Gaia Festival & Retreat, Community News

Save the Date Please mark May 16-18, 2008 on your calendars for next year's Gaia Festival & Retreat. May 16th - Evening Music & Dance Performances (TBD) May 17-18th - Retreat & Festival Temescal Gateway Park, Pacific Palisades, CA Registration begins January 2008 I have approached a few people to act as main presenters for Gaia Festival 2008 and am waiting to hear back. I will send out another email to announce the exciting news. I expect to hear back by August. Gaia Festival West Coast is now accepting proposals for community-based workshops until August 20, 2007. We are offering the Workshop Presenter Pass as a "Work Exchange" for full attendance to the festival for $110. If your workshop is chosen, you will be required to exchange up to 2 hours of time (teaching or otherwise presenting) for the Workshop Presenter Pass. The rest of the weekend is yours to do with as you please. You must also provide your own materials for attendee use at your workshop. If you have a workshop idea, please send me: Name of workshop Additional costs that will be paid by attendees (materials fee, etc) Brief description (100 words or less if possible) Your brief bio and any links if you have them A digital photo (attached to this email) Also, we're looking for healers- to work for a Healers Pass. Its the same idea as the Presenters Pass, volunteering 2 hours of their time giving mini-healing sessions in the Healers Area. The price of the healer's pass is $110. This year we will be assembling board members from the Gaia Festival community to vote on which workshops will be included in 2008's festival and to assist with planning. There is also a tentative plan to include a concert and performance the evening of May 16th. If you are interested in performing please send a tape or video of yourself and a description of your performance. Gaia Festival Community Calendar July 2007 07/11/07 Frame Drum Workshop with Miranda Rondeau 8:pm-9:30pm $20 for women & men Learn to play on of the oldest instruments in the world. It was used for  rites of passage, celebration, creating sacred space and communal bonding. Prema Darshan Yoga (home studio) Termino Ave/2nd St Long Beach,CA 90803 contact: mirandasmuse@yahoo.com http:myspace.com/mirandarondeau (562)925-0457 07/13/07 Divine Union of Body and Soul with Aparecida & Christo Pellani Live Music and Ecstatic Dance Celebration 9 pm $15 at door Get lucky on Friday the 13 Dance with your Beloved partner within to the amazing soundscapes of Christo Pellani Sacred Belly Dance performance and guided movement meditation by Aparecida Come ready to dance, sweat, pray, and feel the sensuous union of your own divine body and soul Earth and Sky Lodge 5521 S. Grosvenor Blvd. LA, CA 90066 Aparecida bodyprayer@gmail.com www.bodyprayer.blogspot.com 323-868-7491 Christo christodrums@soundformation.com www.soundformation.com 310-578-5174 7/21/07 Karen Tate Presents A Lecture and Slide Presentation Pagan Paris & Sacred Feminine at the Louvre Museum Magdalene Cultural Center - No. Hollywood A Mid-Summer's Magickal Eve A night of soaring, transcendent music, song, storytelling in a magical garden setting. Vendors, artist displays, healing body work, tarot, food and other magical offerings. 6:30-10:00 pm $15 advance, $20 at door Advance tickets available throught www.TheRAY.org Heaven on Earth Foundation - Home Campus 13907 Chandler Drive (at Ranchito Drive) Sherman Oaks Spiritwind Productions is a collaborative production co-op Mary Ellen Edwards, LCSW and The RAY (818) 726-8609,   Windjam989@aol.com, www.TheRAY.org http://www.maryellenedwards.com/ 7/22/07 Isis Birthday Salon and Feast - organized by Karen Tate Marakesh Restaurant Studio City, CA http://www.marrakeshrestaurant.com/client/marrakesh/homepage.htm Here is the menu - Look at the Fassi Dinner http://www.marrakeshrestaurant.com/client/marrakesh/studiocity-menu.htm $35 will cover the cost of gratuity and the meal, except for drinks that are not included with the meal. Please pre-pay for the birthday by 7/15. Make the check payable to, Karen Tate, and mail it to: Karen Tate 2554 Lincoln Boulevard Box 678 Venice, CA 90291 310/450-6661 August 2007 8/18/07 Resonant Voice of the Frame Drum Performance Presentation & Introductory Workshop with Miranda Rondeau & guests 3pm-5pm $20($15 early registration by 8/14) REMO Recreational Music Center 7308 Coldwater Canyon Blvd North Hollywood,Ca. 91605 818/982-0461 The frame drum is one of the oldest instruments in the world. It was used for rites of passage, celebration, creating sacred space and communal bonding. For more Info. contact