Stories have captured my heart and passion with their juicy possibility for enjoyment, connection, and transformation. I agree with Janet Litherland who said, "Stories have power. They delight, enchant, touch, teach, recall, inspire, motivate, challenge. They help us understand..."
I’m loving doing presentations on the healing power of stories at the Wellness Center at Whole Foods in Coddingtown. My next one, "The Star of Destiny Revealed through Story", is on Sunday, July 17 from 3:00 to 4:30 P.M. I will share inspiring stories, and participants will have opportunities to explore their unique life purpose through poetry and story.
Wellness Center at Whole Foods Market, 390 Coddingtown Mall, Santa Rosa. Free.
I help others reach their goals through consultations and classes that combine intuitive expertise and the healing power of stories read with vocal mastery. I am available to create personally tailored presentations for your group meeting. Email me at poetrytalks@neteze.com for scheduling and to purchase Star Kissed Shadows, Divining Poetry and CD Sweet Tongue, Assorted Poetry and Music.
"If you don’t know the trees you may be lost in the forest, but if you don’t know the stories you may be lost in life." —Siberian Elder
June 20, 2011
Passionate about the Healing Power of Stories
January 12, 2011
The Healing Power of Intuition, Story, and Vocal Mastery
Experience the healing power of intuition combined with just the right healing story and imagery from your own process. I am thrilled the way these inspirational phone sessions magically bring together my passion, talent, and years of experience in intuition, language, and vocal expression to help others transform their lives.
Are you ready to move happily through your current challenges, let go of limitation, and live your vision? E-mail poetrytalks@neteze.com to schedule your session, then call me with questions about areas in which you need help. You don't need to do it alone. Don't be at the mercy of situations. Find peace, ease, and well being in the midst of difficulty.
Phone consultations are half the normal price through the month of March. A one hour session is now $45 (normally $90) and a half hour is $25 (normally $50).
I have 30 years experience with intuitive work, 20 years with language arts, and 10 years of passionate vocal expression.
"See life through the lens of your spirit to move past limitation. Keep returning your focus to the truest vision for your life." Sher Lianne Christian
I LOVE to read inspirational stories and poetry out loud. It is a joy to use emotions through my voice and make the message come alive, to help listeners enter the narrative with a sensory experience that is experiential. When I read, it feels like my soul speaks through me.
The daily ritual of reading to John has become a major part of our spiritual growth. We can dissolve into tears and laughter that transform our approach to life, challenges and all. John has been my sweet audience of one.
Stories can connect us to our wisdom, provide nurturing and encouragement, ease the pain of lonliness and depression, strengthen the immune system, speed healing, as well as entertain. If you know of anyone who could benefit, I'm happy to have referrals. I will also share a story for your group or organization as an inspirational speaker.
Email poetrytalks@neteze.com to schedule your session.
Warmly,
Sher Lianne Christian
Book: Star Kissed Shadows & CD: Sweet Tongue, Poetry & Music
http://lusciouspoetry.typepad.com/
To hear audio samples from our CD
http://kiwi6.com/file?id=56jk2fb094
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Best wishes for much love and happiness!
December 02, 2010
"Another Kind of Gratitude"
I love this article I received in an email. I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiiving filled with gratitude for what you give and receive.
"Another Kind of Gratitude"
"In the lunchroom of a busy workplace, groups of employees were eating and visiting with one another at a dozen different tables. Suddenly one man stood, panic in his eyes. He was choking and couldn't call for help. As he began turning blue, alarm spread through the crowd. But for several agonizing moments, no one stepped up to help him.
All at once a man came forward and gripped the choking fellow around his ribs, squeezing him in a series of tight jerks until the food was dislodged. Amazement and joy swept through the onlookers as they felt a rush of appreciation that someone knew the Heimlich maneuver. The man embraced his rescuer in a moment of true thankfulness.
But there was another kind of gratitude at that moment. It was humble appreciation, on the part of the hero, that he had the knowledge and the strength to be able to help in an emergency.
It's one of life's great truths that the giver of selfless service feels just as much joy--and just as much reason to be thankful--as the receiver. Whenever we are in the right place at the right time to help, we feel an overwhelming sense of thanksgiving to our Maker for using us to bless someone in need.
We often give thanks for things we have received. But we should not overlook this other type of gratitude: thanks for what we can do for others. American poet Edwin A. Robinson described these two kinds of gratitude as "the sudden kind we feel for what we take, [and] the slower kind we feel for what we give."1
Being able to make a difference in the lives of others, to be useful, to be kind, to help, is a blessing that fills our hearts to overflowing with humility and gratitude. As we take count of life's bounties, let us remember and give thanks not only for our families, our good fortune, or our health but also for the marvelous ways God can use us to bless the lives of others.
