2017 talks+workshops

GROW YOUR OWN FOOD

With Lauri Kranz of Edible Gardens

Join Lauri Kranz of Edible Gardens LA as she teaches you how to start your own vegetable garden or help you keep the one you have healthy.  Learn all about organic gardening and get your hands dirty with a herb garden potting workshop. Participants will get to plant an herb pot that they take home with them.

Edible Gardens LA designs, builds, plants and sustains organic vegetable gardens and edible landscapes. Founder Lauri Kranz teaches gardening at local schools and with her company Edible Gardens LA, helps chefs, families and anyone with an interest in having a home garden grow lush gardens full of organic vegetables. Edible Gardens LA has teamed up with DJ Anne Litt (KCRW) for Music In The Garden - a series of concerts in public and private gardens to help raise awareness about the importance of growing your own food, giving back and creating community.

Fee: $60. This workshop has a fee in addition to entrance fee. Please arrive a few minutes early. Space is limited. 

Saturday 3:30 - 5pm

PLANT COMMUNICATION & RADICAL COMMUNION

With Amanda Ackerman & Saewon Oh

We are always communicating with the natural world. Through our gestures, breath, emotion, and visioning, we co-exist and co-evolve in a constant flow of interaction.  However, our ability to notice these interactions is often obscured.  This workshop will provide techniques for awakening our interspecies selves and engaging the language of plants. We’ll work with specific herbs, teas, and flower essences whose medicine (or gifts) offer specific insight into the current collective issues we are traveling through.  All bodies and backgrounds welcome.

Amanda Ackerman is an author, teacher, and flower essence practitioner living in Los Angeles.  She has been a flower essence therapist for over 17 years and has recently founded Plant Language, a hub for flower and vibrational remedies.  Her own work with the plant world focuses on the feralscape, divining techniques that allow for communication across species boundaries.  Her book The Book of Feral Flora was published in 2015 and uses biofeedback techniques that allow plants to create poems.  She regularly offers flower essence therapy readings in Los Angeles and beyond.

Saewon Oh is an artist, teacher, herbalist, medicine maker and the founder of Sun Song, a line of handmade herbal remedies designed for meditative and earth-based healing practices.  She’s a member of the Nine Herbs Charm collective, which engages creative collaboration with plant consciousness, and also co-hosts a weekly series of flower essence infused yoga with Manifestation Yin.

Fee: $45. This workshop has a fee in addition to entrance fee. Please arrive a few minutes early. Space is limited.

Sunday 10:15 - 12:15pm

MINDFULNESS Through ART

With Carlota Santamaria

A unique creative energy emerges when people work together to create art--a synergy or collective flow is felt. It's a simple, yet profoundly powerful intervention. We will dive into the physicality of painting and free movement flow, experimenting with live drawing to create a collective mural. The focus will be on the  inner experience and the present moment, understood as a meditation in motion. Painting awakens energy that unlocks our artistic and emotional abilities. This workshop is not about the final painting, it’s about process, being present, experiencing color, shape, proportions and creative energy. It’s about unlocking your creative power and letting go. Creating together in this way allows us to transcend ourselves by becoming part of a greater whole.

All art supplies will be provided and we will be using water base paint as a medium. Participants will take home works created during the workshop

Carlota Santamaria is a Barcelona born creative director and visual artist, based in Los Angeles. She has also lived in New York, Paris, Belgium and Japan, which gave her a worldwide vision of the cultural contemporary world and a deep understanding of creative thinking and image making. Her work has been awarded in the European Design Awards, Art director’s Club and Laus. It has been showcased at the New Museum and Storefront for Architecture in New York , Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Antwerp’s Momu or Barcelona’s Caixa Forum.

Fee: $30. This workshop has a fee in addition to entrance fee. Please arrive a few minutes early. Space is limited.

THE ART OF FERMENTATION

With Tara Whitsitt of Fermentation on Wheels

Discover the simple tradition of preservation through bacterial collaboration in one of its most simple forms: via the local micro-flora of vegetables! Fermented foods heal our bodies, celebrate age-old traditions, and promote healthy eco-systems. Learn about the cost effective and simple tools involved and go home knowing how to creatively and fearlessly make sauerkraut, cucumber pickles, and much more.

