Flowing Movement T’ai Chi With Karin
Tuesday, April 1-22 $40 each
T’ai chi is an internal art. Though the flowing movements can be learned just as one learns a dance, its beauty emerges through the discovery of deep inner principles. This discovery is always a transforming and holistic “Aha,” awakening one, step-by-step, ever more fully into the present. For improved balance, blood pressure, calmness and vitality, t’ai chi is hard to beat. This is a class for experienced and self-motivated t’ai chi players. All previous students of t’ai chi are invited, whether you have forgotten everything or not! The class will support students’ progress through Yang Style simplified form. Wear loose, comfortable clothing. Beginners can join this class by adding an extra half-hour and coming at 6 pm. Please specify that you are a beginner when you register. Karin LaBriere fell in love with t’ai chi in 1978 and has taught in Portland and Vancouver for many years. She is also an NRB manager and long-time buyer.
Introduction to Medical Qigong
Thursday, April 3, 7-8:30 pm $12
Lisa VanOstrand presents a lecture, meditation and healing demonstration on Medical Qigong. Energy medicine is the medicine of the future. Medical Qigong is the study of the energetic map of the body based on classical and alchemical Chinese Medicine, as well as more traditional Chinese Medicine. Medical Qigong techniques can be practiced on oneself for self-cultivation and transformation and on others as healing protocols. Prescription exercises, meditations and healing protocols enhance body, mind and spirit and can also address the energetics of specific disease patterns. Lisa is Dean of Psychology at International Institute of Medical Qigong. She was Dean of Advanced Studies at Barbara Brennan School of Healing for seven years. For info about Lisa’s weekend workshop: 3treasureshealing.com.
Family Constellation
Friday, April 4, 7-8:30 pm $12
Our families have an unconscious mind that travels the generations and entangles those who follow in the fates of those who came before. The dynamics of this larger system lie beyond our awareness, yet their effect on our lives is profound. Learn how we carry the issues of past family members with us, and how we can create an informational field that will allow us to unravel the ties that bind us to the past fates of our family. We will discover ways that our family systems can be healed and love allowed to flow freely through these family constellations. Jane Peterson has studied family constellations with Bert Hellinger and Victoria Schnabel, and shamanism with don Americo Yabar. She is an NLP and family constellation practitioner with a local practice.
Mantra Soundshop
Saturday, April 5, 1-5 pm $40
Mantra is a Sanskrit word meaning ‘that which frees the mind.’ The mind is part of the vast ocean of vibration, and the ancient sages understood the principles behind sound, mantra and this universal resonance. Join us for a journey into this subtle and powerful realm of mantra, Sanskrit words subtly attuned to the very matrix of creation. Learn and directly experience ancient mantras for healing, prosperity, meditation and ultimate enlightenment, including: Gayatri Mantra, Mahamrtyunjaya Mantra, Chakra Bija Mantras, and more. Aja Thomas was ordained as a Vedic Priest in India in 1975. He currently teaches on awakening, Sanskrit and mantra, and is the author of In This Moment! and Mantra -The Power of Sound. His website is atmainstitute.org.
Pursuing Your Heart’s Needs & Your Soul’s Longings: Wisdom & Help You Need is in Your Chakras
Sunday, April 6, 2-5 pm $30
Transformation is about one-pointed focus on the deepest and truest longings of your heart and soul. Join us in this workshop to learn how to listen to the wisdom in your chakras in order to know the deep desires of your essential self. Experience within those chakras the resources you need to pursue these longings wholeheartedly. This is a hands-on, practical workshop in which you can expect to experience profound internal shifts. Linda Kardos is a Licensed Professional Counselor. She is a practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Neuro-Emotional Technique and Theta Healing, as well as a colleague and student of Donna Eden. Linda teaches energy psychology in the Portland area.
The Way Of Aloha: Coming Home To Love
Monday, April 7, 7-8:30 pm $12
Join Hawaiian elder, Lei Faulkner, who will share her knowledge of Aloha as the way into pure heart. She will explain the specific spiritual meaning of Aloha that becomes the guide to divine embrace. Lei will present the ancient Hawaiian way and share how these teachings are still relevant. Learn the powerful forgiveness ritual, ho’oponopono, and receive an on-going inner practice that heals oneself and those around us. The way of Aloha is to bring all life into love and unity. As a very young child it was imprinted upon her to bring forth love on earth. This love was nurtured in the pure stream of Aloha, where she resides.
