The Ojai Experience • Jun 10-13

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THE OJAI EXPERIENCE
Timeless Wisdom for Timely Action

Transformation is upon us. So many have predicted, spoken, prayed for these times… they are here.

Deepen your connection with the natural world, learn time-honored ways to build strong, vibrant community, awaken and share your gifts and bring forth inspired action and collaboration in service of the earth and all beings.

Project Butterfly and The Ojai Foundation present a 3 day/3 night journey cradled in the sublime beauty and magic of Ojai. With the support of timeless practices and traditional teachings, including the way of Council, the ceremonial sweat and deep listening in nature, we will explore together to inspire, enchant and focus our lives. The weekend will ignite meaning and purpose as well as provide simple and powerful tools to bring home to our families, relationships and communities.

The Ojai Experience Schedule Summary ::

THURSDAY :: 10 June 2010
4pm Arrival & Check-IN... The Journey begins...
Dinner

Evening Keynote Presentation & Talk with Jyoti
Jyoti is an internationally renowned spiritual advisor and teacher of earth based ways of prayer and the visionary behind the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers.

KeynoteTopic: A Global Movement for World Peace and Unity inspired and led by the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. Jyoti will share the story of the vision that brought the grandmothers together and how that vision continues to inspire others globally to stand up for the Earth initiating sustainable projects and actions in communities around the world.

FRIDAY :: 11 June 2010
Meditation
Opening Ceremony
Introduction to the Way of Council
Medicine Wheel Teaching
Solotime in Nature
Ceremonial Sweat

SATURDAY :: 12 June 2010
Morning Dreamstar Council
Spiral Council : Integrating the Sweat Ceremony
Communal Shamanic Acupuncture & Dream Journey offered by Eric Baumgartner of Urban Remedy
Gender Councils "fishbowl" style.
Eco Shout Out: Sharing our projects and passions
Cross-Pollination
Music & Dance Celebration

SUNDAY :: 13 June 2010
Morning Dreamstar Council
Cross-Pollination
Integration Council
Harvesting the Gems and Taking a Stand
Closing Ceremony
3pm :: The Journey comes to a Close

Come together in community to live your questions, longings and passions regarding your role during this time of personal and planetary transformation. We will begin a rite of passage, an initiatory process as a community in transition. You will leave with a better understanding of the unique medicine you carry, more familiarity with your support base and partners on this journey, with a greater means of communication and a better understanding of your soul’s higher calling.

Meals ::
Organic and divine meals will be masterfully created by Chef Benjamin Haffner of Divine Nourishment. Trained in Traditional Healing Arts and California French Cuisine, his mastery of this colorful, delicious, nutrient rich whole food cuisine is unique and enlightened.

Lodging ::
Our onsite sleeping facilities are rustic and simple, in the style of a private camp in a semi-wilderness setting with hot showers and restrooms. Accommodations include private and shared yurts and domes as well as campsites for tents.


In addition to our hermitages, our facilities also feature a pottery studio, community kitchen areas, meditation room, sweat lodge, tipi, and two kivas with fire pits.
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TUITION FOR THE OJAI EXPERIENCE ::

OFF-SITE:
$275 per person
9 Organic meals provided by Divine Nourishment
Full program from Thursday evening to Sunday afternoon
Accommodations not included


CAMPSITE:
$300 per person
Campsite for your tent
9 Organic meals provided by Divine Nourishment
Full program from Thursday evening to Sunday afternoon


SHARED:
$350 per person
Accommodation in either a shared yurt or dome
9 Organic meals provided by Divine Nourishment
Full program from Thursday evening to Sunday afternoon


PRIVATE
$450 per person
Accommodation in either a Private yurt or dome
9 Organic meals provided by Divine Nourishment
Full program from Thursday evening to Sunday afternoon


Contact & Information ::
For more information regarding registration, prices and a more comprehensive schedule of the event, please email :: info@projectbutterfly.org

* The mission of The Ojai Foundation is to strengthen individuals, families, schools and communities by teaching ways to listen and speak from the heart*, to honor life’s many passages and to enhance our connection with nature. These practices deepen our relationships with each other and the earth and support the emergence of a compassionate, sustainable and peaceful world. * COUNCIL is the practice of deep listening and authentic, heartfelt speaking and comes from the universal tradition of sitting around a fire to share the stories of our lives. As the talking piece is passed, we slow down and speak one-at-a-time without interrupting – inviting stronger presence and the potential for more meaningful dialogue. All Ojai Foundation programs incorporate the way of council.


*The mission of Project Butterfly is to cross-pollinate with individuals and organizations that are actively engaged in Positive Transformation. Project Butterfly is devoted to holding space for visionaries, educators, guides, healers, artists, and activists to communicate their vision, heal our planet and create unity through community.

