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Wet-on-wet watercolor invites play and discovery. By allowing time spent simply placing colors on the page, we open up to imagination & intuition before deciding what to paint. We hope you'll join us next Tuesday for Painting with Presence. (Call to reserve your spot, as space is limited.) https://www.facebook.com/share/wC8QrtgmdV92N9Zo/

Happy Mother's Day to all! Chances are you either were one of these ("a child") born from a mother, you've become a parent to a child, and/or you hold the archetype of "Mother" towards your pets, neighbors, garden, the planet, humanity or more. Today we honor all the Mothers! We hold space for the grief of missing our mothers, for a mother's loss of a dear child, for the complexities of relationships that need healing. We send love and compassion. We share in celebration for the gift of life, the ability to nurture and be nurtured, to seek and receive wisdom, and so much more. Wishing you all a fulfilling and joyous Mothers' Day.

“Don’t hurry. Don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.” – A quote from Walter Hagen’s 1956 autobiography. Now a days, most of us are familiar with the shortened version, “Stop and smell the roses.” Tonight, we encourage you to slow down and shift your gaze to potentially take in the beauty of the Northern Lights. Whether such a sight is visible or invisible, take the time to breathe in the fresh spring air. Reflect upon what or whom you are grateful for in the moment. Imagine the blanket of the night sky providing space for inner peace, healing, discovery and inspiration. And send a "hello" to all the living beings that share the same sky, sun and moon, the same waters and air you breath. Welcome yourself to experience life in all the colors of your choosing.

The Fundamentals of Qi: Part 3 shares practical ways to cultivate qi for optimal health, vitality and longevity. Our Health Literacy series aims to bring greater awareness towards improved health and quality of life. At Everspring Health, we recognize there are multiple paths in life to navigate. We aim to bring it back to the basics, to foster greater ease and effective integration. We care about your health. We are integrative health care for YOU! Schedule your initial health consultation today by calling 612-216-3500. Let's get you on the path of health, wholeness and fulfillment.

Fundamentals of Qi Part 3 Learn how to supplement source qi with acquired qi. Discover the practical applications of qi for optimal health, vitality and longevity.

Has the Minnesota snowy/rainy weather affected your qi? Learn how qi supports the substantial and functioning components of the body in our latest Health Literacy video below. (If you've never heard of qi, check out Part 1, exploring qi as vital life force energy.)

Fundamentals of Qi-Part 2 Movement of qi supports health and vitality. Learn how qi supports the substantial and functional components of body systems or optimal health.

Learn about Qi as it relates to health and longevity in our 3-part series on the Fundamentals of Qi. Perspectives, parables & elephants are a great place to start!
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Do you ever experience achy joints, pain and stiffness? Our relaxation/healing sessions facilitate pain relief and joint health (among many other benefits.) Light touch therapies, such as Healing Touch, Reiki, Qi-ssage and/or guided meditation, facilitate relaxation for the body and mind. As the body relaxes, blood flow improves and pain subsides.

As a past provider of relaxation therapy in a Twin Cities hospital for 4.5 years, I communicated with many patients before and after a session. Often they stated that their pain and stress levels dropped by 3-4 points after receiving just a 20 minute session of relaxation therapy. At Everspring Health, we can accommodate even more time for you!

We encourage you to experience the benefits of facilitated relaxation for yourself. Call us at 612-216-3500 to schedule your next session.

Regarding life as a pie chart, how big of a slice do you devote to your health? We're here to support you in health and quality of life, this day, pi day and beyond! We offer lots of "flavors" of support: digestive care, heart health, pain management, stress management, guided meditation, soul coaching and more. Book your slice of health and support for body, mind, and spirit by calling us today at 612-216-3500.

An invitation. A welcoming. Holding space and intention for healing, peace, centering. Release stress, anxiety, tension. Declutter the mental and emotional fields. Experience deep relaxation. Give yourself this space to be, to release, to process, to restore, to energize, to discern, to discover, to create.

It's as easy as calling 612-216-3500. And it's Buy One Get One month for Relaxation/Healing sessions. Imagine the opportunities available, one step at a time, aligning with the rhythm and pace in which you'd like to engage for optimal health and well-being.

