Photographs of Palio di Siena (Italy)

Samara Skincare is featuring local artist Conrad Chavez’ latest photographs taken at the Palio di Siena, Italy of a 350-year-old horse racing festival held in July and August each year between rival neighborhoods. Ten riders circle the main plaza bareback and dressed in the appropriate colors, representing ten of the seventeen city wards. He has captured the deep-rooted tradition and ritual, right down to the colors, coat of arms, and costumes of each neighborhood that competes. The collection will be on display until the end of January 2012.

Conrad Chavez is a Green Lake resident, author, and photographer. He is the author of Real World Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers (Peachpit Press).

Announcing a series of Gatherings at Prajna Spa

You are invited to a Holiday OPEN HOUSE at Prajna Day Spa in Phinney Ridge. Join us for a wonderful afternoon of special savings, services, socializing with friends & neighbors! Get your holiday shopping started after Thanksgiving or pick up a festive treat for yourself. Let us introduce you to some of our favorite local vendors, artist(s) and businesses in Seattle. There will be door prizes on all event days picked at 4 pm each day plus much much more. Refreshments served, Cash Wine Bar & Champagne. Contact us for more information.

Featuring photographs by Conrad Chavez.

Dates: 2-Sundays, November 27th, and December 11th

Time: Noon until 6 pm

Location: Prajna Day Spa | 6826 Greenwood Ave North, 2nd floor - Suite A (upstairs) | Seattle, WA 98103

For more info contact:
Laura Bailey of Samara Skincare | 206 830 - 8360 | samaraskincare@gmail.com
Debbie Davis of Prajna Day Spa | 206 782 - 4636

Andean blessing to live in harmony and be in right relationship with all creation

You are invited ...
Spirit is guiding me to offer 1000 blessings. This is an invitation for you to receive as a gift (no cost to you) an Andean blessing. I am offering a way for you to experience the energies of Peru’s Andean Mountains and the totem animals: condor, jaguar, and snake. We begin this healing blessing by opening sacred space. In this space we leave behind the affairs of ordinary life, the bustling world of meetings and schedules, and prepare to meet the divine. It is an opportunity to regenerate, heal, and dream your world into being.

This activation is designed to upgrade your luminous energy field with an energetic transmission to heal past wounds of karmic and genetic inheritance. This ceremony is an accelerated session that takes about 5-10 minutes. Please let me know if you would like to receive this blessing, and spread the word if you know of others who may benefit from this healing.

It is a great honor to this share this blessed gift with you.
Kindly,
Laura Bailey
Energy Medicine Practitioner
Traveler to Peru 2011 – Cuzco, the Imperial City of the Inka

Visionary Art of Hugo Franco | http://hugofranco.wordpress.com/prints/

The 12 Paradoxes of the Sacred Path

I love quotes that make me think.

The 12 Paradoxes of the Sacred Path ...
1. Do your inner work to address your outer challenges.
2. Be willing to give all to get all.
3. All the answers you seek are within you now, and you’ll need a path, a guide and time.
4. Be focused, discerning and determined, and surrender to mystery in each moment.
5. That which takes from us gives to us: Sickness is a healer, loss is a teacher.
6. Master suffering and self-discipline to understand joy and freedom.
7. You must come to terms with death to embrace life.
8. Your feelings are as important as they are misleading.
9. Be compassionately indifferent.
10. Learn the power of solitude and the importance of community.
11. That which is invisible is real and lasting; the visible is a fleeting lie: Spirit is the driving force behind matter.
12. Live your authentic, true self, and know that it too is an illusion.

Some other great quotes ...

She who sees deeply into
one thing, sees all.
She who looks long into all things,
sees nothing.
-Ancient Vedic Teaching, circa 4000 BCE

If you want to be given everything,
Give everything up ....
Because the Master has no
goals in mind,
Everything she does succeeds.
-Lao Tzu, circa 600 BCE

This is from More Mag, March 2011

Reiki Healing

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The Ancient Peru Activation Trek

Choquequirao is the sacred sister city to Machu Picchu. It was a hub of ancient culture. The area holds ancient ritual sites to the Sun, the Ancestors, the Earth, Water, and other deities, and is a powerful place for ceremony. Still very remote, accessible only by a difficult two or three day hike from Cusco, it receives just 1% of the total annual visitors to Machu Picchu

An Open Invitation

My dear friends and talented healers, Irene Iris Ingalls and Elizabeth Schermer are heading to Peru in May 2011 for Planetary Healing at four sacred sites. This post in an invitation to participate in a once-in-a-life-time special event and join them remotely.

