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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
The Politics of Spirituality
Some people think that these two concepts at best are unrelated and at worst are like Siamese twins in an unholy embrace that had best be separated before their collusion can do some serious damage.
I suggest that there is a very deep relationship between one’s spirituality which ideally upholds the Golden Rule, and how these rules manifest in the secular world.
I hear the term, “Good Christians” and I do know that they exist and make some fine efforts towards peace and helping the needy. That being said, when I saw Christian missionaries using the devastation in Haiti as an excuse to demand conversion for food and most recently in Uganda calling for the death and demise of gays, I think that Jesus himself would be inclined to come down and give these purveyors of hatred a solid thrashing. (read on…)
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Wise Woman Billie Luisi Potts Herbal Workshops
Herbal Healing in the Second Half of Our Lives
This herbal medicine workshop is focused on using healing plants over the long haul: for cardiovascular health, cancer prevention and treatment, coping with digestive system disorders, respiratory concerns, and maintaining musculo-skeletal system well-being.
Emphasis will be on the uses of non-disruptive, regionally accessible Florida herbs that can be grown, bartered, prepared, and utilized safely by newcomers to herbs and experienced plant-healing participants
Back to Basics in Herbal Healing
Weather permitting - a plant walk and/or preparations workshop demonstrating easy and effective ways to use what is in your back and front yard, garden and kitchen to strengthen and heal our bodies
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Ananga-manjari Bauer
Ananga-manjari has been practicing hatha and bhakti-yoga for 15 years under the instruction of her spiritual teacher Swami Krishnapada, who initiated her into the Vaisnava lineage as a priestess. She is a graduate of Cultural Anthropology, certified Integral Yoga Teacher, Doula & Childbirth Educator, Breastfeeding Counselor, Reiki master/teacher and Ayurvedic Thai Bodywork Practitioner. Her specialty is in teaching prenatal, postpartum and women’s yoga. She has created a style of yoga she calls Purnasya, meaning “Whole Being”. It incorporates aspects of Integral yoga, Vinyasa, Kundalini, Ecstatic movement and Belly dance. (read on…)
Omitowade Salewa Ajamu Teaching African Dance
Omitowade Salewa Ajamu is a lifetime priestess of Yemoja, raised in the Aftican ancestral spirutual tradition of the Yoruba. Along with the ordinary demands for drumming and chanting which are part of her priesthood Omito has especially developed her skill as an African dancer and fine arts painter, to further reveal the depth of her cultural heritage. Pieces by her are hanging in several institutions from South Florida to South Carolina. She has long given workshops in these arts all over the US and Jamaica. When not teaching or doing spiritual work, Omito spends time with her 12-year-old daughter Duni and 2 yr old daughter Dara who teach her refinements of dance guided by a spirit source beyond this world.
African Dance
Dancing us into awareness, Omito will illustrate in movement some of the differences between secular African dance and dances done specifically to honor each of three goddesses or “orisha” of the Yoruba tradition: Oya, Yemoja and Osun. She will then demostrate traditional movements and costumes and share with us the symbolic meaning involved in these steps, gestures and African outfits. At the end she will model and make available a few traditional dance head wraps (gele) and hip wraps (lapa) for those who might like to buy a set.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Omi Aladora Ajamu Priest of Yemonja
Omi Aladora Ajamu is a woman of great magic, music and power. She is a Yoruba Priest of Yemanja and founding mother of the African Connection an African Cultural performance group.
She and her family are part of the First Wave of Yoruba Priests that brought the Yoruba,[West African] Culture to the U.S. creating the Oyotungi African Village in Sheldon S.C.We are very fortunate that Omi and her family have resettled in Gainesville, Fl.
She worked in the early days with Martin Luther King as part of the Poor People’s March and was a lead in the Broadway production of Hair.
In addition she is a gifted Psychic and divines with the African Shells. She will be offering readings here at her booth.Omi is also part of the Blues Sisters as well as her own jazz band The Omi Aladora Ajamu Trio.
Workshop Goddesses of the Orisha
This workshop will introduce you to the magic and mystery of the Orisha, the Yoruba Goddesses… Yemanja, Oshun, Oya and others. Learn some of the chants and rituals of this ancient and very ALIVE culture.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
THE POWER OF THE PELVIS
The pelvic floor (also known as the pelvic diaphragm) supports the lower abdominal organs, controls elimination, is an important basis for personal power in Eastern philosophies, and is the source of sexual sensation. When it is weak, we are prone to uterine prolapse and leaky urine, and can not engage life with full vitality. We will learn exercises from the Feldenkrais Method of Movement Education which will increase sensation and strength. These exercises go beyond Kegels in their depth and ability to create change. Bring a pad to lie on the floor.
BONES FOR LIFE
This system is an offshoot of the Feldenkrais Method of Movement Education. We will practice movement explorations that support posture and alignment. This works not by following usual postural rules, but by sensory-motor experiences that make standing and walking more comfortable and alive. These processes stimulate the spine in a way that may decrease the chances of osteoporosis.
