This Wednesday Sandbox gathering we celebrate Leonard's 40th birthday Sandbox style by doing desert on him. After dinner Leonard will lay on a table and be covered with desert topings, fruit, cream and chocolate then who ever wants to can eat desert off him. A sensuous and yummy experience. (The shower is available after for Leonard to clean up)

If you want to celebrate your birthday or some other special event this way just let me know and we can arrange it! You chose how much clothing to wear (swim suit or birthday suit are suggested attire and what kind of deserts you want putting on you).

The desert begins after dinner at 8pm.  I invite you to join us, though as always what ever choice you make you will be honored in.

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This Wednesday Sandbox gathering we learn some Kundalini Yoga to move beyond depression and despondency from yogini Dana Verkouteren.

The tragedy of depression is the lack of ambition, the motion towards caring for oneself. If your groove is under a rock somewhere please join us. In this gathering we'll be using mantra (sound current), movements, breath, relaxation, and meditation to open up a more balanced relationship between the true you and your psyche. These are fabulous tools you can use whenever needed.

Never done Kundalini yoga before? Don't worry Dana promises to make this workshop accessible to beginners! Be sure to bring your body, comfortable clothes and if you have one a yoga mat and blanket (I will have some spare blankets to use)

The movement begins after dinner at 8pm.  I invite you to join us, though as always what ever choice you make you will be honored in.

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This Wednesday Sandbox gathering we look at what gets our juices flowing. Have you ever worked in a job you couldn't stand? Or are there parts of your job that you love and others that drain your energy? Or is it your relationships that you want more passion in? If you aren't passionate about what YOU are doing, now is the time to change that. Passionate people have more fun at work, make more money and I believe attract better coworkers too!

The first step is to take The Passion Test (based on a book by Chris and Janet Attwood http://www.thepassiontest.com/ ). It's a simple, yet powerful process that will help you discover the five things that matter most to you in your life. Let us show you how to use The Passion Test and the unique technology that goes along with it, to start now and create the kind of life you have always wanted to live.

Isn't it about time you begin living YOUR dreams? Do you know you have a greater purpose, but you're not yet living it? How closely is your current life aligned with your passions? Your Passion Score will tell you. Most people get a wake up call about where they've been putting their attention after they score their top 5 passions.

The discovery process begins after dinner at 8pm.  I invite you to join us, though as always what ever choice you make you will be honored in.

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Happy Imbolc! Today is the pagan cross quarter day of Imbolc. I suggest we celebrate with a small ritual at this week's Wednesday gathering. Perhaps lighting candles and creating new passion for the year ahead - which would fit in well with the topic of "the passion test" for Wednesday. Any other ideas?

While less famous than Solstice or Beltane, Imbolc, also known as Candlemas,  is the re awaking of the Earth Mother so that She may return to make our lands green again. It is also a time when the Sun God is encouraged to grow in strength so that He may awaken the Goddess from Her Winter slumber.

Imbolc actually means "in womb". This refers to all the Life that is laying beneath the hard frozen ground, in our Earth Mothers "womb", waiting to come forth in the Spring. It is up to the Sun God to warm the frozen ground and stir these seeds so they may blossom.

In our tradition, we take this time to encourage others and ourselves. The dark Winter months tend to depress many people, and several seem to give up hope. On Imbolc we restore that hope in order to survive. We light candles in a variety of ways to show that there will be brighter times and hopefully to encourage that inner light within all of us to ignite and flare.

Interestingly Imbolc may also be seen as the pagan version of Valentine's Day, with a de-emphasis of 'hearts and flowers' and an appropriate re-emphasis of Pagan carnal frivolity. This also re-aligns the holiday with the ancient Roman Lupercalia, a fertility festival held at this time, in which the priests of Pan ran through the streets of Rome whacking young women with goatskin thongs to make them fertile. The women seemed to enjoy the attention and often stripped in order to afford better targets.

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