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John Gladen, Every Monday, 5:30-6:15PM Pacific Time, FREE!

New Renaissance is sponsoring a online meditation group every week to provide a supportive environment to enliven and enrich your practice. Recharge in a virtual gathering of joy and peace with like-minded people.  

John Gladen is a buyer at New Renaissance, and has been meditating for over 12 years. 

Zoom Event! Make Every Move A Meditation Book Launch Event with Nita Sweeney; in conversation with Sherry Belul

Friday, October 7th, 5:30 pm, FREE!

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What do you think of when you hear the word meditation? A quiet room filled with monks? An Instagram influencer? What about moving meditation? Yoga? Tai Chi? For too long, meditation in books has focused on specific periods of meditation, rather than mediation through fitness or daily activities. What if lifting weights, dancing with your love, or walking across a room counted? What if you could use exercise as meditation? What if you could make every move a meditation? Award-winning author, certified meditation leader, ultra-marathoner, and mental health advocate Nita Sweeney will teach audience members how to meditate while they move.

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Nita Sweeney is the award-winning wellness author of the running and mental health memoir, Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running with My Dog Brought Me Back from the Brink and co-creator of the writing journal, You Should Be Writing: A Journal of Inspiration & Instruction to Keep Your Pen Moving. Her upcoming book, Make Every Move a Meditation ( available for preorder https://bookshop.org/books/make-every-move-a-meditation-mindful-movement-for-mental-health-well-being-and-insight/9781642509892 ), was featured in the Wall Street Journal. Nita lives in central Ohio with her husband, Ed, and their yellow Labrador retriever, Scarlet. Sherry Richert Belul is the founder of Simply Celebrate, a San Francisco-based company specializing in unique, handmade, personalized gifts. Sherry encourages people to celebrate the gift of life every day―and to say “I love you” at every possible opportunity. More info about Sherry’s work can be found at: simplycelebrate.net  

Zoom Event! Astrology of the Liminal - the Journey of Death & Rebirth

Vanessa Couto, Monday, October 17, 24 & 31, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm (Pacific Time), $25/each class or all 3 for $60

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We're living in very liminal times, where our old ways of being and doing no longer serve, while the new is yet to root down. Feeling lost, confused, and unsure about how to proceed under the intensity of all this transformation is expected. Liminal times such as these are times of descent into what the ancients called the Underworld, the realm of death and rebirth. For the ancients, it would be unwise to descend without preparation or guidance. The intention for this class series is to explore with you this landscape, the stages of initiation, and how we can honor the planetary archetypes that serve as our guides. This class series is for anyone trying to understand their path of transformation while also making sense through the archetypal lens of what is taking place in the collective. *This series will not be recorded.

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In this 3-part class series, we'll explore:

1. The Descent & the Landscape of the Underworld - knowing why and how we should approach the descent and what is the geography if this powerful symbolic landscape can help us feel more prepared to engage with the unknown.

2. The Stages and Phases of Initiation - In the eternal circle of beginnings and endings, death and rebirth there's a certain pattern flow that can help us understand where we stand and how to honor the stage we're traversing.

3. The Alchemical Gatekeepers at the Threshold - In the final class of this series, we explore the spiral of transformation from the lens of alchemy and the planetary archetypes that serve as our guides on the journey.

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This class weaves myth, psychology and astrological symbolism. No previous knowledge of astrology necessary. Vanessa Couto is a Life Purpose Coach, astrologer, teacher, and artist. In her work, she weaves mythology, fairy tales, Jungian psychology, and a good dose of practical and grounded common sense to guide her clients at their intersection of life purpose and livelihood. In addition to coaching, she teaches various classes and workshops. Vanessa holds a B.A. in Social Communication and Advertising, an M.A. in Teaching from New York University, an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, and is a Certified Life Coach from the Life Purpose Institute. She’s also an adjunct teacher at the Portland School of Astrology. Before making the Pacific Northwest her home with her husband and their two Gemini cats, she lived in Brazil, Cape Cod, New York City, Oxford and Barcelona. https://vanessacouto.com/

Zoom Event! Bach Flower Remedies: Workshop Series with Rio Hibler

Rio Hibler, October 24, November 28, December 19, January 23 & February 27, 5:30 - 7pm (Pacific Time),

$25 each class or all 6 for $120

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The Bach Flower Remedies have been helping people achieve better emotional balance for over 80 years. With the right remedies to give us a healthier perspective on life, day-to-day difficulties become easier. Each 90 minute workshop covers five to seven Bach Flower Remedies that address commonly experienced problems within the topic.

