Whole Person Calendar - April 2010 by Whole Person Calendar

hen it comes to the media, green is definitely a selling point. But, what does it really mean to go “green”? More than recycling these days, or buying certain products, it may mean going deeper, and asking some important questions. Like, how do we live in a more sustainable, conscious way? How do we become more compassionate, realizing our connection to the web of life, and how do we express this awareness in our everyday lives? In this issue, we have an article about one man’s experience of a retreat with author and teacher, Joanna Macy, whose work is designed to reconnect us to this web of life, and to recognize both our grief for what has been lost, as well as our hopes for a brighter future. We also look at the issue of “green” investing, with financial planner Gregory Wendt, and Steve Sprinkel-- entrepreneur, farmer, philosopher, and writer-- shares his perspectives on reverence for all lifeforms. The new health column continues with an update about the McCain supplement bill and The Healthy Foodie brings attention to the delicious and healing Spring bounty. We are glad to share these different takes on what it means to be part of the green solution; we wish you a healthy and happy Spring. –The Whole Person Team THE

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Joanna Macy: The Work That Reconnects - by Dennis Rivers Sustainable and Responsible Investing - by Gregory Wendt

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Joanna Macy: The Work That Reconnects

by Dennis Rivers

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ow will I go on?” I ask myself, as I drive up the long road to the retreat center on the hillside. I am here to spend a week with the multitalented Joanna Macy; scholar, writer, translator of Rilke, ecological activist, and spiritual teacher. Perhaps I will find out.

The Work That Reconnects

Early on in our time together, we do the Elm Dance; holding hands, swaying, moving in circles, singing along with the music, lifting our arms up toward the sky, kneeling down and reaching toward the earth; all symbolic gestures of reconnecting: In spite of my best efreconnecting with one anforts over the past thirty other, and reconnecting years, the world is not bewith the Earth of which we coming a happier place. Evare an expression. The melery hour on planet Earth, a ody is haunting and sounds thousand people starve to vaguely Eastern European. death (three quarters of (I learn later that it originatthem children,) elephants ed in Latvia.) In the late and people step on Viet1980s, Joanna introduced nam-era landmines in the Elm Dance as a practice Southeast Asia, and children of reconnecting in commuin faraway countries are nities across the swath of terborn with birth defects from ritory that had been conthe long-lived dust of weaptaminated with radioactive ons I helped to pay for: deash and dust from the Cherpleted uranium munitions in Iraq and Agent Orange Portrait of Joanna Macy by Rob Shetterly from the exhibit, “Americans Who Tell the Truth” nobyl meltdown. The people downwind of the meltdown were, and still are, living through an defoliant in Vietnam. The Earth heats up and species die -- I won’t go ongoing, slow-motion catastrophe of cancer and birth defects that is on with this catalog of sorrows. I am sure you could add a hundred beyond any straightforward fixing or healing. This new idea echoes items to the list. Meanwhile a chorus of strange voices reassures me down the hallways of my mind, how to stay human in the middle of that everything is perfect just the way it is; it is just my attitude that is an ongoing, slow-motion catastrophe. It actually takes a couple of out of whack. Other voices tell me that the magic of the market would months for the meaning of the dance to sink in for me: we are all fix it all, and whisper the latest stock tip in my ear. Stop resisting what downwind of the troubles. We are all living through an ongoing, slowis, Dennis. motion catastrophe called the industrial growth society. And our first Into the blizzard of my confusion walks Joanna Macy, Berkeley challenge is to stay human, to stay open to one another, to not shut eco-philosopher with deep eyes that remind me of a 95-year-old Nadown, not withdraw, not space out, not numb out, not freak out, not vajo grandmother. There is a way, she says to all of us. We will explore cop out. However understandable those responses would be, they will it together. You have resources within you that you have not yet only make our very difficult situation even more difficult. Take the touched. Life calls you to become courageous and compassionate hand of the person next to you, add your voice to the song. One of guardians of the earth and all her creatures. The Web of Life is a web the deepest gifts we have to give to one another is also one of the simof connections. I offer you the work that reconnects. plest: “You are not alone, I am here beside you.”

Begin with Gratitude Joanna introduces us to what she calls “the spiral of the work.” If there is a strength within us that we could open to, what would be the first step of such an opening? For Joanna, the first step is gratitude. My mind fills up with paraphrases of St. Francis of Assisi: Let us give thanks for the warmth of the sun, let us give thanks for the light of the moon, let us give thanks for the laughter of children echoing down the street. In spite of everything that is going desperately wrong in the world, it is still possible to be amazed and grateful for the gift of your own existence. Although at first glance gratitude would seem to require some positive event, Joanna wants us to explore deeper levels of gratitude that are not conditioned by external circumstances. We are continually bombarded with intensely manipulative messages that we are “not good enough” in some way that can only be fixed by buying a specific product. The practice of gratitude, according to Joanna, is a revolutionary act, the soul’s repudiation of the central “I shop therefore I am” dogma of consumer society. That dogma has two unhappy effects: it fills the world up with junk and it turns people away from their own hearts. There are dimensions of life, such as friendship, meditation, and closeness to nature, that can be cultivated and appreciated, but they cannot be bought. This gets me to thinking about the “walk in beauty” tradition of the Dine (Navajo) people. Perhaps the more pain we are going to encounter, the more beauty we need to open ourselves toward. In my mind, gratitude is entwined with beauty in a way that I can’t explain, but I can feel the deep connection. This could be part, I scribble a note to myself, of a survival kit for living more compassionately in the middle of a slow-motion catastrophe.

their fears with the help of the stone, their rage with the help of the stick, and their powerlessness with the help of the empty bowl, we in the surrounding circle answer, “I hear you,” and “I am with you.” (Looking back on this experience, I am struck by how much this is an ecological transformation of the ritual of confession. Not, “Father I have sinned...” but instead, “Sisters and brothers, I need to tell you things that I somehow can’t say to anyone else.”) The purpose of this exercise, Joanna explains, is not simply to discharge pent-up emotions. Nor is it about achieving the sort of catharsis or working through that would allow a person to let go of their painful feelings and move their attention to other concerns in their life. Joanna is fiercely determined to show us a different way. Your pain for the world, she insists, arises out of your love for the world and your deep connection to the web of life. Your pain for the world is neither a mistake to be corrected nor an illness to be cured. The way forward does not consist of getting rid of your pain. The way forward is to enter deeply into the heart of your pain for the world, and to discover the powerful love that is hidden there. Energized by that love, you will find new ways to join with others and participate in the healing of the world around you. In relation to all the feelings mapped by the four quadrants, Joanna invites us into a transformational re-framing of our pain. Your rage, she says, is coming out of your love of justice. Honor your love of justice and reaffirm it! The anguish of powerlessness that you feel comes directly out of your deep love for everybody. Honor your anguish and reaffirm your love! As I listen to Joanna explain the exercise and travel with us through it, I am struck by what a radical teacher she is. Against a giant chorus of voices, books, videos and seminars telling us that everything is perfect just as it is, telling us that all we have to do is change our attitude and we won’t feel bad any more, Joanna invites us to expand our heart-mind to include both joy and sorrow, and to increase our capacity to experience both as we take up the great task of healing our wounded world. The sharing session lasts about two hours, and I find myself feeling incredibly close to this circle of people, burdened as we may be with the sorrows of an unraveling planet. I go out to sit in the sun for a while and see what sense I can make out of Joanna’s reframing of feelings, in terms of everything else I know about her life and thought. As spiritual teacher, Joanna stands inside of both Christianity and Buddhism. Her grandfather and great-grandfather were Presbyterian ministers, and her spiritual life first took shape inside the forms of Protestant Christianity. As an adult, Joanna has made a deep exploration of Buddhist thought and practice, especially among Sri Lankans and Tibetans. Within the framework of Buddhism, Joanna invites us to become Shambala Warriors, guardians of the integrity of life, armed with karuna and prajna (compassion and wisdom) arising from our original nature of Buddhamind and infinite connectedness, such original nature empowering us to hold in our hearts the pain of all sentient beings for the sake of helping them. Accepting pain as part of the human predicament gives us a calm courage, we no longer need to hide or to flee, because we understand it would not do any good. In both traditions, Joanna would probably be seen as a feminist radical because of the way she focuses on the forms of emotional pain that grow out of caring for others, rather than seeing human suffering as exclusive byproduct of attachment (Buddhism), or exclusively a consequence of

There are dimensions of life, such as friendship, meditation, and closeness to nature, that can be cultivated and appreciated, but they cannot be bought.

A Transformative Vision of Suffering Joanna walks across the meeting area and traces, with her steps, the four quadrants of a medicine wheel. This becomes a mandala of truth telling, a place to express the feelings that the captains of our sinking ecological ship don’t want to hear, and perhaps that we ourselves don’t want to hear. In the first quadrants, she places dead leaves; these will represent our grief and sorrow. In the second quadrant, she places a stone the size of your hand; this will represent our unspoken fear and how easy it is to become immobilized by it. In the third quadrant, she places a strong stick, about a yard long and perhaps an inch and a half in diameter; this will represent the rage we feel when we look at mountains covered with stumps or schools robbed to pay for aircraft carriers. In the fourth quadrant, she places an empty wooden bowl; this will represent our desperate sense of insufficiency, of being powerless to protect the people and the animals and the Earth we love. She marks the center of the circle with a large handkerchief made of four colored squares. Then, she turns to us, and invites us, one by one, to come into this circle and share a set of feelings that are beyond the boundaries of ordinary conversations. The grief comes in many forms, and the four emotions blend into complex chords. A parent laments, “no matter what I do, I can’t protect my children from the culture of violence and consumerism in which we live. Even if we don’t have a TV in our house, the kids will see endless murders and advertisements on someone else’s TV.” As each person confesses their grief with the help of the leaves,

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SUSTAINABLE AND RESPONSIBLE INVESTING:

How Your Money Can Help You and the World by Gregory Wendt, CFP

n the past few years, our financial system has been rocked to its core. Belief in profitdriven motives as the sole metrics of performance has been fundamentally shaken. Our perception of risk have been forever altered, and our economy is shifting toward a new foundation. Traditionally, investments are made with one, and only one, measure in mind -- how much money does the investment return? Every investment is considered for its financial return potential, yet financial return should not be the only metric for success. In today’s world, investing processes must take into consideration the impact on the environment, the individuals employed, the communities involved, the climate, biodiversity issues, and a host of other factors. One of my clients, I’ll call her Terrie, is an anti-tobacco educator for colleges across California. She’s devoted to her job and has a talent for helping young people recognize the perils of smoking. That’s why she was appalled when she learned that every one of her mutual funds held large investments in tobacco stocks. For Terrie, the revelation that her investment portfolio conflicted with her personal values is what sent her to my office and marked the beginning of her interest and inquiry in socially and environmentally responsible investing. Another client of mine, Mary, is pleased that now her “money is where her mouth is.” Mary, a successful television actress, is very active in supporting environmental groups and progressive causes. For years, her advisor was a family stockbroker at a major brokerage firm. On a number of occasions, she raised her concerns about companies in her portfolio that depleted natural resources and befouled the earth. Mary encouraged her advisor to find investments and mutual funds that were socially and environmentally responsible. Throughout the relationship, the broker derided her concerns; he dismissed such requests and advised her that sustainable and responsible investment strategies were inferior. Eventually Mary got fed up. She came to me seeking someone who would not only listen to her concerns, but also help her to earn competitive returns on her portfolio. Mary says she is pleased that her wealth is not only growing, but it is also helping to fuel positive change in the in corporate America and having an impact through community development investments she has made. Her investments, she says, are

now safeguarding her family’s welfare – and the planet’s. Mary and Terrie aren’t alone. The trend toward sustainable investing, also known as socially responsible investing (SRI), began in the 1960s, as people began to shun companies like Dow Chemical that profited from the manufacture of napalm for the Vietnam War. The movement to sell off “sin stocks” gained momentum in the 1980s. A growing number of investors found it unconscionable to hold stocks in companies that did business in apartheid South Africa. Success

Your investments can convey your values and concerns to top mangement, thus changing the way that major corporations impact their employees, our communities and the natural environment. with helping to end apartheid inspired socially responsible investors to turn their attention to other issues, such as protecting the environment and promoting fair labor practices. One faith-based institutional investor on the East coast, alone, leverages its $90 billion in assets to make better corporate citizens out of companies as large and powerful as Exxon Mobil, Chevron and General Electric. Today, one out of every eight dollars under professional management in the U.S. is part of a values-based portfolio. In 2007, the Social Investment Forum reported that socially responsible investments in the U.S. totaled more than $2.71 trillion in total assets under management using one or more of the three core socially responsible investing strategies—screening, shareholder advocacy, and community

investing. About one out of every ten dollars under professional management in the United States today is involved in socially responsible investing—11 percent of the $25.1 trillion in total assets under management.

How Can I Become A Socially Responsible Investor Responsibly minded investors align their portfolios with their values by selecting or excluding companies based on their values. For my client Terrie, her strong commitment to public health made her choice clear: dump all of her tobacco holdings. This is known as screening. Investors consider a host of values when determining what companies to invest in – and what companies to avoid. Avoidance Screening is an option when a company or industry falls short of an investor’s values. Socially responsible investors consider a wide range of factors. For example, many responsible investors shun companies that manufacture or sell tobacco, alcohol, firearms, weapons or energy from nuclear power plants. Responsible investors might also exclude companies for any number of other reasons, such as companies with poor records of diversity in the workplace, shoddy environmental records or firms who do business with oppressive regimes, such as Burma. Affirmative Screening is the opposite approach. Responsible investors might seek out innovative companies that support their values and principles. Sometimes this takes the form of investing in companies in cutting-edge industries such as alternative energy or companies that market organic foods. It might also takes take the form of investing in companies or agencies that demonstrate a high level of commitment to the environment, workers rights or minority communities. Whether you know it or not, your money is talking. The question is, do you agree with what it is saying? A key factor in Sustainable and Responsible Investing is using the power of our voices to improve the way business is done. Through the shareholder process, your investments can convey your values and concerns to top management, thus changing the way that major corporations impact their employees, our communities and the natural environment. This is known as shareholder activism. This is very important because (continued on page 55)

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ADVANCED METAPHYSICAL HYPNOSIS COURSE, $695, offered only 3 times each year (Feb., June & Oct.). This is an information/technique rich and experiential course. Learn how to use hypnosis for past life regression, astral travel, spirit/angel contact, divination, body scanning for health, chakra and crystal healing. Open to hypnotherapists and non-hypnotherapists. Lotustar: Healing As Above and So Below, 323/632-0947, www.lotustar.net, email lotustarr@hotmail.com. AWAKEN THE LIGHT WITHIN, preregister for July 29-Aug. 1 event. Be the change you want to see in the world. Learn the liberating Sunburst Kriya Yoga meditation tool and discover the healing power of your personal relationship with the Divine. Sunburst Sanctuary, a community sanctuary for conscious living, 40 miles north of Santa Barbara, 805/736-6528, www.SunburstOnline.org. CLASSICAL FENG SHUI CLASSES will be offered in Santa Monica starting in June 2010. Module 1, Feng Shui Basics: This important

THURSDAY, APRIL 1 SOUL DANCE, let go and let God lead. Experience the Beloved as your dance partner at this free-form dance evening with spiritual moments interspersed. 7:30-9 pm. Free, donations welcome. Peace Awareness Labyrinth and Gardens, 3500 W. Adams Blvd, LA 90018. Contact Judy, 323/737-4055, ext. 1137, registrar@peacelabyrinth.org, www.peacelabyrinth.org. QUE LINDA BOUTIQUE/BODY ‘N SOUL STUDIO presents April events: Connecting to the Mineral Kingdom, Drum Circle, Youth Jam Circle, 55+ Soul Keepers, and much more. Find us on FaceBook at http://bit.ly/bJpMXq or visit www.quelindaboutique.com. 3610 & 3610-1/2 Foothill Blvd., La Crescenta 91214. 818/2497685, 818/541-0096. INFERTILITY, PMS, IRREGULAR PERIODS, DI-

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GESTIVE ISSUES? Experience the Maya Abdominal Massage, an external, non-invasive massage over the uterus, intestines, muscles of the diaphragm, back and sacrum incorporating traditional Mayan Healing for proper blood flow, lymph drainage and nerve signaling for resetting homeostasis, the natural balance of the body. Free consultation at Tao of Venus, www.taoofvenus.com, 310/775-3388.

Donna Byrns. A time of quiet contemplation, including a eulogy, based on “Jesus the Man” by Kahlil Gibran. Worship and grow at the Church of Truth with Christ-centered metaphysical teachings. Pasadena Church of Truth, A Center for Awakening Consciousness, inclusive of all World Religions, founded in 1924, 690 E Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, 626/795-6905, www. churchoftruth.org.

THE TAO OF TAROT, author Christina Bjergo discusses and signs her book, 7:30 pm. Info: www.TaoOfTarot.com. Bjergo reveals the tarot as keeper of the secret Taoist practice of Qigong and the “Way” to health, happiness and spiritual truth. Woven within the Major Arcana are little known wisdom teachings. Bodhi Tree Bookstore, 8585 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood 90069, 310/659-1733. www.bodhitree.com.

DATING & RELATIONSHIP PLAYSHOP FOR GODS & GODDESSES, 6-7:30 pm. Members learn to achieve egalitarian relationships and to respect, adore and cherish themselves (inner child) and their mates/spouses. Facilitated by Anthony Rogers, MSW, in Santa Monica. Call 310/386-1808 or email Lifecoachacr@aol.com for more information or to schedule an intake session.

WOMEN’S DIVORCE SUPPORT GROUP, meets Thursday evenings, facilitated by Shoshana Levine, LCSW, C.Ht., Lic. #CSW 24340. Whether you are contemplating a divorce, going through a divorce, or still dealing with the aftermath of a divorce, this group is for you. Learn how to embrace your divorce and become empowered in the process. See divorce as a journey towards healing and wholeness. 310/9987253. In Santa Monica. Please call to confirm.

HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU ARE ON A SPIRITUAL PATH? An MSIA video presentation, 7:309 pm, featuring John-Roger, Founder and Spiritual Advisor of MSIA. J-R reminds us the responsibility of our lives is squarely on our shoulders. If we want a different life, we have to create it. Free, donations welcome. Peace Awareness Labyrinth and Gardens, 3500 W. Adams Blvd, LA 90018. Contact Judy, 323/7374055, ext. 1137, registrar@peacelabyrinth.org, www.peacelabyrinth.org.

UNITY WEST READING GROUP, now reading and sharing the Unity classic, Discover the Power Within You by Eric Butterworth, an inspirational classic that has guided the way toward a faith that will serve humanity. Butterworth interprets the Gospel in a fresh context. Held every Thursday, 7-8 pm, all welcome, love offering basis. Unity West Church of Santa Monica, 1515 Maple St., Santa Monica 90405. 310/577-0000, www.unitywestchurch.org. REINVENTING THE BODY/RESURRECTING THE SOUL, by Deepak Chopra. Discussion led by Dr. Margie Ann Taylor-Black, 10 am, love offering. Encino Community Church, 7769 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Canoga Park, 818/712-9400. www.encinocommunitychurch.org. EVENING GROUP MEDITATION SERVICE, 7:30-8 pm, free. You are invited to our rural community sanctuary for evening meditation service. A tranquil time for reflection and rejuvenation. Free, call for directions. Sunburst Sanctuary, a community sanctuary for conscious living, 40 miles north of Santa Barbara, 805/736-6528, www.SunburstOnline.org. THE VORTEX, by Esther and Jerry Hicks, a discussion led by Dr. Margie Ann Taylor-Black. 11 am, love offering. Encino Community Church, 7769 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Canoga Park, 818/712-9400. www.ecchurchofcalif.org. SPECIAL THIS MONTH: $1200 OFF INVISALIGN CLEAR BRACES, the nearly invisible way to straighten your teeth. Call for a free consultation. Ray D. Partovy, DDS & Associates. Two locations: Marina del Rey, 310/822-3833, and Tarzana, 818/774-2121. www.makingusmile.com. ACHIEVE SACRED BALANCE by walking the Hopi Stone Labyrinth at the Sunburst Sanctuary, located on Hwy. 1, 5 miles from Hwy. 101 toward Lompoc. Sunburst Sanctuary, a community sanctuary for conscious living, 40 miles north of Santa Barbara, 805/736-6528, www. SunburstOnline.org.

