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Eckankar Book Group "Past Lives Dreams & Soul Travel"
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When: Every Second Wednesday of the month
Time: 12-1pm
Cost: $5 suggested donation
Explore your past lives and dreams with ECKANKARS's Soul Travel techniques. Discover your true nature as Soul, an eternal, spiritual being--a divine spark of God. You may naturally recall some of your past lives. They can give you clues to live your present Life better--it is the most important one you've ever had.
Take the next step on your spiritual journey. Discover answers to your past, present, and future through the ancient wisdom of ECKANKAR.
Eckankar Book Group "Spiritual Wisdom Series"
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When: Every Second Monday of the month
Time: 7-9pm
Cost: $10
Join us as we explore the issues of "Relationships," "Karma and Reincarnation," "Prayer, Meditation and Contemplation," "Conquering Fear," and "Health and Healing." Each month features a different topic and book from the Spiritual Wisdom Series.
Eckankar Book Group "The Art of Spiritual Dreaming"
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When: Every Third Thursday of the month
Time: 12-1pm
Cost: $5 suggested donation
Your life is the canvas. You are the artists. Paint a more fulfilling life for yourself using HAROLD KLEMP'S proven techniques in the book, "The Art of Spiritual Dreaming". Your dreams are the secret to creating a masterpiece.
Tarot Series: "The Way of the Seeker" with James Wanless
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When: Wednesday, May 29, Wednesday July 24, Thursday August 26
Time: 7-9pm
Cost: $15
Using the Tarot as a dynamic personal growth structure, learn the deepest dimensions of the Tarot as a universal map of life, and engage your own transformation as indicated by the cards.
This journey is led by Tarot Master and worldwide Teacher, James Wanless, Ph.D., who is a pioneer of new thinking recognized for weaving timeless wisdom into modern life with intuitive tools and symbolic systems. He has often been called “Mr. Tarot” because of his enormous contribution to the field of Tarot. Dr. Wanless is creator of the "modern classic" Voyager Tarot, author of Way of the Great Oracle, Strategic Intuition for the 21st Century, New Age Tarot, and Intuition@ Work. http://www.voyagertarot.com/
Spiritual Discussion Group: Creating, Attracting and Manifesting
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When: Mondays, April 1, May 6, June 3, July 1, Aug 5, Sept 2, Oct 7, Nov 4, Dec 2
Time: 7-9pm
Cost: $10
Come join this fun and uplifting discussion group where we will chat about spiritual topics that can inspire and support us with what we are going through in our lives. Through our conversations we can become more empowered and expand our spiritual growth and self-awareness to find the peace, beauty and meaning that underlies each experience. We can create a deeper awareness and understanding of ourselves and our world and find our answers to life within. Feel free to share of your experiences and wisdom or just come to soak up some enlightenment!
Come have fun exploring and sharing the truth of who YOU really are!
The topics that we will discuss are:
- Spiritual and Universal laws of creating and manifesting
- Self-worth and Self-love
- Trusting and believing in yourself and your Universe
- Being open to have what you truly desire!
Spiritual Discussion Group: Flowing, Allowance & Acceptance
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When: Mondays, April 15, May 20, June 17, July 22, Aug 19, Sept 16, Oct 21, Nov 18, Dec 16
Time: 7-9pm
Cost: $10
Come join this fun and uplifting discussion group where we will chat about spiritual topics that can inspire and support us with what we are going through in our lives. Through our conversations we can become more empowered and expand our spiritual growth and self-awareness to find the peace, beauty and meaning that underlies each experience. We can create a deeper awareness and understanding of ourselves and our world and find our answers to life within. Feel free to share of your experiences and wisdom or just come to soak up some enlightenment!
Come have fun exploring and sharing the truth of who YOU really are!
The topics that we will discuss are:
- Acceptance and allowance for what is
- Having personal freedom and feeling your inner-power
- Letting go of limiting belief and ideas
- Non-attachment to outcomes and releasing expectations
- The power of the law of allowance
- Trusting and being open to your highest good!
For more information about Kat, please visit www.katzaghi.com
Family Literacy Day with Mystic Journey and the Sunset Masonic Lodge!
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When: Saturday, June 1
Time: 1-4pm
Cost: Free Community Event!
Workshop: "Learn Meditation to Awaken Your Intuition and Create Your Life" w/ Ann O'Brien
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When: Sunday, June 2
Time: 2-4pm
Cost: $20 Pre-Registration, $25 Day-Of
Learn Meditation to Awaken Your Intuition & Create Your Life with Ann O'Brien!
Everyone is intuitive, but most of us have never been taught how to recognize, trust and make the most of our natural powers. Imagine your life if you could consistently:
• Recognize and listen to your own inner guidance
• Trust your decisions and feel peace of mind
• Tune into what your body needs for health and well-being
• Move on from past issues and limiting patterns
• Get out of your head and live from a centered, loving place
In this workshop you'll learn simple guided meditations so you can access your intuition whenever you want. Join us and learn to trust your guidance and create the relationships, health, financial flow you desire. And if you ever feel overwhelmed or confused by your sensitivity, the meditations you learn will help balance your energy.
Ann O'Brien is an intuitive teaching and working with clients worldwide since 1999. For more information and appointments please visit www.FloweringSol.com.
Book Signing: "Saving the White Lions: One Woman's Battle for Africa's Most Sacred Animal" by Linda Tucker
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When: Tuesday, June 4
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Cost: Free Event
In this captivating, suspenseful memoir, white lion conservationist Linda Tucker describes her perilous struggle to protect the sacred white lion from the merciless and mafia-like trophy-hunting industry, armed only with her indomitable spirit and total devotion.
