Delphi
University--McCaysville, GA
Delphi,
located in the spectacular Blue Ridge mountains of North Georgia, is
my Alma Mater, and offers perhaps the best spiritual healing curriculum
anywhere. It is the home of Healing Works International, The Arthur Ford
Academy of Mediumship, The Patricia Hayes School of Inner Sense Development,
The Church of Wisdom, and The RoHun Institute.
Delphi
also offers weekend getaways, Brazilian Healing Sanctuaries (on the
1st Friday of each month), Sunday services at The Temple of Wisdom,
and is available for workshop rental space.
New
Life Healing Center--Toledo, OH area
New
Life Healing Center (located in the Toledo, Ohio area) is facilitated by Dr.
Nancy Sloan. Dr. Sloan is a Licensed Massage Therapist and a Registered Nurse
in addition to her doctorates in Transpersonal Counseling & Holistic Healing.
New Life Center offers RoHun, Massage Therapy, and the modalities offered here
at The Aurora Center. Dr. Sloan is an excellent therapist in everyone of her
modalities. She is also a wonderful teacher. Check out her site for the latest
classes and to read more about the healing services at New Life.
Healing
Sounds with Jonathan Goldman--Rocky Mountains of Colorado
Jonathan Goldman, the founder of The Sound Healer's Association and creator
of the CD "Chakra Chants", is a leader and innovator in Sound
Healing. His site offers articles on Sound Healing and Research and fantastic
CDs. Jonathan hosts an annual Sound Intensive at Sunrise Ranch, a community
nestled in The Rocky Mountains National Park in Colorado.
The Family
of Light Healing Center--Spokane, WA
This
Center is an international mobile healing, Yoga, and educational center offering
Aromatherapy, Channeling, Color Therapy, Massage, Medical Intuitives, Reiki,
Sound Healing, Stone Medicine, Vibrational Yoga and more. They will be opening
a branch Center in Devon, England very soon. Check out the variety of services
offered.
Walking
Wisdom--Geneva, Switzerland
This Center was founded by Marie-Noelle Anderson. It offers healing
and classes in Astrology, Radionics, Body/Mind/Soul Healing, Shamanic
Rituals, and Aura Cleansing. You also may want to take a look at the
spiritual retreat trips Walking Wisdom offers to places such as Mauritania,
South Africa and India.
Sukhavati Retreat--Bali, Indonesia
This Yoga & Healing Center is absolutely gorgeous. It is located in
one of the most sacred spots on the Earth: Bali, Island of the Gods.
It is a six-villa property located along the Penet River of South Bali,
in a hectare of jungle.
Sukhavati Retreat’s
peaceful seclusion and location within very spiritual Hindu-Buddhist
culture makes it an ideal place for meditation, yoga and other mind and
body pursuits.
With this in mind, the retreat has been purpose-built as
a facility for teachers and instructors of such healing arts who conduct
small-group retreats around the world.
With its fully equipped “yoga
and meditation pavilion”,
spa services and healthy food menus, the retreat offers group
leaders an exclusive, new cutting-edge retreat destination in
one of the world’s true paradises.
For groups travelling
without an accompanying teacher, the retreat can provide access
to a number of gifted instructors and healers who live and
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Sound
Healers Association
The Sound Healer's Association, an international association, was founded by
Jonathan Goldman. It hosts a variety of Sound Healing Intensives and offers the
latest information in Sound Healing Technologies and research into Sound Healing.
If you work with Sound in your practice, you may want to consider joining.
International Sound
Therapy Association
ISTA, headquartered in Atlanta, GA, is a rapidly growing association
of Sound Therapists. Each month, ISTA features dynamic lectures
that bring the latest and greatest in Sound Therapy, personal growth,
healing, and research into Sound, to the public. Check out the website
and get involved. See about opening a chapter in your town, or join
ISTA in Atlanta.
Complimentary
Alternative Medical Association
CAMA is a multi-purpose association with a home base in the Atlanta area. It
hosts monthly lectures on a variety of topics salient to Alternative/Holistic
Healing. It is a resource base for Alternative/Holistic Therapists, so if you
are looking for a practitioner you can easily find one to fit your needs. It
is also a base for organized political action in areas that impact the rights
of Holistic Therapists to practice. Peruse the articles section and the legislation
areas, or search CAMA for a practitioner. You can even become a member.
