Join us for a playful, prayerful, feast of a celebration for this Summer Solstice on the beautiful grounds of Reg’s Garden.
An alcohol free event – this promises to be a solar treat for the heart and soul! With a gorgeous official opening of our sacred space, a deep guided body prayer by Maria, some beautiful live music and drumming from the Balaphones (Maz, Jim and Anita), locally made/foraged delicious drinks and food for everyone attending, and a sharing of sacred ayurvedic wisdom for the summer by Tina Foran.
Summer is brewing! After we’ve all landed together with a focus on opening our sacred space, we will ignite and feed our innate longing for re-connection through conscious, guided movement into the body with Maria. Conscious body-prayer dancing in community gives us an other-worldly medicinal portal to melt and heal our hearts, and offers us the courage and possibility to emerge from ourselves, a clearer version of ourselves, fresh from the intention and exhilaration of the movement.
Our lovely Tina will share with us how our inner alchemy can work best for us this Summer. Fire is light, heating and transformative. Keeping our cool is a great medicine with Ayurveda. Tina is a qualified medical Ayurvedic Practitioner and she specialises in the promotion of selfcare for health and well-being. You can find her at https://ayurvedicriver.com/
At the end of our time, we will sit and eat together on the ground (bring savoury food for feast after – we will supply drinks and sweet locally made treats!)
Bring: water, blanket
Wear: comfy layers
Cost: £15 earlybird price before 6th June and £20 thereafter.
Please contact if issues with online payment.
Location: Grassy meadow carpark at Reg’s Garden – plenty of parking.
Time: 6:20pm to 9:00pm.
VERY IMPORTANT: Please arrive early to begin on time together
NUMBERS ARE RESTRICTED AND TICKETS MUST BE BOOKED IN ADVANCE, PLEASE BOOK EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT.
Let us celebrate with full bodied dancing dreams, the great stillness before the Sun’s strength builds, and the days grow longer.
Blessing within movement, the fruitful dark out of which new life can eventually emerge, we come together asking: what do the suns rays shine onto in the deep earth of our being? What is asked of us in the darkness? What new life is there calling for nourishment?
This is a dance that cleanses your mind with sweat and breath: laughter and prayer. We let go of conversation, dissolve into movement, drop deep into the body and discover the anatomy of the soul. We will move through personal exploration into a loving, intimate relationship with body, mind, heart, and source energy and awaken our imaginations together in a field of connected dreaming. We are powerful, creative beings and the dance facilitates in us a liberation of that beautiful power and intent.
We invite you to this event as part of a wider Campfire World Harmony at Winter Solstice gathering, which starts 09:00 Sunday 20th and runs through until 14:00 Monday.
One link gives access to all events. We have been preparing the ground and sowing the seeds that are ready to break through; a fertile combination of experiential learning, music, ritual, heart-centred business, eco-community and conscious social networking.
World Harmony is part of Campfire’s evolving online event blueprint – an exploration of how we bring people together around a shared vision of unity and connection.
Help Build This Together.
Your ‘pay what you feel’ donation helps support Campfire to continue to build and adapt our blueprint to whatever is needed to be responsive to what is arising both personally and collectively
Make the most beautiful gifts or keep these gorgeous products yourself. Let’s get down with some of mumma nature’s best ingredients and create body product heaven in the kitchen together!!
There are just too many poisons in the body products on the market and there’s just no reason for it! Big unethical brands are contributing to environmental degradation and to rising cancer numbers in our world.
. There’s absolutely no reason to still use nasty chemicals on ourselves and in our environment anymore when making these products is just so easy with the know how that I’d love to share with you. . Learn some beautiful new skills, get more educated on which ingredients are best to use, to heat and to make into products for our skin and hair. . You only have to make these once and then you can use the base recipes and create more and more, never having to settle for poisonous products again. The Organic product market isn’t cheap either and its just so much fun to make your own. . We will make the following lovely products together: . ** Healing and Softening Body Salve/Stretchmark Body Butter/ Aromatic Bug Repellant Balm (you choose) . ** Moisture Drench Hydrous Aromatic skin cream (I use this everyday on my skin and its incredible!) . ** Intensive Anti-Aging Rosehip and Frankincense Face Serum (deliciously nourishing) . ** Cocoa Orange, Lemon, Lavender or Cocoa Mint Beeswax Lip Balms (tinted or natural you choose). . ** Beautifying Skin Toner or Pillow Spray or Rejuvenating Spray (you choose). . ** Macadamia and Argan Hair Repair Serum . . If you are vegan, please advise upon booking as we will prepare some candelia wax for you instead of the beeswax. . We will lace our products with the purest essential oils and end up with products better than you can by in the shops! . You will take them all home with you in lovely glass jars and containers ready to gift or keep for yourself. . The investment for this workshop is £79 . Venue: Home Economic Dept in JCG Date: Wednesday 15th May Time: 18.30-21.30 (arrive for 18:15) . Reviews: . “The DIY Body Products workshop was brilliant. We got to make so many products. Maria had lots of options of things to make and created a lovely space to work in. I learnt a lot during the workshop and would definitely recommend!” Denise McGowan . “Amazing night … creating wonderful treats for the body for the whole family. Such good value for money that I felt I was getting too good a bargain after the session.” Rena Nelson
Our contribution towards the care-taking of this planet is KEY for a strong sense of spiritual fulfilment in this lifetime.
