Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Love, Hope and Community
Did you know about this protest and coming together happening in Quebec?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/27-2
13 Grandmothers
We represent a global alliance of prayer, education
and healing for our Mother Earth, all Her inhabitants, all the children,
and for the next seven generations to come.
We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth and the destruction of indigenous ways of life. We believe the teachings of our ancestors will light our way through an uncertain future.
We look to further our vision through the realization of projects that protect our diverse cultures: lands, medicines, language and ceremonial ways of prayer and through projects that educate and nurture our children
We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth and the destruction of indigenous ways of life. We believe the teachings of our ancestors will light our way through an uncertain future.
We look to further our vision through the realization of projects that protect our diverse cultures: lands, medicines, language and ceremonial ways of prayer and through projects that educate and nurture our children
We represent a global alliance of prayer, education and healing for our Mother Earth, all Her inhabitants, all the children, and for the next seven generations to come.
We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth and the destruction of indigenous ways of life. We believe the teachings of our ancestors will light our way through an uncertain future.
We look to further our vision through the realization of projects that protect our diverse cultures: lands, medicines, language and ceremonial ways of prayer and through projects that educate and nurture our children
WHITE LIGHT ESSENCES
Ian White spent four years developing his White Light Essences. His journey has taken him to many parts of the world, including Peru, Australia, England, Austria and India. These powerful tools are based on the four elements, the realms of the Higher Self and the Angels.
- Water (this essence must be used first)
- Earth
- Fire
- Air
- Higher Self
- Devic
- Angelic
The Water Essence was made from an alchemic blend of two Essences - one from each hemisphere; they were prepared on the isle of Iona, on the west coast of Scotland and Heron Island on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. This remedy allows you to intensely experience your own emotional disharmony so that it may then be purified and released. The Water Essence illuminates the conscious mind so as to reveal and initiate the release of our deepest, most ancient negative karmic patterns. It also dissolves the boundaries of a person’s perceptions and realities. It is very nurturing and cleansing and encourages us all to be more open to receiving and trusting of ourselves and feel Spirit’s love vibration that surrounds us. This Essence enables us to find the inner stillness in which to experience our feelings fully and achieve emotional harmony. It creates the deep knowing that whatever challenge that one is encountering, you will be all right and helps one from staying emotionally closed off after a negative or traumatic experience.
Prepared in the sacred cave at the village of Patal Bhuvaneshwar in the north of India. The Earth Essence helps to heal internal structure and order in life and is a very important grounding remedy, especially for those doing a great deal of Spiritual work. This Essence allows one to tune into the subtle realms and vibrations. It fosters a strong connection, respect and reverence to nature, the Ancients, the earth, the life-force, life and the origins of life. It enables “Light workers” to find their drive and move forward with purpose. This Essence will allow them to be centred, grounded and find their direction and then proceed forward with clarity and focus. The Earth Essence helps establish a connection with the Manu of a country, thereby allowing you access and connection to the Essence or vibrational quality of that country. The Water Essence, by helping to dissolve away the limitations of where you believe you are capable of going prepares the way for the Earth Essence to then take you beyond your old reference points and limitations.
This Essence was made in the sacred area of Katajuta in Central Australia. It encompasses the passion, creation, possibilities and potential of Fire. One aspect of the four Elemental White Light Essences — Fire, Water, Air and Earth — is that they help you to connect, embody and master that element while also aligning you to the Nature Spirit of each particular Element. The Essence helps with the burning off of one’s dross — or impurities, especially that of the astral body. This Essence can open people to their most ancient source, back to the moment when the soul originally chose the life purpose for its earthly incarnation. This will leave the individual with a “fiery” sense of purpose and direction. Consequently, one is inspired and motivated to follow their life path and fulfil their highest destiny.
This Essence was made on top of Schafberg Mountain, St Wolfgang, Austria. The Air Essence allows a person to journey out to much further realms and levels on the spiritual plane. The Air Essence has the potential to bring out a person’s spirituality to the highest degree with integrity and passion. This Essence can invoke peace and harmony and let it reign within your heart and mind. It helps you to see life as being simple and to keep it simple, surrendering to God any problem. The Essence itself produces a sensation of feeling light, easy and carefree. It is an excellent remedy for people going through emotional stress and trauma, helping one to see the overview of any problem whilst enhancing one’s guidance and inner knowing in order to deal with the situation more effectively and not get caught up in the detail or the drama. It promotes the realization that life will go on and to simply feel the love and peace around you. Consequently, it greatly helps anyone going through a “black night of the soul” experience by making them aware of the devine guidance and protection that always accompanies one at these times. The Air Essence allows one’s thought processes to become more flowing and gentle. When making a choice this Essence helps one to maintain a balance between an intellectual and an emotional approach, whilst also aiding discrimination and discernment.
