What's News . . . August 2009
Growing Places-Art For Farm 8/1; Interfaith Summer Nights in Poway; Finding Freedom in Forgiveness 8/2; Eco-friendly Sustainability Fair 8/6 & 9; Larisa & Shakti Tribe Concert 8/8; Raw Food Workshop 8/9; Blue Whale & Dolphin Boat Trips; Debbie Ford's Shadow Effect Movie & Personal Appearances in SD; Water: Film Featuring Dr Emoto 8/27; Craniosacral Certification Training; Mingtong Gu's Coming Workshops; Musical Concert in Carlsbad 8/29; News in Brief
Growing Places-Art For Farm 8/1
The first ever Art-For-Farm event will be held on Sat, Aug 1 benefiting the San Diego Roots Sustainable Food Project. San Diego County residents are invited to celebrate our region's abundance. Roots is a non-profit organization of volunteers eagerly and excitedly seeking a more connected and honest food system in San Diego (to find out more go to www.sandiegoroots.org ).
Volunteers will teach urban homesteading through make plus take workshops, such as how to make sauerkraut, cheese, ginger ale, and hot sauce. There will be a round-the-table talk, featuring the input of local business owners, local-food lovers, poverty advocates, and the public, regarding San Diego food and farm system. There will also be a food lounge, art reading room, art projects, art installations featuring issues about food and water, a raffle of prizes and local craft beer. Starting at 7:30pm three local San Diego bands will play live original music.
Admission is $10, or less if you bring organic vegetable plants or nonperishables for the donation station, to be donated to Victory Gardens SD and SD Food Bank. Pre-sale tickets can be purchased for $7 at The Linkery, 3794 30th St. 92104, North Park's restaurant-hero of local food, and City Farmers Nursery, 4832 Home Ave. 92105, the homegrown and delightful urban farm and organic garden center. Growing Places starts at 3pm on the fourth floor of Front Place located at 1446 Front Street in San Diego, 92101. Everyone is invited!
Interfaith Summer Nights in Poway
The Poway Interfaith Team is hosting its Fourth Annual “Interfaith Summer Nights” in August on Thursday evenings from 6:45-8:45pm.
Have you ever wondered what other religions are really about? Come and hear Spiritual Leaders from 14 different faith traditions (New Thoughts, Sufi, Zoroastrian, Jain, Islam, Mormon, Unitarian Universalist, Hindu, Sikh, Baha'i, Buddhist, Judaism, Catholic and Native American) share their faith's perspective and offer you samples of their culture's food.
The topics include these questions: How do you practice your faith in the secular world? What, if anything, does your faith tradition and/or scriptures say about the role of women? What is the relationship between culture and faith?
All events will be held in the Fellowship Hall of Community Church in Poway, 13501 Community Road. A Love-Donation box will be available. For more information call 858-487-8885.
Finding Freedom in Forgiveness 8/2
Rev. Donna Michael is a Certified Radical Forgiveness Ceremony facilitator. Certified by the Institute for Radical Forgiveness Therapy & Coaching, Rev. Donna will be presenting her workshop on Sun, Aug 2 at the Center for Spiritual Living in Bonita.
Donna Michael is a nationally known speaker, teacher, composer/songwriter, vocalist, recording artist, licensed Science of Mind minister and practitioner and a Certified Radical Forgiveness Coach who unites music and healing arts.
Rev. Donna says, “Forgiving is not forgetting – but we often forget that long-held grudges, grief, hurt and heartbreak can be roadblocks to happiness, prosperity and peace of mind.” Let go of the past and experience the freedom of forgiveness.
The workshop will be held on Sun, Aug 2 from 12pm-2:15pm at The Center for Spiritual Living located at 5120 Robinwood Road in Bonita 91902. The cost is $25 per person. For more information call 619-475-1012.
Eco-friendly Sustainability Fair 8/6 & 9
Learn how to live a greener, more eco-friendly lifestyle at the 2nd annual Sustainability Fair, a free, two-day event set for Thurs, Aug. 6, and Sun, Aug. 9, at the California Center for Sustainable Energy located at 8690 Balboa Avenue in Kearny Mesa.
On Thurs, Aug. 6, the Sustainability Fair will be geared toward small businesses, nonprofit organizations and commercial companies that want to know more about renewable technologies, ways to save on energy costs and how to integrate green products, services and practices into the workplace.
