This Wednesday Sandbox gathering we look at Energy Blocks with Barra Kahn (who you may know from her role hosting CSL). Do you find some areas of your life flow well and that you are stuck in other areas? What are Energy blocks?  Where are they?  How do we become aware of them?  What can we do about them?  How do we move the energy so that we can flow again?

In this session of Sandbox we will explore energy blocks from the Core Energetics perspective, learn how to recognize them, and what to do about them. I have done Core work with Barra and my experience is that she is very talented at helping people to shift energy in a loving environment!

Energy blocks are unconscious defense mechanisms that we create to protect ourselves against early wounding.   Energy blocks stop the free flowing expression of who we really are. We will use body readings to help uncover the stuck places and then do some physical processes to move that stuck energy. This frees you up to explore issues from a different perspective and solve where you are stuck. Because having a full tummy or alcohol gets in the way of this work we will do it before  dinner. Energy released I am sure we will all have a good appetite for dinner! There will be some light snacks available at 6pm in case anyone is very hungry!

The circle begins BEFORE dinner at 7pm.  I invite you to join us, though as always what ever choice you make you will be honored in.

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The hugging saint Amma will be in DC 7/12-13/09 this year. I have been to the event last years. It is free - I think about 10,000 people come over the two days for hugs. Each person gets an individual hug. A hug
you might ask - what is all the fuss? For me it was a transformative experience of unconditional love that has lasted ever since. All lots of cool people, Indian CDs, jewerly and clothing. Vegan food is served at low prices.

More info at
http://www.ammadc.org/

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This Wednesday Sandbox gathering we learn how to cut cords of attachment that are draining your energy. You are energetically corded to anyone who you have a relationship with (family members, friends, co workers, acquaintances etc) in some way whether it is harmful or healthy. Often this cord has a flow of unconditional love but sometimes it is negative energy. These negative bonds can negatively impact all aspects of your life. For example, your behavior may be influenced or controlled by the person you are negatively bonded to. You may be easily manipulated, feel stuck, depressed, have low energy levels or simply feel bad in the other person’s presence.

Will the cutting hurt? No - usually there is a release as you cut the attachment then you feel lighter. It does not affect the other person in case you are worried about hurting them too! Cords tend to stay around for ever unless you cut them so if you have energy drains from past relationships or even from people who have died you can cut then and start free today.

The cutting begins after dinner at 8pm.  I invite you to join us, though as always what ever choice you make you will be honored in.

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This Wednesday Sandbox gathering we learn about safe and pleasurable anal play for men receiving. We will view some clips from a video called Bend over Boyfriend about safe anal play for women on men, followed by a discussion, Q/A and/or demo.

Ever want to learn about anal sex for men? Want great orgasms, renewed intimacy & sexy romance?

In Bend Over Boyfriend, sex educators Carol Queen and Robert Morgan guide you step by step, showing you how to have anal sex and spice up your sex life.

• Build your confidence to ask for anal sex with your partner
• Find the best anal sex positions and techniques
• Choose the right strapons and dildos for anal penetration
• Select the best lubes and lubrication for anal sex
• Strapon the perfect dildo for his pleasure
• Relax and fully enjoy anal penetration
• Fuck him so anal sex doesn’t hurt
• Make an evening of anal sex a romantic experience

And men, you’ll see just how good it feels to have your prostate stimulated. Prostate stimulation, you’ll agree, leads to explosive orgasms!

The video begins after dinner at 8pm.  I invite you to join us, though as always what ever choice you make you will be honored in.

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This Wednesday Sandbox gathering we gain insight into profound unconscious blocks that get passed down from our families and ancestors. It is like spiritual psycho-drama. This neo-shamanic approach allows for insights that you can’t get to by traditional therapy.

Family Constellation work, as developed by renowned European psychotherapist Bert Hellinger during the last 20 years, has grown rapidly in Europe and is now gaining international attention. This technique grew out of his time as a priest in Africa, seeing how the Masai tribe of South Africa worked with their ancestral spirits.

