Mindfulness in a Modern World

Mindfulness in a Modern World on May 12, 2016 in San Francisco, CA : Once seen as fringe practices in the western world, yoga, meditation and mindfulness can now be found in our schools, health care system, prison refor m institutions and elsewhere,. Mindfulness has gone mainstream. A practitioner of Buddhist teachings for over fifty years, Jack Kornfield is the co-founder of Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California and the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts. In addition to creating cornerstones for Buddhist practice in the western world, Kornfield has taught in centers and Universities worldwide and led International Buddhist Council meetings with the Dalai Lama He holds a PhD in clinical psychology and is the best-selling author of numerous books on meditation. Jack Kornfield will be in conversation with Kelly McGonigal, a health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University. Her work demonstrates the various applications of psychology, neuroscience, and medicine to personal health and happiness, as well as organizational success and social change.
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Jack Kornfield In Conversation with Kelly McGonigalWHEN:Thursday May 12th 7:30 PM - 9:30 PMWHERE:Nourse Theater
275 Hayes St
San Francisco, CA 94102COST:$25-$50YouTubeBuy Tickets Now

Once seen as fringe practices in the western world, yoga, meditation and mindfulness can now be found in our schools, health care system, prison reform institutions and elsewhere,. Mindfulness has gone mainstream. A practitioner of Buddhist teachings for over fifty years, Jack Kornfield is the co-founder of Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California and the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts. In addition to creating cornerstones for Buddhist practice in the western world, Kornfield has taught in centers and Universities worldwide and led International Buddhist Council meetings with the Dalai Lama He holds a PhD in clinical psychology and is the best-selling author of ...read more

Love Made Simple: Couples Workshop

Love Made Simple: Couples Workshop on June 11, 2016 in Tiburon, CA : Rediscover your love with the secrets to more passion, intimacy, and playfulness!
Everyone knows it, but no one's saying it: relationships are hard wo rk. That means you're not alone. And it's not your fault. Relationships take maintenance, and no one's given you the manual. Until now.
Love Made Simple: for Premarital or Long-Term Couples
You won't want to miss this essential couples weekend, where Gal and Liron will lovingly teach you and your partner skills to build (and maintain) a love that lasts. Whether you've been together for a few months or a few years, you'll get specialized, concrete tools that address your unique needs.
Here's the good news: with the right skills and tools, you can have a relationship filled with passion, intimacy, spontaneity, and support. It's absolutely possible for you to build a love that lasts—and we're here to help!
In Love Made Simple you'll receive a map for creating a successful relationship, especially how to bring passion, intimacy, and ease to your love life. This is a hands-on workshop in which you'll do practical exercises with your partner that are both fun and educational. Our approach is unique in that it brings the latest tools and methods in an experiential, enlivening, and engaging way.The workshop has two tracks - for couples who have been together for a while and for premarital couples.
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Hands-on workshop for long-term and premarital couples.WHEN:Saturday June 11th - Sunday June 12th WHERE:Lodge at Tiburon
1651 Tiburon Blvd
Tiburon, CA 94920COST:$597FacebookBuy Tickets NowEvent Website

Rediscover your love with the secrets to more passion, intimacy, and playfulness!

Everyone knows it, but no one's saying it: relationships are hard work. That means you're not alone. And ...read more

