Tantra is an ancient form of Yoga and is unlike most forms of Yoga today it is non-postural yet it activates, clears and balances the Chakras (energy centers) of the body.  When these centers are balanced, you feel more alive; you look more attractive and sexy, you manifest what you desire.

Tantra originates from 6000 year old Egyptian, Indian, and Tibetan practices that teach us what our bodies are capable of: more pleasure, agelessness.

Wouldn’t you want these benefits if you found the practices quick and easy?

Learn something new and transform your life.  

Sunday, April 3rd. 10AM - 7PM
Cost: $160 if you register in advance (includes DVD, newsletter & handouts)
$175 at the door
Classes offered in NY, Philly, Baltimore, West Palm, Boston, Phoenix
Call (202) 686-7440 for more info on Butterfly Tantra or
Click www.butterflyworkshops.com 


Are you suffering from the relationship blues?

Many of the people who attend Bliss™ have come to a place in their relationships where they are feeling stuck or flat. Intimacy that may have been there has vanished.
Maybe you've seen some of these issues:
§  If you are a man, are you feeling too stressed to get it up? Or is it all unexpectedly over with before things even get warmed up?

§  If you are a woman, do you feel like your life is so busy that you have no time to be sexy? Are you just feeling bored in the bedroom?

§  If you are a women, would you like more time being ravished and less time with the "slam bam, thank you mam" approach of sexuality?

§  As a man or a woman, has past sexual abuse made intimacy challenging? Would you like some simple techniques that you can use to express yourself more sexually but aren't sure how yet?

§  Do you find yourself drinking or taking drugs to let loose sexually? Would you like to find ways to move past this?

These are the types of topics we cover during the Bliss™ workshop. Even with many of the topics feeling heavy, we have discovered simple ways to ease into covering the topics with fun together. (And at no time are you required to discuss any topic you don't wish to. We allow participants to move at their level of comfort.)
Bliss™ is tailored to helping participants to find the problems that are coming between them and their partner and doing simple exercises that help remove these obstacles.
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A few of the things you'll get while attending Bliss™…

§  Find out how to prolong lovemaking. At the same time, we'll show you how to achieve deeper and more present in lovemaking, too. The process is simple and overlooked by most.

§  Learn to how use sexual energy to rejuvenate the body — using it to stimulate creativity and to also reverse the aging process!

But with Bliss™, we go even further than bedroom time — we look at what is holding you back as a person…
§  Feel great about yourself – happy, more attractive, self-confident, increase your capacity for more pleasure, experience joy and fulfillment as a way of life.

§  Be more healthy by finding out simple ways to eliminate stress along with toxins from your body. We will show you ways to become more safe and whole.

§  Create a more full life for yourself. We will show you easy ways to create intentions — finding a lover, a more fulfilling career, the money you deserve, along with less stress.

§  Learn to more easily navigate those challenging relationships in your life — family, friends, co-workers — anyone that challenges us.

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Who attends Bliss™…

The people who have attended Bliss™ are both singles and couples. They are people who are ready to grow in their sexuality. They have come to a place in their lives where they aren't ready to settle — they want to grow, blossom, feel more.
Many couples have attended Bliss™ struggling with their relationship — and afterward, feel like they've been given a new lease on their connection. Our friend and student, Michele said this:
TESTIMONIAL

"Our marriage was on the rocks. We had visited three psychologists in the last six months with no success. A weekend with Laurie is all it took to finally find the triggers that were preventing us from being closer. Now we are like two kids in love again!
– Michelle, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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What you can expect when you attend Bliss™…

During the Bliss™ One-Day Intensive workshop, we will be sharing a number of fun group exercises together. While in the comfort of our private studio, we will sit and discuss the small things that create blocks in our life.
TESTIMONIAL