On Sun, Aug. 9, the Sustainability Fair is targeted to residents, who want to learn about reducing their carbon footprint, lowering energy costs and curbing waste and water consumption. Exhibits and displays will focus on sustainability in the areas of energy efficiency, renewable energy, green building, transportation and climate change.
The expo area will be open from 10am to 5pm on both days and will feature a series of free, public workshops on topics including the green employment marketplace, green job opportunities, energy-efficiency rebates, water conservation and building sustainable communities. The public is invited to check out the displays of living green roofs and other sustainable home concepts.
For more information about the Sustainability Fair, contact CCSE at 858-244-1174 or go to www.sustainablecalifornia.org
Larisa & Shakti Tribe Concert 8/8
Larisa Stow wants you to open your heart. She wants you to dig deep and feel the love that exists within and all around you. And then she wants you to join her in singing the names of divine love and spirit.
Larisa Stow emerged onto the pop-rock music scene in the late nineties, her engaging style of mixing spiritually inspired lyrics with catchy melodies and pop grooves quickly earned her the Los Angeles Music Award's “Singer/Songwriter of the Year”. At that time Larisa was teaching yoga, filling her classes with the songs of Krishna Das and Bhagavan Das. Larisa then became an apprentice to mantra expert Thomas Ashley-Farrand (“Healing Mantras”) that led her to begin exploring her own authentic voice with kirtan (devotional call-and-response music) and chant music. She found that through singing the names of God a new passion to express herself through music appeared. Larisa soon reconnected musically with several of her band members from the pop-rock days along with a few new souls and her “band family,” as she calls them, was born. They create and perform music now as Larisa Stow & Shakti Tribe. Larisa and the band's live performance is a dynamic blend of East meets West. They mix the spiritual and sacred with a pop sensibility, sensuality and rock groove like no other.
On Sat, Aug 8, Larisa & Shakti Tribe will be at Seaside Church for a special concert produced and hosted by InnerNet Events. They will be co-billing the night with the all-star world beat Hani Naser Band whose band mates include Craig Eastman who performs with Steve Martin & Sheryl Crow, Marc Mann from ELO and tours with Eric Clapton, Walfredo Reyes Jr. who tours with Steve Windwood and has played with Santana and Hani Naser himself who tours with the legendary Jackson Browne and David Lindley. There will be an hour of Divine Dining from 6:30-7:30pm, and the concert begins at 7:30pm. Tickets are available at Soulscape Books & Gifts or by ordering online at www.InnernetEvents.com . Proceeds from the night will benefit the Shakti Tribe Foundation, a non-profit formed by the band to help support their peace program work in jails, prisons and juvenile facilities. The Shakti Tribe Foundation is a program of International Humanities Center.
Susan Schenck, LAc, is the author of the two-time awarding winning book, The Live Food Factor, The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, & Spirit (with Victoria BidWell). Susan is offering an exciting workshop on the raw food diet on Sun, Aug 9 at Beauty Kliniek from 12-4pm. The cost is $50 each preregistered at least 1 day in advance or $60 at the door. The workshop includes a lecture, questions & answers, food preparation demo, and lunch. Menu & food demo will include appetizer, soup, main dish, beverage and dessert.
Beauty Kliniek is located at 3268 Governor Drive in San Diego, 92122. To register for the class, call (858) 457-0191 or email info@beautykliniek.com and put Raw Food Workshop in the subject heading. Also, there will be drawing for Susan' s Book The Live Food Factor and a drawing for a free consultation for our “21 Day Purification Program”.
Blue Whale & Dolphin Boat Trips
Come see the Dolphins and migrating Whales up close & personal. Animal Communicator Laurie “Reyon” Anderson will translate their messages of healing, wisdom and self-empowerment for you as we view the cetaceans from a catamaran. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to talk to a whale or dolphin and what personal message they would have for you?
This is the time of the year the Blue Whales visit southern CA. On our last trip out we saw seven Blue Whales and hundreds of dolphins. The blue whales are the largest creatures on the planet and will be in our waters until early Sept.
