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Solsara/Naka-Ima • Shamanic Orbit Qigong / Internal Alchemy • Laughter & Smile Meditation • Dance Activation Ritual • Ecstatic Medicine Vocal Circle • Acroyoga • The Serpent Path • Group Angel Wing Activation • Sonoma Zikr Experience • Contact Improv • Raga Cycle • The Study of Rhythm: Movement, Body, Time • Unified Field Theory • Beloved YOU:niverse • Gaia Loves You! • Harmony in Motion Qigong/Energy Awareness • Tantra • Introduction to Shadow Yoga • Hatha Yoga • Classical Sufi-Pakistani Raaga Singing • Parenting: Emergent Leadership
We are excited to offer space and time to an array of spirited and wise reflections of the Beloved. There'll be something for everyone; and many things for all of us . . . there will truly be medicine for Body, Mind, Spirit and Heart too!
Solsara/Naka-Ima - Larry Kaplowitz
Practical Skills for Personal Evolution
Practice Honesty, Gain Clarity, Deepen Awareness
Recognize and Let Go of Attachments
See Yourself and Others Clearly
Create Connection and Community
Contribute to the Evolution of Consciousness
“When you approach your relationships as a spiritual practice in becoming more 
conscious rather than looking to relationships to make you happy or to fulfill you, a powerful shift takes place. You move from being identified with your reactions, disappointments, and entitlements to developing your capacity to evenly witness whatever arises. In this practice, you do not become distant and detached as some people fear. Rather, this practice helps you to experience your mind like a mirror. A mirror receives but does not grasp. In this state, compassion, clarity and grace may enter.” ~ Candace Rogers
Solsara means shining light on reality. In this practice, we come together to explore ourselves deeply and to communicate from our true essence. We do this primarily through the practice of honesty and learning to recognize and let go of attachments. Attachments limit our ability to perceive reality and create the majority of suffering we experience in life. When we let go, we are able to explore our personalities, our lives, our relationships and all that we have created, both positive and negative, with honesty. Through this practice we free ourselves to create the lives we most desire, to have deeper, richer relationships with others, and to live now as the people we have imagined we could be.
This 90 minute workshop will offer an opportunity to connect deeply with other Beloved participants, and to embody and practice the spiritual openness we are all creating together in the festival in an intimate and personal way.
Larry has been facilitating courses in expanding consciousness for nearly 25 years and has been teaching Naka-Ima/Solsara since 1995. He served as program director at Lost Valley Educational Center for ten years, is the father of three children, and co-founder, along with his partner, Luna Marcus, of Luna & Larry's Coconut Bliss.
Shamanic Orbit Qigong and Internal Alchemy - Ryan Powell
3.5 Hour Workshop - 'the dao is simple' - Master Wu
Ryan Powell, teacher of Mt. Emei Wu (shamanic) Qigong and member of sound healing group Within, invites you to dance into the Beloved Festival with a deep experience of the ancient Chinese practice of Shamanic Qigong and Internal Alchemy.
In this experiential workshop, we will practice the 'dancing of the heart'; a shamanic shaking practice to awaken our inner energy and clear the channels for the Universal Qi (energy) to enter. We will learn and practice 'Shamanic Orbit Qigong', which is a simple and powerful form of energy meditation which uses sacred sound (mantra), hand position (mudra), movement and breath to guide the Universal Qi through our bodies meridian pathways.
Ryan has been a practitioner of Qigong for 13 years, and has been a dedicated student of lineage holder Zhongxian Wu since 2002. He studied Qigong and internal martial arts in China with Master Wu in spring of 2008. He offers training in Qigong and Taiji in weekly classes and workshops in Portland, Oregon and is a practicing musician and sound healer and offers Dreamtime Healing Concerts with One Root and Within. one-root.com
Qi Gong Laughter and Smile Meditation- Anahata Sound
Laughter and smiles relieve & heal stress. Laughter increases creativity, self expression and imagination. Also control blood pressure by reducing the release of certain stress related hormones, strengthening the immune system and increasing endorphin levels (body’s natural pain killer).
Anahata joyfully seeks to guide you into expression and unique journey with your child spirit. Including celestial language and song healing to make it a well rounded healing experience to balance the physical, energy, spiritual, soul, emotional, thought and pain bodies. Fun starts in the thumbs up!
Dance Activation Ritual -Shakti Bliss
Time lay down the grid of Ascended Consciousness by opening the Dance Portal with Beats, Bliss and Divine Intention to take our festival experience to the next level.
“PujaFunk” fun, funky and sacred community dance ritual facilitated to activate our energy bodies and raise our vibrations though breath, movement, heart connections and prayer with some tasty whompy beats.
