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		<title>Click on the &#8220;EVENTS&#8221; and see what is coming up for Spring!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Fontes</dc:creator>
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		<title>New 3-Hour Sacred Space Design Class Offered</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Fontes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you been hoping for some help in designing Sacred Space in your own garden?  Now is your chance! I will be teaching  a 3-hour class at the beautiful Tower Hill Botanical Garden in Boylston MA on June 3, 2012 between 9am and 12 noon.  This class will be limited to 16 or 20 people... <a href=http://www.aspiritualgarden.com/home/new-3-hour-sacred-space-design-class-offered>read more &#187;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you been hoping for some help in designing Sacred Space in your own garden?  Now is your chance! I will be teaching  a 3-hour class at the beautiful Tower Hill Botanical Garden in Boylston MA on June 3, 2012 between 9am and 12 noon.  This class will be limited to 16 or 20 people who wish to create space in their garden or yard and leave the seminar with a viable plan and  designs to immediately begin the work on their property.<a href="http://www.aspiritualgarden.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/July31-07-024.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-384 alignleft" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" src="http://www.aspiritualgarden.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/July31-07-024-300x224.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="202" /></a>  In this class, all participants will work individually and with a small team as well as this instructor in developing their design.  The class is offered with a manual/workbook and can be pre-registered through Tower Hill Botanical Garden.</p>
<p>If you are interested in participating in this class, you may register by clicking on the link provided &#8211; all registrations are done via Tower Hill.  The price of the class includes the manual used.  Some pre-class preparation is advised.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.towerhillbg.org/">http://www.towerhillbg.org/</a></p>
<p>Get started on your Sacred Space and put it into place this season!  Register soon, this class will be filled quickly.  See you there.  Blessings, Mary</p>
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		<title>Garden-in-The-Tent, Providence RI, 10/08/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Fontes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come and experience the beauty and serenity of a Japanese Garden in the tent on Saturday, October 8, 2011 in Providence, RI.  The Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Foundation will be hosting it&#8217;s annual Flames of Hope on the grass mall opposite the Providence Place Mall.  A Spiritual Garden (Mansfield, MA), Tranquil Water Gardens (Cumberland, RI),... <a href=http://www.aspiritualgarden.com/home/garden-in-the-tent-providence-ri-100811>read more &#187;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.aspiritualgarden.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Mary-Fontes-Gemma-Day-2-324.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-377" title="Mary Fontes Gemma Day 2 324" src="http://www.aspiritualgarden.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Mary-Fontes-Gemma-Day-2-324-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>Come and experience the beauty and serenity of a Japanese Garden in the tent on Saturday, October 8, 2011 in Providence, RI.  The Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Foundation will be hosting it&#8217;s annual Flames of Hope on the grass mall opposite the Providence Place Mall.  A Spiritual Garden (Mansfield, MA), Tranquil Water Gardens (Cumberland, RI), and several contributions from outside suppliers, such as Briggs Nursery (N. Attleboro, MA), have come together to design a wonderfully peaceful  space for all attendants to enjoy.  SEE YOU THERE!</p>
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		<title>A S G designs another Garden-in-The-Tent for Gloria Gemma Foundation Flames of Hope, October 8, 2011  Read the latest blog for details!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Fontes</dc:creator>
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		<title>Gloria Gemma and A Spiritual Garden!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Fontes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is almost impossible to believe that an entire year has gone by and October 2011 is here to usher in another Garden In The Tent at Gloria Gemma Foundation&#8217;s  annual Flames of Hope in Providence,  Saturday Oct. 8!  Our garden design this year will be a Japanese Garden, complete with raked stone, water fall... <a href=http://www.aspiritualgarden.com/home/gloria-gemma-and-a-spiritual-garden>read more &#187;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is almost impossible to believe that an entire year has gone by and October 2011 is here to usher in another Garden In The Tent at Gloria Gemma Foundation&#8217;s  annual Flames of Hope in Providence,  Saturday Oct. 8!  Our garden design this year will be a Japanese Garden, complete with raked stone, water fall and Koi.  ASG&#8217;s wonderful partners will again be Tranquil Water Gardens of Cumberland, RI and I can tell you how peaceful it is to work with Craig and his staff.  We also have nursery yard loans from Briggs Nursery in N. Attleboro.  Additionally, Jason and Angelo will be at our side to manage the set-up, placement of foliage and expertise.  It is fast, intense and rewarding &#8211; and in the end you will benefit with the quiet, peace and serenity.</p>