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BASIC DNA THETA HEALING SEMINAR, presented by Marina Rose’s School of DNA Theta Healing®, April 2-4, 9 am-6 pm. Learn to look inside the body and heal it. DNA Theta Healing allows the practitioner to facilitate instant changes in DNA on a cellular level by transforming the core of one’s beliefs. Testimonials and seminar details: www.dnathetahealing.com. 877/DNATHETA, 310/358-2991. 2210 Main St., Suite 202, Santa Monica 90405. GOOD FRIDAY SERVICE, 1-3 pm. Shared reading and meditation of the story of Holy Week, beginning with the Last Supper to the Crucifixion. New Age Bible & Philosophy Center, 1139 Lincoln Blvd, Santa Monica, for more information call 310/395-4346. CONNECTING WITH YOUR SOUL FAMILY, a Vicki Reiner workshop, 7-9 pm. For more information visit our website. True Insight Learning and Healing Center, 111 Eucalyptus Dr., El Segundo 90245, 310/640-2211, www.true-insight. com. FIND THE CHANGE OF YOUR LIFE, find Peace, Security and Love. Begin a positive change of course in life by attending weekly gatherings, study and ultimately through meditation on the inner sound current known as the Word, Shabd or Naam. Always free. Intro sessions on Monday and Friday nights, 7 pm. Sant Mat Meditation Center, 7726 W Manchester Ave., Playa del Rey, 310/821-3321. Info: call Bob 310/930-2450, Victor 310-930-2452, or Pat 310/567-3265. Website: www.lasantmat.com. FREE PERFECTSENSE PARAFFIN HAND OR FOOT add-on with any facial or body treatment today. Angel City Healing is a unique, boutique style, holistic spa where every treatment is a spiritual experience. Services include Healing Facials & Body Treatments, Waxing, Reconnective Healing, Sound Baths, Hot & Cold Jade Stone Therapy, and Reflexology. All herbs and flowers used are grown organically on the premises. For a full list of spa services, visit www. angelcity-healing.com. 818/988-9006 (spa), 310/927-8687 (cell).

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SATURDAY, APRIL 3 EASTER EVE SEMINAR, 3-5 pm. Join John Morton, Spiritual Director of MSIA, at this live seminar and webcast. Spend time focusing on your spiritual heart and partake in the loving and grace of Easter with the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (MSIA). Tune in at www.msia. org/live or attend the seminar at 2101 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica 90403. Adults $15, children 13-17 $8, children 12 and under, no charge. Contact Tonie at 323/737-4055 or tonie@pts. org. PEOPLE & PET COMMUNICATION AND HEALING FAIR, everyone welcome, free healings for people and pets. Bring your pets on a leash or in a cage so that they are comfortable; bring a picture if you can’t bring them in person or just bring yourself! 1:30-3:30 pm. True Insight Learning and Healing Center, 111 Eucalyptus Dr., El Segundo 90245, 310/640-2211, www.true-insight.com. WOMEN’S GROUP led by Rev. Dr. Donna Byrns. This gathering of women is a time of sharing and discussion on women’s issues and spiritual growth. Meets on the 1st Saturday of the month, 10-11:30 am, no charge. Pasadena Church of Truth, A Center for Awakening Consciousness, inclusive of all World Religions, founded in 1924, 690 E Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, 626/7956905, www.churchoftruth.org. REIKI HEALING CLASSES IN LOS ANGELES with Reiki Master Alexandra Juliani, M.A., Director of the American Reiki Academy. Learn to heal with your hands through Reiki. Class includes course manuals, thorough instruction, initiation ceremony to activate Reiki energy, and hands-on practice time. Students receive certi-

fication as Reiki practitioners and Reiki Masters through the American Reiki Academy. All levels of Reiki offered. Info: American Reiki Academy, 310/397-2405, www.reikiacademy.org, email reikiacademy@earthlink.net. SPECIAL TELLING BY KOYOTE THE BLIND. Power, beauty, darkness…a deeply experiential performance art. Witness hidden worlds revealed before your eyes. 5:30 pm, $15. At The Plum House, 3882 12th St., Riverside 92501. To purchase tickets: www.thetellingplumhouse. eventbrite.com. Info: The Tequihua Foundation, 951/686-3471, www.tequihuafoundation.org. EASTER LABYRINTH WALK, an indoor labyrinth walk and (plastic) Easter egg “hunt.” Learn a seed design to create a Cretan labyrinth, draw a finger labyrinth to trace with your finger for meditation and brain balancing. (Please bring a pair of clean socks to walk the labyrinth and a packaged food item for donation to Manna, a local food pantry.) 1-3 pm, $30. Facilitator: Tracey Boyer. Akashic Bookshop & Center, 1414 Thousand Oaks Blvd, Thousand Oaks 91362, 805/495-5824. www.akashicbookshopandcenter.com. PSYCHIC PALM READING/EMPOWERMENT SESSIONS with Indian Psychic Palmist Professor Sasi. Experience transformation through the ancient science of psychic palmistry with worldrenowned, 7th generation Psychic Palmist/Spiritual Teacher Professor Sasi, one of the most loved psychic practitioners who has shown many individuals worldwide how to attain profound empowerment. By appt. Info: 310/3972405, 310/842-6087, www.professorsasi.com, www.vedichealinginstitute.com, email professorsasi@earthlink.net.

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YOUR LIFE: YOUR CREATION, manifest it consciously. You can, using the 7 principles of manifestation that shamans have used for thousands of years. Judith Dagley Flaherty, psychotherapist, channel and practitioner of shamanic manifestation, will explain the principles and how to use them. Learn how you are your own source of abundance. 2-4 pm, $30, $25 if preregistered. Preregister: 310/397-5116. At Akashic Bookshop & Center, 1414 Thousand Oaks Blvd, Thousand Oaks 91362, 805/495-5824. www. akashicbookshopandcenter.com. TOWARD HEALING CHRONIC PAIN: Embodying the Essential Knowledge, with Bridget Quebodeaux, Feldenkrais Method® Practitioner, 35 pm, workshop, $25 advance, $35 at the door. Info: 310/403-3540 or www.FeldenkraisWestLA.com. Healing chronic or unexplained pain requires an understanding of how the experience of pain manifests in the body and mind. Learn of current, relevant findings in pain science, and about a model for understanding and healing, for the chronic pain sufferer and the healing professional. Bodhi Tree Bookstore, 8585 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood 90069, 310/659-1733. www.bodhitree.com. FREE! CLAIRVOYANT READINGS by appointment only with students of The Clearsight Clairvoyant Program. Please email us at clearsightaura@gmail.com to book your weekend appointment. Students will read your aura, your chakras, your Being-Body Connection and answer questions. (See our back cover ad.) Clearsight, 310/395-1170. Visit www.clearsightaura. com. FALUN GONG (FALUN DAFA), a traditional Chinese self-cultivation practice, practiced by mil-

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SUNDAY, APRIL 4 EASTER SERVICES at Encino Community Church, an hour of outstanding music! 10:30 am, love offering. Encino Community Church, 7769 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Canoga Park, 818/712-9400. www.encinocommunitychurch. org. AKADUA FREE HEALING CLINIC, 1 pm, free. AkaDua is a transformative substance transmitted into the body. When activated, it creates an energy field for healing, art, spiritual work. Free AkaDua healing. Held on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month. Info: The Tequihua Foundation, 3485 University Ave. off Lemon St., Riverside 92501, 951/686-3471, www.tequihuafoundation. org/akadua.html. THE HOLY EASTER MYSTERIES, with Rev. Patricia Talis, Minister and Director. 11 am service. New Age Bible & Philosophy Center, 1139 Lincoln Blvd, Santa Monica, 310/395-4346. EASTER SUNDAY SERVICE, 11 am, “The Christ

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in You,” with Rev. Dr. Donna Byrns. Worship and grow at the Church of Truth with Christ-centered metaphysical teachings, 11 am service. Pasadena Church of Truth, A Center for Awakening Consciousness, inclusive of all World Religions, founded in 1924, 690 E Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, 626/795-6905, www.churchoftruth.org. EASTER ON THE BEACH GATHERING, 10 am-1 pm. Join the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (MSIA) for an Easter Morning blessing on the beach, a joyful family celebration with John Morton, Spiritual Director of MSIA. Pastries and coffee donated by Urth Caffe. At Santa Monica Beach, between Lifeguard Stations 22 & 24. Paid parking available at 2030 South Beach Parking Lot #4. Contact Tonie at 323/737-4055 or tonie@pts.org. Free. FREE YOURSELF OF COMPULSIONS & ADDICTIONS, learn how you can free yourself of unhealthy behaviors to live a balanced, peacefilled life, utilizing the tools of an inner-directed, self-healing science of life. Hear firsthand examples. Visit or watch the class streamed live on the web from 7-9 pm. Unarius Academy of Science, 145 S. Magnolia Ave., El Cajon, 800/4757062, www.unarius.org. PSYCHICROBIN.COM, PsychicMom.com is internationally known as RobinZodiac.com, and hosts a ‘live’ Cable Radio Network show 8-9 am every Sunday PST. For your on-air sample reading, the station number is 800/336-2225. You can chat during the show ‘live’ at http://psychicdomain.com/chat.html and listen at http://www. CRNTalk.com. COURSE IN MIRACLES DISCUSSION GROUP led by Dr. Margie Ann Black, 9:15 am. Join the group for a journey of forgiveness that releases

the flow of love into your life! Love offering. Encino Community Church, Garden Chapel, 7769 Topanga Blvd, Canoga Park. For info call 818/712-9400. ONENESS MEDITATION, learn to use breath as a pathway to Source/All that IS and Divine Earth. You will walk away connected to divine love, life purpose and support for moving your life forward. 11 am-12:30 pm. The Imagine Center, 18635 Ventura Blvd., Tarzana 91356. Register at 818/345-1100, or online at www.theimaginecenter.com. $10 minimum donation. SUNDAY SERVICE WITH MUSIC, MEDITATION, INSPIRATION, Dr. Margie Ann Black presents Christ-centered, Scripturally based teachings with practical applications for everyday life that you won’t find anywhere else. Sunday School available. Love offering. 10:30 am, Encino Community Church, an all-inclusive circle of Love that seeks to make a difference just as we are. Encino Community Church, 7769 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Canoga Park, 818/712-9400. FALUN GONG (FALUN DAFA), a traditional Chinese self-cultivation practice, practiced by millions worldwide. Learn Falun Gong for free. Every Sunday at La Jolla Cove. For details call 619/280-3112. CREATE A POSITIVE AND PROGRESSIVE LIFE! Through your active participation in Unarius’ past-life therapy classes, your life can become more creative and meaningful. The Unarius Academy of Science offers books, CDs, DVDs on past-life therapy and other enlightening topics. Sunday classes are live streamed via the Internet. For info about Unarius teachings, call 800/475-7062 or visit www.unarius.org.

Crop Circles, UFOs & the World Teacher Free screening of “What on Earth? Inside the Crop Circle Mystery,” and talk by Mike Jansen. Jansen will reveal who creates the circles, how they do it, and what they have to do with Maitreya, the World Teacher.

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BURNING BOWL CEREMONY, held each Sunday after service at Unity West Santa Monica. This Unity tradition, started in the 1940s, is for release, a time for forgiving ourselves and others, so healing and the new journey can begin. Without peace in our hearts, there can be no peace in the world. Follows Sunday service that begins 9 a.m. Rev. Lee Lakso, minister. Unity West Church of Santa Monica, 1515 Maple St., Santa Monica 90405. 310/577-0000, www.unitywestchurch.org.

SACRED TONES WORKSHOP, spend an hour at Peace Awareness Labyrinth & Gardens doing a guided meditative process, as shared by John-Roger, founder of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness. Workshop guides participants through inner attunement to Spirit and their own divinity. 7:30-8:30 pm, free, donations welcome. Peace Awareness Labyrinth and Gardens, 3500 W. Adams Blvd, LA 90018. Contact Judy, 323/737-4055, ext. 1137, registrar@peacelabyrinth.org, www.peacelabyrinth.org.

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MOVING INTO PEACE, QIGONG & MEDITATION CLASSES. Qi-Gong means Energy-Practice and is an ancient pathway to health and well-being. Utilizing the Universal Energy through easy and gentle movements, breathing techniques, practitioners become centered and balanced. Weekly classes offered in Canoga Park, Studio City, Sherman Oaks. Call for details, Antoinette Rohner, 818/378-3396, www. movingintopeace.com.

SPIRITUAL SELF MASTERY CLASSES, on 1st & 3rd Monday of each month, 7:30 pm. Rev. Lee, Church of Truth in Santa Clarita. Inclusive, Christ-centered. Call for location and directions, 661/645-9503, www.silentmiracles.net. HYPNOSIS & WEIGHT LOSS, free class, 7-9 pm. The subconscious mind can be your most powerful partner and motivator to help you achieve your weight loss goals. HMI’s Nationally Accredited College of Hypnotherapy offers this free class to get you started immediately using hypnosis to achieve your weight loss goals. Call Romy at HMI-Tarzana to reserve your seat, 818/758-2747. www.hypnosis.edu. FIRST MONDAY, the first Monday of each month is Service Professionals Day at The Imagine Center, with 10% off all retail merchandise with your business card. We offer intuitive readings and retail merchandise for spiritual enrichment and personal empowerment. (First Monday today and next month, May 3.) The Imagine Center, 18635 Ventura Blvd., Tarzana 91356, free parking in rear. Call 818/345-1100, or shop online at www.theimaginecenter.com. INTERMEDIATE TAROT, hone your skills as a tarot reader. New layouts are introduced and demonstrated on student volunteers in each class. Prerequisite: Beginning tarot or a knowledge of tarot cards. Meets April 5 & 12, 7-9 pm, $34/session, plus $8 materials fee first night only. Facilitated by Wendy. Akashic Bookshop & Center, 1414 Thousand Oaks Blvd, Thousand Oaks 91362, 805/495-5824. www.akashicbookshopandcenter.com. ANGEL CITY HEALING MONDAY SPECIAL: 10% off all products today. Angel City Healing is a unique, boutique style, holistic spa where every treatment is a spiritual experience. Services include Healing Facials & Body Treatments, Waxing, Reconnective Healing, Sound Baths, Hot & Cold Jade Stone Therapy, and Reflexology. All herbs and flowers used are grown organically on the premises. For a full list of spa services, visit us at www.angelcity-healing.com. 818/988-9006 (spa), 310/927-8687 (cell).

TUESDAY, APRIL 6 A MYSTICAL JOURNEY IN 22 STEPS, come join us once a month and learn to use the power of the 22 major arcane tarot cards to align your spiritual path and co-create the highest, best, present and future you are meant to express. 79 pm, $40, includes materials costs. With Donna, Akashic Bookshop & Center, 1414 Thousand Oaks Blvd, Thousand Oaks 91362, 805/4955824. www.akashicbookshopandcenter.com. TUESDAY PRAYER & MEDITATION, 7:30 pm. Rev. BJ Enright facilitates the Tuesday Evening Service in the main building. This evening: “full moon meditation and moon-mail.” Pasadena Church of Truth, A Center for Awakening Consciousness, inclusive of all World Religions, founded in 1924, 690 E Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, 626/795-6905, www.churchoftruth.org. INTRODUCTION TO MULTIDIMENSIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS course begins today, 7-9 pm, a 7-week series. School of Multidimensional Healing, Laguna Hills campus. Visit smhas.com or call 949/786-5272 for information and to enroll. INFANT MASSAGE CLASS, an Infant Massage USA (IMUSA) certification course. Not a handson-baby course, trainers, educators and students use baby dolls to practice and demonstrate strokes. Certification qualifies the individual to guide parents and caregivers as Parent Educators of Infant Massage. Certification and 28 additional NCBTMB CEHs available through take-home study. Tues-Fri, 9 am-5 pm, $625. IPSB, 5817 Uplander Way, Culver City 90230, 310/342-7130, www.ipsb.com.

FIND THE CHANGE OF YOUR LIFE, find Peace, Security and Love. Begin a positive change of course in life by attending weekly gatherings, study and ultimately through meditation on the inner sound current known as the Word, Shabd or Naam. Always free. Intro sessions on Monday and Friday nights, 7 pm. Sant Mat Meditation Center, 7726 W Manchester Ave., Playa del Rey, 310/821-3321. Info: call Bob 310/930-2450, Victor 310-930-2452, or Pat 310/567-3265. Website: www.lasantmat.com.

CHOICES: NEUTRALIZING YOUR NEGATIVE THOUGHTS & Emotional Blueprints, author Janet Richmond discusses and signs her book, 7:30 pm. Info: www.JanetRichmond.com. No amount of positive thinking will replace your negative thoughts. Before any true change can happen, negative thoughts must first be neutralized. Learn simple tools to begin getting real change in your life. (See workshop also on April 11.) Bodhi Tree Bookstore, 8585 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood 90069, 310/659-1733. www. bodhitree.com.

HOLISTIC SKINCARE, you can beat aging, acne, dryness and other skin problems, call the Vital Image. Free demonstrations, sample facials throughout the week. Call for specific days this week, 800/414-4624, 310/823-1996.

MEN OVER 50 SUPPORT GROUP, with B.J. Jakala, PhD, MFT (Lic. 23640). Explore how to bring about the future you want in the company and support of other men. 7-9 pm, limited to 8 men. Call for interview. B.J. Jakala, PhD, MFT,

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18 21243 Ventura Blvd, Suite 224, Woodland Hills, CA 91364, 818/348-8837. A COURSE IN MIRACLES CLASS, 7-8:30 pm, WLA/Santa Monica area. Would you choose love or fear? Do you want a greater sense of peace and contentment? Learn the incredible power of your choices. Study A Course in Miracles with Allan Rosenthal, MFT, a student-teacher-lecturer of the course for over 25 years. Call 310/478-8994 or visit www.allanrosenthal.com. SINGING FROM THE HEART, private sessions with Dr. Carole Moskovitz, MA, DSS, professional performer, voice/performance and communication coach. Create a deeper connection with your authentic voice and creative expression while enjoying a supportive environment to explore the many levels of singing and communicating from the heart. For professionals and amateurs. 310/821-SONG (7664), www.singingfromtheheart.com, www.Linkedin.com/in/DrCaroleGMoskovitz. POSITIVE WORDS WOMEN’S SUPPORT GROUP, join like-minded women in a positive, journal expression and support group. Open to women over 35 who just need an ear, people who want to listen and take time to acknowledge your goals and achievements. Email Karyn at Karyn047@aol.com with any questions. 7-9 pm, no cost, meets Tuesdays starting today. Akashic Bookshop & Center, 1414 Thousand Oaks Blvd, Thousand Oaks 91362, 805/495-5824. www. akashicbookshopandcenter.com.

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THE COMPASSIONATE COMMUNICATION PRACTICE GROUP meets every other Wednesday, 7-9 pm, with Tom Armbruster. This group is geared to those who have attended at least one of the Basic NVC workshops and want to meet on a regular basis. Info: Tom at 626/798-1854 or tomscats@charter.net. Pasadena Church of Truth, A Center for Awakening Consciousness, inclusive of all World Religions, founded in 1924, 690 E Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, 626/7956905, www.churchoftruth.org. PROSPERITY CLUB, 7:30 pm, meets on the 1st Wednesday of each month. Rev. Lee, Church of Truth in Santa Clarita. Inclusive, Christ centered. Call for location and directions, 661/645-9503, www.silentmiracles.net. BELIEF MANAGEMENT MINI COURSE, an Introduction to The Avatar® Course, 6-9 pm. How are your beliefs creating or attracting your current reality? Join us for this powerful evening of exploring consciousness. In the Mini Course you will learn 3 experiential Belief Management Exercises, watch a DVD about Belief Systems, and awaken to the limitless possibilities that await you on The Avatar Course. At Mystic Journey Bookstore, 1319 Abbott Kinney Blvd., Venice 90291. Complimentary, seating is limited, please reserve your space 1 day in advance. To RSVP: Teal Thompson, 310/699-7077, www. WellspringAvatar.com. Avatar® is a registered trademark of Star’s Edge, Inc. All rights reserved. A PATH STREWN WITH FLOWERS & BONES: Memoirs & Reflections of a Western Reincarnate Lama, 7:30-9:30 pm, free lecture and booksigning. Info: 510/409-2227. Author Tulku Sherdor, Executive Director of Blazing Wisdom Institute, teaches the Minisiddha Path, a method to delve deeply into Tibetan Buddhist spiritual practice while living and working in the modern

world. In addition to devoting more than 6 years to intensive meditation retreat, he has practiced human rights and environmental law at the elite law firm of David Boies. Bodhi Tree Bookstore, 8585 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood 90069, 310/659-1733. www.bodhitree.com. HEALING NIGHT, HEALING MUSIC, laying on of hands, full-body healing, done by experienced healers. 6:30-8:30 pm at New Age Bible & Philosophy Center, 1139 Lincoln Blvd, Santa Monica, 310/395-4346. In back classroom, enter by back gate of parking lot in alley, 4th building north of Wilshire Blvd. Info: Bertha Taylor, 310/836-2768. Donation. A GATHERING OF MIRACLES® offers A Course in Miracle inspired lecture-services by Allan Rosenthal, MFT, a student-teacher-lecturer of ACIM for over 25 years. Listen to real life experiences and how the ACIM principles and other spiritual/metaphysical thought systems can be applied in everyday life. Q&As follow talk. No previous ACIM experience necessary. 7-8:30 pm, WLA/Santa Monica area. Call 310/4788994 or visit www.agatheringofmiracles.com.

