September 2011 Luminata Events
Theta Brain Wave Training–Effective Mind-body Healing
A Talk by Edward Pio
Friday, September 16, 7:30 pm
Theta Brain Wave Training and Deep Meditation offers effective mind-body healing through profound rest and conscious and unconscious mind integration. Learned skills include increasing and decreasing circulation, alleviating insomnia, ending migraine headaches, enhancing the immune system, and mitigating many other physical and mental conditions.
Edward Pio is a resident of Carmel Valley. He has forty-six years’ experience teaching medical hypnosis, self-hypnosis and theta brain wave techniques to health professionals and private groups. Over thirty-five thousand students have taken his live or home-study courses worldwide, including teaching in China, Russia.
There is no charge for the event.
Friday, September 23rd at 7:30 pm
Autumn Equinox Ritual
With Jon Rasmussen
Luminata is hosting an Autumn Equinox gathering as a focus for awareness and healing, and as a way of staying connected to one’s inner source in this time of awakening and rapid change. Local shaman Jon Rasmussen will lead a ritual in the tradition of a shamanic journey, employing traditional shamanic ritual tools for drawing down blessings upon our world, individually and collectively.
Jon Rasmussen is a well-known local shaman and author of “Dreaming Your World into Being.” He has an eclectic background of studies and training, from Tai, Chi, Chi Gung and Reiki, to Yoga, Naturopathy, and Neurolinguistic Programming. His shamanic studies include apprenticeship with world famous shaman Alberto Villoldo, and tutelage in the Andes with the mysterious Q’ero Indians of Peru. Jon has a growing national reputation as a carrier of the authentic shamanic tradition of the Americas.
There is no charge for the event. Love offerings accepted.
Talk and Book Signing
Tuesday, September 27th at 7:30pm
With Dan Furst, author of Surfing Aquarius
Dan Furst’s new book Surfing Aquarius: How to Ace the Wave of Change has just been published by Weiser Books. Dan will be at Luminata to sign his book and talk about how to live bravely, creatively and intentionally in the Aquarian Age—beyond the Bee Hive Mind as we approach 2012.
Surfing Aquarius is for people who see the years ahead as a time of spiritual transformation, when awakened human beings will co-create new societies based on principles of teamwork and empowered service. The book shows how the Aquarian Age is already revolutionizing our politics and economies, families and love lives, our approaches to health, spirituality, community—the deeper values that inspire us. The book is, above all, a practical guide for those who want to see which way the wave of change is breaking, so that we can get ourselves, our families and our communities safely ashore, and co-create our new Aquarian Planet.
Dan Furst has been a professional astrologer for 34 years. He has written his popular Universal Festival Calendar since 1998 on his Hermes 3 website – http://www.hermes3.net. He is also the author of Dance of the Moon (2009). He has worked as a writer, actor and ceremonial artist in New York, Hawaii, Japan, India and Egypt, and lives now in Pisac in the Sacred Valley near
Cusco, Peru. His personal profile is at http://www.hermes3.net/aboutdf.htm.
Dan Furst will talk on his book and on Living Aquarian throughout the United States from September 2011 to March 2012.
August 2011 Luminata In Store Events
Talk and Book Signing with Carl Alasko
Author of “Beyond Blame”
Tuesday August 30th, 7:30 pm
Carl Alasko’s second book on the dynamics of a healthy relationship focuses on getting beyond the blame game. Following up on his popular “Emotional B. S.,” Alasko reveals that the need to assign blame stems from a very deep desire we all share to “see justice done.” Understandable when a crime has been committed, but it can become a dangerous habit if we begin to operate as though placing blame were somehow “necessary” if we want to change something or someone in our world. Come hear Monterey’s own Carl Alasko as he lays the groundwork for healthy relationships beyond blame. The event is free.
July 2011 In Store Events
Class in Pendulum Dowsing
With Karla Kogan
Friday, July 22nd, 7:30 pm
The art of dowsing is thousands of years old and has been practiced in many societies and cultures. It is based on the fact that we live, move and have our being in a field of energy that is both alive and intelligent. Our bodies are capable of interpreting the qualities of any moment and revealing knowledge about any issue. Dowsing is the art and science of using a simple instrument as an extension of the intelligent field in which we are living. The pendulum is one such tool. It is easy to use and fun to engage with.
Karla Koga is one Luminata’s intuitive readers, and has developed a remarkable gift with the pendulum; she gets full sentence answers in seconds on questions presented to her. (Those sufficiently open minded may also appreciate her uniquely fascinating connection with her deceased grandfather Ole, who supplies wit and wisdom from another dimension.)
Karla will teach an introductory class in how to use the pendulum to acquire insight and knowledge from our own subconscious and superconscious mind. Be prepared for a fun and informative evening.
Talk and Book Signing with Barbara Tieken
Author of “Bull Vaulter”
Friday July 29th, 7:30 pm
Bull Vaulter is an absorbing novel of life on Mediterranean isles in the ancient world. Alena is a bull vaulter from Keft who journeys to the Peloponnesus and develops the special talents bestowed upon her by the Goddess as she embarks on an exhilarating journey to meet her fated destiny.
Author Barbara Tieken is the former mayor and City Council woman New Braunfels, Texas. She wrote Bull Vaulter when she lived with her husband in Newport Oregon, high on a hill overlooking the Pacific. In writing Bull Vaulter, Barbara has fulfilled her long held desire to bring to life this highly evolved, peaceful, Goddess-worshipping, life-affirming, seafaring culture. Come meet the author and hear her talk about this civilization that dominated the Aegean for centuries, and learn how she came to write this engaging novel. The event is free
June, 2011 Luminata Events
Tuesday, June 21st at 7:30 pm
Summer Solstice Ritual for Staying Connected
With Jon Rasmussen
Luminata is hosting a summer solstice gathering as a focus for awareness and healing, and as a way of staying connected to one’s inner source in this time of awakening and rapid change. Local shaman Jon Rasmussen will lead a ritual in the tradition of a shamanic journey. Tonight Jon will talk about how we can stay connected to our spiritual core in the face of uncertainties and external upheavals. Afterwards, he will lead us in a solstice ceremony employing traditional shamanic ritual tools for drawing down blessings upon our world, individually and collectively
Jon Rasmussen is a well-known local shaman and author of “Dreaming Your World into Being.” He has an eclectic background of studies and training, from Tai, Chi, Chi Gung and Reiki, to Yoga, Naturopathy, and Neurolinguistic Programming. His shamanic studies include apprenticeship with world famous shaman Alberto Villoldo, and tutelage in the Andes with the mysterious Q’ero Indians of Peru. Jon has a growing national reputation as a carrier of the authentic shamanic tradition of the Americas.
There is no charge for the event. Love offerings accepted.
Thank You!
—Emory Michael
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Monterey, CA 93940
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