1 "Captain Craig," in Captain Craig: A Book of Poems (1902), 5."
**Here is an opportunity to give and receive this Christmas season:
INTUITIVE PHONE SESSIONS with Sher Christian: Does a challenge have you stressed and/or stumped? Understand and transcend life challenges, fulfill potential, meet goals, increase well being and pleasure through attunement to the inner voice and poetry of the soul. Is there something you would love to accomplish, such as discover and fulfill your life purpose, move a situation to the next step, enjoy your life journey, manifest your heart’s desires in relationship, home, income? Sher is adept at helping you connect with your inner wisdom to know what is needed.
HOLIDAY SPECIAL through December: Receive a complimentary gift certificate of equal value with your paid session.
$50 for a half hour session and $90 for a one hour session. Sliding scale available.
Satisfaction with the consultation guaranteed.
E-mail poetrytalks@neteze.com for your appointment for a phone consultation and to learn more. Check out Sher’s blog at www.lusciouspoetry.typepad.com/
*Sher Christian has 20 years experience with intuitive coaching. She is a Certified Flower Essence Practitioner and iridologist and has studied aromatherapy. She is the author of "Star Kissed Shadows, Divining Poetry" and co-creator with her husband John Christian of their CD "Sweet Tongue". Sher and John have hosted the Third Sunday Poetry Reading at Coffee Catz in Sebastopol, California for over two years.
Sher taught creative writing and poetry courses for Sierra College. She was a highlighted presenter at The International Flower Essence Conference in Australia and was a core leader of Nourish, the successful women's retreat in Sonoma.
**Sher's books and CDs make wonderful, affordable gifts. Mail $40 postpaid to Sher Christian for a copy of Star Kissed Shadows, Divining Poetry and Sweet Tongue, Assorted Poetry & Music. E-mail poetrytalks@neteze.com for address.
To hear samples, go to
http://kiwi6.com/file?id=56jk2fb094
Then click: Download File, (green text)
Happy Holy Days!
September 20, 2010
The Power of Intuition
I had a sweet interaction that began when I received a business e-mail that had this quote at the bottom of it: “You must be the change you want to see in the world.” Mahatma Gandhi
My intuition said that the sender might enjoy one of my poems. I chose one for her, intuitively of course, and she found it very meaningful, even printed it to put on her desk. Who knows what the next positive result will be from her sharing the Gandhi quote and me sharing a poem. It is a joy to be inspired and to be an instrument of inspiration for others.
This is the poem I sent:
Quiet Settles Softly
Quiet settles softly as down on a cloud.
My soul hungers for this silence
which feeds a deep need
to know this moment.
A coyote hurries along the sloping hill,
leaving thoughts of his medicine,
a trickster reminding us
how we fool ourselves,
resist authenticity out of fear.
Awareness softens muscles,
sinks into my body which contains the truth,
not always easy to embrace,
but freeing, nonetheless.
A tiny bird poises on the tip
of a leafless poison oak
which bends with her slight weight.
The trees are still and await nothing,
content to live.
Branches drink in the sky,
not to take, but to graciously
receive and give,
simple as breath in and out.
Quiet settles deep like roots underground.
I find all is well.
Star Kissed Shadows
©2004 Sher Lianne Christian
Please post a comment if your intuition guides you to be part of the inspiration chain.
I watched a movie last night that had the following Gandhi quote as its central premise. “Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
I wish you a life filled with joy.
Sher
Note: My book Star Kissed Shadows has 111 pages and is a paperback with color cover, 79 poems and 7 photos. It is $20 postpaid. Our CD Sweet Tongue has my voice with my husband's music and sound effects with many of the poems from the book and some new ones. (Quiet Settles Softly is on it.) E-mail me at poetrytalks@neteze.com if you would like an mp3 demo with some short clips from the CD. It is $22 postpaid. The CD and book together are $40 postpaid. E-mail for the address at which to send a check.
I am also available for voice-over for your audio projects such as audio book, pod cast, web site, and more. My husband John Christian does music and sound effects for voice overs, videos, music CDs, commercials, etc. We have a full studio with synthesizer keyboards, accordions, Hammond organ, drums, and mouth harp. E-mail poetrytalks@neteze.com for an mp3 demo.
