Presenters: The Energetics of MindBody Healing: Embodying Consciousness Through Inner Directed Movement There is a simple and direct way to connect inwardly with the natural flow of life energy. Ordinary daily life, conditioned thinking, and stressful life events burden the subtle flow of vitality throughout the BodyMind. During this experiential workshop, participants will directly experience the places where their bodies hold blocks and tension. Attunement to subtle multi-sensory perception from whole body presence will invite naturally arising inner movement from within the stuck unconscious places of our inner experience. When we choose to connect to bodily consciousness in this way, we release the holding patterns, transform pain, and experience the wholeness of our being in movement. Karen, Ph.D, is a Clinical Therapist and Energy Medicine writer and Educator. She offers Professional Development Training Programs in the Energetics of MindBody Healing throughout Canada and Europe. Ella McQuinn Power in Numbers: starting with One Explore ways that we can change how we live and work in this world based on what’s truly important to us as individuals and as a community – be it our community of residence or community of work. We are changing as individuals and as a collective, and recognizing this connection is creating a powerful force in the world today. Businesses are recognizing that consumers are making choices based on their values, politicians are recognizing that voters are prepared to stand up for what’s important and communities are realizing that when they connect with others who share their core values they have a stronger voice and can shift the direction of change. At this time in our world it is essential to be clear about what’s truly important to each of us as individuals and then connect with others to build momentum for a more balanced and sustainable future. We’ll look at some leading edge examples of this change and explore ways to take it the next step. Ella is a business consultant and certified coach working with clients interested in exploring their values and goals to provide meaningful and inspiring results. Her passion is working with clients who want to develop a more sustainable and balanced approach to both their business and their personal life. She has had the privilege of working with a variety of companies primarily in Canada that have been innovators in social and environmental business practices proving that these are indeed compatible with strong financial results. On a volunteer basis she has been involved with the St. Margaret’s Bay Stewardship Association, a community led group of residents that are committed to building a sustainable and thriving community based on protecting the land and ocean resources, and community planning driven by local values. She lives in Seabright and loves to kayak, sail, swim and bike around St. Margaret’s Bay as much as she can. Georgia Barnwell Live food: health, sustainability and consciousness The modern live (raw) food movement has been quietly growing for over three decades, and has recently become trendy and dynamic, capturing the attention of people from diverse walks of life for a many reasons. Adopting a live vegan diet (completely or even partially) has a range of practical and ideological benefits that can support us as individuals in achieving vibrant health at all levels – physical, emotional and spiritual. As a human collective, a live food diet that concentrates on local organic foods can be a catalyst for change. As the shift in human consciousness becomes more tangible, it is being reflected in the outer world as more and more people actively seek ways to create peace and health for themselves and their communities. A live food diet is cleansing, healing and high in life force energy, bringing exceptional vitality and focus to those who live the lifestyle. According to Gabriel Cousens, a long time live vegan, author and healer, live foods help us to cleanse our physical vehicles to be more able to channel greater amounts of life force energy and to recognize our connection to all of life. At a more practical level, when you eat a live food diet, you get superior nutrition with much less food than with cooked food – essentially expanding the global food supply. Join Georgia Barnwell to learn some amazing facts about live foods and join in a discussion about how the live food movement can support peace and new ways of living together on this beautiful planet! Georgia is a nutrition consultant and educator specializing in live foods. She has an academic background in science and nutrition, a diploma in holistic nutrition, is certified to teach Live Food Cuisine and is presently completing a certificate in Ayurvedic Live Food Nutrition. She is also a certified Quantum-Touch Practitioner and Instructor. Georgia has always been interested in how we define and create our own health – both individually and collectively – and has worked in a variety of settings throughout her career. As a community-based policy researcher and social activist, she developed some keen insights into how we can work together to create sustainable and healthy communities. Her own path of healing has been supported by an approach that integrates nutrition with movement, sound and energy work to create balance and transformation. Kelly Beale Awakening the Kinesthetic Experience: Psychophysical exercises for daily life In this interactive presentation we will use meridian exercises and gentle movement exploration to inquire and learn from our own felt experience, enhancing the connection between the