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Book, Music and World Art Gallery

tel. 415- 457- 4191 for last-minute info and/or tickets

Dedicated to the Sharing of Human Wisdom and Beauty

Events 2008

EVERY Monday 1-5pm

Aura Soma Reading with Allegra Printz: Experience the beautiful healing energy and scent of all Natural Sacred Color Energy Oils. Choose the right color for you and find out what it tells you about your current life situation. Additional Tarot cards help you discover and affirm your incarnational soul mission,1- bottle reading $5, 4- bottle consultation with audio tape $40, 4-bottle consultation with audio tape & 1 bottle to take home for healing $65

EVERY Monday at 5.30

Oprah and Eckard Tolle. A New Earth

online Workshop on the big screen

club house donation

EVERY MONDAY AT 7pm

 

Master Choa Kok Sui's MEDITATION ON TWIN HEARTS

introduced by Carmen Join us on Thursday nights for a powerful blessing and healing meditation in the Universal Temple. After light physical exercise as a preparation, we will be accompanied by Master Choa Kok Sui's recorded voice through blessing the earth and human beings together. After the blessing prayer of St.Francis of Assisi, there will be a sequence of purifying OM and a sequence of silence. Then, we will bless our planet again and also our personal relationships and projects.

MEDITATION ON TWIN HEARTS (MTH) is an advanced meditation technique aimed at achieving illumination or universal consciousness. It is also an instrument of world and community service that eventually harmonizes the earth by blessing it with loving-kindness, peace, joy and goodwill.
Meditation on Twin Hearts is a noble tool that hopes to raise one’s vibrations toward higher states of awareness and expanded levels of consciousness. Presently being practiced globally by tens of thousands of people of different religions and backgrounds, the Meditation on Twin Hearts is extraordinary in its simplicity with amazing and dramatic results.
Grand Master Choa Kok Sui, the modern founder of Pranic Healing and Arhatic Yoga and the spiritual teacher and spiritual inspiration to millions of people worldwide introduced this meditation as a powerful tool for spiritual development.http://meditationontwinhearts.org/

FREE every MONDAY

 

Every Friday 12-4 pm

Tarot reading with Arisa Victor: 38 years experience.-.$30 for up to 30 min

Every Tuesday 7 pm

The Open Doorway. Join us for Satsang with Peter Brown, for an exploration of the miraculous Being that we each are. We are and have always been Enlightenment itself, each of us an “open doorway” through which God experiences itself. For more information, see www.theopendoorway.org > suggested donation $5

 

April

Wednesday April 2

7-9 pm HOW TO READ TAROT CARDS
A class with Arisa Victor
Six Wednesdays, starting March 5

This class has something to offer both beginning and experienced card readers. Together we will explore the Hermetic Science from which Tarot cards emerged. There is a simple, clear method of symbol interpretation that you can learn in six weeks, and then develop for the rest of your life.
I am a priestess of the Goddess with 39 years experience as a professional occultist. This card-reading class has been taught in night schools, private homes, and bookstores around the Bay Area for many years. I have been reading Tarot cards at the Open Secret for 9 years. As a labor of love, I compiled and edited “The Thursday Night Tarot” for my teacher, Jason Lotterhand, whose class I attended for 24 years. People have described me as being on the front line as a metaphysical educator, because of my unflagging dedication to spreading the light of Ageless Wisdom. Tarot can be of major assistance in these changing times.
This is a “crash course.” Attendance at every class is very much encour-aged, but not required. We will read for ourselves and for each other in class. We will work with any version of the Waite Deck.

Week 1) Introduction – March 5
2) The Elements – March 12
3) The Numbers – March 19
4) The Court Cards – March 26
5) The Major Arcana – April 2
6) Types of Layouts – April 9
grannyrainbow@msn.com H 415-259-1695

$10 per class

Thursday April 3

7.30 pm Kirtan with Uma Reed and friends,

Open your heart with chanting with Uma. www.umareed.com/

suggested donation $10

Friday April 4

12-4 pm - Personal Tarot readings

with Arisa Victor: 38 years experience.-.$30 for up to 30 min


7:30pm in the temple - An Evening of Mystic Mantra Music
with Sean Johnson and The Wild Lotus Band
On Tour From New Orleans

