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The Schedule is Ready!
March 11th, 2011 | 
Author: Wow, what an amazing line-up! Thank you to all those who are offering their special contributions to the space! :-)
click here to view or download the full SOL Schedule – Equinox Gathering March 2011(2)
WHAT KINDS OF EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS ARE ON OFFER SO FAR?
- music with Derek Gripper
- yoga with Yan Golding
- heart meditations with Annwen Mazetti
- playing in the garden with Ashleigh Gordon, Ian and Mark
- natural birthing with Ruth Ehrhardt
- games with Ash
- songs with Sonica Kirsten
- silent hour with Dan
- film: “Anastasia”
- discussion with Dan – what makes or breaks communities
- mantras with Haripal Kaur
- Angel Walk and Dance with Annwen and Mark
- qigong with katja
- nia dance with Simone
- service hour with Dan
- White Brotherhood Talk with Anthea
- community discussion with Yan
- Explore your Inner Looney with Ashleigh
- Sound Journey with Ian and haripal
- shakti dance with haripal
- film: “a new we”
- crowd surfing with Dan
- discussion with Dan - listening
- The Eco-Milling movement meditation with Charmaine Treherne
- The Howl: Finding our Pack and Resurrecting the Wild Nature with Charmaine Treherne
- film: “”ESTABLISHING A FOOD FOREST”
- Kids crafts with Madineya
- “who am I”, a talk with Michael Eccles
- Numerology with Sonica
- agnihotra with Ian Light
- massage workshop with Odette Livini
- discussion about diet with Ian
- biodynamic prep with Mark Wellens
- yoga with Odette
for a more detailed description of whats on offer…
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SOL – Upcoming Events & Gatherings
SOL Equinox Gathering ! – Greyton – Next weekend!
Come play with us this Equinox At our fourth Space of Love Gathering, to co-create a weekend of song, dance, inspiration, sharing, healing, fun & connection!
DATE: 18-21st March (long weekend)
(you are welcome to join us from Wed 16th onwards to help set up, hang out, do a bit of permaculture, or just to simply be!)
VENUE: The Blue Hippo Farm, Greyton
FOOD is bring and share yummy vegetarian and raw
click here for more details.. / email – info@spaceoflove.co.za / phone Annwen – 0845887741
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SOL Gathering JOZI! – Next Weekend!
Dates – 19 & 20 March
We will gather together in love, to celebrate the Autumn Equinox and full moon.
We will be doing a Sweat lodge, water blessing ceremony, dancing, watching a conscious movie, singing and much more.
click here for all the details!
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Easter SOL Gathering – Umphakatsi – Mpumalanga
Date & Time – 20 April at 15:00 – 02 May at 10:00
Location - Umphakatsi, Steynsdorp, Swaziland Border (Oshoek) N14
Community Building, Eco Village design, Permaculture design, pre- seed-Rainbow.
Contact haroun@spaceoflove.co.za for more details
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Cape Town’s Naked Bike Ride
Please Join us on the very first Naked Bike Ride happening in Cape Town AND in Africa on the 12th March 2011. We gather at Prestwich Memorial, which is on the Fan Walk and cycle through town as bare as we dare!
We’re protesting against (amongst other things) Cape Town’s embarrassingly high carbon footprint per capita and the heavy reliance on cars around Cape Town’s road.
Please pass on the word and Join the Cyclelution!
http://www.wnbr.co.za/
http://www.worldnakedbikeride.org/
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Autumn Abundance Raw Feast & Market – this Saturday!
12 March 18:00 – 21:00
Venue: Erin Hall, Erin Road, Rondebosch, Cape Town
Quarterly Raw food get together in Cape Town.
Bring raw food to share with others, music, new and old friends. Hosted by Earthshine.
A community celebration event themed on the impending autumn, THE season of abundance!
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Permaculture Design Courses – Johannesburg
Earthmedicine Institute for Permaculture Design & Traditional Healing - February – May 2011.
Please contact us for course details and information:
Ewald Viljoen: – 082 8565 248
Soozi: 0727 333 888, earthmedicine9@gmail.com
or view our PERMIE FLYER intro
Easter Space of Love Gathering – Umphakatsi – Mpumalanga
Date & Time – 20 April at 15:00 – 02 May at 10:00
Location - Umphakatsi, Steynsdorp, Swaziland Border (Oshoek) N14
Community Building, Eco Village design, Permaculture design, pre- seed-Rainbow.
Dates are fluid between ones mentioned – there will be a crew there for the duration of the time – but you will be able to come when you need to be there – if not the whole time. we will post a “program” soon.
