SOULSTICE: An Evolver Salon 6/21, NYC

Reality Sandwich and Jivamukti Yoga Present

Soulstice: An Evolver Salon

Celebrate the sunniest day of the year with a jubilant night of music, ideas, art, and alchemy, hosted by Reality Sandwich and Jivamukti Yoga School. Featuring eleven workshops from diverse groups across the city, music, and a paradigm-shifting panel discussion.

Workshops:
NY Shamanic Circle: Shamanic Soulstice Alchemy
Nat Bletter: All the Plants in the Entheogenic Universe
Johnny (Holes) Treanor: The Cajon - A Percussion Workshop Purnima (Jivamukti Yoga School): The Secret Language of Asanas: The Return of the Fairy Queen & Goddess Danu
Biotour: Journey Into a Sustainable Future
Kehilat Romemu: "Havdalah" - Trance After Sabbath
Basem Hassan: Angels & Angles - Making Geometry Sacred
Carlos Ganesh-das (Jivamukti Yoga School): Soulstice Meditation
Trinity of the Dancing Path: Wild Soulstice Journey Dance
New Realities' Alan Steinfield: The Nature of Reality - Where are We?
Souldish & EFT Personal Training: Rebalancing the Creative Spirit

10pm, Panel:
"Healing Ourselves to Heal the World"
How do we bring awareness gained through spiritual discipline back into the gritty realities of political struggle and the fight against global inequity of wealth and resources? Do we simply make "the present moment... the focal point of [our] life," as Eckhart Tolle suggests in order to bring about "a New Earth," or does it take hard work, action, and visionary invention to enact mass change? Featuring Rabbi David Ingber of Kehilat Romemu, Ethan Nichtern of The ID Project and author of "One City: A Declaration of Interdependence," Derek Beres of Globesonic and author of "Sound and Flame: The Process of Yoga and Atheism in America," Yoga Instructor and Selfcentered's NY Representative Tammy Lynne, & more.

Saturday, June 21
Doors 5:45pm, Workshops start at 6pm. Event goes until Midnight.
Jivamukti Yoga School
841 Broadway
$20 adv/$25 door
Tickets: jivamuktiyoga.com/fms/event_fm.html
(Click "To Register Online for Events" in pink text at top left corner.)
www.realitysandwich.com/soulstice

EVOLVER: WAKE UP & DREAM, Feb 2. NYC Update

We've just finalized a fabulous list of djs, theme camps, artists, and performers who are all coming together to live out their dreams in NYC for a night. Hope you can make this fantastical journey with us. Cheers - Jonathan

Reality Sandwich & Jivamukti Yoga School Present...
EVOLVER: WAKE UP AND DREAM

Saturday February 2, 8pm - 4am
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What happens when America's most visionary city starts building a new world by living out its dreams?

Take an overnight journey into a realm of new possibilities with otherworldly music, performance, ideas, art and alchemy. Drift through a labyrinth of rooms full of enchanted activities, glowing and pulsing artwork, exotic performers, magical chill caves, futuristic playgrounds, and endless spontaneity.

Featuring: Globesonic's (Fabian Alsultany & Derek Beres) electrifying melting pot of Afro-beat, tabla, drum 'n bass, global trance, dub, hip-hop, and house. Haj (Resident DJ of Sub Swara & Freek Factory) and his "low-end monkey business that's more about journey than genre." Hercules' (Safetycan) Hobo Tech/Freshstep of deep electrofunk.

Glass Bead Collective's "Spaceship Inflatable," Peripheral Media Projects' {E}volutionary {E}volver Printing, Scott Draves' "Electric Sheep," Blinky Art by Fort-Da/Image Node, Dr. Brainwave's "Mind Machine," Face Painting by Kostume Kult & Friends, "Gastronome Cache-Cache: The Masked Meal," Bill Kennedy's gaggle of dream geese, Future Unincorporated's "Poll of the Future" by Cassie Thornton, "Entheogenic Plants of the World" with Nat Bletter, chakra balancing with Lisa Paul Streitfeld, "Restoring the Revelation Dream" with Rodger Kamenetz, C. Eule Dance: "Flight of Fantasy" with video by Yuliya Lanina, ecstatic drumming with Jay Michaelson, hula-hoop instruction with Stephanie Radia, "INFINITY" mannequin installation with Kundalini Couture/Wearable Art by Selma Karaca and video by John Knowles., "Chakracise" with Kiana Love, interactive light installation by Seej, Michael Robinson's "Universus" project, video art by Love Intelligence Group and The Housewives' Guide to AnatomyD… And, of course, that bold beautiful dreamer – YOU!

