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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Hello All!


Short and sweet -- this email is coming to you a day late so I'm going to cut to the chase!

Dr. Steven Farmer will be here April 10-12 -- best known for his work with animal spirit guides and power animal meditations. He is amazing! I was lucky enough to have had a reading with him a few years ago and he blew me away. It was so right on -- it still resonatesSteven Farmer 2 today.

Please take this incredible opportunity to meet with him either one-on-one, in his free talk, or in his workshop. See all the details below and sign up soon!


Some other April highlights include:
  • Channeling with Ascended Master Kuthumi, Dr. Tom Negelow, The Voice of Unconditional Love, Friday, April 1
  • Ayurvedic Cooking for Spring Cleanse!, Saturday, April 9
  • Animal Reiki Private Sessions,  April 8 & 22, and Animal Reiki Level 2 on April 16 with Kathleen Lester
  • Ayurveda for Relationships on April 26
  • I Love You More, author Laura Duksta here on April 28 (for KIDS!)
  • Be Your Own Shaman with Deborah King

(more below!)


All our regular classes and sessions continue including Psychic Readings with Aurora, Jael and Allyson; Reiki with Brianna; Tarot with Cece; Astrology with Julie; Meditation with Susan, True Names and Lotus Heart. Details on practitioner and regular class hours are at the very end of the email.

Spring has sprung! And of course it will probably snow this weekend...but I know the sun and flowers are just around the corner.

see you soon,

love,

susan
(please excuse typos and other mistakes. This email was written while answering phones, ringing up customers, walking people back to Aurora, and thinking about my puppy!)

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Susan Weis-Bohlen

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**Please note that our regular classes, Psychic readings, meditation and group sessions are listed at the end of this email and at www.breathebooks.com**

 

Thursdays, 6 p.m. - 7 p.m. Meditation with Susan Weis-Bohlen

Join us for meditation instruction, Dharma talks and questions and answers with Susan. No experience necessary! Open to anyone who wants to come sit with us and learn more about the meditation process. Susan has been meditating for over 20 years and is thrilled to share this practice with you. We practice meditation based on the teachings of Yogananda, Muktananda, Deepak Chopra (Primordial Sound Meditation) as well as Jewish and Vipassana practices. Cost: suggested donation per class, $10 appreciated  

  

Thursdays, March 24 - April 14, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Communicating with the Angels Certification workshop led by Natalie Kimbrough. Week 1 0f 4 

This is a 4-Part intense, interactive series (4 weeks) in which you will receive four specific Natalie Kimbroughmanuals, two major attunements, three additional attunements and engage in skill developing practices. These practices or exercises are the basis for my individual work with you. The four classes, attunements, and mentoring will lead to a short final text/exam and a certification. Certification exams and certification will likely happen in week 5, one week after the last in-person class but the timeline for completing the certification is entirely up to each individual participant. Cost: $250 - includes five attunements, manuals, certificate and teleclass. Registration is required; please call us at 410-235-7323 to sign up!

  

Friday, March 25 - Sunday, March 28, Ayurvedic Self-Care Retreat Weekend with Amadea Morningstar 

Amadea is coming back to Maryland to lead an Ayurvedic Spring Wellness Retreat witAmadea sideh Susan Weis-Bohlen. Come learn how to deepen your skills in Ayurvedic self care, with herbs, Ayurvedic remedies and oils for self-healing.

 

Participate in cooking your own food to balance the doshas; practice Ayurvedic Polarity Yoga; chant healing Mantras; and walk and rest in Nature. Learn about prana, tejas, and ojas , your vital energy, radiance and essence, while retreating in beautiful Fox Haven Farm near the Appalachian Trail.

Guided meditation will be offered, as well as one-on-one sessions with Amadea, for delving deeper into your own personal wellness journey. Participation limited to 15.

