ACT Monthly Gatherings

Sunday Gathering

January 8th 2012

"The Potent Year of 2012"

with Evolutinary Astrologer Gloria Hesseloff

For many years, through astrological observation, Gloria Hesseloff  has astutely guided us  on upcoming events and we have benefitted from advantageous  astrological  and metaphysical  wisdom. 

This is a year of potential breakdown or  breakthrough.  Learn what your path of breakthrough  looks like.  See this time as a call to action and your part in it. Learn the significant  dates of 2012.

This program will be accompanied by an awesome NASA Hubble Telescope  cosmic show developed by Greg Martins.

ACT founder Linda Roebuck will guide us through a profound 2012 welcoming activity. 

National Energy Medicine Trainer Francie Boyce will teach us valuable techniques to keep our vibrations in the higher range.

Mathematician Kim Watson will share some quantum physics tools to help us continue “spiraling up”.

How To Integrate

Peter Russell’s Wisdom

Into Our Daily Lives.

November 6th 2011, 2:30-4:30 PM              

Dr. Stephany Porter, Naturopath,

will lead this interactive program.

Peter Russell Review -Thoughts to Contemplate, click here!

Peter Russell

Please Join Us!
Sunday, October 9, 2011

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Honoring 2011 and Anticipating 2012

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We are welcoming another great year and starting out with our first gathering on September 11^{th, 2011}

ACT's ANNUAL AWESOME PICNIC!

Let’s collaborate with the Nature Spirits For a Day of Pure Fun!

Francie & David Boyce’s Waterfront Party House

Sunday, July 10, 2011

2:00 – 6:00 pm

215 Mill Harbor Drive
Arnold, MD 21012
410-315-9672

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Sunday, June 5, 2011, 2 to 4 P.M.

Presenter

Karin Sokel

Moving Toward Enlightened Personal Creation - Uncovering What's Hidden...Crop Circles and Conciousness

(Click to read more about Karin and her upcoming presentation.)

Also on June 5th,

Alan Peterson will perform!  Alan is a singer/songwriter and has recorded several CDs including one called “Circle of Love”.

Sunday, May 1, 2011, 2 to 4 p.m.

The Gifts of Pilgrimage

with Lilia Phelps and Linda Roebuck

Join Lilia and Linda as they share their heartfelt experiences from visiting sacred sites in Bolivia. They will offer transference of energy from their pilgrimage to each participant.

Bob Sima, singer and songwriter, will join us for the first time sharing his gifts of music. It is a treat you will not want to miss.

April 3, 2011, 2 to 4 p.m.

Poise and Percepton

with Robin Gilmore

We perceive the world according to the quality of our awareness and coordination. Utilizing principles of the Alexander Technique and Body Mapping will attune us to ourselves and how we relate to our surroundings. Weather permitting, we will spend some time outdoors welcoming Spring with all of our senses.

March 6, 2 to 4 p.m.

The Body as a Medium for Transformation

with Lauren Kelly-Washington

Creator of BLiS Moves, Former Black Belt in NIA Technique, Lauren will bring her amazing talent to support us in understanding  the body as a medium for transformation.

February 6, 2 to 4 p.m.

Being a Beginner: Navigating Life’s Transitions

with Tom Balles, Licensed Acupuncturist

Movement, transformation, and change are constants in life.  Join Tom Balles for an interactive presentation demonstrating how declaring ourselves to be a beginner opens us to the mysteries of life and sets the stage for healing and learning to take place.

Tom Balles has been a practicing acupuncturist for 25 years and is a Core Faculty member at Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, MD.  Tom is the author of Dancing with the Ten Thousand Things, and Cultivating a Healing Presence (a guide).

January 2, 2 to 4 p.m.

Grooving New Neural Pathways

with Bridget Hughes, Licensed Acupuncturist

Bridget will lead us in an experiential session using imagery, visualization, meditation, and feeling states to groove new neural pathways.  Bridget assures us that we can literally re-groove and re-create our neural circuitry for easier access to optimal states of being.  We will explore accessing peak states for improved relationships, greater health, and happiness.

Bridget Hughes M.Ac. L.Ac. is a licensed acupuncturist with a Master's degree from the Tai Sophia Institute. She is co-founder of Healing Point LLC in Severna Park, Maryland, and Healing Point Acupuncture and Healing Arts at the Claudia Mayer Cancer Resource Center in Columbia.  Bridget will bring her vast experience and knowledge to support us with the further integration of Body, Mind and Spirit.

Also, LifeSongs Community Choirwill join us to bring in the New Year with some musical magic.

LifeSongs Community Choir is a secular (non-religious) community choir, directed by musician/vocalist Elizabeth Melvin, that emphasizes creating community and having fun through shared song.

December 5, 1 to 5 p.m.

Our Holiday Party is being hosted by Brenda Auger.   Come, sing, dance and be filled with the Spirit of the Holidays.