Complimentary
and Alternative Veterinary Medicine
Altvetmed.com is a multi-purpose web site founded by Dr. Susan Wynn and Dr.
Jan Bergeron in 1996. It was the home of one of the first Alternative Veterinary
organizations in the country, and offered advice on everything from veterinary
homeopathy, and acupuncture to natural pet diet recipes and research on the
downside of vaccinations. It was among the first sites to publish articles
on the dangers of vaccinations and the link between rabies vaccinations and
the explosive increase in canine and feline cancers. It now retains the publishing
and information functions while being a reference site for other Alternative
Veterinary organizations. Check out this site for information and articles,
and for links to other Alternative Vet Med sites. |
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Dr.
Riane Eisler
Dr. Riane Eisler, author of The Chalice and the Blade and The
Power of Partnership, has an organization devoted to implementing
partnership as a social/cultural model. Partnership offers new paradigms
of leadership which promotes peace and tolerance in the community and in
the World. Explore these new, dynamic insights and get the latest on Dr.
Eisler.
Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen
Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen is the author of The Millionth
Circle, Goddesses in Every Woman, Ring of Power, and Crossing
to Avalon. Check out her website for suggestions on forming Women's
Spirituality Groups. Also, have a look
at the Millionth Circle Initiative which is a program to link Women's
Spirituality Groups worldwide for promoting positive change.
Starhawk
Starhawk (author of Spiral Dance, The Fifth Sacred Thing, Webs of
Power, Truth or Dare, and Walking to Mercury, and Co-producer
of The
Goddess Remembered Trilogy, and Signs Out of Time: The Life
of Marija Gimbutas) is a Wiccan/Pagan political and environmental
activist. She is one of the early mother's of the Goddess Movement, a prolific
writer, and probably one of the busiest and most courageous women on the
planet. Starhawk can't serve enough. Check out her latest projects, and
also check out the website at Belili Productions.
Belili was founded by Starhawk and Donna Reed. Their latest film, Signs
Out of Time,
is a biography of the great Marija Gimbutas, whose archaeological research
focused on Goddess. Dr. Gimbutas was a powerful scholar. Her research and
her insights lend important foundations into the understanding of our ancient
ties to Goddess cultures.
China Galland
China Galland (author of The Bond Between Women: Embracing Fierce
Compassion) has initiated a research project, Images of Divinity,
which takes the principles of Fierce Compassion and moves them into outreach
programs for social and personal healing in prisons and into the World.
Her work is a powerful affirmation of heart and compassion, and the changes
that can be fostered by love in a World trying to heal painful wounds.
Check it out and be inspired.
Capacitar
Capacitar, the Spanish word meaning "to empower", was founded by Pat Mathes
Cane. Her vision is to go into Third World Countries and establish outreach
wellness programs that teach the women in those countries simple self-nurturing
practices such as Tai Chi, Reiki, Massage, and Meditation. The women in
those communities can come together and heal, through these practices,
social, personal, racial, political and economic trauma and begin to create
change in the governments and cultures that have repressed them. Capacitar
actively works with women to create community and healing where there was
isolation and pain. This is a brilliant, beautiful organization. Get inspired
by Capacitar!
Partnerships in Peace
Andrea Kay Smith, a local Atlanta peace activist, founded PIP as a center
to promote peace, living in an urban setting while living in harmony
with the environment and, and to show how both are possible through community
involvement. Check out the latest projects at this Atlanta center.
Women's Action for New Directions
(WAND)
This local Atlanta organization empowers women to act politically
to reduce violence and militarism, and redirect excessive military resources
toward unmet human and environmental needs. Wand has several programs for
political action, and offers weekly community events which range from lectures
and discussions to peace rallies. Check out the scope of this organization,
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Creative
Numerology
Christine
DeLorey is the best numerologist I have come across. Christine used to have
a numerology column with Aurora Rising Magazine. She has integrate deep emotional
processing into her work, advocating that emotional development takes us
to our greatest potentials.
Christine's
book Life Cycles reveals the inner emotional cycles in our
evolutionary patterns through our numbers.
