Yoga classes at Waves Studio

Starting January 13th, I will be leading a restorative Yoga class on Fridays at noon. This gentle, restorative practice is designed to cultivate flexibility, strength, confidence, and increased levels of bodily awareness. Classes run from an hour to 1 1/2 hours. $10 for students, $12 for the community.

Radiance health is in!

Justin

Raw chocolate, herbalism, and super-food Salads Workshop Nov. 13th 5-8 P.M

Information about our workshop can be found here!

http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=285356604829830

Hope you can arrive!

Blessings

Electromagnetic radiation

As your reading this, your field of awareness is being flanked by electromagnetic radiation which lay just beyond our bandwidth of perception. can you feel it? if not, heres some empirical evidence to quell the inplanted skepticism within. David wolfe, holistic health care affecionado, shows the effects of elctromagnetic radiation from common electric products..

http://www.thebestdayever.com/news/podcast/videocast-3-the-most-dangerous-electrical-devices/

Llucayanacu and mushuk Pakarina- House of the New Rising Sun

I spent 5 weeks with Orlando Chujandama, in his home village of Llucayanacu, where he is building a health center (mushuk Pakarina- quechua for ¨house of the new rising sun¨). The village is 45 minutes down river from Chazuta, which is roughly and hour (depending on the road construction) from Tarapota, in the Northern Region of San Martin in Peru. Here are some immortilized moments i thought were worth sharing..

a typical visitor

Inca Kola O Agua? Inca Kola of course!

a typical situation on the Peruvian Andes roads.

ceremony room

chaculpa leaves

Orlandos Maloca and Kitchen (which blew over in a wind storm during my stay!)

a divine family member of the orchids

Ajo Sacha

rice and bananas, once a day, for 35 days.

Orlando Chujandama

Rainy departure from LLucayanacu back up the Huallga Rio towards Chazuta

back at orlandos home in Tarapoto

there was always a thunderstorm in the distance, but for the most part they seemed to skirt around Mushuk Pakarina.

To and from

gain news

http://www.gaiamedia.org/index_eng.html

for anyone who wants to take a break from the drama of world news and politics, heres a worthwhile media site which provides interesting stories about the leading edge sciences of human consciousness, as well as a multitude of other topics within the growing consciousness movement. peruse as you do :)

mycroremediation in Ecuador

http://www.amazonmycorenewal.org/contact.html

Anyone interested in ecologically restoration, and particularly ecological restoration concerning the oil spills in the Amazon, should contact this amazing group!

EcoTruly Snaps!!

Here´s Some snaps of Eco Truly; a Krsna consciousness eco-village I was fortunate enought to spend two weeks at. This place is full of kind and kindred spirits, I would reccomend it to people who have never been to peru, as a initial destination. The farmers are quiet and humble, the food is great- especially if your a vegetarian travelling in South America. Enjoy!

EcoTruly

Here is som pictures of EcoTruly Park. fun, elclective group of kindred souls abound in this place. Hare Om!

Eco truly

Im here at the Ecotruly village, in Chancay, northern Peru. Like an oasis, this village is tucked between steep sand dunes and the pacific ocean. Followers of the Krshna Movement build this place some time ago. You can see some pictures and learn more about the village here:

Eco Truly Park

Ill be here for another week or so, then its off to the jungle for 6 weeks. I will post some pictures before I go!

Con Amor y ee Paz,

Bija Surefoot

Follow me through Peru!

From March 20th until who knows, I will be traveling from Olympia, Washington to many different places in Peru, to inhabit Eco-villages and art centers, yoga teacher training programs, local communities and biodiversity conservation projects. This trip will become an extension of the original intention of this blog, which is to provide a vacuum for complementary informational fields, particularly the explorations of holistic health, ecology, social change, leading edge science, and spirituality.

Fresh thought is sporing, and there are people and organizations who are manifesting their intentions in the face of adversity the world over. It is my intention to support the co-creation our new world, and to serve as a gatherer of life-affirming thoughts, words, and actions. This is no place for pessimism- I just don;t have the time or energy to waste!

I humbly invite you along this sojourn with me, if I should be invited to sojourn with you!

organizations

http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ UN for the elimination of poverty.
http://www.cbd.int/   convention on biological diversity.
http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/
http://www.organicconsumers.org/
http://www.thevenusproject.com/  visionary social change.
http://www.navdanya.org/  Food, land, water, women, and indigenous solidarity.
http://www.wasiwaska.org/index.cfm Amazonian Medicine research.
http://generationwakingup.org/wp/ social evolution.

Websites

http://www.lawoftime.org/home.html
http://www.noetic.org/
http://shamansdrum.org/
http://www.evolver.net/
http://realitysandwich.com
http://www.erowid.org/
http://www.resurgence.org/
http://www.lucidity.com/
http://wisdomatwork.com/WisdomAtWork/Home.html
http://www.sacaaa.org/audio.asp
http://www.deoxy.org
http://www.ayahuasca.com/
http://www.esalen.org/
http://www.wasiwaska.org/index.cfm
http://alanwatts.com/

a message from the Hopi Elders

"You have been telling people that this is the eleventh hour.
Now you must go back and tell people that this is the hour!
And there are things to be considered:
Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
Where is your water?
Know your Garden.
It is time to speak your truth.
Create your community.
Be good to yourself.
And not look outside of yourself for a leader.
This could be a good time!
There is a river flowing very fast.
It is so great and fast that there are those who will be afraid.
They will hold on to the shore.
They will feel that they are being torn apart, and they will suffer greatly.
Know that the river has its destination.
The elders say that we must let go of the shore,
push off into the middle of the river,
keep our eyes open,
and our heads above the water.
See who is in there with you and celebrate.
At this time we are to take nothing personally,
least of all, ourselves.
For the moment that we do,
our spiritual growth comes to a halt.
The time of the lone wolf is over.
Gather yourselves!
Banish the word struggle from your attitude and your vocabulary.
All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones that we have been waiting for."

books

Here is a list of books I am finding useful along the way.

Ecology/Ethnobotany
  
     The trend of these books is pointing towards to the rediscovery of the intimate interconnectedness of nature, through the eyes of invisible peoples, doctors, classic artists, physicists, and ethnobotanists. Healing our ties with nature through artistic, scientific and traditional mediums, we can start to feel the multidimensional value of integrating a holistic view back into our daily human experience, on an individual, social and global collective.


-The Web of Life. Fritjof Capra
-Green Psychology. Ralph Metzner
-The Wholeness of Nature. Goethe
-The Wayfinders. Wade Davis (any book from him would do!)
-Singing to the Plants. Steven Bayer
-Sacred Plant Medicine. Stephan Buhner
-The Cosmic Serpent. Jeremy Narby
-Ecopsychology- Theodore Rozak



 This will be continuously updated. I will also add PDF files to my reviews!