Gaia Festival 2007 - Early Bird Registration Now Online

May 26-27, 2007.
Temescal Canyon Park, Pacific Palisades, CA.

Workshops | Art | Music | Film | Drum Circles | Yoga | Dance

Early Bird Registration now available online: http://www.gaiafestival.com/registration.html

Presenters/Workshop Facilitators include:

Karen Tate, Author of "Sacred Places of Goddess: 108 Destinations"
Miranda Rondeau, Frame Drummer/Singer/Songwriter
Joan Norton, Author of "The Mary Magdalene Within"
Many More to come!

The Gaia Festival was dreamt up out of a need for re-connection to nature and our bodies. We are taught to ignore our instincts, the wisdom of the body and rely on authorities outside of ourselves. This does not mean that we don't need wise mentors and guidance from time to time, but it does mean we listen to our inner, body based wisdom first and foremost.

The weekend will feature key presenters who help transform the perception that matter is just flesh, rocks, water, objects. Matter (which comes from the Latin mater meaning "mother") is energy, and has never been separate from mind or spirit. Each participant will have the opportunity to explore diverse healing modalities through workshops and group activities, such as the drum circle and yoga trance dance, to re-connect to their inner rhythms and the rhythms of nature.

Also Featured at the Gaia Festival:

Screening of "Signs Out of Time" - a film based on the life and work of Marija Gimbutas. Produced by Starhawk and Donna Read, and Narrated by Olympia Dukakis.

Community Bread Baking -- Create your own delicious Goddess-shaped breads to bring home!

Drum Circles -- feel free to bring your own drum

Art Work by Tyr Jung and Scott Michael Potter. Lydia Ruyle's Goddess banners will fly!

2007: The Mysterious New Year

Rarely am I ever skeptical on a new year -- it feels so good. A clean slate, starting fresh, newness...because I have so many projects that are flowing into this new year, it is more of a deepening of what I gathered and learned from 2006.

It doesn't feel at all like a clean slate.

Since I've never had this experience, I am not excited and not depressed and not indifferent. I am, I exist, I journey.

The circular movement is spiraling down into each area of my life that holds so much power and meaning for me. Something new will be born, but it may take a lot more time than I had anticipated. So much about last year was relinquishing control: first the trip to Brazil for two months, starting my dissertation, starting a new sacred travel business and starting a new job. A lot of starts, but in general things are ongoing, flowing at the pace that is being set by nature. As much as I sometimes want to push everything along, my inner voice is saying, "Slow down, stop."

I am breathing more deeply than ever before and meditating. Peace is within and without, along with the usual family chaos and messy room :-)

I am thankful for all of the lessons I have learned over the past year and welcome the new ones which will unfold gracefully and gradually.