July Events Registration 2012
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Accepting Our Choices, Healing Our Stories: A Writing Workshop
Jill Kelly, Sun. July 1, 11 am-2 pm, $30
Our lives are made up of the choices we’ve made and the stories behind those choices. Understanding our choices and telling those stories can help us heal the past and create a better future. Come find out: •Why we should tell our stories •How we can make peace and create art out of our choices •How we can use the past to write better stories for now and the future. No writing experience needed. Bring a journal. Jill Kelly, PHD, is a Portland writer, editor, visual artist, and creativity coach. She is the author of Sober Truths: The Making of an Honest Woman, an Oregon Book Award finalist. jillkellyauthor.com
Awake and Know! Lucid Dreaming Techniques for Manifesting Solutions & Remote Viewing
Carol Cochero, Sun. July 1, 3-5 pm, $20
Learn how to remote view and manifest solutions to your every problem using lucid dreaming techniques. We will focus on creating a template you can use nightly to train your unconscious mind to solve your problems while you sleep. A surprise gift will be given to each attendee! Carol Corchero has always been interested in the mysteries of life and as a young child found that her vivid dream life led to her remote viewing skills and discovering that many of her dreams were precognitive. Over the course of many years she has actively participated in lucid dream studies and researched techniques to develop a consistent approach to dream interpretation and unique triggers to unlock the unconscious mind’s language for active dream solutions. ClarityByCarol.com
Full Moon Drumming Circle: For Peace and Healing
Connie Hill, Mon. July 2, 6:30-8 pm, $12
Drumming and rattling help clear and shift energy, help release what is no longer needed in our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies, and help us manifest new energy in our lives. We will clear our personal energy and then focus on how to replace what was released. Last, we’ll act as conduits for planetary healing. Join Connie Hill who has taught rattle and drum making and led drumming circles for more than 20 years. For 12 years Connie was NRB’s event coordinator. Now, in her private practice she offers astrology readings, spiritual coaching, ceremonial tool making and ritual classes to help people in their personal transitions. Bring a drum, rattle or other percussion instruments. A few extra instruments will be available. GMNite.com
NRB will be closed on Wed. July 4th
Happy Independence Day!
So You Think You Can Breathe? Better Breathing for Energy and Vitality
Emily Olson, Thurs. July 5, 6:30-8:30 pm, $20
Within each of us lies the ability to breathe deeper and feel better. It sounds so simple, yet many of us have not even begun to explore the potential of our own breath. The breath is available to us in every moment and we can use it at any time to feel more vital, more connected and more alive, so why not? This class will explore safe, energizing breathing and movement techniques that give you an opportunity to breathe deeply, move mindfully, and feel great! Emily Olson, RYT is a yoga therapist and teacher in Portland. She works with people to help them move their body, free their breath, and enjoy better health and happiness. PotentialsYogaStudio.com
Guided Hypno-Chakra Balancing with 9 Singing Crystal Bowls
Nicole Vanderhoff, Fri. July 6, 7-8:30 pm, $12
Hypno-Chakra Therapy is a combination of hypnotherapy, chakra balancing, and sound healing with 9 singing quartz crystal bowls. Each group session begins connecting to the Source of All That Is, anchoring those Divine energies within your being, and grounding you to the stabilizing energies of Mother Earth. The space is created to allow you to connect to your own Divinity, claiming your own innate spiritual power within, and raising the vibration of your being. Nicole Vanderhoff is a Certified Hypnotherapist and has a private practice in Portland. She has been facilitating these chakra balancing meditations with her singing bowls for 7 years. TrinitiHealing.com
Soul Archeology: Karma as Pathway to Purpose, Power and Passion Through Evolutionary Astrology
Paul Richard, Sat. July 7, 10:30 am-12:30 pm, $20
At times, any one of us can feel stuck, hindered, and disconnected from our passions. We desire abundance, yearn for purpose-driven lives, seek inner peaceyet we falter. Our birth charts reveal our past lives’ unresolved issues that restrict or block us, AND the “medicine” for healing them - a healing that unleashes our souls’ deepest potentials. Paul H. Richard, M.Div., will introduce you to the Lunar Nodes’ wisdom for transforming karma’s grip and energizing the soul’s life-plan. Trained in depth psychology, astrology and spirituality, certified and recommended by world-renowned astrologer Steven Forrest, Paul has helped people for 30+ years to discover their purpose, power, and passion through counseling, mentoring, ritual, astrology and intuitive healing. For a free birth chart to use at the event send your birth information to Paul@PaulHRichard.com. PaulHRichard.com
Communicating with our Reiki Guides
Colleen Benelli, Sat. July 7, 2-5 pm, $30
Through guided meditations and journeys with Reiki, students will become more aware of their particular way of communication with their Reiki Guides. Many Reiki practitioners can feel their guides speaking, but do not understand their language well enough to communicate effectively with them. This experiential presentation can teach people about their personal way of dialoguing with Reiki. For more, see Colleen’s article “Communicating with Our Reiki Guides,” Reiki News Magazine, Summer 07, free on her website, www.reikilifestyle.com. Colleen Benelli, Sh.D. is a full time Reiki Master teacher and practitioner. She is a Licensed Teacher for the International Center for Reiki Training (ICRT) and an Associate Teacher for the LightSong School of Shamanic Studies.
