Coyote Wisdom: Native American Medicine & Healing Practices
Monday, March 3, 7-8:30 pm $14
This talk will be filled with Native American wisdom, stories, practices and ritual. Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD, author of Coyote Medicine, Coyote Wisdom, Coyote Healing and his new book Narrative Medicine, will share his wisdom as a Native American healer pioneering the blending of traditional native healing with modern medical practice. We will explore how Native Americans view health and disease, who is a healer and how healing is supported. Lewis will share lessons from Native American medicine and spirituality for healing and personal growth, creating the sacred and miraculous in a richly informative experience. Lewis graduated from Stanford Medical School, then completed residencies in family medicine and psychiatry. He has studied geriatrics and has a PhD in clinical psychology from the Psychological Studies Institute in Palo Alto. His Website is drmehlmadrona.com.
Flowing Movement T’ai Chi With Karin
Tuesday, March 4-25 $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.
Prosperity as a Creative Activity
Wednesday, March 5, 7-8:30 pm $12
It seems that making money honestly is the most difficult of all life’s undertakings... Making money is full of trials and romance. Many want success, a few act for it, and a very few perseveringly and wisely act to find it. Paramhansa Yogananda (1929)
Find the joy in the creative process, and prosper along the way. Principles of success are covered in this class time. Come explore how to make a success of any worthwhile endeavor. Daiva Glazzard is the director of Ananda Portland. Over the years, he has helped create many business ventures and cooperative communities around the world. He has seen the application of universal principles that lead to success and fulfillment in retail, service industries, publishing, manufacturing, construction, health and healing practices and delights to share those principles.
How is Tao Now?
Thursday, March 6, 7-8:30 pm $15
Benjamin Hoff’s, international bestseller, The Tao of Pooh was on The New York Times bestseller list for 49 weeks. Its successor, The Te of Piglet, was on New York Times bestseller list for 59 weeks. Both books brought the previously obscure Chinese spiritual teachings known as Taoism to the attention of mainstream America. For years these books have been used as high school and college texts for classes in a wide variety of subjects and have been publicly endorsed by notables such as English pop-philosophy author John Tyerman Williams, American marketing-communication guru Michael Ray, Wall Street investment counselor and author Bennett Goodspeed and popular screen actress Julia Roberts. Tonight, join Benjamin as he talks about the post Pooh Taoist literary world and the mysteries of Tao Te Ching. Bejamin Hoff is an Oregon-born writer, photographer, musician and composer.
Reincarnation, Karma & Astrology
Friday, March 7, 7-8:30 pm $12
Are past lives reflected in our astrological birth charts? How, specifically? Reincarnation theory suggests that we are responsible for the planetary patterns we were born under. With Judith Hill, explore the five types of karma and the issue of destiny versus free will as they pertain to the astrological birth map. Learn how your chart describes the aversions, talents, strengths and weaknesses you came in with and how these are described rather than caused by planetary birth patterns. A fascinating evening for anyone interested in reincarnation, karma or astrology! No astrological knowledge is necessary. Judith is a life-long astrologer, researcher and award-winning author of seven books, including Medical Astrology: A Guide to Planetary Pathology, Astrological Body Types and Vocational Astrology. Judith is widely known for her riveting lectures on a wide variety of metaphysical and medical topics.
Spring Labyrinth Meditation
Saturday, March 8, 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.”
Feng Shui of Abundance
Sunday, March 9, 10:30-1:30 pm $35 (includes supplies)
Would you like to understand the bagua (the Feng Shui energy map) and how to apply it to your home or office? In this workshop, Gigi Estabrook will suggest the use of design elements and object placement to eliminate blockages and bring in energy for positive change. Learn Feng Shui basics to apply in your space to create a balanced environment for financial prosperity, a supportive relationship and other personal and professional goals. We will end our session by creating vision boards based on Feng Shui principles so that your intentions are sent to the universe. Supplies are provided, but feel free to bring personal items to include on your vision board. Bring a snack or sack lunch. Gigi is a certified Feng Shui and space clearing practitioner in the Black Sect tradition (gigiestabrook.com). Please honor the Red Envelope tradition by bringing a red envelope with a dollar inside. The money will be donated and the envelopes burned in a fire ceremony at the new year.
Divine Guidance: Getting Clear On Your Clairs!
