releasing inherited trauma

Autumn News 2019

October has arrived and suddenly , it seems, the air has taken on the autumn chill. My roses, however, which have given me endless joy all summer, are still blooming. Frost has not yet hit. The photograph above was taken on Prince Edward Island, the beach of red rock near where I stayed last summer. It reminds me of New Mexico, and I have similar feelings about both places. They call forward wild nature, vast silence, and an infinite peace.

This fall, my Wednesday and Thursday Authentic Movement classes are underway. They will run through the Solstice and then will start back up again in January. I am offering a Beginning Authentic Movement Series this fall which will begin on Wednesday evening October 30 and run for seven weeks from 6:30-8:30. This is a wonderful opportunity to try out this form if you have ever wondered about it. A great group formed already but there is room room for 2-3 more people. The cost is $140.00 for the seven week series. Contact me if you are interested.

In November, I am offering a Family Constellation workshop. This will happen on Saturday , November 16 from 1:00-5:00. You can find details in the calendar section of my website by clicking on that date. This is really important work that cuts through entanglements in the energetic field of the family or system and allows healing and flow to begin or to restore. It is powerful and it is real. Often, we are carrying burdens that we cannot resolve because they do not belong to us. This work deals with identifying and helping to resolve that. There is currently room for two people to present their constellation and have the group work with it and there are several spots open for representatives. Contact me at jansandman@comcast.net to register. Spread the word if you know others who would be interested.

I have recently been asked to go to Asheville NC and to Minnesota to offer Constellation workshops and Authentic Movement workshops, so that may be coming up this winter.

I am always available for individual sessions. These times are enormously open to change. The energy is potent and very available. I am in service to kindness and consciousness prevailing.

May our paths cross.

Summer Newsletter 2019

June , 2019

As we approach the Summer Solstice, I realize that I have not posted a newsletter yet this year and am surprised by that. The year has been full. Authentic Movement classes have been powerful and full. I offered a Beginning class on Wednesday nights during the winter. It was well attended and a beautiful beginning into the depth of this form. If any of you are interested in practicing, please drop me a line and let me know. It is through interest that the classes and workshops develop.

Kelley Hunter, astromythologist and I offered a workshop combining Authentic Movement and the Astrology of Moving through the Eclipse Portal in the early part of the year. We are currently planning another offering and the details will be formed soon.

I have offered several Family Constellation Workshops this year and will continue to do so. These are usually offered on a Saturday afternoon in Montpelier, but not always. If you have done this work, you know about its effectiveness and mystery in releasing inherited patterns and entanglements in ancestral and family systems. If you haven’t yet tried it but want to or just want to know more, please give me a call and I am happy to talk about it with you. I am planning to make some short videos to post that will address certain aspects. I will post them on my website and on my Facebook page–Jan Sandman: Listening into the Center. Constellation work can be done in a group and can also be done privately and over Skype or FaceTime.

In August, I will again be teaching at the New England Women’s Herbal Conference. I will lead three workshops, one regarding Authentic Movement and Moving with the Plants, a Constellation workshop creating a Prayer for the Earth and the third, a Sound Healing Ceremony. If you plan to go to the New England Women’s Herbal Conference this year, perhaps I will see you there. https://www.newomensherbal.com

Since March, I have been working in a new painting studio and loving it. I just created a website for my art work and will be adding to it over time. Here is the link in case you are interested. https://www.jansandmanart.com

And as always, you can contact me for private sessions.

I wish you all a glorious Summer Solstice.

Jan

Spring, 2018

Dear Friends,

Today, I put the geraniums that had wintered over inside and were in full bloom out on the porch even though it is not yet May. I am ready for Spring, the soft rain, the brightening light, longer days, lighter or no layers needed, the soft ground. My birthday is in April and this rose was centered in a spring bouquet of flowers I received in honor of my birth. I love all flowers but roses hold a special place as a representation of the layers of love in the heart and soul, layers of complexity, layers of beauty, layers of growth, connectedness, what is open, what remains hidden, what is possible, color, fragrance, patience, softness. So this rose is inside and the geraniums are outside. The rose is now receding while the geraniums burst. Life.

A good friend died this past month…her death fast and holy, like a shooting star lighting up the heavens….bright, bright, bright and then gone. She leaves in her wake the legacy of the profound ways she touched so many people, her deep faith in humanity’s goodness. And the reminder that every moment matters.

I am paying more consistent attention these days to exploring through painting, appreciating the mystery and delight of the process and how painting somehow has the capacity to reach something in me which then feels completed or expressed by the painting’s existence. I am fascinated by this and by how words are not a necessary part of this completion. Life beyond language.

Several offerings this Spring and Summer. On Saturday, May 19th, I am offering a Family Constellation workshop. These workshops are very powerful and healing whether you come as a representative or as someone who is presenting a personal constellation for the group to work with. They can clear both specific and universal disruptions in the flow of love that moves through the generations, and in fact moves through all things. The complete description is in the Calendar section of the website. Just click on the date in the calendar and the full description will come up. Contact me to register, or for more information.