*Center for Sacred Studies Co-founder and Spiritual Director, Jyoti is an internationally renowned spiritual advisor and teacher of earth based ways of prayer. Her background includes education in cross-cultural spiritual practices, social services program development, training at the Jung Institute in Switzerland, and extensive international travel. She has devoted her life to bringing unity to the planet, by facilitating the development of alliances between individuals who are the guardians of indigenous culture and traditional Medicine ways. She and the CSS staff convened the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers www.grandmotherscouncil.com and continue to organize and raise funds for the Grandmother's global work for world peace and unity. Jyoti has been named by the Grandmother's Council as their Traveling Ambassador Charged with the Mission.

Jyoti

*$20 if you register online, $25 at the door

Project Butterfly and The Ojai Foundation present an evening presentation and talk with Jyoti:

Center for Sacred Studies Co-founder and Spiritual Director, Jyoti is an internationally renowned spiritual advisor and teacher of earth based ways of prayer. Her background includes education in cross-cultural spiritual practices, social services program development, training at the Jung Institute in Switzerland, and extensive international travel. She has devoted her life to bringing unity to the planet, by facilitating the development of alliances between individuals who are the guardians of indigenous culture and traditional Medicine ways. She and the CSS staff convened the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers and continue to organize and raise funds for the Grandmother's global work for world peace and unity. Jyoti has been named by the Grandmother's Council as their Traveling Ambassador Charged with the Mission.

A Global Movement for World Peace and Unity inspired and led by the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. Jyoti will share the story of the vision that brought the grandmothers together and how that vision continues to inspire others globally to stand up for the Earth initiating sustainable projects and actions in communities around the world.

Tuition: $20 if you register online, $25 at the door

To register:

Animal Tracking with Jim Lowery • 06.05.10 • 8:30am-3:30pm

Animal Tracking Class with Jim Lowery

Tracking is an ancient skill that has been called a person’s “first communication with the earth.” Identifying tracks, reading them for an animal’s mood and behavior, and following them to understand the web of life in a natural area, are skills we modern people can use to connect to the land. Tracking is also an invaluable tool to understand, appreciate, and protect open space around us.

Jim Lowery of Earth Skills [www.earthskills.com] has taught tracking to thousands of students from middle school students to field biologists for 23 years and will give you a solid introduction to the art with lots of practice in this seven-hour class. Jim has taught specialized workshops in track interpretation and animal movement as well as clinics in tracking badgers, black bears, mountain lions and bighorn sheep among other animals. He is the author of The Tracker’s Field Guide (Globe Pequot 2006). This workshop will definitely change the way you see things! Class size limited to 15 to preserve quality of instruction.

Contribution: $68

Location:
Malibu Creek State Park

Participants in this class will receive a $20 discount in the next class they take with Earth Skills, for example Plant Uses, Survival, Nature Awareness, Earth Philosophy or Advanced Tracking.


Jim Lowery founded Earth Skills in 1987 as an extension of his longtime passion for wilderness adventure. He has completed nine specialized classes in tracking, wilderness survival and related subjects from Tom Brown, Jr.'s Tracking, Nature and Wilderness Survival School in New Jersey, and has supplemented this study with other teachers as well as with thousands of hours in the field. Among the hundreds of classes and workshops he has taught over the past twenty-two years have been many special trainings for universities, naturalists, docents, teachers and wildlife biologists.

Shanti Generation • May 28, 29 and 30

Shanti Generation www.shantigeneration.com
presents
Yoga Skills for Youth
Facilitators Training (Phase One)

Learn to facilitate engaging, effective yoga classes for youth.

For yoga teachers, school teachers, therapists, parents, and individuals interested in working with youth and school communities to make peace through yoga.

In this 20-hour experiential training course, you will learn:

· Developmentally appropriate teaching practices.
· Methods for organizing a harmonious class environment.
· Skills for building relationships with school communities.
· Ways of skillfully conducting democratic education.
· Techniques to guide youth in accessing their innate wisdom.
· Insightful processes to engage youth in peacemaking.
· Critical tactics for addressing issues of diversity.
· Systems for developing social and emotional wellness.

Participants will learn an organized system for creating curriculum to meet the unique needs of individual youth and youth groups.

This course will address how to effectively teach yoga to youth in relevant language.


Instructor: Abby Wills, MA, ERYT,
Abby shares more than twelve years of experience teaching youth and teachers in yoga studios and schools. She serves as Program Director for Shanti Generation, an organization she co-founded to bring the transformational practice of yoga to youth and school communities. Currently, Abby is on faculty at New Roads Middle School and The Walther School, pre-school. In addition to on-going exploration and practice of yogic systems, Abby’s teachings are informed by graduate studies in Developmental Education at Pacific Oaks College. Most recently, Abby collaborated with WSR Creative to produce an innovative DVD program called Yoga Skills for Youth Peacemakers.

Friday May 28, 2010 4:00pm-8:00pm
Saturday May 29 & Sunday May 30, 2010 10am-6pm

Location:
Project Butterfly
821 Traction Ave #108
Los Angeles, Ca 90013

Tuition is BY DONATION (Suggested donation: $175-$300)

For more info or to register email: abby@shantigeneration.com