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 By Stephen Dinan, founder and CEO of The Shift Network
Imagine forging sacred connections with your ancestors to uncover mysteries and secrets buried over the generations — to improve unhealthy behavior and relationship patterns, revitalize your spirit, and awaken your consciousness to new realities.
 Our modern culture may have lost touch with the power of ancestral healing work, but that doesn’t mean it’s beyond your reach.
The visionary speakers in our free online event, the Ancestral Healing Summit, taking place February 17-21, will help you reclaim the power of working with ancestors and deeply integrate it into every aspect of your life.
You’ll discover ancient and modern-day practices for forging a profound connection with your ancestors and their stories — even if you were adopted — and open up opportunities for greater wellbeing, joy, and connection, as well as for personal and cultural healing.
You’ll learn how to dissolve stories and patterns that have been carried in your lineage for lifetimes.
Gathering with us for this life-changing event are 35 leading ancestral healing experts and inspiring teachers — including Sandra Ingerman, Suzanne Giesemann, Anita Moorjani, Mark Wolynn, Eileen McKusick, don Oscar Miro-Quesada, Daniel Foor, Hank Wesselman, Evelyn Rysdyk, Heather Dane, Yeye Luisah Teish, Dawson Church, and Langston Kahn.
Summit host Lisa Bonnice, who also expertly serves as a program host for Shift Network, has penned an intimate, revealing, and thoroughly engaging account of her own initial foray into ancestral healing. You can read it here.
All around the globe, people have historically tended relationships with the wise ancestral guides in their bloodlines to help heal emotional, physical, and spiritual imbalances within themselves, their families, and their communities.
Ancestral work can help you and your family live happier, healthier, more fulfilling lives, while also benefiting future generations of your bloodline and even our beautiful Earth.
This 5-day online event starts soon, so register here now for free.
 EDITOR’S NOTE: “The Master Key” by Robert Peng, a featured speaker in The Shift Network’s 2019 Qigong Global Summit, is one of the most profoundly important books I’ve ever read. I can say that it’s life-changing with complete confidence, because it changed my life before I even finished reading it. I was so impressed with this book that we are serializing the section called “One Hundred Days of Darkness and Light” in future issues of Catalyst. You can read the seventh installment (as well as the previous ones) here.
— Phil Bolsta
The four brand-new stories in this issue’s “The Nicest Thing” section come from two speakers in the Ancestral Healing Summit — Sandra Ingerman, shamanic teacher and author of Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self... and Dawson Church, author of The Genie in Your Genes…
… and two new Shift Network faculty: HeatherAsh Amara, whose new 8-week live video training, The Warrior Heart Practice, begins this Tuesday… and Sean Esbjörn-Hargens, whose new 7-week live video course, Integrating Your Head, Heart & Hara, begins this Thursday.
And there’s still time for you to join Sandra Ingerman — and the more than 1,100 students who have already registered — for the second class of her 7-week live video course, The Ancient Practice of Shamanic Journeying.
Finally, we’d love to hear your answer to the question, What's the most surprising discovery you've made about the ancestral patterns you've inherited? To share your thoughts in our Facebook Page community, click here.
We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.
— Liam Callanan, The Cloud Atlas
A Personal Invitation to the February 17-21 Ancestral Healing Summit From Your Host, Lisa Bonnice
Hi, I'm Lisa Bonnice. And I'm honored to be hosting the Ancestral Healing Summit for the second year in a row. Ancestral Healing is something that a growing number of us are called to do — and our work is rippling outward, changing the world one ancestor at a time. Like last year, we have an incredible gathering of guest speakers.
In our first summit, we focused a lot of energy on demonstrating that ancestral trauma and PTSD affect us at a DNA level, with plenty of science and psychology to back that up. What our grandparents and their grandparents experienced can be the roots of our illnesses and issues without our even being aware of them. We also learned that through ancestral healing work, we can shift the way our DNA expresses — and change unhealthy patterns for ourselves and our descendants.
To watch this 2-minute video and read the rest of the text, click here.