Nudge, nudge. This is where you pick up your phone and schedule time for YOU! Looking forward to supporting you on your path! - Amy

"I have been going to Amy for Relaxation Therapy for 2 years. I wasn't sure what to expect before my first session, but after getting to know Amy during my visits to Everspring Health, I knew I wanted more of her nurturing, supportive, and insightful energy in my life. After one session, I knew it would be a habit for me. As an incredibly busy business owner, there are so few spaces where it feels easy for me to turn my mind off and relax. I often get distracted when I meditate on my own and turning my racing thoughts off can feel impossible. In Amy's session, I can follow her voice instead of my thoughts, and the incorporation of gentle, healing touch is both incredibly soothing and also serves the purpose of keeping my mind in the room. An hour with her is better than many hours of sleep for my nervous system. I have an immense appreciation for the relationship we've built, and I would recommend her services to anyone who is craving access to a quieter mind and struggles to get there on their own, and to anyone who is craving generous, nurturing energy." - Alison Arth / Salt & Roe Founding Partner

We can talk about chakras, energy flow, intuition and psychic tools of awareness, but all in all, the purpose of life is to recognize who we truly are, to share and express our unique self out into the world. It begins with body/mind/spirit health and awareness.

Exploring/learning about chakras may be a path of awakening for some. Others learn and express through scientific language, art, poetry, sports, leadership roles, community outreach. It's a matter of personal development, unique to each soul this time around.

The key is to return awareness to your truth and center, to not get side tracked by all the many detours and programs along the way.
We all are drawn to/need varied experiences, as we gather information on the path of awakening. We intend that our sessions serve as sign posts of self-discovery and healing.

Our "Everspring Living" sessions can accommodate your path of healing and development via relaxation therapy, incorporating peace, compassion and quiet stillness. We also can accommodate experiences with guided imagery/meditation, sound bowls, drumming circles, painting circles, intuitive readings, essential oils, card decks, and play. However the case, our intention is to hold space for wholeness and health. We can talk chakras & intuition or frame it as relaxation & stress-relief. It all falls under the umbrella of body/mind/spirit health and development.

Let's open the door to discovery, as a path of validation for you.
Share your goals as it relates to body/mind/spirit health at your relaxation/healing session and be sure to mention the BOGO promo to get a second session free (to be used by March 31, 2024.)

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Making Space to Heal, Grow & Flourish

This holiday season, share the gift that facilitates greater health, relaxation and personal growth. Our gift certificates can be applied towards acupuncture, cupping, wholistic healthcare, lifestyle consultations, herbal supplements, Healing Touch, craniosacral therapy, soul coaching and more! Give us a call today at 612-216-3500 to learn more.
We aim to support physical and mental health, as well as provide the foundation for spiritual validation, returning to your center of awareness. Share the gift for balance and health for Body, Mind, and Spirit.

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Stress Relief Time!

Full disclosure. My stress level was up, so I took out the coloring book. The simple act of coloring allows the body to rest and the mind to focus within the present moment.

Contemplation for Stress Relief

• Choose a design that reminds you of being in nature.*
• As you take in a cleansing breath, imagine the nature elements that feel calming, comforting and secure. Do the rooted trees and plants help you feel grounded and present? Does the owl remind you of your inner wisdom?
• Choose colors that you associate with the qualities you’d like to experience today. What color supports a sense of security? Is there a color that encourages you to soften your muscles and release tension?
• Perhaps you need a total break from any sort of structure. Color however you please. Draw inside or outside of the lines.
• Allow yourself to have no expectations. Simple enjoy the experience and witness what evolves out of non-judgement.
• When finished for the time being, welcome in another cleansing breath and put a smile on our face.

*Today’s design is found in Sacred Geometry: Simply Geometry Vol. 1 (Page 51)

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Summer Heat Cool Down

With the summer heat and soaring temperatures felt by many in the northern hemisphere, let’s get out our Contemplations in Color books and color for cool!

Contemplation to Cool
• Choose a design that invites ease, a calm sense of mind or one that reminds you of cooling water, ice crystals or even snow!*
• Pick out the “cool” tones within the color spectrum: blues, greens, purples.
• As you pick up a new color, enjoy a deep breath and imagine experiencing a fresh, cool breeze.
• On the exhale, imagine any excess of heat felt in the body, dropping down, as though you have roots deep into the earth, allowing the heat to rejoin the earth’s molten core layer.
• Let the cool colors remind you of cooling waters, ice crystals and/or shady spots under trees.
• By allowing yourself this time to color, may you feel the benefits of a rested, settled body and mind. May you feel refreshed as you bring the “cool” back into your awareness.