 
"There is great magic in seeing how body based wisdom such as Tantra can grow a person and turn him completely around for the better… Thank you for the gifts you gave me when I needed it the most."
–Wes Wolcott, Hemet, CA
We've found that one of the challenges that lovers often have is to move more deeply in lovemaking. We've created a series of easy and fun exercises that can be done as singles or pairs that help people touch the right places in themselves and each other.
Note: even though this course covers our human sexuality, all participants will remained clothed throughout the course and we have a strict "no sexual contact rule" in effect throughout the workshop.
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ATTEND BLISS

Our next Bliss(tm) workshop will be held in:

Washington, DC on
Sunday, April 3, 2011

REGISTRATION

Registration fee only $160 from today until April 2, 2011.

$175 at the door.

Reserve your spot today! (Only 7 spots are left until we are full!)

Location: address given when you register

To register call: (202) 686-7440 or for more info www.butterflyworkshops.com

Laurie Handlers is a spiritual leader and dynamic speaker.  She holds a Masters degree in Education and a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Sociology.  She has taught Butterfly Tantra workshops for women, men, couples and singles since 1999.  She is an international presenter and workshop leader and has been featured in articles, on radio and TV in the United States and abroad. You can order her Shamanic Release & Latihan CD her Bliss: Beginner’s Tantra DVD or her new book Sex & Happiness: The Tantric Laws of Intimacy on her website below. You can catch pod casts of her radio show at www.tantracafe.com.

Here are some of my favorite quotes from Laurie's Sex & Happiness: The Tantric Laws of Intimacy book:

• “If I could distill all my advice about Tantra and sex into one sentence, that sentence would be, Make love in the unknown. In answer to all your fears and doubts about sex, I’d simply say to you, bring back your beginner’s mind. Come to the bedroom with no expectation. Come with openness in your heart for whatever happens.”
•  “In Tantra you'll feel more peaceful, more tolerant, more aware of the world that has nothing to do with doing; everything to do with being.”
• “Intimacy with another requires first and foremost coming to peace with your own emotional and physical needs.”
• "Through Tantra, the power of sexual energy is able to render transformation."

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Lots of useful transition resources here the Shift Network from a friend at Chapel.

 If you are in the DC area the Lords Chapel is non-religious community based in Winchester VA about 1 1/2 hours drive from DC http://www.thelordschapel.com/
Michael

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I remember discovering Tantra a few years ago - I think at one of Michael Goodman's groups then at the Hollies Sandbox and BEST events. Actually the Sandbox dinners started as a place to discuss up coming tantric events.... I remember the delicious sense of connection with others and of being more alive. Later I got into the spiritual aspect of tantra - doing white tantric yoga at Kundalini yoga retreats where you look into your partners eyes all day while doing yoga and meditation. Intense work, clears old patterns and moves a lot of energy! I am also a great fan of India having visited it for 3 weeks in 1986. I just read Michael Wood's "A South Indian Journey" about his travels to temples in Tamil Nadu - the insense, deep spirituality and the mass of people. So I image the movie Tantric Tourists will be fun and interesting too!

Here in Bolivia I am going to a mediation center each week - doing clearings and learning new meditations (in Spanish). And on Saturday I am teching a yoga for prosperity workshop there together with my yogi friend, Jamila. One thing I love about Bolivia is the fresh fruit that I buy at the market - for Bs 40 (about $6 USD) I get about 20 lbs of bananas, apples, peaches, mangoes, avocados plus some strange and new fruits that I don't even know the names of! And it is all locally grown and I think mostly is organic.(They don't have official organic fruit labels here). Tastes great for breakfast! I have been making my own almond milk in a blender (6 almonds, small glass water, teaspoon of olive oil blended for 2 minutes) to pour on the fruit and nuts that I eat for breakfast. Raw food - healthy and yummy too. :-)

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Math modeling of census data in 9 countries suggests that organized religion is in decline and will become as extinct in future as ancient languages are today.