Join us for a powerfully moving journey, to reconnect with and anchor back into your love for the earth, and your unique and sacred part in the creating of an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling & socially just presence on Earth.
This multi-textured, emotive and creative experience is held and facilitated through an investigation into the following important questions:
• What was the unconscious collective mindset that got us to this crisis point in evolution?
• What role does spirituality have in transforming our world?
• How we can exist in a web of like-minded individuals to be the change we want to see in our world today?
• What is our personal, authentic and innate gift to contribute to our world during this time of upheaval and great change? Where do our passions meet what the world most needs?
• How can we use the power of our imaginations and our creativity in our visions of tomorrow?
We have almost no time left to act as protectors of life on Earth and to pull together to hold a ground of consciousness, resilience and wellbeing.
We need to move while we can, before we experience a collapse into free fall, where conducive spaces to share and organise are replaced by the shock of societies becoming more chaotic and dismembered as our life support systems die.
WHERE AND WHEN:
This experience will be held in and around the grounds of St Mary’s Church Barn Loft on Sunday 6th September.
Please arrive at 10:15 for a 10:30 start. to finish at 14:30. There is plenty of parking.
BOOKING:
Booking is ESSENTIAL due to Covid Regulations with the number of people who can attend.
COST:
The day is free/by donation but there is a nominal £5 registration fee to help us cover the costs of advertising and organising which is payable through the booking link.
BRING:
A blanket, a notebook/journal
An object that connects you to your love for the Earth in some way.
FOOD:
We will have a short lunch break. Please bring yourself some food,
ANY QUESTIONS:
Please call 07797832400 or email mariaearthbeauty@gmail.com
MORE INFO:
Created by the “Pachamama Alliance”, this interactive journey “Awakening the Dreamer” takes a fresh look at our most critical current concerns – environmental sustainability, social justice and spiritual fulfilment – and explores the connections between them. It offers a unique insight into the nature of our world, with leading-edge information, dynamic group interaction and inspiring video clips from some of the world’s most respected thinkers and doers, including Paul Hawken, Joanna Macy, Desmond Tutu, Prince Ea, Julia Butterfly Hill, Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry, Van Jones and Charles Eisenstein.
A gathering to bathe in the healing alchemy of chakra consciousness and connection through our dance and presence.
Thursday 30th July
18.45 to 20.45 at SCOOP
Times are strange and so we need to respect social distancing rules where necessary, but this is an opportunity to gather in heartspace community and alchemical chakra magic.
This exhilarating and wholesome journey offers you the opportunity to:
1/ Develop your own inner healer/shaman and create a deeper listening relationship to the sacredness in your body.
2/ Unlock deep blocks and tension, with the possibility of experiencing awakenings and transformations in the body and psyche.
3/ Experience a meditative practice for your peace and wellbeing
Get some amazing and exhilarating exercise through dance (the best kind of exercise!).
4/ Feel supported in like-minded and like-hearted growing conscious community.
Once we move and open up to softening and releasing, each Chakra and connecting body parts offer us the potential for renewal and transformation. Taking this journey in nature makes it even more powerful.
Weather is looking good! Bring shoes to dance in, in case you need.
Cost: Sliding Scale – £10/£15/£20 depending on earnings. Contact me if paying anything is an issue.
A gathering to bathe in the alchemy of connection through our dance
Times are strange and so we need to respect social distancing rules where necessary, but this is an opportunity to gather in heartspace community and celebrate the aliveness of summer and the fruits of this magical time of year.
This is a fundraiser for charity, a giveaway, so please bring £10 for this or less/more/what you can afford. Half will go to the Pachamama Alliance/Black Lives Matter Campaign and half will go to Birdsong Garden towards their projects.
