Dates: Sept. 28th – Oct 6th, 2011
Days: Tuesday – Thursday
Begins: Gather 11:00 am at Cultural Center, Isla Rio Cuale
Ends: 3:00 pm
Cost: 100 pesos per class
Provided: Easels, brushes, paint, tables, water containers, paper towels, mixing palette
Bring: Canvas, drawing paper and instruments (pencils, colored pencils, crayons and/or pastels), journal, lunch or snack, an open heart and an open mind!
Registration: Open and ongoing.
Recommendations: Attend at least three classes

No prior painting experience necessary. Soul Painting focuses on the process of painting rather than the outcome.

Facilitated by Sandra Nitchie, Founder of the Monarch Effect and graduate of the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. Morning ceremony lead by Fernando Bravo, born in the Chichimeca area where he learned the indigenous Mexican traditional ceremony and dance. Fernando dances today with the Puerto Vallarta Aztec Dancers, also known as the Oztocoatl Chalchiutlicue organization.

To register contact sandra@themonarcheffect.org
322.101.5100 cell

Soul Painting at Mayto Beach

Capture the essence of the morning meditation through sketching and writing

Soul Painting can be inspired by meditation or through the natural environment

Begin the morning meditation with a clearing ceremony using copal incense, a resin produced from plant sap

Each morning we gather in the sacred circle with the intention to open our heart to the messages of the divine

The resonance of the conch shell opens the Mayan Medicine Wheel and the four directions

Learn the ancient Aztec dances taught by Puerto Vallarta Aztec Dancer, Fernando Bravo

Our first day will depart Old Town, Puerto Vallarta in the morning, arriving around lunchtime in El Tuito, a charming colonial village nestled in the Sierra Madres. Spend an hour or so meandering through the breezy town center, purchasing local artisan handcrafts, lunching at authentic Mexican restaurants, sipping raicilla margaritas, a tequila made from the locally grown grey agave plant, made famous by this quaint village town. Arriving at sunny Mayto Beach in the mid afternoon, spend time getting acquainted with the area and settling into your accommodations. Before dinner we’ll sit in ceremony on Lovers Beach, opening the Mayan Medicine wheel, calling in the four directions, and share our intentions for the week. The evening ends with with a hearty feast prepared with locally caught fish and fresh vegetables.

April 12th • Tuesday

Waking to the sound of the Pacific ocean’s song and the rustle of the coconut palms, sip coffee and indulge on freshly baked Mexican pastries, while reflecting on the night’s dream. After breakfast we sit again in ceremony on Lovers Beach meditating to the Native American drum and the ocean’s symphony. After quiet reflection, sketching and writing, gather your canvas and painting gear and spend the late morning and afternoon creating what inspires you from the morning meditation and/or the surrounding pristine environment. Hear the resonance of the blown conch shell which calls you to enjoy a late afternoon lunch. After siesta, spent in a shady hammock or engaging in a game of pool on the beach, we’ll gather for the night’s event, learning the ancient Aztec dances under the enchanting moon and starry night.

April 13th • Wednesday

Again rising to the tranquil sound of the sea, share the morning with the song of tropical birds dancing in the coconut palms. Breakfast comes served with a smile from El Rinconcito owner’s Fernando and his wife Maricela. After breakfast gather again for ceremony on Lovers Beach, opening your heart to receive messages from spirit. After a day spent Soul Painting on the sun-soaked beach, come home to a festive gathering sharing the experience over a late lunch. After siesta, pack up your Aztec dance energy and travel to the nearby sand dunes, dancing to the drum and the setting of the sun.

April 15th • Thursday

Dream the dream of the day, waking to freshly brewed coffee, still feeling the magic of the night dance on the dunes. Bring your open heart to the sacred circle on Lovers Beach and again open your consciousness to the realm of spirit. Then venture on the playa to stroke the finishing details of what has now become your own Soul Painting. In the evening again we dance together under the starry night on the beach of Tehuamixtle, a quaint nearby fishing village. Gathered around the bonfire we dance the fire dance and offer to the embers that which we hope to transform into light.

April 16th • Friday

Gather at the sacred circle on Lovers Beach one last time to close the four directions, giving honor to the spirit guides present in bringing forth this experience and healing energy. Depart for Puerto Vallarta after a hearty meal and final goodbyes to Mayto and the people who made our stay pleasant and comfortable.

