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The busy mind is so grateful to stop and taste eternity.
-Joan Borysenko
While I waited, bleary eyed and cranky, I proceeded to do what I always do while the coffee brews: I took the clean dishes out of the drainer, one at a time and put them away.
On this particular morning, I experienced something that I had never consciously observed before: In the sixty seconds that it took me to stack the last of the pots and pans, the cobwebs in my head had cleared and my mood was better. A lot better. The fog that I was carrying - and my spirits had lifted.
What is this. I haven't even had my cup of coffee!
There it was. A spacious infusion resulting from a housekeeping ritual that I've repeated every day for most of my adult life; an experience realized and harnessed by simply being aware...
I wanted to write a book that cuts through the noise; one that could charm the part of the mind that is spinning out of control somewhere in "overwhelm La-La land"; a book that creates the tiniest peephole of quiet, yummy spaciousness that not only expands with our awareness, but can be felt at the deepest level; a book that delivers a palpable experience of spaciousness in one minute flat.
[The new] Your Spacious Self is that book.
Whether you are a super-organized neatnik, a hopeless clutterbug, a non-stop multitasker, a cautious beginner, an experienced professional, or a curious bystander - welcome, this book is for you.
Dear friends, what you just read was an excerpt from Chapter 1 of the re-released Your Spacious Self which hit the stands this month!
If you'd like to learn more, purchase an autographed copy from me, or "Look Inside" * on Amazon, the sidebar has all the links.
Wishing you a fantastic fall - bursting with spacious possibility.
Happy Clearing!
Stephanie
*The "Look inside" feature is coming soon.
Photo by Stephanie Bennett Vogt
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With all-new nourishing lessons in slowing down, simplifying, and self-care, Your Spacious Self will help you clear your home, quiet the mind, and restore your spirit.
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Clear Your Life
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Inviting Powerful Women
The old ways are not working
It's been a year since I took an online course for women called Feminine Power. It was profound and life changing.
Landing a book contract, a column in the Huffington Post, book collaborations with authors like Marci Shimoff and Jack Canfield, an opportunity to contribute for DailyOM - and a whole host of professional goodies that made 2012 one of my most exciting years ever - came about largely because of the tools I received from this online experience. FACT: Women in the West today have truly become the most autonomous, free, independent, educated and powerful generation in recorded history...
So, with all this opportunity, WHY are studies showing that women are feeling less happy, more lonely, unwell and depressed than ever before?
This is the question that my good friends, women's transformation experts, Claire Zammit, Ph.D.c. and bestselling author Katherine Woodward Thomas, MA, MFT, have been answering for the last seven years.
 On Saturday October 13th at 12 pm Eastern
[11 am central; 9 am pacific], they will share the keys they've discovered in their work with hundreds of thousands of people at a special no charge online women's event.
You'll need to hear Claire and Katherine explain it, but this is the basic thread...
Women have been sourcing the wrong kind of power to create the things we are now most yearning for!
Those things your heart and soul are aching for such as right livelihood, true love, spiritual connection, creativity, the fulfilment of your higher calling, all require the awakening of feminine power to bring them forth.
Even if you can't attend live, be sure you register and they'll gladly send you the recording.
P.S. Help me spread the word and forward this invitation to all the women in your life.
Photo: "Rest." Mural in lunette from the Family and Education series by Charles Sprague Pearce. North Corridor, Great Hall, Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.
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Simple Life, Spacious Life
Webinar
Sponsored by Friends Health Connection
 Most of us do too much, or have more possessions than we need or use. Or both. With our lives swept up in an overwhelming swirl of attachments, worry, and endless, mechanical "doing," our minds become fuzzy on what stays and what goes, what matters and what doesn't. As humans it is in our nature to experience clarity and spaciousness all the time. The problem is we lose focus, get off balance, and forget how.
So how do we dial it back - or even begin - to reduce the noise, release the stuff that doesn't serve and support us, and connect with that which makes our hearts sing?
Join me for my upcoming no cost Webinar and find out.
October 25, 2012, 3 pm
Sponsored by the Friends Health Connection
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Personal Space Clearing
Clear Your Self, Release Attachments, Experience Your Best Life
The Kripalu Center
 This 3-day journey offers stunningly simple techniques to release stressful patterns and attachments - to things, thoughts, habits, relationships, unfinished projects, painful memories - that get in the way of experiencing your best life. You will learn how negative thoughts and emotions affect you and your living spaces, and how clearing others clears you too.
March 10 to March 13, 2013
Kripalu Retreat Center, Lenox, MA
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Calendar
Events and Upcoming Programs
Coming attractions...
- February 15, 2013, I'll be giving a 90 minute talk at the San Miguel Writer's Conference entitled "From Rejection to Redemption: Build a Platform That Will Get You Noticed and Open Doors." Learn more.
- March 10-13, 2013 - Personal Space Clearing Retreat at Kripalu Center, Lenox, MA. Learn more.
- April 6-7, 2013 - Space Clearing workshop at the New England School of Feng Shui, Woodbury, CT. Learn more.
- June 15-22, 2013 - "Spacious in Spain" one week women's clearing retreat co-presented with Nancy G. Shapiro, Alicante, Spain. Learn more.
Photo by Stephanie Bennett Vogt
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Yin and Yang
Live at the White House
I happend on a YouTube clip featuring a performance by a 26-year old jazz sensation named Esperanza Spaulding playing live at the White House. I've never seen a bass player sing nor a vocalist play bass.
Her depth, presence, and grace moved me to tears.
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