Sound Healing Panel:
An Overview of the Benefits of Sound for Health & Wellness

Patrick Flanagan, Alex Theory and Swami Chityanda

This panel will explore the blossoming field of sound healing form a multidirectional perspective. It will provide an overview of sound healing techniques and modalities including toning, rhythm entrainment, binaural frequencies, and sympathetic resonance. Additionally, the panel will examine how sound has been used for healing throughout the ages, and take a look at modern techniques that are being used in medical clinics such as brainwave and heart rate modification, sound stimulation, facilitation of neurodevelopment, and creating changes in physiology.

About the presenters:

Dr. Patrick Flanagan is a futurist with deep encyclopedic knowledge of the applied sciences. At 11 years of age, he designed a missile detection system that was purchased by the Department of Defense. At age 13, he invented a device enabling deaf people to hear and received two patents for it. At 17, he was part of a Pentagon Think Tank and later was a consultant to the CIA, NSA, and NASA. As a physicist and medical doctor, Patrick Flanagan realized that his passion for the applied sciences grew out of a deep love and desire to protect humanity and life itself. For decades, Dr. Flanagan has openly invited stringent scrutiny of his research and discoveries by the medical and scientific communities. The seeds of this effort are blossoming at an exponential rate as the scientific community is validating and embracing his extraordinary contributions.

Alex Theory, Ph.D. is a musician and sound healer who draws upon extensive training in psychology, shamanic practice, and psychoacoustic music production to research and integrate new modalities in sound therapy. When he is not teaching, or conducting private therapy sessions, he can be found performing in yoga classes, workshops and music festivals. His music has received international airplay on film, radio and television commercials and he has published articles for numerous magazines. Currently, Alex loves to travel and organizes a variety of sound healing retreats throughout the year to places such as Egypt, India, Russia, Hawaii and Mexico. For more information please visit: www.mysticvibration.com

Swami Chityanda has led a colorful life . After decades of living in the USA and abroad, primarily India, he was initiated into a Jnana Yoga Shankara Parampara sect at the 1998 Maha Kumbha Mela in Hardwar. Since then, he continues to study and teach, through words and actions. His artistic skills are now directed towards designing and constructing temples such as the three-dimensional Sri Yantra at Earthdance 2005. He is currently in residence at Turtle Creek Ranch and sanctuary in Laytonville, California.

Awaken Our Shamanic Voices and Sacred Soul Purpose

presented by Akasa Teng

In the midst of accelerating changes happening at the multi-dimensional levels in our personal and planetary realities, shamanic wisdom and tools can help us realize our sacred soul purpose and our role as a divine living conduit connecting to heaven and earth. In this ceremonial workshop, we will use the ancient Shamanic Technique of Ecstasy, the shamanic vocalization to evoke the shamanic state of consciousness and connect to the Great Spirit. Based on the integration of many shamanic traditions including Taiwanese/Chinese shamanic lineage, Lakota tradition, Celtic shamanism, Amazonian tradition and more, we will enter a sacred ceremony and shamanic voice journey to clarify, reclaim and empower our individual and collective sacred soul purpose for the planetary healing, transformation and empowerment.

About the presenter: Akasa Teng, M.A. Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness, is a shamanic sound practitioner, universal sound ceremonialist and interfaith minister who uses shamanic techniques to raise individual and planetary vibrations. Akasa has shared her work internationally including conferences at Society for Shamanic Practitioners, The International Conference of the Study of Shamanism and Alternative Modes of Healing, in Oxford University, and the National Association for Humanity Education in U.C. Berkeley. Akasa recently completed a shamanic journey in the Amazon rainforest.

This workshop is being help in the Temple Dome located in the Global Healing Village

Elders Gathering:
Wisdom For Our Evolution

We are excited to present the wisdom of the elders once again. Featuring: Oren Lyons, Agnes Baker Pilgrim, Woody Vaspra, Mercedes Barrios Longfellow, Bob (Bubbunj) Weatherall, Patrick Flannagan, Zorigtbaatar Banzar, Nicky Scully and other guests.... Please see Elders Page for more information on these honored guests.

Last year the Elders shared profound wisdom and teachings. Join us again as we ask the Elders to share wisdom on the state of the world, the importance of Community and what we can do to assist the global transition and birth of the New Culture.

