Monthly Archives: May 2013

RSVP Now for Practitioner Skills Development Day June 1 and Group on June 2, 2013.

Hi Everyone

Just a quick reminder that Practitioner Skills Development Group is scheduled for June 2nd, 12:45- 4:45pm. We need to have four people commit to coming by letting me know by next Thursday morning, May 16th,  that they will certainly be at Group if we get four affirmative responses.

Next week I will announce whether Group will be happening two weeks later.

If you are an RPA Student Practitioner wanting to participate in a full day of Practitioner Skills Development Day on June 1, , with or without attendance at Group the next day, I need to know that you would like to attend by Friday, May 17th.  Please call me directly to plan for your tutorial observation needs.

Sending you each love, light laughter and much gratitude,Capture3-16-2011-9.48.04 PM7-10-2011-3.31.02 PM

More Jazz And Spring Progresses in Central Park & My New York City Garden

I just can’t resist sharing with you pictorial updates of the lilacs, flowers and trees in Central Park, the wisteria on an East 70th Street . These pictures were taken while I was walking on May 3rd.

Check out the photo of the back of a man walking his cat on a leash through Central Park. You’ve gotta think that this could only be seen in New York City!

Included in the sideshow is an update of my garden in progress. You can see the whole palette that I have to work with to create my piece of paradise along with the first big containers I planted.

Finally,  jazz fan that I am, I went to Smoke Jazz Club again for a really special evening on Saturday night.

The Renee Rosner Quartet was performing lyrical, balanced, beautiful music. Renee was the pianist along with  my absolute favorite drummer Lewis Nash, the great Peter Washington on bass and Steve Nelson on the vibraphone.

In the recent past I had heard the same quartet minus Peter Washington perform at Dizzie’s. There was a real difference in the performance on Saturday night.

Smoke’s stage is miniscule in comparison to Dizzie’s and in this venue there was a perfect blending of the sounds of each instrument. At Dizzie’s the vibraphone sound seemed dominant much of the time when Nelson was a part of the song.

To make a perfect set even more enjoyable,  to my delight the greatest of all bass players, Sir Ron Carter,  came to have dinner and to enjoy the set as a part of his birthday celebration. He and his wife sat one table away from where I was so you can see his profile in my picture . I had seen him perform last year on his birthday at Dizzie’s!

If only I could capture the sounds of this night for you.  Enjoy!

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Music and Repatterning- A Great Spring Weekend

At the end of  January 2013 I posted an article about my very satisfying weekend which included, amongst other things, some amazing group Repatterning work I was privileged to facillitate  and attending some satisfying jazz sets.

This past weekend had similarities but with the addition of glorious Spring, all of the events seemed a little more joyous.

Once again on  Saturday I was invited by my dear friend and colleague to do a special Spring Forward Group with  her interested psychotherapy clients and acquaintances .

This time there were eight participants in the group and half of them had been in the January session. Several of the new people had never heard of energy healing or Resonance Repatterning. With the wonderful energy of my colleague and her home as our foundation, we quickly entrained with each other.

The repatterning was based on the new work  written by Gail Glanville,  The Goldilocks Principle, that I described last week . Anyone, anywhere can access this for free by clicking on the picture of the porridge bowl shown on this blog.

It was the first time I had used this incisive material with a group.

The content of the session touched everyone very deeply as many of the statements were involved on both spirit level and physical levels. We all know that a physical level involves the physical body, but what you may not be aware of is that in Repatterning when a spirit level is involved with material it means that a place of great and long standing resignation in a person is accessed and the person is ready to infuse new light into what was a deep dark place .

The intentions that were energized by and for the group can be viewed on the Love From NYC page above  this post or by clicking here https://merylchodoshweiss.com/anonymous-service-page/

Once again one of the most exciting parts of the session for me as the practitioner was my  muscle checking to use Infinity Healing as the six  minute modality to finalize the energy shifts and energize the new intentions..

