There are sweet parts of my life that I am grateful for. Sweet parts I didn’t expect and couldn’t have imagined along all these long decades of living. There’s our little house perched on a hillside facing the Sun each day. There’s my work that has been a great teacher and constant source of wondering […]
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Goodness Workshop Feb 4 Wellesley MA
Dear All, An invitation to a workshop I’ll offer next month. Thanks, John Goodness with John Calvi A One day Workshop at Wellesley Friends Meeting Saturday February 4, 9:30 – 3:30 This day will include simple energy work for healing, a life chart to explore lessons thus far, and deep relaxation for cleansing. That’s how we […]
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Still Melvin
Out of the blue comes email from my old high school friend, Melvin Ash. I haven’t seen him in decades. We were the Viet Nam Moratorium Committee of 1970 in our little New England town of 3,000 people. We held a peace rally after school- 10 people came. We had a candlelight march ending with […]
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Year-End Letter 2011
Dear Friends, It’s been a year full of wonderful invitations and good work. I’ve been welcomed into beautiful teaching opportunities all across country. And for this I am very grateful. A life’s work is a gift to keep learning, more and better. I began my work of healing trauma in 1982 and began to receive […]
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2011 Completed Calendar
February 1-2 Senate Meetings with Quaker Initiative to End Torture (QUIT) Washington DC March 11-13 Powell House – Peace Within, Goodness Throughout workshop Old Chatham, NY March 20 New Orleans Friends Meeting – QUIT Update New Orleans, LA April 1-3 Guilford College Sexuality workshops – QUIT Update Greensboro, NC April 3-4 Durham Friends Meeting Goodness […]
I’ll be teaching at Quaker Center in Ben Lomond, CA Nov 4-6. This is the Goodness workshop and it’s a good way to deeply relax and learn more of your own goodness – http://www.quakercenter.org/programs/goodness-workshop/
The QUIT Consultation November 11 & 12 2011 in Durham NC has been postponed due to lack of response. Future activities will be posted.
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New Recordings
Dear Friends, I recently gave a plenary on American Torture at a national Quaker conference. This talk was recorded and is now available. It is an mp3 audio file called To Go Where There is No Light. I discuss America’s use of torture and the Quaker Initiative to End Torture’s (QUIT) call to end it. […]
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The 27th Beethoven Letter
Dear Friends, I am still here, still on the road, still at work ? not brave so much as stubborn and happy for it all. I am seeking your support to stay at work. As many of you know, my life work has been to help heal trauma as a certified massage therapist and a […]
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Meditation for Letting Go
Here is a meditation I’ve used over the years to help myself and others let go of a particular difficulty, to stop focusing on the problem, and feel ones true healthy essence. I hope it may be useful. Rest, Sugar, & Light – John Calvi I am lying comfortably and relaxed.Every muscle is resting and […]