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 Healing the Damage Caused by Family Secrets
By Lisa Bonnice, host of the Ancestral Healing Summit
It started with a private message from a stranger. Someone was asking me, via Ancestry.com’s messaging platform, about my great-grandfather on my maternal side. He wanted to know if my ancestor had died in a coal mine explosion that killed 172 men in 1924 in Castle Gate, Utah. If so, we might be related.
To read more, click here.
The Master Key
By Robert Peng, a featured speaker in The Shift Network’s 2019 Qigong Global Summit
It's 1972 in the industrial city of Xiangtan, China. A frail child with a heart condition sneaks into a hotel boiler room and befriends the elderly yet vibrant attendant, who eventually reveals his true identity as a revered Qigong master. He heals the boy and, for the next 13 years, secretly teaches him the keys to unlocking the spiritual and healing dimensions of the Life Force.
It sounds like a modern-day fable, but the story is true. And with The Master Key, that grateful student, Robert Peng, invites all of us to enter the next chapter of this empowering path. Here, Master Peng brings together the unique insights of his teacher with the moving account of his own journey.
Click here to read the seventh installment (as well as all the previous installments) of this profoundly moving book.
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In this special video series, prominent authors, speakers, thought leaders, and others answer the question, “What is the nicest thing a non-family member has ever done for you?”
Sandra Ingerman’s Story
Shamanic teacher and a featured speaker in the Ancestral Healing Summit
EXCERPT: And so my grandfather came to me in a dream, and it was a really interesting dream. We were in a waiting room, it was dirty, the furniture was all torn. And we were sitting on a couch together and he said to me, "You have to let me go." And I said, "Grandpa, I can't let you go; I can never let you go." And he said, "You have to let me go. Please let me go." And so I finally agreed to let him go, but then I didn't understand what the dream was about. So I called my brother, and my brother said…
To watch the video and read the transcript of Sandra’s 6-minute story of love, loss, and a compassionate airline, click here.
The second class of Sandra’s 7-week live video training, The Ancient Practice of Shamanic Journeying: Foundations for Accessing Helping Spirits & Power Animals for Personal & Collective Healing, begins Tuesday, February 11. For more details — and to join the more than 1,100 other participants — click here. |
Dawson Church’s Story
Award-winning author of books on science and energy psychology, and a featured speaker in the Ancestral Healing Summit
 EXCERPT: He helped me move to a much better school, a public school, where I was exposed to bigger ideas, bigger worldviews, much nicer people. That really set me on a new path and made me start to realize I actually had sparks of potential inside of me. Before, in the public school, I was kind of nobody and beaten up and miserable and failing. I just was headed for a life of being a nonentity.
To watch the video and read the transcript of Dawson’s 5-minute tribute to a generous benefactor, click here.
HeatherAsh Amara’s Story
A leader in mindfulness and empowerment
 EXCERPT: And he made the announcement that he was disbanding our group, and that he was setting us all free. And I was in complete shock for days after that. And I remember sitting and just being like, This can't be happening, this is my family. And I fought it for a while, and really tried to hold people together and to figure out how could we continue.
To watch the video and read the transcript of HeatherAsh’s 5-minute story about coming to terms with a blessing in disguise, click here.
HeatherAsh’s brand-new 8-week live video training, The Warrior Heart Practice: Toltec Practices to Release Old Stories & Realign With Your Truth, begins Tuesday, February 11. For more details — and to enroll — click here. |
Sean Esbjörn-Hargens’ Story
A global leader in the application of integrative thinking
 EXCERPT: I'm in my first year of grad school, it's 1999, I'm at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and I was invited by Ken Wilber, who's the founder of Integral Theory, to come to his house and attend what became the first meeting for the Integral Institute. This went really well and I was asked to come back and be part of the emerging team. And you can imagine I was totally over the moon with this because...
To watch the video and read the transcript of Sean’s life-changing, wife-finding 3-minute story, click here.
