10 to 12:
we set up and decorate the space- if anyone wants to bring things like cusions, throws, carpets, blankets, things to hang up (remember the spring theme) please join us.

12 – 1:
we have a welcoming circle. *PLEASE* come in time for this otherwise you miss out on this valuable introduction and setting the context for our day together and we miss out on hearing about you (even if you want to be silent and just watch things and are unsure of the idea of sharing circles- you’re welcome to just observe, but please be there).

1 – 2ish:
Bring and Share Lunch. Remember if you plan to eat, please be sure to contribute food to the feast- and enough for supper.
Raw/ vegetarian/ vegan please :-)

2 – 5:30
children’s face painting and magic
Talks, discussions and more… offerings still welcome here. Derek Gripper? Simric Yarrow? Ian Light? Lisa Martin? Marianne Littlejohn?
What we’re likely to do in this space, because of the spring theme of birth and fertility, is to have an open discussion about CHILDBIRTH and RAISING CHILDREN. Many of those coming have much practical knowledge to share on this valuable topic.
MUSIC and POETRY- please bring stuff to share that inspires, specially on the spring theme ( think birth, new beginnings- make it as abstract as you like) and instruments to make some noise together.

5:30 – 6:30:
♪♫¸.•*¨) ღ ☼ ♥ Spring Dance ♪♫¸.•*¨) ღ ☼ ♥ !

6:30 – 7:30:
Supper (lunch leftovers)

After supper:
Closing circle and clearing up. ***Another really important practical element of the day is that we leave no trace for anyone to have to clean up behind us. Please take responsibility for your own clearing up and then some. particularly if you leave early.***

CAn’t WAit To be with Y’ All!!

Love annwen and samantha

A quick update…
DATE: I’m changing the date to Sunday as there is a big festival in muizenberg that the whole muizenberg community is involved in.. The Muizenberg community is so lovely- i would like to make is easy for them to attend. Also our host would very much like to be there. I apologise if this messes with anyone’s arrangements! And this way the earth dance people may be more inclined to join us if they’ve had their fill of earth dancing by Sunday.

OFFERINGS: One or two have offered to do some activities (children’s activities,  a talk, some music and a dance) but i don’t have more than that confirmed… so if you would like to help us co-create this, please let me know.. it can be very informal and playful too if you have a fun idea up your sleeve. Will send out a proper activities list on Wednesday.

MEALS: Bring and share enough for Lunch and left overs for Supper if you are staying. If you plan to eat please be sure to contribute food to the feast!!
Raw/ vegan/ vegetarian please :-)

Love Annwen

It has been so delightful to be sharing the turning of the seasons with you. Winter solstice was magical at the blue hippo in Greyton. There is something so fine, so tender and precious and at the same time, deeply nourishing and grounding that comes about when we have the courage to drop our armouring and connect with one another from a space of authenticity, vulnerability- a space of love.

This month we do so within the greater context of Spring and all the subtle energy of New-ness that it brings.

SET-UP: Beloved Dale is letting us use his home. Thank you dear friend! Hopefully, depending on the response to this and if enough people want to get involved, it’ll be more like the full gathering in that we’ll have a day schedule with events taking place all day. Beginning with yoga or meditation and opening circle in the morning and ending with a dance and a closing circle in the evening.

CO-CREATION: Space of Love is a Co-Created event. This means we need your particular brand of being to make it all happen! 
here are the roles that need filling:
~Setting up on Friday
~Décor: SPRING theme (daisy chains, lots of flowers everywhere, etc.) carpets, cushions, prayer flags, whatever you can bring…
~ Signage to direct people in (arrows and welcome vibes)
~ Kitchen and food awareness people
~ Clean-up people -everyone is a clean-up person, of course- but i mean taking down all the décor and any M.O.O.P [matter out of place] and so on.

