Lynn Motley, LCSW

SoulCollage® Virtual: Deepening Into Your Deck
2021-09-29 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
Come and join in our gathering in the comfort of your own home on Wednesday, September 29, 6-8pm/EDT. We’ll find some fun with cardmaking and explore your SoulCollage® deck more deeply!
Would you like to find some deeper meaning in the cards you’ve made and figure out to which suit they reside? Perhaps we can understand the nature of the suits and how they can be helpful to us on our journey.

Please bring your supplies, cards, your journal, and some nice treats to lavish you with goodness as we do a quick card exercise, explore the suits, and do some deep dialogue and connecting with your neters.

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Open Studio Virtual SoulCollage®
2021-09-26 18:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
Come and find some fun in the comfort of your home playing with the intuitive SoulCollage® cardmaking!

SoulCare SoulCollage Sunday!
2021-09-12 16:00 - 18:00 | Southland Bagel, 428 Southland Drive, Lexington, KY, United States
Come and explore the Council Suit in our SoulCollage® gathering!

What to Bring
You will need to bring your cardstock, scissors, glue stick and a journal and a pen.
You will need to have something for the base of your cards. You can use some large index cards or card stock from a craft store. You can also make 5X8 card stock by cutting a cereal, cracker, or any other box that may work– I use boxes that contain my file folders at times. I also have SoulCollage sets that you can purchase some card stock (5×8 thick index cards, mixed media journal, spiral bound 5×8 index cards) or order a kit of Soul Collage cards here
More on the council suit…
Seena Frost, creator of SoulCollage ®, describes Archetypes as, “the invisible guides, challengers, creators, and destroyers, known across time and cultures by many names, yet being somehow universally in the collective unconscious of the human race.”
This Council suit embodies the larger story; they invite us into the unknown; cosmic energies that take different forms; basic building blocks of stories.
The word archetype itself comes from the Greek word arkhetupon for first mould or model, meaning the initial version of something later multiplied.
An archetype is an original pattern, model or symbol, a persistent representation of an idea or concept across cultures which seems to represent common patterns of human life.
The council suit connect us to the larger field of life (the warrior, the Hero, The Lightbearer, The Great Mother, The Great Father, The Divine Child, The Creator

Examples of universal archetypes are:

Divine Mother
Creator
Queen / King

Divine Father
Healer
Judge

Divine Child
Hero / Heroine
Fool

Witch
Lightbearer
Trickster

Wise Old Woman / Crone
Shaman
Clown

Warrior
Wild Woman
Death

“The inner guides are archetypes that have been with us since the dawn of time. We see them reflected in recurring images in art, literature, myth, and religion; and we know they are archetypal because they are found everywhere, in all times and places.” Carol S. Pearson, Awakening the Heroes Within: Twelve Archetypes to Help Us Find Ourselves and Transform Our World

Virtual Soul+Care SoulCollage® Gathering
2021-08-25 18:00 - 20:00 | Zoom

Soul Care SoulCollage®
2021-08-04 18:00 - 20:00 | Southland Bagel, 428 Southland Drive, Lexington, KY, United States
We will explore the Companion Suit — the subtle-energy field that interacts with our physical body. This energy is concentrated in spirals of energy that in yoga practices are known as “chakras” a Sanskit word meaning “wheels of light.” A guided visualization then helps us intuitively select and connect a companion animal for each chakra that for each of us holds the energy of our specific “wheels of light.”
Physicians now recognize energy as treatable. In the modality of SoulCollage®, we also recognize how vital the body’s energies are to how healthy and joyful and creative our soul can feel. We include the companions as a suit in our deck that support us in claiming and knowing into the fullness of physical body wisdom.
“Our fellow creatures, the animals, exhibit habit patterns that will relay these messages of healing to anyone astute enough to observe their lessons on how to live. The precious gifts of true medicine are free… When you call upon the power of an animal, you are asking to be drawn into complete harmony with the strengths of the creature’s essence. Gaining understanding from these brothers and sisters of the animal kingdom is a healing process, and must be approached with humility and intuitiveness. Certain aspects of the lesson given by these brothers and sisters have been chosen to reflect the lessons each spirit needs to learn on the Good Red Road. These are the lessons of being human, being vulnerable, and seeking wholeness with all that is. ” ~ Medicine Cards: The Discovery of Power Through the Ways of Animals by Sams, Jamie, Carson, David

