Chris Faulconer - is the Founder and Director of the 21st Century Mystery School, located in Pine Mountain, California. After 20 years, designing computer systems for aerospace, she developed a Journeying process combining ancient wisdom and empowerment, assisting individuals to connect to their own inner resources. Chris provides a way for people to journey into the unknown and bring back what is needed for themselves. An ordained minister, having been privileged to study with many traditional people, she has taken on the responsibility of passing knowledge to the next generation. A healer of mind, body and spirit for the past 25 years, Chris is a person full of humor and radiating a joyful presence.

Shamanic Drumming & Journeying - The goal of the Shaman is to connect and attune to the vibration, energy and power of the entire universe; to become familiar with the physical and spiritual guiding forces of the universe and to take action in the physical realm that reflects the reality of the spiritual realm. Journeying is a process by which all people can learn to connect to their source and to walk in wisdom with that source. We will use the drum, that which represents the heartbeat of Mother Earth; and the rattle, that which evokes the vibration of the new and unique, to make each journey an experience that is both otherworldly and grounding.

*This is an experiential course; wear comfortable clothing. Bring a rock the size of an orange or grapefruit and feel free to bring rattles or drums.

Elinor W. Gadon - co-curator of exhibit initiated by the Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University and now traveling to four other universities: Rutgers; Univsersity of Pennsylvania: American University, Washington, D.C.: and University of Miami.

Tiger by the Tail—Women artists of India Transforming Culture - Tiger! displays the work of 17 acclaimed artists whose art embodies the transformative possibilities and highlights the correspondences and counterpoints between the feminist art of India and that of the United States, and the inherent meaning of the differences.

India has been undergoing sweeping social change in the last few decades. One major upheaval is the emerging role of women with a strong voice of their own. This voice of self-expression appears in all domains of life, from economic achievement and political power, to intellectual leadership and more. In India there is a virtual groundswell of urban women's artistic productivity and creativity. Contemporary women artists are exposing the fault lines of their society while working within their collective worldview. They are working within the cultural specificity of the mythology, iconography, and social norms of their society, using their newly won creative freedom to subvert and transform these cultural markers for the empowerment of women.

I will present their work within the context of the artists' lives and the issues of concern for contemporary women in India.

Judith Thompson, Ph.D. - is a scholar-practitioner with a background in international, inter-cultural dialogue, reconciliation, psychosocial healing, peace education, youth leadership development and human rights. Currently she is a Research and Program Associate at the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding (KCP), a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that offers international training programs in conflict transformation, intercommunal dialogue, and reconciliation. At KCP she heads The Compassion and Social Healing Initiative, an interdisciplinary research, public education and training initiative aimed at exploring compassion's moral and psychosocial dimensions and its role in transforming conflicts and building a culture of peace. She also co-directs the Frontiers of Social Healing dialogue series funded by the Fetzer Institute, which serves as a theory building learning community for scholar-practitioners worldwide engaged in reconciliation and intercommunal dialogue. She is past reciipient of the Bunting Peace Fellowship at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies and the International Peace Prize of the Dolores Kohl Education Foundation.

Lucy Luna - is a Salvadoran sociologist, artist and poet. Her life's work is to empower marginalized women and their children. As the leader of ASAPROSAR's (Salvadoran Association for Rural Health) Barefoot Angel's Program, Lucy brings hope and inspiration to mothers and their children who live by scavenging sellable items from the local dump to sell in the crowded city market place. Using the power of micro-lending, community development and educational resources including the arts and theater, Lucy is witness to miracle amidst the despair of poverty. "Images of Our Lives" is an exhibit of photographs taken by their children that reflect the day to day challenges of life in this third world country. Through the children's eyes, you will find reason for despair but also for hope as you witness the transformative and healing power of creative expression.

Sarah Pirtle - is a songwriter, author of three books, poet, and ecofeminist. She received nine national awards for her recordings and books including the Olive Branch Award for outstanding book of the year on world peace awarded to her novel An Outbreak of Peace. Her song, "My Roots Go Down," is the best known of the hundred songs on her seven recordings. In 2007 she received the Magic Penny Award from the Children's Music Network for lifetime achievement. She creates dances that celebrate the transformative powers of the universe and teaches sacred circle dance. She offers graduate education courses at Lesley University on music and for twenty-five years has developed peace education curriculum for elementary age children. She directs Journey Camp, a peace and nature camp in its fifteenth year, and directs a weekly farm school called The Tree of Life School. She is studying to be a Planetary Chaplain at the Chaplaincy Institute of Maine.

