Annual Ridge WombMen's Gathering

Who WaNTS TO JOIN ME ?! I AM CREATING A RITUAL PERFORMANCE PIECE FOR THE GRANDMOTHERS, CRONES , AN OFFERING FOR THE ELDERS THAT ARE JOINING US. THE REPRESENTING ELEMENT AND PRAYER IS FOR WATER, OUR BLOODY WATERS, AND ALL THE WATERS IN THE WORLD.MEDITATE, DANCE AND IMAGINE THE PUREST STATES, THE PUREST PRAYERS FOR WATERS (AND HOW IT RELATES TO WOMAN AND OUR CYCLES).


CEREMONIES:
Daughters Parade & Circle
Maiden Rite of Passage
Honoring Our Elders
Healing Male & Female Relationship
Planetary Healing
DISCUSSIONS:
Reclaiming the Maiden at Any Age
Our Strength as Elders
Standing in Our Power as Mothers/Creatress
Women
WORKSHOP TOPICS:
Sacred Drumming & Chanting
Transformational Breath / Yoga / Dance of Life
Herbs & Flower Essences / Women’s Health
Sacred Dance / Belly Dance / Fire Dance
Textiles / Fabric Arts
Intuitive Skills / Energy Healing
Astrology / Spoken Word & More
CRAFTS:
Grass Weaving / Loom Weaving
Tribal Body Art / Clay Creations

Yellow Woman by Robyn Martin

LIGHTING OUR PATH
7th Annual Women’s Gathering & Campout
Empowering the Dreams and Spirit of Women

Memorial Day Weekend ~ Friday to Monday May 23 ~ 26
All Women Welcome: Elders Mothers/Creatress Maidens Girls
We gather together to weave a path of strength, wisdom & intuition for ourselves, our children and all our relations. We form a chain of knowing from ancestor to elder, to mother/creatress, to maiden, to daughter. All are invited to share your unique gifts & reclaim, renew & inspire one’s self

~SINGING~~DANCING~~DRUMMING~~DREAMING~~VISIONING~
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Comfortable camping, with limited indoor accommodations for those with special needs
Located 30 minutes from Nevada City/Grass Valley, in the Sierra Nevada foothills
2 hours from Sacramento, 3 hours from San Francisco Bay Area

***Please register early – space is limited***
Full Attendance Cost: Sliding Scale for Adults $200 -$120 ~ $100 for Maidens (13 to 19)
$35 for Children (4 to12) ~ 3 yrs & under free Single Day Attendance: $50 per day
Meals included for all participants.
Some volunteer scholarships available. Call or email to make arrangements.
FOR INFORMATION:
Kalita (530) 913-5480 PO Box 193, N San Juan, CA, 95960 lightingourpath08@gmail.com

Blessings Family!! I´m reconnecting and RETURNING FROM BRAZIL. Looking for ride to ISIS OASIS aroung the 18th!

Lots of love to all of you that touch my heart and vibrate essence of love and strength in my core. I´ve been traveling south america, experiencing deeply exotic medicene and music journies. Lots to share and reconnect with this SPring as we give birth to a new era and....equinox.

I´m arriving to San Francisco on the 17th with my Beloved ´Tom Tom, and We´re looking for a ride up to the Isis Oasis in Geyserville, the morning of the 18th or anytime there after. If anyone is riding up to Mendicino, It´s jus a quick turn off the exit. We are helping out at the Equinox festival and would be happy to land on the land there for a few days and rest and help set up a few days prior to the event . The Event begins on the 21st, and if you´d like any further information you can email me.

Mucho AMOR

BIGS HUGS and KISSES

AYAH

UNIFICACIÓN MAYA

This year Activation Maya is Free of charge, and is offerred as a program for the Local People as well as those who wish to participate and share energy with the community........

