| FRIDAY September 25, 2009 |
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Purple Star Tent
FRIDAY
4:30PM
to 6:30PM
Tribal Fusion Belly Dance Workshop
Presented by:
Deb Rubin
MA, CMT, RYT |
 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!
Teacher Bio: Deb Rubin MA, CMT, RYT
A life-long dancer trained in many styles, Deb has been a professional Tribal Fusion Bellydancer for 8 years, in the epicenter of where this art form began: San Francisco. She has studied under, worked with, and is inspired by some of the leading pioneers of this genre, i.e. Jill Parker, Rachel Brice, Zoe Jakes, Sharon Kihara, Mardi Love, and Heather Stants, and is honored to have shared the stage with the musical likes of Balkan Beat Box, Beats Antique, EOTO, Lynx & Janover, Vibesquad, Zilla, Brass Menazeri, Hamsa Lila, Goddess Alchemy, Urban Tribal, DJ Dragonfly, and others. . For more info about Deb, please visit: www.sattyabody.com. and: www.sfmeccaimmersion.com
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Lotus Temple Dome
FRIDAY
4:30PM to 6:30PM
The Consciousness Shift: The Planetary transits of 2009-2012
Presented by:
VerDarLuz |
 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.
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Purple Star Tent
FRIDAY
9:00PM
to 11:00PM
Nature of Creation
Presented by:
Mimi Cezzane |
 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.
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| SATURDAY September 26, 2009 |
Purple Star Tent
SATURDAY
8:00AM to 12:00PM
Morning Yoga Classes
Presented by:
special guest yoga teachers |
 Presented by:
Oshun Yoga Studio & boutique
Trinidad, Humboldt County, Ca.
Website: www.oshunyoga.com |
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Taj Mahal 60ft Dome
SATURDAY
10:00PM to 11:30PM
Ecstatic Dance (Part One)
Presented by:
Conscious Dancer Magazine
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 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!
Conscious Dancer magazine is a celebration of transformation through movement. Our motto is our mission, "movement for a better world." We believe positivity is found in the present moment, and the mind-body connection opens the door. From ecstatic to somatic, personal to pan-cultural, our goal is to bring the moving arts lifestyle to the world. We are grateful to serve as a connector for movement communities around the world through our magazine, website, and online directory. Welcome to the expanding circle – see you on the dance floor!
www.ConsciousDancer.com |
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Lotus Temple Dome
SATURDAY
10:30PM to 11:30PM
Empathic Healing
Presented by:
Jeff Baker |
 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.
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Taj Mahal 60ft Dome
SATURDAY
2:00PM to 3:30PM
Kundalini Dance: (Part One)
Presented by:
Leyolah Antara
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 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.
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Lotus
Temple Dome
SATURDAY
1:00PM to 2:30PM
Creating Systems of Regenerative Abundance: Permaculture & Food Forests for Ecological & Economic Resiliency
Presented by:
Max Meyers, Jay Ma, Sage Mata |
 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! |
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Purple Star Tent
SATURDAY
1:00PM to 2:30PM
The Power of Prayer
Presented by:
Haridas |
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.
About the presenter: Haridas is a Metaphysical workshop leader in the fields of Prayer as a Spiritual evolution tool and psychic phenomena. He has participated in numerous prayer circles with different spiritual organizations and has been promoting the Yoga of prayer actively in both radio and public platform performing demonstrations to spread the New Age teachings of both ancient and modern times. |
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Taj Mahal 60ft Dome
SATURDAY
12:00PM to 1:30PM
The YUM Sessions - Explore your dancer (Part One)
Presented by:
Philip Novotny
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.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.
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Lotus
Temple Dome
SATURDAY
5:30PM to 7:00PM
The Sacred Circle of Fathers and Sons
Presented by:
Oren and Rex Lyons |
 Join our honored elder Oren Lyons and his son Rex, as they explore the sacred connection between fathers and sons. |
Purple Star Tent
SATURDAY
6:00PM to 7:30PM
Afternoon Yoga Classes
Presented by:
special guest yoga teachers |
Presented by:
Oshun Yoga Studio & boutique
Trinidad, Humboldt County, Ca.
