“Yes, seeds are it,” she says, “in more ways than one.”

Seeds have been seeding themselves into this Space of Love Magazine issue #8 (two years!) in literal and metaphoric ways. The magic of starting to relate to our seeds in more profound ways is infectious. Start collecting and neighborhood-swapping! But even more so, we have collected the most amazing seed ideas for you, ready to sprout into the kind of growth which turns a life into a passionate, shared adventure with unlimited energy. Oh, how nice it is to live devoted to a conscious life!

Find out more about Amazing Human Capacities; read a profound interview entitled Beyond Greed and Scarcity; The Virtues of Frugality and Temperance; The Lazy Way to Stay in Love; the mysterious Bronnikov Method; Seed Stewardship; Pre-birth Agreements; Cancer as a Survival Mechanism; Mycoremediation and Oil Spills; whether we can just…Switch our Consciousness and so much more!

Do tell your friends we want them. No more sad, lonely people. Subscribe, connect, hold hands – for the price of a single dinner out! Send this email on to them and ask them to mail it on from there. It’s time to exponentially grow via networking globally to claim back our planet just in time.

We are also getting ready to send out yet another seed: our fabulous smaller local versions (16 pages) of quarterly SOL Magazines, free and with a large circulation, aided by income from three pages of logo-listings (plus four 1/2 page color ads inside). This enables us to assist hundreds of localities to start community and sanity making via 10 pages of short SOL articles and 3 front pages of locally relevant content. We are adding a TimeBanking model for all of you who want to be local editors, so even people short of funds might be able to Trade and Exchange for ad-space. Local editors would hopefully begin to get supported through their local TimeBanks soon after they get set up. EXCITING! The true seed capital: Excitement and Passion. AND – if anything should happen to our economy, TimeBanks can keep communities safe by facilitating Trade and Exchange.

Please do get in touch with us as soon as possible if you are interested. 100 editors (that would only be two per US state, never mind the rest of the English-speaking world) with 10.000 issues each as is common for free local magazines – a million readers. Should we pick a cover with millions of “flying dandelion seeds ” for the first local prototypes?? That’s how our happy news will be able to spread and take root – via angel seeds flying in from on high.

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Due to a double booking at the venue, the first session of this workshop will now take place on Sunday 29 August instead of the 28. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Please contact Malcolm Mclaughlan on 084-975-5285

Workshop Details

A “Space of Love” Visioning workshop is being run by Malcolm McLachlan at the Novalis Institute in Wynberg. It is being organised by Faye with the intention to create a space to Vision for our future Kins’ Domains, the community in which we would like to live, and therefore collectively change the world. Perhaps this is the first big step we can take to manifest our Dream of Kin’s Domain and turn it into reality.

The Personal Visioning Process Workshop: “Create your Future Now”
Running over two Saturday afternoons at the Novalis Institute in Wynberg, Cape Town,
Sat 28 August and Sat 11 Septfrom2-5pm
(http://www.novalis.org.za/contact/directions).

The workshop will be conducted by experiential process facilitator Malcolm McLachlan, who will help us to use our creative and imaginative capacities to tap into our deeper instincts, insights and intuitions, connecting us with our hearts and not only our heads, with what we really really want in our lives, and committing ourselves to the realization of our personal visions. On completion of the workshop we will have created in pictures and words our own personal visions of the future, as well as ways to bring these into being, now. The workshop will be held over two 3 hr sessions, a fortnight apart, to allow participants to do most of the individual time consuming creative work at home between sessions.

Fees for the full workshop of two 3hr sessions are:

· R200 per student or unemployed individual

· R300 per individual

· R500 per couple or 2 family members

No one will be turned away. Please talk to Malcolm if finances are a problem.

Participants are encouraged to social after each session. Coffee & tea will be provided. Please bring a plate of snacks to share then if you can.

Please contact Malcolm Mclaughlan on 084-975-5285 to book your place and if you have any further queries on the workshop.

Please forward this information to anyone you feel may be interested in this workshop.

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And I started with my new friend, Adriana’s album. I think these pics are too gorgeous, and Blue Hippo is looking very lush and green and beautiful. Different from the last time I was there, when it was brown and dry and beautiful

Anyway, enjoy these pics

From Harvest Festival, posted by Adriana Jordaan on 5/05/2010 (32 items)

Generated by Facebook Photo Fetcher

What do you think?

