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Date: 26 – 27 May 2012 Rainbow Homestead Zuvuya, KwaZulu Natal Activities start at 9am on Saturday with a tour of homestead. Sunday un-programmed for synergistic and spontaneous activity. Family-friendly: There will be kiddie & adult activities Throughout both days we’ll play cooperative games (yay, play!)

~ Join us for a co-created weekend Gathering at the Rainbow Homestead! ~

Eco-activities for learning by doing:

• Building a compost heap
• Building with cob (bath area?)
• Kiddie eco-activities

Workshops & Discussions include:

• Natural healing with herbs
• The Ecovillage movement
• Environmental Education resources for parents and kids
• Open slots for people to offer to share skills & knowledge
• Seed swap—bring your favourite seeds to share
• Clothes swap—bring a few bits of clothing to give and receive new ones

• Bring and share lunch both days
• Stone soup dinner (bring a veg to put in poijtie)
• Bonfire and music from sunset (bring fire toys and instruments)
• Bring a tent for camping—there are hot showers and a camp kitchen
• The terrain is great for mountain biking and hiking

Rainbow values are:

everyone is a participant, take out the rubbish you create, give generously, leave a light eco-footprint, cooperation, no drugs or alcohol, speak kindly, listen with your heart, no electronics

Directions:

From the N3 south take the Howick exit #107 Howick/Tweedie. Go left (away from Howick). At the T, go right onto the R103. Go 5km and turn left onto the Dargle/Impendle Rd. Go 28km. Turn right onto the D710. Continue 4km to the last gate.

Contact:

Sam ~ sam@zuvuya.co.za
More details on Facebook :-)

We look forward to seeing you there!

~ Thank you everyone for helping co-create another magical weekend! ~

	Space of Love ~ Music of the Heart We danced and sang. Had conversations about community, conscious relationship and healthy eating. Kailash Kokopelli took us on a magical musical sound journey and shared with us his precious heartsongs. We had shamanzi sharing their gifts, as well as Douwe, Rein, Ian, Daniel, Vernon and Philippa taking the children on magical playful musical adventures using original play, story telling and sound journey. We ate like kings!! (thank you Ian, Ingwe and Sonica and all the other kitchen angels!), and shared our own songs around the fire.. And so many more special gifts shared during this time.. Thank you everyone for being there and helping co-create this weekend into the experience it was. We look forward to the next one :-) Watch this space! Oh, and we would love to hear from you! Please let us know your thoughts, ideas, etc around the gathering. You can email info@spaceoflove.co.za You can check out photos here and more on facebook. With love the Space of Love Team :-)
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	“Silence in Action” – A Weekend Silent Retreat 30 March – 1 April 2012 Join our Silent Retrat at the Blue Hippo Farm. The weekend will include light meditation, yoga, walks, swims, meal preparation, organic suppers, beautiful location… All this on offer as you create and experience your Silence in shared daily activity without speech. Blue Hippo Tipi Village, Greyton (www.bluehippo.co.za) Cost: R550 for Camping or R650 for a Tipi beds For bookings and more details contact daniel: active8silence@gmail.com / 021 761 6501 ———————————————————————————————-
	Book: “Growing Vegetables with a Smile” Nikolay Kurdyumov (Author) Translated and Edited by Dr. Leonid Sharashkin MANIFEST YOUR PERSONAL GROWTH IN YOUR GARDEN! “Growing Vegetables with a Smile” takes you to where no other book ever has – cultivating your happiness one garden bed at a time! Unlock your creative abilities by understanding plants and the soil, and use your garden as a model for achieving success in life. “GIVE ME SOME DIRT TO PLANT A PARADISE GARDEN!” This book has already sold over one million copies in other languages. It touches your heart and wows your mind. Author’s humor and positive attitude are contagious. Even if you never gardened before, you will feel like running into your backyard, sticking seeds into the soil, and then… growing WITH your plants! ADVANCING HUMANITY ONE GARDEN AT A TIME. 9780984287338 Contact nhcustserv@gmail.com or you can purchase at Wizards Book store ———————————————————————————————-
	Book: “The Power of Luck” Vladimir Dolokhov and Vadim Gurangov Translated by Dr. Leonid Sharashkin This book’s mind-bending and efficient techniques expand our vision of what can be achieved in this life – and how. With its tantalizing real-life stories and a veritable avalanche of everyday “magic”, The Power of Luck unveils an ancient tradition of dissolving any problems in humor, laying a path to laughter, freedom, and power. Put luck to work and let your results speak for themselves! 9780984287321 R225.0 – contact nhcustserv@gmail.com or you can purchase at Wizards Book store ———————————————————————————————-
	Book: “The Art of Soaring” by Vladimir Dolokhov and Vadim Gurangov Translated by Dr. Leonid Sharashkin Revealing potent ancient techniques for manifesting your reality through humour, the book has sold over one million copies in Russia. Changing your life on the spot has never been so much fun! Simple and irresistibly positive, it makes you feel lighter, and as you start using this amazing wisdom, get ready for miracles and laughter to enter your everyday life! 9780984287314 R225.00 - contact nhcustserv@gmail.com or you can purchase at Wizards Book store ———————————————————————————————-
	Five Streams Welcomes Visitors Five Streams is just two hours from Durban and four and a half hours from Johannesburg. We have a lovely guest house for you to stay in with all the amenities. Photos are on the website - www.fivestreams.co.za. It is such a beautiful time of year right now and there is so much to do at the farm, and all around Nottingham Road. You’ll meet interesting people and begin to see how one can live a whole new lifestyle. Our rates are very affordable – please see here for all the information: http://www.fivestreams.co.za/come-stay-with-us/. Love to have you to with us, Scott and the Five Streams Community ———————————————————————————————-
	Shares in New Community available Shares are now available in the Transparent Cat Plantation Project - With the vision to create an integrated, mature and sustainable community that is based on respect, wisdom and love. Seven shares have been spoken for so far. If you are interested in being part of this please email Jean-Pierre Le Roux on 101@01101100.com as soon as possible. To read more about the project and view photos.. https://www.facebook.com/Transparent.Cat.Plantation?sk=info ———————————————————————————————-

