The Crazy Wisdom Community Journal • January - April 2013 • Page 107
Womenspirit The Blessings and Challenges of Women in Mid-Life with Janene Ternes • Jan. 30, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. • As a woman, you care for others in all phases of life. Mid-life can be one of the most exciting and yet most challenging times for any woman. Explore the impact of life transitions on women in mid-life adulthood and discover holistic approaches to support and educate women so you can meet the challenges and discover your gifts in the process. $50. Call 429-7754; prayerinmotionjt@aol.com or prayer-in-motion.com. Sanctuary Sophia Dedication and Open House with Bronwen Gates • Jan. 12: 2-5 p.m. open house, 3 p.m. dedication • Come to the official Dedication and Open House of this retreat and gathering space, dedicated to Sophia, goddess of wisdom and her gifts of discernment, a space where balance and harmony hold you in gentle embrace, where you can feel more deeply your sense of connection to yourself, of being home. Free. Call 9758754; bronwild@gmail.com or bronwengates.com. The Power of Women: A Journey of the Sacred with Bronwen Gates • Jan. 14, 7-8:30 p.m. • It is time for you to awaken to your power, to claim not only your sacred feminine energies, but also your sacred masculine energies, and create the ongoing dance of delight between these balanced energies. This presentation offers an overview of the Year Journey that begins Feb. 10. $13. Call 975-8754; bronwild@gmail.com or bronwengates.com. Full Moon Circles: Accessing Your Moon Wisdom with Bronwen Gates • Jan. 26, Feb. 26, Mar. 27 • Come gather with other women for ceremony as we honor the deep ancestor wisdom of the Full Moon and her teachings for us. A time apart, a time to remember who we really are, that we belong, that we are home, here, now. Includes guided journeying and deep nourishment. $19 per circle. For times, call 975-8754; bronwild@ gmail.com or bronwengates.com. The Red Tent with Heather Doveheart hosted by Indigo Forest • Jan. 20, Feb. 10, Mar. 10, April 7; Noon-4 p.m. • Inside the Red Tent, you will find a space to heal and be heard, a place to stop and relax, enjoy potluck offerings and herbal tea, journal, sing, laugh, be silent, cry, create, and reconnect with what ties us all together: being woman. Womb or not, bleeding or not, women from all stages of life welcome. Free with donations accepted. Call 517-917-3435; heather.doveheart@yahoo.com.
Work & Right Livelihood Live Your Career Dream with Melanie Fuscaldo • Jan. 29, Noon-1:30 • Begin to identify your unique career dream and gifts to share with the world. Release blockages and step into a flow state. Create an action plan. $30. Call 668-2733; mfuscaldo@gmail.com or melaniefuscaldo.com. Building Your Birth-Related Business with Patty Brennan • Jan. 26, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. • Learn the skills necessary to be successfully self-employed in your birth-related or other Mother-Baby service-oriented business. What are the first steps? How do you manage risk, set up a record keeping system, and stay out of trouble with the IRS? Understand and embrace marketing. Learn from a small business expert and author of The Doula Business Guide: Creating a Successful MotherBaby Business. $135 with early payment discount available. Call 663-1523; patty@center4cby.com or center4cby.com.
Writing & Poetry Evenings of Poetry and Written Word at Crazy Wisdom Tearoom, hosted by Joe Kelty and Ed Morin • Second and Fourth Wednesday of each month, 7-9 p.m. • Join us for tea and creativity. Free. For information, call Ed at 668-7523; eacmorso@sbcglobal. net or crazywisdom.net. Second Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m. • Poetry Workshop • All writers are welcome to share and discuss their poetry and short fiction. Sign up for new participants begins at 6:45 p.m. Fourth Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m. • Featured Reader followed by Open Mic Reading • All writers welcome to share their own or other favorite poetry. Sign up begins at 6:45 p.m. Featured readers follow: Jan. 23 • Laszlo Slomovits • One of the twin brothers in Ann Arbor’s well-known children’s music folk duo, Gemini, performs his musical settings of poems by Jennifer Burd, widely published author of Body and Echo. Jennifer will also read poems. Laz has recorded cds of his musical settings of poems by Sufi mystics Rumi and Hafiz. Feb. 27 • Cody Walker • Author of Shuffle and Breakdown and co-editor of Alive at the Center: An Anthology of Poems from the Pacific Northwest, Cody also teaches English at Univ. of MI. His poems show a keen eye for the preposterous in pop culture and media news. Mar. 27 • Chris Lord • Former co-host of Writers Reading at Sweetwaters and an editor of Bear RiverReview, Chris has had poems in The MacGuffin, Passager, and Ann Arbor Review. She has also won 1st prize three times in the Current Poetry Contest. April 24 • Saleem Peeradina • Teacher of English at Sienna Heights Univ. in Adrian, Saleem lives in Chelsea and has four books of poetry: Slow Dance, First Offence, Group Portrait, and Meditations on Desire. Besides having many poems in college textbooks and anthologies of South Asian and world literature, he published a memoir, The Ocean in My Yard. Writing Workshop 1: Connecting Creativity and Spirituality with Robert Palmer • Jan. 24-Feb. 21: Thursdays, 9:30-11 a.m. • In this first of five transformational workshops, you will master four powerful tools for getting words on paper in a fast, easy, enjoyable manner. Successive workshops show how to give your preliminary work form (essays, novels, articles, screenplays, songs or even a work of art). We are all writers and creators. You will learn to develop a healthy relationship with your creativity, your soul. $195. Call Deb Foggio at 248-702-7064; lightworkscenter@att.net or integrativewellbeing.com.