The boat trips are out of Dana Point Harbor and begin with a group meditation on the grass. Recent group messages are given to everyone and together we set our intentions to connect with the whales & dolphins, and to receive their communications and their healing energies. After the boat trip we gather again on the grass for sharing and a circle prayer.
Aug trips include Wed, Aug 12. The meditation begins at 12:30pm and the Boat leaves at 1:30pm. Sat, Aug 22 the meditation begins at 12pm and the Boat leaves at 1pm
The cost is $95 per adult and $65 for children 2-12 years old. Babies are free. For reservations or more info call Reyon at 619-271-9461 or email puddysplace@yahoo.com.
Debbie Ford's Shadow Effect Movie & Personal Appearances in SD
A new documentary movie The Shadow Effect from Debbie Ford will be shown on Fri, Aug 14 at 7pm at Seaside Center for Spiritual Living, Fri, Aug 28 at 7 pm at The Celebration Center and on Wed, Sept 2 at 7pm at The Unity Center. Author Debbie Ford will make an appearance at the film's showing on Aug 14 at Seaside and also on Sept 2 at the Unity Center.
With appearances in the movie from some of the most brilliant and evolutionary thinkers of the 21st century, including Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Mark Victor Hansen, James Van Praagh, and others, this world-class cinematic experience traces the stories of individuals who have met with some of life's harshest experiences but learned how to face their terror, heal their wounds and meet their higher, heroic selves in the process.
Prepare yourself for a chilling inquiry into the conflicting forces of darkness and light that compete for attention within every human being. Debbie Ford, #1 New York Times bestselling author and internationally acclaimed expert on the Shadow, presents a visually stunning and cutting-edge documentary that will inspire you to uncover the wisdom in your wounds, the blessings in your misfortunes, and the gifts that are waiting to be claimed where you may least expect them…in the dark.
The Shadow Effect and Debbie Ford will be at Seaside Center for Spiritual Living on Fri, Aug 14 at Seaside Center for Spiritual Living located at 1613 Lake Drive in Encinitas. Tickets are $20 per person and are available online at www.SeasideCenter.org . Click on events and go to purchase tickets.
The Shadow Effect will be shown on Fri, Aug 28 at The Celebration Center located at 5820 Oberlin Drive #108 in San Diego 92121. The cost for the movie is $10 per person. There will also be a workshop on Sun, Aug 30 at 1 pm with a facilitator trained by Debbie Ford. The cost for the workshop is $25 per person. You can pre pay for the movie and the workshop for $30. For more information call 858-320-0090 or e-mail admin@thecelebrationcenter.org .
The Shadow Effect and Debbie Ford will be at The Unity Center on Wed, Sept 2. The Unity Center located at 8999 Activity Rd in San Diego, 92126. Tickets are $15 at the door or register at www.theunitycenter.net .
Water: Film Featuring Dr Emoto 8/27
A screening of the powerful and empowering film documentary “Water” will be held at The Unity Center at 7pm. The film features Dr. Masaru Emoto, author of The Hidden Messages in Water , as well as other scientists from around the world.
The filmmaker wanted to know why Holy Water was special; it's history and what could be measured scientifically. The film shows what is being done currently scientifically and also provides a background of stories and legends on the power of water going back hundreds and thousands of years. Learn why water is so powerful and important to us and how to most effectively use what we often take for granted.
Tickets are $10 and are available at www.unitycenter.org or at the door. The Unity Center is located at 8999 Activity Rd in San Diego, 92126.
BACK TO TOPCraniosacral Certification Training
LifeShapes Programs is beginning a Biodynamic Craniosacral Certification training Sept 22 in Temecula. Intro classes are held throughout the year but the full training begins only once every two years. Interested students must attend the Aug 19-22 Intro class on Restoring Resilience in the Nervous System.
Craniosacral focuses on intrinsic health and its restorative qualities. The practitioner learns a therapeutic approach that supports the natural healing rhythms and impulses in the body. LifeShapes offers continuing education for NCBTMB, Nursing and Acupuncture. Certification is through the Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Asso. of North America.
For more information contact Mary Louise Muller at 951-677-0652 or email her at lifeshape@aol.com . The website is www.lifeshapes.org .