This approach also comes from a long tradition of systemic therapy, which looks at situations as a whole versus as isolated incidents of wounding or pain. By viewing family situations in the context of a larger whole, we gain insights into the deeper reasons why things occur in a family: why individuals are pushed out, denied a place or not spoken about; and why behavioral patterns appear to repeat, often unconsciously, over generations.

We are all affected by our family energy field, or "family soul.”  Examining the family soul can help us to resolve issues that trouble our being. This family soul includes both the living and the dead and has a deep effect on the present generation.

In Family Constellation work group members are chosen to represent the participant’s family members and are positioned intuitively by the participant. As if stepping into the energy field of that particular family, these representatives then begin to feel in their bodies the actual feelings of those family members they are representing.  Unconscious loyalties are then brought to the surface. As new, healthy images of the family system emerge, genuine love and strength can begin to flow in a liberating way. The effects of this are profound and life-changing.


Randy Goldberg is a graduate of the Hellinger Institute of DC, and continues doing advanced studies with Heinz Stark from Germany. Randy is a former Yoga monk, a Craniosacral therapist, a world famous astrologer interviewed by the Washington Post and by CNN. He facilitates Family Constellation therapy for individuals and groups. www.randygoldberg.org

The workshop begins after dinner at 8pm.  I invite you to join us, though as always what ever choice you make you will be honored in.

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The Philadelphia Experiment (PEX) 7/3/09- 7/5/09 takes place at Camp Ramblewood. $110 before May 31st. Some similarities to Burning Man or PDF with some cool workshops.
http://pexsummerfestival.com/

What the site says:

"The PEX Summer Festival is a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional music and arts celebration! This will be a place for harmony amongst joyful adventurers in self-exploration. On July 4th weekend, we are looking forward to our largest collaborative effort to date in the gathering of like minds and compassionate spirits. We will be uniting for three days and nights of amazing music, art, education, dance, participatory shared experience and conscious connection on 200 acres of private land, just one hour south of Philadelphia.

Some of the workshops:

Andrew Newberg, M.D.
Creativity, Spirituality, and the Brain, Talk     Angela Boltz
The Yoga Trimurti, Workshop     Carlos Izaguirre.
Drumming, Workshop
      
Chad Benett
Staff & Poi, Workshops     Chad Doberstein
Boundaries & Pleasure Palace, Workshops     Conway Jennings.
Poi, Workshops
      
Daniel Pinchbeck
Beyond 2012, Talk     Denise Denise
Fire Performance Safety, Workshop     Eron Lloyd
Sustainable Economics, Talk
      
Gabrielle Casella
Yin & Yang Yoga/Chi-Kung, Yo-Fu, Workshops     Helene Finizio
Creativity, Spirituality, and the Brain, Talk     James Oroc
God in the Entheogenic Movement, Talk
      
Jen Alvarez
Hoop Dance, Workshops     Justicia
Thai Yoga Therapeutics, Workshop     Liana Cameris
Chi-MEETS-Prana, Workshop
      
Lina Luv
Cultivating the Gift of Fire, Workshop     Lucas Boyd
Double Staff & Poi, Workshops     Lucky
Staff, Workshops
      
Sandhi Ferreira
Workshop     Veronica Bound
Bondage & Spanking, Workshops     Xande Cruz.
Drumming, Workshop

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The GAIAN MIND SUMMER FESTIVAL of Trance Dance, Drumming and cool Hippie friend stuff you might only find at Rainbow Gathering - Thursday, June 11th to Sunday, June 14th, 2009 is also at Camp Ramblewood. If you are going to FSG this is the weekend before FSG.
http://gaian-mind.com/2009/04/21/gaian-mind-summer-festival-thursday-june-11th-to-sunday-june-14th-2009-darlington-md-usa/

Join us for four days and three nights of Transcendental Dance in the open air – truly, a magical event which has established itself as the annual summer tradition for the global Trance Tribes! Currently in its eighth year, the Gaian Mind Summer Festival has hosted the world’s leading international talent from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, plus the finest national and regional talent from the USA, becoming the premier destination for hundreds of dancers from all over the world. The gathering includes a full weekend of spiritual dancing, tribal drumming, lectures and workshops, yoga, sweat lodge, swimming, relaxation, and much more at our spectacular, new location, Ramblewood!