Sean’s brand-new 7-week live video training, Integrating Your Head, Heart & Hara: Explore Your 3 Wisdom Centers Through 6 Ancient Traditions for an Embodied & Authentic Life, begins Thursday, February 13. For more details — and to enroll — click here. |
If you missed any “Nicest Thing” stories, you can catch up on all of them here, including stories from six more speakers in the Ancestral Healing Summit — Anita Moorjani, Eileen McKusick, Christina Pratt, Nonty Charity Sabic, Dr. Shamini Jain, and Wendy De Rosa. |
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 “Powerful Plants for Anti-Aging” Facebook Live Q&A with K.P. Khalsa
Would you like to prevent and even reverse age-related health issues? World-renowned herbalist and teacher K.P. Khalsa will be leading a special Facebook Live Q&A call on Thursday, February 13, at Noon Pacific to share how you can choose the ideal herbal remedies for YOU — to treat your symptoms and live longer… with your vitality intact for these all-important years. Click here to get a Facebook Messenger reminder when the event goes live.
 “Energy Medicine Yoga for Healing” Facebook Live Q&A with Lauren Walker
Would you like to learn simple, conscious, body-wise movements — to use in the moment and throughout your life — for remedying everyday stress and underlying trauma? Lauren Walker, author and founder of Energy Medicine Yoga, will be leading a special Facebook Live Q&A call on Monday, February 17, at 3:00pm Pacific to share how you can release emotional residue using techniques aligned with the Chinese Five Elements to rebalance and heal your energy-mind-body-spirit. Click here to get a Facebook Messenger reminder when the event goes live.
“Find Your Inner Peace in Challenging Times” Facebook Live Q&A with Amandine Roche and Philip Hellmich
Would you like to access tools to cultivate inner peace and break free of reactive patterns — even in conflict? Human rights expert, author, and mindfulness teacher Amandine Roche, and Peace Ambassador, author, public speaker, and trainer Philip Hellmich will be leading a special Facebook Live Q&A call on Wednesday, February 19, at 9:00am Pacific to share how you can stay connected to your heart, your higher wisdom, and your loved ones. Click here to get a Facebook Messenger reminder when the event goes live.
 “Becoming Music” Facebook Live Q&A with Christine Stevens
Are you intrigued by power songs that strengthen, transform, and inspire us? Author, speaker, drummer, and music therapist Christine Stevens will be leading a special Facebook Live Q&A call on Wednesday, February 19, at Noon Pacific to share how you can experience sonic alchemy as you receive and create sound’s healing vibrations to harmonize your emotions, liberate your spirit, and accelerate your journey to wholeness. Click here to get a Facebook Messenger reminder when the event goes live.
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We want to know: What's the most surprising discovery you've made about the ancestral patterns you've inherited? To share your thoughts in our Facebook Page community, click here.
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Energenetics and the Music of Our DNA
By Eileen Day McKusick, a featured speaker in the Ancestral Healing Summit
 The ancestral information from our father’s side runs along the right side of our bodies, and the information from our mother’s side runs along the left side of our bodies. When I “stick a fork” in these zones and listen to the sound that is produced, I am able to discern the “tone of the song of our DNA” and the sorts of emotional proclivities we have inherited from our parents and their parents and so on.
To read more, click here.
Ancestors: Remembering Them to Remember Ourselves
By Evelyn C. Rysdyk, a featured speaker in the Ancestral Healing Summit
 Our ancestors are longing for connection with us. Western culture seems to be the only culture that does not work consciously with the ancestors. If you travel around the world and goto different tribal shamans, different traditional cultures, you realize that they all work with their ancestors.
Click here to read more.
Rabbi Doniel Katz: Spirituality is Reality
By Ariel Dominique Hendelman
 “What so many don’t realize is that when you’re dealing with some people’s healing, it’s not just their own,” remarks Rabbi Doniel Katz, a featured speaker in the Ancestral Healing Summit. “It is their soul family’s as well. Whether we are aware of it or not, many of our challenges are an extension of previous generations; things that they either didn’t deal with or weren’t able to deal with. A person may carry anxiety and questions that are not just their own, but that have accumulated over generations.”
To read more, click here.
Ancestral Patterning: Opportunity or Fate?
