San Diego Center for Spiritual Living


2009 Special
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Join Us In Our Urban
Creative Space in the Heart of San Diego's East Village
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The East Village
Community is alive with creativity and artistic expression, and we at the
San Diego Center for Spiritual Living share in this vision from our home at the corner of 10th Ave & G St in the Heart of Downtown. We offer a unique environment of constant creativity through
presentation of music, art, internationally renowned guest speakers, and outreach service
to the Downtown San Diego Community and beyond. For 2009, we are expanding our
family-oriented services and public programs of culture and entertainment. Keep
checking for the latest information. It is an experience to behold!
Additional Events will be posted as they are
scheduled.
Special Events from previous years:
2008 Special Events at SDCSL
2007 Special Events at SDCSL
2006 Special Events at SDCSL
2005 Special Events at SDCSL
HEART WIDE OPEN Benefit Concert
John Poleski
Friday, January 9th, 7:00 p.m.
Intimate Concert with Troubadour John Poleski and his Guild 12-String Acoustic Guitar. As singer/songwriter, John shares his original compositions and classic favorites that touched and opened his heart. John performed as Lead Guitar and Soloist with Rock-n-roll bands in New York in the 1960's, as a Session Musician in Cleveland in the 1970's, and has been performing at private events, weddings, and churches since then. John was the featured entertainment at the 2007 Annual Gathering's Practitioner Mini-Convo, and played the annual San Diego League of Practitioners retreats from 2001-2007. Thank you for letting your heart remember its openness at the Heart Wide Open concert with this beloved master musician. Rev. John is the Senior Minister of the San Diego Center for Spiritual Living, in the Heart of Downtown. Donation: $20 and $30
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GLOBAL HEARTSONGS & CHANTS Concert
Anton Mizerak with Kim Lorene
Friday, January 23rd 7:00 PM
An evening of transformational healing music, heartsongs and chants from around the world. Experience an exquisite evening of Mount Shasta multi-instrumentalist Anton Mizerak and Canadian singer-songwriter Kim Lorene. Anton & Kim have toured extensively together for ten years as featured musicians at the Seattle Sacred World Music Festival, UCRS/UCSL Asilomar conferences, and the Unity Village Circle of Love Gatherings. Kim Lorene's inspirational songs open the hearts of her listeners. Anton's CD series "When Angels Dreaml is a top seller among healers and massage therapists. Come be uplifted and transformed!
Much of Anton's music reflects his cross-cultural musical experimentation combining harmonica and synthesizers with traditional Asian melodic and percussive instruments. Anton lives and records in Mount Shasta, California, in a house and studio that he built himself. Anton's many recordings reflect his extensive travels, his love of the natural world, and his belief that our organic experience of sun, wind, water, snow and earth, transmitted through music, can be a valuable nurturing and healing experience. Tickets: $12 in advance / $15 at the door. Please call for reservations.
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NO COMPLAINTS WHATSOEVER: Singers Workshop & Concert
Jan Garrett & JD Martin
1-4 PM Singing Workshop
7:30 PM SNV Concert
AGREEMENTS OF THE HEART Concert
Awaken to the Sweetness of Life! Award-winning Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist and Spiritual Artist, James Nihan is also a Poet and Photographer. Recent works are based on Toltec and Native American wisdom inspired by "The Four Agreements" taught by don Miguel Ruiz. This marvelous experience concludes James' concert tour before hosting a journey to the pyramids of Teotihuacan. James says: "I believed that by telling the truth with an open heart through song, I would connect with the hearts of others." James is performing songs of love and light at the 10 AM Sunday service. Concert Donation: $10
GHANDARVA PEACE CEREMONY
CHANGE YOUR THINKING, CHANGE YOUR REALITY YES, YOU CAN CHANGE THE WORLD FOLLOWING THE GOLDEN THREAD
Inspire yourself on Wisdom Wednesdays exploring a different spiritual teaching on each of 10 weeks. Follow the Golden Thread of Truth that runs through Ancient Wisdom and is still relevant in the Modern World. Understand how the various faiths build on and borrow from each other. Each program is unique. KISS YOUR MONSTERS GOODBYE! SACRED SOUND VIBRATIONS THE LIVING MATRIX
