Master of Ceremonies and Panel Moderator
Alan Steinfeld
Host and Producer of New Realities TV
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Alan Steinfeld is a writer, filmmaker, acupuncturist and host of the popular television program New Realities has been investigating metaphysics and spiritual consciousness for the past 25 years. His idea is to to bring forth new ideas and new paradigms that harness new realities for the unfoldment of our evolving selves. New Realities www.newrealities.com has been the leading edge, new Consciousness cable program broadcast from New York for the last 12 years. The series is hosted and produced by Alan Steinfeld. Programs are seen every Monday night on Channel 57 at 9:00pm on Time/Warner television and on channel 109 on RCN cable in Manhattan and simulcast around the world on the Internet at www.mnn.org, then click on ch 57. (must use windows media player to view on the internet).
New Realities are emerging on this planet. That means that the way people think about themselves and the world are changing. There is an influx of higher knowledge that is emanating from "the Unknown." The veil between the dimensions is getting thinner and many people are opening up to new experience that some have called "spiritual." But I say we should not limit ourselves with the use of that word. I prefer to say that new realities are expanding our abilities to be more human; to feel more of the subleties of our incarnational experience. My truth is my truth and all I can do here is present the possibilities for people to seek to find their own truth. One thing is to have fun in this search for meaning, the mystery is all around us. Just enjoy the ride. We cannot really expect to understand the mystery because we are part of it. In that I (and we at NewRealities) hope you find some peace and a chance to live new realities.
New Realities are emerging on this planet. That means that the way people think about themselves and the world are changing. There is an influx of higher knowledge that is emanating from "the Unknown." The veil between the dimensions is getting thinner and many people are opening up to new experience that some have called "spiritual." But I say we should not limit ourselves with the use of that word. I prefer to say that new realities are expanding our abilities to be more human; to feel more of the subleties of our incarnational experience. My truth is my truth and all I can do here is present the possibilities for people to seek to find their own truth. One thing is to have fun in this search for meaning, the mystery is all around us. Just enjoy the ride. We cannot really expect to understand the mystery because we are part of it. In that I (and we at NewRealities) hope you find some peace and a chance to live new realities.
Co-Host/Performer
iMov
Conscious Pop Recording Artist and Founder of IMOV International LLC "Wellness Through Entertainment" (tm)
Websites: http://www.IMOVllc.com Music: https://soundcloud.com/christinemarieakaimov Album: http://www.valbum.com/iMov.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/christine.marie.77128?fref=ts
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iMov aka Christine Marie is a Conscious Pop artist who has done inner work and been certified as a Reiki Master Level IV, Certified Wellness Counselor (American Association of Drugless Practitioners) , Level ! YOGA FIT (tm) Instructor and is dedicated and committed to her own inner growth. Her mission is to raise her own Consciousness and help others do the same.
With a burning desire to raise consciousness and inspire others toward wellness and healing, Christine Marie aspires as an independent artist with her record label Authentic Records. Her record label is a subsidiary of her company, IMOV International LLC, "Wellness Through Entertainment" a multimedia production company that provides a forum to help rebuild the world through interactive experiential entertainment. This form of entertainment consists of conscious programming that creates heightened awareness experiences that are a catalyst for healing, wellness and evolution.
With a burning desire to raise consciousness and inspire others toward wellness and healing, Christine Marie aspires as an independent artist with her record label Authentic Records. Her record label is a subsidiary of her company, IMOV International LLC, "Wellness Through Entertainment" a multimedia production company that provides a forum to help rebuild the world through interactive experiential entertainment. This form of entertainment consists of conscious programming that creates heightened awareness experiences that are a catalyst for healing, wellness and evolution.
PANELISTS FOR A PANEL ON CO-CREATING WITH MOTHER EARTH FOR A PEACEFUL AND SUSTAINABLE PLANET FOR THE NEXT 7 GENERATIONS:
Grandmother Shirley Barclay aka Southern Sky Woman
Website: http://www.facebook.com/shirley.barclay
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We are pleased to have Grandmother Shirley returning with us for our 9th celebration. She is coming from Ecuador, where she moved due to the amazing life transformation she had that occurred from her being part of our 2012 Special 3-day Elders Gathering (the 6th Annual Celebration).
For the last 2 years Shirley has been living and working with the Indigenous people and others who are walking a Medicine Pathway in Ecuador. She has been here on a cross cultural Visa and is active with teaching, sharing, Ceremonies, and other kinds of activities that are part of this path with the people of Quito, Guayaquil, Cuenca all in Ecuador, the Amazon,and Mexico. She has attended and been an Elder for The Roots of The Earth Ceremonies in December 2014, a part of a group of International Women called Mujeras de Luna, and very active in many other ceremonies including 4 Sun Dances in 2014, One in the US in South Dakota, two in Mexico and one in Ecuador at Urcupacha for the 4 days of the Sundance, and four days of the Spirit Dance.Those activities are continuing throughout 2015.
Shirley A. Barclay has been a Certified Trainer in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy since 1978. She is a Life Member and Fellow of the ASGPP. She is a certified Marriage and Family Therapist and is also a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing. She is a Trained Healer in two Native American traditions and works with the interface of the Western and Indigenous Traditions when she is training and working with her students. She has traveled and taught in Europe, the Far East, the Middle East, the U.S. and South America over the past 25 + years and continues to do so. She is a member of the American Counseling Association and the American MultiCultural Division of that organization. She is also on the Board of The Center of Health and Whole Healing, Inc., and on the Board of the Texas Cherokees.
Shirley is a Wolf Clan Mother and healer for the Cherokee people of Texas. She has walked a Lakota path for 28 years and is a Pipe Carrier and Sun Dancer. She has a background in Cultural and Medical Anthropology having 30+ graduate hours from The New School for Social Research-Graduate Faculty. She has extensive training in Metaphysics, Marriage and Family Therapy, Bioenergetics, All Forms of Abuse, as well as Cross Cultural and Cross Religious Studies. Having studied with and taught many different religious and cultural groups in different parts of the world, Shirley has also studied Alternative Medical Practices from many different teachers and continues to do so. Her work is very integrative and enables therapists and others who study with her to open many new vistas and fosters her students to follow their hearts, pursue their dreams and to believe in themselves as agents of change.
