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JANUARY EVENTS

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Saturday, January 3
The Chakras and Reiki Healing
7:30pm • Free but call to reserve a place
Reiki is hands-on energy healing that harmonizes the body, mind and soul - and you can learn it! Michal Rinkevich has practiced Reiki since 1997, and she integrates her scientific background with experience and qualifications in complementary medicine for a unique approach to wellness. Michal will share practical recommendations and give demonstrations on how to align the chakras and improve your quality of life and health through Reiki, meditation, colors, yoga and more. www.CamelotCenter.net
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Saturday, January 3: 1-5pm
Sunday, January 4: 1-7pm
Wellness Open House
Free but donations are gratefully accepted
Start the New Year with improved health and well-being! Drop in this weekend to explore and experience a host of healing methods. Practitioners will provide information, answer questions, demonstrate and practice different techniques, including Theta Healing, Applied Kinesiology, Reiki, floor Shiatsu, and Kabbalic readings. Camelot Center's experienced health professionals provide services to enhance quality of life and promote wellness. www.CamelotCenter.net
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Tuesday, January 6
Growing Up Psycho-spiritually
7:30pm • Free but call to reserve a place
Take part in a program of self-exploration based on the work of The Process for Personal Change. Over 1,000 people have realized exceptional growth in their lives, thanks to this deep "inner child" teaching. Experience some of the fun, engaging techniques used in the work. Ron Luyet, MFT, co-author of Where Freedom Begins, and master teacher Dorothea Hamilton, MFT, will be your guides.
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Wednesday, January 7
Waking Gods and Goddesses
7:30pm • Free but call to reserve a place
As physical expressions of the divine feminine and masculine, all women and men carry divine wisdom within. Humanity is awakening, and we remembering who we are, but we still carry the collective pain-body of our individual and tribal history, keeping us apart from love. Join spiritual teacher Marja West to set a collective intention for ourselves as awakened men and women, to live and love from a place of true power without making others, or the world, wrong.
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Thursday, January 8
Healing Yourself and Others
7:30pm • Free but call to reserve a place
2009 could be a year of many serious stresses. Now's the time to enhance your health and expand your spiritual consciousness. Explore and learn healing modalities that can help you evolve to a higher level of vibration! Reta Coolin, East West's own Reiki master, energy healer and cranio-sacral practitioner, will teach you how she is able to raise her consciousness with and for her healing work. One or more members of the audience will receive a healing. See readers and Psychic Fair Jan 17-18
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Chakra Healings with Suren Shesthra
using Tibetan Singing Bowls
Individual one-hour sessions: $99
Friday, January 9: 10:30-3:45
Sunday, January 11: 4:30-6:45
Monday, January 12: 10:30-5:30pm
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Friday, January 9
Tibetan Singing Bowl Group Healing Meditation
7-8pm • $20
Nepal native Suren Shrestha brings his magnificent Tibetan singing bowls and exceptional healing techniques from a land where people are traditionally healed with sacred sound currents. He learned his skills from Tibetan monks and the yogi Tahalkishor Maharaj. Experience waves of healing vibrations as they wash over every cell, creating a deep, cathartic state of meditation in which to expand and realign to your highest destiny. Bring a small pillow and blanket or mat.
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Saturday and Sunday, January 10-11
Workshop Series: Sound and Vibration Healing
In this harmonic body-balancing program series with Suren Shrestha, you'll experience the power of Tibetan singing bowls and tingshas, learning to play and use them to heal yourself and others. Fundamentals: Saturday, 10:30-1:30pm • $50
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Sound and Vibration Healing Workshop Series: Intermediate
Learn the basics of playing the bowls and tingshas, and take home key self-healing techniques for head, stomach and feet.
Intermediate: Saturday, 3-6pm • $140
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Sound and Vibration Healing Workshop Series: Advanced
Learn the use of bowl placement, the importance of sound intervals, and the 1st and 2nd Protocols of treating others.
Advanced: Sunday, 12:30-3:30pm • $199
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Sound and Vibration Healing Workshop Series: Complete
Learn the 3rd Protocol techniques of Gong Bath and Vibrational Bowl Massage. This session also covers puja, water aspects, and the healing environment.
