WELCOME TO GAIA HEALING CENTER
Dear friends of Gaia,
Winter Solstice Greetings! As the light increases again, we have some wonderful programs coming to Gaia to share with you.
Blessings and peace,
Mitakuye oyasin (we are all related)
Marianne and Gene, stewards of Gaia Healing Center
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In Brief for 2012:
On-Going on Wednesdays:
Yoga from 5 to 6 p.m.
January 21-22
Harnessing the Ling
January 28
Winter Immersion:
A Meditation Retreat for Women
February 11-12
The Next Step Program
with Dana Robinson
March 17-18
Shamanic Dreamwork Workshop
with Dana Robinson
April 14-15
Foundation for Shamanic Studies
Basic Workshop
April 20-22
Vets Journey Home
A program for combat veterans
May 4-6
Boys To Men
Initiation Weekend
May 12-13
The Next Step Program
with Dana Robinson
June 1-3
Knowing Me and Loving Me Life Workshop with Dr. Ebun Adelona and Rev. Adara Walton
More Detail:
Wednesdays 5-6 p.m
Yoga –. Classes started December 14 and are open to join at any time. Victoria Briddell, E.R.Y.T. teacher of more than 25 years experience leads an hour of gentle yoga in the Centerspace at Gaia.
$50/7 weeks or $10/ Drop In fee.
January 21-22, 2012
Harnessing the Ling
9 AM-5:30 PM,
led by Eve Soldinger
In this series of 5 workshops on Harnessing the Ling, we will recreate the possibility for practitioners and others, to have personal and spiritual openings to live within the power of this medicine. There is an energetic for each element, Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, and Metal, that we need to tap into to be informed by spirit. We will be as the Ling in Chinese Medicine, 2 shamans, creating sacred space, ritual, meditating, learning qigong, journeying to the spirits of the elements to discover our inner landscape. We will learn to perceive and relate to the possibility of developing a sacred relationship. This will empower each participant on their individual journey as well as their healing practice.
The first workshop will focus on the Water Element. Water brings movement, force, intensity, depth, renewal, and rest. We will know the Water - the source of life. As we awaken the energy and a new relationship, there will be a practical component of how to incorporate the acquired knowledge into strategies of transformation in daily life and in the treatment room.
The cost of the weekend will be $300 for practitioners. For students there will be a fee reduction to $225. A simple vegetarian lunch will be provided both days. You do not have to take all 5 classes to participate. The second weekend on wood is scheduled for April 28-29. A total of 13 PDAs for the weekend has been granted by NCCAOM. For more information you can go towww.evesoldinger.com or www.sacredintuitivehealing.calendar.htm, Or, you can call or text Eve Soldinger at 202 258-5339.
January 28, 2012
Winter Immersion:
A Meditation Retreat for WomenSlowing down, stillness, quiet.…medicine for your heart and soul. Immerse yourself in a day of meditation, winter ritual, gentle yoga, and reflection on the gifts of the season and the wisdom that already dwells within. Winter, the most Yin season of the year, calls to our deeply feminine instincts to settle down, listen and reflect. The darkest time between the death of Autumn and the rebirth of Spring is the regenerative power of Winter that leads us to new life. Just as seeds draw in their strength in order to sprout when the time is ripe, we too are called deeply inward to conserve our resources. We are called to our essence. Diving deeply to the seed takes time and surrender, to the place of the unknown, the source of possibility. Do YOU hear the call?
$150 includes lunch
($130 early registration by December 21)
Limited to 16 participants
Winter Guides: "Mira" Mary E. Tessman, MA, LCPC and Dixie Mullineaux, LAc, MAc. Mira has guided women in discovering their innate wisdom for healing and awakening using creative expression, movement, guided meditation, sacred feminine ritual, clearing processes, and holistic psychotherapies since 1989. Dixie has been guiding clients on their journeys for 25 years through massage, acupuncture and meditation. She invites you to share her passion and reverence for the sacred world of Nature.
