December 2023 Newsletter

 

Happy Holidays, Beloveds!

"If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe, would appear on the mirror of your perception.” ~ Rumi Rumi captured my heart years ago. His words remind me to be still and look within for what I'm searching for as I embrace whatever is in this moment. So grateful for Rumi and grateful for you in my life! I hope you're having a wonderful Holiday season full of love and delight. I'm emersed in decorating the house for the season. Have I mentioned I was raised by Christmas elves? I'm happy to report that the work of carrying everything up from the basement and placing it around the house is easier this year after my weekly swims and workouts in the water. As I approach my 73rd Birthday it's a gift to have more strength! A gift I have finally given myself! Below is the beginning of the process. I bought the tree yesterday, December12th, and put the lights and one decoration on tonight. This is the tallest and skinniest tree I've ever bought. I had to get the 6-foot ladder out to put the angel and lights on top. Likely will need it again as I decorate the top of the tree. I think I've learned my lesson! No more 8-foot trees!!!

Upcoming Classes This Saturday, December 16th, I'm offering an in-person All Love class at 7pm to 10pm here at my home in Pikesville. The fee is $40. I hope you can join me! On Thursday, December 21st, I will offer the All Love Zoom class from 8pm to 10pm. The fee is $20. Email me if you would like the link. January 2024 classes will be on Thursday, January 18th, for the All Love Zoom and Saturday, January 20th for the in-person All Love class. Same times and fees as above. Would love to see you at one of these heart opening classes!

In Closing As we all go into this Holiday season, my heart is heavy amid my decorating distractions with the wars and violence in our world. I also have intimate friends and family facing illnesses and struggles. May we each find ways to serve those near and far that are facing these challenges. I believe in the power of prayer and right action. We can listen to our hearts to find out what we can do to bring more love, peace and healing into this troubled world. As we sit with our own sweet hearts in quiet, we can find the strength to be of service and open to the Goodness that lives in each of us. In the midst of all the challenges, may we see not only the harsh realities, but also the tender loving sweetness that is a part of being human. I pray your Holiday fills with peace, love and joy! Love You Always, Sherry

Sherry Tuegel www.body-beloved.com 410-598-1010

November 2023 Newsletter

 

Happy November, Beloveds!

I hope you all are enjoying these beautiful Fall days! The morning sun is beautiful coming in my front windows today. I've actually been up early recently to enjoy the morning light streaming in. So not my usual thing! Maybe I'll suddenly become a morning person. Unlikely but maybe. I do get more sunlight in if I get up early this time of year. That's a plus.

I'm delighted to report that the ceiling damage in the basement is repaired along with the floor in the kitchen from my dishwasher leak. Yeah! Stan Hearn did a great job for a good price. I'll be starting up in-person classes again in December. I do love teaching here and am grateful to have this comfortable space. Curiously the Fall weather has had me thinking of selling. We shall see what the future holds. I do love to renovate houses. Maybe I got the bug during my repair project. In my first house I lived in one bedroom room while the rest of the house was in total chaos while I slowly renovated it. The only way to flush the toilet was to pour a bucket of water down it. Those were the days. But seriously, I'm not up for that level of challenge anymore!

My book cover mockup I'm delighted that my editor is making progress on my book. I'd love to have it on Amazon by early next year. We shall see. It still is odd not having that project as the daily center of my life. Last month I was squirrelly without it. Happily that has passed. Here's another snippet from my book under the section titled Stumbling Forward: "On a Mission February was a time of integration back into my day-to-day life. I watched many of my old patterns of fear and desire for more of whatever (fill in the blank) re-emerge. As I have read over my many journals, I am both amused and frustrated at the cycles of bliss and doom that rolled through me. I did have better and better ways of dealing with those patterns but they still took me for a ride all too often. I had the delight in March 2008 of visiting with my teacher/friend Saryu Dalal. She told me she could see the transformation and joy in me. "You're not looking for someone to heal or fix you like before. You just are, take it or leave it! You are radiating joy!" she said. I wrote this after her quote in my journal: The 10,000 idiots that I want to believe have left town or died, they are still here...just not in as much control...and some actually have left town or died. Or so I hoped. I had just read 10,000 Idiots by Hafiz: “It is always a danger to aspirants on the Path When they begin to believe and act As if the ten thousand idiots Who so long ruled and lived inside Have all packed their bags And skipped town Or Died” I continue to be humbled when again and again those idiots inside make themselves known to this day!" And of course, I still am.

Upcoming Classes I hope you can join us this Thursday, November 16th for another All Love Zoom from 8pm to 10pm. Dive in and open your heart to feel the love that you are! The fee is $20, and you can use Zelle via my phone number 410-598-1010 (shows my name as Sharon) or PayPal via sherrytuegel@verizon.net. Email me for the link. There will be no All Love in-person class this month but I will have one December 16th. The December All Love Zoom will be on December 21st. It's usually the third Thursday of each month. Would love to see you and share our hearts energy online or in person!