Both classes require floor (or ground, but floor preferred) space for everyone to lie down, and a quiet atmosphere. In Bones for Life, we will do exercises that require the hands or feet to touch the wall, so we also need wall space, indoors or on the porch.
Ann Harman is an osteopathic physician, Guild Certified Practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method of Movement Education, student teacher of Bones for Life, Certified Hypnotherapist, and Licensed Massage Therapist.
Creating Sacred Relationships With Animals
Flash Silvermoon’s Workshop for the Wise Woman’s Festival
Learn to communicate on a deep and healing level with your animal friends. Get helpful tips on care, feeding and many useful alternative remedies.
Be a better friend to your animal companions by first acknowledging that we are all enlightened beings. After that, all things are possible without it , you will never gain the depth of understanding and connection that you both desire.
Topics include:
• How do we communicate?
• How animals function as our first line of defense and how to really protect them
• Surviving the loss of a pet
• Reincarnation and your critters
• Exercise using photo of pets that are alive as well as those that have passed on
• How to facilitate the return of the spirit of a favorite pet from the past
• Care/feeding and alternative tips using homeopathy, flower essences, gem elixirs, herbs
• How to create a healing grid for you and your furry friends
Monday, March 1, 2010
Jasmine, Jazzy Jaz Flying Free with the Angels
How do you say goodbye to such a special friend who has traveled with you for some 18 years. Oh the miles that we have shared in and out of the body!
On so many occasions, Jasmine had gone missingUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUI I am leaving these letters here because I got up to feed my horse after the last sentence and came back to these letters no doubt from beyond, I swear !!
Jaz has had me worried sick on many occasions when she would disappear into her Ms Independent, my prerogative to wander thing and had by this time easily used up 9 lives.
Since my pup Happy came to live with us, Jaz has fallen under the spell of “Love on Legs”, Happy, as does everyone who meets my profoundly sweet dog. Somehow Happy’s love and new energy brought Jaz back into the fold of the Moonhaven family and even more shocking, into the house regularly.
Before this time, she might drop in for a meal on occasion and more often, I would have to feed her outdoors.
To my amazement and delight, Jasmine even started sleeping with me every night for the last 3-4 months which she never did since she was a baby, and at 18 she was no baby.
She and Happy would cuddle up together on the bed with and without me and even Star would lay nearby. (read on…)
Sunday, February 28, 2010
FOR THE FIRST TIME ANYWHERE WWFEST 7
Rebuilding Spiritual Confidence: The Dianic Tarot
w/ Billie Luisi Potts and Flash Silvermoon
Tarot Creators, Billie Luisi Potts and Flash Silvermoon discuss the herstory, evolution, and pathways of the women’s tarot revival including The Amazon Tarot I, II,[1980, 1984] and Flash’s Wise Woman’s tarot and others: their influence, impact, and usage in every day life.
THIS IS A RARE AND SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY
Billie Potts, nationally known women’s spirituality pioneer, artist, herbalist and educator, author of A New Women’s Tarot, editor/ coordinator/artist contributor to Amazon Tarot decks I, II, author of Small Scaled Goat-keeping, Witches Heal: Lesbian Herbal Self-Sufficiency, Uncounted Daughters: Jewish Women Healers in the West, Ergonomics: A Problem-solver’s Handbook, the forthcoming Simpler’s Joy, and Daughters of Agamede, and numerous articles on natural foods nutrition, herbal healing, and the intersections of the early women’s rights and anti-slavery movements. She has been facilitating herbal healing and tarot workshops across the US since 1976.
A studio potter and ceramic sculptor for 25 years, dairy goat farmer and organic grower for close to 40 years, she coordinated alternative healing facilities for major women’s music festivals, Michigan, NEWMR, East and West Coast Lesbian fests for fifteen years.
She holds a BA in history and classics, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Hunter College, NY and an MA in medieval history from Fordham University where she was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. She retired as the longest serving Executive Director of the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, NY, and turns 70 this spring.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
WISE WOMAN FESTIVAL FOUNDER FLASH SILVERMOON BIO
Flash Silvermoon is a Spiritual Renaissance Woman, the author and creator of The Wise Woman’s Tarot book and deck and the Wise Woman’s Festival.
Flash has been working with the Tarot as a Psychic, teacher, and author for some 40 years. Her metaphysical skills and interests are quite varied and she is equally at home reading an Astrological chart as delivering a Past Life Regression, Stone Healing, Flower Essence or Gem Elixir treatment, and of course communicating and treating the beloved animals. She teaches classes and seminars in all of these subjects as well.
Flash not only loves animals, but she is an Animal Communicator who lives in her Sanctuary, Moonhaven in Melrose, Fl with 4 cats. one Happy dog and the Appaloosa Mare Goddess, Chinamoon. (read on…)
Thursday, February 25, 2010
PRIESTESS CHERIE LYON BIO and WORKSHOP for WWFest 7
Cherie Lyon is an Alchemical High Priestess and Facilitator. She has a private practice as a Shamanic Reiki Master where she integrates body-centered techniques with vibrational healing, acupressure, and mindfulness. She also conducts monthly empowerment circles, rituals, and ceremonies.
