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July Events Registration 2009 If you are registering closer than 48 hours before an event, please call the store to register: 503-224-4929. The Faery Seership The Tarot Unveiled Earth Medicine Reiki Discover Your Personality Type Through the Enneagram Clear Vision Naturally Enhance Your Life: Five Things You Can Do Right Now! The 12-Step Buddhist: Integrating Buddhism and the 12 Steps Flowing Movement T'ai Chi with Karin Buddhist Meditation: Illuminated Natural Awareness Becoming an Oracle Present Moment Awareness Perfect Breathing: Transform Your Life One Breath at a Time The Practical Mystic: Incorporating Spirituality Into Everyday Life Marketing Your Truth: Transforming Passion into Profit Potionmaking 101 For Kids: Wizards, Alchemists, Toads, and Magic! The Transformational Community and the Genesis of a New Religion Belief Busters Are These Feelings Really Yours?
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The Faery Seership is a collection of beliefs and practices influenced by Celtic folklore and our spiritual family in the other world. It is a new paradigm for conscious alliance with the earth and other living beings who share the earth’s surface and underworld. Discover faery beliefs, elements, and their relevance to mystical humanity. Explore the different types of faery beings, their interactions with humanity, the alignment of the soul to sacred land, and how humanity can co-create with nature. Orion Foxwood is founder of the Faery Seership apprenticeship program and has lectured extensively on magical and mystical folk practices. He is the author of The Faery Teachings, Faery Seership, a collaborative CD project, and his latest, The Tree of Enchantment. 
The tarot is an ancient book of philosophy. Every aspect of life is contained within its evocative images. We respond to the symbols of the tarot intuitively, and through its great powers, we enter the innerworld. Discovering the secrets of the tarot is to undertake a journey of enlightenment and enchantment. The magical imagination is beyond time and space. There, all mysteries may be understood. Let the wonder of the tarot welcome you to its heart. It has the power to aid us in all aspects of our lives, and thus we should be grateful for such a magnificent gift. Gordon Strong was born within sight of Glastonbury Tor in Somerset. He can’t remember a time when he wasn’t writing. His work on the tarot, the goddess, and the holy grail are appreciated in England and Portland. 
The Reiki system of energy healing is one of the most widespread and profound healing traditions in all of human history. It can be used by anyone, on anyone. Earth Medicine Reiki is a natural extension of this technology. It extends Reiki’s core applications beyond the healing of the individual to healing of family systems, communities, and the environment. In this introductory talk, Shon Clark, MA will introduce you to the core ideas and basic practices of Earth Medicine Reiki. He will show you how you can take your existing reiki training to the next level. Shon has been a reiki teacher since the mid 1990’s. He developed Earth Medicine Reiki after several profound experiences following his own third reiki attunement. Shon sees Earth Medicine Reiki as a gift from our spiritual source to help us heal our planet.
Join Denise for an evening of fun as you begin to understand the Enneagram and discover your personality type. Denise uses the Enneagram with her clients and repeatedly witnesses transformations as her clients appreciate what they bring to the world through their personality type. The Enneagram dates back to Pythagoras, yet it’s only in the past century that we’ve begun to utilize this assessment tool in a manner that has a profound impact on an individual’s growth past their ego to their true essence. Begin your journey. Denise Giambalvo is a certified family life coach with a B.A. in psychology committed to helping teens, young adults, and parents have healthy relationships through self-discovery. To learn more visit 
This evening talk is based on the time-honored research of opthalmologist Dr. William H. Bates. Participants will begin to learn the causes and cures for poor eyesight, find out how to retrain the minds and eyes to no longer need those “readers” or bifocals and do some of the Bates Method exercises. Using whole brain learning, laughter and relaxation, accelerate your return to the clarity you once had in your eyesight. All you need to bring is an open mind! Gene Younger used this method to heal his own progressively worsening eyesight in 1985, so he is living proof that the Bates Method works. Gene is a certified vision educator, an advanced Bates Method practitioner as well as a reiki practitioner. He presently coaches natural vision and gives private lessons in Portland and Vancouver. 
This talk will give you practical and practically free ways to make all aspects of your life more successful. From how your home and office are set up to the psychology of color, you’ll walk away with a minimum of three things you’ll want to do immediately when you get back to your office, home, or both. 40 minutes will change how you think about your thought patterns, your home or office layout, the colors you live with, and what surrounds you in all your environments. This will include aspects of Feng Shui, good common sense, and a quick lesson in what colors mean. Linda Cahan is an internationally known retail design expert. She lectures and consults around the world, and has been a psychic counselor and palmist since 1975. She is the author of Feng Shui for Retailers.
Addicts, non-addicts, Buddhists and all spiritual seekers are welcome to engage in a spiritual journey seen through the eyes of the addict. Join Darren Littlejohn for an interactive process of information, meditation, and integration that clarifies even the most esoteric Buddhist ideas. Darren applies 12-Step principles, Zen and Tibetan practices, modern perspectives on counseling and an adaptation of Big Mind/Voice Dialogs to bring the wisdom of the Buddha into our daily lives. No experience necessary. He is the author of The 12-Step Buddhist. 
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. 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. 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. 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.
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.