Space of Love is just around the corner! Please take note to bring the following..

• bowl and spoon!!
• water – the water on the farm is unpallatable this time of year
• food- Bring generously. Enough food to feed you and your family for the whole weekend. The food is going to be prepared communally, so bring boxes of fruit/veg/ and big packets of nuts, seeds, lentils, pulses, rice, dates, superfoods etc. Please bring your own tea/coffee items.
  • Fruit: pineapple, watermelon, bananas, peaches, mangoes, apples, nectarines, grapes
  • Vegetables: Carrots, potatoes, sweet potatoes, butternut, onions, garlic, ginger, broccoli, sweetcorn, green pepper, red pepper, cabbage, cucumber, tomato, lettuce, celery, avocado, baby marrow
  • Nut and Seeds: all nuts, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, almonds
  • Pulses and grains: Oats, rice, lentils, chickpeas, mungbeans
  • Oils: Olive oil, coconut oil
  • Superfoods: Raw cacao, coconut oil
  • Misc: honey, dates, tahini, tamari, himalayan salt, spices, jaggery
  • Sprouts: Feel free to bring lots of yummy already sprouted sprouts : )
• Oils: Olive oil, coconut oil
• Superfoods: Raw cacao, coconut oil
• Misc: honey, dates, tahini, tamari, himalayan salt, spices, jaggery
• instruments – for our communal sound journey
• performance – prepare something if you would like to perform at our open mike
• trading hour – if you would like to sell your home-made goods – planting calenders, jewelry, organic seeds, etc
• plant swop - bring your extra plants to share with others
• clothes swop – bring your old clothes to swop / share / giveaway
• decor – bring cloths and decor to help us brighten the space :-)
• lifts - if you’re able to offer a lift, or need a lift, please write something up on this page
• and last but not least… all of your heart!

• no alcohol / drugs!
• no dogs !

We look forward to seeing you there!!

Hello Lovelies 

Just want to give you an update on what the offerings are so far for this weekend – more still to be finalised this week! 

We have a beautiful program with the focus on music and there have also been many offerings for children. Remember children under 5 are free and 17 and below only R100.

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Hello Beloveds

Beautiful brother, Kailash Kokopelli, sound-medicine man and wizard of sacred soundscapes, will be joining us from Sweden at the Space Of Love: Music of the Heart Festival. He will be offering Kaichimo, Devotional Heart Songs and Dragon Tales.

David and Lauren of Shamanzi will also be offering spectacular music and performances, as will the local Greyton reggae band. Other magical offerings include Shamanic Munay Ku Rites, Mandala Magic, Devotional Heart Songs, Celtic Fairy Tales, Children’s Sound journeys ,Songs and dances of Universal Peace, Kundalini Yoga and much more! And of course there will be yummy organic gardening, raw foods and deep earth connection!