WAKE UP YOUR SPIRIT THROUGH MUSIC AND SINGING! Savor the spicy grooves and dreamy melodies of New Orleans' Sean Johnson and The Wild Lotus Band who put a funky, mystic twist on kirtan, the mantric music of India. Sean and the band have been receiving international attention for their delightful chant music that subtly merges the spirit of India with the soul of the New Orleans. The band tours worldwide seeking to inspire freedom through the blissful power of music and chant. They have received glowing reviews of their latest album Calling The Spirits which is quickly becoming a favorite at yoga studios everywhere. "Calling The Spirits" is destined to become one of the most well regarded recordings in the world of chant music" says Bette Timm of Aura Magazine. Grammy nominated world music pioneer Jai Uttal says, "Sean's voice is a warm, soothing river of serenity."
The band includes the ecstatic vocals of Sean who also plays harmonium-the Indian pump driven organ; the spirited percussion of Gwendolyn Colman on frame drums, cajon, high hat, and other percussion instruments; and longtime New Orleans groove master Alvin Young on fretless bass. In a recent review, Yoga Journal praised the band, "A joy to listen to whether you're a yogi, a jazz connoisseur, or anyone who appreciates wildly creative music."
This evening's candlelight concert will consist of call and response chanting and mantra based songs that soothe your soul in one moment and drive you into wild celebration in the next. Sean will also share inspiring stories and insights about the healing power of mantra and music. Traditionally at the end of the concert the band invites everyone to lay down as they offer a calming lullaby to send participants home into dreamy relaxation.

http://www.wildlotusyoga.com
http://www.seanjohnsonkirtan.com

10$ to 15$

Saturday April 5

7.30pm Healing the Mind-Body Through Meditation
An Evening With:
VENERABLE PHAGYAB RINPOCHE

In this presentation, Phagyab Rinpoche will speak about the mind-body connection and how we can use basic meditation techniques to accelerate healing and open one’s heart.
Phagyab Rinpoche is a monk, scholar, and highly renowned practitioner in the Gelugpa order of Tibetan Buddhism. In 1993, he was recognized by the Dalai Lama to be the reincarnation of Phagyab Rinpoche—a venerated Buddhist teacher from Kham, eastern Tibet. Rinpoche is an accomplished practitioner of the "tsa-lung" meditation, a Buddhist Tantric technique for volitionally directing prana, or life energy, to accelerate healing and open up the chakras and subtle body. A torture survivor, Rinpoche developed serious and potentially life-threatening illnesses after his escape from Tibet. Harnessing his meditation practice, Rinpoche underwent a journey of radical self-healing that has astonished and inspired doctors, friends and audiences across the US.
"Phagyab Rinpoche is a fine person and excellent scholar, with studies at the leading Tibetan Buddhist institutions, besides being a respected incarnation from Eastern Tibet. His gentle nature and clear insights make him an excellent spiritual adviser and director of studies and of self-discovery. I recommend him most highly as a person and a teacher."

—Prof. Robert Thurman, Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies,
Columbia University

$15

Sunday April 6

 

2-4 pm Shambhala Meditation

& demonstration of Shambhala Healing Tools

 

Come experience H.H. Buddha Maitreya's Shambhala Soul Therapy Meditation Tools and music. These simple to use tools were developed by His Holiness using sacred geomancy, the universal scientific principle found in holy temples worldwide, including the Great Pyramid. The tools were first created to help Living masters of tibetan Buddhist monasteries. Now many people use them for meditation, self-healing and prayer along with helping others experience spontaneous healings and blessings.

 

Minimum donation $10 (60% go to Shambhala Charitable Projects)

Monday April 7

1-5pm Personal Aura Soma readings with Allegra Printz

5.30 pm online workshop with Eckart Tolle and oprah

7.30pm Meditation on Twin hearts

7 pm Kali Puja

Kali, the Great Mother of joyous ecstacy, compassionate Goddess of the soul is fiercly devoted to the transformation of every being. Traditional worship of the Great Mother with chanting and ritual.

donation

 

Tuesday April 8

7 pm The Open Doorway. Join us for Satsang with Peter Brown

Wednesday April 9

7-9 pm HOW TO READ TAROT CARDS
A class with Arisa Victor
Six Wednesdays, starting March 5

This class has something to offer both beginning and experienced card readers. Together we will explore the Hermetic Science from which Tarot cards emerged. There is a simple, clear method of symbol interpretation that you can learn in six weeks, and then develop for the rest of your life.
I am a priestess of the Goddess with 39 years experience as a professional occultist. This card-reading class has been taught in night schools, private homes, and bookstores around the Bay Area for many years. I have been reading Tarot cards at the Open Secret for 9 years. As a labor of love, I compiled and edited “The Thursday Night Tarot” for my teacher, Jason Lotterhand, whose class I attended for 24 years. People have described me as being on the front line as a metaphysical educator, because of my unflagging dedication to spreading the light of Ageless Wisdom. Tarot can be of major assistance in these changing times.
This is a “crash course.” Attendance at every class is very much encour-aged, but not required. We will read for ourselves and for each other in class. We will work with any version of the Waite Deck.