Her story begins in 1991 with a heart-stopping misadventure in the Timbavati Reserve of South Africa. Tucker—then a successful advertising executive—and a group of fellow travelers found themselves surrounded by a pride of angry lions. There was no way out, night had fallen, and the battery in their only flashlight was beginning to flicker. Miraculously, a local medicine woman, with two youngsters in tow, passed, trancelike and fearless, through the lions and escorted them all to safety.
For Tucker, that life-threatening experience became a life-changing one. She abandoned her career, left Europe, and returned to Timbavati to track down the medicine woman who had saved her: Maria Khosa. Upon seeing Tucker again, Khosa only smiled and said, “What took you so long?” She had been expecting her, and there was so much to do. Under Khosa’s shamanic tutelage, Tucker learned of her sacred destiny: to be the “keeper of the white lions,” believed to be angelic beings sent to Earth to save humanity at a time of crisis. Khosa also prophesized that the queen of the white lions—the embodiment of the mother of Ra, the sun god—would soon be born, on a day and in a place considered holy by Westerners.
On December 25, 2000, in the little South Africa town of Bethlehem, a snowy white lion cub, Marah, was born. From the moment of her first meeting with Marah, Tucker’s story immediately takes off into battle, as she dedicates her every waking moment to prying Marah and her siblings from the grips of the trophy-hunting industry.
Compellingly written in the intimate style of a journal, Tucker describes with unflinching honesty her fears, doubts, hopes, and dreams, all the while unfolding for us an unforgettable tale of adventure, romance, spirituality, and most of all, justice.
Review
"This is a great, blazing, lionhearted book by a great warrior woman of our times."
—Andrew Harvey, author of Radical Passion and The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism
Praise for Mystery of the White Lions, also by Linda Tucker:
"Linda Tucker has done a great job of chronicling the whole story and mythology of these sacred animals.… Through understanding the White Lion we will understand ourselves and our great role in the chain of being."
—Deepak Chopra
"An entrancing story, told by a rare individual … a phenomenal book that comes at a critical time in environmental history."
—Dr. Ian Player, internationally renowned conservationist
About the Author
LINDA TUCKER grew up in South Africa during Apartheid and attended the universities of Cape Town and Cambridge. In 2002, she founded the Global White Lion Protection Trust, an organization that works not only to protect the white lions, but also to protect the communities and knowledge of the Tsonga and Sepedi cultures, which celebrate the white lion as a sacred living heritage. She has been a guest speaker at multiple international conservation congresses, and her work has been featured in documentaries produced by National Geographic and Animal Planet. She lives in the Timbavati reserve of South Africa with her partner, lion ecologist Jason Turner.
Book Signing: "Coastal Inspirations" by Peter and Marissa O'Neil
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When: Thursday, June 6
Time: 7-8pm
Cost: Free Event
A book of inspirational photos and quotes by a father/daughter team who use the coastlines of both East and West coasts to capture single moments in time for life's journeys. It is a timeless and universal approach to living life at the fullest. The book is almost magical in helping you see what is both beautiful and important in life.
First Friday Event! Viola Performance with Karen Elaine
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When: Friday, June 7
Time: 8-11pm
Cost: Free Event!
Enjoy the beautiful sounds of strings while you enjoy the night at MJB this First Friday. Karen Elaine, violist extraordinaire and teacher of Acro-Yoga for our upcoming Movement and Meditation Series, will be serenading the masses from 8-11pm, and selling her CDs.
Karen Elaine is the First Place Grand Prize winner of the 1988 Bruno Giuranna International Viola Competition (João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil). As winner of numerous solo competitions in her native California, she is noted by the Los Angeles Times as "...the soloist to bring the viola out of obscurity." Ms. Elaine has recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra (CD's available for purchase of this disc at the Mystic Journey Bookstore FIRST FRIDAY event), the City of London Sinfonia, the Orquesta Sinfónica da Paraíba, and the Moraska Philharmonie (Olmuc, Czech Republic). A featured artist on recital and orchestra series worldwide, Karen Elaine is also an integral part of the web of commercial music in the Hollywood television and film scoring world.
Approaching her music making as an athlete, Karen Elaine 'cross trains' her body/muscle memory/mind with a variety of sports including scuba diving, triathalon training and competition, hot yoga, and Thai flying acrobatic partner yoga. For Ms. Elaine, the ultimate union of these physical and artistic expressions is manifested in her performance art piece called AY-M (acrobatic yoga and music), in which the works of J. S. Bach are choreographed in collaboration with her duo partner Whakapaingia David Luke, resulting in a completely original performance art form in which the hands-free flier partner dances with the base while BEING the music.
"INTRO TO ACRO YOGA" introduces the yogin & yogini to the rôles of base & flyer, each person experiencing each rôle, as the entire body develops strength/balance/flexibilty and profound trust between atheletic partners. Karen Elaine will present a thorough balancing/warming/strengthening of the body in the course of the INTRO TO ACRO YOGA session, developing the participants' pranayama (breath energy), touch & trust with another athlete, excitement at learning a new way of BEING in one's body.
Check her out here....
https://www.facebook.com/pages/AY-M/332656590174342
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsrnDwRm6dY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
MJB Grand Re-Opening Celebration!
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When: Saturday, June 8
Time: All Day!
Cost: Free Event!
