Santa Cruz Area Events
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Jonathan & Alx offer
Sai Shakti Satsang EVERY Thursday night (with some exceptions,
see schedule, below) in Scotts Valley.
A Music As Medicine Evening in Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz Sacred Song! C'mon
down and sing along!
The Mystic Jamms
Band performing
at Ananda Center Of The Redwoods,
in Boulder Creek, CA,
April 2008
You're invited to come enjoy this
unusual kirtan ensemble, during an evening of Music As Medicine -- singing the divine names with
The Mystic Jamms Band as they lead regular community kirtan and
bhajans night at Gateways Bookstore in Santa Cruz.
Music is the universal language that
speaks directly to the heart, bringing peace & joy to everyone it
touches. That peace and joy creates a place where healing can occur
naturally...
The Details:
Monday June 16th
7:00 p.m.
Gateways Bookstore
1126 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz
Donations Heartfully Accepted
Purifying the Soul, Opening the Heart...
Connecting to Mother Divine, Prosperity, & Jesus Christ's Soul
Energy
Time: 6:30 p.m
 -
9:30 p.m.
Donation: $10 and two roses!
Or,
sponsor a homa!
Location:
Kelly Karlson's home temple
1501 Country Club,
Ben Lomond, CA
Directions to Kelly's home temple can be found
HERE
CARPOOLING HIGHLY SUGGESTED!
Better living through fire & meditation, increasing prosperity &
connecting to the Mother Divine! Come charge and decharge your
soul fires in Scotts Valley!
(Holy Womb Process people, this will be the night to do the yantra
process in the fire if you want to do it as a group.)
To receive the maximum benefit and healing from the homa fires,
and because of the super-intense energies involved, it's highly
advisable on the actual day of the homa to eat vegetarian food only
and stay away from intoxicants.
WHAT'S A FIRE HOMA!?? This and other questions answered on the
Homa FAQ page.
Questions?: 831/ 425-3234
What to bring: Be sure to dress for current outdoor
conditions - spring's here but it can be cold, rain is possible, and layers are your
friends after the sun goes down. Blankets, shawls & sweaters are
implicated! It is also a good idea to bring a folding chair
and/or cushion to sit on. And of course -- roses & SNACKS! Bring SNACKS!
June 19th Thursday
Night Sai Shakti Satsang in Scotts Valley
(Click link for Details & Directions)
June 26th Thursday
Night Sai Shakti Satsang in Scotts Valley
(Click link for Details & Directions)
How to break the
illusions that surround us every day, especially in spiritual
processes...
 The
Nine Arrows
The Nine Arrows is a beautiful meditation process accessing the
Shiva energy for protection from the Illusion, in our lives, and
especially in terms of protecting our spiritual processes. Doing
these simple but powerful prayers -- "arrows" in our divine quiver,
more tools to help break the illusions around our souls -- builds an
incredible resistance power in each individual's capacity for moving
forward quickly and smoothly in their spiritual development.
The Nine Arrows are a priceless spiritual mechanism in understanding
the play between Shiva and Shakti, the Reality behind this Illusion
world and the Illusion itself.
We will give the initiation into the Arrows' process during this
class, including a discussion about the context of the Arrows,
having a power spot in Penukonda, and different applications of the
Nine Arrows in everyone's lives.
This class is open to anyone who is doing or has done any of Sri
Kaleshwar's processes.
Time: 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Class Fee: $50
Location: The home temple of Kelly Karlson
1501 Country Club, Ben Lomond
Directions to Kelly's home temple
can be found
HERE
RSVP PLEASE! --
space is limited!
You can reserve your place in the class by credit card through
Paypal here:
Questions or More Information: 831/425-3234 or
alx@karmatalk.com
Purifying the Soul, Opening the Heart...
Time: 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Donation: $10 and two roses!
Or,
sponsor a homa!
Location:
The home of Pamela Hinz
in Scotts Valley, CA
41A, Vista Del Lago Community
444 Whispering Pines, Scotts Valley, CA
(road behind the Clubhouse, follow it around to 41A & park in
the empty visitor spaces before 41A!)
Directions to the Vista Del Lago Community can be
found HERE. Then go to 41A.
Better living through fire & meditation, increasing prosperity &
connecting to the Mother Divine! Come charge and decharge your
soul fires in Scotts Valley!
(Holy Womb Process people, this will be the night to do the yantra
process in the fire if you want to do it as a group.)