Ayurveda is the 5000-year-old Indian system of health and healing, that teaches we can all heal ourselves by balancing our mind/body constitutions, or Doshas. Through food and proper nutrition, self-care techniques, yoga and meditation, we can attain deeper physical and emotional balance and harmony in our lives.

Amadea Morningstar, MA, RPP, has been working with food, energy and healing for 36 years, and with Ayurveda for 27 of those years. She is an internationally recognized author, teacher, and registered polarity educator (RPE) and registered polarity practitioner (RPP). Her books on Ayurvedic healing have been published in a variety of languages. She holds a BS in nutrition and an MA in counseling. Her most recent book is The Ayurvedic Guide to Polarity Therapy. Amadea has a private practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico, offering Ayurvedic Polarity Therapy and nutrition education.

Susan Weis-Bohlen, opened Baltimore's breathe books in 2004. She is a Chopra Center Certified Instructor of Ayurveda and has taken two Ayu
Susan Weisrvedic Cooking intensives with Amadea, at Kripalu and in Sante Fe, New Mexico. Susan offers Ayurvedic cooking classes, Ayurvedic Perfect Health classes and well as private consultations for creating an Ayurvedic Lifestyle. She is available to speak and teach on Ayurveda and meditation around the country.

Cost: Room and Board for two nights: $125 (shared rooms) ; Class tuition and commuter price: $360. Payment is cash or check only. Please make checks to breathe books, 810 W. 36
Prayer Flags at Fox Haventh Street. Baltimore, MD 21211. for more information please call Susan at 410-235-7323, or email susan@breathebooks.com.

The event
will be held at Fox Haven Farm in Middletown, Md, near Frederick in a beautifully renovated 150-year-old farmhouse. See us on Facebook at  Friends Of Fox Haven. 

 

Please see breathebooks.com for more information on our events, classes and workshops.  

 


APRIL 2011 EVENTS

** Please note that our regular sessions, classes, Psychic Readings, Reiki, Meditation, Tarot, Astrology, and weekly support classes are listed at the end of this email and at breathebooks.com.

 

Friday, April 1, 6:30 - 7 p.m. Having it All with Dr. Shelley Negelow

Learn how to release the limiting beliefs that prevent you from living a fully Shelley Negelowsatisfying and joyful life. The presentation will include a brief exercise that is meditative in nature and will support the participants in permanently releasing an issue that is preventing them from experiencing full self-expression. Her book, The Master in the Mirrow: A Woman's Guide to Living a Passionate and Joyful Life includes a CD, with exercises that will support women in creating specific results in creating a life they love.

 

Dr. Shelley Negelow,"Your Joyful Living Connection," is the founder and CEO of Power of Woman Seminars.  For over twenty years she has been teaching women how to achieve balance, joy, satisfaction and success in their personal and professional lives through her individual coaching and her nationally acclaimed seminars. She will be the keynote speaker at the Be the Change Event in Pikesville, Md. on April 3.  Please visit her website at Power of Woman seminars. Cost: Free

 

Friday, April 1, 7:15 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Mini Channeling with Ascended Master Kuthumi

Dr. Tom Negelow, "The Voice of Unconditional Love," will channel Ascended Master Kuthumi who is the collective energy of St. Francis of Assisi, Pythagoras and the Shah Jahan, the Indian leader who built the Taj Mahal.  Through humor, compassion and unconditional love, Ascended Master Kuthumi brings great insight into the challenges we face today.  At the end of the channeling participants are invited to ask questions regarding finances, relationship, abundance, health and well-being, your spiritual path, the universe and enlightenment. 

