| Testimonials: Pathways' Graduates Share | |||
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| Finding True Peace | |||
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Antoinette Pathways Institute has given me the means to find true peace. I am currently in Voice Dialogue and so far have found it to help me accept myself for who I am as a person. Each course I have taken has enriched my life and I am the happiest I have ever been. I feel more connected to myself, my god and to others. |
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| Thank you all for your love & support! | |||
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spent only three full days with my new tribe at the basic workshop last
week and I'm still dizzy from the experience. I 'm an only child, raising
3 kids into a confused world, but never before have I felt the sense
of community & love that I did in my Basic Workshop. People came
from all over the world and all over the U.S. to share their spiritual
journey and spiritual wealth. (Kind of like a mini-Woodstock!)
Thank you all for your love & support...sometimes just showing up for others is all you need to light the fire. Hello from CT |
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sites! I'm so pleased there's an Internet presence to refer friends.
Love that on-line registration form too. Thanks.
Michelle in Virginia |
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| One of the most liberating experiences of my life | |||
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name is Kelly. I just wanted to share briefly my experience of the Pathways
workshop held in Washington, DC this past weekend. It was one of the
most liberating experiences of my life. I've never experienced such
pure vitality during the workshop, and especially here at home in Oakland
and San Francisco. I feel as though a cloud of suppression, depression,
boredom, lifelessness and lovelessness has been lifted from my existence.
I'm relating to myself and those in my communities in a brand new way and I must say its absolutely fabulous. I fell in love with so many people during my workshop and I miss them all terribly (...I can feel my heart ache even as I think about my tribe and my being separated from them). I guess the thing for me to do now is create tribe where I live and where I go. What a wonderful gift. Thank you Pathways...YOU ROCK:-)!!!! Kelly in Oakland, CA |
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| An intense and enlightening experience | |||
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have never had a more intense and enlightening experience in my life.
I really was able to get in touch with my feelings, and work on things
that needed work in my own life.
Jodi Gold is a fabulous speaker and leader. She really knows her stuff, and is focused, and grounded. Even the rhythm of her speech was interesting and quite captivating. I have never heard anyone use their voice with intonations that she utilizes. And she practices what she preaches. I have never given, nor received more love than what I experienced at the Dullas gathering this month! I feel extremely fortunate to have had the opportunity to be invited to, and participate in the tribal gathering. Love to all, Ray |
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| Something inside me shifted | |||
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inside me shifted at Pathways. I just could not help honoring and respecting
myself more than I ever have in the past. I am just in awe of myself
as a human being. I cannot just "go along" anymore. I am connected
to an inner voice that tells me what needs to be expressed. Not listening
to that voice gives me heartache.
S.S., San Francisco, CA |
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| The biggest joy of being the Teacher | |||
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was content in the realization that the direct line in my family history
through my father, grandfather and most of my uncles is that the men
live to their mid fifties. I was pretty much resigned to not seeing
my 60th birthday and lived my life accordingly.
My most heartfelt moment was in expressing that I wanted to be with my grandson, Robyn, and hopefully watch HIM grow to his fifties, just to be there to guide him and teach him the ways to eventually become the man I knew I would be proud to know. Three and a half years later I continue to have the realization that at the time I expressed this desire, I had no idea how that was going to look. My inner critic came up big time. My experience of myself was that when I was raising my two children, I had no clue. I was not open or available -- I was overbearing and tyrannical. There are times even now when I get a glimpse of those 'old tapes' being replayed when I am with Robyn, but the slight shift I can make in an instant is another way I congratulate myself for showing my love and caring instead of 'my way or the highway'. The biggest joy of being the teacher is to also become the student. To see the world through a six year-old's eyes is to appreciate the joy and wonder of life and allow myself a new perspective. No, there's a larger joy than that....it's to know when I look in his eyes how glad he is to see me, to be with me, to know he is safe with me--and to know he means the words "I Love You, Grandpa." Thank you Pathways for that second chance. Bob Senior from Pleasanton, CA |
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| Healing Through Soulwork | |||
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By Cecilia Lang
Last night my friends learned of soulwork. After the horrors of the past few days, friends in New York could hardly bear the constant noise on the streets and stench in the air. We had mourned for our friends and mourned for the loss of the city and each of us felt helpless. Since many of us couldn't go to our offices, we had been faced to sit alone with our televisions for too many hours. For this reason, I invited a half dozen friends over to cook out on our terrace and to be together. As we sat in a circle talking about the tragedy I recognized how difficult it was for my friends and I to share what we were truly feeling. We talked about the pain of others but found it too difficult to talk of our own pain and suffering. I realized that my vulnerability at this moment was important for my healing and the healing of others. It was at this time, as it often is that I thought of my work with Pathways. I stepped away from the group to gather paints, pencils, chalks and paper. With our new tools sitting in the middle of the table, I began to explain attunement and the spirit of soulwork. Feeling the energy of my friends around the circle, I was brought to tears with the feeling of aliveness. We were alive. We were also sitting outside accompanied by the smell of death. After everyone spent the next hour expressing their souls longing on paper we laid the pictures out and we talked. We talked about all our fears and feeling of vulnerability. We talked about our pain at that moment and in the past. We talked like we had never talked before and it felt good. My friends and I began the healing process last night. As the last of my friends left our home at 2:00 a.m., I felt thankful for the gift I was given 6 years earlier through Caroline Landon, Peter Donohoe, Ralph Hoar and so many others who led me to Pathways work. September 15, 2001 |
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