Please arrive at 6.30 for our body-prayer celebration to begin at 6.45, and at 8.30 we’ll share snacks (please bring food) and perhaps a song or two as well.
So looking forward to being with you lovely Jersey dancing community.
Weather is looking good! Bring shoes to dance in if you need, as the ground is wild and may not be comfortable on barefeet.
This multi layered mind, body, spirit movement journey will take us through the 7 major chakra centres and 7 corresponding spiritual life lessons week by week.
By bringing these parts of our bodies into conscious movement, with delicious music and enticing invitations, we are able to dive deep within to release stuck and stagnant energy and stories that we have inherited and created within our bodies throughout our life journey. Ecstatic dance combined with meditations and mantras encourages a deep awakening and transformation within the body.
Each Chakra and connecting body parts offer us the potential for transformation within 7 Sacred Spiritual Life Lessons:
🌈 SUNDAY 24th May 11.00am
1st Chakra “ALL IS ONE” Muladhara/Grounding/Belonging/ Earth: The Root Chakra. A portal back to where we came from. Acknowledging the past and our ancestral lineage. What belief patterns did you inherit from your family? What traumas did they endure? Which of those belief systems do you acknowledge are no longer serving you? Do you have unfinished business with your family? What blessings came from your family? Shining the light on the potential to transform your sense of ground, security, belonging and connection to mother earth, mother, tribe and birth.
🌈 SUNDAY 31st May – 11.00am
2nd Chakra “HONOR ONE ANOTHER” Svadisthana/Passion/Creativity/ Fire: The Sacral Chakra. A portal into our need for relationships and our sense of power, money and survival in our physical environment. How often do you direct your creative energies into negative paths of expression? Are you comfortable with your sexuality? Do you keep your word? Are you a controlling person? SShining the light on the potential to transform your sense of relating and abundance.
🌈 SUNDAY 7th June – 11.00am
3rd Chakra “HONOR ONESELF” Manipura/Confidence/Personal Power/ Fire: The Solar Plexus Chakra. A portal into our sense of self-esteem, self-confidence and self-respect. Do you like yourself? If not what don’t you like and why? Are you actively working to change the things you don’t like? Are you critical of others? Do you need the approval of others? Are you continually wishing your life was different? Shining the light on the potential to transform your sense of relating to yourself and your identity with ease and grace.
🌈 SUNDAY 14th June – 11.00am
4th Chakra “LOVE IS DIVINE POWER” – Anahata/Compassion/Acceptance/Air: The Heart Chakra. A journey into our ability to let go, our ability to forgive and feel inner peace. What emotional memories do you still need to heal? Do you allow yourself to be controlled by the wounds of another person? What steps have you taken or will you take to prevent that from happening again? Do you associate emotional health with no longer needing an intimate relationship? What have you done that needs forgiving? Who do you have to forgive? Shining the light on the potential to transform your sense of love, forgiveness, acceptance and compassion.
🌈 SUNDAY 28th June – 11.00am
5th Chakra “SURRENDER TO DIVINE WILL” – Vishuddha/Deliverance/Authenticity/ Ether: The Throat Chakra. A journey through the maturation of the willpower to true inner authority. What is your definition of being strong willed? Who has control over your willpower and why? Are you able to sense when you are receiving guidance to act upon? What fears do you have associated with divine guidance? Do you trust guidance that has no proof of outcome? Shining the light on the potential to align your path and choices with divine will.
🌈 SUNDAY 5th July – 11.00am
6th Chakra “SEEK ONLY THE TRUTH – The Power of the Mind ” – Ajna/Intuition/Foresight/ Ether: The Third Eye Chakra. A journey into our mental body, our sense of symbolic sight and psychological characteristics. Are you judgmental? What people or situations bring that out in you? What attitudes do you have that disempower you? What beliefs do you have that cause you to interpret the actions of others in a negative way? Shining the light on the potential to transform your sense of truth and beliefs.
🌈 SUNDAY 12th July – 11.00am
7th Chakra “LIVE IN THE PRESENT MOMENT – Transcendence” Sahasrara/Unity/Divine Intelligence/ Ether:The Crown Chakra. A journey into our connection to life force energy, inspirational and prophetic thoughts, transcendent ideas and mystical connections. What spiritual truths are you aware of that you do not live by? Are you devoted to a spiritual path? What prevents you from continuing desired spiritual practices? Are you afraid of a closer spiritual connection to the divine because of the changes it might trigger in your life? Shining the light on the potential to transform your sense of spirituality.