The Schedule
Updated once again, please check it out
http://spaceoflove.co.za/events/offerings/

We are still looking for fire dancers for sat night
and a poet or three to share a poem on fri night
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Trading hour

We will have time after lunch to trade goods. Last time we had seeds, moon-calenders, ringing cedars books, kailash’s cds’ etc. so if you have home-made crafts or hand-made clothes etc that you would like to bring, then bring a blankie to lay out your stuff.
we encourage trading in talents as well as rands. (see www.ces.org.za)
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Food
just a reminder that food is bring and communally prepare and share. (see http://spaceoflove.co.za/events/food/)
Our amazing garden has beans, spinach and marrows, and some lettuce and rocket. Anyone know how to cook calabash?
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Autumn-time
the nights are nippy! please bring lots of warm stuff to keep you happy!! blankies, hot water bottles, thermal underwear!!
Those who are in a tipi can make a fire inside.
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Tipis
There are still beds in tipi’s available. Tipi’s have fireplaces inside.
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Lifts
Please let us know if you can offer a lift! there are some people needing lifts from cape town.
add your offerings / needs on the lifts page or on the events page on fb – www.spaceoflove.co.za/events/lifts/

Blessings and love

Join us for a weekend of song, dance, harvesting, gardening, learning, visioning, prayer, thanksgiving and celebration as we ready ourselves to turn inwards to embrace the mysteries and hidden gifts of the darkness. Our focus will be on the garden, and giving thanks for the blessings of the harvest.

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!

Friday night will be opening circle and a ritual of thanksgiving and fire ceremony to celebrate the opening of the Harvest festival.

Saturday night will be a Harvest Ball where we dress up in Autumn colours as nature spirits to play, feast, dance, play music and make merry around the bonfires. Please bring your instruments, voices and bare feet in the spirit of co-creation.

During the day there will be time for play and togetherness and workshops such as lantern-making, permaculture, dowsing, seedballs, visioning, dance, yoga, story-telling – and anything you feel inspired to offer into the Space that aligns with our theme of Harvest.

Please let us know what you would love to offer! – (email – ashleigh@spaceoflove.co.za)

Samhain (“summer’s end”/Harvest Festival)

Samhain, the Harvest Festival, represents a new cycle of turning inwards, when we move into the darkness of the winter months. We embrace the darkness of Winter, symbolic of the darkness within, with the knowledge that within the darkness is the whispering of new beginnings and the stirring of the seed beneath the ground.

This is a time for giving thanks for all the blessings of the harvest, for celebrating the earth, lighting bonfires to warm us through the Winter months, to revel in the mystery of life and to offer up our prayers of thanksgiving and healing.

Within the flame of the fire, feel the kindling of new dreams, hopes, projects, seeds and ideas. Nurture them through the winter months, as you enter into the space of your dreams. Spring time will see the seed of your dreams burst into vivid life, as the cycle of growth continues throughout Summer.

INTENTION

Our intention is to create more gatherings where we can all come together in the spirit and magic of co-creation and love to celebrate the seasons, work with ritual and thanksgiving to honour mother earth, and enter into more natural time. Together, we can support each other in our journey towards a way of living that is more fully in Love with everything around us.

The gathering will be drug and alcohol free and offer healthy and nourishing meals (with an emphaisis on raw food. Children are more than welcome.

Accommodation will be camping or in tipis.

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 Harvest festival.

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.

FOOD

To keep prices down we have decided on a “bring and share” – yummy healthy vegetarian/vegan food with a focus on raw food. Boxes of fruit and veg, nuts and seeds, tahini, superfoods, dates and any other super yummy treats 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 weekend.

Also any kitchen equipment you feel inspired to contribute would be appreciated: think champion blenders, big pots, knives, chopping boards, peelers, big serving bowls/tubs etc.

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. We need at least one person to play the role of co-ordinating kitchen angel for each meal. The universe will bless you with bliss and a year of a happy tummy for your blessed contribution.

TICKET CONTRIBUTIONS

Tickets will not be available at the door, so please book beforehand. Ticket numbers will be limited to create an intimate HeartSpace so book yours now. Tipi beds are also limited, book yours in advance.

Camping:

R200 for adults

R50 for kids age 5-12

R100 for kids 13-17

kids age 0-4yrs are free

It is an extra R100pp for a tipi bed for the weekend.

To book your tickets please deposit your contribution into this account and send your confirmation to ashleigh@spaceoflove.co.za

Bank details

Standard bank

Account Name: “Moon”

No: 074024701

Code: 020009

Branch: constantia

Please put “SoL” and your name as reference.