Enjoy the sun-drenched playa at Lovers Beach and be the only human inhabitant

Mayto Beach

Tehuamixtle, a small fishing village near Mayto

Soul Painting at Mayto Beach

Camping at Mayto Beach

Secluded Lovers Beach at Mayto

Enjoy the sunset from the tip of Mayto

Path of the Conscious Dreamer Workshop
Blueberry Gardens • Ashton, MD
10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Sat-Sun, Just Sat. Participation & Optional Mon.
Early Registration • Friday, May 21st
$75 • June 5th
$150 • June 5th & 6th
$200 • June 5th – 7th

Full Early Registration • After May 21st
$100 • June 5th
$225 • June 5th & 6th
$300 • June 5th – 7th
Price includes Workshop Book:
The Dreamer Who Dreams You

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Make check out to the Monarch Effect
Mail to: 7118 Cedar Ave. • Takoma Park, MD 20912
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Early Registration

June 5th, Sat. $75.00 June 5th & 6th, Sat. & Sun. $150.00 June 5th – 7th, Sat. – Mon. $200.00

Daniel Stone, Founder of the Centre of the Conscious Dream

How can you know why you are here, on Earth? What is your purpose? What is your direction? How can you meet the painter who painted you, the writer who wrote you, the singer who sung you? In this ceremony we open the dreaming body. The dreaming body extends from the physical body and touches all other life forms. It can pass through all space and time. The dreaming body extends as far as your star, your creative fire, as far as your dreamer who dreams you.

We work with life as dream. The dream of the night and the dream of the day. We look at how we can return to any dream space – be it a dream at night or day. We enter the dream as life, as information, symbol, message. We look at how we are receiving messages 24 hours a day, and how we can interpret those messages. We are learning to interpret the language of our night dreams, and the language of the day dream, and sensing the links between night and day.

Day One

Opening the Mayan Medicine - Learning to balance the four elements in yourself and in the space where we work. Opening to a time portal and space portal, our inter-dimensional doorway.

Sound Ceremony - Channeled sound to open the dreaming body. Sound activates the chakras which allows the physical body to relax and heal, and the dreaming body to travel in an environment of Trust.

Returning to the Dream – We will work with a specific dream space which is already known to us. This can be the experience of the morning session or a night dream which is particularly strong. We will learn how to stay in the dream and be the co-creator of the dream. We will look at the language of the dream and meaning. We will look at ways we can become more conscious in the dream of our life.

Day Two

Receiving the Ancestral Voices through the Stars – Journey to connect with the dreamer who dreams you. Connecting with your first intent. Bringing the energy of your first intent, your star, your creative fire, into the physical body.

Listening to the Earth as it speaks in this part of the United States.

Opening to the Pyramid -  The double pyramid as a container of your star, your first intent.

How to Walk your Life with Clarity – In connection with your first intent. How to walk with no doubt.

Day Three

Initiation into our Crystalline Intelligence – The Inner Crystal Skull
On the third day, the dreaming body is guided and directed to extend into the crystalline center of the planet. It is here where we connect with our crystalline intelligence – the inner crystal skull.

Our crystalline intelligence is encoded in our DNA. It allows us to experience the link between the Earth, planetary, stellar and other conscious energies. It will open us to the context of the individual, the group, the Earth, and in particular the United States in the universal dance in this time and this space.

It is the intent of this circle to feel the open heart of planet Earth. Touching the heart center of the planet will rekindle in our own memory the Sacred Contract we have with the Earth and with the Universe. This Sacred Contract makes complete sense of the human’s role and place in the universal dance.

Allowing our dreaming bodies to rest in our crystalline inheritance, gives us the feeling of home and deep inner knowing. The healing of this experience is through letting go of the memories which have prevented our heart expansion to this level of Trust. It is possible for humans to love unconditionally, and to be loved unconditionally. This is our birthright.

The traditions and shamanic roots of this important ceremony will be explained, together with its relevance for individual, Earth and universal healing. Further to this event, if you choose, there is an ongoing circle that meets at the new moon each month, and connect via the Internet. This circle consists of groups and individuals in different countries, linking the languages of their part within the Earth body.

The Twelve Tones
Shamanic Sounds and Color Concert
Performance by Daniel Stone
Founder of Centre of the Conscious Dream
Seekers Church • Takoma Park, MD
7:30 pm-9:30pm

$15.00 Recommended Donation

In this event, twelve paintings are presented and twelve sets of sounds are given to express the dynamic movement taking place now on planet Earth. The number twelve is traditionally associated with birth. In sacred geometry the number twelve is used in buildings to create spaces that open to vibrational frequencies in the Universe. These temple spaces help give humans a sense of perspective and purpose in the universal dance. The intent for the evening is to create a sacred space using color and sound that opens human harmonies in relation to planet Earth within the Universe. Color and sound frequencies resonate throughout the Universe and are the bridges between times.

In the present context, we are coming to the end of a Mayan calendar cycle in 2012, prophesied in indigenous cultures as a time of great transition and transformation. Color and sound helps us access our dreaming body. It is through our dreaming body that we extend ourselves through time and space and open ourselves to the larger questions the end of the cycle poses —Why are we here now and what is our authentic response to these times?

We open to death, and therefore to birth. We open to transformation.

Daniel Stone will channel sound using his voice, drum, flutes, bells, and percussion while the twelve images are presented.