THURSDAY, APRIL 8 IPSB OPEN HOUSE—FREE TO THE PUBLIC, at LA’s most innovative body therapy school, come meet the staff, see a demonstration and learn about opportunities in the field of bodywork. Starts 7:30 pm sharp. IPSB, 5817 Uplander Way, Culver City 90230, 310/342-7130, www.ipsb. com. CLEAR YOUR CLUTTER: LIGHTEN UP YOUR LIFE, workshop with Tracey Stanton, 7:30-9:30 pm, $30 advance (paid by April 1) or $40 at the door. Info: Tracy Hartway, 213/323-1345, www. Red-Alchemy.com. Stanton will share invaluable insights into the art of letting go of clutter to live a lighter life, including overcoming procrastination, and tried and tested techniques to make sure clutter does not start accumulating again. Bodhi Tree Bookstore, 8585 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood 90069, 310/659-1733. www. bodhitree.com. WOMEN’S DIVORCE SUPPORT GROUP, meets Thursday evenings, facilitated by Shoshana Levine, LCSW, C.Ht., Lic. #CSW 24340. Whether you are contemplating a divorce, going through a divorce, or still dealing with the aftermath of a divorce, this group is for you. Learn how to embrace your divorce and become empowered in the process. See divorce as a journey towards healing and wholeness. 310/9987253. In Santa Monica. Please call to confirm. UNITY WEST READING GROUP, now reading and sharing the Unity classic, Discover the Power Within You by Eric Butterworth, an inspirational classic that has guided the way toward a faith that will serve humanity. Butterworth interprets the Gospel in a fresh context. Held every Thursday, 7-8 pm, all welcome, love offering basis. Unity West Church of Santa Monica, 1515 Maple St., Santa Monica 90405. 310/577-0000, www.unitywestchurch.org. REINVENTING THE BODY/RESURRECTING THE SOUL, by Deepak Chopra. Discussion led by Dr. Margie Ann Taylor-Black, 10 am, love offering. Encino Community Church, 7769 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Canoga Park, 818/712-9400. www.encinocommunitychurch.org. EVENING GROUP MEDITATION SERVICE, 7:30-8 pm, free. You are invited to our rural com-

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Meditative, powerful evening. Weekend class follows. Reiki Master/Teacher Jessica Miller, International Center for Reiki Training, 626/9633533, jess@reikimastery.com, www.ReikiMastery.com. At Tree of Life, 3608 Foothill Blvd, La Crescenta 91214.

THE VORTEX, by Esther and Jerry Hicks, a discussion led by Dr. Margie Ann Taylor-Black. 11 am, love offering. Encino Community Church, 7769 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Canoga Park, 818/712-9400. www.ecchurchofcalif.org.

BRUNO GROENING CIRCLE OF FRIENDS, spiritual healing through the teachings of Bruno Groening. 7:30-9:30 pm, meets every 3 weeks. Led by Barbara Neustadt. New Age Bible & Philosophy Center, 1139 Lincoln Blvd, Santa Monica, 310/395-4346.

FRIDAY, APRIL 9 AGING IN A NEW PARADIGM WORLD, a seminar by Selacia, 7:30-9:30 pm. Attend this experiential seminar to discover revolutionary secrets to aging, longevity and wellness now possible within the new paradigm energies. Selacia is a healer, author, gifted medical intuitive, channel for The Council of 12. Signup and mailing list: www.Selacia.com (Free Seminar Signup). Email Selacia@Selacia.com. Info: 310/9152884. At Bodhi Tree Bookstore, 8585 Melrose, W. Hollywood 90069. NEW AGE BIBLE INTERPRETATION, Vol. 7, by Corinne Helene, 7-8 pm, class every other Friday, donation. New Age Bible & Philosophy Center, 1139 Lincoln Blvd, Santa Monica, 310/395-4346. KARUNA REIKI HEALING NIGHT, Glendale (La Crescenta), 6:30-9:30 pm, $20 suggested donation, no preregistration required, all welcome. What could be more powerful than Reiki? Karuna Reiki. Come explore this healing energy.

RESURRECTION TO NEWNESS, an MSIA video presentation, featuring John-Roger, Founder and Spiritual Advisor of MSIA, 7:30-9 pm. JohnRoger looks at the idea of resurrection from his own unique viewpoint. Free, donations welcome. Peace Awareness Labyrinth and Gardens, 3500 W. Adams Blvd, LA 90018. Contact Judy, 323/737-4055, ext. 1137, registrar@peacelabyrinth.org, www.peacelabyrinth.org. PROFESSIONAL ETHICS I FOR BODYWORKERS, provides students with skills to master issues related to the client/practitioner relationship including boundaries, intimacy, communication, sexuality and safety. Part I is recommended to be taken soon after completion of the Massage Technician Training (which is the prerequisite). Fridays 10 am-1 pm through April 20, $180 plus materials fee. IPSB, 5817 Uplander Way, Culver City 90230, 310/342-7130, www.ipsb.com. FIND THE CHANGE OF YOUR LIFE, find Peace, Security and Love. Begin a positive change of

course in life by attending weekly gatherings, study and ultimately through meditation on the inner sound current known as the Word, Shabd or Naam. Always free. Intro sessions on Monday and Friday nights, 7 pm. Sant Mat Meditation Center, 7726 W Manchester Ave., Playa del Rey, 310/821-3321. Info: call Bob 310/930-2450, Victor 310-930-2452, or Pat 310/567-3265. Website: www.lasantmat.com.

SATURDAY, APRIL 10 YOGA STRETCHES FOR HOME/MEDITATION, with Dr. Margie Ann, 10 am, love offering. Encino Community Church, 7769 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Canoga Park, 818/712-9400. www.encinocommunitychurch.org. CLASSICAL FENG SHUI SEMINAR, “Investing in Real Estate with Feng Shui,” 2-3:30 pm. At Out of Asia Showroom, 3249 La Cienega Blvd., LA 90016. RSVP to info@RealFengShuiSOULutions.com or call 310/663-8238. REIKI HEALING CLASSES IN LOS ANGELES with Reiki Master Alexandra Juliani, M.A., Director of the American Reiki Academy. Learn to heal with your hands through Reiki. Class includes course manuals, thorough instruction, initiation ceremony to activate Reiki energy, and hands-on practice time. Students receive certification as Reiki practitioners and Reiki Masters through the American Reiki Academy. All levels of Reiki offered. Info: American Reiki Academy, 310/397-2405, www.reikiacademy.org, email reikiacademy@earthlink.net. GO PINK! PREVENT CANCER, EXPERIENCE

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BREAST THERMOGRAPHY for early detection and prevention of cancer. Breast Thermography is a radiation-free, non-invasive, painless, FDAapproved and medical doctor interpreted test of physiology. It can detect abnormalities in breast tissue 8-10 years earlier than a mammogram. Free 15-minute consultation this month at Tao of Venus. Visit www.gopinkpreventcancer.com, 310/775-3388. INTRODUCTION TO HYPNOSIS, 6 pm. Come and learn how hypnosis can help you and your loved ones to improve your Spiritual, Personal, Professional, Academic, Sentimental, Economic life. Learn how people practice Hypnosis against your will. $10/person, $15/couple. Call for reservations: 323/868-2216. Email: hypnomoon@hotmail.com. No one turned away for not having the entrance fee. EMPOWERING YOUR ENERGY CENTERS, monthly group. Use visual techniques, empowering energy work and class interaction to keep your chakra centers balanced and in proper working fashion. 12-1 pm, $20, with Michelle Nephew. Akashic Bookshop & Center, 1414 Thousand Oaks Blvd, Thousand Oaks 91362, 805/495-5824. www.akashicbookshopandcenter.com. DRUM MAKING WORKSHOP, decorate and skin your own ceramic hand drum with Scott Semple, ceramic artist, drum maker, and percussionist. He will also introduce ceramic drums in a cultural context. Stay for a fun evening of music making. Includes lunch and dinner. Lodging available. Sunburst Sanctuary, a community sanctuary for conscious living, 40 miles north of

Santa Barbara, 805/736-6528, www.SunburstOnline.org. Email: ContactUs@SunburstOnling. org. PSYCHIC PALM READING/EMPOWERMENT SESSIONS with Indian Psychic Palmist Professor Sasi. Experience transformation through the ancient science of psychic palmistry with worldrenowned, 7th generation Psychic Palmist/Spiritual Teacher Professor Sasi, one of the most loved psychic practitioners who has shown many individuals worldwide how to attain profound empowerment. By appt. Info: 310/3972405, 310/842-6087, www.professorsasi.com, www.vedichealinginstitute.com, email professorsasi@earthlink.net. SHAMANIC JOURNEYS, welcome to the new way! A monthly group for you to clear your energy, be initiated with an ancient Peruvian energy shifting, and start your journey toward aligning with the energy that leads us into 2012. Each group is different. 2-3 pm, $30, with Michelle Nephew. Akashic Bookshop & Center, 1414 Thousand Oaks Blvd, Thousand Oaks 91362, 805/495-5824. Visit www.akashicbookshopandcenter.com. YOUTHEATRE ARTS CLASS, 9 am-4 pm. With an emphasis on youth, this is a class for children who will learn the concentration and discipline of the arts that in turn helps produce learners. (Future classes will focus on Dramatic Dance, Physical Theatre and Movement Vocabulary. For April: Dramatic Dance, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4-6:30 pm.) Facilitated by Sam Saison who holds a theatrical degree in dance and dramatic schools from Hong Kong, Hawaii and the

U.K. Pasadena Church of Truth, A Center for Awakening Consciousness, inclusive of all World Religions, founded in 1924, 690 E Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, 626/795-6905, www. churchoftruth.org. FREE HEALINGS FOR ANIMALS, by Lori Spagna, 12-4 pm, at the front porch of the Bodhi Tree Used Books Store. Appts recommended, walkups also welcome. Info and appts: 866/3885115 or www.EfilsGod.com. Lori is founder of Efil’s God (Dog’s Life backwards), a spiritual, holistic approach to communication and healing for the mind, body and spirit in every living being. She is also a canine behavioral expert certified in Animal Reiki, DNA Theta Healing, Animal Communication and other Eastern energy healing techniques. Donations appreciated. Bodhi Tree Bookstore, 8585 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood 90069, 310/659-1733. www.bodhitree. com. HEAL YOUR MIND, REWIRE YOUR BRAIN: Applying the Exciting New Science of Brain Synchrony for Creativity, Peace and Presence, author Patt Lind-Kyle discusses and signs her book, 3 pm. Info: www.BrainChangeBook.com. Her book describes a practical, step-by-step program that literally rewires neural connections in the brain for greater happiness and health. Scientific advances such as neuroplasticity, epigenetics, psychoneuroimmunology will be discussed. Bodhi Tree Bookstore, 8585 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood 90069, 310/659-1733. www.bodhitree.com. RECLAIMING OUR HUMANITY: Embracing Inner Freedom, workshop by Linda P. Brown,

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7:30-9:30 pm, $40. Info: 909/621-2816, www. LindaPBrown.net. Only when we are truly free can we choose our own story. Linda teaches esoteric knowledge not normally available to the public, with the evening culminating with a guided meditation. Bodhi Tree Bookstore, 8585 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood 90069, 310/6591733. www.bodhitree.com. FREE! CLAIRVOYANT READINGS by appointment only with students of The Clearsight Clairvoyant Program. Please email us at clearsightaura@gmail.com to book your weekend appointment. Students will read your aura, your chakras, your Being-Body Connection and answer questions. (See our back cover ad.) Clearsight, 310/395-1170. Visit www.clearsightaura. com. FALUN GONG (FALUN DAFA), a traditional Chinese self-cultivation practice, practiced by millions worldwide. Learn Falun Gong for free. Every Saturday, Hermosa Beach, 7 am, 14th St. & The Strand. For information contact 310/9184700. Also at La Jolla Cove, 619/280-3112 for details. PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT, strengthen your intuitive abilities and your connection with Spirit. Learn to safely send and receive loving messages from spirit guides, angels and deceased loved ones, messages from the highest and best good of each participant. 1-3 pm, $15 min. donation. The Imagine Center, 18635 Ventura Blvd., Tarzana 91356. Register at 818/345-1100, or online at www.theimaginecenter.com.

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with practical applications for everyday life that you won’t find anywhere else. Sunday School available. Love offering. 10:30 am, Encino Community Church, an all-inclusive circle of Love that seeks to make a difference just as we are. Encino Community Church, 7769 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Canoga Park, 818/712-9400. FALUN GONG (FALUN DAFA), a traditional Chinese self-cultivation practice, practiced by millions worldwide. Learn Falun Gong for free. Every Sunday at La Jolla Cove. For details call 619/280-3112. CREATE A POSITIVE AND PROGRESSIVE LIFE! Through your active participation in Unarius’ past-life therapy classes, your life can become more creative and meaningful. The Unarius Academy of Science offers books, CDs, DVDs on past-life therapy and other enlightening topics. Sunday classes are live streamed via the Internet. For info about Unarius teachings, call 800/475-7062 or visit www.unarius.org. BURNING BOWL CEREMONY, held each Sunday after service at Unity West Santa Monica. This Unity tradition, started in the 1940s, is for release, a time for forgiving ourselves and others, so healing and the new journey can begin. Without peace in our hearts, there can be no peace in the world. Follows Sunday service that begins 9 a.m. Rev. Lee Lakso, minister. Unity West Church of Santa Monica, 1515 Maple St., Santa Monica 90405. 310/577-0000, www.unitywestchurch.org.

MONDAY, APRIL 12 IPSB MASSAGE TECHNICIAN COURSE, become a professional massage practitioner, learn holistic bodywork techniques, state approved,

CE units for RNs. Meets Mon.-Wed., 2-6 pm, ends July 7. Advance registration required. IPSB, 5817 Uplander Way, Culver City 90230, 310/342-7130, www.ipsb.com. CLAIRVOYANT/INTUITIVE CLASS begins today at the School of Multidimensional Healing, meets Mondays, 10 am-1 pm at our Laguna Hills campus. School of Multidimensional Healing, visit smhas.com or call 949/786-5272 for information and to enroll. SELF-HYPNOSIS, free class, 7-9 pm. Learn how to induce self-hypnosis in a safe and easy way. This is a great tool to help you create desired changes in your life. Call Romy at HMI-Tarzana to reserve your seat, 818/758-2747. www.hypnosis.edu. ESSENTIAL OILS PASS IT ON CLASS, a weekly series of classes on the educational value, use and application of essential oils. Mondays, 7-9 pm, at First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica, 1220 2nd St., Santa Monica 90401. $5 at door, weekly raffles and a final grand prize of essential oils kit. RSVP: Selacia, 310/915-2884, Selacia@Selacia.com.Details: www.younglivingpassiton.com/. MEDITATIONS FOR MODERN MAN, 7-8:30 pm, a 4-week course in ancient Buddhist mindfulness, as interpreted and adapted fro today’s fast-paced scientific world. Experience “the Profound” and “the Ultimate” directly through these unique and original one-hour guided journeys of contemplation and deep seeing. Ideally suited to the modern mind. Available exclusively at The Bodhi Center. Registration required, $99. 310/497-1899, www.thebodhicenter.net. ANGEL CITY HEALING MONDAY SPECIAL:

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10% off all products today. Angel City Healing is a unique, boutique style, holistic spa where every treatment is a spiritual experience. Services include Healing Facials & Body Treatments, Waxing, Reconnective Healing, Sound Baths, Hot & Cold Jade Stone Therapy, and Reflexology. All herbs and flowers used are grown organically on the premises. For a full list of spa services, visit www.angelcity-healing.com. 818/988-9006 (spa), 310/927-8687 (cell). FIND THE CHANGE OF YOUR LIFE, find Peace, Security and Love. Begin a positive change of course in life by attending weekly gatherings, study and ultimately through meditation on the inner sound current known as the Word, Shabd or Naam. Always free. Intro sessions on Monday and Friday nights, 7 pm. Sant Mat Meditation Center, 7726 W Manchester Ave., Playa del Rey, 310/821-3321. Info: call Bob 310/930-2450, Victor 310-930-2452, or Pat 310/567-3265. Website: www.lasantmat.com. HOLISTIC SKINCARE, you can beat aging, acne, dryness and other skin problems, call the Vital Image. Free demonstrations and sample facials held throughout the week. Call for specific days this week, 800/414-4624, 310/8231996. SACRED TONES WORKSHOP, spend an hour at Peace Awareness Labyrinth & Gardens doing a guided meditative process, as shared by John-Roger, founder of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness. Workshop guides participants through inner attunement to Spirit and their own divinity. 7:30-8:30 pm, free, donations welcome. Peace Awareness Labyrinth and Gardens, 3500 W. Adams Blvd, LA 90018. Contact Judy, 323/737-4055, ext. 1137, registrar@peacelabyrinth.org, www.peacelabyrinth.org. MOVING INTO PEACE, QIGONG & MEDITATION CLASSES. Qi-Gong means Energy-Practice and is an ancient pathway to health and well-being. Utilizing the Universal Energy through easy and gentle movements, breathing techniques, practitioners become centered and balanced. Weekly classes offered in Canoga Park, Studio City, Sherman Oaks. Call for details, Antoinette Rohner, 818/378-3396, www. movingintopeace.com.

TUESDAY, APRIL 13 YOUTHEATRE: DRAMATIC DANCE FOR YOUTH, 4-6:30 pm. This is the foundation of YOUtheatre classes and is a prerequisite for future classes. It is a combination of all performing arts disciplines, exposing children to dance, pantomime, voice and acting. Facilitated by Sam Saison, with a theatrical degree in dance and dramatic schools from Hong Kong, Hawaii and the U.K. Pasadena Church of Truth, A Center for Awakening Consciousness, inclusive of all World Religions, founded in 1924, 690 E Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, 626/795-6905, www.churchoftruth.org. T.M. KNOWINGNESS HEALINGS, 7:30-8:30 pm, held every Tuesday. The cleaning of energies that would interfere or inhibit the natural ability of the spirit to heal the body. Everyone welcome, please RSVP to confirm. True Insight Learning and Healing Center, 111 Eucalyptus Dr., El Segundo 90245, 310/640-2211, www. true-insight.com. TUESDAY PRAYER & MEDITATION, 7:30 pm. Rev. BJ Enright facilitates the Tuesday Evening Service. An evening of prayer, meditation, en-

ergy balancing and fellowship, in the main building. Pasadena Church of Truth, A Center for Awakening Consciousness, inclusive of all World Religions, founded in 1924, 690 E Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, 626/795-6905, www. churchoftruth.org. BENDING REALITY, lecture and demonstration presented by Neurovision Academy, 7:30-9:30 pm, free, donations welcome. Info: 888/9287333, www.NeurovisionAcademy.com. The Bronnikov Method is a Tibetan system of human development that re-programs the human body. Through accelerated chi-gong practice, natural regenerative abilities are developed. Training DVDs will be available at a discounted price. Bodhi Tree Bookstore, 8585 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood 90069, 310/659-1733. www.bodhitree.com. MEN OVER 50 SUPPORT GROUP, with B.J. Jakala, PhD, MFT (Lic. 23640). Explore how to bring about the future you want in the company and support of other men. 7-9 pm, limited to 8 men. Call for interview. B.J. Jakala, PhD, MFT, 21243 Ventura Blvd, Suite 224, Woodland Hills, CA 91364, 818/348-8837. A COURSE IN MIRACLES CLASS, 7-8:30 pm, WLA/Santa Monica area. Would you choose love or fear? Do you want a greater sense of peace and contentment? Learn the incredible power of your choices. Study A Course in Miracles with Allan Rosenthal, MFT, a student-teacher-lecturer of the course for over 25 years. Call 310/478-8994 or visit www.allanrosenthal.com. SINGING FROM THE HEART, private sessions with Dr. Carole Moskovitz, MA, DSS, professional performer, voice/performance and communication coach. Create a deeper connection with your authentic voice and creative expression while enjoying a supportive environment to explore the many levels of singing and communicating from the heart. For professionals and amateurs. 310/821-SONG (7664), www.singingfromtheheart.com, www.Linkedin.com/in/DrCaroleGMoskovitz.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14 EXPERIENCE THE NEW MOON when Luna, goddess of the night, is reborn to live her life again upon the cosmic stage. Available on DVD at www.luna-moon.com. A SPIRITUAL SHORT-CUT HOME presented by Yudhishtara, 7:30-9:30 pm. Free Satsang, no donations accepted. Info: 949/262-5252. Yudhishtara has the ability to cut through spiritual and emotional complexities that hold us at bay and release us to our heart’s true desire. Truth is spoken straight from the heart with no strings attached. Bodhi Tree Bookstore, 8585 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood 90069, 310/659-1733. www.bodhitree.com. HEALING NIGHT, HEALING MUSIC, laying on of hands, full-body healing, done by experienced healers. 6:30-8:30 pm at New Age Bible & Philosophy Center, 1139 Lincoln Blvd, Santa Monica, 310/395-4346. In back classroom, enter by back gate of parking lot in alley, 4th building north of Wilshire Blvd. Info: Bertha Taylor, 310/836-2768. Donation. A GATHERING OF MIRACLES® offers A Course in Miracle inspired lecture-services by Allan Rosenthal, MFT, a student-teacher-lecturer of ACIM for over 25 years. Listen to real life experiences and how the ACIM principles and other

25 spiritual/metaphysical thought systems can be applied in everyday life. Q&As follow talk. No previous ACIM experience necessary. 7-8:30 pm, WLA/Santa Monica area. Call 310/4788994 or visit www.agatheringofmiracles.com.