Heartfulness Meditation Conference

Heartfulness Meditation Conference on June 4, 2016 in Los Angeles, CA : Los Angeles has heart. Tap into it with the biggest meditation practice you've never heard of. Over a million people have discovered Heartfulness, a s imple meditation practice that enables you to consciously rest your mind. The Heartfulness Conference series, in Los Angeles on June 12th, promises to be one of the most engaging events of the year for both experienced meditators and anyone wanting to overcome the stress of everyday life. Heartfulness is a meditation technology for the 21st century.
Discover Heartfulness at USC's Bovard Auditorium on June 12. Participants will hear from Keynote speaker, Gopi Kallayil--Google's Chief Evangelist for Brand Marketing and one of the leading voices encouraging yoga and mindfulness in the workplace today. Inspirational speaker and comedian Kyle Cease of "Evolving Out Loud," will speak on how to release negative conditioned patterns by tapping into natural creativity and harnessing the possibilities that come along with it.
The highlight of the event will be a talk with Kamlesh D. Patel, the primary teacher of Heartfulness meditation, visiting from India. Kamlesh, a 40-year practitioner of Heartfulness meditation, is passionate about communicating his ideas on the science of meditation, evolution of consciousness and using the heart as a guide in everyday life. He will be interviewed by national interfaith leader Dr. Varun Soni, Dean of Religious Life at USC. Kamlesh will then guide participants in a Heartfulness meditation session to close out the day.
Who: Gopi Kallayil, Kyle Cease, Kamlesh D. Patel, Dr. Varun Soni
What: The Heartfulness Meditation Conference will teach you how to rest your mind with a leading edge practice of meditation. This free event hosted at USC will empower you with simple tools to successfully manage the stress of our fast paced world.
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24 Annual Summer Nights Festival

24 Annual Summer Nights Festival on July 9, 2016 in San Rafael, CA : The Kanbar Center at the Osher Marin JCC
Announces the 24th Annual Summer Nights Outdoor Music Festival featuring
5 Saturday Nights of Multi-Cultural Live Music
Kid Zone, Dinners, Dance, Picnic, Cocktails & Fun
Saturday July 9 – August 6, 2016, 7:00PM
The first of 5 Summer Saturday nights of live music, dinners, cocktails, picnics, dancing, a Kid Zone, and more will begin on Saturday July 9th and continue for a total of 5 consecutive Saturdays great live music, under beautiful Marin Skies in an intimate and beautiful setting.
7/9~ African Music Night: Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars
After a 10 year adventure that has taken them from the squalor of refugee camps to the world's biggest stages, Africa's most recognized and inspirational band kicks off our 24th Annual Summer Nights season. With fans across the globe, SLRAS' music embodies and radiates joy, passion and love for their fellow man, and is a living testament to the resilience of the human spirit.
Pre-concert African Dance Class * Dinners avail on-site from Big Jim's BBQ
Kid Zone Hosted by Marin JCC Summer Camps
7/16~Gypsy Rock: Diego's Umbrella || Marin Youth in Arts Teen A Capella Group ‘Til Dawn opens
Fresh off of BottleRock, SF's celebrated Ambassadors of Gypsy Rock bring their unique blend of eastern European gypsy, flamenco, ska, Balkan and rock laced with a pop sensibility. A refreshing formula in today's music world, Diego's Umbrella's unique, high-energy live show is a visual and aural experience you will not forget. * Dinners avail on-site from The Plant Café Organic
Kid Zone Hosted by 10,000 Degrees
7/23~ California JamGrass: Tea Leaf Green || Beatbox bicyclist, Cello Joe opens
This San Francisco indie-rock band has an amazing, intricate, and dynamic sound that ranges from modern rock, to classic rock, ...read more

Dying to Know:Ram Dass & Tim Leary

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Dying to Know:Ram Dass & Tim Leary on June 17, 2016 in Los Angeles, CA : Whether you are a former 60s radical, a 25-year-old with a curiosity about the origins of the consciousness movement or someone wanting to explore the veil of mortality, the Los Angeles preview of the extraordinary award-winning new documentary film DYING TO KNOW: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary will entertain and fascinate you.
This intriguing dialogue/reunion between the two counterculture giants, narrated by Robert Redford, brings to the fore just how influential they both were in their prime and how they stayed vital to our inner explorations to the last days of Leary's life and the critical period before Ram Dass suffered a life-altering stroke.
DYING TO KNOW: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary captures them in intimate and entertaining conversation about a lifetime of friendship, work, death and the psychedelic explorations that began it all. It would be their last time ever filmed together. Now in release after 20 years in the making, the feature documentary incorporates 80 years of rare footage and never before seen interviews of Leary and Ram Dass.
Producer/director Gay Dillingham will be on hand to relate how she convinced the two--who changed our lives and shaped a generation--to unite to rekindle their bromance before the cameras, reminisce about the past and explore the last frontier of temporal life. Hosted events throughout the week will feature the entire team of filmmakers and other luminaries. Many of those guests will contribute to dialogues on death, dying and consciousness.
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Film Eavesdrops on the last chat of Ram Dass & Timothy LearyWHEN:Friday June 17th - Thursday June 23rd WHERE:Laemmle Royal
11523 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90025COST:standard movie pricingFacebookYouTubeBuy Tickets Now

