Kacy is leaving us … :-(

Category: New News
Author: heartbodyandsoul

Kacy Howell is leaving HBS!   🙁

Kacy Howell, who has been a part of Heart, Body, & Soul since not long after we opened — first as a regular customer and then as staff — is heading off to North Carolina to start a new adventure.  (Apparently she took all the talk around here about the importance of pursuing your dreams to heart and is actually DOING it, to our chagrin!)  Her last day at HBS will be this coming Wednesday, June 28, so if you want to say your good-byes and wish her well on her next chapter, be sure to swing by!!

(And yes, this also means that the New Moon monthly series she was leading will be cancelled.  But she WILL still be available to offer astrological insights long-distance.)

The Crystal Grid Experience is Coming Back!

Category: Coffee & Conversation, New News
Author: heartbodyandsoul

If you love the energy of crystals and want to explore more — or you have no idea what all the hoopla about the energy of crystals is about and would like to find out — you’ll want to mark your calendar for July 22 & 23rd.  Lynn Wobig, the resident Crystal Healer at HBS, will be leading a Coffee & Convo on Saturday morning, July 22, talking about the power and purposes of crystal grids as a lead-in to the next day’s chance to come experience them for yourself!

We will have 10 crystal grids laid out in the Studio, each surrounding a yoga mat and large enough for a person to lay down inside.  The crystals for each grid will be chosen to boost a particular kind of energy — e.g. Strength, or Joy, or Creativity.  Each hour, we will usher in 10 people who will get to rotate through each of the grids, spending 5 minutes soaking up the energy of each grid before moving on to the next one.  As those who’ve had a chance to do this before will tell you, the energy from these grids can blow you away.

Space IS limited though, so advance registration is strongly encouraged.  If you get lucky and happen to show up for a round that isn’t already full, we’re happy to accept walk-ins, but if you want to make SURE you get to experience the power of these grids — and why wouldn’t you?? — you’ll want to call ahead and reserve your space.  The Coffee & Convo is free and the Crystal Grid Experience is just $15.

Hope to see you all there!

HBS makes Columbia Business Hall of Fame!

Category: Blog
Author: heartbodyandsoul

We should post a sign:  “Beware … bragging ahead.”

But is it bragging, if it’s just a true fact??  We think not.

True Fact:  We have the best customers in the world, bar none.  We are constantly in awe at the great community that has built up here and, if we are Columbia’s “Best Metaphysical Supply Store” (and if it’s on a plaque, it must be true, right??),  it is unquestionably thanks to all of you out there who so generously share of your time, talents (and yes, money — we do have to pay the rent after all!) to create the wonderful experience that has become HBS.

So high fives all round, crew!

New Leather Journals Are in!

Category: Featured Item
Author: heartbodyandsoul

New leather journals have arrived –with fabulous tooled designs front and back and many with handmade paper, to boot.  There’s just something about a new leather journal — apart from the smell, which has Michelle and Kayla sniffing them on a regular basis.  We have the large sketchbook size, the more typical ‘book size’, all the way down to small 3×4 ones you can tuck in your pocket for your walk.

Treat yourself and leave a legacy at the same time.  Your thoughts are worth it.  Truly.  (Okay, it also works for grocery lists and random phone numbers, but … hey. )

Crystal Grid Oracle Cards!

Category: Blog, Staff Picks
Author: heartbodyandsoul

Not only do these oracle cards give you insight into the energies of your day or what’s at play in your question, they also show you the crystals to work with AND how to set up the grid to bring that vibration into your life! A brand new product that is a staff fave already, be sure to check them out the next time you’re in to see us.  

Christopher Penczak is coming back to HBS!

Category: New News, Speaker in the Spotlight
Author: heartbodyandsoul

Internationally acclaimed Pagan author Christopher Penczak is coming back to HBS — not once, not twice, but three times!   He’ll be here in June for a book-signing and workshop on the topic of his latest book, The Casting of Spells, in November for a workshop on The Mighty Dead, and in October, 2018 for a weekend intensive on Ascension Magick.  Read on for more details!

