Come join us for SHIFT at Whitaker Ponds:
http://www.portlandonline.com/parks/finder/index.cfm?ShowResults=yes&SearchText=whitaker+ponds
Saturdays at 12 noon, next to the north baseball field.
Dress for cold, wet, and muddy! Woo hoo!
Come join us for SHIFT at Whitaker Ponds:
http://www.portlandonline.com/parks/finder/index.cfm?ShowResults=yes&SearchText=whitaker+ponds
Saturdays at 12 noon, next to the north baseball field.
Dress for cold, wet, and muddy! Woo hoo!
Come join us for SHIFT at Whitaker Ponds:
http://www.portlandonline.com/parks/finder/index.cfm?ShowResults=yes&SearchText=whitaker+ponds
Saturdays at 12 noon, next to the north baseball field.
Dress for cold, wet, and muddy! Woo hoo!
Come join us for SHIFT at Whitaker Ponds:
http://www.portlandonline.com/parks/finder/index.cfm?ShowResults=yes&SearchText=whitaker+ponds
Saturdays at 12 noon, next to the north baseball field.
Dress for cold, wet, and muddy! Woo hoo!
Native American Student and Community Center
SW Broadway and Jackson, Portland, Oregon
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Rod McAfee Friday, February 9, 2007
Spirituality is Being Real
Rod McAfee speaks from his own experience on the meaning of spirituality in our lives. His words go beyond cultural traditions, race, or creed to the fundamental experience of being a human being on this planet today. He encourages people to develop a spiritual practice that is grounded in the teachings of the natural world, a practice that connects Earth and Spirit.
Rod is an Akimel O’odham (Pima) elder. Raised “by the desert” on his Arizona reservation, he witnessed the assimilation of most of his family by Western religions, education, and culture, and still managed to retain his native language and beliefs.
For fifteen years Rod led ceremonies for Native inmates in prisons in Oregon and Washington. A former drug and alcohol counselor for the Native American Rehabilitation Association, he is active in ceremonies throughout the Northwest. Rod is the lead singer for the Spirit Learning Drum, and is intimately connected to the original medicine of water.
$10-20 donation requested for speaker’s honorarium
co-sponsored by the College of Mythic Cartography
Come join us for SHIFT at Whitaker Ponds:
http://www.portlandonline.com/parks/finder/index.cfm?ShowResults=yes&SearchText=whitaker+ponds
Saturdays at 12 noon, next to the north baseball field.
Dress for cold, wet, and muddy! Woo hoo!
Come join us for SHIFT at Whitaker Ponds:
http://www.portlandonline.com/parks/finder/index.cfm?ShowResults=yes&SearchText=whitaker+ponds
Saturdays at 12 noon, next to the north baseball field.
Dress for cold, wet, and muddy! Woo hoo!
Native American Student and Community Center
SW Broadway and Jackson, Portland, Oregon
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Rod McAfee Friday, February 9, 2007
Spirituality is Being Real
Rod McAfee speaks from his own experience on the meaning of spirituality in our lives. His words go beyond cultural traditions, race, or creed to the fundamental experience of being a human being on this planet today. He encourages people to develop a spiritual practice that is grounded in the teachings of the natural world, a practice that connects Earth and Spirit.
Rod is an Akimel O’odham (Pima) elder. Raised “by the desert” on his Arizona reservation, he witnessed the assimilation of most of his family by Western religions, education, and culture, and still managed to retain his native language and beliefs.
For fifteen years Rod led ceremonies for Native inmates in prisons in Oregon and Washington. A former drug and alcohol counselor for the Native American Rehabilitation Association, he is active in ceremonies throughout the Northwest. Rod is the lead singer for the Spirit Learning Drum, and is intimately connected to the original medicine of water.
$10-20 donation requested for speaker’s honorarium
SHIFT starts up again on January 13th, 2007
SHIFT starts up again on January 13th, 2007
Join us for SHIFT every 3:30pm Saturday at the Peace Full Soul, 4940 NE 16th, just south off Alberta street, in Portland, Oregon.