Melinda Krokus, M.Div. - is a Sufi Muslim and has been under the spiritual direction of Shaykh Taner Ansari, Pir of the Qadiri Rifa'i Sufi Order, since 1994. She has studied Sufi music and Qur'an recitation in Turkey and is currently a PhD candidate in anthropology and Sufism at Boston University.

From Word to Action: The Embodiment of Sufi Poetry - This workshop will focus on the embodiment of Sufi poetry in voice and movement as a method of encountering Divinity. Rooted in longing and love, Sufi poetry grounds personal and/or global transformation in this primary encounter expressed through words. The workshop will explore how moving from written word to embodied word (also illustrated by Qur'an recitation) can translate into effective action in the world from dramatic acts of hospitality to simple acts of protest. The Sufi poetic legacy is magnificently materialized in books, illuminated manuscripts, painting, martial arts, and architecture, the creation of which are contemplative exercises themselves, and will be briefly explored. We will then bring the poetry to life through movement to and recitation of familiar poets like Rumi and Hafiz and not so familiar ones from Turkey, Persia, and India. The Sufi folk tradition has been to share these pieces in both public and private gatherings (with or without music - we'll do both) during times of social upheaval or crisis, celebration, prayer, or ritual in order to effect change in personal behavior or social policy through closing the gap between words and action.

Paula Estey - is a mixed media painter and art mentor from Newburyport, MA. She has taught PAINTING AS A SPIRITUAL PRACTICE for ten years, shown her work all over the Northeast, and is currently serving as Artist in Residence at Unity on the River in Amesbury, MA, managing their Art Gallery and bringing a consciousness of art to this spiritual center. She also developed and facilitates the artist support group, ARTISTS IN ACTION that encourages artists in all mediums to develop their creative voice and expression.

Sacred Self Portrait - "Sacred Self Portrait Workshop", is a hands-on workshop about visualizing, affirming and manifesting a new idea about ourselves as creative beings. The message of this workshop is to create an affirming, inspiring atmosphere for women to connect their spiritual paths with their creative expression. The purpose of the workshop is to help women open to a new view of themselves, using symbol, iconography and ceremony.

The workshop begins with a guided meditation that includes tools and exercises for releasing old ideas about ourselves. We ask for any symbols or ideas about our new "description" of ourselves. The next step is to trace each other onto canvas, setting new intentions through the pose we choose.

*Bring objects, letters and things for portraits

Carol Dearborn - is in the 3rd generation of painters in her family to use art as a force for healing, transformation, global unity and peace. In addition to her artwork, which can be seen at www.caroldearborn.com, she also studies and practices various energetic healing forms including Reiki and Peruvian shamanism. Her mission is to help awaken Westerners to our freedom and responsibility to create a sustainable human presence on Earth through the evolution of a new consciousness.

Sacred Healing through Storytelling - Our story is both the unfinished business of our past and our greatest tool for healing our self and our human presence on Earth. It is our joyous responsibility to tell our story with lust, courage, honor and beauty. In this way we heal the past, open to enormous possibility and create new realities. In this class we choose an area of challenge in our life, past or present, to heal via the creation of a book. Our books will be composed of words and images. With the help of our spirits and guides we will heal through story the area of our life we have chosen to focus on. Our books will serve each of us as a record of our journey of healing, whether we choose to keep them or to place them in the Eternal Library of Spirit.

$15pp materials fee

Kathleen Mari Miller, R.N., M.A. - Kathleen earned a Master's Degree in Holistic Studies and Expressive Arts Therapies in 1987 from Lesley College in Cambridge, MA, and is currently completing a PhD in Women's Spirituality from Westbrook University, focusing her dissertation on Women's Sacred Dance. Kathleen has presented at WISE for the past four years, and was Co-Director of last year's conference.

The Sacred Art of Belly Dance -

"Dance is divinity, a natural state of grace in which we all reside. In its sacred form, dance is a language that reunites the body, soul, and mind."

—Iris Stewart, Sacred Woman, Sacred Dance: Awakening Spirituality
Through Movement and Ritual

Belly dance has a long tradition as a sacred dance, celebrating the power, grace and strength of women. Over thousands of years, it progressed from the religious sphere, when it was performed in temples, was passed onto the secular in an erotic form, and evolved into a class of professional dancers.

