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
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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
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Every Friday 12-4 pm
Tarot reading
with Arisa Victor: 38 years experience.-.$30 for up to 30 min
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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
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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$
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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| 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
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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 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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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
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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
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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)
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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.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier
Inc. All rights reserved.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Beyond Awakening
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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.
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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. |