Experience highlights from the new 7-CD audio learning course, Becoming an Oracle, Connecting to the Divine Source for Information and Healing. This is a pilgrimage, an odyssey of 19 shamanic journeys as you explore ancient and modern oracular technology, including 14 unique cultural traditions with one of the foremost authorities on guided visualizations. The focus is on ceremonies and initiations that bring us into alignment with truth, harmony, and our inherent divinity. Please join us as we explore our unique oracular abilities through this exciting new body of work. Nicki Scully has been a healer and teacher of metaphysics, shamanism, and the Egyptian mysteries since 1983. She lectures worldwide and specializes in spiritual tours to Egypt. Her other books include Alchemical Healing and Power Animal Meditations, and is co-author of The Anubis Oracle.
As our minds are engaged with either delusions of the anticipated future or the dead past, we can only have glimpses of being present at random moments. Here, we will experience the present and how joyful life is once we are there. Defne Suman, MA uses a combination of different techniques: simple yoga asanas, breathing exercises, and guided meditations. Also, we will enjoy a cup of tea together. No prior experience is necessary, just the desire to experience the moment! Defne, born and raised in Istanbul, has studied and taught meditation and yoga in various parts of the world, such as Thailand, India, Turkey, and the United States. We welcome Defne back for a visit.
Take a breather! You’ve been taking care of business, now take care of yourself! Let Al Lee show you how to take advantage of powerful techniques that will immediately start to lower your stress level and improve your health, performance, and emotional wellbeing. Learn specific techniques to boost your immune system, lower blood pressure, accelerate healing, and improve creativity and stamina. Used by fighter pilots, elite climbers, performing artists, athletes, healers, and spiritual seekers all over the world, they can easily be integrated in to your personal and professional lives. Al Lee is the co-author of the book Perfect Breathing: Transform Your Life One Breath at a Time and combines extensive experience, great stories, and cutting-edge science into an entertaining program that opens up a world of untapped potential. 
People, now more than ever, walk two paths physical and spiritual. During this evening talk, you will explore your role as an everyday mystic. Learn how to live authentically and on purpose with practical applications of mystical principles. Weave your own spiritual path into regular day-to-day tasks with mystical tools applied during this evening’s exercises and meditations. Susan Marek is an Angel Therapy Practitioner¨ and medium, certified by Doreen Virtue, PhD. She is also the author of A Children’s Guide to Chakras. A life-long intuitive, Susan works with angels, ascended?masters, and elementals to provide guidance and healing. Learn more at 
Brave and brilliant minds are taking their passion, ideas and dreams and turning them into successful careers. Marketing is the public and personal expression of your work that has to be clear, strong, and effective. Erin Donley is passionate about marketing that ignites creative flow and generates word-of-mouth enthusiasm. In this talk you’ll gain ideas that spark media, community, and customer support. You’ll learn how to advertise your work with more impact, so that your truth rings true with others. Erin worked in sales and marketing in Portland radio and is now a marketing consultant, a manager at NRB, and the editor of New Renaissance News (the weekly email update). Learn more at 
Attention all Harry Potter fans! Gather ‘round as we sip Rosemary’s Remembrance tea and create enchanted herbal formulas with plants, gemstones, and positive intentions! By using these subtle energies, young Potter fans will learn how to develop an inner world that expands and activates their highest potential. Apprentices will play with kid-safe herbs to create Merlin’s Lucky Charm Powder and Stardust Sleeping Spray. Students will take home their own creations and notes for further transformation. Katie Mueller is a student at Michael Tierra’s East West School of Herbology. As a New Renaissance Bookshop manager and buyer for the essential oils and flower essences, Katie is also passionate about nature, spiritual (r)evolution and having fun! Ages 8-14. 
Hank Wesselman PhD, anthropologist and author of the Spiritwalker trilogy, The Journey to the Sacred Garden and Spirit Medicine, will offer some thoughts about the new community that is coming into being in response to the current times of change. He will also talk about a new spiritual complex that is quietly taking form within this community, at whose epicenter lies the direct transformation of the sacred realms that defines the mystic. Hank is a shamanic practitioner and teacher and currently lives in Hawaii. Visit his site at 
Have you ever wondered how it would be to have the skills to change your limiting beliefs quickly and easily, into powerful core beliefs that support your fullest potential? This workshop will help you identify and change old beliefs that no longer serve you. New and empowering core beliefs help you increase flexibility, change habits, build confidence, and enhance well-being. When you re-educate the internal system that holds your old patterns in place, you create a new foundation for your life and change springs forth naturally. Upgrade your internal software to more current versions and faster processors just as you update your clothing with current fashions. Dawn Lianna, MA is a well-loved trainer and reader. Combined with compassion, sensitivity and skill, her classes and readings are safe, fun, and insightful. Dawn has been featured in several new age publications. 
It’s possible that 65-90% of what you “feel” does not belong to you. The energy of others may be affecting you more than you realize. We will discuss signs of energy loss or disruption and techniques to limit the drain and restore our energy fields, creating an environment where we can move forward with strength and clarity. Particularly useful for healing arts practitioners and caregivers, this information can help anyone regain wellness and balance. As a massage therapist, Dewey Meyer would get “energy sickness” from others. After working with a Vietnamese Master, she gained the ability to open and activate chakras for others to help them manage their energy fields. Presently Dewey teaches seminars and has a private practice in Portland.