 

Tom is a deep trance channel, healer, author and relationship coach.  He is the author of Blueprint for Healing: The Path to Conscious Living. Tom is a master healer has created the Cellular Energy Releasing Healing Method, which combines emotional releasing with deep tissue restructuring of the body. Cost: $25

 

Monday, April 4, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. IONS Bookclub: The Alchemy of Nine Dimensions - The 2011/2012 Prophecies and Nine Dimensions of Consciousness

Cost: $5 suggested donation

 

Thursday, April 7 & Friday, April 29, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Empathic Angel ReadJulie Madillings and Karmic Astrology with Julie Madill: Individual Sessions

Angel readings help connect us to our higher selves and the energies around us. Astrology gives us the tools to identify prior life gifts and talents, as well as make conscious blocks and karmic patterns. Cost for reading: $50 half-hour, $85 hour

 

 

 

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Thursdays, Meditation with Susan Weis-Bohlen

Join us for meditation, Dharma talks and questions and answers with Susan. No experience necessary! Open to anyone who wants to come sit with us and learn more about the meditation process. Susan has been meditating for over 20 years and is thrilled to share this practice with you. We practice meditation based on the teachings of Yogananda, Muktananda, Deepak Chopra (Primordial Sound Meditation) as well as Jewish and Vipassana practices. By teaching you how to easily incorporate these practices into your life, you'll see that you can reduce stress, have less reactivity and drama in your life, and feel better, calmer and more at peace. Cost: suggested donation per class, $10 appreciated

 

Fridays, April 8 & 22, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Individual Sessions: Reiki for Animals w/ Kathleen Lester

Reiki is a non-invasive, complementary and alternative healing practice, promoting overall health and well-being.   It balances the energy patterns and strengthens the animal's natural healing systems. When the animal's healing systems are performing at optimum level, the body, mind and spirit can heal itself. Reiki is a wonderful healing therapy to aid in pain management (arthritis, Kathleen Lestercancer, etc.), promote relaxation and calm for stressed or anxious animals, increase the bond between human and animal, and ease the transition from life into death. Bring your animal companion in and see what wonders Reiki can do. Kathleen, founder and Executive Director of the Animal Reiki Alliance.

 is a Reiki practitioner & teacher and owner of Zubhaa, LLC. She is an accomplished equestrian, grew up on a farm with horses, dogs, cats and cows and has lived and worked with animals ever since. Kathleen is also a Certified Canine Massage Therapist offering sports massage therapy to small animals. Cost: $75 for a 50-minute session

 

Friday, April 8, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Lighting the Lamp Within: Illuminating the Path to Greater Spiritual Awareness with Jyoti Sondhi

Following Reiki immersion, Jyoti received extraordinary spiritual insJyotipirations that have transformed her life and led to her recently published book, Lighting the Lamp Within. This book is a personal and profound account of her spiritual awakening and the lessons she has learned on the way. Jyoti believes that it is possible for ordinary people to make this wonderful transition from ego to compassion, from fears to love, from beliefs to faith, from emotional baggage to pure joy, from anxiety to inner calm, from control to letting go, from attachments to detachments, from religion to spirituality, from doing things to living life. Lighting the Lamp Within brings into awareness in simple language how to identify hurdles in spiritual growth. It offers practical techniques to connect to your inner self and to live a spiritually enriched life - all from the perspective of an ordinary housewife. Most information on the book is available on the website www.lightingthelampwithin.com. Cost: Free

 

Saturday, April 9, 12 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Ayurvedic Cooking for Spring Cleanse

Ayurveda is the 5000 year-old Indian system of Health and Healing. Ayurveda believes that food is medicine -- what we eat directly impacts our health, physically, emotionally and spiritually.

 

Ayurvedic spicesApril is the perfect time to learn to cook a few dishes that will help clear your body and mind, help you more efficiently absorb nutrients, feel more satisfied (which reduces cravings), and feel perfectly balanced and in harmony with yourself and your surroundings. And learn how to use spices to promote health and healing!

 

Be your best at any weight by eating to balance your mind/body constitution - your Dosha. Come learn more about it and how easy it is to incorporate Ayurveda tools and techniques into your daily routine.