November 14, 2 to 4 p.m.

A Path to Your Wellness through Body, Mind, and Spirit

with Brandon Hughes, Licensed Acupuncturist

Join Brandon for valuable information for your greater well-being.  Enhance your quantum experience with eastern medical philosophy.   Deepen your understanding of chinese numerology and the concept of Yin and Yang and explore the Buddhist eight fold path as a means to transform your current existence. Come enjoy an interactive discussion about these concepts and learn how they relate to acupuncture and chinese medicine.

Brandon Hughes M.Ac., L.Ac. is the director and co-founder of Healing Point Acupuncture and Healing Arts and Healing Point LLC. He is a licensed acupuncturist with a Master's degree from the Tai Sophia Institute. He works closely with the medical staff at the Howard County General Hospital and the Central Maryland Oncology Center and is an active member of the Howard County General Hospital Cancer Conferences. His educational background includes a dual Bachelor of Science degree in Sports Medicine and Philosophy, and advanced training in the use of acupuncture in both cancer care and addictions.   He is a past Tai Sophia Institute faculty member and a past Maryland Community Health Initiative supervisor. Brandon serves as the Director of Acupuncture Services for the Howard County Health Department Bureau of Addictions.   He is certified by the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association.   He is a past supervisor of the Penn North Neighborhood Addictions Program. Brandon is a past participant of the Howard County General Hospital Integrative Care Advisory Committee, and a past participant of the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Advisory Committee of the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. Brandon enjoys spending time with his family.  He is an avid outdoorsman and is equally happy in the deep woods, high on a mountain, or in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay.

October 3, 2 to 4 p.m.

LASTING Transformation: A Guide to Navigating Life’s Journey

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with Dr. Abby Rosen

Join us as Abby shares moments of inspiration and information from her book that provide a roadmap to help navigate this sacred journey of your life.

LASTING Transformation: A Guide to Navigating Life's Journey was recently published by Annapolis psychologist, Dr. Abby Rosen. This book takes the reader on a journey to experience the process of transformation, which can result in powerful, positive change. Our life’s journey provides us with many opportunities for self-knowledge, self-love, and deep soul-wisdom.

September 19, 2010, 2 to 4 p.m.

Join us as we begin a new ACT year of exploration and evolution with Madelyn Blair, a dynamic speaker and author

Creating New Beginnings through Story

with Madelyn Blair, PhD., MBA

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Salmon Rushdie says that we “live in a sea of stories.” Paul Costello, Founding Director of New Story Leadership, says “we are born into stories from before our birth.” What is it about stories that they exist in every culture, that they form our culture, that they even form ourselves. Take a step to understanding this form of communication that humans have used from earliest time (for example, myths) and begin to appreciate how we can form the stories as well as be formed by them. The session will be an interactive one.

July 11, 2010, 2 to 7 p.m.

ACT Annual Picnic

At Francie & David Boyce’s

Waterfront Party House 

Let’s collaborate with the Nature Spirits

For a Day of Pure Fun!

REDEDICATING OURSELVES TO PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE HAPPINESS

June 6, 2010, 2 to 4 p.m.

with Kater Leatherman

Ways to Simplify Our Relationships

Kater will address the five different types of people and how to balance them in our lives.

Kater's decision to embrace a simpler lifestyle began in 1974. A former caterer, she is currently working as a professional organizer & home stager, yoga teacher and published author.  Her book, MOVING ON: Feel Lighter,Liberated, More Alive!, was featured on WomanTalk Live radio on November 14, 2009. She has a monthly column in the Annapolis Capital called Kater on the Homefront.  

May 2, 2010, 2 to 4 p.m.

with Karin Sokel

The Science and Art of Changing Your Mind

In a world exploding with profound change externally... are you doing your own inner work to create lasting change to support your dreams?  What do you automatically think and feel everyday and how is that standing in the way of a greater expansion of yourself and your life?

Recognizing that you want to be a different person is a prerequisite for change but we often get stuck in our old, repetitive reactions. The good news is that the brain has neuro-plasticity, and is uniquely programmable.

In this workshop Karin shares the three stages of changing one's brain - and one's life, and all three must be authentically addressed in order to manifest authentic change.

Using the teachings of her good friend, Dr Joe Dispenza, (What the Bleep Do We Know), Life Coach Karin Sokel shares her own personal initiation and professional processes with this work.

Understanding and enacting conscious change, she explains, is the doorway to growth, personal power, and expansion of the mind

Karin is the owner of Inflow Coaching where she leads retreats and facilitates local coaching groups on creating lasting change and conscious expansion based on the emerging fields of science and spirituality.