Week 1) Introduction – March 5
2) The Elements – March 12
3) The Numbers – March 19
4) The Court Cards – March 26
5) The Major Arcana – April 2
6) Types of Layouts – April 9
grannyrainbow@msn.com H 415-259-1695

$10 per class

Friday April 11

12-4 pm - Personal Tarot readings

with Arisa Victor: 38 years experience.-.$30 for up to 30 min

Monday April 14

1-5pm Personal Aura Soma readings with Allegra Printz

5.30 pm online workshop with Eckart Tolle and oprah

7.30pm Meditation on Twin hearts

 

Tuesday April 15

7 pm The Open Doorway. Join us for Satsang with Peter Brown

 

7 pm Rainbow Body Transformational Film Series

tonight: From the Heart of the World . The Elder Brother Warnings

Directed by
Mystic Fire 01/92 DVD/VHS Special Interest Film
Not Rated
One of the best films of 1992 is a warning by a South American Indian tribe that people give up their self-destructive ways and honor the planet before it is too late.
After four centuries of seclusion, the Kogi, descendants of a pre-Colombian civilization, asked BBC filmmaker Alan Ereira to visit their homeland in the Sierra Nevada mountains of northern Colombia. From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers’ Warning delivers their prophetic message to the world.
Seeing themselves as guardians of life on earth, the Kogi have a spiritual understanding of the bond between humankind and the natural world. This bond, they insist, must be honored.
The Kogi are governed by priests called “mamas.” As children, the mamas were educated in the dark and this early sensory deprivation has made them finely attuned to the mysteries and pleasures of their mountain environment. The Elder Brothers, as they call themselves, are convinced that we, the Younger Brothers, have wounded the earth through industrial exploitation, mining, and clearing of forests. They have seen signs of an ecological crisis in changing bird migrations and the lack of snow in the highest regions of the Sierra Nevada. The Kogis warn that unless we change our ways, the world will end: “If we act well, the world can go on.”
There have been many articulate calls for citizens of this planet to live in harmony with the natural world. But this video stands out as an especially cogent and moving plea for ecological wisdom.

$5 clubhouse donation

 

Wednesday April 16


7pm book lecture :Tony Burroughs The Code: Ten Intentions for a Better World


The Code boldly presents readers with a true, workable solution for the challenges facing our world today. Based on a new Code of Conduct that anyone can relate to, it is full of real life stories uniquely designed, to help readers become self-empowered and more proficient at manifesting."The Intention Process" is being used by Intenders all over the world who are bringing their lifelong dreams into reality. It is one of the simplest, most effective ways for you to put the laws of manifestation to work in your life. Since there are no limits on what you can think about, there are no limits on what you can intend.

FREE

Friday April 18

12-4 pm - Personal Tarot readings

with Arisa Victor: 38 years experience.-.$30 for up to 30 min

Saturday April 19

7.30 pm Keshavacharya and Srirama in concert

yoga in form of "healing sound" - KIRTAN.

The haunting melodies and deep, soulful emotions in Keshavacharya das'
kirtan bring me immediately to the ancient temple inside of my heart where
the moods of longing and ecstasy dance together eternally at the feet of the
Lord. I love his singing.
-Jai Uttal

$15

Monday April 21

1-5pm Personal Aura Soma readings with Allegra Printz

5.30 pm online workshop with Eckart Tolle and oprah

7.30pm Meditation on Twin hearts

Tuesday April 22

7 pm The Open Doorway. Join us for Satsang with Peter Brown

 

7 pm Rainbow Body Transformational Film Series:

EARTH DAY - CELEBRATION

Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth

$5 clubhouse donation

 

Wednesday April 23

7-9pm Group Healing Event

Led by Master Mingtong Gu

Activating life energy for self healing and the healing of others. This ancient form of qigong, a 5000 year old healing art which originated in China provides an effective path to take charge of your health and discover your powerful inner medicine.

Master Gu will teach the profound techniques prescribed by the worlds largest medicine-less hospital in China.

Master Ming tong Gu is an internationally recognized teacher and healer who received his training from a variety of grandmasters in china, Tibet and at the world's largest qigong hospital. He is the founder of the Chi Healing and Wisdom Healing Foundation, and has tought qigong to thousands in the USA, China and Europe.

$10

Friday April 25

12-4 pm - Personal Tarot readings

with Arisa Victor: 38 years experience.-.$30 for up to 30 min

 

7.30pm Cerridwen Fallingstar

Introduction to A YEAR AND A DAY

Apprenticeship program with Cerriwen Fallingstar

Cerridwen Fallingstar
Cerridwen is an experienced shaman devoted to synthesizing the best of the old ways with the new age, creating magic, ritual and relationships that work. She is a professional psychic and spiritual teacher who is adept at creating sacred space--within the stone circles, and within the circle of each participant’s heart. She is the author of The Heart of the Fire, a past-life novel about Witchcraft set 16th century Scotland., and White as Bone, Red as Blood, her newest past-life novel set in 12th century Japan. With 30 years of experience as a shamanic Wiccan Priestess, Cerridwen is an ideal guide for renewing our connection with the Earth mysteries so vital for personal and planetary healing.