BACK TO TOPMingtong Gu's Coming Workshops
Master Mingtong Gu is an internationally recognized teacher and healer who has taught Qigong to thousands in the USA, China and Europe. He is the founder of the Wisdom Healing Foundation and Chi Healing Center. The practice of Qigong offers the student an opportunity to heal disease and prevent illnesses, transform their emotions, and enhances other mind-body-spiritual practices.
Master Mingtong is offering his “Healer Within Workshop” Sat, Aug 29-Sun, Aug 30 at the University of California in San Diego from 10am-5pm. The cost is $150 per person or $120 if preregistered by Aug 5. Mingtong is also offering a Group Healing Session on Sat, Aug 29 from 7-9pm for $20 per person.
A special advanced workshop, The Five Elements and Emotional Healing will be held Sept 5-6, Sat&Sun., from 10am-5pm at the Hidden Valley Zen Center at 2626 Starver Lane in San Marcos. The cost is $225 per person. Register online at www.chicenter.com or call 619-757-7387.
BACK TO TOPMusical Concert in Carlsbad 8/29
There will be a concert on Sat, Aug 29 at 7:30 pm at the Carlsbad Senior Center featuring Shimshai and guest artist Donna Delory.
Featured artist Shimshai, sings many ancient Sanskrit mantras of India, the traditional folklore songs of South America, and also performs his original works of divine inspiration. Shimshai's music invokes a sentiment of ancestral devotion and a dedication to higher consciousness. A self-proclaimed seeker of truth, described by many as possessing the voice of an angel, Shimshai is gifted with the innate ability to deliver his message flawlessly in several languages. Shimshai was formally trained on piano and also performs effortlessly on guitar, sitar, flute, and a variety of woodwinds.
He continues to offer his talents to various studio projects, including current collaborations with traditional healers and several undertakings with indigenous communities throughout south and Latin America. Shimshai has traveled and performed throughout the Hawaiian Islands, Europe, Australia, Mexico and the Americas, offering his unique blend of reggae, jazz, kirtan, and folk, infused with a world beat influence.
Along the way, Shimshai has had the honor of opening for and sharing the stage with such luminaries as Michael Franti, David Grisman, Mickey Hart, Jai Uttal, Ram Dass, Deepak Chopra, Bhagavan Das, Dezarie & members of midnite, jah levi, Hamsa, Lila and Sasha Butterfly.
Guest artist Donna DeLory is a singer, songwriter, producer and musician. Her music is a seamless blend of east and west, a beautiful hybrid of English lyrics and devotional Sanskrit mantras set to modern melodies. A longtime accompanying vocalist for Madonna, Donna DeLory has also recorded with legendary artists including Santana, Julio Iglesias and Jewel. In concert, Donna delivers a seamless blend of Mantra and English devotional songs. Her music is a meditative blend of Sanskrit chanting and devotional pop.
The Musical Angels of Summer Concert will be held at the Carlsbad Senior Center located at 799 Pine Ave. in Carlsbad, 92008. Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door. Call 760-580-2522 for tickets and more information. Vegetarian food will be provided by Oasis.
Animal communicator Reyon and animal teacher Puddah, are offering an Animal Communication class on Sun, Aug 16 from 2-5pm at the Philosophical Library, located at 2091 E Valley Pkwy in Escondido, 92027. Everyone is asked to bring a photo to class with a clear view of the animals face and eyes. The cost is $44 per person and space is limited. Register by calling 619-271-9461 or go to puddysplace@yahoo.com .
Thank God for Evolution A 4-week workshop starts Mon, Aug 10 at 6:30pm with Rev. Patti Paris at the Vision Center for Spiritual Living. Vision is located at 11260 Clairemont Mesa Blvd. For further information see calendar section or call 619-303-6609 or visit www.visioncsl.com .
“Ask Theo” Event with Sheila and Marcus Gillette will be on Sun, Aug 16 from 1-5pm at the Center for Spiritual Living, 32261 Camino Capistrano, Ste. D-105 in San Juan Capistrano, 92675. Tickets are $50 in advance or $65 at the door. Visit www.asktheo.com or call 720-344-2932.
Free Kundalini Yoga Class & Gong Bath on Sun, Aug 23 from 1-3pm at Stillpoint Body Lounge located at 965 2 nd St. in Encinitas, 92024. Call 951-696-9063 ext 105 to RSVP or visit www.yogamurrieta.com.
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