
A 30 year retrospective SlideShow presentation at JadeNow Gallery. Featuring the paintings of Visionary artist Mariela de la Paz.
August 1st 7PM
downtown Santa Barbara
14 Parker Way

A 30 year retrospective SlideShow presentation at JadeNow Gallery. Featuring the paintings of Visionary artist Mariela de la Paz.
August 1st 7PM
downtown Santa Barbara
14 Parker Way









Kyle Hailey has been photographing the West Coast "techno-tribal" dance scene since 2003. "Capturing the inner experience, those feelings, sometimes mystical or other worldly, has been my driving passion. I want to share images that point to a reality beyond words and beyond images, a world that we only see hints of a few times in our lives."

Mytrae' Meliana's healing music is a portal into peace, beauty, and the mystical. Haunting and transcendent, SERENITY soothes, restores, and renews the listener's body, heart and soul.
Mytrae is a pianist and sound healer. Created in communion with the Divine Feminine, her spirit guides, and Earth creatures, her music opens your body, heart and soul to their wellness and ancient wisdom. She offers individual sound healings in person and by distance.
A psychotherapist, hypnotherapist and sound healer in San Francisco, Mytrae offers sound healings in person and by long distance.

Come and express your sacred, kinky sexuality in a space that’s infused with energy and purpose. SKeX || Sacred Kink Experiment offers you the opportunity to engage with radiant, interesting and open-minded people that desire to experiment with and engage in Sacred Kink.
The evening begins with a learning on a Sacred Kink topic. At this event, Jennifer will be offering tips and tricks to get intimate with strangers quickly and offering 3 Tantric concepts as a foundation to experimenting with that dynamic. The learning is guided and lays the foundation for the play party. The play party is where you can put into practice the concepts you learned.