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/23/religion-to-go-extinct-in-9-countries-experts-predict/

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Interesting article on real causes of heart disease. Bottom line: heart: disease is cause by blood vessel inflammation:

Statistics from the  American Heart Association show that 75 million Americans currently suffer  from heart disease, 20 million have diabetes and 57 million have pre-diabetes.  These disorders are affecting younger and younger people in greater numbers  every year.

What are the biggest  culprits of chronic inflammation? Quite simply, they are the overload of  simple, highly processed carbohydrates (sugar, flour and all the products made  from them) and the excess consumption of omega-6 vegetable oils like soybean,  corn and sunflower that are found in many processed foods.

Michael

Paul wrote

Zen says: “It is better to eat bad food with a good heart,
than good food with a bad heart.”

Check this out: How often are you ‘there’ at all, when you eat?
Talking? Thinking of other things?

And... have to keep remembering the possibility of: The Placebo Effect.

Several ‘visitors’ that communicate through humans advise about how we create our reality through our thought process.
The wonderful being Bashar for one, and many others.

One day we are going to ‘look back’ and see how silly, and rather cumbersome we have been in our evolving.

Except, by that time, there will be no time – so no back.

Please do read the following.
We need you – healthy, to assist in the transformation that is happening.

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From: Alan Steinfeld
Subject: FW: Heart Surgeon Admits Huge Mistake

Extract:
“There is no escaping the fact that the  more we consume prepared and processed foods, the more we trip the  inflammation switch little by little each day. The human body cannot process,  nor was it designed to consume, foods packed with sugars and soaked in omega-6  oils.”

“Forget the  “science” that has been drummed into your head for decades. The science that  saturated fat alone causes heart disease is non-existent.”

“Mainstream medicine made a terrible  mistake when it advised people to avoid saturated fat in favor of foods high  in omega-6 fats.”

Huge Mistake! – Without inflammation, cholesterol won't accumulate in blood vessel walls and cause heart disease
By Dwight Lundell, MD

   We physicians with all  our training, knowledge and authority often acquire a rather large ego that  tends to make it difficult to admit we are wrong. So, here it is. I freely  admit to being wrong.. As a heart surgeon with 25 years experience, having  performed over 5,000 open-heart surgeries, today is my day to right the wrong  with medical and scientific fact.

     I trained for many years with other  prominent physicians labelled “opinion makers.” Bombarded with scientific  literature, continually attending education seminars, we opinion makers  insisted heart disease resulted from the simple fact of elevated blood  cholesterol.

    The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to  lower cholesterol and a diet that severely restricted fat intake. The latter  of course we insisted would lower cholesterol and heart disease. Deviations  from these recommendations were considered heresy and could quite possibly result in malpractice.
 
It Is Not Working!
 
These  recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally defensible. The  discovery a few years ago that inflammation in the artery wall is the real  cause of heart disease is slowly leading to a paradigm shift in how heart  disease and other chronic ailments will be treated.
 
The  long-established dietary recommendations have created epidemics of obesity and  diabetes, the consequences of which dwarf any historical plague in terms of  mortality, human suffering and dire economic consequences.

Despite the  fact that 25% of the population takes expensive statin medications and despite  the fact we have reduced the fat content of our diets, more Americans will die  this year of heart disease than ever before.
 
Statistics from the  American Heart Association show that 75 million Americans currently suffer  from heart disease, 20 million have diabetes and 57 million have pre-diabetes.  These disorders are affecting younger and younger people in greater numbers  every year.
 
Simply stated, without inflammation being present in the  body, there is no way that cholesterol would accumulate in the wall of the  blood vessel and cause heart disease and strokes. Without inflammation,  cholesterol would move freely throughout the body as nature intended. It is  inflammation that causes cholesterol to become trapped.
 