We're Official! Stop in to 1624 ABBOT KINNEY BKVD to check out our new space and meet some of our friends! This Very Special Celebration is an all-day affair, complete with music, food, raffle prizes, community give-aways, Demo Classes for our upcoming "Morning Movement and Meditation Series", holistic skin care, essential oils, spiritual travel, an evening concert with Valarien, and A STORE BLESSING AND TALK WITH MARIANNE WILLIAMSON AT NOON!
Peruse the new space, enjoy the meditation garden and event area, admire the new products and crystals, take a movement class, pamper and feed your body and soul! This is going to be a VERY EXCITING DAY! See you there!
Schedule for June 8 Celebration
10:30-11:30am: "Divine Yoga" with Riyaana Hartley
12-1:30pm: Store Blessing and Talk with Marianne Williamson
2-2:45pm: Breathwork with Michael Brian Baker (The Breath Center)
3:15-4pm: Acro-Yoga with Karen Elaine
4:30-5pm: Mantra Meditation and Intro Talk with Megan Monahan of the Chopra Center for Well-Being
5:30-6:15pm: Qi Gong with Lisa de Narvaez
6:15-8pm: Harp Music by Phillip King
8pm: The Musical Stylings of Valarien
Marianne Williamson
Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed spiritual author and lecturer. Six of her ten published books have been New York Times Best Sellers. Four of these have been #1 New York Times Best Sellers. A paragraph from A Return to Love, beginning "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure..." - is considered an anthem for a contemporary generation of seekers.
Marianne's other books include The Age of Miracles, Everyday Grace, A Woman's Worth, Illuminata, Healing the Soul of America, A Course in Weight Loss, and The Gift of Change. Her newest book, THE LAW OF DIVINE COMPENSATION: On Work, Money and Miracles, was published in November 2012 by Harper Collins. For more information on Marianne, please visit www.marianne.com
Music Provided by....
Phillip King
www.universalharp.com
Valarien, 8pm
VALARIEN is a visionary composer, producer, virtuoso guitarist, multiinstrumentalist and performer who specializes in high vibrational music that transcends boundaries, inspires the universal and evokes the spiritual. VALARIEN’s unique music is available in meditation, yoga, spa and healing centers throughout the world and has contributed to the seminars and retreats of leading luminaries including internationally acclaimed wealth and success strategist Christopher Howard, Self Awareness Institute founder and shaktipat meditation master Steven Sadlier (Mark Victor Hansen’s meditation teacher), and poet laureate of the heart DreamingBear Baraka Kanaan.
In addition to being the owner and president of the record label and music production company, Valarien Productions, VALARIEN has an extensive professional background in the music industry encompassing over two decades as a music business expert working with multi-million dollar music companies, Grammy nominated artists and pioneers within the field.
http://consciouscreativity.ning.com/profile/VALARIEN
All-Day Info and Demos by...
Katixon Holistic Skin Care with Katrina Schenfield 12-5pm
Katrina Schenfield is the founder of Katixon, a botanical skin care company. Julie Sasaki has said her products “took 10 years off my age,” and Amanda Cee says “Katixon is phenomenal - beyond any skin care product I've ever experienced.” Katrina has written for Natural Health Inforum, FizzNiche, Always New You Magazine, About.com, Identity Magazine, Beauty Inforum and Beauty Butler. Katixon is about looking naturally beautiful at any age so that ladies can avoid the downward spiral of cosmetic surgery procedures, re-establish self-confidence and be many things. . . like be more attractive to members of the opposite sex and feel better about how they look. All within different confines – as a 30 year old just beginning to pay attention to her skin or as a 70 year old with mature skin. Katrina is passionate – from advocating for healthy skin to writing articles to testing products by the dozens. She stays inspired by the amazing natural breakthroughs in botanicals. Visit her at katixon.com.
Young Living Essential Oils 10am-6pm
Young Living is the World Leader in Essential Oils. Young Living Essential Oils (YLEO) only incorporates the highest purity in grade for all of our health products. Young Living is a company built upon trust, integrity, and pure therapeutic grade products.
Young Living Essential Oils was founded by Gary Young with pure, natural, therapeutic grade essential oils. Essential Oils date back through history as some of the earliest forms for natural healing. Essential oils have since re-emerged as a form of aromatherapy in modern times and through the education of therapeutic grade oils, Young Living has now brought back the healing properties that were once so widely known.
Since the beginning Young Living has established a foundation of having the best, natural, and safest products for the body, home, and through aromatherapy. Gary Young has taken great strides to research and develop new products all of which are absolutely natural, organic, and pure.
Marilyn Kay has been teaching others to use therapeutic-grade essential oils for health and wellness for several years. She discovered therapeutic-grade oils
while struggling with a digestive disorder and used the oils internally to help bring her body back into balance. She has spent time with Young Living’s research scientists to learn about the chemistry of the oils and how they can help with everything from minor discomfort such as headaches, nausea, heartburn, and everyday aches and pains to more serious health concerns affecting all of the body’s systems. She teaches a variety of classes in the Southern California area, explaining how we can heal ourselves without the use of pharmaceutical drugs and their myriad of side effects. Class topics are varied and include the foundational class “Self-Care With Young Living Oils,” as well as “Building a Healthy Immune System,” “First Aid with Essential Oils,” “How to Detox Your Body & Home,” “Hormones and Anti-Aging,” and many more.
Marilyn says, “We are honored to be invited to join the Mystic Journey Bookstore and celebrate their grand reopening. We will be offering complimentary experiences of therapeutic-grade essential oils all day, so please come by and visit us. What we are offering is unique and very much in alignment with the intention behind the store.”
11am-6pm
Spirit Quest Tours offers life-changing spiritual travel to some of the most fascinating places on Earth.
