A Celebration of Poetry: The Release of Matthew Salzman’s Book Potential: Poems of Self Mastery and More

Saturday March 2nd, 7:00-9:00 PM, Free Event

The affair will include readings, by Matthew Salzman, of his first compilation of poetry, as well as an open invitation to other poets to share their work. Copies of Potential: Poems of Self Mastery and More will be available for purchase, and Matthew will be open to signing them throughout the evening. Come share in the festivities of poetic reverence.

High Frequency Loft

1335 Gusdorf Road, Suite Q

Taos NM



Vocal Opening Sound Journey

COME JOIN US FOR THIS: Vocal Opening Journey with Dr. Gwendolyn McClure, Ph.D.
Tuesday February 26th, 2019, 1:00-4:30pm
Join Master Vocal Sound Healer Gwendolyn in this energetically dazzling release workshop! Learn to use your voice to embody the frequency of Love, & Clear the rest!
Registration Fee: $45 Sliding Scale Available Upon Request
Space is limited! Please Pay in Advance at HFL; cash preferred
Bring a mat, blanket, pillow, water, an open heart, & a desire to release!
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In her 29th year as a vocal sound healer, Gwendolyn is very excited to come to Taos from Nevada City, CA to create magical clearing & healing with you all!

Contact Gwendolyn for general info or for a Private Session while she is in Taos: http://vocalsoundhealer.com; Gwendolyn@vocalsoundhealer.com; (520) 904-2043

https://vocalsoundhealer.com/vocal-opening-journey/

Self Spinal Alignment Workshop with Dr. Win Smith

Saturday February 16th, 2019, 2:30pm-6:30pm - Suggested Sliding Scale $10-$45

Dr. Win Smith, N.D., D.O.M., will lead this workshop on spinal care. Back, neck, hip, sacro- iliac joint, and other joint pain are very common in western society where we spend far too much time sitting at our computers or couch, and too little time exercising. Inactivity combined with aging and nutrient deficiencies or wrong diet often produce periods of acute and chronic pain as well as degenerative joint and disc diseases. Pain is the principal symptom that motivates us to seek professional medical care. But what if we could effectively treat or even prevent much of the back and neck pain that causes so much distress? There are naysayers who say it can't be done; that we must depend on someone other than ourselves to treat these problems. Dr. Smith disagrees. 

This workshop will cover common injuries and pain syndromes of the spine and joints and their causes, as well as the potential for their prevention and reversal. These include inter-vertebral disc injuries, degenerative disc disease, degrees of disc herniation, disc ruptures, disc desiccation commonly seen in aging and how to minimize it, as well as common conditions such as osteo-arthritis, stenosis, compression injuries, facet syndromes, dis-articular relationships of spinal joints, cartilaginous end plate degeneration, nerve root compression, and more. Dr. Smith will also demonstrate and teach the participants various methods for correcting articular relationships of common joint surfaces which give anyone the potential for self care. These methods may reduce or eliminate dependence on various professions while allowing one to enjoy greater flexibility and freedom from back pain. You don't need to be on a treatment treadmill! Pharmaceutical medications may mask a problem by reducing pain or relaxing muscles, and they often don't correct the true cause of the pain condition. Instead, they may damage delicate cells, ultimately leading to accelerated joint degradation. You don't need to let this happen!

Dr. Win Smith has been teaching natural and self healing methods as well as Traditional Oriental Medicine for 40 years. He is a full professor of TCM at the Southwest Acupuncture College, where he started teaching in 1981. He studied Oriental Medicine with Dr. Hsi Yu Tao, and has been in clinical practice since 1978 and licensed in New Mexico since 1982. He published the book Self Spinal Alignment and Other Life Extension Techniquesand its companion video in 1992. These techniques include methods of self adjustment of spinal joints in all segments of the spine, as well as rib heads and the sacro-iliac joint. Dr. Smith developed these techniques after suffering years of chronic pain as a consequence of his own back injury at the age of 16. Since developing these techniques, Dr. Smith has never required professional services to correct or treat misalignment or back pain, despite having been very active over the subsequent 51 years. Dr. Smith remains lithe and flexible, and is living proof that one can maintain spinal health with proper knowledge and self care techniques. 

