Book tour update: Kansas City

November 15th, 2007

We arrived in Kansas City and were met by our host sponsor Shari Sippola and teacher Linda Turner. Linda flew in from California to assist us in our Continuing Educational Unit (CEU) program designed for psychotherapists, nurses, social workers, marriage and family counselors. We’re excited about sharing the benefits of Heart Rhythm Meditation with these professionals, and creating a new approach to therapy, which we call Heart Rhythm Therapy.

Both Shari and Linda helped develop the program for CEUs. Linda flew in from California to experience what the CEU program was like live, what do people ask, what was the energy like.

The evening started off with a bang with the free lecture, open to the public, not just health professionals. A huge community was there with young people, older people, and people from many cultures. The group was interested, nice and everyone was new. They all took notes and asked great questions.

The Overland Park Marriott was the venue for the CEU program where we met wonderful therapists. The longest part of the session was the greatness practices. Afterwards Bob Nunley picked us up for Lawrence Chapter of the Institute for Noetic Sciences (IONS) evening lecture. We had a large group of new people, and the group was particularly interested in science of Heart Rhythm Meditation: its effect on Heart Rate Variability, hemagglutination, and an experiment Puran participated in which used a photon counter to measure the light emitted by his heart during meditation. What a long day! It began at 7am and ended at midnight.

Saturday was our public seminar. Many people came from Shari and Tim Sippola’s town, Emporia, KS. People from IONS also came, as well as many others. Our focus was on what is your pressing need and then giving feedback on how to address the pressing need. At lunch, Puran and I responded to each pressing need and wrote down the dimension to work on. Examples of pressing needs included: how to take care of my debt; how do I deal with the shame surrounding that situation; how can I assist people to obtain a higher consciousness; my parents died in a plane crash ten years ago, how do I deal with that; and how do I take care of my physical heart.
At lunch I took off to the Johnson County Public Library for an hour-long audio interview as part of their Rare Conversations series. The library is enormous and quite beautiful. Jennifer and Sarah from the library interviewed me in preparation for the Rare Conversations event. They were particularly interested in me as a woman author.

Puran left for the OD conference in Baltimore, we will hear from him separately on that. Linda, Shari and I participated in the Rare Conversations. This was a fund raising event for the public library which was co-sponsored by Rainy Day Books. My concern was what to wear! This was a fancy fund raising event. I was instructed that it was low key, so I came in professional dress rather than formal attire. Turns out that all the other authors were dressed to the nines for a cocktail party. Linda, Shari and I were very colorful and not at all formal! Rare Conversations decorated a salon for our book, altogether there were ten authors with their salons. My salon had a meditative vibe, as it was decorated with a antique Chinese bench with rare silk pillows, a retro chaise lounge in beige, wall hangings with orange suns, and a front table with Tibetan lanterns; the room was designed by Spaces Magazine. They added extra chairs for our popular salon. Our host, Diane, was the finance director of the event and a yoga instructor. Many woman came through and spent an average of 5 to 20 minutes, some came back several times and sent the husbands to buy the book. We met some fantastic and eclectic people; one woman had redesigned her home as a spa. She invited Shari to come teach Heart Rhythm Meditation at the spa.

By 11 pm I was back at the hotel and up again at 3am to meditate on how to do the instructor training on Sunday. I received guidance to work the distortions and weakness of the heart and to go into detail on how to read the dimensions of the heart in the Heart Rate Variability graphs. Then as a follow-up give a practice how to shift the Heart Rate Variability with Heart Rhythm Meditation. This was my presentation on Sunday to our new instructors while the last bit of the day was focused on using what we call “the 6 powers”: position, intention, attention, inspiration, self-produced sensation, invocation. (See Energize Your Heart for more) Shari will do the follow up two days. Then to the airport I went to Dallas with Linda and arriving back in Tucson at 11 Tucson time, 1am Kansas City time.

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