Spirituality is the culture we embrace, not any particular faith or tradition. It's exploring places and peoples more deeply and with great reverence. It's seeing Spirit in all things...
Our philosophy is simple: excite your mind, pamper your spirit, challenge your body and inflame your soul.
From five star accommodations to deeply moving initiations, everything about Spirit Quest Tours is carefully designed for you to have a unique, amazing, and even life-changing experience.
Benefit everyone when you travel and help to create an equitable, peaceful and sustainable world! We carbon offset your travel (and invite you to join us), collect donations for overseas charities, and offer a very generous affiliate fee for referrals and group trips.
Lynne Boutross, PH.D Transformational Guidance
Lynne Boutross, Ph.D. Medical Intuitive will be giving readings from 11:30-5:30.
Lynne Boutross was born an intuitive and healer with the multidimensional gift of sight. She can see in exquisite detail what is stopping you from having what you want in any area of your life including vibrant health and great relationships. Lynne can see and guide you past the roadblocks so you can have the life you want. Lynne can help you return to your essence and authentic frequency where struggle falls away as you experience power and truth that is only yours
Dr. Boutross offers you more than 25 years of experience and unparalleled success in bringing clarity and resolution to issues that show up in all areas of life. Lynne Boutross brilliantly sets forth her proven fundamental concepts for resolving what is stopping others from feeling happy and fulfilled. At breathtaking speed Lynne ‘sees’ and guides others to profound insights resulting in dynamic change.
Sought after by the media for shows ranging from news programs to talk shows, such as Good Morning America and the Today Show, she leaves audiences astounded with her on-target insights and powerful solutions. Lynne has inspired packed audiences on the Whole Life Expo tour, along with such notables as Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, Marianne Williamson, Neal Donald Walsh, Julia Cameron, and Carolyn Myss. Her workshops and lectures across the country including those at The Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, Unity Churches, The Learning Annex, The Wellness Community, spiritual centers, retreats & corporations have again and again left audiences captivated and anchored in their truth. Lynne’s powerful and practical insights have transformed thousands of lives.
During her 10 years at the renowned Pritikin Longevity Center in Santa Monica, CA Lynne taught CEOs how their health symptoms, weight issues and addictive behaviors were a direct result of unresolved emotional and spiritual issues. She guided individuals and couples in identifying the cause of their physical symptoms and emotional disharmony providing an individualized plan for permanent resolution. Lynne’s work with couples and families is transformative. She can see and explain the true source of the issues that are creating distance between one another. Her insight into what each person is experiencing inspires healing and change. Couples say that their work with Lynne has brought them closer than they believed possible. Lynne Boutross goes right to the heart of the matter. She offers a truly unique gift of insight and guidance both in person and on the phone.
To learn how Lynne can help you, contact her at:
LynneBoutross.com (424) 234-8767
"Thriving Heart" Art Display and Affirmations by Kimya
Receive a special affirmation upon entering the store, and express all the things that make your heart "THRIVE" in Kimya Waddell's interactive art display in the meditation garden at MJB this Saturday!
Kimya's passion for the Healing Arts led her to embrace the studies of Massage Therapy and become a Massage Therapist. Her continued studies including: Reiki, Energy Medicine, Hypnotherapy, Hot Stone Therapy, Clinical Microscopy and Blood Cell Analysis in Biology gave her a deep touch of care for each client she worked with over the last 15 years.
Another form of art that captivates the eyes of Kimya is Edible Landscaping. She finds such remarkable reverence in nature, and is in awe of nature’s wisdom and continual offerings that feed us from an unending source that is genuine and unconditional.
Writing has been an active part of Kimya's life since elementary school. For her, writing is a place of expression and creativity—a world where expansion is vastly present. Her desire to contribute to humanity and our precious earth, led her to begin writing for others.
While traveling, Kimya discovered how much she loves empowering people and adding significance to their lives. Her travels are a source of inspiration, allowing her to see life anew with a deep sense of how special and awesome it is to be alive!
Today, Kimya’s wish is that each of us gains a personal knowingness of how to thrive and create one amazing experience after another—a commitment that has fueled the manifestation of Blessings For Empowerment.
http://www.blessingsforempowerment.com
Raffle Prizes Provided by...
Robin Solo, Turning Point Pilates
Robert Di Massa, Superior Car Care
Cafe Gratitude, Venice
Food Donated by...
Divine Light Transmission with Paramahansa Jagadish
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When: Sunday, June 9
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Cost: $20 Suggested Donation (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Divine Light Transmission is Paramahansa Jagadish’s unique ability to tap into the loving energy of the Divine and to transmit that energy directly to the participants in the room. This ability comes from years of study and practice with Holy Siddhas, Saints and Spiritual Masters, and is a beautiful experience that awakens one’s true self to the presence of God.
Paramahansa Jagadish is a lineage holder of a rare sacred tradition of India, who generously shares his astounding gifts for profound healing through divine love, spiritual awakening, and palpable blessings that deepen people’s relationships with the divine. He is an American Sadhu who lived in India in the 1970s and 80s with his Spiritual Master, Siddha Mauni Baba Avadhut, and a group of saintly Babajis. Jagadish’s intention is to serve those who work with him by unveiling their sacred identities of pure consciousness, joy, and love, which creates profound spiritual transformations. Kindly wear white or light colored clothing.
MJB Morning Movement and Meditation Series!
