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childrens songs= nursery

Jennifer — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:26:37 GMT

I am looking for music for my baby- currently in utero... and i am not interested in 3 little monkey's jumping on the bed... I would LOVE a more spiritual approach. Any advice or recommendations

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2010 Gaia Herbal Apprenticeship Program

wyvern — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:20:09 GMT

Hi everyone, here is the listing with dates, activities, prices and contacts for our upcoming Herbal Apprenticeship Program beginning in February of 2010. Brita and I are both excited to once again be co-teaching this class, and we are both very grateful for the enthusiastic response to the program. We will start ‘interviewing’ (remember it is just an informal chance to get to know each other and make sure the class is a good fit for each student, it’s not a test!!) on the 21st of November. I will be contacting some of you that are taking Brita’s Medicine Weekend Classes and see if we can do some short interviews with you over the weekend, since you will already be there! We will contact the rest and make arrangements to meet with you after Thanksgiving. Thanks and Namaste, Rose

2010 Gaia Herbal Apprenticeship Program

We are proud to offer this program in a beautiful natural and magical setting and would love to have you join us for this journey into the sacred, time honored, magical realm of healing herbalism. This is a program designed to give birth to the inner healing shaman and follows the lunar, solar, and seasonal cycles for mother earth and works with her energy and her green children.

Brita Wynn is an experienced herbalist of 25 years training and practice and grew up in a household that always used herbs and magic. She has taught healing herbs and herb crafting, anthropology and shamanism, and Wicca classes in the US and the UK and has studied many different herbal traditions. She currently teaches all of the above listed areas in the greater San Francisco, Mendocino, Sacramento, Davis, Vacaville and Roseville areas. Rose Loveall-Sale is a trained horticulturist and owner of Morningsun Herb Farm, with 20 years experience growing and nurturing culinary and medicinal herbs. She has taught many classes on growing herbs and crafting with herbs.

The Program dates and activities are as follows (activities may change slightly with weather and availability in the garden!):

Feb 20-21: Getting acquainted, more in-depth outline of the class, chanting to open, herbal walk to great the green ones of the early Spring. Brita: tea formulation strategy, herbs as food, digestive system, ailments: physical and energetic, treatment protocols, beginning detox protocols, close energy. Rose: Discussing plans for a student project in the garden, a first look at the primary herb families, reviewing seed catalogs to order for propagation, close energy.

March 13-14 : ROSE WEEKEND: checking in, chanting, herb walk to see the early spring garden, hands on weekend to learn the basics of propagation by seeding, cuttings and division, basic plant and seed physiology, propagating plants for students personal use and for the student garden, discussion of student project. Close energy.

April 17-18: Brita: Checking in physically and energetically, chant to open herbal walk to see how the green ones have changed, discussion of the late Spring energy, discussion of healing practice and ethics, urinary system, ailments: p&e, treatment protocols, diuretics and demulcent herbs, herbal baths and soaks, close energy. Rose: Checking in with propagation, looking at the ‘roots’ of the herb garden, caring for the soil, herb gardening basics, student garden project, transplanting from March seeding and propagation, close energy.

May 22-23: Brita: Checking in, chanting, Herb walk to embrace the energy of Summer and flourishing garden , moon tide and harvesting, Liver and endocrine system, ailments: physical and energetic, treatment protocols, more detox protocols, herbal capsule making, close energy. Rose: Hands on identification in the garden, growing organic and with least toxic methods, good and bad bugs in the garden, transplanting from the greenhouse, taking plants home, close energy.

June 26-27: Brita: Checking in, chanting, Herb walk to embrace the energy of Solstice and energy of the Midsummer Garden, nervous system, ailments, treatments, making dream pillows, sachets, stress relieving formulas and preparations, Rose: Working with lavender, making lavender oils and hydrosols (and others), composting, discussion of individual plant needs, work with student garden projects, close energy.

July 24-25: BRITA WEEKEND: Check in, late summer herb walk, Preparing for the first harvest. Harvest and storage information. Muscular/skeletal health, ailments, treatments, prevention and maintainence. Heart and circulatory system, ailments: p&e, treatment protocols herbal and spiritual, diet and exercise and how they help, benefits of meditation, tonics and elixirs, checking in and working with the green ones in the student garden. Close.

August 28-29: Brita: checking in, chanting, herb walk to see the seasonal changes of the green ones, preparing for Fall and cold season and the balance of energy, immune system, ailments, treatments, tonic,tinctures, and extraction making, Eyes, ears nose and throat. Close energy. Rose: Diseases and cultural problems in the garden, fall pruning basics, herb garden designs, work with student garden project, close energy.

September 11-12: Brita: Checking in, chanting, herb walk, collecting for sacred smudge, smudges and incense making, respiratory system,, ailments, treatments, preparations for allergy seasons (fall and spring) , herbal steams, plasters and poultices. Rose: Herb walk to see who is ready to harvest and work with, harvesting and preparing culinary and crafting herbs for winter use, seed collection, close energy.

October 9-10: Brita and Rose: Checking in, chanting, final herb walk and a very informal and fun plant ‘quiz’, energy of Winter and sleeping garden, discussion of healing practice and ethics, herbs and the law, drug and herb interactions, a look at plant identification journals, ceremony and feast, exchange of sacred gifts for remembrance, final closing ritual and blessings.

Cost of the class: $1,450.00 if paid up front,$1,650 if paid in payments ($500 down payment required)

If you would like to join us on this journey please email your name, address, day time contact information and email address to Rose at roseloveall@morningsunherbfarm.com or Brita at cronewytch@yahoo.com, or send the information to Morningsun Herb Farm, Attn: Herbal Apprentice Program, 6137 Pleasants Valley Rd, Vacaville, Ca 95688. We will contact you to schedule a very informal interview. Please email either of us or call the farm at (707) 451-9406 if you have any questions.

Blessings____

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Reiki Master Class in Chicago

Richard — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:54:43 GMT

Training for Reiki Master (level 3) in Traditional Usui Reiki will be held on Saturday, November 14 in Chicago. Directions sent with confirmation.

This level 3 class will teach the students how to pass attunements to others and the basics of presenting a Reiki class.

The class is all inclusive. The tuition of $175 includes handouts, attunement, and certificate.

The class will be taught by Richard C. Fiallo, Reiki Master. Richard
has been teaching and sharing Reiki with others since 1999 and has
personally attuned over 800 different students. The classes are always
fun, informing and include lots of hands-on experience.

Please visit website for more info.
http://healingtoday.com/classes.usa.htm

Home study course are available. Please see website.
http://healingtoday.com/homestudy.htm

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Upcoming Opportunities near Asheville, NC

Theresa — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:10:56 GMT

Private Sessions, Couples & Family Sessions, SweatLodge Ceremony, Women's Intensive, Womyn in Ceremony, Women's Weekend Retreat, Men's Weekend Retreat, Indigenous African Spirit Technologies Training with African Elder Malidoma Patrice Some', Teaching Circle with Cherokee Elder Will Rockingbear, Healing with Elemental Rituals and Earth-based Tradtions, Vision Quest Ceremony, Rite of Passage Ceremonies for adults and teens~~For details about these opportunities please see www.RitesofPassageCouncil.com or e-mail Theresa@RitesofPassageCouncil.com

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Tian Gong Tribe!

achanceperson — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:56:27 GMT

Just got the new version of the Tian Gong Tribe up and running!

Tian Gong is a Qi Gong school for energy & spiritual healing. A place where body, mind & soul work together, we offer weekly classes, practice groups, energy transmissions & workshop intensives to accelerate personal growth & development. This unique form of Qi Gong incorporates meditation, physical movement, sound healing, Eastern & Western spiritual wisdom & ancient alchemical practices.
Practicing Tian Gong Qi Gong helps to restore & strengthen emotional, mental & physical health & balance. Even more importantly, Tian Gong distinguishes itself through intermediate & advanced courses which lead students to a deeper understanding of karma, reincarnation & soul health. Teachings are based on Eastern philosophy grounded in 8,000 years of wisdom passed down by sages & ancient cultures around the world, as well as new Universal messages.

With a mission to provide global humanitarian relief aid and a curriculum that emphasizes energy-based environmental sustainability, social philanthropy and disaster relief skills, we hope that anyone interested in changing the world for the better will find a home in your heart here — because finding your inner peace will lead the world to global peace.

Come to one of our group practices!

Berkeley
7:30 - 9 pm, every Tuesday
Rudramandir, a Center for Spirituality and Healing
830 Bancroft Way, Lotus Room #114

San Francisco
7 - 8:30pm, every Tuesday
300 Bella Vista Way

Santa Cruz
7 - 8:30 pm, every Thursday
The Garden Sanctuary, 3070 Prather Lane, Soquel, CA 95065

Sebastopol
7-8:30pm, every Tuesday
Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 6780 Depot St, Sebastopol, CA 95472

Call 510-883-1920 for info about classes in Marin, San Diego, San Mateo, Sacramento, and Union City.

See our flier and website for upcoming events and workshops!
www.TianGong.org

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Adrenal Exhaustion

Rocky — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:00:03 GMT

Adrenal Exhaustion

I've got a friend who has recently become quite sick. She seems to be suffering from adrenal exhaustion. I've taken her to a local licensed Naturopathic doctor. He has been helpful but she's still very sick. She seems to be having some blood sugar issues too.

http://www.womentowomen.com/adrenalfatigue/default.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrenal_gland

Any thoughts or recommendations? Any else experience this type of break down? I'm not far off from having to take her in to the emergency room - which I don't want to have to do.

And join the * Naturopathic Medicine * tribe while you're at it -

http://tribes.tribe.net/naturopathicmedicine

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hi~ newbie here... = )

155monkeyfist — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:45:04 GMT

wanted to say hello and wishing to interact, learn, grow, and share with kindred spirits close and far...

blessings to you all.

Alex

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Chronic Illnesses and Toxic Chemicals Database + Reality of Tacit Conspiracies

ToxicReverend — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:53:39 GMT

Database lists illnesses with toxic chemicals
that can cause them is now linked in at my
profile with a review and comments at :>
http://people.tribe.net/toxicreverend
Or just Google;
"Toxic Reverend"
I have other profiles and blogs, all of which
have the same red and white skull and cross bones.

..................................

Realities and tacit conspiracies of today's health care and political system

This posting could still use some editing.
Feel free to use it as you see fit.
My macular degeneration is forcing me to stop working
on this for now. But I feel the information is too
important not to send out. Please feel free to forward
to journalists that can make use of it, with or with out
credit to myself.

Blessings,

The Toxic Reverend

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Realities and tacit conspiracies of today's health care and political system
Sunday, June 7, 2009
http://toxicreverend.blogspot.com/2009/06/realities-and-tacit-conspiracies-of.html

Reference material is linked into the blog, but is not linked into this posting - TR

Excerpts from the above blog:>

Medical bills play a role in 62% of bankruptcies, study says
By Lisa Girion, June 4, 2009 Los Angeles Times

Quotes from the LA Times Nespaper article:
The study found that medical bills, plus related problems
such as lost wages for the ill and their caregivers,
contributed to 62% of all bankruptcies filed in 2007.

Medical insurance isn't much help, either. About 78% of
bankruptcy filers burdened by healthcare expenses were
insured, according to the survey, to be published in the
August issue of the American Journal of Medicine.

End of quotes from the LA Times newspaper.

The article appears to have been moved to their archives.
A copy is posted at: Physicians for a National Health Program,
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/june/medical_bills_play_a.php

The article can also be found with the Google search terms;
"Medical bills play a role in 62% of bankruptcies, study says By Lisa Girion, June 4, 2009 Los Angeles Times"

The entire study can be downloaded from:

Physicians for a National Health Program,
http://pnhp.org/
at
http://pnhp.org/new_bankruptcy_study/

.........

“As an Environmental Technologist, I can not imagine
a health care system that could be viable, when it
ignores the common toxic chemical exposures” -
The Toxic Reverend

The realities and tacit conspiracies of today's health care and political system
By The Toxic Reverend
(No copyright claimed. Edit, post, forward and reproduce at will)

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.........

Please consider this information with the following moral:

Tacit Conspiracy Of Complicity - Simplified:

While walking to work each day, I had to cross a stream. I tossed a

rock in to step on and help myself cross each day, on the way to and from work.

Others saw this and did the same. We never discussed it or talked about it.

It was a tacit conspiracy of complicity.

Most of us never imagined that we would create a damn that would flood our

community and kill so many people.

But the few that did realize the impending disaster, set about preparing to

profit off of the coming tragedy, rather than attempt to prevent it. And what

is even worse, are the "measures" they took to keep the information

concealed so the disaster could not be avoided and they could

"make a killing", in profits.

End of quoted moral from a work in progress titled-
Toxic Revelations
..........................................................................

Leading medical providers like the Cleveland
Clinic and Johns Hopkins in Baltimore are
establishing special programs to give platinum
service to the well-heeled. Depending on the
program, the super-rich customers may receive
massages and sauna time along with their
physical, house calls, and step-to-the- front-
of-the-line service in testing facilities (158).

While Linda Peeno MD (featured in the movie
"Sicko") gave sworn testimony to the House of
Representatives on the subject of "Denial of
Health Care Services" to insured American's
(20a).

A Congressional Report states that of the
1,400 chemicals known to cause cancer,
less than 6% are tracked (145B).

The huge transnational companies that
produce toxic chemicals found in
pesticides, herbicides and industrial and
household products profit not only from
the sale of these products, but also from
the symptoms and chronic illnesses that
they can trigger (157).
________

157 :POISON FOR PROFIT
CHEM/PHARM HAS NO EQUAL - WHAT A
BUSINESS PLAN!
By Ashley Simmons Hotz May 15, 2002

This report has been censored from the
Internet and removed from the
Archives Wayback Machine. But a
number of advocates have been
re-posting the report and copies can be
found with a simple Google search on
the title and author:>
"POISON FOR PROFIT Ashley Simmons Hotz"

________ ........................

Even more disturbing is what is termed "the revolving door" from
these companies and their executives into many of the high ranking
administration offices of our government, in Washington DC. From
the National Institute of Health to the Food and Drug Administration
and beyond.

"The revolving door" is easily shown with an Internet www.google.com

search term, "revolving door washington DC drugs chemical companies".

In short, "Justice has been sold" (101) and millions of dollars put

into "fixing the sale" ( 49). The Los Angeles Times reported that,

"Drug Companies, HMO's Spend Big To Stop New Laws". They

donated hundreds of millions of dollars to political election

campaigns (49, 159 ).

To quote Senator Amy Klobuchar;

The debate on health care in Washington has been dominated by

the drug companies and the insurance companies for way too long.

When our health care policies are written for the insurance companies

and the drug companies instead of America's families, we get things

like Medicare Part D. Medicare Part D gave the prescription drug

companies something like $90 billion a year in Christmas presents

by banning the federal government from negotiating drug prices.

End of quote from Senator Amy Klobuchar

Drug companies are apparently buying out "grass root

organizations like NAMI (68). While they do the

"Poison for Profit" ( 157).

Use this Google search terms to find copies

"POISON FOR PROFIT Ashley Simmons Hotz"
.............................

To simplify the complexity of the
controversy, I will give this example. Bill
Moyers of the Public Broadcasting System
did a show named Trade Secrets and has
created a web page of the same name
(26). There is to much documentation
there to list, in regard to "industry"
covering up the damage to OUR HEALTH
from toxic chemicals, for over fifty years
(26).

Bill Moyers was tested for over 800 toxic
chemicals and over 80 chemicals (at
various levels of exposure) were found, in
him. That presents the potential for more
viable chemicals reaction variations than
the pick six lottery in one patient from the
perspective of Low Dose Cumulative
Effects of Toxic Chemical's ! But
regardless of this, many of the "tolerable
levels of exposure" to a (singular) toxic
chemical have been fraudulently produced
for decades (81).

Current events on this topic of "The Toxic Lotto" that
revolves around the "Toxic Soup" that all of us live in
are at my MySpace profile with links to the
California Biomonitoring Program
and the
"Cumulative Impacts".

Just as toxic chemicals can multiply in their toxicity
when mixed, so can infectious agents increase in their
pathogenic impact. And the the two (toxic chemicals
and infectious agents) usually work in a synergistic
manner.

It is suspected that
Camp Mandalay of the Bohemian Grove
might very well have "inside knowledge" that
other members of the Bohemian Grove are not
aware of.

Many camps in the Bohemian Grove contain very
prestigious visitors. You have camps like Cave Man,
Hideaway, Hill Billies, Hillside, Isle of Aves, Lost
Angels, Mandalay, Midway, Owl's Nest,
Sempervirens, Silverado Squatters, and Stowaway.
Mandalay seems to be the camp for international
relations and consists of many members officially or
otherwise connected to the intelligence agencies.
Mandalay is the only camp you cannot just walk into
and before you are allowed on the compound
someone will ask you who you have an appointment
with. If you're cleared for access, you are taken up the
hill with a Bechtel-designed electric pulley. Many
members of camps like Hill Billies or Stowaway
(Rockefellers and Morgans) have been to Mandalay at
one time or another.

It is believed that camp Mandalay was central to
the "Manhattan Project" (the nuclear bomb),
"Project Paper Clip" (that gave Nazi scientists
new identities and continued their research on
American's) and a host of other well document
experiments on hundreds of American cities.

I am all for telling the other members of the
Bohemian Grove what camp Mandalay has been
up to with the Non-Lethal Biological
Weapons known as Incapacitating Agents,
playing a part in Chronic Illnesses and cancers.
A video titled,
"Biological Weapons Experiments On The American People"
explains it rather well.

Copy / paste of a posting at
"Sex for the sake of sex" #83 (permalink)

When it comes to the effects of toxic chemicals on our gonads
and or our sex drive, there appears to be a cover up and
a conspiracy. Unfortunately, it is much worse than that. After
careful investigation, it seems to me that the circumstance are
due more to incompetence and greed.

This membership list of the Bohemian Grove does list
some of the deceased and their causes of death. Such as
John Du Pont (now deceased) of whom was diagnosed as
"insane". He was heir to the Du Pont chemical empire.
Ralph Bailey was a member of Camp Mandalay and Vice-Chairman
of Du Pont Chemical Company. John Du Pont (heir to the Du Pont
fortune) was a member of the "Isle of Aves" Camp.
John Du Pont was not a member of the Mandalay Camp.

I'll get back to that angle, after I clarify a few points....... Maybe
you could ask Mary Moore and Peter Phillips what they think about this ?

The elite of our society (The Bohemian Grove
crowd) can get caught up and effected by this "Toxic Lotto", too.
Only they have the money (cash) or a different type of health
insurance, that enables them to get properly evaluated at
clinics like the
Environmental Health Center-Dallas

I'll clarify a key point. A peer reviewed medical
journal has shown that the majority of mental
illness is due to toxic chemical exposures
and is not as genetic as they had thought.

________________________________________
In reference:
Article titled;
Environmental Connections: A Deeper Look into Mental Illness
Journal: Environmental Health Perspectives
Volume 115, Number 8, August 2007
http://www.ehponline.org/docs/2007/115-8/focus-abs.html
Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP ) is a a monthly journal
of peer- reviewed research and news on the impact of the
environment on human health.

End of copy / paste excerpts of posting from;
"Sex for the sake of sex" #83 (permalink)

____________________

Also note the excerpt from :>

http://www.larouchepac.com/node/10504
Nazi T4 Genocide Model Openly Touted By Obama Administration Officials

June 3, 2009 (LPAC)—When Adolf Hitler set up his T4 program, dedicated to eliminating "useless eaters" from Germany's hospitals and nursing homes, he turned to a "non-political" body of medical experts to make the decisions as to who should live, and who should die. It is becoming increasingly obvious that this same model is being adopted by the Obama Administration, in its zeal to ram through its genocidal health care "reform."
End of excerpt from:>
http://www.larouchepac.com/node/10504

____________________

The rough draft of "Toxic Revelations"
has been re-posted at
http://www.puppstheories.com/tr.html

---- End of additional information message -----

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End of excerpts from:

Realities and tacit conspiracies of today's health care and political system
Sunday, June 7, 2009
http://toxicreverend.blogspot.com/2009/06/realities-and-tacit-conspiracies-of.html

_________________________________________________

Database lists illnesses with toxic chemicals
that can cause them is now linked in at my
profile with a review and comments at :>
http://people.tribe.net/toxicreverend
Or just Google;
"Toxic Reverend"
I have other profiles and blogs, all of which
have the same red and white skull and cross bones.

