Summer/Autumn 2015
Bringing the World’s Most Inspirational Speakers to Birmingham! Dr William Bloom
Festivals Inspiring Talks Raw Living Food Workshops & Concerts
Peter Owen Jones
Rebecca Campbell
Stewart Pearce
Chloë Goodchild
Dr Brian Clement
Graham Hancock
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A day of inspiration, connection and fun for your heart, body, mind & spirit! 24 FREE Inspirational Talks Over 30 Holistic Exhibitors Celebrating conscious living & co-creation!
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10am – 6pm Early Bird: £10 book online in advance Full Price: £15 on the door Miguel Dean
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The Beeches Conference Centre 76 Selly Oak Road, Bournville Birmingham B30 1LS Dawn John
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Inspirational Events Calendar June - September 2015
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FRI, 5 Jun TALK: ANDREA GARDNER Hay House Author who’s viral YouTube video The Power of Words has opened the hearts and minds of over 20 million people Change Your Words, Change Your World Andrea will be sharing how just by changing your words, you really can change your world.
FRI 19 Jun TALK: HEIDI SAWYER Director of the Institute of Psychic Development Why Intuitive-Sensitive People Need Purpose If know others feelings before they’ve told you and can’t do small talk but love deep conversation you’re an Intuitive-Sensitive. Learn how you can attain peace and purpose in your life.
SAT 6 Jun WORKSHOP: CLARE GLENNON & RICHARD FARMER Healers & Teachers of Metatronic Healing® Metatronic Healing Experience a healing day with Metatronic Healing Energies: Two Unique Metatronic Attunements and Transmissions.
SUN 21 Jun SEMINAR: DR BRIAN CLEMENT Director of the Hippocrates Health Institute Power of Live Food for Vitality & Longevity Dr Clement will share a half century of work on disease and longevity conducted on the health benefits of a lifestyle of organic vegan living food. (see page 11 for full details)
TRACEY ASH Life Vision School & Awakening System Programmes FRI 12 Jun TALK: The Science of High Frequency Discover ancient knowledge technologies that accelerate miracles in your life and world. SAT 13 Jun WORKSHOP: HIGH FREQUENCY GENIUS Learn how to increase and maintain magnificent transformation, peace and awareness, energy levels, mind & well-being potential.
SUN 28 Jun WORKSHOP: STEWART PEARCE Legendary Sound Healer, Master of Voice & Angel Medium A Conversation with the Angels of Atlantis – And So It Is In Heaven Experience your own sacred coordinates introduced to us by the Angels and open to a profound field of love and abundance that will help you to expand to uncompromising joy, creativity, vitality & wonder. Pure magic for a summer’s day! (see page 8 for full details)
FRI 3 Jul TALK: PETER OWEN JONES SAT 11 Jul WORKSHOP: DR WILLIAM BLOOM BBC TV Presenter of the Award Winning ‘Extreme Pilgrim’ One of the UK leading holistic health experts Imagining a New Humanity How to Teach Wellbeing Benefits of Spirituality Priest and radical environmentalist, Peter Owen Jones, In this pioneering and inspirational training you’ll learn explores some of the options and direction we might take to give the key concepts and strategies for sharing the deep and enduring birth to a new humanity. health benefits of spirituality. (see page 6) SAT 4 Jul WORKSHOP: SONIA DUCIE Bestselling Author of 11 Numerology Books Numerology: Open Your Eyes & See Numerology enhances the power of transformation by connecting to the source – the soul.
FRI 17 Jul TALK: REBECCA CAMPBELL New Hay House Author & Rising Star Light Is the New Black Rebecca invites us to courageously answer the deepest callings of our soul so we can light up the world in a way that only we can.