She is not the least bit interested in producing clones. Each of her students are encouraged to develop their own gifts and she is dedicated to empowering each one to be more fully who they are. She is a staunch advocate of Connection in all aspects of life. Because of this background and her interests she is a Trainer who always lets her students know what she will and will not teach them. She encourages them to have other Trainers and Teachers and to develop a broad base to stand and work from. She is very Morenian in her thinking and training. J L Moreno was her teacher and she was trained by Zerka Moreno, among others. Because of what she believes, her students come from all cultures, religions, and walks of life. She is passionate about what she does, how she trains and in the worth of every being on the planet. She is happy to talk with prospective students and will explore with them their dreams, paths, and goals.
For the last 2 years Shirley has been living and working with the Indigenous people and others who are walking a Medicine Pathway in Ecuador. She has been here on a cross cultural Visa and is active with teaching, sharing, Ceremonies, and other kinds of activities that are part of this path with the people of Quito, Guayaquil, Cuenca all in Ecuador, the Amazon,and Mexico. She has attended and been an Elder for The Roots of The Earth Ceremonies in December 2014, a part of a group of International Women called Mujeras de Luna, and very active in many other ceremonies including 4 Sun Dances in 2014, One in the US in South Dakota, two in Mexico and one in Ecuador at Urcupacha for the 4 days of the Sundance, and four days of the Spirit Dance.Those activities are continuing throughout 2015.
Shirley A. Barclay has been a Certified Trainer in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy since 1978. She is a Life Member and Fellow of the ASGPP. She is a certified Marriage and Family Therapist and is also a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing. She is a Trained Healer in two Native American traditions and works with the interface of the Western and Indigenous Traditions when she is training and working with her students. She has traveled and taught in Europe, the Far East, the Middle East, the U.S. and South America over the past 25 + years and continues to do so. She is a member of the American Counseling Association and the American MultiCultural Division of that organization. She is also on the Board of The Center of Health and Whole Healing, Inc., and on the Board of the Texas Cherokees.
Shirley is a Wolf Clan Mother and healer for the Cherokee people of Texas. She has walked a Lakota path for 28 years and is a Pipe Carrier and Sun Dancer. She has a background in Cultural and Medical Anthropology having 30+ graduate hours from The New School for Social Research-Graduate Faculty. She has extensive training in Metaphysics, Marriage and Family Therapy, Bioenergetics, All Forms of Abuse, as well as Cross Cultural and Cross Religious Studies. Having studied with and taught many different religious and cultural groups in different parts of the world, Shirley has also studied Alternative Medical Practices from many different teachers and continues to do so. Her work is very integrative and enables therapists and others who study with her to open many new vistas and fosters her students to follow their hearts, pursue their dreams and to believe in themselves as agents of change.
She is not the least bit interested in producing clones. Each of her students are encouraged to develop their own gifts and she is dedicated to empowering each one to be more fully who they are. She is a staunch advocate of Connection in all aspects of life. Because of this background and her interests she is a Trainer who always lets her students know what she will and will not teach them. She encourages them to have other Trainers and Teachers and to develop a broad base to stand and work from. She is very Morenian in her thinking and training. J L Moreno was her teacher and she was trained by Zerka Moreno, among others. Because of what she believes, her students come from all cultures, religions, and walks of life. She is passionate about what she does, how she trains and in the worth of every being on the planet. She is happy to talk with prospective students and will explore with them their dreams, paths, and goals.
Grandmother Barbara Threecrow - Tunka Hota Wiyan (Gray Stone Woman)
Website: http://tct-archives.com/ttalk.html
Grandmother Barbara Threecrow; is Metis, Nanticoke, Delaware/Lenape and Celt, her Lakota name is Tunka Hota Wiyan; “Gray Stone Woman” she is a keeper of sacred stones, a spiritual intuitive, a ceremonial leader in the Lakota tradition, teacher of the Earth Ways and originator of the Women’s Medicine Circle – author of “Mending the Hoop” – “The Return of the Sacred Feminine & Teachings of the Grandmothers” – “The Star Children Today” – “The Core Methodology, Restoring our Fundamental Nature.”
She is a sun dancer and pipe carrier in the Lakota tradition; in 2005 she was invited to Easter Island and Colombia South America where she continues to bring the sacred pathway to this day – in 2009 she was one of many traditional elders, medicine people and shamans at the first international indigenous gathering in Pasto, Colombia there she was asked by the Kogi and Arhauco Momos the traditional authorities of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta for help; and was essential in creating “The Elders Project” – “The Elders Project @ Earth Action Po Box 63 Amherst Ma. 01004.
In 1989 she was diagnosed with breast cancer and received a vision that changed her life and ultimately led her to her healing and to receive the prophecy of the return of the Sacred Feminine and Teachings of the Grandmothers.
You can hear some of her talks at http://tct-archives.com/ttalk.html
She is a sun dancer and pipe carrier in the Lakota tradition; in 2005 she was invited to Easter Island and Colombia South America where she continues to bring the sacred pathway to this day – in 2009 she was one of many traditional elders, medicine people and shamans at the first international indigenous gathering in Pasto, Colombia there she was asked by the Kogi and Arhauco Momos the traditional authorities of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta for help; and was essential in creating “The Elders Project” – “The Elders Project @ Earth Action Po Box 63 Amherst Ma. 01004.
In 1989 she was diagnosed with breast cancer and received a vision that changed her life and ultimately led her to her healing and to receive the prophecy of the return of the Sacred Feminine and Teachings of the Grandmothers.
You can hear some of her talks at http://tct-archives.com/ttalk.html
Jodi Serota, Channel, Metaphysical Educator, Artist, Vibrational Sound Healer & Owner of META Center NY
Website: www.metacenterny.com
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Jodi Serota is a life-changing metaphysical educator, channel, vibrational healer and professional artist. Her in-depth intuitive abilities and her remarkable sound healing powers are used to create initiations and activations that instantly make major shifts in consciousness and healing. She holds individual channeled sessions, teaches classes & creates multi-media concerts & events for personal growth, transformation and the creative process. She is a co-author of the book Healing The Heart of The World from Elite Books, and she is also the owner and creator of META Center New York.