Package price for all Saturday and Sunday lessons: $350
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See also: Group Healing Meditation Jan 9 and Individual Sessions Jan 9, 11 and 12
Saturday, January 10
2009: The Year of the Ox
7:30pm • Free but call to reserve a place
Join acclaimed Chinese astrologer and best-selling author Susan Levitt as she presents her insights into the new year: the Year of the Ox. Will it be a time of hard work, duty and discipline? Learn about the Ox, your fortune in the Ox year, and important feng shui tips. Susan is the author of Taoist Astrology, Taoist Feng Shui, Teen Feng Shui, Introduction to Tarot and The Complete Tarot Kit. Don't miss this fascinating annual event! www.susanlevitt.com
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Sunday and Monday, January 11-12
Chakra Healings with Suren Shesthra using Tibetan Singing Bowls
Individual one-hour sessions: $99
Sunday, January 11: 4:30-6:45
Monday, January 12: 10:30-5:30pm
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Monday, January 12
Accelerate Your Enlightenment and Live Your Bliss Now!
7:30pm • Free but call to reserve a place
Join spiritual visionary Dr. James Weldon for ways to speed your attainment of true bliss and enlightenment! At age 21 he began 36 years of tutelage with three of the world's foremost spiritual teachers. Learn the insights of this personal odyssey from darkness to enlightenment, from suffering to bliss. Many believe that Dr. Weldon's new book, The Secret Journey to the Enlightened Mind, will take its place among the greatest spiritual adventure stories of our time.
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Tuesday, January 13
Happiness 101
7:30pm • Free but call to reserve a place
Unless you couldn't possibly be any happier, read on... Hi there, we figured you might still be with us. Welcome to Happiness 101, where Sue Wilhite will help you tap into and explore the world of happiness. Learn what it is - and isn't - and how to get there. You might change your whole life tonight, or maybe just a part of it. In either case, you'll discover tools to become happier than you are now!
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Wednesday, January 14
Meditation for Starters
7:30pm • Free but call to reserve a place
Is meditation on your "Someday I'll do it" list? Today is the perfect "someday" to get started. Tushti Conti, who comes from a medical background and is also co-manager of East West, will help you begin your practice with a simple, straightforward approach that combines imagery, breathwork and centering techniques. Discover the peace that abides within you!
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Thursday, January 15
Connecting with Past Life Experiences
7:30pm • Free but call to reserve a place
Health issues and phobias caused by past life experience? Absolutely! Tonight is for you whether you're dealing with specific concerns or just curious about past lives. During a group past-life regression, you may discover a past life and meet your Spirit Guide. Linda Potter and Tina Coleman are hypnotists, specializing in past-life regression. They've been consulted by TBS and are endorsed by Sylvia Browne in her New York Times best selling book, Past Lives, Future Healing.
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Friday, January 16
The Secret History of Dreaming
7:30pm • Free but call to reserve a place
In this high-octane presentation, Robert Moss, bestselling author and active dreaming pioneer, restores the inner dimension to our understanding of how things happen. Learn how dreams, coincidence and imagination have driven great lives and events in every field: war, healing, science and religion. Moss introduces the exciting concept of dream archeology and explains how and why we must combine the skills of shamans, scholars and detectives to fathom the past and prepare for coming world changes. www.mossdreams.com
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Saturday-Sunday, January 17-18
East West Psychic Fair
Saturday: 11am-6pm • Sunday: 12:30-7:30pm
East West again transforms itself into a Psychic Mecca for two days of private readings with a wonderful selection of professional practitioners. Get the help you need to fulfill those New Year's resolutions - from past-life illumination to angelic guidance, and from spirit-channeled messages to intuitive energy healings, you will find the healing, insights and answers you desire. Each practitioner will keep a separate schedule, and separate payment will be made to each, not to East West. You must be present to sign up for individual appointments. The fair will operate on a first-come basis, with several practitioners available at all times.