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“If you desire to know where your spiritual work lies, look to your emotional pain.” —Alan Cohen

YOUTHEATRE: DRAMATIC DANCE FOR YOUTH, 4-7 pm. This is the foundation of YOUtheatre classes and is a prerequisite for future classes. It is a combination of all performing arts disciplines, exposing children to dance, pantomime, voice and acting. Facilitated by Sam Saison, with a theatrical degree in dance and dramatic schools from Hong Kong, Hawaii and the U.K. Pasadena Church of Truth, A Center for Awakening Consciousness, inclusive of all World Religions, founded in 1924, 690 E Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, 626/795-6905, www. churchoftruth.org. INFERTILITY, PMS, IRREGULAR PERIODS, DIGESTIVE ISSUES? Experience the Maya Abdominal Massage, an external, non-invasive massage over the uterus, intestines, muscles of the diaphragm, back and sacrum incorporating traditional Mayan Healing for proper blood flow, lymph drainage and nerve signaling for resetting homeostasis, the natural balance of the body. Free consultation at Tao of Venus, www.taoofvenus.com, 310/775-3388. HARMONY CIRCLE LUNCHEON, noon in Yale Hall. Pasadena Church of Truth, A Center for Awakening Consciousness, inclusive of all World Religions, founded in 1924, 690 E Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, 626/795-6905, www. churchoftruth.org. VIBRATIONAL HEALING OPEN HOUSE, introduction to toning, sound therapy and vibrational healing. Demonstrations, Q&A, toning circle. Presented by Wayne Perry, internationally renowned sound healer and host of TV’s Heart Touch show. 7-9:30 pm, must RSVP in advance. The Sound Therapy Center of Los Angeles, West Hollywood. 323/655-7781, www.wayneperry.com. GRIEF COACH TRAINING starts April 15, 27 or 29. Enroll now and get $50 off (coupon: Whole). Learn how to help yourself, help others, make a difference, make 6 figures. There is a huge demand for trained grief coaches. Get your free CD and free ebook online, www.GriefCoachAcademy.com. 866/608-7072. PREREGISTRATION DISCOUNT THROUGH TODAY for Sound Healing Weekend Intensive workshop, to be offered May 15-16, only $275 if you register by April 15 (reg. $375). With Wayne Perry. Sound Therapy Center, 618 N Orlando #6, West Hollywood 90048, 323/655-7781 for info and registration; or visit www.wayneperry.com. BLAST OFF TO A BRAND NEW LIFE: A Life and Career Re-Invention Workshop, 7:30-9:30 pm, workshop. $70/includes a copy of Blast Off! The Surefire Success Plan to Launch Your Dreams Into Reality. Info and preregistration: 888/8443550, www.MyBlastOff.com. Maslan will teach her inspirational and strategic formula that has helped thousands break through barriers, tap into their purpose and infuse it into a prosperous business or hobby. Bodhi Tree Bookstore, 8585 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood 90069, 310/6591733. www.bodhitree.com. WOMEN’S DIVORCE SUPPORT GROUP, meets Thursday evenings, facilitated by Shoshana

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FRIDAY, APRIL 16 MOVIE NIGHT, 7 pm. Bring your own meal and eat with us at 6:30; movie begins 7 pm. Movie and popcorn are free. Held on 3rd Friday of each month. A Center for Awakening Consciousness, Pasadena Church of Truth, inclusive of all World Religions, 690 E Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, 626/795-6905, www.churchoftruth.org. 2012 DISCUSSION GROUP, everyone welcome, 7-8:30 pm. True Insight Learning and Healing Center, 111 Eucalyptus Dr., El Segundo 90245, 310/640-2211, www.true-insight.com. CHRIST IS FORGIVENESS, an MSIA video presentation featuring John-Roger, Founder and Spiritual Advisor of MSIA, in which he creates for us a living, breathing experience of the person Jesus and the job he did, which we call The Christ. 7:30-9:30 pm. Free, donations welcome. Peace Awareness Labyrinth and Gardens, 3500 W. Adams Blvd, LA 90018. Contact Judy, 323/737-4055, ext. 1137, registrar@peacelabyrinth.org, www.peacelabyrinth.org. THE WAY: SPIRITUAL FREEDOM OF ASTROLOGY, workshop with Robert McEwen, H.W.M., 7:30-9:30 pm, $45 advance, $55 at the door. Seating limited to 20 people. Info: Rick, 818/5129273 or 503/589-9468, www.StarrDoctor.com. The language of archetypal symbols opens the door to consciousness, the infinite, and flowing in the now. Your symbolic astrology chart provides you with a key of knowledge to the truth of your own unique expression. Bodhi Tree Bookstore, 8585 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood 90069, 310/659-1733. www.bodhitree.com. FIND THE CHANGE OF YOUR LIFE, find Peace,

Security and Love. Begin a positive change of course in life by attending weekly gatherings, study and ultimately through meditation on the inner sound current known as the Word, Shabd or Naam. Always free. Intro sessions on Monday and Friday nights, 7 pm. Sant Mat Meditation Center, 7726 W Manchester Ave., Playa del Rey, 310/821-3321. Info: call Bob 310/930-2450, Victor 310-930-2452, or Pat 310/567-3265. Website: www.lasantmat.com.

of astrology, nutrition, herbology, and mind/ body modalities. You will become skilled in a myriad of ways to successfully care for your body, mind and soul. Meets 6-8:30 pm today, 26 pm Sunday, 4/18. $65 for entire weekend. Facilitated by Dale O’Brien, Laura MacGhee, and Patrick Murray. Akashic Bookshop & Center, 1414 Thousand Oaks Blvd, Thousand Oaks 91362, 805/495-5824. www.akashicbookshopandcenter.com.

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MAGIC, MANIFESTING AND MIRACLES, 3-5 pm. Diane Silvester, owner of Soul Centered, a metaphysical shoppe, has worked with Law of Attraction for years, in many ways, including coming to Jai and creating her well-loved shoppe. Diane will share her simple yet effective techniques for manifesting. $20/class. Soul Centered, a metaphysical shoppe, 311 N. Montgomery St., Ojai 93023, 805/640-8222, www. soulcentered.com.

PSYCHIC FAIRE, 11 am-5 pm. $25/15-minute Psychic Read, or $35/30-minute. Please call Friday, April 16, to schedule an appointment. Akashic Bookshop & Center, 1414 Thousand Oaks Blvd, Thousand Oaks 91362, 805/4955824. www.akashicbookshopandcenter.com. CLAIRVOYANT/INTUITIVE WEEKEND CLASS, begins today, 10 am-5 pm, meets one weekend per month. School of Multidimensional Healing, Laguna Hills campus. Visit smhas.com or call 949/786-5272 for information and to enroll. THE CLAIRVOYANT EXPERIENCE: PSYCHIC BOOT CAMP workshop, April 17-18, 9:30-5, Temescal Gateway Park. Join author Debra Lynne Katz (You are Psychic, Extraordinary Psychic and Freeing the Genie Within) for this fastpaced adventure exploring your own psychic abilities to levels never imagined. Learn to see visions, “read” and heal yourself/others utilizing exciting group format. Emphasis on self healing & alchemy. All levels welcome. Call Sherri 310/623-0580 or visit www.urpsychic.com. EXPERIENCE THE ALCHEMY HEALING ENERGY PHENOMENON OF ‘THE SEVEN RAYS.’ A full-day workshop at the Inn of the Seventh Ray Restaurant in Topanga. For details on this Mega Healing workshop event, please email Dr. Frank Rite at drrite@live.com or call 714/689-2273. www.7healingrays.com. PSYCHIC PALM READING/EMPOWERMENT SESSIONS with Indian Psychic Palmist Professor Sasi. Experience transformation through the ancient science of psychic palmistry with worldrenowned, 7th generation Psychic Palmist/Spiritual Teacher Professor Sasi, one of the most loved psychic practitioners who has shown many individuals worldwide how to attain profound empowerment. By appt. Info: 310/3972405, 310/842-6087, www.professorsasi.com, www.vedichealinginstitute.com, email professorsasi@earthlink.net. CRAFT BOUTIQUE, 8 am-5 pm. Come and browse and purchase wonderful craft items such as jewelry, candles, photography and ceramics. There will also be a pancake breakfast from 8-10:30 am. Held in the Church parking lot and garden area. Pasadena Church of Truth, A Center for Awakening Consciousness, inclusive of all World Religions, founded in 1924, 690 E Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, 626/795-6905, www.churchoftruth.org. EDGAR CAYCE STUDY GROUP, 10 am. Discussion of the latest information coming from A.R.E. Headquarters. Fascinating, enlightening and educational. With Dr. Margie Ann Taylor-Black. Love offering. Encino Community Church, 7769 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Canoga Park, 818/7129400. WISE CARE OF THE SOUL, Wise Care of the Body, Weekend 2: Past in Perspective. Part of a 6-month series weaving together components

CHRISTIAN SCHOYEN, founder and best-selling author of the life manual, A Second Life, God is Giving You a Second Chance, at the Imagine Center today, 2 pm. Book signing and a free talk. Come early for limited seating, doors open 11 am. The Imagine Center, 18635 Ventura Blvd., Tarzana 91356. Register at 818/345-1100, or online at www.theimaginecenter.com. PROSPERITY CLUB, meets on 3rd Saturday of each month, 10 am-noon. The club consists of graduates of the Financial Freedom classes but is open to anyone who wants to learn how to open themselves up to prosperity in all areas of their lives. Pasadena Church of Truth, A Center for Awakening Consciousness, inclusive of all World Religions, founded in 1924, 690 E Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, 626/795-6905, www. churchoftruth.org. REIKI HEALING CLASSES IN LOS ANGELES with Reiki Master Alexandra Juliani, M.A., Director of the American Reiki Academy. Learn to heal with your hands through Reiki. Class includes course manuals, thorough instruction, initiation ceremony to activate Reiki energy, and hands-on practice time. Students receive certification as Reiki practitioners and Reiki Masters through the American Reiki Academy. All levels of Reiki offered. Info: American Reiki Academy, 310/397-2405, www.reikiacademy.org, email reikiacademy@earthlink.net. ANCIENT LEGACY FOR A NEW NATION, lecture presented by the Republic of New Lemuria and Senator Melanie St. James, 3-5 pm, $10. Info: 760/776-7600, www.NewLemuria.org. An informative lecture introducing an emerging post-modern nation state based upon the ancient Lemurian philosophies of peace, prosperity, charity and universal brotherhood. Learn how to become part of this emerging nation. Bodhi Tree Bookstore, 8585 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood 90069, 310/659-1733. www.bodhitree.com. KRISHNAMURTI FRIENDS OF LOS ANGELES presents a Program of Video and Dialogue, 7-10 pm, $10 suggested donation, for info call 310/650-5079 or email kdialogue@roadrunner. com. The evening includes a video of Krishnamurti (approximately 1 hour), then seeks to explore the topic of the video via the medium of dialogue. Focus is on “what is” rather than on ideas and opinions. This group has no affiliation with the Krishnamurti Foundation of America. Bodhi Tree Bookstore, 8585 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood 90069, 310/659-1733. Visit us at

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income, and listen to featured speakers regarding their alternative healing disciplines. Includes open dialog and networking. 2-3:30 pm. Refreshments, suggested donation $10. Soul Centered, a metaphysical shoppe, 311 N. Montgomery St., Ojai 93023, 805/640-8222, www. soulcentered.com.

FALUN GONG (FALUN DAFA), a traditional Chinese self-cultivation practice, practiced by millions worldwide. Learn Falun Gong for free. Every Saturday, Hermosa Beach, 7 am, 14th St. & The Strand. For information contact 310/9184700. Also at La Jolla Cove, 619/280-3112 for details.

YUEN METHOD, FREE DEMO, 12 noon. Pain relief on the spot! Free yourself from pain caused by Life Issues: physical, mental, emotional, relationship, finance, career, future. Receive free general corrections from a team of trained Yuen Method practitioners. Personal issues are $10. At New School West, 12731 Venice Blvd, LA 90066, entrance in back of school. Info: Peggy Fisher, Certified Yuen Method Practitioner and Instructor, 310/822-3714.

PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT, strengthen your intuitive abilities and your connection with Spirit. Learn to safely send and receive loving messages from spirit guides, angels and deceased loved ones, messages from the highest and best good of each participant. 1-3 pm, $15 min. donation. The Imagine Center, 18635 Ventura Blvd., Tarzana 91356. Register at 818/345-1100, or online at www.theimaginecenter.com.

OPEN TOURS, LABYRINTH & GARDENS at Peace Awareness Labyrinth & Gardens, 12-4 pm. Experience the subtle power of the Labyrinth, enjoy the peace and seclusion of our “East Meets West” meditation gardens. Tour this 1910 LA Historical Cultural Monument. 3500 W. Adams Blvd, LA 90018. Call Judy, 323/737-4055, ext. 1137, registrar@peacelabyrinth.org, www. peacelabyrinth.org. Free, donations welcome.

SUNDAY, APRIL 18 SATSANG IN LOS ANGELES, 7:30-9:30 pm. This meeting with Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya includes profound meditation and deep de-conditioning work. By donation. The Bodhi Center, 310/497-1899, www.thebodhicenter.net. OJAI HEALER’S CIRCLE, come joint this new group of serious healing professionals and find out ways to increase your business, attract more

YOUR POWER TO SAY NO! Saying NO saves time, energy, money! Discover its magical power and soar above it all with Vernon Howard’s lifesaving solutions. Class Sunday at 10 am, New Life Foundation, 5785 Westminster Blvd., Westminster. $3 donation. Info: 714/899-9300, www. anewlife.org. BODHI CENTER REIKI CIRCLE, 3-5 pm. Join The Bodhi Center’s Reiki Circle, for all levels, from beginners to advanced. Experience the healing energy, $20. The Bodhi Center, 310/497-

1899, www.thebodhicenter.net. THE INSTITUTE FOR HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY study group meets monthly in LA to watch a video presentation by the Institute’s founder, internationally acclaimed author and philosopher, Dario Salas Sommer, Ph.D. 9:30-noon, no charge. Discover how you can live a full and conscious life through internal growth, self-knowledge and an understanding of the relationship between your actions and life events. Discussion and practical techniques follow. 7122 Beverly Blvd. 2nd Floor (entrance on Detroit). For info on the Institute: visit www.operativephilosophy.org or www.ihpusa.org. For details email newawakeningla@gmail.com, 866/391-0847. HUMAN ENERGY SYSTEMS CLASS, a crosscultural view of energetic systems connected to the physical body. Meridian theory, chakras, aura balancing, visualization, space clearing, and feng shui for personal and professional environments presented through lecture, handson experience. Prerequisite: Massage Technician Training. 2 Sundays, 9:30-6 pm, $225 plus materials. IPSB, 5817 Uplander Way, Culver City 90230, 310/342-7130, www.ipsb.com. LEARNING STYLES: How to Use It to Communicate with Others, with Lois Politi, student of metaphysics for 25 years, taught special ed for 16 years. 11 am Sunday service. New Age Bible & Philosophy Center, 1139 Lincoln Blvd, Santa Monica, 310/395-4346. AKADUA FREE HEALING CLINIC, 1 pm, free. AkaDua is a transformative substance transmitted into the body. When activated, it creates an energy field for healing, art, spiritual work. Free AkaDua healing. Held on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month. Info: The Tequihua Foundation,

3485 University Ave. off Lemon St., Riverside 92501, 951/686-3471, www.tequihuafoundation. org/akadua.html. WANT TO LEARN TO MEDITATE? A starter workshop for anyone who has found it impossible to meditate or has always wanted to learn. Techniques, instruction and guided meditation, 3-5 pm, $25. Call Tracy 818/279-1735 or 818/541-0096 to reserve your space at Body N’ Soul Studio/Que Linda Boutique, 3610 & 36101/2 Foothill Blvd., La Crescenta 91214, www.quelindaboutique.com. EARTH DAY SERVICE: “OUR WORLD,” with Rev. Dr. Donna Byrns. Worship and grow at the Church of Truth with Christ-centered metaphysical teachings, 11 am service. Pasadena Church of Truth, A Center for Awakening Consciousness, inclusive of all World Religions, founded in 1924, 690 E Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, 626/795-6905, www.churchoftruth.org. FORGIVENESS WORKSHOP, 2-5 pm. Experience the value of forgiveness as a daily exercise in creating more loving and peace in your life. Discover more about the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (MSIA) and learn about a practical approach that focuses on how to incorporate spirituality into your daily life in a tangible way. Free, donations welcome. Peace Awareness Labyrinth and Gardens, 3500 W. Adams Blvd, LA 90018. Contact Judy, 323/737-4055, ext. 1137, registrar@peacelabyrinth.org, www. peacelabyrinth.org. HAPPINESS THROUGH SELF-ALIGNMENT, free workshop, with Lavena Mathrani, Esq., 7-9 pm. Info: 310/533-7552 or LMathrani@gmail. com. Join this attorney, spiritual life counselor, hypnotherapist and Shamanic practitioner as

she dynamically discusses how to be and act from a place of self-alignment in which you are able to honor yourself, increase self-love and be happy. Includes a guided meditation. Bodhi Tree Bookstore, 8585 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood 90069, 310/659-1733. www.bodhitree.com. ANGER SOLVES NOTHING: With American Buddhist Monk, Kelsang Pawo, presented by Kadampa Meditation Center, 10:30 am-12 noon, $12 donation. Discussion and meditation. Info: 323/223-0610, www.MeditateinLA.org. Anger is one of the most common and destructive emotions. Learn from Buddha’s practical advice how we can choose to overcome anger in any situation. Bodhi Tree Bookstore, 8585 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood 90069, 310/659-1733. www. bodhitree.com. PSYCHICROBIN.COM, PsychicMom.com is internationally known as RobinZodiac.com, and hosts a ‘live’ Cable Radio Network show 8-9 am every Sunday PST. For your on-air sample reading, the station number is 800/336-2225. You can chat during the show ‘live’ at http://psychicdomain.com/chat.html and listen at http://www. CRNTalk.com. COURSE IN MIRACLES DISCUSSION GROUP led by Dr. Margie Ann Black, 9:15 am. Join the group for a journey of forgiveness that releases the flow of love into your life! Love offering. Encino Community Church, Garden Chapel, 7769 Topanga Blvd, Canoga Park. For info call 818/712-9400. ONENESS MEDITATION, learn to use breath as a pathway to Source/All that IS and Divine Earth. You will walk away connected to divine love, life purpose and support for moving your life forward. 11 am-12:30 pm. The Imagine Center,