The Art of Being Human
Equanimity is seeing with the EYE of the Heart.
Learn to Meditate with iRest Yoga Nidra
Welcome to an 8 week class exploring the philosophy and experience of Meditation and Deep Well being, learn research based skills for self healing and transformation.
Class will be held once a week for eight weeks on Mondays from 11:00 to 1:00 Location will be emailed to you once your registration is confirmed.
Contact Jules for Registration. 415-500-1711
Join iRest Meditation teacher and Mindfulness Based Somatic Trauma Therapist Jules Alexander, for this experiential 8 week series to heal the past, deeply relax Now and create the future your heart desires.
So I wrote a book. Or it wrote me, I should say...
Early in 2014 my beloved of 6 years traversed life lessons and experienced a drug relapse after being clean for over 13 years. It was a heart-wrenching roller coaster. I feared for his life. I knew he needed immediate and powerful healing.
Most of the 13 years that he was off of heroin, he was completely sober. Then alcohol was reintroduced during the last few years. I could see how the alcohol was wearing him down, weakening his light.
My love, Chor Boogie a.k.a. Joaquin Lamar Hailey, had garnered international recognition for his art, but he was working himself to the bone and partying too hard. He was a loose canon when drunk. Chaos embodied. I shivered for him.
On a dark, drunk night, he returned to the needle.
He confessed to me. I sensed a heavy dark cloud over his mind, body, and spirit.
There was a hungry void in his eyes, waiting to be filled. Perpetually punctured. Lost.
I was terrified and filled with sorrow. He was wasting the gift of LIFE.
I began a mission of research...
I was saddened to learn that heroin addicts generally have a 10% chance of long-term recovery without relapse in our Western medical system, even in the most luxurious rehabs costing $30,000 - $100,000 per month. At best, people can hope to transfer their addiction to equally toxic (though more stable and legal) options of synthetic opiates, morphine, methadone, and other pharmaceuticals.
The future did not look bright.
Then... I remembered that I had once heard vague details years ago about an obscure African sacred medicine called Iboga that cured addiction, specifically heroin addiction, while alleviating withdrawal symptoms.
How exactly could this be possible? The scientific research that I could find on iboga revealed that it essentially resets the sensitivity of the brain to the pre-addiction state. The receptor sites related to the pleasure centers and the release of dopamine are "baptized," among many other complex healing actions. The plant teacher can also invoke visionary journeys and deeper introspection about the root causes of addiction.
It sounded almost too good to be true, but it was worth a try, especially considering the alternatives. We just had to find the right source.
Unfortunately, this sacred plant is still illegal in the United States. Paradoxically, iboga is regarded as a national treasure in Gabon.
I knew this was extremely powerful medicine, and intuited that we needed a truly experienced guide. I found a 10th generation African Bwiti shaman by the name of Moughenda Mikala, with a healing retreat center and government licensed detox program in Costa Rica.
Chor courageously agreed to try this radical option, but there were many moments that I didn't know if we would make it to the shaman in time.
The more I learned about iboga, the more that it called to me for my own spiritual and physical healing. I chose to experience the medicine alongside my love.
Cosmic forces seemed to aid in our journey. We were able to make it, and Chor offered his full participation. I saw a healing miracle unlike any in my life. Within 24 hours of the first treatment, Chor was a new man. He was completely purified of his cravings and physical dependence. His spirit returned to his eyes. Light returned to his face. The second ceremony in our 8-day retreat offered us teachings and guidance for a new path in life. I felt that this medicine responded to Chor's strong and clear intention to choose life.
Moughenda's saying stays wtih me to this day: Addiction is Slavery. Be free and enjoy the gift of life.
I completed an intimate memoir about our journey called Heart Medicine: A True Love Story - One Couple’s Quest for the Sacred Iboga Medicine & the Cure for Addiction. The 1st chapter is freely offered on my website.
Chor and I created an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign running from March 16th to May 14th, 2015 to independently publish and promote the first run of this book. Perks will feature Chor's recent iboga-inspired art; high-quality prints and original paintings on canvas.
View the campaign profile: igg.me/at/heartmedicine
Additional funds from the campaign’s stretch goals will support our iboga provider’s training. After experiencing our own healing miracle, we both felt the call to learn more and help others. We have been accepted to apprentice with Moughenda. We will dedicate this next year to studying this sacred medicine and the Bwiti tradition. We will one day be able to serve as iboga providers, in countries where this sacred medicine is legal,” says Elizabeth.
This past December 2014, we traveled to Gabon, Africa to begin the first module of training with Moughenda and his tribe. We were also blessed to experience a traditional Bwiti / Gabonese wedding. Explore more of our photos from Africa.
I discovered these alarming statistics that affirmed my intuition; the world is in dire need of more qualified iboga providers:
Drug overdose death rates have been steadily rising since 1992, with a 118% increase from 1999 to 2011 alone. (Center for Disease Control & Prevention)
In 2012, 183,000 drug related deaths occurred globally, mostly overdoses, with opioid overdose being the largest category. (The United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime 2014 World Drug Report)
Methadone treatment and other kinds of “drug replacement therapies” can last between one to 20 years, or more. These legal drugs are known to be as toxic and addictive as heroin, though they are more stable than street drugs and can sometimes alleviate the dangers associated with the black market.
Iboga research has been increasing in recent years. For instance, MAPS-sponsored researchers are collecting observational data for the first prospective ibogaine outcome studies in order to contribute to the growing scientific literature about ibogaine as a treatment for drug addiction. Founded in 1986, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit research and educational organization that develops medical, legal, and cultural contexts for people to benefit from the careful uses of psychedelics and marijuana.
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About
Elizabeth Bast serves as a writer, poet, yoga teacher, yogic lifestyle coach, visual & performance artist, fusion temple dancer, and musician. She studied at New College of San Francisco with an emphasis on Art and Social Change. She is the author of the forthcoming book Heart Medicine: A True Love Story - One Couple’s Quest for the Sacred Iboga Medicine & the Cure for Addiction ebast.net
Chor Boogie a.k.a. Joaquin Lamar Hailey is an internationally acclaimed spray-paint artist. His visionary murals and art exhibitions have graced many countries across the globe. He was recently honored by Societe Perrier as being number three among the the TOP TEN U.S. Street Artists of 2014. He approaches his use of color as a form of therapy and visual medicine, and has been dubbed “the color shaman” by comrades and fans. chorboogie.com
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Praise for Heart Medicine “So I stayed up and read 200 pages in one sitting! What a gift you are giving the world with your experience and your writing. There are so many millions of the walking dead right now who are so shut off from their sensitivity, love, & light and this is the perfect story to get through to them. And also for those who are already more aware, what an amazing reminder of what is possible and how to realign with what we know to be true. It’s going to grab people and give them a healing just as they read it. I know that this book will reach millions at such a needed time.”
- Bella Shing
Award-Winning Writer, Director, & Founder of Sweetermedia.com