Try
the yearly, monthly, and daily readings for your number. I think
you'll be amazed.
The
Enchanted World of Amy Zerner & Monte Farber
Amy Zerner's visionary artwork, accompanied by Monte Farber's writing, is now
made available in the form of online Tarot and Astrology readings. Amy's beautiful
Tarot imagery, along with Monte's astute card interpretations, have been formatted
into free single-card readings. The interpretations even suggest rituals for
healing and growth. The readings require Flash for viewing, so please download
the free Flash player available on The Aurora Center home page, or on The Enchanted
World page. Enjoy your free reading! You can also purchase 3-card readings,
Amy's beautiful art, the Tarot and her other divination decks, or Amy & Monte's
books.
Tarot.com
Looking for a Free Tarot reading? This site is amazing in the depth of its
readings. With a 3-card spread, you can answer pretty much any question for
yourself and even pick the category of your reading and the type of deck you
prefer. Try it and surprise yourself. It even gives Astrological sun-sign forecasts
for the day, and daily numerology readings. |
Conscious
One
This site offers fabulous daily inspiration
with the beautiful "Wisdom Flash" by noted authors such as Neale
Donald Walsch, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Shakti Gawain, and Dr. Joan Borysenko.
It also has programs for partnership, online courses and free membership,
as well as CDs and books from a variety of Personal Growth authors.
Check out the Wisdom Flashes for an overview of this wonderful website.
You'll need Flash for viewing and listening.
Alternative
Medicine.com
This site is the home of Burton Goldberg's Alternative Medicine Magazine. You
can also find Alternative Healing Practitioners and Clinics, read articles on
the latest and greatest, and purchase a variety of books by Burton Goldberg.
Burton founded his publishing house back in the early 90s to take on Allopathic
Medicine's attacks on Alternative and Complimentary Medicine. He has expanded
his original publishing house into three different presses. He is a dynamic pioneer
in the field of Alternative Health Publishing, and all of his own books are well-researched
comprehensive guides. This site is a great resource.
Holistic
Web Directory.com
This site is offers free listings to Holistic Healers, publishes articles on
Health and Healing related topics, and offers free subscriptions to its E-zine.
It is a good resource for overviews and provides an easy way to find practitioners.
The
Holistic Health Network
This site is a good resource
for articles, news, events, and even has a really good search
directory for practitioners and schools. You can find Yoga, Tai
Chi and meditation classes in your area.
Prosperity
Central
Prosperity.com
is an Internet haven for positive thoughts, insights, and healing.
It offers everything from enneagram information to topic forums.
You can play games, buy books and jewelry, and get a reading,
or find a reader or healing practitioner in your area. Check
it out for fun, or for healing or help.
Intent.net
Rick & Holly
Hogue of Intent.net have a very affordable and rather excellent web hosting
company. They have a great deal of technical expertise, and patience
with newcomers to the techie world. In addition, Holly will design your
web pages for a very reasonable price. |
The
Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, FL
Dali
is without a doubt my favorite painter. I could look at any one of his
pieces for hours and feel it had been time well spent. The museum in St.
Petersburg, FL houses my favorite of his pieces: The Hallucinogenic
Toreador and The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus.
Both are huge 20 foot tall pieces from Dali's Classic period after the
1940s. The entire collection of pieces from every era in his life is stunning.
The museum itself is a beautiful, idyllic environment located on the bay
at Poynter Park near the local college. Treat yourself with a visit. If
you can't, check out the website anyway.
The
Photography of Clyde Butcher
Dali
is my favorite painter, but Clyde Butcher is my favorite photographer. I
have always been a big fan of black& white photography. It's subtle and
revealing, and very intimate. Clyde Butcher does for the Florida everglades
and seacoast what Passel Adams did for the West. His use of light, and his
compositions are masterful. He has two galleries in Florida. The Big Cypress
Gallery is located in the everglades in Chopper, FL. He has a Venice, FL
Gallery and studio as well. Check out the website and enjoy the striking
beauty of Clyde's photography.
The
Art of Judy Larson
I
got turned onto Judy Larson's work at a shop in Blue Ridge, GA, The Massachusetts
Bay Trading Company, that houses a lot of Native American arts & crafts.