18635 Ventura Blvd., Tarzana 91356. Register at 818/345-1100, or online at www.theimaginecenter.com. $10 minimum donation. SUNDAY SERVICE WITH MUSIC, MEDITATION, INSPIRATION, Dr. Margie Ann Black presents Christ-centered, Scripturally based teachings with practical applications for everyday life that you won’t find anywhere else. Sunday School available. Love offering. 10:30 am, Encino Community Church, an all-inclusive circle of Love that seeks to make a difference just as we are. Encino Community Church, 7769 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Canoga Park, 818/712-9400. FALUN GONG (FALUN DAFA), a traditional Chinese self-cultivation practice, practiced by millions worldwide. Learn Falun Gong for free. Every Sunday at La Jolla Cove. For details call 619/280-3112. CREATE A POSITIVE AND PROGRESSIVE LIFE! Through your active participation in Unarius’ past-life therapy classes, your life can become more creative and meaningful. The Unarius Academy of Science offers books, CDs, DVDs on past-life therapy and other enlightening topics. Sunday classes are live streamed via the Internet. For info about Unarius teachings, call 800/475-7062 or visit www.unarius.org. BURNING BOWL CEREMONY, held each Sunday after service at Unity West Santa Monica. This Unity tradition, started in the 1940s, is for release, a time for forgiving ourselves and others, so healing and the new journey can begin. Without peace in our hearts, there can be no peace in the world. Follows Sunday service that begins 9 a.m. Rev. Lee Lakso, minister. Unity West Church of Santa Monica, 1515 Maple St., Santa Monica 90405. 310/577-0000, www.unity-

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MONDAY, APRIL 19 SPIRITUAL SELF MASTERY CLASSES, on 1st & 3rd Monday of each month, 7:30 pm. Rev. Lee, Church of Truth in Santa Clarita. Inclusive, Christ-centered. Call for location and directions, 661/645-9503, www.silentmiracles.net. ESSENTIAL OILS PASS IT ON CLASS, a weekly series of classes on the educational value, use and application of essential oils. Mondays, 7-9 pm, at First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica, 1220 2nd St., Santa Monica 90401. $5 at door, weekly raffles and a final grand prize of essential oils kit. RSVP: Selacia, 310/915-2884, Selacia@Selacia.com.Details: www.younglivingpassiton.com/. SUCCESS, HAPPINESS & PROSPERITY IN 5 MINUTES A DAY! Reprogram the most powerful part of your mind to achieve success, happiness and prosperity in less than 5 minutes a day. This workshop explains in easy-to-follow steps the Mental Bank Program, which puts you in the driver’s seat for success. Free, 7-9 pm. Call Romy at HMI-Tarzana to reserve your seat, 818/758-2747. www.hypnosis.edu. TAROT TECHNIQUES, Wendy will present “short cuts” to answers including timing, percentages, options, speed reading, and comparisons. Previous knowledge of the tarot is required. 7-9 pm, $35, plus $5 materials fee first night only. Akashic Bookshop & Center, 1414 Thousand Oaks Blvd, Thousand Oaks 91362, 805/495-5824. www.akashicbookshopandcenter.com. ANGEL CITY HEALING MONDAY SPECIAL: 10% off all products today. Angel City Healing is a unique, boutique style, holistic spa where every treatment is a spiritual experience. Services include Healing Facials & Body Treatments, Waxing, Reconnective Healing, Sound Baths, Hot & Cold Jade Stone Therapy, and Reflexology. All herbs and flowers used are grown organically on the premises. For a full list of spa services, visit us at www.angelcity-healing.com. 818/988-9006 (spa), 310/927-8687 (cell). FIND THE CHANGE OF YOUR LIFE, find Peace, Security and Love. Begin a positive change of course in life by attending weekly gatherings, study and ultimately through meditation on the inner sound current known as the Word, Shabd or Naam. Always free. Intro sessions on Monday and Friday nights, 7 pm. Sant Mat Meditation Center, 7726 W Manchester Ave., Playa del Rey, 310/821-3321. Info: call Bob 310/930-2450, Victor 310-930-2452, or Pat 310/567-3265. Website: www.lasantmat.com. HOLISTIC SKINCARE, you can beat aging, acne, dryness and other skin problems, call the Vital Image. Free demonstrations and sample facials held throughout the week. Call for specific days this week, 800/414-4624, 310/8231996. SACRED TONES WORKSHOP, spend an hour at Peace Awareness Labyrinth & Gardens doing a guided meditative process, as shared by John-Roger, founder of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness. Workshop guides participants through inner attunement to Spirit and their own divinity. 7:30-8:30 pm, free, donations welcome. Peace Awareness Labyrinth and Gardens, 3500 W. Adams Blvd, LA 90018. Contact Judy, 323/737-4055, ext. 1137, registrar@peace-

labyrinth.org, www.peacelabyrinth.org. MOVING INTO PEACE, QIGONG & MEDITATION CLASSES. Qi-Gong means Energy-Practice and is an ancient pathway to health and well-being. Utilizing the Universal Energy through easy and gentle movements, breathing techniques, practitioners become centered and balanced. Weekly classes offered in Canoga Park, Studio City, Sherman Oaks. Call for details, Antoinette Rohner, 818/378-3396, www. movingintopeace.com.

TUESDAY, APRIL 20 TUESDAY PRAYER & MEDITATION, 7:30 pm. Rev. BJ Enright facilitates the Tuesday Evening Service. An evening of prayer, meditation, energy balancing and fellowship, in the main building. Tonight: “Hands-on” energy work. Pasadena Church of Truth, A Center for Awakening Consciousness, inclusive of all World Religions, founded in 1924, 690 E Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, 626/795-6905, www.churchoftruth.org. YOUTHEATRE: DRAMATIC DANCE FOR YOUTH, 4-6:30 pm. This is the foundation of YOUtheatre classes and is a prerequisite for future classes. It is a combination of all performing arts disciplines, exposing children to dance, pantomime, voice and acting. Facilitated by Sam Saison, with a theatrical degree in dance and dramatic schools from Hong Kong, Hawaii and the U.K. Pasadena Church of Truth, A Center for Awakening Consciousness, inclusive of all World Religions, founded in 1924, 690 E Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, 626/795-6905, www.churchoftruth.org. GO PINK! PREVENT CANCER, EXPERIENCE BREAST THERMOGRAPHY for early detection and prevention of cancer. Breast Thermography is a radiation-free, non-invasive, painless, FDAapproved and medical doctor interpreted test of physiology. It can detect abnormalities in breast tissue 8-10 years earlier than a mammogram. Free 15-minute consultation this month at Tao of Venus. Visit www.gopinkpreventcancer.com, 310/775-3388. DEMYSTIFYING SUBTLE ENERGY, presentation and lecture by Mikhail Dekhta, 7:30-9:30 pm, $20. Info: 310/699-1170, www.IntentionalHealing.org. Join this subtle energy healer and researcher as he lifts the veil of centuries-old secrets of subtle energy. He will discuss the roles of the human subtle energy bodies and the interplay between physical and “spiritual” structures. Lecture also suitable for already practicing healers and therapists. Bodhi Tree Bookstore, 8585 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood 90069, 310/6591733. www.bodhitree.com. MEN OVER 50 SUPPORT GROUP, with B.J. Jakala, PhD, MFT (Lic. 23640). Explore how to bring about the future you want in the company and support of other men. 7-9 pm, limited to 8 men. Call for interview. B.J. Jakala, PhD, MFT, 21243 Ventura Blvd, Suite 224, Woodland Hills, CA 91364, 818/348-8837. A COURSE IN MIRACLES CLASS, 7-8:30 pm, WLA/Santa Monica area. Would you choose love or fear? Do you want a greater sense of peace and contentment? Learn the incredible power of your choices. Study A Course in Miracles with Allan Rosenthal, MFT, a student-teacher-lecturer of the course for over 25 years. Call 310/478-8994 or visit www.allanrosenthal.com. SINGING FROM THE HEART, private sessions

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21 THE COMPASSIONATE COMMUNICATION PRACTICE GROUP meets every other Wednesday, 7-9 pm, with Tom Armbruster. This group is geared to those who have attended at least one of the Basic NVC workshops and want to meet on a regular basis. Info: Tom at 626/798-1854 or tomscats@charter.net. Pasadena Church of Truth, A Center for Awakening Consciousness, inclusive of all World Religions, founded in 1924, 690 E Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, 626/7956905, www.churchoftruth.org. SOUL DANCE, let go and let God lead. Experience the Beloved as your dance partner at this free-form dance evening with spiritual moments interspersed. 7:30-9 pm, $10. At 2101 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica 90403. Contact Alisha, alisha@SoulDanceLA.com, www.peacelabyrinth.org.

OPEN HOUSE AT THE OCEAN, 12:30-2:30 pm. An introduction to our “Children and Adult” and “Teen” Meditation day classes. Held at Dockweiler Youth Center, 12505 Vista Del Mar, El Segundo 90245. Presented by True Insight Learning and Healing Center, 310/640-2211, www. true-insight.com. BIG CITY BUDDHISM: Developing Retreat Life in the Big City, presented by White Conch Dharma Center and Domo Geshe Rinpoche, lecture, 7:30-9:30 pm, $15 suggested donation. Info: www.White-Conch.org. The modern lifestyle is adept at overloading the senses, leaving no time for developing the inner life. Since we cannot both change and stay the same, how can we develop Buddhist hermit ideals in the middle of city life? Domo Geshe Rinpoche teaches traditional Tantric Buddhism in a way easily understood and integrated by the Western mind. Bodhi Tree Bookstore, 8585 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood 90069, 310/659-1733. www.bodhitree.com. HEALING NIGHT, HEALING MUSIC, laying on of hands, full-body healing, done by experienced healers. 6:30-8:30 pm at New Age Bible & Philosophy Center, 1139 Lincoln Blvd, Santa Monica, 310/395-4346. In back classroom, enter by back gate of parking lot in alley, 4th building north of Wilshire Blvd. Info: Bertha Taylor, 310/836-2768. Donation. A GATHERING OF MIRACLES® offers A Course in Miracle inspired lecture-services by Allan Rosenthal, MFT, a student-teacher-lecturer of ACIM for over 25 years. Listen to real life experiences and how the ACIM principles and other spiritual/metaphysical thought systems can be applied in everyday life. Q&As follow talk. No previous ACIM experience necessary. 7-8:30

pm, WLA/Santa Monica area. Call 310/4788994 or visit www.agatheringofmiracles.com.

THURSDAY, APRIL 22 AWAKENING INTO THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT, 7-9 pm, Thursdays through May 13. What are the numbers 11:11, 12:12 and 13.0.0.0.0 telling us about this period of time? Techniques for working with the accelerated spiritual and cosmic energies leading up to 12/21/2012. And what happens the day after that? With Tracey Boyer, $30/week plus $10 materials fee at first class. Akashic Bookshop & Center, 1414 Thousand Oaks Blvd, Thousand Oaks 91362, 805/495-5824. www.akashicbookshopandcenter.com. YOUTHEATRE: DRAMATIC DANCE FOR YOUTH, 4-7 pm. This is the foundation of YOUtheatre classes and is a prerequisite for future classes. It is a combination of all performing arts disciplines, exposing children to dance, pantomime, voice and acting. Facilitated by Sam Saison, with a theatrical degree in dance and dramatic schools from Hong Kong, Hawaii and the U.K. Pasadena Church of Truth, A Center for Awakening Consciousness, inclusive of all World Religions, founded in 1924, 690 E Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, 626/795-6905, www. churchoftruth.org. FENG SHUI YOUR OWN HOME, cover the aspects of Feng Shui in this 6-week course by studying a room of your choice from your home, office, or workspace. Learn the history of Feng Shui, the various Gua, the 5 Elements, and directionality all in reference to your own room. Thursdays, 7-9 pm (today, May 6, 20, June 3, 17, July 1). For details contact Helen Arabanos, Akashic Bookshop & Center, 1414 Thousand

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Oaks Blvd, Thousand Oaks 91362, 805/4955824. www.akashicbookshopandcenter.com. THE RINGING CEDARS SERIES: INSIDE STORY, lecture by Dr. Leo Sharashkin, $20 advance, $25 at the door, admission includes a free copy of Anastasia. Info: 818/984-4710, www.RingingCedars.com. Discover why these remarkable books have quietly swept onto bestseller lists around the globe with virtually no advertisement other than word-of-mouth. Dr. Leo is a highly educated, delightfully witty presenter whose unique insights will shock and amuse you. Bodhi Tree Bookstore, 8585 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood 90069, 310/659-1733. www.bodhitree.com. WOMEN’S DIVORCE SUPPORT GROUP, meets Thursday evenings, facilitated by Shoshana Levine, LCSW, C.Ht., Lic. #CSW 24340. Whether you are contemplating a divorce, going through a divorce, or still dealing with the aftermath of a divorce, this group is for you. Learn how to embrace your divorce and become empowered in the process. See divorce as a journey towards healing and wholeness. 310/9987253. In Santa Monica. Please call to confirm. UNITY WEST READING GROUP, now reading and sharing the Unity classic, Discover the Power Within You by Eric Butterworth, an inspirational classic that has guided the way toward a faith that will serve humanity. Butterworth interprets the Gospel in a fresh context. Held every Thursday, 7-8 pm, all welcome, love offering basis. Unity West Church of Santa Monica, 1515 Maple St., Santa Monica 90405. 310/577-0000, www.unitywestchurch.org. REINVENTING THE BODY/RESURRECTING THE SOUL, by Deepak Chopra. Discussion led

by Dr. Margie Ann Taylor-Black, 10 am, love offering. Encino Community Church, 7769 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Canoga Park, 818/712-9400. www.encinocommunitychurch.org. EVENING GROUP MEDITATION SERVICE, 7:30-8 pm, free. You are invited to our rural community sanctuary for evening meditation service. A tranquil time for reflection and rejuvenation. Free, call for directions. Sunburst Sanctuary, a community sanctuary for conscious living, 40 miles north of Santa Barbara, 805/736-6528, www.SunburstOnline.org. THE VORTEX, by Esther and Jerry Hicks, a discussion led by Dr. Margie Ann Taylor-Black. 11 am, love offering. Encino Community Church, 7769 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Canoga Park, 818/712-9400. www.ecchurchofcalif.org.

FRIDAY, APRIL 23 THE POINT OF SALVATION, 7:30-9 pm, an MSIA video presentation featuring John-Roger, Founder and Spiritual Advisor of MSIA. JohnRoger takes a look at individual levels of faith that may result in trying to find someone to take care of us or may result in fears about living our lives or dying our deaths. Free, donations welcome. Peace Awareness Labyrinth and Gardens, 3500 W. Adams Blvd, LA 90018. Contact Judy, 323/737-4055, ext. 1137, registrar@peacelabyrinth.org, www.peacelabyrinth.org. NEW AGE BIBLE INTERPRETATION, Vol. 7, by Corinne Helene, 7-8 pm, class every other Friday, donation. New Age Bible & Philosophy Center, 1139 Lincoln Blvd, Santa Monica, 310/395-4346. HEAL THE WORLD: REIKI NIGHT, heal the world

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with Reiki-guided meditation and energy transmission, followed by a 15-minute Reiki energy transmission for each of the participants. An ideal time for Reiki practitioners to practice Reiki on each other and for those new to Reiki to experience it. 7-9 pm, free (please bring canned or dry packaged food item for donation to Manna, a local food pantry). Facilitated by Tracey Boyer. Akashic Bookshop & Center, 1414 Thousand Oaks Blvd, Thousand Oaks 91362, 805/4955824. www.akashicbookshopandcenter.com. CELEBRATE LIFE WEEKEND, April 23-25, held on the last weekend of each month. Renew, relax and refresh. Celebrate life through song and dance, yoga classes, meditation, hiking, exercise, arts & crafts classes and wholesome meals at Sunburst Sanctuary. Please call for more info and suggested donation: Sunburst Sanctuary, a community sanctuary for conscious living, 40 miles north of Santa Barbara, 805/736-6528, www.SunburstOnline.org. ASCENSION: Connecting with the Immortal Masters and Beings of Light, author Susan Shumsky, DD discusses and signs her book, 7:30 pm. Info: www.DivineRevelation.org. Through “Ascension” you can begin to awaken your true immortal self. Her book introduces you to what is variously called guardian angels, inner gurus, spiritual guides, master-teachers, or God within. Includes a magnificent narrated slide show. Bodhi Tree Bookstore, 8585 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood 90069, 310/659-1733. www. bodhitree.com. FIND THE CHANGE OF YOUR LIFE, find Peace, Security and Love. Begin a positive change of course in life by attending weekly gatherings, study and ultimately through meditation on the

36 inner sound current known as the Word, Shabd or Naam. Always free. Intro sessions on Monday and Friday nights, 7 pm. Sant Mat Meditation Center, 7726 W Manchester Ave., Playa del Rey, 310/821-3321. Info: call Bob 310/930-2450, Victor 310-930-2452, or Pat 310/567-3265. Website: www.lasantmat.com.

itor and Translator of the series. Integrate this powerful material into your life. 9 am-5 pm (both days), $295. Presented by Ringing Cedars North America at Best Western Sunrise Hotel, 400 N. Harbor Dr., Redondo Beach, LA 90277. Info: 818/984-4710, www.ringingcedars.com, email office@ringingcedars.com.

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REIKI HEALING CLASSES IN LOS ANGELES with Reiki Master Alexandra Juliani, M.A., Director of the American Reiki Academy. Learn to heal with your hands through Reiki. Class includes course manuals, thorough instruction, initiation ceremony to activate Reiki energy, and hands-on practice time. Students receive certification as Reiki practitioners and Reiki Masters through the American Reiki Academy. All levels of Reiki offered. Info: American Reiki Academy, 310/397-2405, www.reikiacademy.org, email reikiacademy@earthlink.net.

