Healing the Sexual Wound through Somatic Experiencing Peter Levine, PhD Sexual trauma and abuse can deeply wound us leaving scars that are physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual. Fortunately we are gifted with innate mechanisms that allow us to move through trauma. What keeps us from returning to wholeness is, in part, that we are unaccustomed to the sensations of healing. They feel alien to us; we don't realize that our body and mind is trying to return to balance. Instead we become victims of our own stories rather than tapping into our inborn capacity to heal. However, as we gently learn to surrender to the raw energies of our primordial instincts and healing archetypes, we find that we can transform fear, shame and shutdown to feelings of ecstasy and oneness. Goal: To realize that while debilitating, trauma need not be a 'life sentence'. Learning Objectives: To understand the nature of the bio-psychological mechanisms that allow us to move through trauma. To understand what prevents these healing processes from facilitating resolution. To appreciate the need to 'ground' these instinctual processes through bodily feelings. Presenter Bio: Peter is an internationally recognized authority on trauma. He is a pioneer in stress research and in healing practices for trauma survivors. He has traveled throughout the world, helping victims of torture, refugees and survivors of natural disasters. Author of the best selling book, Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma, and the audio programs, Healing Trauma, Restoring the Wisdom of the Body, It Won’t Hurt Forever, Guiding Your Child Through Trauma and Sexual Healing and Transforming the Sacred Wound. Dr. Levine is also the founder of the Foundation for Human Enrichment. www.traumahealing.com

The Earths Evolving Consciousness: Indigenous Perspective on the Ancient Prophecies of Meso-America as Related to Modern Times Maria Teresa Valenzuela Indigenous prophets of ancient and modern times believe that the new millennium may be a time of spiritual and technological progress, or a time of war, turmoil, and cataclysm. The Virgin of the Americas-Guadalupe appeared as a prophecy to the Aztec people approximately 500 years ago with four individual messages during a time of turmoil by the Spaniards. In this program, Maria Teresa discusses the apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe as a prophecy under the Spanish Conquest and, drawing from that period of time in history, will explore the concept of prophecy as a way of understanding the challenges of the times in which we are living. She discusses how ancient wisdom and healing practices can help people and communities today. Goal: To bring together the historical and spiritual understanding of the Aztec Era, Spanish Conquest, and the Apparition of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe in Mexico as a act of prophecy approximately 500 years ago; to bring that period of history into the times we are presently living as a new prophecy for our new story as humanity. Learning Objectives: Understand the concept of prophecy in ancient and present times, Bring awareness to the significance of the great turning point in history in the time of the Aztecs and the Apparition as related to the crossroads we face today, and Bring consciousness to the psychology of what we are creating today to move us into our future history. Presenter Bio: The Earth’s Evolving Consciousness: Indigenous Perspective on the Ancient Prophecies of Meso-America as Related to Modern Times Maria Teresa Valenzuela is a Mexican Indigenous woman that comes from a lineage of healers and curanderos in the Sierra Madre. She presently lives in Guanajuato, Mexico, where she is well known as a spiritual teacher and healer who uses the Shamanic medicine taught by her grandmother and father. She has worked with healer/shamans in Mexico, Peru, Equador and with indigenous elders from the Maya culture of Guatamala. Maria Teresa has a wealth of knowledge of Meso-American wisdom, myths and traditional forms of indigenous medicine and healing. She travels The Americas to share this wisdom, drawing on her heritage, life experience and training as a practitioner of healing.

CymaScope Technology: The Sounds of Science John Reid and Susan Hale Everything that has ever existed, or will exist, in this Cosmos and on Earth, is a complex web of intricate tracery, woven layer upon layer, frequency upon frequency. CymaScopy is an emerging science which studies sound by means of the CymaScope, a powerful new tool with which we can explore the enigmatic worlds of living organisms. This workshop will focus on the science of sound, showing CymaGlyphs of humans, birds, dolphins and sacred sounds from different cultures and reveal how the iconography of a culture relates to its musical instruments. John Reid will demonstrate CymaScope and Susan Hale will discuss sacred sounds and songs from different world cultures and lead us through vowel sounds and other chants. Together we will see our voices in real time demonstrated through CymaScope and hear about further developments in the science of sound. Through demonstrations of the CymaScope the goal of the presentation is to give participants an understanding of how sound creates form and its role in creation. Learning Objectives: Discover the unique acoustic signature of the human voice and the many voices in nature, Learn about freeing the voice through vowel exercises and other vocal exercises, and Learn the importance of consonant and dissonant sounds in our world, and how they affect our lives. Presenter Bio: John, an Acoustics Engineer from England, is the inventor of the CymaScope, a 21st century electro-acoustics device, inspired by the work of Ernst Chladni, Margaret Watts-Hughes and Hans Jenny. He has taken their work to a new level and is researching how sound creates form through vocal sound, natural sound, music, sacred language and how sound is influenced by sacred space. John has done research on Egyptian Sonics at the Great Pyramid of Giza and has published a booklet of his findings. Susan is a music therapist, singer and author of Song and Silence: Voicing the Soul and the forthcoming book Sacred Space – Sacred Sound about her research and experiences singing throughout the world including at Chartres Cathedral, Stonehenge, Avebury, Newgrange and the prehistoric cave of Lascaux. Susan has a degree in Creative Arts Therapy and is a Fellow of the Association for Music and Imagery. She teaches people how to find and free the natural voice throughout the United States, Britain and Canada. www.angelfire.com/nm/susong

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