Scientific Evidence Of God Is Here: So What Are You Doing About It?
Friday, August 1, 7-8:30 pm $15
In this evening, quantum physicist Amit Goswami takes you through a scientific and 
experiential journey of the rediscovery of God. He shows you how you can do something constructive about your own rediscovery of God. He will also talk about what science has to say about spiritual enlightenment and how to explore the soul dimension of our being. This exciting and mind-expanding talk will stimulate you intellectually and experientially. It’s a talk you won’t want to miss! Amit is part of a growing body of renegade scientists who in recent years have ventured into the domain of the spiritual in an attempt to both interpret the findings of their experiments and to vaildate their intuition about the existence of a spiritual dimension of life. Amit is the author of several books including, The Visionary Window and Physics of the Soul.
Daoist Medical Qigong For Health
Saturday, August 2, 11-2 pm $35
Medical qigong, a many thousand year old treasure of Chinese energetic medicine used for self-healing, has a daily routine taught with practical hands-on instruction. We’ll explore benefits, optimal feng shui environment for practice and experience the flowing Medical Qigong movements. Vitality can be enhanced from these purifying exercises through postural alignment, breath and relaxed visualization. We’ll also experience the Yellow Mountain Meditation, a guided meditation for clearing blockages while building energy. Francesca Ferrari, LAc is a professor, clinical supervisor at Five Branches University and an initiate of the venerated Maoshan Daoist Temple in China, known for fostering the most effective Chinese qigong masters and doctors. Info: francescaferrari.com.
Voicing The One: Voice As A Meditative Discipline And Spiritual Path
Sunday, August 3, 10:30-4:30 pm $60
Speaking or singing beautifully is our birthright, but fear induces us to speak and sing with a false voice manufactured from a preconceived notion of how we should sound. Come experience your authentic voice, a perfect mirror of your true nature, and that of Source. The authentic voice emerges by being at one with physiology and physical laws that affect respiration and voice. Vocal meditation explores voice within a silent center in which breathing is communion with Source and voicing is prayer. Portland-based voice teacher and speech coach Linda Brice, MM, leading expert on spirituality and voice as well as artistic and vocal recovery, is founder of Transformational Voice Training. For 27 years she has taught voice privately, in colleges and has consulted on speech for numerous Fortune 500 companies. Info: TransformationalVoice.com.
Buddhist Meditation: Enlightened Mind
Monday, August 4-25, 7-8:30 pm $50
The mind of enlightenment is a natural expression of all encompassing presence, equanimity and compassion. Meditation practices cultivate the ground of Bodhicitta: the awakened mind of innate wisdom. Expansive awareness, calm clarity and wise empathy are natural, reflective expressions of Bodhicitta. Meditation skills to develop the mind of enlightenment will be imparted along with quality instruction and time for understanding thru Q & A. Each meditation session is shaped to those in attendance and the pertinent topics of meditation practice. Jacqueline Mandell is the president of Samden Ling, Inc. She has been authorized to teach in three Buddhist traditions. Her focus emerges from “Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse.” Jacqueline’s biography is included in a number of books including Meetings with Remarkable Women: Buddhist Teachers in America.
The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts To Change Your Life And The World
Thursday, August 7, 7-8:30 pm $18
Lynne McTaggart, bestselling author of The Field and The Intention Experiment and one of the authors showcased in Down the Rabbit Hole offers a groundbreaking exploration of the art and science of intention. You’ll discover •What intention is and how it differs from wishing •Evidence how thoughts can affect the physical world •If negative or positive intention is more powerful •How elite athletes win sports competitions through intention and the techniques they use •If there’s such a thing as praying to change your past. She’ll enlist you in a series of experiments to focus your “power of intention” on specific, measurable targets, including her worldwide ‘Live Aid’ Peace Intention Experiment.
Second Half of Life: What’s Next?
