Porta Westfalica Werkshop Schedule 2015
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Opening Meditation
6pm-7pm, By: Frank Tennyson
Alternate History: History Protest in America
7pm-8pm, By: Professor ChrisP
Friday
Transformational Breathing
9am-10am, By: Alvina Marie
Make Your Own Ice-Cream Social
10am-10:30am, By: Adina Segal of Gentle Blossom Arts
Brazilian Culture and History
10:30am-11am, By: LeCai
Yoga Vibes: All Skill Levels
11am-Noon, By: Sydney “Disco Kitty” Parker
Kratom? What’s that?
Noon-12:30pm, By: Eli Woods
Sacred Geometry Art Workshop
12:30pm-1:30pm, By: Sydney Shewmaker
Art Collaboration with Water Color Pens
1:30pm-2:30pm, By: LeCai
Crystal Energy and Grid Working
2:30pm-3:30pm, By Katey Sunflower
Dreadlocks 101
3:30pm-4pm, By: Erika Wendell
Hoop Flow Werkshop: Perfecting Your Style
3:30pm-4:30pm, By: Sarah Oberlander
Screen Printing 101
4pm-5pm, By: Dylon
Making Plasma Batteries at Home: The Open Source Keshe Technology
5pm-6pm, By: The Keshe Foundation
Sitting with God: Guided Meditation
6pm-7pm, By: Frank Tennyson
Saturday
Shape Power Ceremony and Meditation
9-10:30am, By: Ech El of Aetherforce.com
Yoga Vibes: All Skill Levels
10:30-11:30am, By: Sydney “Disco Kitty” Parker
Raw Foods 101
11:30am-Noon, By: Dylon
Wetter Water: Geometry and Hydration
Noon-1pm, By: Ech El of Aetherforce.com
Stop, Listen, Then Play Drumshop
Noon-1pm, By: Creation Station
Introduction to Kombucha
1pm-1:30pm, By: Professor ChrisP
None of your Bismuth: Understanding Crystal Growth
1:30pm-2pm By: Eli Woods
Advanced Hooping Tricks (Intermediate/Advanced)
1:30pm-2:30pm, By: Kat Lyn
Body Painting Werkshop
2pm-3pm, By: Adina Segal of Gentle Blossom Arts
Wildcrafting: Edible and Medicinal Herbs Walk
2:30pm-3:30pm, By: Katey Sunflower
Natural Roots Yoga
3pm-4:30pm, By: Meredith Bury
The War on Drugs, Mass Imprisonment, and The New Jim Crow
4pm-5pm, By: Connor Meston
Earing/Pendant Making: An Intro to Wire Wrapping
5pm-6pm, By: Nicholas Bergman
Hooping Skill-Share (All skill levels)
5:30pm-6:30pm, By: Kat Lyn and YOU!
Sitting with God: Guided Meditation
6:30pm-7pm, By: Frank Tennyson
NIGHT-TIME GLOW YOGA
11pm-Midnight, By: Meredith Bury
Werkshop Full Descriptions 2015
Thursday
Opening Meditation
6pm-7pm, By: Frank Tennyson
Let us open the gathering with a loving community meditation. Learn the 6 basic goals of meditation: bliss, oneness, love, peace, emptiness, and being. It is not enough to talk about love and peace and the other goals of Meditation. Through the various techniques that I use people are able to attain some or all of these “altered,” but actually normal states of consciousness and physical rejuvenation.
Alternate History: History Protest in America
7pm-8pm, By: Professor ChrisP
The United States of America was created largely in protest against English colonial taxes and a lack of representation. In the long history of US protests: the size, nature, and acceptability of protests have changed over time. Learn about the change in protests over time, protesting related laws, and more.
Friday
Transformational Breathing
9am-10am, By: Alvina Marie
Learn how to breathe the way your body was born to. Clear trauma and negative energy stored in your cells and muscle tissue by learning how to breathe the way the body was designed to breathe. Certified transformational breathe facilitator.
