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IOWA
'Hugging Saint' Amma returns to Iowa
MT. PLEASANT, Iowa -- On July 7-8, Amma, affectionately nicknamed by the press the Hugging Saint, will make her third visit to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. The previous Iowa programs attracted approximately 2,000 people each day, with business people, farmers, college students, professors -- and people from all backgrounds, races and religions -- coming from all over the country.
Each year, Amma travels throughout India, Europe, Asia and the United States, holding public programs in dozens of cities. Millions worldwide have been transformed by meeting her and receiving her special hug, or "darshan." Amma frequently gives darshan to 10,000 people a day without attending to any personal needs and has been known to give hugs to more than 40,000 people in one day. Her personal physicians have said she is a mystery; no ordinary human could maintain this grueling schedule.
If Amma has a dogma it is simple: love and serve one another. Her public programs are free and open to everyone.
Additional information about Amma can be found at www.amma.org and the Fairfield site: www.amma-fairfield.org
KANSAS
DoingIt! journal promotes positivity
LAWRENCE, Kan. -- What if you could count your chickens before they hatched? Put all your eggs in one basket? Look a gift horse in the mouth? And...stay in joy for prolonged periods...without having to knock on wood or wait for the other shoe to drop?
Enter the newly-launched "DoingIt!"--a journal for positive living.
Created and written by a Kansas couple, David Bartholomew and Joan Clark, "DoingIt!" is targeted at "optimists, recovering cynics, basically anyone who is tired of being clobbered by the nightly news or is looking to dig or keep themselves out of a rut."
"We noticed how much bad news most people can handle, but how quickly most of us shrug off the good," Clark says, "as if it's not OK to have, expect or deserve good things over long periods. Up to now it hasn't been very fashionable to view reality as anything but harsh."
For those unwilling to maintain such a view "DoingIt!" is available monthly in online or printed versions, both including access to a community website. The publication is unique in providing both male and female perspectives, with a focus on tools, technologies and shared stories of "what's working" between the couple and their readership.
The two are taking the best of all worlds -- old-time values, homespun wisdom and modern-age technologies -- and synthesizing them into words, pictures and exercises to keep readers inspired and enthused from issue to issue.
"I'm most excited about how the "DoingIt!" community can grow over time, with this workout-partner type of relationship between everyone. If you want to play better tennis, you play with better players; and we are calling in all who wish to live life at its fullest!," Clark says.
"This is an interactive experiment -- a lab and playground," Bartholomew says, "for those looking to be their own best example...their own hero! Staying positive and focused on our potential for longer than 15 minutes...is the new frontier. We are rekindling passion for the positive!"
Those interested in such possibilities can read a sample issue, view an introductory movie or subscribe at http://doingit.hyphenate.org
MINNESOTA
Spring Healer's Retreat at Crow Wing Crest Lodge
AKELEY, Minn. -- All types of healers are invited June 4-7 to a low-key retreat designed to provide rest and relaxation at Crow Wing Crest Lodge, located just north of Akeley, Minn., 10 miles west of Walker and 17 miles east of Park Rapids in North Central Minnesota. It is approximately 2-1/2 hours north of the Twin Cities.
A wide variety of activities are available. You are encouraged to do as little or as much as you'd like. Stay in your cabin all weekend to read a book or just glide around on the lake in a canoe. Drums and dream catchers will be created and explained during the retreat.
In addition, the retreat will included drumming, and classes on beginning meditation, karma cleansing and all-natural skin care, reflexology, Healing Touch, myo-facial release, energy attunements, Reiki, aromatherapy and how to use a pendulum. Local author Judy Merritt will read from "Coming to the Place Where Eagles Soar" at the drumming circle.
The schedule and prices vary as practitioners adjust and add more activities to the itinerary for you to enjoy. During the retreat weekend, rates start at $39 per night per person dorm style, $49 per night per bedroom and $69 per couple for those on a budget willing to share a cabin. Reservations and deposits are required. Call for more information on minimum stay and other details at (218) 652-3111 or visit www.crowwing.com
Authors Bodine & Perron to speak
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Authors Echo Bodine and Mari Perron will present talks on recently published books, as well as sign books, from 3-5 p.m. June 26 at Roasting Stones Gift Café, 2388 University, St. Paul. This first time collaborative presentation of the two local authors offers insights into two varied processes of divine inspiration. Artists Julia Leigh and Deanne Parks also will be featured.