Ragazzi Boys Chorus Send-Off Show

Ragazzi Boys Chorus Send-Off Show on June 12, 2016 in Redwood City, CA : Ragazzi Boys Chorus concludes its season with a special send-off concert before embarking on a summer of recording a CD and a tour. Highlights of the concert will include songs the chorus will record later this summer mixing pieces from African and Arabic traditions with classics of Western repertoire. The stirring choral piece Glory from the film “Selma” will also be performed. This gospel-choir inspired song, which captured a Grammy, Golden Globe, and Oscar, was written by rapper Common and singer John Legend. The one-night-only concert is the last chance to see the choral boys sing this season. For the summer, the younger members of the boys chorus will travel to New Orleans for the 17th Annual Crescent City Choral Festival, while the more experienced singers will record the choir's sixth album, “I Dream a World” at George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch in Marin.
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WHEN:Sunday June 12th 5:00 PMWHERE:Messiah Lutheran Church
1835 Valota Rd.,
Redwood City, CA 94061COST:$10-$32Buy Tickets NowEvent Website

Ragazzi Boys Chorus concludes its season with a special send-off concert before embarking on a summer of recording a CD and a tour. Highlights of the concert will include songs the chorus will record later this summer mixing pieces from African and Arabic traditions with classics of Western repertoire. The stirring choral piece Glory from the film “Selma” will also be performed. This gospel-choir inspired song, which captured a Grammy, Golden Globe, and Oscar, was written by rapper Common and singer John Legend. The one-night-only concert is the last chance to see the choral boys sing this season. For the summer, the younger members of the boys chorus will travel to New Orleans ...read more

Journey Within

Journey Within on May 20, 2016 in Highland Park, NJ : At Pure Light Gifts and Wellness Center, I will be offering a new group gathering
Journey Within
May 20 at 7:30 PM
Every third Friday of each month
Th rough meditation, dreams and in other ways, you gain insight and clarity into aspects of your life and yourself. The Journey Within is the next step to take what you have seen into active engagement.
As you journey, you are actively participating with the knowledge perceived in meditation, dreams, flashes of insight, that gut sense that gives you direction. As you journey, you see not only what has been in your way; you see what you already have to make those visions physically manifest.
With guidance as you journey, you find the path to go where you have always known is meant for you.
For those of you who have mesas, please bring your mesa with you. For those of you who do not have mesas, you can bring something of The Sacred with you.
DATE AND TIME:
Friday, May 20, 7:30 PM to 8:30/9:00 PM
LOCATION:
Pure Light Gifts and Wellness Center
233 Raritan Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904
732-762-1027
COST:
$10.00
For directions, please call Don Julio.
If you have questions about this group gathering, please give me a call at 732-533-7276 or send an e-mail to [email protected].
Fran Russo is a shaman/curandera working in the tradition of the Peruvian shamans. She is a Weaver of the Energetics, pampa misa in Quechua, one of the native languages of Peru. Perceiving the energetic body of a person or place, through its color, sound, feel, weight, texture and more, Fran is guided to the healing in whatever form best serves. In this way, the person or place is free to find and follow the natural flow of his or ...read more

The Sacred Teachings of Peru

The Sacred Teachings of Peru on May 14, 2016 in Highland Park, NJ : Don Julio Arboleda of Pure Light Gifts and Wellness Center has invited me to bring The Sacred Teachings of Peru to his shop.
Come join us
as we meet t hose who dwell in the Sacred Mountains and Jungles.
Saturday, May 14, May 21, June 4 and June 11
This series of four experiential classes of journey and meditative work are your introduction to the Sacred Teachings of Peru. Through sacred journeys, The Sacred Ones of Light guide you as you perceive the energetic grid, the Kaypacha and how all is woven together. The Teachings show you ways to engage everyday life through non-ordinary sacred ways, thus, merging the non-ordinary into the ordinary. It could be something as simple as a change of thought, a choice to engage Life in a different way, paying more attention to that gut ping that has no thought or even logical sense to it.
One of the many treasures of the Inca is their weavings. It is easily seen in their beautiful cloths. They are Weavers of The Energetics as well. The people in Peru know that to live simply is to live with Nature and Her flows. They know that, by perceiving the energetics, one can perceive what is going on beyond the story of life. In this way, better choices can be made. They know that The Energetic is the raw stuff of creation through which all is manifested. This is the core of the Sacred Teachings.
In this first experiential class, through journey and meditative work, you become aware of your energetic body. Knowing that is the sensor net that receives “intuitive pings”, you come to know how to “read” those pings so you can consciously choose how to ...read more

