grieve and forgive the past so that you can move into the joy and sweet harmony that is awaiting you, now. Learn some of the all too well-kept secrets of hospice and liberate your spirituality to a new level.
We will explore how to weave life and death back together again in a culture that has "pathologized" and separated death from life. We will look at ways that death can teach us about life, and how we can remain open to learning from death and grief in our lives. Simple techniques for relaxation and healing will be taught that can assist people who are moving through any kind of transition and stress. These are techniques that can also be used for healthy self-care.
Some questions to ponder:
1) What or who do I need to grieve and "let go of" in my life at this time?
2) Who do I need to forgive in my life -- to help me live more fully in the moment?
3) What are some ways that could help me relax and bring more JOY into my life right now?
Pieces to be covered during the seminar:
* The transforming power of grief
* Forgiveness (letting go) piece
* Healing/relaxation tools, including possibly a DVD on healing dreams and symbolism (from one musician's long process with cancer)
Please be in touch with Dancing Heart if you or your organization are interested in hosting a day seminar. We would need to have at least 10 people to work with.
Testimonial:
Maria's coming to Sedona, AZ and going ahead with her Day Seminar with flexibility, depth of resources and permission for me "to take care of myself" was most helpful. I am thankfull for her redirecting me to put the energy of "my fear of dying" to positive work. I meditatively visualize the re-generating of my Heart, Liver, & Brain cells and borrow from Maria's name Dancing Heart.
--Bus the Awakening Heart, survivor of 10 heart attacks
Your workshop was an excellent combination of all things we should be aware to change our lives and destiny. I loved the film you showed and the meditation was wonderful. Most of all was the sharing among us on stories and feelings. It wasn't just another death and dying seminar. It was a death and living one. Thank you. I now look at the death of my mother in a new way.
-- Kathleen Nelson, RN BHS
Most wonderful workshop... Forgiveness Meditation was the deepest and most profound because my children who rarely call, called me within a half an hour of each other right after the seminar. It was an amazing event! Learned some wonderful tools like the "silent witness" method to use with people whose animal friends have passed on. Love the book -- it's a wealth of helpful resources and stories. You've clearly done your research!
-- Ann, pet care provider |
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Testimonials
The Last Adventure of Life has been a wonderful blessing for the women in our book study group at Horizon House, a retirement community and life care facility. Maria has made it possible for us to look at and to think about leaving the Earth plane with much less fear and more faith in what awaits us on the other side. Maria's accounts of her experiences in Hospice and her choices of the writings of others will be so very helpful and comforting to us and our loved ones as we approach our own "Last Adventure". Thank you, Maria! Blessings always!
-- Louise Barker, Horizon House resident
"Maria brings great heart to a gentle exploration of what it means to experience the losses that come with transitions. As a participant in her workshop, I found tools to shine a light on feelings that had been deeply held but never really shared...and in doing so found new beginnings of healing with grace and warmth and safety."
-- Terra Kelsey, healer
"Having experienced several deaths in my own family, and ministering to countless families in grief after the loss of loved ones, Maria's workshop on grief and end-of-life care was of tremendous benefit. We want all of our Stephen Ministers to have this experience as they also deal with so many who experience loss and grief."
-- Rev. Mark Dowdy, The United Churches of Olympia, Presbyterian (USA) and United Church of Christ
"Thank you so much for a wonderful workshop in Portland...it helped me personally and professionally...the content was varied and all of it interesting...I loved your style and hospitality with each of us...you left me wanting to listen to more and that is a very good thing...I bought your book at New Renaissance and have told others about you and your book...so glad to have connected with you and thank you for all that you gave me--us!! Peace and Joy."
-- Jan Kalberer, M.A.
"After reading a little of The Last Adventure of Life, I heard about the workshop from my volunteer coordinator. This is something that would benefit my hospice work, I thought.
The workshop involved doing some personal grief work. My mom had passed four years ago and I felt I had worked well through that, forgetting that relations with a particular family member had been very strained ever since mom's death. I had perhaps given up on the family member after a few seeming failed attempts, so during the workshop I focused again on Mom.
I came to another new awareness of Mom's passing that day, which was well worth the effort, but in addition I soon realized something else had shifted. Maria shared about forgiveness at the workshop, and encouraged us to do further reading from her book on the subject, which I did.
A few days later, I noticed the change. The resentment I had been carrying since Mom's death towards the family member, was gone. I am now able to think about her and talk to her without the hurt and pain of the past. I am thrilled to have a soft place in my heart again for my sister.
Thank You Maria Dancing Heart."
-- Louise, hospice volunteer
"Maria - I love your gentle, open-hearted approach. You were very flexible and ready to meet the needs of our group, which were very diverse. You are an amazing resource, and seemed to have a wealth of experience and contacts. Your suggestions following some of our questions and interests were helpful.
The flow of the day went well. I'm glad we were given two options for the afternoon. Both were good ones! ... I will appreciate your book as a wonderful point of reference ... Again, thank you for being very thorough in your research and in your presentation. You were quite helpful."
-- Jackie Huetter, hospice lay minister |
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