| Spring / Summer Events in the Upper
Midwest The Spiritual Entrepreneur: WomenVenture, a Twin Cities non-profit economic development agency, is offering a two-part workshop that will help entrepreneurs remember and return to the passion that thrust them onto the entrepreneurial path. Many people start their own business with the hope of living out their passion and carving a soulful place for themselves. What often happens is just the opposite. Many new entrepreneurs find themselves in a situation of franticness and turmoil, with a focus on money and tasks. "The Spiritual Entrepreneur: Cultivating the Soul of Your Business" challenges you to break this cycle and become a soulful entrepreneur. Issues covered in the workshop, led by Minerva Nguyen, include: what is a spiritual entrepreneur, Feng Shui for your office, daily grounding and meditations, uncovering your creativity, and the art of spirit leadership. The conference will be offered from 5 to 8 p.m. on Wednesdays May 7 and 14, and repeated again from 9 to 11 a.m. on Saturdays June 7 and 14. The cost is $55 for the workshop. WomenVenture is non-profit Twin Cities economic development resource that helps women find jobs with livable wages, change or develop a career, or start or expand a business. For more information or registration, call (651) 646-3808 or visit www.womenventure.org Explore Buddhism Perhaps you've wanted to learn empowering spiritual techniques to connect with your inner Buddha Nature, practice ancient Buddhist mantras to enhance the flow of light in your charkas or discover how the purification and mastery of each chakra leads to new stages of enlightenment. Summit University will offer an interactive six-week online course, "Explore Buddhism: Loving Kindness in Action," from 7:15-9:15 p.m. on Thursdays from May 8 through June 12. The course, based on the teachings of the ascended masters as taught by Elizabeth Clare Prophet, will take participants on a journey into the heart of Gautama Buddha and allow them to explore the mystical path of Buddhism. Register online at www.suonline.org or at the door, 6035 Nicollet Avenue S., Minneapolis. The course fee is $33. All class are archived to accommodate your schedule. For more information, call (952) 926-4385 or e-mail su@suonline.org Spring into Wellness Festival Golden Valley Wellness Center announces a "Spring Into Wellness Festival" from noon to 11 p.m. Saturday, May 10, at the Golden Valley Wellness Center, located between highways 100 and 169 just off of Olson Memorial Highway in Golden Valley. Many local health and wellness experts and speakers will be demonstrating and speaking on such topics as "Unlimited Body / Unlimited Breath," yoga, acupuncture, life coaching and various other healing methods. Giveaways, prizes, outdoor games and more will be offered for the entire family. An added bonus will be an evening concert and dance featuring the rock 'n' folk band "The Lost Marbles," who will play their original music and an eclectic mix of familiar of Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones and Grateful Dead covers. A $35 donation is suggested for the entire day, but nobody will be turned away. On Sunday May 11, Arne Rantzen, a former Tibetan monk, will teach people at the center how to walk on fire without burning their feet. Golden Valley Wellness Center, which includes 4,000 square feet of large, practitioner's space and open spaces for workshops, and seminars, is sponsoring the festival as part of an open house to honor its first year of serving the Twin Cities. Patrick Weseman, a Minnesota native with 32 years of yoga experience, said his emphasis is not just to bring the Eastern healing arts to Golden Valley Wellness Center, but to bring back the basics of yoga so the public can enjoy its positive effects on maintaining wellness. "Yoga is out there," said Weseman said. "It seems to be everywhere right now. But what's missing is the teaching of the basics. It's about breath. It's about connecting the mind and body through breathing. It's about relaxing, and relaxing into a certain postures or pose. Taught correctly, yoga is not only relaxing but rejuvenating. It's for everyone age 8 to 80." Weseman, who has studied with world-renowned Himalayan masters said he hopes to he hopes to encourage Minnesota's top healing arts practitioners to work at the Golden Valley Wellness Center. "We've got some of the greatest healing methods available here now, but we are looking for more so we have something for everyone," he said. Golden Valley Wellness Center is one block west of Highway 100 on the north side of Highway 55 on North Frontage Road, 2 1/2 blocks east of Douglas Drive in Golden Valley. For more information or directions to the center, call (763) 544-0644. Order of Melchizedek Rev. Dan Chesbro will conduct workshops and ordinations into the Order of Melchizedek May 16-17 at Lake Harriet Spiritual Community, 4401 Upton Ave. S., Minneapolis. The Order of Melchizedek is a priesthood of individuals committed to teach and/or heal the human condition as it emerges into the Age of Aquarius. Rev. Chesbro has been working with Melchizedek since 1975 and ordaining priests into the order since 1986. At that time, he re-established the ancient Order of Melchizedek, and there are now more than 7,000 men and women of every race and from several religious disciplines whose main function is to teach "love" and to heal in the period of the great transformation of Planet Earth. In his workshops, Dan shares insights into the near-death experience, spontaneous awakening, gradual awakening, dream visions, reincarnation and channeling. For more information, call (612) 929-3833. Unconditional Faith I THIRST: A Journey Toward Unconditional Faith, a one-day retreat designed to explore the basic beliefs of unconditional faith and love through principles taught by Mother Teresa, will be presented once in May and again in June in St. Paul, Minn., by facilitators who provide a broad spectrum of beliefs and practices from Christianity to Shamanism. This experiential event, which is appropriate for people of all faiths and beliefs, will include prayerful meditative reflection time, group discussion, journaling, identifying a personal belief symbol and labyrinth exercises conducted outdoors. The event will take place in St. Paul's Monastery at the Benedictine Center, 2675 Larpenteur Ave. E., in St. Paul. Times are from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 24, and at the same times on