(Please Note: This year, the Global Healing Village area will feature the "Elders' Lodge" where festival attendees can connect with our special guest indigenous elders in un unstructured environment.)

Main Concert Bowl:

THE PRAYER FOR PEACE

The highlight of the Earthdance International event is a synchronized dance floor link-up, when the specially created song, "The Prayer for Peace" is played at every event across the world at exactly the same time. Morning in Australia, sunrise over the Himalayas, midnight in London, afternoon in California - the universal prayer is a powerful moment that unifies our intention for a peaceful world. Click here for more info!

Financial Intimacy

Presented by Spencer Sherman and Anne Watts

Couples frequently report that money is a major difficulty in their relationship, often avoiding the topic altogether. Yet, in every relationship, money becomes an important part of the whole picture. What are your values, fears, hopes and habits around money? An increase in harmony, intimacy and net worth are available when couples learn to communicate their desires and fears and to honor their differences.

Spencer Sherman: Recognized as one of the top wealth advisors in the USA, he is the author of the forthcoming book from Doubleday Broadway, The Cure for Money Madness. He is also a contributing author, with Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, Scott Peck, Thich Nhat Hanh, and others, to the The Marriage of Sex and Spirit, which won the award for best health/sexuality book of 2006.

Anne Watts: Anne’s life philosophies were strongly shaped by her experience growing up as the daughter of Alan Watts, well-known pioneer interpreter of Eastern religion and philosophy for the Western world. She is an internationally renowned counselor/facilitator and has been leading Love, Intimacy & Sexuality Workshops for the Human Awareness Institute since 1985.

www.financialintimacy.info/earthdance/

This workshop is being help in the Temple Dome located in the Global Healing Village

Rise to the Equation
A Special Audio-Visual presentation

Presented by Nassim Haramein

Quantum Scientist, Nassim Haramein shows us that his new all-encompassing theory seems to have parallels with ancient codes left in the world’s oldest documents and monuments. These include the Bible, the Koran, the Torah, the I Ching, the Mayan Tzolkn, and the ancient pyramids and temples around the world. Much like the path taken by Isaac Newton, Haramein’s theory was influenced by his exhaustive study of ancient civilizations, which revealed that they already possessed this knowledge and used it to accomplish many unexplained feats, such as building the Pyramids and constructing Stonehenge. Haramein’s work has far-reaching implications for all fields of scientific enquiry from theoretical physics, cosmology, quantum mechanics, biology, geology and chemistry, archaeology and anthropology as well as fundamental answers to the nature of consciousness.

Be sure to catch the screening of:

Crossing the Event Horizon - Rise to the Equation
at the Earthdance Film Festival
(Friday 1:30am at the Arlo Forest Stage)
Details...

This workshop is being help in the Temple Dome located in the Global Healing Village

The Application of Consciousness to the World Dilemma

Presented by Sat Santokh

What does it mean to be a person of consciousness in these times? How does one go about living a life of integrity and meaning, with fearless dignity? If one wishes to be useful in the great issues (peace, social justice, and the environment), what does one have to take into account? What is useful, important, and practical? How can we be radiant examples of how to live on the planet?

This workshop will explore:

• What we can do to be more effective?
• How can we best understand what the work is?
• What is effective inner work and what is effective outer work?

Sat Santokh is a spiritual teacher and social activist, who has been on the cutting edge of the social change movement for over forty years. A former manager of the Grateful Dead and a peace activist since the late 50's, He founded the War Resisters League West, Meeting of the Ways, Rainforest Products, and Creating Our Future, and is the Northern California director of Kundalini Yoga teacher training. His ongoing focus is: the critical relationship between inner peace and world peace, spiritual practice in the evolution of human consciousness, the importance of understanding what it is to be strategic, and the effective utilization of emerging tools for the application of consciousness to the human dilemma.

Tieng Gong workshop

Presented by Grandmaster Le-Tian

Learn how to accelerate the healing of the Earth’s soul and the souls of all its inhabitants, practice recognizing the Earth as a living deity and act immediately upon this knowledge in order to Save the Earth, Help Humanity and Heal Ourselves. Experience how to harness and transform the power of your thoughts, words and actions in order to activate your extraordinary abilities. Become aware of the physical and energetic damage caused by rampant negative emotions, severe and poisonous pollutants and the energetic memory of war and violence, which injures the Earth as deeply as mining its resources. Tian Gong was originally a Qi Gong school in China. It was founded in the 1980's by Grand Master Le-Tian Chen, one of China's most prominent Qi Gong figures.