mirandasmuse@yahoo.com 562/925-0454 8/31/07-9/3/07 Stephanie Hamberger of Gaia Festival and Soul Pilgrim presents, The Enchanted Mountain Goddess Conference Website- www.enchantedgoddesscon.com Camp Allegany, Town of Red House, NY Community-built workshops & ritual amongst the Enchanted Mountains of Allegany State Park. $75 per person- includes 3 nights dormitory-style lodging and breakfast each morning, tea & snacks Workshops include: Huichol Shamanic Journey & Fire Ceremony of Release with HPS Donata Ahern M.S.W., C.H.T. Sunset Yoga & Storytelling at Thunder Rocks Connecting to the Rythm of the Goddess, a Drumming Workshop with Rev. Rebekah Benner Shamanic Healing Waterfall Journey with HPS Donata Ahern, M.S.W., C.H.T. Herb Walk, Wildcrafting and Making a Walking Amulet TO REGISTER: http://soulpilgrim.wufoo.com/forms/enchanted-mountain-conference-registration/ September 2007 09/09/07-10/14/07 Work Study at Esalen Institute Maria Lucia Bittencourt Sauer & Aparecida Sauer A month with sisters Maria Lucia & Aparecida Sauer is for those who would like to release the burdens of the past and open up to more joy, compassion, and love in their lives. The program includes: ecstatic dance for grounding, centering, releasing, opening psychic abilities for healing, and the embodiment of our own divinity; rituals to focus on and manifest our deepest desires; and touch with the loving energy that can heal and uplift. The program offers Spiritual Massage, Brazilian shamanic practices, the ancient art of belly dance, teachings on the Divine Feminine, sacred art, and ecstatic poetry. contact: Aparecida bodyprayer@gmail.com www.bodyprayer.blogspot.com 323-868-7491 9/24/07-10/19/07 West African Roots Presents: Dance, Drum & Yoga Retreat Join us in beautiful, sunny Senegal to experience a holistic, culturally rich and spiritually enlightening workshop. Participate in shamanic drum, dance, yoga & ritual with Senegal's elite instructors, directed by Master Drummer, Dancer & Yogi Ken Doumbia and Naomi Doumbia, Ph.D. African Drum & Dance classes teach jembé, jun-jun and sabar styles. Bihar Yoga classes include pranayamas & asanas with live African drumming. African shamanic healing & divination workshops. Cultural Activities and Festivities, including story telling, rituals, guest artists and visits to artists' families' home fill the evenings and weekends of the workshop. Workshop space is located on beachfront property just outside of Dakar, with double-occupancy rooms. Three meals a day are provided. The total cost for drum, dance and yoga classes, room, board and ground transportation for four weeks is $3,000. Airfare is separate. Group discounts are available. For More Information: africanyogi@hotmail.com December 2007 12/02/07-12/07/07 Spiritual Massage: Lightbody Infusion at Esalen Institute Maria Lucia Bittencourt Sauer & Aparecida Sauer Spiritual Massage is a hands-on healing practice that works directly on the energy body, balancing the chakras, cleansing old thought forms, and gently facilitating release of emotional, physical, and spiritual blockages, allowing for infusion by the Lightbody. Maria Lucia and Aparecida come from a Brazilian family with a multigenerational tradition in shamanic ways and mediumship. In 1979 Maria Lucia came to Esalen and was sponsored by Esalen cofounder Dick Price while she learned Spiritual Massage from Brazilian healer Luiz Gasparetto. This work is accessible to anyone—nurses, bodyworkers, businessmen, therapists, and all those interested in working with energy and people's bodies. contact: Aparecida bodyprayer@gmail.com www.bodyprayer.blogspot.com 323-868-7491 General Announcements Stephanie Hamberger of Gaia Festival & Soul Pilgrim is organizing a sacred pilgrimage to Glastonbury, Cornwall and Dartmoor, England in September 2008. See the Soul Pilgrim website for details: www.soul-pilgrim.com. Karen Tate is organizing a sacred pilgrimage to Paris in May 2008 and another to Turkey in October 2008.  For more information, contact Karen Tate at karentate108@ca.rr.com Reginah E. Perlmutter LCSW, ACSW is a psychotherapist, healer, feng shui master, psychic, hypnotherapist, sacred dance teacher, as well as an animal communicator. Please  go to www.lightonlove.com/healing/ for more information. Reginah provides sage and flower remedies from a sacred mountain in Mexico available for purchase through the mail. Please see above website for more details. Reginah also provides services as an Animal Communicator/Healer available to do house/pet sitting. Excellent references. Will give your pet soo much love. Reginah E. Perlmutter LCSW - (818) 609-0532