Cerridwen Fallingstar has taught workshops on issues of spiritual growth and personal empowerment for 30 years. She also has a counseling practice. She has developed many rituals for significant rites of passage, including birth, weddings, funerals, initiations and coming of age celebrations. She has raised a fine son to adulthood and has taught kids of different ages. She possesess a Master’s Degree, a teaching credential, and an easy rapport with young people.

$10

Saturday April 26

Rare Appearance by Jeff Baker CANCELLED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Monday April 28

1-5pm Personal Aura Soma readings with Allegra Printz

5.30 pm online workshop with Eckart Tolle and oprah

7.30pm Meditation on Twin hearts

Tuesday April 29

7 pm The Open Doorway. Join us for Satsang with Peter Brown

7 pm Rainbow Body Transformational Film Series

tonight: RAM DASS - Fierce Grace

One of the most profoundly moving and inspiring documentary films I have ever seen. Ram Dass talks openly about his experiences with his ageing process and willingly shows his vulnerability to his situation. His ability to put this into words is inspiring and left me feeling more resourced about any suffering in my own life.
The documentary is informative, funny and poignant and should appeal to any with yearning for honesty and understanding of life's dilemmas. The style of the movie doesn't try to be slick or clever or preachy. Ram Dass's spirituality is portrayed through his twinkling eyes as much as through his words.
Gives an interesting short historical leap into the late sixties / early seventies with footage of Timothy Leary and acid culture. The scenes of 400 hippies dancing on the lawns of Ram Dass's father's house is great.

$5 clubhouse donation

 

Wednesday April 30

7-9pm DANCING WITH THE STARS

A BEGINNER’S ASTROLOGY CLASS
WITH ARISA VICTOR


A Six-Week Exploration of Your Horoscope
Every Wednesday April 30 – June 4

This exciting new class is offered in connection with the latest self-published
edition of Arisa’s spiritual guidebook for the young and young-at-heart.
HIGH SCHOOL ASTROLOGY: A TEXTBOOK OF AGELESS WISDOM
By Granny Rainbow
This book is the first step in Arisa’s project to create Granny Rainbow’s School of Ageless Wisdom. It presents astrology in its original context as a spiritual science, part of the Western Hermetic Mystery Tradition. Clear and concise, it contains everything you need to know to be intelligent about astrology. Cost of textbook, $35.
The best way to learn astrology is to apply it to yourself. This is how you can prove to your own satisfaction that this very ancient science really works. Please bring your horoscope to the first class. If you don’t have a copy of your chart, I can supply you with one for $10. Call or email in advance, with your accurate time, date, and place of birth.
415-259-1695 H grannyrainbow@msn.com

$10

Thursday May 1

7.30 pm Kirtan with Uma Reed and friends,

Open your heart with chanting with Uma. www.umareed.com/

suggested donation $10

 

 

Friday May 2

12-4 pm - Personal Tarot readings

with Arisa Victor: 38 years experience.-.$30 for up to 30 min

Saturday May 3

7.30pm book presentation: You Were Born for a Reason

by Kentetsu Takamori, Daiji Akehashi, and Kentaro Ito

As human beings, we have one thing in common: we search all our lives for lasting happiness. YOUR WERE BORN FOR A REASON tells us that happiness can indeed be found. But it is not found in the place we ordinarily look, such as status, achievements, or family. This book, which has sold nearly half a million copies since its original publication in Japan, shows us how to navigate life's obstacles from a deep and abiding source of inner peace. The authors—a Buddhist teacher, a psychotherapist, a philosopher—bring their combined wisdom to bear on the age-old question: what is the purpose of life? They direct us toward answers contained in often-overlooked Buddhist teachings—specifically, in the words of Shinran, who is the founder of Jodo Shinshu, the largest of Japan's schools of Buddhism. In clear and compelling language, YOU WERE BORN FOR A REASON shows why human life is not only meaningful, but infinitely precious. It considers the many ills that plague modern society—suicide, murder, angst, a constant sense of futility—and guides us to the enduring truths that can renew our hearts and finally provide real happiness. CONTENTS: The Eternal Questions. Shinran's Answer/ The Root Cause of Suffering/ The Dark Mind: The Source of Suffering/ The Mind Shrouded in Ignorance/ The Dark Future Casts a Shadow on the Present/ The Tragedy at Rajagrha and the Vow of Amida/Shinran's Fulfillment of Life's Purpose/ Shinran's Masterwork Begins and Ends with a Cry of Joy/ The Clash over Whether or Not Life Has a Purpose/ The Key to the Mystery of Why We Live/ Turning a Blind Eye to Ourselves/ The Difficulty of Knowing Oneself/ Revelation of the True Self, etc.About the Author
KENTETSU TAKAMORI has lectured throughout Japan and worldwide on Buddhism. He is the author of several bestselling titles in Japanese and the chair of the Buddhist organization Jodo Shinshu Shinrankai. DAIJI AKEHASHI is a psychotherapist and the author of several bestselling titles in Japanese on childraising. KENTARO ITO earned a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Tokyo and is at work on several volumes of philosophy.