We would like to create a sacred communal sound journey around the fire so please be sure to bring drums, guitars, shakers, voices, bodies and any other instruments! Also we will be having an open mic event on our sound stage so prepare your songs poetry stories and other performances! If there are any other events, performances or workshops you would like to offer to the space please email Annwenmazetti@gmail.com soon to ensure a space on our schedule.
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Be sure to book your tickets NOW for this magical event as we have a limited number avail to ensure an intimate heart space. Tipi spaces are filling up fast so if you want a tipi bed book ASAP!

TICKET PRICES:
Entrance (incl. Camping in own tents):
Adults = R250 per person
Children 5-17 = R100 per child
Under 5 = free
Day Visitors (Adults = R150, Children 5-17 = R75)

Tipis (Double bed = R200, Single bed = R140)
Meals (if not supplying food) = R50 per meal per person

Make payment into:
Standard Bank Constantia
Account Name: “Moon”
Account Number: 074024701
code: 02530917

Email your payment details or queries to: bookings@spaceoflove.co.za

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You are invited to come down to the Blue Hippo in the days before the gathering to help with the festival set up. There will be free tipi accommodation avail during this time, as well as time for play and heart connection. Please email info@spaceoflove.co.za if you plan to come up early!

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We are looking for kitchen angels to volunteer to focalise meals during the gathering! Please email info@spaceoflove.co.za if you are avail for this.

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Let us know if you have space in your car and would like to share lifts/petrol or alternatively if you are looking for a ride up!

Deep Heart Blessings
Ahrian

Calling all Muso’s, Poets, Performers, Consciousness workshop facilitators, Yoga instructors, Doulas, Midwives, Dance facilitators, Permaculturists, Story Tellers, etc., etc….. Come play with us in greyton from the 9th to the 11th of March. This is a non- profit participation based gathering with the intention of supporting our community in learning wholistic ways to live in harmony with each other and our planet – and to have fun and celebrate our journeys on this earth plane.

Interested? Check out the event details on our facebook group or website and contact Annwen if you’d like to offer something: offerings@spaceoflove.co.za

Hello Dear Ones! It’s that time again!!… It’s been a delight to hear so many asking when the next Space of Love is. Well, here it is…

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♬ ♩ 9-11 March 2012 ♩ ♬

Blue Hippo Farm – Greyton

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This is a festival of sweet soul exploration through sound…a sacred celebration of the vibration of creation. Sound has the capacity to heal, transform our DNA and even to create new worlds and universes.We invite you to sing the song of your own heart and to birth your bliss into being, while being cradled in the arms of your brothers and sisters and the beautiful earth mother! Space of love is a very special co-created gathering where we all come together to share our unique gifts and create the space in a way that rings true to the rhythms of our spirits and mother earth. We are guided by love, joy and the dynamic energies that are ushering in the New Earth. The Blue Hippo Farm is a magnificent space to drink in the beauty and sacred heartbeat song of the earth. At SOL gatherings we come together to play, pray, dance, sing, sound, celebrate, garden and explore the beauty of creativity through an abundance of workshops and events. There are workshops and play spaces for children, and it is a special space for families. We are strictly drug and alcohol free. Although the guiding light of this gathering is sound…there will be space for yoga, dance, raw foods, journey work and whatever you feel to offer to the space…keeping an awareness of how sounds sings us into being in a myriad of ways…our heart beat, our breathe, the music we dance to, the song of nature and the earth as we garden. If you feel inspired to offer something to the gathering…music/art/dance/workshops/events please let us know so we can add you to the schedule: offerings@spaceoflove.co.za. Food is mostly vegan and raw, communal bring and share, and communally prepared. Bring boxes of fruit, veggies, grains, pulses, honey, superfoods etc for the kitchen… So let us sing our heart songs in celebration of the one divine….and allow the soul-shaking sounds to infuse our beings and to ignite the sweet sacred light within us into full flame!   •*´¨`*•.¸¸.•*´¨`*•.¸¸.•*´¨`*•.¸¸.•*´¨`*•.¸¸.•

HOW THE GATHERING WORKS:

Please check out our FAQ’s for more details about the gathering and about what to bring.

