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ZEST FOR LIFE
JOIN US FOR AN INTRODUCTORY ONLINE EVENT WITH DIAMOND APPROACH TEACHER, LAURIE WATTELL
Saturday, April 8, 2023 from 10:00 AM TO 12:30 PM Mountain Time via Zoom

Open to the public, no prior experience necessary.

Life holds the potential of aliveness, growth, progress, and expansion.

But many times we feel the absence of these qualities in our day-to-day living.

What is in the way of living fully?

At this webinar we’ll explore our relationship to living a life filled with energy and zest.

Join Diamond Approach teacher Laurie Wattell for this exciting event.

Register Here

We’re brave in our simplicity

We speak to the secrets of the heart

Our movement is a rhapsody

How bare our touch as deep as bone

We float in places

More soft then matter

Soothing our breath

Letting us flow

A strong embrace

We gather each other

Deep

Into this burning glow

I feel I am within you

Then we let it go

This North Star

This Magnetic gravitas

This auspicious union

This sweet embrace

This safe place

I’d hold you a bit

But how can I hold a snow storm

How do I hold the falling rain

How can I measure the

Impact that I feel

when your eyes disarm me

How do I understand the suspension

That happens when I’m around you

Only my heart can awaken

And let this be

Only my heart has the kind of hands

that can Hold you

See what’s happened now

My heart has become bigger

then my bubble

David Martinez 2023

Covid-19 Guidelines and Ridhwan

As Covid keeps changing in our community the school wants to stay on top of the best practices. We have been using Boulder County Public Health's recommendations. Right now the data that they have are hospital numbers and wastewater. As a school we will try to keep making the most informed decisions that we can to create a place where we can feel safe and comfortable.

We do need to be aware that no matter what we do there is a risk of getting Covid when we meet in person. Please engage in the way that you feel the most comfortable and know that it could be different for each of us.

When COVID levels in Boulder County are low, we are not requiring masks, and we support anyone who feels more comfortable wearing a mask to do so. We do require that no one attend in person with any respiratory or flu symptoms, or who simply don’t feel good physically. Specific teachers of an event may request people attending in person wear a mask, regardless of the Boulder County COVID level.

When COVID levels in Boulder County are medium, we strongly encourage everyone to wear a mask, and we understand a few people can’t wear masks without creating other complications for their health.

If COVID levels in Boulder County return to high at any point in the future, we will likely go back to using zoom for our events and teachings.

From Hameed: We want to get back to meeting together in person and we want everybody to be comfortable and safe to be able to participate in the teaching as completely as possible. It is a group effort, and we need to consider each other, and the totality of the participants in the retreat. We need to do our best to both feel comfortable and to help others feel comfortable and safe. This might mean attending in person or on zoom, and how we are when in person. It does not matter what we believe or hold as true about Covid; the point is to participate with our fellow students where all, or the majority, feel comfortable and safe to be together.

We'd love to publish your poetry, articles, personal experiences, jokes, art, photographs and or cartoons/drawings in our newsletter. It only goes out to members of the school, and, with your approval, to those who have expressed interest in the Diamond Approach. Please send your submissions or questions to Bev for more information. If you have more ideas for our Community Newsletter please advise Bev of that too. We're also looking for photographs to be used in the graphics so don't forget to submit them too.