Web: www.metacenterny.com
Email: [email protected]
Nicole Shore
Environmental Activist, Sustainability Teacher, Strategic Communications Professional
Website: http://www.zerotosixtycommunications.com
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Nicole Shore's concern for the environment and social justice started during childhood and has evolved into a life-long path to contribute to social change in every aspect of her life. Inspired by the message of musicians in her youth she became active in Greenpeace and Amnesty International and began exploring her own artistic side while in grammar school. As a young photographer Nicole saw the camera as a way to capture and show the common humanity that we share, the beauty and necessity of the natural world, and respect and reverence for history and those who came before us. No one told her she could make a career out of being an advocate, which was a good thing because it left her to explore mainstream business practices early in her career. As the conversation around the next general election began picking-up steam in 2003, Nicole felt a pull to return to her roots. In the lead-up to the 2004 primaries Nicole first volunteered and then was hired to Howard Dean’s presidential campaign in New York state where she ran downstate field strategy.
A light went off, as she applied her consumer marketing knowledge and the instinct to create community to achieve campaign essentials. With her guidance, the campaign in New York achieved record-breaking results for major campaign initiatives that paved the way for a new approach to political campaigning including: 127k ballot signatures in New York state breaking the record of 25k, and promoting an early campaign rally that attracted 10,000 people near Times Square months before the primaries were on the mind of the general public.
It became the point of no return.
After the campaign Nicole couldn't look back and returned to public relations work, this time focusing on social issues. First working for a small agency Nicole then joined Edelman, a global PR firm, in their Corporate Social Responsibility and Issues practice where her clients included Fortune 100 Companies the likes of Starbucks and HP, NGO’s such as Environmental Defense Fund and The Kauffman Foundation, and game-changing entities focusing on climate change and on the road to COP15 such as Copenhagen’s Climate Congress, the Coalition for Rainforest Nations, and CGI grant recipients – The Health and Happiness Project.
Recognizing the emerging mission-driven business sector and a need among nonprofits for focused attention, Nicole saw the need to provide senior communications strategy and top notch communications support to the entities working to bring solutions for society’s biggest challenges to fruition, and thus created Zero to Sixty Communications. Nicole also currently teaches Marketing Sustainability at FIT in New York and is on the board of the National Young Farmers Coalition.
In her personal life Nicole lives by the code that those who get to relatively live a life of luxury and developed world problems have a duty to live responsibly and do what they can to help make life better for those who don’t. She strives to stay informed and share what’s she learned, continually manage her footprint on the earth, stay politically engaged, inject humanity into interactions, advocate whenever possible, and chases plastic bags on the streets of her neighborhood every single day. She may not have it all figured out just yet, but she likes to think she is doing a relatively decent job and can help inspire and guide others in how to live a more holistically socially responsible life.
A light went off, as she applied her consumer marketing knowledge and the instinct to create community to achieve campaign essentials. With her guidance, the campaign in New York achieved record-breaking results for major campaign initiatives that paved the way for a new approach to political campaigning including: 127k ballot signatures in New York state breaking the record of 25k, and promoting an early campaign rally that attracted 10,000 people near Times Square months before the primaries were on the mind of the general public.
It became the point of no return.
After the campaign Nicole couldn't look back and returned to public relations work, this time focusing on social issues. First working for a small agency Nicole then joined Edelman, a global PR firm, in their Corporate Social Responsibility and Issues practice where her clients included Fortune 100 Companies the likes of Starbucks and HP, NGO’s such as Environmental Defense Fund and The Kauffman Foundation, and game-changing entities focusing on climate change and on the road to COP15 such as Copenhagen’s Climate Congress, the Coalition for Rainforest Nations, and CGI grant recipients – The Health and Happiness Project.
Recognizing the emerging mission-driven business sector and a need among nonprofits for focused attention, Nicole saw the need to provide senior communications strategy and top notch communications support to the entities working to bring solutions for society’s biggest challenges to fruition, and thus created Zero to Sixty Communications. Nicole also currently teaches Marketing Sustainability at FIT in New York and is on the board of the National Young Farmers Coalition.
In her personal life Nicole lives by the code that those who get to relatively live a life of luxury and developed world problems have a duty to live responsibly and do what they can to help make life better for those who don’t. She strives to stay informed and share what’s she learned, continually manage her footprint on the earth, stay politically engaged, inject humanity into interactions, advocate whenever possible, and chases plastic bags on the streets of her neighborhood every single day. She may not have it all figured out just yet, but she likes to think she is doing a relatively decent job and can help inspire and guide others in how to live a more holistically socially responsible life.
Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World, The We Campaign and 11 Days of Global Unity
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Rick Ulfik is the Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net. We, The World develops global networks of collaboration and action to build mass involvement in the work of creating a peaceful, caring, sustainable world. Advisors and Supporters include Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jane Goodall, Deepak Chopra, Daniel Ellsberg, Riane Eisler, Bill McKibben, Robert Thurman, Patch Adams, Hazel Henderson, and about 70 others. We, The World is a 501c3 non-profit organization and the official fiscal sponsor of Planet Heart.
Rick is Co-Founder and Principal Organizer of 11 Days of Global Unity - 11 Ways To Change The World a platform for change agents worldwide to raise awareness and take action collectively. 11 Days annually has as many as 700 associated events in over 60 countries around the world. It culminates on September 21st, the U.N. International Day of Peace.
Rick Ulfik is also an award-winning composer and keyboard player who has written music for TV, commercials, feature films, the Olympics, and has performed with Queen Latifah, Phoebe Snow, Carlos Santana, Bernadette Peters and Judy Collins.
Rick is Co-Producer of the Visual Voices TV Series which was featured on the Dish Network and available in 15 million homes. Rick serves every year as an Emmy Awards Judge for News, Documentaries, and Music.
Rick is also a Nonviolent Communication Workshop Facilitator.