Let the music be our guide as we join in circle and play with tantric breath work, energy awareness exercises, soul gazing, manifestation affirmations, guided visualizations and free form ecstatic movement. ::Love is Ascension:: ::Dance is our Prayer::
Julie Avena, aka Miss Shakti Bliss, has been facilitating conscious dance rituals at festivals and gathering since the turn of the millennium. She integrates her life mission as a Shamanic Healing Practitioner, Performance Artist and Workshop Guide with delicious beats and divine love to assist in the awakening of the Planet.
Ecstatic Medicine Vocal Circle - Wahkeena Sitka
A Vocal Journey into the Medicine of Primal Song...
Enter into the Sacred Portal of Yourself through your Voice. Ecstatic Medicine Vocal Circles are a beautiful opportunity to release energy, open up & clear your Throat Chakra, have fun, feel deliciously high, and practice spiritual self-cultivation - all through the most basic of our resources - Our Voices.
We will be practicing basic tools of Vocal Qi Cultivation: mindfulness, breathwork, working the Microcosmic Orbit, Mulabandha, and QiGong movements - combined with vocal exercises. We move through building group resonance by toning - culminating in Primal Sounding Play and Tribal Polyrhythmic Song Circle. Towards culmination, we take turns giving and receiving loving healing touch & sound healing to each other.
Acroyoga - Lila Donnolo, Jacob Handwerker, and James Pintado
AcroYoga blends the spiritual wisdom of yoga, the loving kindness of Thai massage, and the dynamic power of Acrobatics. These three ancient lineages form the foundation of a unique new practice that cultivates trust, connection and playfulness. You don't have to be Gumby, a Dutch Acrobat, or a massage ninja to take this workshop (but hooray if you are!) - AcroYoga is tailor-made for yogis and yoginis.
No partner necessary to participate, but there are a few prerequisites: a willingness to laugh, a big fat smile, an opening of the heart, and a desire to connect.
Superbaby consists of Lila Donnolo, Jacob Handwerker, and James Pintado. We are some or all of us acrobats, yoga teachers, capoeiristas, cartoonists, tango dancers, bhangra dancers, martial artists, bodyworkers, singers, actors, poets, and generally creative and genial folk. Lila is the only certified AcroYoga instructor between Seattle and San Francisco! James and Jacob have trained intensively with AcroYoga co-founders Jason Nemer and Jenny Sauer-Klein. We are lovers of flying and being flown, and we are thrilled to share some anti-gravitational time with you.
Conversations with Gaia - S. Grace Mantle
Visionary artist S. Grace Mantle will bring you messages from Gaia, and together
we 
will learn some of what it means to take responsibility as co-creators of our precious planet and the changes we are all going through right now. Some basic concepts for living in harmony with her and her ways will be shared. We will also sit together in her outdoor temple, allow her to come to us, and share our experiences.
S. Grace Mantle is also a Tanran Reiki Master healer, seer, teacher, graphic artist, & dollmaker. Her work has been published in the We’Moon Calendar, in the Ministry of the Arts, Sacred Catalog, James Twyman’s Emissary of Love book & Indigo movie, etc. She is a holder of the new rays, a lightfield blueprint healer, and doorkeeper for the younger generations. Grace is able to see and sense the other-dimensional Beings we share the planet with, and is looking forward to playing with you in the lightfield!
Group Angel Wing Activation - Christopher Wunderlich
Becoming conscious of our wings is one of the most 
useful and transformational tools we have in this planetary ascension process. Our etheric wings are our birthright and a natural part of our energy bodies.
In this workshop each individual will activate their own unique pair of energetic wings and we will collectively work to achieve the realization that we are all human angels living on our beautiful Earth.
Christopher Wunderlich is an artist and spiritual healer living in Ashland OR. He has studied sweat lodge ceremonies with the Lakota on Indian Lands in Minnesota for 13 years. He has been initiated in to several men’s societies, the Foundation Capstone Mystery School and the Hollow Bones Order of Rinsi Zen. He is a channel and shaman currently working for the consciousness of our beloved Earth.
Falling, Flying, Freeing - Glenn Smith
Contact Improvisational dance is an evolving exploration of moving while in physical contact with another person. Each and every dance is different; it is a bodily conversation that can go unexpected places.
In this workshop, we will explore some of the basic principles of contact dance, including safety, weight-sharing, and giving / receiving.
Glenn Smith has been exploring contact dance for over 10 years, he has been continuously finding it to be a powerful form of personal transformation.
Boaden your understanding and awareness of the elements of 
North Indian Classical Music, Raga & Tala, to take advantage of the Raga Cycle, the relationship between Raga and the time of day. Students will sing Ragas associated to the different times of day, from morning until night. The class will be accompanied by tambura, the essential drone instrument, and tabla, a set of 2 small hand drums used in North Indian classical music.
