This is a time to connect with ourselves and nature through rhythmic dance. Many traditional steps from Tahitian Dance and West African Dance will be introduced and weaved together in a unique way. We will have a chance to move with the elements earth, air, fire and water through creative body awareness/ imagery and create an original dance offering. The emphasis is in creating a lighthearted dance experience for all! Kimberly Gladysz has been evolving as a dancer since her childhood. As a practitioner of ashtanga yoga and a dance therapist (M.A. of Naropa University) she weaves healing, dance, and indigenous earth wisdom. Seventeen years ago, Kimberly studied West African dance and traveled to Conakry, Guinee to study kora and dance. She created a multi-arts-in education program, DanceAfricaLive, which educates public elementary school students about West African culture. Most recently, she has been living in Kauai and studying Tahitian dance and firedancing while teaching second grade. Her passion is weaving the rhythmic movements from various cultures in a uniquely improvised style. She feels gratitude for the many kindred spirits who have inspired her path.

Come and experience the transformational power of ecstasy through dance. Kundalini Dance is a healing art and ecstatic dance practice designed for people to activate their inner healer and initiate positive life changes through the medium of ecstatic dance. Sensual, dynamic and often trance-inducing, participants journey through the chakras, connecting body, mind and spirit in a joyous, opening and revelatory dance of life. Developed over the past 16 years by internationally recognized dance therapist, Leyolah Antara, the practice of Kundalini Dance has awakened and transformed many souls. Please bring plenty of water, a towel or mat to lay on and a willingness to shed the layers that keep you separate and the intention to dive deeply into the source of love within.

Luna Ravenchilde has been a dancer her whole life and has been teaching ecstatic dance in both intimate and festival settings as well as creating intentional gatherings on the west coast for over a decade. Luna trained with Antara three years ago and has been teaching Kundalini Dance ever since. Luna's ecstatic kundalini dance workshops at Shamballa Festival have attracted hundreds of participants every year, where her facilitation has supported the opening of thousands of hearts. Her passion and gift is to unify many souls in ecstatic celebration.

www.kundalini-dance.com

PeaceBody synergizes Yoga, Conscious Dance, Soul Empowerment, Light Work and Sustainable Lifestyle Education into a holistic vehicle for personal and planetary Oneness and Evolution. It is a school for living Oneness in being and in action and for the co-generation of a peaceful world. We will work with ecstatic musical waves, deep body-sensing and feeling into awareness, conscious breath, and shamanic connection with the elements, devas, ancestors and guides. Each practice begins with the setting of collective and personal intention, the connection to Higher Self, and the invocation of the Light Beings and Energies that hold and assist in Transformation and Transmutation of what we have come together TO MOVE. We end each practice with stillness and conscious connection to our INNER GUIDANCE through the messages of the body, heart and spirit. Then, we hold a circle for reflection, connection and closure of our shared prayer.

About the presenters: SAMANTHA SWEETWATER is a Peace Emissary and founder of Dancing Freedom and the PeaceBody School of Embodied Awakening, synergizing conscious dance, yoga, light work, soul empowerment and sustainable lifestyle in an integral offering for individual, collective and planetary evolution. She travels internationally, connecting with every day people at the source of our oneness – the embodied experience of connection – with each other, our bodies, our hearts, our laughter and tears. She has been devoted to dance as a sacred vehicle of expression, integration and healing since the age of 13, and holds a self-created degree in Social Theory and The Dance, is a certified yoga instructor, somatics practitioner, massage therapist, Dream Coach and Reiki Master. She has been developing and sharing the processes of Dancing Freedom for over 15 years and has presented in such venues as Esalen, Kalani Retreat Center, Harbin Hot Springs, Bioneers and Grace Cathedral.

OMAKAYUEL brings wisdom, insight and compassion to all who experience his work. He is a gifted healer who has spent the last seven years traveling internationally as a principal teacher and practitioner for the Dolphin Star Temple Mystery School. His tools include ancient and contemporary wisdom, Meditation, Sound, Movement and sacred theater.

www.dancingfreedom.com

Life and death are not opposites. Death is integral to the whole/holiness of the sacred web of all that is. In this experiential workshop we will explore a way of viewing death that actually comes from the realm of our pre-patriarchal ancestors. Very little is known or taught about how our early ancestors lived. This workshop will explore our ancestral knowledge and will bring forward a much needed shamanic integration about life and death for body mind and spirit. We will also learn what it means to “midwife” death in our current time and how to transform fear about death into pure love.