By Jane Burns, a featured speaker in the Ancestral Healing Summit
 Recently, one of my first cousins reported on our family’s Facebook page that he had discovered — thanks to 23andMe — a distant cousin of ours. Her great-grandfather and our great-grandfather were brothers. We reacted with wonder and excitement — what a thrill it was for us to locate this woman and offer her a seat at our family table! To make the discovery even sweeter, this distant cousin of ours, now in her sixties, grew up as a ward of the state and has been searching endlessly for her family — any family — all of her life.
To read more, click here.
Healing Ancestral Karma: Working With the Ancestors to Heal Intergenerational Wounds
By Dr. Steven Farmer, a featured speaker in the Ancestral Healing Summit
 A radical notion is that with an ancestor’s transition into the world of spirit she can still carry remnants of unhealed emotional, mental, and physical wounds from her life on earth. As well, you can help heal those wounds so they can continue their spiritual evolution in the afterlife. As you do so, you’ll discover how in turn this can positively impact not only you but also your descendants, so that subsequent generations never have to carry these dysfunctional family patterns.
To read more, click here.
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Christine Stevens on Becoming Music
Video Interview with Phil Bolsta
 In this 5-minute interview, Christine Stevens, an author, speaker, music therapist, and one of Shift Network’s most popular new faculty, shares how music can help you do deep inner work, move through trauma, and become your own healer.
Click here to watch the video and read the transcript.
Christine’s brand-new 7-week live video training, Becoming Music: Drumming and Sound Healing to Harmonize Emotions & Accelerate Personal Mastery, begins Tuesday, March 3. Look for the details in the next issue of Catalyst. |
The House on the Lake
A Free Literary Immersion
 Do you like ghost stories? The House on the Lake by Erin Harris (who also writes for The Shift Network) is an otherworldly tale told in the classic style. It’s the story of a shy and bookish young bachelor who’s captivated by the beauty of an abandoned mansion… and aching to reclaim a lost love. As the veil thins on a thunderous autumn night, a mysterious apparition opens him to an urgent chance to change the course of his life. The first installments are available for free online… click here to immerse yourself in The House on the Lake!
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Ancestral Healing Summit
A free online summit — February 17-21
If you’d like to join a global gathering of leading ancestral healing experts and inspiring teachers who will be sharing a powerful synthesis of spirituality and shamanism, science and psychology, and ancient wisdom from around the world that has the potential to transform your life and lineages...
… The Shift Network’s Ancestral Healing Summit was designed with you in mind.
The promise and premise of this inspiring and illuminating online summit is to help you create sacred connections with your ancestors... and tap into their wisdom to heal yourself and your lineage of old wounds.
Gathering with us for this life-changing event are 35 leading ancestral healing experts and inspiring teachers — including Sandra Ingerman, Suzanne Giesemann, Anita Moorjani, Mark Wolynn, Eileen McKusick, don Oscar Miro-Quesada, Daniel Foor, Hank Wesselman, Evelyn Rysdyk, Heather Dane, Yeye Luisah Teish, Dawson Church, and Langston Kahn.
They’ll be sharing with you a number of practices and insights for becoming a generational pattern shifter, embracing the ancestors who love you and releasing the ancestors who haunt you, and discovering how the fascinating science of epigenetics reveals that you don’t have to be defined by your DNA.
Connecting with your wise ancestors can help you and your family live happier, healthier, more fulfilling lives, while also benefiting future generations of your bloodline and even our beautiful Earth.
See our full list of dynamic speakers and find out everything you need to know by clicking here.
Celebration in Memory of Ram Dass
February 15, Santa Cruz, California
 On February 15 at 7:00pm, we will gather to celebrate the life and legacy of Ram Dass at the Rio Theater in Santa Cruz. Dr. Larry Brilliant, co-founder with Ram Dass of the Seva Foundation, will emcee. Mirabai Starr, author and speaker, will offer a lyrical eulogy to her lifelong friend and teacher. The new kirtan sensation, Kripa, will lead us in call & response chanting, and other surprise luminaries are making arrangements to be there then! There will also be a screening of the new documentary about Ram Dass’ life, Becoming Nobody, which will raise funds for a project most dear to Ram Dass’ heart, the Hanuman Temple in Taos, New Mexico. Click here for more information.