Crazy Wisdom Salon Series An Evening with Local Buddhist Lama, Traktung Yeshe Dorje, Author of a New Book, Eye to Form is only Love: A Journal of 100 Days Hosted by Bill Zirinsky Thursday, March 14th at 7:00 pm Traktung is an American born lama in the Nyingma lineage of Vajrayana Buddhism. He and his wife, Katie, are the leaders of the Tsogyelgar Dharma Center on West Liberty. For 100 days, Traktung kept of a journal of short reflections. Some mornings, the heartbreaking poetry of devotion, or essays in celebration of dawn, light, trees; on others, razor-like distinctions about the nature of the mind, challenges to conventional views of seeing, or seething commentary on the shallowness of contemporary culture. "This is the teacher the various western Buddhist 'authorities' warned me about... In a world of new age soft core strategies here are the crossed swords of Vajra Gangsterism: asking you, 'will you risk it all for love?'" "Offers a rare glimpse of 100 days of the enlightened mind -- full of deep mysteries like Krishnamurti's journals or the poetry of Rumi and Hafiz."
Food as a Path to Health and Healing with Joel Robbins and Gail Solway Hosted by Lucinda Kurtz Thursday, March 28th at 7:00 pm This Salon explores the relationship between food, health and healing from the perspective of a Chinese Medicine Practitioner and a visionary pharmacist, continuing our lively community discussion initiated during previous Food Salons. Please join us for stimulating discussions of food’s role in nourishing our bodies and souls. Facilitator: Lucinda Kurtz, Healing Science Practitioner and Communications Specialist at the Fair Food Network; Guest Speakers: Joel Robbins, Nutritionist, Acupuncturist and Chinese Medicine Practitioner -- Drawing on his 20 years of study and practice of Chinese healing arts, Joel will discuss how foods are used for longevity, medical therapy and disease prevention; Gail Solway, Nutritionist and Pharmacist -- A pharmacist for 30 years, Gail reveals why she shifted her attention away from pharmaceuticals and toward nutrition to understand nutrient depletions and the incredible healing power of food. For more info, contact Lucinda at lkurtz@fairfoodnetwork.org "Leave your potions in the chemist's crucible if you can handle your patients with food." Hippocrates
Lucid Dreaming as a Spiritual Journey with Author Robert Waggoner Hosted by Sandy Wiener Thursday, April 11th at 7:00 pm Waggoner wrote the acclaimed book Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self after 30 years of lucid dreaming and more than 1,000 lucid dreams. He is a past President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. On the surface, lucid dreaming seems deceptively simple – a paradoxical state in which you realize you are dreaming, while you are dreaming. There, you can fly through space, create fire breathing dragons, and cast spells like Harry Potter, all in the safety of your subconscious mind. Historically though, experienced lucid dreamers have used lucid dreaming as an expressway to greater self-realization, spiritual wisdom and liberation from samsara. Sandy Wiener, after following a traditional educational vector, has led a non-linear life for many years. Work in Africa and Asia (100 countries visited now); politics; government; journalism; and the entrepreneurial world (including starting New York City's first wine bar). Now he is a student of transpersonal psychology, consciousness and anomalous phenomena. He is a member of the Society for Scientific Exploration. For more info, contact Sandy Wiener at sandy@swiener.com
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