September 2008 Newsletter
American Healing Arts Alliance Inc.
AHAA is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit educational public charity. We appreciate all donations, member, and volunteer efforts toward furthering our programs. All of our programs are open to the general public and healing arts professionals offered for free with donations to our non-profit appreciated. For details about our programs, membership and volunteer opportunities please visit our website at www.americanhealingarts.org
Sept 2008 News
We ask confirmation of attendance at least 24 hours in advance for all AHAA sponsored programs.
1st Tuesday SPEAKERS PROGRAM
2nd Tuesday MEDITATION AND HEALING EXCHANGE
3rd Tuesday MEDIA NIGHT
4th Tuesday and 2nd Sunday A COURSE IN MIRACLES
Speakers Program
Educational programs provided by AHAA professional members and guest speakers.
DAY/TIME Monthly on the First Tuesday, 7:00-8:30pm
LOCATION 100 Annapolis St. West Annapolis
Call (410) 956-0055 at least 24 hours in advance for location directions.
September 2, 2008
SPEAKER Ann Bracken M. ED., CPT (certified in poetry therapy)
TITLE Write for Your Life© Journaling Program
DESCRIPTION Ann Bracken, educator, writer, and poetry therapist will share with us ways to use the transformative power of the arts for successful change! Learn fresh ways to use the power and magic that come from writing and apply them to your own life. Tap into the wisdom source you so readily offer to others and use it for yourself. Her program Write for Your Life© offers a multi-faceted approach that combines tried-and true journaling activities with some improv and poetry to help you uncover and rewrite parts of your story that are recurring trouble-spots. As an expressive arts consultant and writer, Ann will guide us through several exercises using specific journaling tools. Some of the benefits people experience from journaling include: breaking through recurring blocks, accessing deeper layers of meaning, analyzing troubling situation from multiple perspectives, and achieving goals more quickly and effortlessly. Ann owns The Possibility Project, an expressive arts consulting practice that uses the arts (journaling, poetry, visual art, and improv) for helping people move from ideas to action and achieve positive results. For more information visit her website at www.possibilityproject.com. She invites any email inquiries in advance of her presentation at anniebluepoet@comcast.net or call her at 888-266-3875.
October 7, 2008
SPEAKERS Alice Yeager, MFA and Faith Hagerty, MPT, cert. MDT, CSCS
TOPIC The Body as Communicator
DESCRIPTION: AHAA Founder and President along with physical therapist Faith Hagerty discuss the extraordinary work they have been doing together over the past two years working with a new paradigm for healing that sees the body solely and soulfully as a means of higher Self communication. This communication can be expressed metaphorically as an indication of health that is experienced as total well-being or unhealthiness as pain and suffering. The body as a means of communication can convey the underlying cause of a physical issue, "dis-ease", sickness, accidents, rapid aging or other unhealthy ie. unwhole conditions. Come join us for and overview of this revolutionary individual and group work and its use as a personal as well as global model for healing. See further details below under MEMBER NEWS about their upcoming full workshop offered through Anne Arundel Community College on Saturday, October 25, 2008, 9:30am- 1:15pm.
November 4, 2008
SPEAKER Yarrow
TITLE You Are the "IS Fac^tor"
DESCRIPTION Are you visioning your practice or business venture expanding or starting? As a healing arts entrepreneur or interested public with an idea you would like to develop you are the captain of your own destiny and the success of your venture depends upon your purpose, passion and productivity. This is not new news of course; what is radical thinking, however, is that YOU are the element that creates success within the business culture that you have at the moment. To move beyond this status quo and achieve your vision, your willingness is required to create a new plan, action steps and timeline that will end in the profits you are seeking. Accountability is a large piece of achieving each benchmark within your self-imposed timeframe to achieve your dream. In "You Are the IS Fac^tor © ," Yarrow provides strategies and techniques to implement and propel you closer to your dream. Our time together is based on Yarrow's chapter in the anthology, Conscious Entrepreneurs - A Radical New Approach to Purpose, Passion & Profit © 2008. Annapolis resident Yarrow is an Inspirational Speaker, Personal Energy Coach, Workshop Facilitator & Author helping people re-invent themselves and businesses re-engineer their workplace! Autographed copies of her latest book will be available at this speaking event or in advance along with free downloads at www.ConsciousToolbox.com
December 2, 2008
SPEAKER Adam Gainsburg
TITLE The Mayan Calendar
DESCRIPTION
DESCRIPTION This presentation will explain the cosmology and purpose of the Mayan Calendar that was codified 4,000 years ago and is due to "end" in 2012. The significance of the winter solstice in that year as well as other astrological configurations that have to do with a shift in consciousness on a global scale will be discussed. Come join us for this fascinating presentation by astrologer and sound healer Adam Gainsburg. Adam is the author of the book The Soul's Desire for Wholeness, Soulsign Astrology and other books and CDs on the evolution of the soul and astrology. Further information about Adam Gainsburg's work and writings can be viewed on his website at www.soulsign.com.
Meditation/Healing Exchange
DAY/TIME Monthly on the Second Tuesday, 7:00-8:30pm as 2 part event
LOCATION Peace Point, Edgewater, Md. 21037. Call (410) 956-0055 to confirm and for directions
PEACE DOVE MEDITATIONS 7:00-7:30pm, Meditation, Inner guidance and prayer gathering for inner peace
HEARTS 7:30- 8:30pm, Practitioners, healing arts students as well as anyone interested in the healing arts are welcome to the HEaling ARTS experiential gatherings to receive and/or exchange healing. Emphasis is placed on subtle energy and bodywork.
