Monthly Archives: December 2009

Veriditas Labyrinth Dinner, Lecture, and Walk with Lauren Artress

Sunday, January 31, 2010
5:30 PM to approximately 8:30 PM
Sunday, January 31, 2010

Reservations are required. $60 per events.  For group discounts, call the office at 707-283-0373.

Visit the Veriditas site for information and registration

The evenings include:

• Labyrinth walk on the IONS Veriditas Labyrinth or indoor labyrinth depending on weather)
• Lecture on The Mystery and Meaning of the Labyrinth, using the labyrinth as a transformative practice
• Dinner of California fresh cuisine

The IONS Retreat Center is a beautiful collection of indoor and outdoor meeting spaces located on the IONS campus in Petaluma, California. Just 30 minutes north of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Retreat Center is on 200 acres of beautiful rolling hills. It offers such gifts as pristine live oak woodlands, meandering hiking trails, and endless panoramic vistas of the California landscape.

Since we started selling Chakra Candles, we have been learning about Chakras, and their associated colors, scents, and power centers.

Chakra Candles

Found an interesting chart to share. It doesn't quite fit on our blog layout, but you can see the entire chart at chakraenergy.com

We have added new products to the website. Check out the Feng Shui Candles and the pillar and votive Chakra Candles.

Feng Sui Jar Candles

Here's an interesting article we found about using candles in Feng Shui decorating.  Written by Jennifer Hall for  Enchanted Spirit.

The basic belief behind Feng Shui is that there are five elements, some combinations of which create a productive cycle, and some a destructive cycle. When one of these five elements -- water, wood, fire, earth, and metal, respectively for the productive cycle -- are combined with an element adjacent to the main element, a productive cycle is perpetuated.
Water sustains wood, wood feeds fire, ashes create earth, earth creates metal, and metal holds water. So if you have a room where wood is the main element, it would be good Feng Shui to add a water or fire element to the room, as water feeds wood and wood feeds fire. This is where candles would be a nice touch of good Feng Shui.

It is beneficial to bear in mind the productive and destructive cycles while decorating, but for optimum Feng Shui, a room would have an equal balance of all five elements -- none being too overpowering. If this isn't the case and there is not one overpowering element, then the productive cycle is a good place to start when decorating.

Now that we have a basic understanding of the elements, we can see how to best utilize candles in our decorating. In areas with predominately metal or water elements -- rooms which would have a lot of blue or silver colors or metallic furnishings -- a candle would help minimize the overpowering colors and add balance.

If you want to start using Feng Shui in a room with no overpowering elements, you could bring in a candle and a complimentary element like a plant or a brown oval rug since that color and shape are associated with the earth element.

Candles can be an easy way to bring a natural element into your home and can be a good starting place for implementing Feng Shui design. Not to mention that scented candles are often great Feng Shui because of the mood-enhancing qualities certain scents have. Candles provide a simple start in creating a pleasant ambiance and good decorating style.

From the Labyrinth at St. John’s church in Dryden, Michigan:

The labyrinth is not a maze.  There is single path that leads to the center by way of many twists and turns which will also lead the walker safely back out again.  The labyrinth, dating back to the Bronze Age, seems to emerge in culture whenever there has been a great need in that society.

There is mystery.  Labyrinths are mystical because they touch each person at their point of need, joy and celebration.  No two walks on the labyrinth are the same.

There is no wrong way to use the labyrinth.  It is most helpful to take your time, let go of the things that are troubling you and receive what God has for you without expectations.