Inflammation  is not complicated -- it is quite simply your body's natural defence to a  foreign invader such as a bacteria, toxin or virus. The cycle of inflammation  is perfect in how it protects your body from these bacterial and viral  invaders. However, if we chronically expose the body to injury by toxins or  foods the human body was never designed to process, a condition occurs called  chronic inflammation. Chronic inflammation is just as harmful as acute  inflammation is beneficial.
 
What thoughtful person would wilfully  expose himself repeatedly to foods or other substances that are known to cause  injury to the body? Well, smokers perhaps, but at least they made that choice  wilfully.
 
The rest of us have simply followed the recommended  mainstream diet that is low in fat and high in polyunsaturated fats and  carbohydrates, not knowing we were causing repeated injury to our blood  vessels. This repeated injury creates chronic inflammation leading to heart  disease, stroke, diabetes and obesity.
 
Let me repeat that. The injury  and inflammation in our blood vessels is caused by the low fat diet  recommended for years by mainstream medicine.
 
What are the biggest  culprits of chronic inflammation? Quite simply, they are the overload of  simple, highly processed carbohydrates (sugar, flour and all the products made  from them) and the excess consumption of omega-6 vegetable oils like soybean,  corn and sunflower that are found in many processed foods.
 
Take a  moment to visualize rubbing a stiff brush repeatedly over soft skin until it  becomes quite red and nearly bleeding. you kept this up several times a day,  every day for five years. If you could tolerate this painful brushing, you  would have a bleeding, swollen infected area that became worse with each  repeated injury. This is a good way to visualize the inflammatory process that  could be going on in your body right now.
 
Regardless of where the  inflammatory process occurs, externally or internally, it is the same. I have  peered inside thousands upon thousands of arteries. A diseased artery looks as  if someone took a brush and scrubbed repeatedly against its wall. Several  times a day, every day, the foods we eat create small injuries compounding  into more injuries, causing the body to respond continuously and appropriately  with inflammation.
 
While we savor the tantalizing taste of a sweet  roll, our bodies respond alarmingly as if a foreign invader arrived declaring  war. Foods loaded with sugars and simple carbohydrates, or processed with  omega-6 oils for long shelf life have been the mainstay of the American diet  for six decades. These foods have been slowly poisoning everyone.

How  does eating a simple sweet roll create a cascade of inflammation to make you  sick?
 
Imagine spilling syrup on your keyboard and you have a visual of  what occurs inside the cell. When we consume simple carbohydrates such as  sugar, blood sugar rises rapidly. In response, your pancreas secretes insulin  whose primary purpose is to drive sugar into each cell where it is stored for  energy. If the cell is full and does not need glucose, it is rejected to avoid  extra sugar gumming up the works.
 
When your full cells reject the  extra glucose, blood sugar rises producing more insulin and the glucose  converts to stored fat.
 
What does all this have to do with  inflammation? Blood sugar is controlled in a very narrow range. Extra sugar  molecules attach to a variety of proteins that in turn injure the blood vessel  wall. This repeated injury to the blood vessel wall sets off inflammation.  When you spike your blood sugar level several times a day, every day, it is  exactly like taking sandpaper to the inside of your delicate blood vessels.  

While you may not be able to see it, rest assured it is there. I saw  it in over 5,000 surgical patients spanning 25 years who all shared one common  denominator — inflammation in their arteries.
 
Let’s get back to the  sweet roll. That innocent looking goody not only contains sugars, it is baked  in one of many omega-6 oils such as soybean. Chips and fries are soaked in  soybean oil; processed foods are manufactured with omega-6 oils for longer  shelf life. While omega-6’s are essential –they are part of every cell  membrane controlling what goes in and out of the cell — they must be in the  correct balance with omega-3’s.
 
If the balance shifts by consuming  excessive omega-6, the cell membrane produces chemicals called cytokines that  directly cause inflammation. Today’s mainstream American diet has produced an  extreme imbalance of these two fats. The ratio of imbalance ranges from 15:1  to as high as 30:1 in favor of omega-6. That’s a tremendous amount of  cytokines causing inflammation. In today’s food environment, a 3:1 ratio would  be optimal and healthy.
 