The One Thing Holding You Back: How Emotional Connection Breaks All Barriers
Thursday, April 10, 7-8:30 pm $12
Do you have an unrealized dream? Are you bogged down by addiction, compulsion, procrastination or other sabotaging beliefs and behaviors? Almost always, what prevents us from reaching our full potential is a reservoir of unfelt emotion. Resisting this emotion is what hampers prayer, affirmations or any other spiritual techniques. Discovering and feeling this emotion is what makes those techniques finally work, and makes us truly unstoppable. Raphael has pioneered a way to release emotional resistance that is fast, simple and can be learned in just one evening. He’s taught it with amazing results worldwide. Raphael Cushnir is a popular contributor to O, The Oprah Magazine. He’s the author of Unconditional Bliss and Setting Your Heart on Fire. His most recent book, How Now: 100 Ways to Celebrate the Present Moment, was listed as one of the best spiritual books of 2005 by Spirituality and Health magazine. For info: livingthequestions.org.
Marketing as a Spiritual & Creative Venture
Friday, April 11, 7-8:30 pm $15
Advertising does not have to be a “necessary evil.” It can be an enjoyable, adventure-filled aspect of your business. This evening discussion will offer impactful ideas on how to talk more effectively about the work you do. You’ll gain a clear and honest perspective on how to interact with the media, network in the community and develop a new customer base. Become empowered and creatively invigorated with this down-to-earth approach to Marketing-and start attracting the business you deserve. Erin Donley comes from an eight-year career in sales and Marketing in Portland radio. Erin now works at New Renaissance as a manager and member of the sales/Marketing team. She is also a local artist, editor of the weekly email column, New Renaissance News and is a consultant to conscious-minded businesses. Learn more about Erin at donleyart.com.
How Project Angels Can Help You Begin Anew
Saturday, April 12, 7-8:30 pm $12
Working with Angels in Everyday Life author Carol May will talk about blocks we face learning to trust our intuition and our angelic help, and how to overcome the blocks. We’ll enjoy a short meditation to practice receiving, validating and integrating the Angelic Touch. It is our birthright to know and enjoy our spiritual helpers. Finally, Carol will introduce us to “project angels” to help kick-start new beginnings for each individual. There’s no better time than now to open up to a “new season” within ourselves. Carol, called The Angel Lady by her soul attunement counseling clients, has been introducing people to their angels for 25 years and is known for presenting transformational information and energy in dynamic, light and practical ways. Demonstrating and inciting spiritual joy is her specialty. Learn more at lotusgrid.com.
Tools for Transformation from the Angels
Sunday, April 13, 2-5 pm $33
Expand your “personal spiritual life tool kit” with Carol May, Angel Lady, author and Soul Attunement practitioner. Learn two kinds of breathwork to energize and heal the body of fear-of-death vibrations and destructive family patterns, plus color breathing for harmonizing. Next comes the Cauldron Technique to deal with judgment and the 2008 Third Eye Mudra for integration. Carol will then introduce you to the “soul mind” to recalibrate your awareness to its highest frequency. This encourages living each moment in the expression of your unlimited essence and creativity. Look for lots of stimulation and inspiration from this experiential workshop. Carol’s work with the Angels led her to become a Reiki Master Teacher, Hypnotherapist, Emotional Release Technique practitioner and producer of a meditation and affirmation CD.
Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict
Wednesday, April 16, 7-8:30 pm $12 SOLD OUT!
Within the ancient teachings of Tibetan Buddhism lies a method for facing-and dissolving-our fears, illnesses and emotional stumbling blocks. Tsultrim Allione will present a practical application of a revolutionary approach developed by a legendary Tibetan yogini, Machig Labdron, almost 1,000 years ago. Using information from her new book, Feeding Your Demons, she will lead us through an experiential five-step process that can help you meet and release what the Tibetan’s call “demons”- the longings, fears, obsessions, illnesses and attachments we battle with every day. Learn how our inner and outer demons can be seen, nurtured and transformed into allies. Tsultrim Allione, a former Buddhist nun, is widely respected as an authentic Western Buddhist teacher. She has spent 40 years studying with great Tibetan masters. She has appeared on panels with the Dalai Lama and is also the author of Women of Wisdom.