Rick's We, The World is the fiscal sponsor for this event and project Planet Heart and long-time colleague of Founder Andrew Kaen who has been working with We, The World since its origins.
Rick is Co-Founder and Principal Organizer of 11 Days of Global Unity - 11 Ways To Change The World a platform for change agents worldwide to raise awareness and take action collectively. 11 Days annually has as many as 700 associated events in over 60 countries around the world. It culminates on September 21st, the U.N. International Day of Peace.
Rick Ulfik is also an award-winning composer and keyboard player who has written music for TV, commercials, feature films, the Olympics, and has performed with Queen Latifah, Phoebe Snow, Carlos Santana, Bernadette Peters and Judy Collins.
Rick is Co-Producer of the Visual Voices TV Series which was featured on the Dish Network and available in 15 million homes. Rick serves every year as an Emmy Awards Judge for News, Documentaries, and Music.
Rick is also a Nonviolent Communication Workshop Facilitator.
Rick's We, The World is the fiscal sponsor for this event and project Planet Heart and long-time colleague of Founder Andrew Kaen who has been working with We, The World since its origins.
David Young
Author, Artist, Grammy nominated Musician and Master Storyteller
Also Channels George Harrison and Lennon, and has a CD Set and Books about this phenomena
Website: http://www.davidyoungmusic.com
David Young Channels George Harrison Community
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Grammy nominated for Best Instrumental Album, David Young started playing the recorder in third grade and has become one of the world's most well known recorder players, recording over 55 albums and sold well over a million CD's.
What David Young does has never been done before. He has developed a method of playing two different size recorders at the same time, in harmony, which creates a sound that some call the most beautiful music on Earth.
David's performances are visually and musically stimulating to any audience. Paul McCartney started a standing ovation for him at one of his performances.
His music has been played on hundreds of radio stations around the world. He is also an accomplished singer/songwriter/guitarist whose voice and songs have been used on numerous TV productions, such as soap operas, General Hospital and All My Children . Over 10,000 massage therapists, spas, healing centers and hospitals all over the world use his music every day to help people find peace.
David wrote, produced and acted in the movie Village of Dreams, filmed at the world famous Kathe Wohlfahrt Christmas store in Rothenburg Germany, which aired on television over 250 times last year. A companion children's book was made along with the Village of Dreams movie. He has also written and produced a musical called The Mystery of Destiny which has been performed at various theatres.
David Young travels 40 weeks of the year, and is now available for performances at corporate and special events, private parties, as well as schools, churches, and retirement communities.Contact David for more information.
Many listeners have had their lives touched by the angelic, relaxing quality of his modern instrumental music, or as he calls it,"beautiful music".
"All of this relaxing music comes from my heart and was created to give people a positive alternative, a sense of peace that makes life more enjoyable. I call it beautiful music because styles and their names come and go, but beautiful music will always be beautiful music."
- David Young
What David Young does has never been done before. He has developed a method of playing two different size recorders at the same time, in harmony, which creates a sound that some call the most beautiful music on Earth.
David's performances are visually and musically stimulating to any audience. Paul McCartney started a standing ovation for him at one of his performances.
His music has been played on hundreds of radio stations around the world. He is also an accomplished singer/songwriter/guitarist whose voice and songs have been used on numerous TV productions, such as soap operas, General Hospital and All My Children . Over 10,000 massage therapists, spas, healing centers and hospitals all over the world use his music every day to help people find peace.
David wrote, produced and acted in the movie Village of Dreams, filmed at the world famous Kathe Wohlfahrt Christmas store in Rothenburg Germany, which aired on television over 250 times last year. A companion children's book was made along with the Village of Dreams movie. He has also written and produced a musical called The Mystery of Destiny which has been performed at various theatres.
David Young travels 40 weeks of the year, and is now available for performances at corporate and special events, private parties, as well as schools, churches, and retirement communities.Contact David for more information.
Many listeners have had their lives touched by the angelic, relaxing quality of his modern instrumental music, or as he calls it,"beautiful music".
"All of this relaxing music comes from my heart and was created to give people a positive alternative, a sense of peace that makes life more enjoyable. I call it beautiful music because styles and their names come and go, but beautiful music will always be beautiful music."
- David Young
Andrew Faust
Founder-Director of The Center for Bioregional Living
Website: http://www.permaculturenewyork.com/_
Andrew Faust is one of the premier Permaculture teachers and designers in North America with nearly two decades of experience in the field. His passionate and visionary presentation and curriculum has been inspiring and motivating students since his days as an alternative school teacher at Upattinas in Glenmoore, PA.
Andrew lived off the grid in West Virginia for 8 years where he designed and built a Permaculture inspired homestead including a 1600 sq ft strawbale house. He moved to Brooklyn in 2007 and has been applying his knowledge to the urban landscape culminating in a Permaculture Design Certification course many consider life changing. He is developing The Center for Bioregional Living in Ellenville, NY with his partner Adriana Magana as a pilot campus for his students, clients and baby daughter Juniper.
Andrew Faust has been practicing permaculture and biodynamics since receiving his Permaculture Design certificate in 1996. Some of our design clients include Ezekiel's Place Retreat Center in Hedgesville, WV, Leaveners Respite Center in Essex, NY,Yestermorrow Design/Build School in Warren, VT, and local businesses and residents. Previous clients include the Gesundheit! Institute in Hillsboro, WV and Camphill Village Kimberton Hills in Chester County, PA. Faust has extensive experience in doing designs for a wide range of climates and habitats including desert, forest and mountain. He is a certified Alternative School Teacher, focusing on Bioregional Education; he instructed atUpattinas Open Community High School for ten years. Faust holds a B.A. in comparative religions from Guilford College.
email: [email protected]
Andrew lived off the grid in West Virginia for 8 years where he designed and built a Permaculture inspired homestead including a 1600 sq ft strawbale house. He moved to Brooklyn in 2007 and has been applying his knowledge to the urban landscape culminating in a Permaculture Design Certification course many consider life changing. He is developing The Center for Bioregional Living in Ellenville, NY with his partner Adriana Magana as a pilot campus for his students, clients and baby daughter Juniper.