You can go as deep or lightly with these journeys as you like.
It is helpful to understand the chakras if you wish to bring out the deepest potential for yourself through this intensive, so I have compiled a print out document on each chakra below to support the process for you and help you feel ‘prepared and informed’ for each journey we take.
CLICK BELOW TO ACCESS PRINTOUT OF CHAKRA SYSTEM INFORMATION
FOR FULL 7 week JOURNEY: You choose to pay either: £35 or £75 or £105 or £125 or contact me for a FREE BURSARY if you are financially challenged and with NO INCOME.
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I understand in these times that many of us have been financially hard hit and I am one of them, so I just ask that you please just honour your circumstances honestly.
EACH INDIVIDUAL JOURNEY: £5 or £9 or £13 or £17 depending on what you can afford or choose FREE BURSARY
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Some Reviews From the Recent Sunday Morning ‘Grounding in Connection’ Online Ecstatic Dance Gatherings and Past Wild Earth Dance Gatherings
“It is always lovely to fall into the open soft space with Maria”
T Foran
“I feel so ‘cleared out’ – almost like a new person, inside! I felt like we had all been given a gift by you.”
Eleanor O’Callaghan-Mazidian
“Amazing, Amazing …. “
Kinga Gutsowksa
“… such a magical group.”
Joseph David Bras
“I was touched by your presence and by the gentle but powerful container that you held us in … the naturalness with which you held yourself and shared that love and humour with us..”
Cath Brown
“Beautifully held space, great choice of music and wonderful ending meditations. These ‘online’ dances provide a great opportunity to go deeper into your own dance, without the distraction of others, which has been interesting to explore.”
J Jones
“A lovely introduction to meditative dance!”
J Forrest
“HI Maria, just want to say how much I enjoyed and benefited from the on line wild dance events. I am really looking forward to joining the next series. I was a little unsure whether online would work for me, but found that I felt really well connected throughout to all the friendly people who joined in. The choice of music and the “company” of yourself and my fellow dancers all added up to a special experience.”
G Louis
“I was surprised how I felt so much better in myself after the online dance gathering ….”
J Liffey
“During these times especially it feels good to be connected to our dance community … I felt our space very well held by your gentle guidance … It was much easier to link up and have a sense of connection on Zoom than I thought it would be.”
M Heaney
SOME QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE:
1/ Will this involve me dancing?
Yes, but its not the kind of dancing where you will be focussing on looking good nor entertaining. Ecstatic dance is a mindful deep guided journey into the body, with continual invitations and reminders from me where your focus should be – which is in the body, and just being witness to the voices and stories that are playing out in the mind without attaching to them, so that you can let your body move with your authenticity, moment by moment. Its a great meditation practice and one that many find easier than stillness meditation. Its no surprise that dance has been a practice of all indigenous cultures through the ages to connect them to their bodies and spirits. Once you’ve tried this a few times, it becomes more and more easy to drop into the body, and for some it is instantaneous.
2/ I’m physically impaired and can’t move about/can’t move for long. Can I still join?
Absolutely. You can be just as present and able to journey deeply into the body whilst sitting in a chair, moving your arms, fingers, head, neck, feet … whatever or wherever it is that you have some movement. The sessions have been created to aid the dropping in journey with special music, drums, sound and mantras. Everyone can come to this and get something very wholesome out of it.
3/ I wouldn’t be able to stay for the whole session, is that ok?
Your presence in this process really makes a difference. Especially as we are tuning in to each other online. Leaving early would not only diminish your experience of the journey, but it would also impact the sense of presence in the zoom room, so I ask that all participants can stay from the beginning to the end to support the process for everyone.
About Maria
After a lifetime of learning about healing and the mysteries of the body, heart, soul and spirit, Maria began a journey of discovering the power of true transformation and embodied healing through conscious dance practices in 2009. That year, Maria launched the first ecstatic dance classes in Jersey “Bare Feet Ecstatic Dance”. More Here
This multi layered and colourful mind, body, spirit movement journey will take us through the 7 major chakra centres of our bodies.
By bringing these parts of our bodies into conscious movement, with delicious music and enticing invitations, we are able to dive deep within to release stuck and stagnant energy and stories that we have inherited and created within our bodies throughout our life journey.
This is not a theoretical enquiry but a deep somatic full body journey.
