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February 23, 2012
Nourishing Our Hearts
with Ani Nadler Grosser
“The Heart at rest sees a feast in everything.”
Hindi proverb
February’s potluck program celebrates the Heart and Love. Cross-culturally, the Heart is the source of courage, wisdom and love. This evening we will nourish our hearts through song, poetry, guided imagery, reflections, and a sharing circle.
Ani will share from many years of living and studying the chakra system, cross-cultural healing practices, hatha yoga and Imago relationship therapy.
Ani Nadler Grosser, LICSW, RYT is co-director, with her husband Bill, of the Center for Compassionate Relationships in Lenox, MA. Ani and Bill are completing a book about relationships.
Ani offers counseling to individuals and couples, and facilitates on-going women’s Healing and Empowerment groups. She teaches Restorative Yoga throughout Berkshire County. She served on the Board of Women’s Interfaith Institute from January, 2008 until January, 2012.
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March 13, 2012
with Hanna Fries
“Noah’s Wife”: Women at the Fringes of Faith
A poetry reading by Hannah Fries
As part of the Berkshire Festival of Women Writers, Hannah Fries will present a poetry reading based on the stories of women characters from the Bible and mythology, from Noah’s wife to Pygmalion’s girl. The poems are from the point of view of these characters, who often appear on the periphery of iconic stories, or who play central roles and yet have the little agency of their own; many do not even have names.
Hannah will discuss what drew her to imagine herself into these personas, and how giving voice to these women on the fringes — and giving them a more gritty human complexity — can provide refreshing new perspectives and entry points into old narratives.
Hannah Fries is associate editor and poetry editor of Orion magazine. She grew up in New Hampshire, graduated from Dartmouth College and earned a MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College. She is the recipient of a residency with the Colorado Art Ranch and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Massachusetts Review, Calyx, The Cortland Review, upstreet, and other journals. She also serves on the board of The Frost Place—a Robert Frost Museum and poetry center in Franconia, NH.
http://berkshirewomenwriters.org/
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April 19, 2012
Forgiveness with Susan Jameson
More info to be published soon
May 24, 2012
To be announced
June 21, 2012
To be announced
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