 

Susan is a Chopra Center Certified teacher of Ayurveda and has studied with celebrated Ayurvedic Cookbook author and teacher Amadea Morningstar. Through Ayurveda Susan lost 40 pounds and reduced her cholesterol by 80 points. Cost: $60. Class is held in Susan's home in Mt. Washington. 

 

HIGHLIGHT!! Sunday, April 10, 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Meet Dr. Steven Farmer: INTRODUCING Earth Magic Oracle Cards

Dr. Farmer will introduce his newly published Earth Magic Oracle CaEarth MAgic Cardsrds, a divination tool unlike any other available. Based on his best-selling book, Earth Magic, the cards portray beautiful and powerful images of various Earth elements with messages inspired by each element. Steven will show you how to use these (as well as his Power Animal Oracle Cards and Messages from Your Animal Spirit Guides Oracle Cards) to give readings for yourself and others. In addition he'll do some random audience readings using the cards, and be available for signing these and any of his other products after the lecture. Cost: Free

 

Sunday, April 10, 12 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Individual Sessions with Dr. Steven Farmer!

Dr. Farmer brings his many years experience as a psychotherapist, hypnotherapist and shamanic healer in a unique synthesis of spiritual healing modalities that have proven to be powerful and effective for many of his clients. Steven Farmer 2His sessions are a distinctive blend of shamanic soul healing and spirit animal readings. "I'm passionate about my work and truly honored and blessed to be of service when called to do so. When I meet privately with a client I treat it as a ceremony, a sacred collaboration between my client, myself, and our spirit guides. It's my clear intention to provide the best possible service to meet my client's needs, whether it's spiritual guidance, shamanic healing, or a combination of these." ~Dr. Steven Farmer. The sessions are not recorded, although you are free to bring your own recording device if you choose. Cost: $200 - please call us at 410-235-7323 to schedule your private session with Dr. Farmer

 

Monday, April 11, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. Message from Your Animal Spirit Guides with Dr. Steven Farmer

Dr. Farmer will show you how to connect with your animal spirit guides and how to discern their messages to you. He'll also demonstrate how to use his Power Animal Oracle Cards and Messages from Your Animal Spirit Guides Oracle Cards and other methods to address your concerns about career, relationships, or any other aspect of your life. Dr. Farmer will also teach participants how to do animal spirit guide readings using the oracle cards, as well as conduct a few random power animal readings with audience. Cost: $43

 

Tuesday, April 12, 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. Peruvian-Style Drum Circle with Amaru LeeAmaru Li

This Peruvian style drum circle will be a dynamic rite of purification, designed to release karmic imprints, repair stress and heal past injury to the energy body. Participants will learn the ancient techniques of healing with vibrational energy through drumming, and learn to access the reality of the unseen for healing purposes in this way. This experiential workshop is open to people from all perspectives who want to experience a profound and deep way of healing the self. Don't forget your drum or rattle! Feel free to bring extras if you like to share. Please call to register for this event. 410-235-7323. Cost: $15 suggested donation

 

Wednesday, April 13, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Facilitating Change through the Seasons with Jennifer Hannum

Workshop Facilitator and Life Coach, Jennifer Hannum brings with her a background of making successful positive changes on the way to finding her happy life. She has been successful at paying off her debt, traveling around the world solo and finding job satisfaction. Check out her blog www.findingahappylife.com for musings and inspirations.
Cost: $10

  

Friday, April 15, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Psychic Readings with Allyson Walsh Allyson Walsh now comes to breathe books once a month offering her Allyson Walshextraordinary Psychic readings. She is one of the Psy-dentical Twin Sisters whom The Washington Post called the "best professional psychic mediums" of the Mid-Atlantic area. She has an uncanny ability to connect with her clients and offer messages that deeply resonate and can help you on your path.Cost: $75, 1/2 hour; $150, 1 hour. 