Note:

Sunday, March 23, 2008
Easter Sermon 08:
Red Collar Criminals Playing American Roulette With Our Lives
http://toxicreverend.blogspot.com/2008/03/easter-sermon-08-achilleas-heel-of.html

Blessings,

The Toxic Reverend
http://people.tribe.net/toxicreverend
aka
Tom Krohmer
Environmental Technologist
http://toxicreverend.blogspot.com/
aka
The Toxic Reverend
http://www.myspace.com/toxicreverend
aka
Justice Is Homeless
http://www.myspace.com/justiceishomeless
aka
Straightedge - Mister Kinkster
http://www.myspace.com/misterkinkster

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call for healers, burningman 2009

soulfriend — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:40:39 GMT

My dear brothers and sisters,

My name is Soulfriend and I am calling together the healing domes for the Redlightning community in Black Rock CIty, Nevada. (www.redlightning.org)

The healing council has formed and our vision is materializing. This message is for you who are called to hold space with us. To be of service to the immediate community Redlightning, as well as to the community of BRC and beyond.

Are you interested in co-creating and activating a harmonic resonance for vitality, health, life and transformational work? Are you who we are dreaming in, to collectively hold down this space on the playa?

The intention is to offer a variety of healing modalities ie: DNA activations, oracles, light workers, massage, healing touch, yoga, sound healing… you name it, to those going through their processes within the vibrations of the divine feminine and sacred masculine, uniting at the vesica piscis.

We will be working out of two domes within the Redlightning. The first will be a facilitated healing space with tables for active process with a center altar for prayer and connecting to the vortex of the 7th dimension. The second dome will be a community wellness sanctuary for group work ie: breath work, sound healing, guided meditation, talks on blood mysteries... Between workshops, it will be a contemplative/retreat space for people to meditate or rest and receive the vibrations that we as a collective activate and hold throughout the week.

We will also be working in tandem with the tender-hart guardians and invite you to consider offering your services as a guardian of the healing domes and the healers as well.

Please contact Gabriel (gabesho@hotmail.com) if you have interest in the following:

*Serving on the council

*Participating as a healer offering one or more 4 hour shifts (I will need a short bio from you)

*Offering workshops

*Have any questions / offerings

*Participating as a guardian of the domes and healers

If we all bring our gifts to this process, fully offering who we are, it will be effortless and transformational for all involved, reaching far into the future and into the world.

I look forward to speaking with you, knowing you and your gifts and playing in the light.

Namaste,

Soulfriend

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New Healing Practice Coming to Boulder, CO May 22nd

Rev_Stick — Mon, 11 May 2009 01:17:08 GMT

Greetings all! I'm really excited to be returning to Boulder after being away for 8 long years. Apparently I fought Chief Niwot's curse (blessing) long enough! ;-) My healing practice will be up & running upon my arrival in town...easy enough since it is a completely mobile practice, bringing services right to your door. I am a certified Reiki Master Teacher, trained Trance Medium & ordained Metaphysical Minister. Services currently offered include Reiki Treatments for both humans and animals, Spiritual Readings, Spiritual Counseling, Reiki Classes & Sacred Ceremonies. For more information or to schedule an appointment, please follow the link below.

Love & Light,
Rev. Joe

http://Joe-Leone.tripod.com

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Herb of the week tribe

Steveflanagan — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:33:53 GMT

http://tribes.tribe.net/herboftheweek

Welcome to the Herb of the Week Tribe! Here we discuss one chosen herb a week. While the primary topic is about its medicinal uses its edible uses, spiritual uses, horticultural, and any arts and crafts that this herb can be utilized in are appropriate discussions as well. Every sunday (give or take a day) we will begin a new discussion.

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Sudden migrating joint pain, sore throat...

..electrolite.. — Fri, 08 May 2009 05:52:10 GMT

About 3.5 weeks ago I started noticing some pain and stiffness in the bottom of my left foot, toes and in my back. Since then it has progressed into my wrist, jaw, neck, shoulder, hips, fingers in the opposite hand of my wrist and my knee with pretty bad swelling there.

The pain migrates in intensity and seems to be progressing into a new joint about every few days to every week. It is worse in the morning when I wake up, sometimes so bad that I nearly cant get myself out of bed or get myself dressed.Then yesterday I woke up with a sore throat and swollen lymphnodes in my neck.

I'm a 22 year old female, so the sudden onset and severity of this has me pretty worried. I went to a doctor for some blood tests last week and am schedualed to go back for results next week. Unfortunately from what I've read it seems a lot of people with my symptoms have a hard time finding a diagnosis through tests.

I was wondering if any of you have anything I could try to ease the pain for now, or any ideas what might be wrong? I've been taking ibuprofen a couple times a day...I dont really like taking pills though...and especially not something like vicoden if I can avoid it. I'm also going to start drinking tea regularly with ginger, rosemary, ceyenne, sage and horsetail. Any advice wopuld be greatly appreciated.

Love & Light,
Dani

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the age old question...Is it better to give or receive?

Timster — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:57:35 GMT

I say receive. I dont give as many massages as I once did. It got to be too much like work. Having been in the bidness I can easily recommend massage therapy. And the price of about $60.00 an hour is kosher with me .

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East West Massage School Thai and Deep Tissue Classes !!

timholt — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:09:30 GMT

East West Massage School

Summer Class Schedule for 2009

“Dedicated to the finest continuing education in Massage Therapy and Asian Bodywork”

A deposit of $50 is required for registration. They are held at the “Upstairs Studio” at 343 Florence St., Sebastopol, Ca. Please visit eastwestmassageschool.com for information and call 707-823-1480 for registration.

Thai Massage Introduction June 13-14, 2009, 10am-6pm, $150.00: 14 Hours

This workshop will introduce you to one of the world’s oldest and most beautiful forms of bodywork. Traditional Thai Massage combines deep compression and Hatha Yoga inspired mobilizations to balance the body. No experience necessary.
Tim Holt CMT, RTT

Deep Tissue Bodywork July 7-9, 9am-6pm, $300: 24 hours

Most massage therapy touches and relaxes the surface layer of muscle . This workshop will teach how to access the structural origins and insertions of the most problematic muscles in the body. Body Mechanix are a major focus for this workshop. CMT is a prerequisite.
Tim Holt CMT

Traditional Thai Massage September 8-10, 22-24, 9am-6pm $700.00: 50 Hours

This workshop is a professional level training in one of the world’s oldest and most beautiful forms of bodywork. Traditional Thai Massage combines deep compression and Hatha Yoga inspired mobilizations to balance the body.You will learn to give a 2-3 hour Thai Massage from one of the most experienced Thai therapists in the United States. CMT or Yoga Instructor is a prerequisite.
Tim Holt CMT, RTT and Abby Bard, CMT

East West Massage School 8017 Washington Ave., Sebastopol, Ca 95472
707-823-1480 eastwestmassageschool.com

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Classes and Workshops in London, Madrid, Barcelona and Miami, FL

yvettesoler — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:32:07 GMT

I'm traveling quite often the next few months for classes, empowerments, purifications and coaching. Feel free to contact me if you'd like to discuss anything. I'm here to help!

Location: Madrid
Availability: Private Sessions 15th - 17th April
Free Talk:
• ¿Por Qué la Cábala Ahora? – 15th April @ 19.30
Classes:
• Geometría Sagrada y Manifiesta Abundancia con la Cábala
18th April @ 10.00 – 17.00
More Information and Registration: http://www.lapiedrafilosofal.es

Location: Barcelona
Availability: Private Sessions 15th – 25th & 27th – 30th
Classes:
• Geometría Sagrada y Manifiesta Abundancia con la Cábala - TBD
More Information and Registration: http://www.eternallightenergy.com

Location: London
Availability: Private Sessions 21st May – 2nd June
Classes:
• Sacred Geometry and Astral Travel – 23rd May @ 10.00
• Manifesting Abundance with Kabbalah – 27th May @ 19.00 - InSpiral Lounge, http://www.inspiralled.net
• Gifts of the Spirit – 30th & 31st May @ 10.00 – 18.00
More Information and Registration: robin@triskelemanagement.com or 07963176818

Location: Miami
Availability: Private Sessions 4th – 10th June
Classes:
• Gifts of the Spirit – 6th & 7th June @ 10.00 – 18.00
More Information and Registration: http://www.eternallightenergy.com

Blessings!
Need Advice? Looking for Inspiration? http://tribes.tribe.net/inspirationsfrombinah

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Hypothyroid

gypzy roze — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:42:07 GMT

I was just informed by my councilor that my Dr's records show my thyroid to be low, but not low enough to be a major concern. She does though think it might be why my have been really moody lately. So I am wondering, if there is anything I can do holisticly to help improve my thyroid processing.

Thank you

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Kymatica

in-PHI-net — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:55:32 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5akOESmaSLk&feature=PlayList&p=61376B4F58F324C5&index=0&playnext=1

Valuable insight into understanding the world political scene, religion, the power of sound, logos, healing ourselves, energy, our responsibility on this planet and beyond....

xo

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sound healing ..holistic therapy

dominic — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:59:34 GMT

the sound healing keys are in this book... are linked to holistic and alternative medicine lol

http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/consciousness-is-king/6475318

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HUGE QI / CHI /ENERGY SEMINAR EVENT - Orlando - April 25th - 28th

Michael — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:56:48 GMT

In celebration of World Qigong / Tai Chi Day (April 25th), when millions of people around the world will practice Qigong & Tai Chi, the Supreme Science Qigong Foundation will host the Largest Qigong Gathering in US History!

For 4 days, 5000 people will come together, in one room, in Orlando, to learn and practice Qigong! Imagine, being one of 5000 people breathing together and moving together! The group energy will be AMAZING!

Qigong (pronounced "Chee Gong") is the ancient Chinese art of cultivating Qi energy. All matter, including the air around us, is composed of energy. In Qigong, we direct internal and external Qi, through deep abdominal breathing techniques, specific movements, and mental focus. You will literally FEEL the magnetic energy in the air, between your hands, and coursing through your body!

For just $99, in just 4 days, you will learn Level-1, and Level-2 standing Qigong forms, a beautiful, freestyle Qigong dance called Wu Ji, Pranayama Breath Empowerment and 9-Breath Method breathing exercises, powerful meditations, Taoist stretching, Food Based Healing, and Qi Healing. You will meet many beautiful, open people, overflowing with peace and love, and make new friends. There will be live music, huge TV screens so everyone can see, and advanced computer animations & more than 100 instructors to help you learn.

If you are a Massage Therapist or RN, this is worth 32 Continuing Education Credit Hours.

You can't find a better deal than this anywhere! This is an experience you will never forget! You will thank yourself for coming!

To REGISTER & GET MORE INFO, click or copy and paste this link: http://www.kqzyfj.com/click-3417718-10649567

I hope to see you there!

Blessed be,
:) Michael Raphael
www.Zenfinity.com

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Reiki table for sale

Glenn — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:32:09 GMT

The table was manufactured by an independent company so it is not a name brand.
The table has aluminum legs. The cushion surface is in very good condition.
It had very little use several years ago and has not been used since.
There is a carry case that comes with the table.
$150 or best offer. Pictures available by request.
Located in Concord, CA.

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Sunblock

Jennifer — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:40:50 GMT

Do any of you have a good recipie for homemade, natural product based... plant infused sunblock?

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Healing Exchange..

Amethyst — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:05:39 GMT

Reiki II attuned female offering Reiki treatment in exchange for massage therapy treatment. East Bay area... seeking female trained massage therapist.

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Here is some Reiki for everyone...

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:38:46 GMT

For anyone that wants Reiki for themselves, a pet, or anyone at all. Just say the persons name or place their picture near the video, play it and it will be sent. Get as much beautiful energy out of this as you can, this is for everyone. Many blessings to you all!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAau4SrikKs

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Looking for clients of Caroline Myss, Dr. Judith Orloff or other reputable Medical Intuitive for interview

ed — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:49:55 GMT

Hi,

I am writing a dissertation on Medical Intuition/Intuitives, and the benefits received from getting a consultation.

I need to interview persons who have been clients of known reputable Medical Intuitves who do not just self promote themselves. Caroline Myss and Dr. Judith Orloff are clearly two examples.

If you have seen, had a reading, or counseling from either of these recognized Intuitives, or someone equally noteworthy, and know of many others who have too - so it is not just you and your exuberance over some unknown - and would be willing to be briefly interviewed (i.e. answer 3 simple questions), I would be greatly appreciative.

It is for a dissertation, and information will be used anonymously, or acknowledgement given, whichever your preference.

best,

Ed Kaitz

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love poems from Rumi , for this Valentine

sina(i'm Love ) — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:30:21 GMT

To all of you that feel the call to explore the endless potential of love, journey now with love’s greatest student – and master – the 13th century mystic poet of Persia : Jelaluddin Rumi. Rumi’s incredible, profound verses invite us to experience a love beyond our senses, beyond time, beyond language: a love that removes all boundaries and answers all desire.
Sina Yasavolian recites selections of Nader Khalili’s translations in a graceful, lyrical dance to an original musical score by Hamoon Tehrani . His music awakens our hearts as Sina’s soothing voice and Rumi’s sensitive words transport our spirits to a place of union with the infinite divine presence. In her readings, Sina exhibits a deep respect and understanding of Rumi’s writing, which she generously shares with us. Do more than listen to this poetry and music; let it color your soul. You can buy and download these music, directly from this site. hope you enjoy it.
you can visite these web site for the CD.

http://trueloverumi.com/shop.html

http://cdbaby.com/cd/sina2

http://www.amazon.com/Rumis-Love-Sina/dp/B0012DKIBU/ref=sr_1_35?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1233635484&sr=8-35

http://www.dailyom.com/articles/3/2009/17069.html

love and light

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Healthy Coffee

Rastawoman — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:55:44 GMT

I am writing you today because I have opened my own healthy coffee business. I have launched my new business with three flavors, black, latte, and mocha. This is not your ordinary coffee. It contains the natural herb ganoderma. Ganoderma is a spore (mushroom) that has been used in Asia for centuries for it's healing properties. Where regular coffee dehydrates, is very acidic and toxic, raises blood pressure, raises stress levels in the body via the hormone cortisol, and gives you jitters and caffeine crash, my new coffee balances Ph levels, provides natural detoxification, increases the immune system, provides energy, and you don't get jitters or caffeine crash all because of the ganoderma. Don't take my word, google ganoderma and see nothing but positive results pop up. I have provided a few links below.

And yes, it tastes great, like the coffee you are used to. Your next question is probably what is the cost? Well, you can get a box of 30 packets of the black or latte or a box of 15 packets of the mocha for $30. $1 for a cup of coffee that is good to you and good for you! If you like it, I can tell you how to get it for the wholesale price of $15.

Please feel free to email or call me to let me know how many boxes you would like.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganoderma

http://www.cancure.org/ganoderma.htm

http://www.answers.com/topic/ganoderma

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Kidney Stones

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:57:58 GMT

Anyone know natural remedies for Kidney Stones?

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THE ENERGY BEHIND ENLIGHTENMENT

Tom Zatar — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:51:04 GMT

Most people use ten percent or less of the Brain. Through the awakening of Kundalina energy the brain can organically evolve to a higher performance. No time has been spent investigating perhaps the most powerful energy of nature. Religious experience and its root.

Kundalini is the evolutionary potency in all humans. A fundamental bioenergy. It comes from an Indian word meaning “to join the soul with the cosmic soul,” In the ancient Indian language Sanskrit it is a term referring to a coiled force or energy originating at the base of the spine, and seated near the sex organs a coiled up sleeping snake. Implies latent energy or potential to expand. Serpent Power when activated travels up the seven chakras which are the nerve centers along the spinal cord and enlightens the mind. Expanding consciousness the nirvana of Buddha. It is responsible for human evolution and all-psychic abilities genius and spiritual illumination. Kundalini is the biological way to expand the mind.

Kundalini is the “secret” behind yoga and all other esoteric psychology’s and genuine occult mysteries. A scientifically measurable biochemical essence Kundalini is the substance that is the nourishment of consciousness. It penetrates the nervous system and influences the nerves to become the instrument of higher consciousness. This subtle substance is a snake-like force that fuels the mind in order to sustain a more active state, producing an awakened Kundalini individual, Note: snakes have two hemi penises and the power to hypnotize.

Such inner power is represented by the two snakes on King Tut’s headdress and the feathered serpent of Mexico and South America, The serpent in the Garden of Eden. The upward flow of Kundalini nectar (prana force, bioplasmic stream) is concentrated in the reproductive fluids of both men and women. When Kundalini is activated a reverse action takes place, feeding the center of the brain. “cavity of Brahma” in the brain’s ventricular cavity. Kundalini is the power that controls it. All great saints’’ mystics’ poets and people of genius, as well as the insane were influenced in this way.

If an experiment were performed it would prove the existence of the Kundalini force and show its physiological effects on the body. It could bridge the gap between science and mysticism and show the essential truth of religious experience and tradition. Religion has always been a companion of humanity. Religion came to guide humanity. No scientist could doubt the reality of this phenomenon once it has been observed and measured.. Such an experiment would uncover the vale of darkness and delusion under which humanity has been living. This evolutionary force needs publicity and actual proof would provide it. The results will speak for themselves. It will be a discovery more important than anything that has preceded it.

It is only from an awakened perspective that such observation can be made and this potential lies within everyone. As humanity evolved from cave men to the United Nations it becomes inevitable that this discovery will come to light and that there is indeed a purpose. A planned creation to our being. God protects our blue-green planet earth from the inferno of intergalactic space. Why? Because humanity has to attain to other states of consciousness for which all these recourses are needed to do this. We have been granted an intelligence to make the best use of it.

Life’s purpose and evolution’s power lead to cosmic laws, which must be obeyed for nature’s divine grace within us all to come to light. These laws as spoken of in all religions occult and mystical beliefs describe a path to enlightenment. As great empires have come and gone, so too must humanity’s faiths change.

My teacher, the late Pundit Gopi Krishna, an Indian Yogi-scientist and world renowned expert of Kundalini who has written over twenty books on the subject states, “We all know what happened whenever a political system became despotic and oppressive, a social system exacting and corrupt, and a religious system excessively authoritarian and dogmatic. There arose a demand for revision and reform. Political revolutionaries, reformers and prophets appeared on the scene, The old system was overthrown often with dreadful bloodshed, suffering and pain and a new one installed in its place. We have to cooperate with inner evolution.”

What is needed for a more positive harmonic peaceful and prosperous existence is a fuller understanding of humanity’s need for god. As society accelerates the brain must work increasingly beyond the point of balance. We are giants of intellect and dwarfs of the spiritual. We give no time to the spirit. Bringing on grave consequences. Gopi Krishna says. “ We have given too much emphasis to the material side of life at the cost of the spiritual side.” Time must be set aside for prayer, meditation, yoga or some other spiritual act in order to keep life’s evolutionary needs in balance and maintain inner sanity. Yoga meditation provides a channel for the opening of a powerful energy (inspiration) which can enable anyone to blossom into a genius, an artist, a poet, a mystic.

If this force awakens in an impure or out of balance form it can result in evil genius fanaticism delusions of grandeur, or mental illness (like manic depression and schizophrenia). There is a lot that is not understood that kundalini research will explain.

The brain is subject to the influence of countless factors connected with the life environment and the family history of an individual. When even slightly tainted or stained do to the pressure of reality or various causes such as wrong mode of life, unhealthy environment, faulty heredity, shock, frustration, repression, tension and numerous other factors. If the mind is abnormal the brain too must be a shareholder in the abnormality. There are subtle changes in some neuronic structures in the cranium. The real root of the abnormality is an impure or toxic condition of the prana. If you do not live a disciplined life then the awakening of this center can be unhealthy. A distorted vision of the same power. It means that the system is not pure and that the energy is not working in a healthy way.

There is a positive spiritual energy force within us all. Which has a physical counterpart in the human body that feeds a certain portion of the brain cavity of Brahma. This is a living electricity or intelligent energy that is needed to open the brain. The macrobiological changes and its effect can be observable and scientifically verified. Elevations of consciousness can only occur through the transformation brought by kundalini and by no other agency.

Nature shows compassion to humanity in order to help guide us safely through transgressions. God to me is a universal god that is not tied to any one organized religion. It gives us chance after chance. But when we digress off the path unhealthy results occur. We can not blame nature but ourselves. We have intelligence, we have reason, and we have learning. But if by having everything we ignore it then of course nature has no alternative except to teach us by suffering. Heaven is always merciful and all compassionate.

Great prophets, mystics, inventors, sages and people of genius have come to guide our race towards evolution’s goal. The study of the past will show the common thread within these great men and woman. Study is needed in order to educate us about how life should be led to be more in harmony with the forces of nature, which govern our life. A life of humility – love – purity - truth - moderation and compassion.

But how can we prove kundalini’s effect on the body? We can perform an experiment in a controlled environment. This experiment would take on hundred individuals with a healthy average intellect - normal typical people all with a great urge to awaken with a deep passion for spiritual matters and who are prepared to mold their lives in consort with the spiritual laws. Men and women aged twenty to thirty five. They would be put in a peaceful environment and subjected to various tests over a period of five years or more.