CROP CIRCLES, UFOs & THE WORLD TEACHER, a free screening of “What on Earth? Inside the Crop Circle Mystery,” with background presentation and Q&A. 7:30 pm. At Crystal Matrix Bookstore, 3215 Glendale Blvd., LA 90039. Info: 818/785-6300. www.Share-International.org. CONCERT: IT TAKES TWO, 7 pm. A marvelous potpourri of entertainment featuring duets of talented singers, performers, actors, musicians and writers, performing everything from Broadway to Bach. Come early for best seats, a freewill offering will be accepted. Pasadena Church of Truth, A Center for Awakening Consciousness, inclusive of all World Religions, founded in 1924, 690 E Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, 626/795-6905, www.churchoftruth.org. SATSANG IN MALIBU, 2-4 pm. A genuine Guru comes to Malibu. Meet Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya. Bring your spiritual questions, life problems and thorny addictions, and get real answers. By donation. Malibu Library, 23519 W. Civic Center Way. The Bodhi Center, 310/4971899, www.thebodhicenter.net. BODY ECOLOGY™ 101, 2-day intensive, taking place April 24-25, 10 am-6 pm. Come see why hundreds of thousands of people follow The Body Ecology™ System of Health and Healing. Go home with a new “basket of tools” to help you achieve better health. Create more energy, lose weight and bloating, overcome infections, nourish your brain, and much more. $395 includes educational materials, lunch each day, recipes, gift bag with free samples, CDs. (Early bird discount of $50 if registered before April 10.) At Temescal Gateway Park, Woodland Hall, 15601 W. Sunset Bl., Pacific Palisades 90272. 303/817-0841, kim@bodyecology.com, www. BodyEcology.com. HEALING FAMILY & FRIENDS, an experiential healing energy workshop with Marilyn Salas, energy healing practitioner since 1993. Topics include: self-healing techniques, use of pendulum, crystals and stones as healing tools, “snapping” technique, “calling in” guidance, setting intentions, the “business” aspects of healing, and more. $95, 10:30 am-5:30 pm. Info: call Marilyn at 805/798-1448 or email marilynasalas@gmail.com. At Soul Centered, a metaphysical shoppe, 311 N. Montgomery St., Ojai 93023, 805/640-8222, www.soulcentered.com. EMPOWERING YOUR ENERGY CENTERS: Guided Chakra Building, 12 noon with Angel Shaman Michelle Francine. As we walk through life we enter different situations that carry various energies that can be a positive charge or negative drain. In this monthly group you will use visual techniques, empowering energy work and class interaction to help keep your Chakra centers balanced and in proper working fashion. $20, at Akashic Bookshop & Center, 1414 Thousand Oaks Blvd, Thousand Oaks 91362, 805/495-5824. www.akashicbookshopandcenter.com. RINGING CEDARS WORKSHOP in Los Angeles, April 24-25. With Dr. Leonid Sharashkin, Ed-

INTRODUCTION TO HYPNOSIS, 6 pm. Come and learn how hypnosis can help you and your loved ones to improve your Spiritual, Personal, Professional, Academic, Sentimental, Economic life. Learn how people practice Hypnosis against your will. $10/person, $15/couple. Call for reservations: 323/868-2216. Email: hypnomoon@hotmail.com. No one turned away for not having the entrance fee. METAPHYSICS AND BEYOND, with Dr. Margie Ann, 10 am. Encino Community Church, 7769 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Canoga Park, 818/7129400. www.encinocommunitychurch.org. BE A MONEY MAGNET, learn to manifest with 10x’s the power, delete 100 negative money programs, download 150 positive programs. Taught by Tamra Oviatt, Certified Master Practitioner in Hypnotherapy, NLP, Advanced Theta Healing Instructor and Practitioner. In Redondo Beach April 24 (also Westlake Village May 22). 805/5069460, www.help-healing.com. KALANGI YOGA WORKSHOP, 10 am-8 pm. An empowering inner journey of kundalini through chakras, initiation to Siddha mantra fires, yogic visualization and (pranayama) breath and alignment to being Spirit through simple hatha yoga sequences, which you can do by yourself at home. Limited space, recommend early signup. Info: 310/451-7377, www.nandhi.com/ events.htm, or email awake@nandhi.com. GROUP MEDITATION & CHANTING GATHERING with Indian Psychic Palmist Professor Sasi and Reiki Master Alexandra Juliani, MA, Directors of the Vedic Healing Institute. Explore the benefits of meditation and ancient Sanskrit chants from India in a powerful group setting. Includes a talk on vedic teachings, guided meditation, and 3rd eye opening by Professor Sasi, with Sanskrit mantra chanting and sound healing. 310/397-2405, 310/842-6087, www.vedichealinginstitute.com, www.professorsasi.com. EARTHDAY CELEBRATION NATURE SPIRIT HIKE, Rev. Basia Durnas will lead this event which focuses on Communing with Mother Earth and learning how to communicate with nature spirits. 10 am-1 pm, free. Spiritual Unity Movement, at 9550 Placerita Cyn. Nature Park. Contact Basia Durnas, 310/451-1121, www. spiritualunitymovement.org. SHAMAN JOURNEYS: Awaken and Develop Your Consciousness, a monthly group for you to come and clear your energy, be initiated with ancient South American Initiation rites to start your journey toward aligning with the energy that

leads us into 2012 and beyond. Includes shamanic journeys that reveal visions of the Soul to help shift your consciousness and align your physical body with the energy of awakening. Info: www.iinnersilence.com/shaman.aspx. 2 pm, $30, with Angel Shaman Michelle Francine. At Akashic Bookshop & Center, 1414 Thousand Oaks Blvd, Thousand Oaks 91362, 805/4955824. www.akashicbookshopandcenter.com. PSYCHIC PALM READING/EMPOWERMENT SESSIONS with Indian Psychic Palmist Professor Sasi. Experience transformation through the ancient science of psychic palmistry with worldrenowned, 7th generation Psychic Palmist/Spiritual Teacher Professor Sasi, one of the most loved psychic practitioners who has shown many individuals worldwide how to attain profound empowerment. By appt. Info: 310/3972405, 310/842-6087, www.professorsasi.com, www.vedichealinginstitute.com, email professorsasi@earthlink.net. FREE PSYCHIC READINGS FOR ANIMALS with Karen Gonzales, 11 am-3 pm, at the front porch of the Bodhi Tree Used Books Store. Appts recommended, walk-ups also welcome. Info: 818/486-4737, www.beyondthisworld.com. What is your pet thinking? Find out free with medium and pet psychic Karen Gonzales. She enjoys sharing messages from Spirit that provide a deeper understanding of the conscious mind of animals. It is not necessary for your pet to be present; Karen also can read for pets who have passed away. Bodhi Tree Bookstore, 8585 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood 90069, 310/6591733. www.bodhitree.com. ANTI-AGING & LONGEVITY LIFE-FORCE ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM: Vital Energetic Balancing, presented by Mony Vital, PhD, 3-5 pm, free demonstration and presentation. Info: 888/225-7501, www.VitalBalancing.com. This program has helped thousands receive balanced frequencies 24/7 and raise their life force. Receive a free energetic evaluation chart (normally $300) and find out how you can start healing your body now. Bodhi Tree Bookstore, 8585 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood 90069, 310/6591733. www.bodhitree.com. LEARN TO READ YOUR PALM, workshop with Dr. Sarah Larsen, 7:30-9:30 pm, $20. Info: 424/903-6633, www.DrSarahLarsen.com. Your hand is a map of your life and every part of the hand, from the fingertips to the wrist, with important signposts created by your nervous system. The wisdom you seek is in your hands! Dr. Larsen is a 3rd generation Palm Reader, Spiritual Counselor, Intuitive and Medical Doctor. Bodhi Tree Bookstore, 8585 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood 90069, 310/659-1733. www.bodhitree.com. FREE! CLAIRVOYANT READINGS by appointment only with students of The Clearsight Clairvoyant Program. Please email us at clearsightaura@gmail.com to book your weekend appointment. Students will read your aura, your chakras, your Being-Body Connection and answer questions. (See our back cover ad.) Clearsight, 310/395-1170. Visit www.clearsightaura. com. FALUN GONG (FALUN DAFA), a traditional Chinese self-cultivation practice, practiced by millions worldwide. Learn Falun Gong for free. Every Saturday, Hermosa Beach, 7 am, 14th St. & The Strand. For info contact 310/918-4700. Also at La Jolla Cove, 619/280-3112 for details.

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Signs of Spring in The Peaceable Kingdom by Steve Sprinkel 3 March 2010

he snake barely moved when I brushed it with my hand, accidentally, while I was cutting lettuce with Quin a few days ago. It was a big red and gold striped garter snake, Thamnophis sirtalis infernalis. And my, wasn’t February a bit early for a slither? Yes, making our El Nino a source of many phenomena, including night after night without frost, big grasshoppers dropping in early, and fresh cold-blooded creatures, wakened too soon and hungry. The many red boxes on the garter’s flanks seemed like windows on a night train. It was tame. Too tame. Or just in a coma from having eaten whatever rodent was obviously ballooning its belly. I would move a few feet on my knees and do my work and the snake would slide forward just out of reach. We slid down the row for an hour together. The snake sat there with its head on its coil watching me and in no big hurry to escape from its biblical enemy, sworn to an eternity of enmity. Could it not see the eight inches of cold hard Chinese steel with which I flayed the vegetation? The scene was an interlude borrowed from Henri Rousseau. Quin suggested that the snake “liked” me. He just did not know me. I am a killer. I kill to save the food. I also prevent like hell, but what I do creates enemies I must turn aside. Otherwise, I would be overrun. I may battle the beasts nearly every day, but for most of them I still have patience, wonder, reverence. The garter snake is indeed my ally, but I can be cold. The brigades of gophers massing in the high grass by the wall are free to eat there as long as they care to. I have no quarrel with them. But I know they will not be satisfied with foxtail grass and malva. Their huge piles of earth promise tunnels beneath the surface, tunnels heading for my future cucumber field. There, in that

chest-high tangle of green I have observed serpents before, all friendly to our cause. They sleep safely under the rotary mower, and hunt under the pallets where the soybean meal is stored, looking for rats. I hope for natural equilibrium , for scenarios I do not have to participate in, for a balancing out as profound as lady bugs in profusion everywhere a week before the aphids appear. High overhead, Cooper Hawks announce the births of baby ground squirrels and witless gophers, straining just a little too far from the safety of their burrow for one last bite of broccoli. I may lament when I see a hawk hauling a snake back to a tree but I still understand. The farm is a bowl-like stage, with wildlife drawn to the abundance of food. We fill our boxes surrounded by desperate contests: stalking herons and egrets, ready to lance a reckless rodent, thousands of lady bug larvae devouring aphids on flowering kale, the loud tracks laid nightly

by the coyote, crisscrossing the fields as they seek their hardwon feasts. My nightwatch is superior to any man. In the morning I find a coyote dig, with beets or lettuce kicked everywhere as the coyotes struggled vainly against a gopher that had long vanished. I praise this work. When I trap some poor beast I lay out the remains for the coyote to snack on in the evening. And in the morning its usually gone. The gift works better than any trap, because welcoming these dogs to the farm assures my territory is safe from much larger trouble than a few dead beets. In the field below the prison, I have seen deer droppings, and Francisco once observed raccoon tracks. Large mammals enter here at their peril. John has observed rabbits in his field, but none across the bridge, thanks to the family of coyotes that lives in the oaks not far from us who howl loudly when sheriff ’s sirens invade their ears. Am I the only one who hears the mountain lion? The warning muffled roar is always during daytime, still near the oak mott, near the packing house. I walked round the building, nearly expecting to find the cat behind the next turn, staring at me with its tail flicking. Years and years ago I had seen one, on the other side of Chismahoo Mountain, a short pitch from my goose pen. When I found nothing under our oaks here, I wondered, if there are ghosts, and I know there are, can’t there be ghosts of wild animals, perhaps dissatisfied with how they made their exit, angrily roaming my space? Steve Sprinkel has been a commercial organic farmer for 35 years on various sites in California, Hawaii and Texas. He and his wife, Olivia Chase, own an organic restaurant and store in Ojai, The Farmer and The Cook. For more information: www.farmerandcook.com.

38 PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT, strengthen your intuitive abilities and your connection with Spirit. Learn to safely send and receive loving messages from spirit guides, angels and deceased loved ones, messages from the highest and best good of each participant. 1-3 pm, $15 min. donation. The Imagine Center, 18635 Ventura Blvd., Tarzana 91356. Register at 818/345-1100, or online at www.theimaginecenter.com.

SUNDAY, APRIL 25 BODY ECOLOGY™ 101, 2-day intensive continues, taking place April 24-25, 10 am-6 pm. Come see why hundreds of thousands of people follow The Body Ecology™ System of Health and Healing. Go home with a new “basket of tools” to help you achieve better health. Create more energy, lose weight and bloating, overcome infections, nourish your brain, and much more. $395 includes educational materials, lunch each day, recipes, gift bag with free samples, CDs. (Early bird discount of $50 if registered before April 10.) At Temescal Gateway Park, Woodland Hall, 15601 W. Sunset Bl., Pacific Palisades 90272. 303/817-0841, kim@bodyecology.com, www.BodyEcology.com. MUSIC & THE MIND, with Rev. Dr. Donna Byrns. Worship and grow at the Church of Truth with Christ-centered metaphysical teachings, 11 am service. Pasadena Church of Truth, A Center for Awakening Consciousness, inclusive of all World Religions, founded in 1924, 690 E Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, 626/795-6905, www. churchoftruth.org.

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39 serve your space. At Body N’ Soul Studio/Que Linda Boutique, 3610 & 3610-1/2 Foothill Blvd., La Crescenta 91214, 818/249-7685, 818/5410096, www.quelindaboutique.com. JUPITER, SATURN OPPOSITION, with Rich Humbert, astrologer and author of Celestial Weather Reports on the Web. 11 am Sunday service, New Age Bible & Philosophy Center, 1139 Lincoln Blvd, Santa Monica, 310/3954346. PAINTING ANGELS, 2-4 pm afternoon workshop. Find out which angels are working with you and how they can assist you, then paint them on canvas as they channel through you. Art supplies included, no artistic ability required, $25. Info: Indian Springs Ranch, Sylmar, 818/890-6111, www.GailThackray.com. FULL MOON with Rich Humbert. The full moon energies and radiations are important for attunement as they bring fresh impulses to man and nature. Full moon charts for LA and Washington DC will be presented. 10 am, New Age Bible & Philosophy Center, 1139 Lincoln Blvd, Santa Monica, 310/395-4346. Donation. SPECIAL ONE-DAY COURSE ON SPIRITUAL HEALING, workshop presented by The Aetherius Society and Jude Unegbu, 9:30 am-5:30 pm, $150. Info and registration: 310/467-HEAL, 310/849-3119, www.JudeTheHealer.com. Everyone can learn to heal. Learn how to lay your hands on a sick person and transmit healing energy, how to send this energy over hundreds of miles to those in need. Class is suitable for beginners and those already practicing other modalities of energy healing. (Please wear white clothing if possible. Those who have attended this class previously receive 50% discount.) Bodhi Tree Bookstore, 8585 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood 90069, 310/659-1733. www.bodhitree.com. FREE HEALINGS FOR ANIMALS, by Lori Spagna, 12-4 pm, at the front porch of the Bodhi Tree Used Books Store. Appts recommended, walkups also welcome. Info and appts: 866/3885115 or www.EfilsGod.com. Lori is founder of Efil’s God (Dog’s Life backwards), a spiritual, holistic approach to communication and healing for the mind, body and spirit in every living being. She is also a canine behavioral expert certified in Animal Reiki, DNA Theta Healing, Animal Communication and other Eastern energy healing techniques. Donations appreciated. Bodhi Tree Bookstore, 8585 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood 90069, 310/659-1733. www.bodhitree. com. PSYCHICROBIN.COM, PsychicMom.com is internationally known as RobinZodiac.com, and hosts a ‘live’ Cable Radio Network show 8-9 am every Sunday PST. For your on-air sample reading, the station number is 800/336-2225. You can chat during the show ‘live’ at http://psychicdomain.com/chat.html and listen at http://www. CRNTalk.com. COURSE IN MIRACLES DISCUSSION GROUP led by Dr. Margie Ann Black, 9:15 am. Join the group for a journey of forgiveness that releases the flow of love into your life! Love offering. Encino Community Church, Garden Chapel, 7769 Topanga Blvd, Canoga Park. For info call 818/712-9400. ONENESS MEDITATION, learn to use breath as a pathway to Source/All that IS and Divine Earth. You will walk away connected to divine love, life

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MONDAY, APRIL 26 RELATIONSHIP STRATEGIES, free class, 7-9 pm. Having a successful relationship is the most important and yet the most difficult aspect of our lives. How much of our behavior in relationships has been programmed from childhood? What role does the subconscious mind play in whom we choose in relationships? Learn the answer to these questions as well as how to return to the honeymoon stage. Call Romy at HMI-Tarzana to reserve your seat, 818/758-2747. www. hypnosis.edu. ESSENTIAL OILS PASS IT ON CLASS, a weekly series of classes on the educational value, use and application of essential oils. Mondays, 7-9 pm, at First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica, 1220 2nd St., Santa Monica 90401. $5 at door, weekly raffles and a final grand prize of essential oils kit. RSVP: Selacia, 310/915-2884, Selacia@Selacia.com.Details: www.younglivingpassiton.com/. IPSB MASSAGE TECHNICIAN COURSE, become a professional massage practitioner, learn holistic bodywork techniques, state approved, CE units for RNs. Meets Mon.-Thurs. 9 am-6 pm, ends May 26. Advance registration required. IPSB, 5817 Uplander Way, Culver City 90230, 310/342-7130, www.ipsb.com. ANGEL CITY HEALING MONDAY SPECIAL: 10% off all products today. Angel City Healing is a unique, boutique style, holistic spa where every treatment is a spiritual experience. Services

include Healing Facials & Body Treatments, Waxing, Reconnective Healing, Sound Baths, Hot & Cold Jade Stone Therapy, and Reflexology. All herbs and flowers used are grown organically on the premises. For a full list of spa services, visit www.angelcity-healing.com. 818/988-9006 (spa), 310/927-8687 (cell). FIND THE CHANGE OF YOUR LIFE, find Peace, Security and Love. Begin a positive change of course in life by attending weekly gatherings, study and ultimately through meditation on the inner sound current known as the Word, Shabd or Naam. Always free. Intro sessions on Monday and Friday nights, 7 pm. Sant Mat Meditation Center, 7726 W Manchester Ave., Playa del Rey, 310/821-3321. Info: call Bob 310/930-2450, Victor 310-930-2452, or Pat 310/567-3265. Website: www.lasantmat.com. HOLISTIC SKINCARE, you can beat aging, acne, dryness and other skin problems, call the Vital Image. Free demonstrations and sample facials held throughout the week. Call for specific days this week, 800/414-4624, 310/8231996. SACRED TONES WORKSHOP, spend an hour at Peace Awareness Labyrinth & Gardens doing a guided meditative process, as shared by John-Roger, founder of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness. Workshop guides participants through inner attunement to Spirit and their own divinity. 7:30-8:30 pm, free, donations welcome. Peace Awareness Labyrinth and Gardens, 3500 W. Adams Blvd, LA 90018. Contact Judy, 323/737-4055, ext. 1137, registrar@peacelabyrinth.org, www.peacelabyrinth.org. MOVING INTO PEACE, QIGONG & MEDITATION CLASSES. Qi-Gong means Energy-Practice and is an ancient pathway to health and well-being. Utilizing the Universal Energy through easy and gentle movements, breathing techniques, practitioners become centered and balanced. Weekly classes offered in Canoga Park, Studio City, Sherman Oaks. Call for details, Antoinette Rohner, 818/378-3396, www. movingintopeace.com.

TUESDAY, APRIL 27 YOUTHEATRE: DRAMATIC DANCE FOR YOUTH, 4-6:30 pm. This is the foundation of YOUtheatre classes and is a prerequisite for future classes. It is a combination of all performing arts disciplines, exposing children to dance, pantomime, voice and acting. Facilitated by Sam Saison, with a theatrical degree in dance and dramatic schools from Hong Kong, Hawaii and the U.K. Pasadena Church of Truth, A Center for Awakening Consciousness, inclusive of all World Religions, founded in 1924, 690 E Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, 626/795-6905, www.churchoftruth.org. TRUE INSIGHT OPEN HOUSE, 7:30-9 pm (please arrive at 7:30 pm), everyone welcome. Free Communication and Healings tonight. A brief lecture on what True Insight has to offer. Includes a drawing for 1 free 1-1/4 hour communication. True Insight Learning and Healing Center, 111 Eucalyptus Dr., El Segundo 90245, 310/640-2211, www.true-insight.com. GRIEF COACH TRAINING starts April 15, 27 or 29. Enroll now and get $50 off (coupon: Whole). Learn how to help yourself, help others, make a difference, make 6 figures. There is a huge demand for trained grief coaches. Get your free CD and free ebook online, www.GriefCoach-

Academy.com. 866/608-7072. TUESDAY PRAYER & MEDITATION, 7:30 pm. Rev. BJ Enright facilitates the Tuesday Evening Service. An evening of prayer, meditation, energy balancing and fellowship, in the main building. Tonight: “Hands-on” energy work. Pasadena Church of Truth, A Center for Awakening Consciousness, inclusive of all World Religions, founded in 1924, 690 E Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, 626/795-6905, www.churchoftruth.org. LOSE WEIGHT & OPEN UP TO DIVINE INTIMACY, workshop with Alfonso De Rose, 7:30-9:30 pm, $12, space limited. Info and preregistration: 877/271-7695, www.AlfonsoDeRose.com. Would you like to lose weight? Improve your relationships? Attract your soulmate? Open your heart and transcend your fears? Then this lecture is for you. De Rose is an International Master Results Expert who has studied numerous physical, mental and spiritual healing modalities under master teachers around the world. Bodhi Tree Bookstore, 8585 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood 90069, 310/659-1733. www.bodhitree. com. MEN OVER 50 SUPPORT GROUP, with B.J. Jakala, PhD, MFT (Lic. 23640). Explore how to bring about the future you want in the company and support of other men. 7-9 pm, limited to 8 men. Call for interview. B.J. Jakala, PhD, MFT, 21243 Ventura Blvd, Suite 224, Woodland Hills, CA 91364, 818/348-8837. A COURSE IN MIRACLES CLASS, 7-8:30 pm, WLA/Santa Monica area. Would you choose love or fear? Do you want a greater sense of peace and contentment? Learn the incredible power of your choices. Study A Course in Miracles with Allan Rosenthal, MFT, a student-teacher-lecturer of the course for over 25 years. Call 310/478-8994 or visit www.allanrosenthal.com. SINGING FROM THE HEART, private sessions with Dr. Carole Moskovitz, MA, DSS, professional performer, voice/performance and communication coach. Create a deeper connection with your authentic voice and creative expression while enjoying a supportive environment to explore the many levels of singing and communicating from the heart. For professionals and amateurs. 310/821-SONG (7664), www.singingfromtheheart.com, www.Linkedin.com/in/DrCaroleGMoskovitz. WALK THE HOPI LABYRINTH, achieve sacred balance by walking the Hopi Stone Labyrinth at the Sunburst Sanctuary, located on Hwy. 1, five miles from Hwy. 101 toward Lompoc. Call for an appt and directions. Sunburst Sanctuary, a community sanctuary for conscious living, 40 miles north of Santa Barbara, 805/736-6528, www.SunburstOnline.org.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28 THE FULL MOON reveals its power and glory in the film LUNA, An Ethereal Study of the Moon, a spiritual story of the Moon never told before. Now on DVD at www.luna-moon.com. ADULT DAYTIME MEDITATION CLASSES, 12:30-2:30 pm, everyone welcome. This class assists you to reawaken your innate energetic system and your physical body system connection. Please RSVP to confirm. Come play and learn by the ocean. At the Dockweiler Youth Center, 12505 Vista Del Mar, El Segundo 90245. Presented by True Insight Learning and Healing Center, 310/640-2211, www.true-insight.com.