To receive the maximum benefit and healing from the homa fires,
and because of the super-intense energies involved, it's highly
advisable on the actual day of the homa to eat vegetarian food only
and stay away from intoxicants.
WHAT'S A FIRE HOMA!?? This and other questions answered on the
Homa FAQ page.
Questions?: 831/ 425-3234
What to bring: Be sure to dress for current outdoor
conditions - although spring is here, layers are your friends after the
sun goes down. Blankets, shawls & sweaters are implicated! It
is also a good idea to bring a folding chair and/or cushion to sit
on. And of course -- roses & SNACKS! Bring SNACKS!
July 3rd Thursday
Night Sai Shakti Satsang in Scotts Valley
(Click link for Details & Directions)
Purifying the Soul, Opening the Heart...
Connecting to Mother Divine, Prosperity, & Jesus Christ's Soul
Energy
Time: 6:30 p.m
-
9:30 p.m.
Donation: $10 and two roses!
Or,
sponsor a homa!
Location:
Kelly Karlson's home temple
1501 Country Club,
Ben Lomond, CA
Directions to Kelly's home temple can be found
HERE
CARPOOLING HIGHLY SUGGESTED!
Better living through fire & meditation, increasing prosperity &
connecting to the Mother Divine! Come charge and decharge your
soul fires in Scotts Valley!
(Holy Womb Process people, this will be the night to do the yantra
process in the fire if you want to do it as a group.)
To receive the maximum benefit and healing from the homa fires,
and because of the super-intense energies involved, it's highly
advisable on the actual day of the homa to eat vegetarian food only
and stay away from intoxicants.
WHAT'S A FIRE HOMA!?? This and other questions answered on the
Homa FAQ page.
Questions?: 831/ 425-3234
What to bring: Be sure to dress for current outdoor
conditions - spring's here but it can be cold, rain is possible, and layers are your
friends after the sun goes down. Blankets, shawls & sweaters are
implicated! It is also a good idea to bring a folding chair
and/or cushion to sit on. And of course -- roses & SNACKS! Bring SNACKS!
A Music As Medicine Evening in Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz Sacred Song! C'mon
down and sing along!
The Mystic Jamms
Band performing
at Ananda Center Of The Redwoods,
in Boulder Creek, CA,
April 2008
You're invited to come enjoy this
unusual kirtan ensemble, during an evening of Music As Medicine -- singing the divine names with
The Mystic Jamms Band as they lead regular community kirtan and
bhajans night at Gateways Bookstore in Santa Cruz.
Music is the universal language that
speaks directly to the heart, bringing peace & joy to everyone it
touches. That peace and joy creates a place where healing can occur
naturally...
The Details:
Monday June 16th
7:00 p.m.
Gateways Bookstore
1126 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz
Donations Heartfully Accepted
July 24th Thursday
Night Sai Shakti Satsang in Scotts Valley
(Click link for Details & Directions)
Spiritual Discussions, Healing, Singing, and Meditation
"Satsang
was grrrrrreat! I love that you two bit off a big chunk and got down
to it. The topic sparks my conviction and dedication to the healing
process."
-- J. T., Santa Cruz
Dates: Thursday evenings
Time: 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Donation: $10
Location: Vista Del Lago Clubhouse
(directions & parking info below)
Vista Del Lago Home Park
444 Whispering Pines Drive
Scotts Valley, CA
Questions? 831/ 425-3234
About The Sai Shakti Satsang
Sai Shakti Satsang includes some sacred song (bhajan) singing, a
group discussion around a spiritual subject, followed by a peaceful
& uplifting healing meditation...
Jonathan & Alx share knowledge, insights, and spiritual healing
energy from this 'new ancient tradition' of
Sri Kaleshwar & Shirdi Sai Baba,
leading to a group question-and-answer discussion to create sat-sang
(literally, 'divine truth in a group setting'). The group healing
meditation is all the more potent for taking new spiritual
understandings into the inner silence.
New! Join Sai Shakti Satsang by phone from anywhere in the
world!
You can also join Sai Shakti Satsang by
remote conference call - send an email to
alx@karmatalk.com if you'd
like to be included in the weekly informational email (including the
phone number and access code).
"I'm happily applauding and
promoting your Thursday night satsang-over-the-phone. I am literally
amazed, impressed and inspired that the Divine knowledge can be so
wonderfully, skillfully and thoroughly presented and shared over the
phone... " --
C.M., Palo Alto, CA
"As the call progressed I realized that my self-doubt and
fear is part
of the process of going to a deeper level.