To make matters worse, the excess weight you  are carrying from eating these foods creates overloaded fat cells that pour out large quantities of pro-inflammatory chemicals that add to the  injury caused by having high blood sugar. The process that began with a sweet  roll turns into a vicious cycle over time that creates heart disease, high  blood pressure, diabetes and finally, Alzheimer’s disease, as the inflammatory  process continues unabated.

There is no escaping the fact that the  more we consume prepared and processed foods, the more we trip the  inflammation switch little by little each day. The human body cannot process,  nor was it designed to consume, foods packed with sugars and soaked in omega-6  oils.
 
There is but one answer to quieting inflammation, and that is  returning to foods closer to their natural state. To build muscle, eat more  protein. Choose carbohydrates that are very complex such as colorful fruits  and vegetables. Cut down on or eliminate inflammation- causing omega-6 fats  like corn and soybean oil and the processed foods that are made from them. One  tablespoon of corn oil contains 7,280 mg of omega-6; soybean contains 6,940  mg. Instead, use olive oil or butter from grass-fed beef.

Cure for Heart Disease and The Great Cholesterol Lie .  
 Animal fats  contain less than 20% omega-6 and are much less likely to cause inflammation  than the supposedly healthy oils labelled polyunsaturated. Forget the  “science” that has been drummed into your head for decades. The science that  saturated fat alone causes heart disease is non-existent. The science that  saturated fat raises blood cholesterol is also very weak. Since we now know  that cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease, the concern about  saturated fat is even more absurd today.
 
The cholesterol theory led to  the no-fat, low-fat recommendations that in turn created the very foods now  causing an epidemic of inflammation. Mainstream medicine made a terrible  mistake when it advised people to avoid saturated fat in favor of foods high  in omega-6 fats. We now have an epidemic of arterial inflammation leading to  heart disease and other silent killers.
 
What you can do is choose  whole foods your grandmother served and not those your mom turned to as  grocery store aisles filled with manufactured foods. By eliminating  inflammatory foods and adding essential nutrients from fresh unprocessed food,  you will reverse years of damage in your arteries and throughout your body  from consuming the typical American diet.
 
Ed. Note: Dr. Dwight  Lundell is the past Chief of Staff and Chief of Surgery at Banner Heart  Hospital, Mesa, AZ.  His private practice, Cardiac Care  Center was in Mesa, AZ.  Recently Dr. Lundell left surgery  to focus on the nutritional treatment of heart disease.  He  is the founder of Healthy Humans Foundation that promotes human health with a  focus on helping large corporations promote wellness.  He is  the author of The Cure for Heart Disease and the Great Cholesterol Lie.

      

 

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This Wednesday Sandbox gathering we do some Tantric exercises with Laurie Handlers and watch her new movie "Tantric Tourists". (And Laurie is teaching a one day workshop Intro to Tantra called "Bliss" on Sunday 4/3/2011 in Washington DC.)

Tantric Tourists” is a “mocumentary” film which follows internationally acclaimed Tantra Teacher and author, Laurie Handlers around India as she leads an eclectic group of tantric seekers through a myriad of tourist oriented sights & experiences- all in search of reaching the blissful state (Tantric) of diving fearlessly into “The Unknown”.

So great to have the STAR of Tantric Tourists in the neighborhood here in Arizona. Laurie takes us along on this all too human archetypal journey offshore to find the thing that dwells within. It’s all about roll, roll, roll with the flow.Or should I say flap, flap, flap. Congratulations Laurie on a gem of movie!

  – Juliana Rose

“Funny, colourful & irreverent. Everything The Darjeeling Ltd should have been.” 