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When: Mornings at MJB
Time: 9:30-11
Cost: $15
Introducing Mystic Journey Bookstore's Morning Movement and Meditation Series! A brand new way to start your day on Abbot Kinney! Enjoy a series of classes intended to promote peace and well-being within. Classes are every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday mornings, from 9:30-11am. Payment is taken at the register, before the class begins. Bring your own mats, or purchase one at MJB! Check out the schedules and bios of teachers below!
Mondays: "Meditation" with Megan Monahan, Certified Chopra Instructor
After being immersed in the stressful world of the music industry for 7 years, Megan reached a breaking point in 2009 and knew that she needed to create a change. Although she was living the life she thought she always wanted, she was unhealthy, unhappy and felt burned out from life. Megan turned to The Chopra Center for Wellbeing to learn how to create life balance and manage her stress. She immediately began studying with Deepak Chopra and Dr. David Simon, the co-founders of the Chopra Center and a year later was invited to work at The Chopra Center. There she continued her education with teachers like Marianne Williamson, Wayne Dyer, Byron Katie, Jean Houston and under Deepak Chopra became a certified instructor in Primordial Sound Meditation.
After immersing herself in the teachings of meditation, yoga and ayurveda, Megan felt an unbridled passion to begin sharing these teachings, especially with others in the entertainment industry experiencing the same problems she was, a life out of balance despite all of the trappings of success. Her diverse background allows Megan to bring her clients the individual, practical, and realistic tools, techniques, and motivation needed to transform their lives.
Tuesdays: "Qi Gong" with Lisa de Narvaez
Lisa de Narvaez is an NYU certified life coach and human design specialist.
She facilitates transformational shifts of consciousness to support you in realizing your true potential.
Lisa loves working with people who are ready to honor themselves. Who are ready to either go after their dreams or to simply make gentle loving changes that will create more grace and ease in their lives. She loves offering all that she has learned along the way and loves continuing to learn with each and everyone she is blessed to work with. It is truly and honor for her to be able to engage in transformational partnerships with her clients as she supports them in creating lives that they love!
Thursdays: "Breathwork" with Michael Brian Baker's "The Breath Center"
Michael Baker has traveled extensively facilitating groups and individuals in the realization of self-mastery through Somatic Release, Breathwork Practice and Detox through natural plant based diet. His sharp intuition and dedication to the expansion of awareness and well being, promote growth, freedom and the intelligence to heal from within.
He specializes in escorting individuals through the release of past trauma, clearing of blocks and creating new avenues to secure long term goals. Michael is actively fostering mentoring partnerships with young adults throughout the United States.
Michael has extensive experience as a key note speaker representing the conscious awareness and healing arts communities . He has served as a residential recovery manager, crisis counselor, sober companion and interventionist aid.
Michael’s current home base as a Spiritual Counselor and Healing Arts Practitioner is in Southern California. He holds certifications from Upledgers Suzanne Scurlock Durrana HFTC L1, HT levels 1 through 4 through David Elliott, C.H.A.P Certification – Wendy Allamby C.HT,AACP and Medicine Wheel – Dream Time LLC. He is an expert on the philosophy of Yogic theories and the 8-fold path.
Fridays: "Acro Yoga" with Karen Elaine
Karen Elaine is the First Place Grand Prize winner of the 1988 Bruno Giuranna International Viola Competition (João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil). As winner of numerous solo competitions in her native California, she is noted by the Los Angeles Times as "...the soloist to bring the viola out of obscurity." Ms. Elaine has recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra (CD's available for purchase of this disc at the Mystic Journey Bookstore FIRST FRIDAY event), the City of London Sinfonia, the Orquesta Sinfónica da Paraíba, and the Moraska Philharmonie (Olmuc, Czech Republic). A featured artist on recital and orchestra series worldwide, Karen Elaine is also an integral part of the web of commercial music in the Hollywood television and film scoring world.
Approaching her music making as an athelete, Karen Elaine 'cross trains' her body/muscle memory/mind with a variety of sports including scuba diving, triathalon training and competition, hot yoga, and Thai flying acrobatic partner yoga. For Ms. Elaine, the ultimate union of these physical and artistic expressions is manifested in her performance art piece called AY-M (acrobatic yoga and music), in which the works of J. S. Bach are choreographed in collaboration with her duo partner Whakapaingia David Luke, resulting in a completely original performance art form in which the hands-free flier partner dances with the base while BEING the music.
"INTRO TO ACRO YOGA" introduces the yogin & yogini to the rôles of base & flyer, each person experiencing each rôle, as the entire body develops strength/balance/flexibilty and profound trust between atheletic partners. Karen Elaine will present a thorough balancing/warming/strengthening of the body in the course of the INTRO TO ACRO YOGA session, developing the participants' pranayama (breath energy), touch & trust with another athelete, excitement at learning a new way of BEING in one's body.
Saturdays: "Divine Yoga" with Riyaana Hartley
Divine Yoga is rooted in Prana Flow Energetic Vinyasa, my background as a bgirl (breakdancer & student of hip hop), my love of play, affirmation, pranayam and guided meditation.
In love, gratitude and reverence for life, I look forward to serving you.
Saturday, June 8th - Free Workshop - Celebrate World Oceans Day Riding the Breath Wave
Live Music by Nichole Jones - 10:30am - 11:30am
Saturday, June 15 - A Father's Day Tribute - Honoring the Divine Masculine
9:30am - 11:00am
Saturday, June 22 - Summer Solstice Celebration - Tuning into Natural Rhythms
9:30am - 11:00am
Saturday, June 29 - Hug Holiday - Heart Coherence & Healing Touch
Live Music by Inquiri - 9:30 - 11:00am
Please bring a yoga mat and journal/note pad.