*Today’s design is found in Sacred Geometry: An Introduction (Page 24)
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It’s week 26th of Contemplations in Color and we’re all about Validation. One of the most effective ways of validating oneself or another is to communicate, share and express. The simple act of saying “Hello” provides for validation of being! This recognition may brighten someone’s day or relieve pains of isolation or depression. Both the sender and receiver benefit when unique gifts of spirit are shared, be it music, culinary skills, compassion, technical expertise, art, philanthropy, a listening ear. We each have unique ways of being in this world, so let’s celebrate you! We encourage you to share your gifts, communicate your truth and allow yourself to receive from others, recognition and validation in return.

Contemplation to Communicate, Express & Share
• Choose a design that you are drawn to for whatever reason in this moment*.
• As you pick up a color, affirm to yourself a quality or attribute that you like about yourself. In the least, you can give yourself credit for showing up to color today!
• Let your next color prompt you to become mindful of some communication you wish to share, either with yourself, such as more affirmations, or to share with another. Would you like to say hello to a neighbor, the next stranger you pass or the beautiful flower?
• Whenever you feel complete with coloring, decide to share it with another. Tell someone about your experience. What have you learned about yourself these past six months? Make a card out of your art design and send a note to a friend. Use the paper as gift wrap. Frame your art for display. Share a photo on social media.
• Enjoy the experience of discovering, expressing, and communicating your inner truth and unique gifts of being spirit/body/mind. What a great trio for self-discovery and life fulfilment!

*Today’s design is found in Sacred Geometry: An Introduction (Page 9)
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There’s no way around it. Life involves change. Minimal change may feel comfortable, content, stagnant or boring. Big change may feel exciting or dreadfully overwhelming. Whether we choose to make a shift or are pushed into change, these times are opportunities for growth and healing. It’s important to recognize and validate when we are in these “growth periods.” As we become more aware of the process of personal and spiritual development and healing, we can better navigate the waters of change, witness our reactions, and optimally respond to life. The turbulent waters of change may no longer swoop us into murk and debris. Rather, using tools of awareness, we can learn to ride the tidal wave of change and move through our growth periods with greater ease, neutrality, amusement and grace.

Contemplation to Validate Your Growth
• Find a design that represents movement, flow, change or growth*.
• Think of/feel into an experience that has recently changed, is about to change, or you’d like to change within your day, week, life: career, home, relationship, the weather, your attitude, hair style. Whatever!
• Decide that any projections, fear, anxiety, excitement, anticipation or other expectations around this change will come to the surface of awareness like air bubbles rising up to the surface of water.
• Pick a color to represent the emotions you’re allowing yourself to see bubble up.
• By acknowledging the memories/emotions that bubble to the surface, we are creating space to shift mental/emotional energy, whether to clear and release or to fuel and drive creative intentions to the next level.
• Resisting and suppressing the bubbles of change can create more turbulence. It’s like trying to swim against the current; whereas, awareness of what’s bubbling up, facilitates the flow of change, easing our growth periods as we navigate the best path forward.

*Today’s design is found in Sacred Geometry: An Introduction (Page 30)

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Validation is acknowledging worth. It is accepting what is, as it is. On the other hand, judgement, competition, and expectation tend to dismiss, divide and limit. Have you ever judged yourself unworthy because you weren’t as good at/as (fill in the blank)? Have you ever expected communication from a friend, only to feel disappointed because it wasn’t wrapped up in the shiny bow of love and forgiveness you had anticipated? Or perhaps you were expecting a friend to arrive off the train wearing red, but you walk right past them because they wore green. Expectation is a hindrance to fully having/experiencing who/what is in present time. In expectation, we unknowingly invalidate/dismiss what we DO experience in comparison to our expected experience. Validation, on the other hand, is the ability to fully have in awareness, who and what is present. Once we no longer resist or dismiss what is, healing begins.

Contemplation to Free-up Expectation
• Find a simple design or one with open spaces that feels less contained*.
• Before coloring, welcome in a deep breath.
• Decide you can let go of any expectations you may have about coloring.
• Any duration is fine. Colors have open/no meanings. There are no rules to follow.
• Allow yourself the gift of surprise, awe and discovery as you witness your coloring process.
• Give yourself the space to receive your experience, however it appears in the moment.