Christopher is a Witch, teacher, writer and healing practitioner. His practice draws upon the foundation of both modern and traditional Witchcraft blended with the wisdom of mystical traditions from across the globe as a practitioner and teacher of shamanism, tarot, Reiki healing, herbalism, astrology and Qabalah.

He is the founder of the Temple of Witchcraft tradition and system of magickal training based upon the material of his books and classes. He is an ordained minister primarily serving the New Hampshire and Massachusetts pagan and metaphysical communities through public rituals, private counsel and teaching, though he travels extensively teaching throughout the United States.

His newest book, The Casting of Spells, was just nominated for a prestigious COVR Award — an award presented annually in the ‘Mind-Body-Spirit’ product industry by the Coalition of Visionary Resources and when you get a chance to read it, you’ll see why!

 The Mighty Dead Book Signing & Workshop

Thursday, November 9, 2017
Book Signing 6:30 – 7:00
Workshop 7:00-9:30 ($30 … get registered early!)

Traditions across the world honor and recognize the sanctified dead; not just the ancestors of flesh and blood we knew in life, but the ancestors of our spiritual traditions who died in a state of alignment and union with the divine.  Known as Bodhisattvas, Saints, Ascended Masters, Secret Chiefs, and Inner Plane Adepts in other traditions, witches know our ancestors as the Hidden Company or The Mighty Dead.  In truth, they are the guiding principles of our modern tradition, as inner world priests and priestesses to the gods.  They consist of our elders in the modern and ancient world, united in the ecstatic dance of the Witch’s Sabbat.  Learn to understand the nature of the Mighty Dead and how to work directly with them for your own healing and evolution and in your work in the worlds of flesh and spirit.  Work with ancestral altars, oracular skulls, and spiritual merging.  Learn to find guides, teachers, healers, and partners within the order of the Mighty Dead.

 

Ascension Magick Weekend Intensive

October 13-14 (Sat & Sun), 2018
Cost is $215

Ascension Magick is a system of magickal practice for spiritual evolution, drawing from the wisdom of traditional western magick, Qabalah, Wicca and shamanism, as well as the traditions of Theosophy, lightwork and eastern spirituality.  Deeply explore the modern mythos and practices of Ascension Magick during this weekend intensive experience.  Understand the path of the ascended masters, and how to invoke their allies in the angelic, faery and starry worlds.  Explore the nine dimensions of light, from the heart of Mother Earth to the great Central Sun of the cosmos.  Experience the magick of the seven rays, their masters and their archangels.  Use the power of the seven rays in ritual and meditation to transform yourself and the world  Learn to invoke the Mahatma energy for healing and personal evolution.  Explore the Great Ages of humanity, and learn your soul’s first age in this world.  Discovery your soul’s story to find your plane in the New Aeon.  Explore the pitfalls of ascension spirituality, facing your fear and your shadow self, to fully integrate love and harmony in your self identity.  Learn to partner with your own soul, the ascended masters and all your allies in the spiritual realms to manifest and sustainable harmony here on Earth.

Ready to learn how to navigate yourself to higher performance?

Category: Blog, Speaker in the Spotlight
Author: heartbodyandsoul

Adrian Campbell, M.A., is a Certified Professional Coach, Usui Holy Fire Reiki Master, and a U.S. Coast Guard Veteran. Her Training and experience in Jungian Psychology, Lumerian crystal healing, essential oils, dream work, and oracle card reading lends a special twist to her practice and keeps every session individualized and unique. She holds degrees in Electrical  Science and Psychology, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Depth Psychology with a Somatic Emphasis at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Adrian’s research and work focuses on the importance of psyche and energy in everyday life.

Coming up March 4th, Adrian will be teaching The Energy Leadership Index: Discover Your Energetic Resonating Level and Its Impact On Your Life.  This workshop will include a personalized 20-page Energy Leadership Index assessment report, completed online before the workshop, (normally a $450 value in and of itself!). Adrian will review the seven levels of leadership, walk you through the findings of your assessment — including how much of your energy is in the ‘catabolic-suppressing’ range and how much in the ‘anabolic-inspirational’ range — and show you how you can actually alter your energy index to move yourself into a higher level of leadership performance. There are no limits to the personal growth you can achieve with the right tools.

