Serene Retreat in North Georgia
NaMestoy Farm
Directions to NaMestoy Farm (from south - Atlanta)
GA400N to Highway 369 west (left at light) 6.3 miles to right on Whitmire Road (Just past Wallace Tatum Road) 1.4 miles to property on right just past Matt's Landing. 7490 Whitmire Road, Cumming, 30028
Phone: 770-205-9358
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Sacred Circle - Ongoing Mondays
From 9am - 11am
Come join us! What stimulating conversations we are having, and we're interested in everyone's perspective. When we sit together in Circle, we wait for inspiration; and when it comes, we speak it as the enlightened beings we know ourselves to be.
We follow the Council of Peace guidelines:
"We agree to refrain from judging, persuading, defending or interrupting those with whom we are in dialogue.
We agree to be curious and to be real.
We agree to listen, in order to understand, regardless of whether our views are similar or different.
We agree to hold this space as sacred and to be with one another here in openness and love."
Everyone is welcome to join us.
No reservations needed and there is no fee.
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Healing With Karen to be Announced
Welcoming back Karen who is still healing from a back injury
Karen is our beloved energy healer who is with us the last Sunday of each month! She has so many modalities of proficiency. She is certified in yoga, Aruvedic medicine and naturopathy so she does more than just reiki healing while she focuses on each indiviidual who enters the sacred healing space in our meditation room. Having such a comprehensive approach to healing and wellness, she can always suggest a natural way for us to heal and maintain our body, mind and spirit. The minute we enter the room we can sense the holy Presence of Spirit. Karen becomes the conduit through which blocks in our mind, body, and spirit are removed so that our natural ability to heal ourselves is released. This Sunday Karen will be working with individuals in the meditation room while the rest of us will be receiving healing from the Gongs and group healing from one another.
Love offerings accepted
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Sunday Meditation w/Bert to be announced
Bert Levitt MA, LPC has been working with couples and individuals for over 38 years. He has seen firsthand that everyone has within them the ability to change. The skills set that Bert brings to his practice comes from a wide array of sources and experiences.
He has worked with abusive partners, addicts, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, chronic pain syndrome, and numerous other conditions, as well as all sorts of life and relationship issues. Working with couples to clarify intentions and act skillfully is a special focus. His marriage of 35 years has been his greatest teacher in couples counseling. Bert has been nurturing and facilitating our meditation group here at NaMestoy since its birth in 2011. This is what he has to say about meditation:
"My life long spiritual quest has led to my current meditative practice. The non-dual (not two but one out of which all things arise) way of meditation that leads to an awakened heart in the most direct way I know. Ramana Maharshi, perhaps the best known teacher of the non-dual way here in the west, also instructed students to meditate this way.
*Participants are invited to do walking meditation when they need a break from sitting for long periods of time, and they may come and go as they please during the four hours.
Please enter and leave quietly.
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MORE ABOUT OUR SACRED CIRCLE
When we sit and gaze together in Circle, we wait for inspiration; and when it comes, we speak as the aligned beings we know ourselves to be.. Everyone is welcome to join us.
No reservations are necessary, and there is no fee.....
I must tell you that our Sacred Circle on Mondays is a most special time for me; and my daughter, Carrie, even plans her visits to NaMestoy around this special gathering. And now we are also attending a similar group on Tuesdays at 1pm hosted by Kim Lemen in her lovely home in Canton. I envision more and more of these Circles of Light shining forth throughout Metropolitan Atlanta. If you, too, feel the call to host a group in your local community, I will be happy to support you in this. When getting started there may be just one person show up, so I would be that third person until there are some regulars attending.
In a country of people who don't seem to have the time to build deep relationships, the Vision Alignment Project presents this vision:
"We see a world where groups and circles of people gather together regularly to support one another in the manifestation of whatever their individual dreams are; where people easily align with each other because everyone wants only for the highest good of all... devoting time together for the sacred aspects of life; where they remember to create a spiritual environment that makes it easy for everyone in the community to experience Oneness."
