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1. Charlie Miles
   April 19, 2020 @ 7:57 am

   I am deeply grateful to be able to participate in this practice with Michele, Caitriona, and all of the other participants. The guided meditations have helped me reconnect with my sense of the divine, the beauty of life, and brought me great joy amidst this challenging period when so many suffer. I am honored by the trust and insight shared by the group, and look forward to continuing to practice in this way and learn from one another.

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2. Richard Prystowsky
   April 19, 2020 @ 8:18 am

   During this time of disconnect in the world, and prior to our engaging in these daily meditations, I often felt anxious and fearful. I am so grateful to Michele and Caitriona for bringing this meditation practice to us in this time of uncertainty. Indeed, the daily meditations–and the accompanying support from and connection with the group–have given me a way, have given me permission, both to accept with lovingkindness and to lean into my own fear and anxiety. The result has been quite healing. I feel deeply connected and grateful to Caitriona, Michele, and the group for helping me to discover joy and a sense of inner calm in the midst of, and perhaps even sometimes because of, the pervading sense of anxiety, fear, and uncertainty that otherwise could overwhelm me.

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3. Maxine
   April 19, 2020 @ 9:26 am

   This meditation series has changed my life! and the lives of my family! for the positive! Seriously!
   These daily morning sessions during the 2020 stay home pandemic have transformed me from claustrophobic, snarling grouch to a much more peaceful, loving member of my household. They can tell something’s different, and they are grateful and respond in kind and kindnesses.
   For me, each morning I follow the calm, guiding voice of Michele or Caitriona, exploring different breathing exercises or visualizations to feel more relaxed, more positive and better connected. Though many times I did not feel much happen during the session, sometimes due to intense chaos of family, by the time of my bedtime journal writing, I could see clearly the meditation had influenced my day in a positive, thematic way. I also, during this session, gained the strength to say, “This can wait, I’m going to meditate,” and go put on my noise cancelling headphones and escape the drama for a blessed time. I return to the fray much less frayed.
   Also, during this zoom session, I enjoyed sharing the screen with a wonderful and generous community connected to Manzanita Village, to spend the morning with a group of wise, thoughtful, joyous people has really helped to expand my world and my heart during this constrained time.
   Plus, with an additional nudge of some of their constellation work, I’m been successful in clearing out enough working space in my cluttered studio to start making art again! It started with removing some parental stuff, literally and energetically. Yay for powerful magic with common objects!
   To you dear reader, I recommend you take the leap! You’re stay-cationing anyway. Travel by sound across the internet to a beautiful place inside yourself!

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4. Penny and Joe Gully
   April 19, 2020 @ 10:56 am

   We are so grateful to Michele and Caitriona for making this meditation series available. Every meditation offers up something different, a different aspect of thoughts, feelings, and spirituality to examine, take in, change perspective, let go of or embrace. It has been profound for us, the meditation and discussion stays with us all day, sometimes for days, it has brought up some wonderful conversations and further examination, it is life changing. I (Penny) find I am less reactionary, less angry, less sad. I have new skills and a new outlook. There is a calmness and acceptance of the moment and an understanding that I am ok and I can trust this. So simple and yet so profound.

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5. Meredith Smith
   April 20, 2020 @ 8:23 am

   This series of meditations has been deeply nourishing, grounding and uplifting, with so many rich and varied resources to deeply care for ourselves and our world at this tender moment in human history.

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6. sandye linnetz
   April 21, 2020 @ 7:43 am

   I consider myself a spiritual practicalist… one foot in each world, and these two weeks of meditation “got me” in both! Thank you for the time, energy, loving kindness and flat out brilliance that you shared. I want more!

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7. Rochelle Cavlert
   April 22, 2020 @ 8:41 am

   Caitriona and Michele offer such beautiful presence and deep teachings in a time when we need support in this way. Traversing these practices together in community has been deeply supportive to me and those I serve in this time.

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8. Terri Coughlin
   April 22, 2020 @ 6:02 pm

   Thank you Caitriona and Michele for an amazing meditation series and for recording them. I am able to review the ones I missed and am continuing a daily meditation by going through the series. I do not do well on my own, so the continued use of your teachings is highly of value to me, especially as another tool for dealing with this pandemic crisis we’re in. I also want to thank Rodney and Bethany Sanchez, leaders of our Tender Shoot of Joy Sangha in Milwaukee, WI to you and your offerings!

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9. Tracy Saeman
   April 22, 2020 @ 6:20 pm

   I was honored and blessed to be a part of the 2 week daily meditation series. Highly impactful, life-changing, thought-provoking, and so much more. The fellowship time of meditation, chant, songs, and sharing have been the highlight of my days and I’m so excited that this will be continuing. As someone that has practiced meditation for several years now, I’ve learned new ways to meditate through this process and look forward to more time to evolve and grow. Thank you Caitriona Reed and Michele Benzamin-Miki for sharing your expertise and vision.

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10. Cynthia Cain
    August 8, 2020 @ 3:56 pm

    I anticipate each meditation, knowing it will give me a fresh way to look inward, to look around me, and to seek peace. The effects of this practice (and the NLP training) have been immediate as well as surprisingly far reaching. I have suddenly found a way to forgiveness in relationships that seemed impossible. I attribute this to the meditation and the return to my first teachers, Caitriona and Michelle.

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