2010 Courses, Workshops & Events

Following is a listing of our previous and featured courses, workshops, and events both produced by Living Mandala and by our affiliated partners and friends. If you are interested in working with Living Mandala to produce or promote a course, workshop, or event contact us.

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Foundational Training for Spiritual Joy and Life Mastery

Nov 27 - Dec 4, 2010

Twain Harte, California, U.S.

As a participant in this extraordinary experience you will be guided through a process of spiritual awakening and personal empowerment which has changed the lives of thousands in countless countries. Initiation reaches far beyond everyday structures and experiences, as it is based on the tradition of spiritual initiations still found among indigenous populations. Throughout the week, as ancient ritual teachings are combined with contemporary therapeutic methods, Peggy Dylan and the SUNDOOR Trainers create a spiritual environment that brings you to the purpose and focus of your life and allows that which heals, empowers and guides you to emerge. Eliminate past negative patterns which keep you stuck in inadequacy and fear. Gain scientific understanding of the process of personal development and achievement. Crystallize a sense of purpose and learn the tools necessary to fulfill it. Align with boundless, universal energy to guide and propel you to personal mastery. Join Initiation and gain the understanding, the tools, the vision and the inner magic to make your life what you desire it to be! Read More.

SUNDOOR School of Transpersonal Education

Twain Harte, California, U.S.

Dec 5 - 11, 2010

Since the beginning of humankind, people have revered fire and have used it in ceremonies of purification, healing, initiation, and transformation. In many countries the ancients firewalked in powerful rituals of renewal. FIREWALKING has been practiced for thousands of years by indigenous peoples across the globe in a variety of manners to utilize the immense power of fire. In the Firewalk Instructor Certification Training you are taught all the intricate details that make the firewalk such a powerful tool for transformation. This training is the world's longest consecutive running and most comprehensive Firewalk Instructor Certification Training available, and will qualify you as a SUNDOOR Firewalk Instructor. This course will give you all the information, skill, tools, support and the network you need to successfully incorporate the firewalk into your own workshops and events, as well as be a very powerfully transformative experience on a personal level. Read More.

10 Day Intensive in Eco-Paradise

Finca las Nubes, San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua

December 6 – 15, 2010

This bilingual Aquaponics and Permaculture 10-day intensive December includes 10 days of outdoor classroom instruction, and hands-on experience at the Aquaponics mini-farm located at the beautiful Ecovillage Resort of Finca Las Nubes. Students will learn about Aquaponics, Permaculture, experience luxurious eco-village living, and much more from experienced trainers & professionals sharing their knowledge and experience in Aquaponics, Permaculture, land restoration, tropical food forest, social justice and self sufficiency. You will learn the skills needed to design and create sustainable Aquaponics systems and Aquaculture farms that integrate Permaculture principals through out. All this while, we will be staying in an amazing Eco-village Resort with gorgeous luxury accommodations, permaculture gardens, views of the ocean, amazing wildlife, monkeys, nearby beaches, horseback riding, hiking and much more. Read More.

The Art, Science and Practice of Personal and Planetary Peacemaking

A 7-week Course with Renowned Peacemaker James O'Dea

Wednesday Evenings, 5-7 pm PST, Oct 13 - Dec 1

Healers, Visionary Activists, Educators, Clergy, Creative Social Artists, Change Agents, and Social Entrepreneurs who are READY to learn exactly what it takes to harness the transformative power of Peacemaking in your lives and become powerful agents for positive change. You can now access step-by-step strategies for navigating conflict and building peace so you can heal yourself, your family and the world, NOW, when the world needs us most. You can take an active role in being the change - and you can learn to do it effectively with tools and strategies from a world-renowned social healer and peacemaker. This state-of-the-art virtual course features one of the world’s most respected peacebuilders and social healers - James O’Dea. James combines a career in which he was Director of the Washington Office of Amnesty International and President of The Institute of Noetic Sciences: frontline activism and deep knowledge of consciousness and conscious evolution. He has been engaged in groundbreaking international social healing dialogues for over a decade and is currently engaged with practitioners and projects in Rwanda, Israel/ Palestine and Northern Ireland. In short, James is the perfect person to initiate you into the next level of your peacemaking, helping you ignite your deepest gifts. Join us for a transformational personal journey in service to the most important shifts in our world! Read More.

