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March Events Registration 2012 If you are registering closer than 48 hours before an event, please call the store to register: 503-224-4929. Staying Centered in the Midst of Change Thrive Through Depression and Illness: Integration of Psyche, Body and Nature Spiritual Guidance Through the Hakulit: Revealing Your Blind Spots Union with the Mystical Heart of God/Goddess: True Love and World Service Everyday Meditation: For Health, Stress Relief and Everyday Joy Develop Your Dowsing Skills Turn Back Time: Leveraging Intuition for Anti-Aging and Health Full Moon Drumming Circle: For Peace and Healing Dawn of the Goddess Writing Your Inspirational Story: The Art of Spiritual Memoir Help Yourself: Self Hypnosis for a Better Life Muscle Testing Workshop: Making Your Life Easier Finding Peace Inside Your Skin: The Psycho-Spiritual Benefits of Postural Alignment Journey to the Akasha, the Keys to Spiritual Success Drop-In Meditation Singing into Bone: Ceremony of Surrender and Renewal Soul Weekend: An Inspirational Evening with Suzie Wolfer and Katrina Wynne Working With Your Spiritual Toolkit Magick Incense Making 101 Finding Your Soul Purpose and Path in Life SoulCollage®: Invite Your Soul to Speak Kick Doubt Out: Five Secrets to Revealing your Inner Authority An Evening in Egypt through Crystal Essence Phase I: Awake? Now what. Excellent. You’re awake. Now? Healing From Depression and Anxiety: A Body, Mind and Spirit Recovery Program Opening the Heart to Divine Love and Grace New Connexion Wellness Night at New Ren - Breakthrough Chakra Meditation The Miracle of Crystals and Pranic Healing Archetypal Acupuncture: Healing with the Five Elements Intuitive Self-Healing Inner Vision: The Workshop The Language of the Elements: Your Key to Releasing Blocks between You and Your True Nature On Healing The Wounds Of The Heart |
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There is a saying, “One thing in life you can count on is change.” We’ve been getting a taste of the predicted accelerated changes with natural disasters, financial turbulence, and political upheaval. Many individuals are experiencing their own fluctuations, such as job changes, relationship transitions and even illnesses. But all of the changes happening now are actually for the greater good and can bring about an expanded consciousness. So what can we do now? Diana Byrnes will offer suggestions and techniques to assist you in staying present with yourself and riding the waves of change gracefully, with good intentions and even enthusiasm. We can all learn to master the art of staying present in the heart and centered in ourselves, even as things shift all around us. With positive intentions reinforced by centering techniques, the new energy can become the catalyst for our individual and collective growth. 
Synergy of mind, body and spirit effects health and disease. Western psychology, Eastern medicine, Apache medicine and tracking promote healing. Learn how disease and depression can be a path to transformation and self-discovery. After decades of intense exploration and self-discovery, Norma Schell learned this lesson first hand, as her MS symptoms disappeared. Schell counsels people with MS and other diseases locally and throughout the US. Schell authored: Heal from the Heart. Norma Schell B.S.N., is a Licensed professional Counselor certified in Oregon and Washington and is a graduate of Tom Brown’s Tracking, Nature, & Wilderness Survival School. 
Blind spots create the lack of clarity in us that manifest situations for which we seek spiritual guidance. The Hakulit uses the Qi Vesta, the “Breath of the Divine”, to assist you in revealing the question which will empower you through enhanced insights and perceptions bringing you the clarity you seek. This is a hands-on process guided by Rain and Annique based on Almine Barton’s teachings. Annique has over 25 years experience in alternative medicine. She’s a graduate of Alimine Barton’s Institutes of Human Potential and was personally mentored by Almine. Rain on the Earth has been in the forefront of transformational movements since the 60’s. Presently she is working with Almine’s cutting edge material. 