- Jason Solomons, The Guardian

“Fans of The Secret will love this movie”

- ReSource Magazine

“A Spiritual Spinal Tap” 

- LeCool

”Hilarious & deep” 

Laurie Handlers is a sex educator, author, and intimacy coach. She holds a Masters degree in Education and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Sociology. Her career includes over thirty years as a corporate change consultant, individual empowerment coach and international seminar leader. She is a dynamic speaker, facilitator and has taught Butterfly Tantra workshops for women, men, couples and singles since 1999 on ancient Indian, Tibetan and Egyptian Tantric techniques and secrets that are the basis of healing the body, releasing past emotional trauma, stopping the aging process, and reducing stress. Pod casts from her former internet radio show Tantra Café can be accessed through www.tantracafe.com. Podcasts from her new show Sex and Happiness can be accessed at www.WebTalkRadio.net/shows/sex-and-happiness. Laurie stars in a hilarious indie documentary Tantric Tourists www.TantricTourists.com. Her book Sex & Happiness and her CD Shamanic Release & Latihan can be purchased at www.ButterflyWorkshops.com.

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Laurie is teaching a one day workshop Intro to Tantra called "Bliss" on Sunday 4/3/2011 in Washington DC.

Here are some of my favorite quotes from Laurie's Sex & Happiness: The Tantric Laws of Intimacy book:

• “If I could distill all my advice about Tantra and sex into one sentence, that sentence would be, Make love in the unknown. In answer to all your fears and doubts about sex, I’d simply say to you, bring back your beginner’s mind. Come to the bedroom with no expectation. Come with openness in your heart for whatever happens.”
• “In Tantra you'll feel more peaceful, more tolerant, more aware of the world that has nothing to do with doing; everything to do with being.”
• “Intimacy with another requires first and foremost coming to peace with your own emotional and physical needs.”
• "Through Tantra, the power of sexual energy is able to render transformation."

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.

Some tips on Tantra at http://www.newfrontier.com/nepal/whatis.htm

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This Wednesday Sandbox gathering we join Leonard Rosenbaum and learn about the Enneagram. How can you understand yourself, family and partners better? What if you sometimes do or say things that seem to be stuck in a pattern? How can we grow and transform faster in these rapidly changing times?

The enneagram is thought of as a personality-typing system, though enneatypes are much deeper than "personality types." Our enneatype reflects our primary drives, passions, underlying motivations, “energy,” focus of attention, and perspective/orientation to the world. It also is related to the psychological (and physiological) armor we wear, the lenses through which we view the world, and our manner of relating to the world. Our enneatype is a prism/filter that overlays our true self. Each of the 9 enneatypes reflects a psychospiritual trauma and deficit for which we take measures to compensate. Each enneatype also brings psychological and spiritual gifts, as well as a path toward growth and transformation.

Leonard will give an overview and enactment (role-play) of each enneatype, provide opportunities for attendees to discover their enneatype, and facilitate a discussion in which we will explore ways in which our enneatypes affect our relationships and ways of being in the world, as well as paths toward transformation.

The main personality types include:
1.    The Perfectionist – Productive, organized, wise, ethical and reliable, this type of personality is concerned with doing things right, living right and improving themselves and things around them. They can be judgmental, critical, controlling and anxious as well.
2.    The Helper – Generous, insightful and caring, Helpers must be loved to feel their value and react positively to others. They can also be martyr like and possessive, and sometimes overly accommodating.
3.    The Achiever – A pretty self-explanatory personality, the achiever is driven by success and hates failure. At their worst, Achievers can be vindictive, narcissistic and pretentious.
4.    The Romantic – A key character in almost every plot line, the Romantic is addicted to emotion and must experience her feelings. She doesn’t wish to be ordinary and can sometimes be self-conscious, moody or self-absorbed.
5.    The Observer – At their best, they are analytical and consumed with knowing and understanding the world around them. At their worst, they can come off as critical of others, intellectually arrogant and negative.
6.    The Questioner – “Do I fit in?” is a common thought for the Questioner, a personality driven by the need for security. While they can be compassionate and warm, they can also be paranoid, defensive and rigid.
7.    The Adventurer – True adrenaline junkies, No. 7’s thrive on activities, want to contribute to the world and don’t enjoy suffering. Their confidence and spontaneity can sometimes be interpreted as narcissism and lack of discipline.
8.    The Asserter – The Asserter doesn’t want to take “no” for an answer and wants to be self-reliant. Authoritative, energetic and loyal, No. 8’s can also be rebellious, self-centered and aggressive to avoid feeling inferior or dependent.
9.    The Peacemaker – Nines hate conflict and want to smooth things over, but their emotional responses to various situations can vary from genteel and polite to obsessive and forceful. (from http://www.necessarywriters.com/?p=890 )