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Saturday, January 17
How to Transform Your Life
7:30pm • Free but call to reserve a place
Have you made an ambitious New Year's resolution? Are you facing a major life challenge? Or is now the time to finally take that big step towards deeper spiritual commitment? Join popular East West favorite Asha Praver, minister and spiritual teacher, whose profound insights, practical tips, and engaging, powerful and often humorous illustrative stories will give you the tools you need to make that necessary, longed-for change in your life - today!
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Monday, January 19
Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.
7:30pm • Free but call to reserve a place
On this day dedicated to the memory of Martin Luther King, Jr., East West is proud to present its 5th annual evening of special music, featuring the voices of the Ananda Singers; readings from King's life and times; and archival video footage of his famous speeches. Join us for a deeply moving program to honor this great spiritual warrior, who gave his life in service to the principles of non-violence and racial equality so that now, over forty years later, a new historic era can begin as we inaugurate our first African-American US president.
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Tuesday, January 20
Psychic Surgery
7:30pm • Free but call to reserve a place
Jessica Bryan
is a gifted clairvoyant, energy healer, and author of Psychic Surgery and Faith Healing: An Exploration of Multi-Dimensional Realities, Indigenous Healing, and Medical Miracles in the Philippine Lowlands. She'll discuss the often misunderstood phenomena of psychic surgery, and lead participants in a healing meditation for health and psychic protection. Jessica is a minister who has been certified for "laying on of hands," the direct transmission of healing energy from the Holy Spirit.
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Wednesday, January 21
Five Secrets for Permanent Weight Loss
7:30pm • Free but call to reserve a place
Are you tired of being overweight? Come and learn from local herbalist and Board-certified acupuncturist Jenny C. Lee, L.Ac why diets don't work, why eating fat does not make you fat, what hormone is out of control in your body, how to reduce your chance of breast cancer by 70%, how to regain your energy and vitality, how to look and feel younger - and much, much more! You will learn how to assess your own health conditions, and you will receive a Free Energetic Nutritional Organ Scan. www.healinglab.com
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Thursday, January 22
2012: How to Make the Most of This Extraordinary Time
7:30pm • Free but call to reserve a place
Welcome to the Great Shift, an event unprecedented in 26,000 years. According to the Maya, this is due to the Earth's close alignment to the Galactic Center, heralding the birth of a new world in December, 2012. As co-creators, our role is to manifest our uniqueness, collectively birthing a world of peace and unity. Mystical physician Christine Page reveals how to live and thrive in this extraordinary time by embodying the divine masculine and feminine. See workshop Jan 25
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Friday, January 23
Yogoda 1: Living with more Energy
7:30pm • Free but call to reserve a place
Learn the universal secrets for tapping into an abundant source of energy and joy! Luca Moschini will share how to strengthen, recharge and harmonize your body at will and feel fully alive all the time. Luca is a nationally certified Asian bodywork therapist who has studied Chinese medicine, medical qigong, jin shin jyutsu, yoga, meditation and Yogoda extensively. www.needrelaxation.com. See workshop Jan 24
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Saturday, January 24
Yogoda 2: The Energization Exercises
1-4pm • $39 in advance, $45 day of event
The highest purpose of all exercise is to awaken the inner source of one's life energy. Join Luca Moschini in this transforming workshop. Experience the energization exercises, a series of divinely inspired body movements to stimulate healing, concentration and power. You will learn meditation techniques and self-healing affirmations, enabling you to rise above self-limiting beliefs as you access the boundless energy source that is always present within. Please wear comfortable clothing. See talk Jan 23
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Saturday, January 24
Didjeridoo Sound Healing Concert
8pm • $15 in advance, $20 day of event
Every part of your physical body has its own natural frequency. Likewise your emotional, mental and spiritual energy fields. When these are disrupted, we experience dis-ease. Sound therapy allows them to reset, restoring one's natural state of peace, joy and healing. Join master didjeridoo artist, healer and musician Paradiso, and discover the astonishing healing effects this Aboriginal Australian instrument can evoke. Joining him will be special guests Bodhi (flute) and Kathleen Farrell (singing bowls) for a beautiful, transformative musical experience. www.5thelementmusic.com