Scientists can observe them as the subjects try to awaken their kundalini. They will awaken to differing degrees. Tests will document the physiological changes that occur and will provide the empirical proof of what happens to the body as the kundalini force is awakened. I hypothesis that there are definitive biological differences in the blood, the cerebrospinal fluid and the composition of the brain matter in its subtle layers. Research on brain mapping. EEG ceg ces and the electricity in the body may show the kundalini force. The brain activity will be increased and its effect will be found all over the body. There will be metabolic processes, which can be measured. There will be physiological changes, which can be measured. This will convince the biologist that this change of the mind of the brain has physiological counter part. The result will start humanity towards a greater understanding of this evolutionary mechanism.

Once it is proved that the potential to awaken lies within everyone and is the most valuable asset we have, people will strive for it. The result on humanity will be comparable to the splitting of the spiritual atom. Instead of releasing a nuclear holocaust it will unleash the beginning of a utopian age, our cosmic destiny that can transform a mortal into an immortal and eternal source of happiness.

The awakening of these energies produces genius in mortal man or woman. Creativity, love and compassion emerge and pathways are opened to a future, awakened humanity. We will become the trailblazers of our own inevitable destiny. A utopian age of peace and harmony will follow. All political and spiritual processes will be developed for the highest good. Individuals will develop their “inner Sun” to the fullest during their lifetime. Kundalini research is part of an evolutionary force that compels us to look for enlightenment as an experience accessible to all. To awaken is the goal nature has set for us.

The time is right for we can use state of the art technology to study the phenomenon. We can study the common thread that lies at the root of all religion mysticism which is to guide humankind’s understanding of evolutionary change The understanding of kundalini is now becoming provable for the first time.

Sigmund Freud in fact understood that the libido is directly responsible for mental imbalances. At some point in time we will discover that all we know can be reduced to the bio-chemical. This center of the brain cavity of Brahma is still undiscovered but could be called the “third eye” or the “philosopher’s stone”. Kundalini will for the first time reveal how energy is supplied to the brain and that it is superintelligent. Freud’s concept about libido is of a psychic energy drawn from the libidinous tendencies in human beings. Which is to say the reproductive energy but only from a psychic point of view. He does not say that it has organic roots. This is what famed psychologist Wilhelm Reich emphasizes that this libido must have roots deep in the biochemical structure of the body.

The sex organs in a state of awakened kundalini produces a vast amount of fluid to feed the newly activated part of the brain. Sexual energy may well be directly connected to a mechanism that is affected by evolutionary advancement. Kundalini is the fundamental bioenergy stored primarily in the sex organs. This basic life force is normally associated with the genitals for simple continuance of the species by providing a sex drive. The tie in to the human sex drive and higher consciousness must be explored. Why do men have ejaculation while asleep or wake up with erect penises. There is a force of nature that needs physical release to be sane.

It is called the “goddess Kundalini” or “Mother Nature” because a mother’s love is similar to the bliss of higher consciousness. Woman have more feelings! Life is part of them - menstruation each month reminds them of that. Soulmates, man-woman have intercourse to prolong the race (children). Plus experience the love, kundalini evolutionary force of completion, happiness and bliss that keeps growing.

Sexual or relaxation exercises may release inner pressure of an over-taxed libido. An evolutionary super-nectar, extraordinary life force feeds the mind, a kissing food of unlimited bliss. The sublimation raising up of sex energy is the basic lever of all spiritual disciplines. But the all-inclusive nature of sex energy is a misnomer. Reproduction is but one of the aspects of the life energy of which the other theater of activity is the brain.

Humanity’s basic needs are for sex, god and a need for prayer to control our environment i.e.. hope within everyone lies the ability to awaken. Humanity needs love to balance our own unbalanced state and give us time to meditate, to control our over-taxed brain. Humanity’s sex drive may well be the only time some people relax from their hectic lifestyles. There is a need to just kick back and enjoy. Sex could be a form of deep meditation and experience between two soul mates. Loves deep blissful passion, kundalini’s purest expression an active prayer one of the most powerful forces in the universe. A positive experience that ends in an explosion of uncontrollable bliss. However for the average person, sex is not a deep meditation but is merely a physical release, a small slice of love’s true potential.

What is needed is that deep magnetism of love - a yin/yang of a universal constant. First came the big bang theory for the creation of the universe, now the love theory of creation states that the universe is a constant - always was here. That pure love magnetism, that yin/yang. Example. Trees love earth. Earth love the sky the sky loves the stars space… Love is consciousness … The universe is male and female and in love with both forces.

Suppression of sexuality out of contempt or hatred of our lower nature is an act of ignorance leading only to atrophy of the sexual system. Celibacy is contrary to nature. Since enlightenment is an evolutionary process with heredity playing an important role stamping the genera of the enlightened so that their biological gains through spiritual disciplines can be passed to their progeny. DNA research will eventually discover the consciousness gene.

Sexual energy has been represented in ancient art and statues by an erect organ. Showing the upward streaming of the reproductive essence that effects the transformation of consciousness.

In order to discover the factual evidence behind consciousness, one must first study kundalini energy and its effects. Scientific proof will free humanity to accept the fact that within everyone lies the temple of god leading to a clear realization of our own divine nature. Man’s incomprehensible inner bliss and oneness with divinity and a way of life that overpowers doing wrong or any other action that goes against this cosmic evolutionary force. The misunderstanding of kundalini has led to environmental decline that seems rooted to ultimate destruction of Planet Earth i.e. ozone layer, burning of rain forests, religious wars and terrorism, rape and murder….

It is one relationship not just to their own kundalini but also towards each other. It is the combination of the two that will lead not only to harmony but also to sharing and ultimately to progress. The appeal especially in these times is kundalini which offers hope promise. There is negative energy (i.e. ours) that can be transformed into positive communal conscience which will try to eradicate feelings of helplessness, negativity, pain and the burden of feeling isolated.

Why are people so selfish? Due to not having an understanding of kundalini. Just desperation, helplessness and power struggles which lead to hurting others and ourselves or apathy both of which have a profound effect on our history and the mood of the energy.

Our goal and objective is to create a paradise on earth. A peaceful co-existence, long lives, greater achievements and more freedom. A utopian society living by the laws uncovered by the experiment. A union with the divine is a sum total of the physical laws of the universe. We are in the process of taking the next evolutionary leap. The new century is here.

The study of what lifestyle would be best to advance ones inner potential is a task that may take eons to complete. With the help of divine grace may we free the veil that covers the eyes of the blind masses. We who have been chosen for this colossal task are the humble instruments of this evolutionary force. We will do our part to understand this unfathomable awareness of our eternal souls. The universe is ruled by an intelligent power! Consciousness does not change in birth or death it is bigger than our individual soul. Consciousness is an eternal om...

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Herbal treatment for a cold

Glenn — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 06:06:49 GMT

Yesterday I started getting symptoms of a cold. I went to Elephant Pharm to get some herbal products.
The heabalist suggested two powdered herbs. The names of them are not on the bag though.
When I got a look at the jars they were in this is all I can remember. One of them was an East Indian looking name that began with 'Ma'.
The second one started with an s.
Does anyone know what the name of these would be? I will be going back to Elephant Pharm in any case to find out.

The good news is that they really did help in combination with the other items below. In less 24 hours I now don't have the symtoms of sneezing and runny nose.
In addition to those herbs I also have taken Echinacea Goldenseal (combined in one capusule), olive leaf extract (powder) capusules, Kyolic and cayenne capusules.

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Nutrition and Bipolar/Schizophrenia

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:26:21 GMT

Hey all-
i'm looking for info on the connections between nutrition and bipolar disorder and/or schizophrenia. What are some key nutrients/foods to include in the diet of a person struggling to maintain mental health? Things to avoid? Thanks!

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Urgent - Need a Vegan house with a room to rent

Glenn — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:54:09 GMT

REWARD - If you provide the lead to me finding a great home to move into that meets all of the requirements given below and you are willing to drive to Walnut Creek then, you will get a free 30 minute chair massage by me.

The deadline is Jan. 17th for me to be moved out if at all possible (I have two more weeks until the 31st if needed). I really would like to move ASAP though.
If any of you know of someone Vegan in the cities of Contra Costa Co. including Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek, Concord, Martinez, Lafayette and Orinda with a house please forward the following information.

Seeking a quite location and person to share a house.
If you are a Vegan and have a house to share with the following carefully detailed requirements listed below please contact me.
* large bedroom (200 sq. ft. minimum) with a closet that is at least 12’ (or a walk-in closet of equivalent or more space) ,
*private bathroom (preferred),
*living room (or Den) space for a 7’ couch, chair (rocker), with ottoman, a coffee table and three CD/DVD cabinets.
*Dinning area - space for a dinete set (table is 5' x 3 1/2') with four chairs
*Kitchen - plenty of available cabinets drawers, and counter space
*Must have garage space (100 sq. ft. apprx.) for storage.
The house should have the following 'basics'. Central heating, double pane windows, well insulated (for both Winter and Summer), W/D, and Internet Access (WiFi).
No lease agreement - I only want to be on a month by month basis.
Max. of $650/mo. (or less of course)

I am male of 57 y/o, a massage therapist working in Pleasant Hill and Walnut Creek. I unusually spend a time at my computer and or reading/studying when at home. Otherwise, I like going hiking or on nature walks. Desire to get into a practice of yoga and or Tai Chi/Qigong to keep limber and stretched out more regularly.

Thank you

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Dear Holistic Therapists - PLEASE HELP - Maya Calendar 2009

Stacy — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:52:57 GMT

Dear YOU!

I humbly ask for your patience & willingness to read this message in full!

My name is Stacy James Fry. - With great humility I have been called to ask for your help. - After 13 years of academic and alternative study on the Maya civilization, I have been inspired to write a novel detailing the particulars of the collapse of the Maya in the 9th century. It is clear to me now the Maya experienced a sequence of events leading to the collapse of their civilization, events that are being repeated today on a much grander scale. My novel titled "The Mystic of the Maya" is a parable, a call to all who will read it to exercise the highest teachings made available to mankind through the teachers of the ages including Eckhart Tolle, SN. Goenka, Mother Teresa, Dalai Lama, Jesus Christ, Buddha, Krishna, Ghandi, Krishnamurti, Paramhansa Yogananda, and many more. The essence of their teachings are embedded into the narrative of the novel and wrapped in fiction provide a passive medium for these messages to reach the masses http://www.2012mayancalendar.org

As you can imagine the writing of this novel is a great undertaking that requires 100% focused attention and free-time to complete. To support the completion of this vision I have invested all my resources and creativity into the creation and printing of 1000 copies of a Mayan/Gregorian calendar for 2009. These calendars feature photographs of Mayan ruins taken by me and each calendar is humbly equipped with the ancient Tzolkin 13:20 time sequence, and the Gregorian calendar. I have incorporated the Tzolkin with the Gregorian calendar as a gentle reminder to mend our unconscious conflict as products of the Greece and Roman Empires, and our role as invaders of the Americas. http://www.2012mayancalendar.org

Purchase of any number of Calendars and give them to yourself, to your family and friends as a reminder that we ALL have the power within us to divert our minds into the harmony and peace available to us at all times. I know many of you will feel challenged by my request, by the fear of lack in your lives. This is another opportunity to face your fear and use this purchase as a conscious catalyst for renewed, or augmented prosperity and a sense of wealth in your own life. People are all each others true wealth and abundance! http://www.2012mayancalendar.org

This calendar is a gift from my soul to you. I thank you from the deep hearts core for your kindness and sincere efforts in this regard. If you simply can not purchase a calendar you CAN pass this message on to all your family, friends and the members of your Tribes, your Facebook friends and and any where you connect with people. BREATH naturally the peace and prosperity available to us now.

To All My Relations!
Namaste - Peace Be With You
Source & Synchronicity within!
Stacy James Fry
Vancouver, Canada
Facebook: S James Fry
http://2012mayancalendar.org

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always feel heat/energy build up in front of neck, inside elbows, and behind knees...why?

cassie — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:16:40 GMT

So I feel like I am pretty good shape, eat well, happy, etc. but i always feel a little stiffness in front of my neck, inside the elbows, and behind the knees, I also notice deeper wrinkles in these areas which I am not fond of. Could this have to do with blood circulation and energy flow? Thyroid? Are these areas stagnant blood? They alwaaays feel warmer than the rest of my body. Would love to hear others thoughts

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Urgent - Wanted Vegan house-hold with room to rent

Glenn — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:09:57 GMT

I am seeking to rent a room in a house with one or two others. Quite Location desired in Contra Costa Co., CA. (Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek, Lafayette, and Martinez vacinity). Need to move in by or before Nov. 9th on a month by month basis (no lease agreement).

Requirements; rent under $600, large bedroom (12' x 12' minimum with large closet), space in living room or den for a 7' couch, chair w/ ottoman, 2 CD cabinets. I have a dinette set with four chairs, kitchen appliances including; a Green Power juicer, food processor, and dehydrator. Plus cutting boards, silverware, knives, and at least two drawers full of various utensils. Also need garage space for storage.

About me: 57 years old, massage therapist working in Pleasant Hill and Walnut Creek. I am quite, spend time reading, studying, and time at my computer.

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Codex Alimentarius - Control of all Food, Natural Products, etc Globally by 2009

mystica — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:45:57 GMT

Codex Alimentarius” means “food rules” in Latin. The organization was born in 1962 when the UN established the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) as a “Trade Commission”. It was created to regulate, and thus control, every aspect of how food and nutritional supplements are produced and sold to the consumer. It is solely about trade and the profits of multi-national corporations.

The more natural health products people use, the fewer drugs they use. Millions are turning to natural health. Big Pharma fears this as it would diminish profits. Codex is designed to protect Big Pharma profits by eliminating natural health products and treatments. Health food stores and wellness companies would be hit hard.

Codex is unscientific because it classifies nutrients as toxins and uses “Risk Assessment” to set ultra low so-called “safe upper limits” for them. Risk Assessment is a branch of Toxicology, the science for assessing toxins. The proper science for assessing nutrients is Biochemistry. Codex does not use Biochemistry.

Codex is based on the Napoleonic Code, dating back to Bonaparte. Under this code, anything not explicitly permitted is automatically forbidden. Under Common Law (our system), something does not have to be explicitly permitted to be legal. The tyrannical Napoleonic Code allows the banning of natural health options by default.

Codex will go into global effect on December 31, 2009, unless we, the People, take action and avert it. Right now, we are like a frog boiled slowly, the heat raised gradually so we won’t jump out of the water. The media is used to make us believe that Codex is about “consumer protection”. Part of the media strategy is to tarnish the image of natural health options, through for-hire studies.

One-time defenders of supplements and nutritional products, such as the National Nutritional Foods Association (NNFA) and Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), have fallen prey to new pharmaceutical members and are spreading disinformation saying that Codex is “consumer protection”. Their boards used to be run by health freedom fighters.

The U.S. has a powerful legal tool for health freedom: the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA), passed in 1994 after massive grass-roots action. DSHEA scientifically classifies nutritional supplements as food and prevents dosage restrictions; Codex unscientifically classifies them as toxins and sets ultra-low doses. The VMG violates U.S. law because it violates DSHEA. We must unite to protect DSHEA, our best legal defense against Codex.

The pharmaceutical industry works through irresponsible/corrupt politicians to do their bidding. The path to institute Codex in America is to “influence” Congress to pass laws friendly to drugs and unfriendly to nutritional supplements, so that slowly everyone comes to believe that nutrients are “dangerous”, and drugs are “proper medicine”. Susan Davis (D, CA) and other politicians are helping Big Pharma by supporting bills designed to destroy DSHEA.

Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) has two committees which impact nutrition.

One of them, the “Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses” (CCNFSDU), is chaired by Dr. Rolf Grossklaus, a physician who believes that nutrition has no role in health. This is the “top-guy” for Codex nutritional policy, and he has stated that “nutrition is not relevant to health”.

As unbelievable as it may sound, Dr. Grossklaus actually declared nutrients to be toxins in 1994 and instituted the use of toxicology (Risk Assessment) to prevent nutrients from having any impact on humans who take supplements! It is worth mentioning that Dr. Grossklaus happens to own the Risk Assessment company advising CCNFSDU and Codex on this issue. This company makes money when its toxicology services are used for the “assessment” of nutrients. Here in the U.S. we call that a “conflict of interest”.

Codex is made up of thousands of standards and guidelines. One of them, the Vitamin and Mineral Guideline (VMG), is designed to permit only ultra low doses of vitamins and minerals (and make clinically effective nutrients illegal). How can the VMG restrict dosages of vitamins and minerals? By using Risk Assessment (toxicology) to assess nutrients.

While Risk Assessment is a legitimate science (it is a branch of toxicology), it is the wrong science for assessing nutrients! In fact, in this context, it is actually junk science. Biochemistry, the science of life processes, is the correct science for assessing nutrients. Codex Alimentarius treats nutrients as toxins, which is literally insane.

Nutrients are not toxins - they are essential for life!!

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=155

Start saving Seeds!!!

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"A beautiful friend.. brutally murdered..." : trauma, transpersonal psychology and soul work. And Dhammapada.

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:43:39 GMT

Title: "A beautiful friend.. brutally murdered..." : trauma, transpersonal psychology and soul work. And Dhammapada.

Key phrases : existential pain, suffering and impermanence, murder of a friend, the way the universe does or should work, soul work and liberation, transpersonal psychology and existential psychology.

Summary : Personal emotional freedom is an inside job. So what is important on the basic human level is to learn to listen to and understand ourselves, and to recognize we have to be bigger than our problems.

KT says
The following is excerpted from a tribe post. Following this post, I have given two responses to reframe the issue.
It is possible to say a lot more, from the standpoints of existential psychology and Buddhist psychology alike. For the moment the basic goal is to talk about "being brave" + developing a self-dialogue, as a response to severe emotional challenges ( such as irrational violence in the world ), and as a main means of facing personal pain and existential crises in our lives.

Also, the Guru Sakyammuni said
"Everything that is conditioned passes. Be your own light."
There are good translations of the Dhammapada, the sayings of Sakyamuni Buddha. Keeping a copy at hand in a time of deep personal pain is a remarkably helpful therapy in itself. I first read and reread the Dhammapada in seventh grade, and have never outgrown it.
http://www.amazon.com/Dhammapada-Classics-Indian-Spirituality/dp/1586380206/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219518048&sr=8-2

The teaching of Guru Sakyamuni is well established as a main way people learn to work with suffering and impermanence, so it is reasonable to mention Buddhadharma in this context, as well. It has been shown repeatedly that non-Buddhists or people with no specific religious orientation can benefit greatly from the Dhaammapada in times of emotional distress or debilitating personal disorientation. You could classify it under "transpersonal psychology" and "logotherapy", or existential psychology. It is both.

See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logotherapy
and
http://www.logotherapyinstitute.org/
as a formal bridge between modern psychology and the psychology of Guru Sakyamuni Buddha.

It is important to keep in mind that the personal tragedy that someone faces is *never* the right time for proselytizing any religious belief or promoting some money-making operation. Instead, what is most helpful, at a basic human level, is simply to listen, to ourselves and to others. There is an extraordinarily helpful book on this:
"Focusing", by Eugene Gendlin, PhD.
http://www.amazon.com/Focusing-Eugene-T-Gendlin/dp/0553278339/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219517728&sr=8-1

Please note that what is said here is In No Way a substitute for either yoga sadhana or individual counseling or whole person wellness care, such as acupuncture, herbal medicine and so forth. In a difficult situation use a broad spectrum of modalities. The goal here is to provide some perspective for those who experience deep emotional vulnerability or wounding resulting from a devastating life event.

Every authentic Buddhist teacher is, one way or another, a capable psychologist, and I am hopefully of some help. I have in fact worked effectively with some brutalized and traumatized individuals, women in particular. In the dharmic lineages ( Hindu or Buddhist ) it is emphasized that one of the most important ways to "help oneself" is to be of service to others, i.e. good karma. This is also very much true on a basic psychological or intrapsychic level.

May this be beneficial. Sarva mangalam.

-KT

P says
"I had a beautiful fairy friend....
She was a shining spirit - full of life and creativity....
But most of all - she was the embodiment of Pure, Unconditional Love....
She loved everybody - always smiling - always saying "hello Love", "goodbye Love"...
Always singing "Love, Love, Love"....
Her life was a work of art and her being was pure inspiration and joy....
I loved her - everyone she ever met loved her....

"Then I found out she was brutally murdered....
She was in Asia - home alone - someone tried to rob her - she fought back and was stabbed to death....
Grief, shock and disbelief overcame me....

"I could not get my head around it - I could not believe that this could happen to one of the most wonderful people on this earth....
she did not deserve to go like this....
I could not imagine the fear and terror she must have felt with her last breath....
the thought of it made me physically ill....

"I understand that we all must die....
and yes, it's tragic that she had to pass - her time had come - etc....
But NOT like this - how could someone so peaceful and full of unconditional love and light suffer her last day of life like this....
This can not be the way - this is just not fair - this can't be the way the universe works - it just can't.....