E. Bast serves as a writer, poet, yoga teacher, yogic lifestyle coach, visual & performance artist, fusion temple dancer, and musician. She studied at New College of San Francisco with an emphasis on Art and Social Change. She is the author of the forthcoming book Heart Medicine: A True Love Story - One Couple’s Quest for the Sacred Iboga Medicine & the Cure for Addiction ebast.net
Just after my 50th birthday, in 2013, I received a powerful awakening in the form of a breast cancer diagnosis. It was through this journey that I gained a deeper understanding of the importance of balancing physical nourishment with emotional, mental, and spiritual nourishment.
I am in excellent health. I eat an organic, high-quality diet; exercise regularly; and at the time of the diagnosis, I lived in Maui, where the land, sea, and air are among the most nourishing on the planet. I have a loving and deeply satisfying marriage, and my household is harmonious. And yet, something was still out of balance enough to draw breast cancer into my experience. I was well aware of what it was, yet unable to shift it effectively before my powerful wake up call.
Perhaps you will recognize my quandary. I had a huge drive and passion to be in service to the planet. I was working way too many hours for way too little compensation. I felt I had to do it all myself, to wear every hat in my business… in part due to financial constraints, but mostly because of a driving perfectionism and an obsession with control. I kept pushing and pushing, trying to make things happen and going nowhere.
During this time, I was aware of my imbalance and did everything I could think of to correct it, including some very deep shadow work. Nothing worked. I could see my behavior, but I could not change it. Then I received my cancer diagnosis, and I actually found myself grateful and relieved! I was able to bring my working life to a stop fairly quickly and turn my attention first to healing myself, and then to recreating my livelihood to be in balance and harmony with my otherwise peaceful and contented existence.
As I turned my attention to healing and recovery, radiant, radical self-care became my top priority. As I continued to nourish my body, I opened to receiving nurturing and care from others. I applied my immense energy and powerful will to healing my body and spirit, fueled by a strong desire to live, and to live a high quality life. I have allowed myself gentle time and space in which to integrate the cancer journey, which took place at top speed (diagnosis to cancer-free in less than 3 months with no chemo or radiation). I continue to ask myself every day what inspires me… because as I am inspired, I am nourished.
Each day now, I tune in to that moment by moment inner guidance that will take me down the path of inspiration, optimum health, satisfaction, and the true abundance that comes from overflowing self love and self care. I fill myself up first, knowing that when I am nourished and filled, I truly have something to give to others.
My focus is on my heart now, in the aftermath of breast cancer, asking my heart what it needs to release the pain and wounding of the past so it can open into a deeper connection with the heart of humanity and our precious planet. I see this as the deepest nourishment of all, the recognizing and dissolving of all that is not like love within myself. As those barriers to love and connection dissolve, I can be present with the subtle, emerging passion that will guide me into my perfect livelihood. I trust that as that unfolds, I will step into it with graceful ease and flow.
[update] It's 2021 now, and I'm nearing 8 years of being cancer-free. My livelihood has re-emerged as a global vision filled with passion and vitality. I visioned and created The Sacred Feminine Mystery School® and am bringing high-integrity sexual healing and awakening to womxn. I am filled with gratitude!
Have you ever wanted to heal one of your relationships, and you didn’t know how or where to start? I’ve experienced some tumultuous upsets in some of my relationships at various times in my life, and wanted to find a way to heal the issue within myself before approaching the person involved. I turned my attention to two powerful tools, and combined them for an effective process for healing relationships with others without needing to interact with them.
The first tool is the ancient Hawaiian practice of Ho’oponopono (make things right). I begin by gently holding the person in my mind, and repeating, “I’m sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you.” I say this internally or out loud whenever I think of it. The second tool is my imagination, in a process called inner journey work. In a quiet location, I close my eyes with an intention to resolve the relationship, and simply allow whatever images appear to unfold in my imagination. I don’t try to guide or change them, I simply stayed tuned in, no matter how strange or silly they might appear.