<p>The Gloria Gemma Foundation is dedicated to bringing help and education to all those families affected by breast cancer, other cancers and survivor-ship.  Our goal together for Garden in the Tent,  is to bring understanding around a peaceful environment and how this can be created for everyone.  Come and experience this for yourself on October 8 in Providence, on the grassy mall opposite the Providence Place Mall.  We look forward to seeing you, and being seen!</p>
<p>Blessings, Mary</p>
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		<title>New Reiki Program for Addiction &#8211; read April 5 Blog!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Fontes</dc:creator>
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		<title>New Reiki Program for Addictive Behaviors</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Fontes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like everyone else in our Universe I experience endings that are really new beginnings.  For some while I have followed my joy for designing spiritual gardens and Sacred Spaces and used my Reiki skills in my designs, plants, personal healing and training others.  My loving commitment to Designing Sacred Space remains because it brings me... <a href=http://www.aspiritualgarden.com/home/new-reiki-program-for-addictive-behaviors>read more &#187;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span style="color: #330066;">Like everyone else in our Universe I experience endings that are really new beginnings.  For some while I have followed my joy for designing spiritual gardens and Sacred Spaces and used my Reiki skills in my designs, plants, personal healing and training others.  My loving commitment to Designing Sacred Space remains because it brings me close to Mother Earth and all she provides us, but it also is an integral part of our connecting to our Inner Spirit.  Reiki is not routinely highlighted on my website, but it has always continued to be a part of my daily life and health.  This past week that all changed. </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #330066;">My guides and my heart is directing me to bring Reiki back onto the front burner for a wonderful purpose and it is to be the basis of a new program that will be offered to those who are touched by <span style="text-decoration: underline;">addictive behaviors, such as alcoholism, prescriptive medications, other drugs, food, gambling </span>and such.  This program is designed to work with medical treatments already in place and 12-step programs that are the basis of alcohol treatments and recovery.  Reiki has always been that way &#8211; not in place of,  rather along side of and with.  I am so excited and committed to this new program that I am bursting at the seams with certainty and success.  You needn&#8217;t worry about where you live, this program can adapt to you and your location.<br />
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<p><strong><span style="color: #330066;">The basis of this program is to heal the body and to receive tools that will assist with the scary and challenging decisions we face every day while arresting and dealing with addictive tendencies in our lives.  These tools give us insight into ourselves and our power while meeting the bombardment we face through just living, especially in a world that doesn&#8217;t always support decisions that are out of the mainstream.  Ego, personal control, professional stress, illness, financial pressures, temptation and achievement surround us continually.  Reiki will <span style="color: #330066;">heal and balance the body </span>and remove toxins that block progress toward wellness.  The tools are ones we can carry (at all times!) in our emotional and spiritual &#8220;toolboxes&#8221; to maintain and manage our actions &#8211; moment to moment -  and they will work.<br />
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<p><span style="color: #330066;"><strong>If you are interested in knowing more about this program, call or email me and let&#8217;s talk about it.  I am here to serve; this program is designed for you.</strong></span><span style="color: #800000;"> <strong>info@aspiritualgarden.com<span style="color: #330066;"> Blessings, Mary<br />
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		<title>Are you Planning??</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Fontes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is February and what are you doing about planning your Space?? For those of us in New England the weather has been anything but inspirational toward planning our Sacred Space &#8211; whether indoors or out. Or HAS it???  Perhaps we need to look at what a positive spin we can place on heavy snow,... <a href=http://www.aspiritualgarden.com/home/are-you-planning>read more &#187;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.aspiritualgarden.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/DSCN00051.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-352" title="DSCN0005" src="http://www.aspiritualgarden.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/DSCN00051-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.aspiritualgarden.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/DSCN0063.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-351" title="DSCN0063" src="http://www.aspiritualgarden.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/DSCN0063-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /><span style="color: #000000;">Here is February and what are you doing about planning your Space??</span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">For those of us in New England the weather has been anything but inspirational toward planning our Sacred Space &#8211; whether indoors or out. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Or HAS it???  Perhaps we need to look at what a positive spin we can place on heavy snow, ice and wind chill while thinking about our gardens and meditation spots.  How beautiful is white winter, really?  VERY beautiful when you consider it brings peace and quiet, red cardinals against a back-drop of shimmering white, wind chimes catching a breeze or the sun,  tree trunks that defy organization and move in glorious geometry and reaching for the heavens, icicles that shimmer like diamonds.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">What moves you and makes you desire to bring this peace forward to your Sacred Space and it&#8217;s planning?  All of it has an influence that can be part of the inspiration toward color, texture, statuary and Mother Earth.  Winter, whether you live in cold climates or not should be a part of your meditation location.  We honor it as we do all of the seasons, but more importantly, it has a place in our peaceful deliberation of mind, body and spirit.  Look at where you live and think of using that vision in your design &#8211; how to do it is easy, remembering it may be a little more challenging.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">So, take photos of your yard, your town, your community, the little creatures that frequent and scurry where you live and place them in your design portfolio.  Bird-feeders may become an important part of your design and a loving connection to spirit in the spring &#8211; but right now they are a blessed inspiration.   All of the experiences of the winter months are fodder for your thoughts on Sacred Space going forward.  Let us know your thoughts, we&#8217;d love to help.<br />
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<p><span style="color: #000000;">Blessings, Mary<br />
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		<title>In the New Year on 1/11/11!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a day of the number &#8220;1&#8221; !!  A powerful number indeed&#8230;. a number that has expectation of our intentions and the bravery to go forward and achieve.  No holds barred!  Step in and Step Up because the miracle is just moments away. That is exactly how I feel today and every day that... <a href=http://www.aspiritualgarden.com/home/in-the-new-year-on-11111>read more &#187;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is a day of the number &#8220;<strong>1</strong>&#8221; !!  A powerful number indeed&#8230;. a number that has expectation of our intentions and the bravery to go forward and achieve.  No holds barred!  Step in and Step Up because the miracle is just moments away.</p>
<p>That is exactly how I feel today and every day that goes forward, because my Intentions are rimmed with success, abundance, creation and total expectation.  I love A Spiritual Garden and our mission here; that is, we bring health of mind, body and spirit through Sacred Space knowledge and design.</p>
<p>Have you set your Intentions?  On this powerful day, the veil between the astral planes surrounding our New World is very thin and almost touchable.  The angelic realms are listening to our every thought and emotion, so say what it is that you want and desire loudly and clearly.  Don&#8217;t even think of anything you don&#8217;t want, because it is not in your purview.  Decide today to create your healing space, wherever you choose, and begin your plans to be healthier in this blessed New Year.  We can help. Call us, contact us, or order my book online.  We are all ready for the change to a higher vibration and it starts right now.</p>
<p>Blessings, Mary</p>
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		<title>Classes on Designing Your Own Sacred Space!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Fontes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beginning in 2011 I will be offering a schedule for classes that will teach you how to design your own Sacred Space.  Some of the details of the class are as follows: We will cover the subjects of Intention, space location, the 4 elements, fundamental Feng Shui, Sacred Space components, sacred geometry, as well as... <a href=http://www.aspiritualgarden.com/home/classes-on-designing-your-own-sacred-space>read more &#187;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Beginning in 2011 I will be offering a schedule for<strong> classes that will teach you how to design your own Sacred Space</strong>.  Some of the details of the class are as follows:</p>
<p>We will cover the subjects of <strong>Intention</strong>, space location, the 4 elements, fundamental <strong>Feng Shui</strong>, Sacred Space components, <strong>sacred geometry</strong>, as well as the use of artifacts and <strong>crystals</strong>.</p>
<p>A manual will be provided in the cost of the 6-hour session.  <em><strong>&#8220;Designing Your Own Sacred Space&#8221;</strong></em> (for both home and garden) is a published document that is for sale separately and can be ordered from my website through Pay Pal.  Simply go to the Home page and follow the clicks.</p>
<p>The locations of the sessions will be announced as they are scheduled.  The cost of the 6-hour session will be $80 per person with manual provided or $65 per person if you have already purchased the manual and bring it with you.</p>
<p>For additional information, please email us at <span style="text-decoration: underline;">info@aspiritualgarden.com</span> or call us at 508-339-5444.  If you have an organization or group that would appreciate having the class delivered in your own town, we would be happy to discuss the opportunity of coming to you!</p>
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