"A week had passed after I heard the news...
I couldn't come to terms with it....
I was listening to a Pema Chodron discourse on audio....
I was deep in a meditative state...
Then Pema Chodron said "whatever you choose to be aware of - the universe will serve up the opposite to help you become more aware...
if you want to practice patience - the universe will give you irritating situations so you can become aware of your impatience....
if you want to practice mindfulness - the universe will give you mind-less situations so you can become more aware...."

"At that moment I received a download from the universe....
My friend was murdered because she believed in unconditional love.... she WAS the embodiment of Unconditional Love...
so she was killed in the worst way in order for her soul to practice and forgive and unconditionally love her killer....
This was her soul lesson...
If she did - her soul would not come back to this earth plane as a human - but ascend to the next realm of Angels and Muses....
The universe always unfolds for our greatest good - to bring our souls closer to source....
The universe only gives you what you can handle.... and her soul must have been so close to pure that she could handle it....
otherwise it wouldn't have been so....

"This was the message I received....
and at that moment I felt like I understood....
and an awesome presence of peace came over me....
"she can do it" - I thought... she can transcend....!
I wholeheartedly believed this message - I truly believed that she was liberated from the mortal bondage of death and re-birth and that she has now gone to somewhere higher - where her love and light could do so much more profound work than on this human realm...

"Today they found her killer....
he sold the things he had stolen from her home for $300...
that was all her life was worth... 300 dollars....
And instantly, that peace I had felt before vanished....
Instead I heard a voice in my head telling me that what I had realized before - what I thought was a download from the universe - was just my mind's way of rationalizing this heinous crime.... because I could not emotionally handle her death....
The voice said that there is no justice in this universe....
and that my friends death was just a cold, cruel, accident - it could happen to anybody - it just happened to be one of the most precious creatures on the planet....

"If this is true - if there really is no rhyme or reason - if it just happened to be wrong place - wrong time - then I am not sure I can go on...
Then this whole world is pointless.... and everything is just random....
and there is no use to try to love - to try to help - to try to heal....
if this could just "happen" - then there is no karma - no wrong or right....

"I want to believe that what my insight from the universe revealed was real - that there is some sort of order to this universe - some sort of soul evolution - some sort of kind universally all-loving spirit that guides us for our highest and greatest good....
but my mind is telling me that it's just a big rationalization and that the universe just exists - it is indifferent - and doesn't really care one way or the other...
it just goes on....

"I don't know which one is real anymore...
I don't know what is real anymore...
I don't know what the point of this existence is....

"I am feeling confused, cynical and a bit schizophrenic by all of this....
any insights from this tribe will be a great help in helping me to sort this tragedy out and come to some sort of terms....
Thank you for just letting me blurt this all out..."

Re the above post:
"I want to believe that what my insight from the universe revealed was real - that there is some sort of order to this universe - some sort of soul evolution - some sort of kind universally all-loving spirit that guides us for our highest and greatest good....
but my mind is telling me that it's just a big rationalization and that the universe just exists - it is indifferent - and doesn't really care one way or the other...
it just goes on.... "

Namaste.

Okay, I will respond on a basic level. Not as a vajrayana guru in particular, but on a simple existential level, using the pop culture vernacular.

This is from Spiderman 3:
"Whatever comes our way, whatever battle. . . we always have a choice. . .
It's the choices that makes us what we are, and we can always choose to do what's right."

Soul evolution is a choice. It is a possibility that can always be engaged. We have to be bigger than our problems. We have to live for that which is most worthwhile, not throw away our human possibilities due to small or large obstacles on the way.

Life is a journey. Go forward, go up.

The Dalai Lama says "Work for peace." Sometimes you have to fight for it, too. The fight may be primarily an internal fight for higher consciousness, it may be a fight on some outer level as well. But we all do need emotional strength, so we all have to develop that, each individually.

"We can't abandon our responsibilities or the people we need to protect. This is who we are."
Jessica Alba, in "Fantastic Four"

Acarya KT, inner medical tantrika

And a second post ( part 2 )
"I don't know what the point of this existence is....

"I am feeling confused, cynical and a bit schizophrenic by all of this....
any insights from this tribe will be a great help in helping me to sort this tragedy out and come to some sort of terms....
Thank you for just letting me blurt this all out... "

The point of life is learning, and growing, and becoming more aware and responsive and able.
Major setbacks and heartaches can serve as important challenges to goad us towards greater awareness and responsibility.
In the classical Mahayana Buddhist perspective, the goal ( and the path also ) is the development of Wisdom, Compassion, and Power.
Or, as is said in Sanskrit, "Jnana Karuna Bala".
These are ennobling and liberating potentials that *natively* exist within each person, but they must be developed through classical yoga sadhana.

On a more personal level, what is clearly necessary here is personal daily journaling for some period of time, some weeks or maybe months. We are all responsible for understanding ourselves and sorting ourselves out. When we can listen to and understand our own thoughts and feelings and situations, it then becomes more possible to deal with the larger world and bigger issues.

On the specific matter of violence and victimization and personal responsiblity, I have written an article on Albert Camus, which you can find at my tribe home under the picture for Albert Camus. Camus, the great French Nobel Laureate and member of the French Underground in World War 2, said that one should be neither a victim nor an executioner.

He also said,
N'attends pas le jugement final, mon ami, par ce-que il se passe chaque journee.

That means,
Do not await the "final judgement" my friend, because it takes place every day.

So I have given answer on three levels, the dharmic, the psychological, and the existential. I do all three, obviously.

More can be said, but this establishes the basics. Beyond these points, it is necessary to do a formal practice of some kind.
Please note in this regard that poor and oppressed people who have authentic spiritual discipline can show much greater personal equilibrium and emotional stamina under severe conditions than wealthy people in free countries who lack sadhana and dharma.
Freedom is in large measure an inside job.

Live for that which is highest in yourself and others. Go for light and freedom and the truly liberating human values.

Best to all,
KT

All My Relations. Sarva mangalam!

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basic breath practice and basic mantra practice : nadi shodhana pranayam and White Tara mantra

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:52:22 GMT

Re: what to engage in yoga - breath practices and mantra

Re Jennifer on tribe tantra
"What is a good form of yoga to get into for beginners? "

Hi Jennifer.
A simple and profound practice is "pranayama", or breath modulation.
It is used by yoga practitioners at all levels.
It requires no specific religious philosophy.

It is used for many purposes, such as psychological balance, energy balancing, mind-body co-ordination, physical workout warm-ups and warm-downs, kundalini yoga, and as a key practice in Buddhist yogas of primordial pure awareness, such as Great Perfection and Great Seal.

There are also Buddhist kung fu breath modulation practices for martial arts which are sophisticated and powerful.

There are many excellent books available on pranayama.
A basic and most useful pranayama practice is alternate nostril breathing, which is taught in many variations, among the Hindus, Sikhs, and Buddhists. In Sanskrit this is known as nadi shodhana pranayam.

As with most yoga practices, be careful regarding sensitive times such as pregnancy or illness and do not practice when the stomach is full.

A major source of teaching on pranayama is the 3H0 Sikhs and Yogi Bhajan, who brought a tremendous amount of this material to the West. Do a google search for "kundalini yoga" + pranayam + "yogi bhajan". You can get 3H0 books on kundalini yoga from Ravi Singh and Guru Rattan Khaur Khalsa.

I have and use many texts on tantra and yoga as practitioner and as guru, and pranayama is always of enormous importance in the different lineages, and in my own practice. I began doing pranayam in 1980, and on at least one occasion it has saved my life.

Another major and most useful kind of practice is Sanskrit recitation, or mantrayana.
You can find a basic description of the Vajrasattva mantra at my tribe home, under the picture for "Hundred Syllable Mantra".

The primary source for transmissions of this kind of yoga is the esoteric Buddhist tantra, known to the public under the name "Tibetan Buddhism."

I have completed ten thousand hours of mantra.

A most basic and openly available mantra for healing and developing inner spiritual connections is the Buddhist goddess mantra for Tara:

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE MA ME AYU PUNYA JNANA PUSTIM KURU SVAHA

This is for wisdom ( jnana ), long life ( ayu ), noble qualities ( punya ), and spiritual energy ( pustim ). This is a good mantra for protection, for removing obstacles, and cleansing the magnetic field.

A basic practice would be to recite this 100,000 times, and it works better with visualization, pure intention and so forth.

There are many Buddhist books and practice texts for Tara, for example from Snow Lion Publications, at
http://www.snowlionpub.com/

See the book
"Skillful Grace: Tara Practice for Our Time"

at Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Skillful-Grace-Tara-Practice-Time/dp/9627341614

If you can do some effective pranayama and some effective mantra then you are a functional yoga practitioner.
If you lack both pranayama and mantra, your practice will remain very very very limited.

Best,

Acarya KT

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Sexual Healing

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:15:45 GMT

I love this book: The Return of Desire - A Guide to Rediscovering Your Sexual Passion, by Gina Ogden

So much good info. She polled women and men using a poll she calls an ‘ISIS’ poll and then meshed their answers with stories, anecdotes and exercises. An awesome read. It talks about everything from masturbation, polyamory, monogamy, dogma, spirituality, emotional intimacy, communication and sex toys. VERY healing book.

http://www.ginaogden.com/promo/

And this is cool—I found the ISIS poll that she used for the book on her website: http://www.ginaogden.com/index.php?p=Isis

Anyone else have good read recommendations??

I took this from the website:

In this book you will discover innovative ways to:

• Open up to the four energies that spark desire
• Create heart-to-heart communication in your sexual partnerships
• Transcend guilt, shame, and "good-girls-don´t" messages
• Heal the sexual wounds of abuse, addiction, affairs, and low self-esteem
• Enjoy sexual pleasure and joy throughout your lifespan— from new love, to parenthood, and even into your golden years, when desire can ripen, like fine wine.

Gina Ogden – a marriage and family therapist and passionate voice in the field of women’s sexuality - invites readers to look beyond sexual performance and offers engaging ways you can say "yes" to pleasure on your own terms. She suggests wise and lively approaches for overcoming roadblocks to intimacy, and encourages you to expand your capacity for love, creativity, compassion, and sacred union.

It’s cheapest right now on Amazon, of course – but the gifts still come with it.
http://www.amazon.com/Return-Desire-Rediscovering-Sexual-Passion/dp/1590303644/ref=pd_bbs_sr_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215533917&sr=8-4

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Call for Guest Healers

flocc-me — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:02:49 GMT

Calling Guest Healers

Hee Bee Gee Bee Healers are pre-registering guest healers this year. If you have been a guest healer with us in the past or if you would like to join us as a guest healer this year, please sign up with us via the web before the burn. You’ll still be able to sign up with us on playa and it will streamline lots of things on playa if we get you registered ahead of time! If you are a body worker, energy worker or other healing practitioner, we would love to have you come join us in our healing tent this year. The HeeBee’s mission is to create a nurturing environment and provide healing services to the HeeBee community and all of Black Rock City . Our community’s intention is for the healing energy we cultivate to spread into the greater world, providing love, healing and a higher state of being for everyone.” If you’d like to be a guest healer in our healing space click here to register with us! http://www.heebeege ebeehealers. org/guesthealer. php

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Shamanic Intensive Training Course:Bolivian Andes & Amazon

Miguel — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:40:31 GMT

Sacha Runa Collective offers two Month-long Shamanic Intensive Training Courses a year
(Jan/Feb and August) in the Bolivian Andes& Amazon (www.sacharuna.com).
The course is indeed Intensive and deeply transformational.
It is intended to help train those people who trully want to entrust themselves to Spirit
and dedicate themselves to Service.
No prerequisite is necessary, except the absolute determination to face oneself
and do what is needed to allow spirit to flow through us and bless creation.
The next one is August1-30.
Have to fly in and out of la Paz, Bolivia.
Application letters are due ASAP.
The next course is Jan/Feb 2009

For serious apprentices who intend to become full fledged shamans and
conduct medicine ceremonies, at least 4 courses are recommended but it
ultimately dependes on everybody's skills.

For a description of the course, please visit www.sacharuna.com
Blessings:
Miguel A. Kavlin

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New here!

Liz — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:25:04 GMT

I just wanted to say hello to you all! I'm currently in a Holistic Health Practitioner program and absolultely love it! I'm excited to continue to learn from myself and you!

:-)

Liz

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birth petition

Grandma — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:26:31 GMT

Tell the AMA to stop trying to get our legislators to mandate how and where we must birth our own babies:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/birthathome/

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20 Astral Keys to Gates of Universal Consciousness

DarkMother — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:32:33 GMT

Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist who developed the field of analytical psychology and introduced the concept of archetypes of consciousness being "innate universal psychic dispositions that form the substrate from which the basic themes of human life emerge. Being universal and innate, their influence can be detected in the form of myths, symbols, rituals and instincts of human beings. Archetypes are components of the collective unconscious and serve to organize, direct and inform human thought and behaviour. ...archetypes heavily influence the human life cycle, propelling a neurologically hard-wired sequence which he called the stages of life. Each stage is mediated through a new set of archetypal imperatives which seek fulfillment in action."[1]

Centuries before Jung, the Maya introduced the very similar concept of Archetypes of Divine Consciousness. (According to the Maya, there are 20 of them.) Likewise, these Archetypes form the substrate from which individual Divine Consciousness emerges. Also being components of the collective unconscious, the Maya-identified Archetypes organize, direct and engender Divine thought and behavior in the human experience, in stages, over the course of days, months, years, ...millennia. Hard wired into the binary code of DNA and the human brain, these Archetypes are mediated through the permutations of an universal, binary, object oriented Code evident in and galactically broadcast by harmonic star cycles. The Maya perceived the astral Nature of the Code and embodied It in a "lunar calendar." Regarded as their Sacred Calendar, they call it the "Tzolkin." The Tzolkin enables them to track the cycles, the individual stages of the cycles [i.e. days] and the progressive effects of those intermeshed stages in order to further enable them to live in conscious alignment and synchronicity with the 20 Archetypes. According to the Maya, living in such alignment and synchronicity activates the inherent Divine Consciousness latent within the individual consciousness. Thus activated, the Divine Unconscious within can be consciously harnessed and channeled for communlal and personal well being.

Being both harmonic and binary in Nature, the Tzolkin's Code has been digitized and expressed in sound. As the stuff of our bodies comes from starlight, the acoustic expressions (of the Code's objects relative to the individual Archetypes) directly facilitate an exclusively positive rewiring of the brain, aligning and synchronizing its synapses with the dynamics of the respective Archetypes, and having a sympathetic effect advancing the activation of analogous higher functions of DNA. (Rather than needing to track the individual harmonic stages of the Archetypes as they naturally occur staggered over the course of months and larger spans of Time, as Maya clerics have done for centuries, the Archetypes' entire harmonic sequences can be heard in seconds.) Each of the Archetypes has been individually recorded (in great for meditation lengths) and embodied in "The Mayan Book of Wisdom" (a cognitive/consciousness enhancement software product from DarkMother.com).

On this Summer Solstice weekend, in the interest of fostering the planetary increase of Light, you can download an abridged version of The Mayan Book of Wisdom containing 3:00.00 excerpts of the full length (13:00.00) expressions of the 20 Archetypes. They're for you - Download them, experience them, use them; enjoy them.

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For more information on the harmonic nature of the Tzolkin, visit and peruse DarkMother.com. (These Archetypes are fundamental components of all the complex Tzolkin acoustic translations embodied in company's "Ascension" series.)

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20 Astral Keys to Gates of Universal Consciousness

DarkMother — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:32:30 GMT

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NY STIR- Sedona Transformational Intensive Retreat

Diana — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:39:28 GMT

NY STIR
with Lawrence Lanoff

June 28th & 29th
Sat: 11am-completion Sun: 11am- 4pm or 5pm

We invite you to join us for one intense, powerful weekend, where you will focus on and begin to manifest the answer to THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION you can ask yourself:

WHAT DO I WANT?

All human beings live their lives through filters and prescriptions about what is possible and not possible. By participating in STIR, you will get to take off the "tinted glasses" that have stopped you, so that you can see more clearly than ever before & free yourself up to receive more of what you want in your life.

During NY STIR- the Sedona Transformational Intensive Retreat, we will:

Discover our core mythologies, and therefore our core prisons, by asking ourselves 7 key questions.
Learn strategies for removing barriers to personal freedom.
Tap into the raw creative energy of the Universe to transcend patterns & open ourselves up to access the wealth, love and power inherently possible in our lives.

The road to enlightenment is often long and bumpy, so please bring an open mind, comfy clothes and pack a lunch.

EVENT DETAILS
Dates: June 28th & 29th
Time: Sat. 11am-completion, Sun. 11am-5pm
Cost: $ 595
Location: Moonheart Healing Arts Center,
59 West 19th Street, Suite 3A2
NYC, NY 10011
Registration: Contact Diana at 917-697-5812 or dianayoga1@yahoo.com

About Lawrence

Lawrence, a master energy healer and leading scholar of human cognition, helps people realize their true potential by helping them dismantle the dis-empowering beliefs, ideologies and cultural values that consciously and unconsciously influence everyday choices.

Within the context of great joy, laughter and fun, Lawrence 's remarkable gifts accelerate energetic clearing, psychological transformation, and spiritual development, allowing people to live in this life fully.

What makes Lawrence truly unique is that he is a master energy tracker. He carefully observes unintentional verbal and non-verbal energetic signals from students, deeply taps into Universal Creative Energy Force, and clears the depths of core issues, causing profound shifts in group-consciousness.

Lawrence holds a PhD in Cognitive Studies from Canterbury College, and received his Yoga Teacher Training from Universal Yoga Temple in Los Angeles

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Enemas for Health

jessieq — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:53:34 GMT

I'm gathering information about enemas for cleansing as well as for administering medicines.

I'd like to know some enema recipes for replenishing EFA's. I've heard that flax and hemp oil are good to put in an enema, but how much?
If you know about resources or somewhere I can be directed to for help I'd really appreciate it.

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MASSAGE TRADE CAMPOUT PARTY (sf bay)

GoGoGypsy — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:00:00 GMT

MASSAGE TRADE CAMPOUT PARTY

SUNDAY JUNE 29th - MONDAY JUNE 30th

$10 to reserve your spot!

A trading extravaganza for certified massage therapists!!

Come and commune with nature and trade with other massage therapists in the San Francisco Bay Area! We will be reserving a group camp site to exchange massages, share skills and stories, and generally enjoy causing mayhem into the wee hours!

The site will accommodate up to 50 people, be within an hour drive of San Francisco, have flush toilets, and hot showers. Tents only! Bring your table/thai mat and linens!

FOR MORE INFO: http://gogogypsy.googlepages.com/massagetradecampoutparty

**The site will not be reserved until we get at least 20 people attending (to cover the reservation fees), so if you think this sounds like fun, MAKE YOUR RESERVATION NOW!!!

**This is not a profit-making venture....if we get more money than the site fees, we will refund the extra to all who attend

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AyurJyothi Massage Stage 2009 India

shibu — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:10:15 GMT

AyurJyothi Massage Stage 2009 India

AyurJyothi massage is a special kind of massage or healing method based on ayurveda and yoga. This method is a powerful way to give an experience to the people who are tired and depressed. It is also highly therapeutic for people who are suffering from muscular pain, insomnia, helps to come out from emotional imbalances etc, if the healer is really serious and devoted to his profession can help his/her clients to feel the deep silence and peace inside themselves. It is a powerful method to come back to the self, which help to have a peaceful life.

This massage helps to balance the vita (air) pita (fire) kappa (water) elements in the human body. According to ayurveda balance of three elements is the result of good health.

It also helps to generate more pranas the life force in our body and mind, helps to promote strong immunity and spiritual awakenings. It needs an open mind with trust, more sessions and change of life style also necessary too. This method often helps people to change their life. That is why this massage is called AyurJyothi massage: ayur means life, Jyothi means light. It is the light of life. This method helps us to have a positive transformation in our life.

Details of the course:

Every day 5 hours class.

One hour of yoga, one hour of theory and discussion, 3 hours of training.

Subjects:

1. Introduction of ayurveda (Vata, pita, Kapha)

2. Concept of massage in ayurveda

3. Massage and oils

4. Relation with mind and touch

5. Massage and emotions

6. How to work with relax

7. How to avoid negative energy when we work.

8. Ayurvedic personal care.

9. Self-massage and its importance.

10. Special meditation for high energy and deep relax.

11. AyurJyothi massage and therapy for stiff neck, back pain, and knee pain etc.

12. Full practice of AyurJyothi massage.

13. Massage and therapist

14. AyurJyothi massage and kindling based on yogic philosophy.

This is the basic subject of our course, but we will learn much more than this. Love Shibu.