SAT 25 Jul SEMINAR: DR JOANNA MARTIN Founder & Director of ‘One of Many’ & Lifestyle Business Entrepreneur Super Women Myth – Unleashing Your True Feminine Potential and Connecting to Soft Power It’s time we harness our feminine sources of power for the good of all humankind. A profoundly life & business-enhancing event. CHLOË GOODCHILD Voice Pioneer, Singer & Sound Visionary FRI 31 Jul CONCERT: Naked Heart: Love Songs for New World Uplifting new songs and soul sound – the original spoken and sung music from NAKED HEART, Chloë’s first album with Rebecca Nash, her daughter. SAT 1 Aug/SUN 2 Aug WORKSHOP: Find Your Voice – Transform Your Life Experience the ‘Singing Field’, a sound meeting place where you can find your authentic voice and transform your life through the power of your own unique sound. (see page 7 for full details) FRI 4 Sep TALK, 7-9pm: GRAHAM HANCOCK International Bestselling Author of the ‘Fingerprints of the Gods’ Magicians of the Gods Graham will share compelling new evidence of a great lost civilization of prehistoric and antiquity of the global cataclysm that wiped it’s memory from the earth, and of the implications for our own civilization today! THIS EVENT IS LIKELY TO SELL OUT. SPECIAL VENUE: Birmingham & Midland Institute, 9 Margaret St, Birmingham B3 3BS FRI 18 Sept TALK: JERRY SARGEANT Founder of Maximum Life & author of ‘Into the Light’ Into the Light – The Power of Star Magic Connecting to a higher energy field using Sacred Geometry and Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Jerry can harness a powerful energy (Star Magic) that allows him to channel and heal through ‘Pure Consciousness’ with amazing results. Jerry’s mission is to share Star Magic with the world. He will also be leading a 2 day workshop on 14/15 Nov ‘Two Days of Divinity’.
Venues, Times & Prices (unless otherwise stated): Friday Talks, 7.15 - 9.30pm (doors open 6.45pm) St Columba Church, Chantry Rd, Moseley, Birmingham B13 8DJ £10 Early Bird / £15 thereafter
Weekend Workshops 10.30am - 5pm Birmingham Buddhist Centre, 11 Park Rd, Moseley, Birmingham B13 8AB £50 Early Bird / £67 thereafter
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Dear Friends, The Tree of Life network is now in its seventh year and I would like to take the opportunity to reflect about what it means to have this strong spiritual network here in Birmingham. Just today, I met somebody in a café in town and we started talking to each other. It turned out that she not only lives very close in King’s Heath but also that she is interested in spiritual development. Marvelling about this synergy, I commented on how one can live close to other people who are interested in spiritual matters but not knowing about them. Her response was, that it is much better now but only ten years ago she felt really isolated. Testing the water, I replied that the Tree of Life network has helped. She wholeheartedly agreed and we compared notes on the talks and workshops we have been to and chatted about the insights we gained and transformational processes we have made. Needless to say, it was a surprising and very pleasant afternoon. This little encounter with my new friend brought home to me the importance of a network of likeminded people. A number of us have the grace in this lifetime and are born in families or communities not only knowing about spirituality and holistic practice but also living them. The number of these blessed souls has increased dramatically over the last couple of decades because of the work we, their parents and grandparents have been doing and are doing – very important work. A great example of this will be happening at the heart of the Tree of Life network with Markéta’s and Joginder’s new baby. There are others, however, who have chosen to grow up in families and communities which are less open to questions beyond the every day living and who are not interested in questions of the spirit. Many people living in these circumstances can feel isolated; some even have the impression that there is something wrong with them. They might feel uneasy and feel that they do not fit in. A network, like the Tree of Life, brings these people together. The feeling of community makes it clear that they are not alone, that there is nothing wrong with them and that they actually ask the right questions, even when the majority might think differently (or not). The way I see the Tree of Life network is like a big beacon of light, a bonfire, in the heart of Birmingham. It shines and has shone steadily over the last seven years. It even became stronger and more professional as the time went by. What does it make shine so brightly? When we look closer at this beacon, we can actually see it is actually made up from a number of different individual lights – though the beacon itself is much bigger and stronger than the sum of all the lights together. There are big lights full of inspiration and such an abundance of love and wisdom that draw other lights to them. They help others to shine brighter and contribute their own individual sparkles and twinkles to the whole. These are the motivational speakers who share their insights of different aspects of life with us, giving us a broader perspective and the opportunity to accelerate our own development. There are other big lights whose hearts are full of appreciation for what they hear and what they can learn. In turn they go out into the world and inspire others by their presence, by the amount of their growth or their readiness to move forward. And finally, there are those big lights who understand the importance of having a spiritual network and dedicate their life to it. They are interested in their own but also in other people’s spiritual development and their commitment is so strong that they make it happen. These are people like Markéta and Joginder, who do not only bring worldclass inspirational teachers to Birmingham but also empower others to do the same. As a consequence, the ‘spiritual scene’ in Birmingham is alive, vibrant and going very strong.