Thrive Academy Client Attraction Summit
May 29-31 in San Jose, California
 Attention Coaches, Holistic Practitioners, Healers, and Lightworkers… Not enough clients? Let’s start 2020 off right by using the heart-based client attraction method that’s created over $100 million in sales for those who have learned it. Learn from the power couple Stephen Dinan called, “The #1 source for turning Coaches and Holistic Practitioners into 6-figure transformational leaders.”
This is our holiday gift to you! Join Jesse Koren and Sharla Jacobs at the Thrive Academy Client Attraction Summit and you’ll get the skills, confidence, and inspiration you need to attract more clients, earn more money, and have a much greater impact in the world.
Claim Your Full Scholarship Now!
International Yoga Festival — Parmarth Niketan, Rishikesh, India — March 1-7, 2020
Join us March 1-7 for the world-famous annual International Yoga Festival on the banks of the holy Ganges river, in the lap of the sacred Himalayas, at Parmarth Niketan Ashram. Receive the darshan and inspiring, uplifting wisdom of revered saints, the teaching and touch of renowned yoga teachers from a wide variety of lineages, plus ecstatic kirtan, divine Ganga Aarti, and much more! The International Yoga Festival is a truly unique event bringing together so many masters from so many traditions, cultures, and countries in one sacred, beautiful place — the birthplace of yoga! For more information, click here.
To watch the video trailer, click here.
The Poppet Master
By Lisa Bonnice, the host of the Ancestral Healing Summit
 Lola Garnett is a middle-aged wife, secretary, and mom living a humdrum existence. One fateful day, she helps her daughter with a homework assignment about Gandhi, and Lola wishes for a more meaningful life. Well, be careful what you wish for.
While napping later, Lola drops into a dream state at the exact time her neighbor Melinda — who some would call a "bad witch" — is casting a revenge spell on her boyfriend. The spell opens a portal into which Lola unwittingly slips, drawing her into a world of psychic abilities, crime solving, and general shenanigans as she struggles to master her newfound skills. Along the way, Lola meets her oversoul, picks up a sarcastic and reluctant fairy guide, and takes a madcap journey to enlightenment.
Like Lola, author Lisa Bonnice has been tasked with figuring out her own psychic abilities and even a family curse. Her hilarious novel reveals that truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, and laughter is often the best medicine. Click here to order your copy.
 Through God’s Eyes: Finding Peace and Purpose in a Troubled World by Phil Bolsta of The Shift Network. Through God’s Eyes is a road map for living a more peaceful, beautiful life. It’s the only book that shows you how dozens of spiritual principles interact, how to weave them together into a cohesive worldview, and how to practically apply this spiritual wisdom to bring joy and vitality to your daily life. For more information and to order your copy, click here. To request a free sample chapter from the author, email Phil at GodsEyes@me.com.
Through God’s Eyes is a superb book, a truly enlightened piece of work that is an essential read for all people who are truly devoted to the care and refinement of their soul. Phil is a contemporary mystic, a man whose life is a living commitment to spiritual service. I am honored to know him.
— Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit and Defy Gravity
One of the most important books I’ve ever read. An incredible compilation of spiritual wisdom and insight. It’s the owner’s manual God should give you when you’re born.
— Robert Peterson, author of Answers Within
For several years, The Shift Network has hosted Indigenous leaders from around the world and invited them to share their sacred knowledge, rituals, and practices to guide us in a way of living that is sustainable, healthy, and just. We’re thus delighted that the Global Indigenous Wisdom Library makes this “virtual council” of leaders and their wisdom available for everyone, everywhere for free. The Global Indigenous Wisdom Library is a collection of audio and video interviews featuring Indigenous leaders from around the world sharing prayers, sacred songs, prophecies, spiritual teachings, and pathways to healing, as well as concrete examples for birthing a new era — one in which all members of the human family are treated with respect, understanding, compassion, and justice. This sacred wisdom is important medicine for us all.
The production of The Global Indigenous Wisdom Library is a gift from The Shift Network, designed to inspire, inform, and involve you by highlighting the voices and important messages of Indigenous leaders from around the world. We want to give a heartfelt thanks to Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr. (“Brother Phil”) for his partnership in helping create this Indigenous Wisdom collection. And we thank all the speakers who have contributed to this body of knowledge. To discover more, click here.