There is no fixed cost as such as it is a “space of love” gathering – but you need to bring your food to share & give exchange to the land by contributing your energy to teach something or make something better :) we may ask a nominal camping fee/donation, all will be up soon.
Accomodation is basic – camping, water is drawn from the river (bring a bucket), no ablutions (only a poo-pit), no electricity (bring candles & torches) firewood can be collected, cooking and meals are communal, there is a very basic shop about an hour away in Badplaas.
Contact haroun@spaceoflove.co.za
SOL Newsletter#3
Wow, it’s been a long time since we last sent out a longer newsletter. I do hope you enjoy this one.
The next Space of Love gathering in Greyton is just around the corner, and I am feeling immense gratitude for my team of Angel volunteers who are helping to breathe this gathering into existence! What a blessing to have their dedication and support! Thank you :-)
The Gathering will surely be as magical and beautiful as always, packed with amazing talks and workshops, and an overflowing garden with runaway butternuts ready for harvest. March 18-21st – mark it in your diary! But before then, don’t forget about the day gathering in the Forest with John Little Bear.. Definitely a good place to spend a Sunday :-)
8 steps to creating your own sustainable Community
by Robert Gilman
(As published on http://www.hbci.com/~wenonah/new/eco-vill.htm )
You might think that guidelines for eco-village development would mostly have to do with their “eco” aspect. That is, how to handle the bio-system and built environment. These are certainly important but in researching this issue and interviewing many people with extensive community experience, we have learned that the physical systems are the easiest part. They are also the most variable. The details depend strongly on the specifics of the community, its location, purpose, and composition. These guidelines here, focus on where we perceive the need to be. The social process of eco-village development.
Space of Love Magazine – issue#10
In this world of paradox and extremes, we realized as we were making choices for your reading pleasure in this issue, polar opposites emerged – or so it seemed. But really, isn’t our human experiment predicated upon just that? We live and find our three-dimensional experience in the suspension between two opposites, the Yin and Yang of things, as we all like to say. So here we are, inviting you to join us in going more deeply into the seemingly densest parts of our bodies, the minerals which give us substance. There, if we read the fascinating AcresUSA/Dr.Olree interview carefully, we will discover HOW minerals and traceminerals are actually directly co-creating the energetic spiritophysical experiences we end up calling “you” and “I”.
Anastasia on planting seeds
“Every seed planted by someone contains within itself a great amount of cosmic information. Its volume is incomparable to anything manmade. Thanks to this information the seed knows exactly, up to milliseconds, the time when it is supposed to return to life. It knows when to sprout, what kinds of juices to extract from the ground, how to use the energy generated by cosmic bodies like the sun, moon and stars. It also knows what specific type of plant to become and what kind of fruit to bear. The various fruits are meant for man’s life-support. These fruits can fight and resist any disease of a human physical body very effectively and even more powerfully than the best manmade medications existing now and those which will be in the nearest future. In order to fulfill this job a seed has to know everything it could saturate the fruit with and bring them into proper correlation with the necessary substances for the healing process. It has to know precisely for a certain person concerning his specific sicknesses in case they have them or there is a predisposition towards sickness.
Space of Love ~ Day Gathering at the Arboretum, Tokai Forest
* Come Join us for a day in Nature! *
Sunday 06 March · 12:00 – 16:00
(meet in the parking lot at 12pm)
Location: the Arboretum, Tokai Forest
Bring your water, blankie and hat
your raw/ veggie food Yummies
and something that
will be a delight for you to share
amoungst the Lovlians gathering there
:A gift of song or poem or play
a silly thing or just a way
to help co- create our day
something personal- just for one
or something where we’ll all have fun
Bring your silence and your sound
in the parking lot, we’ll gather round
at 12pm sharp!- hippies beware
be early or on time or you’ll be left there…
past blue gum, oak, birch and myrtle
John Little Bear will lead us to
his sacred circle…
and what will we encounter there?
I leave you with a Lets-Find-Out dare!
call John Little Bear for more info – 082 455 7832 and for late-comers!
Non-violent Communication Workshops in CT
Dear all,
I hope that this information message finds you well, enjoying life and community in all its forms.
Please be informed about three Nonviolent Communication (NVC) -related activities:
- On Sunday, the 6th of March, 11 to 5pm, I will lead the workshop Speaking a language of life with children. We will practice around the topics of Values I want to live and give, “Power-over” versus “power-with”, Beyond power struggles and Hearing the “yes” in the “no”. There will be a lot of space for sharing and exercising how we can manage life with children in a way that is more satisfying and joyful. Please contact me on 078-3974108 to confirm a space.
- In the end of March an NVC training is going to start, meeting 12 Thursday mornings in Claremont. Please contact Marieke on 072-27205957 for information.