It is now spiraling back to it's roots as a women's sacred dance of power.The specific movements of Belly Dance can positively influence our physical, psychological and spiritual levels of being, through their effects on the endocrine system, musculoskeletal system, nervous system, and energy centers of the body, all with potential healing effects on the physical, psychological and spiritual levels of being. This workshop will feature a slideshow presentation of the history of belly dance and it's therapeutic benefits, followed by an experiential, participatory segment where participants will be taught the sacred shapes belly dance, and enjoy the mesmerizing sounds of Middle Eastern music.

*No dance experience is required. Please bring a colorful scarf to wrap around your hips.

Denise A. Kinch - began her healing work at a very young age by working with animals and became aware of the importance of the animal-human-nature bond in healing. Denise incorporates many areas of holistic healing in her work and has extensively studied both conventional and alternative medicines. She shares her knowledge throughout Europe, North America and South America.

Denise's qualifications include: Reiki Master in the Usui Shiki Ryoho tradition for over 20 years, Practitioner and Teacher of Andean Medicine healing traditions, Animal Communicator and Healer, Certified in Shamanic Soul Retrieval, Certified in Crystal Healing, Certified in Karma Release. Denise has been welcomed into the Andean Healing Traditions, initiated with the highest rites of passage, and works closely with Andean elders Don Manuel Quispe and Don Martin Pinedo.

Denise is the Founder and President of Vanishing Cultures Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization that assists the indigenous people of Peru.

Introduction to the Inca Medicine Wheel - The Inca Medicine Wheel is an ancient path to achieve healing and personal fulfillment. As the first 'technicians of the sacred,' Paq'os (shamans) had to complete a path of knowledge and power known as the Medicine Path. Those who completed the journey received peace, the responsibility of understanding personal power and the wisdom of the world and the universe. In this workshop hear about the path of beauty and the ancient tradition of working with the energies of Heaven and Earth.

Barbara Keiter - is an artist and educator. She finds magic in the creative process, and enjoys putting her talents to use in a variety of ways. Barbara operates a decorative painting and mural business called Transformations where she works closely with her clients to create beauty in their homes. She loves the theater, and enjoys acting and doing set and prop work in Newburyport. Barbara also serves as visual arts director at Express Yourself in Beverly where she teaches young people, develops the art curriculum, and designs the set for their show at the Wang Center each May. During recent years, Barbara has enjoyed exploring Playback Theater with grownups as a presenter both at CHIME and at the WISE conference last year.

Playback Theater - Sharing the Stories of our Lives - celebrates individual experiences and the connections between people. Through a series of theater exercises and creative play, you will learn to trust yourself as an actor capable of bring the magic of theater to the story sharing experience. Playback is artistic, healing, visionary, and community-building, and it is also lots of fun! Experience the joy of sharing stories both as actor and audience member, and you will leave with unforgettable memories.

Zelda Hotaling - As an Earth Teacher raised in the Native American Traditions, Mohawk of the Haudenosaunee, Zelda has been a drum maker and story teller for the past 16 years. She share with others how to recycle the fibers of the earth to create drums, rattles, personal shields, capes and more. When creating a custom piece, she talk with you and then through dreams and prayer your special piece is created.

Medicine of Drums & Rattles - To share with people the medicine of drums and rattles and how to use the vibration and sound for healing. In this class you will create a round leather rattle.

$10pp materials fee

Greta Bro - is an international presenter, shaman, sound healer, singer and songwriter and founder of Wisdom Ways Mystery School. She has mid-wifed countless women from old world paradigm into the sacred and fertile space of the emergent Self. She is writing a book called, Enthroning Wisdom, Healing, Living and Co-creating in the Frequencies of Love. She also has a CD of original music that can be purchased through her website, gretabro.com.

Shamanic Voices: Vocal Improvisation with the Ancestors - Come improvise with sound, song, words, rattle, drum and dance in the multi-dimensional field of spirit teachers and ancestors. Greta believes that we express our divinity, find new solutions for our troubled world by entering into sacred co-creative space that allows the emergent to arise through us. We will first open with a ritual that palpably invokes sacred space and then Greta will offer song structures and rhythms that ease people into this uniquely poignant and spiritually inspired creative space.

*Greta will supply simple percussion instruments, but feel welcome to bring your own.

