Franconia Notch Chamber of Commerce
Julia Lynam's page, with Seventh Circle, an e-zine with articles of interest and calendar of Circle Dance events in New England and elsewhere.
Shaker's Touchstone Farm, which hosts yoga and dance events and has a huge online library of dances.
Sacred Circle Dance in East Tennessee
At this website you will find background information about Sacred Circle Dance, a schedule of upcoming dance gatherings, and lots of links related to sacred dance, poetry, art, yoga, and more.
Interactive Calendar with listings for Sacred Circle Dance events.
Laura Shannon specializes in Armenian dances, Gypsy dances and women's dances. Laura holds an honours degree in Intercultural Studies and a diploma in Dance Movement Therapy. Her innovative approach to Sacred Circle Dance is appreciated in many countries.
Leah Bella Circular Dances in Weston, FL
Lucy
van Leeuwen's Page, Poetry of the Dance.
Beverly Woods
and Seth Austen and several other musicians who play with
them are available to play great live music for dances.
NEFFA:
New England Folk Festival Association
For information on recreational folk dance, see Bob Shapiro's site, with information about
folkdance groups all over the country, choreographies for many
traditional dances, and a lot of links to other sites.
Helen's
Yiddish Dance Page -- comments on Israeli & Klezmer dance
Roundabout
Dancewear -- Dancewear made by Circle Dancers
Sacred Source
Divine Images They have large & small figures of
many gods & goddesses from Hindu, Greek, Celtic pantheons.
Jalaja
Bonheim wrote Aphrodite's Daughters, a book about women's
spirituality and its connection to sexuality. Choreographer
of Jalaja's Chakra Dance which is now spreading out through the
Circle Dance World in several versions and many names. She
is an EXTRAORDINARY workshop leader.
Aviva
Gold teaches Painting from the Source. The
big paintings that hang on the wall at Neskaya were done in her
workshop.
WREN - Women's
Rural Entreprenurial Network -- these folks are transforming
the North Country by teaching women to start & run their own
businesses, and supporting us with classes, workshops, tech center,
outlet for arts & crafts, etc. I'm proud to be a Wren.
Findhorn Community
-- East of Inverness in Scotland, on the edge of the North Sea.
They first became famous for the garden and growing 40 pound cabbages
with the help of the nature devas.
Gaviotas,
the extraordinary community in Colombia, is alive and well:
For three decades, Gaviotans - peasants, scientists, artists,
and former street kids - have struggled to build an oasis of imagination
and sustainability in the remote, barren savannas of eastern Colombia,
an area ravaged by political terror. They have planted millions
of trees, thus regenerating an indigenous rainforest. They farm
organically and use wind and solar power. Every family enjoys
free housing, community meals, and schooling. There are no weapons,
no police, no jail. There is no mayor.
Related links: zeri
(Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives) and the sustainable village
The
Feminine of History is Mystery is a book written by Jenny
Deupree. It's a weave of many ideas, centered around earth
energies and the sacred calendar.
Middle Atlantic
Geomancy -- earth energies, dowsing, sacred geometry,
and Labyrinths.
Feng
Shui Palace -- the website of Karen Rauch Carter, who wrote
Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life, a wonderfully user-friendly
guide to magical home decorating. You can order mirrors,
wind chimes, etc. online.
Stone
Pages -- for people who are interested in British megalithic
monuments. If you don't know what those are, check these
folks out, and then go to Julia's page to see people dancing in
Swinside...
Crop
Circle Connector -- a guide to those mysterious and beautiful
formations that appear in fields of growing grain. My favorite
is the Julia set (a mathematical construct, subset of the Mandelbrot
Set -- and there must be links to that, but I don't know of them)
that appeared near Stonehenge in 1996.
Innerlinks
-- These are the people who designed the Angel Cards and the Transformation
Game.
Animal
Essences -- for those who use Bach flower essences, and people
doing shamanic work, and anyone who'd like to invoke the spirits
of helpful animals. These essences are created by a ceremonial
process, no animals are harmed.
YES!
Hopeful News for a Just, Compassionate & Sustainable Future
Better
Together -- A New Hampshire Organization promoting the building
of "Social Capital", which is the web of relationships
that gives us a sense of connection, belonging, and community.
Ithaca Hours
-- A program for local currency that can be used as a powerful
community building device for keeping financial resources at home,
creating jobs, borrowing money at no interest, and many more features
of a sustainable economy.
E.F.
Schumacher -- the site that includes history and details of
the local currency movement in general.
The
Hunger Site: Go there once a day and click where it says,
and the sponsors will provide food for a hungry person for one
day. All sorts of information about hunger on our planet
and what we can do about it.
NOVICA: They
maintain an online catalog of beautiful works of art & craft
from around the world, making themselves a very thin and short
middleperson between buyer and artist. Neskaya has two beautiful
carved masks from Bali, Sita (a Hindu version of Persephone) and
Garuda, the eagle god.
Go Moose:
A local site, right here in Franconia, devoted to that ungainly
and majestic beast. Information, humor and e-cards you can
send to your friends.
Blue Mountain
Cards: They have wonderful e-cards for about every occasion
you could imagine and some you didn't even know existed.
Prayers
for Peace: from many faiths.
Krishna
Das: an American who went to India following a spiritual
path, and returned to make music that is quite wonderful, and
has become a favorite among a number of us here at Neskaya.
Center for Nonviolent
Communication -- Trainings and certified trainers in techniques
based on the book by Marshall Rosenberg. EXCELLENT techniques
for how to express your feelings and needs and how to listen to
others' expression of theirs. From the back cover:
"Nonviolent Communication is essentially radical; it subverts
our whole status-quo system of power." -- D. Killian
"NVC is a process that can help us to honor and appreciate
our differences and celebrate our common needs." --
Carol Placer
Nonviolent
Communication -- A Language of Compassion. The book
itself. At this website you will find much of the text of
the book. I consider NVC a spiritual practice.
The Center
for a New American Dream Helping Americans change the
way they consume to improve quality of life, protect the environment,
and promote social justice.
Training
for Change Workshops, Philadelphia Training for
Change was founded on Martin Luther King's birthday in 1992, a
carefully chosen birthday for a group that spreads the skills
of democratic, nonviolent social change.
The Work of
Byron Katie. A self-help process that can end the war
with yourself.
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