Andrew Faust has been practicing permaculture and biodynamics since receiving his Permaculture Design certificate in 1996. Some of our design clients include Ezekiel's Place Retreat Center in Hedgesville, WV, Leaveners Respite Center in Essex, NY,Yestermorrow Design/Build School in Warren, VT, and local businesses and residents. Previous clients include the Gesundheit! Institute in Hillsboro, WV and Camphill Village Kimberton Hills in Chester County, PA. Faust has extensive experience in doing designs for a wide range of climates and habitats including desert, forest and mountain. He is a certified Alternative School Teacher, focusing on Bioregional Education; he instructed atUpattinas Open Community High School for ten years. Faust holds a B.A. in comparative religions from Guilford College.
email: [email protected]
Brother NorthStar - A Modern Day Sojourner Truth
Medicine Walker, Founder of Children of the Sun for One People, One Earth
Website: http://iamamericamedicinewalk.blogspot.com/
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Brother NorthStar is a “Peace Pilgrim” although he prefer to call it “Sojourning for Truth. Before dedicating his life to propagating One People, One Earth, Brother NorthStar spent 25 years acting, singing and dancing in off Broadway productions such as Stud Terkels, “Working” and the comedy “You Can't Take It With You.” He spent 15 years with New World Theater Repertory Theater company playing leading roles in the story of Charlie Parker; and August Wilson's “Joe Turner's Come and Gone.” And he spent 5 years years touring with Enchanted Circle Theater Regional Company: a children theater group which toured throughout the East Coast region of the US.
He starting walking in the 80's as a way of staying in shape for his career as a performer. He walked upwards to 19 miles a day along the bike trail in Amherst, Massachusetts. It was on the bike trail, in 1992, that he discovered walking as a vigil for peace. In '93, he was introduced to Nipponsan Myohoji, a Japanese walking Buddhist order. He walked with them in organized pilgrimages for 10 years, as a Peace Pilgrim in training. He walked with them to draw attention to the landmines in Asia; the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; to abolish nuclear arms; the industrialization of the prison system; and the toxic waste buried on Native American land. With them, he has participated in the construction and the inaugurations of Peace Pagodas throughout the United States, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Japan.
In 2001, a One People, One Earth flag was created for BNS by a local artist and member of the peace community. He carried the flag on all his walks for peace; including when he became one of 11 people to join A Pilgrimage to the birth place of the Buddha - a pilgrimage from New Delhi, India to Lumbini, Nepal. This was the year he was asked to become member of the advisory board to Massachusetts Slavery Apology Group, where he continues to serve today. From 2001-2008, Brother NorthStar stepped away from organized pilgrimages to walk alone, as a Peace Pilgrim carrying the OPOE flag, without sponsorship and without soliciting donations. His One People, One Earth campaign became a walk of faith that humanity was his family and Mother Earth is his home. In 2012-2013, The One People, One Earth World Pilgrimage, which started on 12/21/12 on the Giza Plateau, Egypt - became a 10 month long journey through 39 countries and 6 continents. He took his vigils through war torn countries; to World Heritage Parks: the relics of ancient civilizations; the holy places of the prophets; high energy centers and natural wonders, magical places of pristine beauty. He visited 17 of the 52 Golden City Vortexes of our planet, including those in Greenland, Iceland, Scandinavia and the United Kingdom.
All total BNStar's sojourn for truth and his vigil for One People, One Earth has taken him to 61 countries and 6 continents using faith as his currency and trust as his pass port, and his life' work reveals grace to be the ultimate truth of his sojourn. He is featured in a few documentaries, most notable the PBS special Eyes On The Prize. Today, he is in the process of founding Children of the Sun for One People, One Earth Foundation in New York City; and is currently working with an Algonquin historian to put together an annual One People, One Earth Medicine Walk vigil to all the sacred sites of New York City. This will be a quarterly during the equinox and solstice cycles.
Google Brother NorthStar: https://www.google.com/webhp?source=search_app#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=brother+northstar&oq=brother&gs_l=hp.1.0.35i39j0l3.35939.39223.0.42338.9.8.1.0.0.0.601.1208.7j5-1.8.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.KTHBlvzOcw8&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=9ab7bdb26321ca5d&biw=1600&bih=775
The Children of the Sun for One People, One Earth: The Melanin Temple Gods and Goddesses Meetup Group:
contact Brother NorthStar for info.
Brother NorthStar is Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=49665937&trk=tab_pro
Medicine Walker for Peace and Sustainability on "The I Am America Medicine Walk"
http://iamamericamedicinewalk.blogspot.com/
In The Name of Liberation for Humanity and the Planet Earth, my Earth-Walk in deep gratitude to you all.
One People, One Earth!
He starting walking in the 80's as a way of staying in shape for his career as a performer. He walked upwards to 19 miles a day along the bike trail in Amherst, Massachusetts. It was on the bike trail, in 1992, that he discovered walking as a vigil for peace. In '93, he was introduced to Nipponsan Myohoji, a Japanese walking Buddhist order. He walked with them in organized pilgrimages for 10 years, as a Peace Pilgrim in training. He walked with them to draw attention to the landmines in Asia; the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; to abolish nuclear arms; the industrialization of the prison system; and the toxic waste buried on Native American land. With them, he has participated in the construction and the inaugurations of Peace Pagodas throughout the United States, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Japan.
In 2001, a One People, One Earth flag was created for BNS by a local artist and member of the peace community. He carried the flag on all his walks for peace; including when he became one of 11 people to join A Pilgrimage to the birth place of the Buddha - a pilgrimage from New Delhi, India to Lumbini, Nepal. This was the year he was asked to become member of the advisory board to Massachusetts Slavery Apology Group, where he continues to serve today. From 2001-2008, Brother NorthStar stepped away from organized pilgrimages to walk alone, as a Peace Pilgrim carrying the OPOE flag, without sponsorship and without soliciting donations. His One People, One Earth campaign became a walk of faith that humanity was his family and Mother Earth is his home. In 2012-2013, The One People, One Earth World Pilgrimage, which started on 12/21/12 on the Giza Plateau, Egypt - became a 10 month long journey through 39 countries and 6 continents. He took his vigils through war torn countries; to World Heritage Parks: the relics of ancient civilizations; the holy places of the prophets; high energy centers and natural wonders, magical places of pristine beauty. He visited 17 of the 52 Golden City Vortexes of our planet, including those in Greenland, Iceland, Scandinavia and the United Kingdom.
