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 JUNE 2011 Events
Wednesday, June 1, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. Meet The Author: Brian McLaren --Naked Spirituality: A Life with God in 12 Simple Words
Controversial church leader McLaren does here for spirituality what he did for Christian beliefs in "A New Kind of Christianity": offering spiritual practices that can transform us and shunning old practices that no longer work and actually hinder growth. This is as off-site event at the Towson Presbyterian Church, 400 West Chesapeake Avenue, Towson, Md 21204. Please call. For reservation and confirmation, email wmorgan @baltimorepresbytery.org
or call Wanda Morgan at 410-433-2012.
Cost: free (get there a bit early and you can walk the Labyrinth behind the Church!)
 Saturday, June 4, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., The Bond: Connecting Through the Space Between Us Workshop with Lynne McTaggart
In her workshop, Lynne McTaggart offers a detailed prescription for living "The Bond." McTaggart created a detailed toolkit of excercises and practices to help foster more holisitic thinking, more cooperative relationships and more unified social units.
The Bond ultimately aims to posit an alternative future, new paradigm for living to replace the metaphor of battle with one of partnership and connection. Ultimately, McTaggart hopes to inspire you to come to an entirely new understanding of yourself and your place in the world, not as its master, or its competitor, but as its cooperative partner. Cost: $135 - space is limited to so please call us at 410-235-7323 to reserve your place today!
Tuesday, June 7, 7 - 9 p.m. Meet The Author: What's Eating Your Child by Kelly Dorfman
Today's generation of kids has the biggest rate of food allergies, obesity, behavioral and emotional disorders, autoimmune disease and learning issues ever recorded. Kelly Dorfman believes this is often related to their diet, making it crucial for parents to learn more in order to help medical professionals help them. As a mother of three, Dorfman understands the challenges parents face and she empowers caregivers to become Nutrition Detectives by revealing simple, practical ways to uncover the clues behind a child's health problems and find an accurate, nutritional treatment immediately. In her new book, readers will find scientifically supported nutritional solutions that address, mitigate and sometime even erase both the symptoms and the causes of stubborn health problems.
Cost: free
Wednesday, June 8, 7 p.m. Meet The Author Mckay Jenkins: What's Gotten Into Us?: Staying Healthy in a Toxic World
After experiencing a health scare of his own, journalist  Jenkins set out to discover the truth about toxic chemicals and the government's utter failure to regulate them effectively. The result of his two-year journey is a deep, remarkable, and empowering investigation into the threats--biological and environmental--that chemicals now present in daily life. Cost: free. Join Mckay for an early bird dinner at The Dogwood before the event! Space is limited. Call Susan at 410-235-7323 for details! Cost for dinner and book: $55.
Thursday, June 9 & Friday, June 24, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Empathic Angel Readings 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: $50 half-hour, $85 hour
Thursdays, 6 p.m. - 7 p.m. 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 sit with us and learn more about the meditation process. Susan has been meditating for over 20 years
and is thrilled to share her 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 meditation tools and techniques into your life, you'll see that you can reduce stress, have less reactivity and drama in your life, and feel more focused, calmer and at peace. Cost: suggested donation per class, $10 appreciated
Fridays, June 10 & 24, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Animal Reiki Sessions with 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, cancer, 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, June 10, 7 - 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
Saturday June 11- Sunday, June 12: Hon Fest!
Learn all about the fabulous and fun Street Festival here!
Sunday, June 12, 12 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Ayurvedic Cooking for the Season: Summer Heat and How to Cool Off with Susan Weis-Bohlen
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. June is Pitta Season - fire - the perfect time to learn to cook a few dishes that will help cook 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. Cost: $60
Monday, June 13, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Baltimore IONS Discussion Group
Baltimore IONS explores the mysteries and potential of human consciousness. Everyone is welcome! This month, join Phila Hoopes will be talking about Where Spirituality Meets the Road, exploring how we experience the Divine (by whatever name or definition) outside a specifically "religious" context - i.e., outside of church, shul, mosque, sesshin, or whatever our formal practice may be. See the facebook page for more details. Baltimore IONS is a local group affiliated with the Institute of Noetic Science. Find IONS on Facebook here. Cost: $5 donation
Wednesday, June 15, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. Channeling the Great Mothers with Aurora
Aurora offers us messages given to her from the Great Mothers, including Gaia, Hera, Kwan Yin and others. Come with questions or just listen to the messages and call to action.