Tara Whitsitt is an artist and food educator who organizes events nationwide to bridge communities and restore a genuine fascination in local, traditionally-preserved foods. She is also the author of Fermentation on Wheels: Road Stories, Food Ramblings, and 50 Do-It-Yourself Recipes, an illustrated memoir/cookbook following the project that toured the United States for two years, teaching fermentation to and inspiring communities out of a school bus converted into a fermentation lab, library, and workshop space.

Fermentation on Wheels is a grassroots project that brings fermentation education to communities of all ages and backgrounds and inspires with a school bus that has been converted into a fermentation lab, library, and workshop space. The project’s founder, Tara Whitsitt, organizes events nationwide to bridge communities and restore a genuine fascination in local, traditionally-preserved foods. By traveling the country, connecting consumers to local farmers, and teaching fermentation, she hopes to emphasize the importance of strong, sustainable food practices and values.

Sunday 12:30 - 2pm

This workshop is free. Please arrive a few minutes early. Space is limited.

Sunday 2 - 4pm

MODERN MACRAME

With Jo Abellera of KKIBO

Creative Journaling

With laura rubin

Laura Rubin of AllSwell believes that everyone has a unique creative voice, regardless of whether you’re an artist or not. Dive into accessible, writing-based activities to tap into your divine, creative flow and nurture a journaling practice. You don’t need to have any background in writing or journaling whatsoever to enjoy this experience. The mere act of putting pen to paper is illuminating and therapeutic. Blank AllSwell notebooks and writing utensils available on site for purchase, or bring your own along.

Laura Rubin spent fifteen plus years successfully helping brands find (and use) their creative voices as the head of communications boutique Left Left Right. She recognized the power that process could provide when applied to the individual. Coupled with the fulfillment of a life-long journaling practice, Laura began AllSwell as a means of inspiring others to access these tools for themselves, whether they’re applied in their private or professional lives.

INDIGO TIE DYE

With Jungmaven

Join Hemp aficionado’s Jungmaven for an Indigo Tie Dye workshop. Each participant will receive Two Shirts to Indigo Tie Dye (one light weight and one heavy weight). Jungmaven Hemp Tee's are organic, non-GMO and ethically Made in the USA.

Please wear indigo colored clothing or something you don’t mind getting dye on.

Jungmaven wants everyone in a Hemp Tee by 2020 to support legalized growing of industrial hemp for a healthier planet. Hemp farming cleans the air, water and nourishes the land helping mitigate climate change. Their deep roots need less water than similar crops like cotton, rice and wheat. Hemp carbon farms CO2 back into the ground from our atmosphere. Hemp is one of the world’s best rotation crops and needs no (round-up) pesticides. It's organic, there is no GMO hemp. Hemp has been grown for thousands of years for its strength and simplicity in clothing. The word canvas is derived from cannabis and has been worked with for sails, ropes, charts, maps and more helping man/woman navigate the world.

KAVA CEREMONY

WITH THE GAIA SCHOOL OF HEALING AND EARTH EDUCATION

Join Marysia Miernowska, director of The Gaia School of Healing & Earth Education, for a Kava Plant Meditation & Ceremony. This one hour gathering will be an opportunity to drink the medicinal plant together, and enjoy a guided meditation to meet the spirit of the plant and receive it's medicine, magick and message for you. This is also an introduction to the teachings of the Gaia school, where we weave our consciousness into the consciousness of the Earth, with the healing plant teachers as our guides. No experience necessary, this is a very safe and loving plant.

Please bring a mug and a journal.

Marysia Miernowska is an herbalist, witch, biodynamic gardener and Plant Spirit Medicine Practitioner rooted in the Wise Woman Tradition of Healing. She is the director of the California branch of The Gaia School of Healing and Earth Education where she holds ceremony & teaches herbal medicine, plant shamanism, regenerative farming practices, and Earth magick.

A multilingual and multicultural devotee of Mother Earth, Marysia has traveled extensively, learning different regenerative ways of tending to the Earth and sharing Earth medicine. She has a background as a community organizer and activist, and keeps her feet rooted by designing and tending to medicinal gardens using permaculture and biodynamic practices. Marysia formulates herbal medicine as a consultant and also makes sacred plant botanicals under the label Flora Sagrada. She lives in Topanga, CA. with her daughter Flora, grows biodynamic herbs in Malibu, and teaches and holds ceremony in the greater LA area. Marysia shares her passions with her students & community through education, ceremony, in the gardens she tends and in her writing.

