Everflowing

21/12/2020

Greetings dear Everflowing friends! Its been a long time. As for many this has been a personally difficult year and it has demanded my full personal attention. I have taken an extended leave from my personal FB page however will continue to inform and post what's going on with Everflowing.

I have missed our connection and hope that your interest in what we facilitate in the world can be rekindled. We will continue to receive the changes as they come however for now our mission of Touch Awareness in healthcare for the dying is alive and well. The January newsletter will give you all the news!

For now I just want to express my gratitude to you for hanging in there with us through this silent period. You mean the world to me and all involved with Everflowing.

With shelter in place during this holiday season I wish you all cozy surroundings, loving family , nurturing friends in person or virtual and above all else a safe and healthy entry into the New Year. This isolation has been hard and I encourage you to do whatever it takes to return love and compassion to yourself. If you live alone like I do this is mandatory for grounding and well being. We all deserve it!

Blessings and Deep Gratitude

09/10/2020

"Continue until you see yourself
in the cruelest person on Earth,
in the child starving, in the political prisoner, practice until you recognize yourself
in everyone in the supermarket,
on the street corner, in a concentration camp, on a leaf, in a dewdrop.
Meditate until you see yourself
in a speck of dust in a distant galaxy.
See and listen with the whole of your being..."

"If you are truly present, the rain of Dharma
will water the deepest seeds
in your consciousness, and tomorrow,
while you are washing the dishes
or looking at the blue sky,
that seed will spring forth,
and love and understanding will appear
as a beautiful flower."

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

09/10/2020

30/09/2020

so happy to have the fall newsletter out . here it is https://us4.campaign-archive.com/?u=3d81fea87900634757467d899&id=c5a131bf81

As we come close to the end of this year, I am filled with gratitude for your kindness, support, and consideration. After 38 years in service to the hospice community, we have been forced to let go of past images, old roles, and prior concepts of what our work is and what we have to provide in regar...

22/09/2020

Don is a dear friend who shares deeply cultivated wisdom in a way that's easily understood and integrated into one's everyday life.

NUEVO CURSO ONLINE!! "Los 8 Pilares de la Alegría" con Don Handrick. 25, 26 y 27 de Septiembre. ⏳Plazas Disponibles! Apuntarse aqui: https://forms.gle/PodNTe8UA7zTVfoP6. HORARIO:
Viernes: 19:00 a 20:30 h
Sábado: 17:00 a 18:30 h y 19:00 a 20:30 h
Domingo: 17:00 a 18:30 h y 19:00 a 20:30 h

Aportación:
No socios: 40 €
Socios: gratis

En El Libro de la Alegría, Su Santidad el Dalai Lama y el Arzobispo Desmond Tutu conversan sobre la «verdadera alegría», que es una forma de ser más profunda y fiable que puede mantenerse y ayudarnos a superar los muchos desafíos de nuestras vidas. En el libro, esbozan ocho pilares, o cualidades, que se necesitan para cultivar la verdadera alegría y proporcionar una base para la felicidad duradera: perspectiva, humildad, humor, aceptación, perdón, gratitud, compasión y generosidad. En este curso, exploraremos nuestro propio potencial para la verdadera felicidad examinando cada una de estas ocho cualidades y discutiendo cómo las aplicamos en nuestra vida diaria.

12/09/2020

The anniversary of 9/11, Covid-19, violence, fires raging, homelessness on the rise, and more. We are no longer sheltered from death and dying. Grief is on every street corner in the form of graffiti or candles or a marker to define a loss. Our collective grief is can not be hidden away. We have no choice except to develop coping strategies for living This means information on death, dying and grief is information on how to live now. September 24 thru December 18 join eleven masters, in their chosen fields, as we dialogue on What Matters Most in Caring for the Dying and the Grieving. Join the first global conference sponsored by the Elisabeth Kubler-Ross foundation. Be part of this vital conversation .

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-essence-of-caring-for-the-dying-and-the-grieving-registration-117212474667

Online Eleven-Part Online Course – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation Global Certificate of Participation – International teachers

29/08/2020

Hey check out the new Touching moments blog post!

I live alone, have no animals, no family that communicates, no physically close group of friends. I have always worked. Clients, students…

20/08/2020

Join us Friday, August 21 for a dharma talk and sit with our special guest teacher Frank Ostaseski.

Friday, Aug 21 • 7:30pm Pacific on Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86590972371

Frank Ostaseski is a pioneer in end of life care. In 1987, he cofounded the Zen Hospice Project, the first Buddhist hospice in America. He guided that groundbreaking work for almost 20 years establishing a longstanding model for mindful and compassionate care. In 2005, he founded the Metta Institute training countless healthcare clinicians and caregivers and building a national network of educators, advocates and guides for those facing life-threatening illness. For more information about Frank, visit bigheartcity.org.

23/07/2020

A big thank you to the Zen Caregiving Project for offering Heart in Hands today on Zoom and to Lev Scalon for her coordination of the event and providing technical assistance. I am so grateful to all who participated in this truly loving event. Touching oneself with tenderness and compassion is not an easy practice. It elicits deep reflection and self honesty. The participation today was grounded, vulnerable and trusting, everything we need in this moment. The trust established today is a reflection of the ZHP community outreach and integrity. i look forward to our next event this fall.

21/07/2020

In this complimentary online session, we will learn effective self-comforting touch techniques with the intention of returning compassion and tenderness to oneself.