Website: www.oshunyoga.com |
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Lotus
Temple Dome
SATURDAY
7:30PM to 11:30PM
The Unified Field Theory
Presented by:
Nassim Haramein |
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.
Website: www.theresonanceproject.org |
Purple Star Tent
SATURDAY
6:00PM to 7:30PM
Clay Mask Ritual
Presented by:
Margo Leom |
 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. |
| SUNDAY September 27, 2009 |
Purple Star Tent
SUNDAY
8:00AM to 10:00AM
Morning Yoga Classes
Presented by:
special guest yoga teachers |
Presented by:
Oshun Yoga Studio & boutique
Trinidad, Humboldt County, Ca.
Website: www.oshunyoga.com |
Lotus Temple Dome
SUNDAY
10:30AM to 12:00PM
Becoming an Oracle
Presented by:
Nikki Sculli |
 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".
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Purple Star Tent
SUNDAY
10:30AM to 12:30PM
Ecstatic Bellydance
Presented by:
Amber St. Germaine |
 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!
Amber's diverse studies in dance include Ballet, Modern, Jazz, African, Flamenco, in addition to Cabaret and Tribal styles of Bellydance. She has helped co-create large theatrical ritual prayer-formances at many events and festivals.
Website: www.amberstgermain.com |
Taj Mahal 60ft Dome
SUNDAY
2:00PM to 3:30PM
Ecstatic Dance (Part Two)
Presented by:
Conscious Dancer Magazine |
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!
Conscious Dancer magazine is a celebration of transformation through movement. Our motto is our mission, "movement for a better world." We believe positivity is found in the present moment, and the mind-body connection opens the door. From ecstatic to somatic, personal to pan-cultural, our goal is to bring the moving arts lifestyle to the world. We are grateful to serve as a connector for movement communities around the world through our magazine, website, and online directory. Welcome to the expanding circle – see you on the dance floor! www.ConsciousDancer.com |
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Taj Mahal 60ft Dome
SUNDAY
10:00PM to 11:30PM
Kundalini Dance: (Part Two)
Presented by:
Leyolah Antara
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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. |
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Lotus Temple Dome
SUNDAY
1:00PM to 3:00PM
Empathic Healing (Part Two)
Presented by:
Jeff Baker |
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.
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Taj Mahal 60ft Dome
SUNDAY
12:00PM to 1:30PM
The YUM Sessions - Explore your dancer (Part Two)
Presented by:
Philip Novotny
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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. |
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Lotus Temple Dome
SUNDAY
4:00PM to 6:00PM
The Sacred Circle of Mothers and Daughters
Presented by:
Leslene Della Madre
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 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 |
Purple Star Tent
SUNDAY
4:00PM to 6:00PM
Afternoon Yoga Classes
Presented by:
special guest yoga teachers |
Presented by:
Oshun Yoga Studio & boutique
Trinidad, Humboldt County, Ca.
Website: www.oshunyoga.com |
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Lotus Temple Dome
SUNDAY
6:30PM to 8:30PM
Mayan Prophecies
Presented by:
Erick Gonzalez
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 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. |
Purple Star Tent
SUNDAY
7:00PM to 9:00PM
Nature of Creation
Presented by:
Mimi Cezzane |
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. |
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What do beer cans, car tires and water bottles have in common? Not much
unless you're renegade architect Michael Reynolds, in which case they are
tools of choice for producing thermal mass and energy-independent housing.
For 30 years New Mexico-based Reynolds and his green disciples have
devoted their time to advancing the art of "Earthship Biotecture" by
building self-sufficient, off-the-grid communities where design and
function converge in eco-harmony. However, these experimental structures
that defy state standards create conflict between Reynolds and the
authorities, who are backed by big business. Frustrated by antiquated
legislation, Reynolds lobbies for the right to create a sustainable living
test site. While politicians hum and ha, Mother Nature strikes, leaving
communities devastated by tsunamis and hurricanes. Reynolds and his crew
seize the opportunity to lend their pioneering skills to those who need it
most.