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Inspirational Events Calendar 2015 Lucinda Drayton
Graham Hancock
Barefoot Doctor
Rebecca Campbell
Tim Wheater & Cherub Sanson
TALKS & CONCERTS JUN 5 JUN 12 JUN 19 JUL 3 JUL 17 JUL 31 SEP 4 SEP 18 OCT 16 OCT 23 NOV 6 NOV 13 NOV 20 DEC 4
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Change Your Words, Change Your World The Science of High Frequency Why Intuitive-Sensitive People Need Purpose Imagining a New Humanity Light Is the New Black Naked Heart: Love Songs for New World Concert Magicians of the Gods Into the Light – The Power of Star Magic Wild Sanctuary Concert Super Healing The New High Vibration Chakras Holistic Business Growth An Evening Concert with Lucinda Sounds Divine Festive Concert Dr Joanna Martin
Dr Menis Yousry
ANDREA GARDNER TRACEY ASH HEIDI SAWYER PETER OWEN JONES REBECCA CAMPBELL CHLOË GOODCHILD GRAHAM HANCOCK JERRY SARGEANT NIGEL SHAW & CAROLINE BAREFOOT DOCTOR JUDY HALL NICK JAMES LUCINDA DRAYTON TIM WHEATER & CHERUB Alex Pope & Sjanie Wurlitzer
Dr William Bloom
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Metatronic Healing High Frequency Genius Power of Live Food for Vitality & Longevity The Angels of Atlantis Numerology: Open Your Eyes & See How to Teach Wellbeing Benefits of Spirituality Unleashing Your True Feminine Potential Find Your Voice - Transform Your Life The Sexy Raw Food 6-week Course, Level I. The Sexy Raw Food A-Z Glow Weekend AUTUMN TREE OF LIFE FESTIVAL! The Feminine Way to Wealth Crystals for Raising Kundalini Two Days of Divinity The Essence Process Weekend Reclaim Your Feminine Power
C GLENNON & R FARMER TRACEY ASH DR BRIAN CLEMENT STEWART PEARCE SONIA DUCIE DR WILLIAM BLOOM DR JOANNA MARTIN CHLOË GOODCHILD MARKÉTA BOLA MARKÉTA BOLA MANY SPEAKERS & STANDS DR JOANNA MARTIN JUDY HALL JERRY SARGEANT DR MENIS YOUSRY ALEX POPE & SJANIE W.
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Spirituality is great for your health & wellbeing But this is just a short article and not a university paper. So let me trot you quickly through the key points that I feel you should know.
by Dr William Bloom
HOW IT ALL WORKS Pioneered by Dr Harold Koenig of Duke University there is an enormous body of research that now demonstrates the benefits of spirituality and religion. In just one paper published by his colleagues eight decades of rigorous research was reviewed. The results were staggeringly clear. Believers performed better, had better health and lived longer. Lived longer! There’s a clear health benefit! The big question of course is how these benefits are actually achieved. What is going on physiologically and psychologically?
Spirituality is a crucial part of good health and wellbeing. The most important global authority, the World Health Organisation, has an inspiring statement in its constitution. Health is a dynamic state of complete physical, mental, spiritual and social well-being. But there are some important questions. What do we mean by ‘spiritual’? How does it actually affect health and wellbeing? Is there any evidence and science? It is really important that we be able to answer those questions. Many of us instinctively know that spirituality benefits our health, but most of us do not know how or why. The World Health Organisation is not the only major organisation that recognizes the importance of spirituality The UK Royal College of Psychiatrists has stated: All health care tries to relieve pain and to cure but good health care tries to do more. Spirituality emphasizes the healing of the person, not just the disease. You will find similar statements too from other key bodies such as the Royal College of Nursing and the General Medical Council. That healthcare professionals are aware of spirituality’s importance is not surprising. Medicine and nursing arose out of spiritual environments — abbeys, monasteries, convents, sacred herb gardens, temples and groves of healing. But as many of us know there is also scepticism about spirituality. The rise of modern science began an attitude of judging all religion and spirituality as superstitious and irrational. I experienced this for example with my atheistic parents. They were so disoriented by my spirituality that when I took a two-year spiritual retreat they pretended to their friends that I had gone away on a tax dodge!