 

free

 

Sunday May 4

2-4 pm Shambhala Meditation

& demonstration of Shambhala Healing Tools

 

Come experience H.H. Buddha Maitreya's Shambhala Soul Therapy Meditation Tools and music. These simple to use tools were developed by His Holiness using sacred geomancy, the universal scientific principle found in holy temples worldwide, including the Great Pyramid. The tools were first created to help Living masters of tibetan Buddhist monasteries. Now many people use them for meditation, self-healing and prayer along with helping others experience spontaneous healings and blessings.

 

Minimum donation $10 (60% go to Shambhala Charitable Projects)

 

 

 

Monday May 5

1-5pm Personal Aura Soma readings with Allegra Printz

5.30 pm online workshop with Eckart Tolle and oprah

7.30pm Meditation on Twin hearts

7 pm Kali Puja

Kali, the Great Mother of joyous ecstacy, compassionate Goddess of the soul is fiercly devoted to the transformation of every being. Traditional worship of the Great Mother with chanting and ritual.

donation

Thursday May 8

7 pm Martin Prechtel

A master of eloquence and innovative language, Martín Prechtel is a leading thinker, writer and teacher whose work, both written and oral, hopes to promote the subtlety, irony and pre-modern vitality hidden in any living language. As a half blood Native American with a Pueblo Indian upbringing, his life took him from New Mexico to the village of Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala. There becoming a full village member of the Tzutujil Mayan population, he eventually served as a principal in that body of village leaders responsible for instructing the young people in the meanings of their ancient stories through the rituals of adult rights of passage. Once again residing in his native New Mexico, Martín teaches at his international school Bolad’s Kitchen. Through story, music, ritual and writing, Martín helps people in many lands to retain their diversity while remembering their own sense of place in the daily sacred through the search for the Indigenous Soul. For more information visit: www.floweringmountain.com

Martín Prechtel is the author of: Stealing Benefacio’s Roses; The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: Ecstasy and Time; Long Life, Honey in the Heart; and Secrets of the Talking Jaguar.
"Martín Prechtel is one of the most profound teachers I have ever encountered. He is an unusually gifted artist, musician, storyteller who guides and initiates with passion, kindness, eloquence, wisdom, fierceness and humor, awakening us to the sacred realities present everywhere at all times. To be with Martín is to remember the forgotten divinity that is the very essence of who we are." —Rabbi Aryeh Hirschfield
Robert Bly describes Martín as "A short kind of pony that gallops through the fields of human possibility with flowers dropping out of his mouth..."

$15

 

 

 

Friday May 9

12-4 pm - Personal Tarot readings

with Arisa Victor: 38 years experience.-.$30 for up to 30 min

7.30 pm YOGA AND CHOCOLATE with Alaya

Join us for an evening previewing our upcoming DETOX RETREAT,
sharing ‘What supports YOU?’ for gentle, yet deep, LIFE CHANGING RESULTS.
...Experiencing a unique form,Yoga with Acupressure, focusing on Colon health...discussing HOW DETOXING HELPS immunity, emotional balance, weight management, digestion, & overall energy!...PLUS RAW TREATS!Previewing our DETOX RETREAT, Support for LIFE CHANGING RESULTS, Experience a unique form of Yoga with Acupressure, ENJOY RAW TREATS!

$10

Tuesday may 13

7 pm The Open Doorway. Join us for Satsang with Peter Brown

7 pm Rainbow Body Transformational Film Series tonight:

Birth as We Know it by Elena Tonetti

1 hr 15 min documentary -"the most comprehensive guide to conscious birth".
This stunningly beautiful film features 11 natural births, including the birth of twins, breech delivery, self-birth (alone),- at the Black Sea, in the hospital, and at home. It has informative, inspirational interviews on the sexuality of childbirth, circumcision, limbic imprint and others. You will see a laboring woman surf ecstatic waves of bliss as she gives birth to her baby.
Also the DVD contains 2 more hours of astonishing material as bonus features: "Circumcision," "Exercises," "Lotus birth," "Directors Commentaries", Interviews.
Total running time 3 hrs 20 min
Dr. Michel Odent: 'We must pay tribute to Elena for prompting us to re-examine basic features of human nature. Her film explains why millions of women, all over the world, dream of giving birth in the sea, among dolphins.'
"I was spellbound with "Birth As We Know It." I will watch it again and again over the years. Congratulations on a magnificent job."
Stephanie Scholz Neurorh, filmmaker and mother of 7.
"The film delivers a powerful transmition of what it really takes to give birth consciously and gracefully." Tatiana Sargunas, midwife and mother of 4.
"It is the most comprehensive guide to conscious birth and the most amazing film I've seen in my long life" Pearl E. Gates, 'The Crones Circle' facilitator.
For more info: www.BirthIntoBeing.com

$5 club house donation

Thursday may 15

7pm Compassionate Communication - Conflict Improv with Scott Catamas

Friday May 16

12-4 pm - Personal Tarot readings

with Arisa Victor: 38 years experience.-.$30 for up to 30 min

 

7 pm book Presentation the Sacred Child Companion
by Carmen Gamper

The Sacred Child Companion is an introduction to the world of self-directed learning for children and for the inner child in all of us.Every human being carries their full potential inside and is organically guided to individually appropriate learning opportunities.

