2011 Workshop Lineup (ARCHIVED)

Songs of Longing, Paths of Revelation

The soul is the primal part of us, the premier source of changes in the world and transformations in our lives. Soul would have each of us find our path in life even as the world becomes more troubled and confusing. The soul is the light inside the dark, the hidden quintessence that secretly holds things together within each of us and within the world.

Each soul has been secretly called to meet the divine and each must walk the road to that meeting on their own feet. There is no GPS device that leads to the territory where the Beloved patiently waits. Yet, each soul carries a hidden map that unfolds whenever our longings out sing our fears. And, there are ecstatic areas where no map is needed, where the “luminous stage beneath your feet” appears and the dance you were intended to find finds you.

On the grounds of ecstasy we find the cosmic and cellular dance of life and find again the rhythm of creation. On this occasion we will explore the territories of the divine through poetry and song; we will create a “hunting party for the divine.”

Ganesh: Secret Symbolisms of the Self - Dr. Manoj Chalam

The little-known text called the Ganapati Upanishad elevates the primordial form of Ganesha to symbols of consciousness. Vedantic meditation on Ganesha consists of shravana (listening), manana (contemplation), and nidhidhyasana (taking a stand in consciousness) and is an intuitive way to realize the Self. Discover how these nondualistic teachings of Vedanta can add great insights into your yoga/spiritual practice.

Manoj uses humor, stories and everyday experiences in his talks on Mythology, Vedanta and Tantra. Indian-born Manoj has given keynote lectures at Yoga festivals and teaches at Yoga Journal conferences, studios, ashrams and Universities. He is a scientist with a doctorate in Chemical Physics from Cornell University. The pursuit of money and fame consumed Manoj initially and at some point he realized that it is a treadmill going to nowhere except a burnout. It took a long time for Manoj to figure out that his calling in life is to assimilate and teach spiritual practice and philosophy through the symbolisms of Yogic Hindu & Buddhist art which he now imports from India. Manoj has also compiled a book on Hindu and Buddhist Symbology. Manoj also frequently tours and lectures at the retreats of the Founder of Anusara Yoga, John Friend.

Solsara: Social Meditation - Candace Scheidegger & Larry Kaplowitz

Do you feel a desire to be fully alive, to be perceptive and clear? Do you have an intention to show up more fully and to connect with people to a greater level? Come practice being honest, unveiling yourself, and inquiring together into who we truly are. We will practice taking the qualities of increased awareness and focused presence found in most meditative practices and apply that same witnessing to how we interact with others. We will utilize the creative potential and wisdom that are generated when we listen deeply to ourselves and one another in this way to free ourselves from our limiting ideas, explore our true essence and further our evolution. Through this practice we will increase the atmosphere of authenticity, intimacy and depth of connection during the festival. Workshops will be tailored daily in response to what is emerging during Beloved.

Candace Scheidegger has offered courses in evolving consciousness for the past ten years and Larry Kaplowitz for over twenty years. Link to the Solsara webpage: www.solsara.net

100 Handprint Healing - Swami Prakashananda

The 100 Handprint Ritual is a ceremony that is intended to help relieve suffering on all levels. It is from the tradition known asChöd in Tibetan Buddhism. Chöd is a very old tantric practice that can have powerful energetic effects; calming physical, mental, emotional and environmental disturbances.

During this practice, the recipients lie down while the ritual is performed. There are prayers, chanting, music, and extensive offerings. The instruments used are a bell, a double-sided drum, and a bone trumpet. In the ritual, each practitioner visualizes offering their body, transforming it into whatever is needed to satisfy the energies present in the environment. Through giving themselves away completely, Chöd practitioners learn about the ultimate unity at the heart of life, and all those present in the environment share the benefit from the offering that is made.