Judy's work is highly detailed drawing-paintings. She works on scratch board,
a virtually ignored medium. She paints hidden pictures within a picture--the
art of concealment. Her subject matter is Native American in nature. For
instance, In her picture Medicine Crow, the main painting is of
a horse. Inside the horse picture, she subtly draws the shaman Medicine Crow.
Check out Judy's phenomenal work and let yourself get blown-away by the tremendous
detail and the sensitivity to her subject matter.
The
Art of Kevin Dyer
I
got turned onto Kevin Dyer's work at the Decatur Arts Festival (in nearby
Decatur, GA) in the Summer of 2003. Kevin paints his mystical visions on
cast paper, a technique in which wet paper is pressed into a carved wax mold,
essentially being sculpted up from its flat base. He creates magical Celtic
and Native American pieces. Check out Kevin's unique, powerful work. |
Aeoliah
Aeoliah's
music seems to take the listener to a place of healing that is not of this world.
It's almost as if his music was composed by angels, and then handed to him in
manuscript form for him to simply sit and play. Angel Love 2 is out, and it carries
on where the first one left off. This is a pretty neat website, with clips of
Aeoliah's art in addition to many sound clips from his CDs. Enjoy the peace and
high energy of his site.
Andreas
Vollenweider
Andreas
Vollenweider is still the master of musical wizardry. I saw him at an
Atlanta doing a solo performace in Atlanta about four years ago. I was
stunned as he walked around the stage picking up one stringed harp-like
instrument after another, playing it with mastery I had never before
encountered. Then he sat down at the piano. He did play the keys, and
then switched to plucking its strings. I have never heard piano played
like that before. Andreas is aware of the energy he spikes his music
with. He is an enlightened advocate for peace and for spiritual awareness,
and he offers his talents to the world to assist in opening human consciousness
to higher levels. You can read articles and forums at his website, and
also listen to his music. I'm sure you will agree with me that Andreas
is part elf.
Ani
Williams
Ani
Williams brings a graceful peace to her harp music, and her vocals are other-worldly.
Whether on a solo album, or working with Lisa Tiehl or Mazatl Galindo, Ani's
music has a distinctive resonance evocative of a deep green forest. Ani has
recently begun to work more directly with the healing vibrations of sound,
and has developed a healing Cd and method called Songaia. The project
relates color and sound to signs of the zodiac. You'll find Ani's latest
CDs available on her website (and Songaia among them), but alas only one
short cut from one of her CDs. Check out her website to get a glance at the
intensely bright creative spark behind her music.
Bebel
Gilberto
Long
Live the Gilberto Dynasty! For those of you who are not familiar with the
Gilberto Dynasty, I refer to the late Joao Gilberto who is one of the founders
of Brazilian Bossa Nova Jazz. He and his first wife Astrud recorded The
Girl From Impanema with Stan Getz back in the 60s, and put Bossa Nova
on the map. Bebel is Joao's daughter by his second wife, the Brazilian singer
Miucha. Bebel carries on the sultry, romantic sounds forged in Jazz by her
father, and adds a flair of modern tempo uniquely her own. Check out Bebel's
music. My favorite of her songs is Tanto Tempo, one of the smoothest
and most sultry love songs in Latin Music. Enjoy!
Cesaria
Evora
When
I first heard Evora's music, I immediately thought she was either a Cuban singer-guitarist,
or she was from some small island in the vicinity of the Lesser Antilles. Well,
I got part of it right. The classification would be World Music (if you are into
classifications), and Evora is from the Cape Verde archipelago, which is off
the west coast of Africa. It was settled by the Portugese in the 1500s, but it
also has a strong French influence. Cesaria is what is known as a Morna singer
(one of the 3 or 4 musical traditions of Cape Verde, which has influences in
both Latin and African rhythms) from the island of Sao Vicente in the Cape Verdes.
Her music is salsa-like, meringue-like, Bossa Nova-like, and totally wonderful.
And her website is also very wonderful, with lots of background information on
her part of the world, and many sound clips. Check it out and become a really
big fan too.
Constance
Demby
I
consider Constance Demby's music to be among the purest vibrations available
in physical sound. She is one of the founders of the New Age Space Music
genre, with CDs such as Novus Magnificat and Sacred Space Music.