body, mind, and feeling, refreshing the experience of learning itself. Kelly has been in private practice using bodywork and massage therapy in Nova Scotia for 20 years and has also taught classes in Qigong and Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement. Mary Costello Musical Interlude Mary has been playing piano since the age of 8. She is classically trained, with her Grade 10 from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. She has been teaching, privately, for 25 years, and expects to continue for at least another 25. Tim Hoare Artist Dialogue/Storytelling Music From a family of novelists, booksellers, and bulb growers, Tim’s music is a tapestry of stories, some biographical, some fiction. He bought his first acoustic guitar in the summer of 1987, using money hard earned selling ice cream. His 2-year old daughter accidentally destroyed that same guitar a week ago. His voice inhabits gravel, dirt, and some other time. Tim lives happily in St. Margaret’s Bay with his wife and 2 children. Gabriela Larranaga Awaken Human This is an invitation to involve ourselves in at ongoing daily practice to gradually establish a identification with a larger sense of self, being or presence. Capture the flavour of integral practice engaging the different levels of your experience: stretch your mind holding paradox and multiple perspectives; dive into the direct recognition of Spirit with a guided meditation; inquirer into your anger, sadness, frustration, depression to reveal your inner knowing; and connect with the energetic field of your body. Gabriela was first introduced to yoga at the Ashram of Siddha Yoga in Ganespuri, India in 1991. Since then, she had the opportunity to study with internationally renowned yoga teachers. In 1997, she co-founded a holistic center in Cuernavaca, Mexico. She has a special respect for John Friend and Orit Sen Gupta who taught her how to practice and understand yoga from the inside and about the joy of an open heart. Gabriela became a Buddhist in 2002. Although she does not teach meditation explicitly during her yoga classes, her teaching is impregnated with her own practice of mindfulness and meditation. Her greatest passion in yoga is to reveal the natural mind on the mat itself. She assesses students on an individual basis, trying to reach students where they are and adapting the poses and rhythm to their needs and abilities. She frequently adjusts the body in the pose manually. She likes her classes to be relaxed, with room for laughing and even chatting, combined with a very serious intention to intensify the mind and transform the body. Gabriela lives now in Tantallon, Nova Scotia with her two young daughters and her husband. Sunday November 30th Guest Speaker: Dr. Robin Wu Traditional Chinese Medicine Healing Art In Traditional Chinese Medicine, we see a person as only one unit that contains physical body, emotional body, mental body and spiritual body. Hence, the healing art also involves the four levels. In this presentation, Dr. Wu will share some essential ideas about TCM healing art and lead everyone to experience the real quality of all the ideas: 1. Relax yourself and your patients. 2. Listen and understand wholeheartedly. 3. Renew the memory of the cells 4. Return to nature. Dr. Wu, a practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tai-Chi, Qi-Gong, Light Body and deep meditation from Taiwan, is a registered acupuncturist in NS since 2007. Please visit www.drwutcm.com for further information. Le jeu and Red Nose Clown Clear the debris, step out of your cocoon and show your beautiful ridiculousness. Participants will explore their clown through game pleasure, complicite, fixed point and letting go. The session will provide professional development for public speakers, teachers, actors and performers. John is a graduate of the Philippe Gaulier International Theatre School in Paris, France. He has also trained, performed and taught extensively with Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts. He has been acting for 15 years and teaching performance for the past nine years in elementary, middle and high schools, for university students, professional actors and teachers. We invite you to join in one of the oldest embodiments of spirit available to humans, a shamanic circle. Shamanism is a path both traditional and open to the creative moment of change. As facilitators of shamanic practice, we establish a safe container within which participants “remember” their soul’s essence, and have an opportunity to express it through sound and movement Shamanic dance is open to anyone with ancestors! We arrive at a more balanced consciousness through awareness both of our specific ancestral bloodlines and other realms of existence. This dual consciousness helps humans not only survive, but thrive, unless one side of the brain, such as the left-side or rational/logical starts to dominate our thinking. Shamanic dance can rebalance that common, somewhat dysfunctional, condition. The mechanical model of the universe that has endured so long is gradually being replaced by one which comprehends that cause and effect relationships in the universe are often much more subtle than we have previously realized. It takes more than sheer intellect to grasp this more subtle nature of existence. Shamanism helps give us access to our original way of perceiving and creating, with the whole brain, by aligning mind, body, and spirit (soul) with all things. This puts us in the heart of creation, giving us permission to be more spontaneous and effortless in our response to change. Being at one with all things is truly an