The ritual will be led by Swami Prakashananda, practice director at The Movement Center. Swamiji has been a teacher of kundalini meditation for over 20 years. He studied Chöd practice with Swami Chetanananda, the spiritual director of The Movement Center, and Lama Tsering Wangdu Rinpoche, a highly accomplished Buddhist master from Kathmandu. themovementcenter.com

Gathering of BeLoved Art Monks: Sharing Creative Spirit - La Laurrien and Michelle and Joel Levey

The Beloved Festival offers a profoundly inspiring mix of experiences to awaken more fully to the blossoming of the creative spirit within us.  This deeply engaging and highly experiential workshop invites attending Beloveds to explore a magical blend of practices, questions, perspectives, and reflections for deepening the presence of Creative Spirit in every dimension of our lives.  Guidelines will be offered for creatively experimenting with weaving learnings from this workshop into meditation, dancing, and connections throughout the Beloved Festival – and beyond)))

La Laurrien is an artist, entrepreneur, community activator, visionary, wordsmith, La is a self-making human learner and teacher, invoking the Life-As-Art School of Direct Experience. La has been leading Word Magic workshops, hosts the Beloved MetaForum, and lives in dedication to the Sacred Mystery.

Joel & Michelle Levey are stewards of Kohala Sanctuary, Big Island of Hawaii  (http://KohalaSanctuary.com) ~ Founders of WisdomAtWork.com  (http://wisdomatwork.com) ~ Authors of Luminous Mind; Living in Balance ~ Advisors for Art Monastery Project, International Otherhood of ArtMonks and International Campaign for Compassionate Cities ~ Faculty at Bastyr University and U Minnesota Spirituality and Healing.

Bhakti: Praising the Beloved - Ana Holub

Together, we’ll combine sacred poetry, forgiveness meditations, divine song, silence and group prayer. This workshop will bring bhakti - devotion - to the Festival in a deep and healing way. It will be a time to slow down, contact the Beloved and expand our Love in all directions...as the family we are. Come prepared to dive deep into Peace with your full sincerity!

About Ana Holub and Clear Path to Peace: I’m a forgiveness counselor, peace educator, poet and author based in Mount Shasta, CA. I teach simple, practical, elegant tools to guide you to union with the Divine. Find out more about me here: www.anaholub.com.

Sacred Clowning - Lila Cari Bivona

The Divine Playground is not your average playground, especially when the teacher leaves a note on the blackboard that says. “Today, I am the wind in the chimes. Bring the loop pedal and come jam with me.” With test results soaring out of this galaxy, our fool-proof technique of play-praying, presencing, and self-discovery proves that all paths lead to Shangri-La but some are way more fun than others! Together, we deepen our awareness of the potent wisdom embodied in the inner child, cocreation, and our ability to evolve through play and games. Lila, visionary of the Divine Playground, and Dream Awakening Circus Free School presents a holistic experience that just might involve song and dance, and the element of being witnessed. Raw and authentic, it’s safe to be seen here. Back to school rule #1: Come as you are!

Lila loves to Dance-awaken the Lovevolution! and empower dreams into fertile manifestations. She is the visionary of The Divine Playground, purveyors of an Awake and Free Paradigm, which has playfully produced the transcendent entertainment crew, The Bliss Agents, and The Dream Awakening Circus Free School in Costa Rica. Lila is a Oneness Blessing/Deeksha giver and has 10 years facilitation experience in awakening potential arts and integrative, self-awakening yoga. She's excited to offer the playshop, Sacred Clowning, which was first shared at the Envision Festival in Costa Rica. The spiritual potency of theatre, games, and clowning are fun tools for evolution and healing. Yes! Let’s! Be love, and be friends FB: Divine Playground.. Stay tuned for what's unraveling in 2012 as we show up to Enlighten-up! together.

Human Flowering Song Circle - Morgan Brent

In the tradition of shamanic medicine circles, we embark upon a collective journey, an embodied creation story, that we breath, voice, chant, spirit-language, and ultimately, sing alive. This resonance with our evolutionary heritage opens a fertile imaginal space, allowing the deeper currents of Creation to sprout up, flower, and fruit the higher Octaves of our Human Beingness. This all in service to increasing activation of the Gaian Dream, of Our Dream, as it unfurls itself beneath the Sunlight of our Opening Hearts. May we all Flourish Omward thru these Transitional Thymes!