Festival Cultural and Spiritual
“A Portal to the New Grand Circle”
Diciembre 15—21, 2oo7— 2012 El Remate, Peten, Guatemala

We are celebrating the Winter Solstice with the tradition of the Mayas
Particpating in Sacred Fire ceremonias
Learning and understanding the cosmology and
calender of the Mayan as we enter 2012
Visiting Sacred sites

In the mornings: (free)

Mayan Sacred Fire ceremonies
Every morning
from 15 to 20 of December
In the Playa Norte in front of central park

Sanacion Pranica
Archeological Site Ixlu
Dec 20 , at 10 am

Maya fire ceremony,
December 21 , at 11 am
Plaza Mundo Perdido, Tikal

During the afternoons (Individual prices):

Trip to Yaxha / Canopy
Caves of Actun Kan/Flores
Zoo of Petencito / Flores
Kayak Rentals
Walks through Biotopo Cahui
Tours on horseback through the jungle
Boat rides
Classes on indigenous medicene
Classes on the Mayan culture/cosmology
Grand tour of Tikal (21 of Dec.)
I
n the nights (free) :

Drums, flutes, songs and dances around campfire
Archeological site of Ixlu
15—19 de Diciembre, at 8 pm

Noche de Gala
Archeological site ixlu
Dec 20th, at 8pm

Tikal Extravaganza
Pablo Collado on flute
FIRE Dancing
Plaza Mundo Perdido, Tikal
21 of december at 7 pm

Preparing for Dreamtime........saturated in the SPACE

There's been a big void of keeping up with blogs. But the Focus has been "RED TENT" and GODDESS TEMPLE" which is rapidly filling up every empty crevice of my life with service and abundance of expression, This business card is a representation that I may finally appear to be professional in the skills I offer and space I hold. I've been enriched and fulfilled out here on the "Ridge". The Yurt on our land is offered as the first official "Goddess Temple" Although the truth is that I share it with Grace, and it's becoming difficult to hold space for all the woman that need to come through and fall into deep processes' while we need our independent living space. Relieved that we can change the movement of the intention at any moment. we have kept to have a circle once a week while allowing menstruating woman to come and find sanctuary. I envision in the Future a BIG RED Tepee! This One that will be Very separate from my living conditions, and that will serve more full-time as a moon lodge.
I'm on my Way To Colorado for the first time. In service of the RED TENT theme Camp. After living my Gypsy lifestyle for so many years, i find it difficult, for the first time ever, to want to leave my comfortable home community and yurt. I look forward to this Mission and Adventure. But at the same time I give thanks, that i milk goats everyday, and that i have a garden that is blooming Veggies, and that my yurt is an actual TEMPLE!
The number one adventure i look forward to, isn't so much to arrive at a festival, but afterwards, when I am free to roam the mountains, and vision quest with the integrity to journey alone in nature. I seek the silence of walking alone.

Love you All FAMILIA

Annual Womans Campout Gathering, memorial day weekend !!

Lighting Our Path 2007:

Lighting Our Path annual women’s gathering and camp-out will be held Memorial Day weekend, beginning at 4 pm on Friday May 25 and ending mid-afternoon on Monday May 28. Women are encouraged to come for the whole weekend but it’s okay to come for any part of the weekend. It will be held on private land near Camptonville. (Near Grassvally,/ Nevada city California)

The purpose of the gathering is to enjoy, honor, and celebrate women, and create rites of passage ceremonies for girls and women of all ages, from daughters to maidens to elders. We also have workshops and discussions during the daytime, fabulous food, and lots of fun. Workshop offerings include herb and plant walks, belly dancing, ceremonial drumming, fabric arts, writing/drama/performance art, intuitive skills, and much more!

Fees are on a sliding scale basis, ranging from $60 to $200 for the whole weekend, and per day rates from $25 to $50. No woman will be turned away for lack of funds.

For more information or to register, please call Rita at 288-3238 or Catherine at 292-3746 or e-mail lop.2006@yahoo.com.

Also Dear Friends,

I will be teaching yoga classes in the mornings. as well as holding space for the ceremonies in the Red Tent. There are many work trade positions available, as well as vegan and raw food options!

Love Ayah

530-798-9806

NYC.......New Moon......eclipse.....new births?>

The blesssed Holy Grounds of New york city. Truely, I never saw it before, but this is not only a dumpster for root of American culture. It;s also a holy ground for whence a spaceship ( disguised as Bush's embassadors) hit earth a few years ago, dispearsing the elogant nature of death to enlighten the fellow people blessing them with the wisdom of the true nature of death; many of these residents thus turned into holy angels!
I've discovered blissful justification for taking a sharp turn in my journey and jumping on a plane last week coming to the big apple. My funds are dry, but I" am faithfully recieving teachings from my recent Tantra'yogic Lama's. We are studying chapter 2 of the "Hatha yoga pradipika" (a yoga bible.....truely) Topics inclued are Pranayama, Purification, and Emptiness......... I'm not one to follow teaches around prostrating to any Guru's but when i find authentic teachings, whether they come from my own mama or a holy lama, I will take it!