Media Night
Movies/Videos/Television/Music/Art/Theater/Book/Web
DATE/TIME Monthly on the Third Tuesday, 7:00-8:30pm
LOCATION Peace Point , Edgewater, Md. 21037. Call (410) 956-0055 to confirm and for directions.
Come join in our exploration of a variety of healing arts and sciences topic accessed through various media including videos, movies, music, books, theater, art, news media and the web. Our AHAA Media Night group includes presentations and discussions of programs sponsored by The Institute of Noetic Sciences, Oprah.com Soul Series, Unitarian Universalist Psi Symposium, The Science of Peace and other related study groups.
September 30 (rescheduled to the last Tuesday for September only)
TOPIC: The Arts and Art of Healing
The topic this month will explore the integration of the creative arts and healing art through storytelling, theater, music, dance, writing and the visual arts. Special emphasis will be placed on projects and programs that combine these areas for the betterment of our selves individually and the planet.
A Course in Miracles DAY/TIME Monthly on the Fourth Tuesday, 7:00pm-8:30pm and Second Sunday, 3:00pm-4:30pm LOCATION Peace Point , Edgewater, Md. 21037. Call (410) 956-0055 to confirm and for directions. Study group meetings are monthly as a healing circle, miracles sharing and self-study support of the book A Course in Miracles. Visit www.acim.org for additional information about ACIM self-study. The daily lessons are also shown on www.oprah.com.
Note: There will not be an ACIM study group gathering on the second Sunday in September.
Special Programs
Peace Nouvella Players™
Casting Call and Creative Submissions: On-going auditions, resume and portfolio reviews are being held for our Peace Nouvella Players™ performing and creative arts ensemble. We invite talent of all ages and crew to join our diverse troupe of visual artists, writers, poets, storytellers, musicians, dancers, filmmakers and theater performers as cast and crew. Our goal is to offer on-going innovative productions that serve the greater community and to provide leadership in the use of the creative arts for healing. This includes encouraging others to recognize the role artists play in finding creative solutions for the challenges we face individually and globally in our rapidly changing times.
Call (410) 956-0055 for all audition, interview and portfolio review appointments.
Send queries, resumes and portfolio samples can be sent in advance to: ahaainc@earthlink.net.
Please visit our new Peace Nouvella Players™ website page for further information.
AHAA'S INTERNATIONAL PEACEBUILDING PROGRAM
The American Healing Arts Alliance Inc. sponsors regional and international educational programs. Our international programs include the Inner Peace Treaty™ and Peace Pulse™ expanding thought projects and Peace Nouvella Players™ ensemble as part of a comprehensive combined healing arts and creative arts program called Peace Nouvella™. We encourage individuals and groups to actively participate in our educational programs to co-create greater inner and outer peace in the world. We invite you to visit our website to initially participate by offering your meditative thoughts and prayers for inner peace and adding your ratifying name and signature to the Inner Peace Treaty™ printable version.
New Announcements
The deadline for newsletter submissions are by the 20th of each month.
Please email us if you are interested in having information about your practice and/or event included under Member, Community and/or National and International News. For submission guidelines and advertising rates please visit our website at: http://www.americanhealingarts.org/newsletters/publications-guidelines.
MEMBER NEWS
Please email us if you are interested in having information about your practice and/or event described here or under Community, National or International News.
THE BODY AS COMMUNICATOR - Introductory Workshop
INSTRUCTORS Alice Yeager, MFA and Faith Hagerty, MPT, cert. MDT, CSCS
DATE/TIME Saturday, October 25, 2008, 9:30am- 1:15pm
LOCATION Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold Campus
COST $49 REGISTRATION Call (410) 777-2325
DESCRIPTION: In this workshop the body is seen as a means of communication that can express health as well-being or unhealthiness as suffering. As a means of communication, the body can convey the underlying cause of a physical issue as "dis-ease" or other unhealthy conditions. The topics covered include physically based anatomical maps as well as subtle energy maps in relationship to our five senses as communication channels. When there is interference to this communication it can lead to unhealthy conditions as emotional and physical pain, sickness, accidents, and an increased rate in the aging process. When these communication channels are restored to full functioning we experience greater wellness as physical health and emotional well-being both individually and collectively.
COMMUNITY NEWS
Practitioners are sought to participate in a regional healing arts and science center designed to offered a variety of resources to the community including shared practitioner space, a healing arts oriented creative and performing arts center as well as conference center dedicated to peace and healing. Please contact AHAA if you are interested at (410) 956-0055.
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Be sure to visit the IONS websites shown below to subscribe to their quarterly magazine and also get their enewsletter about weekly telecasts sponsored by their Shift in Action program. As the regional AHAA-IONS educational group we recommend participating in these weekly Shift in Action teleconference events. For more information also visit the teleconference website at:
MEMBERSHIP
Membership is $35 a year prorated quarterly for General and Professional memberships. Benefactor donations beyond the yearly dues are greatly appreciated. Membership information and forms are on our website at Membership or http://www.americanhealingarts.org/membership
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Please contact us if you can help with any of the following activities: Volunteer recruitment, event planning and logistics, fundraising and sponsorship, entertainment coordination, grant writing and press releases. Please visit our website for details about our programs and other volunteer opportunities at: Volunteer Opportunities .
RESOURCES GUIDE
Our website includes a Resources Guide with links to other related organizations and a Professional Directory with information about events, professional services and products. Please contact us for advertising rates if you are interested in being included in our monthly Email News Announcements and/or on-line Resources Guide.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Alice Yeager, Founder and President
American Healing Arts Alliance, Inc.
Peace Point
3157 Rolling Rd.
Edgewater, MD 21037
410-956-0055 (Phone)
410-956-1118 (Fax)
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