MEDICINE READING CEREMONY

WITH MAMA MEDICINE

There are no accidents: every collection of people is joined together for a unique purpose. Join Mama Medicine as she leads a collective ceremony and discover what links you with others in the room and how your journey is supported by friends you’ve never met. These ceremonies are collective medicine readings, a bespoke blend of ancient healing traditions crafted for our modern life. Mama Medicine begins by reading the collective aura and identifying the common thread. The ceremony itself is a full-sensory experience, combining sound and crystal healing, energy balancing, intuitive reading, and spiritual guidance.

Deborah Hanekamp (Mama Medicine) is a Seeress carrying over 17 years in the healing arts. She is an Initiated Amazonian Shaman, Reiki Master and Yogini. Guided by the present moment, Deborah has facilitated Medicine Readings and Medicine Reading ceremonies all over the world. Her work has been featured in Vogue, New York Times & Marie Claire Magazine.

WORKSHOPS FOR CHILDREN

WITH AUBREE MCATEE

talks

moderated by Steffie Nelson

Steffie Nelson has written about style, culture and spirituality for publications including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, W Magazine, L.A. Review of Books and many others. She recently co-authored a book about the Highland Park stained glass company Judson Studios, to be published by Angel City Press in 2018, and is currently working on Cosmic City: A Seekers’ History of Los Angeles. 

Creative Journaling

With laura rubin

Laura Rubin of AllSwell believes that everyone has a unique creative voice, regardless of whether you’re an artist or not. Dive into accessible, writing-based activities to tap into your divine, creative flow and nurture a journaling practice. You don’t need to have any background in writing or journaling whatsoever to enjoy this experience. The mere act of putting pen to paper is illuminating and therapeutic. Blank AllSwell notebooks and writing utensils available on site for purchase, or bring your own along.

Laura Rubin spent fifteen plus years successfully helping brands find (and use) their creative voices as the head of communications boutique Left Left Right. She recognized the power that process could provide when applied to the individual. Coupled with the fulfillment of a life-long journaling practice, Laura began AllSwell as a means of inspiring others to access these tools for themselves, whether they’re applied in their private or professional lives.

Alessandro Giannetti is an Intuitive Energetic Healer and Spiritual Teacher known for creating incredible shifts in people’s lives. With over 28 years of experience in the healing world, Alessandro specializes in empowering and connecting people to their highest path. Born in NY, Alessandro now calls Los Angeles home. He teaches weekly courses and workshops, hosts international retreats and corporate training events, and offers limited private sessions. Alessandro is extremely intuitive and his techniques include some of the following: Channeling, Chi Kung, Distance Healing, Distance Healing on Large Groups, Spiritual Surgery, Life Event/Physical World Event Shifting, Energy Manipulation, Past Life Healing and Clearing, Soul Karma, Soul Recovery Work and much more. His favorite techniques are DNA, Mind, and Body Reprogramming.

The Future of Frequency Technology

CO-FOUNDER AARON BIGELOW & JARA FAIRCHILD OF AMPCOIL

Are you seeking a wellness solution to get your life back or a “biohack” to optimize your performance? Explore how vibrational technologies are being used to go intracellular, reaching the root of your well-being. Microbes, metals, and toxins can create vibrational interferences — straining organs, disturbing bioterrain, and depleting nutrition — often leading to Lyme and other chronic autoimmune conditions. Learn how merging proven technologies (from Nikola Tesla to Dr. Royal Rife) could bring humanity to new heights and be the transformation tool of our times.  Q&A to follow.

Aaron Bigelow is co-founder of Health Evolution Tech, Inc., a California-based, self-funded tech start-up that developed the AmpCoil device, a transformation tool empowering people to be stewards of their own health. Aligned with the principles of nature, AmpCoil, powered by the BetterGuide app, is the only system that merges PEMF, biofeedback, bioresonance, Tesla and sound technology into an all-in-one wellness system for home use. After a worldwide and decade-long search to save he and his family from life-threatening chronic Lyme Disease, the AmpCoil was born. Today Aaron is on the positive side of Lyme, and as a visionary and entrepreneur is vibrantly engaged in his life’s passion to empower people to help others rise above the current pandemic of Lyme and autoimmune conditions. Aaron’s 20 years of experience at the executive level in the holistic health technology industry, developing and distributing devices, started when he discovered biofeedback as a way to manage ADD and allergy symptoms. As a passionate leader, he credits work-life balance — enjoying stand-up paddleboarding, skiing and mountain biking — as a key to expanding AmpCoil. He lives in Nevada City, California, with his wife Geneva and their two daughters, while their AmpCoil family expands throughout North America and 10 countries around the world.

