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ERICK GONZALES, Founder and Spiritual Leader of Earth Peoples United, where he is a Mayan Spiritual Guide, Tata OmeAkaEhekatl, will present a Mayan Wisdom Ceremony. Born in Guatemala, he was initiated into Native sacred rites over a twenty-five year period with direct participation, teachings, and guidance from various Native spiritual elders from Mexico, North America, Colombia, Peru, and Guatemala. Erick integrates body, mind, and spirit in a holistic way using methods taught to him by Mayan elders and other indigenous elders from the Americas as well as personal experiences that have come from his deep connection to the Divine. In 2005, he was adopted into the Ts’aalth Clan, the five finned killer whale people of the Eagle Clan of the Haida, and given the name Gaada, meaning supernatural light. His work over the past thirty years has supported Native communities, their wisdom keepers and spiritual elders, to bridge traditional Indigenous values, culture, and spirituality with modern-world society. Erick received a Master’s in Psychology through Newport University in Southern California. www.EarthPeoplesUnited.com IYAR SEMEL of SevaSoundSystem Holographic is a multi-instrumentalist who has studied in Cuba, Peru and Australia and traveled worldwide, volunteering, teaching children, and jamming. He will lead healing dream music centered around drones (consistent tones) emanating from age old proven healing instruments such as the Didjeridoo and Crystal Singing Bowls. Participants are encouraged to lie down and/or close their eyes and let their selves unfold gently in their senses. On top of this foundation, Iyar adds lush synth pads, overtone singing, native wooden flutes and world instruments such as the M'bira, Kalimba, Hang, Oud and the Kora. The ceremony will focus on encouraging the listener to heal him/her self with the aid of sound spirits as practiced in many cultures throughout the world such as India (Mantras, Kirtan and Bhajans) and the Amazon (Icaros). HYPERLINK "http://www.myspace.com/liveforum" MASTER MINGTONG GU is an internationally recognized teacher and healer who received his training from a variety of Grandmasters of China and Tibet and at the world's largest Qigong hospital. He is the founder of the Chi Healing Center and Wisdom Healing Foundation, and has taught Qigong to thousands in the USA, China and Europe. He will lead a wisdom healing meditation to direct profound energy for the deep purpose of healing the self and others. KEVAL KHALSA is co-founder of The Bliss-Full Living Institute and The Bliss Bar. She brings her expertise as a teacher of Kundalini Yoga to Harmony this year. This style incorporates postures, movements, sounds and specific breathwork techniques to raise energy from the base of the spine up through the body for purification and regeneration. Keval teaches Kundalini Yoga and other neo-ancient technologies for prosperity and integrative awakening. She and her husband Bhagvant have taught Kundalini Yoga at The Agape International Spiritual Center, and to hundreds annually on their west coast festival tours. HYPERLINK "http://www.theblissbar.org" *ANN MARIE “PARMATMA” SIMONE is former director and founder of Evolution Yoga, Santa Rosa's Premier yoga studio. After closing the studio nearly two years ago, she spent over 10 months in India, studying and teaching yoga and meditation, and doing healing work in the Himalayas and around the country there. She now leads personal wellness, spiritual and yoga retreats with Dr. Rajesh Kr Raj in both India and Indonesia. Parmatma with teach Naad Chakra Yoga, one of the oldest, from the Vedic History of India. This practice can enable the student to create his own yantra (healing symbol) in his body using sound and visualization. This yoga includes a series of specific steps (practices) involving sound (naad), visualization and prana (movement of energy) through the chakras. This ancient practice is so profound in producing an experience and so easy that anyone can participate. HYPERLINK "http://www.chittashaktivilas.com" ### |
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