Disclaimer: Dr. Smith nor the High Frequency Loft cannot and do not promise or guarantee resolution of any participant's disease or condition. All participants are encouraged to discuss treatment of their condition with their physician, including whether gentle active stretches are appropriate as a treatment modality for them. 

World Sound Healing Day - A Sound Bath & Ceremony

Thursday February 14th, 2019, 3-4pm

Join us for another Ceremony with intention to raise our vibrations individually and collectively!
Valentine’s Day, the day we celebrate relationship and LOVE!
World Sound Healing Day, when we recognize the use of sound in HEALING!
Our intention for this Ceremony is to CELEBRATE and to open ourselves to Love and Healing on all levels.
Bring your drums, rattles, crystal bowls, chimes and bells.
This is a free event, donation are greatly appreciated.
Kids are welcome.
Co-hosted by Mike Two Bears, Ariana, Gael Olmstead and Cliff Bain.

To learn more about World Sound healing day visit: www.WorldSoundHealingDay.org

Laughter Yoga with Matthew Salzman - EVERY Saturday in FEB 1pm

Now hosting Laughter Yoga Weekly Every - Saturday in FEB at 1pm - $10 Suggested Donation, Class Pass & Members welcome

Laughing Yoga is the practice of using laughter exercises and yogic breathing to foster health and happiness. Through the use of Laughter Yoga exercises we bring to life our childlike playfulness, no matter how old we are. In order to get scientifically proven health benefits of laughter, we need to laugh continuously for at least for 10 to 15 minutes. Laughter Yoga provides a fun safe environment, where we can sustain the type of laughter that enriches our mental, emotional, and physical health.

Health Benefits of Laughing Yoga:

  • Laughter lower your stress levels.

  • Laughter increases serotonin levels.

  • Laughter helps regulate blood sugar.

  • Laughter lowers blood pressure.

  • Laughter helps relieve pain.

  • Laughter improves respiratory function.

  • Laughter burns calories.

  • Laughter boosts your immune system.

  • Laugher provides a great abdominal  workout.

  • Laughter decreases anxiety and fear.

  • Laughter eases depression.

  • Laughter improves your mood and enhances both emotional and physical resilience.

  • Beyond Health:

    1. strengthens relationships.

    2. Laughter is attractive and draws others to us.

    3. Laughter promotes group  bonding.

    4. Laughter breaks down walls between people.

    And…

    Life is better When we laugh!

     

 

SoulMonic Sound Journey w/ Three Trees! Sonic Alchemy Medicine<3

Saturday January 26th, 6-8pm Message from Three Trees:

I'm honored and grateful to offer this powerful journey as my passion and Divine service. This is a Sonic Ceremony., an Alchemy of Shamanic and Contemporary Sound Healing...Infused with Love and Guided by the Divine ♥ ... (2hr)
*** Payment information below...😇
With over 18 yrs. sound healing experience, Three Trees integrates many methodologies and traditions into the powerful SoulMonic Sound Journey. This is a sound healing blended with a shamanic journey, taking you into a magical rhythmic, and harmonic experience that goes to new depths of energetic healing- clearing and awakening...
Using a variety of sound-healing techniques and instruments including the didgeridoo, crystal & Tibetan bowls, vocal toning, ancient chants, gongs, tuning forks, flute, Halo drum/Rav Vast, chimes, and rattles, while focusing on the therapeutic powers locked within the Drum and healing rhythms.
SoulMonic Sound Healing journeys take you into a state of Sacred being, wherein you experience transformative, deep connectedness as you journey into your own personal, multi-dimensional experience.
♥ Vibrate in the healing sounds and surrender into the Sacred... Deepen and anchor your Divine connection and Path..
Blessings..Three Trees