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Essentially we are looking at the intimate connections between the brain, the nervous system, the heart, gut and endocrine system. Spirituality guides people into certain attitudes, behaviours and practices which have profound affects on the neuroendocrinal system. Today’s biological science provides a clear method for describing how this happens and the results: • Reduced stress hormones (adrenalin, cortisol) •H igher levels of beneficial hormones (endorphins, oxytocin) • Breath and heart rhythm brought into coherence • Balanced gut flora • Stronger immune system All of which are effective in preventing illnesses such as • Asthma • Diabetes • Obesity • Headaches • Gastrointestinal problems • Alzheimer’s • Accelerated aging • Premature death WHAT WE NEED TO DO We then have to understand what it is that spiritual people actually do that works so benevolently through the mind and body. Here are a few of the crucial elements that spill over into health and wellbeing benefits. It might be interesting for you to tick off which ones you do. Life Style First, spirituality tends to guide us into a more selfregulated life style that is obviously good for our health. These life style elements may include:
It is obviously good to be able to back up our enjoyment of spirituality with some actual evidence and science.
• Better diet • Balanced rhythm of rest, work and play • Time in nature • Movement, dance and exercise • Community of friends • Compassion and caring towards self and others
Fortunately there is indeed a rigorously researched evidence base and science. In my own book The Endorphin Effect I made my first effort at explaining how spiritual practice actually lands in the body via the neuro-endocrinal system. There are now hundreds of good books that explore the mindbody connection and the science of psycho-neuroimmunology (PNI.) In fact the science and evidence are so clear today that I am currently preparing a university module entitled Health, Wellbeing and Spirituality: Theory and Practice for nurses, doctors and other workers in health and social care.
Psychology Spirituality also gives us a way of interpreting life that is full of meaning. Even when we might be ill or down on our luck it provides an understanding that is reassuring and meaningful. Spirituality explains that our lives are a path of ongoing growth towards greater compassion and connection with the sacred. Through this our sense of self is not dependent on status, material possessions and the behaviour of others. Our connection with the wonder and energy of life — call it God, Goddess, Tao, Source or whatever — is more important than our status
in society. Existential angst is reduced. Life has real meaning and hope. This spiritual attitude cascades through the neuroendocrinal system reducing stress, boosting good hormones and so on. Spiritual Practices There are also many self-regulating activities that are part of spirituality and which have important beneficial physical and psychological effects. I tend to divide them into three types: Connection, Reflection and Service. Connection is all about connecting with the wonder and energy of life. There is a rich variety of ways in which people can do this. They include: meditation, prayer, dance, chant, ceremony, solitude, landscape, shamanism, conscious movement, fasting and so on. When people experience this connection — whether it is just a subtle knowing or a more ecstatic peak experience — it is psychologically deeply strengthening and inspiring. This spills over into beneficial physical effects. Reflection is how people choose to take regular periods of quiet contemplative time to look at their lives and guide their development. This includes being a compassionate witness to oneself, the ‘inner smile’, inner dialogue, deep honesty and selfhealing. Mindfulness is just one of many meditation practices that helps us be reflective and brings a calming influence into our body. Service in a spiritual context is guiding our lives so that we benefit the people and world around us. Again modern science shows that behaving compassionately to others, even if our motive is totally pure and even self-sacrificing, has beneficial physiological effects. There are also other spiritual practices such as prayer and healing which also work through the mind-body system to support our health. Community Benefits And just in case you have a few cynical brain cells that think this is all a bit self-serving, there is overwhelming evidence that spirituality also spills over to benefit the community. Spiritual people tend to be more conscious of ethics and the interdependence of all life. Spiritual teachings are famous for their calls to charity, generosity of spirit and the golden rule — do unto others as you would have done unto yourself. At a very local level this plays out in better neighbourliness, community building, higher levels of social responsibility and charitable giving. In the jargon it all builds ‘social capital.’ From this brief overview I hope you are inspired and that you grasp what powerful and inspiring evidence there is for the huge health and wellbeing benefits of spirituality. Building on all this evidence, my personal hope is that in a few years time spirituality becomes as normal a part of a health conversation as diet and exercise. I can imagine the conversations. Are you eating well? Are you getting enough exercise? And how are you getting on with your spirituality? If you want to learn more about this work come to William’s ground-breaking workshop on Saturday 11 July in Birmingham at the Tree of Life when he will take you more deeply into all this material especially the key practices that support health and wellbeing. www.williambloom.com
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. - Henry David Thoreau
Have You Found Your Authentic Voice? hidden shy voice, or are they outspoken with the masses? Do you have a still voice, that nourishes and calms all your senses?