Saturday, June 28. Registration is $45 and includes lunch and a journal. I Thirst is facilitated by Robin Maynard and Jeyn M. Hofacker. Ms. Maynard is a speaker and the author of I THIRST: A Journey Toward Unconditional Faith. She is also the founder of Cheerful Givers, a charitable organization that provides birthday gifts to children of less fortunate families. Ms. Hofacker is a Celtic Shamanic and Flower Essence practitioner. For more information or to register, call (763) 633-1604. Natural Foods Festival Downtown Minneapolis will host the first-ever Natural Foods festival from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. May 28-29. The event will be at the Peavey Plaza in front of Orchestra Hall on Nicollet Mall. The event will celebrate and profile the accomplishments and progress of the natural and organic foods industry in Minnesota. It is also an opportunity to encourage more people to purchase and use locally produced organic and natural foods. For most people who are unfamiliar with the health benefits of eating fewer processed and manufactured foods, this event will be an eye opener and a chance to sample some of what Natural foods Minnesota has to offer. Farm businesses, restaurants, bakeries and retail stores will be represented. In addition, there will be live music and entertainment. For more information, call (612) 861-3179. Walking Meditation The public is invited to a special self-guided walk using a walking meditation CD designed to help you focus your intention by asking a question that you most want and/or need to answer. The event, "Walk With the Questions and Let Your Heart Lead the Way: A Walking Meditation Experience," is being presented from 9 to 11:30 a.m.on May 31 by Jackie Levin and Dee Bailey, with music by Kristi Kruse. Participants will meet at the Lake Harriet Bandshell. Do you find yourself limited by old patterns? Are you bored with the "status quo" and ready for a change? Will you allow yourself to explore what you truly want out of life? Are you ready to open yourself to new ideas and new possibilities? Walk With the Questions can provide participants with the confidence and direction they may be seeking as they deal with life's many challenges and opportunities. During their walk, they will use the world around them as springboards to new awareness, insights and discoveries and have time to reflect and share their insights with others. Registration is $49, and it includes CD, materials and refreshments. Participants are asked to bring their own portable CD player. Registration is required by May 23 by calling (952) 707-6825. The group size is limited to 8 people. Jackie Leven designed the Walk with the Questions CD as part of a six-step process, The Possibility Tool Kit, a generic process of self-discovery she designed to support her personal journey to realize and manifest her dreams. Dee Bailey has more than 20 years of experience working with individuals in transition, Dee has come to value the power of using multiple resources to access one's own inner wisdom. Kristi Kruse weaves a tapestry of color into her solo piano music, in the tradition of George Winston. She recorded the collections Afterthoughts and Little Gifts. For more information, e-mail Jackie Levin at Jlevin4dream@aol.com Mystical Movie Messages Respected Hollywood producer Stephen Simon will return to Minneapolis in June to speak on "The Force is With You: Mystical Movie Messages That Inspire Our Lives." His talk, from 7-9:30 p.m. Saturday, June 7, at Temple Israel, 2324 Emerson Avenue S., Minneapolis, is sponsored by the Continuum Center. Simon produced such films as What Dreams May Come starring Robin Williams and Cuba Gooding, Jr,, Somewhere In Time with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. In his talk, he will share his expertise and insights as he delves deeply into the metaphysics and spiritual aspects of a myriad of popular films as chronicled in his new book, The Force is With You. Learn the behind-the-scenes secrets and hear the inside stories. The cost $25 ($20 for Continuum members). For registration, call (612) 374-4948 or register online at www.continuumcenter.net. The Three Faces of Mary Wisdom Ways Resource Center for Spirituality will present "Three Faces of Mary: Perspectives on the Ancient Feminine" June 8-11 on the campus of the College of St. Catherine, 2004 Randolph Ave., in St. Paul, Minn. The eighth annual Summer Spirituality Institute features frame drum performer Layne Redmond. This interfaith, cross-cultural event will use theology, spirituality and the arts to explore Miriam the Prophet, Mary of Nazareth, and Mary of Magdala as sources of inspiration and as faces of a complex spiritual archetype. Each day will include scholarly presentations, bibliodrama, workshops, prayer, music and more. Single day and evening track attendance options are available. For a brochure, contact Wisdom Ways Resource Center for Spirituality, 1890 Randolph Ave., St. Paul, MN 55105 or call (651) 690-8830. Register online at www.stkate.edu/wisdomways Wisdom Ways is a collaborative initiative of the College of St. Catherine and the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, St. Paul Province. Illumination: A Workshop Mark Earlix, author of the transformational new book Creator: The Revelation of Healing Yourself and Others, will present "The Illumination Initiation," a three-day workshop June 27-30 in Minneapolis. Participants will be taken through an ancient and mystical initiation that allows them to experience the Light within...for the rest of their lives. Earlix claims that never before in our history has this initiation of Illumination been made public. "Actually see the Light...and continue to see its beauty," Earlix says. "Allow your life to change daily as you learn to work with it." The Pre-Illumination introduction is from 7-9 p.m. Friday, June 27. The Illumination Initiation workshop will be from 9:30 to 4:30 p.m. June 28-29. There is space for only 25 people to attend. Advanced pre-registration is required. The cost is $395 and it must be paid at least nine days before the event. Earlix is a nationally known teacher healer-intuitive. With more than 30 years experience, he has helped many thousands of people transform their lives. He is an ordained priest with 37 years of study and is initiated into two sacred schools of study and initiation. Call Mark Earlix At (602) 631-4044 or visit www.markearlix.com. |
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