Sherry Bonder - I discovered myself, spirituality, and community in nature. When I was a young teen, I travelled outdoors for two summers with a group of other teens, led by adult artists/psychologists/wilderness specialists. This was life-changing for me. As an adult, I have developed my own spiritual practice through creating art with natural materials in nature. In my work as a psychotherapist, I have used nature as a medium for self-discovery and community-building.

Creating Sacred Spaces in Nature - The workshop begins with a brief presentation and description of various forms of artistic structures and spaces that can be created in a natural environment, using materials present at the site. Participants are divided into groups that will work together to create an outdoor structure or space that is meaningful to them. Themes may be chosen. Then there is a guided meditation and silent nature walk. Participants collect items from nature, and each group will work together in silence to create a group shrine. At the end, there is a sharing of each group's creation, and of the process.

Shelley Sliver Whizin - Shelley's ferocious curiosity and creative spirit have lead her to become a certified yoga teacher; musical theatre producer; marketing designer; writer; Master Results coach, speaker & trainer; graduate of the American Jewish University, with a B.A. in Jewish Studies; life-long learner and a grandma of two-year old delicious twins.

Soul Diving©... With Joy - It is written in Genesis 2.7:
"God blew into his nostrils the breath of life and man/woman became a living being."

This workshop will take a few "Soul Diving©" trips through the breath of the body, mind and spirit. Powerful processes will be taught helping participants learn how to create sacred moments...and how to harness the scattered mind into becoming "present" with all that is.

Just a few topics:

• Kaballistic Breathing - a way to connect inside/out outside/in
• Movement with the breath - a way to channel energy inside/out outside/in
• Expanded Awareness - a way to focus out...bringing us in
• "C.R.E.A.T.E." Process - a path to clarity from the inside out

Discussions will include, but not limited to: the joy of breathing consciously, while diving deep; the importance of setting intentions; how the brain takes thoughts and creates patterns through the neural network; how those patterns create unconscious behavior; how to "feel" connected and present; how to use the C.R.E.A.T.E. process for gaining clarity and manifesting on the outside what you what from the inside.

Denise DeSimone - Denise is a motivational and inspirational public speaker with an extensive background in a wide range of holistic healing practices. These healing practices include: Sound Healing, Reiki, Reflexology, Shamanism and Process Therapy. Her story of personal survival from stage-4 throat & neck cancer is inspiring, heart-warming, and useful to everyone.

Sound as a Spiritual Practice -

Open your heart with the sound of your own voice.

• Vocal Toning of the Chakras - to resonate your physical body and awaken the energy of the charkas
• Pythagorean Tunings Forks - to initiate balance and harmony
• Name as Mantra - to recognize your name as a word of power.

And

• Personal healings with the Didgeridoo & Conch Shell
• And more...

Lori Grace, MFA, MCMHC - Therapist and college writing teacher since 1991, Lori Grace runs women's writing groups and works with private clients. Trained in counseling and possessing an MFA in writing, she studied, showed, and sold her visual art work in France and is published in The Sun, Earth Star Magazine, and online.

Writing Across the Senses - Working Through Creative Blocks to Access the Creative Writer Residing Within - St Thomas of Aquinas suggests that the only true means to knowledge is through the senses, and the philosopher Jacques Maritain provides a model through which creative artists can access the soul via the senses. Stimulating the five senses has the capacity to act as a kind of totem for our memories and enliven our language. Yet, we all know that when it comes to working with memory and intuition in order to create vivid imagery and concrete examples, sometimes difficult events can still the mind and generate a kind of 'creative' block for anyone involved in the creative process.

Recent historical events have had a negative impact on the ways in which many of us experience the world at large, and as a result, these events may find themselves lodged in the psyche. Whether a block is due to current events, personal trauma, or simple life intervention, our creative work can suffer. As a college writing instructor and a mental health clinician, I have been working with the phenomenon of creative block for the past fifteen years.

Brain research supports the fact that we can develop a livelier and more interesting writing style by exposing ourselves to many sensory experiences. We will laugh, write, and share our work with each other, creating a warm and engaging experience!

*Bring journals

Roberta Horsman - is a wheat weaver, herbalist,and bead weaver. She has taught and lectured for the past 16 years on herbal medicine and wheat weaving. Her teaching experience includes: The Women's Herbal Conference, The International Herb Symposium, The Canterbury Shaker Village, North Shore Community College, and The Essex Agricultural and Technical Institute. She has also given workshops and lectures to garden clubs and organizations in New England. She has a Master of Arts in Expressive Therapy degree from Lesley University Cambridge, MA, and a Certificate from Sage Mountain Herbal School Barre, VT.