Morgan Brent (MT Xen) has a PhD in anthropology, however he left academia after engagements with herbal healing traditions clued him into a vast Gaian intelligence, with which he became conversant, and soon allied with its purposes. He now specializes in the prescriptive teachings (Gaian dharma) of medicinal plants, aka 'Nature's plan to save the humans'. In service to this guidance, he writes articles and essays, births, collects, and strings together songs into malas of embodied story telling, and makes medicines of all kinds, among them events both large (Singing Alive gatherings, now in their 5th year), and small (Creation-song circles). These events are about sharing songs (and prayers, chants, blessings, and song om) of personal and planetary renewal ~ which he considers gestures of subtle activism, food for a spiritually hungry world. For more info, go to ~ www.tribesofcreation.com

Daoist Big Dipper Walking Ceremony - Ryan Powell

Going back thousands of years there is a practice of 'star stepping' in the Chinese shamanic and Daoist tradition. The Big Dipper, or Bei Dou (北斗), is considered to be the Heart of Heaven and controls the destiny and karma of all life. Traditionally practiced on the night of the full moon, this practice is a way of attuning ourselves with the harmonious energy of the Bei Dou to improve our lives, our karma, and our connection with the Dao and on the spiritual level will teach us how to fly. Join us as we recite the Big Dipper Mantra and spin around the stars of the Dipper and spiral into the center of our being together in this ancient shamanic ritual.

Ryan has been on the path of sacred music, Qigong cultivation, and energy healing for over 14 years. He has been learning and practicing the shamanic cultivation arts of China (Emei and Dragon Gate Qigong, Zhaobao He Taijiquan, Dai Xinyi, Yijing prediction and Calligraphy) with his teacher Master Zhongxian Wu since 2002 and has traveled to China to connect more deeply with the Hidden Immortal lineage. He offers 'Dreamtime Healing Concerts' with the groups One Root and Within Sound Healing. He currently teaches shamanic Qigong and Taiji and holds private Qi of Sound Healing sessions and small sound healing concerts in the Pacific Northwest. Visit www.one-root.com for more info.

Dance of Shiva/Mudra Rasa: System of Conscious Liberation- William Phelan

A Dynamic Meditation that moves through all possible rotations of the joints. Breaks down conditioned patterns and stimulates neural connections. Improves reaction speed and coordination. Excellent for dancers and martial artists and yogi's.

Mudra Rasa: Mudra means condition. Rasa is a state of being. Dynamic movement through emotional and psychic conditions. Learning to sense one's own energy field and conduct it through the subtle vibrations of the chakras. How to move prana through one's being. Dance of Shiva recommended right before for heightened sensitivity.

William has been dedicated to the practice of asana for nearly a decade, having first come to yoga in 2003 on his personal path of self-healing and awakening. After studying extensively with his teacher, Katerina Wen, he completed Universal Yoga Level Three teacher training with founder, Andrey Lappa. A full-time teacher at Yogi Way in Seattle for three years, he has continually refined his practice, incorporating the techniques of Tripsichore yoga, created by Edward Clarke.

Students of William's have come to expect a strong asana practice linked with vinyasa, which can be modified for most any body; breath control, bandhas; a witty humor which lightens the mood of the practice, balanced by an intrinsically sacred approach, deepening the bhav, or blissfull awareness.

Highly inquisitive into the nature of reality, yoga has led William to a deeply authentic peace within it. As a teacher, he strives to embody awareness and acceptance, and to share the most fundamental essence and experience of Yoga: Action Expanding Unification.

Raga: Singing a Prism - Michael Stirling

Nowhere in the world has the science of sound and music been investigated with such depth and sophistication as in ancient India, where a unique cultural tradition of yoga, spirituality and music has developed. The Vedas teach that music is the most important of the art forms, with the body as the instrument of expression. Accordingly, vocal music is given the highest significance.

  India’s classical music today, exists as a direct descendant of these ancient traditions, preserved, elaborated and developed through the ages, and passed on orally from teacher to disciple, in the Guru-Shishya tradition. 