In Closing I always love to hear from you to find out how your life is going and/or hear any reaction to what I have shared with you. Do drop me an email and share about your sweet life. I hold you in my heart sending you love, healing prayers and peace. May you and your loved ones be deeply blessed. Love and Many Sweet Blessing, Sherry

After much silence I'm sharing my August, September and October 2023 Newsletters here. Hoping to share more soon. 💞

Happy August, Beloveds!

Hard to believe we are already halfway through August! I hope you've been enjoying your summer delights and vacations! No major vacations for me this year but I did get away for a 4-day class in Fairfax, Virigina with Patrick Zeigler, staying in Leesburg with the Sweidels. Thank you, Monica and Marty! I'm still integrating the work I did in Patrick's All Love class. As always, it was humbling to watch the transformations and openings around me. I walked into the class with such a sense of ease and contentment. That got shaken up by the end of the morning of the third day. Patrick pushed me hard. I spent lunch in tears feeling my heart torn open. That opened a door for me and by the end of the day, I went into Samadhi. My mind went totally silent and still, the deepest waking silence I have ever experienced. Here is the definition of Samadhi from www.ananda.org: "Perfect union of the individualized soul with infinite spirit. (1) A state of oneness; complete absorption. (2) Samadhi, which literally means “to direct together,” is the state in which the yogi perceives the identity of his soul as spirit. (3) It is an experience of divine ecstasy as well as of superconscious perception; the soul perceives the entire universe. (4) In other words, human consciousness becomes one with cosmic consciousness. (5) The soul realizes that it is much more than the conditioned body. (6) Christian saints have previously described this experience as “mystical marriage,” in which the soul merges into God and becomes one with Him. (7)" There are a lot of words above for the wordless state I experienced. I've tasted moments of it before. On July 30th I stayed in that deep silence until my classmates and Patrick started dancing over me to bring me back. The class was ending for the day and they needed me to 'come back'. I would best describe the experience as perfect emptiness. Now to move into it again and again until I can live there and be awake and functioning here at the same time! I was not the first or the last to experience this state in this class. Thank you, Patrick, for opening the way for me and many others! Om Namah Shivah!

Coming Soon ... I Hope! Having never published a book before, I may be exaggerating by saying it will be out soon. I'm in the editing phase and believe I've finally completed my memoir. I started writing it in 2010 and hope by the end of 2023 I'll have it self-published on Amazon. We shall see. The memoir concentrates mostly on my life between 2008 and 2015. The title, Stripped Naked and Other Songs of Love, came to me in New Zealand in 2008 on my All Love/Tantra Retreat with Patrick and Natalie Zeigler. Patrick wants me to make it clear, which I believe I have in the book and now here, that he is not teaching or offering Tantra. That was Natalie's gift. I'm considering adding a subtitle: Birth of a Sacred Intimate. We shall see. The first quote under the title at the very beginning of the book is from Osho: “Before he can come to know himself, a man has to become naked; he has to drop all his clothes. We not only wear clothes on the outside, we also wear clothes on the inside, in the mind.” ~ Osho I share intimate details of my life and healing journey as well as my Tantric practice; so this book will not be for everyone. In the introduction I say: "Throughout these pages I've shared many intimate sexual details. If you’re uncomfortable with explicit sexual content, much of this book is not for you. My sexual journey played a powerful role in my heart's evolution. I hope to encourage readers to let go of making sex wrong and use that powerful energy to propel you into ecstasy and the truth of your being. It's all part of the joy of being alive in this precious body!" I've had several people ask me over the years, 'who is your audience?' I finally can answer that question. It's people who will love the book. Maybe you will love it, maybe not. You'll have to let me know. Having finally gotten to the editing stage I have a song from YouTube I want to share to celebrate the journey! Enjoy! Happy

I hope you can join us this Thursday, August 17th for another All Love Zoom from 8pm to 10pm. Dive in and open your heart to feel the love that you are! The fee is $20, and you can use Zelle via my phone number 410-598-1010 (shows my name as Sharon) or PayPal via sherrytuegel@verizon.net. Email me for the link. There will be no All Love in-person class this month due to vacation schedules, but I will have one on September 16th. See above. The September All Love Zoom will be on September 14th. It's usually the third Thursday of each month. Hope to see soon!

In Closing I always love to hear from you to find out how your life is going and/or hear any reaction to what I have shared with you. Drop me an email if you have the time! I hold you in my heart sending you love, healing prayers and peace. May you and your loved ones be deeply blessed. Love and Many Sweet Blessing, Sherry

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Happy September, Beloveds!