Oil on Ice explores the dangers and consequences that surround opening one
of America's last great wild places – or any protected wild place, for
that matter – to exploration and exploitation. Interviews with esteemed
arctic biologists and environmental experts deduce that hybrid cars and
renewable energy sources are viable short- and long-term solutions to the
nation's dependence on oil for energy. Native Inupiat Eskimos and Gwich'in
Indian activists share their heritage and way of life, and express on
camera how their entire way of living is at risk due to oil drilling. The
Gwich'in Indians, for example, describe how they have depended on the
Alaskan caribou for food, clothing, tools and their spirituality for
generations. The environmental impacts of oil drilling, however, are
driving caribou and other wildlife away, changing the way the native
people have lived with them for centuries.
Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay is home to just over 400 people who
have made their living from the water for more than a century. But now the
island and its culture are under assault by rising sea levels, erosion,
population loss, and a decline in the oysters and crabs its people depend
on. The film shows how islanders are fighting to survive and struggling
with change and loss. It is a story told by a quirky cast of islanders:
watermen, preachers, crab-pickers, lawmen and environmentalists. "We're so
stubborn," says one waterman, "they're going to have to drag us off of
here kicking and screaming."
A captivating view of the indomitable spirit if one of the world's most
fascinating figures, this full-length documentary follows Nelson Mandela
from his early days and tribal education to his election as South Africa's
first black president. Providing insights into his early life, the film
takes us through Mandela's childhood, adolescence, career in law and first
marriage. "Mandela" is an absorbing look at the courageous life,
tribulations and fortitude of Mandela the leader, while never forgetting
the engaging and charismatic spirit of Mandela the man, as seen through
exclusive interviews and narration from Mandela himself.
With The Plow That Broke the Plains, his first film and the first US
Government-sponsored documentary, Pare Lorentz won praise and wide
recognition for using sensitive photography, dramatic editing and a
beautiful score by composer Virgil Thomson to illuminate a local problem
of national importance – the challenges faced by wheat farmers and cattle
ranchers in the Great Plains. As the film climaxes in a vivid portrait of
the record drought that produced the dust bowl and the plight of the
"blown out, baked and broke" people who felt its impact, it becomes clear
that a new master of the documentary form has found his voice. 
In The River, Pare Lorentz deploys powerful images, a poetic Pulitzer
Prize-nominated script and another score by Virgil Thomson to illustrate
the problems of flood control on the Mississippi River and the efforts to
correct it. While arguing that the building of dams would put an end to
the destruction of crops and property brought about by the havoc of annual
floods, Lorentz reveals the ways the river has been misused, and presents
a stirring paen to America's natural landscape, and the proud history with
which it is imbued. 31 minutes
from our ancestral past. These skills give us a deep connection to the earth while promoting a more sustainable lifestyle. 
Returning to the Sun in Libra for 2009 after a long absence, Earthdance
creates a Harmonic collective focus on Sharing and Beauty, with an edge
of relentless transformation provided by the Sun Square Pluto. For the
first two days, the Moon, while starting in Sagittarius, travels though
Capricorn, placing an emphasis on respect for the knowledge of the
Elders and the energy of the need for purpose. Mercury is conjunct
Saturn in Virgo and both oppose Uranus in Pisces, imparting an overtone
of the established (Saturn) being confronted by the new, more collective
action energy of Uranus. This opposition, which occurs five times before
it runs it's course, started the day Obama was elected and will continue
to create a showdown between the vested interests and those energies
whose purpose is to serve the collective good and dissolve the
resistance of the self serving old order. In the environment of
creativity and entertainment of Earthdance, these energies create
spontaneous connections which allow people to realize their shared purpose
in supporting the Green ethos. Mars is also trine Uranus which creates a
fantastic feeling of spontaneous actions and expressions of sudden
passion. With Mars also sextile Mercury and Saturn, this
action/passion energy is able to be focused and applied, especially in
forms of communication and ideas. The Sun is 3/8ths from Jupiter, an
energy of transformation connecting the creative confidence of the Sun
with the expansive, optimistic energy of Jupiter. This creates a charged
flow of
intensity that supports expanded goodwill and generosity. Neptune is also
conjunct Chiron which
creates a far reaching overtone of unique healing vibrations to be
shared in the Aquarian flowering of the overall event.
MythMaker Productions presents and ancient Aztec/Mayan legend performed
as a full musical/dance storytelling production. Ankle rattles, Aztec
dance plumed feather costumes and amazing music accompanies this
powerful tale of a society that became imbalanced and turned away from
intuition.