Through her devotion to the survival of the ancient mystery knowledge, Cherie’s mission is to promote the education and support of a holistic mind, body, and spirit. Her soul intention as she honors the tribal practice and Shamanic art of healing is to help others align with nature and shift their personal vibration. As each person’s vibrational field shifts, Cherie believes, so does the vibration of the world.
Cherie is from Chicago and makes her home in the greater Atlanta, GA area. She is available to facilitate anywhere in the country. Cherie is certified to facilitate the Natural Rhythms™ and Practical Priest~ess™ programs. She also functions as assistant to the director of Natural Rhythms.
Connecting with our Ancestry Lineage for Clearing and Empowerment (read on…)
WISEWOMAN ROBIN G WHITE WKSHP AND BIO FOR THE FESTIVAL
I WROTE IT! Now What Do I Do?
Publishing strategies for published and self-published authors.
It is estimated that there are a staggering 190,000 books published in the US each year. There are hundreds of thousands more that are written and never make it to print. And then there is yours. You wrote it for hours each week, between arguing with your boss, feeding the kids and cajoling your overwhelmed partner, who by the way thinks it’s brilliant and Simon and Schuster is going to give you a mint just to publish it! So, you mail it off to an address you found on that crafty Internet tool called GOOGLE, and you wait, and wait, and wait. And finally the letter comes…
And then you woke up. That germ of a great story idea you had that is now a five hundred page novel sitting on your desk needs some help getting to the market, but you have no idea how to do it. Award-winning publisher and best-selling author, Robin G. White presents this workshop for writers of all ages who want to get the work out into the world. She will offer insight into publishing and promoting that next great novel and help writers to think outside of the industry box to become their own public relations champions. Her marketing strategies have succeeded in propeling authors to best-sellers lists on Amazon.com and Booksense as well as in independent book stores throughout the US and the UK.
Chicago Literary Award Winner and Georgia Author of the Year Award finalist, Robin G. White is the author of two poetry books, Resurrection: A Collection of Work, (Kings Crossing Publishing) and the forthcoming, Reflections on a Life Well Spent, (Sunset Pointe Press), First Breath, a collection of short stories due in April 2010, two series of childrens books, the award-winning play, PantyLiners and the Urban Media Makers award-winning screenplay, The Naptime Adventures of Princess Cynaya. She is the cofounder and co-owner of the Lambda Literary Award-winning company, Kings Crossing Publishing and the owner of Sunset Pointe Press and Fairy Godmommies Ink, which are both imprints of The Winnmark Publishing Group. She provides coaching, book development, marketing strategies and workshops for writers throughout the US. In addition, Robin is the founder of OneDayOneDollar.org which works with the arts community to provide microgrants to organizations and individuals working to end extreme poverty among children.
WHEN YOU HEAR HER POETRY FRI AND SAT NITES YOU WILL KNOW WHAT AN AWESOME PERFORMANCE ARTIST SHE IS TOO
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
ASTROFLASHES
LIBRA CHARACTERISTICS - If I must be in a box, then make it a pretty one. Libra characteristics depict us as loving beauty, peace,equality, and harmony however, did you know that more wars are fought for Libran issues of fairness and equality than any other?
Yeah we Librans have a great big FAIR BUTTON that won’t quit and its our blessing and curse. Some may call us codependent because we always seem to be in relationships or wanting them. Lady, save your labels because it is our nature to want to partner and be in love. we are just wired that way. For you this may feel obsessive, to us its the way it is. It is a true textbook Libra characteristic to be a bit of a people pleaser and those that revel in controversy will even call us fence sitters. Here’s the deal, we want to be loved or at least liked by as many as possible and we also like and need to keep the peace even if we are the ones who stir the pot from time to time.
If you don’t have a year or two, never ask us to make the decision because we just can’t do it quickly or sometimes at all. We need to look at all sides to, you guessed it, TO BE FAIR. Our ethics can be second to none. Sting, and TS Eliot are Librans.
[Just an aside, Flash is channeling this information and if it were coming purely from me, Ms Libra, I would not be quite so direct and crass. I am first and foremost, a lady and even if I am a dude, I am refined.”Yeah Yeah Dude looks like a lady!” (read on…)
ASTROFLASHES
ARIES PROFILE - ARIES profile! Take a good look, here I am, do ya like this Arian profile? I know, the nose isn’t quite as straight as it could be but see we rough and tumble Aries lead with our heads. Sometimes our own bodies are the scene of the crime as it were, and often enough its literally our heads that wear our badges of courage or impulsiveness.
It’s not so much that I am selfish but I do tend to get tunnel vision when I want something. Its not even that I mean to hurt you, but I just simply do not see you in my rush to the object of my affection or interest.
Hmmmm, not painting such a pretty picture here but you have got to know that I never lie, what you see is what you get and that’s the truth about the Aries personality.
If its passion that you want baby I am hot hot forget me not even Johny/Janey on the spot and I always like to leave you wanting more. (read on…)
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