The Living Matrix is a new documentary that challenges conventional medicine to expand its understanding of human biology. The film uncovers evidence-based research in bioenergetic medicine that reveals energy and information fields – not genetics – drive human physiology and biochemistry. It encourages the total integration and acceptance between conventional and alternative health care. Woven among interviews with world’s most respected experts in bio-energetic medicine, dynamic 3-D graphic animation takes The Living Matrix viewer on a journey deep into the structure of the human body to illustrate how quantum biology influences health. Through in-person interviews and dramatized video vignettes that tell the stories of people who recovered from chronic illness – including a five-year-old boy born with cerebral palsy, an osteopathic doctor with a brain tumor, and a North Carolina housewife bedridden with chronic fatigue syndrome – the film demonstrates the effectiveness of bioenergetic medicine. HOW TO TURN A NO INTO A YES
Scott H. Silverman, an in-demand speaker and recognized hero, will show you how to achieve success, make the needed changes that are limiting you and become a hero in your own life! DIVINE CREATIVITY Art Exhibition
Walt Thomas, a Nebraska native, is the featured artist for the Divine Creativity exhibition of his work throughout the San Diego Center for Spiritual Living facility from Sunday, May 17 through Tuesday, July 21. He is planning an Artist's Reception on Friday, June 12th from 6:00 to 9:00 PM. An eclectic artist, Walt enjoys working in many different media including: watercolors, oils, acrylics, pastels, collage, drawing, photography, digital art and more. Walt says, "My dedication to the preservation of plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth, motivates me to take pictures, rather than specimens.." He believes that "Man was created to participate in the creative process." Thus he constantly attempts to build bridges between that which is abstract and that which is real; challenging both our right and left brain, the metaphysical and the physical. Top
A Feast of Gratitude & Musical Endorphins with Award Winning Singer/Songwriters with songs from their latest CD.
1:00 - 4:00 pm, Singing Workshop for Choirs and Beyond.
Tune your life as you sing into your highest possibilities & free your Authentic Voice. Learn to embody songs, energize your gratitude, and extend your musical Chi. Music is Well-Being Made Audible. Harmony heals the Soul. Powerful musical tools for professionals and beginners alike. Join the Chorus! Participants will be invited to join Jan & JD on a few songs during the evening concert. $35 for Workshop only. Special combo price: $40 for Workshop and Concert. $15 for Concert only.
7:30 pm Concert, A Season for Non-Violence Event. Jan & JD are delighted to announce their brand new CD, "No Complaints Whatsoever," has finally been released nationally and is receiving RAVE reviews. We LOVE this album. Best Production Ever! "From start to finish this album is a feast of musical endorphins. A powerful life-enhancing collection of brilliantly crafted songs, in perfect tune with the times, and destined to become an award-winning classic."
James Nihan
Sunday, Februry 8th
10:00 Featured Musician
11:20 Light Lunch $5
1:00 Agreements of the Heart Concert
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Sacred Sounds of Spirit Concert With Dr. Paul Hubbert
Saturday, February 21st 7:30 PM
Experience Dr. Paul Hubbert in person as he creates the Ghandarva Ceremony he recorded in the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid in Egypt. The Ghandarva Peace Ceremony creates an experience where the dimensional veils become transparent allowing us full conscious connection with the Higher Realms. It is a beautiful affirmation of unity of all spiritual traditions and an experience of the celestial realms of being. Paul will chant the names of the Archangels, mystics, saints and masters of the world’s major spiritual lineages. Paul also leads the group in Harmonic Choir. Join Paul as we call forth this energy and soothe the soul in a sound healing concert of Crystal Bowls and Vocal Harmonics, with innocence and purity through the love vibration created. Donation: $20
Dr. Paul is in San Diego for the Body Mind Spirit Expo. Founder and a facilitator/teacher of Holographic Sound
Healing, Dr. Paul performs Sacred Sound Concerts throughout the world. Paul holds a Ph.D. in Psychology and is a Sound & Reiki Master, visionary, vocalist, and musician having recorded several powerful world music healing/meditation CDs.