electric and vitalizing experience! Come and help us raise energy to thank the earth, and the site of Oceanstone, the Earth for giving us life, and the site as such a beautiful place to express it. Nancy Dancing Lightbrings her experience and readiness to make the most of any moment, into her work and play. Initiated to the shamanic path in 1987 by three mystery teachers who found her through inner vision, Nancy’s established practices of contemplative arts and meditation opened up to include sound and movement. Since that time medicine derived from years of land stewardship and pilgrimage have also been integrated into the teaching expression of her practice. Nancy studied with Carolyn Myss at Findhorn in 1989, has been dancing on local and international sacred sites for over 20 years and has provided pilgrimage tours for over ten. She is a grandmother and lives with her husband on a lake in central Nova Scotia. She can also be found at www.travellersjoy.ca Brenda is a shamanic practitioner who heals through voice and drum. She lives and practices land stewardship at Whispering Hill, near Nictaux, NS and offers teaching at Nan’s Rock Shop and Spiritual Healing Centre in Wilmot. She is training with Nancy and has studied and practiced nutrition and Reiki. Brenda has joined Nancy on pilgrimages to Scotland and to Ireland. Lil MacPherson The inconvenient truth on climate change and our Canadian food system Solutions that we can do right here in Nova Scotia. Next to energy 'Food' is our number 2 biggest problem in contributing to Global Warming. Yes we can make a difference. Lil, born and raised in Nova Scotia, has always had a passion for environmental issues. Many have said that she is ahead of her time! After spending 25 years in the food service industry, Lil was inspired in 2004 to follow her life long dream to open a restaurant which would bring to Halifax the most environmentally conscious restaurant it’s ever had. This restaurant is called The Wooden Monkey. The Wooden Monkey strives to offer local and organic food, as well as trying to operate on an environmentally conscious level. Lil’s vision of providing healthy and organic living has come to life and is growing in popularity by leaps and bounds. The Wooden Monkey has recently been honored by the Halifax business community as being “ The Best New Business of the Year”. This award demonstrates that passion, dreams and a lot of hard work can bring recognition to important issues that, through awareness, can bring us all to a more sustainable and environmentally sound world She has recently been to Montreal to be trained with 200 other Canadians as a Al Gore Presenter on Climate Change. Nistal Prem de Boer Life and Death of Ideas or Shapeshifting In my talk I will examine the world of Ideas and what needs to shift for our civilisation to continue. It seems clear that our physical environment, our Earth, has responded to our actions by creating barriers that we will have to face and find solutions for in order not to perish along with many other species. A total shift of paradigm is needed. How are we going to do it?In my talk I will refer to a documentary film that will be shown on Saturday evening at 8pm in the Great Room at Oceantone. For people who will not be able to see it then, it is possible to find it on line.The title is Zeitgeist: Addendum. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912&hl=en Nistal was born in Amsterdam and received his formal training as an architect at Delft University. After immigrating to Nova Scotia thirty years ago, he has been designing and building solar houses, each one highly individual and sculpturesque. Sculpture, a life long passion, was a hobby until ten years ago when it became his profession. Living in Italy for many years and traveling extensively, he absorbed the traditions of Europe. Attracted also by the spirituality of India and Japan, it too provided him with many subjects. Currently, the ecological crisis of our planet is something that concerns him deeply and many stories about it are woven into his work. Nistal has created a substantial body of work in bronze, terra cotta, and multi media plasters. He works on commission for portraits, garden, and tree sculpture. These days he makes his home in Canada Creek, Nova Scotia where the Fundy tides remind him daily about flexibility and change with perpetual power and enthusiasm. Susan Guest NIA: Movement-Medicine for the Body and Soul Nia stands for Neuromuscular, Integrative, Action. Nia simultaneously addresses the body, mind, emotions, and spirit using music, movement and personal expression to integrate one’s neurology (the mind, emotions, and spirit) with one’s outer body, or musculature. Nia nurtures connection with self while increasing flexibility, strength, agility, balance, coordination, and endurance. Using a blend of Eastern and Western movements forms from the healing arts (love), martial arts (mindfulness), and dance arts (technique and expression), Nia is done barefoot to lively music and delivers a cardiovascular, whole body program. Nia invites the mind to play, the body to feel, and the spirit to emerge. Through movement we find health. Susan is a certified White Belt Nia Teacher. A graduate of Lesley College with a Masters in Education and a major in The Arts in Learning, her experience as a teacher led her to explore ways of incorporating movement in the classroom. Her background in dance and fine arts enriches her Nia ‘playshops’ which explore practical, joy-filled body-mind-spirit avenues for developing creativity, building community, and investigating healthy living strategies. |