Thursday, March 13, 7-8:30 pm $12
The song on the radio that has just the right lyrics for you at just the right time. The vivid dream about a stranger whom you then meet. These are forms of divine guidance, which all of us have the ability to receive! This evening focuses on the four clairs - clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience and claircognizance - and how you can become “clear on your clairs.” Learn the difference between true and false guidance. Discover your own communication style and learn techniques to improve your divine reception with all four clairs. Susan Marek is a certified Angel Therapy Practitioner®, certified by Doreen Virtue, PhD. A life-long intuitive, Susan works with angels, ascended masters and elementals to provide guidance and healing. Learn more at earthangelhealingarts.com.
Thrive Through Depression and Illness: Integration of Psyche & Body
Friday, March 14, 7-8:30 pm $12
In this experiential workshop you’ll learn about the synergistic effect of mind, body and spirit in health and disease, and how to use Western psychology, Eastern medicine and shamanism as tools for healing. We will delve into the power of the mind and its role in health and well-being. We will also investigate the language of the body and how disease and depression can be a path to transformation and self-discovery. Millions of people suffer from illness and depression; it is possible to use these challenges to enhance our lives! After a decade of intense exploration and self-discovery, Norma Schell found that her symptoms of multiple sclerosis abated after using Eastern medicine, Western psychology and shamanism. She is the author of Heal from the Heart and she counsels people with MS and chronic disease, both locally and throughout the US.
Present Moment Awareness
Saturday, March 15, 10:30-1:30 pm $30
This workshop is a form of mindfulness training that aims to develop moment-to-moment awareness in our emotions, minds and bodies in everyday life. As our minds are engaged with either delusions of the anticipated future or the dead past, we can have only 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.
Sound Awakening Evening
Saturday, March 15, 7-8:30 pm $15
Take an evening to slow down with a beautiful sacred sound journey. Soak in an evening of deep vibrations with Tom Lange and Jen Ervast. They will fill the room with didjeridus, singing bowls, gongs, flute and more. These instruments from ancient cultures around the world will be played throughout the room on, and over, people so you feel as well as hear the music. You are invited to relax and release into these sounds, allowing them to take you on your own harmonic journey. Tom has been playing music most of his life and the didjeridu for the past 12 years. He has focused on the healing powers of sound for most of that time. Jen has a scientific background but discovered a strong resonance with these instruments. Info:sonicmassage.com. Registration is limited to 40.
Tools for Creative Manifestation
Sunday, March 16, 10:30-2 pm $45
With all the buzz about The Secret, we have a great number of new skills and positive intention available to us. Are you using the tools and still find yourself with a problem area where you feel stuck? If so, this empowering workshop is for you. We live in a belief-created universe. Your subconscious is your deeper operating system. You will learn how to clear your subconscious with exercises and techniques including EFT, NLP, communicating with your symptoms and, best of all, self-love. When you are clear and aligned, your intentions will manifest more quickly and easily. Dawn Lianna, MA, is an NLP trainer, a hypnotherapist and an intuitive. She is a fun and empowering instructor with a wonderful ability to help you learn the tools for successful manifesting.
Listen with Reiki
Thursday, March 20, 7-8:30 pm $12
Listening well is an important skill for a good Reiki practitioner and teacher. In this presentation, Colleen Benelli teaches Reiki techniques to develop listening skills that bring wonderful benefits to all areas of a practitioner’s life. Colleen is a contributing author for the Reiki News magazine, and her article, Listen with Reiki, was published in the Winter 07 issue. Colleen teaches Reiki as a lifestyle to help people create their lives with joy and a light heart. She is a licensed Usui and Tibetan Karuna® Reiki Master teacher for The International Center for Reiki Training and LightSong School of Shamanic Studies.
Introduction to Emotional Freedom Technique (Eft)
Friday, March 21, 7-8:30 pm $12
During this introduction to EFT, you will learn a simple and effective process for reducing or eliminating many of the fears, cravings, allergies and physical aches and pains that may have been getting in the way of your quality of life. What is EFT? Simply stated, it is an emotional version of acupuncture except needles aren’t necessary. Instead, you stimulate well-established energy meridian points on your body by tapping on them with your fingertips. During this experiential evening, Patricia Butler, LPC, will demonstrate the process by addressing some specific issues so you can experience this energetic technique for yourself. Patricia is a practicing therapist with 18 years of experience who has been incorporating EFT into her practice for four years. Check out the EFT website at www.emofree.com for more information. Then come and experience it for yourself.
