ONSITE Somatic Inquiry and Revelation w/ Lena Vieira
7:00 – 8:30 pm (EST), every 1st & 3rd Tuesday at bliss, 1007 Johnnie Dodds Blvd, Suite 228 in Mt. Pleasant. Please meet in the Open Mat Mezzanine up the stairway on the left. When bliss connections & experiences nourish your soul, please consider making a donation at givetobliss.com. Thank-you for your continued friendship & support. Join nervous system informed Somatic Practitioner Lena Vieira in discussion about our relationship with our bodies and the way it informs our health, habits and interpersonal dynamics. These discussions circles will have themes related to stress responses, self and co-regulation, the shadow, internalized misogyny, image and the masks we wear, creating safety in the nervous system and exercises for release and restoration. Facilitator: Lena Vieira, lenasglass@gmail.com Lena attended the Somatic Institute for Woman and facilitates one on one sessions as a somatic educator and coach. She regards the teachings and understanding she gained through that education as knowledge all of us should have and implement. We will explore these concepts with movement, breath, practices that strengthen the mind/ body connection, discussion, journal prompts and sound.
ONSITE Raise Your Spiritual Vibrations Experience HU: the Sound of Soul w/ Rachel Carnes
6:00 – 7:00 pm (EST), monthly on the 2nd Thursday at bliss, 1007 Johnnie Dodds Blvd, The Mezzanine Suite 228 in Mt. Pleasant. When bliss connections & experiences nourish your soul, please consider making a donation at givetobliss.com. Thank-you for your continued friendship & support. A divine sound courses through all life—through every blade of grass, every galaxy, every atom of our bodies. HU is an ancient, sacred name for God—a carrier of love between Soul and God. When sung or chanted with an open heart, it opens the lines of communication to the most sacred part of yourself. HU acts as a tuning fork, aligning Soul with higher states of love, creativity, healing, and awareness. It is the clear Voice of God, with the power to transform the lead of human consciousness into the gold of an enlightened Soul. “When you sing HU you are dipping your bucket into the eternal waters of the living word, the sound current, the audible life stream, the liberating force for all beings”. Sri Doug Kunin, Eckankar Worldwide Soul Adventure Seminar, October 2025 All are welcome to join us as we chant HU for 15-20 minutes followed by spiritual conversation in the company of like-hearted Souls. Facilitator: Rachel Carnes, tedrach843@gmail.com Hi! My name is Rachel Carnes, and I live in Mt. Pleasant. When I was younger, I thought, this can’t be all there is. I want to know who I am, and what God is. I want to know the truth of life. This set me on a lifelong adventure of learning. I’m still learning and growing and loving life.
Opening To Consciousness Through Breathing w/ Dr Diane Hamrick
1:30 -2:30 pm (EST), Every 2nd & 4th Tuesday at bliss, 1007 Johnnie Dodds Blvd, The Mezzanine Suite 228 in Mt. Pleasant. When bliss connections & experiences nourish your soul, please consider making a donation at givetobliss.com. Thank-you for your continued friendship & support. When we turn our attention inward, withdrawing from the outer world, to focus on our breathing we enter the mind-body where heart and soul can be accessed without fear, favor, judgment or prejudice. So often we keep ‘hidden’ our true feelings and thoughts, wishes and fears, and consequently miss knowing our truer self or SoulSelf. This lack of experience keeps our identity of ourselves in the grips of the False Self (who I think/fear I am). Conscious breathing relaxes our fears’ grip on the unknown interior life and gently opens our hearts and minds to making contact with our truth/True Self, our unspoken thoughts and dreams. In this one-hour class you will never be asked to share your experiences, unless you want to, but bring pen and paper to take notes. The Authentic Self is where our autonomous agency, Free Will/Won’t can be found. And because there is no separation in truth/integrity (“Nothing real can be threatened; nothing unreal exists.” From ACIM) we can let the truth come into our hearts and minds without the False Self needing to maintain its defenses against our imagined fears. And remembering that we are the ‘meaning-makers’ in our lives, we retain our ‘authority’ on the meaning, significance, validity of our experiences. Pierre Teillhard de Chardin (1881- 1955), French Jesuit, Catholic priest, scientist, paleontologist, philosopher, mystic and teacher, postulated that we are entering an evolutionary stage in our development as a sentient species that is dominated by consciousness, the mind, and interpersonal authenticity and integration of all previous levels of geological, biological, human and technological activities into a new level of planetary functioning. If this idea resonates with your thinking, feeling, knowing truth, then come join us. Facilitator: Dr. Diane Hamrick, dr.dhamrick@gmail.com, (843) 209-8347 I came to Charleston, SC, from LA, California in 1970 with a vision of making a difference in a town that I perceived to be 50 years behind in its collective consciousness from what I had experienced in LA. I completed my Ph.D. research at MUSC where I studied the (calming) of the orienting response (startle response) in