About Lesline Della Madre: Leslene della-Madre has been a student of shamanism for 35 years and a student of Goddess spirituality for 15. She has a background in spiritual midwifery, community living, foster parenting, and psychology from UC Berkeley. Blending her work with crosscultural spiritual traditions (including Wicca, Zen, Buddhism and Native American) and her studies with various teachers of shamanism, Leslene provides a rich nurturing environment for healing. She has coined the word “Shemama”– a midwife of the spirit – to describe herself in her healing work. Leslene is founder of “Winged Women Return”, a center for empowerment through shamanism and shamanic healing in Sebastopol, California. She maintains a private practice as a shamanic practitioner in Sonoma County.

One Sound Visioning is a multi-media, evolutionary communion. According to Mayan calendar, we have made a transition from the Planetary Underworld to the Galactic Underworld since November, 2008. This is an auspicious time, catalyzing us to raise our collective vibration for our planetary birthing process. Shamanic sound visioning is an ancient practice. Akasa employs One Sound Toning, integrating shamanic and sacred sound practices, Native American, Tibetan toning, Tian Gong, shamanic guided sound meditation and journeys transmitted from Great Spirit and inspired by teachers from the diverse traditions. Receive the clarity for your quest, the very special thing you are here to do on our planet and fulfill your vision for yourself, humanity and planet.

About Akasa Teng: Akasa Teng, M.A., is a Sound Visionary and Shamanic Sound Ceremonialist. She has performed numerous shamanic sound ceremonies and taught workshops for the international conferences and communities (council member and long term presenter for the International Conference on Shamanism and Alternative Modes of Healing) including her current ceremony with Barbara Marx Hubbard at HUB, Humanity Unites Brilliance. Her work includes collaborations with visionaries from Four Wisdom Traditions integrating Vision Statement Movies with her monthly One Sound Visioning events at Sausalito, California. Described by Drs Stanely Krippner as “universal and ecstatic,” Fred Alan Wolf as “a rare gift, listen to her,” Brian Swimme as “one of the new shamanic ceremonialist for our age of transformation,” and Ralph Metzner as “oracular voice of Orphic and Dionysian priestesses,” Akasa uses her sound gift from Spirit to move the mass energy fulfilling her commitment to the our collective vision for a new Earth, Humanity and Self.

www.onesoundvisioning.com

Experience Nicki Scullys’ newest work and learn to become an Oracle as you reclaim your direct access to divine guidance, direct from source. This is a unique opportunity to receive knowledge and healing.

About Nikki Scully: Nicki Scully has been teaching healing and shamanic arts, and the Egyptian Mysteries since 1983. Techniques from her Alchemical Healing form are used internationally by thousands of practitioners. She is a lineage holder in the Hermetic tradition of Thoth and maintains the Lyceum of Shamanic Egypt. She is ordained as a priestess of Hathor by Lady Olivia Robertson, co-founder of the Fellowship of Isis. Drawing on the knowledge she has gained through decades of study and practice, she enlightens and uplifts all whom study and travel with her. Nicki lives in Eugene, Oregon, where she maintains a comprehensive healing and shamanic consulting practice.

www.shamanicjourneys.com

SOUL SHINE is a Somatic, Ecstatic and Shamanic Dance Journey to Embodied Awakening. Who are you? What is your purpose? What is the perfect and already whole wisdom held within your Body, the Heart and the Spirit? What parts of you do you disown, repress or otherwise silence that want to bring their gifts to the Feast of Life? Dancing into ecstatic oneness, we access Soul Shine - the truth, wisdom, power, brilliance and courage that is unlocked through Self Love, Authentic Expression and Divine Connection.

www.dancingfreedom.com

We are honored to present our special guest women elders as they share their views and wisdom about the current times facing humanity. This dynamic panel will include discussions on ancient prophecies, the rising wave of the feminine and the importance of eldership and earth stewardship.

For Bios please see elders page. (click here)

Learn about Nassim Haramein’s lifelong journey into the geometry of spacetime, which has lead to a coherent understanding of the fundamental structure of the universe and our existence in it. In this presentation, Jamie Janover will take you on a journey through humanity’s evolution, exposing the changes necessary to produce a Unified Physics; a unification of not only the four forces of nature, but also evolution and the occurrence of consciousness. Haramein's theory demonstrates as well a parallel between ancient codes in documents and monuments. This all-encompassing theory may prove to be one of the most important discoveries of our time.

www.theresonanceproject.org
www.theresonanceproject.org/emissary_jamie_janover.html