Nov 12-19, 2010

Seattle, WA

This Teacher's Training course is a revolutionary new way of teaching solution based eco-social design concepts by applying the principles of Permaculture to the teaching of Permaculture.  This course will cover every aspect of being an effective educator, facilitator and promoter of mutually beneficial relationships for a more sustainable and just future. By taking the approach of whole person learning and using teaching combinations from educators from all over the world, this course provides invaluable information of facilitating and how to frame concepts and ideas to people from all walks of life and cultural context. This course also offers the basis of how to administer the core PDC as well as planning and preparing for variations of specialized permaculture focused workshops and practicum. Upon completion course attendees will receive a teaching certificate from the Permaculture Research Institute. Read More.

EMBODIMENT ~ Level 1 Training

October 29-November 7, 2010

Arcosanti Eco-Village, AZ

                                      

Learn how to use movement as a medicine for yourself and others. Dancing Freedom is for Transformation, Integration, Leadership & Health – The dance of Self, Other, Community and Planet. Learn how to structure a class, how to set energetic and emotional space, how to create both safety and risk, how to work with music, who to market to, and how to grow a community around your teaching.  Activate your spiritual, emotional and creative passion, power and purpose through dance. Partner with the Five Elements of Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether, and the Six Patterns of Total Body Connectivity. Learn to source you personal expression of healing, compassionate leadership, pragmatic action and dynamic wholeness through intelligent interconnectivity with your body, the Earth,  All of Life and Spirit. Learn how to listen to your soul in the dance and how to help others do the same. HARVEST the basic insights of the practice each day. Understand horizontal, vertical and spherical power, and how to use all three. In Embodiment, we open personal and collective pathways for being fully embodied, fully in our power and fully free. We learn the basic template of the Dancing Freedom Practice. Read More.

10/10/10

Global Work Party

October 10, 2010

Planet Earth

Sonoma County, CA

A coalition of Sonoma County organizations and citizens who came together to organize the 350 Garden Challenge - which installed a record 629 Gardens in Sonoma County, CA in a single weekend in May of 2010, are continuing the initiative alongside other organizations and joining 350.org’s International Campaign for Climate Change Action and the 10/10/10 Global Work Party. This coalition is working together organizing local actions and launching the 350 Climate Challenge enrolling people to reduce their carbon footprint and to engage in climate protection projects locally and around the county. The goal of the 350 Climate Challenge is to enroll at least 10,000 people to pledge to reduce their personal and community carbon footprints. Get involved with the international day of climate action, join 1,000’s of people in Sonoma County and the world at large, and pledge to reduce your carbon emissions by taking the climate challenge and/or get involved with a community work party. The time is now. Read More.

October 2 2010 - Feb 21, 2010

Commonweal Garden, Bolinas, CA

Many of us are searching for ways to make a difference, to transform our families, communities and the world we live in. And each of us can make a difference – we all have the seeds of leadership and service within us. We can nurture these seeds, learning the skills and tools we need to transform ourselves and embody our highest potential. Whether you have prior experience and training, or you have recently felt called to step onto a path of leadership for the first time, this program is a unique opportunity to deeply explore who you are, who you wish to be, and what your specific offering is to others. Through the Ecology of Leadership courses, you can learn to articulate your vision, get in deeper touch with your gifts, and develop new tools, routines, mindsets and skills to be more effective in manifesting what you see for yourself and the world. Read More.

Thriving Economies from Healthy Ecosystems

September 24-26, 2010

The Farm Community, Summertown, Tennessee

This innovative training for teachers, designers and community organizers hosted will review the mechanics of design, and tools for strategic organization, business planning, documentation, collaboration, action learning and principles of Permaculture applied to personal, ecological, social and financial systems as they meet in the nexus of right livlihood. Core instructor Eric Toensmeier will lead participants in three days of applied permaculture design to co-create thriving, humane, economies that regenerate whole ecosystems (profits for a prosperous planet!). Take this amazing workshop as a follow up to the Teaching Permaculture Creativly Course, or as a stand alone. Read More.

With Applied Permaculture Design

August 25 – 28, 2010

Ukiah, California

Aquaponics is one of the most sustainable and productive farming systems in the world. It combines Aquaculture and Hydroponics to create a truly self-sufficient closed loop system that uses only a fraction of the water, labor, energy, etc. that other methods use. Combining Permaculture Design with Aquaponics creates an even more sustainable, dynamic, productive & regenerative system. In this intensive training you will learn some of the most cutting edge pioneering aquaponics systems and gain a solid foundation from which to create your own Aquaponics System, Farm & thriving Green Business. Read More.