I have found that my subconscious mind will use symbols and imagery to guide me through the resolution. In one case, a couple I wanted to heal my relationship with appeared in my imagination as a pair of tame rabbits. As I began to speak the words of Ho’oponopono to them, the rabbits held an ornate golden oval mirror up for me to look into while I spoke. I grinned with the understanding that I was really saying the words to myself.
I walked away from that inner journey session with the understanding that healing our relationships with others is [I]always[I] an inside job. It’s so easy to blame others for the difficulties, and, being human, I often do. More and more, however, I understand the value of doing the inner work first. By doing so, I give myself an opportunity to take responsibility for my own contributions to the difficulties in the relationship. When I’m willing to look that deeply inside myself and listen for my inner guidance and authority, I often discover that the qualities I’m blaming someone else for are really things I’m not willing to see in myself
There’s a word for such qualities that we don’t see in ourselves, and it’s called “shadow.” There’s a human tendency to cast or project our shadows onto other people rather than see them in ourselves. Starting to recognize and integrate our own shadows is deep and intensive work. For those who are willing, it’s very rewarding and brings one closer to a state of wholeness and inner peace.
The art of right relationship begins within. When we are in true integrity with who we are, taking responsibility for our shadows and projections, we are practicing Ho’oponopono with ourselves. From that foundation, we cannot help but draw to us people with similar values. Even so, there will always be misunderstandings and difficulties in relationships. Now, when I find myself wanting to blame someone else for my bad feelings, I simply look in the mirror and say “I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you.”
Creative. Passionate. Receptive. Focused. Pulsating with power.
Glowing with good health. Radiant with self-confidence.
Venus transited the sun in June 2012, signifying the rise of a new feminine archetype: the Solar Feminine.
In recent history, the feminine has been associated with the moon, that heavenly body which does not shine its own light, but reflects the light of the sun (associated with the masculine). This is an interesting analogy of the role that women have played for the past couple thousand years… that of being the reflectors of the shining solar masculine; sometimes in their shadow, but not emitting their own light. With the rise of the solar feminine, the masculine and feminine are coming into a time of harmony and balance. Equality isn’t even really the right concept, because there are different but complementary gifts that each bring to the mix.
The lovely paradox here is that as women step into empowerment, we must learn to embody the power of our YIN: the ability to receive; to ask for what we want; to understand our innate power to magnetize all that we desire without needing to chase, quest, and conquer. We get to learn how to recline on the velvet chaise to balance out those power meetings with our teams and hours of intense output. It doesn’t matter if it’s taking care of the house and kids, hours on the phone with clients, planted at the computer desk, or bending over a massage table. Whatever form the giving of our gifts to the world takes must be offset with rest, recreation, fun, and play.
I’ve been on a parallel path with the emergence of the Solar Feminine. Her life story and mine are intertwined. What it has taken for me to learn how to recline on the velvet chaise has been no small feat… and I’m still learning. For me, and in the feminine collective, it’s been a journey of intense internal shadow excavation, leaving behind the old programs of care-taking, control-freaking, shutting up, and all manner of unhealed, compounded wounding we’ve carried through untold generations. I often feel my ancestresses cheering from beyond the veil as I ride the leading edge on the back of a tiger, slashing with my sword through old paradigms of feminine victim-hood, martyrdom, and sexual abuse and repression.
As women, we get to be change agents, catalysts, cauldron stirrers, and crucibles. And we get to be all of that from a soft, feminine place, living in harmony with the masculine. We get to embody wholeness and be living examples of what’s possible when a woman is willing to face her demons and then hug them and welcome them home. We get to weave our lives and work and play and relationships together into a rich, gorgeous, colorful, beautiful tapestry that depicts harmonious scenes of a well-lived life. And, as a beautiful bonus, we have the incredible privilege of being able to share this path to wholeness with those who are seeing us and saying, “I’ll have what she’s having!”
The Solar Feminine is rising in the East, the direction of new beginnings, of sunrise, of Spring, of youth, of playfulness, and the color of orange. She is ready to meet the shining masculine in all his powerful glory, bringing a spirit of collaboration, compassion, and creativity. Can I hear a hallelujah?