Evolvitorium, 8:30p: "Asanas and Ayahuasca"
In this talk Sharon Gannon (co-founder of Jivamukti Yoga) and Reality Sandwich's Daniel Pinchbeck (author of "2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl") compare and contrast yoga and shamanism and how these ancient techniques might just save our world today. Opening by Jivamukti co-founder David Life.

Communion Square Cafe: Courtney Weber - MC and Astro Hour with musical accompaniment by Eric Holloway, sitar and Sufi poetry with Dawoud Kringle and Asad Khan, Divine Drum & Bass Hip Hop with Naada, fantastical storytelling by Martin Dockery, David Life live, Jessica Star's Burner-Country music, Michael Brownstein's "Must Not Sleep," and Bill Kennedy on the mike. Yummy vegan food, sumptuous smoothies, & fair trade coffee (No Alcohol).

Dreamy Costumes Highly Encouraged! You must take off your shoes when entering the dream so don your funkiest socks or slippers. This is the first in a series of freakishly fun experiments from Reality Sandwich. Their goal is to spread ideas, connect people and reinvigorate life with creativity and spirit. As the seasons change, expect more invitations to participate in reality-changing events.

If we can build it here, we can build it anywhere. So, let's get together, New York, and start dreaming.

Saturday, Feb 2, 8p (doors) to 4a
Jivamukti Yoga School
841 Broadway, 2nd Fl. (between 13th & 14th St. at Union Square)
$15 advance tickets, $20 door
Tickets: www.jivamuktiyoga.com/fms/event_fm.html
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An Invitation to Burners Everywhere from Reality Sandwich

Reality Sandwich has just posted a whole bunch of new material related to this year’s Burn. We’ve got an invitation to Burners everywhere to offer their views and feelings about the sabotage of the Man, an incredible analysis of that Monday night’s events through the eyes of visionary writer Erik Davis, and another installment of our video series “Burning Briefs,” where a collection of great storytellers share their most transformative Playa experiences.

www.realitysandwich.com

Art and Arson: A Post-Burning Man Discussion
By Charles Shaw, Daniel Pinchbeck
The aftershocks of the early burning of the man have given rise to discussion about the current state of the Burning Man Festival and its future. It also raises larger questions about art and transgression, creative freedom versus destructive license, cult versus culture, and the future of an anarchic spectacle that holds out a vision of human liberation and community. What did this event, and its various interpretations, mean to you, if anything? And what has it got you thinking about now?
www.realitysandwich.com/node/556

Burning Men
By Erik Davis
What happened on the playa that Monday night? There you are, in a fireman's coat, hurling through the wee hours across a parched and dusty lakebed in a 1979 American LaFrance fire truck. Above you the rare shadow of the earth has morphed the full moon into a dusky half-burnt clementine that hangs there pendulous like some wandering orb on the cover of a 70s SF paperback. "Baby's on Fire" is spewing out of the iPod, and Fripp's incandescent solo mixes with Burning Man's surrounding soundscape of engines, explosions, house beats, and the rising cries of gesticulating passersby who have-wait a sec-just realized that the iconic 40-foot-tall trademark that centers their entire week of organized revelry is prematurely aflame.
www.realitysandwich.com/burning_men

“Burning Briefs” - The Underdog World Revolution
Featuring Daniel Pinchbeck
In this video from Reality Sandwich's "Burning Briefs" storytelling night, Daniel Pinchbeck shares one of the proudest, most humiliating, and hilarious experiences of his life. Hearing about the devastation of hurricane Katrina while on a "challenging dose of medicine" at the Burning Man Festival, Daniel embarks on a bold mission to stop the burning of the Man in order to create "a center to draft a new planetary constitution."
www.realitysandwich.com/underd...olution