41 FULL MOON: PHOTOGRAPHING ORBS, 7-9 pm. Gail Thackray will explain what orbs are and share amazing experiences. Then tour the ranch and photograph them yourself. $15. Info: Indian Springs Ranch, Sylmar, 818/890-6111, www. GailThackray.com. LEGEND OF WESAK WORLD HEALING CEREMONY, Rev. Basia Durnas and musical duo Gaia Mama will reenact the Himalayan Legend including the Tibetan Waterbowl Ritual. 6:55-8:55 pm, $10 suggested donation. Spiritual Unity Movement, 9550 Haskell Ave., North Hills (previously Sepulveda). Contact Patrick Harbula, 866/204-2261, www.spiritualunitymovement. org. MYSTICAL YOGIC CELEBRATION OF THE FULL MOON, 5-8 pm. The Full Moon holds an auspicious moment when energies to Source magnify. Siddhar Master, Tapasyogi Nandhi, will take you through an inner journey utilizing simple, empowering mantras along with advanced yogic techniques from the mystical yogic path. Open to all, space limited, please RSVP early. Info: www.nandhi.com/events.htm, email awake@nandhi.com, 310/451-7377.

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MEDITATION SERIES BEGIN TODAY (I, III and V), 7-9:30 pm. Meditation I assists you in taking time to gently explore YOU. Awakening your ability to know yourself as spirit and body. True Insight Learning and Healing Center, 111 Eucalyptus Dr., El Segundo 90245, 310/640-2211, www.true-insight.com. A SOUND JOURNEY, workshop with Chris Riels-Seitz and Lex Lightning, 7:30-9:30 pm, $30. Info: 415/744-4247, www.LexLightning.com. Chris and Lex will channel divine spirit through their Tibetan and crystal singing bowls, gongs, drums and voices, with specific tones to release blockages in the room on the etheric level. Each session is unique and channeled especially for the participants. Bodhi Tree Bookstore, 8585 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood 90069, 310/6591733. www.bodhitree.com. HEALING NIGHT, HEALING MUSIC, laying on of hands, full-body healing, done by experienced healers. 6:30-8:30 pm at New Age Bible & Philosophy Center, 1139 Lincoln Blvd, Santa Monica, 310/395-4346. In back classroom, enter by back gate of parking lot in alley, 4th building north of Wilshire Blvd. Info: Bertha Taylor, 310/836-2768. Donation. A GATHERING OF MIRACLES® offers A Course in Miracle inspired lecture-services by Allan Rosenthal, MFT, a student-teacher-lecturer of ACIM for over 25 years. Listen to real life experiences and how the ACIM principles and other spiritual/metaphysical thought systems can be applied in everyday life. Q&As follow talk. No previous ACIM experience necessary. 7-8:30 pm, WLA/Santa Monica area. Call 310/4788994 or visit www.agatheringofmiracles.com.

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www.unitywestchurch.org. REINVENTING THE BODY/RESURRECTING THE SOUL, by Deepak Chopra. Discussion led by Dr. Margie Ann Taylor-Black, 10 am, love offering. Encino Community Church, 7769 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Canoga Park, 818/712-9400. www.encinocommunitychurch.org. EVENING GROUP MEDITATION SERVICE, 7:30-8 pm, free. You are invited to our rural community sanctuary for evening meditation service. A tranquil time for reflection and rejuvenation. Free, call for directions. Sunburst Sanctuary, a community sanctuary for conscious living, 40 miles north of Santa Barbara, 805/736-6528, www.SunburstOnline.org. THE VORTEX, by Esther and Jerry Hicks, a discussion led by Dr. Margie Ann Taylor-Black. 11 am, love offering. Encino Community Church, 7769 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Canoga Park, 818/712-9400. www.ecchurchofcalif.org.

FRIDAY, APRIL 30 CRYSTAL FOCUSING WHEEL: Attracting Abundance, 7-9 pm. Make your own Crystal Focus Wheel and learn how to use it to attract what you want in your life. Crystals and supplies included, $25. Indian Springs Ranch, Sylmar, 818/8906111, www.GailThackray.com. ACCESS LIGHT TOUCH ENERGY BALANCE, free intro tonight, 7-9 pm. Workshop: May 1, 10 am-6 pm. What would you like to change in your life? Applying this incredible technique has been found to bring greater freedom, abundance, relationship, joy, aliveness and much more. Work-

shop $195. At The Energy Center, 22030 Clarendon St. #211/213, Woodland Hills 91367. Contact Anjellea K. Godwin, 818/883-6638, www. anjelleakgodwin.com/learn-access.php. IPSB MASSAGE TECHNICIAN COURSE, register now for class starting May 5. Become a professional massage practitioner, learn holistic bodywork techniques, state approved, CE units for RNs. Advance registration required. IPSB, 5817 Uplander Way, Culver City 90230, 310/3427130, www.ipsb.com. RESTORING THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, an MSIA video presentation featuring John-Roger, Founder and Spiritual Advisor of MSIA, who reminds us that Jesus said, “The kingdom of heaven is within,” and explains how the kingdom of heaven gives us the incentive to do whatever it takes to live there now. Free, donations welcome, 7:30-9 pm. Peace Awareness Labyrinth and Gardens, 3500 W. Adams Blvd, LA 90018. Contact Judy, 323/737-4055, ext. 1137, registrar@peacelabyrinth.org, visit www.peacelabyrinth.org. BECOME A CERTIFIED THETAHEALER™, in beautiful Redondo Beach, a few blocks from the sand. Taught by Tamra Oviatt, Advanced Theta Healing Instructor and Practitioner. Basic DNA ThetaHealing April 30-May 2. Seating limited, reserve today, $100 discount for early registration. 805/506-9460, www.help-healing.com. BRUNO GROENING CIRCLE OF FRIENDS, spiritual healing through the teachings of Bruno Groening. 7:30-9:30 pm, meets every 3 weeks. Led by Barbara Neustadt. New Age Bible & Phi-

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BECOME THE VISIONARY ARTIST YOU WANT TO BE through the development of your creative and clairvoyant abilities as taught in Unarius. Inspirational art classes are held on Sundays in El Cajon. Call Unarius at 800/475-7062 for information about class sessions, fees, and a supply list. BURNING BOWL CEREMONY, held each Sunday after service at Unity West Santa Monica. This Unity tradition, started in the 1940s, is for release, a time for forgiving ourselves and others, so healing and the new journey can begin. Without peace in our hearts, there can be no peace in the world. Follows Sunday service that begins 9 a.m. Rev. Lee Lakso, minister. Unity West Church of Santa Monica, 1515 Maple St., Santa Monica 90405. 310/577-0000, www.unitywestchurch.org. FALUN GONG (FALUN DAFA), a traditional Chinese self-cultivation practice, practiced by millions worldwide. Learn Falun Gong for free. Every Sunday at La Jolla Cove. For details call 619/280-3112. SUNDAY FELLOWSHIP MEDITATION SERVICE, all are welcome. Sunburst Sanctuary and Retreat Center invites you to Sunday service at 10:30 am. Includes spirit-filled music, inspirational talk, meditation and prayer, followed by homemade brunch. Personal and group retreats also offered. Sunburst Sanctuary, a community sanctuary for conscious living, 40 miles north of Santa Barbara, 805/736-6528, www.SunburstOnline.org. SUNDAY SCHOOL AT ENCINO COMMUNITY CHURCH. Fun, challenging lessons that are based on spiritual psychology. Children all ages share stories, music and artwork and talk about

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MONDAYS PARENTING GROUP FOR MOTHERS OF ADOLESCENT GIRLS, Los Alamitos, with Christine M. Lustig Ortiz, MFT. Explore ways to create and nurture understanding, increase compassion, open up healthier communication patterns. Self-esteem, Peer & Societal Influence, Conflict. $30/week for 6 weeks. Small, safe, supportive environment with 4-5 women, 11:30 am-1 pm. Call for assessment and availability. 562/2304932, www.clustigortizmft.com. SPIRIT SOCIAL, 7-9 pm, held on 1st and 3rd

Monday of the month. Grow spiritually and meet like minded people. Join us for a potluck, movie and/or guest speaker. Topics include healing, psychic, manifesting, past lives, astrology, orbs, spirit communication and more. Check site for upcoming speakers. $10, Sylmar, CA. 818/8906111, www.GailThackray.com. INTUITIVE & SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT, 7-9 pm. We are all born psychic, learn how to release the blocks that are keeping you from using your abilities, how to “read” what you see, hear and know. Mondays through May 17, $35 per person per class (materials included). Facilitator: Lexa Finley (www.lexafinley.com). At Akashic Bookshop & Center, 1414 Thousand Oaks Blvd, Thousand Oaks 91362, 805/495-5824. www. akashicbookshopandcenter.com. FREE CLASSES at Hypnosis Motivation Institute-Tarzana, SFV. Self Hypnosis, Mental Bank, Relationship Strategies, Energy Healing, Hypnosis and Weight Loss, Therapeutic Imagery, Past Life Regression. Held every Monday at HMI-Tarzana, 7-9 pm, free parking. Call Romy at 818/758-2747 to RSVP and for this week’s topic. FIRST MONDAY, the first Monday of each month is Service Professionals Day at The Imagine Center, with 10% off all retail merchandise with your business card. We offer intuitive readings and retail merchandise for spiritual enrichment and personal empowerment. The Imagine Center, 18635 Ventura Blvd., Tarzana 91356, free parking in rear. Call 818/345-1100, or shop online at www.theimaginecenter.com. SACRED TONES WORKSHOP, spend an hour at Peace Awareness Labyrinth & Gardens doing a guided meditative process, as shared by

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John-Roger, founder of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness. Workshop guides participants through inner attunement to Spirit and their own divinity. 7:30-8:30 pm, free, donations welcome. Peace Awareness Labyrinth and Gardens, 3500 W. Adams Blvd, LA 90018. Contact Judy, 323/737-4055, ext. 1137, registrar@peacelabyrinth.org, www.peacelabyrinth.org. SINGING FROM THE HEART, private sessions with Dr. Carole Moskovitz, MA, DSS, professional performer, voice/performance and communication coach. Create a deeper connection with your authentic voice and creative expression while enjoying a supportive environment to explore the many levels of singing and communicating from the heart. For professionals and amateurs. 310/821-SONG (7664), www.singingfromtheheart.com, www.Linkedin.com/in/DrCaroleGMoskovitz. WALK THE HOPI LABYRINTH, achieve sacred balance by walking the Hopi Stone Labyrinth at the Sunburst Sanctuary, located on Hwy. 1, five miles from Hwy. 101 toward Lompoc. Call for appt, Sunburst Sanctuary, a community sanctuary for conscious living, 40 miles north of Santa Barbara, 805/736-6528, www.SunburstOnline. org. MORNING GROUP MEDITATION SERVICE, 6:15-6:45 am. You are invited to our rural community sanctuary for morning meditation service. A tranquil time for reflection and rejuvenation each weekday morning. Free, call for directions. Sunburst Sanctuary, a community sanctuary for conscious living, 40 miles north of Santa Barbara, 805/736-6528, www.SunburstOnline.org. MOVING INTO PEACE, QIGONG & MEDITA-

TION CLASSES. Qi-Gong means Energy-Practice and is an ancient pathway to health and well-being. Utilizing the Universal Energy through easy and gentle movements, breathing techniques, practitioners become centered and balanced. Weekly classes offered in Canoga Park, Studio City, Sherman Oaks. Call for details, Antoinette Rohner, 818/378-3396, www. movingintopeace.com. FREE! CLAIRVOYANT READINGS by appointment only with students of The Clearsight Clairvoyant Program. Please email us at clearsightaura@gmail.com to book your weekend appointment. Students will read your aura, your chakras, your Being-Body Connection and answer questions. (See our back cover ad.) Clearsight, 310/395-1170. Visit www.clearsightaura. com. JOEL GOLDSMITH TAPE GROUP, led by John Drewery, 7:15-8:30 pm. New Age Bible & Philosophy Center, 1139 Lincoln Blvd, Santa Monica, call 310/963-9377. Class is held in back classroom, enter back gate from alley, 4th bldg. north of Wilshire Blvd. Donation.

TUESDAYS BELIEF MANAGEMENT MINI COURSE, an Introduction to The Avatar® Course, 6:30-9:30 pm Tuesdays in El Segundo. How are your beliefs creating or attracting your current reality? Join us for this powerful evening of exploring consciousness. In the Mini Course you will learn 3 experiential Belief Management Exercises, watch a DVD about Belief Systems, and awaken to the limitless possibilities that await you on The Avatar Course. Complimentary, seating is limited, please reserve your space 1 day in advance. To RSVP: Teal Thompson, 310/699-7077,

www.WellspringAvatar.com. Avatar® is a registered trademark of Star’s Edge, Inc. All rights reserved. PARENTING GROUP FOR MOTHERS OF ADOLESCENT GIRLS, Los Alamitos, with Christine M. Lustig Ortiz, MFT. Explore ways to create and nurture understanding, increase compassion, open up healthier communication patterns. Self-esteem, Peer & Societal Influence, Conflict. $30/week for 6 weeks. Small, safe, supportive environment with 4-5 women, 1:30-3 pm. Call for assessment and availability. 562/230-4932, www.clustigortizmft.com. SILENT SERVERS AT THE CHURCH OF TRUTH, 9:30-10 am, minister’s office. Silent Servers confidentially prays for requests in our Prayer Box for one month, with extensions upon request. Requesters are encouraged to attend the group or join us in prayer wherever they are during this half hour. Mail prayer requests to: churchoftruth@sbcglobal.net or call church office. Pasadena Church of Truth, A Center for Awakening Consciousness, inclusive of all World Religions, founded in 1924, 690 E Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, 626/795-6905, www.churchoftruth.org. NATIONAL MOVING ON: A DIVORCE DETOX 8WEEK SUPPORT GROUP with Allison Pescosolido, MA and Andra Brosh, PhD. 4-5:30 pm, $199, advance registration necessary. Attend from the comfort of your own home. Are you sick of thinking about your ex? Overwhelmed by the idea of starting over? The leader in divorce recovery provides a systematic approach to help overcome the challenges that this difficult transition brings and helps you move on to create a fulfilling future. Info and registration: 310/439-

46 8964, www.DivorceDetox.com. Email movingon@divorcedetox.com. ONGOING CLASSES FOR LIGHT WORKERS & MINISTERIAL STUDENTS, 7 pm. Call for titles and info about upcoming classes. A Center for Awakening Consciousness, Pasadena Church of Truth, inclusive of all World Religions, 690 E Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, 626/795-6905, www.churchoftruth.org. MORNING GROUP MEDITATION SERVICE, 6:15-6:45 am. You are invited to our rural community sanctuary for morning meditation service. A tranquil time for reflection and rejuvenation each weekday morning. Free, call for directions. Sunburst Sanctuary, a community sanctuary for conscious living, 40 miles north of Santa Barbara, 805/736-6528, www.SunburstOnline.org. SINGING FROM THE HEART, private sessions with Dr. Carole Moskovitz, MA, DSS, professional performer, voice/performance and communication coach. Create a deeper connection with your authentic voice and creative expression while enjoying a supportive environment to explore the many levels of singing and communicating from the heart. For professionals and amateurs. 310/821-SONG (7664), www.singingfromtheheart.com, www.Linkedin.com/in/DrCaroleGMoskovitz. BECOME A CERTIFIED HYPNOTIST FOR ABSOLUTELY NO CHARGE. Hypnosis Motivation Institute, a nationally accredited college of hypnotherapy, offers a professional training hypnosis certification program at no charge. If you have a desire and commitment to make a difference in the world, you can make your lifelong desire a reality as a Certified Hypnotist. 4 weeks, Tues & Thurs, 7-10 pm (call for upcoming start dates). Hypnosis Motivation Institute, 18607 Ventura Blvd, Suite 310, Tarzana 91356, 800/4799464, www.hypnosis.edu. WALK THE HOPI LABYRINTH, achieve sacred balance by walking the Hopi Stone Labyrinth at the Sunburst Sanctuary, located on Hwy. 1, five miles from Hwy. 101 toward Lompoc. Call for an appt and directions. Sunburst Sanctuary, a community sanctuary for conscious living, 40 miles north of Santa Barbara, 805/736-6528, www.SunburstOnline.org.

WEDNESDAYS FREE-FORM WRITING CLASS, a new workshop presented by Peace Theological Seminary. Core focus is on free-form writing, an essential, simple and very effective technique taught by John-Roger, Founder and Spiritual Advisor of MSIA. Free-form writing, described in his best-selling book Spiritual Warrior, helps clear the subconscious and unconscious levels. 7:30-9 pm at Prana West, 3726 W. Adams Blvd., LA 90018. Info: PTS, 323/737-1534. CREATE A POSITIVE AND PROGRESSIVE LIFE! Through your active participation in Unarius’ past-life therapy classes, your life can become more creative and meaningful. The Unarius Academy of Science offers books, CDs, DVDs on past-life therapy and other enlightening topics. (Sunday classes are live streamed via the Internet.) For info about Unarius teachings, call 800/475-7062 or visit www.unarius.org. YANG STYLE T’AI CHI CH’UAN & QIGONG taught by Sifu Lana Spraker. Weekly classes for beginning and intermediate level students. At

AADAP, Inc., 2900 S. Crenshaw at 29th St., LA 90016. T’ai Chi reduces stress, improves balance and posture, and benefits your overall health. Individualized attention given to all students. Class begins 6 pm. Fee charged, call 310/479-3646 for info. Email sprakerlg@earthlink.net, www.alexandertaichi.com. MORNING GROUP MEDITATION SERVICE, 6:15-6:45 am. You are invited to our rural community sanctuary for morning meditation service. A tranquil time for reflection and rejuvenation each weekday morning. Free, call for directions. Sunburst Sanctuary, a community sanctuary for conscious living, 40 miles north of Santa Barbara, 805/736-6528, www.SunburstOnline.org. SINGING FROM THE HEART, private sessions with Dr. Carole Moskovitz, MA, DSS, professional performer, voice/performance and communication coach. Create a deeper connection with your authentic voice and creative expression while enjoying a supportive environment to explore the many levels of singing and communicating from the heart. For professionals and amateurs. 310/821-SONG (7664), www.singingfromtheheart.com, www.Linkedin.com/in/DrCaroleGMoskovitz. LEARN TO MEDITATE. We all want peace of mind. Meditation is not about keeping your mind quiet, it’s about finding a way to make it peaceful. Come discover the meditation ritual just for you. You deserve peace of mind. 7-8 pm, $35/ person. Facilitated by Laura Rhodes, Certified Hypnotist, Past Life Regression Therapist, www.4missingpeace.com. At Akashic Bookshop & Center, 1414 Thousand Oaks Blvd, Thousand Oaks 91362, 805/495-5824. www.akashicbookshopandcenter.com. YOUR POWER TO SAY NO! Saying NO saves time, energy, money! Discover its magical power and soar above it all with Vernon Howard’s lifesaving solutions. Classes every Wednesday, 7:30 pm, Neighborhood Church, 301 N Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, $3 donation. 714/8999300, www.anewlife.org. CONDUCTED IN SPANISH, an experiential workshop based on the teachings of MSIA. Peace Awareness Labyrinth and Gardens, 3500 W. Adams Blvd, LA 90018. Contact Tonie, 323/737-4055, ext. 1148, tonie@pts.org, visit www.peacelabyrinth.org. Free, donations welcomed. ANGEL CITY HEALING SPECIAL: 10% off all treatments on Wednesdays. Angel City Healing is a unique, boutique style, holistic spa where every treatment is a spiritual experience. Services include Healing Facials & Body Treatments, Waxing, Reconnective Healing, Sound Baths, Hot & Cold Jade Stone Therapy, and Reflexology. All herbs and flowers used are grown organically on the premises. For a full list of spa services, visit www.angelcity-healing.com. 818/988-9006 (spa), 310/927-8687 (cell). CHOIR PRACTICE, 7 pm. We invite you to join our choir. We have the songs, we have the robes, we have the accompanist. But only YOU have the voice. If you are interested in joining, please schedule an audition with our choir director, Dan Redfield (call for a Wed. evening appointment). A Center for Awakening Consciousness, Pasadena Church of Truth, inclusive of all World Religions, 690 E Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, 626/795-6905, www.churchoftruth.org.