*Today’s design is found in Sacred Geometry: Simply Geometry Vol. 1 (Page 19)

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June’s Contemplations in Color is about Validation. Fulfilled living begins in present time. Often our attention goes elsewhere, ruminating about past wrongs or anxiously anticipating a future scenario. We may rob ourselves of the time and space necessary to experience life fully. Our creative energy scatters among the many needs of the physical and mental body that we forget to acknowledge the more capable show runner, that being our spirit awareness. In our haste, we may leap to the cliff of “to do’s”, grasping for dear life. All the while via present awareness, we could activate our inner compass, directing us to the steady foot bridge complete with instructions, guides, and safety gear. So, let’s adjust our pace towards presence and begin to validate our inner compass. We don’t need to see the whole journey to begin our progress. All we need in present time, is simply the one next step. Validate the one. The next becomes apparent. One step at a time.

Contemplation on Next Steps
• Find a design that is simple or reminds you of steps*.
• In life, we cannot do everything, everywhere, all at once. Same goes for coloring. Ask yourself, “Where does this color want to go onto the page?” Then follow through.
• Rather than try to imagine the finished product, ask yourself the next step. What color do I use next? Same or different? Make it so.
• Exercise this “asking for next steps” as you color. Validate your awareness of the answer by either following through or deciding otherwise. The choice is always yours to make, but now you are making a more conscious choice.
• With practice, we can awaken to our inner guidance and intuition, learning that the one often ignored small step is the next significant step on your path of development.

*Today’s design is found in Sacred Geometry: Simply Geometry, Vol. 1 (Page 52)

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It’s time to celebrate new growth with enthusiasm! This month’s focus has been on cultivating health and quality of life. We’ve planted seeds of intention, nourished progress by establishing optimal routines, engaged discernment to release stagnation and establish boundaries. We’ve practiced returning to our center within the cycles of life experience. Now we get to witness the sprouting of development.
Growth periods can be full of both ease and growing pains. Change may feel uplifting and refreshing; but it may also feel unsettling and uncomfortable. Such is the way of living a full life within the balance of yin/yang; yet, whatever the case may be presenting, we can have enthusiasm, knowing that growth is occurring. Let’s celebrate our growing pains and joy this spring as we welcome new opportunities for health and quality of life.

Contemplation on Enthusiasm
• Choose a design that inspires, brings joy, or represents growth and opportunity*.
• Allow yourself to play and explore with color.
• Pick vibrant colors to represent aspects of growth and change you are starting to recognize.
• Use subtle colors to validate the qualities that are still incubating in the quiet rich soil of potential, yet to be seen, felt, and realized more fully.
• Any stage of growth and development can occur throughout this experience we call life. Allow yourself to have enthusiasm for your ability to recognize what it is you are experiencing, right now. Acknowledgement is foundational for healing to occur.

*Today’s design is found in Sacred Geometry: An Introduction (Page 77)

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Health and quality of life are cultivated via rhythms and patterns. As we discern optimal actions of body and mind, we circle back and repeat the steps that bring about desired results. We might think of growth and development like a flower. Our true nature resides within, at the center of the flower, the center of awareness. Life experiences are the petals of the flower. We expand out into the world of experience to explore, learn, and develop. As we return to center, we integrate new awareness, “re-cognizing” ourselves anew. In this way, the circle of life experiences is more of a spiral movement of growth. Though things may appear similar, it is only within the present, the “new” now, in which our truth is known.

Contemplation to Return to Center
• Choose either a spiral design or a design with a center focus*.
• Use your breath to become aware of your body. Notice your breathing.
• Acknowledge your heart center by placing a hand on your heart. Release any shoulder and/or jaw tension.
• Awareness is the “driver” of your body/mind. Imagine awareness resides in the center of your head, behind your eyes.
• Every time you pick up a new color, repeat the above 3 prompts: Breathe. Acknowledge. Be Aware.
• Despite what the body/mind may or may not be experiencing, say “hello” to the wisdom and love that is within your true nature.
• Throughout your day, imagine hitting the “reset” button to Return to Center. Return to Wholeness. Return to Inner Peace and Joy.

*Today’s design is found in Sacred Geometry: An Introduction (Page 33)

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Contemplations in Color:

In cultivating a thriving garden, it’s necessary to maintain nutrients and space by pulling weeds. Likewise, for health and life fulfilment, it is necessary to practice discernment. By cultivating discernment, we begin to identify what is beneficial verses, what is unnecessary, disruptive, or even destructive to our purpose and intentions for health and quality of life. Once the “weeds” of life are identified, we can take the appropriate steps towards greater balance.