Friday, August 8, 7-8:30 pm $12
We are all born with a great dream for our lives; in the second half of life it is time to resurrect this dream. Are you 50+ and wondering what is next for you? In this interactive, informal workshop based on Angeles Arrien’s book, The Second Half of Life, you will have the opportunity to explore the freedom, the excitement and the joy of this time. You will be introduced to the task, the gift and the challenge of each gate and invited to examine how they apply to your life. Carol McKeag is a certified life coach who partners with clients, supporting them to live their authentic lives, facilitates wisdom circles based on The Second Half of Life, and runs workshops and seminars on intentional living.
Free The Children: Being Real With Ourselves
Saturday, August 9, 10:30-1:30 Pm $30
Bruce Scott, author of Free the Children, shows us how our cultural beliefs and institutions diminish the innate knowing of children. With that in mind Bruce will help us •Identify what un-intentionally drives our relationships, especially with children, to un-necessarily create conflict, hurt and separation •Shake up our beliefs about parenting, children, our own personal history and help us remember what we “know in our heart to be true” •Apply skills to work with ourselves, to be free of the need to blame, judge or hold anger. Using these same skills we can connect with children and others in softer, kinder, more respectful ways and become free of fear. Bruce is also the author of Being Real, is a parent, psychotherapist, teacher and storyteller who lives in Santa Cruz and Portland.
How To Heal Toxic Thoughts
Saturday, August 9, 7-8:30 pm $18
Sandra Ingerman, MA, will share her journey with shamanism and how it led her to write about and teach how to reverse environmental and personal toxins using spiritual practices. Sandra will share how the energy behind our thoughts, emotions and words impacts ourselves and the world. Using methods written about in her new book, How to Heal Toxic Thoughts she will share different ways to work with negative thoughts, attitudes, emotions and belief systems that emerge throughout our daily life. Sandra is a world-renowned teacher of shamanism. A licensed therapist, she is the author of six books including Soul Retrieval, Medicine for the Earth and Shamanic Journeying. Info at sandraingerman.com.
Explore Becoming Fearless
Sunday, August 10, 10:30-1:30 pm $25
Badeish Lange will lead you on a journey to learn new life skills in becoming fearless and trusting your “inner clarity.” Attention will be directed toward your sensory receptivity and regulating patterns of fear-based thoughts. Discover how to shift the thought process to establish new brain chemistry. Learn the three basic universal fears and how to transform them into benefits for your everyday life. Becoming “fearless” creates the opportunity to shift perceptions of ourselves and the world around us. Badeish Lange is an accomplished psychic, medium and life coach teacher. She psychically perceives DNA’s cellular coding and reads photographs. Her consultations focus on transformation with an emphasis on self-esteem and communication skills. Badeish can retrieve information that explains past, present and future events. Her motto: Make room for a miracle!
The Art and Science of Meditation
Thursday, August 14-28, 7-8:30 pm $65
This course takes you step-by-step through the art and science of meditation. Learn techniques you can begin to use immediately to develop and maintain a daily meditation practice. The results of daily practice include peace of mind, release of physical tension, mental clarity and the ability to concentrate more deeply, increased energy and vitality, calmness and serenity in all situations. Classes include time for guided practice and questions. The price of the class includes Lessons in Meditation, a book and 2-CD set by John Novak ($24.95 value). Sabrina Tusing is a certified meditation instructor. She enjoys sharing with and inspiring others who would like to enhance the quality of their life with meditation.
Communicating with Reiki Guides
Friday, August 15, 7-8:30 pm $12
Through a guided meditation with Reiki, students will become more aware of their particular way of communicating with their Reiki guides. Many Reiki practitioners can feel their guides speaking, but do not understand these guides’ language well enough to communicate effectively with them. Often, people need to heal internal messages to remember their relationship with their guides and remember how to “listen” again. This experiential presentation can teach people about their personal way of dialoguing with their Reiki guides. Colleen Benelli teaches Reiki as a lifestyle to help people create their lives with joy and a light-heart. She is a licensed Usui/Tibetan Karuna® Reiki Master teacher for The International Center for Reiki Training and LightSong School of Shamanic Studies.