Learn to heal unconscious fears from your descent from heaven that are playing out in your life. This workshop explains: the basic anatomy of the energy field, how unconscious fears create our outer ‘realities’, a simple meditative self-healing technique, and the stages of growth and suffering in the transformation process. Experiential healing time is included. When made a daily practice, this method gradually leads each individual into union with the One, the mystical Heart of God/Goddess. This happily-ever-after portal initiates each individual’s highest personal destiny and human true love partnership. Jill Frew, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, light healer, and author, with a passion for Celtic spirituality. She has led workshops on energy healing and Celtic lore for thirteen years.
In this inspiring evening, Tobin Blake author of Everyday Meditation will offer the guidance, encouragement, and structure both beginning and advanced meditation students need to either start a new practice or take an existing one to the next level. You’ll walk away with tips for creating a daily practice, uprooting the blocks that stand in your way, and reprogramming the constant waterfall of negative thoughts into a more compassionate, loving, and forgiving one. Tobin Blake, author of Everyday Meditation: 100 Daily Meditations for Health, Stress Relief, and Everyday Joy and The Power of Stillness has been practicing meditation for twenty years. He lives in Bend, Oregon. 
Dowsing is a simple practice using indicators like pendulums and swing rods to access your natural intuitive responses. It is used by well drillers, physicians, and many other professionals looking for objects or information. New Renaissance tarot reader, Jerry Henderson, is an experienced dowser, a dowsing teacher, and a member of the American Society of Dowsers. Learn the major factors influencing dowsing accuracy, how to use dowsing as a method of developing intuition, and have opportunities for hands-on practice. Workshop fee includes a set of swing rods for you to keep. Jerry Henderson has spent many years studying the connection of man, nature, and spirit. As a home designer and contractor, he has applied his natural intuitive gifts not only to finding water, but to helping people improve their relationship to their chosen place in the world. 
Is it possible to think yourself physically younger? There is mounting evidence that what we think and feel about ourselves can have dramatic changes in our bodies. Mystics, healers and masters have known this throughout the millennia. Learn about people’s experiences of altering their physicality just by changing their beliefs about themselves. Discover what some quantum physicists are now saying about what is possible. Susan will take you through exercises, including breakout groups, designed to expand your mind and powerful creative nature. Susan Wiley has taught classes and seminars about intuition for twenty years. She works with health care professionals, psychologists and shamans, and has participated in research on remote healing and energy. 
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. 
Gordon Strong, a veteran chronicler of established myth and legend, shares with us his new novel Dawn of The Goddess. In it he creates a vivid and exciting world in the Arthurian tradition. Its major theme – the acknowledgement and recognition of the feminine principle – reflects the spiritual world of our own era. The tale is of the union of male and female manifesting a magical synthesis. This same force will bring enlightenment in 2012. The virtues of peace, love and understanding are embodied in The Goddess – Mother Earth, Queen of Heaven. Gordon Strong is a published author of books on Magic, Arthurian Legends, Sacred Sites and Tarot. He is a popular speaker, workshop host and psychic reader. He was once a rock’n’roll star too. 
When Marie Lawson Fiala’s teenage son was struck down by a cerebral hemorrhage, her family’s life changed forever. Her memoir of that experience, Letters from a Distant Shore, is poignant, lyrical, and honest. Marie will share with you the art and craft of writing memoir. If the work of the memoirist is to tease out the pattern that exists in life, how does the writer select what personal material to reveal and put on the page?? Come and learn the do’s and don’ts of memoir in this interactive 2 hour workshop. Marie Lawson Fiala, holds A.B. and J.D. degrees from Stanford and an M.F.A. She is a full-time practicing attorney and a partner in an international law firm, specializing in complex commercial litigation. 
Journey to other realms. Rid yourself of negative beliefs, self-defeating patterns, and connect with your high-wise Self and Masters, using self-hypnosis. In this experiential workshop you will learn how to be your own guide using templates for a variety of issues, to ask yourself the right questions, and to see and hear the answers. You will also learn to offer peer support so you and a trusted friend can help one another. Julia Ingram, Master Regression Therapist, is an old friend of NRB. She is a popular presenter who has given numerous workshops and seminars throughout the U.S. and Canada and is the author of The Lost Sisterhood, the forthcoming Born Scared, and co-author of The Messengers. 
