Writers group prompt: describe your day from the viewpoint of a bird.

I like that you notice me when I sing the sun awake. I hear your foot steps as you flick on the lights, then tap on your keyboard. The running water changes sound as you fill the teapot and then make it sing. The teapot and I both serenade you.

I wait close by as you swing open the screen door, take in the morning, and peruse the deck. Your eyes stroke your flowers. I never know if you will water the containers or the garden bed first. I turn towards you as I hear the first burst of rushing water out of the garden hose. My eyes dart to the water droplet’s sun catching display. I flutter from tree to tree to be a part of the morning dance.

You go inside and come out with your daughter. You both sit at ease, no words at first, slowly a few tumble out mixing with the morning air. The cat too knows your rhythm and adds her own feline sleek movements.

After your linger, you are up. The screen door screeches open and thumps closed, open and closed. Eventually you two, mother and daughter, leave together. Shifting into reverse the white beast rolls down the steep driveway. Sometimes there’s a scraping noise where metal meets street, other mornings roll on soundless, smoother.

The boxy beast brings you back and forth repeatedly as the sun crosses the sky. Each time you return you touch and whisper to the plants before the screen door opens then thumps closed.

In the evening your pace is firmer on the deck. Your body more coordinated. Busily the dinner aromas then dishes come through the screen door and set on the eucalyptus wood slated table. Conversation is livelier; words more complete, silverware to dish clangs punctuate the day’s tales.

At the end, you and I both linger, tree gazing. We watch the air settle and greet the evening sky. And listen one for the other, song to heart, heart to song. I am here, I am here.

Movement, Stillness:Heightened Awareness

by Joy Caffrey

The goal of this class is to help you enhance self-awareness, increase concentration, steady the emotions, strengthen and align the body, and open the heart. This class is open to all skill levels.

Joy offers her expertise in transformational healing in combination with 20 years of yoga practice.

Saturday, October 8, 2011

1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Location: Clubhaus Fitness Center

612 W. Dickson St., Fayettevile, AR

Cost:  $55

To register call Clubhaus Fitness Center:

479-287-4287

New Castle, Washington

Workshop by Joy Caffrey

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Access your inner wisdom and develop your intuition in this skill building workshop. Reduce stress and anxiety; increase your creativity and vitality through guided meditation and active imagination exercises.
Integrate and access your full potential.

Location:

Birthing a New Humanity Center
11633 SE 90th St.
Newcastle WA 98056

Cost: sliding scale: $25 – $50

Course certificates for CEUs for Social Workers will be available
upon request.

While in the Seattle area Joy will be available for private healing sessions on July 14 and July 16. Healing sessions are an hour and a half, with a sliding scale fee of $100 -$175.

Date Change:

April 9–10, 2011

An evocative workshop presented by Amy Eversole and Joy Aprile Caffrey
Free yourself from anxiety, fear, shame, and guilt by accepting
and integrating your shadow side. We’ll offer tools to navigate
this territory to help you step more fully into your power.
Me and My Shadow will playfully explore archetypal imagery with movement, guided meditation, active imagination, and
creative expression to help us grow in self awareness,
and to release old patterns that no longer serve us.

April 9–10, 2011
Workshop hours: Saturday 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. and Sunday 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

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Call Joy at 479-409-4912 for more information.

Send $25 deposit to

Joy Caffrey

824 Rodgers Dr.

Fayetteville, AR 72701

Workshop by Joy Aprile Caffrey

Access your inner wisdom and develop your intuition in this skill building workshop. Reduce stress and anxiety; increase your creativity and vitality through guided meditation and active imagination exercises.
Integrate and access your full potential.
February 20, 2011
Workshop hours: Sunday 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Intuition and Wisdom Workshop Details

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Me and My Shadow

An evocative workshop presented by Amy Eversole and Joy Aprile Caffrey
Free yourself from anxiety, fear, shame, and guilt by accepting
and integrating your shadow side. We’ll offer tools to navigate
this territory to help you step more fully into your power.
Me and My Shadow will playfully explore archetypal imagery with movement, guided meditation, active imagination, and
creative expression to help us grow in self awareness,
and to release old patterns that no longer serve us.

April 9–10, 2011
Workshop hours: Saturday 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. and Sunday 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Me and My Shadow Workshop Details