A quick word before all Spring breaks loose – coming up are some special events:

April 10 A Day Retreat for Women

April 24-25 - Generosity-Give Away Weekend at Gaia

April 30, May 1&2 VETS JOURNEY HOME Weekend Program

June 4,5 & 6 Knowing And Loving Me Life Workshop

October 1,2 & 3 Boys to Men: An Initiation Weekend

October 7-10, 2010 WOMEN IN POWER The Predator Within

Mitakuye oyasin (we are all related)
Marianne Rothschild & Gene McMahon

More about the workshops/programs coming up:

A Day Retreat for Women 9:30- 5:30 $125 includes lunch

What is stirring deep inside of you this Spring? What are you longing to express? Are you ready to give birth to a new vision and then to take action towards that dream? Or are you feeling angry, tied up in knots, stuck, unable to create any movement on your path?

Are you ready for regeneration and rebirth? Immerse yourself in a day long journey where Spring will guide us in deep listening, rituals, creative expression, clearing and attuning processes, and inspiring stories. At lunch time, we will feast on an abundant homemade bounty of the Season.

Season 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. She invites you to explore the essence of your own true nature. Dixie has been guiding clients on their journeys for 25 years through cooking, massage and acupuncture. She invites you to share her passion and reverence for the sacred world of Nature.

Registration: Do you hear the call? If so, send your contact information and $125 check by April 3, 2010 ($145 after this date) to: Wellspring Healing Arts, 305 W. Chesapeake Avenue, Suite L-12, Towson, MD 21204. Limited to 15 women. We will contact you with further details and directions. For additional information call Mira 410-370-6764 or Dixie 410-323-0593. Join us on the JOURNEY!

Generosity-Give Away Weekend at Gaia

Organized by dear friends of Gaia, this is an opportunity for you to come spend time in the beauty of Gaia and get your hands in the dirt replanting, repairing, mulching and more. Shared potluck, snacks and music Saturday evening. If you plan to come or want to know more, contact Gene at 301-829-2808 or gaiahealing@wildblue.net or Chrissy McFarren at chrissy@mcfarren.net.

VETS JOURNEY HOME Weekend Program

A call for combat veterans, men and women

And volunteers to staff

Also looking for men and women to work in the kitchen

Go 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, May 2, at Gaia’s Centerspace.

Yoga Anatomy & Physiology Intensive Retreats

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,2010 with $100 deposit. Fee $400

See www.getagriponlife.net for registration information.

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

WOMEN IN POWER The Predator Within

Are you ready to embrace your birthright as a powerful woman?

We name our essential, primal life force our ‘Inner Predator’. This is the power that guards our being and feeds us. It is the energy we must have for survival and vitality - for life itself. It's time to free our predators:

· To express anger cleanly

· To share vulnerabilities safely

· To re-energize our sexuality

· To strengthen our ability to "speak truth to power"

· To heal our relationship to the abusers and victims in our inner landscape.

· To reclaim our power from the shadows of past vows we once promised.

· To find a community of women dedicated to our growing fullness.

· To advocate for what is sacred to our hearts and souls.

When/Where: October 7 to 10, 2010, at Gaia Healling Center

Thursday 1:00 pm to Sunday 1 pm.

Cost:, includes meals and rustic accommodation

For further details and to register contact Becky Schupbach at (502) 458-0705 or whitewolf1616@yahoo.com

May you enjoy peace and love
Mitakuye oyasin,
We are all related

Gene McMahon M.Ac. and
Marianne Rothschild M.D.
Stewards of Gaia Healing Center

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