Muscle testing is a dynamic event. It can be used to medically check for joint, muscle and nerve function. Or it can be used in non-linear ways to determine what is in the highest interest for an individual, business, relationship or spiritual path through accessing the universal consciousness. If muscle testing is used properly, it can make your life much easier. In this muscle testing workshop you will learn how muscle testing works, how to do it properly and how to apply it to important things in your life. Robert Ciprian, D.C., D.I.B.A.K., is a holistic medicine doctor and teacher in Portland, Oregon. He has taught Applied Kinesiology across the country to health care professionals and the general public. 
Energetic channels, chakra alignment and “being in the flow” are disrupted by postural misalignment just as much as easy breathing, blood circulation, and muscular relaxation. Learn how to align your skeleton to support all your body’s systems, both the physical and the psycho-spiritual aspects of “being” a body and not just “having” one. You’ll be getting “into the flow” at the same time you’re learning how to release chronic tension and pain. Kathleen Porter is the author of Ageless Spine, Lasting Health and Sad Dog, Happy Dog, books on natural skeletal alignment. She is the director of the Center for Natural Alignment and is on the faculty of the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York. 
‘Know Thyself’ is the central theme of many sacred texts. And, the Akashic Records is the recorded history of all Souls visiting the earth plane. This is God’s Library; the best way to find out who you are and why you are here. When you can tap into your Akashic records, they will give you exciting information about your Soul’s Journey, your Life Path and your Heart’s Desire. Come enjoy a colorful and descriptive discourse on what visionary techniques and energy exercises are available to you, to help you access the Akashic Records. Learn the benefits of opening up the creative and visionary portals of the higher mind and how to apply them in your life and spiritual practices. Bill Foss, author of The Secrets of Spiritual Success: Keys to the Art of an Abundant Lifestyle, is a professional visionary artist, musician and spiritual teacher. He has been studying the Akashic Records and helping others access them for more than 20 years. 
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.
This ceremony is a great way to end the year and begin again! It is a chance for you to pause at the altar with all your humanness and to remember who you came here to be. Relax, receive and benefit from a ceremony that calls forth the earth, the grandmothers, the moon and the stars. Through drumbeat, tones, and vocals, you’ll be sung down into your bones to experience an altered state of consciousness. You reemerge in the world with more clarity, belonging and relief from all your efforts as what no longer serves you will be encouraged to fall away. Bring a yoga mat and blanket, or something to rest on. And, most importantly, come as you are. Please arrive 10 minutes early and quietly get comfortable. Rebecca Singer’s work of 20 years as a shamanic energy healer led her to live in the Cloud Forest of Monteverde, Costa Rica and the Russian Taiga to be with The Reindeer People. 
Soul Weekend kicks off with this presentation filled with tools for self-reflection and inspiration, and an introduction to the two empowering workshops offered on Saturday and Sunday. Katrina explores the process of uncovering your life purpose and vision. Then experience the power of imagery to create a direct connection with Soul with Suzie using SoulCollage®. Taste a bit of each independent event on Friday evening. Plant a seed that will grow and develop for years to come. Suzie Wolfer LCSW delights in working with people to discover the treasure that has been right inside them all along, like the Golden Buddha. 
One of the challenging aspects of many self-improvement techniques is the mastering of one’s own mental and emotional state. Yet the right emotions are the key ingredient to manifestation and healing. In this workshop we will explore the use of proven, tangible tools that bring about effective mental and emotional states. We will see how crystals, aromas, affirmations, sounds, and tastes, can be combined to create your own personal emergency spiritual tool kit to instantly progress with the intentions you are working on. Martha Soria Sears is a clinical hypnotherapist and transformation consultant. Her book Colors for Life will be released this year by Balboa Press/Hay House. Martha coaches people and businesses through transformative change. 