children—a neurological requirement for all ensuing learning and successful adaptation. This led to my starting Pie-in-the-Sky, an open-classroom preschool where I could observe the natural learning behaviors in children. The school was a subsidiary of Further, Inc. that organized and operated the HOTLINE of Charleston, a suicide prevention center. My private psychotherapy practice specialized in the diagnosis and remediation of Learning Disabilities in children and writing the educational plans for LD children. I became a Teaching Member of the International Transactional Analysis Association (based on Carl Jung’s theory and practices of clinical ego analysis and therapy) and applied TA toward the collaborative practices required for reaching mediated settlements in divorce cases. Parents were better than the Family Courts in prescribing how they were to separate their assets and debts and how best to raise their children after divorce. At the same time, I became involved in establishing Hospice of Charleston, a caring service where people could prepare to make their transition from their life consciously and conscientiously. I took a sabbatical to study the application of Buddhism in my psychotherapy practice and, at the same time, I began my study of A Course in Miracles. I realized that all diseases of the mind and body begin in conflict within the mind and body and between egos identified with fear and struggling with the illusion of separation from one’s wholeness while identifying with the unforgiven and unforgiving, fearful, false self (ego identity) and struggling with issues of loneliness, alienation and betrayal incurred along the way. For 10 years I taught a course at the College of Charleston, “States of Consciousness,” that traced how Western thought systems maintained the notion of the separated, rational mind practices that maintained the illusion of a separated, quantifiable, objective reality; whereas Eastern thought practices of meditation and yoga could lead one to experiences of integration and extended consciousness. A midlife Vision Quest showed me that the practices of self-analysis in human nature, mediating between the inner reality of mind and body and the outer reality of having to adapt to the man-made reality, were supported with meditation and deep breathing and a prayer life of Serenity and Gratitude that includes the acceptance and forgiveness of our destructive habits (much like the AA 12-Steps) and can bring us to our peace of mind and realization (Wisdom) of our purpose for which our natural lives were designed while we live our brief time on earth. I have come to consider myself an evolutionary humanist, a more holistic practitioner than the behavioral ego psychologist I was taught to be in my limited training as a clinical psychologist. However, a course in Existential Psychology inspired me to seek my identity through searching and identifying the meaning and purpose for my life.
ONSITE Spring has Sprung in the bliss Boutique
Thanks to YOU our racks are full of delightful new or like new spring fashions including dresses, skirts, pants, shorts, shirts, shoes and jewelry. These treasures are offered for $10 per item or have fun Mix & Matching any 3 items for just $25. Go to givetobliss.com to make a donation for your selections. All proceeds support YOUR continued connections and activities at bliss. It is a Win, Win! Do you have spring treasure to share? We have limited space for receiving and storage in our new location. Please only deliver new or like new fashion items listed above with an estimated resale value of $10+ to the bliss Mezzanine in a basket under the hospitality bar. Thank you for YOUR friendship and support!
ONSITE Self-Exploration through Poetry w/ Tish Voit
6:00 – 7:00 pm (EST), every 1st and 3rd Thursday at bliss, 1007 Johnnie Dodds Blvd, The Mezzanine Suite 228 in Mt. Pleasant. When bliss connections & experiences nourish your soul, please consider making a donation at givetobliss.com. Thank-you for your continued friendship & support. After a brief round of introductions, we will begin each class with a fun warm-up exercise to get our creative juices flowing. Next, we will explore utilizing a fresh writing prompt for each class to delve a bit deeper during a 20-minute timed stream of consciousness writing exercise designed to quiet the inner critic. Then we will have the opportunity to share what we have put on paper in its pure unedited form. All levels are welcomed and encouraged to enter our circle. Sharing your work is optional and helps us discover more about you. We may offer further growth opportunities to share your poems through open poetry reading events at bliss and other local venues. Facilitator: Tish Voit, tish@blissspiritualco-op.org From early childhood I have experienced an intimate connection with spirit. This ever loving, encouraging and persistent guide from within has directed me to become a dedicated leader for causes that help others by building community. I am a playful and intuitive visionary, artist, singer, author, cook, and friend. My favorite place to be is home which I co-create wherever I am. I write to explore my soul self, which is eternal, expansive, and uniquely creative. I enjoy sharing my poems and hearing what others create. To be known is a blessing. Please join us for this inward journey whenever you feel called.