THURSDAYS WOMEN’S DIVORCE SUPPORT GROUP, meets Thursday evenings, facilitated by Shoshana Levine, LCSW, C.Ht., Lic. #CSW 24340. Whether you are contemplating a divorce, going through a divorce, or still dealing with the aftermath of a divorce, this group is for you. Learn how to embrace your divorce and become empowered in the process. See divorce as a journey towards healing and wholeness. 310/9987253. In Santa Monica. Please call to confirm. A SPIRITUAL HEALING CLINIC, healing sessions with Jude Unegbu, available 11 am-4 pm, 15 minutes/suggested donation from $20; 45 minutes, from $75. For info and appts, call 310/659-1733, ext. 114 or events@bodhitree. com. Website: www.JudeTheHealer.com. Born in West Africa, Jude Unegbu has been a spiritual healer for over 16 years. His training was with his Shaman grandfather and further enhanced by techniques from Sir George King, founder of the Aetherius Society. Bodhi Tree Bookstore, 8585 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood 90069, 310/659-1733. www.bodhitree.com. LEARN TAROT WITH WENDY, now you can read too! Learn to interpret the cards, how to ask questions and how to bring it all together. 7-9 pm, $35/lesson. The Imagine Center, 18635 Ventura Blvd., Tarzana 91356. Register at 818/345-1100, or online at www.theimaginecenter.com. THE VORTEX, by Esther and Jerry Hicks, a discussion led by Dr. Margie Ann Taylor-Black. 11 am, love offering. Encino Community Church, 7769 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Canoga Park, 818/712-9400. www.ecchurchofcalif.org. NOON TIME MEDITATION, open to all faiths, noon-1 pm, in the Library of Yale Hall. Facilitated by Rev. Suzanne Commons, who is also available for Spiritual Counseling from 1-3 pm. this weekly hour of various types of meditation takes place at Pasadena Church of Truth, A Center for Awakening Consciousness, inclusive of all World Religions, founded in 1924, 690 E Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, 626/795-6905, www. churchoftruth.org. THE TELLING BY KOYOTE THE BLIND, 7:30 pm, by donation. Power, beauty, darkness…a deeply experiential performance art. Witness hidden worlds revealed before your eyes. The Tequihua Foundation, 3485 University Ave. off Lemon St., Riverside 92501, 951/686-3471, www.tequihuafoundation.org/akadua.html. A SPIRITUAL HEALING CLINIC, healing sessions with Jude Unegbu, available 11 am-4 pm, 15 minutes/suggested donation from $20; 45 minutes, from $75. For info and appts, call 310/659-1733, ext. 114 or events@bodhitree. com. Website: www.JudeTheHealer.com. Born in West Africa, Jude Unegbu has been a spiritual healer for over 16 years. His training was with his Shaman grandfather and further enhanced by techniques from Sir George King, founder of the Aetherius Society. Bodhi Tree Bookstore, 8585 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood 90069, 310/659-1733. www.bodhitree.com. MORNING GROUP MEDITATION SERVICE, 6:15-6:45 am. You are invited to our rural community sanctuary for morning meditation service. A tranquil time for reflection and rejuvenation each weekday morning. Free, call for directions. Sunburst Sanctuary, a community sanctuary for conscious living, 40 miles north of

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session. SINGING FROM THE HEART, private sessions with Dr. Carole Moskovitz, MA, DSS, professional performer, voice/performance and communication coach. Create a deeper connection with your authentic voice and creative expression while enjoying a supportive environment to explore the many levels of singing and communicating from the heart. For professionals and amateurs. 310/821-SONG (7664), www.singingfromtheheart.com, www.Linkedin.com/in/DrCaroleGMoskovitz. YOUR POWER TO SAY NO! Saying NO saves time, energy, money! Discover its magical power and soar above it all with Vernon Howard’s lifesaving solutions. Classes every Friday at 8 pm, New Life Foundation, 5785 Westminster Blvd., Westminster. $3 donation. Info: 714/899-9300, www.anewlife.org. FREE PERFECTSENSE PARAFFIN HAND OR FOOT add-on with any facial or body treatment today. Angel City Healing is a unique, boutique style, holistic spa where every treatment is a spiritual experience. Services include Healing Facials & Body Treatments, Waxing, Reconnective Healing, Sound Baths, Hot & Cold Jade Stone Therapy, and Reflexology. All herbs and flowers used are grown organically on the premises. For a full list of spa services, visit www. angelcity-healing.com. 818/988-9006 (spa), 310/927-8687 (cell). A SPIRITUAL HEALING CLINIC, 15-minute healing sessions with Jude Unegbu, available 11 am-4 pm, suggested donation from $20; 45-

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(Macy continued from page 7) sin (Christianity). Within the framework of a faith life focused on Jesus, what she calls her “root tradition,” Joanna invites us to understand and accept both crucifixion and resurrection as timeless and ongoing elements of the spiritual life. In taking this position, she draws strength from the words of Jesus: “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” Applied today, this teaching confronts us with a serious spiritual challenge: As countless species are crucified to extinction by the industrial growth society, will we turn away and leave them to their unhappy fate, or will we bear their pain as our own and try to save as many as we can. When we bear the pain of others as our own, the pain does not magically go away, (the crucifixion part); but the pain changes, and we ourselves are transformed by the love we extend to others, (the resurrection part.) The saints and mystics of Christianity perennially reaffirm that there is a greater love that is always wanting, and always waiting, to perform acts of goodness and mercy through our hands, and to transform us in the process.

Seeing with New Eyes Yesterday’s Truth Mandala has two paradoxical effects. First, because we are not holding back our various distresses about the fate of the Earth, we are also not holding on to them (and inadvertently amplifying them) as much either. That gives us some extra energy and attention to explore and learn. Second, our expressions of grief and anger show us how much we are woven into the world, and suggest to us, once again, that the billiard ball model of the isolated self is completely unworkable. As Joanna explains this phase of our time together, I get the sense that “seeing with new eyes” is a fractal sort of idea, in that it means something similar at many different levels. Seeing with new eyes is part three of Joanna’s four-part lesson plan. And it points toward a body of exercises in which we embrace, by gradual degrees, our connectedness with everything and everyone. It is also the process inside of people that we hope most to encourage, the shift in identity away from separation and toward connectedness. And, at the world level, it represents what Joanna and many Deep Ecologists call the Great Turning, a global recognition connectedness. I make some mental notes about this, because the shift from being an isolated little ego to being part of a family and a team is also part of the maturational journey of every human being. It’s good to put the new name on it so people will pay attention to it, but I think it is also good to remember that we are not introducing some new idea from outer space. Practically everybody appreciates the idea of being considerate of others. The Great Turning represents the moment when you realize that we have drawn our circle of consideration too narrowly. Our powerful technologies and our escalating consumption have given human beings a giant footprint; now we need to be a lot more careful about where we step. This is not just a matter of scolding people to be more polite. What will we ourselves eat when we have paved over all the farm lands, or wrecked them with chemicals or Frankenfood seeds that are programmed to die?

A Council of All Beings is perhaps the best-known group exercise associated with Joanna Macy and her colleague, the deep ecologist John Seed. A Council of All Beings is an exuberant celebration of letting back in all the elements of nature, of humanity, and of reality, that have been shut out by our bean counting money madness. We each make a mask and sit in a circle, passing around a talking stick, and taking turns. One person speaks as River. (Over the past 150 years, the Cuyahoga River, as it passes through Cleveland, Ohio, has had so much toxic junk dumped into it that it has caught fire on ten different occasions.) “Set me free me!” River cries, “let me breathe!” “Where are my children, where are my life forms?” She asks. Glacier takes a turn and invites us to consider a being whose life stretches across millennia: “I nurture the rivers, I nurture the valleys, I bring food to all the people who live in the variegated plume of my abundant waters as they rush to the sea. How will they live, when I am gone?” Future Children speak, reaching toward us with millions of little hands, saying, “Thank you for working day and night, year after year, to find responsible ways of storing nuclear waste. We feel your bodhisattva love radiating down through the centuries. We are hidden in the Photo by Anne Symens-Bucher womb of time and we cannot speak to you directly. We need you to thank one another, to appreciate one another, to nurture one another as you work to protect the integrity of life, of our life.” And so it goes around the circle. The ancestors speak. Future beings speak. People in our various wars zones speak, huddling behind mud walls and hoping to live through the day, and asking for something even more fundamental than either justice or mercy, asking for the simple recognition that they are there, that they exist. I know it would be easy to ridicule all of this as bleeding heart liberalism run amok, but wait, slow down. Every time we shut out one of these voices, we shut down something important in ourselves. How much can we shut down in ourselves and still have a life? Every time we shut out one of these voices, we become blind to the world from which that voice came. How much blindness can we tolerate, and still survive as a nation? The news is full of stories that illustrate the walled-off separate self as it runs to madness. Children die in China because milk producers there put white plastic powder in the milk to give falsely high protein readings. Here in the U.S., farmers and agribusiness corporations are feeding tons of antibiotics to farm animals penned up in unhealthy conditions. This is breeding a new generation of drug-resistant superbacteria that will probably cause horrific epidemics among humans -all for the sake of higher profits right now. (Each year in the U.S., 18,000 people a year die from a growing list of drug-resistant bacteria infections.) This is what happens when people feel disconnected from one another, disconnected from the natural world, and disconnected from ancestors and future beings (trapped in a rootless and windowless present). And these outrages, repeated a thousand-fold, add deep elements

of moral challenge and spiritual depth an exercise like the Council of All Beings. The industrial growth society wants us to become passive, silent and uncomplaining accomplices to the tearing down of mountains and the poisoning of the seas: really, to be passive in the face of our own undoing. In Council we break the silence and give voice to a creative and compassionate defiance. We will speak for all those, two-legged, four-legged, six-legged, finned and winged, who have been silenced -- the bees, the frogs, the salmon, and native peoples around the world. We will remember all those, past, present and future whose well being has been forgotten -- the children of Falluja, born with birth defects due to the toxic residues of depleted uranium munitions. In the sacred space we create by our intention to be part to the healing of the Earth, we bust out of the mental prison of being accomplices, and speak the dream of a world brought back to balance.

Going Forth A workshop with Joanna Macy comes close to a shaman’s journey. You enter into a different dimension, a time outside of ordinary time. In this time outside of time, you receive the seeds of new life from ancestors and future beings. The challenge then is to return to your village and plant a new garden. Toward the end of her book, Coming Back to Life, Joanna restates an inspiration from the novelist and minister Frederick Buechner: To find our calling is to find the intersection between our own deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger. “I can’t tell you what to do,” Joanna says in the quiet of our last morning together, “and I can’t assure you that we will be successful either in promoting the Great Turning, or in preventing more ecological catastrophes.” That is the gift of unknowing, she explains, that shifts our focus from the results we want to obtain to the wisdom and compassion we want to embody. The previous evening, we had built a ramp in the middle of our meeting room, a symbolic leaping-off place that ended with an eighteen-inch cliff. One by one, to the sound of applause and shouts of encouragement, we each marched up the ramp, declared our specific intentions, and leapt into the unknown. Now we sit in meditation, and the morning sun filters through the tall windows into the quiet room. To help us persevere in the fulfillment of our intentions, and to help us find strength in the hearts of our sisters and brothers, Joanna offers us five green vows to sustain us through our many journeys:

I vow to myself and each of you: To commit myself daily to the healing of our world and the welfare of all beings. To live on earth more lightly and less violently in the food, products and energy I consume. To draw strength and guidance from the living Earth, the ancestors, the future beings, and all my brothers and sisters of all species. To support each other in our work for the world and to ask for help when I feel the need. To pursue a daily spiritual practice that clarifies my

mind, strengthens my heart and supports me in observing these vows. The day unfolds into an afternoon of leave taking, each of us challenged, by this extraordinary teacher, to make our hearts large enough to contain both joy and sorrow, to make our hearts large enough to hold all life.

Please note: This article draws on my experiences in several of Joanna Macy’s workshops and retreats. These experiences have been imaginatively recreated as if they happened in one setting. In order to maintain the agreed-upon levels of privacy of Joanna Macy’s workshops, all quotes in this article from workshop participants, and all representations of them, other than Joanna Macy herself, are composites altered enough to protect the identity of the individual portrayed. Eco-philosopher Joanna Macy, Ph.D., is a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. A respected voice in movements for peace, justice, and ecology, she interweaves her scholarship with four decades of activism. She has created a ground-breaking theoretical framework for personal and social change, as well as a powerful workshop methodology for its application. A video presentation of her workshop is available free of charge at www.TheWorkThatReconnects.org. Her wide-ranging work addresses psychological and spiritual issues of the nuclear age, the cultivation of ecological awareness, and the fruitful resonance between Buddhist thought and contemporary science. The many dimensions of this work are explored in her books Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age (New Society Publishers, 1983); Dharma and Development (Kumarian Press, 1985); Thinking Like a Mountain (with John Seed, Pat Fleming, and Arne Naess; New Society Publishers, 1988; New Society/ New Catalyst, 2007); Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory (SUNY Press, 1991); Rilke’s Book of Hours (1996, 2005) and In Praise of Mortality (2004) (with Anita Barrows, Riverhead); Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World (with Molly Young Brown, New Society Publishers, 1998); Joanna’s memoir entitled Widening Circles (New Society, 2000); and World as Lover, World as Self (Parallax Press, 2007), A Year With Rilke, Harper One. For more information about Joanna Macy’s books and workshops, please visit www.JoannaMacy.net. Dennis Rivers, MA, is a contributing writer to The Whole Person Calendar. He writes for and edits the following websites: www. NewConversations.net, www.LiberationTheology.org, www. TurnTowardLife.org, www.SupportG. “Americans Who Tell the Truth” is a non-partisan series of portraits by artist Rob Shetterly. Past and current Americans are represented in a travelling exhibit that is hosted by schools, universities, churches, and various community groups around the country. With this remarkable collection of portraits, Rob intends to remind people of the dignity, courage and importance of some of America’s truth tellers and, whether or not you agree with a particular subject’s point of view, to create dialogue that will help each of us figure out which truths we value most as citizens in a democracy. See the website for more information: www.americanswhotellthetruth.org.

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it has a direct impact on how companies are managed. I always remind my clients that this is where the “rubber meets the road.” Shareholder activism is promoting powerful changes in corporate America. This is accomplished via proxy voting, shareholder resolutions and dialogue with management. Every year there are hundreds of shareholder resolutions on issues as diverse as: climate change, executive pay, animal testing, product safety, non-discrimination policies, sweatshop labor,

Studies now demonstrate that socially responsible investing does not mean a loss on competitive returns. genetic engineering and human rights. Through these varied approaches, valuebased investors are changing the way many firms do business. This is promoting progressive changes here in the U.S. and around the world. Success with one corporation can often spur change across an entire industry.

What About Performance? A common misconception is that Sustainable and Responsible Investing negatively impacts investment performance. Studies now demonstrate that socially responsible investing does not mean a loss on competitive returns. Several recent studies make it clear that SRI funds do not underperform conventional mutual funds. In short, investors have discovered that one can ‘do good and do well’ at the same time. A recent article from the website www. socialfunds.com stated: “Most Socially Responsible Mutual Funds Outperformed the Benchmarks in 2009” and cites “Almost three-quarters of the 73 large-cap SRI funds reviewed by SIF outperformed the benchmark employed by the study, the S&P 500, in 2009, and on average the large-cap SRI funds outperformed the benchmark by 6%. ‘A majority of the large cap funds offered by SIF members also outperformed the S&P 500 over three

years and over 10 years,’ according to the SIF study, by about one percent in both cases.” *

Caring for the community and making a sustainable impact Socially responsible investing, mission-related and program-related investing by foundations; venture philanthropy; social entrepreneurship; local economies, and consumer demand for organics and green products are the first stages of a more profound alignment with the way we work with money, commerce and the environment. Many investors want the savings they hold outside the stock market to work for their values as well. Community development investing and high impact investing are some of the most dynamic and innovative areas of growth in this field. Institutions such as Nobel Prize-winner, Muhammad Yunus’ Grameen Bank was the pioneer to what is called “microfinancing,” making financial services and loans available to the poor. Angel investors like Investors Circle, are dedicated to socially responsible venture capital; “Patient Capital for a Sustainable Future,” and RSF Social Finance are dedicated through the investments they make to “change the way the world works with money.” All these areas are new and innovative ways that the world of investing is evolving to make the world a better place. Gregory Wendt is the Director of Sustainable and Responsible Investing for Enright Premier Wealth Advisors, Inc. which is recognized as one of the top 100 independent Registered Investment Advisory Firms in the nation. Greg advises clients who want to align their wealth through investments that reflect their priorities and concerns for a better world. Greg is one of only a handful of Sustainable Investing experts in Southern California with over 19 years of experience as a financial advisor. Mr. Wendt is also the founder of the non-profit “Green Business Networking,” a community of over 3,500 green business owners and professionals in Los Angeles. A native of Southern California, Greg has lived in Santa Monica for 27 years. In his spare time Greg enjoys swimming surfing, gourmet cooking, reading, meditation, hiking and hosting wonderful events for his family and friends.He can be reached at www.gregwendt.com *(performance data was provided by Thomson Reuters, an independent third party. Read the full article at: http://www. socialfunds.com/news/article.cgi/2871.html)

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To prepare your own mayonnaise, you will need a blender or food processor. I use a blender for mine.

A is for April.... And asparagus, artichokes, and avocados. Not to mention lemons, fresh peas, new potatoes, garlic, parsley, and mint. Spring has definitely arrived in Southern California. In my Ojai garden, white plum blossoms send their intoxicating fragrance into the air, driving the bees mad with desire. The lemon tree hangs with yellow globes and shy asparagus spears planted last year are starting to raise their little pointed heads. It’s time to eat! One of my favorite ways to prepare asparagus is to grill or broil it with olive oil, sea salt, and a splash of lemon. I also like it-- and steamed artichokes--with a lemon-garlic mayonnaise. (If you are wary of eating raw eggs, or prefer a vegan substitute, the recipe can be made easily with a store bought version). Both artichokes and asparagus are cleansing foods, good for the liver and overall organs. With the added benefits of lemon and garlic, these foods of Spring are a truly delicious, healing way to eat your veggies. Bon Appetit, and Happy Spring!

1 egg brought to room temperature 1/2 cup light olive oil 1/2 tsp dijon mustard 1 Tbl lemon juice for basic recipe plus another tablespoon + set aside. 1/8 tsp salt or to taste at least 2 cloves of garlic, cut into pieces Opptional: cayenne, or fresh dill

Wash asparagus well,especially if you’ve gotten it from a farmer’s market or your garden. It tends to be grown in sandy soil and grit is often the result. Trim stalks by checking for woodiness and cut that part off. You should still have 3/4 of a stalk left if the asparagus spears are fresh. I like to leave them long, but you can also cut spears in two. Toss in a bowl with about 2 tblspoons of olive oil for one bunch--about 10 to 15 spears--then spread on a baking sheet and sprinkle with sea salt. Broil or grill until browned, about 5 minutes, then turn and broil another 2 to 3. I like them a little al dente.

Place the egg, salt, and mustard in bottom of blender and set on a medium low speed to combine. Add in the lemon juice. Opening top of blender, pour the oil in very, very slowly, as thin a stream as you can manage. Keep going until the mix begins to thicken; it will be whitish yellow. After it starts to look like mayo, add in garlic chunks and/or dill, and blend at a slightly higher speed for a minute. Add a tiny bit of the cayenne, if you like a kick. Enjoy with broiled asparagus, steamed artichokes, or on new potatos. Also great with fish.

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