by Chloë Goodchild
Chloë Goodchild is an international singer and innovative educator. She is the founder of The Naked Voice (1990), dedicated to the transforming practice of self-awareness and conscious communication skills, through spoken and sung voice. Deafness in childhood catalysed Chloë’s discovery of inner sound and silence. This deep encounter with her authentic self inspired a lifetime of experiential research into the voice as one of humanity’s most untapped resources for personal and global evolution and transformation. Chloë has twice sung for HH Dalai Lama and was the music director and composer of The Vagina Monologues with acclaimed playwrite Eve Ensler. Her world anthem, Singing Field, was performed at the Royal Opera House London. www.thenakedvoice.com “Chloë’s subtle voice work opens the heart. She is a spectacular genius of this teaching art. She is at the core of a fascinating phenomenon that is allowing individuals to find their truth and freedom through the creative process of voice and sound.” —Coleman Barks, author of Rumi: Soul Fury “Chloë’s work is joyful and a source of liberation. Singing with Chloë is a way of returning to original mind. She shows us how to find our authentic voice. It is the voice we need to sing out from and save this dazzlingly beautiful world.” —China Galland, author of The Bond between Women and Love Cemetery ‘The person who has found the keynote of his own life has found the key of his own life.’ —Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Mysticism of Music, Sound and Word How do you feel about your voice? Does your voice express who you are and what you really want to say? Does your voice express the real you? What do you most love about your voice? When is your voice most hidden and unexpressed, and when is it most alive and authentic? I am not just asking about your singing voice, I am inquiring about your everyday voice in all its forms. The voice you use at home, the voice you present at work, your social entertainer and diva voice, the voice that lets rip in the shower or the car. Maybe you are a voice of protest, an urgent activist, a change-maker, a revolutionary voice? Maybe you never speak up at all? And what about your voices of longing ? When and with whom do they show up? Do they hang out in the shadows with your
Research shows that more than two thousand messages move through the brain even before words come out of one’s mouth. People pick up on these unspoken voices inside us, carried in the vibration and tone of what we say. So many voices, and yet most of them conceal a deeper longing to be seen and heard, not just for what we have achieved, but simply for who we truly are. Our personality habits are sustained by lifelong, takenfor-granted assumptions about what is good and bad, right and wrong. This hypnosis of the mind derives from a life of inhibition, separateness, unfulfilled dreams, fear, and a belief that duality is the only reality, leaving us no choice but to spend our lives struggling between pleasure-pain, success-failure, happiness-sadness, win-lose. However, there is a deeper, wiser you behind the warring polarities of your rational mind and egoself. This deeper you is found in the landscape of your soul. Your soul is your unconditioned self, the messenger of your spirit, and it is forever free and unaffected by everyday survival and stress. As the great Sufi mystic and poet Rumi has said, your soul is simply here for its own joy, and it is most easily accessed through your heart rather than your head. Which is why getting out of your head and into your heart makes communicating so much easier. It’s essential. Sounding or singing offers a fast and effective way to open your heart and embody what you really want to communicate. Despite what your mind would have you believe, your soul loves to sing. Your authentic singing voice is the muscle and mouthpiece of your soul. As unique as your fingerprint and DNA, your soul has a melody, a rhythm, and a resonance that is yours alone. And YOU are the only one who can embody your voice. Your true or naked voice reveals who you really are. Expressing your soul song is easy if you are willing to listen, to hear, and to acknowledge it without judgment. Once heard, your soul song will take you on the journey of your life beyond social conditioning and all your self-limiting beliefs of right-wrong doing. It’s an adventurous journey supported by new communication skills, inspiring a metamorphosis, from bug to butterfly, from entropy to syntropy, from a fear-driven persona to a transparent, courageous, compassionate human being resonating with the energies of unconditional love. “Chloë has perfected a unique and empowering vocal technique accessible to everyone. In all my research with nonviolent and creative communication skills, I have never experienced this ability to effortlessly generate such a range and depth of human feeling and expression with such spontaneity, courage, and compassion. Chloë is dedicated to recovering the wisdom of the human spirit, in a way that is profound and unique for our times.”— Scilla Elworthy, PhD, Niwano Peace Prize Winner and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, author of Pioneering the Possible.
