SPIRITUAL EVENTS

Workshops
Below are examples of workshops done in the past. We are happy to offer these for your next special event.

Love! We all want it and seldom know how to open ourselves up to receive more love in our lives. This workshop will address unconditional love and how we can create more of it in our lives; by giving and receiving it. Join us for this evening to learn the alchemy of the heart.

Examine how much karma you still carry and the steps you can take to eliminate your baggage. All cultures have a day of judgment for self-examination. You will assess yourself by the ancient Egyptian 42 questions of life.

It is an ending and a beginning. An evening was dedicated to grieving and getting closure on not just losing loved ones but dreams and expectations of how we expected life to turn out. Loss is not an ending but a transition to newness and growth. The evening will be concluded with a guided meditation to heal loss and move on to create new beginnings.

You are discovering your own spirituality and setting out a plan for a sacred life. The evening will conclude with a guided meditation to connect to your spiritual awareness.

We will celebrate the festivals of light Christmas and Chanukah. Winter Solstice and how to overcome your fears that can block the realization of your dreams and wishes. Join us for this event that will open the road to achieving your new year’s resolutions.

Learn to connect to your angels, spirit guides, and totems. An exercise will be facilitated to identify your animal totem. Tap into the importance of gratitude. The evening will conclude with a guided meditation to connect with your spirit guide. We will honor the upcoming Chinese New Year and discuss the different animal years.

Open your mind to how to overcome addiction by being one with yourself and understanding the world around you. We will examine the Buddhist concept of mindfulness and conduct a ritual to assist in overcoming addiction.

Learn to utilize this ancient tool to understand other spiritual systems. It will help in overcoming problems in your life today. We will explore how the Tree of Life symbol contains numerology, astrology, tarot, the ancient Hebrew alphabet, the ten commandments, and the chakras. Realize how the Tree of Life is directly connected to all current and ancient religions. Explore the roots of this symbol incorporated in most religions.

We all know the term chakra – but few understand what it means. In Sanskrit, it means “wheel” or your inner energy world. Join us in this workshop to discover the chakras. What they do, what they are, and how you can find a chakra block and release it. We will use colors, Bach remedies, California Essences, food, movement, therapies, aromatherapy, stone, and breath work to clear blocks. The workshop will be concluded with a guided meditation through the chakras.

In many ancient religions, the spring equinox was the beginning of the year. We will look at these spiritual systems and celebrate the Persian New Year. Jump start the new year with exercises and rituals to manifest the year you want, and learn about the twelve days of creation.

A special presentation honoring Passover and Easter, in which you will understand what imprisons you and how to free yourself from it.

An evening you are dedicated to understanding your dreams and learning that God speaks to us through them. Impact your healing using your goals. The evening will be concluded with a guided meditation.

Yuppie Daniel Miller is killed in a car accident and goes to Judgment City, a waiting room for the afterlife. During the day, he must prove in a courtroom-style process that he successfully overcame his fears (a challenging task, given the pitiful life we are shown); at night, he falls in love with Julia, the only other young person in town. Nights are a time of hedonistic pleasure since you can (for instance) eat all you want without getting fat. Written by Jon Reeves ([email protected])
All of your life is on videotape — or perhaps laser disk — to make it easier on your prosecutor and defense attorney at Judgment City to randomly access a few episodes to show whether you made the most of the life you just completed. If you didn’t make the most of that life, you would be sent back to try again and again until you got it right. And the court must be taking an advance peek at that life tape. Posh accommodations go to those who look like they will merit moving up to citizens of the universe — like Julia, who falls for Daniel, whose quarters have no ambiance. Written by Dale O’Connor([email protected])

What would GOD say if he had a conversation with you? You will be surprised by what the author shares with readers in this best-selling book, which may resonate and change how you see GOD. Conversations with God -Book One relates Neale Donald Walsch’s conversations with GOD. This book has opened the hearts and minds of millions to the possibility of living with more beauty, love, and truth than they ever imagined possible.

To escape the edict of Egypt’s Pharaoh, Rameses I, condemning all first-born Hebrew males, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh’s daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Seti’s favor, the love of the throne princess Nefertiri, and the hatred of Seti’s son, Rameses. When his Hebrew heritage is revealed, Moses is cast out of Egypt, and makes his way across the desert, where he marries, has a son, and is commanded by God to return to Egypt to free the Hebrews from slavery. In Egypt, Moses’s fiercest enemy proves to be not Rameses but someone near to him who can ‘harden his heart. Written by Ron Kerrigan ([email protected])

Moses leads the slaves from the tyranny of the Egyptian pharaoh and into the desert, where he is later given the law of God. Once the pharaoh’s chief architect, Moses receives the attention of the Queen until he rebels and is cast into exile. Written by Keith Loh ([email protected])

Do you ever wonder why things happen? Do you feel bad things happen to good people? As much as it sounds like a cliché, everything really does happen for a reason. Together we will delve into the universe’s inner workings with the hope that it will allow you to feel more peace and understanding. We will also discuss the differences between free will and destiny and what choices we can make to change our futures.

Imagine you’re despairing over a significant problem in your life, and someone comes along and solves it for you unconditionally. All you have to do is “pay it forward,” i.e., do a similarly big favor to three others. Would you do it?

That’s the premise behind Pay it Forward, an overly sentimental film with some provocative ideas. The concept originates when Eugene “be careful with that axe” Simonet (Kevin Spacey) challenges his Seventh-grade class to come up with an assignment to change the world. Trevor (Haley Joel Osment) comes up with the pay-it-forward concept. First, he decides to help a homeless heroin addict get back on his feet, then help Eugene and his mother (Helen Hunt) get together (which really makes for two favors), and then help his friend who bullies are pushing around in school. This “movement” spreads relatively unnoticed until a reporter in Los Angeles who loses his car is handed a brand new Jaguar and tracks down the source of this favor chain.

With a stellar cast consisting of Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, and Haley “I see dead people” Osment, the movie works pretty well under Mimi Leder’s direction. The southern California/Nevada cinematography is done well. The dialogue is the film’s weakest aspect and is a bit hackneyed at times. More than the primary plot itself, the various underlying subtexts involving domestic abuse and alcoholism are interesting.

The concept of pay-it-forward is how most of human society works to the extent it does (some have even been institutionalized in the form of religion and government). The problem is that the notion is not idealistic enough. Performing three big favors just does not cut it. Not only does there need to be a significantly larger amount of favors done throughout one’s life, but the more important thing is that people don’t do negative or harmful things to others to an equally large degree. Doing three big favors is pointless if you’ve done more harm than any favor can repay. A better (and much more idealistic) concept would be to live life without harming others (which also would not be adequate but would be much more effective than a three-favor scheme).

Pay it Forward really illustrates that it is harmful to oneself and others to be apathetic towards other people’s problems. However, one must choose their battles wisely to maximize the balance of doing good to others and not doing harm. This doesn’t mean inaction or realizing that certain solutions don’t work. For example, using violence as a solution never works since violence always begets violence (“what’s good for the goose is good for the gander”). On that note, Pay it Forward also throws in a message about school violence.

This talk provides the opportunity to enhance our understanding of the ancient art of Astrology that can create a bridge from the deepest parts of ourselves to the whole universe around us. Many faiths believe that our souls choose when we are born and to what parents. Whether or not you believe this, your heart and mind will be opened to fresh possibilities, and new respect may be obtained for cosmic influences affecting your life. Come and be surprised by what you can discover!