Le-Tian Chen is a Qi Gong Grand Master and the Founder of the Tian Gong school. With the global problems facing humanity, Grand Master is expediting the transmission of the universal knowledge and methods of Qi Gong to as many far-reaching areas as possible.

This workshop is being help in the Temple Dome located in the Global Healing Village

Kundalini Dance:
An Ecstatic Dance Journey through the Chakras

with Leyolah Antara

Experience the transformational power of ecstasy through dance. Kundalini Dance is a healing art and creative movement form designed for participants to activate and deepen self-awareness and initiate positive life changes through the medium of ecstatic dance. Sensual, dynamic and trance-inducing, participants journey through the chakras, uncoiling the Kundalini power within to connect body, mind and spirit in a joyous, stress-releasing and revelatory dance of life. No previous experience is necessary to experience this ancient yet contemporary path of awakening. Kundalini Dance is facilitated by Leyolah Antara Dekanic (www.kundalini-dance.com), who has been developing this method and teaching around the world for the last 12 years

Singing the Sacred Road
An intimate sharing with Sheila Chandra

Join internationally acclaimed singer Sheila Chandra as she shares moments from her life’s journey with sacred sound. Her breathtaking vocals and unusual approach to songwriting have distinguished her as a world-class talent if not quite a household name. She began her career at 16, fronting the internationally acclaimed Anglo-Asian synth-pop outfit Monsoon. From there, she established herself as a solo artist, tapping into her Indian ancestry for both musical and spiritual inspiration, and creating exotic works that wove wordless vocals with dreamy raga-like synthesized sounds. She was championed by Peter Gabriel, who released four of her albums on his Real World label. Since then she has sold hundreds of thousands of albums and has performed worldwide.

Join Sheila Chandra for a rare and intimate appearance on Sunday afternoon in the Temple dome, where she will share stories from her life's journey with sacred music. She will also perform on Sunday night in the electronica dome.

www.sheilachandra.com

This workshop is being help in the Temple Dome located in the Global Healing Village

Elders Wisdom Council:
Prophecies revealed from Ancient to Modern

Featuring: Oren Lyons, Agnes Baker Pilgrim, Woody Vaspra,
Mercedes Barrios Longfellow, Bob (Bubbunj) Weatherall,
Patrick Flannagan, Zorigtbaatar Banzar, Nicky Scully
and other guests....
Please see Elders Page for more information
on these honored guests.

We are now in the time of prophecy, a time of great change. For the second year at Earthdance we welcome the "elders council", as they share their views on the alignment of prophecies from around the world. This panel will explore "prophecies" from an ancient to modern (scientific) perspective.

Topics that will be explored include:

• What do the prophecies predict?
  
  
• What do they say about the world today, the situations that are occurring on our planet and the time we are living in?
  
  
• What gifts and messages do the prophecies have for us, individually, collectively and for our Global family?
  
  

Financial Intimacy

Presented by Spencer Sherman and Anne Watts

Couples frequently report that money is a major difficulty in their relationship, often avoiding the topic altogether. Yet, in every relationship, money becomes an important part of the whole picture. What are your values, fears, hopes and habits around money? An increase in harmony, intimacy and net worth are available when couples learn to communicate their desires and fears and to honor their differences.

Spencer Sherman: Recognized as one of the top wealth advisors in the USA, he is the author of the forthcoming book from Doubleday Broadway, The Cure for Money Madness. He is also a contributing author, with Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, Scott Peck, Thich Nhat Hanh, and others, to the The Marriage of Sex and Spirit, which won the award for best health/sexuality book of 2006.

Anne Watts: Anne’s life philosophies were strongly shaped by her experience growing up as the daughter of Alan Watts, well-known pioneer interpreter of Eastern religion and philosophy for the Western world. She is an internationally renowned counselor/facilitator and has been leading Love, Intimacy & Sexuality Workshops for the Human Awareness Institute since 1985.

www.financialintimacy.info/earthdance/

This workshop is being help in the Temple Dome located in the Global Healing Village