Once we move and open up to softening and releasing, each Chakra and connecting body parts offer us the potential for transformation in the following realms:
🌈 1st Chakra “ALL IS ONE” Muladhara/Grounding/Belonging/ Earth: The Root Chakra. A portal back to where we came from. Acknowledging the past and our ancestral lineage. What belief patterns did you inherit from your family? What traumas did they endure? Which of those belief systems do you acknowledge are no longer serving you? Do you have unfinished business with your family? What blessings came from your family? Shining the light on the frozen grief and energy which is hindering your sense of ground and belonging and connection to mother earth, mother, tribe and birth.
🌈 2nd Chakra “HONOR ONE ANOTHER” Svadisthana/Passion/Creativity/ Fire: The Sacral Chakra. A portal into our need for relationships and our sense of power, money and survival in our physical environment. How often do you direct your creative energies into negative paths of expression? Are you comfortable with your sexuality? Do you keep your word? Are you a controlling person? Shining the light on the frozen grief and energy which is hindering your sense of relating and abundance.
🌈 3rd Chakra “HONOR ONESELF” Manipura/Confidence/Personal Power/ Fire: The Solar Plexus Chakra. A portal into our sense of self-esteem, self-confidence and self-respect. Do you like yourself? If not what don’t you like and why? Are you actively working to change the things you don’t like? Are you critical of others? Do you need the approval of others? Are you continually wishing your life was different? Shining the light on the frozen grief and energy which is hindering your sense of relating to yourself with ease and grace.
🌈 4th Chakra “LOVE IS DIVINE POWER” – Anahata/Compassion/Acceptance/Air: The Heart Chakra. A journey into our ability to let go, our ability to forgive and feel inner peace. What emotional memories do you still need to heal? Do you allow yourself to be controlled by the wounds of another person? What steps have you taken or will you take to prevent that from happening again? Do you associate emotional health with no longer needing an intimate relationship? What have you done that needs forgiving? Who do you have to forgive? Shining the light on the frozen grief and energy which is hindering your sense of love, forgiveness and compassion.
🌈 5th Chakra “SURRENDER TO DIVINE WILL” – Vishuddha/Deliverance/Authenticity/ Ether: The Throat Chakra. A journey through the maturation of the willpower to true inner authority. What is your definition of being strong willed? Who has control over your willpower and why? Are you able to sense when you are receiving guidance to act upon? What fears do you have associated with divine guidance? Do you trust guidance that has no proof of outcome? Shining the light on the frozen grief and energy which is hindering your sense of aligning your path and choices with divine will.
🌈 6th Chakra “SEEK ONLY THE TRUTH – The Power of the Mind ” – Ajna/Intuition/Foresight/ Ether: The Third Eye Chakra. A journey into our mental body, our sense of symbolic sight and psychological characteristics. Are you judgmental? What people or situations bring that out in you? What attitudes do you have that disempower you? What beliefs do you have that cause you to interpret the actions of others in a negative way? Shining the light on the frozen grief and energy which are hindering your sense of truth and beliefs.
🌈 7th Chakra “LIVE IN THE PRESENT MOMENT – Transcendence” Sahasrara/Unity/Divine Intelligence/ Ether:The Crown Chakra. A journey into our connection to life force energy, inspirational and prophetic thoughts, transcendent ideas and mystical connections. What spiritual truths are you aware of that you do not live by? Are you devoted to a spiritual path? What prevents you from continuing desired spiritual practices? Are you afraid of a closer spiritual connection to the divine because of the changes it might trigger in your life? Shining the light on the frozen grief and energy which is hindering your sense of spirituality.
Maria is excited to offer this session as part of the #unitedwellbeing weekend in Jersey on 16th/17th May and all proceeds will go to a local charity.
After a lifetime of learning about healing and the mysteries of the body, heart, soul and spirit since she was a child, Maria began a journey of discovering the power of true transformation and embodied healing through conscious dance practices in 2009. That year, Maria launched the first ecstatic dance classes in Jersey “Bare Feet Ecstatic Dance”. More Here
Fancy something different to whats in the brochure? Hit me up with an idea you have!
They are sweetened with dried fruit and coconut nectar. The tartes with white chocolate have a little raw cane sugar in. Sweeteners can be changes to xylitol, agave and other requests.
❗Any can be completely nut free if requested.
❗ Also please bear in mind, I am currently working with skeleton prices that may change as I collate the costs of the ingredients and time in preparation for these desserts.
Reviews:
“What a treat … it tastes absolutely delicious! Thank you” Jessica Bartlett (23rd April)
“Tastes absolutely awesome!!” Jo Le Cocq (22nd April)