Oweeeee........ahhh.........Ayahhhhhhh........gaiaaaaaaaaaahhhhh..........I am so full of great things that it is almost time to Empty this chalice and offer my blood into the River Gangi (or perhaps the closesr Hudson river) to be reneawed in the omnipotence of the dark dark moon. The New Moon is eclipsing the Sun and I believe pisces is the zodiac. This means that there must be some conjuction and equalibrium of light and dark and male and female when the sun and earth and moon come into such intensely accurate alignment! Spring cleaning is the message I am getting. It's time to clean out the winter and make room for those first seeds that want to sprout up out of the the ground.....emerge! Emergeance of something greater. There is something greater than just our limited concepts of "Self". I am starting with my inner body, Nadi shodhana (alternate nostril breathing) is the practice I've been doing every day, of controling the side channels of the body using breath and mental visualization, and drawing the lunar and solar to the central channel, to join. This feels like what is happening in the sky tonight.
I am looking forward of returning to California soon, I hope to start many projects on the Ridge.....one being my own garden finially, the other being my Goddess dance/music/ wisdom empowerment Temple . All of these idea's for choreographing and building a temple of some sort seem to be manifesting and encompassing my creative WiL to give birth soon. Those who see themselves as part please share with me what you imagine contributing to such a project. I'll be putting out a newsletter eventually.........
And if anyone has some great contacts in NYC, or knows where i can get some temporary work.....this is welcome
Send me some warm penetrating thoughts to melt this cold snowy weather!

Check this out for to understand the Solar Eclipse tonight
10:43 est
7:43 pst

:::::The Benefits of Sitting in Lotus:::: BLISS

Some of us try to meditate, but really just sit down and spend the whole time thinking. Some of us just blah out which seems to be kinda relaxing. And others basically try to sit, but with agitation and anxiousness to get up again. Single pointed focus. I've been trying to figure out how to comfortably sit for years, and then the second most important thing (first being, just creating the space to sit!) i suppose is deciding to stay focused with single pointed concentration. This is difficult, to allow the mind to drift and to continuously bring it back.....bringing it back to that focus (usually breath). So I have a secret, or a profound technique that is really activating. But this will only work for Yogini's or the more flexible practitioners whom have open hips. Try Sitting in Lotus, not have lotus, or half-ass lotus. But see if you can comfortably cross both of your feet over opposite thighs, perhaps after a few stretches. There's a central channel that opens in the spine, the pelvis will naturally incline forward allowing your spine to be held erect with ease. the feet pressing against the inner thighs activates different meridians that open the winds to flow within the body. I find that my third eye (pineal gland) is extremely activated and clear. Overall when I sit in Lotus, my level of body comfort increases along my level of concentration is extremely deepening. Those of you who are active mediators, I encourage y'all to try out this Asana, I'd love to hear feedback.


I dedicate this day
To the Utmost Bliss
This consciousness
I promise not to miss
on any of this
This Infinite BLISS
With the gem of a Kiss
I bow, i bless, I kiss
The feet of the luminous teacher
Whom sits on their throne
Dispelling Wisdom of a Crone
Offering the power to each human
Dedicating the pranic Dance
So That all suffering may ease
Emptiness in the mind shall cease
Enrapturing humankind
Eradicating all disease
Taking flight the Divine
Releasing torment of the mind

I dedicate this day
To the LIGHT
The true teacher within and without
Who is never absent and always full of peace
I promise not to miss
The most high Bliss
I offer true words
To this Con..Scious...Ness
Bow down, I bless
Seal with the Divine Kiss
Oh blessed Angel of Bliss

MahaKaruna.....Great Compassion

"When there is no form of pain that you would hesitate to take on
And no kind of pleasure that you would hesitate to give up in
order to bring every living being to their evolution, that is the
point you have reached Great Compassion"