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Dr. Sandy Brewer
Sunday, March 15th
10 am Guest Speaker: Through The Eyes of Love
11:30 Light Lunch $5
12:30 Workshop: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Reality
Reality is not carved in stone. It is based on a point of view. Learn practical strategies for self-development and successful life-changing principles that can be catalysts to changing your mind - changing your reality. Human behavior specialist, compelling speaker, humanitarian with over thirty years experience as a therapist, and the author of the USA Book News National Best Books 2008 Award for Best Biography, PURSUIT OF LIGHT: An Extraordinary Journey, Sandy Brewer provides practical strategies and a working roadmap for making the changes needed to create the life you want. Her life is a stunning reflection of the depth of the human spirit and the presence of the Divine within. Her work has been featured on NBC's Nightly News with Tom Brokaw and a nationally televised documentary. Investment: $25
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Aman Motwane
Sunday, April 18th
10 am Guest Speaker
11:30 Book Signing
1:00 Workshop: Change Your Relationships, Change Your World, Change THE World
Bring CHANGE to your life and to your Community. Author, Keynote Speaker, and Winner of the RS International Peace Award and the Green2Gold Award, Aman Motwane has been featured on PBS, CBS, NBC, Fox and Magazines & Newspapers across the nation. There is a way for you to heal all your relationships, heal yourself, and heal the world—all at the same time! You can learn how at Aman's powerful workshop. Specifically, you will learn: The key to cultivating deeply satisfying relationships and taking them into a realm you never imagined possible; How to see everyone in a whole new way that transforms your relationship with them, transforms their life and the world; How to BE and BECOME Namaste—where the Divine in you sees the Divine in everybody else—as a way of life and living. Investment: $30
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An Examination of World Religions
Wednesdays 7:00-8:00 PM
April 22 - June 24
Wednesdays, April 22 through June 24, from 7:00-8:00 PM, the San Diego Center for Spiritual Living presents a weekly series of lessons on religions that have shaped history, civilizations and your next door neighbors’ views. Learn about the founders, the history, the essential teachings and religious practices of major world religions:
Islam, Native American, Buddhism, Sufism, Toltec, Wicca, Christianity, Baha’i, Judaism, and Hinduism. Some religions might be familiar, some unusual, and some you may never have heard about. Although many of us think of religion as a belief system practiced through faith, obedience, prayer and worship, you'll find that some religions are more than just a belief in a deity; they are an entire philosophy and way of life.
To study religion is to study oneself. The fact of religious diversity is common to us all. Even the non-religious person lives in a world with people of different faiths. Let us embrace a new willingness to meet peacefully together, to talk together, to learn about one another's faiths, and to see what comes out of this. It is a matter of following the Spirit where it leads. Donations.
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Talk and Book Signing
with Cindy Ashton
Sunday, May 3rd, 12:45 PM
Dynamic speaker, singer-songwriter, and author Cindy Ashton presents a free talk and book signing of her newly released book Kiss Your Monsters Goodbye!
Do you feel stuck in your life and don't know where to go?
Are your fears stopping you from achieving the success you deserve?
Are you tackling an obstacle that you just can't seem to conquer?
Imagine what your life would be like if you could quickly and easily…
· Get the inside track on how to take charge of those monsters in any situation.
· Discover the difference between real and false fears, beliefs and obstacles.
· Unleash the hidden monsters blocking your success.
· Transform obstacles into reigning triumphs.