Virtual SoulCollage Gathering
2021-07-28 18:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
Come and join our SoulCollage® Gathering and create cards for your subtle energetic field of your physical body by way of our animals who “find their way” into supporting, informing and helping us.
“Our fellow creatures, the animals, exhibit habit patterns that will relay these messages of healing to anyone astute enough to observe their lessons on how to live. The precious gifts of true medicine are free… When you call upon the power of an animal, you are asking to be drawn into complete harmony with the strengths of the creature’s essence. Gaining understanding from these brothers and sisters of the animal kingdom is a healing process, and must be approached with humility and intuitiveness. Certain aspects of the lesson given by these brothers and sisters have been chosen to reflect the lessons each spirit needs to learn on the Good Red Road. These are the lessons of being human, being vulnerable, and seeking wholeness with all that is. ” ~ Medicine Cards: The Discovery of Power Through the Ways of Animals by Sams, Jamie, Carson, David

Soul Care SoulCollage® Sunday Virtual Gathering
2021-06-27 16:00 - 18:00 | Zoom
A virtual gathering to continue our little community for those who are not comfortable in-person, for those who love the comfort of their home or for those of you who live out of town!

You must have completed the INTRODUCTION to SoulCollage® gathering prior to attending.

SoulCollage LIVE Gathering!
2021-06-22 18:00 - 20:00 | YMCA, 239 East High St., Lexington, KY, 40508, United States
Come and bring your deck, your materials (scissors, images, glue stick and journal) to the YMCA High St. (upstairs room) and have some fun playing with creativity and connection!

You will need to have completed the INTRODUCTION to SoulCollage® gathering prior to attending.

INTRODUCTION to SoulCollage®
2021-06-10 18:00 - 20:00, 2021-04-14 18:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
Come, learn and play with SoulCollage®.

A deeply, powerful transformational process of using collage to make cards to support self-discovery.
It is addictive as it brings about feelings of calm and access to inner-knowing!
The cards speak to you and share pearls of wisdom about you and your life that bring about integration, self-acceptance and self-reliance.

Soul Care SoulCollage® Sunday!
2021-05-16 16:00 - 18:00 | Zoom
If you have completed the INTRODUCTION TO SOULCOLLAGE®, you can join monthly for our gathering to create your own sacred space, creativity and exploration of your life journey and share with other women on their journey. We learn so much from others cards and sharing!
SoulCollage® is a beautiful and intuitive self-discovery process accessed through collaging and card making. You create a deck of “your world” (inner parts and outer world) that can be accessed for daily readings and “working through” inner and outer conflicts. It is fun and accessible to anyone!
I have found this process transformational and am excited to create the space for you to play, discover and deepen your relationship with yourself so that you can know yourself more fully through accessing the inner-wisdom already within you.

Here are some ways I use my SoulCollage® Cards:

Working through emotions/experience to gain insight and expression
Readings of your cards to support personal guidance with decision-making
Exploring aspects of yourself and personality that have been ignored
Intuitive guidance- exploring an issue
Mapping out parts to learn more about yourself
Journaling with a card/part of us that needs more connection
Tracking your growth through on-going consultations around an area of focus

Here is some information you will need in preparation:

Please be on-time for our gathering! This is hard to coordinate in groups but it helps with the flow and the optimization of the experience. It is hard to manage folks coming in late and is disruptive to the flow of the experience, so try to log-on 5 minutes early, so we can get started at 6pm. ( :

Begin now to prepare for your experience – you are beginning to set yourself up for your experience right NOW, so start enjoying this part of the process as your investment in your SELF. Try to make it special and enjoy the little steps along the way.

Start to gather some pre-made images– magazines, flyers, calendars, anything that inspires you. I love collecting and connecting with neighbors and friends to gather their old magazines.
Find a cozy, quiet and comfortable place to spread out and place your magazines, images (calendars, cards, inserts) and supplies (scissors, glue stick). Create a space that will allow you to tune-in, listen and discover with minimal distractions (of course, this is challenging these days, but do your best).
Gather your supplies (scissors, glue sticks, card stock and images/magazines)
Here are some ideas for your base card (5×8 thick index cards, mixed media journal, spiral bound 5×8 index cards).
I use SoulCollage® sets that you can purchase here –or you can make your own with a cereal, cracker box or any thin cardboard material you have on hand! 5X8 isn’t absolutely necessary but we want to have similar sizes as we make our deck.
Find a journal and pen to use at the gathering.

Anytime Prior To The Gathering:

1. Begin to gather some images and make two distinct piles

Look through your images and find a foreground images…something to be a centerpiece – Find several that strike your fancy – anything that speaks to you; it doesn’t have to make sense and don’t think too much, just begin to gather a small collection of these. These will go in one pile.
Look through your images and find background images…something that will hold your centerpiece. Find several images and place them in the other pile.

2. PUT THEM AWAY UNTIL THE GATHERING! This is important. We will play with them in our time together; so don’t think about this, just gather and put away.

The Day Of The Gathering:

Cozy up your space. Bring some snacks, tea, candles or anything that grounds you.
Make sure you have your scissors, glue sticks, card stock , journal & pen and images.
Find your Zoom Link and fire up your computer at 5:55/Eastern.