In this booklet you will find suggestions on how to create appropriate conditions and environments where genuine life and learning processes are welcome and supported - at home, in your private environment for you and/or your home-schooled children, at schools and in all learning and living places.


The Sacred Child Companion also introduces an alternative way of schooling, inspired by Maria Montessori. At a place called Via Mia children can find ideal conditions for the natural unfolding of their authentic self. Via Mia stands for education towards independence, and for greatest possible freedom of choice within healthy boundaries. Via Mia is not a method, it is a template for creating safe inspiring environments that allow activities a child wants to do naturally.

 

Carmen Gamper has been promoting self-directed learning for many years. She combines extensive academic training with intuitive and spiritual guidance to accompany children and their families to find joy and self-estemm in natural learning processes.

You can contact her at carmen@newlearningculture.com

FREE

Saturday May 17

8pm An Evening Concert with BARAKA MOON:

an ecstatic new world music ensemble
With Master Musicians: STEPHEN KENT- Didjeridu, Percussion, Strings; SUKHAWAT ALI KHAN- Vocals, Harmonium GEOFFREY GORDON- Multi-Ethnic Drums, Keyboards, Vocals
$15

BARAKA MOON came about as a result of a February 2, 2008 concert with poet Coleman Barks in celebration of Rumi's 800th birthday in Berkeley, California. These beloved veterans of the Bay Area music scene are so brilliant, the music so extraordinary, it became a newly configured journey of its own called BARAKA MOON. 'Baraka' is the Sufi word for 'blessing'. This is music to bring peace, love, harmony and beauty to every soul who gives a listen. BARAKA MOON bears the gift to transcend boundaries and unite us in our common humanity. Leap into the fire of this magic music. Season your soul, open your heart, dance, sing, and let your ears absorb the passion of an emerging universal music full of love, respect and unity for all cultures, traditions, and peoples of the world.



The Artists

STEPHEN KENT- Stephen is a didjeridu master and founder of the groups Trance Mission, Lights in a Fat City, Beasts of Paradise, and Furious Pig. He has made five solo CDs and performed on many other releases, including Oil & Water and Living Labyrinths. His collaborations include artists as diverse as Tuvan Throat-singers Chirgilchin, Korean Samulnori Drummers, frame-drum wizard Glen Velez, Japanese Taiko luminary Leonard Eto, Markus James and the Wassonrai, flutist Paul Horn, and Airto Moreira. Stephen spent one memorable day opening at Stanford University for His Holiness the Dala Lama. His World Music show on Pacifica's KPFA Radio is extraordinarily popular. (www.stephenkent.net)
SUKHAWAT ALI KHAN- Originally from Pakistan, Sukhawat is master of North Indian and Pakistani classical, Sufi Qawwali, Indian Folk, Geet and Gazal musical styles. In the 1960's and 1970's, Ustad Salamat Ali Khan and Nazakat Ali Khan, Sukhawat's father and uncle, respectively, were known throughout Europe and much of the rest of the world as the famous 'Ali Brothers', rivaling Ravi Shankar's popularity in the United States. They travelled in Russia, England and Europe performing their blend of pure North Indian and Pakistani classical music with the sounds of contemporary Western pop culture, thus pioneering the fresh musical genre emulated by their relative, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Sukhawat keeps the tradition brilliantly alive with his harmonium and voice. In addition to performing internationally, and extensively, he has made (as part of the Ali Khan Band, aka 'Shabaz', with his sister and brother-in-law) three CDs. A more traditional approach is heard on his recent beautiful debut solo album, Shukriya. (www.megawaverecords.com/Sukhawat_Ali_Khan.htm)
GEOFFREY GORDON- Geoffrey is a world music pioneer playing drums, tabla, djembe, dumbek, frame drums, vocals, and keyboards in popular groups since the early 1970's. He studied tabla with the great master Ustad Allarakha and with his son Zakir Hussain. His first major label release was on ECM Records in 1986 – a duo with guitarist David Torn titled 'Best Laid Plans'. Geoffrey has performed on hit movie soundtracks, at Lincoln Center, on Broadway and in international theater festivals with Julie Taymor (director of Across the Universe and Frida). In 2007 he performed his composition Inanna to sold-out audiences at the British Museum. He was the percussionist for the Pagan Love Orchestra on tour and on all of their recordings. Geoffrey has performed on soundtracks with Elliot Goldenthal and Carter Burwell and on CDs with Robbie Robertson, Rita Coolidge, R. Carlos Nakai, Peter Kater, Gabrielle Roth, Ram Dass, Krishna Das and Jai Uttal. He taught on the faculties of Sarah Lawrence College, CCNY, Omega, Hollyhock and Esalen. He produced Shiva Rea's CD Yoga Trance Dance, Walela's Unbearable Love, and The Hanuman Chaleesa: Songs in Praise of Hanuman. (www.geoffreygordon.com)