The Ancient Art of Wheat Weaving - Earth Goddess House Blessing - Wheat Weaving is an ancient art form created to celebrate the harvest, and all the wonderful gifts of the mother earth. Weavings were hung on the hearth as a reminder in the dark of winter that new light and new life would return in the spring, In this class you will create an earth goddess to celebrate the power of the feminine, fertility, birth and the continuance of life. This weaving is also in honor of the divine feminine, and our deep love and connection with the mother earth.

$5pp materials fee

Sandi Amorello - holds a BFA in illustration from the University of the Arts, in Philadelphia. Losing her husband Drew to pancreatic cancer propelled her onto a journey into grief and rediscovery of her own bliss through her art and writing. She owns Silver Crayon Studios in Portland, and lives with her three children in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

Follow Your Bliss... Using Your Creative Gifts to Transform Your Life After Loss -

Part One:
Sharing my story of the loss of my husband, Drew, to pancreatic cancer 5 years ago...and how it propelled me on an unexpected journey into grief, single parenting, and finding my own bliss once again. How I rediscovered my own personal sacred "gifts" (my art and my writing), and used them to heal and grow. How crucial it is to follow your own heart, trust in the universe...be aware... and believe in synchronicity. "Leap and the net shall appear."

Part Two:
Using my ART & WORDS as an example of my own journey and healing process...I help participants to tell their own stories and heal themselves, in the process. Workshop participants do not need to consider themselves "artists." We all have our own unique ways of expressing ourselves. I will be providing a framework in which they can express their own journey through the written word and by illustrating their experience or memory in collage form through the use of and connection to words, images and objects...both "found" and "personal." Participants will be asked to bring in personal objects and images of sentiment if they desire. They will be able to incorporate the actual objects and images, and also have the option of scanning them for use in their creative pieces.

I will be available during the second part of the workshop as a facilitator and helper...allowing participants to focus on their own creative process...while also being there for support, technical and creative assistance, and questions.

Part Three:
"Debriefing" In this final segment...I have the opportunity to reconnect with workshop participants individually to discuss what they have discovered...and what they may be interested in continuing to create to help them on their journey after they leave the weekend conference.

*Bring personal objects and images of sentiment

Cameron Sesto - Artwork is my path to self-discovery that is reflected in the many exhibitions and juried shows I have been invited to participate in. Since the early 1970's, many pieces have been exhibited such as: Celebrations and Octave of Prayer at MIT which were published as editions of Aperture Magazine, The Shamanic Search for Soul at U Mass Harbor Art Gallery in '93 and my exhibition at the Firehouse Center for the Arts in Newburyport in 2001 entitled Language of the Soul. In 2002 I created the charcoal drawings of bowls used as chapter headings in the book: Wisdom Bowls by Meredith Young-Sowers. I currently facilitate my Drawing into Creative Wholeness workshops (ongoing since 1986) and have the privilege of teaching art to Montessori children from Lower Elementary to Middle School.

Drawing into Creative Wholeness - We will use guided meditation to enter your inner world, bring forth those discoveries onto paper using charcoal, and then discuss our imagery with the group. Drawing with charcoal after meditating gives us a visual expression of our inner experience, which then becomes a symbol of our journey. The images we bring forth are notes to ourselves to later use to create a painting, write a poem, song, story or keep as a private notation. The energy and interplay of the individuals in a group is what enables us to gather the courage and trust ourselves to reach beyond where we are now or where we think we are capable of going on our individual journeys.

"Symbols do not flow from the unconscious to tell us what we already know, but to show us what we have yet to learn."
—We, Robert A. Johnson

*Please wear clothes that are OK to get messy & bring a 'sit-upon'

Lesley Ann Smith - is a world class ventriloquist and singer using the gift of comedy, performance and music to uplift, inspire and delight audiences of every age, background and demographic. She began her career in theater and toured professionally as a lead vocalist and bass player in bands of every description, genre and style before developing in 1995, The Theatre of Life Puppets; educational entertainment for schools. She is on the touring roster of the New England Foundation for the Arts, performs all over the world in concerts, conferences, workshops and retreats, and specializes in writing and performing one-of-kind shows for individuals and organizations. Her passion is raising the consciousness of the planet by inspiring love and joy through entertainment everyone can understand and enjoy. Visit her at www.gratitude-music.com and her award wining children's site www.sammysnail.com. View : Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc56Pu6rZF0

Lesley Ann Smith in concert - As a singer/songwriter Lesley Ann Smith and her puppets create a musical ride that travels straight into your heart. The performances are interactive relying on Lesley's beautiful vocals to transform the room into a feast of sound. Watching her special cast is like therapy for your soul. You'll laugh till you cry.