Find Your Voice – Transform Your Life A Rare Concert & Book Launch with Weekend Workshop with Voice Pioneer, Singer & Sound Visionary Chloe Goodchild Chloe will be celebrating her new book, hot-offthe-press, and performing in concert with her daughter Rebecca Nash, eclectic jazz pianist; and sharing the fruits of her life’s work as founder of The Naked Voice. You will be able to take away a signed copy of Chloe new book celebrating her pioneering life’s work – The Naked Voice – Transform Your Life Through the Power of Sound. The Friday evening concert will reveal uplifting new songs and soul sound - the original spoken and sung music from Naked Heart, Chloe’s first album with Rebecca Nash, her daughter. During the weekend workshop, Chloe Goodchild will introduce you to the ‘singing field’, a sound meeting place, where you will find your authentic voice through simple listening skills that will transform your life through the power of your own unique sound. Your naked voice is the sound of YOU. Its the muscle of your soul, the voice of your personal identity, authority and presence. Your naked voice not only empowers you, but also your relationships and your true ‘vocation’. As you learn to shift your focus from ‘impressing’ others, to ‘expressing’ your true self, you will access the spontaneous flow between your rational head and intuitive heart, your speaking voice and singing soul. You will discover the ‘seamless’ voice of your soul supported by The Naked Voice personal, interpersonal and transpersonal communication skills. Over the weekend we will explore three key themes central to Chloe’s new book. “The Naked Voice-Transform Your Life through the Power of Sound”, and her indepth Trainings. Sound Awareness - Transform your Listening Sound Intelligence - Transform Your Communication Sound Wisdom - Transform Your Life You will take away a range of supportive deep listening skills, vocal practices, energy movements, devotional songs, love poems and sacred chants, to catalyse a fresh self-awareness in your everyday life. Come and enjoy this interconnected field. Discover your whole life as music!
Fri 31 July 2015 Concert 7.15pm – 9.30pm (doors open 6.45pm) Tickets: £10 Early Bird for the first 30 people to book (£15 thereafter) Venue: St Columba Church Chantry Rd, Moseley, Birmingham B13 8DJ
Sat 1 & Sun 2 August 2015 Workshop 10.30am – 4.30pm each day (doors open 10am) Tickets: £100 Early Bird for the first 10 people to book (£134 thereafter) Venue: Birmingham Buddhist Centre 11 Park Rd, Moseley, Birmingham B13 8AB
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. - Rumi
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Angelic Conversation An Angelic Bridge Between the Worlds through the light of supernatural healing that burns through their loving assistance, suffering turns into freedom, the long dark of the night of the soul transforms into the light of dawn, and woe elevates to joy.
by Stewart Pearce
Divine Source offers us profound assistance through this summit conference of the twelve mighty Angels of Atlantis, for these Orb Wanderers are supremely aware of the spiritual transformation taking place on planet Earth. They oversee the miraculous. They bring on the magic. They help us change the illusion of falsehood, to the transparency of truth. They transmit such a powerful celestial energy that immediately inspires us to make emotionally mature choices, shifting us from the love of power to the power of love.