Make Your Own Ice-Cream Social
10am-10:30am, By: Adina Segal of Gentle Blossom Arts
Who does’t love ice-cream, and its better when you make it yourself! We really mean, that you’ll actually make the ice-cream yourself, in single servings, in less and 30 minutes! Choose your flavor!
Brazilian Culture and History
10:30am-11am, By: LeCai
Learn about the rich culture and history of Brazil from the pre-colonial times up to the 21st century. Everything from politics to art to wars, explore Brazil from a Brazilian’s perspective.
Yoga Vibes: All Skill Levels
11am-Noon, By: Sydney “Disco Kitty” Parker
Looking for a nice stretch after a long night of dancing? Come balance yourself with this fun, heart opening yoga session. All skill levels are welcome. No prior knowledge required.
Kratom? What’s that?
Noon-12:30pm, By: Eli Woods
Kratom is an Indonesian plant closely related to coffee. The subject of some debate among Americans, when ingested it can relieve stress/anxiety; in larger doses it can be used as a pain reliever. Come learn more about the foreign plant Kratom.
Sacred Geometry Art Workshop
12:30pm-1:30pm, By: Sydney Shewmaker
Art Collaboration with Water Color Pens
1:30pm-2:30pm, By: LeCai
Water color pens give a fine color and lines to all of your drawings and art. No mess, no clean up required, just a good spirit. All levels of expertise welcome.
Crystal Energy and Grid Working
2:30pm-3:30pm, By Katey Sunflower
Crystal gridding is done by creating an energetic force field through a network or grid of crystals placed at strategic locations within the area to be enhanced. Crystals have the natural capacity to amplify energy, and thus are perfect to increase good energy. Come join in and create your very own crystal grid! (You can bring your own stones, crystals, feathers, etcetera.)
Dreadlocks 101
3:30pm-4pm, By: Erika Wendell
Your dreadlocks deserve to be as healthy as possible. Learn upkeep, formations, care, and even how to make your own dread soap!
Hoop Flow Werkshop: Perfecting Your Style
3:30pm-4:30pm, By: Sarah Oberlander
Finding flow and grace while mastering new moves can be a dangerous combination. Learn new hoop tricks for your arsenal and then practice putting them into your own flow. All skill levels welcome.
Screen Printing 101
4pm-5pm, By: Dylon
Ever wonder how pictures get onto your favorite T-Shirts? Come learn the basics of screen printing and how to create your own printed art. Bring your own cloths if you’d like, or use the supplied cloth.
Making Plasma Batteries at Home: The Open Source Keshe Technology
5pm-6pm, By: The Keshe Foundation
Learn how to make plasma batteries in your own garage. The time of homemade energy is now, after this talk the power of energy will be at your fingertips.
Sitting with God: Guided Meditation
6pm-7pm, By: Frank Tennyson
Let us open the gathering with a loving community meditation. Learn the 6 basic goals of meditation: bliss, oneness, love, peace, emptiness, and being. It is not enough to talk about love and peace and the other goals of Meditation. Through the various techniques that I use people are able to attain some or all of these “altered,” but actually normal states of consciousness and physical rejuvenation.
Saturday
Shape Power Ceremony and Meditation
9-10:30am, By: Ech El of Aetherforce.com
A guided brainwave entrainment meditation that includes Pranayama and Swara breathing, with closed eyed visualization of the ether elements for help with grounding and progression of geometries for kundalini pranic flow. Group mind intent exercises and chanting are only part of what this workshop has to offer.
Yoga Vibes: All Skill Levels
10:30-11:30am, By: Sydney “Disco Kitty” Parker
Looking for a nice stretch after a long night of dancing? Come balance yourself with this fun, heart opening yoga session. All skill levels are welcome. No prior knowledge required.
Raw Foods 101
11:30am-Noon, By: Dylon
Learn the benefits from having a raw food diet and help make a raw food dish to see if it’s the right diet for you. Don’t worry, it’s only the basics. No chef skills required.