She is classically trained, a master of synthesizer orchestration, and a
sound wizard. Her compositions are moving and inspiring. Check out the sample
cuts on her website, and read about her latest projects. This woman's music
can move energy.
Pat
Metheny
Back
when I was a young lass, I was overwhelmed by a wave of musical enthusiasm
after I first heard Pat Metheny's music. I proceeded to convert all of my
friends to the gospel of Pat. I'm still doing it. Although I prefer the sophisticated
rhythms and beautiful melodies of his late 70s and 80s work, he never ceases
to amaze me with his innovation and the depths he dives into in Jazz. He
is one of the best guitar players in the world. Along with his keyboard playing
counterpart, Lyle Mays, the music he has written is like that of no one else's
in modern Jazz--romantic, innovative, melodious, complex, somber and exciting
all at once. Check out the Pat Metheny Group website and discover the group's
latest musical projects, and listen to some beautiful music (click on the
"Special Features" button under the CD cover in the "CD" section of the page--it
requires Windows Media Player).
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Ancient
Treasures
This
site has it all: Egyptian statuary, Greek sculptures, Celtic Art, Oriental & Hindu
art and sculptures, Goddesses, and Archangels. You can find some very obscure
items on this site, and it offers links to museums where much of the art originates
from. Check out the beautiful array.
Greek
Town Imports
I
came across this little shop on a trip to Tarpon Springs, FL awhile ago.
Tarpon Springs has a large Greek community there, and you can tour that
area and sample some Greek food and a bit of Greek culture. It's big fun.
This little store, Gift World, is a family-owned business. They opened
an online store in 1995. They have some great museum replicas from the
Ancient Greek world, and some really beautiful Byzantine Icons that are
quite potent. They also offer books and music from the Greek culture past
and present.
Himalayas Import
I
came across this little shop in the heart of Asheville, NC on a trip to
the Smoky Mountains. This store is run by a husband and wife team--Manoj
& Sushila Lama, from Nepal. They are total sweethearts. Check out their
online store. They have some very powerful Tibetan singing bowls, awesome
Tibetan art, wall-hangings, jewelry, clothing, and Buddha statuary--all
imported from the Himalayas of India, Nepal, and Tibet.
Indian
Arts & Crafts Association
If
you want to stay true-to-form as far as Native American craftwork goes,
this site will show you where to find the real thing, the artists, the
stores, and the latest and greatest Native American arts & crafts. If you
own a retail store, you can become an IACA member and find the very best
work available (and get listed with the association while supporting the
work).
Light
Stones
This
site offers a wholesale catalog as well as retail. It has gorgeous Kuan Yin
and Buddha statuary (some of the most beautiful I have seen), fountains,
crystals, books, Feng Shui and assorted accessories. The shipping and handling
charges are easy to sort through, and the prices are reasonable. Shop 'til
ya drop!
Nella
Silverspear
I
came across Nella Silverspear at a Body/Mind/Spirit Expo in Asheville,
NC. She was showing people how to play Native American flutes at her booth.
She makes these flutes herself, and customizes them in many instances according
to the player. She inscribes them with sacred symbols, and carefully hones
them to shape the sound and the tone. She is a true artist and a wonderful
shaman. She also has created some beautiful drums. Check out her site for
the full scope of this talented woman's work. She is located in Folsom,
CA.
The
Serene Scene
I
also came across the founders of this site, Steve Story and Celia Bourez,
at the Body/Mind/Spirit Expo in Asheville, NC. They are located in Fresno,
CA. They are Sound & Color Therapists, and their site offers some amazing
vibrational healing tools. They have some awesome crystal singing bowls,
and they have recorded some sound CDs that are out of this world. Check out
their merchandise.
Siamese
Dream
This
site offers very wonderful clothing, Buddha and Kuan Yin statues, beautiful
jewelry and accessories, and some gorgeous silk lamps (which I just had
to have). The prices are reasonable, and the ordering tools on the site
are easy to use. They even have a very responsive customer service. You
can talk to a live person on the phone if you have questions. Siamese Dream
is a woman-owned business located in San Rafael, California.
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