All total BNStar's sojourn for truth and his vigil for One People, One Earth has taken him to 61 countries and 6 continents using faith as his currency and trust as his pass port, and his life' work reveals grace to be the ultimate truth of his sojourn. He is featured in a few documentaries, most notable the PBS special Eyes On The Prize. Today, he is in the process of founding Children of the Sun for One People, One Earth Foundation in New York City; and is currently working with an Algonquin historian to put together an annual One People, One Earth Medicine Walk vigil to all the sacred sites of New York City. This will be a quarterly during the equinox and solstice cycles.
Google Brother NorthStar: https://www.google.com/webhp?source=search_app#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=brother+northstar&oq=brother&gs_l=hp.1.0.35i39j0l3.35939.39223.0.42338.9.8.1.0.0.0.601.1208.7j5-1.8.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.KTHBlvzOcw8&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=9ab7bdb26321ca5d&biw=1600&bih=775
The Children of the Sun for One People, One Earth: The Melanin Temple Gods and Goddesses Meetup Group:
contact Brother NorthStar for info.
Brother NorthStar is Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=49665937&trk=tab_pro
Medicine Walker for Peace and Sustainability on "The I Am America Medicine Walk"
http://iamamericamedicinewalk.blogspot.com/
In The Name of Liberation for Humanity and the Planet Earth, my Earth-Walk in deep gratitude to you all.
One People, One Earth!
Special Guest Speaker:
Elder Spokesperson for the Annual World Peace Earth Day Celebration
Bishop Auxiliary Grandmother Lygia Maciel DeCastro
Elder Sun Fire White Buffalo Spirit
Website: https://www.facebook.com/lygia.decastro
http://www.paneurhythmy.us/NYC_Paneurhythmy_Central_Park.shtml
Elder Spokesperson for the Annual World Peace Earth Day Celebration
Bishop Auxiliary Grandmother Lygia Maciel DeCastro
Elder Sun Fire White Buffalo Spirit
Website: https://www.facebook.com/lygia.decastro
http://www.paneurhythmy.us/NYC_Paneurhythmy_Central_Park.shtml
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Grandmother Lygia was instrumental in our Special 2012 6th Annual Event which featured numerous Elders, and one of them is with us tonight, Shirley Barclay. Lygia has been with us since our origins. See our 2012 website at http://2012earthdayeldersforum.weebly.com
Bishop Auxiliary “Grandmother” Lygia Maciel DeCastro is a wise woman and native elder whose life bridges the worlds of the four directions. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she was initiated into the world of midwifery at the tender age of seven years old. She was raised by a family of midwives and farmers who generously shared food and clothing with the needy in their community. Surrounded by a large and loving family, her mother, aunt and grandmothers, trained her in the art of herbology and midwifery.
Every Sunday at Cherry Hill, Central Park by the Bethesda Fountain, at 10am, from the first Sunday of Spring to the first Sunday of Fall, she does PanEuRhyRThmy Sacred Dance Meditation. PanEuRhythmy Sacred Dance Meditation is the dance meditation for the 21st century to bring people together in harmony with themselves and the entire universe. Lygia is an ordained Bishop with Faith Restoration Churches. She is adopted by the Mi’kmaq Nation and is from the Tupi Guarani. She is also an organizer of Sacred World Tours of sacred sites of Planet Earth. Healer of African Tradition Medicines and Indigenous Traditional Medicines. She does believe that all people together who learn to live in total harmony will create a more peaceful world.
She has also been the Native Elder Spokesperson for my Annual World Peace Earth Day Celebration which began in 2007. This year, she will be on the Earth Panel, that will be part of the new format for this year's celebration.
Central Park Location and website for PanEuRhythmy Sacred Dance Meditation:
http://www.paneurhythmy.us/NYC_Paneurhythmy_Central_Park.shtml
You can contact her at 516-724-3677
Her new article "One with the Universe" the message she will share with our community, is featured in April's issue of Inner Realm Magazine, page 31.
Bishop Auxiliary “Grandmother” Lygia Maciel DeCastro is a wise woman and native elder whose life bridges the worlds of the four directions. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she was initiated into the world of midwifery at the tender age of seven years old. She was raised by a family of midwives and farmers who generously shared food and clothing with the needy in their community. Surrounded by a large and loving family, her mother, aunt and grandmothers, trained her in the art of herbology and midwifery.
Every Sunday at Cherry Hill, Central Park by the Bethesda Fountain, at 10am, from the first Sunday of Spring to the first Sunday of Fall, she does PanEuRhyRThmy Sacred Dance Meditation. PanEuRhythmy Sacred Dance Meditation is the dance meditation for the 21st century to bring people together in harmony with themselves and the entire universe. Lygia is an ordained Bishop with Faith Restoration Churches. She is adopted by the Mi’kmaq Nation and is from the Tupi Guarani. She is also an organizer of Sacred World Tours of sacred sites of Planet Earth. Healer of African Tradition Medicines and Indigenous Traditional Medicines. She does believe that all people together who learn to live in total harmony will create a more peaceful world.
She has also been the Native Elder Spokesperson for my Annual World Peace Earth Day Celebration which began in 2007. This year, she will be on the Earth Panel, that will be part of the new format for this year's celebration.
Central Park Location and website for PanEuRhythmy Sacred Dance Meditation:
http://www.paneurhythmy.us/NYC_Paneurhythmy_Central_Park.shtml
You can contact her at 516-724-3677
Her new article "One with the Universe" the message she will share with our community, is featured in April's issue of Inner Realm Magazine, page 31.
Special Guest Facilitator for an Audience-wide Community "Call-To-Action" Participation:
"How I could initiate a practice to support a healthier environment for Planet Earth"
Jane Hughes Gignoux, Author, Speaker and Workshop Facilitator
Website: http://janehughesgignoux.com/
Jane Hughes Gignoux, a native New Yorker, is the author of An Insistence on Life: Releasing Fear of Death to Fully Live and Some Folk Say: Stories of Life, Death, and Beyond, a collection of stories and poems from cultures around the world and throughout time, with commentary and original color illustrations.