To Learn More

SoulCollage® Sunday!
2021-04-18 16:00 - 18:00 | Zoom
If you have completed the INTRODUCTION TO SOULCOLLAGE®, you can join monthly for our gatherings.

SoulCollage® is a beautiful and intuitive self-discovery process accessed through collaging and card making. You create a deck of your world that can be accessed for daily readings and “working through” inner and outer conflicts. It is fun and accessible to anyone!

SoulCollage® Gathering: Sunday, March 21, 4-6pm
2021-03-21 16:00 - 18:00 | Zoom
Come and join in with other women as they celebrate their lives by honoring life and the process of SELF DISCOVERY!

$15.00

If you have completed the INTRODUCTION TO SELF DISCOVERY COLLAGE CARDS gathering, you are eligible to participate on a monthly basis.

Creativity + Attunement = Connection

This inner- connection and creative expression allows for learning and growing in a safe and respectful way!

Introduction to SoulCollage®
2021-03-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
Come and learn about this beautiful and sacred creative lifestyle practice that can support you in your journey of self-discovery!
You will need to do some preparation in advance.

Grab an array of magazines and images from any publications that you may have. Be creative. You might have some old books, flyers, or images that appeal to you. The more variety, the better.

You will need a 5X8 card for you collage. You can use some large index cards or card stock from a craft store. You can also make your own with any light box such as cereal or cracker box. Here are some places to order: (5×8 thick index cards, mixed media journal, spiral bound 5×8 index cards)
I use SoulCollage® sets that you can purchase here

Find a glue stick or some 2-sided tape
Have a journal and/or paper and a pen or something for writing.

Look forward to seeing you!

Friday Morning Radical Self Care Yoga
2021-02-26 08:30 - 09:45 | Zoom
This Friday, we will explore finding balance within our minds and bodies as we explore the idea of Shadow – the parts we don’t acknowledge or are able to see within ourselves.

Friday Morning Radical Self Care Yoga
2021-02-23 08:30 - 09:45 | KY
Today we will explore our shadow self on-the-mat.

Self-Discovery Collage Cards
2021-02-21 16:00 - 18:00 | Zoom
Come and join in with other women as they celebrate their lives by honoring life and the process of SELF DISCOVERY!

If you have completed the INTRODUCTION TO SELF DISCOVERY COLLAGE CARDS gathering, you are eligible to participate on a monthly basis.

Creativity + Attunement = Connection

This inner- connection and creative expression allows for learning and growing in a safe and respectful way!

Friday Morning Radical Self Care Yoga
2021-02-19 08:30 - 09:45 | Zoom
Challenging times invite RADICAL SELF CARE.

Friday Morning Radical Self Care Yoga
2021-02-12 08:30 - 09:45 | Zoom
Good morning Sweet Hearts!
The invitation for Friday Morning Radical Self Care Yoga will be to explore Valentine’s radical compassion and wholehearted living on-and-off the mat.

Yoga is the perfect practice to support this process of regulation of our nervous systems so that we can access the beauty of our true nature through self-acceptance, self-nurturance and living from a more wholehearted place in our daily life. Anahata, the sanskrit word for the heart chakra means unstruck, unhurt: who we are prior to our life experiences…our true nature.
Living our daily lives from a place of compassion and love are the building blocks for health, well-being and sustaining satisfying relationships.
Wholehearted living is living in deeper connection with ourself and opening our hearts in relationships, building and strengthening connections and seeing yourself as an integral part of the whole.

Introduction to Self-Discovery Collage Cards
2021-02-11 18:00 - 20:00 | KY
Come and learn about this beautiful and sacred creative lifestyle practice that can support you in your journey of self-discovery!
You will need to do some preparation in advance.

Grab an array of magazines and images from any publications that you may have. Be creative. You might have some old books, flyers, or images that appeal to you. The more variety, the better.

You will need a 5X8 card for you collage. You can use some large index cards or card stock from a craft store. You can also make your own with any light box such as cereal or cracker box. Here are some places to order: (5×8 thick index cards, mixed media journal, spiral bound 5×8 index cards)
Find a glue stick or some 2-sided tape
Have a journal and/or paper and a pen or something for writing.

Friday Morning Radical Self Care Yoga
2021-02-05 08:30 - 09:45 | Zoom
Our theme for Friday’s Class is using your on-the-mat living, moving, breathing meditation to explore connection inside and out. Connection is the building block for survival.

We are hard-wired to feel this connection as part of our most recently evolved branch of our autonomic nervous system finds safety through connection with others and allows us to find safety in our bodies most efficiently with breath and interoceptive awareness (tuning in to what’s happening in your body.)

When we feel this connection we feel safe in our bodies which allows us to play, be productive, thrive!

