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Individual Ayurvedic Life Style Consultations

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

Learn how to heal yourself through food, daily routine, pranayama,  

meditation and yoga.  

 
April and May appointments now available on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays! You can also make an appointment to meet with Susan at Susquehanna Yoga on May 11 & 25.  

See information below on upcoming Ayurvedic Cooking Classes

 Wednesday, April 25, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. Channeling the Great Mothers 

with Aurora

Join psychic and channeler Aurora Gabriel for messages from the Great Mothers. Come hear what they have to share.

Cost: $20

Fridays, April 27, 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 andstrengthens the animal's natural healing systems. Reikiis 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. 

Kathleen is a Reiki Practitioner & Teacher and through her practice she works with humans and animals. She is also founder and Executive Director of the Animal Reiki Alliance, promoting complementary healing for all beings.  Kathleen is also a Certified Canine Massage Therapist offering sports massage therapy to small animals. Cost: $75 for a 50-minute session

Ayurvedic cooking is easy to learn and delicious to eat! We will learn how to work with healing spices; how to combine for maximum nutrition; cooking for family; Dosha-balancing recipes; and advice for your specific lifestyle needs. We will learn about raw foods and the appropriate time to eat raw, make your own ghee, create wonderfully healthy, fulfilling meals, which reduce cravings and set you on the path to perfect health!  

What's cooking at Ayurvedic cooking class this Saturday? Spring cleansing foods! We will be making garlic & cilantro ghee, a spring cooling kitcheri, mint/pear/grape juice; spinach and brocoli baji and cumin chapatis! We have space for a few more people if you'd like to join us! Please register by FRIDAY morning!! 410-235-7323 or email: susan@breathebooks.com.  

Cost: $60 - space is limited to 12 people per class. Payment is due at time of registration and is refundable up to four weeks before class.

Sunday, April 29, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. Put Your Big Girl Panties On Workshop with Coach Maq Ele

Put Your Big Girl Panties On! is an interactive, life-enhancing experience that will support you in discovering, embracing and living as your authentic self where you will be given the tools needed to Put Your Big Girl Panties On so that you can begin taking those BOLD and OUTRAGEOUS steps towards creating the life experience you desire to live! You will be coached in shifting from being an observer to an active, willing participant in your life.  You will be challenged to take a sincere and heartfelt look at how you are denying your power, playing small and living in-authentically. If you are ready to facilitate transformation in your life, then this workshop is for you!

Coach Maq Ele' is a certified Spiritual Life Coach, where she uses spiritual laws and principles as the foundation to support women in discovering, embracing and living as their authentic selves. Coach Maq is the founder of G-STRING Living, which she founded after acknowledging that she had been living her life like "bloomers-" covered up, uptight, hidden and inauthentic; Coach Maq decided that she desired to live her life like a "G-String-" open, bold and authentic! G-STRING Living, an acronym for Gracefully Standing True Receiving InNer Guidance, became Coach Maq's vision.

Fridays, May 4 & 18, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Psychic Readings with Allyson Walsh

Allyson Walsh has an uncanny ability to connect with her clients and offer messages that deeply resonate and can help you on your path. She is well-known throughout the region as one of the Psy-dentical psychic readers, along with her twin sister. Cost: $75, 1/2hour; $150, 1 hour

Saturday, May 5, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. "Love is the Thread" Author Talk with

Leslie Moise

Moise earned her doctorate in Nineteenth Century British Literature and the folklore of women's fairy tales from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.  Her memoir, Love is the Thread explores the vital role of friendship in healing, as well as the connection between creativity and spirituality.  Key portions of Love is the Thread take place in Baltimore. Come meet the author and enjoy a reading from her book!

Cost: Free

Tuesday, May 8, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. IONS Bookclub: Hidden Reality

Is our universe the only universe? This book explores the idea that there could be many other Universes and all parallel universes are just as holographic as ours.

Brian Greene tackles perhaps the most mind-bending question in modern physics and cosmology: There was a time when "universe" meant all there is. Everything. Yet a number of theories are converging on the possibility that our universe may be but one among many parallel universe populating a vast multiverse. Cost: donation

Fridays, May 11 & 25, 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, balancing energy patterns and strengthening the body's natural healing systems, allowing the body, mind and spirit can heal itself. It is a wonderful healing therapy for animals as well as people! Kathleen is a Reiki practitioner & teacher working with humans and animals, and is also founder and executive director of the Animal Reiki Alliance, promoting complementary healing for all beings. Kathleen is also a Certified Canine Massage Therapist, offering sports massage therapy to small animals. Cost: $75 for a 50-minute session (in person); $35 for a 20-minute distance session

HIGHLIGHT! Saturday, May 12, 12 p.m. - 3 p.m. Ignite Your Psychic Intuition with Author Teresa Brady

Teresa Brady presents a lecture on her book, Ignite Your Psychic Intuition, focusing on eight specific tools to ignite the psychic intuition: Intention, Junk, Keep Journals, Love, Music, Nourishment, Open-Mindedness and Peacefulness. Additional tips for intuitive development will also be discussed and there will be time for audience questions.Before attending the lecture, it's advised that you read chapters 9-16 of the book Ignite Your Psychic Intuition and it can be purchased at breathe books.

