We are so excited to share with you that this month marks some expansive developments for The Healing Garden. We are busy painting, furnishing, and setting intentions at our new home at 69 Lincolnville Avenue in Belfast. With space for our administrative office and room for small group sharing and healing, the building is behind Hannaford and across the road from Kirby Pond. It is the former location of Nickerson Accounting and, more recently, Solar Logix.
For 2 years we have been working toward this move, a critical step in creating a community clinic that offers a highly conscious and collaborative model of wellness—one that incorporates both ancient and contemporary tools for healing under one roof.
Central to our mission is developing community-centric model of care for the individual and the collective—a model that facilitates healing for those with dis-ease, chronic and complex illness and also creates opportunities for people in more balanced states to offer energy and inspiration to those in need.
A nourishing and grounding pause
During times of change, it’s useful to take a breath, connect to the ground and reflect. We invite you to do that with us right now—please enjoy a moment of pause to look back at what we have created together…and to feel into our future with a sense of inspiration and hearts drawn to greater possibility.
It’s what we are all about—self-awareness, wellness from within, connection, unity consciousness, inspiration and possibility.
Our strategic vision is alive already
During the past 2 years we have been offering opportunities in Waldo and Knox Counties for learning, expanding, sharing and connecting to the healing power within the body and the intelligent healing power of nature itself. Simultaneous to organizing events, building our network of community partners and continuing to learn through experience, we drafted—along with stakeholders of our pilot programs—a strategic vision that will guide our work through 2027. Follow this link to view our entire strategic vision.
Since the beginning, our motto “The Healer is Within You,” and our tagline “Heal Yourself. Heal Others. Thrive!” have guided program development.
We offer events of various lengths and themes to extend opportunities to people from all walks of life to learn evidence-based practices around the natural healing power of the heart and body. We emphasize that we are a community of practice, and learning is the first step in a continuum of engagement, integration and expansion. We incorporate elements of empowered choice-making, body awareness, movement and conscious communication in our Healing Circles, “Tools for Healing” workshops and day-long retreats.
Coming together in the energy of love, courage and honor
We are sensitive to the diverse backgrounds we share, and this awareness has guided how we structure and facilitate our programs. As a community collective, we experience a range of health histories, stressors and mental and emotional challenges. We have a subjective experience of personal, collective and inherited trauma that affects our ability to engage with others, to speak our truth, and even to be present in a healing space.
For so many of us, it’s challenging to do something new, to participate in a group, to encounter our inner being, be vulnerable and explore and allow new and unfamiliar ideas and experiences.
Yet, what we hold in common is a sense that there is a better way to create wellness individually and as a collective…beyond the model we inherited.
The Healing Garden is on a mission to facilitate events that honor each individual as we co-create environments of safety, nurturance, growth, expansion and evolution…for one and all! As a community we are simultaneously creating and discovering a new model of collective health and healing as we go. It has been through your participation and feedback that we hone our educational programs and integrative experiences.
Creating change through opportunities to learn, share & connect
Our events of the past 2 years have offered our community various healing themes and time commitments.
Monthly 90-minute healing circles offer people an introduction to the practice of heart coherence and feature various topics around how to engage the body’s natural healing power. We share and practice as a group practical tools for tuning into the body’s intelligent guidance. We build skills for releasing stored energy and practice relaxing so the body can heal. We play some soothing and inspiring music, and as a group we tune into and receive universal life force energy in a meditative state.
3-Hour “Tools for Healing” Workshops and Daylong Retreats offer a more extended experience of learning, sharing and practicing. These events offer learning around a universally healing theme, and new this year, we incorporate the bonding and healing practice of Council. We practice heartfelt “conscious coherent communication.” These gentle tools and others offer a deeply caring, creative, structured and supportive environment for us to share in dyads or with the group, from a self-directed place.
Evolve with us: Sweet changes upcoming for monthly healing circle
Our strategic vision goal of sharing inspiring stories of healing and connection is so important to us. We are always looking for ways to create a greater sense of community, and this month, thanks to feedback from our community, we are evolving our monthly healing circle to include time and space for sharing after the group healing. Healing Circle will still be 90 minutes in length, but we will adjust the sharing/practice/meditation balance to include an optional sharing circle at the end. Participate as you’d like by sharing and/or listening to others.
Our topic for August Healing Circle (flyer below) is “Navigating Overwhelm.” We plan to share some information about how the body processes energy, offer some gentle and soothing self-healing tools for liberating the stored energy of overwhelm, and will have some lovely sound healing for the evening. Come as you are…and feel lightness of being in the body and refreshed and energized through connection.
Please join us and bring a friend! All are welcome!
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