This Event brings people together through a common experience, involving a connection withnature and valuable interaction with Community expressed through Music, Yoga and healthy Lifestyle exploration.
This is primarily an educational event, delivering knowledge, awareness and inspiration in the following areas:
* Developing a model for world peace, through networking & education specific to groups doing peace advocacy work.* Supporting effective environmental activism, specific ecological restoration projects and planet wide land stewardship.
* Supporting body, mind and breath awareness through Yoga classes and workshops inspiring a holistic lifestyle for all ages.
* Teaching new models for food production, sustainable local agriculture, and community based farming.
* Demonstrating Green Building projects, practices and appropriate use of new construction technologies.
* Demonstrating the use of Alternate Energy Technologies for power & transportation on site and in the community.
* Personal evolution through creativity skill building, the arts and collaborative problem solving.
* Return of a deeper nature connection by individuals and communities and how to intentionally use it for planetary healing.
This Event is the seed for creating a permanent biodynamic demonstratioin farm
and sustainable Ag teaching center that promotes the following:
* Biodynamic farm and teaching center modeling sustainable community
* Green/Earth architecture & building practices
* Eco-Energy research and exploration facility
* Specific environmental restoration projects on site and in the community
* Environmental work demonstration projects
* Personal exploration through Music, Yoga, Art and Creativity
* A formal permanent sacred gathering place
Schedule Of Events
(Subject to change)
Friday, June 26th, 2009
Gates open at 12:00 noon: Parking, check in, shuttle services, Camp set-up and people situated and settle in.1:00pm Dedication to Marla Ruzicka in the Peace Garden3:00pm Move & Be Moved: Yoga with live music with Levi Huffman –Yoga Dome.5:00pm Levi Huffman on the Main stage.6:30pm Karma on the Main stage. 6:30pm Kirtan in the Yoga Dome.
8:00pm Opening Blessing, Invocation & Tribute to Marla Ruzicka, with Pema Gendun. Short intro on Marla and her work, organization, CIVIC.
8:30pm Presentation by Anodea Judith on Waking the Global Heart, in the Yoga Dome.
9:00pm Music with Mitchell Holman & Friends on the Main Stage.
10:00pm Green building slide how with Massey Burke – Eco Stage.
10:30pm Star Gazing & talking circle – Main Stage.
11:00pm Drumming Circle at the Eco Stage.
11:00pm Movie – The Power of Community in the Yoga Dome.
Saturday, June 27th, 20098:00am Awaken with yoga & meditation with Charmaine in the Yoga Dome.9:30am The Great Compassion Meditation taught by Pema Gendun in the Yoga Dome. 10:00am Massey Burke – hands on green building workshop, ongoing – tea house.10:00am Kids meet at the Eco Stage with Rama Deva for art, movement, nature hikes, and games to develop intuition.10:30am Jeane Manning, author of many books including Breakthrough Power, talks about the latest green technology and inventors on the Main Stage.
10:30am Philosophy of Yoga with Mark Schillinger in the Yoga Dome.
11:00am Learn Herbal Tea Making with Ali Budner in the Peace Garden.
12:00 noon Denise Rushing on Creating A Local Economy: An Introduction to Permaculture as a Framework for Personal, Community and Economic Transformation, Eco Stage.
12:30pm Soil Block Making with Sean Mooney & Malcom Scott at the Peace Garden.
1:00pm John Craigie on the Main Stage.
1:00pm Uniting through the Science of Life with Steven West & Rama Deva, Yoga & Ayurveda, 1 hour lecture, and 1 hour asana in the Yoga Dome.
1:30pm Raised Bed Organic Growing with Malcom Scott & Sean Mooney in the Peace Garden.
2:00pm Music with Blake & Orion Torney on the Main Stage.
3:00pm Keynote speaker, Harvey Wasserman, author of “Solartopia” on the Main Stage.
3:00pm Ayurveda, the Yoga of Daily Living with Steven West in the Yoga Dome.
4:00pm Performance by Rootstock on the Main Stage.
6:00pm Performance by Elijah Emanuel on the Main Stage.
8:00pm Performance by Pato Banton on the Main Stage.
10:00pm Prayer Circle – Prayer for World Peace and Gratitude for all that is, Main Stage.
10:30pm Movie Night in the Yoga Dome.
11:00pm Drumming Circle at the Eco Stage.
Sunday, June 28th, 20098:00am Healing Sounds of Mantra with Pema Gendun in the Yoga Dome.9:15am Rise & Shine Yoga with Rama Deva in the Yoga Dome.10:00am Kevin Danaher speaks about Marla Ruzicka: her life and inspiration on the Main Stage.11:00am Harvey Wasserman on Election Protection & true US History. 12:30pm Kevin Danaher Presentation on the Green Economy.
12:30pm Kids meet at the Yoga Dome with Rama Deva for art, movement, nature hikes, and games to develop intuition.
1:30pm Keynote speech with Harvey Wasserman.
2:00pm Flow Yoga with Mary Oom in the Yoga Dome.
2:30pm Side of Blues Band on the Main Stage.
5:00pm Yoga Nidra, Deep Conscious Relaxation, with Rama Deva in the Yoga Dome.
6:00pm Annie Sampson Band on the Main Stage.
8:00pm Special Guests on the Main Stage.
10:00pm Closing Prayer & Gratitude Circle, Main Stage.
Festival policies
~ Please show respect for yourself and all other beings, including the wild animals that live here.
~ Please show respect for private property and refrain from trespassing onto other properties adjacent to the Festival Grounds.
~ Please pick up after yourself and take care of your friends, your family, and our Mother Earth: Reuse, Reduce, Recycle.