She offers workshops, courses and talks on: "Embracing Life, Death and Beyond;" “Is Death My Enemy?”; “Stories that Heal;” "Visions and Stories of the Afterlife;” “EXIT Plan – for people who love life;" throughout the USA, in Federal Prisons, as well as in San Paulo, Buenos Aires and Bali.
Her new book, An Insistence on Life, is a collection of inspirational real-life stories of how accepting death transforms life. Ms. Gignoux hosts two monthly Death Cafés, informal gatherings whose purpose is "To increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their precious and finite lives."
In August of 2013, she was featured in a national TV news program on Death Cafés and on a Huffington Post live chat. Ms. Gignoux appears in the forthcoming film, “Death Makes Life Possible” being produced by the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, CA. She was an advisor for the Viewer's Discussion Guide accompanying the PBS series that aired in September of 2000 – “On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying”. Her book, Some Folk Say, is listed as a resource in that Guide.
Ms. Gignoux has a background in theatre with a BA in Theatre from Smith College. She has been on the faculties of Wheaton College, Norton, MA, St. Mary's School, Peekskill, NY, and the New York Open Center. She has spent the last thirty-four years studying healing and consciousness in many forms. In the eighties she studied with the energy healer, Barbara Brennan. From 1998 – 2001, she studied with the Ehama Institute learning some of the Earth wisdom teachings of the indigenous people of North America. She has helped found a number of on-going dialogue groups.
Starting in 1984, she was a volunteer play therapist with the HIV and AIDS pediatric patients at Harlem Hospital for eighteen years. She is an active member of the Institute of Noetic Sciences’ (IONS) and past president of the Friends of IONS based in NYC.
Ms Gignoux is an ordained certified Celebrant, working with couples, families and groups to offer ceremonies of all kinds including funerals and memorials. In addition, she participates in the NYC Metro Anti-Racist Alliance, an affiliate of The People’s Institute of Survival and Beyond.
Watch a CBS News program featuring one of Jane's Death Cafés
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57599202/death-cafes-gaining-popularity/
She offers workshops, courses and talks on: "Embracing Life, Death and Beyond;" “Is Death My Enemy?”; “Stories that Heal;” "Visions and Stories of the Afterlife;” “EXIT Plan – for people who love life;" throughout the USA, in Federal Prisons, as well as in San Paulo, Buenos Aires and Bali.
Her new book, An Insistence on Life, is a collection of inspirational real-life stories of how accepting death transforms life. Ms. Gignoux hosts two monthly Death Cafés, informal gatherings whose purpose is "To increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their precious and finite lives."
In August of 2013, she was featured in a national TV news program on Death Cafés and on a Huffington Post live chat. Ms. Gignoux appears in the forthcoming film, “Death Makes Life Possible” being produced by the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, CA. She was an advisor for the Viewer's Discussion Guide accompanying the PBS series that aired in September of 2000 – “On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying”. Her book, Some Folk Say, is listed as a resource in that Guide.
Ms. Gignoux has a background in theatre with a BA in Theatre from Smith College. She has been on the faculties of Wheaton College, Norton, MA, St. Mary's School, Peekskill, NY, and the New York Open Center. She has spent the last thirty-four years studying healing and consciousness in many forms. In the eighties she studied with the energy healer, Barbara Brennan. From 1998 – 2001, she studied with the Ehama Institute learning some of the Earth wisdom teachings of the indigenous people of North America. She has helped found a number of on-going dialogue groups.
Starting in 1984, she was a volunteer play therapist with the HIV and AIDS pediatric patients at Harlem Hospital for eighteen years. She is an active member of the Institute of Noetic Sciences’ (IONS) and past president of the Friends of IONS based in NYC.
Ms Gignoux is an ordained certified Celebrant, working with couples, families and groups to offer ceremonies of all kinds including funerals and memorials. In addition, she participates in the NYC Metro Anti-Racist Alliance, an affiliate of The People’s Institute of Survival and Beyond.
Watch a CBS News program featuring one of Jane's Death Cafés
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57599202/death-cafes-gaining-popularity/
Special Guest Speaker: Mark Becker
New Age Entrepreneur,Holistic Pioneer, founded Serenity, NY's first non-religious Yoga Center in 1975, He Created NEWLIFE Magazine & NEWLIFE EXPO and has been in the forefront fighting the AMA, FDA,. and EPA in the health & environment field.
Website: www.newlifeexpo.com
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2013 Ascension Ball produced by Mark Becker and Jodi Serota, Photo by Andrew Kaen
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Special Honored Guest: Babalawo Oluwole A. Ifakunle Adetutu Alagbede
Will offer us a closing African Prayer during the Closing Circle Ceremony
Babalawo Oluwole A. Ifakunle Adetutu Alagbede is a Traditional African Orisa Practioner, professional performing artist, father, and master chess player. Awo Ifakunle attended Hunter College, studying community health and physical education and is the student of Professor Ogunwande Abimbola who is the Awise Agbaye (spokesman of all babalawo in the World). His Oluwo (officiator of Ifa ceremonies), and his master teacher is Chief Araba Malumo Ifatukemi Alagbede of Elejibo, Lagos, Nigeria in whose compound Awo Ifakunle was initiated to Obatala and Ifa over 20 years ago. Additionally, the Awo has been tutored by Chief Priest Awise of Osogbo Ifayemi Elebuibon on Ifa divination and chants of Ifa. Locally, Awo Ifakunle was the Godchild and student of both Oba Oseijeman Ofuntola Adefunmi I (iba e), who was the King of Oyotunji African Village in South Carolina where Ifakunle lived in for a time in the 1970s and Renard Sango dei Awo Alaafia Simmons (iba e). His teachers also include iba ye Edward Sango Ilari Awolola James (iba e), who was the first African American Sango Priest, the student of James Ifaboye Frost, and Chief Yagbe Onilu of California. All have made significant contributions to Awo Ifakunle's development as an Awofa (student of Ifa) and Orisa worshipper.