Michael Stirling began the study of North Indian (Hindustani) classical vocal music study (Khayal singing of the Kirana Gharana) with Pandit Pran Nath (Guruji) in 1983 and subsequently traveled with him to India and became his disciple. After Pandit Pran Nath’s death in 1996, Michael continued study and practice of this celestial art form with Guruji’s senior American student, the highly regarded composer / performer, Terry Riley. Mr. Stirling has accompanied Pandit Pran Nath and Mr. Riley in classes and concerts in America (at the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas) and in India (in New Delhi at the dhargha of Sufi Hazarat Inayat Khan and at Diggi Palace in Jaipur) as well as in California (Yoga Kula & Fairfax Mosque) and Oregon (Community Music Center, Marylhurst University). He has also studied and performed with Ustad Hafizullah Khan, Sri Karunamayee, Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan, Lakshmi Shankar, the American bansuri artist Steve Gorn, tabla/esraj artist Benjy Wertheimer, dhrupad vocalists Uday Balwalker, the Gundecha Brothers and others.
The Study of Rhythm: Movement, Body, Time - Geoffrey Gordon
This workshop will delve into the rhythms of the body and the brain and their effects 
on music. New research indicates a delicate and profound connection between music and deep psychological and physical awakenings and healing. We'll focus on breathing, heart pulse, meditation, body awareness, left/right brain connections, music being vitalizing and stimulating or relaxing and calming. Through singing and making music together using sacred chants and rhythms, natural sounds and mantras we'll utilize the intention of focusing on our collective natural experience while the music inevitably touches the most intimate, emotional, and meaningful parts of our lives. The intention of this workshop is illuminating and vitalizing our relationship to the divine gift of music for the benefit of all beings.
Geoffrey Gordon was initiated into yoga and meditation 38 years ago. Beginning in 1975 he studied tabla with Ustad Allarakha and Ustad Zakir Hussain. Beginning in 1977 he studied North Indian Classical music with Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. He has performed on drum set, congas, orchestral percussion, taiko, and dance drums from Haiti, Kenya, Bali, Peking Opera, Brazilian Samba and much more. As well as being a professional percussionist playing on the Broadway stage, numerous CDs, major movie soundtracks, and concerts worldwide Geoffrey has worked extensively with Ram Dass, Jai Uttal, Krishna Das, and Bhagavan Das. He is currently on the 2009 faculty of The Vibrant Living Yoga Teacher Training with Daniel Aaron in Ubud, Bali and has worked on retreat faculties with Ram Dass, Emil Wendel, Shiva Rea, Gabrielle Roth and many others. Visit: www.geoffreygordon.com
Parenting :: Emergent Leadership - Leonard and Lynzee Lynx
Leonard and Lynzee Lynx will be inviting parents (current or 
future) to gather together to share our stories about the gifts and challenges of the role. This workshop is a facilitated discussion about what is working well in our parenting and family lives, and what needs more attention; about the gems of wisdom we have collectively discovered, and the obstacles that await further growth. The lives of the next generation is in our hands. Let's come together to support each other in doing our best to guide and steward these precious lives!
Lynzee Lynx, Leonard and lil Sol live happily in Portland. There they are involved in many projects including a permaculture landscape design business, teaching ( on various subjects!), making art, growing food, engaged in creating community, practicing co-counseling, and so much more. Their family knows that world peace starts at home.
Crossing The Event Horizon: The Unified Field Theory of Nassim Haramein - Jamie Janover
Have you ever wondered about how the universe really works? How we fit in? How 
everything really is "All One" WITHOUT having to think of it with those silly quotes around it? I certainly have... So when I first saw scientist Nassim Haramein speak I was totally blown away. He actually was able to tie together everything into one cohesive unification theory. I mean EVERYTHING - from cosmology to quantum mechanics, sacred geometry, ancient cultures, religious texts, Einstein's relativistic theories (with an added spin component) and even the nature of consciousness....
Learn about Nassim Haramein’s lifelong journey into the geometry of spacetime, which has lead to a coherent understanding of the fundamental structure of the universe and our existence in it. In this presentation, I will take you on a journey through humanity’s evolution, exposing the changes necessary to produce a Unified Physics; a unification of not only the four forces of nature, but also evolution and the occurrence of consciousness. Haramein's theory demonstrates as well a parallel between ancient codes in documents and monuments. This all-encompassing theory may prove to be one of the most important discoveries of our time.
Shiloh Boss - Beloved YOU:niverse
Embody the theories of the living universe and the unified field as we explore and 
engage the principles of creation and conscious evolution together. At the core of its’ functioning the language of the universe shows itself as love and consciousness, arching in patterns and pathways that manifest on all scales of creation. Come together to activate the toriodal field of the heart, transcend and include the ego and activate our eternal essence while engaging in the conscious play of principles of the living universe and patterns of natural evolution. Together in the activation of our natural intelligence you will find the paradoxical paradise of how to both differentiate and unify with the myriad aspects of other and none other than the infinite beloved YOU:niverse.