Ignite Your Psychic Intuition is being sold in every English speaking country in the world and is now being translated into different languages. This award winning book just received "Honorable Mention" in "The 2012 London Book Festival contest. Cost: $20 and a 10% discount on Teresa's book

May 13 & 14: Spirit Essence Portraits by Melissa Harris

ed what aspects of your being would reveal themselves to a psychic or "intuitive" and what these qualities would look like in a painting?

Melissa Harris, world-renowned artist and psychic, offers "spirit essence" portraits. She will tune into you and in a 90-minute session do a watercolor painting of your unique essence as it appears to her in a semi-trance state. As a clairvoyant she combines the elements of what she finds into your painting in a way that will be helpful for you in your path of development. Receive the double benefit of learning what Melissa "sees" as well as owing a Melissa Harris original painting.

Melissa is a Fulbright Scholar who studied in Paris. She received her BFA in painting from Syracuse University in NY and her MFA painting from Queens College in Flushing, NY. Cost: $225. Please call us at 410-235-7323 to sign up for a private session with Melissa. All sessions must be paid for at time of registration and please note there can be no cancellations or refunds once registered. 

The discussion will focus on the importance of the fundamental role of the human: the mythmaker. This work is particularly crucial at this moment in human history, which Richards describes as "apocalyptic". The discussion will be in three primary contexts: education, cosmology and spirituality. 

Baltimore IONS is affiliated with the Institute of Noetic Science, which was founded by Edgar Mitchell in the 1970's to explore the mysteries of science of consciousness. IONS group for anyone who is interested in a spirited discussion embracing all areas of psychic phenomenon from a scientific point of view, open to all the mysteries of the Universe and beyond. Cost: $5 donation

Wednesday, May 16, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. Channeling the Arch Angels with Aurora

Join psychic and channeler Aurora Gabriel for messages from the Arch Angels. Come hear what they have to share. Cost: $20

Friday, May 18, 7 p.m. - 8 p.m. Break Free and Relax with Sound Healing
Feeling stressed out? Worried? Anxious? Out of balance? Or simply yearning to connect more deeply with yourself and the spiritual? This hour is intended to support you in relaxing deeply in order to break free from the tension and all that is not serving your deepest healing and highest good. Loving heartbeat drumming assists in releasing attachment and crystal singing bowls and vocal toning bathe you in angelic vibrations of love and light.

Andrea Wenger, MAHA, facilitates healing experiences for upside-down living with groups and individuals-to break free from should and live life according to your own rules. Cost: $15 - Bring anything that would assist you in being comfortable lying down: a yoga mat, blanket, pillows, etc

Saturday, May 19, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Women's Health Month: a Dialogue on Healthy and Responsible Partnerships with Companion Animals

Stacey M. Evans, Esq. and Gary C. Norman, Esq. L.L.M. offer an interactive and informative panel discussion focusing on healthy and responsible partnerships

Gary with his guide  dog Pilot

with companion animals or pets.  Stacey will discuss the behavioral aspects of having a partnership, focusing on the proper behavior of dogs, including proper control in the community; and behavioral modification techniques.  Gary will discuss the affects that pets have on the health of their human partners, focusing on: companion and assistance dogs and their affect on human blood pressure; and, the affect of companion and assistance dogs on their disabled handlers. 

Stacey constitutes the Chair-Elect of the Animal Law Section of the Maryland State Bar Association.  Keenly interested in protecting the welfare of animals, she serves on the board of the Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter.  Gary is the Co-founder, Vice President and Secretary of the Mid-Atlantic Lyceum, which has a newly established law and public policy journal, the Mid-Atlantic Journal on Law and Public Policy.  Bringing people with a broad range of perspectives together for dialogue and problem resolution constitutes the focus of the organization.  A Past Chair of the Animal Law Section as well as handler of an assistance dog, Gary is the creating force of the regionally noted annual animal law symposium of the Section. Cost: Free/donation

MOVIE NIGHT! Monday, May 21, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. Bnote Movie Night: Farmageddon

Americans' right to access fresh, healthy foods of their choice is under attack. Farmageddon tells the story of small, family farms that were providing safe, healthy foods to their communities and were forced to stop, sometimes through violent action, by agents of misguided government bureaucracies, and seeks to figure out why. Cost: $10 or 10Bnotes

Wednesday, May 23, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Ravensong Shamanic Drumming Circle with Erin Reeve, MD 

Feel the rhythm of life! Ravensong drum circle meets 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 eye cover, and a blanket/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

HIGHLIGHT! Saturday, May 26, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. Intuitive Dating: Is She or He the One? With Author Alyson Mead