This Essence was prepared at the Mayan ruins in Palenque, Mexico. It allows one to align to and access their Higher Self. The Higher Self Essence funnels and channels energy of the highest order into one’s very core, from where it will radiate out and expand dramatically. It helps us to be aware of what is beyond the physical experience and can help one tap into sources of ancient wisdom and knowledge. Our Higher Self is comprised of every lifetime we have ever had and this Essence offers the opportunity to help a person connect with these earlier incarnations. You will then be able to beam back the energy of whatever it is that you need from that past life.
This Essence was prepared on the summer solstice in the Chalice Well Garden in Glastonbury, England. The Devic Essence helps to establish very strong links with the Devic kingdom, while its spiritual healing quality returns one to a place of simplicity and blissful peace. It brings about a feeling of total oneness — being at one with absolutely everything and far less concerned and preoccupied with the hassle and problems of life. It enables one to contact and communicate with nature, and to listen to any message the plant kingdom has for us. This remedy attunes you with qualities such as healing, from the Devic kingdom and will help to earth anyone who is ungrounded or out of control, connecting them back to nature. The Devic Essence is very good to soothe and calm those who are stressed out, wound up, stuck for time or feel disconnected. The Devic Essence assists us to care for ourselves on a spiritual level and brings about a devotional, nurturing quality within us for ourselves and others as well as nature. Most importantly, it will help you to remember why you are here, and assist those who remember their destiny to take action and become more passionate about their life path once again. The Devic Essence also allows us to appreciate the great importance of knowing and remembering that we are a soul being that has, but is not, a physical body and can be used for people close to passing over.
This Essence was made in Peru
on the top of the sacred mountain, Putucusi, directly across from
Machu Picchu. Right up until the moment of our death, the Angels are
always attempting to inspire and raise our awareness to the spiritual
— so that we will look up and embrace the Light. The Angelic
Essence allows one to have closer contact with the Angelic realm.
This Essence helps us to be more open to receiving from on high, the
Angelic tones of inspiration, love, awareness, communication, guidance
and instruction which can lead us to an infinite range of potential
possibilities in our mortal lives. The Angelic Essence brings the
energy from heaven directly down to earth, uniting the two. This Essence
enables one to aspire beyond the physical while keeping us connected
to the mundane. It helps us realise that the spiritual exists in everything
and to transcend the deceptive illusion of the physical. One can also
invoke protection of an Angelic kind and of any specific Angel by
taking this Essence.
Dance of Oneness®
Dance
of Oneness® Training Program is for all teachers, performers, artists
and those who want to live at their full potential. The aim of training
in Dance of Oneness, which is uncovering the true Self and serving the
greater Good, can be applied to ANYONE’S personal and professional life.
Participants not only develop new dance and fitness techniques but
cultivate the intuition to live and serve by inner guidance.
Dance of Oneness® is a way of life - rigorous, disciplined and passionate - an active ground for self-knowledge and healing. Students learn technique but also the inner dimensions of Movement - through full-bodied robust dancing, releasing oneself to feel free, fearless, creative and exuberant. Persian Classical and Tribal Dance, Flamenco, Yoga, Tai Chi, and Ritual movement and the poetry of Rumi and Hafez are a fusion of influences defines Dance of Oneness®. This is a way to integrate oneself, harmonize with others and serve the greater Existence. It is the learning by steps, but growing by leaps.
Dance of Oneness® workshops are designed to develop the intuitive technique to be grounded yet light, delicate yet strong, empty yet utterly present, navigating between felt presence and the unknown, calling the divine Light to a fluid, responsive body. The focus is on inviting the unobstructed flow of Light/Chi to temper our being, through a dialogue with Grace, through sensing our Chakras, and through the discipline necessary to develop correct alignment and a fluid spine, graceful arms and hands, expressive feet and legs, to achieve whole body free-flowing undulations, lithe and free in our wholeness, a Dancer of Oneness.
Dance of Oneness® is a way of life - rigorous, disciplined and passionate - an active ground for self-knowledge and healing. Students learn technique but also the inner dimensions of Movement - through full-bodied robust dancing, releasing oneself to feel free, fearless, creative and exuberant. Persian Classical and Tribal Dance, Flamenco, Yoga, Tai Chi, and Ritual movement and the poetry of Rumi and Hafez are a fusion of influences defines Dance of Oneness®. This is a way to integrate oneself, harmonize with others and serve the greater Existence. It is the learning by steps, but growing by leaps.
Dance of Oneness® workshops are designed to develop the intuitive technique to be grounded yet light, delicate yet strong, empty yet utterly present, navigating between felt presence and the unknown, calling the divine Light to a fluid, responsive body. The focus is on inviting the unobstructed flow of Light/Chi to temper our being, through a dialogue with Grace, through sensing our Chakras, and through the discipline necessary to develop correct alignment and a fluid spine, graceful arms and hands, expressive feet and legs, to achieve whole body free-flowing undulations, lithe and free in our wholeness, a Dancer of Oneness.
Banafsheh
Iranian-born Banafsheh communicates the universal messages of Mysticism in a passionate yet fluid, meditative way, an interplay between trance and directed movement. Her explosive movement is sensual and ritualistic, an organic trance of impeccable technique gone wild, yet holding a serene, grounded core.Her mesmerizing offering of the timeless Sacred Feminine inside a contemporary gypsy dervish beckons all to engage, impart, and exalt. She is one of the few bearers of authentic Persian dance form in the world, the pioneer of Contemporary Persian dance, the founder of Dance of Oneness® and NAMAH Dance Company, and an acupuncturist.