Awaken, Unburden, Create
Saturday, March 22, 1-4 pm $35
Jan Engels-Smith, author of Becoming Yourself: Journey from Head to Heart and the founder of LightSong School of Shamanic Studies, has taken ancient shamanic rituals that have powerful healing effects and contemporized them into a healing, guided meditation. This enables individuals to benefit from these rituals energetically without the need to understand shamanism. Jan’s intention is that people receive tangible, experiential results by listening and participating in this guided mediation. Listeners tap back into an innate joy within themselves and perceive life fully from a place of divine radiance and brilliance. During the afternoon you’ll find that lost soul parts are retrieved and new dreams created. CDs will be available to continue the healing at your convenience. Jan, who is a shamanic practitioner, psychotherapist, hypnotherapist and Reiki Master, has a thriving healing practice of 14 years. She has conducted 100s of group healing seminars and performed nearly 3,000 soul retrievals. For info about Jan: janengelssmith.com.
Cards of Destiny and Personal Relationships
Saturday, March 22, 7-8:30 pm $12
The Destiny Cards reveal secrets about you. The cards can also reveal much about your personal relationships. Learn the roles of important people in your life and see how and when they show up in your cards, and life. Knowing your cards and those of the ones in your life can help you effect positive changes in any relationship. Join Raina Rowland for an evening of fun and leave with valuable insights you can put right to work! Raina, who is an NRB employee and a Magi Counselor, has been studying this system for many years and loves sharing this information with everyone. She combines the information of the Magi Oracle to help us understand our inherent nature and to attract what we want into our lives.
Feng Shui for Your Home, Office or Business
Thursday, March 27, 7-8:30 pm $12
Feng Shui is more than style, it’s a way of working with space, materials and energy to achieve balance in a space. This talk focuses on how Feng Shui can be applied in a contemporary manner to create a successful, appealing and healthy environment in your home, office, workplace or store. This complicated topic will be simplified so it can be understood and applied easily, quickly and affordably. You’ll leave this talk feeling inspired to make positive changes in all the environments in your life. Linda Cahan, of West Linn, is an internationally known retail-design expert. She lectures around the world and consults, and is a psychic counselor and palmist since 1975. She is the author of Feng Shui for Retailers.
The Good Heart
Friday, March 28, 7-8:30 pm $12
Yangsi Rinpoche introduces key concepts designed to instruct us in methods for skillful interactions in our everyday lives. These concepts ensure emotional and physical well-being, control anxiety and stress and improve our relationships at every level. Based on the mind-training teachings rooted in traditional Tibetan Buddhist thought, these practices offer a powerful and practical method by which we may confront even the most challenging of life’s situations with grace, dignity and compassion. Yangsi Rinpoche is a recognized reincarnate lama in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. He is the author of Practicing the Path: A Commentary on the Lamrim Chenmo and the President and Founder of Maitripa Institute in Portland.
Magic of Tarot
Saturday, March 29, 10:30-3 pm $45
We respond to the images of the Tarot intuitively and we all have insights that are valuable. Through the great powers of the Tarot we are united in the innerworld. We will study the great principles of the major arcana and unlock the key of the minor arcana through numerology. The Tarot is part of the magical imagination and renews its enchantment constantly. It is beyond time, space or culture, but its mysteries are there waiting to be understood. This is a journey of wonder. The Tarot welcomes you to its heart. Please bring a Ryder Waite Deck (available at NRB). Gordon Strong is an international writer and speaker on megalithic monuments, Arthurian myths and magick. He was born in Somerset, England within sight of Glastonbury Tor. Also a musician, poet and Tarot reader, his endless imagination is one of enchantment and ancient wisdom.
Reflexology Today
Saturday, March 29, 7-8:30 pm $12
Reflexology is a revival of an ancient Chinese therapy that was also used by ancient Egyptians who revered it as a curative therapy. By giving deep controlled compression with the thumb to reflex points on the feet corresponding to certain parts of the body, tensions and blockages are released, allowing the free flow of vital energies and helping the body heal itself. Learn how reflexology can bring relief to sufferers of many disorders. Janice Robertson studied reflexology in London in 1978. After establishing her private practice she set up her own school and taught for 26 years before coming to Oregon in 2000, where she continued teaching. She founded the Reflexology Association of Oregon and sponsored Senate Bill 399 exempting reflexology from regulation by the Massage Board.
The 12-Step Buddhist: Integrating Buddhism & The 12 Steps
Sunday, March 30, 10:30-1 pm $22
The purpose of this workshop is to discover connections between Buddhist 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 also the author of the upcoming book, The 12-Step Buddhist. Info: 12stepbuddhist.com.