MEALS:This means you will need to bring lunch and supper food to share- please ensure that it is enough for you and your family- no exceptions- if there is any difficulty with this, please speak to me. Please bring your own eating tools and receptacles. Please prepare before hand – just makes things a lot simpler as you can imagine. If someone has a nice big pot like a potjie pot to lend us we can make our evening meal a big pot of soup. I’ll wait for feedback on that and send another mail out to confirm supper plans and the schedule.

THEME: Spring! think eggs, seeds, flowers, fertility, rabbits, new beginings, seeds, new shoots. Please involve your inner and outer children and dress the part. There is a part in all of us which yearns to surrender to innocence and delight. (Rikus and Geoffrey- we’ll make black outfit exceptions for you if need be… you may have to put up with me plaiting a flower or two into your hair, however)

OFFERINGS: Let us thread the spring theme in to everything we offer.Here are the slots that need filling (might shift around a little)… please contact me with your ideas if you’d like to participate in this way.

9am: Yoga/ meditation- who can do this?
10am: opening circle
11am- 1pm: activities… offerings??
1pm: lunch
2pm -5pm: activities… offerings?
5pm – 6pm: supper prep
6pm – 6:30: vedic fire ceremony?
6:30pm – 7: 30pm: supper and music… music people??
7: 30pm – 9pm: Dance with Samantha Slewinski(!) and closing.

NB: Children’s activities will be very welcomed!

SO much love to old, new and yet to meet friends,

Annwen.
0845887741
annwenmazetti@gmail.com

Schedule - Winter Gathering ~June 2011

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Here are some of the highlights from our Line up for the weekend:

Friday Morning:
Decorations and Art with Kids and Adults
Saterday Morning:
Agnihotra Fire Ceremony
Tishlaki Movement Meditation
Kid’s Animal Wokshop
Children’s Story Telling
Soap Making Demo
Conscious Dreaming Workshop
Natural Birthing Talk
Saterday Afternoon and Evening
Trading Hour
Men and Women’s Circles
Dance
Angel walk and Co-Created Live music- Bring your instruments!!!
Sunday
Handball
Raw Food Talk
Contact Improv Dance
Sound Journey

Space of Love gatherings are a co-creative experience in community making
A Winter Gathering gives us a chance to co-create with all our seasons wishes

Date: 17-19 June 2011
Time: Opening Fire- 5:30pm on Friday
Place: Blue Hippo Tipi Village, Greyton

TICKETS:
Basic: R210 (includes camping for adults)
Tipi*: R315 (includes a single or double bed in a tipi for adults)
Children: R70 (5-18yr olds includes camping OR sharing a tipi with an adult)
One Nighters: R150 for adults; R50 for children (includes camping)

Day Visitors**: R100 for adults; R30 for children

Newly earthed to 5 year-olds: Free♥
Join us in good time before Opening Fire – Tipi Village is open from Wednesday 15th.
To book a tipi please contact daniel@spaceoflove.co.za
The latest this can be done is Wednesday 15th June

Bank details:
Standard bank
Account Name: “Moon”
No: 074024701
Code: 02530917 or 00051001
Branch: constantia
Please put “SOL” and your name as reference, and send your proof of payment

all love :-)
Ashleigh x

Falling Down

http://spaceoflove.co.za/music/falling-down.mp3

Keep the purity

http://spaceoflove.co.za/music/keep-the-purity.mp3

Open my soul

http://spaceoflove.co.za/music/open-my-soul.mp3

Growl for the Earth

http://spaceoflove.co.za/music/growl-for-the-earth.mp3

Be humble small child

http://spaceoflove.co.za/music/be-humble-small-child.mp3

Seeding Heaven on Earth

http://spaceoflove.co.za/music/seeding-heaven-on-earth.mp3

Sacred Wisdom

http://spaceoflove.co.za/music/sacred-wisdom.mp3

Let our hearts feel truth

http://spaceoflove.co.za/music/let-our-hearts-feel-truth.mp3

What do you think?

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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