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Sunday, January 25
2012: Birthing a New World
2-6pm • $39 in advance, $45 day of event
We are the ones we've being waiting for, the "co-creators of" a new world which begins on December 21, 2012. To prepare we must integrate the energies of the past 26,000 years, develop our magician's wand and immerse ourselves in the ocean of possibilities. In this workshop, Christine Page, a mystical physician, will guide you in the steps to clear old energies, expand the light of consciousness and create a world of unity and peace. See talk Jan 22
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Monday, January 26
Ho'oponopono: Profound Healing and Forgiveness
7:30pm • Free but call to reserve a place
Ho' oponopono means to "make right". It is often called the Hawaiian Code of Forgiveness, because the healing that occurs when we forgive another includes forgiving oneself. It brings us into wholeness. Jason Oliver, who has practiced and taught Ho' oponopono for over 20 years, will discuss this dynamic process, with which you may resolve any situation or inner conflict by engaging your emotions in a positive way. Discover this remarkable modality for yourself, and watch miracles unfold! www.JasonLOliver.com
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Tuesday, January 27
Lion's Roar! Chinese Lion Drumming and Dance
7-9pm • $26
Experience the exciting, fun-filled ritual of the Chinese Lion Dance. Performed in celebration of the Chinese Lunar New Year, it is widely said to bring good luck and good fortune. With tai chi and lion dance expert Jason Chan as your guide, you'll learn the dance itself, plus how to play the traditional beats of the drum, gong and cymbals. For ages six to adult. Instruments and costumes provided. www.jasonchanproductions.com
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Wednesday, January 28
Communicate with Your Animals
Readings: 6-7:15pm, talk 7:30pm • Free but call to reserve a place
Have you ever wondered what your animals are thinking and feeling? Pet Psychic Marla Steele will shed some light. Receive a free mini reading with the purchase of her new guided meditation cd, Animal Communication Journeys, from 6-7:15pm, followed by a talk with tips on telepathic communication with animals at 7:30 pm. The readings will work with a photo, pet item, or just a description so please leave your pets at home and let them know they will have a chance to speak up!
www.MarlaSteele.com
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Thursday, January 29
Soul Travel
7:30pm • Free but call to reserve a place
Trapped and crushed in her car by a truck, Debbie Johnson, best-selling author of Soul Travel to Find God's Love, used soul travel techniques to change her perspective and save her life. CNN interviewed Debbie about her remarkable experience. Tonight she and others will share stories illustrating the endless benefits of soul travel, including overcoming any fear, making decisions from your highest viewpoint, and experiencing divine love. www.deborahajohnson.com See workshop Jan 31
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Friday, January 30
World Predictions 2009
7:30pm • $15 in advance, $20 day of event
One of the country's leading Vedic astrologers, and also a dynamic speaker, James Kelleher returns to East West to share his annual predictions, including insights on the economy, the war on terror, and earth changes. Jim is known for his often startling and accurate predictions, including the exact date of the start of the war in Iraq, the month of Saddam's capture, and many previsions about the stock market. This yearly program is always one of our most anticipated events.

Saturday, January 31
Workshop: Overcoming Fear with Soul Travel
1-4pm • $20 in advance, $25 day of event (price includes a copy of the book)
Debbie Johnson
, best-selling author of several books, will take you step-by-step through key techniques from her newest book, Soul Travel to Find God's Love. Discover new heights and depths of divine love, and heavenly worlds beyond anything you have experienced. Bring your open heart and mind and your love of God to increase your potential for transformative experiences. www.deborahajohnson.com See talk Jan 29
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-CANCELLED- Saturday, January 31
Remember Who You Are: Seven Stages on a Woman's Journey of Spirit
7:30pm • Free but call to reserve a place
The cross-cultural evolution of women reveals an unmistakable divine connection. Rediscovering our in-born, shared and individuated essence is our true life's work. Linda Carroll, author of Remember Who You Are and a psychotherapist for 30 years, merges poetry with her wisdom and discoveries to guide us through the stages of life with practical steps for recollection, reconnection and recovery. Linda herself is not new to spotlight. She's the daughter of novelist Paula Fox and mother of musician Courtney Love. www.LindaCarroll.org
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