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Dear Parents and Friends

I am soooooooo excited to announce that GROW A TALE for children (ages 6-13) is starting again!

The Conscious Kids’ Classes include elements of Speech and Drama, Storytelling, Creative-Movement, Yoga and Arts & Crafts. The classes will be held on Wednesday afternoons starting 4 May (yay, just around the corner!) at the beautiful Erin Hall in Rondebosch… more details in the Flyer conscious kids classes.

Those of you who have children who attended the GROW A TALE Conscious Kids’ Camps last year… I welcome you back into the magical realm of creativity, learning and self-expression

And those of you who may be hearing about GROW A TALE for the first time… I invite you to bring your children and experience the magic with us

And if you’re one of my friends or acquaintances without children, wondering why you have received this mail… please pass this info on to your friends and families who have children!

I look forward to sharing more with you, so please feel free to contact me at lisa@growatale.co.za or 083 644 4980.

With love and laughter,
Lisa

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Lisa Cohen
e: lisa@growatale.co.za
c: 083 644 4980

06 April at 07:30 – 17 April at 12:00
Rustlers Valley – Ficksburg District

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Hi Permi folks

The Valley is beautiful with her balmy days, flower bedecked vistas and autumn shades creeping in. We are nearly set for a wicked Permaculture work-play party during the Naledi Village mini fest from 1 to 3 April. After the pioneering efforts,the space is ready a dash of fun,creativity, love and colour.

After that its permaculture course time from 6 to 17 April. If you still havent decided, just say yes,take the plunge, and join us for an awesome course in recreating a new earth.You can make it happen in your back yard.

As we are collectively accelerating our evolution and earth changes, new systems for human settlements and way of life, based on a life giving relationship with our environment are becoming ever more critical. Its just great to be part of this new earth.

Sending ya big love

the Rustlers Valley Circle

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Welcome to Terra do Sol!

We are a multicultural Franco-Brazilian family of 4 (parents in their mid-30′s and two beautiful little daughters). We have decided to dramatically change our lives after realizing that we were climbing the wrong social ladder, the consumerist one, which is not able to bring true happiness to our lives (even though we consider we have pretty much reached its top!). We have also realized that economy globalism and the current evolution of modern societies is not sustainable in the long term as it goes against Nature. This creates the need for non-profit oriented and self-sustainable local communities, which our project is part of.

Our vision is to establish a “Kin Domain Village” in Brazil, and we decided to create this website in order to share it with you, to make our dream of owning a “Space of Love” come true. At this stage, we need to find a land, and we need to find like-minded people willing to participate in some way or join us in our project of building our own self-sustainable community.

Please read more of our vision and our project here https://sites.google.com/site/terradosolcommunity/

‘Parallel Worlds: Nothing is as it seems’   Heather Macauley Noell’s new book – which weaves some of Anastasia’s most profound teachings (books 1-8) into the adventure-fantasy plot.  (By donating $10 to support the Ringing Cedars Revolution site, you’ll receive the audiobook and eBook free.)

Just to be sure that ‘Parallel Worlds’ is something you’ll enjoy, here’s a link to 50% of the story where you can read or listen to Chapters 1-17.  http://aspaceoflove.com/pw_audio_pdf_ch1-17.html

‘Parallel Worlds’ Overview

Parallel Worlds is a fascinating, gripping tale of adventure and love that delves into deep universal truths.

The story is about a pair of teenagers, Amelia and Matthew, who are trapped in a parallel world where they must retrieve information from their past lifetimes before they can return to their own world.

Yet underlying the story is a message so powerful, so life-changing and controversial, it has been concealed for thousands of years – because these truths are capable of changing our current world forever.

At the end of the story you’ll hear a discussion called “The Truth Behind the Fiction,” and you may want to hear the story again in light of this new information!

Provisional Dates:

Official programme: Friday 22 April (2pm) to Monday 25 April (2pm)

Informal community gathering and work party: 20 April – 2 May

Hut on property

The Umphakatsi Peace Ecovillage in south east Mpumalanga in South Africa is located in Steynsdorp, a small rural village about 10km from the Oshoek border of Swaziland. The nearest city, Mbabane (capital of Swaziland), is 30km from the Ecovillage, which is about an hour’s drive to Mozambique. The nearest public transport road is 2, 5 kilometres from the Ecovillage.