TICKETS:
Entrance (incl. Camping in own tents):
Adults = R250 per person
Children 5-17 = R100 per child
Under 5 = free
Day Visitors (Adults = R150, Children 5-17 = R75)

Tipis (Double bed = R200, Single bed = R140)
Meals (if not supplying food) = R50 per meal per person

To book email: bookings@spaceoflove.co.za

Please note that in the spirit of co-creation everyone buys a ticket, incl. those offering workshops/events. SOL is a non-profit gathering, and a service of love, and the SOL team all offer their contributions on a seva (service/volunteer) basis. We keep ticket prices as low as possible to cover basic costs. All funds go directly back into the project to pay for costs such as the tipi village, equipment, decor, loo paper etc.

CO-CREATION: 

During the SOL weekend, we all come together as a loving and supportive community/ family to offer our energy, skills, gifts and awareness to the space! Meals will be prepared communally, and we ask that everyone take a turn in the kitchen. We are also looking for volunteers to focalise

Soap making with Launa Arntzen at a previous gathering.

meals. We also ask that you hold an awareness of keeping spaces clean, taking back with you all that you have brought, and dealing responsibly with refuse – reduce, reuse, recycle! Other roles will also come up spontaneously during the weekend, and we ask that you enter into them with love: e.g. fire keeping, refuse awareness. If you see something that needs doing – do it : )!

OFFERINGS:

We have created the space so that people can offer their unique gifts and talents in the form of workshops, talks, classes and events. If there is something that you would like to offer, talk to Annwen, so she can put you on the schedule: offerings@spaceoflove.co.za / 0845887741

FOOD:

Food is “bring and share” and communally prepared – this keeps ticket prices down and creates an amazing loving kitchen vibe. Healthy vegetarian/vegan food with a focus on raw food. Bring boxes of fruit and veg, nuts and seeds, tahini, superfoods and dates. Be generous, this food will be feeding you and your family over the whole weekend.

Abundance!!! Food contributions in the Space of Love kitchen, awaiting the Kitchen Angels' imagination with Ashleigh's beloved Molly in the background

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.

ACCOMMODATION:

Is in camping and tipis. Camping: please bring tents, bedding, and all you will need to be cuddly and cosy. There are a limited number of beds in tipis available for an extra R100 per person for the weekend. Tipi’s have double and single beds and sleep about 5 people each. Bring ur own bedding.

DIRECTIONS:

From Cape Town, take the N2 toward Caledon. About 4km before Caledon, turn left at the sign that says “Greyton / Genadendal”. Drive for about 30km directly into Greyton. At the 3rd stop street you will see a sign toward Riviersonderend. Turn right here (Osman’s shop is on the corner) Follow the dirt road over a bridge. Keep heading straight for another 4 km. There is a sign on the left to Blue Hippo. Turn in here. Drive straight and park in the big open space where the other cars are. Welcome!

From Riviersonderend, Take the N2 towards Cape Town, passing through Riviersonderend, shortly after Shell garage, turn right at sign to Greyton. Travel on dirt road (following signs to Greyton) for approx 20kms and look out for the Blue Hippo sign on right 4km before Greyton. Turn in here.

www.bluehippo.co.za

Love, 

The Space of Love Team

info@spaceoflove.co.za

Space of Love Gathering – Garden Route

Date – 11-12 February

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So it is official Space of Love , Garden Route will be happening on the 11thand 12th of February 2012. On a majestic piece of land where we can see both sea and mountain. Please start spreading the news and we will keep u posted as per the rest

Space of Love, is a Drug free, Alcohol free and meat free Space where we can meet to play, learn and remember that its so much easier when we together.

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Contact Garth for more details – 0849909999
email – mastersedge@gmail.com

Contact Details: Les 082 955 1221 or 033 266 6617
majestic-village@majesticinteractive.co.za

Have you ever felt the need to get back to nature and experience your roots? Seen pure spring water at its source? The sound of owls and jackals at night? Stars glittering, out of the shear joy of being in the heavens.

Would you like to experience this for a few days? Join in the basic thrills of walking in nature, through shady canopies along a stream and having a picnic with the sound of water and birds?

Join in the primal thrill of connecting to yourself in a pyramid; communing with yourself while walking a labyrinth and rejoicing in life with a purifying sweat lodge.

If this interests you why not join us at the 3day retreat on the sustainable community called ‘5 Streams’, 27 km’s from Nottingham Road nestled into the foothills of the Drakensberg. It is 2 hours from Durban and 4.5 – 5 hours from Johannesburg along very easy roads.

Friday 11 November 2011 @ noon to Sunday 13 November 2011 @ noon

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