With only a 20% chance of living, Cindy underwent three heart surgeries by age fourteen. She has recovered well beyond doctor's expectations. This book combines Cindy's real life stories of overcoming obstacles with simple and practical tools that can be applied to your life instantly. Find out more at Cindy Ashton International
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Healing Crystal Bowl Meditation
Friday, May 8th, 7 PM
Linda Bates facilitates a guided meditation through the dynamic relationship between the physical body, the mind, the spirit, and your chakras using the sound vibrations of nine chakra-tuned quartz crystal bowls and their corresponding color. What you will experience is an hour of deep relaxing meditative healing with sound and color; clearing, repairing, strengthening and rebalancing the energy field of your body. Learn how symptoms of dis-ease develop and discover the power of healing within you. Wear comfortable clothing (no black please) and bring a mat. Donation: $20
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A Film on the New Science of Healing
Movie and Post-Screening Discussion
Showtimes:
October 23 and 25, 2009
Friday 5:30, 7:40
Sunday 1:50, 4:00
Donation: $7 each / 2 for $11
San Diego Center for Spiritual Living previously presented The Living Matrix's Southern California Premiere on May 9, 2009. View the film trailer at Living Matrix Trailer
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Talk and Book Signing
with Scott H. Silverman,
CNN Hero Award Recipient and Author of Tell Me No, I Dare You
Tuesday, May 12th, 7:00 PM
Scott will reveal how to:
* Find the courage within you to face any situation and accomplish any goal
* Live up to your highest potential
* Change your attitude and change your life
* Overcome obstacle
* Turn a no into a yes
* Find your passion
* Develop heroic qualities
* Take action
Scott H. Silverman is the author of Tell Me No, I Dare You: A Guide for Living a Heroic Life and is an in demand leadership speaker. Scott is both locally and nationally recognized as a leader in the field of workforce development. He has received numerous awards and honors including recently being named "CNN Hero of the Week" and the City of San Diego honored him by selecting February 19 as "Scott Silverman Day" for his contributions to the community. He is the Executive Director and Founder of Second Chance, a human services agency that is committed to breaking the cycle of unemployment, poverty, and homelessness by offering job readiness training, employment placement assistance, mental health counseling, case management, and affordable housing referrals to people who desire to change their lives. Over the past 15 years Second Chance has assisted more than 24,000 economically disadvantaged and homeless persons in San Diego gain employment and leave poverty, gang affiliations, and crime. For more information visit Scott H Silverman Donation: $10
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Artist: Walt Thomas
May 17 - July 21
Artists Reception Friday June 12, 6:00-9:00 PM
Walt Thomas is an accomplished and prolific professional Fine Artist and Photographer, and developer of the Optillusion art technique. Walt is a member of: Digital Art Guild, Photoshop Users Group, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego County Art Association, and Shelter Island Art Association. Please visit Walt's website Visible Concepts and remember to stop by the San Diego Center for Spiritual Living on Friday evening, June 12, where you can meet this remarkable artist and purchase a canvas on which Walt has, "captured a small piece of the infinite 'now' ….. This is my gift to you."
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LIFE IS A MARATHON: Winning Strategies for the Race of Life
Workshop with Matt Jones
Saturday, May 23
3:00 - 5:00 PM
Author & International Speaker Matthew D. Jones shares how YOU can create YOUR Brightest Future through Law of Attraction and Law of Action!
Matt is the next generation of professional speaking. Through his miraculous story of conquering cancer and running a marathon Matt shares strategies that lead to greater success both personally and professionally. His mission is to inspire others to live their greatness by connecting with their true potential. He will show you how to:
* Thrive in the midst of adversity
* Turn challenge into opportunity
* Excel in performance and productivity
* Achieve beyond present levels of success
Matt’s story is a modern day miracle. His journey of personal transformation began on Sept. 11, 2002 when he was told, “you have cancer.” After the cancer spread to his brain, he was given a less than 10% chance of living. Due to an infection in his brain, Matt slipped into a semi-coma and family and friends were called because his doctors did not think he would live. Be a part of Matt’s Brightest Future and create YOURS! Donation basis.
Paul Hubbert, Ph.D.
