Welcome to the Abiding Spirit Center
The Abiding Spirit Center, located in Crystal Lake - Illinois, is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization providing resources that focus on empowering the individual, improving health and strengthening relationships through the use of natural, traditional and creative avenues which utilize mind, body, spirit connections.
We serve the communities of McHenry, Lake, Cook, Kane and Will Counties, IL, including Crystal Lake, Algonquin, Lake in the Hills, Elgin, Carpentersville, Cary, Woodstock, Huntley and other nearby cities.
The primary goal of the Abiding Spirit Center is to bring traditional wellness activities to our community, reaching out to as many people as have interest. The classes and resources offered at the Center are not a means to an end. They are “a means to a way” that can lead one to a healthier, more balanced life through such things as Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, Aikido (the way of harmony of the spirit), and specialized meditation and Yoga workshops, as well as other activities and services.
NOTICE March 19, 2020
Dear Friends,
Thinking of you.
This time of uncertainty brings various forms of question, concern, thought, and sure - worry.
Let’s please turn toward and not away from one another.
We can help each other get through this in any number of creative ways.
Rather than exhaust energy in places that do not inspire, let’s please encourage behavior among us that opens our hearts and minds to be of appropriate service to those in need.
Unwaveringly committed to the health, safety and wellness of others, the Abiding Spirit Center has heeded advice from the CDC and the IL State Acupuncture Society to do what we can to slow the spread of this virus, and therefore have halted acupuncture/wellness services and all classes as of March 18.
At this time, we have resumed acupuncture services.
If interested in a distance session, this is possible. {As promised – creative!}
These can be 30-minute or hour-long Facetime or Skype sessions, which will include empathic listening and conversation, energetic guidance, meditation and breath practices, and demonstrating various acupressure points that can best help the conditions present at that time.
Let’s face it – stress is stress. It leaves a mark if left alone for too long!
Aikido classes and meditation sessions, being different in nature, will be evaluated as things unfold.
Lisa Sensei, Michelle Sensei, and Jim Sensei are brilliant at encouraging students on the mat as well as off. They have made themselves readily available and have offered homework, solo practice suggestions, and infinite ways to continue the practice of Aikido outside of the Center.
They have set up some ways for members to stay connected, interact with each other and support each other. Please, make use of these things. Additionally, if interest prevails, an on-line practice group will form!
This is a time that calls on us to utilize what we know to be good.
Let’s get to know ourselves better. Take care of ourselves mindfully so that we can better care for others and do our parts in the bettering of our world.
This is a wake-up call.
Let’s not miss it.
The Abiding Spirit Center is a place of sanctity. It has offered us healing, comfort, solace and answer.
We usually come in and say, “ahhh, it’s so good to be here.”
Let’s now take that feeling and offer it to others everywhere we go.
Even from within our own walls, we can offer this feeling with our hearts.
Let’s please do so.
If interested in a session with Michelle, please contact directly or call the Center at 815.444.6019.
If there is interest in supporting the Center through this trying time, please CLICK HERE.
May you all be safe, healthy, at ease, and whole.
With love and gratitude for you, your friendship and support,
Michelle & Lisa
Co-Founders of the Abiding Spirit Center
Dear Friends,
Thinking of you.
This time of uncertainty brings various forms of question, concern, thought, and sure - worry.
Let’s please turn toward and not away from one another.
We can help each other get through this in any number of creative ways.
Rather than exhaust energy in places that do not inspire, let’s please encourage behavior among us that opens our hearts and minds to be of appropriate service to those in need.
Unwaveringly committed to the health, safety and wellness of others, the Abiding Spirit Center has heeded advice from the CDC and the IL State Acupuncture Society to do what we can to slow the spread of this virus, and therefore have halted acupuncture/wellness services and all classes as of March 18.
At this time, we have resumed acupuncture services.
If interested in a distance session, this is possible. {As promised – creative!}
These can be 30-minute or hour-long Facetime or Skype sessions, which will include empathic listening and conversation, energetic guidance, meditation and breath practices, and demonstrating various acupressure points that can best help the conditions present at that time.
Let’s face it – stress is stress. It leaves a mark if left alone for too long!
Aikido classes and meditation sessions, being different in nature, will be evaluated as things unfold.
Lisa Sensei, Michelle Sensei, and Jim Sensei are brilliant at encouraging students on the mat as well as off. They have made themselves readily available and have offered homework, solo practice suggestions, and infinite ways to continue the practice of Aikido outside of the Center.
They have set up some ways for members to stay connected, interact with each other and support each other. Please, make use of these things. Additionally, if interest prevails, an on-line practice group will form!
This is a time that calls on us to utilize what we know to be good.
Let’s get to know ourselves better. Take care of ourselves mindfully so that we can better care for others and do our parts in the bettering of our world.
This is a wake-up call.
Let’s not miss it.
The Abiding Spirit Center is a place of sanctity. It has offered us healing, comfort, solace and answer.
We usually come in and say, “ahhh, it’s so good to be here.”
Let’s now take that feeling and offer it to others everywhere we go.
Even from within our own walls, we can offer this feeling with our hearts.
Let’s please do so.
If interested in a session with Michelle, please contact directly or call the Center at 815.444.6019.
If there is interest in supporting the Center through this trying time, please CLICK HERE.
May you all be safe, healthy, at ease, and whole.
With love and gratitude for you, your friendship and support,
Michelle & Lisa
Co-Founders of the Abiding Spirit Center
The Center relies on donations, grants and fees from members to continue offering our programs and services to our community, though access to services and participation in activities is not based on ability to pay. We will never turn away someone with need or interest based on ability to pay. With this in mind, provisions are in place for those who qualify.
Contact us HERE if you need financial support to participate in our programs or obtain our services. We are here to serve the community.
Contact us HERE if you need financial support to participate in our programs or obtain our services. We are here to serve the community.