Workshop: "Superconscious Sex" with Alfonso de Rose
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When: Tuesday, June 11
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Cost: $15 or $25 per Couple
Very Special Book Signing with Bruce Lipton: "The Honeymoon Effect: The Science of Creating Heaven on Earth"
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When: Thursday, June 13
Time: 7-9pm
Cost: Free Event!
The Honeymoon Effect: A state of bliss, passion, energy, and health resulting from a huge love. Your life is so beautiful that you can’t wait to get up to start a new day and you thank the Universe that you are alive. Think back on the most spectacular love affair of your life—the Big One that toppled you head over heels. For most, it was a time of heartfelt bliss, robust health, and abundant energy. Life was so beautiful that you couldn’t wait to bound out of bed in the morning to experience more Heaven on Earth. It was the Honeymoon Effect that was to last forever. Unfortunately for most, the Honeymoon Effect is frequently short-lived. Imagine what your planetary experience would be like if you could maintain the Honeymoon Effect throughout your whole life. Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D., bestselling author of The Biology of Belief, describes how the Honeymoon Effect was not a chance event or a coincidence, but a personal creation. This book reveals how we manifest the Honeymoon Effect and the reasons why we lose it. This knowledge empowers readers to create the honeymoon experience again, this time in a way that ensures a happily-ever-after relationship that even a Hollywood producer would love. With authority, eloquence, and an easy-to-read style, Lipton covers the influence of quantum physics (good vibrations), biochemistry (love potions), and psychology (the conscious and subconscious minds) in creating and sustaining juicy loving relationships. He also asserts that if we use the 50 trillion cells that live harmoniously in every healthy human body as a model, we can create not just honeymoon relationships for couples but also a “super organism” called humanity that can heal our planet.
Workshop: "Unstuck: Training the Subconscious Mind" with Lindy Arrif
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When: Tuesday, June 18
Time: 7-8:30pm
Cost: $15
Speaking the language of the subconscious mind, Lindy Ariff, MSW, will guide you on your healing journey using Rapid Resolution Therapy. She facilitates the healing of painful emotions at a subconscious level, in a gentle process that allows participants to get “Unstuck,” releasing painful feelings of guilt, shame, and blame, transforming stuck energy into light, wisdom, clarity, and peace.
Our meeting will include, education on the subconscious mind & emotions, conversation, & healing meditation. I look forward to meeting you and being a part of your healing journey! I am a healing coach and hypnotherapist who embraces the spiritual value of human connection and self expression. I specialize in Trauma Healing in my private counseling practice in Santa Monica.
Workshop: “An Introduction to Shamanic Practices of the Medicine Wheel”
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When: Wednesday, June 19
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Cost: Free Event
Summer Garden Book Party: "Hungry For Change: Ditch the Diets, Conquer the Cravings, and Eat Your Way to Lifelong Health" by James Colquhoun, Laurentine Ten Bosch
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When: Saturday, June 22
Time: 1-4pm
Cost: Free Event!
Come and enjoy Mystic Journey's Garden with a celebration of food, education and fun! Nutritional consultants and documentary filmmakers James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch have teamed up with the world’s leading experts in nutrition and natural medicine to create Hungry for Change—a groundbreaking documentary film and a practical, prescriptive companion volume to help you transform your eating habits and change your life. A “How-to Guide for Breaking Free from the Diet Trap,” Hungry for Change is based on the indisputable premise that “Food Matters,” as it exposes the truth about the diet industries and the dangers of food addictions, and enables you to take charge of your health and strengthen your mind and body.
Healthy and organic foods will be served along with Starfire Water! This event is free!
Workshop: "Things to Know about A Course in Miracles"
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When: Sunday, June 23
Time: 6:30-8:00pm
Cost: $10 Donation, or $25 and Receive a Free Copy of "Things to Know About A Course in Miracles"
Book Signing: "Unspoken Agreements" by Wendy Vitalich
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When: Monday, June 24
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Cost: Free Event
'The information in this book has the power to change your life. Purchase two and give one to your best friend.'
- Bob Proctor, Speaker, Author, and Featured Teacher from the Movie, The Secret
'Wendy fearlessly explores the complexity and richness of her identity as a twin and thereby establishes herself as a powerful individual who humbly assists singles and twins alike, celebrating their journey to wholeness.'
- Dr. Robert Dee McDonald, Speaker, Author, Creator of The Destination Method and Founder of The Telos Healing Center
'It's been a long time since a book moved me from one place to another! Do yourself a favor; pick up a copy for yourself and for someone you really care about. Being a 'twin' not required!'
- Liz Hanley Raci, Bicoastal Talent and Literary Agency, Owner/Literary Agent
Ready to uncover life's roadblocks so you can feel good about yourself?
Ready to break free from old stuck patterns and negative thinking?
Would you like to live the life you love?
Unspoken Agreements: A Twin's Journey and Beyond is a book for everyone whether you are a twin or not. In this book you will... Read interviews from 15 sets of fraternal and identical twins that illustrate how unspoken agreements operated in their relationships. Be guided through the processes of awareness, uncovering and rewriting your agreements, forgiveness, and healing. Take an inner journey to create a more joyful life.
http://unspokenagreements.tateauthor.com/
Workshop: "Laughter Groove" with Kim Selbert
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When: Tuesday, June 25
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Cost: $15
This workshop combines interactive exercises utilizing laughter, breathing, body movement and music. The activities are fun and guaranteed to improve your vitality, lessen pain and everyday stress and promote a more positive mental attitude. There will also be a brief discussion about the therapeutic benefits of laughter and music following the interactive activities.