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golfers elbow

Jennifer — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:02:33 GMT

does anyone have any experience with this? i have it and am having a hard time healing... jenn

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Seeking a Remedy for a severe cut (aka. gash or wound)

StrongAngel — Sat, 24 May 2008 19:47:56 GMT

Yesterday, while cutting back sugar cane, gashed open his arm with a machette. It is a very deep cut (you can see the muscle).
I have been exploring the different threads on first aid remedies, but wasn't sure if the suggestions for cuts were for minor surface wounds.
Does anyone have any experience with this? (Other than going to the hospital for stitches.)

We trust that the body can heal itself, but if there are any supplements, or essential oils, or tinctures, or herbs that might aid it, we would love your help.

Thank you for your time.
Aloha,

NORA

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Miami area therapists/healers

Jed — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:06:59 GMT

Just looking to see if there are other tribe members here in the Miami FL area...

Namaste,
Jed
www.phinsights.com

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Free Month of Yoga to All Boston Area Yoga Teachers...

Gabriel — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:29:44 GMT

I wanted to pass this along... If you have any questions, please feel free to email me...
Peace,
Gabriel

Dear Friends,
South Boston Yoga is entering it's third month
since our opening and things are going incredibly
well. Our studio offers an open morning practice from
6am-8:30am M-F and weekends 7am-9am where teachers and
students alike are welcome to come in to study, play
and work together. To give you all a chance to check
it out Todd and I would like to extend a free month of
morning practice to any yoga teacher in Boston. You
name it Iyengar, Ashtanga, Kundalini, Pranavayu,
Jivamukti, Forrest, Baptiste, Sivananda, Restorative,
Bikram, Acro-Yoga, Meditation, etc. All styles are
warmly welcome and the studio is equipped with
bolsters, balls, a rope wall, inversion swings,
sandbags, straps, blindfolds, chairs, meditation
cushions and back bending benches. We really wanted to
give people a place to study and develop what they
love regardless of tradition or style and already the
inspiration we have seen people giving each other is
amazing. Come in any morning in April or May and we
will check you in for a free month to celebrate your
yoga studies and jump start your spring.
All the
Best,

-David and Todd

http://www.SouthBostonYoga.net
ps
Please feel free to pass this message on to anyone who
teaches and may be interested in joining in.

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Massage Ther. training advice - SF Bay area

lucidsoul — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:23:02 GMT

Hi there,

I'm looking to pursue training in massage therapy and am interested in hearing from more experienced folks about good programs in the SF Bay area. I currently live in Marin county and am so far trying to decide between Alive & Well (Institute of Conscious Bodywork) and Diamond Light School of Healing and Massage, which are both located in Marin county.

Any thoughts about either of these two programs would be most appreciated...I'm also open to commuting to other programs in the Bay Area.

Many thanks!

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Ticklish Therapy -Help!

Quandry — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:23:14 GMT

For the past few years I have had an awesome therapy done. I have had full body massage, reflexology, and a few other modalities performed, but nothing has compared to this. I actually heard about this from an interview with the actress, Drew Barrymore. I have had it done primarily for stress relief, but have found it has also helped with pain and allergies, I am guessing due to endorphine release and the stimulation of reflexes.
My therapist worked strictly on the soles of the feet, using a variety of techniques from finger stroking, light scratching, feathers (both ends) etc. And yes, it completely overwhelmes the senses and is extremely intense. I laugh almost continuously which oddly puts me into a parasympathetic state. I am one of those people who cannot stop thinking, even during a full body massage, but this tickling technique blocks everything completely out but the sensation. When she is finished I am completely, COMPLETELY relaxed and have even fallen asleep during the five minute cool-down. It is the most awesome massage I have ever had.

I recently showed it to another massage therapist and she said over and over, "I would never have believed it!" and later told me how it got her through a following day or two of stress. She said it was the best foot massage experience she has ever had! Anyhow, this whole technique thoroughly fascinates me. Anyone else ever heard of it? If I can explain further, or clarify, I would be happy to do so.

I know it sounds unconveentional, but I have found historical references to it. It is a form of touch, stimulates the reflexes and nerves, causes a healthy amount of laughter, and releases endorphines into the body and for me caused a natural high. I did find the following quote on a now defunk website called "Sensitivity Mapping."
"The wild, uninhibited laughter of a child, as opposed to the more cerebral laughter of an adult, can be attained by a prolonged and intense tickling of the soles of the feet. Considered torture by some, tickling itself can actually be a great way to relieve stress if the recipient can handle the stimulation and surrender to the sensation. This is easier said than done-tickling is confusing, a literal love/hate relationship, as the mind says, "yes" and the body screams, "No". Tickling can be perceived as both pleasure and pain, like an itch that cannot be scratched. It is this quandary that the body both craves and resists, sometimes simutaneously. Specifically, tickling the sensory-rich soles of the feet bring other stress relieving factors [reflexology/nerve stimulation] into play as well. Tickling and laughter are both mysterys that in years have received much deserved attention."

I am not saying this quote is a direct tie-in but it seems to lend evidence to the therapy. I am so curious to learn more but keep running into dead ends. Please HELP!

Quandry

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"Healing Through Movement"- Massage/Yoga/Dance/Free Class 4/1 in Oakland

ahhhs — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:26:17 GMT

Please come to my new class offered at Soja Martial Arts in Oakland!!
Soja is located on Webster St. off of Broadway between 24th and 25th.
http://sojamartialarts.com/index.html

Tuesdays 5:30-6:30
Beginning April 1st

"Healing Through Movement" is a blend of self and partner massage, yoga
and dance. Designed for beginners-advanced movers, Healing Through
Movement will encourage you to find the healer within and is a perfect
way to end your work day or begin your evening workout. Be ready to
ground, stretch, roll, and vibrate at a higher frequency.

You can attend my class and all of the other classes offered at Soja
for one week FREE of cost!

Please come, I can almost promise it will feel good!
Contact me off list with any other questions or to let me know you'll
be there :)

Laura Schifferli
Owner and Director of The Happy Feet School of
Dance/Gymnastics/Music/Yoga/Spanish
or just "Happy Feet"

and a little more about me:

Laura Schifferli has been teaching dance and helping others to "find
their flow" her entire life. Laura holds degrees in Dance and
Psychology, is a certified massage therapist, and has owned "Happy
Feet", a children's school of dance, gymnastics, music, yoga, and
Spanish for 16 yrs. After performing modern dance for many years and
sustaining the injuries that come along with this profession, Laura
shifted her focus to helping others to heal themselves through
movement and to find the inner joy of being in their unique flow.
Besides working with children you can find Laura teaching "Healing
through Movement", "Falling-with love", "Dance as Meditation", and
"Aqua Ballet" along with swimming, awakening to the present moment,
and just plain shakin it on the dance floor.

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Codex Alimentarius - Control of all Food, Natural Products, etc Globally by 2009

mystica — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:44:48 GMT

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Healing Session Trades

brucebrown — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:12:31 GMT

Greetings!
Here's a thread for Healing Session trades.

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CRAZY AND A HALF

Jim — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:42:23 GMT

Sandy Actors Theatre presents an evening of hilarious insanity and madness. Six one acts that take place in psychiatrists offices. Even the scene changes will have you laughing in the aisles.
Not suitable for children.

Friday and Saturday, 8PM, and Sunday's at 6PM through March 29, three weeks left.

For reservations, call 503-668-6834

Directions to theatre:

Take Hwy. 26 eastbound. We are 9 miles east of Gresham. When you get into Sandy, the highway becomes one way east bound. Stay in the left lane. About 4/5 of the way through town, watch for the large ACE Hardware sign on your left. We are directly behind ACE Hardware. Very ample parking.

SEE YOU THERE!

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Rieki Training with Astarius@Ascension Temple March 15 and 16

Amber — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:34:55 GMT

The Healing Gift to One's Own Self!
REIKI TRAINING @ ASCENSION TEMPLE
(San Rafael, California)
Taught by Astarius Reiki-Om

When you become a Reiki Healer, you will be like a Wave in an Ocean of Healers
creating a deep sense of Peace, Healing and Balance in Body, Mind and Emotions for yourself and others.
You will be able to express your Divine Nature and be more in charge of your Life Direction.
In these Trainings you will receive Attunements and hands on instruction for first and second level Reiki. You
will learn the use of symbols for "Distant Healing", sending Reiki forward in time, backward in time and across space. Many past traumas are Healed this way. Reiki re-writes the cellular memory with Healing Light!

In addition to being Reiki Attuned, you will receive a Sound Healing
with Didgeridoo and Vocal Overtones and learn the art of "Sonic Reiki".

First Level Training: Saturday March 15th 10am - 6pm
Second Level Training: Sunday March 16th 10am -6pm
The total cost for both Trainings: $400 (Certificate Included) This class is full at 8 people
REGISTER SOON!
$100 Deposit Cash / MC/VISA

For Registration and Information:
Call Astarius at 415 785-4872
www.astarius.com

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Massage Trade Party March 9th

Amber — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:40:18 GMT

Massage Trade Party for Professionals Date & Time: Sunday, March 9, 2008
5:00 PM to 11PM in San Rafael
A night of trade for massage therapists, healers and bodyworkers. You must be a practicing massage professional to attend. This is important, because we want to create a powerful field of healing energy just for us to interexchange in, share resources, and network together to support our bodywork commuity. Come be sourced. The location is yummatopia in San Rafael, beautiful temple space, easy access and easy parking. Please call for RSVP, bring pot luck and BYOB, your healing tools, oils and linens, and we will supply the space and and tables for you. Please let other healers you know of this evening's opportunity.
Contact Amber at 757 572-7989 or visit yummatopia.com's calendar.

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Conspiracy History compilation DVDs torrents

History — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:19:21 GMT

**************************************************

Greetings to all my relations.

This is the last step of our project History Watch. If History is
defined and known by the texts, we can now add to this definition the
recorded events of the filmed archives. Animated images are harder to
deny than printed words. Our objective is to spread out freely some of
the little broadcast, even hidden informations about our collective
History.

We put online a collection of 391 documentaries and other selected and
recut videos, to offer to a wide public the best of the infos
available on the net in english and in french. If you are interested,
you have the time, the right equipment and connection, all you have to
do is open the joint document and decompress it if needed (but normaly
your system should do it automaticaly). You'll find therein nine links
that will open the torrents for the nine DVDs we compiled (around 4.6
Gig each, for a total of a little over 41 G, being over 100 hours of
videos).

Otherwise, you can go directly to btjunkie.com and search for these titles.

11 Septembre 2001 - 9-11
Bush family & friends
Capitalist & Communist regimes
Capitalist conspiracy
Mind Kontrol - Secret Programs
New World Order - Secret Societies
Secret services - cover up - covert ops
Secret weapons - UFO
Terrorism Theories propaganda

Torrents are a system of peer to peer data transfer. The more people
download a torrent, the faster it spreads and the longer it stays on
the net. If you don't have a bittorrent software, we suggest that you
download uTorrent on utorrent.com. If you want to participate in
facilitating the diffusion of these infos about our collective
History, download these torrents on as many computers as possible,
whether it is in cybercafes. It takes one or two minutes to open up
the links and the downloading will keep proceeding on its own.

Please spread this out, take part in this action for social education
on a planetary scale. Thanks.

For more info: watch.history@gmail.com History Watch

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Mind Power Course

Nelly — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:39:19 GMT

Dear Tribe Member,
After a GREAT SUCCESS of "MIND Your Intellect"- A Mind Power Self Study Course from Golden Inspirations. Now we are happy to launch Digital Version of the Mind Power Course with INSTANT PAY & INSTANT DOWNLOAD Feature. Now you can improve your mind power at the comfort of your home.

We all know how important our Mind is, whatever we are and whatever we do good or bad is created by our own Mind. But very few people know that you can get whatever you want, a better job? Better relationships? Peaceful & Problem free life? Etc. Just by improving your mind power.

"This course will change the way you look towards yourself. This course is especially designed to help you understand how your mind works, and how you can unleash the hidden potential of your mind."

Course Includes:-
1.An Excellent book on Unleashing Mind Power.
2.Two Audio CDs with 10 different scientifically designed Meditations & Relaxation Exercises to help you make your mind more efficient.

For your comfort we have also included Free Cash on Delivery (COD) service across INDIA. Course can be delivered to you within "3 Business Days".

We have especially kept a low price of "$33/- " for the complete package & Just "$13/-" for the Digital Download Version.

visit: http://worldwide.goldeninspiration.com TO KNOW MORE.

International Price:
Hard Copy Version: Just $33/-
Digital Downloadable Version: Just $13/-
Visit: http://worldwide.goldeninspiration.com

Regards,
Team Golden Inspirations
http://www.goldeninspiration.com

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Hot Stone Chakra Cleanse

enjoyholistichealing — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:20:36 GMT

Looking to raise money for my state Massage License. I am offering a $45 Hr. Hot Stone Chakra Cleanse. The idea is to place the warm stones on individual chakras while using Reiki to channel the energy deeper. A Tibetan Singing Bowl is also used for sound therapy tool and to cleanse your energy field. A lot of time is spent on the Crown Chakra to awaken your Kundalini energy and to balance the spinal fluid giving you more physical balance. Aromatherapy Oils can also be used to further the "sense" experience. I believe through the use of all these tools we become more in tune with mother nature, the universe, and our true being. I recently did this for a client who left feeling so grounded and had magnificient color in her face and bounce in her step. I live somewhere between Central and Western Mass. You can drop me a line if you're interested.

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New Thai Massage DVD !

timholt — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:07:51 GMT

Check out the release of this great new Thai Massage Instructional DVD on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ8gYcalp3o

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Healing Arts Practitioner's Marketing Telecourse this Thursday!

Jamie — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:12:55 GMT

Hello all,
We have started a Healing Arts Practitioner's Group that meets both for in person classes and for telecourses.
The focus is on how to best market ourselves and grow our practices.
Below is a our upcoming schedule and a description of the courses.
Our next class is a telecourse this Thusday night!
Hope to meet you soon!

February Telecourses:
Feb 7th, 21st, 28th 2008
6-7pm (PST)
$30
This course is a series divided into three teleclasses.

February In-Person Class:
February 21, 2008
1-4pm
$10-20 Sliding Scale

March class:
March 2, 2008
Full day workshop
10-5pm
$60
This is an expanded version of the three hour class.
There will be time for individual coaching and for more group work.

March Telecourses:
March 6th, 13th, 20th
6-7pm PST
$30
This course is a series divided into three teleclasses.

***We will also be offering FREE Coaching Tele-Conferences, Mondays at Noon***

Course description:

Healing Arts Practitioners
Transform your Practice - a 3 hour Workshop

Learning how to thrive as a healing arts practitioner requires considering
both your passion and your economic well-being. Balancing these needs can
be as integral to your personal and spiritual path as your practice itself.
Because in order to help people, first we need to reach them and communicate
what we can do for them.
We offer an approach to marketing the Healing Arts that helps practitioners
overcome their blocks and negative feelings about marketing, define their
ideal vision of their work life, and work within a supportive community to
grow their business from their most authentic place. We call this approach
Transformative Marketing.

In our introductory class, On your Mark, you will:
- Envision your ideal practice and get it on paper
- Develop awareness of your blocks to achieving your vision
- Master tools for working through blocks that limit your progress
- Create a niche to jump-start your ideal business

To Register or for More Information:
Call 510-540-7744 or email admin@hapspace.com

Abigail Grafton, MA, MFT - For the past 20 years, Abigail has coached
lawyers, doctors, and other professionals with a focus on helping them
maximize their empowerment, creativity, and professional satisfaction at
work. She became a specialist in organizational development focused on
facilitating teams and collectives, with a further concentration on
developing the leadership within the collectives to help them strategize and
execute their organizational goals. She has developed the concept of
Transformative Marketing as an approach to business coaching for Healing
Arts Practitioners and has coached many practitioners to realize their
vision in a successful and satisfying practice.

Jonah Sharkey - brings his experience in training and educational
multimedia, along with his experience as a meditation instructor to his
teaching. Over the past 15 years, he has helped clients ranging from small
nonprofits to Fortune 500 companies develop the corporate, training, or
educational curriculum they need to achieve their goals. His training as a
meditation instructor has allowed Jonah to apply all of his curriculum
development skills to spiritual practice. He is a developer of the
Transformative Marketing curriculum and team teaches with Abigail.
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Ki Energy Healing Centers in LA, SF, Chicago, NYC, AZ

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:55:57 GMT

Come and experience the Healing power of Ki Energy!

~Receive a Ki Energy Treatment~
These Full-body energy treatments, given by Ki Masters, combine sound vibration and touch to open energy blockages, release toxins and catalyze the healing process. Ki Treatments can help to energize the body, relieve stress and pain and promote relaxation and emotional balance.

*We also offer classes in self-healing*
Our body’s system, like nature, can regulate itself to perfect health if given the proper environment and tools.
This ancient Taoist method provides a unique self-healing system that directly addresses the root cause of disease, providing techniques to help regain vitality.
Achieve mental clarity, increased flexibility, higher energy levels and more by learning to circulate your own healing life force energy, and release blockages and toxins. We address the causes and effects of illness, brought on by emotions, inherited family energy blockages and environmental toxins and allows for a deep, fundamental restoration of one’s self-healing power and basic mental and physical health.

Come and visit!
LA:
11543 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles, CA Phone: 1-310-473-8880
2500 N. Tyler, El Monte, CA Phone: 310-801-3880, 626-644-6300

S.F.:
2301 El Camino Real, San Mateo, CA phone: 650-525-9964

Chicago:
4541 N. Western Ave, Chicago, IL Phone: 773-878-3989

NYC:
4 W 22nd St. 3rd floor, NY, NY Phone: 212-604-9595

AZ:
1812 E. Ebony Pl. Chandler, AZ 85286 480-273-7935

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Nutrition for the Soul Workshop in Orlando

dancingcat — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:11:37 GMT

Nutrition for the Soul
Is a gathering of kindred spirits and those who are excited to: spend time in music and celebration, feel spiritual support, obtain mystical answers and help in manifesting their heart’s desires, connect more with their soul, receive healing, inspiration, and experience transformation.

What is it?
This Month’s Topic

Nurturing Your Chakras—Root Chakra (1st of 7 workshops in a series)
 Learn about what chakras are and how they affect you; including your body, thoughts, emotions, and current circumstances in your life
 Receive guidance on how to open, heal, balance, enhance your root chakra through various methods
 Practice some of these methods hands on in order to experience the method and its benefits

Where is it?

The Pink Lotus
 Call or Email for Directions
 407-579-2509
 RevReikiCat@aol.com

When is it?

Sunday, February 3, 2008
5:00pm—7:00pm

How much is it?
$10.00 or Love offering

Who is it?
Cat Bruce & Laurel Lightworker
 Reiki Master/Teachers
 ADL Ordained Ministers
 Spiritual Counselors
 Intuitive Consultants
 Belly Dance Instructors

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Energy loss! Need help!

~River~ — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:07:03 GMT

I am expieriencing something new reciently! I am having very low vibrational, physical, & mental energy fluctuations.
This is strange to me because I am a very out-going social highly energetic person. I have friends that love me & even my intimacy needs are being met.
However I feel Alone & un-loved quite often & my energy gets so low I begin to feel depressed. For someone with such a high energy field this is perplexing!
Maybe we are not ment to hold such a high energy field all the time, but why the sudden drop off I wonder!
Any thoughts or advice would be greatly apriciated!

Seeking advice-
River~

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Reiki classes in Florida and Tennessee

Richard — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:37:26 GMT

Healing Today has provided Reiki classes and attunements to hundreds of students since 1999.

Reiki classes will be held for all levels on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2008 at All World Acres, Tampa Bay area, Florida. The Reiki level 1 class is only $60 and includes course material, attunement, and certificate. Directions and more info is on website here; http://healingtoday.com/classes.htm

In Tennessee the next level 1 class will be in Big Sandy on Sunday, March 23. Directions and more info is on website here; http://healingtoday.com/classes.tn.htm

Home study course are also available. Please see website. http://healingtoday.com/homestudy.htm

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any tips?

Mary — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:40:54 GMT

hi im mary, new to the tribe thing. i currently just received my certification for massage therapy and reflexology. i'm starting in a professional clinic next friday and i'm a little nervous to be out of the student setting and into a professional setting where expectations are higher without much room for mistakes. any advice on how to smooth the transition as well as dealing with senior therapists that are very intimidating?

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Healthy Cells, Healthy Body

wilburn — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:10:41 GMT

The body has many defenses against bacteria and viruses. The mucous membranes in the nose and lungs are one of the first.

If invading organisms manage to infiltrate these, and if not intercepted by the immune system at this point, those which reproduce in intracellular fluid head straight for weak cells, break-in and if the pH is also disturbed, use the cell as a place to clone themselves by the thousands.

As they multiply, they use nutrients and oxygen meant for the cells, and produce waste substances that are harmful to body tissues. Once inside the body, invading organisms take over cells that have been weakened by lack of electrolytes.