A Conversation with the Angels Of Atlantis - And So It Is In Heavenwith the Angel Visionary STEWART PEARCE Have you ever been hugged by an Angel? Have you ever actually seen or felt an Angel? Does Angelology fascinate you? Did you know you have a Guardian Angel?
Legendary Sound Healer, Master of Voice, Angel Medium – Stewart Pearce was the Head of Voice at the Webber Douglas Academy London from 1980-1997, helped pioneer Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre between 1997-2010, and has coached luminaries such as Simon Callow, Matthew Goode, Hugh Bonneville, Mark Rylance, Minnie Driver, Vanessa Redgrave, Margaret Thatcher, Diana, Princess of Wales, and the LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC Bid, to name just a few.
Why are there so many Angels around at this time of vast Global change? Do Angels have a specific job, and can they help us create abundance? Have you ever met the Angels of Atlantis? These are a few of the mind-altering questions the Angels of Atlantis will be asking you during this unique workshop of inspirational conversation with the Angel Medium - Stewart Pearce.
Stewart has published “Angels and the Keys to Paradise”, “The Angels of Atlantis” Book & Oracle, “The Angelic Heart Sigils Oracle”, “The Hearts Note” and “The Alchemy of Voice”, alongside several award-winning recordings, such as the “ANGELS OF ATLANTIS SOUL CALLS”. www.thealchemyofvoice.com
Please come along and experience your own sacred coordinates introduced to us by the Angels, such as envisioning yourself co-creating with the Cosmos. These twelve degrees we open a profound field of love and abundance that will help you expand to uncompromising joy, creativity, vitality and wonder.
www.theangelsofatlantis.com Millennia have come and gone, legends have lived and lasted, and vastly divergent civilizations have risen and fallen. Yet the eternal jewels of love and compassion have endured, for they are the sacred lodestones of our lives, they are the vital compasses that move us forward when all else is lost. When established order changes, these jewels persevere as beacons of exquisite light, so as to remind us of who we truly are. For when we allow love and compassion to flow from our hearts and minds, we vibrate with peace, joy, empathy and truth. When we allow our hearts to open their treasure store, their instinctual gifts reign supreme. To guide us from any mortal disharmony into divine transcendence the Angels of Atlantis come - for they bring the strength of an old love to bear, they bring alchemy, with the understanding that force on Planet Earth exists in duality, until finally we shift our consciousness to the higher dimensions, where ALL IS ONE. Right now
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The conviction of their story pours through my love and passion, as I bring the Angel’s teaching to the fore concerning the transformative nature of sacred sound, and how their series of sacred coordinates come to stir our experience of life, allowing us to remember how richly abundant our lives can actually be. For they know how to inspire us to express our creativity through love and joy via chant and speech. They know that we each have a signature sound, which is the song of our soul. They know how to guide us to heal through harmony. They know how to open transcendental corridors of light that meet further dimensions of Light, and eventually lead us to the shining ones, who edify us into becoming better people.
Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. - Author Unknown
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Pregnancy as a Spiritual Live Practice by Markéta Bola When going to see Mother Meera, the incarnation of the divine Mother, and receiving her Darshan, a transmission of pure ‘Love, Light & Grace‘, I was asked by the man behind the table at reception how long I have to go, meaning when is my due date... I replied with a smile ‘Just a couple of weeks‘. And he quickly said ‘Looks like a couple of minutes!‘ Experiencing being a pregnant woman, just the one litte human expecting & carrying another tiny human being in the smallest version of a kind is truly the most amazing feeling and real identification of my life. Being a woman, wife, daughter, grandaugther, sister, auntie, friend, student and teacher has had certainly many intimate recognitions... Yet mother-to-be (any minute) brought another dimension of seeing the world as the place with possibilities of a supreme awakening reality with clear instructions. ‘A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.’ ~ Carl Sandburg Here are some of the Spiritual Live Practices for a NEW BORN LIFE: I can tell you honestly that I worked hard on these below for years but only the physical change of my body, mind & consciousness stripped of alot of the stuck everyday level of awareness has made the real difference. 