August 12, 2010
Feelings
Feelings
I'm back from a blog hiatus for a few months, since I had a temporary full time job. Let's just dive in. How are you feeling at this moment? Recognizing and feeling emotions are two of the most essential skills required to live a healthy, fulfilled, successful life. My intuition has long been telling me to feel my feelings. I thought I was doing that, yet I've noticed a strong tendency to "go new age on myself" when an unpleasant emotion arises. For instance, I recently felt angry at unfair and unkind treatment. First I thought "Let go of it, It's not big deal." Then I had a flash of insight and mirrored my feeling, said to myself, "You're feeling angry about what she said, and it is understandable." That simple shift in my way of being with anger was so powerful that my intense allergy to grass pollen that month released its miserable hold on me the next day. The physical congestion that had resulted from not allowing my emotions fully had cleared to such a great degree, that my allergic reactivity amazingly decreased. I have felt tortured by this allergy for over 20 seasons and tried all kinds of remedies.
Feel
Flow; Let your feelings move through.
Each one contains a message.
Each one just needs a
Little loving kindness.
Allow
Just let yourself
Open to feel.
You will discover joy
Omnipresent
Underneath
Sadness and anger.
Sher Lianne Christian
©2010
April 04, 2010
Happy Poetry Month
*I am available to facilitate this process for your groups, businesses, and families. Contact me at poetrytalks@neteze.com to find out how this experience can improve relationships, help you get better results from your efforts, and increase cooperation. I have special prices on my programs until June 21. There’s also a special offer for our CD Sweet Tongue, Assorted Poetry and Music: Try it with no obligation. If it's a keeper, pay for it ($20 including tax). If not, return it to me. In addition, our CD (as well as my book) is available at Copperfield’s in Sebastopol, and they have a demo you can hear.
Kashi shares, “Dear Sher ~ I love your poetry! I like to read to my son (age 11) before bed. Last night we read some of your poems. We both loved Spider Thoughts and Quiet Settles Softly was perfect for entering into sleep. I could feel the effect that your poems had on my son as his body began to release and relax and he became very peaceful.
This morning I shared in class your poem, Silence. What a beautiful poem. I will keep this with me all day.”
Her testimonial is, “Sher Christian is a crystalline spirit being whose poetry is infused with the Divine. I joyfully participated in a workshop with Sher in which we got to experience receiving answers through her poems. It was a lovely experience and surprising as the poems spoke deeply and directly to the question at hand. I appreciated the gentleness and presence that Sher demonstrates while guiding us through the different exercises."
Kashi Ananda, Owner/Director
Devi Yoga Center http://www.deviyogacenter.com/
Certified Senior TriYoga Teacher/Yogini
*Heidi, Jim, and Kashi have wonderfully powerful offerings and their office, studio, courtyard is a magical, sacred space to experience. I highly recommend their work. Go to www.daretodreamvisioning.com and http://www.deviyogacenter.com/ to learn about their heartfelt programs, classes, and free lecture series. They are looking for presenters in our community.
*The Don Giovannis, the heart-lifting Italian band John plays in are busy this spring. They have some gigs open to the public in April and the first Saturday in May. They will be live on KSRO radio, 1350 AM, at 5:00 pm Friday, April 9. Check their website for events and to view them performing. http://www.thedongiovannis.com
Look for news about our exciting featured readers, Marguerite Dean and Tom McCurry of Beloved Harmony performing their poems as well as those of Rumi and Hafiz with guitar accompaniment at our next Third Sunday Poetry Reading and Open Micat Coffee Catz, April 18, 12:30 to 1:30 pm. Not to be missed!!
Celebrate National Poetry Month! Enrich and heal your life with luscious poetry!
You Can’t Have Everything
but you can have a tongued velvet kiss beneath tall cedars and oaks flushed with new leaves. You can have a graze of caress up your th
December 28, 2009
Christmas Season
Dad’s death has reminded me to cherish life and has rekindled my desire to serve others through my deep ability to connect with intuition. As the holiday season comes to a close and you welcome a new year, I wish you a life that is fully lived. May you embrace the joy that each moment holds, in spite of obstacles encountered along your way. Happy New Year!
The Miracle of My Life
I ache and sunshine lights my home.
I despair and awareness coaxes me
toward other choices.
I complain at unfairness and failure
while opportunities for learning abound.
I yearn for more,
yet my cupboards burst with belongings.
I resent unkindness while loving compassion
beats against the inner walls of my heart.
I grieve for mistakes and losses
and the miracle of my life shines
like a Christmas tree, twinkling.
I yearn for something different
and the moment contains
a fullness of grace and wonder
that waits to be received.
copyright 2004, Sher Lianne Christian
Star Kissed Shadows, Divining Poetry
November 17, 2009
Feelings Come and Go
Feelings Come and Go Like Trains at Night
Feelings come and go like trains at night.
One day I’m flyin’ high, a kite.