In midsummer, either July 6, 7 or 8, I will be offering a day long Authentic Movement workshop. Details will follow soon, but do let me know if you are interested and I will be sure you receive a flyer.

This year, I have the honor of offering an Authentic Movement workshop at the Women’s Herbal Conference on Friday , August 24th. So many bright beings come together at this gathering. Perhaps I will see you there! https://www.newomensherbal.com

As always, I offer individual sessions, across the dimensions of what I am versed in, from bodywork to sound healing, family constellations, authentic movement, spiritual clarity, energy work.

Thank you for reading. Let me know if I can be of service or if you would like to register for one of my offerings.

as the spring light shines,

as ever,

Jan

Upcoming Book Reading and Family Constellation Workshop

Dear Friends,
I have recently returned from a magnificent journey through the American Southwest,
spending time immersed in the vastness of the land, the saturation of prayer and reverence for life throughout the area. I am deeply grateful.
Two opportunities have arisen in May for me to read from my new book, White Stones, Bones and Mist:Authentic Movement and Living Prayer. One is on Thursday, May 25 from 7:00-8:30 at the Jaquith Public Library in Marshfield and the other is on Tuesday, May 30, at 7:00 pm at the TW Wood Art Gallery on 46 Barre Street in Montpelier. In both of these events, I will be sharing space with Patty Joslyn, who will read from her new book, Ru min ate: Meditations on Mystical Wisdoms. There will be books to buy if you so desire, or just come and listen. Refreshments will be served.

Also, There are a couple of spaces for representatives in the upcoming Family Constellation workshop on May 20 from 1:00-5:00. If you have tried this work, you know its effectiveness , beauty and power. If you haven’t tried it, but are interested, this is a great opportunity. So much benefit comes from this work for everyone involved at any level. Call me at 229-4671 to register or send me and email.

Bell Rock, Sedona
Image by Jan Sandman

Family Constellation Workshop, Authentic Movement Classes

Dear Friends,

It feels so good to greet the Spring at last. I will very soon be traveling to the Southwest, Four Corners area, a journey I have looked forward to for many years. To be immersed in that sacred landscape, I am certain will bring many gifts. I look forward to sharing them upon my return. The Authentic Movement classes have mostly filled and will be beginning in May. There may be some room in the Thursday class. You can check with me if you are interested. If you are interested in learning or participating in this form in the future, let me know and I will inform you when the next round begins. My book, White Stones, Bones, and Mist: Authentic Movement and Living Prayer is on sale through Amazon.com or Createspace. For local people I also have some copies available here. On May 20, I will be offering a Family Constellation workshop from 1:00-5:00. If you have ever thought about trying this work, it is a powerful and dynamic way of reconnecting, revealing and repairing inherited family dynamics. The description can be found in the calendar events section of my website.

I will write again after traveling and hope to see some of you at the Family Constellation workshop.

Enjoy the approaching awakening!

Jan

FAMILY CONSTELLATIONS

This is my great grandmother. Gramma MacDonald. Mary. She was born on the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. I visited there several years ago and experienced the land where she was born and lived. She moved from the island as a young woman and had her children in North America–Martha’s Vineyard and then Canada. When I visited the island, I met a second cousin, who remarkably is the town historian. He told me that she sent letters home to Scotland regularly indicating that she always longed for Scotland although she never returned. You can see in this photo that she is knitting, smiling, with her bonnet on. There is an open book in her lap which very likely is the family Bible, which I now have in my possession. Its binding is completely disintegrating. Do I have it rebound? Or let the disintegration continue? The beauty of something so deeply loved and consulted dissolving—like a fading flower.

Just as we inherit genes that determine eye color, height, body type, we also inherit the energy of our families. What we do with that, how we stand with that is up to each of us.

Families are energy systems, among other things. Family energy systems know and remember all that occurs. Many of the things that occur are flowing and beautiful, no matter the family circumstance. And some things are painful. Sometimes too painful, to be fully acknowledged and integrated into consciousness. Those events or dynamics are pushed away, hidden in the deep shadows of the family field. But they are not forgotten.

Subsequent generations sometimes can feel, sense, act out, live these unacknowledged events, emotions, dynamics without knowing what is happening. Family constellation work reveals the hidden energies so that they can be held in consciousness, accepted and integrated into the complex living matrix which is a family. Not only are hidden difficulties revealed, but also hidden resources, hidden gems of wisdom, compassion, understanding.

My experience is if something exists in a family, then somehow the family has the energy or resource to hold it in consciousness , love, compassion and understanding. It may be necessary to access deep ancestral roots to find this compassion, or it may be that through some members of the family, access to universal energies can pour into the family field.

There is a workshop coming up on February 11 in the afternoon . There is room to come as a representative if you would like to experience this work. Contact me through this website or through email at jansandman@comcast.net It can be life changing in a good way. I offer these workshops on a regular basis. To be directly informed, subscribe to my website news and you will receive a notice when a new workshop is announced.