 

Friday, April 15, 7 p.m. - 8 p.m. Deep Relaxation and Sound Healing with Andrea Wenger  This gentle session is an opportunity to relax profoundly and enter a healing state, restoring balance and harmony on physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual levels. Cost: $15


Sunday, April 17, 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Introduction to Ayurvedic Skin Care with Serafina Raynor

The skin is our largest organ, and as the protective layer between our internal and external environments it can take a lot of abuse. This workshop will introduce ways to nourish and nurture the skin from an Ayurvedic perspective. We will discuss the Ayurvedic doshas in relation to the skin and you will haveSerafine Raynor the opportunity to determine your doshic skin type using an interactive quiz and observation. Details on the biology of skin will be provided along with why natural skin care is so important to the body's overall health. We will go over healthy ingredient choices that balance the doshas as well as the major detrimental ingredients to avoid. Finally we will talk about the application of those healthy ingredients and how to start an abhyanga, or self-massage, practice at home.

 

Serafina Rayner is the creator of the Liquid Ember Ayurvedic body care line, a 200-hr certified yoga instructor, and a nationally certified massage therapist.  Her diverse background in Yoga, massage, Ayurveda, and aromatherapy have blended into a passion for wellness, and she believes that nurturing our skin is a fun and essential step on the journey towards wellness. Cost: $10

 

Monday, April 18, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Baltimore IONS Discussion Group

IONS, the Institute for Noetic Science, explores the science, consciousness and the mysteries of the Universe. Join us for our monthly talk!  Cost: $5 suggested donation

 

HIGHLIGHT! Tuesday, April 19, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. Meet the Author: An Evening with Master Healer Deborah King

Deborah KingDeborah Kingis amaster healer, teacher, and author of the national best seller Truth Heals: What You Hide Can Hurt You. Her new book, Be Your Own Shaman, takes you on a one-of-a-kind journey into the power esoteric world of healing. In this free event, you'll learn all about the extrasensory skills you have, ready to be awakened, that will heal whatever ails you, and others as well. She travels world wide, helping thousands of people transform their lives through her experiential workshops. Her online program, 21st Century Energy Medicine, www.energymedicineprogram.com, attracts those who want to become healers for themselves or others. She also hosts a popular weekly Hay House radio show. As Louise Hay says, "I have seen people stand in line for hours just to get a moment with Deborah King. People just love her and her healing work." This is a must attend! Cost: Free

 

Wednesday, April 20, 7 - 9 p.m. Channeling the Archangels with Aurora.  

Join Aurora for her monthly channeling sessions. Fascinating revelations and messages come through her meant specifically for those in attendance.   

Cost: $20


Wednesday, April 20, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Ravensong Shamanic Drumming Circle with Erin Reeve, MD

Come feel the rhythm of life! Ravensong drum circle will meet monthly and will include drumming, dance, and at least one shamanic journey.  Activities will be molded to fit personal or global need. Shamanic beginners are encouraged to drumming1join! Please bring a drum or rattle, an eyecover, and a blankets/pillow to be comfortable during the journey.

 

Dr. Erin Reeve has been trained in shamanic healing and is a Reiki master in the Usui tradition.  She is in the Johns Hopkins Bayview Internal Medicine Residency program with intentions to practice integrative medicine and palliative/hospice care. Cost: Suggested donation $5

 

NEW CLASS! Tuesday, April 26, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Ayurveda for Relastionships: Just How Do We Get Along?! With Susan Weis-Bohlen

Ayurveda, the 5,000-year-old system of health and healing from India, offers us deep wisdom on every aspect of living, including relationships. Once we understand our Dosha -- our mind/body constitution -- we can begin to understand others and how to best relate to them. The Doshas consist of Vata (air and space); Pitta (fire and water), and Kapha (earth and water). How does firey-type mix with an easy-going Earthy type? Can two ethereal types get grounded enough to make things happen? Can two fire people live together with out competition?

 

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Larry Bohlen and Susan Weis-Bohlen

Learn how to balance the Doshas in your love life, as well as at work, with your friends and in your family. This talk is full of fun insights, and useful tips on how to get along with everyone in your life. Learn to forgive yourself and others -- it's just your Dosha! No knowledge of Ayurveda is needed to enjoy this talk.