Raga, the musical language that is at the heart of Hindustani classical music, is a highly devotional, yet improvised musical form with a lyric content that is concerned with divine love, the separation of lovers, nature and the seasons. This workshop will increase your knowledge and broaden your understanding of the general elements of North Indian Classical Music (raga & tala) and its ancient cultural and historical elements.  

Participants will sing and learn one of several raga scales and also compositions in those ragas. The rhythmic aspect of Indian classical music (tala) will also be examined.  The workshop will be accompanied by tambura (the essential drone instrument) and tabla (a set of two small hand drums). 

The class is taught in the Kirana style of North Indian classical vocal music ~ which traces its history back in time over 700 years ago to the colorful era of the mogul kings and to the legendary saint and singer Gopal Nayak, who worshipped Krishna, embraced Sufism and blended these elements into a spiritual form expressed in the language of music.

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.

Connecting to the Divine Spiral - Serena Scaglione

The spiral is a sacred symbol that reminds us of our evolving journey in life. With its never ending path, the spiral helps consciousness to accept change, inspire growth, and allow new levels of creation to unfold. The intention of this hoop dance workshop is to connect to our own divine inner spiral, churn up that life force energy, awaken the Beloved within, and unlock any blockages we have in our way, to help inspire the changes we want to see in ourselves, and in the world around us.

Serena aka ‘Juicy’ is a passionate hooper/teacher, performance artist, a lover of life and an inspirational speaker, who has been teaching hoop dance classes for over 6 years. Her Path in this life is to inspire people to enjoy life, stir up creative juices and have fun! Her classes and workshops focus on self-love- taking care of your temple, celebrating your health and existence, and the knowing that you already have everything you need to feel good!

The hoop is simply a tool to help us get in touch with ourselves, connect to our beloved and intuition to lead happier healthier lives. When we hoop we spiral inward, and there Is great healing to be found when we vibrationally align with our true essence. Hooping helps us to connect to our inner child, that care free state where anything is possible!

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.

Singing Your Soul Free - Robin Jackson and Daniel Flynn

Activate your musical birthright and sing!  Join musicians Robin Jackson and Daniel Flynn as they take you on a journey through the exploration of your embodied voice in this experiential musical workshop for anyone who wants to sing. All levels welcome - especially the timid and the terrified. 

Experience the power and joy of coming together with your friends and singing.  We will play with melody, rhythm, language, harmony and soul connection as we explore the colors inherent in our voices and join with other singers to create vocal landscapes, soulful harmonies, and impromptu sonic masterpieces. We will learn Circle songs, kirtan, global chants and how to sing harmonies. Dive into a global soup as we sing songs from a variety of traditions and cultures like Orisha songs from Brazil, South African harmonies, Balkan beats, Gospel chants and more.  Explore the fantastic edge through vocal improvisation as we create a vocal improv orchestra together. Guaranteed to expand your confidence and your consciousness!

Robin Jackson is a professional composer, performer, educator and multi-instrumentalist as well as a youth worker and community organizer. He has taught global experimental song workshops in arts based youth camps, community events and festivals for ten years. He is a full time professional touring musician and plays with Vagabond Opera, the March Fourth Marching Band the Everyone Orchestra and others. He studied Jazz in New Zealand, went to the University of Oregon and then graduated from the Evergreen State College in 2003 with a B.A. in Ethnomusicology. He currently runs a monthly song writing event in Portland, OR and likes to get really silly. He lives in Portland, OR on an urban farm with his cat, Miso, some chickens and a circus. 

Daniel Flynn, yoga teacher, massage therapist and musician, loves more than anything else to share music and sing with others.   His passion for yoga and sacred music has taken him from his previous incarnation as a bar slinging solo acoustic cover song act into the divine yum yums of communal singing.  He can be found teaching yoga and leading song in Portland Oregon at Root Whole Body and Yoga Pearl.

Soul Technology for Spiritual Liberation - Sharanam Anandama

An introduction, discussion, and demonstration of the knowledge and practices for naturally attaining, and maintaining higher states of consciousness with an awareness of Soul Liberation, and the goal of Spiritual Enlightenment.  Wisdom of the masters of the East as translated by an American Spiritual Seeker and Practitioner Sharanam Anandama. 