Lowered osmotic pressure and altered pH of these cells makes it easy for a virus to “break in” and reproduce.

As the viral organisms increase the cell burst and they escape to invade and multiply in other weak cells.When cells are healthy—we are healthy.

This is the keep to health and longevity and protection against cancer, viruses, pollutants, chemical and all forms of radiation. Keeping the cells, immune system, organs, elimination and the body’s production of antioxidant nutrients at maximum capacity will enable us to survive under the assault of whatever the twentieth century throws at us.

Electrolytes are the primary factors for cell and immune system health.

They keep cell membranes strong, raise their osmotic pressure, so that no virus or bacteria can enter, and maintain correct pH in intracellular fluid so that no virus or bacteria can enter, and maintain correct pH in intracellular fluid so that invading organisms cannot survive.

Healthy cells are kept round by osmotic pressure or osmotic equilibrium—an opposing fluid pressure between the minerals on the inside of the cell and the mineral on the outside of the cell.

It is a critical balance and protects the autoimmune system in two specific ways:

1. Bacteria or viruses cannot enter a healthy cell as the walls are strong and impenetrable.

2. Trace minerals ensure that the pH of the cell is unfriendly to invading micro-organisms.

The body must receive and adequate mineral supple to maintain in each cell, what is know as osmotic equilibrium. Approximately 5 percent of each cell should consist of minerals.

According to Dr. Jerry Olarsch, “As we become deficient in trace minerals, the cell walls weaken and become irregular in shape, and their pH is upset.

As the cell wall pressure breaks down, a virus can attack the weak spot and break in.

If the cell’s pH is unbalanced it becomes host to the virus.

Bacteria and so on, and this is the beginning of disease, whether it is a cold or cancer.

Electrolyte balance is the critical factor. There is nothing else in nature which keeps cells round and strong.

The body’s pH and cell health, in addition to immune system strength, is the ultimate weapon against disease.

This can only come through mineralization of the body. We have overlooked the most basic thing in our diet and as a result are running after a million cures.

We can’t see the forest for the trees. When electrolyte balance is re-established in the body the cells become round and impenetrable.

Reestablishing electrolyte balance has significant and enormous potential to prevent and eliminate disease.

Dr. Bernard Jensen writes, “It is time for scientists to realize that there is something deeper in a man that has to be cared for.

We cannot heal a person through symptomatic relief.. We must go to the root of the problem—to the cell itself—where electrolytes are at work giving life.

It is here that real healing can begin.”

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Baby Healing Project Needs Your Votes for Funding!

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:39:14 GMT

Your Vote is Needed to Fund a Free Aquatic Baby Bodywork Clinic!

I am a Finalist in the www.IdeaBlob.com Contest to win $10,000 to fund a small business or project. Your support will allow me to create a free monthly clinic for pregnant women, babies, and children to receive Aquatic CranioSacral Therapy in the therapeutic, warm, salt-water pool at the Tamarack Center in Eugene, OR.

Please vote for the WaterBaby CranioSacral Therapy Project!!! Every vote counts!
http://ideablob.com/ideas/1225-WaterBaby-CranioSacral-Therapy-

Thank you!!!!!!

Here's what Mothering Magazine, www.mothering.com, has to say about my project:

Healer's Project Needs Your Votes for Funding

When it comes to bringing aid and comfort to mothers and babies, Kara Maia Spencer, www.maiahealingarts.com, has credentials galore—she is a Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Birth and Postpartum Doula, CranioSacral Therapist, Holistic Childbirth Educator & Consultant, Homebirth Midwifery Assistant, Reiki Master & Energy Healer, and is Certified in Bodywork for the Childbearing Year.

Dedicated to providing gentle, non-invasive, effective healing—as well as creating community among new parents—Kara intends to facilitate a free monthly CranioSacral Therapy clinic for pregnant women, mothers and babies, at a community therapeutic pool near her home in Eugene, Oregon. She has entered a funding contest with the hopes of winning $10,000 with which to rent the Tamarack Wellness Center's, www.tamarackwellness.com, warm, salt-water, solar powered therapeutic pool (the most eco-pool in Oregon) each month to host the free community clinic.

Please vote here to support Kara's goal—each vote counts, and registration is very quick and free.
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Jan 26-28 SOUND HEALING Conference in LA

Meowza — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:38:14 GMT

THIS COMING WEEKEND - Register today!

GLOBE SOUND HEALING CONFERENCE - LOS ANGELES
"Bringing Sound Healing into the Mainstream"
January 26-28, 2008

REGISTER AT: www.SoundHealingCenter.com/laconf

The Globe Sound Healing Conference brings together an impressive array of professionals in the rapidly expanding field of sound healing, the use of natural sound healing instruments, cutting edge sound technologies, and sound in medicine. These knowledgeable veterans will discuss and demonstrate how to use sound to help heal the body, mind and spirit, and to raise consciousness. Attendees will be able to experience these technologies from simple relaxation CD’s to complex engineered sounds and experimental medical techniques.

Some of the cutting edge sound technologies and medical equipment include: units that use the sound of the voice as a diagnostic tool; vibroacoustics chairs and tables; units that use sounds, electronic stimulation, scalar waves, shape, color, electromagnetic frequencies, and magnetics to stimulate muscles, organs, bones, brain cells, and DNA. These units can also aid in cell regeneration, pain relief, detoxification, and increased energy levels. Other technologies include systems that infuse water with healing sounds, units that visualize the structure of sound inside the body, and Virtual Reality healing systems where you can step into a graphic of your own body then place sounds and healing visuals inside various muscles, organs, and endocrine glands.

Come join us as we share information, and connect to each other through sound.

TO REGISTER: www.SoundHealingCenter.com/laconf

LOCATION:
Marriott Hotel - Woodland Hills, CA

PRESENTED BY:
Globe Institute of Sound Therapy and Healing
739 Bryant Street San Francisco CA 94107
www.SoundHealingCenter.com

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Thai Massage Intensive in Sebastopol / February / Join us !

timholt — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:46:17 GMT

Traditional Thai Massage Workshop
with Tim Holt, CMT, RTT and Abby Bard, CMT
9am-6pm, Sebastopol, $700.00, 50 hrs
February18-24 (Mon-Sun), 2008

Traditional Thai Massage Workshop with Tim Holt, CMT, RTT 9am-6pm, Sebastopol, $700.00, 50 hrs
Traditional Thai Massage is an act of meditation for both giver and receiver. It is a beautiful form of bodywork performed on a supportive floor mat. The receiver is fully clothed. It incorporates applied Hatha Yoga and Chinese acupressure. It is luxurious, challenging, intimate, and deeply therapeutic. You will learn the Chiang Mai style, as it has been practiced in the Wats (temples) for almost 2500 years. Our focus for this workshop is a professional training for Massage Therapists and Yoga instructors. We will teach a full body two-hour treatment in a demonstration - practice format. Students will learn Thai Massage sequences in the supine, prone, and side-lying positions..
Tim Holt, CMT is a Registered Thai Therapist and Instructor with the Thai Healing Alliance. He is director of the East West Massage School in Sebastopol. He has studied in Chiang Mai,Thailand with several respected teachers, holds a Teacher Training Certification from I.T.M. He has been practicing Traditional Thai Massage for 12 years.
Abby Bard,CMT is Certified Massage Therapist. She is the owner of the Upstairs Studio in Sebastopol, Ca. She has studied Traditional Thai Massage in Chiang Mai, Thailand and practices Thai Massage at Osmosis, the Enzyme Bath Spa and in her private practice. She is also a gourmet Thai cook.

Tim Holt is a certified massage therapist and California state approved instructor of massage therapy. He moved to Kobe, Japan in 1989 where he opened a successful private massage practice working with both local Japanese clients as well as foreigners living in Japan. He also studied Masunaga or Zen style Shiatsu with an instructor in Kyoto. Using Japan as a base, he explored Asia and it’s healing systems. He has studied the traditional massage of Thailand with several respected teachers. Tim is an accomplished instructor of massage therapy. He is an instructor of Massage Therapy at the Massage Therapy Institute in Davis , Alive and Well, Institute of Conscious Bodywork in San Raphael, Diamond Light School of Massage and Healing Arts, and the School of Shiatsu and Massage at Harbin Hot Springs in Middletown, Ca. . He is the director of the East West Massage School in Sebastopol, California. He teaches continuing education workshops and provides spa staff training in California, as well as Japan.

All workshops held in “The Upstairs Studio”, 343 Florence St., Sebastopol, Ca. 95472
California State BPPVE registered programs
A $100.00 deposit is required to register for each class
For more information and to register: please call 707-823-1480
East West Massage School
8017 Washington Ave., Sebastopol, Ca. 95472
eastwestmassageschool.com

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HELP-Chest congestion AND DRY COUGH

ShekinahLove — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:14:54 GMT

Ok...so Im about to go INSANE! Ive been stressed living where I am temporarily in upstate ny, and thus not eating as healthy or getting as much exercise. decent organic produce is hard to come by AND expensive and Im working a part time job that now after the holidays has been cut to like 12 hours a week. Its only minimum wage at 7.25 an hour and after the govt rapes my paycheck thats not much. SO....I got a cold...caught it from a bad date I had. It started with horrible post nasal drop. UNENDING. but my nose was clear...
then the nose clogged. I used a neti pot to unclog it. And drank lots of herbal tea for the throat and took chlorella and other super green foods and some emergenc packets. and grapefruit seed extract. still f*cking post nasal drip! coughing all night.....fun times. so i broke down and bought mucinex and an antihistamine (DUH....stupid...taking an expectorant AND a cough suppressant...dumb. but i was livid and going crazy.) So I stopped those (also realzed the stupid mucinex, while containing a natural ingredient ALSO had a cough suppressant as well.
So yeah...i stopped all those. at the time i was having chills AND fevers (and an allergic reaction to the stupid meds i can beleive i took) So Im off them....I feel ok now energywise....still taking the natural stuff. no chills, no fever, no nightsweats like before...BUT Ive got this deep f*cking chest congestion. It WONT go away. Ive nearly lost my voice too and the post nasal drip WONT stop. I had to call in sick to work yesterday (and probably today if I cant talk) my cell phone bill is due next week and my gym membership (which i might as well just cancel) I cant even see massage clients on the side, because i cant talk...
So I dont know what to do. I feel like I should at least see a doctor for diagnosis if anything. Im using a vaporizer too...with essential oils. Drinking TONS of water....etc....
I just cant get this $hit outta my lungs! Im gonna go insane! i try coughing it up...i get a dry heave instead and if anything comes out its from my nose not my chest. Id LOVE to see a naturopath or acupuncturist but ive got like 15 bucks to my name. I dont know what to do. I can handle getting sick...feeling like crap and all that...but heavy chest congestion with a dry cough and NO F*CKING WAY TO GET IT OUT I CANT HANDLE.
Oh...and Im also taking goldenseal. and gargling with salt water. Anyone know ANYTHING that would help?
Im nearly driven to go to the sliding scale clinic, not that i can even afford that unless it only costs me 10 bucks....
no free clinics in Syracuse, NY and of course theyre probably just prescribe antibiotic (which i wont take since im already on grapefruitseed and goldenseal) and a decongestant (which doeesnt seem to do $hit!
UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Help for bone tumor on thumb

~*~MerShell~*~ — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:24:12 GMT

To cut a long story short, late last year I was diagnosed with an osteoid osteoma, which is a benign bone tumor, and it was on the side of my left thumb. I am only 23, and it is very rare for someone my age to be diagnosed with this type of tumor. I am generally very healthy and well, I am a reiki practitioner and very interested in holistic and natural healing and wellness.

Western medicine has helped me to diagnose and *fix* the problem physically, but I understand that things that manifest as illness in teh physical must be caused by something higher up the vibrational ladder i.e. an emotional, mental, spiritual cause. and that this higher level must also be healed for the symptoms to fully heal. Anyway, through my own research I found out that the area of my thumb that the tumor was in is in the "brain zone" for reflexology... it is also on the lung meridian.

Can anyone suggest things that may assist me in the healing process/finding out the root cause of this symptom? Because it was an awful thing to go through and I do NOT want it to come back... I am committed to healing myself.

For more details on my thumb, the following blog entries should help:

http://people.tribe.net/1c1bf2d6-54be-4e0b-aa6d-8bc428be244f/blog/2eeea355-b88c-421b-8108-ae8a4cb9255f

http://people.tribe.net/1c1bf2d6-54be-4e0b-aa6d-8bc428be244f/blog/c396f98a-4453-45c1-829a-27eb1479a496

http://people.tribe.net/1c1bf2d6-54be-4e0b-aa6d-8bc428be244f/blog/3cf57ab5-757b-41fb-869f-475b5c341575

Any help is much appreciated.

Love, Light and Gratitude,

*~*Shell*~*

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sustainable, organic acne treatments

geode_9 — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:12:16 GMT

Hello all you wonderful healers. Here is a tribe with the intention of addressing the issue of acne in a sustainable, organic way:
tribes.tribe.net/organicacnetreatments

I'm eager to have you share your knowledge with us

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Massage Space PDX

MissMayalou — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:47:37 GMT

I have just acquired a new space for massage and bodywork...this week. Needs TLC to get operational but has great potential. Located adjacent to an upcoming dance studio.

I am a massage therapist looking to share the space with another like-minded individual willing to put some elbow greese into getting the space going. No Washer/Dryer yet....but I will be looking into it. With a good make-over the possibilities are endless. Please email with inquires and we can go from there. View my website at www.freewebs.com/portlandmassage

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Experience An India Yoga Odyssey

Dennis — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:23:02 GMT

Experience a Transforming India YOGA Odyssey
(February 21 to March 6, 2008)

Just imagine your airplane touching down at the India airport of your choice – Mumbai or Ahmadabad – on Thursday, February 21, 2008. Awaiting you at the airport is your guide, who will escort you by rail or taxi to your hotel accommodations in Surat City, Gujarat State. You will have arrived just in time to take in the World Yoga Championships, either as a participant or as a spectator. If anyone wishes to participate in the Championships the necessary registration forms can be downloaded at www.lifemission.org. The Championships run from February 22 though February 24. (The Championships were primarily founded as a means for encouraging youth worldwide to engage themselves in the ageless science of yoga for the betterment of body, mind and spiritual development in similar fashion that society worldwide encourages youth to participate in common sporting events.)

Following the Championships, you will be escorted to Malav Ashram for a five night stay, which includes three days of “hands on” yogic training under the expert guidance of Acharya Yogendradev, who has taught in North America, Taiwan, and India

And now – the Tours – you will tour the historic spiritual pilgrimage site of Kayavarohan and visit the Brahmeshwar Temple of Lord Lakulish (the 28th incarnation of Lord Shiva). You will spend 5 nights at a beautiful oceanside resort near the city of Div, overlooking the Indian Ocean with its miles of sandy beaches, and visit surrounding points of interest including the renowned Somnath Temple; a lion wildlife reserve, an ayurvedic clinic of a renowned ayurvedic physician where you will be able to observe the natural preparation of ayurvedic medicines and receive a free medical check-up. You will also have the opportunity to visit the temple complex at Rajrajeshwardham, where Lord Lakulish materialized in his divine body on January 29, 2007. Then – another great grace awaits you – you will have the rare opportunity of having darshan with the highly advanced yogi, Swami Rajarshi Muni.*

Now your yoga trip is reaching its end – on March 6, you will be escorted by your guide to your departure airport for your trip home – to reflect on and absorb your many yoga experiences of the past 2 weeks; the multitudes of wondrous Indian sites you've seen; the unmatched hospitality of its people and the many lasting new friendships you've made.

The cost per participant is $ 695.00 USD. This price does not include your transportation costs to and from India, which is entirely your responsibility, as are any required passports, visas etc. This price does include designated tour accommodations and meals in India, and all ground transportation to the Championships and touring sites in India, as well as ground transportation to and from airports at Mumbai or Ahmedabad. Any profits after all costs have been met will be directed to projects for the poor, including schools and hospitals. For further information, go to www.lifemission.org, or email: Acharya Yogendradev, ggvaghela@yahoo.com; or Dennis Konchak, lifema@telus.net; or Hans Splinter, Hsplinter@cogeco.ca.

* Swami Rajarshi Muni is the author of a vast library of nearly 100 titles in four different languages, including ten books in English. Some of the English titles are: Classical Hatha Yoga, Divine Body Through Yoga; Tenets for the Spiritual Life; Infinite Grace (The Story of My Spiritual Lineage), Awakening the Life Force, and Light from Guru to Disciple. For more information, check the Life Mission website www.lifemission.org and www.amazon.com under Rajarshi Muni

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Drikung Kagyu Global Resources / Tantric Buddhism and Mahamudra Book References / Vajrasattva Retreat in North Carolina

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:14:01 GMT

Title: Drikung Kagyu Global Resources / Tantric Buddhism and Mahamudra Book References /
Vajrasattva Retreat in North Carolina -- Repost from "Tribe : Teaching Yoga"

Keywords: Deity Yoga, global resources for Kagyu lineage Tantric Buddhism and Mahamudra practice, book: "Pearl Rosary The Path of Purification", inner healing yoga, interfaith retreat center, North Carolina, Southern Dharma Retreat Center, Drikung Kagyu lineage, Vajrasattva empowerment and retreat January 2008.

NAMO GURU SRI HASYAVAJRAYE

Homage to Mila Joyous Vajra, King of the Mountain Yogis. For the ordeals you endured, for the sweetness of this profound transmission, and for "a few cotton threads" we thank you from our innermost hearts.

"Knots of the right and left channels [ of the human energy body ] are loosened to their natural state
By Vajrasattva mantra which draws currents in and out of the central channel.
Don't rely on any mental support other than Vajrasattva mantra repetition."
Milarepa to Rechungpa,
quoted in "Drinking the Mountain Stream: New Stories and Songs by Milarepa"

A vast amount of effective Buddhist / yogic teaching is available through the web site for Vajra Publications, specifically for Kagyu lineage tantric Buddhism and Mahamudra practice. See the web site at
http://www.vajrapub.org/

The Drikung lineage is not yet well known in the West( and that WILL change, I promise you ), but it is powerful and available in different parts of the world. See
http://www.dkinstitute.org/
This lineage offers a serious and direct path to inner yogic discipline and primordial awareness yoga ( i.e. Mahamudra ). The Drikung lineage descends from great yogic masters such as Tilopa and Naropa of India, and Marpa and Milarepa of Tibet.

The Drikung lineage is, I will state from personal and professional experience as a yogi and vajrayana guru, entirely authentic, classical, and effective: I personally received two major rounds of empowerment from His Holiness Chetsang Tulku Rinbochay, once in Seattle and again in Hawaii ( Big Island ).

During one of these, a Heruka Vajrasattva in 1987, I experienced energy pouring down through my crown center as though a gallon of milk was literally being poured through the top of my head. How many yoga teachers do you know that can do that? ( I was outwardly and inwardly sick and exhausted at the time from several years of severe difficulty, so that was very much a necessary healing for my magnetic field. Reason enough to receive Vajrasattva empowerment and do the 100,000 recitations, although of course your mileage may vary. )

Understand therefore that HH Chetsang Tulku is a New School guru and a Kagyu guru of the first rank, someone to be respected as much as Vajradhara Kalu Rinbochay and Kyabgon Khentin Tai Situpa ( these being some of my other Kagyu teachers ). He is a very gentle, quiet, generous man, very warm and approachable. I would certainly trust anyone he names vajrayana guru.

I have many primary practice texts of the Drikung Kagyu, which are excellent, and indeed these were among the first key practice texts for Kagyu devayoga sadhana to be published. Since they keep producing more great study and practice materials, I needs must make more ( debit card ) offerings to receive the precious dharma ( although my dharma and yoga book stacks are more than overflowing ). It must be emphasized that these practice texts are generically useful for all New School tantric Buddhists, where New School refers to the Kagyu, Sakya, and Gelugpa Orders of Tibetan Buddhism.

Beyond this, be aware that the Drikung school, like the Karma Kagyu school of vajrayana, incorporates a substantial amount of Old School ( Nyingma and Great Perfection ) teaching and practice. For example, their Phowa ( Consciousness Transference At Time Of Death ) does not derive from the Kagyu lineage Six Yogas of Naropa, but rather from an Old School Treasure Teaching ( terma ).

As this letter goes out to a diverse and broad set of audiences, I will say a few words on the Kagyu lineage, on deity yoga, and Mahamudra. In short, here are some truly wonderful books for you:
Book 1) "Drinking the Mountain Stream: New Stories and Songs by Milarepa", by Lama Kunga Rimpoche and Brian Cutillo. This book is extraodinarily good as an introduction and in providing key teaching/ precept songs which are both poetic and intuitive.

