I will be facilitating a workshop in Avalon with Mirta during the weekend of the 8th and 9th of July. Mirta is well known in Avalon for her work with Light Languages, and I for my own unique manner of healing. The format remains fluid at this moment, but the combination of energies promises a powerful weekend. The focus will be upon empowering the individual's healing such that their own process acts as a catalyst for the healing within the collective and the body of the Mother Earth.

The cost for attendance will be $350, at a venue to be confirmed.

We will keep you informed of the process' unfolding...

blessings

Simon

Technorati Tags: Earth Healing, shamanism, Healing, health, training

Jo Cunningham will be conducting a Yoga workshop in Bellingen on Saturday, July 29 at the Bellingen Yoga Studio from 9am until 4pm.

Jo Cunninhgham studied classical yoga under the guidance of Swami Maha Devananda at the Sivananda Vedanta Centre in Kerala, India. She has been teaching yoga for the last six years in Victoria and NSW, and is a member of the YTAA. Jo has taught, prenatal yoga, postnatal, teenagers, beginners, and intermediate students. She also conducts workshops and private yoga sessions. Jo has an active interest in body movement and dance. Her classes are much appreciated for their classical nature, with a focus on breath awareness and flow.

I will be available for individual sessions for workshop participants on Sunday 30th of July.

Details of the yoga retreat in PDF format can be downloaded by clicking the image below.

Simon

Technorati Tags: Bellingen, health, breath, retreat, yoga

Dietary related disease is a major and growing health issue in our community. Good nutrition habits can have immediate benefits to quality of life, but also pave the way to a significantly improved mental, physical and emotional health later in life. Gwynne is again conducting workshops in Avalon teaching teens delicious dishes which also provide great nutritional foundations.



A school holiday workshop for Teens

(aged 12 onwards)



A day of Exploring, Cooking, Tasting, Creating, Finger Licking Fun!!



Yummy meals using Real Alive Organic Wholefoods (vegetarian & sugar free).



Unbelievably easy & delicious for family & friends.



Confidence & understanding about different foods in our life, how they make us feel & how we can be well, happy, calm, balanced, confident with vitality & energy.



a big spoonful of love & laughter



Menu: Pumpkin Soup with baked Rice Balls, Home style Baked Beans with Guacamole & toasty Taco’s, Sweet Bliss Balls. 100% Yum!!!



Bookings essential: call Gwynne 0414 579 446

Dates: Monday 10th July 10-2pm, Wednesday 12th July 10-2pm, Friday 14th July 10-2pm

Cost: $65 (includes eating the creations, recipe/info folder to take home)

Technorati Tags: Healing, health, Food, training

...different voice.



An inconvenient truth is that for some the notion of a plant consciousness trying to communicate to humans that the “time to wake up and listen to the Mother Earth is NOW” is a little unpalatable. An ex VIce President of the United States is making a similar call, to quite some critical acclaim

Technorati Tags: Al Gore, Documentary, Inconvenient Truth, Climate Change, Film

Thirty-three years old already, for chrissakes. And in all that time, after all that therapy, only one thing worked on my depression—an ayahuasca "cleansing" with Amazonian shamans.



speaks Kira Salak in a recent National Geographic article

Scientism is not science. Scientism is an unwarranted extrapolation of scientific method, making the method into a worldview and an exclusivist canon of all-knowing.

Jacob Needleman

It is somewhat difficult to translate the tenets of an archaic Indigenous Shamanism in South America to a Modern Western rationalist mindset. Even the use of the word Shaman is a misnomer, coming as it does from the Tungus language of the Evenki peoples of Northern Asia. It has entered the South American vernacular only with the advent of anthropological examination of the cultures there. The term used to describe a healer in South America is often curandero/a, from the verb "to cure"...and curing is indeed the object, and most often the outcome, of the exercise. For the curandera the cause of illness and disease is most often the result of a malefic spirit which has attached itself to the subtle body of the patient. Her role is to facilitate the removal or that energy with the assistance of various spirit allies. Obviously the most important of these allies are the Sacred Medicines who allow the curandera to share the vision of the patient's psycho-energetic system in order that the problem may be resolved.

Many popular religions in the West have a cosmology populated by spiritual assistants and adversaries. Tibetan and Japanese forms of Buddhism have their complement of demons, gods and angels and their forms decorate many a healing sanctuary, garden and loungeroom in Australia. The tales of Hinduism are rife with conflict between gods and demons and the practitioners of various of the mutliplicity of sects therein regularly elist the help of spiritual allies in order to win favour with prefered deities or hinder the action of malefic influences. Despite the wide dissemination of information about these religious and philosophical systems, it seems that the leap to the ancient, yet continually evolving cosmology of the Amazonian curandero is a little large for many to make.

The following excerpt from a book by Dale Pendell, humourously points to the similarities between the functions of plant based shamanism and popular meditative traditions...