2009 Speakers and Workshops
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| WORKSHOPS & SPEAKERS FORUM An important part of the festival is our workshop and speakers forum featuring facilitators from many disciplines. (Held in the Taj Mahal Dome, Lotus Temple Dome & Purple Star Tent) |
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Awaken body, spirit,power, and the divine feminine through this contemporary take on an ancient art form, combining folkloric styles and Middle Eastern rhythms with modern influences such as pops, locks, jazz, hip hop, modern, and breaks. Includes Deb's unique core integrated yoga-inspired warm up, technique drills, and tribal fusion combinations inspired by the heart of the San Francisco scene in which Deb resides. All levels welcome!
In this workshop, we will look at the important astrological elements of this year's elections, the karma of the U.S., the astrological signature of the next American revolution, and the year 2010, not 2012, as the trigger-point for our collective evolution. We will look at astrological cycles in history similar to the current and upcoming cycles of the next decade to gain tools of perception from which to engage the coming changes, while investigating our individual roles as agents of the global consciousness shift.
Nature of Creation Dance Theatre is a collaborative group of performance dedicated to inspiring human sensory awareness and unity through the expressive love of beauty and an open heart. Creative Director Mimi Cezanne Stoll received her B.A.. in Creative Interdisciplinary Arts at San Francisco State University combining dance, music, and creative writing. Mimi has a wide variety of performance experience and embraces life as prayer. She currently lives, and teaches Dunham jazz dance classes for adults, and nature studies and expressive performance arts with children, in Willits Ca.
Presented by: Oshun Yoga Studio & boutique Trinidad, Humboldt County, Ca.
Conscious Dancer is honored to bring this transformative daytime ceremony to the heart of Earthdance. Hailing from a long tradition of freeform dances such as Body Choir, Dance Jam, and Barefoot Boogie -- today's ecstatic dances are a celebratory playground for connection to spirit, inspiration, and community. We invite your body to listen, your spirit to move, and your soul to shine. Ecstatic dance is a place beyond words where your essence is nourished in all dimensions. Manifest mindfulness in motion!
Jeff is a practicing empathic healer, medical intuitive, psychic and spiritual medium. He uses these gifts, of which he is a conduit, to assist people in spiritual growth and understanding in order to heal those suffering from physical and emotional "dis-ease" (Jeff's pronunciation of the word more commonly referred to as disease) and to train others in his spiritual modalities so that they might too bring spiritual, emotional, and physical relief to others.
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. www.kundalini-dance.com Leyolah Antara has been facilitating healing dance workshops for over 16 years. She has trained with the leading pioneers of the dance healing movement including Gabrielle Roth, and Frank Natale. She currently travels the world leading workshops across Europe, Asia, Australia and the USA.
Imagine a forest where every single tree is dripping with fresh fruits and ripening nuts. Every shrub is packed with delicious berries, and every other plant is a medicinal herb, culinary spice, or beautiful edible flower. Tubers and root crops are abundant underfoot, gourmet mushroom logs sprout in the shade, and hardy kiwi vines climb back up through the layers of this multi-functional forest of food. Food forests are diverse gardens modeled after natural ecosystems designed to mimic the way a forest thrives and regenerates. By recognizing the self-supporting, mutually beneficial relationships of the elements in a forest and designing components that are preferred edibles and more useful for humans, the forest then becomes a Garden of Eden, in which edible or useful plants are found from head to toe, where something in season is always ready to eat, and the system requires little or no maintenance to sustain and regenerate. Join the campaign for ecological and economic resiliency and learn how you can help to transform gardens, lawns, parks, and empty spaces into thriving edible landscapes that are beautiful, regenerative, and produce an abundance of delicious, locally grown food!
In this workshop we will explore the Metaphysics of prayer such as what prayer really is? What are the elements of prayer? How to enhance your prayers? Why use prayer as a spiritual tool? What is the relationship between Prayer and your chakras? Who manages your prayer energy? Set prayer vs. inspirational prayer. We will also explore designing your own personal prayers, praying for your family and friends, praying for the whole of mankind, protective prayers and more..jpg)
Philip Novotny expands on the evolution of your previous concepts about movement, dance, and ideas around "holding space". Inspired by the teachings in Soul Motion, Gabrielle Roth and Contact Improvisation and experienced by thousands of participants during west coast regional tours, these movement sessions use live music and DJs as the bridge between deep trusting and spontaneous connection. Explore soulful body awareness through breath, through beat, through dance, through movement..! Continuous, improvisational elements blend East, West and World grooves with ambient sound landscapes, moving you through an energetic wave into a blissful stillness at journey's end.
Join our honored elder Oren Lyons and his son Rex, as they explore the sacred connection between fathers and sons.
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, Nassim 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.
Using sounds of the didgeridoo, berimbao and drums, interwoven with words, movement and intention, the Clay Mask Ritual is designed to engage audience participation and draw raw emotions that we all know and share into sacredness.
Experience highlights from Nicki Scully's new 7-CD Audio Learning Course, "Becoming an Oracle - Connecting to the Divine Source for Information and Healing". This is a pilgrimage, an odyssey of nineteen shamanic journeys as you explore ancient and modern oracular technology, including fourteen unique cultural traditions with one of the foremost authorities on guided visualizations. The focus is on ceremonies and initiations that bring us into alignment with truth, harmony and our inherent divinity. Please join us as we explore our unique oracular abilities through this exciting new body of work. Nicki Scully has been a healer and teacher of metaphysics, shamanism and the Egyptian mysteries since 1983. She lectures worldwide and specializes in spiritual tours to Egypt. Her other books include, "Alchemical Healing" and "Power Animal Meditations". She is co-author of "Shamanic Mysteries of Egypt" and "The Anubis Oracle".
Ecstatic Bellydance is an ancient tribal dance which awakens the bodies wisdom and natural ecstasy. In this class you will learn basic Bellydance repertoire including isolations, taxim (snake movements), and shimmies based on ancient sacred geometric shapes and symbols; the circle, the wave, and the figure eight. Then, integrating these movements, we will journey through the body combining movement with breath, sound, and intention to create an embodied ecstatic experience. Open to all genders and orientations. Wear something comfortable and bring a water bottle. Come learn, play, and awaken your natural ecstasy!
This workshop will focus on the sacred transmission of mother to daughter that is necessary to restore for the sake of all living things. Once upon a time, our ancestors lived in a way that was female-honoring. Without that honor, there is no containment for the survival of the community. Please join our honored elder Leslene della-Madre and her two daughters, Celena and Larissa (who are the sister duo of the Goddess Alchemy Project) in this reclaiming and repairing of our mother/daughter lineages through song, word-sharing, movement and shamanic journey
ERICK GONZALEZ is Founder and Spiritual Leader of Earth Peoples United, where he is a Mayan Spiritual Guide, Tata OmeAkaEhekatl. Born in Guatemala, he was initiated into Native sacred rites over a twenty five year period with direct participation, teachings, and guidance from various Native spiritual elders from Mexico, North America, Colombia, Peru, and Guatemala. Erick integrates body, mind, and spirit in a holistic way using methods taught to him by Mayan elders and other indigenous elders from the Americas as well as personal experiences that have come from his deep connection to the Divine.Join Our Email List
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