Holographic Sound Healing
Sacred Sounds of the Spheres Concert
Thurs. June 25, 7:30 PM
Holographic Sound Healing Advanced Certification Training
Friday, June 26 through Sunday, June 28, 2009
THURSDAY CONCERT: Now is the time when the dimensional veils are thin, allowing us full conscious connection to the Masters, the Higher Realms, a powerful time to focus on Spirit to intend, harmonize and manifest in your life. Now is the time to invoke the intuition, vision and imagination for Transforming, Creating and Manifesting all that you desire in your life and in our world, co-creating with God, Our New Age of Being. Journey & vision with us as we vibrate the knowing reality of Love, Peace & Compassion on our earth. Bring your own drum, bowls, other instruments & join us in completion of the concert experience! Concert Donation: $20
WEEKEND HOLOGRAPHIC SOUND HEALING TRAINING: Healing Art of The Angelic Realms with The Hathors, Masters of Sound and Love. Advanced Level, 3 Day Practitioner / Facilitator Certification Training - Presented By Paul Hubbert, Ph.D. Healing the Body with Sound, State-of-the-Art Body Rejuvenation Techniques. This Workshop provides You with the Support, Techniques and Tools to Effectively Practice this Work! These Techniques are compatible and complementary with most Methods of Healing, no prerequisite. Registration: Roxane Marie (619)262-8211 or email: blessedwithoils@cox.net
Alternative contact: Paul (512)891-7887 or email: Paul@HolographicSound.com
Founder and a facilitator/teacher of Holographic Sound Healing, Dr. Paul Hubbert performs Sacred Sound Concerts throughout the world. Paul holds a Ph.D. in Psychology and is a Sound & Reiki Master, visionary, vocalist, and musician having recorded several powerful world music healing/meditation CDs. “Musical Training is a more Potent Instrumentation than any other for Education, because Rhythm and Harmony find their way into the inward places of the Soul.” - Plato
ULTIMATE PROSPERITY PROGRAM
Seminar with Dr. Terry Cole-Whittaker
Sunday, October 11
12:30 - 3:30 PM
ATTEND THIS DYNAMIC SEMINAR THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER FOR GOOD IN EVERY WAY!
10 AM Church Service: "Now is Your Best Time to Prosper"
11:20 Lunch with Dr. Terry ($5 Donation)
12:30 ULTIMATE PROSPERITY PROGRAM Life-changing Seminar
Spend the entire day with world renowned Dr. Terry Cole-Whittaker
Seminar Benefits
· Be able to Prosper regardless of world conditions
· Receive the prosperity formula that always works
· Gain the 3-step process for getting rid of fear, worry, and doubt
· Walk in the Spirit of Miracles and Bliss every day
· Know and fullfill your divine life's mission & succeed in your career
· Learn what you can do to manifest what you want at any time
· Find out how to recover from a setback and use it to prosper you
· Be confident, blissful, and powerful in the presence of anyone
Dr. Terry Cole-Whittaker is a global inspirational and motivational teacher and counselor to the "Stars" whose students are the "Who's Who" of Authors, Entrepreneurs, Spiritual Teachers, Entertainers, and Global Leaders. She is the best-selling author of What You Think of Me is None of My Business and Dare to Be Great. Her weekly, international, Emmy winning TV program inspired millions and she has been interviewed on over 800 TV and Radio shows and featured in People, US, Newsweek, Time, Wall Street Journal. Her vitality and enthusiasm are contagious and her wisdom produces extraordinary results. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from this entertaining Master Teacher.
Seminar tuition: $35 advance, $45 at the door.
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Concert with Javen "NuExperience" Jackson
Monthly on Mondays 7:00 PM
June 22 / July 27 / August 17 /
September 28 / October 19 / November 16 /
December 14
Love Vibrations is A Spoken Word & More Production by Javen "NuExperience" Jackson. A creative "inspire-tainment" production of love-inspired pieces by the collective efforts of local poets, vocalists, musicians, storytellers, and positive consciousness rappers. The monthly Love Vibrations events are a combination of Variety Show, Performance Art, and Concert that are a whole-person and community experience of Love expressing. Love Offering.
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YOUR AMAZING LIFE: How to Create It
Workshop with Sara Wiseman
Sunday, October 18
12:30 - 3:30 PM
Come to this fun, hands-on workshop, and learn how to:
· Clarify what you want
· Receive Divine guidance on what you actually need
· Manifest everything your heart longs for, from the ineffable (spiritual awakening) to the specific (a new job), using energy, intention and prayer.
PLUS - you will learn:
· How to manifest specifically and correctly using writing
· Second and third stages of manifesting
· To follow Divine clues and strands
This class is suitable for adults who are ready to experience immediate changes in their lives, via a direct connection to the Divine. BRING: A journal to write in. Tuition: $30
Author, channel and psychic counselor SARA WISEMAN experienced a spiritual awakening in 2008 when she received The 33 Lessons via channeled writing - a collection of spiritual teachings which begin, "The purpose of life is soul growth." These writings are part of her book Writing the Divine: How to Use Channeling for Soul Growth & Healing. Her second book, Divine Child, will be released in 2010. An award-winning musician, Sara has released three healing CDs with her band Martyrs of Sound.