Learn the basics of incense making from Llewellyn author Carl Neal. If you’re simply curious about incense making or plan to burn sticks or cones around the house to improve the smell, then this is the class for you. Topics include bases, binders, aromatics, material preparation, rolling and drying techniques and more. This workshop also introduces you to “moist” or “kneaded” incense that is burned on charcoal. Plus, learn how to incorporate incense into rituals and ceremonies as well as the ethical concerns. Participants will get to make two different incense blends, including one “moist” incense style. Carl Neal is a self-professed incense fanatic who has been lucky enough to learn from a variety of incense makers from North and South America, Asia, and Europe. He has authored three books: Incense: Crafting & Use of Magickal Scents, The Magick Toolbox, and coming in March 2012 Incense Magick: Create Inspiring Aromatic Experiences for Your Craft. 
Have you ever wondered why we have trouble making decisions and taking action? Doubt is debilitating and disempowering and can leave us afraid to move forward. It can be costly in wasting time and energy. Empowerment happens when we recognize our own inner authority. We find alignment with our inner wisdom where we are aware of our intuition and find fresh solutions to stagnant problems. Sharing tools and techniques from her new book, Authentic Spirituality, Rev. Christine Green shares tools and techniques to overcome doubt and take steps to living an authentic life. Rev. Christine Green has been teaching and counseling others for over 20 years. Her clarity as a facilitator has helped her clients to live more productive and loving lives. She is also author of Anatomy of Caring, Insights on Faith from a Caregiver and Patient and Authentic Spirituality, A Woman’s Guide to Living an Inspired Life. 
Ever dreamed of going to Egypt? Now is your chance! I have created the “Codes of Egypt” Crystal Essences using crystals and stones from various temples and places throughout Egypt. Imagine being whisked away to the ancient times as you are guided through meditations with the essence of your choice. During each meditation, we will discover inner truths with relation to the temples and sands, healing at a deep soul level. One crystal essence will be provided. Amanda Bittinger is a crystal worker and intuitive. She teaches crystal connection classes, leading from a place of awareness in the body, mind and soul. 
You will be drawn into a state of undivided alertness and pure connection. Elle Collier Re realized the Always Attending Divine Presence at the age of 8. She is the teacher-in-residence at The HeartGate retreat center in Hood River. “Elle is amazing! She is the experience of unconditional Love for each she meets. Working with her has altered my life forever. Elle sees our highest potential and works at an energetic level impossible for the mind to understand. It seems she opens the doors we have closed within so that the Light of God can reshape our understanding of who we truly are.” Gayle Gregory, author, coach. 
Learn tools and coping strategies to stabilize your mood, increase energy, and achieve a high degree of emotional well-being. This recovery program uses a holistic approach that combines physical self-care, mental-emotional self-care, social support, spiritual connection and lifestyle habits. In addition, participants will benefit from being in a supportive community where they can have their experiences validated by others who are dealing with the same or similar issues, and thus UNDERSTAND. This kind of social support has been shown to bring about healing from mood disorders. Douglas Bloch, M.A., is the author of ten books on personal growth including Words That Heal, Astrology For Yourself, and Healing from Depression: 12 Weeks to a Better Mood. He resides in Portland where he facilitates depression/anxiety support groups. His web site is 
Join us in this deeply devotional kirtan as Shantala leads us on a journey of the heart with sacred lyrics and soul-stirring music. As we celebrate the spirit through this sacred music and are guided into a state of heightened awareness, bliss, and devotion, participants will open further into the deepest aspect of the Divine Love, the bhava of unconditional love, and receive Light transmission from Mirabai Devi. Open the heart and feel your problems, pain and suffering dissolve away in the pure Light of the Shakti. Mirabai Devi is an international spiritual teacher, author, healer, and founder of Mirabai Devi Foundation. As Shantala, Benjy and Heather Wertheimer lead kirtan worldwide creating music of passion and reverence. 
