High Vibration Lifestyle Retreat at Grail Springs!

Join me for a special 5 day Sustainable Living & Raw Food Immersion on October 10th-15th   

Discover ways to energize your body, detoxify your temple, clarify your priorities and magnetize your intentions to be aligned with your inner calling. Our focus will be on conscious consumption with food as the foundation to fuel our passion. Together, we will make simple, nutritious and delicious recipes that you can easily duplicate at home on your own. You will learn about the health benefits of eating more high vibration living foods, time saving tips, formulas for multi-tasking around food preparation and raw food basics to ensure your success! Each day we will spend two and a half hours in hands-on, interactive meal preparation and discussion that will nourish us during our entire time together. We will re-awaken and delight your taste buds, ignite your inspiration and activate your life force. Restore your vision. Renew your Spirit. Reunite with your Tribe!

Recipes and related literature will be made available to each participant to take home!

Our Mamaliscious Menu:   

Simple & Delicious Live Food Recipes & Hands-on Demos to Inspire, Purify and Restore

Food Preparation Class Themes:
MonDay 1 – Dressings, Soups & Marinades; overview of sprouting
TuesDay 2 – Dehydration 1 & Nut Pates (flax crax, nuts & seeds)
WednesDay 3- Nut Cheeses/Nut Mylks & Tasty Treats
ThursDay 4– Dehydration 2 (kale chips, granola & pizza crusts)
FriDay 5 – Decadent Desserts

Daily Itinerary:

• 7:45am Wake-up with Wheatgrass/E3 Live Shot followed by 20-min 'Break-a-Sweat'
• 8:15am morning breakfast refresher
• 8:45am Grail Morning Mantra
• 9am Intuitive Yoga with Imani
• 10:30-1:30pm Hands-on-Food Preparation and Demonstration Class each day - preparing your own lunch with Imani
• 1:30pm Nature Hike
• 2:30-5pm spa leisure time
• 5:00 Meditation & Mantra
• 6pm dinner (prepared during food prep)
• 7pm Each evening we gather in the beautiful Great Hall for an evening of “inspirationals” on living a sustainable life!

Awakening the Dreamer

Changing the Dream of the Modern World: Awakening the Dreamer Initiative

In the mid-1990's, through a mysterious set of circumstances, a group of North Americans visited a remote and intact group of indigenous people - the Achuar - located deep in the Amazonian region of Ecuador.

This relationship that was to become The Pachamama Alliance, was actually initiated by the indigenous elders and shamans themselves who, out of their deep concern for the growing threat to their ancient way of life, and their recognition that the roots of this threat lay far beyond their rainforest home, actively sought the partnership of committed individuals living in the modern world.

They remind us that one of the most powerful actions that can be taken in support of the rainforest and its inhabitants is to “change the dream of the North,” since it is our dream—our desires and appetites—that is driving the destruction of the rainforests around the world. Ultimately, to assure the long-term survival of our rainforests, and indeed of the natural world and even ourselves, we need to address the core values and ways of seeing the world that are deeply imbedded in our modern worldview.

Thus, AWAKEN THE DREAMER was born as a multi-sensory and participatory exploration of the challenges facing us during this most critical time. Around the world groups are gathering, a 12 step program of sorts for those “addicted to oil” and the culture it has created. The facilitated program incorporates stunning and powerful visuals interspersed with dialog within the group about the feelings (the fear, shame, guilt, overwhelm…) that we all share when confronted with the reality facing us today.

The mission of AWAKEN THE DREAMER is to bring forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on Planet Earth. It is a great precursor to the Transition Town Initiative (www.transitiontown.us) that call citizens to come together to find creative solutions in their own community for the challenges presented around peak oil, climate change and economic collapse.

In the meantime, check out the video from the recent Awaken the Dreamer Symposium I attended in Ontario at Grail Springs (www.grailsprings.com) that my dear friend Madeline hosted!

There is a SHIFT afoot

Can you feel the pulse....it is the calling we are all hearing in the corners of our minds....it was activated at Grail Springs Grail Lady Faire last week in Ontario as a hundred women gathered to welcome in the new paradigm we are all participating in. As we step back and look around we begin to see overlapping circles getting smaller and more refined. The vision is crystallizing and every single conversation, interaction and new idea has relevance. I feel honored to be amidst several circles of creative, visionary thinkers leading the way. I encourage you to join us.

Check out the SHIFT Network at http://www.theshiftnetwork.com/

Join me on the course, starting tonight if you can!

http://sacredawakeningseries.com/course

"The Enlightened Woodstock for Women" Expect the Unexpected!

I have been to a lot of women’s festivals over the years….self discovery, empowerment, herbal medicinals, energy healing, tantra….but I have yet to find a circle of “conscious” women overlapping their interest in women’s health & well being with that of the planet. I am thrilled to be participating at one such event – The Grail Lady Faire at Grail Springs in Ontario - Canada's 1st Ever Festival for Women Who Care About Our Planet! This HERSTORIC event will weave together concepts of sustainable living while brainstorming the possibilities on how we can use our positions, power & numbers to make a difference! A gathering of women on the cutting edge of a movement that can’t yet be named -only felt in our bones. We are coming together to strategize, mobilize and energize.