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An Evening With Ernest Holmes ~ Sermon By The Sea
Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Holmes' most famous talk
Friday 7:00 PM, October 16, 2009
Dr. Ernest Holmes is the author of The Science of Mind textbook, Living The Science of Mind, Creative Mind and Success, This Thing Called You, and dozens of other seminal works that changed the way people view their experience with their Higher Power.
Leader of an innovative International Spiritual Organization, Ernest Holmes comes to life in a unique, inspiring, and transformational evening with the legendary Sermon By The Sea and Ernest's favorite 1950s hymns and musical performances. Brad Wethern, RScP, has presented his portrayal of the Founder of Religious Science to hundreds of Religious Science Ministers and Practitioners with amazing accuracy. Senior Minister Rev. John Poleski says: "Every detail down to the ministerial robe, character voice inflections and facial gestures gave me the sensation of what it must have been like to sit front row and listen to Ernest Holmes in his prime. Thank you, Brad, for your well researched and professional portrayal of my favorite Religious Scientist."
Tickets: $20 advance / $25 at the door.
Ernest Holmes, the Founder of Religious Science, is artfully and
sensitively portrayed by Actor and Licensed Practitioner Brad Wethern
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MEET THE AUTHORS
Bringing To Life The Written Word
Wednesdays 7:00-8:30 PM
Sept 16 - Nov 18
Lecture, Q&A, Book Signing
Wednesdays, September 16 22 through November 18, from 7:00-8:30 PM, the San Diego Center for Spiritual Living presents a series of authors on a variety of topics that all follow the theme of our Divine Creative Process. This 10-week Wisdom Wednesday series invites a different local author each week to tell the "story behind the story" of their published works. Be inspired as the written word comes to life with personal anecdotes followed by Question & Answer and Book Signing. Scheduled authors include many creative, inspirational, and dynamic leaders in our Community to excite and delight you. Each program is unique. Come to as many as you choose. Donations.
Sept 16
Greg S. Reid
Three Feet From Gold
Sept 23
Joel Vorensky
I Dare to Heal With . . .
Sept 30
Scott H. Silverman
Tell Me NO, I Dare You!
Oct 7
Gail Manishor
From Here to Serenity
Oct 14
Helice “Sparky” Bridges
Who I Am Makes A Difference
Oct 21
Dr. John Walker
Finding God in the Quantum
Oct 28
Daniel Gutierrez
Stepping Into Greatness
Nov 4
Dr. Stephen Albert
The Interfaith Manual
Nov 11
Kathy Juline
It Is About You
Nov 18
Sharon Lund
Sacred Living, Sacred Dying
Schedule of Authors:
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GROWING YOUR INNER LIGHT A Guide to Independent Spiritual Practice
Lara Owen
Sunday, November 1
10 AM Special Guest Speaker
Work Shop 12:30 - 3:30 PM
For beginners and experienced seekers alike, Growing Your Inner Light is a comprehensive, groundbreaking, and transformative guide to developing and sustaining a spiritual practice that suits your individual temperament and life situation. Lara Owen explores the psychological issues that can inhibit our spiritual growth and explains the fundamentals of spiritual practice that occur cross-culturally. Owen describes how to activate the abilities we all have within us for nourishing a profound experience of spiritual connection, and guides you along on a clear path to creating an integrated, personalized way of living spiritually and authentically.
Growing Your Inner Light takes you through thirteen phases of the spiritual journey, including:
• clearing the mind and grounding the body
• developing intuition and understanding your dreams
• creating personal spiritual space in your home
• navigating the material realm with honor and effectiveness
• exploring the value of meditation, retreats, and rituals
Lara Owen has trained with spiritual teachers all over the world and has made a lifelong study of spiritual practice in several traditions. She has a background in Chinese medicine and psychotherapy, and has worked in publishing and television. Lara lectures internationally and maintains a consulting practice working with individuals, groups, and organizations. She is the author of several books on personal and spiritual development, including Love Begins at 40 and the acclaimed Her Blood Is Gold.
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