 

Susan Weis-Bohlen is a Chopra Center Certified teacher of Ayurveda. She has been teaching Ayurveda at breathe books since 2009. In 2011 she married a Kapha! Cost: $20

 

HIGHLIGHT!! KIDS! Thursday, April 28, 4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m. Meet the Author Laura Duksta: "You Are A Gift to the World/The World is A Gift to You". For you and your Kids!

Laura Duksta believes that when people know they are loved, anything is possible. Laura Laura Dukstalost all her hair to a condition called, Alopecia Areata at the age of eleven. It took her many years to learn to love herself and allow others to love her. Laura felt from a young age that she was meant to travel the world, meet her brothers and sisters and spread the message of love. What she did not realize, is that along her own personal journey back to love, she would develop a profound sense of understanding, compassion and love for humanity. She is now fulfilling her mission of "generating the conversation of love around the world" through her books, school programs and inspirational talks. Cost: Free


 
Individual Ayurvedic Life Style Consultations

Aurveda is the 5000-year-old Indian System of Health and Healing.

Learn how to heal yourself!


In these private consultations, we determine your dosha (mind/body constitution) and any imbalances you may have, in order to create a plan to Susan Weisrestore you to full harmony and balance. Learn how to come back to your natural way of being through food choices and nutrition, daily routine, behavior, exercise, career choices and more.

Cost: $150 for one session, or three sessions for $375.   Please call 410-235-7323, or email susan@breathebooks.com to schedule your appointment or to learn more!


Read about my personal Ayurvedic Journey here.
 
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regualrclassesWEEKLY CLASSES, MEETINGS and SESSIONS AT A GLANCE

Sundays, 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Lotus Heart Meditation Group
Cost: $5 donation. Meets in breathing space, the small house behind the store.

Sundays, 10 a.m. - 11 a.m. A Course in Miracles Discussion & Study Group with Pamela Silberman
Pam Silberman

Pamela Silverman


Meets in second wind, down the porch from the main store entrance, first door on the left. Cost: donation





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Aurora Gabriel

Sundays and Wednesdays: 12 p.m. - 6 p.m. Psychic Readings with Aurora 
Cost: $55 for 1/2 hour; $95 1 hour. (No readings on December 12)

Sundays, 7 p.m. - 8 p.m. Recovery from Food Addiction group meeting. Meets in second wind, side door entrance from the porch.

Brianna Bedigian

Brianna Bedigian

Mondays, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Quiet Winds Method: Individual Sessions with Brianna Bedigian. Cost: $95 one hour


Mondays, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. True Names Zen Buddhist Meditation
 Meets in breathing space, the small house behind the store. Cost: donation. All are welcome!




Tuesdays, 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. Intuitive Tarot Readings with Cece Anna L
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Cost: $60 
Cece Anna Lee

Cece Anna Lee



Julie Madill

Julie Madill

Second Thursday, some Fridays, 1 p.m. - 6 p.m.  Angel and Astrology with Julie Madill

Cost: $50 half hour; $85 hour

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Fridays April 8 $ 22, Animal Reiki Individual Sessions with Kathleen LesterKathleen Lester Animal Reiki

cost: $75 for 50 minutes 

 

Third Friday, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Psychic Readings with Allyson Walsh. 1/2 hr $75; o

Allyson Walsh

Allyson Walsh

ne hour: $150.

 

Fridays, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. True Names Zen Buddhist Meditation
Cost: donation. All are welcome! Meets in breathing space, the small house behind the store.

Jael FreedmanSaturdays, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. Psychic Readings with Jael
Cost: $45, 30 min; $85, hour


Please email oracle@breathebooks.com or call 410-235-7323 to make an appointment or to sign up for classes. If less then four people sign up, a class might be canceled. thank you!