From: Debra Giusti <deb@harmonyfestival.com>

Date: May 18, 2009 2:33:30 PM PDT

To: info@hopedance.org

Subject: Harmony Festival Recommends Living Mandala Courses/Events, Starhawk and Caroline Casey on Visionary Radio- Monday night, May 18th, plus Living Mandala at Harmony Festival!

Reply-To: deb@harmonyfestival.com

	Harmony Festival Recommends   VISIONARY CULTURE RADIO Internet Radio (Shows archived after Live Show) Featuring on Monday, May 18th, 8 pm Caroline Casey   8:00 pm Starhawk   8:30 pm See talks of other Harmony Festival Speakers, performers, producers listed with links listed below: Daniel Pinchbeck , Sean Ahearn, Astarius, Bo Sapper, Debra Giusti, Greg Cipes, Scott McKeown, Jay Ma Listen at www.visionarycultureradio.com or call 646-649-1957 (every Monday night!)    LIVING MANDALA Courses, Events & Workshops Permacuture, Natural Building, Creating an Eco-Village www.LivingMandala.com     LIVING MANDALA at Harmony Festival Eco-Village, Healing Sanctuary, & Earth Temple Dome June 12-14, 2009 Sonoma County Fairgrounds, Santa Rosa, CA www.harmonyfestival.com   HEAR OTHER HARMONY FESTIVAL SPEAKERS ON PREVIOUS SHOWS!   Daniel Pinchbeck on Visionary Culture Radio         Sean Ahearn + Music of Harmony on Visionary Culture Radio    Sean Ahearn, Astarius + Crystal Skull Lady Aravel Garduno on Music of Awakening     Bo Sapper, Debra Giusti, Jesse Dylan and Sacred Steve Adler on Visionary Culture Radio   Harmony Musician and Emcee Greg Cipes on Visionary Culture Radio   Scott McKeown, Harmony Festival Producer + Transition Town Leader on Visionary Culture Radio   Food Forests Across America on Visionary Culture Radio, co-produced by Jay Ma, Harmony Festival Eco Village Manager      Upcoming Living Mandala Courses, Workshops, & Events Join some of the keynote speakers and workshop facilitators at this year's Harmony Festival Eco-Village & Earth Temple Dome at the following upcoming courses & workshops with Living Mandala: Directly Following Harmony Festival... Permaculture Design Certification Course: Creating an Eco-Village From the Earth Up Mendocino County, N. California at the newly forming Laytonville Eco-Village June 15 - 29, 2009 Gaia University Orientation S.F. Bay Area - Bolinas, N. California Regenerative Design Institute June 16 - 23, 2009 Before Harmony Festival... Mud, Magic, & Manifestation A Natural Building & Magic Workshop for Women Cazadero, N California With Starhawk & Sage Mata May 29-31, 2009 Later this Summer... Aloha ‘Aina 2009 Holistic Permaculture Design Course La A’kea, Puna, Big Island, Hawaii August 17-31, 2009 at Harmony Festival... Eco-Village, Healing Sanctuary, & Earth Temple Dome Sonoma County Farigrounds Santa Rosa, CA June 12-14, 2009 See course details below or at: www.LivingMandala.com ________________________________________________________ Directly Following Harmony Festival... June 15 - 29, 2009 Permaculture Design Certification Course: Creating an Eco-Village From the Earth Up Mendocino County, N. California at the newly forming Laytonville Eco-Village More Info Permaculture & Eco-Village Design: A holistic approach to sustainable development begins with land use and community design. This is a two week intensive Permaculture Design Certification Course that will be hosted on the beautiful site of the newly forming Laytonville Ecovillage in Mendocino county of Northern California. This course will immerse participants in the design system of Permaculture to create and maximize the beneficial relationships between our natural resources, our daily needs, and the regeneration the Earth. The course will integrate the theory of sustainable living with social permaculture through hands-on, real experience. Course participants will experience living in community and contributing to the design and development of a real Eco-Village project lead by an amazing cast of teachers and special guests in a fun and supportive community learning environment. Topics Include: Permaculture Design, Permaculture Principles, Natural Patterns, Pattern Application, Reading the Landscape, Nature Awareness, Forest Ecology, Soil Food Web, Water Cycles, Tropical, Arid & Cool Climates, Design Process, Sustainable Systems, Natural Building, Renewable Energy, Appropriate Technology, Rain Catchment, Graywater, Humanure, Home Gardens, Food Forests, Agroforestry, Fungi & Myco-Remediation, Bio-Remediation, Animal Systems, Aquaculture, Community Building, Group Decision Making, Compassionate Communication, Education, Cooperatives, Non-Profits, Sustainable Finance, Land Access, Bio-Regionalism, Eco-Villages, Indigenous Wisdom, Design Tools, Design Methods, Zones & Sectors, Site Analysis, Maps and Mapping, Social Permaculture, Invisible Structures, Urban Permaculture, Hands-On, Activities, Zone Zero, Design Projects, Embodiment Practices, Wildcrafting, Nutritious Meals & More Instructors Include: John Valenzuela, Sage Mata, Erik Ohlsen, Max Meyers, Jay Ma, Nan Kohler, Dave Shaw, & more. For more information visit LivingMandala.com _______________________________________________________ Gaia University Orientation S.F. Bay Area - Bolinas, California Regenerative Design Institute June 16 - 23, 2009 Action-Learning for Eco-Social Regeneration: Gaia University is a growing international institution for higher learning offering accredited degree programs for real-world action in self and planetary transformation. These programs cultivate world changers working for local and global sustainability, justice, and