DRUM & SING FOR MOTHER EARTH - EARTH DAY CELEBRATION

Celebrate EARTH DAY

            With Antara EarthAngel Davis

Drum for MOTHER EARTH

Sing for all creation

Thursday, April 22, 2010

         6:30pm – 8:30pm

       Santa Cruz

Unite energetically with lightworkers across the globe and offer our drumming and sound prayers to Mother Earth and all creation. Convene at Twin Lotus Center and take a very short  walk to the neighboring oak meadow for a short ceremony. Then we shall return to the center for a more intimate sounding session.  

This celebration is the first meeting of a drop-in Shamanic Sound Medicine Circle which runs 4 consecutive Thursdays. Clear out your energy field, and recharge it with indigenous sounds & light frequencies ~ it’s an evening of vibrational exploration.   Different sound healing topics each week with experiential warm up practices, concluding with a freeform Shamanic Sound Healing Journey. No experience necessary. Open up to and flow with Spirit. Emerge energized and peaceful – a truly healing and transformational practice in sacred space.

 

Bring drum and/or rattle. Some extras on hand.

For Earth Day, bring one giveaway crystal or stone as offering.

Dress warm with sturdy shoes. If raining, will be indoors.

4 THURSDAYS – 6:30pm-8:30pm

April 22nd(Earth Day), April 29th, May 6th, May 13^th

Drop-ins ok RSVP appreciated if planning to attend!

Sliding scale suggested donation $15-25/class – no one turned away.

Twin Lotus Center - (Davis Residence) 913 El Dorado Avenue, Santa Cruz, California USA

info: antara1@att.net

Antara Davis is co-founder of The Sisters of The Sacred Circle, a healing arts group, since 1988. She is also the co-founder of The Winds of Change, a shamanic sound healing collective who has held many community events and presented on radio and TV over the past 15 years. She was a member of Heaven On Earth, a healing sounds ensemble that performed across the nation. Currently she is creating with Laurie Miller, a new center of light for learning, healing and empowerment. – The Twin Lotus Center. 

EASTER MIRACLES by Antara

Easter - wow, what a strange trip it was. It was mostly gray like the day, a lil' dim, a lil' murky. It matched perfectly the dark-day troubles for some relatives of mine that I’m concerned about and certainly for the family of man.

About noon, I sat with my 90 year old mom to watch Catholic mass in Washington DC on tv since she couldn’t attend church.  I chose to just be present with the energies, witness to the pomp and ritual and my mom sitting on the edge of her chair. My little catholic girl self is moved and awestruck by the grandiosity of this vast marble palace where so many priests are bowing and kissing a golden bible with orchestral accompaniment , incense and holy water.  I'm struck by the man wearing golden robes and who walks with a golden staff and high pointed hat talk of the singular miracle that is still rippling through the universes mixed with his own prayers for those who suffer abuse from priests.

Wanting to keep my Mother-Theresa-Momma happy when the Mass was over, I searched around and found  Pope Benedict live in Rome. Thousands stood in the rain cheering. He appeared ill, lackluster, bored as he read greetings in different languages.  I wondered about the general funk in the air, that strange mixture of pain, suffering, prayers, and faith, even when the leaders fail you. And then slowly a wave of love for humanity arose within me – look how we can stand in the downpour and still cheer, still be happy just to be in the presence, and to be surrounded with so many who are also keeping the faith. Strange how the healing was coming from the gathered presence of the people, always beautiful to behold.  It’s this quality of humanity that moves me the most.

It reminded me of the overwhelming happiness generated from the crowds at Inaugeration day for Obama. Yes, there was a figure who was representing, but the healing came from the people themselves who allowed the flowing of love and HUGE faith that goodness and miracles are possible, and yes, they are coming. And the feeling that came from standing in that soup of goodness was why the truest of miracles and transformations was happening in the hearts of all who were present. It was coming from US, not the man on the stage.

Even still, on this holy of holy days for so many, I was a bit melancholy. Then later in the day kindness showed up. My daughter told me how she had gone to visit the parents of her deceased best friend on this day, the anniversary of his tragic death.  She’d shopped for them, made dinner, and cleaned up the small dingy home, crowded with mess and sorrow.  They smiled for the first time in 2 years they said. The funk was lifting the father said to my daughter as she drove them around on errands earlier in the day, for they have no car.  She had arrived there with her own heavy heart but came away lifted, enjoying the smiles that she had given them.   In the giving and compassion came her own healing. On this Easter day, a true death anniversary for her that she had dreaded so much, she became lighter. She made others lighter.  Miracles great and small.  The thing was, they had invited HER over, so who gave the miracle to whom? 

Nevertheless, on this gray rainy day, my heart was witness to light rippling through in many ways.  Like a rope thrown to the drowning man- MIRACLES from faith, from a love beyond our knowing, beyond personalities. I stood still and witness to the light rippling through all around me even though I never left home. Through all the huge sorrows and tragedies and shaking fears, we together are far more than that for each other, we are each others miracles all the time.  Our capacity to heal boggles the mind.

Love, Antara

April 5, 2010