- The Claremont NVC practice group meets every Tuesday night. Interested persons may contact me on 078-3974108.
It’s a pleasure to share the inspiration and satisfaction of Marshal Rosenberg’s NVC. We had a very fruitful training given by Pia and Marietta in Muizenberg and there may well be another experienced trainer coming to Cape Town soon. Feel free to forward this message to your networks or other interested people.
With warm and caring regards,
Annika
Space of Love Gathering – March 2011
♥ Space of Love Gathering “Autumn Moon” ♥
18-21st March 2011
Autumn Equinox Gathering
come play with us this equinox!
by the light of the full moon
our expanding Family gathers again
to dance and love and share and learn
our little seed is sprouting forth
as roots unfurl into the earth
we invite you to ignite your passion for this precious Life
to Earthy Inner Sense we return!
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Join us for an incredible co-created weekend of song, dance, organic music, gardening, visioning, workshops, prayer and play. Relating with each other from a space of love and full presence is a key element of this event.
Once again, this will be a co-created space in nature …we eat, talk, dance, play, share, create, vision and workshop together, and all offer our unique skills and magic to the space. Performers, musicians, fire dancers, dreamers, gardeners, dancers, healers, teachers all welcome! Our themes for this gathering are Roots, Groundedness and Integration. If you would like to offer any workshops, discussions or performances it would be fun to relate them to these themes.
DATE: 18-21st March (long weekend)
(you are welcome to join us from Wed 16th onwards to help set up, hang out, do a bit of permaculture, or just to simply be!)
VENUE: The Blue Hippo Farm, Greyton
FOOD is bring and share yummy vegetarian and raw
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♥ About the Event ♥
This will be a co-created space in nature …we invite you to offer talks, workshops and events that align with the vision of SOL especially around the following themes:
permaculture, sustainability, eco-community, kins domains, raw foods, re-membering our connection to spirit, conscious birthing and child-rearing, men’s and women’s circles, kid’s activities, movement, song, dance, creativity etc.
We are seeking a way of living that is more fully in Love with everything around us.
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♥ Accommodation, Food and Workshops ♥
The gathering will be drug and alcohol free event and offer healthy and nourishing meals (with an emphasis on raw food). Children are more than welcome.
Accommodation will be camping or in tipis at the tipi village on the Blue Hippo Farm in Greyton – only 150kms from Cape Town. Please check here for directions.
Please feel free to contact us if you would like to offer any talk/events/workshops/performances that align with the vision of Space of Love: “Autumn Moon & Wild Roots” or with the above mentioned themes. Contact Annwen via email: annwen@spaceoflove.co.za or phone 0845887741.
We ask that all participants enter into the spirit of co-creation with an open heart to experience the true gifts and joy of service to the whole. If there is any job you see needing done during the time of the gathering, we ask that you run with it, encouraging others to assist if needed, taking responsibility for your co-creative role in the Space of Love community.
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♥ Food Contributions and Preparation ♥
SOL events have a “bring and share” approach inline with the spirit of co-creation – yummy healthy vegetarian/vegan food with a focus on raw food.
Bring boxes of fruit and veg, nuts and seeds, tahini, superfoods, dates and any other super yummy treats you feel inspired to contribute (the more yummyness you contribute the more superdelicious meals we can create). Be generous, this food will be feeding you and your family over the whole long weekend. Please click here to find a list of ingredients that would be most appreciated.
Also any kitchen equipment you feel inspired to contribute would be appreciated: think champion blenders, big pots, knives, chopping boards, peelers, graters, big serving bowls/tubs etc. Please bring your own bowl and spoon!
We ask that everyone volunteer to help prepare at least one meal, and we are also looking for kitchen angels to help focalise meals and volunteers in the kitchen. The universe will bless you with bliss and a year of a happy tummy for your blessed contribution.
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♥ Ticket contributions ♥
Camping:
R260 for adults
R100 for kids age 5-17
(Please enquire about our large family rates)
kids under 5yrs are free
It is an extra R180pp for a single bed in a tipi, and R300pp for a double bed for the weekend. (beds are limited, so book yours in advance :-)
To book your tickets please deposit your contribution into this account and send your confirmation to daniel@spaceoflove.co.za. Tickets also available at the entrance.
Bank details
Standard bank
Account Name: “Moon”
No: 074024701
Code: 02530917 or 00051001
Branch: constantia
Please put “SoL” and your name as reference!
you are welcome to join us from Wed 16th onwards to help set up, hang out, do a bit of permaculture, or just to simply be!
For more information on the gathering, frequently asked questions , videos of previous gatherings etc,
please visit: www.spaceoflove.co.za or email info@spaceoflove.co.za for enquiries