Intergenerational Ecovillage Development

July 27 - August 13, 2010

Big Bend Hot Springs

Shasta County, N. California

We are excited to announce this first Permaculture Design Certification Course with a focus on Inter-Generational Ecovillage Development. With a focus on tending the inner, outer, and community landscapes... this course will include the standard 72-hour permaculture design curriculum based upon the original Mollison and Holmgren ideas and design philosophies published in The Permaculture Designer’s Manual, as well as be a nourishing retreat and hands-on immersion experience in Ecovillage Design & Development. In addition to the standard Permaculture Design Certification curriculum, we recognize permaculture as a holistic design philosophy expanding in symbiosis with many related fields. Accordingly, this permaculture design course will integrate additional content and activities such as nature awareness, indigenous wisdom, holistic nutrition, embodiment practices, inner work, group process, and much more. During this intensive 17-day course participants will be immersed into an amazing and nourishing learning environment practicing skills to transform our lives and our communities into regenerative systems while contributing to the design & activation of an exciting Ecovillage project, living in community as a village, and experiencing profound personal renewal at this oasis of natural beauty and magic. Read More.

Workshop Series

July-Sept

3rd Saturday of each month

Sebastopol, California

In this 5 month program you will deepen your relationship with the land, learning to care for it using permaculture principles and Biodynamic rhythms. The focus is on hands on gardening to deepen your skill and intuition in knowing how to listen to the garden’s needs. This program invites deeply nourishing insights into the life that sustains us.

You will explore your connection to food as being the bounty of a beautiful garden. Every food choice we make effects our bodies and our planet. This is an opportunity to get inspired by a life centered around the garden. We will be preparing food and making herbal preparations. Read more.

Ecovillage

June 11-13, 2010

A Village of Voices, Workshops, & Technologies for a Conscious, Greener World

Sonoma County Fair Grounds

Living Mandala is excited to announce co-production of the Harmony Festival Ecovillage again this year June 11-13 2009 at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa, CA. This year the Ecovillage is partnering California Institute of Integral Studies for deeper integration between Ecology and Healing and offering an amazing line-up of speakers, workshops, and ongoing activities. As the Greening of America gains momentum in public consciousness, we are expanding & integrating our Eco Village offerings to create and entire holistic village area that fully supports all the important aspects that need to come together to create a fully functional state ecological awareness. Environmental information and action, cultivation of knowledge and intellectual capacity and mind, body and spirit integration. All of these elements help to create a platform that individuals, families, communities and organizations need to share in to produce positive results in the world. Music Line-Up Includes: Ms. Lauryn Hill - Slightly Stoopid - Steel Pulse - Galactic feat. Lyrics Born & Chali 2NA - Zappa Plays Zappa  -  Rebelution - Fishbone - The Expendables - 7 Walkers feat. Bill Kreutzmann & Papa Mali - Delhi 2 Dublin - Tipper - Ott - Beats Antique - Snatam Kaur - Jai Uttal & The Pagan Love Orchestra - Brass, Beats, Bows Hip Hop Symphony - Diego's Umbrella - Mishka. Keynote Speakers Include: Dr. Bruce Lipton - Paul Stamets - Caroline Casey - Swami Chidanandji - Mike Ruppert - Dan Millman - Nicki Scully - Swami Beyondananda - Dr. Bruce Lipton - Paul Stamets - Caroline Casey and more! Ecovillage Workshops Include: Sustianable Solutions, Holistic Lifestuyles, Natural Building, Green Business, 350 Climate Change Action, Yoga & Embodiment, Green Technologies, Food Forest Gardening, Ecology of Leadership, Dancing Feedom, and more. Read More.

Natural Building and Magic Workshop for Women

Black Mountain Preserve, N California

May 28-30, 2010

Get down, get dirty and get covered in mud in the beautiful Cazadero Hills, for a magical weekend learning the ancient building skills of our ancestors.  We’ll work with cob—sculpted clay, sand and straw, as well as light straw clay, waddle and daub, and natural plasters to learn practical skills we can use in building low-cost, low-carbon, beautiful structures from the Earth.   We’ll learn truly down-to-earth skills and share ritual celebration,  empowering ourselves to create shelter and spaces, within and without.  And as a circle of women, we will support one another to be strong, creative, and empowered to manifest our visions and make our dreams real! Read More.