When the two of you spoke of how when you realized that "the energy
is
running in YOU" ... and that we're not going to India to sit in his
lap, that it's about communicating on an internal level, I thought,
"that's what started to happen to me. WOW!!!!!! OH MY GOD!"
A step towards clarity. That's why I'm going to Penukonda in
February.
I want to start to harvest this strange surge of energy that he's
opened up for me and to THINK on it. Instead of running around here
in
New York like a lunatic."
-- V.J., New York
Why is a group dynamic so important, and a fundamental part of
any serious spiritual undertaking?
One part of the answer lies in a mysterious concept called
'protection circles,' the soul (and angelic) layers of support and
mystical protection that are developed any time more than one or two
people come together to share spiritual practice.
Sri Kaleshwar often cites the story about a group of Japanese monks
meditating at the time the United States dropped the atomic bomb on
the Japanese city of Hiroshima -- IN Hiroshima. The whole city was
reduced to fire and ash but their monastery kept standing and the
whole group of monks was unharmed by the explosion and subsequent
radiation.
Why? Protection circles, because they were
meditating together as a group.
There really is no substitute for group experience, group spiritual
practice, and the support that can be found in a spiritual
community. A group can advance spiritually in a rapid way,
where an individual is more likely to get stuck and flounder.
The satsang experience, on a weekly basis, reminds people who are
committed to living a spiritual life about the importance of
meditation, healing, inspiration, support, love, understanding and
compassion on a day-to-day level, as a practical function of
spiritual discipline. It gives everyone a chance to go deeper into
their spiritual practice and meditation experiences, and to ask
questions along the way about the different stages and adventures of
spiritual life.
You can find out more about this expression of
'groupism' by checking out
Alx' blog.
Alx & Jonathan returned to Santa
Cruz in March 2005, after spending seven years studying in India.
Their training was/is in intense spirituality and healing techniques
from a Shiva-Shakti** tradition with Sri Kaleshwara, a miracle
healing saint. (For more information about Kaleshwara,
see his website at
www.kaleshwar.org.)
**Shakti - 1)
high powerful divine energy. 2) the Feminine divine force,
expressed as the principle of creation. 3) part of the mechanism
of miracles.
4) another name for the Divine Mother or Goddess.
- Take Highway 17 to Mount Hermon Road exit in Scotts Valley.
- Bear left over the highway toward Scotts Valley on Mt. Hermon
Rd. (if you're coming from south) or turn right at end of ramp (if
coming from north).
- Go left at the 3rd traffic light which is Whispering Pines Dr.
on left (and Scotts Valley Dr. on right). There's a 76 gas station
on the left and a Shell gas station on the right at the
intersection.
- Curve on Whispering Pines past a few business buildings --
PARK in the Whispering Pines Business Park. You'll want to
walk a few hundred yards from here -- bring an umbrella if the
weather is wet!
- WALK down until you see the entrance to Vista Del Lago on the
right.
- Turn RIGHT into Vista Del Lago, and you'll see the clubhouse
building directly ahead and slightly to the left of a large pond
(there's a sign marking it as the Clubhouse).
- There are a few parking spaces around the Clubhouse, as well,
but the numbers are growing and these spaces are often full.
- Enter the clubhouse at the pond side (northeast good Vaastu)
along the row of sliding glass doors.
What They're Saying
"It is truly a delight to watch the two
of you step into leadership with such love and dedication. It shows
a true self mastery to be able to give so much so deeply to so many.
May all your days be blessed and
may you feel the gratitude of my heart for your sharing of the
sacred knowledge."
— G.R., Grover Beach
"Thank you for the wonderful Saturday evening, your presence and
the knowledge you shared. My inspiration is back on track, I found
it not very easy to do it all alone."
— Y., Los Angeles
"Again, Blessings to you both for your wonderful work and sharing
the Divine Knowledge. I will certainly do my part to keep the energy
going..."
— S., Los Angeles
A note about donations: All of our events are
available to any sincere spiritual student in search of divine
knowledge—as such, we do accept sliding
scale and other trades if finances are a barrier preventing you from
attending. If you've already taken a major course, like the
Five Elements Process or the Sri Chakra Yantra, you are welcome to
attend these courses again, free, as a refresher (materials fees
still required, if appropriate).
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