At SHIFT we move as animals, as mountains, as rivers, as trees, we learn to use our bodies powerfully and gracefully, whether in self-defense, or in moving like ghosts in the wilderness (urban or otherwise). SHIFT happens both indoors and outdoors; for the rainy season we feel happy to have an indoor space to move in part of the time.
We dance and play as otter.
We gruffly stamp as bear.
We stand immovable as mountain.
We breathe and shelter like cedar.
We drum our rhythm like ocean.
We SHIFT into the wild.
At SHIFT you play intuitive theater games, you find and use your center to become immovable (and easily move others), you practice the filipino martial-art of escrima/kali, you dance, you play, so you can take your skills out onto the street and into the woods to keep yourself safe and having fun.
To help pay for the space, we ask for a $5 to $10 donation.
Join us for SHIFT every 3:30pm Saturday at the Peace Full Soul, 4940 NE 16th, just south off Alberta street, in Portland, Oregon.
At SHIFT we move as animals, as mountains, as rivers, as trees, we learn to use our bodies powerfully and gracefully, whether in self-defense, or in moving like ghosts in the wilderness (urban or otherwise). SHIFT happens both indoors and outdoors; for the rainy season we feel happy to have an indoor space to move in part of the time.
We dance and play as otter.
We gruffly stamp as bear.
We stand immovable as mountain.
We breathe and shelter like cedar.
We drum our rhythm like ocean.
We SHIFT into the wild.
At SHIFT you play intuitive theater games, you find and use your center to become immovable (and easily move others), you practice the filipino martial-art of escrima/kali, you dance, you play, so you can take your skills out onto the street and into the woods to keep yourself safe and having fun.
To help pay for the space, we ask for a $5 to $10 donation.
Event: The Natural Way - Indigenous Voices
Featured Presenter: Nancy Egan
Date: December 8, 2006 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Place: Native American Student and Community Center at Portland State University,
SW Broadway and Jackson, Portland, Oregon
Cost: Donation of $10-$20
Co-sponsored by: Earth and Spirit Council and the College of Mythic Cartography
Journey of Life
Nancy Egan is a member of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation in southern Idaho near the Nevada border. She is the great, great, great granddaughter of Chief Egan of the 1878 Bannock-Paiute Indian War in Oregon. Nancy will speak about the journey of life as taught by her grandparents, a brief history of War Chief Egan in the Bannock-Paiute War, and how education compliments her people’s life today.
Nancy holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business/Management, and an Associate of Arts Degree in Social Work. She is a committed leader, an educator, and a firm believer in her community and working together. Her aspirations are to encourage leadership and to prepare the path for generations to pursue their educational endeavors. Dreams become visions as we prepare for every challenge along this journey in life.
The mission of the Natural Way-Indigenous Voices, an Earth & Spirit Council program, is to honor all traditions that value the earth. The Natural Way provides a forum for those who strive to preserve and enhance earth-based, sustainable living to share their traditions, knowledge and beliefs about the earth. More information is available at www.earthandspirit.org or by calling (503) 452-4483.
Two MythMedia staff members will join me in a talk at Portland’s Cleveland High School, by invitiation of the faculty teaching the Theories of Knowledge class.
Join us for SHIFT every 3:30pm Saturday at the Peace Full Soul, 4940 NE 16th, just south off Alberta street, in Portland, Oregon.
At SHIFT we move as animals, as mountains, as rivers, as trees, we learn to use our bodies powerfully and gracefully, whether in self-defense, or in moving like ghosts in the wilderness (urban or otherwise). SHIFT happens both indoors and outdoors; for the rainy season we feel happy to have an indoor space to move in part of the time.
We dance and play as otter.
We gruffly stamp as bear.
We stand immovable as mountain.
We breathe and shelter like cedar.
We drum our rhythm like ocean.
We SHIFT into the wild.
At SHIFT you play intuitive theater games, you find and use your center to become immovable (and easily move others), you practice the filipino martial-art of escrima/kali, you dance, you play, so you can take your skills out onto the street and into the woods to keep yourself safe and having fun.
To help pay for the space, we ask for a $5 to $10 donation.