Awo Ifakunle has been initiated to Egungun Society in Ibadan, Nigeria, as well as three houses of Palo (Congo Bantu-based religion). He has studied with the Spiritual and Sango Baptist of Trinidad and Tobago where he has taken a type of ritual initiation known as Thrones. He has received countless lectures from Babalawos throughout the years from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Brazil, Benin, and Nigeria, among other locales, and regularly lectures on Orisa Traditional religion and Ifa at Ile Eko Sango Oshun Milosa shrine in Trinidad and Tobago, at High Schools in New York City and at Colleges and Universities including Harvard University, Nanuet College, Hunter College School of Social Work, New York University, and Sara Lawrence College. Most recently, Awo Ifakunle was invited to represent practitioners of African religions at the World Alliance of Religions Peace Summit held in Seoul, South Korea. His biggest love, however is his role as officiating Awo for the Dyebanyani Initiated Women's Society, which conducts a rites of Passage program, for both young and aged woman alike, elevating them to the status of Nya or “trained woman” with the use of Eedyi tradition out of Southern Senegal.
http://www.ifakunle.com/
Awo Ifakunle has been initiated to Egungun Society in Ibadan, Nigeria, as well as three houses of Palo (Congo Bantu-based religion). He has studied with the Spiritual and Sango Baptist of Trinidad and Tobago where he has taken a type of ritual initiation known as Thrones. He has received countless lectures from Babalawos throughout the years from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Brazil, Benin, and Nigeria, among other locales, and regularly lectures on Orisa Traditional religion and Ifa at Ile Eko Sango Oshun Milosa shrine in Trinidad and Tobago, at High Schools in New York City and at Colleges and Universities including Harvard University, Nanuet College, Hunter College School of Social Work, New York University, and Sara Lawrence College. Most recently, Awo Ifakunle was invited to represent practitioners of African religions at the World Alliance of Religions Peace Summit held in Seoul, South Korea. His biggest love, however is his role as officiating Awo for the Dyebanyani Initiated Women's Society, which conducts a rites of Passage program, for both young and aged woman alike, elevating them to the status of Nya or “trained woman” with the use of Eedyi tradition out of Southern Senegal.
http://www.ifakunle.com/
Special Honored Guest: Guruji Dileepkumar Thankappan
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Guruji is a world renowned Yogi from Tripunithura, Kerala, India also known as the capitol of Cochin kingdom. His family is ancient and well respected for its Vedic knowledge of Yoga, Vedanta, Universal Spirituality, Kalaripayattu(origin of martial arts), Ayurveda & other natural self healing systems, Sanskrit, literature, art, social & cultural activities and interfaith teachings for peace.
In his yogic life journeys, he met and learned from self-realized masters, saints, honored yogis, and alternative medical doctors. Having experienced yogic life style for over forty years, Guruji lived in Himalayan caves, ashrams, and palaces as well as living under Gurukula (guru-sishya-sambradaya), and modern educational systems. He is a scholar in modern and ancient techniques of yoga, meditation and related subjects.
Guruji is an honorable guest speaker and judge in many international conferences, events, competitions, festivals and a recipient of several peace awards and titles for his yogic services to humanity. He is considered to be a new age celebrity yogi and humanitarian having multifaceted talents and a wide range of friends from homeless people he serves to diplomats. He often gives discourses and is interviewed by media around the world. His mission is to cultivate global peace and harmony through yogic life teachings.
"ONE WORLD, ONE PEOPLE"
“Begin the Day with love, spend the day with love, fill the day with love and end the day with love. That is the way to God. Spirituality exists in the Universe and all the religions are manmade”. All teachings are good for the sake of humanity. We have to respect all the teachings from other traditions and cultures around the world. We have to care about our fellow beings and share our knowledge with everyone. We can make this world a better place to live with unconditional love ~ Guruji
http://www.gurudileepji.com/
1. Dileepkumar Thankappan
https://www.facebook.com/dileepkumar.thankappan.1
2. World Yoga Community
https://www.facebook.com/groups/235426709956668/
3. Interfaith Community for World Peace
https://www.facebook.com/groups/172295619598395/
4. Twitter Account - Guru Dileepji
https://twitter.com/gurudileepji
[email protected]
Special Guest: Two Feathers
Will offer us a closing Cherokee Prayer during the Closing Circle Ceremony
Two Feathers honors the Cherokee heritage by teaching the Cherokee language in Manhattan.
Special Guest: Gloria Waslyn and the Parrots for Peace
Gloria Waslyn's companions, Ms. Merlin, 17, her bonded partner, Mr. Baby,
16-1/2, and their two children, Peace-nik, 5 and Ara 3, are the blue and
gold macaws, the Parrots for Peace, who are Spokes Avians for Nature and
Wildlife. Together the inter-species colleagues participate in peace,
ecology and consciousness events to spread their message that all life is
inter-connected. Their motto is, "May there be peace on Mother Earth
between all People, Animals and Nature as we learn to live in harmony,
balance and respect." The Parrots for Peace often sang with Pete Seeger and
have interacted with Deepak Chopra and many friends from around the world.
They were co-founding collaborators of the Woodstock International World
Walk for Peace and participate in Vigil for International Peace and Ecology
for International Day o Peace, EcoFest, NY, Universal Peace Day and many
others.
16-1/2, and their two children, Peace-nik, 5 and Ara 3, are the blue and
gold macaws, the Parrots for Peace, who are Spokes Avians for Nature and
Wildlife. Together the inter-species colleagues participate in peace,
ecology and consciousness events to spread their message that all life is
inter-connected. Their motto is, "May there be peace on Mother Earth
between all People, Animals and Nature as we learn to live in harmony,
balance and respect." The Parrots for Peace often sang with Pete Seeger and
have interacted with Deepak Chopra and many friends from around the world.
They were co-founding collaborators of the Woodstock International World
Walk for Peace and participate in Vigil for International Peace and Ecology
for International Day o Peace, EcoFest, NY, Universal Peace Day and many
others.