SoulMonic Healings:
Different sound frequencies/vibrations interact with our physical, emotional and energetic bodies in beneficial ways. These effects are increased when through Divine guidance in a Sacred and safe container... some effects that can be experienced are...
~ Promotes Deep Meditation
~ Align bio-rhythms
~ Release Emotional Trauma
~ Clear and balance chakras
~ Release stagnant energies
~ relief of physical and emotional pain
~ Relieves Anxiety and Stress
~ Sonic Entrainment to Sync and Reset the body's systems
~ Decreases Depression
~ Open Higher States of Consciousness
~ Clear and activate DNA and meridians
~ Feelings of Peace and Oneness
~ Normalizes Blood Pressure
~ Receive inner guidance and insight
~ Unlock the body's self-healing powers
~ Deepen your connection to Divine love & peace

From ancestral connection and memory to Divine communion and awakenings. This unique experience incorporates ancient, and contemporary sound healing techniques to facilitate healing on all levels. Say yes to some love and healing on this Sacred journey evening. Come immerse in the rhythms and frequencies for our physical, mental/emotional and spiritual health and evolution...
Hope to see you there :)
As always, this is open to the public..so bring a friend :)

Self Investment: sliding scale $25- $40
more info @ threetreessedona.com or call me direct @. 480-748-1675
length: 2 hr.
special info: bringing a pillow is recommended for comfort. A limited supply of yoga mats and blankets will be available, but bringing your own is encouraged :)

Love and Bless... Three Trees ♥ threetreessedona.com

Hypnosis Practice Group - Part 1

Hypnosis Practice Group - A Two-part Session - Learn self-hypnosis

January 20 and February 3rd from 2:00-4:30 PM, Donations Appreciated

Hypnosis requires Two Things:

1. One must desire to experience hypnosis.

2. One must be willing to follow simple suggestions.

This is a delightful opportunity to experience Trance and learn Hypnotic induction fundamentals through group practice being alternately the hypnotist and the hypnotee. The prime objective: Learn effective self-hypnosis.

With success  you will have learned to use those skills for self-improvement, drawing from a smorgasbord of possibilities, i.e. career enhancement, stress control, sports performance, motivation….

You may then join such notable others who have claimed hypnotic benefit  such as Tiger Woods*,Charlize Theron , Albert Einstein, Jackie Kennedy Onassis , Nikola Tesla , Julia Roberts, Winston Churchill and Mozart.

Bring a partner with whom to practice or practice in rotation with other participants.

February 3rd session content to be announced.

Group, guest moderator, Anthony Kaluta  (575) 737-1012 Website - Board   certified hypnotist. ABH

                            * video link: https://youtu.be/T1mSMDoVqcg

                                                  



Full Moon Eclipse Ceremony

Come join us for our Full Wolf Moon Eclipse Ceremony. Sunday January 20th, 12pm-1pm

Not only will this be a full moon, but a super blood moon too! This time will be ample for releasing, celebration, and manifesting.
Eclipses act as potent portals into alternate dimensions of consciousness. When utilized with intentional awareness, we can literally recreate and integrate aspects of self.

We are multidimensional beings - meaning that we exist across all time and space. Our traumas, wounds, patterns and habits don't just exist in the here and now. Working on this physical plane is powerful and beneficial, but when we are able to access the expansiveness of our multidimensional selves, greater, longer lasting and more significant and permanent change takes place.

In this ceremony we will align us selves with the peak of the lunar eclipse and direct our unified focus on core healing and deep clearing on individual and collective level.

Please bring your drum or rattle.

This is a free event, however, we suggest $5 donation to the venue.

Movie Night - Forks Over Knives - Free Event w/ Plant Based Snacks

Documentary Film Screening
Saturday January 12th, 7pm
*FREE Event w/ Plant Based Snacks from the Forks Over Knives Recipes

Followed by a Q&A w/ Dr Win Smith, D.O.M. licensed practitioner of Traditional Oriental Medicine w/ 41+ yrs teaching & clinical experience.