Cost: $20
Friday, June 17, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Psychic Readings with Allyson Walsh
Meet Allyson Walsh, one of the Psy-dentical Twin Sisters whom The Washington Post reported 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: $100, 1/2hour; $175, 1 hr
Tuesday, June 21, 7 - 9:30 p.m. Exploring Mystery Schools and Their Healing Temples with Kala Ambrose
In ancient times, mystery schools of Egyptian and Greek origin taught the nature and destiny of mankind and revealed powerful secrets regarding universal natural laws. Discover these powerful ancient wisdom teachings from the mystery school temples with  wisdom teacher and intuitive, Kala Ambrose. Connect between the two worlds to tap into the sacred knowledge and healing source at the mind, body and spirit level using color, light, crystals and sound, which deepen the connection with your soul and the spirit world.
Cost: $45. If you attend this event and her event on June 22, the total cost for both is $80.
Wednesday, June 22, 7 - 9 p.m. Developing Business Intuition with Kala Ambrose
Described as the sixth sense, one day intuition will appear as normal in each person as the other five senses. In the past, we used both our instincts and our intuition to survive in the wild. In more recent times, as we focused on developing and incorporating concepts of logical and ordered thinking, intuition was pushed aside and essentially forgotten.
We all have intuition and we currently use it on a subconscious level. We experience intuition in the body (gut feelings), the mind (creative ideas), the emotions (impulses) and in spirit (hunches and inspiration). Intuition is our guide to trusting our inner voice and our instincts. It is a tool and when used properly, it speaks directly and succinctly. Developing Business Intuition can allow you to reach your goals and pursue dreams that may have appeared previously unattainable.
See Kala's website for more information. Cost: $45. If you attend this event and her event on June 21, the total cost for both is $80.
Wednesday, June 22, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Meet the Author: Steve Volk -- Fringe-Ology: How I Tried to Explain Away the Unexplainable-And Couldn't
Steve Volk remembers the loud booming sounds that emanated from the walls and the roof of his house late at night when he was a child. His family didn't know what the source of the noise was, but his sisters claimed  blankets were pulled from their beds and that they saw an old woman walk through the closed door of their room. People uncomfortable with the inexplicable hear this story and attribute these episodes to faulty pipes or overactive imaginations. But others have no hesitation-the Volk family was visited by a ghost.
Inspired by the noise his family could never trace, reporter Volk brings the conversation front and center in Fringe-ology: How I Tried to Explain Away the Unexplainable-And Couldn't, a rollicking journey into the unexplored territory where modern science and the paranormal converge.
What Volk discovers is that there is enough mystery left in the world to humble us all, and that out of this humility arises the opportunity to answer some of the most fundamental questions about our existence. Ultimately, he finds common ground we can all share-a place for skeptics and believers, spiritualists and scientists to stand together, not at the fringes, but at the heart of what it means to be human. Cost: Free
Sunday, June 26, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. Know Thyself Workshop with Dr.
Craig Wright
This workshop is designed to enlighten participants with regard to the effects of their core motivational life force energy as well as how they are being perceived by others.
Dr. Craig Wright is an adjunct professor, radio host and spiritual advisor. He holds a PhD in Metaphysical Counseling from The University of Sedona, is a member of the Metaphysical Doctors Association, International Metaphysical Ministry and has over 25 years experience advising clients as a professional Numerologist.
Cost: $30
Tuesday, June 28, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Ravensong Shamanic Drumming Circle with Erin Reeve, MD
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 join! Please bring a drum or rattle, an eyecover, and a blankets/pillow to be comfortable during the journey. No experience necessary! 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 (Next Drumming Circle will be July 20)
Wednesday, June 29: Not In the Same Breath: Yiddish Poetry with Sholem Berger
Zackary Sholem Berger is a poet and translator in Yiddish and English. Zack has connected with a Yiddishist and poetic community that has supported the publication of his first book of original Yiddish and English poetry,Not In the Same Breath.
Unlike a traditional bilingual edition, this book features independent poems in the two languages - with striking graphic design by Baltimore architect Jeremy Kargon. As Yiddish House LLC, he and his wife published three translations of classic kids books into Yiddish - Curious George, The Cat in the Hat, and One Fish Two Fish. See
zackarysholemberger.com/book. Cost: free
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Center at the University of Maryland, at 7pm.
Saturdays, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. Psychic Readings with Jael