The topics covered in this series will be:
● Sept. 26 - Career and Jobs: Work and the Bach Flower Remedies
In the workplace, getting along and getting ahead often conflict. This workshop covers the Bach Flower Remedies that help to ease professional dissatisfaction. No job? There are remedies for the stress of job hunting and for finding your true path in life as well. Bach flower essences can help to define goals, produce more satisfaction from an existing job, and give confidence in new endeavors.
● Oct. 24 - Families, Children, and the Bach Flower Remedies
Family interactions and care-taking for loved ones present special emotional difficulties. The Bach Flower Remedies offer a gentle, natural way to balance and harmonize these emotional challenges. Learn about the remedies that renew your ability to love yourself as well as your family members, making family responsibilities more joyful. Learn, too, about some helpful remedies specifically for children’s issues.
● Nov. 28 - Grief and the Bach Flower Remedies
This workshop deals with integrating loss, death, and other difficult experiences from which we feel we can’t recover, and the Bach Flower Remedies that support this integration process. A number of Bach Flower Remedies can be instrumental in assisting the healing process of grief, loss, and trauma. By helping to digest and release difficult-to-forget experiences, these remedies encourage you to live more fully in the present, without the constant pain or reminders of the past.
● Dec. 19 - Ageing and the Bach Flower Remedies
As we mature, each advancing year brings new challenges. A number of the Bach Flower Remedies speak to the adjustments and demands of ageing, and help to produce a new self-acceptance that can make our later years our most satisfying and productive yet. This workshop will cover several remedies that address difficulties often experienced in our later years in life.
● Jan. 23 - Anxiety, Worry, and the Bach Flower Remedies
Worry, apprehension, fear and phobias have a negative impact on our well-being. When our thoughts are clear and calm, our emotions are restored to balance and we can maintain a healthy outlook. This workshop covers a number of Bach Flower Remedies that address feelings of anxiety, fear, or persistent worries, and that help us to maintain a harmonious mental and
emotional balance.
● Feb. 27 - Self-esteem, self-worth, confidence, and the Bach Flower Remedies
Everything that makes us happy depends upon our self-esteem; if we don’t feel we deserve something we want, even if we manage to achieve it, we find we can’t enjoy it. The Bach Flower Remedies offer a wonderful way to gently turn negative self-perceptions into positive ones. This workshop will cover some of the remedies used to help people achieve more confidence,
self-acceptance, and self-satisfaction.

Instructor Rio Hibler is a Bach Flower Consultant serving the Portland/Vancouver area with private consultations, study groups, and trainings. A Certified Bach Flower Practitioner since 2001, Rio has been studying, using and teaching the Bach Flower Essences for over 25 years. Visit her site at healwithflowers.com

Zoom Event! Holistic Sound Bath

Zoom Event! Holistic Sound Bath

Aaron Kahn & Austin Kuorakin, Friday, October 28, 6-8 pm (Pacific Standard Time), $25

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Immerse yourself in a virtual sonic spiritual experience. Austin Kourakin, Certified Sound Healer and holistic wellness practitioner, and Aaron Kahn, professional trumpet player and arts entrepreneur, are honored to be guiding you through this healing event. The combination of guitar with electronics, crystal bowl, and ethereal muted trumpet will help stimulate the body’s natural healing abilities. They can also generate emotional and energetic releases, bringing about meditative quiescence, good feelings, and peace. For more information about the Holographic Sound Bath modality, visit: https://www.holographicsound.com.

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Austin Kourakin has studied with highly influential people in the sound healing world. He has his own holistic health company and a Meetup group that hosts Reiki and meditation events. Aaron Kahn is an experimental concert artist and cultural entrepreneur of seven years. As a trumpet player, he has performed with Grammy-Award-Winning musicians, in major music festival settings, and globally.

Zoom Event! Archetypal Goddess & the Mythology of Your Life (a monthly series) 

Vanessa Couto, Mondays, November 14, December 12, January 9, February 13, March 13, April 10, 6 - 8 pm (Pacific Standard time), *this series will not be recorded
$25 per class or $125 for all 6 classes

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Myth gives us a lot of room to reimagine and engage in conversation with the archetypes. There are many myths, and one isn’t better than the other, as we are free to focus on the ones that resonate with our lives now and can guide us through our self- exploration. Myths serve as an entryway for us the explore our deep inner landscape. In each workshop series, we’ll discuss a different, oft-misunderstood archetypal goddess and their story. Through exploring these goddess myths, we’re invited to take a sideways look at their stories and see how they resonate or even guide our lives. We will be joined by both well and lesser-known, but oft-misunderstood Greek Goddesses and through guided journeying, journaling, and sharing our experiences and stories together,  we will gain insights on what gifts each of these goddesses are awarding, as both guidance and help in your life, as well as in your work in the world. 