Wetter Water: Geometry and Hydration
Noon-1pm, By: Ech El of Aetherforce.com
A presentation on new scientific findings about water in particular hydration, structure, fuel, and it’s relation to ether. Water has been discovered to have a fourth phase apart from vapor, liquid and ice. Come learn more at the Wetter Water talk.
Introduction to Kombucha
1pm-1:30pm, By: Professor ChrisP
Touted by some as a panacea and others as a malicious poison, Kombucha has certainly been one of the more talked about remedies of the past few years. Come discuss Kombucha’s history, health benefits, and controversial place in alternative health. Learn the ins and outs of safely preparing this controversial fermented tea.
None of your Bismuth: Understanding Crystal Growth
1:30pm-2pm By: Eli Woods
Bismuth is a crystalline metal that is also the active ingredient in pepto-bismol. When heated and cooled properly in pure form it creates “out of this world crystals”! Come learn how to grow your own bismuth at home.
Advanced Hooping Tricks (Intermediate/Advanced)
1:30pm-2:30pm, By: Kat Lyn
Learn some new hoop tricks with a fellow flow hooper. This workshop extends hoop tricks out from just the waist. Intermediate to advanced hoopers welcome.
Body Painting Werkshop
2pm-3pm, By: Adina Segal of Gentle Blossom Arts
Come enjoy a laid-back time exploring body painting. Come to paint other, get painted, or just to talk about body painting. Home-made body paints were created by Gentle Blossom Arts.
Wildcrafting: Edible and Medicinal Herbs Walk
2:30pm-3:30pm, By: Katey Sunflower
Wildcrafting is the practice of harvesting plants from their natural or wild habitat for food or medicinal purposes. Attend the wildcrafting workshop and learn to identify some of the commonly used, local herbs growing at Smoke Rise Ranch! Upon gathering the herbs, the application and usage methods will also be discussed. You will also leave with your own jar of freshly harvested herbal tea!
Natural Roots Yoga
3pm-4:30pm, By: Meredith Bury
The focus will be teaching a rhythmic and relaxing Vinyasa Flow Class combining movement with the breath. Tap into your full potential and have a relaxing short reiki session after you’ve exercised your muscles.
The War on Drugs, Mass Imprisonment, and The New Jim Crow
4pm-5pm, By: Connor Meston
Come and learn about how the “War on Drugs” in the US has hurt American democracy by giving the criminal justice system an unreasonable amount of power and resources to violate the rights of law-abiding citizens. Talk about the lack of results and mass imprisonment this ‘war’ has brought.
Earring and Pendant Making: An Intro to Wire Wrapping
5pm-6pm, By: Nicholas Bergman
Learn the basics of making a single stone pendant. Stone setting, seamlessly beginning and ending wires, as well as some simple wire patterns will be demonstrated here.
Hooping Skill-Share (All skill levels)
5:30pm-6:30pm, By: Kat Lyn and YOU!
Share your tricks and gather more knowledge about hooping. In a skill-share, you all show each other your favorite tricks and learn from your peers. Beginners, flowers, masters and everybody else is welcome.
Sitting with God: Guided Meditation
6:30pm-7pm, By: Frank Tennyson
Let us open the gathering with a loving community meditation. Learn the 6 basic goals of meditation: bliss, oneness, love, peace, emptiness, and being. It is not enough to talk about love and peace and the other goals of Meditation. Through the various techniques that I use people are able to attain some or all of these “altered,” but actually normal states of consciousness and physical rejuvenation.
NIGHT-TIME GLOW YOGA
11pm-Midnight, By: Meredith Bury
Have some late night yoga fun with glo-tastic yoga stretches. We will be going on a glow adventure focusing our energy towards rejuvenating and energizing the body for the Saturday late night music we will be grooving to. All skill levels welcome bring glow sticks and LED lights!