"Forks Over Knives empowers people to live healthier lives by changing the way the world understands nutrition. We provide the tools and resources to make a plant-based lifestyle easy and enjoyable." Check out their official website for Recipes, Tools & More https://www.forksoverknives.com

High Frequency NYE Celebration - Live Music Kirtan - Yoga, Qigong, Sound Healing, Channelled Readings, Ecstatic Dance, Vegan Snacks, Elixirs & More!

Monday December 31st, 7:30pm-1am
Activate your highest potential this NYE with this High Vibe substance free celebration. There will be: Qigong warmup with Tammy, Yoga & sound healing with Alana Lee & John Malone other HFL special guest teachers, Live Music Kirtan with Shaela Noella & Fahad, & our very out Alana Grier will be singing a few songs as well. Intention Setting Ecstatic Dance Party with DJs: Seren8 & Mr Malone, A Ceremony to release the past & cultivate your highest & best self in this new year, Channelled Guide Readings by Shaela, Vegan Energy Snacks, Elixirs, Flower Essences & More...
Suggested Sliding Scale $8-$22 (donations of $22 include a free snack & elixir)

bring extra cash for - snacks, elixirs, flower essences & more…

13 Chakra Activation with Shaela Noella

Saturday Dec 29th, 6pm, Suggested Sliding Scale $10-15

13 Chakra Activation - Led by Shaela Noella with Nature Flower Essences, Dance, Movement and Sound. Shaela Noella is a joy to learn from, her workshops are fun yet full of knowledge. The wisdom she shares on the 13 Chakra system, and essences she channeled, comes from the Anuenue Ho'a Spirit Guides. www.roselenaalchemy.com

Guided Crystal Meditation - Free Event

Sunday December 23rd 4:30-5:30, Free Event - Donations Appreciated but not required. Come join Jessica Rader of Moon Child Crystals as she leads you through a calming and soothing guided journey and deep belly breaths to honor the Winter Solstice. 

Deep into the womb of creation is where the spark of your incarnation lands, rooted from your spine into our Mother Gaia, this is the space where the seeds of your visions are planted. These visions are not solely what you want your life to look like, this is the place where you vision and seed how you wish to relate to others, how you want to show up in the world and how to be who you are.

Join us as we create space for this dying to our old selves so that we may be re-born and renewed into a more whole and fully encompassed version of our true highest self. This a sacred path of forgiveness and honoring the truth within our souls as we are all led to re-membering that we are all the one Divine mind of Spirit and Source energy.

You will be given the opportunity to choose a stone to meditate with for the evening (please bring your own stones as well, if you would like). 

Please bring water and a pillow (if you need one)

This event is a Love donation only - but is not required - it is most important that we all come together for healing!

****PLEASE RSVP so that we know how many stones to bring!****

Bio: Jessie Rader has always had a passion for crystals and stones since she was a child and that passion has grown with her into adulthood, into her conscious parenting practices, into her marriage and friendships and now into her full time job as a Lightworker. She believes we all have a light inside of us and using the beautiful creations of our Mother Gaia, we can all embody our greatest gifts with the help of our gemstone friends. Jessie considers herself a Crystal Queen, Gratefulness gangster, Earth healer, Mindfulness champion, Moon Goddess and her passion in life is to be of service and serve the planet and humanity.She is a level 2 Reiki practitioner, she is studying to get her Bachelors in Metaphysical Science and she teaches a number of classes from Crystals 101 to Past life regressions.

You can find her stones for sale and her crystal journey on Instagram: Moon_Child_Crystal

You can follow her personal path on Instagram: MoonChildSoulJourney"
Jessica Megali-RaderOwner - Moon Child Crystals*Wife*Mother*Mystic*Crystal Dealer*Warrior Goddess*
www.facebook.com/moonchildcrystals88
MoonChildCrystals11@gmail.com

 http://aguidetoorganichappiness.blogspot.com

Solstice Celebration: Solo Kirtan Concert & Transformational Vocal Workshop w/ Katie Wise + ECSTATIC Dance Party!