“As an embodied mystic of the divine feminine, Banafsheh’s presentations are not performances but transmission which transform your vision of dance forever. Dancer and dance become one initiatory flame of grace” - Andrew Harvey
She draws from her extensive background in Persian dance and ritual, Tai Chi and Flamenco to present a new form, rooted in tradition yet universal, "fusing ancient forms with a postmodern punch" (Los Angeles Times). Her movement is comprised in part by the Persian alphabet she has translated into gestures and movement, which when put together one dances out words and poetic stanzas, often taken from the works of the great mystic poet, Rumi, whom she has studied extensively, resonating with his fierce yet gentle essence that beckons each and everyone to break through conformity and limitation to find their own individual glory.
Internationally known for her innovative movement vocabulary and high artistic and educational standards, Banafsheh’s form is what “for the first time one could call contemporary or modern Persian Dance– a dance with its own artistic language, neither Eastern like Arabic and Indian nor Western as in Flamenco, or Modern European. The dance form created by Banafsheh Sayyad can only be called the Banafsheh Dance, representative of Persian culture much like how Flamenco is particular to Spanish culture...” (prominent Iranian critic, Shokooh Mirzadegi).
Banafsheh has designed a program called Dance of Oneness® which she teaches across North America, Europe and Turkey including Esalen Institute in California and Kripalu Center in Massachusetts. In addition to workshops in Mystical dance, Choreography, the works of Rumi, and internal Chakra work, Dance of Oneness includes a workshop with live music called TrancenDance & Drum Ritual. This workshop works very well in conjunction with her performances. Banafsheh also gives talks and lecture/demonstrations on Persian Dance and Mysticism.
PEACE STICKS
What People Are Saying...about Peace Sticks
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Raven One
You –
Raven One
How dare you stand there
And bare – Yourself
Your - Raven feather-wearin’ Bird Self
As if YOU have something to share.
Standing there, like a Raven, a ravin’ mad woman
I will NOT be bound
Was the sound she heard as a cry, a battlecry
Cause the Ravens
They were talkin’ - Talkin’ bout a Revolution
A Raven Nation
And She was listening.
She heard that Bird
Talkin’ bout the movement
You know
The one that is moving
And the motion makers - soul shakers
Give me liberty or give me death takers
Moving the movement
And she
Birdheart
Feather wearin’ Braveheart
Was in the Raven Resistance
To that which threatened her existence
The privatized – industrialized – colonized and homogenized
The sanitized - sterilized – immunized – and supersized
The desensitized – criminalized - traumatized and legitimized
Yes she heard the Raven’s insistence
That she must fight and resist This
That in her victory and in her defeat, she must sing her songs of freedom.
Now, now Raven
You stop your misbehavin’
Stop being so salty, stop being irreverent
Get to the point and the things that are relevant
But Raven One
She sees she is lost, can’t find her way back,
Back to the reason she took the dare, to answer the question and to stand up there
Something about poets and poetry
But she was just masked as a poet…she was really a tree.
A Poet.Tree - Spirit alchemy
Saying all you got to know of the places where I go…
Is found deep within the life of this tree
Grow me wild
Grow me free
Raven One
Poet.Tree One
Arrow to the Sun, I’ve only just begun
Raven One
How dare you stand there
And bare – Yourself
Your - Raven feather-wearin’ Bird Self
As if YOU have something to share.
Standing there, like a Raven, a ravin’ mad woman
I will NOT be bound
Was the sound she heard as a cry, a battlecry
Cause the Ravens
They were talkin’ - Talkin’ bout a Revolution
A Raven Nation
And She was listening.
She heard that Bird
Talkin’ bout the movement
You know
The one that is moving
And the motion makers - soul shakers
Give me liberty or give me death takers
Moving the movement
And she
Birdheart
Feather wearin’ Braveheart
Was in the Raven Resistance
To that which threatened her existence
The privatized – industrialized – colonized and homogenized
The sanitized - sterilized – immunized – and supersized
The desensitized – criminalized - traumatized and legitimized
Yes she heard the Raven’s insistence
That she must fight and resist This
That in her victory and in her defeat, she must sing her songs of freedom.
Now, now Raven
You stop your misbehavin’
Stop being so salty, stop being irreverent
Get to the point and the things that are relevant
But Raven One
She sees she is lost, can’t find her way back,
Back to the reason she took the dare, to answer the question and to stand up there
Something about poets and poetry
But she was just masked as a poet…she was really a tree.
A Poet.Tree - Spirit alchemy
Saying all you got to know of the places where I go…
Is found deep within the life of this tree
Grow me wild
Grow me free
Raven One
Poet.Tree One
Arrow to the Sun, I’ve only just begun
Poetry by Vashti
Little Me - Arrow to the Sun
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