Kim Selbert is a Creative Arts Therapist, a Licensed Occupational Therapist and a Certified Laughter Yoga Leader. Kim has facilitated groups for children, teens, adults and seniors in a variety of settings, utilizing her many skills as a therapist, laughter yoga instructor and dynamic facilitator. Laughter Groove is her newest venture combining all the activities she enjoys that can be of benefit to everyone engaging in the process.
Workshop: "Healing Addictions" with Kat Zaghi
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When: Wednesday, June 26
Time: 7-9pm
Cost: $20
HEALING ADDICTIONS WORKSHOP Awakening Unconscious Habits!
In this workshop, we will work on an energetic level to de-program and release any blockages between you and having more of your own life-force energy in the present moment and you will:
- Discover the energies that have created and trigger your addictions.
- Release and heal the layers of energies underlying your unconscious habits.
- Create personal freedom and liberation from addictive habits and patterns that control you.
- Align yourself even more to your body-spirit wellness and create more inner peace.
- Have more clarity and inner power to create conscious choices that is in your highest good.
- Expand your awareness and learn essential meditation tools that will empower and heal your everyday life!
Come play and have fun expanding the truth of who YOU really are!
Book Signing: "Transformational CPR" by Maya Rasak
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When: Thursday, June 27
Time: 7-8:30pm
Cost: Free Event!
Transformational CPR is filled with practical techniques, gripping stories, and gems of wisdom that can ease your journey through everyday challenges of the material world into a place of peace. The author’s own profound and sometimes humorous, experiences will skillfully guide you through the obstacles of spiritual and contemporary life to bring clarity and a sense of purpose into your everyday experience. Reading this book will awaken your heart and remind you of the promises inherent in meditation, a life connected to spirit, the blossoming of inner peace, wholeness and the achievement of a happiness not dependent on external conditions. Transformational CPR propels people to actively move through blocks and old negative patterns so we can realign with our true nature. By releasing the emotional patterns lodged in the body as well as having insights into those patterns that keep us from being fully present, we can experience the authentic Self and connect to the deepest most profound love, eternal love. It is from this sacred place that we can experience true intimacy with another, eradicate depression, anxiety, and addiction of any kind, thereby experiencing a deep sense of well being. Maya Rasak, internationally known speaker, life coach and board certified psychotherapist brings you these beautiful gifts with her book. Her key message in this powerful work is that we already are that which we seek and the work is not about attaining anything more, but simply removing all the barriers we have built against love.
Book Signing: "The Coolest Quote Book Eva" by Shereen Faltas
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When: Saturday, June 29
Time: 7-9pm
Cost: Free Event
A very cool inspirational quote book with a sassy twist. These are quotes that carried the author through her journey of evolution from doing what everyone else expected of her to doing what she truly wanted in life. This book is meant to not only entertain you, but support you and breathe inspiration into your journey.
Workshop: "An
Introduction to the Science and Art of Hand Analysis: w/ Amarjit Singh
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When: Tuesday, July 2
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Cost: $25
The information in your hands is a topographical map of the neurological pathways of your brain. Hand analysis is the manual for this map.
Hand analysis is an excellent tool for self-awareness as well as an invaluable source of information for counseling others. Participants will be taken through various aspects of hand analysis so they may begin reading and analyzing hands immediately. You will learn the philosophy and psychology of hand analysis, how to get an overview of a person’s personality, and how to determine the manner in which a person processes information emotionally, mentally, and physically.
Amarjit Singh is a writer, Kundalini Yoga Instructor, and transformational coach helping people realize their potential. He uses Scientific Hand Analysis to get to the core of a person’s being, Transformational Coaching, based on the principles of yoga psychology, for the encouragement and guidance to live their potential, and Kundalini Yoga Therapy, for the physical and mental attitude to put it into action.
For Hand Analysis Consultation information:
info@amarjitsingh.com
www.amarjitsingh.com
323.620.0912
Book Signing: "The Magic of Flowers" by Tess Whitehurst
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When: Saturday, July 20
Time: 2-3:30pm
Cost: Free Event
The Essential Compendium of Flower Magic
Explore the subtle and whimsical realm of flower magic with 80 magical species, conveniently presented in this comprehensive, one-of-a-kind guide! From African daisy to ylang ylang and many others in between, The Magic of Flowers introduces you to the holistic and therapeutic benefits of essential oils, flower essences, and the blossoms themselves.
As manifestations of divine beauty and wisdom, flowers offer you countless magical and spiritual ways to connect with them. Because they dwell on the border between seen and unseen, closer to the etheric realm of pure energy, flowers allow you to see into the heart of truth. Tune in to their unique vibrations and improve your health, vitality, beauty, success, personal power, and more. Use flowers for aromatherapy, charms and rituals, herbal potions, divine alignment, and to help manifest the life conditions you desire. Spark your own transcendent experiences with these mystical beings, who can serve as therapists, healers, and emissaries of the Divine.