High Frequency Loft presents a kirtan concert with Katie Wise (of Katie Wise + Bhakti Explosion) preceded by a vocal workshop, ending the evening with an Ecstatic Dance Party, Saturday December 22, 2018. Suggested Sliding Scale $10-$30, no one turned away for lack of funds. Space is limited. Register today eventbrite link below! 6:00pm Transformational Vocal Workshop 7:30pm Kirtan Concert 9:00pm Dance Party 

A sacred invitation into the heart of Bhakti, Katie will share stories and songs from her heart, and her journey: including soulful Kirtan devotional chants, conscious English lyrics, and funky world sounds. Come into this intimate space with Katie, we are sure to share a delightful evening and drop in deeply together. No experience necessary. Katie makes Kirtan accessible and fun.
Heart-centered yogis and fans of alt rock icons like Shawn Colvin and the Cowboy Junkies have been flocking to Bhakti Explosion kirtans at the biggest sacred music festivals in the US and internationally. David Newman calls classically-trained pianist, lead singer and yoga teacher Katie Wise "a fresh and exciting new voice in the mantra music genre...a solid force and presence for those who look to their music for peace, heart, groove, and spiritual inspiration.” 

Kids and Families are always welcome. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

***Stay for a sacred and world music ecstatic dance party after the concert***

Come at 6pm for Katie's renowned Vocal Transformation workshop!

Break out of old wounding around your voice, unleash your song, and set your soul free. No experience necessary. 

- Open up your speaking or singing voice
​- Learn better vocal technique
​- Find resonance, tone, pitch and power
​- Use energetic practices to open up your impact in the world, through your voice
​- Use sound healing practices to open up blockages in the body or spirit

Katie Wise, trained vocal coach, voiceover pro, touring musician, and kirtan artist, brings her experience with vocal toning, chanting, sound healing, songwriting, breath & energy work to open the voice as a portal to greater expression.

For more information, visit www.bhaktiexplosion.com.

Get your tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/taos-solo-kirtan-concert-voice-workshop-with-katie-wise-dance-party-tickets-52929685113?janus_fv=exp_eb_86972_related_events%3DA

Winter Solstice Full Moon Throwing of Bones Ceremony

Saturday December 22nd, 1-3pm

Honor the shifting of the earth’s seasons, the cycles of the moon, and the passages in your life.

Join in sacred ceremonial space to share a Throwing of the Bones Ceremony. Receive guidance from the spirits for your personal path and the turning of the times on our earth.

The healing and doctoring from the spirits begin before we gather and will continue to touch your life after you receive the ceremony.

“I feel a dynamic, living force in this tradition. The bones speak through you powerfully and you carry this lineage with such grace and beauty. I feel called back to myself, affirmed in my path, shown the places I am traveling and have yet to go. Thank you so much.” -M.J.

$25 at the door

JoAnne Dodgson is a healer, teacher, and ceremonial guide in the ways of Ka Ta See, a tradition from the Eastern Andes. For more information, visit: www.joannedodgson.com

RootFlute Cacao Sound Journey with Lucid Meditation

Saturday December 8th, 7:00pm-10pm, Sliding Scale $20-$35 (price includes Cacao & lucid dreaming herbs)

Please join us on a potent subconscious journey through vast hypnotic soundscapes that carry you between dimensions of dream and day. 
This journey will begin with ceremonial grade Organic Guatemalan Cacao, optional lucid dreaming herbs and CBD tincture. Participants will be guided into a visual lucid meditation.

Participants have experienced deep subconscious travels, visionary dreamscapes, lucid dreamstate meditations, remembrances and reconnections of self, deep emotional processing, and other healing experiences. 

The entire soundscape is rooted in C# Sharp 432 Hz, the Om tone of 136.1 Hz.

The RootFlute Sound Journey includes a unique collection of Hansen’s self-made multi-chamber Flutes, 38” Paiste gong, 10 Tibetan singing bowls on an elaborate foot pedal system, didgeridoo, analog synth, shakuhachi, esraj (Indian bowed instrument), soprano saxophone, plate bells, swing chimes, tuned symbols, and an array of percussion instruments. All live looped to create elaborate sonic tapestries.