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November 14 - Demeter & Persephone: Initiation, Grief & Rebirth
From the lens of Demeter & Persephone, we’ll journey to the Underworld to explore the nature of initiation, navigating grief, and rebirth.
December 12 - Pandora: Generosity, Gifts & Curiosity
From the misunderstood, with eons of negative Patriarchal perception placed upon her, in Pandora we’ll explore the themes of generosity, the nature of gifts, and curiosity.
January 9 - Hera: Sovereignty & Sacred Marriage
From Hera, the oft-judged as only jealous and mad, we’ll explore the nature of power, sovereignty, and the need and meaning of the sacred marriage.
February 13 - Ariadne: Sacrifice & Loss
From the lesser-known Cretan princess, Ariadne and her part in the story of the Minotaur, we’ll explore the theme of finding true blessings after sacrifice and loss.
March 13 - Medusa/Athena: Monsters as Creatrixes
From the controversial goddesses Medusa & Athena, we’ll delve into the paradoxical nature of monsters as creatrixes and the complex relationship of powerful female figures.
April 10 - Hecate: Liminality & Guidance
Lastly, with Hecate, we’ll explore guidance and protection as we traverse the liminal spaces in our lives.

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Vanessa Couto is a Life Purpose Coach, astrologer, teacher, and artist. In her work, she weaves mythology, fairy tales, Jungian psychology, and a good dose of practical and grounded common sense to guide her clients at their intersection of life purpose and livelihood. In addition to coaching, she teaches various classes and workshops. Vanessa holds a B.A. in Social Communication and Advertising, an M.A. in Teaching from New York University, an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, and is a Certified Life Coach from the Life Purpose Institute. She’s also an adjunct teacher at the Portland School of Astrology. Before making the Pacific Northwest her home with her husband and their two Gemini cats, she lived in Brazil, Cape Cod, New York City, Oxford and Barcelona. https://vanessacouto.com/

Zoom Event! Practice of the Wisdom Dakini; An Empowerment for the Divine Feminine

Deborah O'Brien and Peter Huhtala, Sunday, November 6, 6:30 PM (Pacific Standard Time) FREE!

Wisdom Dakinis access the Divine Feminine. We introduce a powerful yet easily learned practice to engage with and develop wisdom qualities from the Five Buddha Families.

Deborah O’Brien has practiced Reiki for 28 years. She utilizes an intuitive process to release mental and emotional disturbances. She has published numerous articles. Her husband, Peter Huhtala, wrote Yeshe. You can check out his book in our online shop, here: https://bookshop.org/books/yeshe/9781087960562

Zoom Event! Life's Big Questions; 200 Ways to Explore Your Spiritual Life with Jonathan Robinson

Jonathan Robinson, Wednesday, November 16th, 5:30 pm (Pacific Time), FREE!

Is it possible for YOU to become an enlightened, awake being? If so, what are the best and easiest ways to get there? Jonathan Robinson has interviewed over 100 highly awake teachers for his bestselling books and popular podcast. In his encounters with people such as the Dalai Lama, Byron Katie, Deepak Chopra, and the late Mother Teresa and Ram Dass, he shares stories of what he learned, as well as powerful methods that helped him out of his depression and into lasting inner peace. To purchase the book click here: https://bookshop.org/books/life-s-big-questions-200-ways-to-explore-your-spiritual-life-philosophy-metaphysics/9781642509991

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In this highly entertaining and practical book, you’ll discover:

· How entering into higher states of consciousness is easier than you think (if you know the right technique).

· What it’s like to hang out with enlightened gurus and awake people.

· The precise methods that most often lead to awakening.

· How to let go of past conditioning that keeps you from inner peace.

· How to use relationships, money, and your career to further yourspiritual goals.

Jonathan Robinson is a New York Times bestselling author, psychotherapist, and international speaker. He has been a frequent guest on Oprah and other national TV shows, and he is the co-host of the podcast Awareness Explorers. His websites are TheEnlightenmentProject.net & FindingHappiness.com