Love Yourself, Heal Your Life: An Introduction to the Work of Louise Hay
Saturday, August 16, 10:30-1:30 pm $30
Loving yourself is the key to healing your life. When you really love and accept yourself, your life can blossom. This workshop, led by Celia Pohlschneider, will guide participants in exercises to release past hurts and negative beliefs, and help them learn to love themselves. Our focus today is discovering how our thoughts create our reality and how changes can be made in old thought and feeling patterns to create the life of our dreams. Techniques popularized by Louise Hay and others will bring participants toward self-acceptance and start them on the path to a life of fulfillment. Celia is a certified Heal Your Life workshop leader with a passion for life, learning and spiritual growth. Her personal journey to find peace, following a decade long struggle with loss and grief, inspires her to help others heal their lives.
Kirtan
Saturday, August 16, 7-8:30 pm $12
Chanting with John Conley is informal, fun and sometimes intense. Chants can take us deep into our inner stillness, but John says laughter is the most fundamental chant of all. He often sings ancient Indian chants, but is also likely to sing modern chants in English with a tinge of rock. His gatherings are about creating community and emotional healing through the power of sound and song. John says, “This is no-mistakes chanting! Meaning you cannot make a mistake. You don’t have to sing in tune or in time. Just sing!” An open heart and willingness is all that’s needed. John, the author of Letters to My Friends: A No Guarantees Guide to Awakening, loves to share the joy of chanting and regularly chants at Breitenbush. More info: mondaynightmeditation.com.
Basic Animal Communication & Writing Your Soul Myth
Sunday, August 17, 10:30-1:30 pm $30
Carole Devereux will help you see your animal friends through new eyes and learn to communicate telepathically with them. Animal communication increases our patience and ability to understand our animals. It enhances our ability to share a spiritual bond with another species as well as helping us stay on our own spiritual path. Carol Devereux will use visual practices, meditations and guided exercises and tuning into our animal companion we will begin to write our personal soul myth. By focusing on the bond we share with animals we can strengthen our love and compassion for other species and ourselves. Carole will also share stories about her recently deceased horse, Buddy, who was her teacher for 15 years. They spent ten years together writing a book called Spirit of the Horse, which Carol is still working on. No animals at workshop please.
Essence of Healing
Tuesday, August 19, 7-8:30 pm $18
Why are prominent doctors and medical researchers all over the world interested in the extraordinary healings reported by the patients of Eric Pearl? What does it mean when these patients report the miraculous disappearance of afflictions such as cancers, AIDS-related diseases and cerebral palsy? And what does it mean when people who interact with Eric Pearl report a sudden ability to access this healing energy not just for themselves, but for others? You might have to reconsider healing! Eric, who was a chiropractor until the energy of Reconnection found him, is the author of The Reconnection. To read a personal interview with Eric go to Author Interviews.
Light & Information: Beyond Energy Healing
Wednesday, August 20, 7-8:30 pm $18
Discover why hospitals and universities around the globe are investing time and money to explain the healings done by Eric Pearl. Now, you can master this extraordinary work! Eric will discuss the remarkable story of how Reconnective Healing was discovered. He’ll discuss the research behind the work, the quantum theory that supports it and the role that light and information plays in the healing process. We’ll learn how we can evolve beyond energy healing, access and become that light and information and allow others to receive a more truly comprehensive level of healing.Patients of Eric’s healings have been documented in six books including Eric’s, The Reconnection: Heal Others, Heal Yourself, now in 21 languages. He has taught more than 30,000 Reconnective Healing practitioners in more than 50 countries.
Awakening In The Dream
Friday, August 22, 7-8:30 pm $12
When we begin to spiritually awaken, we begin to recognize the dreamlike nature of reality. Quantum physics says this universe of ours does not exist objectively but, like a dream, is a reflection of the mind that is observing. In a full-blown spiritual awakening, we can discover that we are “dreaming up” our universe moment by moment. Lucid dreaming will be discussed as both a vehicle and a perfect metaphor for waking up in THIS dream. An artist and healer in private practice, Paul Levy assists others who are spiritually awakening. A pioneer in the field of spiritual emergence, he is the coordinator of the Portland PadmaSambhava Buddhist Center.
