The Journey Within

The Journey Within is a series of workshops that inspire creativity, wisdom and healing.

These classes represent many years of Patricia Varga's personal research, writing and witnessing how creativity (writing, drawing and imaging) help people heal on many different levels.  By exploring a series of exercises and guided meditations, Patricia helps participants to define themselves, their lives, their wishes and dreams, and to move with - rather than against - the inevitable challenges of life.

The benefits of The Journey Within can be great - self-insight, clarity, relief from stress and anxiety, with the overall goal being connected and grounded in a way that allows for genuine self expression and decisions made from the heart, not just the intellect.

"One of the greatest gifts you can give another is the silence of just listening.  Listening honors the person before you and the feeling of being listened to and honored in this way is love – and love is the feeling of hope – Healing starts with Hope.

Everyone has the voice of hope and love, creativity and healing within them.

My job in all of this is to take cancer patients, women in crisis and anyone seeking clarity to that place of creativity and healing through the writing exercises and guided meditations I use in my practice called The Journey Within.  I use music, art, words, images and color to inspire the feeling and writing process.  Feelings and emotions are precursors to great insights, great innovation, great wisdom.

My job is also one of listening, reflecting back to participants what I hear and see in them. This reflection is merely showing them what they already know to be true about themselves – once they tap into this source of self, this source of wisdom, they own the creativity and healing forever.

Many people say they receive creative breakthroughs while singing in the shower, cleaning the dishes, taking a walk – a simple routine activity becomes a meditation that takes you beyond the critical mind and ego to that place where you rest deep inside yourself – that place where possibilities are limitless.  This is where you create the life you want to lead, the love you want to give, the love you want to receive, the abundance and health you see for yourself and family.

I use the motion of writing to take you to that place – the physical act of picking up a pen, putting it to paper and scribbling away becomes a meditation that takes you to that place of limitless possibilities where creativity, wisdom and healing can occur.

Time and time again patients tell me that cancer is an encounter with their deepest emotions and that it is a useful tool that allows them to examine their lives, what’s important, what’s not – to re-establish faith and to love – themselves, their families, their friends, their caretakers, doctors and even other patients.

Time and time again domestic violence survivors and women in crisis tell me that abuse is an encounter with their deepest emotions and it, too, is a useful tool that allows them to examine their lives, what’s important, what’s not – to re-establish faith and to love – themselves, their families, their friends, even other women in crisis.

Time and time again, workshop participants who are seeking clarity and a stronger sense of self, tell me that any type of life challenge is a chance to know more – about their strength, courage and ability to communicate from the heart - which is a wonderful gift to themselves and others.  This conscious communication is the basis for love.

It’s this love that is the magic – the kind of love that heals."

Sincerely,

Patricia Varga, Founder

A Woman with Wings