 World Peace Library. Designed for the layperson and professional peacebuilder alike, the World Peace Library has over 425 audio and video interviews with some of the most remarkable, inspiring peacebuilders in the world available to you at NO COST. You’ll find hundreds of hours of inspirational, peacebuilding, compassion-spreading talks and trainings at your fingertips with this FREE global resource. There’s no way you can’t come away from the World Peace Library deeply inspired, transformed — and part of the solution. Click here to find out how to take peace to the next level — and help co-create a global culture of peace that leaves a legacy of good for our children, our children’s children and all of humanity and life on earth.
BOOK BY STEPHEN DINAN: Sacred America, Sacred World. Infused with visionary power, Sacred America, Sacred World is a manifesto for our country’s evolution that is both political and deeply spiritual. It offers profound hope that America can grow beyond our current challenges and manifest our noblest destiny, which the book shows is rooted in sacred principles that transcend left or right political views. To order your copy, click here.
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Invite your family and friends to participate in the Ancestral Healing Summit, which takes place February 17-21. Life-changing insights await! To discover more — and register for free — click here.
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Find Your Inner Peace — A free video event with human rights expert, author, and mindfulness teacher Amandine Roche, and Peace Ambassador, author, public speaker, and trainer Philip Hellmich. Access tools to cultivate inner peace and break free of reactive patterns by staying connected to your heart. Tuesday, February 11, at 5:30pm Pacific
Music Medicine for Your Soul — A free video event with author, speaker, drummer, and music therapist Christine Stevens. Experience a sound bath for self-tuning and relaxation, and discover vibration as a guide to where your body, mind, heart, or spirit needs healing most. Wednesday, February 12, at 5:30pm Pacific
 The Sacred Path to Awakening Your Inner Goddess — A free video event with spiritual teacher, speaker, and filmmaker Raja Choudhury. Tap into your inner potential to live like a Shakti — as a force for good and justice in your life, your relationships, your material life, your physical being... and in the world at large. Saturday, February 15, at 10:00am Pacific
 Grand-mother’s Healing Wisdom — A free video event with Grandmother Flordemayo, universal healer and member of the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers. Receive potent insight for how to live your “Sacred Walk,” a life powered by prayer, blessing, and infused with grace. Wednesday, February 19, at 5:30pm Pacific
Expand Your Ability to Love Through the Enneagram — A free video event with renowned Enneagram teachers Russ Hudson, Jessica Dibb, and Robert Holden. Love beyond “the heart” as you follow the Enneagram’s wisdom for living AS love. Saturday, February 22, at 10:00am Pacific
 Discover Your Electric Body — with researcher, Biofield Tuning founder, sound therapy practitioner, and author Eileen McKusick. Discover your “electric body” and biofield, and how sound can harmonize your electromagnetic energy to address physical and emotional imbalances in the body. Now available
 The Warrior Heart Practice — with bestselling author and spiritual teacher HeatherAsh Amara. Release limiting beliefs and painful emotions through the 4 chambers of your heart — feeling, story, truth, and intent — to rearrange your “personal puzzle” into soul-aligned wholeness.
New 8-Week Live Video Training Starts Tuesday, February 11
 Integrating Your Head, Heart & Hara — with author Sean Esbjörn-Hargens, the founder of MetaIntegral. Discover ancient and modern ways to tune into your three wisdom centers (head, heart, and hara or gut) to sync up and embody your “whole-body” knowing.
New 7-Week Live Video Training Starts Thursday, February 13
 The Gut-Health Reboot Course — with award-winning, board-certified neurologist and author Trupti Gokani, MD. Get answers to your questions about your gut health during the live group coaching sessions that accompany each class.
New 7-Week Live Video Training Starts Thursday, February 13
Powerful Plants for Anti-Aging — with world-renowned herbalist and teacher K.P. Khalsa. Choose the ideal herbal remedies for YOU — to treat your symptoms and live longer… with your vitality intact for these all-important years.
