Friends,

I give thanks for the growing tribe, and the levels of ease in which I am stepping into my gifts through our interactions.

Here are a couple of opportunities to share:

*Connectivate; an interactive dance celebration, sf (this Friday 4.18.08)
Really amazing gathering – great spot
web.mac.com/jamieluv/Con...ng_Party.html
I am interested in carpooling with someone – let me know – leaving sc around 8pm ideally, flex on the return time

*Coming back to life; a workshop, UCSC
More info below – great workshop – powerful modality – truly a doorway to conscious awareness and conscious forms of activism

*Collaborative presentation group

I would like to have an opportunity to present curricula that I have crafted that will draw from sound healing, eco-ritual, prayerformance, and ritual theatre to explore death and rebirth, gratitude and despair, and other doorways for integration, awakening, opening, and surrender.

you are invited to join in on the collaboration or just to come and receive. just send a message to me expressing your interest.

These modalities offer expansion of constricted notions of identity, time, and potential, direct experiences of interconnection, opportunities to integrate the fragmented nature of my psyche, and opportunities to express myself more consistantly from an integrated, centered place.

In essence, this research, inquiry, and these practices provide an opportunity for me to live, embody, and express my aliveness and my essential nature in a way that will ripple out into my community, and provide me with a life of integrity, ecstatic communion, and fulfillment.






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Coming Back to Life

Caring for Ourselves, Each Other, and the World

A Workshop Led by Sarah Rabkin and Susan Watrous

Sunday, May 4, 2008, 1 p.m. to 6 p.m., including potluck supper

UC Santa Cruz Campus (exact location to be announced to registered participants)



This free half-day workshop, based on the teachings of Buddhist scholar-activist Joanna Macy, is designed for adults (age 18 and older) of all backgrounds who seek to re-energize their caring for the world in a time of great destruction and danger—and of profound possibility.



Sensitively led activities provide a supportive space for participants to explore and witness their grief, anger, fear, apathy, love, and gratitude for the world. These are natural responses whose compassionate expression—often repressed in our society—can reconnect us to a life of joyful service to our fellow beings. In fact, they can help us discover our power to contribute to a Great Turning: from an Industrial Growth Society based on greed and waste to more truly sustainable ways of living with each other and the planet.



Participants should expect to be emotionally present, honest and deeply respectful of others. There will be tears, laughter and introspection, but nobody will be required to express or disclose anything they prefer to hold private. The workshop will be followed by an informal potluck supper for all participants.



Enrollment is limited. If you are interested in registering, please send an email to Sarah at srabkin@ucsc.edu <mailto:srabkin@ucsc.edu> , including the phrase “May 4 Workshop” in the Subject line.