1. Doubting vs Doubling the Trust: There is a powerful stage in the ‘Dynamic Meditation‘ created by Osho, the Indian enlightened master, where after exhausted physical activities you are ordered to ‘STOP‘ and be still for a while. Just being still and waiting. Simply wait, nothing to do and nowhere to go is one of life‘s vital phases and God’s plan for us to trust the process when important changes need to happen. To have revealed the next new doors requires patience, trusting & tuning-in. It’s like everything in nature that comes in seasons and for reasons. Most of us on a spiritual journey, understand that even challenges have their good purposes and messages but we need to enter our inner silence and alertness to get into the essence of the meaning. ‘Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.’ ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. Letting Go of Control & Allowing Control to Let Go of You: This will sound crazy, but I couldn’t get out of my controlling issues for ages until I became pregnant. I just stopped caring about many things that would normally drive me mad, and I would keep trying to control, fix or change in an im-possible way. Not anymore. In fact, there is an inner observer within me that keeps being entertained by my attitude that is so different to before. ‘Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.‘ ~ John Wilmot 3. Shift of Priorities - the Shaking & Changing of Physical Things: Sometimes nonsense making all-in efforts to shake and move the old patterns and thinking open up the Universe to a lot of common sense. We tried everything, many holistic, many wierd and also the normal stuff to shift our energy. Just being willing and listen – the God’s speaking all the time. ‘When you’re sure you’re right, you’re stuck with what you already know.’ ~ Bowen White, MD The importance of the physical comfort, security and resting space in your home can be transformational. We put our house in order last year and claimed about 50% of our space used for work or storage back to us for joy & relaxation. By getting a new sofa to have a space to chill and enjoy ‘our‘ time we attracted more social life too. Making our bedroom complete with a proper bed and all new cupboards we created an expansive adult platform to invite a new identity. ‘When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.’ ~ Tuli Kupferberg 4. Nesting and Connecting with Family & Friends: We took two months off and went to India, just to consciously slow down, unwind and spent good quality time with each other. Both our families were hoping and longing for quite a long time for us to have a baby. My sister’s admission of giving up on us going for a baby was a little shocking but then I was touched by her true happiness and kind support during the last few months especially. Lots of help, inspiration, sweet advices and wisdom came through our close ones - from both family
and friends. One of the key messages via different voices was how indescribable it is to experience pregnancy and being a parent on this Earth as the ‘highest spiritual experience ever‘. ‘By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he’s wrong.‘ ~ Charles Wadsworth 5. Peace, Gratitude & Blessings: When acknowledging the sacred state of being pregnant, the whole perspective of life feels different. A few resisting and so called ‘sabotaging‘ mechanisms might come up initially - like trying to keep going as before and wanting to make only small adjustments in everyday life, work and social time. It’s the mind that can be tricky! Fortunately the body is much wiser and so the brain has to become more liberal. And the soul is completely in a state of bliss, inner peace & greatness! ‘Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings.’ ~ Marianne Williamson 6. Surrender Into the Flow & Co-Create Within the ‘Whole-Isness‘: It’s like you transmit all your Self to the higher Self & at the same time, to the smallest new Self – to the baby. From the start, I noticed that having a baby inside me is a new way of responding to the world. To describe it in a few words: simplicity, being guided & all is well and just perfect as it is. As a matter of fact, seeing the perfection in imperfection is an utterly blissful insight indeed. ’Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.’ ~ George Bernard Shaw Markéta is the Sexy Raw Food Goddess & an Intuitive Inner Guide. She is a natural nutritionist and raw living food chef who runs raw food classes, workshops and dining experiences.
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Dr. Brian Clement has spent more than three decades studying nutrition and natural healthcare. He has received graduate degrees in both naturopathic medicine and nutritional science. Since 1980, he has directed the Hippocrates Health Institute in Florida - the complementary healing centre that was voted ‘no 1 medical spa in the world’ by the prestigious Spa Magazine. Over the years Brian has assumed the role of a health advocate, motivating a very eager public to take action to improve their lives. In his role as a progressive educator, Brian has conducted countless seminars, lectures, and educational programs, travelling extensively to more than 25 countries around the globe. In recent years he has been commissioned by government-supported organizations to establish, organize, and direct health programs in Denmark, Switzerland, Greece, and India. Brian has also written numerous books in which he explores the various aspects of health, spirituality, and natural healing.
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