The Playshop Temple at the 2010 Healing Garden
Sunday June 20, 2010
on 1700 Block of Grant Street, just off Commercial Drive. 12pm-6pm


** Workshops and Live Music Performances **
Events are FREE but donations are always appreciated.
(Proceeds go to the Commercial Drive Festival Fund)


12:30-1:30pm
Ta Ke Ti Na Healing Rhythm Journey Thru Movement
With your voice as your guide and your body as your instrument, relax into a process of rhythmic stepping,
clapping and vocal chanting.  Discover your own path to stillness within movement and silence within sound.
Experience the joy and vitality of group singing and the transformative power of chaos,
while learning to be at ease with uncertainty. No musical experience is necessary.
Brian and Shasta are the first facilitators and teachers of this groundbreaking healing rhythm work in Canada.
Contact them for info on their local workshops.
www.taketina.com   Site to connect you to the source of the work in Europe, with the founders
Contact Brian and Shasta  jshasta@telus.net   www.rhythmkeepers.ca



1:30-2:30pm
Tribal Prayer with Navaro Franco
You are invited to come and be part of a Tribal Rhythm Prayer. 2 Chants with sacred drumming
will ground our Commercial Drive Village, and Drive Fest Healing Garden in the 4 directions,
the Within, the Above and the Below, embodying and calling forth the energies of Earth, Consciousness, and Cosmos.
Navaro Franco's student ensemble is joined by her current student body. This drum community will play sacred music
from the Yoruba Orixa tradition in West Africa and Afro-Brazil, in the tribal way of invoking and grounding energies with chant and rhythm.
Navaro offers weekly drum classes to a diverse community in the Commercial Drive area at Open Door Yoga's studio on Venables.
She performs with Drum Prayers at mainstage at Drive Fest 5-6pm with Drum Prayers.
www.navarofranco.com



2:30-3:30pm
Pepe Danza & Ocean of Sound
All being is vibration and light. All sounds are a manifestation of internal intentions and consciousness.
Local Commercial Drive world musician Pepe Danza is well known for his drumming,
but is also a gifted multi-instrumentalist with a deep interest in meditation, yoga, and healing through sound.
With Pepe's Ocean Of Sound, the listener is taken on a journey across time, countries, era's, and genre's into their own heart.
Crystal bowls, melodic instruments, and much other magical music will be shared.
Come sit in the Playshop Temple and be transported and transformed by Pepe's intentional music.
Pepe offers a monthly house concert called Ocean of Sound with ever changing themes.
A beautiful opportunity to enjoy music, community and healing. For more info contact:
http://www.pepedanza.com   jdanza@direct.ca
Facebook: search Ocean of Sound / Pepe Danza



3:30-4:30pm
Kundalini Yoga/Andrea St. Jules + Live Music By Sparrow Deviyani!
Come join Jules and Sparrow to share in sacred space through the practice of Kundalini Yoga
and the healing sound current of live devotional music!  Kundalini yoga is a powerful, experiential and transformational practice,
which incorporates movement, asana (postures), pranayam (breath work), mantra (chanting), mudra (hand positions)
and meditation to re-awaken your highest creative potential and bring you into alignment with your divine essence
- your inner-most truth - your "Sat Nam".  Jules (Andrea St.Jules, also known by her spiritual name Nambir Kaur) is a KRI certified Kundalini Yoga teacher,
and a certified holistic Hatha Yoga teacher. She has also recently been initiated into the world of shamanic healing, and practices thai yoga massage.
Contact - andreastjules@gmail.com   Sparrow - www.living-mantras.com  



4:30-5:15pm
Hooping Workshop with Laura
The playful skill of hooping has become a popular and beautiful art form.
Come and enjoy one of Commercial Drive's own bright stars in the world of Hooping,
and learn skills and tricks from her to delight your body and soul. Hoops provided or bring your own.



5:15-6:15pm
Kirtan with Spirit Voice Singalong
An intimate gathering where we share the gift of our spirit with devotional singing in various forms of music,
from modern songs to Kirtan chants. Guitar and percussion accompanies. All are welcome.
For more info visit Spirit Voice Singalong on their Facebook page
http://te-in.facebook.com/group.php?gid=112735708748824&ref=mf
contact: Christina  christinapanagio@googlemail.com 


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► http://littlewoo.org/events/Healing-Garden/wellness-services.htm

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