I know it still is Summer out, but I wanted to share a little of the coming Fall colors above! Fall Equinox is about eleven days away on Thursday the 21st. I hope you're enjoying the longer nights and occasional cooler weather as we head into Fall. I know am! It has been an interesting time for me having finally finished the book and sent it to my editor. I'm adjusting to not having writing as the center of my day. Instead, I keep going over the book to see what I need to change, remove or reword. I may drive my editor crazy with my updates. Luckily, she hasn't started editing the book yet. I enjoyed making a mockup of the book cover (sans the spine) on PowerPoint using Susan Singer's painting of me called "The Bliss of It All". Here's what I have so far. The block with the title needs to be changed using something softer. I'd love to have my book published on Amazon by the end of the year. We shall see. Let me know what you think of my cover mockup. I hope the description and cover art are enticing!

Upcoming Classes Last month I sent out the wrong date for the in-person All Love class. It's the 23rd of September not the 16th. See below. I've settled on the third Thursdays of the month for the All Love Zooms. Join me online on Thursday, September 21st at 8pm to 10pm. Here is the link: Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89184110786?pwd=SFVOSVV0d1cvUGEwTFlUeWJsdmJSQT09 Meeting ID: 891 8411 0786 Passcode: 475930 The fee is $20 and you can pay me via Zelle using my phone number, 410-598-1010 (Preferred - name shows as Sharon Tuegel) or on PayPal via my email address: sherrytuegel@verizon.net. I'd love to know ahead of time if you plan to attend. Hope to see you online or here at Sturgis! These gatherings continue to delight and amaze me!

In Closing I hope your days are filled with love and joy as you embrace whatever challenges life brings. May you tenderly hold the part of you that sometimes suffers letting go of whatever must or needs to go. Each day I spend time remembering the eternal soul that I am. That gives me deep peace and connects me with love and a renewed strength to face the moments of my day. I've felt a bit tired and challenged recently. I had two nights I dreamt of my brakes failing. I thought it was my anxiety over finally putting the book out, or that my brakes needed fixing, maybe both. I took the car to the mechanic, just in case, and the front brakes were completely gone. Glad I listened to my dreams! I hear the 'energies' are improving out there. I feel lighter these last few days, happily. I hope you are feeling good too! As always, I love to hear from you and what is happening in your life! Sending you my love and many sweet blessings! Love Always, Sherry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Happy October, Beloveds! I hope you are enjoying the beginning of Fall with its variable weather and the days getting shorter! (More on that shortly.) I'm excited to report that my editor will be starting on my book very soon! Yeah! Will let you know as things progress. Speaking of exciting, last week friends and I found a leak in my basement from my dishwasher. Thank you, Kathy and Loren, for helping me clean up the mess! I had to cancel my September in-person All Love gathering and will hopefully start up again in November (October All Love Zoom will still be on the third Thursday 8pm to 10pm). I'm not sure when the basement work will be competed but hopefully by the end of this month. We shall see. My dehumidifier continues to be taking 2 gallons of water out of the room in less than 24 hours and has been doing so for over a week. Wow! Praying things will all go smoothly as the work gets going! The darker days and cooler weather coupled with my house damage made me a little squirrely recently. Today's (10/2/23) sunny warmth was a welcome change, but I must confess that I feel like a failure when my mood drops down. Apparently, I am still fully human and full of ego reactions and needs. Who knew?!? Hah! I'm longing for the feeling of complete contentment and ease I tasted recently in Patrick Zeigler's July class, along with the breakthrough into Samadhi. I keep saying I came here for the contrast, to quote Abraham-Hicks. When my contrast includes depression and fear, I begin to wonder about the ride I'm on. I start looking for an escape. My dear friend Kathy is studying Buddhism, and her example has me re-reading "When Things Fall Apart - Heart Advice for Difficult Times" by Pema Chodron. Chapter One is 'Intimacy with Fear.' Here is a quote from that chapter: "It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share. We react against the possibility of loneliness, of death, of not having anything to hold onto. Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth. - If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes very vivid. Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape." And yet I keep looking for escape. So very human and fallible, I am. As I have said before, Beloveds, I'm a continuing work in progress. Completing the book has been a mixture of delight and 'what do I do now?' The book was a constant companion and ongoing purpose for over 13 years. I'm working on embracing this shift of focus with curiosity and wonder, when I'm not running from the discomfort of it. Interestingly, sharing this with you has helped smooth my ruffled feathers. (Wink Wink) I'd be curious to know how you are navigating the inevitable changes in your life. Drop me a note and let me know. In Closing Please contact me at this email, sherrytuegel@verizon.net, if you'd like the link to my October 19th All Love Zoom class. Last month was a wonderful loving gathering! Thanks everyone who joined me! The fee is $20. May your Fall be full of joy, visible and/or invisible, as each moment unfolds. Sending much Love and Many Blessings, Sherry