As an Evolutionary Strategist, Shiloh’s mission is to support intentional development in individuals, organizations and our greater society. With a focus on New Paradigm Principles & Practice, Shiloh Boss is dedicated to bringing holistic awareness into the world of media-presentation, community organization, social-environmental systems, and natural enterprises. Combining years of experience in Business and Administration, with degrees of study in Somatic & Transpersonal Psychology from Naropa University, Spiral Dynamics Integral; Natural Design in Systems, and Conscious Evolution, Shiloh shares an innovative focus on the healthy psychology of systems. Her efforts bring the personal and collective learning process into teams and community through dialogue, group endeavor, inquiry, graphic recording, storytelling, and contemplative embodiment practices. As a vanguard for the emerging world, Shiloh works in collaborative teams that craft a positive future for us all.
Harmony in Motion Qigong/Energy Awareness - Paul Serenko
Qigong is an ancient Taoist art that involves the mind/intent (yi), the breath (zhong), 
and relaxed fluid movement to create a calm, natural balance of energy that can improve one’s health and spiritual well being.
From a spiritual/psychological perspective qigong is a way to listen, enhance, and understand the flow of your internal energy (qi) and develop your spiritual energy (shen). The practitioner gains a deeper awareness of their connection and interaction with nature (both human nature and the earth). In this way qigong is both an active and passive form of meditation.
This workshop will focus on Qigong, Taoist meditation, and Daoyin (a form of self energy message). In this setting we will emphasize the use of coordinated movement, breathing, and visualization in order for the individual to experience a deeper sense of center, connection, energy flow, and ultimate awareness. This workshop is ideal for all levels of participants from beginners to those more familiar with these arts.
Mr. Seronko began his studies of mind/body arts in 1972 with Hatha Yoga, an art he continues to study. In 1975 his interest in martial arts and eastern philosophy started. Paul has studied and taught various forms of Japanese, Okinawian, and Chinese martial arts for the past 25 years. In 1986 Mr. Seronko started his studies in the Taoist arts of T’ai Chi and Qigong. In 1988 he was accepted as a private pupil of Taiwanese T’ai Chi Master Wang Qui Jin (Henry Wang). For the past 21 years Paul has seriously pursued excellence in these mind/body/spiritual arts under Master Wangs tutelage and personal studies. In 1993 Paul opened ‘Harmony in Motion T’ai Chi & Qigong School’ in Boise, Idaho. Since that time he has assisted hundreds of students in their pursuit of these arts for better health, increased awareness, and furthering their spiritual growth. He has shared his knowledge of these arts at workshops in the United States and Canada. Simply put “these arts are my Passion in Life”. Mr. Seronko lives and practices his arts in Boise, Idaho. When not involved in T’ai Chi he is employed as a soil scientist. Paul’s love of dance and playing in nature are other joy filled extensions of his arts.
What does “Tantra” really mean? What is the traditional culture of Tantra? How do 
traditional Tantra, Yoga, ritual and meditation differ from our modern understandings? During this workshop we will explore various aspects of Tantra and its relevance in the modern world. We will also show the universality of this timeless culture.
As an introduction to the culture of Tantra, Whitney will conduct a Puja, a meditative ritual to free us from the limitations of the conscious mind and empower our lives. Participants will also be guided through a traditional Tantric meditation which brings one back to the essential harmonious Self. Tantra is one of the very best ways to appreciate yourself, your partner, your world as the true Divine Beloved.
Whitney Wheelock is a Tantric in the traditional Shiva culture. He lives and studies with his teacher Bhagavan Shri Shanmukha Natha at Shri Kali Ashram in India.
Introduction to Shadow Yoga - Dara Daniels
Shadow Yoga is Hatha yoga with a martial arts influence. A unique form that begins standing, working with movements of the body, breath, and energy.
Dara Daniels has been studying and practicing yoga for over 10 years and teaching for the past 5 years. Although she has investigated many styles of yoga and is a certified Sivananda teacher, she is currently dedicated to shadow yoga, and is passionate about sharing this transformational practice with others. She is also an experienced licensed massage therapist with a Masters Degree in Chinese Medicine.
Classical raaga singing in the tradition of sufi Pakistan - Tahir Qawwal
Raaga is the melodic basis for Indian & Pakistani music. From folk music to classical music Raagas form the fundamental for training & techniques that offer a basis for personal expression.
In this one and a half hour workshop you will learn the basic and most important steps that make up this ancient & sacred music.
Tahir Hussein Qawwal has been teaching & performing Qawwali/classical Pakistani music since 2001 as the leader of the Fanna-Fi-Allah Sufi Qawwali Party. Tahir lives in Pakistan & India for six months out of each year training intensively with the present day king of qawwali: Ustad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.