Bio:

Leonard Rosenbaum is a holistic health coach and energy healer who serves as a board member of the Intl. Primal Assn. (www.primals.org), Intl. Assn. of Cancer Victors & Friends (www.cancervictors.net), and
BestAnswerForCancer.org. He is the director of Alternative Cancer Information Resources, which is a clearinghouse of information on alternative treatments for cancer and other health conditions. Leonard's academic background includes clinical psychology and psychoanalysis. His interests include nonviolent communication, primal therapy, contact improv, massage, sacred intimacy, and tantra. Leonard can be reached at leonardleonard1 (at) earthlink.net or 202-393-2885.

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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This seems timely to me. Time to follow intuition and stay in space of love rather than fear. And to look at how I am living.
Michael

A Message from the Hopi Elders

Sunday, March 13, 2011 9:46

"A Message from the Hopi Elders"



"You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour.

Now you must go back and tell the people that this is The Hour.

Here are the things that must be considered:

Where are you living?

What are you doing?

What are your relationships?

Are you in right relation?

Where is your water?

Know our garden.

It is time to speak your Truth.

Create your community.

Be good to each other.

And do not look outside yourself for the leader.

This could be a good time!



There is a river flowing now very fast.

It is so great and swift, that there are those who will be afraid.

They will try to hold on to the shore.

They will feel they are being torn apart and will suffer greatly.

Know the river has its destination.

The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle

of the river,

keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.

And I say, see who is in there with you and celebrate.



At this time in history, we are to take nothing personal. Least of

all, ourselves.

For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.



The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves!

Banish the word "struggle" from your attitude and your vocabulary.

All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.

We are the ones we have been waiting for!"



- Oraibi, Arizona, Hopi Nation

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This is a great way to clear your aura of stagnent energy and relax.

• One cup of salt (preferably natural salt without additives)
• One cup baking soda
• Optional A few drops of lavender essential oil for extra relaxation

Bless the water and salts and ask angels to help with clearing your aura and releasing any negativity into the water.

Soak in tub for an hour - longer than you might feel comfortable. Sometimes I let my head soak in the water and submerge for a while (will have to shampoo your hair afterwards if you do this as salt water like sea water will make it matt). Rinse off in the shower.

If you feel like it then take a nap afterwards or do a meditation and feel how relaxed and clear your energy feels now compared to before the aura bath.

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Had an insight this morning - comparing eating diet to a money diet:
both involve bring consciousness to the activity -choosing what I eat or what I spend money on (or what I focus my energy for income on)

• noticing what I am doing - tracking eating or spending or income
•  being self-compassionate - no blame,shame or guilty over any "slip ups" - forgive myself and correct course in the present
• grateful/bless my food, my bills, my clients
• exercise to releasing toxins from my body, old money beliefs from my mind-body
• interrupt emotional eating/ emotional spending - eg using EFT when I feel an urge coming on

(I am abundant in the food/health areas of my life and can transfer these skills to money and other areas)

I think the same pattern interrupt approaches can apply to negativity thinking habits, friends, relationships, sex and other areas of my life where habits can take over.

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