Infinity Healing energy was transmitted  to each individual according to the dictates each person’s higher self.

Here is the text that one participant sent to my colleague the next day “Perfecto, parfait, perfect- tell Meryl she was right on the money–Omg  I am feeling so good–slept like crazy after infinity healing. Am a new person! Please tell Meryl”

The night before the Group Repatterning I attended the jazz and supper club that I had last attended in 1988. It was Augie’s on the Upper West Side then. Since 1998 the space has been known as Smoke Jazz and Supper club. Two of the performers were favorites of mine- Vincent Herring on the sax, and fabulous Cyrus Chestnut playing a georgous Steinway piano as only he can. The bass was played by a woman Brandi Disterheft and the drums by Joe Farnsworth. The  performance was being recorded for a new CD.

Last, but not least was a  Jazz brunch  at the georgous Robert restaurant at Columbus Circle that I first experienced last summer. Once again the Rob Dugay Trio was playing smooth and mellow music while we basked in the beauty of the venue and the views of the city.. Rob Dugay was on the bass, the pianist was Justin Kauflin and the drums were by Nadav Snir-Zeniker.

I realize that it has been a long time since I wrote about any of the amazing live musical performances I have attended since the end of January.

I was hoping to catch up one of these weeks with more complete descriptions of my musical experiences, both classical and jazz, but I just discovered that several past events that I had listed on my i phone calender seem to have disappeared from my listings so I need more time to match my pictures with the events and descriptions.

I have attended a lot of jazz and a whole subscription series to both the New York Philharmonic and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

I have no pictures from the Philharmonic but I particularly enjoyed the amazing control of the range of sound from the softest notes to the loudest crescendos the orchestra produced while playing an all Beethoven concert with Radu Lupu as pianist and Christoph von Dohanyl  conducting. As a Beethoven fan I noticed how very different the phrasing, emphasis and measured qualities varied conductors elicit from the same orchestra and the same musical compositions.

The New York Times review of the concert perfectly describes what I perceived. www.nytimes.com/2013/02/02/arts/music/new-york-philharmonic-led-by-christoph-von-dohnanyi.html?adxnnl=1&ref=christophvondohnanyi&adxnnlx=1367374226-hmpI9+KvV5GQqaSDZ2Z6iw

From March 21-31, 2013 New York  classical radio WQXR presented every single piece of Bach’s music as their complete programming.  I was able to attend a wonderful all Bach concert conducted by Bernard Labadie with the violin soloist Isabel Faust. you can click here to listen to see her perform in a small concert at the radio station Greene Room http://www.wqxr.org/#!/articles/wqxr-features/2013/mar/26/cafe-concert-isabelle-faust/.  The New York Times  reviewer did not enjoy this concert as much as I did.

What was most interesting to me about the concert I attended with Andreas Schiff as both the conductor and pianist was the particular subtlety with which he used his pianist hands when he was the  conductor. There was such expressiveness in how he used his hands to mold the quality of the sounds the orchestra members produced.

My very favorite concert of my classical year was a performance produced by the Chamber Society of Lincoln Center. It featured eight cello players . The sound of the cello is so rich and it touches not only the depth of my heart, but it seems to resonate with the very core of my expressive self. There was tremendous variety in the musical pieces performed. The audience responded so enthusiastically and I believe that the only time I have ever seen Alice Tully Hall of Lincoln Center so filled is when the Society does its annual December performance of all of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos.  Here is what the New York Times had to offer about the concert.www.nytimes.com/2013/04/24/arts/music/the-cellists-of-lincoln-center-at-alice-tully-hall.html

Finally, for your visual pleasure, here is a slideshow of my pictures updating the progress of Spring in Central Park and the City,  Smoke Jazz club, Robert’s and the view from there of Central Park, and finally the beautiful wisteria whose appearance and beauty brought tears to my eyes today. Life is really good!

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