Three Ancient Tools To Retrain Your Subconscious
Friday, April 18, 7-8:30 pm $12
No coaching or forward movement happens in our lives if our subconscious is against it. The subconscious always wins! Here are three simple, ancient and profound tools to help you work with your subconscious: a grape cluster from Hawaiian Huna, a cube from Kabbalah and visualization from the tarot. You will learn how to listen to your subconscious and also to retrain it, releasing you to move forward. Don Clarkson is a nationally-known psychic and life coach who uses these simple tools with his coaching clients. He will introduce information from his upcoming book.
Tao of Weight Loss: A Non-Diet, Non-Mainstream Approach
Saturday, April 19, 10:30-1:30 pm $40
This is simply the Tao of weight dissolution. In this unique event you will learn how to recognize your body as your best friend. Once you see it as your best friend, your body will always stay in perfect shape according to nature. The Tao says to “let go of every effort” because nature is perfect. If you would like to learn about this revolutionary method, if self-love and an effortless awareness that eradicates your overweight issues in the depths of your mind sounds good - then you want to be with Alfonso De Rose for these enlightening, life-changing hours. Alfonso is president of Take Your Risk, Inc and a charismatic motivational speaker, international master-results coach, master of Neural Re-patterning, former Italian champion bodybuilder and kundalini yoga teacher. Alfonso’s studies in Eastern spirituality as he moved into building the heart - make him a unique and dynamic leader who has been getting fantastic results for the last 10 years for clients in long-term change.
Alchemist of the Heart: The Path to Power
Saturday, April 19, 2:30-5:30 pm $40
It is easy to love when your life is going well. But true power, true remarkable experience, lies in loving, even when life is not going well. Recognize the road to power, generated from what it means to live with an open heart. Embrace what the deep art of love truly is about as you shift your awareness about how you love and light the way to letting go of the ego mind. This is extraordinary information for both men and women. With Alfonso De Rose’s help you’ll discover why men and women are different for the perfect reasons and how to admire the perfection of that with a new point of view. Become an irresistable love magnet in this event with a charasmatic, passionate leader. Alfonso De Rose currently guides people into a mental and emotional cleanse that heals their relationship with food. He believes that it’s our birthright to be thin and healthy, and he helps you to erase the issue of weight and appearance once and for all.
Personal Symbols
Sunday, April 20, 10:30-1 pm $35
Everything about us is a way to communicate with others... is it possible that you have a personal symbol? A form or a glyph which is particular only to you? Mary Anne Radmacher guides you through a unique process which uncovers this symbol and helps you craft it for use as a personal logo! All materials provided. Mary Anne says her life is her art. She uses handwritten messages on a background of her personal art to make a full line of small posters, greeting cards and other inspirational paper products. She is also the author of Lean Forward into Your Life and lives in Salem, OR.
Enliven Your Hand!
Sunday, April 20, 2:30-5 pm $35
Want to improve and enliven your own handwriting? Let Mary Anne Radmacher help your pen dance on the page and add some character to that handwriting of yours! Surprise yourself! All materials provided. Marchy Anne is a top-selling card and magnet author for Quotable Cards (available at NRB!). She uses her own form of calligraphy, exclusively using lower-case letters for handwritten messages on plain paper or on a background of her personal art. She also teaches writing to diverse populations, from prisoners to preschoolers.
Compassionate Relationships
Monday, April 21, 7-8:30 pm $12
This mini-workshop, which is based on the nonviolent communication work of Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, is led by Carin’ Bocksay. Carin’ has incorporated Rosenberg’s work with the chakras to help heal relationships, no matter what the problem. Participants will learn the basics for practicing a whole new way to express themselves to get their needs met in healthy ways. Learn to identify the difference between a feeling and an assumption, a need and a request and a do-able request versus an unreasonable one. As an ordained minister, Carin’ adds a spiritual component to this work. She has been a counselor for more than 30 years, is a certified healing touch practitioner, a Reiki master and teacher and a certified chemical dependency and codependency counselor who has been in private practice since 1987. Info: carinbocskay.blogspot.com.