Sarah Pirtle - is a songwriter, author of three books, poet, and ecofeminist. She received nine national awards for her recordings and books including the Olive Branch Award for outstanding book of the year on world peace awarded to her novel An Outbreak of Peace. Her song, "My Roots Go Down," is the best known of the hundred songs on her seven recordings. In 2007 she received the Magic Penny Award from the Children's Music Network for lifetime achievement. She creates dances that celebrate the transformative powers of the universe and teaches sacred circle dance. She offers graduate education courses at Lesley University on music and for twenty-five years has developed peace education curriculum for elementary age children. She directs Journey Camp, a peace and nature camp in its fifteenth year, and directs a weekly farm school called The Tree of Life School. She is studying to be a Planetary Chaplain at the Chaplaincy Institute of Maine.

Patty Barkas - For over two decades, Patty Barkas has performed, recorded and toured nationally and internationally with an eclectic array of Artists, ranging from the Alt Rock Madness of the "Bentmen" to Ruth Pointer of the "Pointer sisters", Peter Wolf of the "J.Geils Band", "RTZ", and Brad Delp of the Band "Boston", "Face to Face" and newcomer, Casey Desmond (among others). She is one of Boston's premiere session singers, recording with Major label artists on Epic, Sony-Epic, Polygram, Ryco-disc, Sire and Reprise, as well as performing on film sound tracks, television features, commercials, Big Bands and Symphony Orchestras throughout the region. Patty is currently working on her own solo CD as well as an avant-garde improvisational ensemble "Tub Time" to be released in the up coming year.

Rev. Patricia Ellen - is an interfaith minister and Certified Rubenfeld Synergist (counseling for body-mind-spirit integration). She is a self-taught woods woman and at home outdoors in all seasons - listening, playing, walking and savoring the sacred experience of communing with nature. She has over 30 years experience in designing and leading workshops. She has helped persons of all ages discover healing and inspiration through the wisdom of the natural world.

Daena Giardella - is an actor, director, creativity coach, teacher, and writer. Her numerous original one-woman improvisational theater performances have earned her kudos and loyal followings both locally and abroad. She performed her latest show, What Can I Say? to sold out houses in Newburyport's Firehouse Theatre. For over twenty-five years, thousands of people from all walks of life have re-discovered and deepened their relationship to creativity in Daena's popular workshops, including Improvisational Acting and Your Creative Process. She has worked with many prominent organizations and world-class companies as an executive leadership coach, creativity consultant, and media/presentation coach. Daena is also frequently invited to give keynote presentations as a motivational speaker and humorist. She has appeared on many TV and radio shows, including The Cheryl Richardson Life Makeover Show on Oxygen TV, where she was she was featured as a creativity coach. Daena was also a cofounder of TheraVision, a video theatre process for training psychotherapists at the Kantor Family Institute in Cambridge, Mass.

Daena co-authored a book with Wren Ross called, Changing Patterns: Discovering the Fabric of Your Creativity (published by Hay House) which explores the power of creativity. She has also released a CD, Improvisation in Everyday Life, which is available at her website www.YourCreativeProcess.com or www.daenagiardella.com

What Can I Say? -

Giardella is "an impressive talent... A must see!" Boston Globe

Daena portrays a progressive talk radio host dealing with threats of censorship from her micro-managing boss and the FCC. She is also grappling with the ups and downs of her own personal journey of self-expression as an activist. Meanwhile, with less time and energy in her busy schedule to see friends and socialize, she worries that she is secretly becoming a closet misanthrope.

Daena explores work, life, creative process, and how we all cope with less time to socialize in a global world where people feel increasingly isolated. She takes a hilarious and compassionate look at the mental and emotional overload of our stressful modern lives.

Daena tackles everything from email spam and our obsession with celebrity culture to global warming and the Presidential election as she incorporates the daily buzz from topical news stories (as well as some themes that emerge from the Sacred Arts weekend workshops). She moves seamlessly from one character to another as she engages the audience in an unforgettable theatrical experience.