May Event
Thursday May 9 7-9 PM
Awakening Through Words & Song
Meet Indigenous Leaders Haru & Harya Kuntanawa of the Kuntanawa tribe located in the Brazilian Amazon
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At this event, the leaders of the Kuntanawa nation plan to discuss the current crisis within their lands and surrounding nations in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, which they consider to be the most sacred forest in the world. In response to the current massacres of indigenous people, as well as the destruction of sacred plants and animals, they will discuss the importance of building a worldwide alliance that aims to restore the balance of nature and establish sustainability. They would like to share the sacred teachings, songs, and medicines of their people in hopes to awaken each heart and to inspire a new perception of the world.
*LEADERS OF THE KUNTANAWA NATION*
~Haru is recognized by many indigenous people of Brazil as one of the most influential young leaders of his time.
His strong presence, compassionate heart and expressive influence has changed and restored the faith of his people and surrounding villages that reside along the banks of Acre, Brazil. Haru met with the Twelve Tribes Alliance in Acre and promoted a big alliance between the people. His goal was to defend the traditional knowledge and honor the use of natural plant medicine as these sacred and medicinal uses of plants can cure the physical, emotional and spiritual bodies.
Between the years of 2010-2014, Haru organized significant and large meetings for the Pano Corridor Project that united different tribes, nations, and people from various parts of the world. The aim of this project was to promote a larger understanding between people of different continents.
~Dr. Hayra Kuntanawa is an internationally recognized medicine woman, Chinese Medicine doctor, and teacher in various arts of healing with her husband, co-leader of the Kuntanawa nation. Since a child, the healing path has been part of Hayra’s life and she has evolved her knowledge into her own unique field of medical practice. Through her studies and work Hayra has had the opportunity to work in Asia, and study in Europe, North, South and Central America. Hayra has had the privilege to graduate and study from a number of world-renowned schools, institutions and teachers such as: Oregon College of Oriental Medicine leading school in the United States for Oriental Medicine), the Hypnotherapy Academy of America (carries the title as number one school in the world in the study of Hypnotherapy), Mikio Sankey (founder of Esoteric Acupuncture), and Lillian Pearl Bridges (world acclaimed and pioneer in the field of Facial Diagnosis). Dr. Hayra Kuntanawa currently holds the titles of Co-leader of the Kuntanawa Nation, Doctor of Oriental and Acupuncture Medicine, Esoteric Acupuncture Practitioner, Hypnotherapist, Licensed Massage Therapist, Reiki Master, Holistic Doula, Face Reader, Akashic Records Reader, Medicine Woman, Shamanic Soul Retrieval Practitioner, and musical artist.
FYI
Haru & Harya will be selling beautiful handcrafted jewelry as well as other items made in their tribe from Brazil.
paypal them at tribokuntanawa@gmail.com
To know more about them check out their website:
http://www.kuntanawa.org/
Fee: Love Offering
May Event
About Karen Cole
Karen is becoming a celebrity in the field of education. Forsyth County news did a feature article about her accomplishments, and the information about her keeps spreading to more and more schools and more and more newspapers. She's a busy lady these days. The Forsyth paper wrote, "Longtime Forsyth Central High School special education teacher Karen Cole transitioned into a new role as the school's first-ever wellness coach... The in-school suspension room was transformed into a space called "The Well," where technological devices are prohibited and bean bag chairs are the preferred mode of seating."
"It's like you're going there to replenish yourself," Central principal Mitch Young said....she uses many of the same coping methods she was using with her special education students and shares them with the rest of the school's population. These are methods she had learned and incorporated into her own life to deal with anxiety and depression to help her students: breathing, gratitude journals, positive reinforcement...Just having a basic belief in yourself that they were relevant as people and that they were capable of doing anything that they wanted to do,...especially be successful in school."
Young initially rebuffed the idea, but he was forced to reconsider after an increasing number of the school's students were in states of emergency. Through Signs of Suicide, an anonymous survey program, Central found its freshmen class had a higher rate of depression than the national average. The school did further research that found that even students plugged into clubs, athletic teams and the STEM academy were showing signs of it too. Young talked to the school district about creating the position and was given full support, along with a model for the wellness center to emulate in Marietta High School. Young and Cole visited the school's facility and brought back ideas.
Central first introduced the center to students through voluntary visits from freshmnan P.E. classes, and teachers were encouraged to bring their classes. Five weeks into the school year, Central began its "power hour" lunch initiative on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays, and Cole opened up the wellness studio for voluntary 20-minute mindfulness breathing sessions for any
student.