Born in San Francisco in 1952, Sharanam was an early Spiritual explorer of the original "Flower Children", and "New Age" generation of the late 60's/early 70's.  A lucky participant in the original San Francisco psychedelic music scene.  An outspoken Vietnam war protester, and Conscientious Objector.  In 1973 he came in contact with Ram Dass and the teachings of Saint Neem Karoli Baba, yoga, meditation, the music and chanting of Krishna Das and Bhagavan Das, and the Essence of Eastern thought and practices.  A life changing journey ensued leading through many incarnations within one lifetime, and contact with higher and higher levels of teachers and experiences.  Founder of the Rhythm and Bliss Band, Rhythm and Bliss Presents production company in 1977.  Founder in 1978 of the Harmony Festival in Santa Rosa California, and an originator of many events dedicated to World Peace, Oneness of Being, and Higher Consciousness.  On the same day in 2003 he met his guru Mata Amritananda Mayi Ma, aka: Ammaji "The Hugging Saint of India" and Elliot Raisenick, founder of Beloved Festival.  In the present era Sharanam performs, teaches at, produces, mentors, and facilitates gatherings of kirtan music, yoga, meditation, world music, spiritual teachings, such as Dancing Dragons Festival, Beloved Festival, Bhaktifest, Dharmananda, Earthdance and others.  Sharanam also plays live music for meditation, hatha yoga, poetry and his beloved Kirtan Mantra Chants.  

New Relationships/New World: 8 Skills for Extraordinary Relationships - Shivoso Phoenix

The world we want to live in is a reflection of the quality our intimate relationships. With access to information that can transform our views of what relationship is for and what it can be, we practice the principal skills used to create extraordinary relationships. Join me in exploring the 8 vital skills of extraordinary relationship to empower and engage your practice in actively creating harmonious, intimate relationships and communities.

Shivoso teaches the realities, techniques and attitudes of extraordinary relationship. He has been fascinated by the dynamics of intimate relationships for over 20 years, leading to his studies for 4+ years with Charles Muir and the Source School of Tantra. Eventually receiving his ACTE certification (Advanced Certified Tantric Educator). He came to realize that there was a deep need for the support of modern relationships that Neo-Tantra was not addressing well. He has subsequently developed a set of teachings, practices and resources that he shares as a Transformational Relationship Coach.  He also is a facilitator at Tribal Convergence, performs with the Tantric Circus and conducts Radiant Relations Salons.

Emotional Freedom Yoga - Mariah Ambika

Emotional Freedom Yoga involves deep emotional clearing techniques. This class works to clear painful emotional memories stored in the body and mind with a tapping technique that stimulates energy flow (similar to an acupuncture treatment). While tapping we vocalize acceptance of deep seated emotions, allowing them to dissolve. This is a very transformational and shifting work that helps to clear old patterns in life and open us up to fresh, new empowering perspectives. Thus allowing us a happier healthier life! She includes some energy movement exercises, yoga postures and sound therapy to assist in this healing release. 

Mariah Ambika is an advanced EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) Practitioner, Yoga instructor and Energy worker (Reiki). She has studied healing practices throughout Asia and the Western United States.  Much of her knowledge and intuition has been developed through her own personal healing journey. She enjoys sharing this healing work with others to help people find their own true healing potential within themselves. The Path is Open ~ The time is Now!

Vox Lumina: Access the Power and Beauty of Your Voice - Vox Vespertinus

You have a gorgeous voice that is a unique conduit for self expression and connection to the divine. Learn tools and practices for opening your instrument to it's full power and beauty, tap into inspired frequencies of light and love and much more in this super fun, safe and supportive workshop led by an accomplished operatic and experimental vocalist and vocal sound healer. Featuring live accompaniment and individual and group exercises these workshops will be recorded and emailed to interested participants.