350 Garden Challenge

May 15 -16 2010

Sonoma County, California

Permaculture Training Through a Cooperative Model

Ananda Dhiira

Grass Valley, Califronia

April 24 - May 5 2010

This cooperative permaculture design certification course weaves together the creativity and energy of the participants and trainers in a 12-day exploration of how to design our world to work for all life. Amongst the breathtaking scenery of the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California, we will share our collective insights, wisdom and experience about how to create sustainable, self-reliant communities, low maintenance foodscapes, healthy homes made from the earth, greywater systems, alternative economic systems and all the many other hallmark techniques of permaculture design. Read More.

Healing Through Permacultrue & Biodynamic Gardening

Fri, Mar 19 – Sun, Mar 21, 2010

Institute of Noetic Sciences

Petaluma, CA

You’re stuck in traffic horns blasting and radios blaring. Tension builds as you look around to see nothing but highway. Yet you long to see wild flowers or a remote beach with pelicans flying close to the waves. What is this longing? Why do we feel it as if it points to a hole in the very fabric of our being? We feel that way because it does. The longing is a call for us to restore our grounding within the natural world that had nourished us for hundreds of thousands of years and is now lost from our daily lives. Our separation from nature is at the heart of the health crisis, social unrest and threats to the environment that are so prominent in the world today. We must reconnect to heal.  Fortunately activities such as holistic gardening, walking meditations, even flower arranging can create that reconnection. During this weekend of the vernal equinox we explore a more intimate relationship with our food, nature’s rhythms and the gentle flow of our life force as we spend time in the IONS permaculture garden putting what we learn into concrete practice. Read More.

Spring-Summer, 2010

Commonweal Garden, Bolinas, CA

& Santa Barbara, CA

Many of us are searching for ways to make a difference, to transform our families, communities and the world we live in. And each of us can make a difference – we all have the seeds of leadership and service within us. We can nurture these seeds, learning the skills and tools we need to transform ourselves and embody our highest potential. Whether you have prior experience and training, or you have recently felt called to step onto a path of leadership for the first time, this program is a unique opportunity to deeply explore who you are, who you wish to be, and what your specific offering is to others. Through the Ecology of Leadership courses, you can learn to articulate your vision, get in deeper touch with your gifts, and develop new tools, routines, mindsets and skills to be more effective in manifesting what you see for yourself and the world. Read More.

Winter Service Learning

December 15 - Januay 15, 2010

Equador - Quito, Lago Agrio, Mindo and Cuyabeno

The Cloud Forest Institute and the Amazon Mycorenewal Project invite undergraduate, graduate and lifelong students to attend our 2009 Winter Service Learning Course Ecuadorian Political Ecology, Oil Pollution, and Mycoremediation. This course will take students to Quito, Lago Agrio, Mindo and Cuyabeno to experience the striking biological and cultural diversity of Ecuador's many regions including the Andes Mountains and Amazon Rainforest. Students will participate in the development of ground breaking mycoremediation technology and study Latin American political ecology. Service learning students will help heal lands and communities polluted by the oil industry. Students can receive independent study credit through their current college or university. Students may enroll in four, week-long sections individually or for the entire month long course in which we will examine Ecuadorian cultural traditions, political ecology, oil economics, toxicity and bioremediation. Cloud Forest Institute will help students to arrange with their University department to earn up to 4 credits through independent study. Read More.

Jan 9-23, 2010, N. California

This unique permaculture design certificate course has an additional focus on earth-based spirituality, organizing, activism, and social permaculture. Learn how to heal soil and cleanse water, how to design human systems that mimic natural systems,  how to use a minimum of energy and resources to create real abundance and social justice.  Explore the strategies and organizing tools we need to make our visions real, and the daily practice, magic and rituals that can sustain our spirits.  This course is participatory, hands-on teaching with lots of ritual, games, projects, songs, and laughs along with an intensive curriculum in ecological design. The course is facilitated by facilitated by Starhawk, Charles Williams, Sage Mata, Jay Ma, Erik Ohlsen, and a host of special guests. Read More.

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