New 7-Week Live Video Training Starts Thursday, February 20
Upcoming Events (all subject to change):
February
• Amandine Roche & Philip Hellmich 9-week course
• Lauren Walker 7-week course
March
• Christine Stevens 7-week course
• Raja Choudhury 9-week course
• Grandmother Flordemayo 6-month course
• Evolutionary Empath Summit
• Enneagram 18-week course
• Miranda Macpherson 7-week course
• Holly Tse 7-week course
• Oscar Miro-Quesada 7-week course
• Tirzah Firestone 7-week course
• Deborah King 5-week course
• Daisy Lee 7-week course
April
• Robert Moss 7-week course
• Mirabai Starr 12-week course
• Shabda Kahn 7-week course
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The Philando Castile Relief Foundation
The Philando Castile Relief Foundation was created right after the death of Valerie Castile's son, Philando Castile. Its purpose is to provide immediate assistance to parents who are experiencing loss of a loved one from gun violence. It is during the first moments of experiencing such a tragic loss that parents and families may feel helpless and overwhelmed as they attempt to meet their immediate needs.
The Foundation is to continue Philando’s legacy of his caring, loving nature. He was the supervisor of the cafeteria at J.J. Hill Montessori School where he took his job very seriously. He knew each child by name, their allergies and pin number. He was known for paying for their meals out of his own pocket. He knew how important the first meal of the day is for a child. That's why it's so important that we carry on his legacy by helping families pay the negative lunch balances in St. Paul and Minneapolis. Our vision is that The Philando Castile Feeds The Children campaign expands nationally, maybe globally.
Click here for more information.
Click here to donate.
The Global Village Foundation
The Global Village Foundation (GVF), a non-governmental, nonreligious, and nonpolitical 501(c)(3)organization based in California, was founded by author, peacemaker, and humanitarian Le Ly Hayslip,whose bestselling memoir was made into the 1993 movie, Heaven and Earth, by Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone.
GVF serves the developing communities of rural SE Asia, focusing primarily on education, encouraging literacy, and supporting local and regional arts and culture. We provide life lessons to local recipients and local and international volunteers through hands-on engagement at the grassroots level.
Click here to visit the website.
Click here to make a donation. Click here for information on Le Ly’s “Heaven & Earth Pilgrimage” to Vietnam from March 30 to April 13, not only to mark 45 years of peace in Vietnam, but also to mark the 25th anniversary of the U.S. and Vietnam establishing full diplomatic relations.
Le Ly writes: “You will have a front-row seat to see all the good that has been accomplished from so many donors over the years. Come be a part of the many successes of our humanitarian work for the last 30 years. Please invite others to come with you – and help contribute funds to those children in the three orphanages and oncology hospital we'll be visiting. Food, supplies, and cash are given directly to the people in need."
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The Circle
The Circle is an organization of women working together to achieve equality for women and girls in a fairer world. Founded by Annie Lennox in 2008, The Circle is inspired by the notion that when women come together and organize, they can be a powerful force for change. We are a network of women from all walks of life and all backgrounds who have something in common: the awareness that we still do not live in a world where women and girls have equal rights and equal opportunities. Click here for more information.
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Pentatonix
Three-time Grammy® Award-winning and multi-platinum-selling artist Pentatonix (presently comprised of Scott Hoying, Mitch Grassi, Kirstin Maldonado, Kevin Olusola, and Matt Sallee) formed in 2011 during NBC’s The Sing Off. Shortly after winning NBC's a cappella singing competition, the band separated from their record label and subsequently turned to YouTube to promote their debut independent releases. The Pentatonix YouTube channel currently boasts 18 million subscribers and has yielded more than 4.5 billion video views, including “Hallelujah" (500 million views), “Mary, Did You Know" (232 million views), and “Bohemian Rhapsody” (93 million views).
Now signed to RCA Records, Pentatonix has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide, All 10 Pentatonix releases have reached the top 10 on the Billboard Charts, and the group has received multiple RIAA certifications for multi-platinum, platinum, and gold-selling albums and singles. Pentatonix also starred in three holiday specials for NBC and appeared in the feature film “Pitch Perfect 2.”
To visit the Pentatonix website, click here.
To purchase their music, click here.
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