Jara Fairchild is a personal transformation enthusiast, former Hollywood publicist, and manager of marketing for AmpCoil. She began living a holistic lifestyle in her 20s, exploring numerous healing modalities to get to the root cause of health issues and energetic imbalances. Her tenacity lead to an experiential dive into energy healing and the role that limiting subconscious beliefs, trauma, genetics and the soul’s journey play in determining well-being. During this time, she continued her career in public relations and marketing in the entertainment & wellness industries as a PR and marketing consultant, while promoting various wellness and spirituality experts. In June 2016, she prayed for divine guidance to get her life back after adrenal burnout, which caused severe autoimmune conditions. Five days later she discovered the AmpCoil. Today she’s symptom free and passionate about bringing this technology to others who are suffering so they too can take back their health and transform their lives. After 12 years in Los Angeles, Jara relocated to Boulder, Colorado in June 2017, leaving behind her career in the entertainment business to work on the forefront of bringing vibrational technology to the people.

There are very few topics that evoke as much interest universally than love. It is apart of the human condition to desire an intimate connection with another and yet that very desire is the source of so much confusion and consternation for many. The fact that such a natural inclination would bring intense psychological developments has created no shortage of books to attain a healthier more fulfilling relationship. Love doctors profess proven systems and techniques to externally beat the odds and zero in on the right mate. Others push a more spiritual approach by encouraging a deeper connection within the self which would send out the right signal to attract a mate in alignment with higher values. Josh Siegel has counseled thousands of clients on their relationships. In the process of perfecting his system of decoding people’s lives, he made a startling discovery: there is a code that we are born with that once unlocked, attracts the proper mate naturally. There is no set of rules or methods required, only opening up to and working through a special lesson we are destined to receive. It is true that this lesson is purposely challenging, however there is a gift waiting for us all once we integrate its meaning into our lives. One such gift is a life affirming love. After 20,000 case studies he discovered the following: to the degree we become aware of and integrate our special lesson, who we attract will be in direct proportion to where we are on our path to healing. No system of dating or relating can be a substitute for this truth. Discover part of your unique code to unlock the path to the love you deserve.  

Josh Siegel, with over 20 years of research and study is a leading expert in the field of numerology. By using his advanced system to decode, he can tell virtually anyone in a matter of moments, crucial truths about their lives, the hidden meaning behind seemingly random events and why we attract certain relationships. Your name and birth date are not an accident. They are the basis to the code that unlocks the unseen influences affecting your life. This knowledge is thousands of years old and hidden within the pages of sacred writings across the world. Siegel has devoted his life to translating it into a powerful and highly accurate system for the modern mind and all of its special challenges.

Josh was featured in the History Channel’s hit series, Brad Meltzer’s “Decoded” and is an expert for the Los Angeles Times, CBS News, Fox News and Diane Sawyer’s ABC Worldwide News. He appears in the special features of Jim Carrey’s #1 best selling DVD, “The Number 23.” Currently, Josh is working on a revolutionary new book to bring his breakthrough system to an even greater audience.
 

Saturday 3:30pm

Walking in Beauty

with SHIVA ROSE

It’s hard to believe Shiva Rose, the wellness-and-beauty entrepreneur behind the blog The Local Rose and eponymous skin-care line was diagnosed with lupus and other autoimmune disorders — and told she might have as little as one year left to live. The experience led Shiva to embrace a holistic lifestyle and she began to explore natural foods, beauty products, and holistic lifestyle practices that included solitary walks in forests, swimming in clean seas, and meditation through Kundalini yoga practice. Shiva represents a new breed of influencers — modern-day renaissance women using personal health challenges as motivation to create and educate. As her passion and following grew, Shiva saw a market gap in the area of beauty and skin and developed a product line, which bears her name, and her obsession with purity, quality, and style.

Shiva will discuss nourishing rituals for inner and outer beauty, the role spirituality plays in holistic living and close with a group meditation.