Bodine will speak on the newly revised and published book Hands That Heal. She is a renowned psychic, spiritual healer and teacher. Her previous books include Echoes of the Soul, The Gift, and A Still, Small Voice. Bodine lectures throughout the country on life, death, life after death, living by intuition, and developing psychic abilities. She is also a radio personality featured on "Intuitive Living with Echo Bodine," from 7-8 p.m. Saturdays on FM 107.1, Minneapolis. For more, visit www.echobodine.com.
Perron will present the new edition of The Treatises of A Course of Love. She is the author of the Course of Love series and two books of The Grace Trilogy. The Treatises of A Course of Love combine the four Treatises: A Treatise on the Art of Thought, A Treatise on the Nature of Unity and Its Recognition, A Treatise on the Personal Self, and A Treatise on the New into one volume. The series, which begins with A Course of Love, concludes with The Dialogues: Coming to Voice. A Course of Love, published by New World Library, has been translated into German and Spanish and also published in Great Britain. The Course of Love series, like that of A Course in Miracles is expressed in the voice of Jesus. The series is given to be for the heart what A Course in Miracles is for the mind. Perron is a co-owner of Roasting Stones, a family owned business. See www.acourseoflove.com and www.thedialogues.com.
The painting by DeAnne L. Parks, "Flood of Compassion," appears on the cover of The Dialogues: Coming to Voice. She has participated for several years in the St. Paul Art Crawl. Julia Leah is a practitioner of metaphysical fine art. Julia Leigh has been drawing and dancing since childhood, and her art is greatly influenced by the world of the stage and dance studio.
For more information, contact Roasting Stones Gift Café at (651) 644-1645. Roasting Stones Gift Café features frequent artistic and community events and strives to be an integral part of the neighborhood and spiritual community of the Twin Cities area.
Art celebrates Minnehaha Creek
EDINA, Minn. -- "22 Miles: Celebrating Minnehaha Creek!" -- a juried arts exhibition supported by the Edina Art Center, The Loft and the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District -- will include literary arts and a special events day with the intent to inspire people to become better stewards of the Creek.
The opening reception is from 5-8 p.m. Thursday, July 8, and a special "Paint-out" will take place along the Creek from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, July 11, and from 3-6 p.m. at the Art Center. The show runs through August 23,
Edina Art Center is at 4701 W. 64th St., Edina. Call (612) 915-6600 or visit www.EdinaArtCenter.com
MISSOURI
39th Street Mojo returns
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Take a day trip without leaving the city; find out why so many people choose the midtown 39th Street corridor for shopping, family outings, sightseeing, dining and people watching. Lining the corridor from State Line to Roanoke Road, the area boasts a vibrant creative neighborhood featuring the work of numerous musicians, poets, visual artists, writers and restaurant owners who know a memorable dining experience is about providing a well-crafted balance of artistry and hospitality.
The fourth-annual 39th Street Mojo accentuates this atmosphere by providing an anchor for the art exhibits hosted by local merchants when the third-annual 39th Street Artwalk gets under way at 6 p.m. Friday, June 18. The artwalk is anchored by Prospero's Books at 1800 W. 39th St., and includes participating merchants such as The Crave Coffee House, Sacred Earth Arts and the Pedestrian Gallery (across the street from Twisted Sisters novelty and card shop).
The weekend festival continues Saturday, June 19, with a musical line-up including Krystle Warren, Tabla Rasa, Sounds Good and Raising Grey performing at Prospero's Books; information tables staffed by local community outreach organizations and voter registration coordinators will also be on hand, as well as Tom Crane of the Kansas City Independent Internet Radio Project who conducted live interviews last year from the storefront of Prospero's Books.
The festival concludes on Sunday, June 20, with the staging of a Lincoln-Douglas style debate in the afternoon and wraps up Sunday night with a staged reading of a one-act play chosen from the 39th Street Mojo Playwrights Competition.