Visit: RootFlute.com/videos to see the setup live. 

Why Cacao?
Cacao “Food of the Gods” is chocolate as nature created it. 
Cacao has been used ceremonially for thousands of years by indigenous peoples of Central and South America. A sacred gift from Earth Cacao opens the heart and unifies the energy field of the group. While creating a mild euphoric effect, Cacao also sharpens the mind keeping you alert and aware during mindful practice and sound meditation. Daniel sources his cacao directly from Mayan wisdom keepers and has received there blessing to share it with you!

What is “Lucid Meditation”
Hansen has been developing the Lucid Meditation over 100 sound journeys. He has worked with renowned meditation instructors, Mayan Wisdom keepers, and Yoga Nidra facilitators. This meditation is designed to work with the breath and create relaxation in the body, peace in the soul, a deeper connection to sound, and positive visualization in the mind. 

What are lucid dreaming herbs?
Mugwort will be offered in a tincture. This powerful herb has the ability to make dreams longer, clearer, more vivid and pronounced. When combined with the “Lucid Meditation” participants may have an increased visual experience. Enhanced dreams the night of the event is also a possibility. 

What to bring
Anything to aid in your comfort while laying on the floor during the event. 
Small camping pads, yoga mats, pillows, blankets, eye mask, and a water bottle.  

25-40$ sliding scale **organic cacao included in price**
-paypal- rootflute@gmail.com -venmo- 970.333.0249
*Pre-registration is highly recommend*
Cash at Door is always preferred

Testimonials:

"Imagine receiving the gift of a journey, but not just any journey… a journey through sound, through the forest of your soul immersed in Daniel Hansen’s spiritually crafted soundscape and adrift upon a sea of essential oil scented air while floating on spreading warmth of freshly brewed Cacao… an immersive and mystical experience like this in the company of beautiful and divine friends is more than a gift, it is a moment in time where the otherworldly essence of the spirit is free to wander down paths of light and tone guided through the landscape of dreams and imagination by a Master Sound Story Teller." - Vagabond Ink

"Thank you Dan Hansen and for an amazing healing sound journey last night!!! It was truly the peace and centering I have been needing! I hope to never miss another! So tremendously wonderful! If you have not experienced this magic, you haven't fully lived. Seriously such a profound experience. Can't wait for the next one!" - Lacy

"So much love to Daniel Hansen for the aaaahhh-mazing Rootflute Sound Journey last night! I am just blown away by the musical mastery, the effortless clearing and the beauty these two created! I can't wait to do it again! (and to one day have a flute of my own!) If you didn't come out, you missed out big time...make sure to come to the next one!" - Nina

"Not knowing what to expect I entered the space at La Paz and got comfortable.
What followed was out of myself and out of this world.
Starting with a full dose of cacao, I got comfortable and followed the guided meditation to a state of relaxation and openness.
The sound delivered by Mr. Root Flute, from his self-made, multi-instrumented station, was phenomenal. It filled my being and carried me off and away. The skill of Daniel's performance is phenomenal.
I started to see things; the rising music lifted me through jungles up to mountains, in moments of repreive I could fly above it all.
Visuals kept coming and I began to see a small version of myself, sat and made of light in the distance. As the music progressed so too did visions until the figure got so close it overlapped my being.
I became it and could see myself sat. An outer body experience. Such was the power of the cacao and the music.
I layed back and drifted on that dreamy edge between sleep and wakefulness.
Sitting back up I felt unblocked. Tears came out.
An excellent experience that took me by surprise and left me feeling positive and uplifted.
Strongly recommended!"

-Stuart Clayton

Sliding scale $20-$35 Please register in advance at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rootflute-cacao-sound-journey-w-lucid-meditation-taos-tickets-53108672469?fbclid=IwAR31PHO4N_So92YJ99tsSWsYtor3W9HXAwVogEnxW_HQG1k7FXko4Jy0SyI

FREE Event: The Inner Electric Blast - EP Release & DJ ECSTATIC Dance Party Celebration

Lot's of activity in November and December this year, but here's an opportunity for us to have a little fun.