peace. Associates have access to a powerful global network of leaders, advisors and peers offering support and guidance in the development, implementation and documentation of their self-directed project work. Upcoming Degree Programs: Integrative EcoSocial Design (IESD) BSc, MSc, GD* Integrating the ecological and social aspects of design into projects that focus on ecosystems, societies, communities, technologies, and personal lifestyles. Organizing Learning for EcoSocial Regeneration (OLE) MSc, GD* Applying organizational learning and design to educational projects.Some people focus on the development of a GU regional center as their primary project. Open Topic (OT) BSc, MSc, GD* For those who are working at a strategic level as world changers and want to design their own program topic. You may likely already have a clear and appropriate project in mind. Regenerative Design & Nature Awareness (RDNA) BSc, MSc, GD* For those interested in taking the RDNA intensive program as focus of their degree pathway. RDNA is a 9 month holistic, hands-on skill based training devoted to helping students develop leadership skills necessary to further sustainable & regenerative practices in their personal and professional lives.  For more information on RDNA click here. Gaia University at Harmony Festival See Gaia University co-founders & co-presidents Andy Langford and Liora Adler at this yea's Harmony Festival for workshops on Transition Towns, Bioregionalism, & Cultural Remediation. For more information visit www.gaiauniversity.org ______________________________________________________ Before Harmony Festival... May 29-31, 2009 Mud, Magic, & Manifestation A Natural Building & Magic Workshop for Women Cazadero, N California Natural Building, Magic, & Empowerment: Get down, get dirty and get covered in mud in the beautiful Cazadero Hills, for a magical weekend learning the ancient building skills of our ancestors.  We'll work with cob-sculpted clay, sand and straw, as well as light straw clay, waddle and daub, and natural plasters to learn practical skills we can use in building low-cost, low-carbon, beautiful structures from the Earth.   We'll learn truly down-to-earth skills and share ritual celebration,  empowering ourselves to create shelter and spaces, within and without.  And as a circle of women, we will support one another to be strong, creative, and empowered to manifest our visions and make our dreams real! With Starhawk & Sage Mata For more information visit LivingMandala.com ________________________________________________________ Later this Summer... August 17-31, 2009 Aloha ‘Aina 2009 Holistic Permaculture Design Course La A’kea Community Puna, Big Island, Hawaii Including HANDS-ON ACTION-LEARNING INTEGRATIVE ECO-SOCIAL CURRICULUM ANIMAL SYSTEMS & FOOD FOREST GARDENING NATURE AWARENESS & INDIGENOUS WISDOM APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY & NEW ENERGY FUNGI & MYCO-REMEDIATION RAW FOOD & EMBODIMENT PRACTICES SONG, CEREMONY, RITES OF PASSAGE & MORE Instructors Include: Penny-Livingston-Stark, John Valenzuela, Jay Ma, Sage Mata, & many special guests Tending the Inner & Outer Landscapes “Aloha ‘Aina” is Hawaiian for “love of the land”, or “to love, respect, and nurture the land.” This course will include the standard 72-hour permaculture design curriculum based upon the original Mollison and Holmgren ideas and design philosophies published in The Permaculture Designer’s Manual, as well as be a nourishing retreat and hands-on immersion experience of sustainable living. Accordingly, this permaculture design course will include and integrate additional content and activities such as nature awareness, indigenous wisdom, holistic nutrition, embodiment practices, inner work, group process, and more. With a focus on tending the inner as well as the outer landscapes, course participants will work with each other and local community residents on tangible design project scenarios to implement positive transformation within themselves and in the local community. For more information visit LivingMandala.com ________________________________________________________ Living Mandala at Harmony Festival Eco-Village, Healing Sanctuary, & Earth Temple Dome Sonoma County Farigrounds Santa Rosa, CA June 12-14, 2009 This year the Eco-Village and Healing Sanctuary are joining forces for deeper integration between Ecology and Healing and offering an amazing program of speakers, workshops, and ongoing activities. Keynote Speakers Include: Joanna Macy, Daniel Pinchbeck, Starhawk, Caroline Casey, Julia Butterfly Hill, Richard Heindburg, Michael Beckwith, George Noory, Spencer Sherman, Lori Grace, Penny Livingston-Stark, David Wolf, Charlie Gay, Andy Langford, Liora Adler, Jamie Janover, and more! Workshops Include: Transition Towns, Jerusalem Peacekeepers, Sacred Commerce, Permaculture Pathways to Relocalization, Living Earth Structures, Mushrooms, Regenerative Design & Nature Awareness, Compassionate Communication, Cultural Remediation, Money Metamorphosis, Bioregional Organizing, Fermentation, Food Forests, Reneweable Energy, Dancing Freedom, Yoga, Astrology, Kabbalah & Spiritual Mysticism, Eco-Playshops, Ceremonies, Music, and more! We hope to see you there!   Join the HARMONY Email List for Festivals/Concerts/Workshops Year-Round!   CLICK HERE TO JOIN We do not give out your email address!   Instead of UNSUBSCRIBING, switch to LOW FLOW. 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