Shiva Rose began her blog The Local Rose to get closer to the earth and all its beauty. What came to her one day, after a moment of stillness, was a message. The message was to bring beauty and luminosity to women in a way that was nourishing and nurturing. So many products women consume, even some that claim to be all natural, contain harmful and toxic ingredients. Our skin is the largest organ, and therefore what we put on our bodies and face literally gets absorbed directly through contact. Shiva’s skin care line is 100% toxic free, and without any chemicals. Her signature rose face serum was created to bring radiance and nourishment to the face. It is made with loving intentions and in small batches to insure it’s optimal integrity.

10:15am Sunday

Spirituality and Social Justice: how to make our values real

OLYMPIA AUSET OF SÜPRMARKT

Living and learning through the awakening experiences of Vippassana Meditation, Inippi ceremony, and many other transformational, synchronistic events in her journey, Olympia Auset has became steadfast in her commitment to creating infrastructure for a better earth. Having lived in neighborhoods across Los Angeles, she has become very familiar with the differences in creativity, potential, and happiness which accompany differing food landscapes. She knows that no collective shift can be had without engaging the least empowered people, and no empowerment is possible without access to quality food, and has set out to create a building block for our collective upliftment with SÜPRMARKT.

Olympia Auset founded SÜPRMARKT in July of 2016 and since its inception, has provided more than 500 cases of organic fruit, veggies, and seeds affordably in South LA, a community which has 1.3 million residents but only 60 grocery stores. 23.5 million Americans are food insecure and SÜPRMARKT brings affordable produce to the people and places that need it most, in a weekly pop-up and subscription service poised to create a culture of equal access and conscious consumerism across the board. With innovation, information, and inspiration as the heart of its operations, this is the climate SÜPRMARKT is working to change.

How the Indigo, Crystal and Rainbow children are here to change the world

with KRISTIE REEVES

We are living in times of incredible transformation as we are facing many challenges but also opportunities to create a better tomorrow. There is a new generation of children who we have gotten to know as the Indigo, Crystal and Rainbow children. These kids (and many of them adults now) are the change makers of the world, shifting old structures, creating new technologies and raising the consciousness of this planet as they are leading the causes for environmental and social change globally.

Find out how these children are here to change the world and become inspired to do the same!

Kristie Reeves is an actress, producer, international speaker and author. For the past six years she has been producing and interviewing on the series "The Children of the Rainbow", a documentary series about the new generation of Indigo, Crystal and Rainbow children. She is also the host of the Radio/ TV Show "Rebel Hearts w/ Kristie Reeves" at UBN- Universal Broadcasting Network.

Natural Treatments for Severe and Chronic Pain

With james david adams

James will speak about the current epidemic of 69,500 deaths every year in the USA caused by the inappropriate treatment of pain with orally administered pain killers and orally administered opioids.  He will discuss how to treat pain appropriately in order to decrease the epidemic.

Dr. James Adams, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the USC School of Pharmacy.  He was trained for 14 years by a Chumash Healer and co-authored the book Healing with Medicinal Plants of the West: Cultural and Scientific Basis for Their Use.

Lukey Storey is a former celebrity fashion stylist- turned public speaker, podcaster, and entrepreneur, who has spent the past 20 years relentlessly searching the world over to design the ultimate lifestyle through his extensive, and sometimes obsessive, personal research and development. Using The Life Stylist Podcast as his delivery platform, Luke continues to share his strategies for healing, happiness, and high-performance living each week so that listeners can use this knowledge to design their ultimate lifestyle. Luke's show features the biggest experts in the fields of health, spirituality, and personal development. Past guests have included experts like Dave Asprey, David Wolfe, Ben Greenfield, Jack Kruse, John Gray and Daniel Vitalis. Luke’s show covers an ever-expanding range of topics including sex and relationships, yoga, meditation, smart drugs, health myths and medical conspiracies, spirituality, food and supplementation, herbalism, alternative medicine, and biohacking technologies and tactics.

As a public speaker, Luke has appeared on stage with current thought leaders such as Tim Ferris, and Neil Strauss. He is known for his raw, down to earth delivery, and sometimes extreme health practices. Luke currently works one on one with private clients and continues to act as CEO at School of Style, the world’s most prominent school forfashion stylists, which he founded in 2008.