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SUSAN APOSHYAN

Weekend of May 18th & 19th
HEART OPEN - BODY AWAKE
The Spiritual Path to Emotional Intelligence


About Susan
Though Susan studied psychology, dance, dance therapy, yoga and bodywork, it was the
study of Body-Mind Centering, developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen which allowed her to
bring her interests of body and mind together into a cohesive whole. For twenty years,
Susan taught at the Naropa University where she was the founding director of the Somatic
Psychology Masters program. In addition to her work in psychotherapy, Susan has
maintained an ongoing practice in meditation and yoga. She began practicing meditation in
1973 and has an extensive background in Buddhist meditation as well as many different
meditation forms, including Christian, Hindu and secular. She began teaching meditation in
1984. She has been practicing yoga since 1975.


About the Event
This will be a day of embodiment practice. A day-long retreatBook
to let our minds rest. Susan’s book “Heart Open-Body Awake”
is the best preparation for this weekend. Students and
clients comment that Susan “really walks her talk.” She is
fundamentally committed to the human struggle and to living
on this planet respectfully and sustainably.

Click on the image below to see a video of Susan in action
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Hello
Hello and welcome to our church. If you are a new visitor, we have a page for you to get to know us and learn more about planning a visit.
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Planning your Visit

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We are Nicholas and Heather Vesey
We lead the services here at the Aspen Chapel most Sundays.
Have a look around our site. There are plenty of fee courses to watch from our 'Wisdom from the Top of the World' page. Click here to go to it

If you are planning on a visit, here is some information as to what to expect:

When: We meet every Sunday at 9.30am for about an hour. If you cannot make it in person, you can live stream the event by clicking here.

Where: We are the chapel by the roundabout as you come into aspen. Specifically here.

What: We (Heather and Nicholas) come from a Christian Episcopal background, however our community draws from all the world’s wisdom traditions with the aim of learning together to live our lives more skillfully.

Every week we will focus on a topic within a theme.

GuernicaAt the moment we are looking at what the topic of 'Being at Peace'
How do we experience being at peace, and what is the connection to the nature of our 'being'.
When our 'being' is at peace, are we at peace?


We will have a musician who will set the mood for the event. That might be guitar, piano, or any other instrument. They will generally play 4 pieces throughout the service.

There will also be prayer and meditation, generally led by Heather, and Nicholas will give a talk on the topic for the day.

Finally, there is an opportunity for discussion and feedback as we pass the microphone around for everyone to join in.

Kids? We also offer childcare with younger children being looked after and given creative ways to look at a topic for the day.

Coffee and Yummies. After the service there is a food and drink reception for everyone to get to know each other a bit more.