For more information on how to participate in the above-mentioned events, contact 39th Street Mojo Coordinator Caroline O'Brien at (816) 694-6656 (MOJO) or at kcmojoqueen@yahoo.com
OREGON
Visions for a New Humanity: The New Harmonic Convergence
ASHLAND, Ore. -- The Day Out of Time Celebration: "Visions for a New Humanity -- A Festival of the Future," realizing a New World that is present NOW, will be celebrated July 23-25 in Ashland, featuring James Twyman, Jose Arguelles, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Neale Donald Walsch, Stephen Simon, Margaret Starbird and others.
Simultaneously, hundreds of groups will celebrate the Day Out of Time, a webcast that will focus on an important alignment of our time. On August 16, 1987, millions of people from around the world focused their hearts and prayers during an event called the "Harmonic Convergence." Jose Arguelles, an eminent interpreter of the Mayan Calendar, led the call for prayer and planetary shift which was predicted in the ancient Mayan texts.
The Maya culture also points to a very particular date, December 21, 2012, calling it the "The Closing of the Cycle" or the "Great Time Shift." The "Visions for a New Humanity" conference marks the final approach to that great day, as well as the beginning of a universal shift to the natural calendar.
According to Arguelles: "July 25, 2004, the Day Out of Time on the 13 Moon/28 day calendar, was prophesied as the beginning of the shift toward 2012. This date, and the events occurring on it worldwide, are more important than the Harmonic Convergence because it initiates the final approach to 2012. This day is called the 'Day Out of Time,' because on the 13 Moon/28 day calendar, it is the 365th day of the year -- a day for forgiveness, freedom and a celebration of natural time."
For more information, visit www.emissaryoflight.com
WISCONSIN
Space clearing workshops and classes
POYNETTE, Wisc. -- Prairie Wisdom schedules free summer mini-workshops taught by Neshi Lokotz at the Jamieson House, as well as Two Feathers School of Interior Alignment Space Clearing and Feng Shui certification courses.
Neshi Lokotz, a resident of Poynette, is one of 53 people in the world who offers certification in Interior Alignment, and she is perhaps the only Space Clearing practitioner who uses a Native American Healing Dress dance during her Space Clearing process.
The following are the free mini-workshops:
• Drumming, 9:30-10:30 a.m. June 4 -- The ancient art of drumming is very much alive today and practiced all around the world. Learn what drumming means, how it's used today and how it can help you and your family.
• Space Clearing, 9:30-10:30 a.m. June 25 -- Space Clearing uses ancient spiritual methods to move stagnant or stuck energy and clears the way for positive energy to fill the cleared space. Learn how Neshi creates harmony with nature in the home or on the land, blending the best of mystical and practical traditions of East and West.
• Introduction to Dowsing, 9:30-10:30 a.m. July 9 -- Find out what dowsing means and the basic steps for successful dowsing, why it's important to ground or center yourself and how to develop concise and clear questions.
• Feng Shui, 9:30-10:30 a.m., August 13 -- Learn about the traditional view of feng shui and gain an understanding of how the ancient techniques are integrated with modern living.
Neshi Lokotz, a master teacher of Interior Alignment, teaches professional certification courses based on the curriculum of Denise Linn.
Her courses include:
• September 14-20 -- Space Clearing Certification -- Space Clearing uses ancient spiritual methods to move stagnant or stuck energy and clears the way for positive energy to fill the cleared space. Participants will learn how to remove stagnant energy to create a living and working space that feels good.
• September 22-28 -- Feng Shui Certification Course -- Participants will learn about the traditional view of feng shui and gain an understanding of how to integrate ancient techniques with modern living. Learn how to build a professional practice, promote yourself, assess clients and provide seminars.
The fee for each course is $2,150. Courses include lodging, meals, course materials and field trips. A $500 deposit is due one month before the course start date.
Prairie Wisdom, based out of Poynette, creates workshops and websites that inspire the hands, heart and mind. Registration to events is required. For more information, contact Theresa Plenty at (608) 635-2658 or e-mail info@prairiewisdom.net or visit www.prairiewisdom.net |
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