Meet renowned authors and change makers, have lunch with green business leaders, discover new passions with Janet Attwood, get inspired by the dynamic Dale Allen, bring your drum and join evening drumming circle by the waterfront led by transformational recording artist Pamela Gerrand, and Alisa Starkweather founder of the Red Tent Temple Movement, Minnie Matouch from Canada's Cree Nation. And so many more amazing, inspiring women who will touch your hearts, minds and Spirit!

Awaken the Dreamer!...7 days of celebration, creative activism, peace, ceremony, music, art, culture, green business, provocative learning and sharing, and co-creating the New World! I will be presenting “Women Taking Back the Planet – Viva la MAMALUTION” on Saturday, July 3^rd.  How can we do that? As women, we are driving the markets with our dollars, we are birthing and raising the future generations and we are infiltrating into positions of power. It is our responsibility to take action. We have easy access to information that other women around the world may not have. We have the resources to make a difference!

The United States makes up 4% of the world population yet consumes 25% of the world’s resources. Women make up 51% of the United States population and make more than 80% of all consumer purchasing decisions. We are the silent voices in the “green” movement, and as consumers, we have the greatest impact on the economy. Now is the time for the feminine voice to be heard!

A movement that supports increasing numbers of women stepping up as creative entrepreneurs and demanding more sustainable choices for their families is needed. By developing strategies to enable existing and up and coming green businesses to efficiently work together through joint marketing and branding efforts, we will build a stronger presence in the marketplace ultimately making it easier and more affordable for consumers to buy green.  It’s time to Up the Revolution!  Practical, sustainable and savvy style is shaping a future generation of conscious consumers with the power to create change in the world. Our intention is to weave together grassroots efforts initiated by women visionaries of living more sustainable and fulfilling lives with ACTION.  As one collective unified voice we are unstoppable. The Goal:  5 million consumers who will affect the marketplace with how they choose to spend their dollars and who will define how business is done in the future.  LET’S TIP THE SCALE!

Tickets for Grail Lady Faire on Sale NOW ~ Includes Vegetarian Buffet Picnic Lunch:
Attend all 7-days from June 27-July 4     $495 pp Best Buy!
First 5-days from June 27-July 2               $395 pp
Last 2-days from July 2 to July 4              $225 pp
Single days from June 28-July 1                $95 pp

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ॐ Imani

Author of The Absence of Soil &

Visionary behind The MAMALUTION

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To contact Imani call 860.983.5276

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Slow Money Gathering

“The world will be saved by the western woman” – The Dalai Lama

We talk about conscious consumerism but few of us realize the power that we, as western women, have as a whole to create change on this planet simply in the ways we shop. One area that is still frequently overlooked pertains to the food we buy. Increasing interest in farmer’s markets, CSA’s and local foods is steadily growing. It’s popular, tastes good and builds community. But it is more than that. 

Supporting local small food enterprises grows the local economy. There is an international movement based on the book Slow Money by Woody Tasch. The mission is to build local and national networks, and develop new financial products and services, dedicated to:

• investing in small food enterprises and local food systems;

• connecting investors to their local economies; and,

• building the nurture capital industry.

Soil fertility, carrying capacity, sense of place, care of the commons, cultural, ecological and economic health and diversity, nonviolence -- these are the fundamentals of nurture capital, a new financial sector supporting the emergence of a restorative economy. These are the fundamentals of the Slow Money Principles. Slow Money's goal is: a million Americans investing 1% of their assets in local food systems within a decade. Let us, as western woman, be part of that 1 percent!

The second national Slow Money gathering is happening at Shelburne Farms in Vermont on June 9-11th. For more information about Slow Money go to www.slowmoneyalliance.org

Slow Money Conference

I will be at the SLOW MONEY Conference! Will you? Would love to meet you! Shelburne Farms, Vermont - June 9-11, 2010

Slow Money… It’s not an ISM (as in capitalism, socialism, consumerism, market fundamentalism…).

But it is a new way of connecting investors to local food systems, catalyzing new forms of social investing and philanthropy for the 21st century. Join the emerging
network of investors, donors, entrepreneurs, farmers, and activists who are giving birth to the nurture capital industry.

Come to Shelburne Farms, a working farm and forest and National Historic Landmark -- a setting uniquely imbued with the history of capitalism and a nonprofit organization dedicated to forging a new future through sustainability education, creating social enterprises and strengthening local food systems. Enjoy the natural beauty of Lake Champlain. Meet thought leaders and change agents from around the country who are joining in this exciting project: designing capital markets that go beyond extraction and consumption all the way to preservation and restoration… starting with food and soil fertility.