Do you need a jumpstart to breakthrough the seemingly impossible in your life? Try this rare and powerful chakra meditation practiced by the Naga Sadhus (naked renunciants) of India. If you are seeking change, a more powerful practice or a breakthrough in your life path in 2012, get ready to have a life-changing experience. KK Hannegan, also known as the Anchoress, has been initiated into spiritual practices in Vedic, Buddhist, Taoist, Indigenous and Christian mysticism. 
World renowned healer and teacher Master Stephen Co will share the ancient secrets of harnessing the Life Force or Chi Energy to remove stress, boost your vitality and accelerate healing from common health issues. He will also teach you how to harness and focus this Life Force by using Mother Nature’s Power Tools - Crystals! He will discuss how to utilize the power of Quartz Crystals and various Gemstones for protection, increasing energy levels, and healing relationships. Master Co will also use a powerful consecrated Laser Crystal to do a group healing. Come away feeling lighter, stress free and highly energized! Free Self Healing CD’s to attendees. Please visit 
The model of the Five Elements, originating in ancient China, is the basis for a system of medicine that addresses emotional issues, works on well-being, and touches the spirit level. Unique to his newly released book, Archetypal Acupuncture: Healing with the Five Elements, is the way the elements are understood as universal symbols. Dr. Gary Dolowich will share comparisons between Chinese concepts and the archetypes of Jungian psychology, enriching each system. Through the use of poetry, Ch’i Gong exercises, and case histories, participants will have the opportunity to come away with insights into their own health. In his medical practice, the author has integrated Five Element acupuncture, Zero Balancing, and general biomedicine for 32 years. 
Marie’s first book, Intuitive Self-Healing, will help the reader understand the core connection between the human energy centers, emotions, and the body’s organs. Through fascinating true client stories you will walk away with a new understanding of how to heal. You’ll be guided through quick effective exercises that can instantly change your human energy system to begin the healing process. Join Marie for this informative talk and book signing. You might even receive a mini-reading! While working as an oncology nurse, Marie Manuchehri, discovered her intuitive gifts for perceiving energy and facilitating healing. She teaches popular workshops, and hosts a radio program Where Energy and Medicine Meet. 
What your Soul came here to do has probably changed since you decided to incarnate. Here, in meditations of sound and silence, is an opportunity to update your soul’s journey by releasing outdated energies and connecting with the guides, angels and energies that support you right now. Your traditional Heart Chakra and the newly emerging High Heart and Navel Chakras are very much a part of this, and will be addressed. Wear loose comfy clothes for breathing and chanting. Smiles welcome. Norma Gentile, sound shaman, combines her professional training in voice with two decades of esoteric healing. Her music and expertise magnifies each person’s own connection to Spirit. Listen now: 
Do you argue with yourself a lot? Would you call yourself relatively self aware but keep repeating some irksome thought patterns or behaviors? Then check out this refreshing process called the Organic Life Management System. This system is naturally fun and will ignite inner honesty thru exploring the self talk of your belief systems and teach you how to evolve any negative thinking. Join other life explorers and reconnect with nature’s power and wisdom. You’ll walk away with a workbook, a unique way to coach yourself thru changes, and even an experience with Laughter Yoga as an optional joyful break activity! Michelle Wirta is a teacher, writer, and speaker with a background in clinical psychology, coaching, holistic health, and movement therapy. 
According to saints and mystics, love is the very fabric of who we are; we are fashioned out of its warmth and openness. In moments when our lives are so on track and we feel a deep sense of meaning and purpose we can rest assured that the presence of love is alive! But often, when love is absent, things may not feel quite right or there might be a deep sense of sadness. In these moments we can fall prey to meaninglessness, anxiety or despair. Come join Michelle for a night of connection and community while we discuss how we might heal the wounds of the heart on an individual and global level. Michelle Emery is a Portland based professional counselor and coach who specializes in working with men, women and adolescents. She has a deep passion for facilitating deeper connections individually and globally.