Book 2) "The Garland of Mahamudra Practices", by Khenpo Konchog Gyaltsen and Katherine Rogers. This is a short summary of Cakrasamvara / Vajrayogini deity yoga and Mahamudra awareness yoga translated by a Drikung abbot from the writings of Kunga Rinchen, the Fifteen Lineage Holder of the Drikung Kagyu transmission. It is remarkably clear teaching on the essentials of New School vajrayana practice.

Book 3) "Clarifying the Natural State", by Dakpo Tashi Namgyal ( translation by the priceless western scholar Eric Pema Kunsang ). This practice summary for the primordial awareness yoga of Mahamudra is held to be "preeminent" and "indispensible" by the great modern scholar-yogi Khenchen Thrangu Rinbochay. 'Nuff said.

Book 4) "Becoming Vajrasattva; the Tantric Path of Purification", by [ Lama ] Thubten Yeshe, 2nd edition. A remarkably useful retreat and teaching manual on Vajrasattva. With this and Vajrasattva empowerment one can practice the indispensible deity of Purification, Vajrasattva / Diamond Being.

Now, there is going to be, in early January, a Vajrasattva empowerment and retreat to be given by a Drikung abbot ( Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin Rinpoche ) in North Carolina ( Southern Dharma Retreat Center ). Being given by an abbot, it could possibly be a major empowerment (i.e. a "four-banger", a four level catur-abhisekha empowerment ) for Vajrasattva, although I do not know. Even a medium level "three banger" Vajrasattva empowerment is really quite good.

If you live near there, farther from the world-class vajrayana empowerment venues, this is a truly great opportunity. Vajrasattva is the ultimate swiss army knife of tantric practice.
- If you are a healer, or someone in need of deep healing, this is for you.
- If you are someone oriented towards "higher consciousness", you can take this as a primary practice.
- If you have chronic psychic or mental or environmental discord, then Vajrasattva and the included Vajrapani ( Thunderbolt Holder ) are ofgreat importance for inner cleansing.
- If you are a western witch who wants to do goddess practice, you can take this transmission and thereby fully engage all the Twenty One Taras.
- If you wish to practice any of the standard Buddhist deities, such as Manjusri, Avalokitesvara, Amitabha, Vajrapani and so forth, you can do so on the basis of this one empowerment and a compendium of deity yogas, which is

Book 5) "Pearl Rosary The Path of Purification ( Sadhanas and Commentaries )" available from Vajra Publications. See
http://shop.vajrapub.org/product.sc?categoryId=1&productId=79

From that web page:
"Pearl Rosary The Path of Purification
"The content of this text is primarily meant for people who are far away and don’t have the opportunity to engage in Dharma practice in the presence of the teacher. The book itself is a representation of the teacher, and therefore is meant to help one’s Dharma practice. The text describes the methods of visualization and how to incorporate practice into our day to day life experience. .... The visualization of these deities is mainly concerned with the practices of tantrayana and mantrayana, which are the highest forms of practice. The path of visualization is very powerful and if properly engaged in, it is capable of transforming our life within a single moment.
"By engaging in this kind of practice, infinite clarity of mind is achieved, and through such power, we are able to purify our ordinary body and manifest the body of the deity. Likewise, we are able to purify ordinary speech, and manifest wisdom speech. Furthermore, we are able to purify the deluded ordinary mind, and realize the wisdom mind.
From the foreword by His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche"

The point is that it is much more direct and useful to take a single encompassing empowerment, such as the Vajrasattva, than to go here and there for smaller blessing empowerments. The Vajrasattva is of crucial importance in all schools of Indo-Tibetan vajrayana, AND at all levels, up through and including Great Seal and Great Perfection practice. I have therefore placed a short basic teaching ( under tribe member "k t" photo "Hundred Syllable mantra" ) for you.

This practice is really pervasive. You can get full Vajrasattva through many differently named transmissions, such as Cakrasamvara, Hevajra, Kalacakra, Padmasambhava, Tsik Sum Ne Dek/ Hitting The Three Essential Points, Vajrakilaya and so forth. I myself have received sixty one full Vajrasattva empowerments, often through primary lineage holders, and have completed a quarter million of the long Vajrasattva mantra. . . and intend to do more, because of the great purifying and empowering effects of this mantra and sadhana.

A story: some twelve years ago I was in Vancouver taking Native American yogic teachings from a Tsalagi ( Cherokee ) teacher named Ven. Dhyani Ywahoo. In addition to being a Tsalagi teacher of family lineage, she is also a Tibetan lama of the Nyingma lineage through HH Dudjom Rinbochay, and a Drikung Kagyu lama through HH Chetsang Tulku Rinbochay. Her young son decided to run through the teaching hall, so she called out to him, "Hey, wouldn't you like to DO SOME VAJRASATTVA PRACTICE? That was her way of telling him to settle down. So parents, this is a good practice for the kids. It's really one of the best gifts one could give a child or children, for their entire life.

I thank the Drikung lineage and Vajra Publications, HH Chetsang Tulku Rinbochay, Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin Rinpoche, and so forth. With abiding gratitude I dedicate the merit of sharing this teaching on Kagyu dharma to the Drikung teachers, all the Kagyu teachers, and those who take up these quintessential liberating practices for the benefit of all our relations.

May the Mahamudra transmission remain wide open like the sky!
May the Mahamudra transmission remain pervasive like the earth!
May the Mahamudra practitioners remain unshakeable like mountains!
May awareness remain shining like a flame!
May wakefulness remain lucid like a crystal!

OM AH NAMO GURU VAJRA DHRIKA MAHAMUDRA SIDDHI PHALA HUM
OM AH NAMO GURU PRAJNABHADRA MAHAMUDRA SIDDHI PHALA HUM
OM AH NAMO GURU JNANASIDDHI MAHAMUDRA SIDDHI PHALA HUM
OM AH NAMO GURU DHARMAMATI MAHAMUDRA SIDDHI PHALA HUM
OM AH NAMO GURU VAJRA DHVAJA MAHAMUDRA SIDDHI PHALA HUM. . . . .
NAMO NAMAHA

With best wishes to all at Southern Dharma Retreat Center, and best wishes to all of you who are willing to go forward in authentic yogic bodhisattva practice, this brief note is written quite unofficially, yet in partial fulfillment of serious formal teaching responsibilities.

Sarva mangalam! Siddhi rastu! Samaya . . .

K T, inner medical tantrika and dagger priest

Original event notice etc. follows:

" Southern Dharma Retreat Center is an interfaith retreat center which hosts meditation retreats representing the world's various spiritual traditions. Retreat teachers are experienced and recognized in their own traditions. All retreats have meditation, contemplation, and silence as underlying threads. Between teacher-led retreats, individual private retreats may be arranged.

Located part way up one of the Blue Ridge Mountains in western North Carolina, isolated and forested, Southern Dharma provides a comfortable, secluded gathering place removed from everyday distractions. Retreats create an atmosphere of quiet reflection, peace, and opening to the truths within the heart. "

Contact information for SDRC:

Southern Dharma Retreat Center
1661 West Road
Hot Springs NC 28743
828-622-7112

southerndharma@earthlink.net

www.southerndharma.org

Registration Information at
http://www.southerndharma.org/RegistrationInformation.htm

-- In Drikung-Sangha@yahoogroups.com, Hun Lye <HLye@...> wrote:

Southern Dharma Retreat Center
Hot Springs, North Carolina

Presents

"Vajrasattva Retreat: Empowerment, Teachings and Practice"
January 1-4, 2008
Cost: $180 (includes meals and housing, offering to teacher is
according to one's abilities)
For registration info:
http://www.southerndharma.org/RetreatSchedule2007.htm or contact
Michael Campbell at 828-622-7112 or southerndharma@earthlink.net

*Retreat Description*
For four days of the retreat Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin Rinpoche,
co-spiritual director of the Tibetan Meditation Center in Frederick,
MD will lead us in Vajrasattva meditation, a purification practice
from the Vajrayana path of Buddhism, as practiced in Tibet. The main
meditation practice in the Vajrayana path is deity yoga. With this
technique one first visualizes a being with a perfect form of a
deity. Then one creates a perfect auditory note, for example "OM,"
then one imagines a perfectly clear luminous mind. In the practice one
is empowered to first imagine all of these as a mentally "created"
being - outside oneself, then one merges with that being and imagines
oneself to have those physical qualities of perfection. Then one chants the
appropriate mantra and acquires "perfect speech." Finally one
dissolves the visualization into emptiness, thus realizing the
"perfect mind."

In doing this practice one comes to see that one's very nature is now
and always has been the same as the Buddha's - that is,
pure,uncontaminated - uncreated emptiness and luminosity. It has just
been tarnished by one's unskillful actions in the past. The
Vajrasattva practice can help to remove the tarnish so that our true
nature comes into focus. Khenpo Rinpoche will explain this further
during the first session on the evening of the 1st. On the following
morning he will give the empowerment that allows you to do this
practice on your own. For the rest of the retreat we will alternate
between doing the Vajrasattva practice, doing silent meditation and
receiving dharma talks about the Path to Enlightenment as embodied in
the Six Perfections or Paramitas.

*Khenpo Rinpoche's Bio*
Khenpo Rinpoche was born in southeastern Tibet 1970. At the age of 14
he took his monk's vows and soon after began his Buddhist Studies at
Samye Monastery, the first monastery ever built in Tibet.
He was an outstanding student from the start and excelled in all of
his subjects. In 1987, he traveled to India to enroll in the Drikung
Kagyu Institute at Jangchub Ling in Dehra Dun.

After finishing his course work he spent three years teaching lower
classes in the monastic college. He was awarded the title "Khenpo" in
1998 and then spent another three years teaching Buddhist philosophy
at the Institute. He has completed the Ngondro, Chakrasamvara and
other deity-yoga practices in retreat. Khenpo arrived at the Tibetan
Meditation Center in April 2001 to become one of the Spiritual
Co-directors of the Center. He also began his study of English at that
time and is now
quite fluent in it. He has been teaching at the Tibetan Meditation
Center, The Garchen Institute and at other Drikung Kagyu centers in
the US since then.

*Southern Dharma Retreat Center*

Southern Dharma Retreat Center is an interfaith retreat center which
hosts meditation retreats representing the world's various spiritual
traditions. Retreat teachers are experienced and recognized in their
own traditions. All retreats have meditation, contemplation, and
silence as underlying threads. Between teacher-led retreats,
individual private retreats may be arranged.

Located part way up one of the Blue Ridge Mountains in western North
Carolina, isolated and forested, Southern Dharma provides a
comfortable, secluded gathering place removed from everyday
distractions. Retreats create an atmosphere of quiet reflection,
peace, and opening to the truths within the heart.

Facilities include the meditation hall, lodge, and tent platforms.
The lodge, which can accommodate twenty-three, has a dining room,
kitchen, small library, double bedrooms on the second floor, and a
dormitory room on the uppermost floor. All retreatants are housed on
the premises. Four tent platforms are located adjacent to a small
mountain stream with many waterfalls. Tent platforms may be reserved
but we are unable to take reservations for rooms in the lodge although
any preference indicated on the registration form will be taken into
consideration. Rooms are assigned first on the basis of gender, then
for any special medical reasons, and finally in the order of
registration. Only for retreats with small enrollment is a single room
available.

There are several trails -- along the stream, affording mountain
views, and one to the top of the mountain.

Dana is a Pali word (the language spoken in India during the time of
the Buddha about 400 BCE) meaning generosity. Teachers are
reimbursed by Southern Dharma only for their travel. At the end of a
retreat, retreatants are offered the opportunity to offer
contributions (anonymous if they prefer) to the teacher. Southern
Dharma Retreat Center also relies on financial support through
charitable contributions.

--- End forwarded message ---

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Supervision

whittlesjh — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:25:02 GMT

I just finished reading a book on ethics and massage and it talked a lot about supervision. It got me curious...

Who here has had supervision outside of their training?
Do you use supervision now?
Have you in the past?
Have you had it for specific incidents/issues?
On going?
Group?
One on one?
Peer?
Professional vs Casual?
What's been your reasoning for having it?
What's been your reason for not having it?

I'd love to hear about people's experiences.
Thanks.

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Looking at people's profile can be healing

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:58:18 GMT

Because we care
Because we learn from each other
Because there are wonderful visuals to look at
Because we want to understand others
Because we wish to connect
Because we yearn for harmony
Because we wish to integrate something new into our life
Because of the creative process
Because of the way people express themselves
Because we want to share
Because it is wondrous to meet people here which we never will meet in real life and actually care for them

It's a blessing to be invited that way! See your beauty your clarity and your challenges.
Only good can come out of looking at all of you here on tribe.
See the whole panoramic beauty is indeed almost intoxicating, in real life and here actually.
Our formless mind takes form and is indeed a beautiful gem stone, or perhaps a flower of a infinite garland of souls
May we continue to see the beauty within and in one another and in this way distribute joy.

Peace!

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Body Talk Orlando!!

dancingcat — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:44:43 GMT

Hello Dancers and Friends:

I just finished a 4 day conference learning about Body Talk and all of the systems in the human body. I would love to get certified in the holistic healing system, in which I have a verbal and written exam plus a full session on the teacher to pass. I would love to have practiced on 50 human bodies before I take my exams. I would like to offer free sessions to anyone that would joy learning more about their bodies. As a thank you for your time and help, you will receive a huge discount for more sessions to continue bringing your body into balance.

Thank you for your help - and be well!

Cat

BodyTalk in Detail www.bodytalksystem.com
The body is a complex and amazing mechanism, with each of its systems, cells and atoms in constant communication. Unfortunately, the stresses of everyday life can compromise these lines of communications or overload the energy circuits. To address this, the BodyTalk System provides a simple and effective form of therapy that allows the body’s systems to be re-synchronized so they can operate as nature intended – and effectively respond to injury and illness.

The BodyTalk System works by first identifying the weakened energy circuits within the body. The practitioner relies on the body’s inherent knowledge of itself to locate the energy circuits that need repair by using a form of biofeedback, which is a subtle muscle-testing technique.

For every malfunctioning energy circuit found, the practitioner or client contacts the corresponding “points” with his or her hands. The practitioner then lightly taps the client on the top of the head, which stimulates the brain center and causes the brain to re-evaluate the state of the body’s health. The result is that the general energy balance of the body is greatly improved.

The practitioner then taps the client on the sternum to “announce” the corrected energy flows to the rest of the body. This is beneficial because the heart is responsible for communicating the state of the body’s health to the rest of the body. Stimulating the heart by tapping the sternum forces the heart to store the corrected energy patterns in the body’s cellular memory. This means that the body will remember these changes after the treatment.

The BodyTalk treatment protocol is straightforward and requires no diagnoses. The practitioner relies on the guidance of the body’s natural wisdom to not only locate the weakened lines of communication but also to find the proper order in which they are to be addressed.

Just as the body heals a wound with a particular sequence of chemical reactions, the body wants to address all healing in a certain order. This concept is paramount in the balancing process to initiate the body’s ability to heal itself. The healing process usually follows rather quickly.

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Thai Trade

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:37:27 GMT

I have been practicing massage for a decade and work from a studio in the East Bay. I would love to find an experienced thai massage therapist who would like a trade. Here is more about me and my work http://www.zekesbodyworks.com thanks looking forward to hearing from you. . .

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Love & Peace (music)

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:12:20 GMT

I just got a copy of Love & Peace by Lisa Lynne and George Tortorelli. It’s such a beautiful mixture of the celtic harp and the bamboo flute…very ancient sounding, but also peaceful and tranquil. Very healing music. Perfect for massage, yoga, reiki and just relaxin’ by the fire. I’m enjoying it very much.

Here are some samples (it looks like a blank page, but you have to scroll down a bit):

http://www.newearthrecords.com/web/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=0&idproduct=1378

I didn’t know I loved the bamboo flute so much!

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ATTN: Healers... Cancer question, please.

TheOriginalSwoop — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 06:03:12 GMT

Dear friends-
My situation is probably not unlike many of yours. My father became sick with cancer about 5 years ago (an aggressive type of sarcoma) as many of our family and friends have due to the life style's we have created over the past 100's of years.

He is now to the point where his body is diminished and depleted although there is no longer living cancer detected in his body. He ails mostly from lack of movement and many many surgeries and stressful events from the past 5 years. He also has had a number of strokes which have left him debilitated on the right side. He is slowly trying to regain enough strength to walk around and is having some success. I feel that he is at a critical point where if we he decides he wants it bad enough that we can do it together.

Is there anyone who is able to give me insight in to things that may help my father, specifics pertaining to cancer and treatment of radiated body tissue would be particularly helpful, also anything that might help with brain swelling and loss of coordination. Types of foods meditations and all types of prayer and healing are most welcome.. If I was more adept in Reiki or acupuncture I would try some of these things myself but only know minimal amounts.

Any help is light!

with love and faith
michael

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Calling all therapists, counselors, coaches and healers...

Edie — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:13:10 GMT

Dear Colleagues:

My name is Edie Weinstein-Moser, MSW, LSW and I am a PA licensed Social Worker who has been in the field since 1985. I have worked in various inpatient, outpatient, nursing home and home based settings with populations ranging from children to geriatric. In the past several years my focus has been co-occurring disorders, life challenging illnesses, trauma and abuse recovery and adjustment to loss and grief. I am also an interfaith minister and journalist. One thing that ties these seemingly disparate careers together is that I am also a certified facilitator for a workshop called Cuddle Party www.cuddleparty.com is the website.

Cuddle Party is a 3 1/2 hour workshop for adults that focuses on offering communication, boundary setting and relationship skill sets. Individuals and couples of all ages are welcome. It is not therapy, but rather, education. It does, however have therapeutic value. Participants attend in pajamas, sweats or yoga clothes. They learn to experience safe nurturing touch in a structured setting. In our culture, unfortunately, touch for most people is limited, non-existent, abusive or sexual. Rare is the person who gives and receives an abundance of health sustaining touch on a regular basis. That's where Cuddle Party provides beautiful benefit.

Benefits include: improved communication, deepening intimacy with family and friends, enhanced relationships, new friendships, an opportunity for trauma survivors to learn that touch can be safe and healing, a sense of belonging, elevated self esteem, meeting touch needs in healthy, non-sexual ways and some people have been known to lose weight as a result, since they are now substituting nurturing touch for comfort food. In addition, when people experience healthy touch and a sense of bonding, the chemical oxytocin kicks in. Although the focus for most people is the touch component, those who participate learn what I call 'portable skills' that help them relate better to the world around them.

A growing number of therapists are referring clients to these workshops and I am asking that you do the same. Now, here comes the fun part....in order for you to do so, it would help if you had first hand experience by attending a Cuddle Party workshop. Here is the schedule over the next few months:

Delicious December Cuddle Party
Saturday December 1, 2007 2-5:30 pm
Mt. Laurel, NJ Host: Lisa Balter

December De-Light Cuddle Party!
Sunday December 9, 2007 2-5:30
Doylestown, PA Host: Maria Starr

Fireside Cuddle Party
Saturday December 15, 2007
Woodstock, MD Hosts: Kelly Whitlow and George Kimber

Celebrating the Love Cuddle Party
Saturday February 9, 2008 2-5:30 pm
Columbia, MD Host: Amy Storm

$40 per person, or $30 per person if you register with a friend. When I think about the value of it, we are talking about $8.75- $11.45 per hour for a workshop that teaches invaluable life skills. What a bargain:)

My website is www.liveinjoy.com

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me 215-249-9190 or 215-738-8668 Please share this with your colleagues and friends as well.

Thank you.

Edie

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Do you have a vision for your practice?

Yollana — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:22:48 GMT

As an independent Practitioner for over 6 years, I have found myself in an interesting situation which I think you may relate to..?

I love my work, I am passionate about it, and deeply humbled and moved by the results I see in my clients, and the grace in the transformation that inevitably occurs. I have come to value myself and my work fully and I am happy with what I charge.

But there is a ceiling to my income, based on the fact that I only have so many hours in a day.

I guess there are a few ways that you can expand from here. You can start running workshops (not just one on one), you can write a book, you can start training and hiring staff to work in your clinic for you... are there any other ways that you could leverage your time, money, energy and skills to continue to expand your practice, so you can touch more lives?

The other option that I have found is to work in a complementary income stream alongside my practice. For example, I am now sharing a beautiful and natural health juice with my clients and others who are interested in it, through a reputable network marketing company. I was unsure at first, but I have realised that it is actually a really good fit - it allows me to develop a passive income in an authentic / ethical business while continuing to give my time to what I love - my journey work.

I am thinking that as this model is working so well for me, there might be other health practitioners out there who are experiencing something similar...?
I am excited about this possibility because I know that holistic therapists are really making a huge difference in their clients lives. I have no doubt that each of you is doing beautiful and profound work. I have this vision that something like what I am doing, could empower other holistic therapists with more financial resources to really fulfill your visions for yourself and your practice

What do you think?

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What's Your Prayer or Stated Intention When Beginning a Session?

jogaun — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:38:32 GMT

You enter the room and there's a person face down on the table. What do you say, out loud or silently, to set an intention and compose yourself and focus your mind and set up the sacred space? (I'm working on developing something really beautiful and deep, and I'd so appreciate any input you can give.)