Please remember to bring your Passport!

Contact details for bookings/directions and info SOL Easter Gathering:

Tertius on +27(0)71 288 3742 or tertiusw@gmail.com

Caro on+27(0)79 660 2429 or carolynhowell@gmail.com

Provisional SOL Schedule

Suggested Daily Schedule

Provisional SOL Program (TBC)

View over the river

• Introduction to Umphakatsi: meeting the people involved and sharing in their vision
• Meeting with the Tribal Authority
• Meeting with various involved community groups and peace clubs, including a “Space of Love” discussion
• Eco village design  / Anastasia Kins Domains: 1-day introductory workshop:

• traditional African (Seswati) village life
• different models for group coordination: decision making, resource-sharing, harmonising relationships, optimising team and individual efforts and support structures
• energy generation models: heat, electricity, mechanical
• water supply and irrigation
• natural and traditional building
• self-sustainability
• generating ABUNDANCE for ALL in a community

• Work circles: (tools & materials: Pease refer to information letter and bring what you feel is appropriate for the task in which you would like to participate)

• ablutions (upgrade toilets and showers)
• recycle and waste management
• 

  The beautiful river

  compost / worm farms

• chicken house building
• Campsite upgrade
• Lapa construction – for communal gathering, cooking space and/or additional accommodation
• road and river crossing upgrade

• Permaculture training: 1-day introductory workshop
• Medicinal plant/nature walk & talk: sustainable harvesting, restoration and protection of biodiversity
• Permablitz: upgrade garden, install water irrigation system and nursery
• Gardens workshop: medicinal, plant and food gardens
• Children’s activities/circle: various cultural activities involving the local youth
• Cross cultural/Identity workshops: to promote cultural understanding and share stories
• Woman’s circle: to discuss issues specific to women in communities
• Creative fireside: music, singing and storytelling
• Open space: for anyone keen on sharing skills and/or teaching/facilitating a circle.
• Ceremonial circle space: for those wishing to facilitate healings, rites of passage, blessings, meditations, sweat lodges, medicine circles, etc.
• Playing: fun, exploration and relaxation in a spectacular section of Mother Gaia’s playpen!
• Trip to Swaziland: don’t forget to bring your passport!!

Accommodation & Ablutions

• Accommodation facilities: are shared at Lubumbano Hut with a kitchen and a quiet room in the Peace Hut for meditation and sleeping.  Please book space in a hut and bring bedding.
• Communal Huts: R40 p/person p/day; no cost for children sharing beds with parents.  A maximum of 10 persons can be accommodated dormitory style (9 in large hut and 1 in small hut): two double beds and seven single mattresses/mats
• Camping:  R20 p/person p/ day; R10 for children 6 – 16 (negotiable for families). Please bring own tents and bedding.
• Ablutions: Umphakatsi is for the adventurous who can rough it!
• Bathing: wash in the river (clear, clean potable water) or use zinc basins/your own plastic tub to gather water for bathing, which can be heated over the fire. Please bring and use only biodegradable soaps/shampoos in river.
• Toilet: informal pit toilet available, or use a spade.  Please bring your own loo paper.
• Drinking: no running/tap water – collect water from river but please boil before drinking. Bring your own water bottle.

Heat & Power

• Electricity: is limited and serves only approximately four people per day (two small solar panels and 2 car batteries available, which can charge 1 laptop and between 2-3 cellphones per day).  Please bring your own mobile solar panel, battery and inverter if you will need more power.
• Mobile networks: access and wirless/3G connections available for all networks (as per above power supplies).
• Additional: bring your own candles and preferably torches or lanterns that work with a renewable energy supply (no batteries, rechargeable or not, please).
• Gas: for communal cooking is available at R10 contribution (please see rates info) or you can bring your own. Note: glass lid pots only to be used for cooking.
• Firewood: bring your own or collect onsite for R5 per day. Note that onsite firewood to be used sustainably so as to meet  the needs of the regular community throughout the year.  The natural biodiversity is also affected each year by veldfires and unsustainable harvesting of trees for firewood. For large bonfires (e.g. for drumming circles), please bring logs from the city. Note: glass lid pots only to be used for cooking.
• Solar cooker: available for communal cooking (glass lid pots only) but you are encouraged to also bring your own, as well as cardboard boxes to fashion hot-boxes, which use significantly less fuel.
• Hot boxes: please consider brining cardboard boxes and blankets/padding as this method uses the least fuel.
• Power tools: if bringing these for tasks, pneumatic are preferable and please supply your own compressed air.