The Call of Peru

The Call of Peru on May 10, 2016 in , NJ : The Call of Peru
Fly as The Condor Flies
You ask, “Why Peru?”
There are many countries in the world that have ancient places of wisdom.
What makes Per u different than those countries?
Perhaps you will join us when we go to Peru in October and December.
Until then, you can join us in The Call of Peru.
Then, as these journeys via teleconference calls are given through
the embodiment of The Sacred in Peru, your questions can be answered.
Beginning on Tuesday, May 10, we're going to have a series of free conference calls every two weeks just for the sacred places of Peru.
Through an embodied flight, we will go to the sacred places of Peru so that you can feel the magic of Peru. When we go to Peru, magic does happen and it is magic that you bring back with you to use in everyday life.
Join us as we go to
High in the Andes, the Apu Kuña, where the air is clear and clean, the sky limitless
The Amazon, wild, primal, living pulsing vitality
The Sacred Valley, simple abundance
The Sacred Temples, ancient wisdom beyond time
It is to these sacred places and more where we will travel through embodied journeys.
The Call of Peru calls are done through a free conference call and will be held every two weeks on Tuesday evenings at 7:30PM EST. The calls will be about an hour. Here is the call-in information:
The phone number and meeting ID# are:
Phone number: 605-562-0020
Meeting ID# 227 316 000
We ask that you don't put your phone on speaker because it causes echoes and that you are in a quiet place so that surrounding noises won't disturb you or the others who will be with us during the call.
Fran Russo is ...read more

SHASTA CLARITY BREATHWORK RETREATS

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SHASTA CLARITY BREATHWORK RETREATS on August 11, 2016 in Weed, CA : Mt. Shasta Clarity Breathwork Retreats!
with Ashanna Solaris & Dana DeLong
August 11 – 21, 2016
Level 1: Breath & Transformation: August 11 – 13, 2016
Level 2: Breathwork Intensive: August 14 -21, 2016
Retreat Options:
Join us for 3 days for our
Level I: Breath & Transformation Retreat for a profound and transformative experience.
Join us for 7 days for the
Level 2: Breathwork Intensive
(if you have already completed Level 1 & are ready to go much deeper.)
Level 1 & 2: Join us for the whole 10 days and experience life changing results!
Reviewer's Rates available (many of our graduates choose to review over and over again!)
These workshops offer a tremendous opportunity for empowerment through daily Clarity Breathwork™ sessions, inquiry processes, kirtan & sacred music, meditation, dance & creative movement, time in nature & the healing mineral springs, Native American Sweat Lodges, and immersion with a healing community in the amazing energy of Stewart Mineral Springs near sacred Mount Shasta.
The retreats are designed for both those wanting to deepen their personal healing and awakening process and those wanting to become Professional Clarity Breathwork™ Practitioners. Level 3 & 4: The Pracititoner's Intensive complete the training component to become a Clarity Breathworker.
Level 1: Breath & Transformation: Experience the awesome power of your breath to liberate your true potential. Using Dance, Movement, Sacred Music and mantra, meditation and Breathwork we will unravel core limiting beliefs, emotional patterns and blocks in the body from birth, childhood and beyond. Learn the basics of pre- and perinatal psychology. The breath supports the experience of deep presence allowing tremendous shifts in consciousness to occur.
Level 2: Clarity Breathwork™ Intensive: Truly life changing! This seven day program accelerates your transformation through exploring the art and science of Clarity Breathwork™, deepening your intuition, water sessions, ...read more