The Language of Spirit

presents
Songs of the Earth
Healing and Vibration in the Natural World

March 2 - 6, 2005
Ojo Caliente Mineral Springs (1 Hour from Santa Fe, NM)
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Early-Bird Registration: $325 (by January 25)
Regular Registration: $375 (by February 15)
Late Registration: $425 (after February 15)
One Day Passes: $125
Meal Plan for conference: $105

Pre-Conference Workshop
Healing from the Natural Order: A Native Perspective
A one day workshop with Nancy Maryboy & David Begay
Wednesday, March 2, 2005 10am - 4pm

Co-Sponsored by:
abqARTS
Lilopoh
ISSEEM
Black Mesa Trust
The Message Company
Walking Stick Foundation
Indigenous Education Institute
Indigenous Language Institute
California Institute of Integral Studies
New Mexico School of Natural Therapeutics
Crystal Mountain School of Therapeutic Massage

Come join us for a unique, simple and deeply satisfying conference where you can enjoy the modern comforts of a spa while keeping company with the ancient wisdom and spirit of the land.

Each place has a certain frequency, a signature vibration. Ojo Caliente is New Mexico’s oldest spa and mineral springs, a place where our ancestors came to soak and connect with the songs of the land. It is a place rich in history and natural blessings.

We will connect with the surrounding sacred land – then pause to listen, speak, sing, shake, rattle, and swim in the warm, inviting pools.

We come from different backgrounds and places on the earth…but we join as one in song and ceremony. Indigenous people have long understood that our healing comes through a sense of place, our connection to our relatives – in family, community, natural world and cosmos. Songs of the earth teach us how to rebalance and maintain our sense of belonging. Our native and non-native speakers alike will offer a knowledge that speaks from the land through them, and that can heal and move the soul.

All of creation emerges from sound, and sound is vibration in motion. The ideas, thoughts and experiences of this conference have their own capacity to heal because they are grounded in the living spirit of the land. In a sense, they are not just ideas as much as right living.

You owe it to yourself to experience this conference, because healing is best realized when one is in right relationship with their community and the natural world. What better place than in the healing waters of Ojo, beside the cliffs and natural surroundings of northern New Mexico.

Conference Participants:

	Leon Secatero Elder and headman of the Cannoncito Band of Navajo, has worked many years for indigenous tribal sovereignty and world peace. In concert with Mayan, Navajo and other tribal prophecies, he has sought out and been invited by indigenous spiritual leaders in the Western Hemisphere and all over the world to advance this cause.
	David Abram, PhD Author of the Spell of the Sensuous, is an ecologist and philosopher whose writings have had a deepening influence upon the environmental movement in North America and abroad. He is an accomplished sleight-of-hand magician and has lived and traded magic with indigenous magicians in Indonesia, Nepal, and the Americas. Voted by Utne Reader as one of a hundred visionaries currently transforming the planet.
	Bradford Keeney Author of Everydan Soul, The Energy Break, Shaking Out the Spirits, Crazy Wisdom Tales, and Bushman Shaman: Awakening the Spirit through Ecstatic Dance. As an improvisational performer, he has toured the world from New York City to Rio de Janeiro; his musical compositions are featured on "Precious is His Love" and "African Heat: Ecstatic Rhythms for Boiling Soul."
	Miriam Marion, RN, MA Facilitates workshops, services and retreats across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Israel on healing and mind, body, and soul integration, using movement, guided imagery, sacred texts, meditation and chanting. Her concerts - as well as her albums, "Wings of Light," "Light out of Darkness," "Chants of the Sacred Four," "Mystic Convergence," and "Surrender" - feature Jewish healing melodies and Kabbalistic chants and have received wide acclaim internationally.
	Rabbi Gershon Winkler Both a renowned scholar as well as a rabbinic trickster. He has authored eleven books, including seven works on Jewish mysticism, philosophy, and folklore, and was initiated in 1978 by the late kabbalist Rabbi Eliezer Benseon of Jerusalem. For the past twenty years he has lived very close to the earth in remote wilderness regions and currently resides at the Walking Stick Retreat Center as its caretaker.
	Jesse Wolf Hardin An acclaimed presenter, and the author of numerous books including Full Circle: A Song of Earthen Spirituality (Llewellyn, ‘91) and Kindred Spirits (SwanRaven, 2000). His two decades worth of public appearances and published works have helped define "Deep Ecology" in this country, while influencing the formation of a new ecological ethic.
	Doug von Koss Artistic Director of THE NOAH PROJECT, a men's ritual performance group in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through a magical blend of chant, movement, poetry and ritual, Doug weaves a spell that encompasses the estatic, the sacred and the wise fool.
	Angelita Borbon Angelita flew off the neighbor's roof when she was 5 years old. She was testing the medal of the miraculous "Virgen" given to her by an aunt who told her it would protect her. She has conducted similar scientific experiments throughout her life and enjoys sharing lessons learned from her participation in the Mesoamerican oral tradition and her experiences as a community health nurse. She lives in Tucson and is a member of the Pasqua Yaqui Nation.
	Brooke Medicine Eagle A catalyst for wholeness and Earth wisdom, visionary and sacred ecologist, harmonist and recording artist, her beauty way awakens physical and spiritual health, offers Native American music and chants, promotes ritual honoring of Earth cycles, women's mystery teachings, and creates a sustainable, holy path for two-leggeds to walk. Her dedication is to bringing forward the ancient truths concerning how to live a fully human life in harmony with All Our Relations.
	Stephen Weiss, MD Practices Holistic/Integrative Medicine at his private practice in Albuquerque, NM. A former owner and Medical Director of the Treehouse Center of Integrative Medicine, Stephen artfully combines alternative approaches such as Classical Homeopathy, Herbology, Nutrition, Ayurveda, Detoxification and Spiritual Counselling with conventional Family Practice, in which he is Board Certified.
	Pravin Agarwal, PhD Originally from bombay, earned his PhD in East-West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. An adjunct faculty at Hindu University, he has studied and published on the ancient vibrational science of mantra.
	Nancy Maryboy, PhD Navajo and Cherokee cosmologist, curriculum developer, and innovator in education and new approaches to wellness in working with the natural world. Nancy is Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy at Northern Arizona University, and President of Indigenous Education Institute.
	David Begay, PhD Dept of Physics and Astronomy, NAU. Navajo Cultural Consultant of Higher Education Programs. He received his PhD from the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, with a concentration in Integral Education and Application of Traditional Knowledge.