Tuesday may 20

 

7 pm The Open Doorway. Join us for Satsang with Peter Brown

7 pm Rainbow Body Transformational Film Series tonight:

The Secret

The Secret reveals the most powerful law in the universe. The knowledge of this law has run like a golden thread through the lives and the teachings of all the prophets, seers, sages and saviors in the world's history, and through the lives of all truly great men and women. All that they have ever accomplished or attained has been done in full accordance with this most powerful law.
Without exception, every human being has the ability to transform any weakness or suffering into strength, power, perfect peace, health, and abundance.
Rhonda Byrne's discovery of The Secret began with a glimpse of the truth through a 100 year old book. She went back through centuries, tracing and uncovering a common truth that lay at the core of the most powerful philosophies, teachings and religions in the world.
What Rhonda discovered is now captured in The Secret, a film that has been viewed by millions around the world. The Secret has also been released as an audio-book and printed book with more than six million copies in print.
The Secret explains with simplicity the law that is governing all lives, and offers the knowledge of how to create - intentionally and effortlessly - a joyful life. This is the secret to everything - the secret to unlimited happiness, love, health and prosperity.
This is the secret to life.

http://thesecret.tv/index.html

$5 club house donation

Thursday May 22

 

7pm book signing Altar Your Space: A Guide to the Restorative Home

From Publishers Weekly
Khalsa, part owner of Venice, Calif. home furnishings store Tara Home, presents a guide to creating a peaceful living space "that truly reflects and expresses who you are." While he does address the literal incorporation of altars into one's home, the focus is on turning your home into "a sanctuary for the body, heart and soul of you and your family." Khalsa returns again and again to the idea of self-reflection and listening to one's inner voice ("At some point you may feel intuitively drawn to certain colors, tones, images..."), a valid but frustratingly obtuse point. Specifics are sparse: Khalsa includes few of his clients' goals (whose homes appear in photographs) and little information on choosing elements or room composition. What it lacks in detail, the book makes up for in abundant, lush photography; heavy on Tibetan, Chinese and Indian furnishings-there are multiple statues of Hindu and Buddhist gods, ornately carved beds, bureaus and dressers and rich, vibrant fabrics-these gorgeous full-color images will prove useful for anyone considering an Eastern approach to home decor.
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Product Description
Jagatjoti Khalsa says that sacred furnishings — like beautiful pieces sculpted by human hands from real wood, colorful textiles imbued with spirit and purpose — should be the foundation of a home's décor. Drawing inspiration from the East and utilizing a team of Indian craftspeople and artisans, Khalsa suggests simple ways to fill the home with spirit-infused decorations. Using examples from his bold work for Sharon Stone, Joely Fisher, Adrienne Brody, Shiva Rae, and others, Khalsa demonstrates how to make any living space, whether kitchen, child’s playroom, home office, or the entire house, more spiritual. Engaging text and 150 color photographs help readers imagine and implement the creative possibilities of such items as antique Chinese wagon wheels, silk bedding, Tara statues, Asian pine tables made from 300-year-old railroad ties, antique screen doors, and Kela vine bedding. Altar Your Space shows how small changes and a new perspective can make any home a true haven for personal growth and joy.

FREE

Saturday May 24

8pm Eliyahu and Qadim live in concert


Mystical Music of the Near East
We invite you to join us on a cross cultural journal from the mountains of Northern India through the deserts of the Middle East to the warm waters of the Mediterranean as we celebrate the common music heritage of the region's ancient spiritual traditions.

Eliyahu's mastery of musical styles spans the globe. He has performed and recorded traditional spiritual music of the Middle East with Za'atar, West African folk music with the Palm Wine Boys, soul roots reggae with the Original Intentions, acoustic soul with Sparlha Swa and revolutionary Hip-hop with Rebels Advocate. Recently, he has been making music with Ethiopian born jazz/soul vocalist Meklit Hadero, recorded devotional music with Shimshai and with m.j. greenmountain of Hamsa Lila, toured with Rupa & the April Fishes, and with oudist/composer Yuval Ron.

Qadim is a word found in both Arabic and Hebrew meaning 'ancient' as well as 'that which will come.' The group specializes in music inspired by traditional music of the Near East. Since first forming in 2006, the group has quickly built a standing room only following throughout the Bay Area and beyond. Their repertoire includes Arabic, Jewish-Yemenite, Indian, Iranian, Moroccan and Turkish music, celebrating the common musical and spiritual heritage of the now troubled region's ancient cultures.