Vox Vespertinus is an experimental and operatic vocalist with a four octave range who integrates her extraordinary voice with her own original and remixed electronic compositions.the name comes from the latin vox  or voice and vespertinus meaning rising or awakening in evening, evening star or evening prayer. Known for creating transcendent sonic tapestries through ethereal live vocal looping, her sound has been described as the voice an oracle, channeling the hiography of exultant voices, emanating the highest vision of an angelic presence. She is also a skilled energy worker, clairvoyant and vocal sound healer and integrates these disciplines into her performances and vocal workshops. Vox performs both as a solo artist and with a diverse array of classical, sacred, experimental and electronic artists.

Eating For Consciousness: Laying the foundation for Spiritual Growth - Laura Dawn MacDonald

This is the beginning of a new relationship to our Selves, to each other and to Divine Mother Earth. This workshop integrates a mindfulness-based approach to creating a harmonious relationship to food by simplifying our diets, re-connecting to food source, earth wisdom and our own inner guidance. Shifting our relationship to how we view and relate to food so that we can remove life-force-depleting blocks and allow full integration and higher levels of awareness into our lives creating room for alignment with our highest purpose. Fertilizing the soils of our being and and using food as medicine for us on our evolutionary path and eating in a way to allow us to be open to the creative forces of the universe. We explore food as addiction, loving-kindness practices towards ourselves and others, optimal nutrition for the mind.

Global adventurer Laura Dawn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist (RHN), Raw Food Chef, Living Foods Educator and Organic Gardener. She is a dynamic workshop presenter, inspiring people to reconnect to food source and align with their inner body wisdom. Her passion is to help others recognize how their food choices impact their health (body, mind and spirit), their communities and Mother Earth.

Fluid Power: Vinyasa Flow Yoga - Kiara Boch

Connect with the rejuvenating and healing potential of your fluid body. Tap into the element of Water: the great carrier of prana-life energy, nutrients and vibration. Breathe, move and flow with the natural rhythms of life. Move in circular, spiral and undulating wave patterns to invoke your inherent creative and spontaneous expression!

Kiara is RYT certified Prana Flow Yoga, meditation, and Yoga Trance Dance instructor who teaches and embodies the healing aspects of yoga as well as the lila or divine play. She creates space in her classes for healing, transformation and lots of fun! She believes that being in the flow helps us to remember our true nature and full potential, and the pulsating light that exists in every human being.

Kiara has deep gratitude for founder of Prana Flow and Yoga Trance Dance, Shiva Rea, who helped her to remember the liberation and freedom of ecstatic spontaneous movement, pleasing the senses to awaken the soul, and the divine shaktified power that lives in all beings. Kiara assists Shiva Rea internationally for yoga teacher trainings and retreats. She has also been blessed to learn from other great teachers such as Zen Buddhist and peace activist, Thich Nhat Hahn, founder of Anusara yoga, John Friend, and author of The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life, Drunvalo Melchizedek.

Qigong: the Voice of the Heart/Mind - Sifu Willow

Willow began his studies of mind/body arts in 1972 with the Hatha yoga system developed by Yogiraj Sri Swami Satchidananda, an art he continues to study and perfect.  In 1975 his interest in martial arts and eastern philosophy took seed.  Willow has studied and taught various forms of Japanese, Okinawian, and Chinese martial arts for the past 35 years.  In 1986 he began his studies in the Taoist tantric arts of T’ai Chi and Qigong.  In 1988 he was accepted as a private pupil of  T’ai Chi Master Wang Hui-Juin (Henry Wang – www.searchcentertaichi.com).  For the past 25 years Willow has seriously pursued excellence in these mind/body/spirit arts under Master Wang’s tutelage, studies in China, and personal exploration.  In 1993 he opened ‘Harmony in Motion T’ai Chi, Yoga, & 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.  After years of study Willow has developed a synthesized art called “Three Harmony Yoga” that is a flowing blend of Taoist, Hatha, and Tibetan tantric yoga that emphasizes the beauty and power of the breath, with movement and postures, to balance and open all the energy pathways in the body and connect the participant with the intrinsic energy within.  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”.

Willow lives and practices his arts in his new found community of Bend, Oregon.     Willow’s love of dance and playing in nature are other joy filled extensions of his arts.