Mardi Gras Celebration!!!

Category: New News
Author: heartbodyandsoul

Mark your calendars for the second-annual HBS Mardi Gras Celebration!!
Sunday, February 26, from 12:30 – 6:00 pm. It’s a P-A-R-T-Y!!  So don your Mardi Gras finery and come join us for a celebration of all things Carnival — live music, King Cake, lots of crazy games, door prizes, and all-around good times.  What’s not to love???  See you soon. 🙂

 

Category: Blog, Coffee & Conversation, New News
Author: heartbodyandsoul

Better Living Through Bucket Lists

We started out resolved.  Really we did.  Much like the will-powered New Year’s Resolutions we were going to talk about at our final Coffee & Conversation of the year.  But let’s face it – even the title showed our ambivalence:  New Year’s Resolutions – Yay or Yuck??   Sure enough, we wound up ditching the conversation topic about as quickly as we ditch our New Year’s Resolutions.

Instead, we chose to spend the last day of 2016 talking about Bucket Lists – what do you want to do or experience before you kick the bucket.  The stuff you’re passionate about, the stuff you daydream about.  The FUN stuff.  The meaningful stuff.  The stuff you’ll look back upon when you’re on your deathbed with a smile and fist pump of satisfaction.

Let’s face it, sticking to a diet or losing X number of pounds by D-day – not even close to bucket-list worthy.  Nobody on their deathbed sighs with satisfaction over their fastidious calorie-counting.  But a life filled with vibrant energy and health?  THAT’s bucket-list worthy.  So here’s an idea:  ditch the diet goals and put Vibrant Health on your bucket list instead, along with all the other things you want to check off in this lifetime:

• Follow the Natchez Trail
• Go to the Rose Bowl Parade
• See at least one game in every professional baseball stadium in the country.
• Go to Scotland.
• Develop a core group of good friends I can relax around and just be me
• Vibrant health.
• Learn to speak French
• Write that book.

Screw the resolutions.  They only mock our inability to stick to them, leaving us feeling like failures because we only made it to the gym once this week instead of the resolved three times a week. Who needs that??  So what if we really, REALLY enjoyed the rum balls at the office Christmas party??  We also went sledding with the kids until we were all breathless with laughter and pink with the cold against our cheeks.  We treated ourselves to a deliciously relaxing gentle yoga class.  We took a walk through the park over the lunch hour and laughed out loud watching the squirrels chatter and chase each other, created a delicious dinner of locally grown produce we had a blast picking out at the Farmer’s Market  AND shared the recipe with our tribe of awesome friends.  Or we have really talented friends who enjoy creating delicious dinners that we enjoy sharing.  (Some of us, as we have previously pointed out, are really good at NOT cooking and we claim that.)

Vibrant health?  Check.

No failures here.

Have a blessed and bucket-list worthy 2017!

Heart, Body, & Soul has a free coffee & conversation gathering every Saturday morning from 10:30-11:30 am.  We provide the coffee, herbal tea, yummy munchies, and the topic.  YOU provide the conversation.  Up this first month of the new year for those of you interested in dropping by to join us, include Energy Fields & Chakras (Jan 7), Vision Quests (Jan 14), Reiki (Jan 21), and Tarot (Jan 28). 

 

 

Happy New Year!?

Category: Blog, New News
Author: heartbodyandsoul

2017 is upon us!  Some of us are happy to bid 2016 farewell and welcome the arrival of the New Year with open arms.  Others of us may be feel like we’re being dragged kicking and screaming into 2017.    Either way it’s coming — so what can we do to make it the best it can be??  We have some ideas for you, starting with closing out 2016 right.  HBS is closed New Year’s Day, but we ARE open New Year’s Eve, so before you go out to begin your celebrating (or mourning as the case may be), consider these:

