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Emotional Insight:

Looking Beneath the Surface

Have you ever reacted to something and wondered afterward, Why did I respond that way? Perhaps a comment left you feeling hurt, someone's behavior triggered frustration, or your reaction seemed bigger than the moment itself.

Emotional insight invites us to look deeper. What am I feeling? Why might I be feeling this way? Is my response connected to what's happening now, or is something from my past influencing this moment?

When we become curious about our emotions rather than judging them, we create space to discover old beliefs, unmet needs, or familiar patterns that may be influencing our choices.

Awareness opens the door to understanding, and understanding creates the possibility of choice.

An Invitation to Self-Reflection

Take a few quiet moments this week to explore:

▪	Name the emotions that are present in you?

▪	What is below the surface of them?

▪	Are you repeating triggering situations or behaviors?

▪	What is your part in that?

▪	Are you curious or certain about another's experience?

▪	How are the stories you make up in your mind closing doors for you?

▪	What might change if you paused to understand your emotions?

Choose one question and sit with it. You don't need to find an immediate answer. Let curiosity guide you.

A thought to carry with you this week:

What if your emotions are not something to fix or judge, but invitations to understand yourself more deeply?

May this week bring you moments of curiosity, deeper understanding, and greater connection with yourself and others.

This Week's Events

▪	100-day Creativity Challenge

▪	Yoga-Wed 10/28 10-11:30 AM MST

▪	Yoga-Thurs 10/29 4:30-6:00 PM MST

▪	Alignment-Thurs 6:30 PM

▪	Yoga-Fri 10/30** 4:30-6 PM MST

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Creativity Challenge

Now through January 19th

Use the QR code to join!

This creativity challenge can help you in several ways.

▪	Help you to break out of your routine and try something new.

▪	Help to jump-start your imagination and get your creative juices flowing.

▪	Help you to learn new skills and techniques.

▪	Expand your repertoire and become more versatile in your approach to life.

▪	Meet and interact with new people; make new friends, build relationships, and create networking opportunities - share what you are creating!

Join using the QR code!

Or reach out to me with your cell number.. Hosted on Signal.

I am excited to do yoga with you!!

Intentional Yoga

In yogic philosophy, emotions are seen as movements of the mind (Chitta Vrittis) shaped by experiences, desires, fears, and perceptions.

Rather than suppressing feelings, yoga asks: “How do I get what I feel?” — encouraging emotional maturity and self-knowledge.

Five key mental obstacles:

▪	Avidya – ignorance of reality

▪	Asmita – ego-identification

▪	Raga – attachment

▪	Dvesha – aversion

▪	Abhinivesha – fear of loss

Recognizing these patterns helps you trace the root causes of your emotional reactions.

Join me from the comfort of your home. Here is the Zoom link.

Can't make the scheduled times? Check out the recorded classes on YouTube.

Namaste

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Alignment Practice

Topic: Locate and Remain

Hosted by Anca Kuns, Beyond Orion

Thurs, 10/29, 6:30 PM MST (1hr)

Anca shares this update…

I sometimes get tired of identifying problems and then coming up with my own solutions. I see something in me, I see how I got to that judgment, interpretation, or behavior, and then I go right into self-correction.

And sometimes I need a break from doing that.

I just want to simply be grateful for what is. For what I already have, for who I already have around me, for what I'm already capable of doing—and that's it.

What's interesting is that I can get to that space in my mind, but somehow my body doesn't get to feel that ease and recognition of things to be celebrated unless it's manufactured with all kinds of justifications for why these things are good, how they came to be… or comparisons to what others have.

And it seems that's also not so easy.

You simply can't quite choose to be grateful. Or you can… but like I said, how much of it is hyped up, and how much of it is simply, naturally arising?

I'm looking for my natural baseline of “I'm good.”

And so it seems, perhaps the invitation is to practice making room for an experience of ourselves that isn't organized around correction.

Unfortunately, it seems even being with what's good may involve developing capacity—investing attention and practice so that the good can become available to us more naturally. Oh, the irony. Even this takes practice. :)

So here's what we're practicing:

LOCATE: Can I recognize what's here without immediately making it something to work on?

REMAIN: Can I let what's here continue to exist without needing to improve it?

See you October 29!

RSVP on the CYWY Meetup

https://meet.google.com/iko-sbft-rap

Reach out with any questions to Anca at Beyond Orion.

Scorpio Season:

Truth, Transformation & Heartfelt Connection

Message fromFor Heaven's Sake

"This is a time to embrace honesty, release outdated patterns, and listen to what your inner wisdom is revealing.

As the veil continues to grow thinner, intuition may feel closer, and emotions may carry messages worth exploring.

This week, give yourself room to reflect, reconnect, and transform challenging feelings into meaningful growth."

Upcoming Events - Mark Your Calendars!

The Good Grief Group

Sat, 11/7, 10:00 AM MST

Facilitator: Melody West,

RSVP on Meetup - Click Here

Intentional Living Circle

Tues, 11/10, 7-9 PM MST

What are you resisting?

What do you tend to push away, avoid, or resist? Using the Enneagram, we’ll explore the patterns behind our resistance and what might become possible when we meet what we resist with greater curiosity and openness.

Facilitated by Sophia Carmien, Essential Wholeness

Special CYWY Enneagram Event

Finding our way to the Enneagram heart wounds

Host: Nancy Markow

Presenter: Cicci Lyckow Bäckman — Enneagram Expert and author

Friday, 11/13 13⋅10–12:00 pm

Portals into the deeper layers | Finding our way to the Enneagram heart wounds

Anyone who’s been engaged in an inner growth practice has experienced it: something hitting a little too close to home, whereupon the ego either redirects our attention elsewhere or proceeds to ‘explore’ from a purely mental standpoint. In this workshop, we will explore how we can go deeper through direct experience without spooking the ego, with the ‘heart wounds’ described by Russ Hudson as our focus.

Through teaching, conversation, and exercises, we will look at ways to explore the heart wounds both directly and in a roundabout way which, surprisingly, gives us a more direct route to the experiential realm.

Bio: Cicci Lyckow Bäckman is a writer, teacher and facilitator of experiential inner work, with 25+ years of experience. Her work centres on reconnecting with the deeper self beneath personality, roles and self-image, drawing on the Enneagram, meditation, somatic awareness and emotional work to gently explore the things we take to be 'us'. She loves helping intermediate students and practitioners move beyond mere understanding into the direct experience of what lies beneath their patterns — where real change becomes possible.

Find Cicci on
* theenneagramway.com
* theenneagramway.substack.com
* Youtube.com/@TheEnneagramWay or schedule a free chemistry call!

Reach out to sign up for the 2027 Chat

Enneagram Chat 2027

The next Enneagram Chat starts in February 2027.

The Chat will run for 21 sessions, allowing us to work our way through the Empowered Living book together, sharing questions, ideas, and experiences.

Read testimonials of those who have taken the journey on the website testimonial tab.

If you would like to be part of the 2027 Chat, please reach out and let me know.