Kitchen & Meals/Food Requirements

• Kitchen: communal combination of indoor gas, outdoor fire/hotbox, solar cooking and/or your own equipment (please see rates info for gas/firewood contribution).
• Meals: all food is shared and cooked communally by a meals focus group. Please cater for any specific dietary requirements you may have (food, equipment to cook your own).
• Extra food/water supplies: can be purchased from  small shop in Steynsdorp village close to Ecovillage or from Pick & Pay in town of Nhalazatshe (45km by road, 25km slow dirt road and pot-holed tar, 30km from Badplaas).
• Other items for kitchen: candles/matches, fold-up table, water containers, dish, soap and cloths
• Suggested food list: for communal cooking. All food is vegetarian/vegan/raw (no refrigeration) – please see list below and speak to organisers so we don’t duplicate too many foodstuffs:

• Dry foods – fruits, seeds, raisins, nuts, rice crackers, wheat crackers
• Cereals – muesli, porridge (maize meal, oats, Maltabela)
• Grains/pulses – brown rice millet, bulgur wheat, quinoa, couscous lentils, dry beans, green beans, bread flour & yeast for baking bread/pizza
• Juices/beverages – fruit juice (melons, apples, oranges keep well), teabags (stevia/agave instead of sugar); coffee (preferably organic) filter/grains and plunger; decaff coffee/malt substitute
• Salad/veg/fruit – fresh/dried herbs, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, sprouts, seedlings, potatoes, carrots, butternut, pumpkins, organic fruits of all kinds
• Oils/condiments – oil for frying/salad, preferably canola or olive,  apple cider/regular vinegar; salt (preferably mountain/organic/herbal, pepper; sauces (tamari, tahini, hummus)
• Snacks/foods for kids – no preservatives, artificial colours and flavours
• Dairy – for non-vegans, eggs, milk powder; carob/soya powder
• Tins/jars – preservative-free tomato relish, chickpeas, organic soya mince, sweet potatoes, squash, beetroot, cabbage, ginger, garlic, onions, homemade jam/relishes; honey, organic soup-stock

Additional Info/Requirements

• Child care: Umphakatsi is a child friendly space but PLEASE take care of your and other children, especially around the river as Umphakatsi will take NO responsibility for the safety of children. Children’s activities will be arranged during the gathering and meetings are child friendly.  Please bring child-friendly activities and games, craft materials, stationery, music instruments, seeds and seedlings and any special items your child requires.
• First aid: bring a basic first aid kit and any homeopathic/home medications required.
• Mosquito repellent: bring your own and citronella candles, consider natural/antimalaria medication (though the area is not susceptible to malaria, due to climate change the weather is becoming hot and humid, attracting a variety of insects).
• Bedding/seating: sleeping bag/blankets, cushions/pillows, mats
• Toiletries: biodegradable saps/shampoos, sunscreens.
• Clothing/shoes: warm days/cold nights, possible rain, shoes or sandals with non-slip soles for river hiking (you are welcome to go barefoot), walking/hiking boots for hiking, bathing costume, hat, sarongs.
• Cutlery/crockery: plate, bowl, mug, utensils, tubs, water bottles, tubs for collecting water/washing.
• Power: batteries, candles, torches (windup or solar), camera.
• Musical instruments: guitar, drums, shakers, marimbas, calimbas, etc. (leave electronic music at home or in your car with sound system off – tune into nature and your natural being!).
• Cash: spending money for workshop donations and contributions where required.

Activities

• Hiking along the river to the waterfalls or in the surrounding mountains
• Lazing and swimming in the river (clear, potable water)
• Meditating in beautiful quiet spots with magic views
• Exploring the dirt roads with your mountain bike (NO quad bikes please!)
• Eco-sustainable activity with endless projects to keep you busy, such as helping to upgrade ablutions, build solar combined donkey shower water heating system, building sleeping spaces with natural materials in traditional Seswati style, working the permaculture garden.  (As per our exchange info, if Umphakatsi grabs you, you can put some brain juice and elbow grease in one of our projects in return for free accommodation and shared living costs for a while after the SOL).
• Socialising with like-minded people, drumming, dancing, singing around the fire. We have good contact with local musicians, traditional dancers and Sangomas who may dance on Saturday evening if you dance with them. Donations for entertainers welcome.