• New Year’s Eve Tarot Readings   Want some insights into what 2017 might hold in store for you?  Come get a New Year’s Eve Tarot Reading w/ visiting reader, Chazrick Sidhe.  Just $15 for 15 minutes of guidance and insight.  If you’ve never had a reading with Chaz, you’ll want to take this opportunity, so give us a call and reserve the time slot of your choice.
• What’s on Your Bucket List?  We’d originally planned to spend our Saturday morning Coffee & Conversation on New Year’s Eve talking about New Year’s Resolutions — but let’s face it, resolutions always have that ‘grit-your-teeth-and-DO-it-already-dammit’ feel to them … with deadlines and failures and baggage.  Who needs ’em?!?   On the other hand Bucket Lists are our ‘WANNA-DO’s’ and we firmly believe in paying more attention to those.  So give some thought to what’s on your list and come join the discussion!  You may get some great new additions to your list or your list may inspire someone else.  Either way, it’s bound to be an interesting and uplifting discussion.

And once the New Year has officially begun, we have some new events that can help you make the best of it.

 Coming up in January, 2017: 

• Embrace Your Psychic Abilities:  If you’re an empath struggling to shut out everyone else’s thoughts & emotions, have spirits showing up you don’t know what to do with, or just know things you don’t know how you know (!?),  you may want to check out this new 8-month apprenticeship with psychic and shaman, Paula Curry starting January 10.  The class meets the second Tuesday of each month, 6:15-8:15, continuing through October, with monthly payment plans available.
• Crystals for Manifestation:  Want a boost in making that Bucket List come true? Crystal Healer and founder of Imaginetics Quantum Crystal Healing, Lynn Wobig will be teaching another in her popular Crystals 101 series on January 14.  This time she’ll be focusing on  Stones for Manifestation.  (And no, you don’t need to have attended the previous classes in the series to participate.  Each class is a stand-alone workshop.)  ‘Cause who of us can’t use all the help we can get??
• Taking Care of YOU:  Seems like ‘YOU’ is the last person you have time to care for, right?  But then there’s that old “secure your own oxygen mask first’ adage, which does have a lot of truth to it.  How about you let us give you a hand on that?
  •  Supporting Your Chakra System.   Adrian Campbell can give you lots of good tips on keeping your chakra system in top shape in this workshop the afternoon of January 7.   Know nothing about chakras?  No worries! Come by a little bit earlier for the 10:30 am Coffee & Conversation that same day and sit in on a conversation with Adrian on Personal Energy Fields & Chakras.  You can always decide to stick around for the workshop afterward, if you find yourself intrigued and eager to learn more.  (But just a suggestion — go ahead and set the afternoon aside because after you hear her talk?  You’re gonna wanta take her workshop.  Just sayin’!)
  • Boosting Your Winter Wellness.   Connie Jacoby, the founder and wise woman behind Wise Woman Botanicals is back with another workshop on working with essential oils.   This time, she’ll be talking specifically about how to use essential oils to battle winter colds and crud.  Sunday afternoon, January 22.  (Connie is always a hit, and if you’ve not met her yet, you’ll quickly find out why.  The lady knows her STUFF and is entertaining to boot, so what’s not to love?  Mark your calendar!)
  • Yoga Nidra, Yoga Therapy, Tai Chi.  The usual awesome stuff.  Still available.  Still worth it.
• Spiritual Growth:  Looking for a way to deepen your spiritual practice and connection this year?
  • Gnostic Texts:  Ancient Wisdom, Personal Truth — Nancy Tanner-Thies will offer an Introduction to the Gnostic Texts on Sunday, January 8 at 1:30 pm,  followed by a weekly contemplative study of several of these ancient texts and the wisdom they still hold for our lives today.   The term ‘Gnostic Texts’ is often used to refer to writings created around the same time as many of the books of the New Testament, but omitted from the version of the Bible officially approved by the Council of Nicea in 300 AD.    The weekly study series will meet on Thursday evenings 6-7:30 pm, beginning January 19, and run for 6 weeks.  Make plans to attend the Intro lecture and then see if you feel called to delve deeper into the topic with Nancy.