Here’s a great quote by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”

A few thoughts on virtual yoga...

First, BE ON TIME! It is hard to manage the admission while teaching, so once we get started, usually after the first few minutes, I will step away from allowing folks into the room.
Celebrate and have fun with this experiment of being together on the mat and be curious about the experience. As with anything these days, the practice will bring challenges as well as opportunities.
You can do more pranayama (breath practice) comfortably!
You can have more freedom to “just do you”…get up and go to the bathroom, get a drink of water, etc.
You can chant OM as loudly as you wish without feeling self-conscious

Please have on-hand close by to support you in your at-home virtual yoga experience:
1) Yoga Mat
2) A couple of blankets
3) A couple of blocks and/or something that can substitute as a block (large books)
4) A couple of pillows

To improve your Zoom virtual yoga experience:
1) Mute yourself during the class unless you have a question.
2) Click on my picture and “PIN” me by clicking on the three dots in the corner of the screen – there will be a drop down and you can PIN me — this will make the viewing more clear for the class.
3) I think the sound quality should be fine; however, someone encouraged me to have participants link the sound to a speaker on bluetooth if you want to improve the sound.

Light + Love~

Lynn

Self-Discovery Collage Cards Gathering
2021-01-17 16:00 - 18:00 | Zoom

Friday Morning Radical Self Care Yoga
2021-01-15 08:30 - 09:45 | Zoom
Greetings Friends!

This Friday’s Radical Self-Care Yoga class will explore practices to support us to overcome obstacles. Patterns of tension, holding, heaviness and mind patterns such as depression and anxiety–rumination create blockages and obstacles, disallowing us from being present with ourselves and feeling the light from within. So…we’re going to find clearing and releasing to support wholeness and integration!

Friday, January 15
8:30-9:45am
Zoom

Friday morning Radical Self-Care Yoga
2021-01-08 08:30 - 09:45 | Zoom
Friday morning, 1/8/20, 8:30-9:45am. Zoom
Come and join in our community to support you in embodiment, regulation and radical self-care. You can be present with yourself, move your body with breath and connect-in to your felt experience to allow for openings for growth and new opportunities.
This Friday, the theme will be CENTERING. A skill that we can learn to embody more through practice!

Introduction Self-Discovery Collage Cards
2021-01-07 18:00 - 20:00 | Zoom

New Year's Day Radical Self Care Yoga
2020-12-30 08:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
It’s a new beginning. We are creative beings and when we can access our personal power, we can find our voice, our sankalpa ( a statement that reflects our truth) — even in hard, wickedly weird, painful challenging times…we can find our voice and begin again.
We will build some fire to ignite our sankalpas with breath-work, movement and finding creativity in our practice!

Come and join us!

Winter Solstice YOGA
2020-12-18 08:30 - 09:45 | Zoom
The Winter Solstice is a time to dive deeply into the nourishing rest of stillness to greet the energy of creation as the Northern Hemisphere of the earth prepares for the sun.

This is a great opportunity to practice the YIN and YANG in your practice — offering stillness and going in-ward with fire of active postures.

Come and join! All levels welcome!

Radical Self-Care Yoga
2020-12-11 08:30 - 09:45 | Zoom
Come and join Friday mornings 8:30-9:45 Radical Self-Care Yoga

This Friday, we will be moving,finding stillness and strength, digging into our roots, and finding the fullness of our being in a Tree of Life Yoga exploration.

Come and join in the comfort in your home via Zoom.
Always bring ALL OF YOU, just as you are! As well as a few blankets, your mat, a few blocks/books, a couple of pillows.

Self-Discovery Collage Card Gathering
2020-12-06 16:00 - 18:00 | Zoom
This gathering is open to those who have taken the Introduction to Self-Discovery Collage Workshop.
Come, play and discover…
All parts of you are welcome! Experiment and find images through collage that allow you portals in to your sacred journey.
You can make collage cards that allow you to:

Know your authentic SELF and experience the energy of your wise, deep inner-knowing
Allow access to parts of yourself that wish to be heard and listened to
Discover your strengths and resources available to you
Create a system for reading your Self-Discovery Collage Cards to find wisdom around a challenge or a decision
Map out challenging emotional and behavioral patterns that “don’t make sense” with parts
Learn self-acceptance and self-compassion

Radical Self Care Friday Yoga
2020-12-06 08:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Greetings!

Friday, December 11, 8:30-9:45am
Come, explore, connect and play on your map in the luxury of your own space and home!
We will explore the Tree of Life in our class. Bring your feet for connection to the earth, legs for movement and stillness, arms for balance and growth.
As always, have a few props on hand: some type of strap (scarf, belt), blocks (books), a pillow, a couple of blankets.

Looking forward to seeing you there!
