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Michelle Parker freeskies during the filming of Days of My Youth at Monashee Powder Snowcats in British Columbia.
Celebrating Life,AHealing, andMountain Unity Rocky
September 11-15, 2014 Healing & Wellness Event September 11-15, 2014 EstesCelebrating Park • Aspen Lodge Resort Spa ‘Days of My Youth’ explores Life,Lodge Healing, and Unity Estes Park • Aspen Resort &&Spa
September 11-15, 2014
Marking the one year anniversary of the devastating Colorado floods, Aspen Lodge Estes • Priest Aspen Lodge Resort & Spa Resort & SpaPark owner,Taoist Master Chen, has created a festival to celebrate life, healing, and unity. Out from the mud, a celebratory festival has been created to honor the and one uniteyear the Colorado community, allowing patrons to learnfloods, about health, Marking anniversary of the devastating Colorado Aspen Lodge nutrition, tai chi, martial arts and more. Resort & Spa owner, Taoist Priest Master Chen, has created a festival to celebrate
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or a Coloradan, it’s a very says Scott Bradfield, head of production familiar sight: skiers perched for Red Bull Media House. life, healing, and unity. Out from the mud, a celebratory festival has been created to atop the mountain, staring The film is one long meditation on honor and unite the Colorado community, allowing patrons to learn about health, down the crest, ready to what compels a person to ski at the nutrition, tai chi, martial arts and more. launch into the abyss. What highest levels, to risk life and limb and Paul Pitchford goes through their mind? Are they plunge down the mountain. There is no best-selling author of Healing with Whole Foods studying the mountain, addressing real story or plot to be found, but there curves and paths, considering their is a climax and plenty of reflection. descent? Do they foresee victory and This is not a narrative designed to Michael Tierra Paul Pitchford Lesley Tierra best-selling author of Healing with Whole Foods triumph? Or, are they blinded by the entice the public at large into the sport. world renowned herbalist world renowned herbalist possibility of failure and crippling No, this is a movie made for and by Michael Tierra Lesley Tierra disaster? For that matter, what goes skiers. Dr. David B. Axelrod Taoist Priest Master Tseng (Chen) through an actor’s mind as they stride die-hard world renowned herbalist world renowned herbalist Days of my Youth employs the frampoet/writer/speaker Tai Chi Master the boards during that everlasting ing device of former skier Bobbie Burns Dr. David B. Axelrod Taoist Priest Master Tseng (Chen) moment of silence before speaking (now 82), the so-called “Father of Free poet/writer/speakerKung Fu performances Tai Chi Master their first line? Or a quarterback, starSkiing,” puttering about his cabin, lookby Wudang Martial Artists ing down eleven men all ready to tear ing at pictures and reflecting on his past Kung Fu performances his head off, just one split second while various skiers tackle and conquer bySeptember Wudang before calling “Hike!”? These are not a myriad of mountain ranges. Concert held on Saturday 13, Martial 2014 at the Artists Estes Park Events Complex moments cluttered by words, but by This dreamy association not only Concert held on Saturday September 13, 2014 Concert held on Saturday September 13, 2014 at the Estes Park Events Complex raw emotions. connects Burn’s at Estes Park Events Complex Days of my Youth, groundbreaking INFO BOX: Days of my which will hold its world approach to the Youth world premiere at the Boulder Theater. Shows premiere at the Boulder sport with the presat 7 p.m., and 21+ show at Theater on Friday, Sept. ent, but it also func9:30 p.m. Sept. 12. Tickets $15 general admission. 12, is a skiing documentions as Burns’s www.skimovie.com Grammy nominated Native tary that lives inside memory. He rememAmerican player R.Native Carlos these moments. It was a bers the days of his Grammy flute nominated Nakai withflute William Eaton Will co-production from youth while famed American player R.&Carlos MSP (Matchstick philosopher Alan Clipman a summitEaton meeting of Nakai withinWilliam & Will Production) Films and Red Bull Media Watts tosses off motivational one-linmaster musicians. With meeting an opening Clipman in a summit of House. ers on the soundtrack. These audio master musicians. With and an opening Lion Dance performance Taoist This documentary “examines skiing snippets are charges to the youth in LionMaster Dance performance Taoist Kung Fu show in aand unique the audience, charges that Burns once as a way of life, offering a glimpse into Masterblend Kung Fu show in a unique of native cultures. heeded. The most poignant one, “If the journey of self-discovery that blend of native cultures. you can dream it, you can do it.” every skier takes,” the press release by: Photography by: Photograph Robert Doyle/Canyon Records We see the skiers doing it. Their from Red Bull states. Photography by: Robert Doyle/Canyon Records Robert Doyle/Canyon Records Shot over the course of two winters, dreams seem boundless. Who are these skiers, these masked Days of my Youth takes place in the Formore more information, information, registration, andand tickets pleaseplease For registration, tickets men and women of the mountain? mountains of British Columbia, Peru, or visit visit www.universalconsciousnessfestival.org all 970-586-8133 or 970-586-8133 www.universalconsciousnessfestival.org Titles with their names flash on the For more information, registration, and tickets please Alaska, Utah and Colorado. 000400597 screen briefly: Richard Permin, Mark “The result is a film that truly capcall 970-586-8133 Abma, James Heim, Michelle Parker, tures the feeling of being a skier and or visit www.universalconsciousnessfestival.org Cody Townsend, Markus Eder, Bobby why people dedicate their lives to it in a Brown and Sam Anthamatten. We way no other movie has done to date,” FC-0000400597
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