Registration: Send your contact information and $150 check by January 20, 2012 (or $130 by 12/21/11) to: Wellspring Healing Arts, 305 W. Chesapeake Avenue, Suite L-12, Towson, MD 21204. OR register on-line at http://www.wellspringhealingarts.org/events-current.htm We will contact you with further details and directions. For additional information call Mira 410-370-6764 or Dixie 410-323-0593.
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Upcoming Shamanic Training workshops with Dana Robinson:
February 11-12-
Our Next Step Program
March 17-18-
Foundation for Shamanic Studies Advanced Course--Shamanic Dreamwork WorkshopApril 14-15-
Foundation (FSS) Basic WorkshopMay 12-13-
Our Next Step Program
Contact Dana 410-820-9977 or danacougar@goeaston.net for more info.
Other Events in 2012:
April 20-22
Vets Journey Home
A call for combat veterans, men and women
And volunteers to staff
Also looking for men and women to work in the kitchenGo on-line to our website to register
The Vets Journey Home weekend is free to veterans. It is provided from donations by individuals who want to support our vets and their healing. All leaders and staff are experienced and dedicated volunteers and 100% of donations go to program deliverables. To make a donation, call Gene McMahon, Executive Director at 301-829-2808 or e-mail ottervision@wildblue.net
The Vets Journey Home is a weekend event for combat zone veterans.
Program Goals:
· An opportunity to tell your story and be heard
· A safe place to face and heal the wounds of war
· Powerful healing and honoring through ceremonies and rituals created for combat zone veterans. A true Welcome Home with Honor
When combat veterans return home they have important stories to tell. stories that need to be heard, without judgment, to heal the anger, the grief and the fear. Often friends and families are uncomfortable asking about the war. The result is the pain within the vet's soul remains unprocessed. This can lead to nightmares, alcohol and drug addictions, broken families, isolation and even suicide. Vets Journey Home creates a safe secure container in which the wounds of war can be healed. Staffed by other veterans and civilians, men and women, whose intention is confidentiality, healing and honoring.
Appropriate candidates for Vets Journey Home:
All combat zone veterans of any war or nation, other military personnel that have experienced acts of terror (bombings, sniper fire, and other acts of violence). A combat zone veteran is any vet that has served in a combat zone, in any service, any war.
Appropriate staff candidates for VJH:
All veterans, graduates of the Bamboo Bridge workshop, Vets Journey Home, Mankind Project, Women Within, Women in Power, and Taking it Lightly. Our staff and participants are men and women, Veterans, both combat and non-combat and civilian men and women who have a desire to help with healing the traumas of war. It takes a community to truly honor our veterans and give them the welcome home they deserve.War impacts us all - individually and as a society. This is an opportunity to be involved in healing the wounds of war for all of our society and really "support our troops".
For more information: Gene McMahon (ottervision@wildblue.net), phone 301-829-2808 or go to our website at www.vetsjourneyhome.org to register on-line.
All are welcome to attend the public Graduation Ceremony held at the end of the weekend at 4 p.m.Sunday, April 22, at Gaia's Centerspace.
May 4-6, 2012
BOYS TO MEN
An Initiation Weekend
This program for adolescent boys, 13-17, creates new paradigms for them as they move towards taking their place as men in today's society. Conscious mentoring provides support and guidance for this important transition. Men interested in mentoring and boys who may be helped by this program are requested to contact them via email at contact@boystomengw.org or visit the website: www.boystomengw.org for more information.
June 1, 2 & 3, 2912
Knowing And Loving Me
Life Workshop
with Dr. Ebun Adelona and Rev. Adara Walton
This Life changing workshop provides opportunities to release issues around intimacy, relationship, sexuality and spirituality in a loving gentle nurturing way. You will open your heart and mind as you develop new levels of safety in integrating sexuality, spirituality and intimacy.
Pre Register by May 1s,2012 with $100 deposit. Fee $400
See www.getagriponlife.net for registration information.
Mitakuye oyasin,
We are all related
Gene McMahon M.Ac. and
Marianne Rothschild M.D.
Stewards of Gaia Healing Center