Love and thanks,
Joanna

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The Diamond Being Action Recitation, a core classical tantric Buddhist healing practice, given here as well

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:55:47 GMT

Hi HT'ers!

Dave in Syracuse, a structural therapy bodyworker, sent me a friend invite, and I was glad to respond, since I do a lotta whole body type practices, as in much of the Asian Stuff from India all the way out to Japan. Anyway, I looked at his tribe list and found Holistic Therapists, which would be you, and me as well.

I have posted useful replies to recent posts here by Daiva and Michael, and also posted some good stuff for inner energetic imbalances some months ago for someone in need at another tribe forum. So my communication is in fact reciprocal, not a one way street. It is certainly Buddhist-centered and yoga-centered, but not those exclusively. You don't want to know how many bookshelves I have on yoga, Buddhism, Chinese Medicine, tantra, psychology etc. They just go on and on.

Anyway, what follows is a post that I have recently sent out to many many tribes, a major practice for inner healing and purification that should have been presented to many people in diverse tribes years ago. ( I have been on tribes for less than a year. )

The point of this article is that Buddhist tantra contains a central practice that is magical, 100% pagan, yogic, healing and important to know for all those who deal with energetic, emotional, physical, or karmic distress. This practice is called Vajrasattva, which is Sanskrit for Diamond Being. So here it is for you as well, if you haven't seen it many times already. Millions of people do this practice. I do it too.

Having posted this to about thirty tribes, starting with tribe Teaching Yoga, it is now well known on these fora, such as pagan tribes, healing tribes, tantric tribes, and so forth. Posting it to another tribe is largely redundant, but it serves to establish some credentials for me as "holistic therapist", as well as yoga teacher. As a Buddhist teacher I am certainly a holistic therapist. So there you are. You have been helped. And I have fulfilled some basic teaching responsibilities.

Sarva mangalam.

K T

VAJRASATTVA KARMA MANTRA, with teaching and references ( repost )
repost from tribe: teaching yoga

Namaste. Om svasti.

I have uploaded a Sanskrit language text image for Vajrasattva mantra recitation at my tribe home ( "k t" ).

If you do not know about Sanskrit or Buddhist Sanskrit practices, an excellent book is
"Sacred Calligraphy of the East" by John Stevens.

There are online resources for Buddhist mantra in Sanskrit, including
<visiblemantra.org/>

Anyway, here is a short, casual teaching on Vajrasattva. I know, I know, it is woefully incomplete. But to actually study this teaching one needs a complete empowerment, a lot of practice, and real instruction from an authentic tantric Buddhist guru, such as commonly come from Tibet and teach in different parts of the West.

This is quite doable. I have received sixty full Vajrasattva empowerments in all different schools. I have not been to India.

Scroll down quite a bit further for several pages of classical tantric teaching. Somebody has to know how this stuff works. Back in India, this is known as "yoga", specifically "guhyamantra yoga".

As one of my many many teachers from Asia once said,
"In the final analysis, all talk is worthless. It is only the exact practice that gives a result."
He also said,
"Dharma eliminates the karma." ( You know, Dharrrrmahhh Heeeleeemeenaaates teee karrrrmmaahhh. )

All my relations! May this benefit all!

K T

Translation of the VAJRASATTVA KARMA MANTRA
( Diamond Being Action Recitation Which Is All-Accomplishing )

". . . Identical to Vajrasattva, the supreme siddhis ( powers ) are perfected in him; he attains the blissful pure land, supreme wisdom becomes his display, and he is an exemplar to gods and men; he is empowered in body speech and mind and whatever he imagines is actualized."
- - from the Thirty First Chapter of the Guhyagarbha tantra, The Chapter on Direct Perception of Vajrasattva

This mantra is quintessential to the foundational practices of Buddhist tantra ( i.e. mystical yoga ), and also is broadly and extensively used at the highest levels of Tantra, up to and including Mahamudra / Great Seal and Atiyoga/ Great Perfection.

The following text and teaching is most sacred.

Vajrasattva is the quintessence of ( all ) the Hundred Families of Buddhist tantra. It is a universal key to all the esoteric Buddhist tantric traditions of India, Tibet, China, and Japan. Vajrasattva practice distinguishes Inner Mahayana / Great Vehicle Buddhism from Outer Mahayana / Great Vehicle Buddhism, for in the latter it is either not found or very hidden.

Vajra has the sense of "indestructible, infinite, immovable, all-encompassing, timeless", ultimate awareness ( jnana ) and skillful means ( upaya ). As one of the Buddha Families it refers either to the Buddha Family of the East, or to the All Encompassing Six Families, i.e. Vajrasattva, the Five Buddha Families plus Vajrasattva.

As a ritual scepter vajra also has the sense of ultimate nobility and royal power, and the union of the Five Buddha Families and the great sacred circles ( mandala ). There are many different kinds of vajra scepters, with one, three, five, or nine prongs, and the vajra is usually part of other tantric implements such as the knife handle and bell handle. It is not realistic to practice Buddhist tantra without both a good vajra scepter and vajra bell: these are required and to be used as part of the tantric commitments.

From a practical perspective, Vajrasattva is one of the most important methods in Buddhist tantra for healing and purification on all levels of Body speech and Mind. ( Of course, no promises can be made for any specific medical condition. ) This includes purification of the practitioner to effectively practice tantra, and also to purify continuing minor infractions and even severely dangerous transgressions of the tantric commitments, which would otherwise be worse than fatal. It also includes psychic heat yoga ( Tibetan: tummo ) and in the Great Perfection full transmission, includes the quintessential precepts of Breakthrough ( dzogchen trekcho mannakde ) for direct liberation of awareness into primordial freedom and purity.

Vajrasattva is also an "All Accomplishing" ( Sanskrit: sarva siddhi ) mantra, as you can see in the translation that follows. Thus, Vajrasattva accomplishes the outer sacred circle magical activities of Purification ( Vajra Family ) , Enrichment ( Ratna Family ), Magnetization ( Padma Family ), and Eliminating Negativity and Obstacles ( Karma Family ). It also accomplishes the primary Great Work of Buddhahood ( Buddha Family or alternatively the Six Great Families, the Five plus Vajrasattva.

The most basic forms of Vajrasattva recitation are these
1) OM VAJRASATTVA AH
2) OM VAJRASATTVA HUM

There is also a basic wrathful form of Vajrasattva known as Vajrapani ( Scepter in Hand ). If one has any major Vajrasattva empowerment, this includes Vajrapani, for which the basic mantra is
HUM VAJRA PHAT
There are also variations of Vajrapani mantra, as Vajrapani is one of the principal angelic guardians ( dharmapalas ) of all the schools of Buddhist tantra across Asia, and also the Shaolin School of Ch'an Buddhist Kung-fu.

There are many images and forms of Vajrasattva, both peaceful and wrathful, and both with and without consort. The consort is for example Vajragarvi ( peaceful ) or Diptacakra ( wrathful consort of Vajrakilaya-Vajrasattva ).

Typically, the Peaceful Vajrasattva is brilliant shimmering transparent clear-white, holding a vajra ( diamond scepter ) in the right hand at the heart, and holding a ghanta ( diamond bell ) in the left hand at the left waist ( bowl up ). This peaceful Vajrasattva may then appear in union with the peaceful consort, or in the heart center of the Ultimate Wrathful Vajrasattva known as Vajrakilaya ( Diamond Dagger ).

As a ritual practice, the seed syllable ( bij mantra ) may be either HUM or AH, and there are other variants as well. The deity is visualized as oneself / an ideal being, atop one's head, and in different forms. So for example, a woman may well see herself as a female Vajrasattva, or as "Reversed Vajrasattva", i.e. as Vajragarvi in tantric union with the masculine aspect Vajrasattva.

Vajrasattva is the source deity of the Great Kalacakra mandala ( sacred circle ), and also the source deity of the Great Perfection ( Atiyoga or "dzogchen" teachings of primordial purity, the most profound, essential, and powerful awareness-yogas of the Early Translation ( Nyingma ) school.

For example, the first human teacher of Atiyoga was Joyous Vajra ( Tibetan : Garab Dorje ), a direct emanation of Vajrasattva. According to the Great Perfection / Atiyoga tradition sourced through Garb Dorje, there are six million four hundred thousand verses of teaching of Vajrasattva and the Great Perfection, of which a worthwhile fraction have been transmitted down to the present day. See for example the following
1) "The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation" ( i.e. the Gyurme Dorje translation and commentary ISBN-10: 0143104942 )
2) "Wellsprings of the Great Perfection", Erik Kunsang
3) many online texts, such as those available from Keith Dowman at
<www.keithdowman.net/dzogchen/>
These include
3a) Direct Perception of Vajrasattva ( The text that gave King Dza his enlightenment vision )
3b) The Exalted Spaciousness of Vajrasattva ( Garab Dorje's Source of all Dzogchen Precepts ).

Also, every key empowerment of Great Perfection Break Through ( dzogchen trekcho ), such as the renowned Patrul Rinbochay Tsik Sum Ne Dek ( Striking the Essence in Three Words ) includes the Vajrasattva Hundred Syllable mantra as a key practice. Finally, a greatly wrathful Vajrasattva practice is one of the Three Roots ( primary deity yoga practices of the Nyingma school ), either as Vajrakilaya or as Mahasri Heruka ( the wrathful Samantabhadra-Vajrasattva ).

In addition to the Tibetan Book of the Dead, a crucial and comprehensive teaching with many Great Perfection mantras including Vajrasattva as a primary practice , there is also a rare transmission of Guru Padmasambhava as Vajrasattva. This is the Red ( Padma ) Vajrasattva, which would look superficially similar to other Vajrasattva practices but which has a very different structure and orientation. It is a quintessential restricted practice and requires a specific Red Vajrasattva empowerment. Apart from this, all major Nyingma Great Perfection transmissions, such as Padmasambhava, Yeshe Tsogyel, Tara, Vajrakilaya, Troma, Bardo, etc. include a full Vajrasattva.

In the New Schools of Indo-Tibetan Vajrayana ( i.e. the Sarma, including Gelugpa, Sakya, and Kagyu ), the ultimate Buddha realization is embodied in the Dharmakaya ( Primordial Dimension ) Vajradhara ( Diamond Bearer ). This Buddha Vajradhara is the fully realized Vajrasattva, just as Vajrasattva is the ( sambhogakaya / angelic ) Buddha of the Tantric Path. They are two aspects of the same ultimate teaching, which is known as Mahamudra, the Great Seal.

So for example the great renunciate yogi Milarepa, who was Vajra Family in the Five Buddha, accomplished Buddhahood as Vajradhara. Accomplishing the deity Kalacakra-Vajrasattva also brings one to the level of Vajradhara. ( Accomplishing the deity Yamantaka or Hevajra brings one to this same level. There are many tantric paths to universal awareness. This is known as polytheism. )

There are also many variants of the Hundred syllable mantra, as for Tara Karma Mantra, Mahakala Karma Mantra, Yamantaka Karma Mantra the different Heruka Karma Mantra and so forth. I know directly from having received all these transmissions and the corresponding texts. Thus the Hundred Syllable mantra, like the Hindu Gayatri mantra, serves as a core for many or most other practices.

There are also different extensions to this mantra, including that for "Purifying the Six Realms", and other versions. Most of these are sealed by the oath of tantric secrecy, which must be upheld by all initiates. The many variants of the basic mantra can be summarized in these categories:

a) with and without the optional ending seed syllables HUM and PHAT;

b) with different ordering of phrases, such as SUTOSNYO, SUPOSNYO, and ANURAKTO BE BHAVA;

c) via substitutions of different deities ( angels ) in place of Vajrasattva ( N.B.: not a simple substitution );

d) using basic substitutions for different Buddha families ( i.e. replacing each instance of VAJRA with PADMA to focus more on Lotus Family deities such as Avalokita, Hayagriva, etc. );

e) using the Tibetanization of the original Sanskrit recitation, by substituting for example BENZA for VAJRA. This is also effective as mantra. There is a close Chinese variant of the Tibetan form which is in use by four or five million practitioners.

These different permutations and combinations are all classical and valid, not mistakes in the various publications or traditions you may encounter. Nevertheless, the basic form accomplishes all aspects of spiritual purification and realization.

It is typical for committed practitioners of Buddhatantra to complete a commitment of 100,000 recitations of this long Vajrasattva mantra as a basic daily purification ( 21 x daily or 100x daily ) and as a preliminary to major empowerments and to complete many deity practice sessions ( usually 3x per session to mend mistakes ). Some people do basic Vajrasattva purification practice each full moon, others do extensive retreat entirely focused on this deity, such as for Red Vajrasattva.

Once the basic 100,000 long recitations have been completed, it is possible to go further and perform basic mandala activities ( enrichment, etc. ) or perhaps psychic heat practice or Great Perfection practice ( at some point ). Typically the advanced practices will not even begin to work without completing the long recitations first. I have completed 250,000 long Vajrasattva recitations and intend to do more. It is said that in Tibet good tantric practitioners of different schools quite commonly completed 200,000 long recitations, so this is a major practice for basically every serious tantric yogi.

An excellent text on Vajrasattva in New School Indo-Tibetan Vajrayana is
"The Tantric Path of Purification: The Yoga Method of Heruka Vajrasattva"
by Lama Thubten Yeshe, ISBN-10: 0861710207
This specific mantra authorization ( as well as the one given here ) is included in essentially all major New School Tantric empowerments, such as Kalacakra, Cakrasamvara, Hevajra, Vajrayogini, Yamantaka, Milarepa, Mahakala and so forth. However, the Heruka forms also vary between deity yoga lineages, and the Nyingma versions of Vajra Heruka vary as well.

This translation is partially based on that of the great Nyingma scholar / Dzogchen master Khetsun Sangpo Rinbochay, and also that of the great Dzogchen master Terton Sogyal Tulku Rinbochay. Khetsun Sangpo has provided an excellent commentary which brilliantly summarizes Vajrasattva practice and all the esoteric preliminary practices from the standpoint of the Old School ( Nyingma ) tradition: see
"Tantric Practice in Nying-ma"
by Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche, ISBN-10: 0937938149

Because Vajrasattva is so important in all schools and all levels of Buddhist tantra, it is quite helpful to have both these books.

The Sanskrit phonetic text following is broken out on a phrase by phrase basis without punctuation. The English interpretation follows between each phrase.

I have provided some clarification and elucidation, mostly within the parenthesized parts.

Translation follows:

> > > Begin Translation > > >

Om vajrasattva samayam anupalaya
Om Vajrasattva ( Diamond Being )! Protect the sacred commitment.

Vajrasattva tvenopatistha
Vajrasattva abide in me.

dridho me bhava
Make me firm.

sutosnyo me bhava
Grant me complete satisfaction.

suposnyo me bhava
Fulfill me ( increase the positive within me ).

anurakto me bhava
Make me compassionate ( or: be loving towards me ).

sarva siddhim me prayaccha
Grant me all siddhi ( powers and attainments, both relative and transcendent ).

sarva-karma su ca me chittam sriyam kuru
Manifest for me all ( noble ) actions. Make my mind wholly virtuous.

"hum"
"hum" ( the bijmantra, the essential vibratory wave-particle of Vajrasattva )

"ha ha ha ha"
"ha ha ha ha" ( the Four Joys, Four Immeasurables, Four Levels of Tantric Empowerment, the Four Dimensions of Sacred Being - Dharmakaya, Sambhogakaya, Nirmanakaya, Svabhavivakaya )

"ho"
"ho" ( exclamation of joy at accomplishing these sets of four )

bhagavan sarva-tathagata-vajra
Transcendent Lord who embodies ( or: who is together with ) all the Indestructible Realized Buddhas !

ma me munca
Do not abandon me.

vajri bhava maha-samaya-sattva
Make me indivisible, Great and All Encompassing Pledge Being ( great angel of angels ).

"ah"
"ah" ( release into vast primordial pure wisdom-dimension beyond all limitations and obscurations )

(optional : hum phat! )
(hum phat!) Hum here means manifest great diamond power! Phat! has the sense of strike / cut through all confusion, grasping and negativity! I.e. by prajnopaya, the Union of Wisdom and Skillful Means.

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Sarva mangalam! Siddhi rastu.

In partial fulfillment of my received responsibilities as vajrayana guru, this was set down as casual chatter by the inner medical tantrika and dagger priest K T, who is of the Vajrasattva ( Sixth of the Fivefold ) family.

AHHH AHHH

Tistha vajra! Samaya ho!

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Compassion

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:52:31 GMT

I just got the Dechen Shak-Dagsay album ---Compassion.

Very relaxing and soothing. Her vocals are so serene. This would be a great CD for healing work.

It has beautiful mantra singing with flutes, the piano, singing bowls and a tanpura (Indian drone instrument).

Here are audio samples (you have to scroll down to see it – looks like something is up with the website design):

http://www.newearthrecords.com/web/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=0&idproduct=1356

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Hey L.A.!-Open House @ Ki Energy World ! Free Treatments and Demonstrations Every Saturday

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:55:56 GMT

Ki Treatments recharge you with vital energy and use acupressure to release tension. It can help relieve symptoms of pain, stress, fatigue, and negativity. The Ki treatments are given by specially trained Ki Masters and are received fully clothed. It takes only 15 minutes, leaving you refreshed and revitalized.
Please call for reservations.

When: Every Saturday, 2PM-6PM
Where: Ki Energy World Health and Wellness Center
11543 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 2nd Floor
Phone: 310-473-8880 / 310-801-1611

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nervous system

catsday — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:55:06 GMT

Hello, I have a rare syndrome called complex regional pain syndrome. I am wondering if any one has any idea as to what I can do for my self to overcome this disfunction. I am currently taking a multi and mag/cal reverse ratio, pantothinic acid and B complex. I have made an herbal mixtute of three parts. 1.Austragulus, valarian, siberian gensing, and licorise. 2.St. johns wart, ginkco. lemon balm, scullcap, chamamile, oat straw. 3.Spiriment, chamimile, and hybiscus. The last set is just to make it taste yummy. I do physical therapy too. It is the nervous system overreacting and affects my circulation. The body does not recieve enough oxygen either. I know it is rare, but if any one has either known someone, or has worked with someone , please let me know what you or they have tried that seemed to work. Thank you and blessing.
Catherine

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Reiki Healing

Veronica — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:08:08 GMT

I am pleased to announce that I am one class away from being a Reiki II Practitioner. Send me a message if you would like a Reiki Session. Distance or in person if possible. It would be my pleasure.
Feel Good,
Veronica

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Office space in Vancouver, BC?

piksee — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:07:59 GMT

Hi,

I am a therapist in private practice. My client base is growing very quickly and will soon be too large to stay at my current location. i have started looking for a new location downtown so thought I would post here to see if anyone might know of a healing centre or other office that may have a room for rent appropriate for counselling?

So far, I have been looking at office space shared by other healing practitioners as well as doctor's offices.

Thanks very much for any info people may have to share.

Cheers, Janel

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increase digestion and iron

Jennifer — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:56:13 GMT

i have digestive issues that keep my body from absorbing nutrients.. so my body is working really hard.. and i need to help it more.. so far i take probiotics and i am trying to eat more warm or cooked food... what do you recommend?

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call for somatic therapist....

in2mesee — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:40:36 GMT

hello - can anyone recommend a somatic therapist in the bay area who has a leaning towards shamanic practices, someone who has experience journeying within the realms?

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Essential Reiki

wyvern — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:21:19 GMT

What do you think of the book?

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New Deuter Album

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:05:31 GMT

Deuter has a new album out:

Koyasan: Reiki Sound Healing

This is absolutely gorgeous Reiki music - or yoga music - or meditation music. I've been listening to it all day.

Listen to samples here:

http://www.newearthrecords.com/web/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=0&idproduct=1205

I took this from the website:

Deuter puts his entire palette of musical abilities on display on Koyasan.This CD incorporates a global mixture of instruments, including the Chinese erhu, Japanese shakuhachi flute, East Indian tamboura and Tibetan bowls, as well as shimmering keyboard textures. Deuter takes the listener on a serene, mystical voyage through a variety of peaceful soundscapes with a relaxed and soothing pace. The music is soothing, contemplative and intimate.

I’ve just found New Earth Records and they have a nice sized collection of music, with sections like ‘Healing and Wellness’ and ‘Yoga and Bodywork’. Check ‘em out:

http://www.newearthrecords.com

Anyone have any other healing music recommendations?

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Atlasprofilax

petra — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:21:42 GMT

I was wondering if atlasprofilax would correct Scoliosis. I have a 10-degree S-curve in my spine and I'm a 28 yr-old female. Does anyone have any experience with this form of spinal re-alignment? This treatment is not yet offered in Canada so I'd like to have as much info as possible before getting it done.

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