Set Free Your Delicious Feminine! Nurturing Your Divine Self & Attracting The Love You Long For
Saturday, August 23, 10:30-1:30 pm $30
We each yearn for love and to be loved the way we always dreamed of. Who do you have to be to allow that? Today, learn •To connect with our Divine Feminine •What our busy lives cost us •To balance being mother, entrepeneur, wife, girlfriend and you •What you want in a partner and how to bring it forth •To avoid fibroids, endometriosis and feminine cancers! •To understand the opposite sex, with compassion and a little laughter •To appreciate yourself! Leave with a surefire way to keep the feminine from getting lost. Julie Michaels is the inspiring CEO of Sacred Space Enterprises, Certified in Master Results Coaching and Neural Re-patterning. She will delight you with her humorous style about men, women and relationship.
Inspiration: Exploding The Creative Person You Are Or Want To Be
Saturday, August 23, 2:30-5 pm $25
To inspire means to “breathe life into.” As an artist, actor, musician, singer or dancer, creativity has its challenges. Judgments, procrastination, and oh, “making money,” all can stop us from living the life we desire. Join us to laugh, release your artistic hurdles and eliminate the challenges for good. Whether it is starting a book, finding an audition to go to or just taking that first step towards whatever you’ve been avoiding, you’ll be inspired at the end of this event! Leave knowing how to utilize the law of attraction and with tools to help you move forward. Julie Michaels is a professional actor and teacher. She has helped all levels of creative people jump hurdles into their dreams. Her book, The Zen of Acting, will soon be published.
Zen and the Way of Tea: A Creative Path to Peace
Sunday, August 24, 1-3:30 pm $25
Zen reveals the reality of our existence and its unbounded creativity. The art of tea (Chado) provides a way to connect with this reality, restoring grace and beauty, balance and harmony, amidst the modern life’s routines. As a life-long journey, Chado opens the traveler to a new way of seeing that sheds distinct light on what it means to be human and fully alive in the midst of ordinary life. The workshop explores the universal principles of Chado, along with its Zen connection and practice. Diana Saltoon’s love of tea began in her Singapore childhood. Her Zen practice led to Chado, the Way of Tea. She is the author of Tea and Ceremony.
The One Thing Holding You Back: How Emotional Connection Breaks All Barriers
Friday, August 29, 7-8:30 pm $12
Do you have an unrealized dream? Are you bogged down by addiction, compulsion, procrastination or other sabotaging beliefs and behaviours? 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 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 latest 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.
The 12 Step Buddhist: Integrating Buddhism & the 12 Steps: Focus on Forgiveness
Saturday, August 30, 10:30-1 pm $22
Using forgiveness as the focus of this workshop, we look at the connections between Buddhism and recovery principles in the first 3 Steps. It is applicable to addictions to events, processes, substances and people. Participants will learn to integrate recovery with a deeper Buddhist practice through practical techniques that can be used on the cushion and in daily life. Also utilized is a process adapted from Genpo Roshi’s Big Mind, which directly addresses various personality aspects which play a role in addiction and recovery. It’s helpful if participants have some experience with a 12-Step program. Darren Littlejohn has advanced education in Psychology and has been a member of the recovery community for over 20 years. He is a practitioner of Zen and several systems of Tibetan Buddhism, including Vajrayana (Tantra). Darren is the author of the upcoming book: The 12 Step Buddhist. Info: 12stepbuddhist.com.
Summer’s End Labyrinth Meditation
Sunday, August 31, 1-5 pm Love Offering
Sharlene Inglis will lay out her portable labyrinth for you to walk this open walk- drop in anytime. She’ll answer questions to help you begin your walk. Sharlene is a Veriditas-trained facilitator who facilitates labyrinth walks and workshops in the Portland area. For a transformative and reflective experience, everyone is invited to walk this ancient meditative symbol’s circular path with its twists and turns. Walking the labyrinth offers renewed awareness, guidance and clarity to our busy lives. As Dr. Lauren Artress, author of Walking a Sacred Path, writes, “Most of the experiences that occur in the labyrinth are unexpected. They are guided by a sacred wisdom, a creative intelligence that knows more about what we need than do our conscious selves.”