Astrological calculation shows a convergence of energies at the next Full Moon aligning in Peru, and these gifted-healer have been called with a sense of urgency to perform ritual ceremony, to release greatly needed planetary healing energy located in these sacred locations. They will be traveling to four sacred sites to perform these ceremonies, and have created a unique and creative way for you to participate in this powerful event with them.

Irene and Beth are inviting you to join their journey energetically and spiritually, during these ceremonies. They have created two participation packages with great benefits to choose from:

(1) The Full Moon Ceremony

You provide then with a photo of yourself and your written intentions for personal and planetary healing. You will get:

* Detailed information on how you can personally participate during ceremony from your home
* Emailed updates before, during, and after the journey
* Your image and intentions will be carried to each site and included in ceremony, where your prayers will be anchored and amplified. You will experience connection with us in Peru, and with all of the others participating in the Event
* You will receive your own copy of the Light Language Transmissions from the ceremony (1-3 pages)
* You will also receive a copy of the single, major glyph (symbol) that will be channeled during the Event
* As a bonus, you will also receive a copy of the Light Language Transmissions from the other three sites where we will do sacred ceremony
* Finally, you will receive information on how to work with the Light Language Transmissions and symbols for your own personal and planetary healing rituals
* All this for $47!

(2) The Personal Activation Ceremony (Limited to 20 participants)
You will receive all of the benefits of the Full Moon Ceremony, plus:

* A personal distance energy session, located at one of the ancient power sites. An advance dowsing session will determine which of the four sites holds special power for you
* Your own personal Light Language Transmissions, scribed at the special power site chosen by your Higher Self
* A single, personal glyph which powerfully encodes the energies of your personal Light Language Transmission, drawn in ink on archival paper
* An individual porcelain rune, hand- inscribed with your Light Language glyph
* A Tibetan quartz crystal, encoded with all the frequencies from the sites we visit, and “tuned” to support your personal energy
* Participation in the Sacred Fire Ceremony, June 11th. During this traditional, powerful Fire Ceremony, Irene and Beth will personally transmit to you the energies we carry back. You will receive your Light Language glyph art, your rune stone and your crystal at this ceremony. The event will take place in Seattle; if you are unable to attend in person, you will receive your energy transmission via distance healing techniques, and your talismans will be mailed to you after they have been blessed in the Fire Ceremony
* All this for a donation of $195! Hurry—space is limited!!

Please click on the link below to view their official website—it is filled with details about the sacred sites to be visited and the ceremonies to be performed. Scroll to the bottom to sign up before the deadline of April 29, 2011.

YES! I want to participate and know more about this exciting opportunity.

Your support is needed to actualize these healing intentions, and the world needs your support and participation to manifest these beneficial energies. Together we can make a difference!

Love and light,
Laura

Sacred Sites Visited along the Journey ...

Macu Picchu,The Lost City of the Incas

The Sacred Valley

Terraces at Pisaq

Granaries at Ollantaytambo

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The Fine Print

* $42 for one Luxurious Manicure and one Posh Pedicure at Samara Skincare ($85 value)
* Limit two per person; may purchase as a gift
* Must book an appointment
* Up to two friends may book a joint appointment in Inner Sanctuary treatment room
* 24-hour cancellation policy enforced
* Expires Oct. 1, 2011

All the Benefits

* Tranquil day spa puts an emphasis on self-care and natural beauty practices
* Part of the Prajna Day Spa wellness network in Phinney Ridge
* Offers a wide range of treatments including facials, waxing, natural nail care, eyelash extensions, body work, massage, and more
* Inner Sanctuary treatment room allows joint treatments for up to two friends at a time
* Features a wide array of nail colors, including selections by OPI, Deborah Lippmann, and Risqué Nail Polish from Brazil
* Clean, hygienic environment