Buddhist Meditation: Illuminated Natural Awareness
Wednesday, April 23, 30 & May 7, 7-8:30 pm $38
The foundation for Buddhist Meditation is a rare blend of open-minded attention, receptive mindfulness and relaxed, expansive presence. Focus and the ability to stablize attention set the ground for letting go into innate wisdom. Meditation practice develops and shapes the mind to easily open to one’s true nature. Refinement and clarity of mind are shaped by meditation practice. This meditation class is open to all and is shaped to those in attendance. There will be time for meditation, Q & A for meditation skills and understanding. Jacqueline Mandell has been authorized to teach in three Buddhist traditions. She teaches the fundamental practices of the “Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse.” Her biography is included in a number of books including Meetings with Remarkable Women: Buddhist Teachers in America.
Introduction to Psych-K
Thursday, April 24, 7-8:30 pm $12
I believe each human being has the potential to change, to transform one’s own attitude, no matter how difficult the situation. Dalai Lama
And, just like everyone else, you deserve to create your life uniquely the way you want it, which is easier to do than it used to be. We are wired to create! Just imagine, the events of your life can be changed easily by changing your beliefs at the subconscious levels-the level of your mind where all things are possible. Rita Soman, PSYCH-K® instructor & facilitator,will share the real secret to a happy, healthy and successful life. She’ll demonstrate how to contact and use the power of your subconscious mind to change limiting beliefs to self-supporting ones in minutes.
What Kind of Sensitive Are You?
Friday, April 25, 7-8:30 pm $12
How many times have you heard the words, “You’re just too sensitive” used as a negative comment about your feelings? Marcy Calhoun, sensitive and author of Are You Too Sensitive? and Do You Really Have A Choice? feels that we can’t be too sensitive. Marcy feels that our ultra-sensitivities, as she calls them, can at times be our worst enemy, but with simple training these sensitivities can be our positive and powerful allies. Through many years of research Marcy has discovered that there are at least 16 sensitivities we can have, which include visual, feeling, knowing, auditory, weather and negative potential-positive potential. Each sensitivity has its characteristics, issues and talents. Come find out which one you are and how to work with these energies.
Generating Buzz for Your Product or Event: Important Publicity Tips From a Media “Insider”
Saturday, April 26, 10:30-3:30 pm $60
Joanne McCall presents a highly interactive one-day workshop that will give you the tools needed to create media interest in your business, product, or service. You will learn how to •capture media attention locally, regionally or nationally •create an impressive media kit •pitch ideas like a pro •avoid costly mistakes •be a great media interview •tour and leverage travel plans to other Marchkets •incorporate blogs on online sources to help your campaign. Formerly a radio broadcaster, McCall created her own publicity firm in 1994. Clients include Simon & Schuster, Wiley, Berrett-Koehler, and Hazelden Publishing, in addition to best-selling authors such as Dr. David Simon of the Chopra Center for Well Being, Brian Tracy, author of Goals! and Melody Beattie, author of Co-Dependent No More and The Grief Club.
Losing a Loved Animal: The Eternal Gift of Love
Sunday, April 27, 2-5 pm $38
This is an introduction to how animals view the end of life’s cycle and life after death. Lauren McCall, professional animal communicator, discusses experiences that animals have related to her about the transition process, leaving loved ones behind, the purpose of their life’s journey and reincarnation. This workshop is from the animal’s point of view and is suited to anyone who wants to learn more about them or has lost a beloved companion. While not intended to focus on grief and loss, participants should benefit from a clear understanding of where animals believe they go when they pass on and how they can be contacted by those left behind. Lauren McCall brings a lifelong love of animals to her TTouch and animal communication work. She travels and teaches both animal communication and TTouch, and has an international client base that includes the US, Europe and Japan. Lauren lives in Oregon with her human and animal family.
