| Yoga workshops Feminenza coming aha! in Lawrence Medicine for the Earth Yoga workshops OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- Anahatta Yoga Center has announced that workshops for all levels will be led by Kim Schwartz (Mahaswami Vyaktamananda) on October 17-18 in Overland Park. A student of yoga since 1971, Kim taught and trained hatha yoga teachers for the Temple of Kriya Yoga, Chicago, Ill., from 1988-1995 where he served as educational director of the Temple's Hatha Yoga program. He was ordained Swami through the Temple of Kriya Yoga seminary in 1987. Kim has studied with such nationally known teachers as: Ramanand Patel, Tias Little, Angela Farmer, Rama Birch, John Friend and Patricia Walden and assisted Rodney Yee and John Schumacher. He currently conducts teachers training intensives through the Temple of Kriya Yoga home study program and teaches full time at High Desert Yoga in Albuquerque, NM. For more information, please visit www.AnahattaYogaCenter.com or call (913) 381-7899. Anahatta Yoga Center is located at 3665 W. 95th St., Overland Park (W. 95th Street and Mission Road). Feminenza coming INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- The international women's group Feminenza is coming to Kansas City for the first time. The group will lead a workshop for women at Unity Temple on the Plaza on Saturday, Nov. 1. The workshop will provide participants with an opportunity for study, discussion and reflection with the ultimate goal of helping them develop a stronger sense of intactness, confidence and spiritual consciousness. "It will be a new look at the radiance within, a new learning about how to release the brilliance of what we are and a new caring about who and what we are and can do," said Liz Lyell, acting director of Feminenza in Seattle, who will facilitate the workshop. "Through the centuries, women have tended to play background roles. Because of this, we don't fully know ourselves or what we are capable of. And neither do the men! Feminenza is offering a "Know Thyself" journey for women. We believe it's time to help shift the balance between the genders, in a very gentle, loving and compassionate way, so that we each can offer our special gifts." Event organizers hope to attract a diverse group of participants. "This workshop is open to all ages -- 18 to 118," Lyell said. "Our hope would be to gather women of different ages and different backgrounds. The richer the pot is the better the workshop will be." Feminenza was founded in 2000 in an effort to provide women with support and encouragement to discover their own unique gifts and to help them use those gifts to make the world a better place. "For centuries, women have been in the background - even inside themselves," Lyell said. "We believe very strongly that the world needs women more than ever." Feminenza's work is all about helping women realign their lives so that they can be the best they can be, Lyell said. "It's kind of psychological. It's kind of philosophical. It has a spiritual direction to it," she said. "We believe very strongly that as women get to know these parts of themselves, work together, share stories, begin to see the similarity among all of us that we will find the uniqueness of what each woman is and what she's here to do." Mia Rosado the local coordinator of the workshop, said the event will give women insight into themselves, their interaction with men and their interaction with other women. "You can talk to women on that deep girlfriend level," Rosado said. "It's so encouraging and so supportive in the most natural way." Rosado, who recently returned to the Kansas City area, brought her mother, Anita Hampshire, to a Feminenza meeting in Seattle last year. Hampshire immediately was hooked. Ever since, she has pushed to bring the experience to women in her own community. "I was so inspired by it. I thought this would be so wonderful to bring to the Kansas City area," Hampshire said. "It's enlightening and mind broadening. I saw it as something that would help women find their self-esteem. It made me want to bring it to other women to help them find the best inside themselves." For more information about the event, contact Mia Rosado at (816) 686-7714 or by e-mail at feminenzakc@hotmail.com. www.feminenza.org aha! in Lawrence LAWRENCE, Kan. -- aha! dance theatre, an adventurous, intelligent dance company, will perform Here and Gone at The Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire, at 8 p.m. on November 7-8. aha! dance theatre has a mission to awaken the creative spirit through dance. This performance will feature improvisation and choreography by Artistic Director Susan Rieger and several guest artists. Aha! is composed of Rieger, and dancers Malinda Crump, Tracie Davis, Sarah Mermis, Jennifer Otto, Brian Wilson and apprentice Kalen Compernolle. Tickets are available at the Lawrence Arts Center Box Office, 785-843-2787. Tickets are $12 in advance or $15 at the door. A $10 ticket is available for seniors and students. Group discounts are also available. Highlights of the performance include two new pieces by Rieger, The Attenders and Tantrum. The Attenders involves a trio, connected to a soloist by several long braids. The soloist, who is representing the final moments of her life, moves freely as the attenders keep her free of entanglements. Tantrum was choreographed to a composition by the same name, by Chicago composer Stacy Garrop. In the middle section, a soloist performs on a bed of salt. Other pieces by Rieger on the program include: Turning the Tide, a constant river of movement and sound, with daring jumps and lifts, performed by seven dancers; and Gordon's Family, a trio and satire on family dynamics, whose original inspiration was a note found on the sidewalk. Guest choreographers include Lawrence resident Susan Warden. Her work, entitled Ash Wednesday, is performed to a T.S. Eliot poem and music by Brian Eno. Tina Kambour, faculty at the University of Central Oklahoma, has created a quintet, entitled Keeping Things Whole, which involves a series of seamlessly choreographed lifts. Charlotte Adams, whose company recently performed at the Joyce/ Soho Theater, has set Dissatisfaction on aha! dance theatre, to several piano pieces of Chopin. David Ollington, one of the founders of aha!, has created a comic piece entitled Antonio, for five women and a male mannequin to the music of Astor Piazola. For more program information, call (816) 523-6732. Medicine for the Earth OMAHA, Nebr. -- Medicine for You; Medicine for the Earth: Techniques for Transforming Personal and Environmental Toxins is a two part retreat based on the work of Sandra Ingerman, an instructor through the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. The premise is that by healing ourselves, we have the power and the ability to heal the planet. Past participants have called these retreats "transformative" and "life-changing," as well as "A weekend of Bliss!" Both retreats begin on Friday night and end Sunday afternoon. All meals and lodging are included in the package. In Part I, participants: • Learn the 7 steps of Transmutation (focus, concentration, imagination, harmony, love, attention and intention) and how to apply them • Explore a variety of methods of transmuting or neutralizing negative beliefs, attitudes and energy *transform personal pollution and create inner peace • Participate in a powerful ceremony that transmutes polluted water (we've transmuted polluted Missouri River water to a neutral ph of 7.4). In Part II, participants • Explore long distance methods for transmuting negative beliefs, attitudes, and energy • Learn how to envision and manifest a new dream for themselves and the planet • Participate in a powerful ceremony to manifest their dreams and visions Follow up information from this ceremony indicates that participants have manifested new jobs, enhanced relationships, multiple business opportunities, and much more. To learn how you can heal yourself and heal the planet or for more information about these retreats, please contact Nancy Velardi, M.S. at (402) 670-6528 or e-mail amaya2011@yahoo.com |
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