This offering will focus on Taoist and Tibetan tantric qigong.  Qigong is a ancient tantric yogic art that utilizes the intent (yi), the breath (zhong), and relaxed fluid movement to create a calm, natural, balanced flow of energy that can improve one’s health and spiritual well-being.  Qigong is a way to listen, enhance, and understand the flow of your internal, or intrinsic, energy (qi/prana) and cultivate your spiritual energy (shen).

The intent of this offering is to develop a better understanding of energy awarness, connection, & movement in ones practice.  In this session we will emphasize the use of coordinated movement, relaxation, breathing, and visualization in order for the individual to experience a deeper sense of center, rootedness, heaven/earth connection, energy flow, and ultimate awarness.  We will, as a collective, open and activate all the energy centers and channels in the body, bring about release and activation of the myofascial memory, and at the same time, gently stretch and strenghten all the connective tissue throughout the body.

Partner and Mandala Yoga - Deborah Dove and Keala Young

Explore conscious embodied connection with yourself and others, while increasing your somatic vocabulary & communication skills, through Partner and Mandala Yoga. No experience or partner is necessary. Come with a friend or make new ones in this interactive playshop!

Deborah Dove Eudene is an evolutionary coach, transformational journey facilitator, yoga teacher, massage therapist, energy worker, cultural translator, entertainment lawyer, event coordinator, sacred space holder and singer dedicated to personal, interpersonal, collective, and planetary healing. She has been incorporating elements of group somatic experiencing into playshops, yoga classes, retreats and corporate team building programs since 1999, and recognizes the power of Mandala Yoga in bringing people together to experience cultural healing, understanding and deep connectivity.

Keala Young is a regenerative practitioner and whole system designer, with a background as a yoga teacher, eco-educator, bodyworker, ecstatic dance, and Heart Circle facilitator; his work as an evolutionary guide is an emerging synthesis of healing sessions, embodiment classes, and workshops integrating living systems coherence for individuals and communities. Keala teaches Mandala Yoga in Portland, OR.

Awakening Beloved Yoga - Heather Beckett

Awaken the heart of the beloved in your yoga practice. Shine the Light of your awareness on the areas of inner opening that know the name of your beloved and sing it all day long.

Heather Beckett shares yoga with people from all walks of life, from olympic athletes and national performers at the very top of their fields, to absolute beginners, ages 2-88. Merging grounded practical anatomy and experiential awareness techniques, Heather empowers her students to rise, body and soul. She invites each student onto their own wildly unique path to self realization, and guides them into their highest sense of body, mind, and heart. Through one on one yoga therapeutics, she has helped people through chronic pain, sustained injuries, surgery rehabilitation, and emotional trauma. Through years in dance and theater performance, film production, and written word, yoga has been the unifying and sustaining practice in her life and art. A dancer, songwriter, & outdoors enthusiast, Heather fuses flow, stillness, & poetic imagery and reflection to leave students feeling energized, challenged, and balanced. Her investigations into the union of vocal communication and yogic awareness are blowing open fields of possibility in the creative adventure of coming fully to life.

The Awakening Freedom Experience - Davin Infinity

Together we will create an interactive living hologram of unified energy and infuse it into our collective synergy to form enlightened structures of consciousness and love. Our tools: life-force activating body alignments and movements, breath-work, sacred geometry, visualizations and sound toning.

Our intention: to call forth life-mastery, fearless divine service, and create the Unified New Earth Templates for a thriving future culture and ecology of love.

In simplicity: we will use sound, light and movement to embody the divine and imprint it into creating a bright future that is in harmony with our capacity to love deeper.

Davin Infinity has trained in several lineages of shamanic practice, martial arts and Mystery Schools. He is an experienced and powerful metaphysical guide into the Quest of human potential and transformation.  This work is a major influence in his visionary art and films.

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Knowing Yourself, Loving All - Karl Baba

Many people live every day identified with an imaginary image of themselves. Wrapped up in that illusory identity, they often fail to see the beauty and perfection in Life, themselves, and Others. The True Self, which is the essence of Being and Love, is the source of creativity as well. So aligning with our essential nature is a tool for Love and Peace within, and Creativity without.