Rates/Exchanges and Donations

(Note: please do not let shortage of cash keep you away – see our wish list below and speak to us to arrange an exchange of goods/services for your participation in the SOL gathering)

• Gate ticket (cash):  R80 p/adult, R30 p/child (12 -18)

(Fees are negotiable – please give what you can or more, all fees go towards supporting the peace work at Umphakatsi and improving the infrastructure on the land.)

• Accommodation (cash to organisers): communal hut R40 p/night (book);camping R20 p/night (neg. for families)
• Gas contributions (cash to organisers):  for communal cooking and hot drinks, R10 p/p/p/day
• Magic Hat donations: if we run short of communal food please donate what you can for more supplies; donate for each workshop you attend (optional, but please give freely in exchange for knowledge you receive); donations for daily visitors/guest meals.

Our Wish-list:

• Garden: equipment (tools, shade net, hoses/ watering cans, wheelbarrow, buckets, garden tools, slasher, axe, saw etc.) seeds to plant, saplings (fruit, nut and other valuable trees) and seedlings (herbs, veggies, medicinal plants), bamboo plants, etc.
• Arts/Crafts & music: old clothes for recreating radiant new ones, sewing kits/material, mechanical sewing machines (small and industrial), hessian/hemp sacking/needles, twine, rope, ribbons, beads, materials/scraps, string, recycled paper (writing/drawing, A4/A3/A2),  craft materials for kids programme and  art projects, (old magazines/newspapers, stationery, paper, crayons, pencils, scissors, craft knives, beads, paints, brushes, scrap paper, string, rope, blackboard, blackboard pain/chalk, percussion instruments – drums, tabla, shakers, flutes, triangles, tambourines, bells, etc, incense, crystals/stones/nature items, etc.
• Building a& infrastructure: building materials/tools (moulds for adobe brick making), corrugated iron, windows (recycled car windows, frames, glass), doors, glass, good wood/planks, insect resistant poles, wooden roof beams, wire, nails, wood/metal screws, etc., piping and hose for water and electrical wiring, chicken/fencing/general purpose wire, irrigation system piping, etc.
• Energy: old gas cylinders (new, full), bicycles/parts and powering devices, old tumble washing machine to convert to hand-operated/turned machine, stainless steel drums of old washing machines (to make economical fireplaces), any mechanical devices, old geysers/piping to make hot water donkey.
• Household: lighting stuff (candles/making info/ideas), paraffin (or eco-friendly substitute), wind-up torches, solar lanterns, etc), ‘furniture’ and bedding (cushions, rugs, mats, blankets, sheets, old beds or ideas/material for making new ones, etc), healthy toothpaste, natural creams (organic/biodegradable), etc.
• Transport: rough road vehicles for transport of people/goods – cart (with horse, mule/donkey, ox), camels, horses/riding gear,  scrambler/motor bike, truck, tractor and trailer, 4×4 bakkie, etc.
• Information/expertise: making sustainable/renewable energy generation devices, building natural swimming pools, internet and real-world networking, advertising (spread the good word!), ideas and connections for making recycled objects, recipes for home made clay, glue, paints, etc.

Our Exchange Offerings:

• Wellbeing Services: Sangoma bone readings, Mayan calendar in-depth life purpose energy readings, card readings, massage, life coaching, tai chi and chi kung, meditation and chanting, shiatsu, personal African steaming sweats, ceremonies, spiritual healing, supported vision quests, earth wisdom practice.
• Soul food: tasty meals cooked with love and available organic, healthy foodstuffs.
• Nature: beautiful natural surroundings, alive and abundant river to swim in and crystal-pure uncontaminated water to drink.  Guided/unguided hiking trails
• Partainment: music and singing/jamming/storytelling around evening fires
• Magical venue: for workshops (food garden however is still growing, so workshop leader would have to bring bulk of specialised food requirements).  We can cook, and offer special Swazi traditional food menu in co-operation with produce from local farming community for your workshop.