21/07/2020

https://zencaregiving.org/events/event/heart-in-hands/I am so grateful to share a practice that literally saves my life everyday. If you are an oncology massage therapist and not able to see your clients right now send this information to them. They will thank you for it. https://zencaregiving.org/events/event/heart-in-hands/

03/07/2020

Touch is fundamental to our human existence, in ways that are remarkable and exceedingly powerful. Massage therapy, our chosen discipline, comprises an astonishing number of approaches and techniqu…

01/07/2020

Beautiful and timeless images from a class in 1985. I miss seeing this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc6DKfXXyZE&t=12s

Language of Touch

26/06/2020

Greetings colleagues and supporters. Just want to give an update on whats going on with everflowing. If you have clicked on the website you noticed that it is less than half the size of the previous website. With new protocols due to covid-19 we have let go of scheduling live classes. wW are in the process of developing online formats for information that has been highlighted in our 5 day Providing Massage in Hospice Care training course. Its a new virtual world.

I jave created a 6 Ce hour course in The Emotional Impact of Working with the Dying. It will be on Zoom and first presented in August. The zoom link has been created . The current web person is out of town for another week and then the registration process can go on the website and we will be ready to market the class.

I am also in the process of updating the home study courses available through Integrative Healthcare Studies. Protocols for Covid have to be added and precaution protocols have to be changed. I will have the courses back to Integrative Healtcare Studies next week. time of recreation, trial and error. .

I miss posting visuals of students involved in touching. it breaks my heart to be so separate . I love teaching tenderness through touch.

Blessings to you all

24/06/2020

Please join me for Heart in Hands, a donation based webinar focused on self touch. These continue to be confusing and isolating times. Learn to be compassionate and tender with yourself. click here for full information.https://zencaregiving.org/events/event/heart-in-hands/ #

21/06/2020

Please join us Monday, June 22 on the “Open to Hope” conference. Kübler-Ross Foundation President will be speaking at 9:30 Pacific time about the 50th anniversary of his mother’s iconic best-seller, “On Death & Dying.” Sign up at Opentohope.com

19/06/2020

Watch Dr Gabor Maté speak in California next week!

Dr Gabor Maté is speaking at the first ever Virtual Trauma Summit on Coronavirus, Trauma, Addictions and the Future...

12/06/2020

I am sharing this again as I believe it will still serve https://mailchi.mp/c8cab7bd6829/covid-19-message-from-everflowing?fbclid=IwAR0_VLwil8QhI619PRbr_Ri6KR6SMLqidxPFmI84UJKqgwxxilSd_44fiwo

Perceived Options and Challenges Massage is struggling to find an avenue back to being open for business. There are multiple resources for practitioners on how to reopen your practice. Half the industry wants to open for business and the other half feels it is too early. Protocols on opening now see...

08/06/2020

We are holding close to our hearts the family of George Floyd, who will be eulogized in one of our home towns today. May the suffering of this situation inspire healing and true change, that we might touch the world and all of the people in it more tenderly.

07/06/2020

Here's our Spring newsletter I forgot to post it . Oops!
: https://mailchi.mp/d747dc446009/may-2020-update-6448556

This could have been a devastating time for Everflowing and I want to take this opportunity to express my deepest gratitude to those of you who have donated your time, energy, advice and financial support in creating the momentum to stay in business and continue to contribute during this time of unf...

06/06/2020

The “Boisé de Vie” Bios Park just opened up in Québec so that local families could immortalize the cremated remains of their loved ones in a natural space.

03/06/2020

Sometimes just what you need arrives in a form you wernt expecting. such is an e mail from today. I needed this with this pandemic going on and on. I miss touching.

"You came to hospice to massage my mother during
her last two months last fall. One of the most beautiful images in my mind is watching you slowly massaging her, quietly, with the light flowing through the window and the green walls all around, painted with flowers and vines. It was so peaceful and she was so happy and appreciative. Receiving massage was one of the few ways she really relaxed in her life and I'm so grateful you were there to give "her this... and that you were so present and grounded while doing so"..

29/05/2020

Thank you to all those who attended our webinar Hospice Massage During Covid-19. We appreciate your presence and support. If ever there was a time in our world for kindness and communication its now. We hope to see you again soon.

22/05/2020

Families and human services not being allowed into assisted living communities and nursing homes is concerning to me. Although I…

22/05/2020

Hello my name is Irene Smith this is my biography http://www.everflowing.org/irenesmithbio.html I have been teaching touch awareness and massage in hospice care for 36 years. With the current lockdown in human services I want to start a new touch program at the bedside. I want to teach family members caring for loved ones at home, the therapeutic application of lotion to the skin. Applying lotion with very gentle stroking can ease physical discomfort, depression and anxiety. I teach family members and professional care providers in live classes however in our current world I am developing an online model. I am looking for family members who would volunteer to meet me on Zoom platform and let me teach you at the bedside of your loved one. Thirty minutes is plenty of time.
The volunteer family member will need a device that has a clear camera and it will need to be positioned where I can see the two people involved. There are a couple of other needs . If you are someone who is interested please contact me by phone 415 564 1750 Pacific time or text 6282274101. I want to get started as soon as possible.
Skillful and tender touch can be of great service during these times
Blessings Irene Smith

21/05/2020

“Touch was never meant to be a luxury. It is a basic human need. Touch validates life and gives hope to both the giver and the receiver…

20/05/2020

How mindfulness can help in daily life and when things get tough.

05/05/2020

Cultivating personal comfort strategies through self touch can help to ease depression, anxiety and fatigue and provide nurturing needed during these unfamiliar times. Please join me on May 13th as we explore this valuable resource.

Through the Touching Moments Training in both group & dyad exercises, participants will discover & define the relationship of touch