With one LP, Fovea, and one EP, Verve Crystal, both by Humboldt Been released on the Inner Electric Label in 2018, Inner Electric is hosting a reception to celebrate, mix, dance. DJ Wild Bill Imberger and the Electric Frontier will spin classic tunes including spinning in some of the new Humboldt Been tunes. Check out innerelectric.com for more information on the music and ask Inner Electric principal Jeff Thomason about the secret celebration that underlies this dance party. The key code: 30 years.

Thanks to the High Frequency Loft for providing the space. Looking forward to helping HFL make it worth their while. Friends and partners more than welcome.

Saturday December 1st 5:30-8:30pm, Free Event

Movie Night - FREE Event - Running For Good - the Fiona Oakes Documentary

Saturday November 17th, 7pm, Free Event

RUNNING FOR GOOD - THE FIONA OAKES DOCUMENTARY

From Executive Producer James Cromwell and award-winning director Keegan Kuhn (Cowspiracy, What The Health) comes RUNNING FOR GOOD, the feature-length sports documentary narrated by Rich Roll (Finding Ultra), following world record marathon runner Fiona Oakes in her attempt not only to set a new global record in endurance racing, but to compete in the “toughest footrace on earth,” the Marathon Des Sables, a 250km race through the Sahara Desert.
Fiona Oakes has made a name for herself as a unique endurance runner. She is the fastest woman in the world to run a marathon on all seven continents, and the north pole, in both cumulative and elapsed time. Fiona’s achievements are made even more astounding due to the fact that she was told at age 14 that she would never walk properly, let alone ever run. She would undergo more than 17 radical knee surgeries which ultimately led to having her entire right kneecap removed. The process was agonizing, the rehab worse, the records she’s gone on to set even more astounding.

With overcoming her own adversity, Fiona’s true drive to achieve incredible feats of speed and human endurance are motivated by a deep desire to raise awareness for the plight of animals. Her achievements help fund a 450+ animal sanctuary that she takes care of every day. 

““I was deeply moved by this awe-inspiring story of how a woman has overcome a disability that would put most people in a wheelchair, to become a world record breaking ultra-marathon runner, fueled by a plant-based diet.” 

— John Robbins, best-selling author

““Fiona is a truly remarkable athlete and human being. She has defied all odds to become a world record-breaking runner despite a horrific knee injury. Her sense of purpose is so strong that nothing can stop her. Yet at the same time she is one of the most humble and selfless people I have met.”

— Elisabet Barnes, 2X MDS winner, Ultrarunner Champion

More about the movie at https://runningforgoodfilm.com

Compassionate Communication: Finding Heart During Conflict w/ Ela Ramos

Class Description: What if there was a way to interrupt our reactions and actually connect to our hearts when conflict happens?  What if during moments of being triggered or upset, we could access curiosity and connection instead of shutting down?  

Whether is it work, partnership, family or concern for the planet- conflict is a part of life.  This workshop gives tools to deal with feelings in a way that is respectful and caring, while also keeping things honest and real.  This is about stepping out of blame and guilt and going deeper- finding kindness towards yourself and others in moments when it seems out of reach.

In this workshop you will:

-Practice self-empathy and increase self-awareness.

-Discover how you might block connection to others without  meaning to.

-Connect to the wisdom of your body.

-Learn ways to express your feelings and needs in a constructive way.

-Increase the potential for connection in any environment.

-Learn compassionate self-talk that you can use anywhere, anytime.

-Step away from judgement and towards acceptance.

Bio: Ela Ramos is an educator and offers empathic coaching and spiritual counseling.   She has been studying Non-Violent Communication for 15 years. She has taught in India, California, Oregon and New Mexico.  Ela has a background in somatic psychology, hakomi therapy and other holistic healing styles.  

For questions and registration contact:

elashakti.wixsite.com/elahealingarts

Message me on Facebook: @elahealingarts

November 17th, 1-4pm, $20-$40 dollars Sliding Scale suggested donation, *no one turned away for lack of funds