Ongoing Volunteering & Donations at Umphakatsi:

• Volunteers: if you are interested in volunteering at Umphakatsi after the SOL, speak to the organisers:

• Long term volunteers (more than 3 to 6 months) must bring a sleeper tent.
• Working hours for short term volunteers is 4 hours p/day and 2 hours p/day for long-term stay.
• Gas cooking facilities available, contributions towards filling the gas and maintenance fee R100 p/month.
• Volunteers to provide for themselves and bring whatever they need for the length of their stay.

• Donations: from as little as R10 or 1 Euro p/month you can support the work of the Ecovillage and the Human Rights Education Centre wherever you are :

Account Name: Human Rights Education Centre

Bank: ABSA

Branch Name: Heerengratch

Account Number: 4074541432

Branch Code:632005

Swift Code: ABSA ZA JJ

GETTING TO UMPHAKATSI:

• Map/directions: will be e-mailed when you RSVP (and deposit payment) and also uploaded to Facebook/website (to orientate yourself, use Google Earth to find Steynsdorp).
• Info/bookings: Tertius +27(0)71 288 3742/ tertiusw@gmail.com, Caro +27(0)79 660 2429/ carolynhowell@gmail.com

• Car: (speak to other participants about sharing lifts)

• On a good road map, you should find Nhlazatshe and Elukwatini, about 30 km south east of Badplaas. It is a 4 to 5 hour drive from Gauteng on N4 to Badplaas via Middelburg and Carolina. It is close to Steynsdorp village, by road 50km south-east of Badplaas & about 20km north of Oshoek border post on a small dirt road west of the Swaziland border. Steynsdorp is about 20km south east of Nhalazatshe and about 20km north of Oshoek border post on a small dirt road west of the Swaziland border. Umphakatsi is close to Steynsdorp village, about 20 minutes by car and 45 to 60 min if you walk fast with no or light backpack. The last 20 km of tar road to Steynsdorp is full of pot-holes so drive slowly and with care even during daylight. The last filling station is in Nhlazatshe close and opposite to Pick & Pay, about 30km from Umphakatsi.
• Please plan your trip so that you get to Ecovillage before dark, about 7pm latest in midsummer, 5h30 pm latest in midwinter – the dirt road from nearest point of local village, Steynsdorp Ext 2, to Ecovillage should NOT be driven after sunset.  It is not advisable to walk or drive at night except if you are very familiar with the area and road from Steynsdorp to Umphakatsi. It is slightly complicated to get from Steynsdorp to Umphakatsi. If it is your first time visiting, it is best to arrange to drive in convoy from Steynsdorp (meet at the big Marula tree close to pink shop), or to phone for directions and update about road conditions from there.
• If your vehicle’s ground clearance is low (a City Golf can navigate the road, you don’t need a 4×4 or bakkie) or you don’t want to risk your vehicle on the road, safe parking can be arranged in Steynsdorp for R40 per car per day. Transport to Umphakatsi from Steynsdorp is with Madevu’s bakkie, at R50 p/trip for maximum 3 people with luggage, R10 per additional person with luggage.  Phone Madevu on 072 351 7031 BEFORE you leave home to arrange.

• Taxi:

• From Pretoria or Johannesburg, take a taxi to Badplaas or Nhlazatshe / Elukwatini for about R150. In Nhlazatshe, opposite Pick & Pay, you can catch a taxi to Steynsdorp for about R25. Last stop / first pick-up point closest to Ecovillage is at the big Marula tree close to pink shop.
• From there you can walk to Ecovillage, about 45 minutes with light pack, 30 to 45 minutes more for a heavy one. Or arrange for a bakkie to bring you to Ecovillage. The cost for 2011 at the moment is R50 per trip for vehicle shared by up to 3 people. For more, an additional R10 per person is charged. The cost for bakkie from Nhalazatshe is R200 per trip for a maximum of 3 people with luggage. For more, an additional R 25 per person is charged. Phone Madevu on 072 351 7031 BEFORE you leave home to arrange.

• Bus:

• You can catch the main line buses to Nelspruit and from there either use taxis or local buses to Nhlazatshe. Only one bus per day, usually one to Barberton, then one from there to Nhalazatshe and one from there to Steynsdorp. The buses to Barberton and Nhlazatshe would leave early in morning and the one from Nhlazatshe to Steynsdorp at about 4pm. Taxis from Nelspruit are easier to take and give more flexibility but are more expensive. Taxis or bus will take you to big Marula tree close to pink shop in Steynsdorp. Phone Caro 079 660 2429 or Sarah 079 766 5803 for more info before you leave home.
• If you use the Bas bus, take Swaziland route and get off in Oshoek. From there, Madevu can pick you up if arranged before.  Cost is approximately R200, cost to Nhalazatshe. In distance possibly shorter, but a steep mountain pass in between which would add to fuel used.

