HEART : EARTH APRIL 25-26, 2014 “The Earth is alive and she sings, calling each of us to remember our sacred place and dance of life. She calls us to recognize that all of us walk around the sacred wheel, that whatever tradition we have come from, we can all trace our roots to the Great Tree of Peace.” - Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo DANCE WORKSHOP Friday, April 25th / 6-9 pm, $40 suggested donation / at: Balance Arts Center, 34 West 28th Street 3rd Floor (between Broadway and 6th ave) All welcome to learn and deepen the profound practice of the Dance of Directions with Madeleine Piat-Landolt. This multidimensional movement meditation of the Ywahoo lineage, aligns body, mind and spirit as a clear stream wherein one may awaken true nature potential, recall original instructions within, and perceive direct relationship with the environment. DANCE OF THE DIRECTIONS Saturday, April 26st / 10:30am -6 pm FREE / at: Center for the Urban River at Beczak, (CURB) Sarah Lawrence College, 35 Alexander Street, Yonkers Directions: CURB is located along the east bank of the Hudson River one block north of the Yonkers Metro North Station. Look for a beige stucco building with glass double doors in the front and a parking lot. Join together, with relations around the world, in offering the Dance of Directions, a sacred dance from the Cherokee tradition, a moving prayer for peace woven in a unified field of clear intention to generate the light of wisdom and compassion. For this event we will offer 108 rounds of the Dance of the Directions as a moving prayer for the Earth and all her inhabitants. Please join us to share in this powerful ritual. There will be a brief introduction to the sacred Dance at 10:30AM for those unable to attend the Friday evening workshop. You may participate in the Dance for the full duration or for a portion of it. In the afternoon CURB staff will be hosting free environmental education programs for kids and families as part of their weekend “River Explorers” series, sponsored by the Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation. This includes Catch of the Day Seining, which involves wading into the water to capture fish and other living organisms using a micromesh net, showing even our youngest visitors that the river is part of a complex ecosystem that nurtures an amazing diversity of living things, including people. If you’d like to participate in that program RSVP to: [email protected]. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We are honored to have Madeleine Piat-Landolt traveling from Lincoln, VT to teach the workshop on Friday night and lead us in the Dance of the Directions on Saturday. Madeleine has been practicing, teaching and leading the sacred dances of the Ywahoo lineage since 1989 and respectfully shares this good medicine for the benefit of all beings. (whitecloudarts.org) We are so grateful to Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo, the head of the Ywahoo lineage of the Tsalagi / Cherokee people, for blessing this event. A portion of the teaching donations will be contributed to the beneficial activities of the Sunray/Peace Village. (sunray.org) We are also grateful to CURB and to Greyston for hosting the event: Launched June 2013, the Center for the Urban River at Beczak (CURB) is an alliance of Sarah Lawrence College and the Hudson River Valley Environmental Education Institute. The mission of CURB is to advance environmental knowledge and stewardship by providing high quality K-12 environmental education for the local community, establishing a regional hub for research and monitoring focused on Hudson River estuary and urban watershed issues, and serving as a welcoming open community space for a variety of civic and cultural activities. Greyston is an integrated network of programs providing jobs, workforce development, low-income housing, supportive services, childcare, after-school programs, comprehensive HIV healthcare, tenant services and community gardens. Greyston’s programs assist individuals and families in visualizing and realizing their paths to self-sufficiency. They are a 31 year old successful social enterprise with a spiritually-rooted philosophy that fuels community development and a commitment to human growth and potential. (greyston) REGISTRATION / INFORMATION donna@fullcircle-holistic/ 917.533.4009 fullcircle-holistic andreamaxinefrade@gmail/ 609.941.4392 andreafrade
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