  • The Qabala Tree of Life Weekend Intensive — Rachael Mueller of St. Louis will be back, this time teaching a two-day weekend intensive on the Qabala and the Tree of Life.  If you’ve struggled with studying this ancient, but still oh-so-relevant (!!) system on your own (and yes, it CAN be confusing when you first tackle it!) or if you’ve never been exposed to the system at all, but want to know more about it, this weekend is for you.  Rachael is an excellent teacher who can make the most complex stuff easily accessible and understandable — and once you get an understanding of the Tree of Life model, you will be amazed how often its concepts show up in your daily life!!
  • Building a Meditation Practice.   How many times have you thought that you really OUGHT to learn how to meditate?  Well no more reason to put it off!  Hypnotherapist, shaman, (and HBS Affiliate) Candace Kundert will be starting a new Sunday afternoon series on Meditation on January 8.  The group will meet 4:30-6 pm every other Sunday for a total of 6 sessions.
  • Righteous Rituals —  Whether you’re  a solitary pagan practitioner crafting your own personal rituals, working with a small circle of friends planning your own Sabbat celebrations, or a priest or priestess in your tradition planning for coven gatherings or public rituals, this crash course on ritual-planning may just what the spirits ordered!  Taz Mma Chance, High Priestess of the First Temple of the Craft of Wica and community pagan leader will be teaching the workshop on Saturday, Jan 21, 1-3 pm.  Always more to learn and great ideas to steal!
  • Imbolc / Candlemas Ritual Celebration — We hold open seasonal celebrations here at HBS, attuning ourselves to the turning of the Wheel of the Year with ritual gatherings.  Most of them are drawn from Celtic traditions but folks of other traditions and paths will often find familiar overtones or elements, as so many varied traditions have borrowed from one another and blended together over the passage of time.   This celebration, held the evening of Sunday, January 29 starting at 6:30, is probably where Groundhog Day came from!   Both are times to pause and peer hopefully into the wintry night for reassurance that Spring does in fact lie ahead, buried beneath the snow though it may be.    So maybe we should call it our Imbolc / Candlemas / Ground Hog Day Ritual Celebration?
• Conversation:  Or do you just want to gather together with people interested in talking about IMPORTANT and INTERESTING stuff — like the meaning of life and why and how we exist in this Universe??  Yeah, us too!!  Check out your choices here:
  • Saturday Morning Coffee & Conversation:  Already mentioned it above, but it bears mentioning more than once.  Every Saturday morning at 10:30, we host a Coffee & Conversation.  We provide the coffee, folks contribute goodies, and everyone who wants to, contributes to the conversation.  (Yes, you CAN show up and just listen, too.) We have a topic of the day and a facilitator of the discussion to pose interesting questions and make sure we don’t ramble entirely off track.  This month we’re talking about:
    • Personal Energy Fields & Chakras, Jan 7  
    • Vision Quests, Jan 14 
    • Reiki, Jan 21 
    • Tarot, Jan 28 
  • The Tao Discussion Group— facilitated by the ever-welcoming Nicole Wei, you don’t need any previous experience with or understanding of The Tao to come join this group discussing this ancient text and its applicability to our daily lives.  They meet the 1st & 3rd Sundays of the month, 2-4 pm, but because we’re closed on the 1st this month, they’ll only be meeting on January 15 this month.  Back to their regular twice-monthly scheduled in Feb.
  • Science & Metaphysics Discussion Group —  This is the place for those of you looking for a spiritual practice that appeals to mind and intellect as well as to heart and soul.   Facilitated by Dr. Kay Fair, the group meets at 4:30 pm on the 3rd Sunday of each month.
  • Hearthfires Pagan Meet-Up Group — a gathering of followers of pagan paths in the mid-MO area, you’ll find them at HBS the second Tuesday of each month, 6:30-8 pm.
• Just for Fun:  Just wanta put all the serious stuff aside and have a fun afternoon with friends??  Well, laughter IS the best medicine.  So gather them together and come make yourselves some awesome bling in one of HBS’s Jewelry-Making Workshops with Addie Clomax.  HBS provides all the tools and materials — gemstone beads and sterling silver fastenings (so we’re talking PRETTY bling here!) Addie provides all the know-how to walk you through creating your own personal brand of fab and you and your friends provide the creative camaraderie. Sunday afternoon, January 15 from 1-4 pm.  What better way to spend a wintry day??  (Well, okay, an adult beverage by the fire would be nice, too, but you can’t do that ALL winter.  So try this for a break!)