Next thing I’m down in a funky fight
With scaly dragons blowing smoke,
And tucked wings of hope have
sent me p
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n
g
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n
g.
Feelings.
I’d like to send them to a big black hole,
As long as they don’t take my soul,
Emotions chase me like a maddened bull,
Make me twist into an awful fright.
Full of anger I can steam
and hiss into the night.
Clinging to angst like a scornful wife is deadly,
so I dig into agony with a big dull knife.
Some feelings I’d like to keep,
like when my love goes deep.
and kisses me ‘til my nylons melt.
He works the keys nimbly, but not too quick.
His notes explore me with sultry licks
that implore a pelvic dance
and bring me to a heated trance.
Some feelings I’d like to hide,
though pain tells when I have lied.
I can cram feelings into old luggage stuffed tight,
put them on trains until they’re out of sight,
but they’ll show in all my frowns and smiles,
with wrinkle lines that map the miles
I have traveled.
Yes, feelings will not be denied.
They can destroy or fuel the highest dream.
Repression can make me fit to be tied,
fill me with fierce aggression,
or leave me moping in heavy depression.
Some feelings I like to keep,
so I drive my midnight express, not leap
at the whistle stop
or roll down the next drop.
I chug,
not chug-a-lug,
blow off some steam
when I’m feelin’ mean,
hang on to my caboose
when I’m low and loose.
©2004 Star Kissed Shadows, Divining Poetry, (book)
and Sweet Tongue, Assorted Poetry and Music (CD), ©2007 by Sher Lianne Christian
Books and CDs can be purchased at this blog store.
Sher and John Christian are available with help for recording projects. Sher does voiceover and John offers recording services, original keyboard, Hammond organ, and accordion tracks.
Sher also has over 20 years experience with intuitive coaching for assistance transcending health, relationship, and career challenges.
Email poetrytalks@neteze.com to schedule phone consultations.
September 14, 2009
The Poetry of Balance
The Poetry of Balance
I have discovered a powerful practice of being in physical alignment. Dana Davis instructs clients in how to sit, stand, walk, and sleep in balance at her Balance Center in Petaluma and in San Rafael. Students experience less tension and pain in their backs and joints. One 82 year-old gentleman even added 2 1/2 inches to his height! I have had an individual session and I am looking forward to taking Dana’s five week course.
Dana writes, “Why do people in some countries have no back pain? 80% of the population in the United States suffers from back pain, compared to only 5% in many other countries, such as Portugal and Greece. These healthy people move slightly differently than we do. The teaching of the Balance Center is based on more than 35 years of research on these healthy populations. When you stand, bend, sit, walk, and sleep as these people do, your pain can be significantly reduced or eliminated.”
Dana has a web site that explains her teaching in greater detail. I highly recommend her work. www.sonomabodybalance.com
You can also email Dana and sign up for her informative monthly newsletter at dana@sonomabodybalance.com
When Trees Dance
I pause to write and my heart soars.
Wings of angels brush my awareness,
fill the fresh air with sweetness.
The sky pours rain with constant zeal.
The trees soak up the moisture,
wriggle their roots like toes
for beyond their stillness is a joy that runs deep
and feels as if they’re quivering
with barely contained delight at being alive.
Looking closely, I imagine the bark
is trying not to crack wide smiles.
Surging life force fills unmoving branches
in readiness to burst forth
as bright new leaves in spring.
If trees could dance without the wind,
they’d stand on tippy-toed roots,
twirl in graceful pirouettes,
their boughs sweeping the sky
in flowing waves.
Oaks would laugh at being tickled
under arm-like branches
when squirrels scamper up their trunks.
Firs would leap with glorious abandon
over hills and down dales,
some with chattering squirrels clinging to limbs,
then bend to peek through our windows.
Though today, the trees are content
to envision willowy jetes,
simply joyous to be filled with the inner dance of life.
So don’t be fooled by inactive stances.
Look beyond their tranquil repose
to sense a vibrant ballet.
You may find yourself toe-tapping to lively rhythms,
even whirling around to sensed,
but unheard melodies.
Then, when trees can no longer stand still,
they invite the wind to play.
©2004 Star Kissed Shadows, Divining Poetry, Sher Lianne Christian
*You are invited to our Third Sunday Poetry Reading & Poetry Open Mic: Sunday, September 20, 12:30 to 1:30 P.M. Our featured reader is Jewel Mathieson, poet Laureate of 5 Rhythms International Dance Community, Gabrielle Roth. It’s hosted by Sher Lianne Christian, poet, accompanied by John Christian on piano & accordion. Share a poem you or someone else has written, if you like. Donation appreciated, $1 to $10. Coffee Catz, 6761 Sebastopol Ave., Sebastopol, 707 829-6600.