Praise:
“With her gentle wisdom, author Tess Whitehurst has crafted a lovely guide to the world of flowers and their energies and essences. This enchanting book is both a comfort and a joy!”—Ellen Dugan, author of Seasons of Witchery and Garden Witch’s Herbal
"Wonderfully researched, easy to read, full of spells that reach beyond the simple ‘101’ of many books. This book has found a permanent place on my ‘most used’ reference shelf!”—Kris Bradley, author of Confessions of a Pagan Soccer Mom and Mrs. B.’s Guide to Household Witchery
"Tess Whitehurst doesn’t just write about flowers—she translates their messages into words anyone can understand. This is the only flower magic book you’ll ever need.”—Deborah Blake, author of Everyday Witch Book of Rituals
“Thorough, deep, and multifaceted, The Magic of Flowers is a must for any healer or magical practitioner’s shelf."—Clea Danaan, author of Sacred Land and Living Earth Devotional
Workshop: "Satsang" with Shree Swami Premodaya
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When: Tuesday, July 23
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Cost: $20
A genuine spiritual master is far more than a teacher or healer. One difference is that they often provide seekers with the ideal method or direction that will work best for each individual’s uniqueness—whether the goal is genuine happiness, permanent inner peace, or true self-realization. The purpose of life is lasting happiness (which once permanently established, inevitably leads to God-consciousness). But this happiness is not achievable through solely material means, which is the method most people pursue. It’s only possible once the spiritual basis has been actually put into place.
Premodaya’s initial awakening occurred suddenly and spontaneously at age twelve, without any spiritual, religious or experiential context. Decades later, following a series of intense mystical experiences, he was led to India’s renowned rebel mystic and global guru, Osho, whom he instantly recognized as his Master. In 1978 he began a career in clinical psychology, and in 1996 was appointed Director of Outpatient Psychiatry at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, leading a team of hundreds of doctors and therapists. While pursuing his career, he continued his deep spiritual and devotional practice year-in and year-out. On August 1, 2003, he emerged able to see deeply into others—past, present and future—and accepted the Divine mission of offering effective guidance to seekers of all ages and stages. Since then his work has continuously evolved and become even more potent, reaching more and more people, in ways that defy conventional explanation.
Come spend an evening with Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya. Many have felt his Divine transmission, and personally experienced the benefits of his transformative power. He has shifted families from poverty to wealth, changed cynics into seers, and guided person after person to the Ultimate itself. He has said: “It’s not enough to remain a sincere seeker. You can become a finder.”
The format for ‘Satsang with Premodaya’ begins with a brief silent meditation, followed by discourse and question-&-answer. And for anyone who would like, the opportunity for profound self-discovery work. Swami Premodaya invites you to bring your most significant questions, to give voice to what matters most to you—and if you would like, to allow him to assist.
Book Signing: "Confessions of a Therapist" by Isaiah
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When: Saturday, July 27
Time: 3-5pm
Cost: Free Event
Confessions of a Therapist – Passages for… Whatever Is Needed, pulls away the curtain from the behavioral conditioning that, subjectively interpreted, forms the constricting narrative that limits one's potential. Confessions is an insightful, empowering and pragmatic series of empowering passages that enable the freeing of one's unconditioned nature for the fulfillment of potential and possibility. Every significant area of living is addressed with clarity and emancipating perspective sure to provider the reader with a reference manual for successfully navigating life affairs.
Isaiah McGee, C.Ht., is a Hypnotherapist with an active practice in Southern California. As founder of A Conscious Life Hypnotherapy, Isaiah provides global outreach through his private practice and empowerment webinars, lectures and workshops. A sought-after contributor to various online publications and blogs, he is also published in numerous national and international publications, including Awareness Magazine, Science of Mind, and Body Mind Spirit Magazine. His new release, Confessions of a Therapist – Passages for Whatever Is Needed, spearheads an exciting foray into publishing as A Conscious Life Publishing continues to extend Isaiah’s mission of supporting individuals to actualize authentic living.
Book Signing: "Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being" by Linda Graham
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When: Saturday, July 27
Time: 6-8pm
Cost: Free Event
Resilience is the ability to face and handle life’s challenges, whether everyday disappointments or extraordinary disasters. While resilience is innate in the brain, over time we learn unhelpful patterns, which then become fixed in our neural circuitry. But science is now revealing that what previously seemed hardwired can be rewired, and Bouncing Back shows us how. With powerful, time-tested exercises, Linda Graham guides us in rebuilding our core well-being and disaster-proofing our brains.
Linda Graham, MFT, is a marriage and family therapist, mindfulness teacher, and expert on the neuroscience of human relationships who trains other clinicians in applying neuroscience in their work.
Book Signing: "Through Gilly's Eyes: Memoirs of a Guide Dog" by Matthew VanFossen
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When: Saturday, July 27
Time: 6-8pm
Cost: Free Event
A GUIDE DOG WHO TELLS HIS OWN STORY Meet Guildenstern, aka Gilly, self-described as "one of the handsomest dogs at guide dog school." Definitely not your ordinary yellow Labrador!
When he is paired with Matt, a newly-blinded young college student, there begins a relationship which transcends the ordinary bond between dog and man.
From guide dog school to college and on to Brazil, Gilly relates their adventures with humor and wisdom. Readers will look at the world in new ways after seeing it through Gilly's eyes.
FROM THE BOOK: "Matt and I made our first solo foray onto campus. I had no idea where we were going, and Matt, it turned out, had only a vague one. The two of us made an extremely awkward team.
As we started off down the block, he began counting his steps in a low voice.
Smart boy, I thought. I wouldn't be able to find our house on the very first return trip. He'd be able to cue me on the way back.
Unfortunately, walking and counting at the same time didn't seem to be one of his strengths. I distinctly heard him say the number 'sixty' twice. Then, I heard him curse. Finally, we reached the intersection.
'Two hundred and fourteen,' he announced.
Give or take a few dozen, I thought.
Matt VanFossan is a counselor and musician who lives in Santa Monica, CA with his wife, Rita, and his guide dog, Achilles.
Through Gilly's Eyes is his first book.
To learn more about Matt's work and music, visit guidingforlife.com or email him at guidingforlife@gmail.com.