The first Space of Love gathering in South Africa took place early February this year. This was a wholly co-created event inspired by Anastasia and the Ringing Cedar series. The intentions were to create a safe, harmonious space in which people of all colours and creeds could come together in unity & celebration of life. An experiment in temporary community, in order to taste a way of life that is lived in close communion with nature and one another as true brothers and sisters.

The gathering spun over a weekend and was hosted by the Blue Hippo Tipi Village in Greyton. This is the home of many an ancient Oak, majestic horses, a beautiful lake, an array of magical plant- and wildlife, as well as a handfull of ancient souls…two of these being the lovely ladies who seeded the event.

The gathering formed a weekend long outdoor festival, that was filled with wholesome activities and workshops with a focus on reconnecting to our hearts and our mother earth. Over the course of the weekend, a number of workshops were offered, ranging from permaculture gardening, worm farming, astrology, raw food education, ecovillage living, massage, sound healing journeys, to various meditation techniques as well as endless dancing. One could find oneself in a workshop, enjoying the surrounding wildlife, sharing in various talking circles, helping out in the kitchen or just having random fun. Trampolines, swings and jungle gyms were enjoyed by children of all ages.

Being a drug-free, non-commercial, vegetarian event created a harmonious, clear atmosphere, one in which children and adults could freely mingle and play to their heart’s content. Getting in touch with the place of open minded fun and inspiration allowed joy & spontaneous bursts of kindness to spread throughout the gathering. The blue hippo turned into a place where long held barriers were dissolved, and friendships and heart connections were nurtured and blooming. Meals were communally prepared by volunteers who’s singing and laughter could be heard pouring out of the kitchen at regular intervals during the day, while blessings before the meals were sung holding hands in big circles under the open sky.

Sunset welcomed the coming of clear starlit nights, and the gathering of kindred souls around a sacred fire circle. Guitars, drums, tibetan singing bowls, chimes and jubilant voices came together, singing songs and sharing stories until only the whispers of the embers could be heard fading into the night.
Every sunrise was embraced with Agnihotra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnihotra), an ancient vedic fire ceremony that has the effect of purifying the atmosphere, and set the tone for the emergence of each coming day.

During the course of the weekend, healing took place on many levels. People coming together in a safe space, where judgments & unhealthy indulgences were put asside created doorways in which heart sharings and personal revelations became possible. Seeing each other through our ancient eyes, through being connected to nature & our true selves, cleared up blockages and allowed past issues to come to the surface to be dissolved by the power of love.

Below are some experiences from participants:
“The space of Love gathering was the first of its kind for me. I experienced the space as one where I could just Be.
Be crazy, be reserved, be overwhelmed, be blissed out, be at peace and just be enveloped by the Love we all brought together.
When I look back at those couple of days on the farm, it was a time for personal transformation.
I overcame fears and went back to nature to feel her Love like a balm for my weary soul.”

“One of my many magical moments was wandering around in the dark, feathers in my hair, under the moonshine while our brothers and sisters were gathered around the fire. I felt like I wandered back in time, when the land was safe and regarded sacred. The moonlight guiding my footsteps, nothing but the sounds of the night and singing by the fire.” – Antoinette

“A seed has been planted. And while i’ve been to gatherings before, come back with new inspiration, and then watched it slowly die down – this feels different. It feels as if my life no longer can move in a certain (city) way… a new Awareness is being processed, assimilated into my being. . And it leaves me feeling like there are doors wide open where there were once walls before.” ~ haylee

This was truly a gathering of note, one that bursts with the inspir(itness)ation that sets the tone for each individual participant to embrace a more authentic way of living. One in which each of our journeys can be honored as unique and essential notes in the symphony of life. As have been said by so many great ones, the world needs originals…inspired individuals who are creating change by living their truth every day.

Space of Love was a kind of haven, where one could come and experience the dissolution of all worries, doubts & fears, and live, even if temporarily in the gift of the present moment, embracing every opportunity for the full potential it holds. A unique opportunity to explore our true selves, immersed in nature and community.

Change starts with the individual, and healing can only be without if it has happened within.
One Love. One Community. One Earth.

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The Festival program includes:

• Readers conference – meeting with V. N. Megre
• Presentation of the new book (Russian) from the series by V. N. Megre
• Discussions and Round Table Meetings
• Consultations on Kin’s Domain questions
• Trade fair
• Folk Art Exhibits
• Music Art Performances/Contests
• Performance Art Contests

For tickets and list of events on the Festival program visit http://www.skillandhobby.com/en/Moscow-International-Ringing-Cedars-Festival