This workshop gives you tools and insight to anchor yourself in your true being and express the Love that you are. Karl “Baba” is a spiritual teacher and shaman authorized by two eastern lineages: Papa Ji and Saccha. While he has decades of experiential and academic background in mystical traditions, his sharing is based on experience available for everyone to use without dogma or blind faith. In our workshop circle, we create a sacred space and invite a transmission beyond words that uplifts us from within, and is reflected in the poetry of Life.

Closing Meditation with Rigzin

Wisdom and compassion are foundations of the path. Like the two wings of a bird, that enable it to fly. Learn simple techniques to develop compassion, and rest the mind in its natural peaceful state. Join us to seal in all that we have learned throughout the festival and offer prayers of dedication and Gratitude to the Beloved.

Rigzin has studied and practiced, Vajrayana (Tibetian Buddhism) for almost 30 years. Completing a traditional three year retreat in 1991, and many other retreats over the years. www.rigzin.net | Wild Yogi Interview

Yoga for Kids - Heather Wellburn

Fun poses for kids and parents of any age. In this playful family yoga class we will practice several series of asana flows such as Grow Flow, Flying Flow, and Puppy Dog Flow. We will Meow like Cats and Moo like Cows while in the poses. Song like, The More We Get Together, will be sung to keep the attention of little ones. We will play games to review poses such as Simon Says... and Who Am I? A beautiful collection of toys and puppets are used to review the poses and to encourage participation. Parent child and partner poses such as riding bikes with feet connected in the air are nice ways to learn how to work together. Some poses will be done in a circle to show how we are all connected. This class offers kids a fun way to get exposed to yoga moves and gives parents a way to connect with their kids in a spiritual way. Yoga helps kids improve coordination and consciousness of the mind body connection.

Heather Welburn is a Registered Yoga Teacher through Yoga Alliance. She teaches Yoga For Kids in Eugene, Oregon. Heather has a ten year old son who has grown up practicing yoga. Heather Welburn did her yoga teacher training with Sarahjoy Marsh in Portland. She is inspired by the Anusara tradition of flowing with grace. She gives thanks to the yoga teachers who have recently helped her on her path: Karen Lakritz, Glen Tippin, Tom Clark, Juliet Chipman Smith. Heather was introduced to yoga in 1992, while doing physical therapy to recover from a dislocated femur in a car accident. A friend took her to Richard Freeman's Yoga class in Boulder, Colorado and it changed her life. She felt spiritually awakened and more aware. It helped her transcend the many obstacles that have been challenges on her path.

Sex & Spirit Discussion Circle - Jas

A discussion circle facilitated by LoveTribe founder Jas and other members of the Love Guild. Come share perspectives on the inter-relatedness of our sensuality and spirituality.

Jas is the founder of the Love Guild and Cosmic Love Tribe (LoveTribe.org) - both dedicated to evolving the way human beings relate in order to foster a sustainable planet. Jas is also the owner of Awakenings Wellness Center in Portland, Oregon. An energy healer, Tantra practitioner, and relationship coach, Jas is a devoted advocate of organic relationships and heart-conscious, touch-positive culture. He helps grow communities where people learn and practice more authentic, embodied, nurturing and playful ways of being in relationship.

Organic Relationships - Lovetribe

A discussion circle on the practice of living in organic relationships (whether open or closed). When we set aside acculturated or scripted relationship patterns, what form of relationship do you feel called to in your heart, and how do you talk about that with your friend, partner, lover or SO?

LoveTribe is engaged in a spiritual and ecological work that is grounded in our bodies, helping to germinate a more sustainable culture based on abundance, vitality and sharing. Recognizing we are all connected at a spiritual or energetic level, LoveTribe helps foster heart-conscious, touch-positive communities that create gatherings where we can learn and practice skills for getting our needs for authentic connection, affection and play met in healthy, caring ways. When we feel safe in our bodies sharing affectionate and playful touch, then sharing all the blessing of Mother Earth comes more naturally.