Warmly,
Sher Lianne Christian
Coaching, Editing, Proofing, for Writers
July 29, 2009
Listening to and Following Your Heart
Listening to and Following Your Heart
How can your daily life, relationships, career be more joyful, fulfilling? How can your health and sense of well being increase? Dis-ease can result from not following our hearts, being true to ourselves. Being authentic takes consistent effort and courage, yet the sense of fulfillment is the greatest reward. Modern dancer, Martha Graham, shares, “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all time this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any medium and will be lost.” The greatest failure to me would be to come to the end of my life and realize that I had not shared what only I could share.
I am an Iridologist, Intuitive Coach, and Poet with over 20 years experience. I have studied and taught physical and psychological iridology. Patterns in our eyes show inherited physical and behavioral traits, gifts or talents, lessons, relationship patterns. We can learn what is needed for balance and prevent challenges in the future by strengthening areas of inherited weakness. I am also highly intuitive and can learn what behavior or attitude is creating a condition.
In a session, one can ask a question about any kind of challenge; such as physical discomfort, relationship issues, problematic situations, career issues, any areas of desired change, to learn what is needed for successful resolution. Every circumstance has an opportunity for growth. Get to the root cause rather than just dealing with symptoms. (Mopping up the floor from a leaky faucet is necessary, and fixing the faucet stops the water from going on the floor.) In other words, we can keep dealing with the results of our thoughts and actions, or we can change them.
I bring luscious, spiritual poetry to inspire and deepen the learning process. My book of poetry, Star Kissed Shadows is a divining tool and can be opened with a question in mind for insights. My husband John and I created a CD of poetry and music Sweet Tongue, Assorted Poems & Music that delights the senses.*
The intuitive work can be done over the phone. Hone your ability to use your intuition. I offer trial sessions, $25 for fifteen minutes for those who would like to experience my work without spending a lot. (I also do half hour and hour consultations.) I'm happy to answer questions beforehand. I use my intuition for me as well as clients and find it incredibly valuable on a daily basis.
"The only real valuable thing is intuition." Albert Einstein
Following our guidance is the most powerful action we can choose for well being and fulfillment of our potential.
*A fun way to receive a complimentary consultation is to host an iridology class/party in which participants learn about the markings in our eyes and what they mean, then practice looking at each other's eyes. Email for details
*From a review of Sweet Tongue: "While Sher uses a unique blend of sensual expression and spiritual insight to convey the confessions, observations and emotions of her poems, John brings a splash of musical styles (Cajun, Jazz, Blues, Rock and Country) to ground her words in the moments lived. He whispers when needed, boogies when called for and romances his keyboard as Sher untangles the mystery and magic of a night's firefly dreams. Though Sher and John's, Sweet Tongue, Assorted Poems & Music is a collaboration of two hearts, it sounds as if it is of one voice.” Bill Gainer, Cofounder of Nevada County Poets Society
Email for an appointment if your heart guides you.
Turn challenge into the joy of transcendence.
Warmly,
Sher Lianne Christian
Iridology, Intuitive Sessions, & Poetic Inspiration
Phone Consultations & Classes
Voiceover, Music, & Recording
Book: Star Kissed Shadows, Divining Poetry
CD: Sweet Tongue, Assorted Poetry and Music
Third Sunday Poetry Reading, Coffee Catz, Sebastopol, 12:30 to 1:30
Next one: Aug. 16 with Coya, Writer, Guitarist, Photographer
Children of My Heart
We all have children we’ve agreed to raise.
We may fe ÿign ignorance, but we know our children,
Like mother seals that recognize their own in a sea of babies.
Our offspring represent what the soul wants to grow.
We’ll never be fully enlivened and fulfilled
until we answer the call of our creativity.
birth the children of our hearts,
provide consistent nurturing, encourage tentative steps
until they walk in the world on their own.
Hello little ones, children of my heart.
Have I abandoned you, farmed you out for adoption
by souls braver than me?
Are you withering while I chase
my yearning for material things
care for those children who are not mine?
Are you the source of my insistent longing?
My body knows and tells me through pain,
when I ignore the truth ou ÷t of fear.
My psyche knows and dulls my senses to depression
as I turn away from my baby’s cries, afraid of responsibility.
Dear child, is my fear starving you?
I love you, children of my heart.
Please forgive my wanderings.
I am here to feed you again,
rekindle the fires of life’s passion.
I promise to rock you in the cradle of joy,
so you can light the world.
©2004 Star Kissed Shadows, Sher Lianne Christian
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