Chris Faulconer - is the Founder and Director of the 21st Century MysterySchool, located in Pine Mountain, California. After 20 years, designing computersystems for aerospace, she developed a Journeying process combining ancient wisdomand empowerment, assisting individuals to connect to their own inner resources. Chris provides a way for people to journey into the unknown and bring back what is needed forthem selves. An ordained minister, having been privileged to study with many traditionalpeople, she has taken on the responsibility of passing knowledge to the next generation.A healer of mind, body and spirit for the past 25 years, Chris is a person full of humor and radiating a joyful presence.

To set up a Reiki appointment with Dot please contact her at:

• 978-538-3692
• dot@yourhealingspirit.com
• www.yourhealingspirit.com

Janice Anderson - Janice's private practice provides a holistic and synergistic approach to health, wellness and prevention through education, nutritional support and therapeutic modalities. The goal of her services is to empower individuals to take control of and responsibility of their health and wellness, as well as their beliefs and actions.

She is also a trainer and facilitator for Huddleston's Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster certification program and provides private workshops for pre-surgical and oncology patients.

Janice's focus is on relaxation, stress reduction, meditation and/or life-style management (weight and pain control, self-esteem and motivation). Guided imagery, visualization and aromatherapy are incorporated in her session work. In addition to achieving personal and professional growth and balance, peace and harmony for self and the global environment are the desired result.  
 

Reiki Rates: Coming Soon

To sign up for a Reiki appointment with Janice please contact her at:

• 978-270-2005
• insideout923@aol.com
• www.insideoutthermography.com

Denise A. Kinch - began her healing work at a very young age by working with animals and became aware of the importance of the animal-human-nature bond in healing. Denise incorporates many areas of holistic healing in her work and has extensively studied both conventional and alternative medicines. She shares her knowledge throughout Europe, North America and South America.

Denise's qualifications include: Reiki Master in the Usui Shiki Ryoho tradition for over 20 years, Practitioner and Teacher of Andean Medicine healing traditions, Animal Communicator and Healer, Certified in Shamanic Soul Retrieval, Certified in Crystal Healing, Certified in Karma Release. Denise has been welcomed into the Andean Healing Traditions, initiated with the highest rites of passage, and works closely with Andean elders Don Manuel Quispe and Don Martin Pinedo.

Denise is the Founder and President of Vanishing Cultures Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization that assists the indigenous people of Peru.

Denise works out of the Pachamama Healing Center in Groveland, Massachusetts, which she began as a community healing center for people and animals. Her sessions are a powerful combinations of traditions.  
 

Reiki Rates:

To set up a Reiki appointment with Denise please contact her at:

• 978-807-2921
• pachamamahc@aol.com
• www.pachamamahealingcenter.com

Nancy Hammond - Nancy is a renowned teacher, lecture, and author with thirty- year background in spiritual studies with clergy and The Spiritual Frontier's Fellowship. Nancy presents a riveting, fun, and informative programs that brings men and women closer to an understanding of the ways that Angels affect us on a day-to-day basis. Nancy is widely known and respected for her lectures on Answered Prayers and Spiritual Growth, and for her Angel conversations and across the country...

Nancy and her husband, Bob, also own and operate Meditate Gardens an ornamental masonry and landscapes design house dedicated to creating beautiful, serene landscapes for their customers.

Angel Readings - You will find out what kind of souls you are through a comparison ith something physical on this plane. This clarifies why certain events take place around you and why you act the way you do. The Angels will then tell you what to change in your life to achieve a better balance and a happy existence. Moments of joy are the way to a closeness with God and the universe.

*In preparation for this first session bring a cassette tape, and plan to be here for 60 to 90 minutes.

To set up an Angel Reading appointment with Nancy please contact her at:

• 603-231-7172
• info@angelsworkonearth.com
• www.angelsworkonearth.com

To set up a massage appointment with Meg please contact her at:

• 978 809 2968
• megrayne@verizon.net

Joanne Rowley MS, RNCS - Over the past 25 years, while developing a strong personal practice , Joanne has professionally trained in mind/body and spiritual modalities creating classes and womens retreats at Holistic centers in New England. Her Spiritual Embodiment programs have been influenced by training in Contemplative Dance, Body- Mind Centering, Buddhist and Yogic practices and Spiritual Psychology. She is a certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher, Holistic Nurse and a Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist with a private practice addressing wellness and psycho-spiritual concerns. She is the Clinical Counselor & Stress Management Educator at the North Shore Medical Heart Center.