MUSICAL:

GAIAN STAGE: Psytrance & Progressive Trance

VIBRASPHERE (Tribal Vision Records / Cloud 99 Music - Sweden) Live! Trance & Chillout Sets!
HALTYA (Exogenic Records / Planetaria Recordings – Finland) Live! First USA Appearance!
HEADROOM (Nano Records – South Africa) Live! First USA Appearance!
FLIP-FLOP (Alchemy Records – UK) Live! First USA Appearance!
HIGHPERSONIC WHOMEN (Exogenic Records / Planetaria Recordings – Finland) Live! First USA Appearance!
REV (Doof Records - Netherlands) Live & DJ! First USA Appearance!
HEMI-SYNC (Nano Records – UK) Live! First USA Appearance!
CHRIS HANSON (Alchemy Records - UK)
ADAM METCALFE (Nano Records - South Africa)
NIKI (Mighty Quinn Records - Japan)
ARAHAT (PsyCircle Records - San Diego)
MUKTI (Onetribe / Metameme - Denver)
DJane LONGSTOCKING (SyzygyArt / Godizus / Moonsun Records - Montreal)
KIFE (OmniTribe - NYC)
TANGLED LYSERGIC PUDDLES ON CELESTIAL THREADS (Warp Brain Records - Red Bank, NJ) Live!
EG~BOT (Gaian Mind / PSI - Philadelphia)
EITAN (Gaian Mind / Brain Busters - Japan)
KARMAKANIK (Gaian Mind / PSI - Philadelphia)
SOLOMOON (Gaian Mind / Metameme / Ultimae Records - Denver)
STEVE-O (Gaian Mind / GoaBabies - NYC)

MIND STAGE: Downtempo & Chillout

ANDROCELL (Celestial Dragon Records – CO) Live!
DISTANT SYSTEM (Celestial Dragon Records – CO) Live!
NAASKO (Interchill Records / COZ&FX – Nelson, BC) Chillout & A/V Trance Sets!
KILOWATTS (Gaian Mind / Native State Records – Philadelphia) Live!
ANIMALTEK (Elektrotribe Records / Living Records - NYC) Live!
ALIGNING MINDS (88 / Aleph Zero – DC) Live!
GRAINS OF SOUND (AlterCulture Records – Baltimore) Live!
PSYLAB (Sonic Beating / Circle Collective – Boston) Live!
NYXYSS (Church - NYC) Live!
BUDDHA BOMB (KGNU Radio / Family Moons / Onetribe / Rhythm Sanctuary - Boulder)
PAPA LEGBA (Celestial Dragon Records - Paducah, KY) Live & DJ!
NOD (TOUCH Samadhi / Those People / ATLPSY – Granite Falls, NC)
METAFORM & T.OM (TOUCH Samadhi / Onetribe - CO)
PROGRESS (AntiShanti Records - NYC) Live!
DAN COVAN (ELF’s – NYC) Live!
INDRA (Alphatrance / Omnitribe / Integral Yoga - NYC)
PRIMATE (COSM - NYC)
ANDREW LIGHT (Gaian Mind - Philadelphia)
DEET (Gaian Mind - Philadelphia)
LAURYN (Gaian Mind / Peak Records - Philadelphia)
ORBICLES (Gaian Mind – Philadelphia)
TRITTON (Gaian Mind – Philadelphia)

VISUAL:

Visual Artists:
COZ&FX (Interchill Records - Nelson, BC)
PETER PARKER (Gaian Mind / Parkerism – Philadelphia)
GUI”AUM”ETRIX (Gaian Mind - NYC)
VOSTEK (Overmind Works – Tucson)
VJ EXERIS (AlterCulture Records - NYC / Baltimore)
BLIZZART (Omnitribe - NYC)
LEVITATION THEORY (Awake - CT)
ALCHEMISM (psyNY - NYC)

Deco Artists:
JULIEN S.L. (Pixie Dust – Montreal)
SONIC BEATING DECO (Sonic Beating - Boston)

CULTURAL:

Lectures & Workshops Featuring:
Evolver Salon featuring CHARLES EISENSTEIN
The Dance of Liberation by PARASHAKTI
History of Electronic Music by BUDDHA BOMB
What On Earth Is Happening? by MARK PASSIO
Interactive Art Party by PANADELPHIA
Morning & Evening Yoga Sessions
Poi, Hooping & Circus Arts
Alternative Energy, Mayan Calendar, and more!!!

Performances Featuring:
Blacklight Archetypal Dance Performance by ARCHEDREAM FOR HUMANKIND
Poetry Jam hosted by PLUMDRAGONESS & THE ELEMENTS
Ceremony & Performance by SEPHIROTH DANCE
Fire Performance, Live Painting, and more!!!

Plus:
Psy_Cinema 2.0
The Magic Theatre
Visionary Art Gallery
Community Altar

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I wanted to check the dates for Mercury retrograde - found this site with dates and background info to share
http://www.alphalifetrends.com/mercuryretrograde.html
Mercury turns retrograde May 7th, 2009 at 2 Gemini- 12:55 am EST
Mercury turns direct May 30th, 2009 at 22 Taurus - 9:18 pm EST

The signs of a Mercury retrograde include communications going bonkers, people getting lost trying to get places, and technology going haywire.

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This Wednesday Sandbox gathering we learn Improv play. Do you want to be more playful? Would you like to think more on your feet? Would you like to think more creatively on your back?! Would you like to get over your fear of making mistakes? This is a hands on workshop and is a lot of fun too! Improv is entertaining, energetic, and exciting. Improv is always different. If you find repetitive tasks dull, this is for you! Expect your confidence to increase, virtually all players improve on assertiveness, and creativity and problem solving are increased. Whether you want to improve your rituals, enjoy sex more spontaneously, be better at public speaking or just have more poise this workshop is for you. We will learn the basic principles of improv and then create an improv play together.

For me improv is a way to get back into the childlike state of creating in the moment. A way to turn down the volume on my inner critic. And a way to let spirit flow freely though me.

The play begins after dinner at 8pm.  I invite you to join us, though as always what ever choice you make you will be honored in.

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This Wednesday Sandbox gathering we take a deeper look at what lies under clutter with Bev Hitchins. Wouldn’t you love to have a clutter-free home?  What if everything you own had its own home—a place where it is kept?  Have you ever wondered why you can’t seem to get rid of your clutter?  Perhaps it’s time to look differently at those piles of paper, clothes, toys, and whatever else you’ve been holding onto, so you can change how you handle them. 

This workshop is a novel approach to seeing your clutter in a spiritual way.  You’ll discover it’s more than just stuff.  It’s a reflection of your spirit.  We’ll explore what clutter means to you and what lies under it with exercises that use the whole brain.  You’ll leave this workshop with a sharper eye and a keener feeling for what to keep and what to throw.


Bev Hitchins is the owner of ALIGN, A Unique and Integrative Approach to Clutter and Balance.  When her mother died in 1990, she drove a huge truck with contents from her mother’s home in Florida to Virginia where she promptly put it in storage for 9 years.  Only in 1999 did she begin the de-cluttering process, which led to starting a thriving de-cluttering business in 2005.  This workshop is based on her own de-cluttering process as well as that of her clients.

The workshop begins after dinner at 8pm.  I invite you to join us, though as always what ever choice you make you will be honored in.

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