$15

Tuesday may 27

7 pm The Open Doorway. Join us for Satsang with Peter Brown

 

7 pm Rainbow Body Transformational Film Series tonight:

Timewave 2013
The Odyssey II: The Future is Now (2008)


What lies ahead for the human race? Will we reach the destiny that awaits us? In the film 2012 The Odyssey, author Sharron Rose went on a quest to understand the many prophecies around the year 2012. In this sequel to that film, she travels far beyond the world of 2012.

During this fascinating expedition into the nature of time itself, Ms. Rose speaks to many of the world’s experts on mythology, alchemy, astrology, anthropology and ancient history; Jose Arguelles, Gregg Braden, Riane Eisler, William Henry, Jean Houston, John Major Jenkins, Rick Levine, Dennis McKenna, Terence McKenna, Daniel Pinchbeck, Geoff Stray, Whitley Strieber, Alberto Villoldo and Jay Weidner. They discuss topics such as the shift of the ages, the galactic alignment, global warming, the pervasive role of the media in our lives, the secret place of refuge, the mystic work of Benjamin Franklin, renewal of the American spirit and the transformation of humanity.

$5 club house donation

Friday may 30

7:00pm - 9:00pmIntroduction to Healing the Luminous Body
An evening lecture by Wallace Mann, Four Winds Society Sr. Staff




Shamans understand that we have a luminous energy field that surrounds the physical body, and which holds a record of all our emotional, physical, and spiritual traumas; the luminous energy field is a blueprint that determines how we will heal, how we will live and how we might die.

In this introductory lecture, Wallace Mann, a member of The Four Winds Senior Staff will discuss the healing practices employed for 10,000 years by the Shamans of the Americas. The ancient practices are presented in a scientific and practical system of energy healing that allows us to discover states of exceptional health and well-being, as well the opportunity for conscious participation in our future evolution.

This workshop is an incredible opportunity to gain insight into the healing techniques from the shamans of the America’s

The Four Winds Society is dedicated to the bridging of ancient shamanic tradition with modern medicine and psychology; and teaches a body of shamanic knowledge that is readily accessible to the West and provides a scientific framework through which it is possible to learn the ancient healing practices that can be "known but not told."

$20


JUNE

Tuesday June 3

7 pm The Open Doorway. Join us for Satsang with Peter Brown

7 pm Kali Puja

Kali, the Great Mother of joyous ecstacy, compassionate Goddess of the soul is fiercly devoted to the transformation of every being. Traditional worship of the Great Mother with chanting and ritual.

donation

Wednesday June 4

7 pm - 8.30pm FREE PRESENTATION with Gloria Kastenberg

Emotional Body Enlightenment (EBE) and the Path of Sacred Union

Gloria will explore Emotional Body Enlightenment (EBE) and the Path of Sacred Union. What if there were an emotional body architecture as universal as our anatomy? Gloria describes what really causes emotional wounding in childhood that creates a strategic self. Discover how this intimate core can finally be healed so that we remember and reveal our essence. Learn how to experience authentic self-love and worthiness to create an enduring emotionally awakened bond with yourself, another and the Divine!

Emotional Body Enlightenment is part of the psycho-spiritual paradigm of Theohumanity developed by Daniel Barron, which redefines the criteria for emotional and spiritual maturity. Gloria’s 30 year search for connection and enlightenment culminated in meeting Daniel and undergoing the revolutionary EBE process. Gloris is now the U.S. Project Leader and a certified facilitator supporting individuals, couples and groups.

FREE

Thursday June 5

7pm Lama Tharchin Rinpoche

Tibetan Buddhist Teachings

Suggested donation is $20.

For more information
please contact Sheppard at <sheppardp@earthlink.net> or 415.333.3639

 

 

Thursday June 12

7 pm book presentation The Tao of It

by local author Peaceman

FREE

Friday June 20

7 pm Book Signing with Jeff Foster
  • Beyond Awakening
  • Life without a Centre

    All Day Workshop with Jeff Foster,
    Sat 28th June, 10am-4pm, Cost: $100)



    A workshop with Jeff Foster, a UK teacher of non-duality, who clearly and directly points to the spiritual freedom, liberation and enlightenment that is always fully present, right in the midst of Life, but is constantly ignored by the seeking, suffering mind in its desperate, lifelong quest for "something more". Paper Calendar:
    A workshop with Jeff Foster, a British teacher of non-duality, who talks clearly and directly about spiritual awakening.

Nonduality (Advaita) means "Not Two".
It points to the Oneness at the Heart of all things.What we are talking about is not a special state to be reached.
Not something that some individuals have and others don't.
It's more like awakening from a dream, and realising, with crystal clarity,
that it was only ever a dream.
It's like being a newborn baby again. Present. Open. Uncontaminated.
Seeing with fresh eyes. Seeing for the first time.
It's not an intellectual understanding. It's not contained in words or systems of thought.
It's your True Nature.
And you don't need to do anything to see your True Nature,
because you already are It. Fully.

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