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 Native language--a door to infinity an interactive talk circle Sunday, June 3rd, 2012 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.________________
Youth rites of passage Saturday June 9th 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
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Herbal salves Sunday, June 10th 7 to 9 a.m.
Above: Prayers by Ana Luisa Rincon (rinconart.com) _____________________________________________________________ Eating the Desert -- A Plant Walk Thursday, June 14th 7:00 to 10:00 a.m.
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Direct Energy--it's not rocket science Sunday, June 17th, 2012 7:00 to 10:00 a.m.
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Mesquite bean meal workshops Every Sunday in July, 7 to 11 a.m. __________________________________________________________
Descriptions of above talks and workshops: Native language--a door to infinity an interactive talk Sunday, June 3rd, 2012 7 to 10:00 a.m. Come and learn how to change your world and your reality to a much deeper, healthier one simply by changing the words you use. Native tongues are life-promoting languages, growing out of spirit, awarenes, and the eternal now, or dreamtime. Modern languages, including English,on the other hand are life-draining languages of seperation, duality, and ego. For example, why do words not exist in native languages such as 'waste,' the verb 'to be,' 'sorry,' 'regret' and 'assume' ? Why does the word for 'life' in one of the Mayan languages mean "the mutual indebtedness of all things to all other things"? What can we learn about bringing up our kids from some native languages including Lakota, where their word for 'father' and 'uncle' is the same word, as is the word for 'mother' and 'aunt'? What does the Sanskrit word for 'music' tell us, which translates into English as "dance / playing an instrument / singing"? Can we begin to heal our runaway materialism by finding out that, for example, one southeast Asian watergoing indigenous people has no word for 'want' in their language, only a word for 'need'? How do English words like "coincidence' and 'accident' limit our possibilities whereas words like 'synchronicity' can expand them? Come and find out....
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Youth rites of passage Saturday June 9th 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Got troubled teens? Who doesn't?
This is an interactive talk based on danny's 5 years experience leading wilderness adult rites-of-passage for troubled teens, during which time he witnessed countless miracles occur in the healing and maturing of "lost" youth (see bios). Wilderness "initiations" are a very powerful part of the circle of human life, a missing link that has been replaced by gangs, drugs, promiscuous sex, and spiritually crippling activities like computer games. This workshop is recommended for parents (bring your teens!), Teens of all ages (bring your parents!) psychotherapists, healers, and anyone else who is interested in this social aspect of sustainability which has been lost in our culture. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Herbal salves Sunday, June 10th 7:00 to 9:00 a.m.
Bring your own herbs to make salves; and we will wild harvest a few on site. Instead of beeswax, our base will be jojoba, one of our desert "nuts." We will gather shuuki (the Tohono O'odham word for creosote bush /greasewood /chapparral), a traditional heal-all of native peoples thruout the low deserts of the U.S. southwest. Salves are a must for living in this desert and are crucial for many skin conditions and wound healing. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Direct Energy--it's not rocket science Sunday, June 17th, 2012 7:00 to 10:00 a.m.
We are a culture addicted to energy and gadgets. If we want to make it into the 5th world safely, when it comes to energy, we must think outside the box. But since energy is the box, we must kick the energy habit; because technology cannot solve the problems of technology. Direct, gadgetless energy is the sustainable way. To explain further: indirect energy requires a second step and gadgetry to change one form of energy to another. For example, direct solar goes into solar cells that change the energy to electricity. Or direct wind turns a turbine that changes it into elecricity.
We will cover such things as:
direct solar food dehydration
sun tea
direct solar sterilization
sailboats
direct evaporative cooling
direct thermal heating and cooling of dwellings
and more.
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Eating the Desert -- A Plant Walk Thursday, June 14th 7:00 to 10:00 a.m.
If you are what you eat and you eat indigenous native plants of the desert then you become the desert. Though of course we will cover the medicinal, food and other uses of as many of our native plants as time allows, the overall focus will be on our relationship with our plant relations. In this way we will have a deeper and longer lasting knowledge of the plant world and can use this knowledge, largely based on intuition, to know unknown plants how they cai help us anywhere we walk.
Since our aim is to experience the plants directly, we suggest you leave your field guides at home. Danny, who will lead the walk, has 49 years experience with herbalism.
Every Sunday in July, 7:00 a.m. to11: a.m. : This is a hands on workshop. You will gather, clean, dry, grind and sift mesquite beans from our mesquital all by hand into a delicious, sweet meal that is a staple food of native peoples. Mesquite bean "coffee" will be served.
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This page in progress.....check back soon for more events and workshops.... ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ past offerings: (2011) IF IT AIN’T BROKEN, DON’T FIX IT Sustainability according to the native view A talk by Danny August Sunday 18 November, begins 10 a.m., runs approximately 1.5 hours; come early, doors closed at 10:05 Goes rain or shine. Bring outdoor clothing, water bottle and a chair. At himdag village sanctuary, Terrasante Village, Three Points, AZ No charge. Please bring a gift for the giveaway ceremony. Above: Prayers, by Ana Luisa Ricon (Rinconart.com) For two million years humans have lived in a sustainable manner with our mother the earth and all our relations. In only the last few generations, we have deviated from that ancient wisdom to the point where the survival of our kind is now at stake. All of the native prophecies say that the old ways are our way home…. Some topics that may be covered:
Your host, danny running bear august has been receiving and handing down the old ways for more than 25 years, as they were handed down to him by elders and medicine persons of many indigenous nations; and above all, by the source…. please email to reserve your place in the event contact us / directions to our camp I We do not charge for workshops; instead, we give them away. And, we do accept gifts (see wish list). below: danny and the boys during an initiation event for Zane (making arrow) below that: dyemaking workshop led by Kristin (with scarf on head)  .   |