Amrita Grace is a visionary leader in the Feminine Sexual Empowerment Movement and an award-winning, bestselling author. She’s been fiercely committed to guiding spirit-led womxn into their authentic, embodied personal power since 2000, inspiring them to live the fulfilled and abundant lives they dream of.
She’s Co-Founder and Director of The Sacred Feminine Mystery School®, author of “Reclaiming Aphrodite-The Journey to Sexual Wholeness” and “Dancing with Breast Cancer-The Sacred Feminine Path to Wholeness,” a Certified Spiritual Sexual Educator, Ordained High Priestess, Shamanic Breathwork® Facilitator, and Art of Feminine Presence® Teacher. Amrita is a master teacher trainer in the uniquely feminine, presence-based body of work globally celebrated as Sacred Sexual Awakening and Healing®.

♥ How do you feel about yourself as a woman?
♥ Do you long to embody and embrace your femininity more?
♥ Who will you be if you live, love, and speak from your authentic feminine power?
Bring your desire to connect with your feminine self. Call in your courage and curiosity to heal and move beyond family and social messages and discover your feminine truth, power, and wisdom.
I offer a sacred, loving circle where you can see and be seen, laugh, cry, and rebirth your feminine self. This experiential and educational group, with sharing and story, creative expression and partner work is an opportunity to learn to be sensually wise in your body, fearlessly true in your heart, and lusciously divine in spirit.
What you will get:
♥ Listen to and feel your body’s messages and wisdom to be more embodied
♥ Unveil your mother’s, father's, family’s and society’s myths to redefine who you are as a woman
♥ Develop your feminine inspiration, intuition, and intimacy to succeed at work and in relationships
♥ Integrate your unique alchemy of feminine and masculine
♥ Connect with your sacred Feminine

Join me on a healing journey to John of God, an extraordinary spiritual healer in Abadiania, Brazil. A full trance psychic medium, João Teixeira de Faria, or John of God as he is fondly known, has healed millions of people from around the world for over 50 years.
John of God channels over 30 highly evolved Beings of Light and Love, known as Entities, who perform spiritual healing as a service to humanity. People have been healed from all possible illnesses and ailments, even those commonly perceived as terminal or incurable such as cancer, AIDS, or blindness. You do not have to be physically ill to go—many go for emotional or psychological healing and spiritual guidance.
People receive
* physical healing
* emotional, psychological, and mental healing
* spiritual and karmic healing
* spiritual guidance
* life mission and purpose
* help with practical, financial, and relationship issues
* learn to co-create and manifest
* clearing of attachments
* developing spiritual and psychic gifts
Dates: June 1-13, 2015

♥ How do you feel about yourself as a woman?
♥ Do you long to embody and embrace your femininity more?
♥ Who will you be if you live, love, and speak from your authentic feminine power?
Bring your desire to connect with your feminine self. Call in your courage and curiosity to heal and move beyond family and social messages and discover your feminine truth, power, and wisdom.
I offer a sacred, loving circle where you can see and be seen, laugh, cry, and rebirth your feminine self. This experiential and educational group, with sharing and story, creative expression and partner work is an opportunity to learn to be sensually wise in your body, fearlessly true in your heart, and lusciously divine in spirit.
What you will get:
♥ Listen to and feel your body’s messages and wisdom to be more embodied
♥ Unveil your mother’s, father's, family’s and society’s myths to redefine who you are as a woman
♥ Develop your feminine inspiration, intuition, and intimacy to succeed at work and in relationships
♥ Integrate your unique alchemy of feminine and masculine
♥ Connect with your sacred Feminine