Love! We all want it, and seldom know how to open ourselves up to receive more love in our lives. This workshop will address what unconditional love is, and how we can create more of it in our own lives; by giving and receiving it. Join us for this evening to learn the alchemy of the heart.

Examine how much karma you still carry and the steps you can take to eliminate your baggage. All cultures have a day of judgment for self-examination. You will assess yourself by the ancient Egyptian 42 questions of life.

It is an ending and a beginning. An evening dedicated to grieving and getting closure on not just the loss of loved ones, but dreams and expectations of how we expected life was going to turn out. Loss is not an ending, it is a transition to newness and growth. The evening will be concluded with a guided meditation to heal loss, and move on to create new beginnings.

Discovering your own spirituality and setting out a plan for a sacred life. The evening will be concluded with a guided meditation to connect to your own spiritual awareness.

We will celebrate the festivals of light Christmas and Chanukah. Winter Solstice and how to overcome your fears that can block the realization of your dreams and wishes. Join us for this event that will open the roads to achieve your new year's resolutions.

Learn to connect to your angels, spirit guides, and totems. An exercise will be facilitated to identify your animal totem. Tap into the importance of gratitude. The evening will conclude with a guided meditation to connect with your spirit guide. We will honour the upcoming Chinese New Year and talk about the different animal years.

Open your mind to how to overcome addiction by being one with yourself, and understanding the world around you. We will examine the Buddhist concept of mindfulness, and conduct a ritual to assist in overcoming addiction.

Learn to utilize this ancient tool to understand other spiritual systems. It will help in overcoming problems in your life today. We will explore how the Tree of Life symbol contains numerology, astrology, tarot, the ancient Hebrew alphabet, the 10 commandments, and the chakras. Realize how the Tree of Life is directly connected to all current and ancient religions. Explore the roots of this symbol incorporated in most religions.

We all know the term chakra – but few know what it means. In Sanskrit it means "wheel" or your inner energy world. Join us in this workshop to discover the chakras. What they do, what they are, and how you can find a chakra block and release it. We will use colours, Bach remedies, California Essences, food, movement, therapies, aromatherapy, stone, and breath work to clear blocks. Workshop will be concluded with a guided meditation through the chakras.

In many ancient religions the spring equinox was considered the beginning of the year. We will look at these spiritual systems as well as celebrate the Persian New Year. Jump start the new year with a series of exercises and rituals to manifest the year that you want, and learn about the twelve days of creation.

A special presentation honouring Passover and Easter, in which you will understand what imprisons you, and how to free yourself from it.

An evening dedicated to understanding your dreams and learning that God speaks to us through them. Impact your healing using your dreams. The evening will be concluded with a guided meditation.

Starring Albert Brooks and Meryl Streep

Yuppie Daniel Miller is killed in a car accident and goes to Judgment City, a waiting room for the afterlife. During the day, he must prove in a courtroom-style process that he successfully overcame his fears (a hard task, given the pitiful life we are shown); at night, he falls in love with Julia, the only other young person in town. Nights are a time of hedonistic pleasure, since you can (for instance) eat all you want without getting fat. Written by Jon Reeves (jreeves@imdb.com)
All of your life is on videotape -- or perhaps laser disk -- to make it easier on your prosecutor and defense attorney at Judgment City to randomly access a few episodes to show whether you made the most of the life you just completed. If you didn't make the most of that life, you will be sent back to try again and again until you do get it right. And the court must be taking an advance peek at that life tape. Posh accommodations go to those who look like they will merit moving up to citizen of the universe -- like Julia who falls for Daniel, whose quarters have no ambiance at all. Written by Dale O'Connor(daleoc@interaccess.com)

What would GOD say if he had a conversation with you? You will be surprised by what the author shares with readers in this best-selling book, which may resonate and change the way you see GOD. Conversations with God -Book One relates Neale Donald Walsch's own personal conversations with GOD. This book has opened the hearts and minds of millions to possibilities to live with more beauty, love and truth than they ever imagined possible.

Starring Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner and Anne Baxter

To escape the edict of Egypt's Pharaoh, Rameses I, condemning all first-born Hebrew males, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Seti's favor and the love of the throne princess Nefertiri, as well as the hatred of Seti's son, Rameses. When his Hebrew heritage is revealed, Moses is cast out of Egypt, and makes his way across the desert where he marries, has a son and is commanded by God to return to Egypt to free the Hebrews from slavery. In Egypt Moses's fiercest enemy proves to be not Rameses, but someone near to him who can 'harden his heart'. Written by Ron Kerrigan (mvg@whidbey.com)

Do you ever wonder why things happen? Do you feel bad things happen to good people? As much as it sounds like a cliché, everything really does happen for a reason. Together we will delve into the inner workings of the universe with the hope that it will allow you to feel more peace and understanding. We will also discuss the differences between free will and destiny, as well as what choices we can make to change our futures.

Starring Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt and Haley Joel Osmont

Imagine you're despairing over a major problem in your life, and someone comes along and solves it for you, relatively unconditionally. All you have to do is "pay it forward", i.e., do a similarly big favour to three others. Would you do it?
That's the premise behind Pay it Forward, an overly sentimental film with some provocative ideas. The concept originates when Eugene "be careful with that axe" Simonet (Kevin Spacey) challenges his Seventh grade class to come up with an assignment to change the world. Trevor (Haley Joel Osment) comes up with the pay-it-forward concept and first decides to help a homeless heroin addict get back on his feet, then help Eugene and his mother (Helen Hunt) get together (which really makes for two favours), and then help his friend who's being pushed around by bullies in school. This "movement" spreads relatively unnoticed until a reporter in Los Angeles who loses his car is handed a brand new Jaguar and tracks down the source of this favour chain.

With a stellar cast consisting of Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, and Haley "I see dead people" Osment, the movie works pretty well under Mimi Leder's direction. The southern California/Nevada cinematography is done well. The dialogue is the weakest aspect of the film and is a bit hackneyed at times. More than the primary plot itself, the various underlying subtexts involving domestic abuse and alcoholism are interesting.

The concept of pay-it-forward is how most of human society works to the extent it does (some of it has even been institutionalised in the form of religion and government). The problem is that the notion is simply not idealistic enough. Performing three big favours just does not cut it. Not only does there need to be a significantly larger amount of favours done through the course of one's life, but the more important thing is that people don't do negative or harmful things to others to an equally large degree. Doing three big favours is pointless if you've done more harm than any favour can repay. A better (and much more idealistic) concept would be to live life without doing any harm to others (which also would not be adequate, but would be much more effective than a three-favour scheme).
What Pay it Forward really illustrates is that it is harmful to oneself and to others to be apathetic towards other people's problems. However, to maximise the balance of doing good to others and not doing harm, one also has to choose their battles wisely. This doesn't mean inaction, as much as realizing that certain solutions simply don't work. For example, using violence as a solution never works since violence always begets violence ("what's good for the goose is good for the gander"). On that note, Pay it Forward also throws in a message about school violence.

This talk provides the opportunity to enhance understanding of the ancient art of Astrology that can create a bridge from the deepest parts of ourselves, to the whole universe around us. Many faiths believe that our souls choose when we are born and to what parents. Whether or not you believe this, your heart and mind will be opened to fresh possibilities, and a new respect may be obtained for cosmic influences that are affecting your life. Come and be surprised by what you can discover!