Learn to build community by being in it - Umphakatsi

My dear SOL friends!

We have spaces available for April Dolmen tour. Please, take your chance to have a wonderful journey to Prisitine Origins!
Also please visit our new page on Facebook, dedicated to dolmens: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Journey-to-Pristine-Origins/196330200396421
Yuri
find out more!

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

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DAY 1 – SAT 19 MARCH

We will start with a sweat on evening of 19th March for organizers & others that feel called-join at 4pm for light of sweat fire & we start sweating at 6pm..should finish around 9pm & you can stay over in your tent,if you so wish. Guy Goode is our official sweat pourer. A pot of soup will help us ground after.

DAY 2 – SUN 20 MARCH

Date : 20th March 2011
Time : 9am ~ 9pm

Advisable donation to magic hat for the day R60 (for 2 FIREPITS & sweat consumables)

- We officially start our gathering with a salute to the sun yoga session wit Aumji at 9am

- water blessing ceremony lead by Haroun at 10.30 following the lead by Masaro Emotto & helping cleansing our local waters~

- a conscious movie playing in the house while some prep lunch & others chill/socialize ~ Haroun has a great collection of conscious movies that will be availed on za day
UH….MY TV SOUND IS BUGGERED – MAY HAVE TO SET UP SOMETHING ELSE

- lunch (raw/vegan friendly) around 12.30 in a circle with rainbow meal~time songs.The enery aroud the circle at this time is immense & adds PRANA to our share meal. T

- AFTER LUNCH OPTIONS – OR YOU CAN JUST CHILL A WHILE:

1 – Biodanza session with Christo van Staden~ been great the last time he led us:)

- sacred networking circle led by Aumji followed by a gifting blanket ceremony-where we each place something on this give away blanket (preferably) sacred to us. And starting with the children then elders than rest of us, each choosing a gift that resonates with you.”this ritual has given me such a high in the past-YAY to living it again”

- 16:00 - Rainbow songs led by Glen Humme while sweat fire is lit. These songs are magically uplifting in heart spirit & can be potent, leaving one elevated for days on end’*’

- A highlight of this gathering is that we will be linking with the CAPE TOWN SOL gathering on same weekend at 4.30pm for 15minutes of Ommm~ing : Yay to linking our energies vortex’s.

18:00 – ENTER SWEAT LODGE
- Festive music jam while others choose to participate in Equinox sweat

- ending around 8.30/9.00pm

Hey Sooz~pls help… Soozi’s got a great what to bring additive & directions …

PARKING wil be at 1 sunset lane – its a buidling adjacent to 4c sunset lane – our venue.
You walk about 50 m to the cottage from the parking
open 24hrs with a guard.

DIECTIONS:

Travel north on either william nichol or main rd towards montecasino in fourways
turn into witkoppen road (-r from wn – l from main)
at “the straight” rd – turn toward pineslopes shops – not toward monte casino
pass one traffic light – at the circle turn left – this is forest rd – hirsch’s will be on your right)
at the t junction turn right into sunset boulevard
turn right immediately aftter the shops on your right into sunset lane. (its not on the map or gps – its a small cul de sac)
if you hit builders warehouse you have gone too far.

PLSE BRING:

• Mug & plate & spoon
• Fresh food to add to making a meal like veg, salad, bread, nuts & seeds dry fruit etc – consider vegetarians and vegans
• Bring non alcoholic refreshments (tea & cofee wil be available)
• Bring your kids blankies & a snack and extra clothes – if you are going to sweat make sure they will be comforatable – plse make sure they do not go out the gate into the road. Bring an activity they can share such as art or ballgame – there is a sandpit & a swing and some trees to climb.
• Be carefull around the 2 firepits.
• Waterbottle & water, sunscreen & hat
• Music instruments
• Candles & lanterns & torches to add to lighting up space at night as there is very little light at night
• Towels & sarongs

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Date & Time – 20 April at 15:00 – 02 May at 10:00
Location - Umphakatsi, Steynsdorp, Swaziland Border (Oshoek) N14

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 :-)

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