Mantra: Gateway to Transcendence
Anna Bredahl, Sat. July 7, 6:30-8:30 pm, $20
Mantra, the ancient practice of repeating a sacred phrase, is also a very modern practice for stepping into transcendence. There are mantras for every purpose, to attract abundance, heal your body, heal the mind, even deal with difficult neighbors! In this workshop we’ll work with several sanskrit mantras and simple chants that have proven to be effective in removing obstacles, in relieving stress, and in improving the dynamics of relationships through forgiveness. Anna Bredahl, New Ren’s event coordinator, has been fascinated by and incorporated the power of mantras in her private and professional life for the past 10 years.
Aligning with Joy: A One Day Summer Retreat
Deborah Eden Tull and Caverly Morgan, Sun. July 8, 10:30 am-4:30 pm, $60

We live in a world that supports a mentality of “faster, more, better.” Often our focus is outward on doing, achieving, deadlines, yet our attention isn’t grounded in the present moment and such activities lead to stress, exhaustion, and imbalance. This is your opportunity to pause, savor the experience of being alive, focus on how to align with an effortless and sustainable way to grow, uncover beliefs that no longer serve, and align with the ease of compassionate awareness. Included are sitting and walking meditation, mindful eating (bring a lunch), guided imagery, Awareness Practice exercises, chanting practice and group discussion. Deborah Eden Tull is a meditation teacher, author, and founder of Mindful Living Revolution. DeborahEdenTull.com Caverly Morgan is the founder and director of the nonprofit One House of Peace. OneHouseofPeace.org
Drop-In Meditation
Anna Bredahl, Wed. July 11, 5:30-6:30 pm, FREE!
Group meditation always helps you to go deeper! You’ve learned to meditate now you’re looking for opportunities to fit it into your life. New Renaissance Bookshop is offering a free drop-in meditation session on the second Wednesday of each month. Drop by after work and enjoy a quiet session of peace with like-minded people. We’ll start the session with some simple chants and an affirmation. Then we’ll enjoy 30-40 minutes of silence and end with healing prayers. Bring your pillow, bench, shawl or other meditation supplies. Anna Bredahl, New Renaissance Bookshop’s Event Coordinator, has been practicing and teaching meditation for 20 years.
AstroTarot: “No Experience Required”
Paul Richard, Thurs. July 12, 6:30-8:30 pm, $20
Have you ever struggled with, been confused by, or disagreed with those Internet explanations of your birth chart? Toss those prefab explanations and understand your chart in a whole new personally unique way! Paul will share with you a fun, transformative technique to understand your birth chart using tarot cards even if you’ve never studied astrology or used the tarot. Bring your birth chart - or contact Paul for one - and a tarot deck (a few decks will be available if you don’t have your own.) Complete beginners welcome! Trained in depth psychology, astrology, and spirituality, certified and recommended by world-renowned astrologer Steven Forrest, Paul Richard has helped people for 30+ years to discover their purpose, power, and passion through counseling, mentoring, ritual, astrology and intuitive healing. For a free birth chart go to Astro.com or send email to Paul@PaulHRichard.com. PaulHRichard.com
Ascension 2012: The Greatest Year in Human Existence
Jan Engels-Smith, Fri. July 13, 6:30-8:30, $20
Energetically, the earth is ascending into a new dimension. Can you feel it? This time holds potentials like no other in human history. The great shift is toward a paradigm of unity and wholeness. This is a world that exists with forces that sustain life and create perfection; love, joy and ecstasy, and promise of a positive future. In order to reap the benefits of this prophesied shift that is in motion NOW you must be an energetic or vibrational match with this ascension. Learn how to change your vibration. Explanations and techniques will be presented for those interested in the personal ascension. Jan Engels-Smith is an author, teacher, shamanic practitioner, Reiki Master and founder of LightSong School of Shamanic Studies. In her thriving practice, she has conducted 100’s of healing seminars and performed over 3,000 soul retrievals. LightSong.net
Journey Circle: The Seven Mastermind Set Principles and Energy Medicine for the Planet
Anna Abraham, Sun. July 15, 11 am-2 pm, $30
A soul inspiring visualization into the Seven Mastermind Set principles of timeless wisdom and empowerment, unveiled in the Chakra Seven Points of Light. Through these portals of self mastery, you can raise your vibration and live the light of your truth with conscious intention. You gain insight into your individual and universal purpose as a co-creator. Your way of being in the world is energy medicine for your soul, for Mother Earth and the world you help to create. Join the mighty spirit of the circle and reach for something higher. Anna Abraham empowers people on the journey of self-expansion as a Shaman, intuitive, master energy practitioner, counselor, hypnotherapist, and writer. MasterEnergyHealer.com
Sustain Yourself: Recharge, Restore, Renew Yourself
James Wanless, Sat. July 21, 2-6 pm, $45
Experience nature’s 101 eco-principles of perpetual renewal for sustained living. A channel to the mythic Green Man, James Wanless, Ph.D, creator of the best-seller Voyager Tarot, will unveil his new Sustain Yourself Cards, based upon the evergreen qualities of nature as a spiritual and practical path for living well and living long. See what Mother Nature has to say about your health, relationships, work and personal growth and take home your free Sustain Yourself Card! James Wanless, Ph.D., author of his latest book, Sustainable Life: The New Success and and newest deck, Sustain Yourself Cards: 101 Eco-Principles to Recharge, Restore and Renew Yourself, and Voyager Tarot, is a well-noted and popular futurist, consultant, keynote speaker, author and naturalist. He speaks and trains leaders and companies throughout the world with in the creative right-brain processes found in his book, Intuition@Work. VoyagerTarot.com
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