Contemplation on Discernment
• Choose a design that has some complexity*.
• Before coloring, mindfully take in the design. Notice if it has curved lines or straight lines. Recognize open spaces or contained spaces, abstract or concrete imagery.
• Begin to discern what qualities you like and do not like about the design.
• Choose to color the portions you are drawn to while leaving the rest untouched and free of your attention.
• Notice if you feel relief or tension by exercising discernment. Discernment is a precursor towards establishing healthy boundaries. As we practice the art of saying “no,” we create more space to experience our inner truth, wisdom, and certainty.

*Today’s design is found in Sacred Geometry: Simply Geometry, Vol. 1 (Page 41)

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Contemplations in Color: May, Week 2

In cultivating a garden of health, after planting seeds of intention, we next need to provide nourishment for health and development. Establishing a healthy routine provides the opportunity to regulate body systems. Using the foundational check points for stress relief, diet/nutrition and sleep can help you identify next steps towards greater health and quality of life.

Contemplation on Nourishment
• Choose a design that reminds you to establish healthy patterns and rhythms in your day, optimizing sleep, nutrition, and stress-relief*.
• As you color, consider what foods to include or lessen within your diet to optimize health and balance. Spring is a great time to nourish the body with fresh leafy greens!
• Pick a color that feels soothing. Imagine tension softening and releasing out of the muscles. Allow the mind to reset towards clarity.
• Choose another color that inspires the breath. Mindfully breathe as you color your design.
• As you fill your page with color, imagine soaking in the colors as light rays nourishing your body and mind for optimal function, health, and balance.
• As you then move about your day, let this contemplation prompt you to take the actions to foster nourishment of body / mind and validation of spirt.

*Today’s design, honoring the cycles of day/night, is found in Sacred Geometry: An Introduction (Page 12)

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Cultivation is the theme for May’s Contemplations in Color. To cultivate greater health and quality of life, it’s necessary to identify goals and intentions you’d like to nurture. Intentions are like the planting of fulfilment seeds into the garden of life. In preparing the soil, we may need to churn up old belief systems to begin anew. Perhaps we need to change habits of stagnation, open up new space in our schedule that fosters movement, growth, and development.

Contemplation on Seeds of Intention
• Pick a design that reminds you of a garden*.
• As you color a flower, for example, assign an intention you have for yourself.
• Are you focused on physical/mental health? Are you planting seeds of a new career path? How would a garden of fulfilling relationships begin to grow?
• Use this time of mindful coloring to prepare your “soil of life fulfilment.” Laying a fresh foundation for growth and development begins one step at a time. Take intentional breaths first thing in the morning. Put your hand on your heart and acknowledge yourself with care.
• This is your garden of intentions for life fulfilment. What seeds are important to you? Though small as a seed may be, within it may be the blueprint of a grand fruit bearing tree, standing strong and steady, providing shade, shelter, nourishment, oxygen, and beauty. All that, born within the darkness of potential, from the one carefully cultivated seed.

*Today’s design is found in Sacred Geometry: Simply Geometry, Vol. 1 (Page 61)

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April is Amusement Month. Amusement is a tool that helps us experience the ups and downs in life without losing site of the horizon that is our wholeness of being. Rather than be churned or swallowed by the tumultuous waters of change, we are learning to surf, to ride the ebb and flow of life patterns and cycles with greater ease and joy.

We’ve been welcoming opportunities to play, release judgement, be unbound by expectation. We’re practicing neutrality, increasing our capacity to have more of what life has to offer. Doesn’t this feel a lot like freedom?

Today’s Contemplation in Color combines it all to celebrate freedom. Freedom to laugh. Freedom to cry. Freedom to laugh even while crying an ocean of tears. We experience a full range of emotions, thoughts, reactions, responses. Amusement provides the freedom to not become the shifting sands of time. Rather, amusement reminds us to observe the dancing grains, to validate that we are spirit, being aware, free and unbound by circumstance, space and time.

Contemplation on Freedom
• Pick any gosh darn design you like!*
• Allow or challenge yourself to draw outside the lines.
• Color only the negative space if you feel so moved.
• Color a sun purple, a flower jet-black, the grass a flaming red.
• Recognize you, as awareness, is directing your body/mind experience.
• Be true to yourself.
• Be kind to yourself and others.
• Be whole. Be free. Be amused.

*Today’s design is found in Sacred Geometry: An Introduction (Page 36)

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