April 11, 2010, 2 to 4 p.m.

with Stephany Porter

Quantum Physics and Naturopathic Medicine: Healthcare for the 21st Century  

Dr. Stephany Porter, a naturopathic doctor will explore advancements in quantum physics and epigenetics to express how this is changing the practice of medicine in the 21st century.  We will explore the importance of our environment to the cells health and well being, therefore your health and well being.  How a food or a thought actually affects your physiology and sense of well being. We will explore how the responsibility of healing is returning to the individual and the importance of choosing your health care team.  Most importantly, how to be playful with healing and gentle with ourselves.

March 7, 2010, 2 to 4 p.m.

Dancing with the Stars (postponed from 2/7/10)

with Astrologer Gloria Hesseloff

Gloria shares the Stars secrets for 2010 and Lauren Kelly-Washington dances us through the astrological year with her evocative drumming.

Ideas for manifesting your highest good: Create a ritual and focus on your intentions Practice "fundamental optimism" Participate in the generous circulation of life's abundance. Focus on what you appreciate and love Ganesh is the archetype of Jupiter and the Goddess is the archetype of Venus Caroline Casey gives us this invocation: "Open my path before me, and grant me the opportunity to be of maximum good in the world."

January 3, 2010

The Low Carbon Diet

with Sharon Ryan-Gotimer

We begin thie new year with this vitally important program that was created to assist in reducing the household carbon footprint on the environment.  We will learn what we can do in our personal lives to protect our Blessed Mother Earth.

November 1, 2009

Dreaming the World into Being

with Marilyn Apirian

Using techniques from the Shamanic tradition of South America, Marilyn will lead us in removing the inner obstacles to realizing the World of our dreams.

Marilyn Apirian, LCSW-C, Shamanic Healing, Medical Intuitive Reading and Recommendations, Certification with tHealing the Light Body School, Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D.   She has trained at the masters level in in the Healing the Light Body School as well as with Peruvian Shamans.  Marilyn continues under the personal mentorship of an Ecuadoran healer, whose family has been Shamans for generations.  She is currently pursuing certification in plant and nutritional vibration medicine.

October 4, 2009

Poetry and Music:  Partners in Healing Through Experiencing the Transcendent

with Sierra and Jay Stearns

Through rhythmic interplay between poetry and music Sierra and Jay will offer several guided experiences that may begin a process of opening pathways for the support of one's continuing journey toward wholeness.

Sierra Stearns is a Certified Music Therapist and Fellow in the Association for Imagery and Music.

Jay Stearns is a retired Diplomat in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors.

For the past twelve years Sierra and Jay have been exploring and devleoping a partnership between music and poetry in the healing process.

September 13, 2009

2 to 4 p.m.

Rob Levit presents

Closing the Gap:

Creative strategies to overcome inertia and move from thought to action

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July 12, 2009, 2 to 7 p.m.

Annual ACT Picnic

At Francie and David Boyce's Home

Special music:

"Sweet Lime and Passion", a jazzy duo with a Caribbean flavor featuring David Boothman, keyboards, and Elizabeth Melvin, marimba

June 7, 2009, 2 to 4 p.m.

The Spiritual Dimension of  Money 

Presented by Sherry Rogers

In these challenging economic times, the issue of money is very much on our minds.  ACT's goal is to bring more grace and ease to this concern as we are being invited to shift in consciousness.           

Money -  we see it, we earn it and we spend it every day.  But, how often do we think of it as a spiritual medium?

Money is essentially concretized energy or prana.  In her presentation, Sherry Rogers will focus on the higher dimensions of money.  Your relationship with money will never be the same.

Marilyn Apirian will add her talents to this dynamic gathering.  She is a Shaman, Yoga and Pilates Teacher, Reiki Practioner and a Clinical Social Worker.  Marilyn's program is called

"Yoga Magic Four to Shift Your Energy".   She will teach us four yoga movements that aids us in releasing that which is not life giving and then supports us in raising our vibration.  Take these valuable techniques home with you.

May 3, 2 to 4 p.m.

Dr. Becky Carroll, from the Monroe Institute

(click here for more info) 

Demonstration of Hemi-Sync© audio technology that helps listeners to achieve expanded states of consciousness.

Lauren Kelly-Washington

Will lead us in a Prayer Circle Dance

Also, an opportunity for networking

Sunday, April 5,

2 to 4 p.m.

Soul Collage

with Katherine Johnson

Laughter Yoga

with Carolyn Moore

Sunday, March 1, 2 to 4 p.m.

A Sacred Circle of Sufi Dancing

A Moving Meditation of Divine Light and Bliss

with Ramana Smallen

During this time of realignment and shift, ACT is committed to sharing empowering activities and rituals that support each of us to become dynamic participants in the Sacred Dance of Transformation.

We are truly delighted to have Ramana Smallen as our guide for this Sacred Dance experience.  Dances of Universal Peace provide opportunities to attune through the heart to the masters, saints and prophets who form the spiritual government of the world.  Ramana will teach us songs and chants that have come down through the ages.  He will also bring in simple movements, usually in circle dances.  Ramana says the form is less important than the attunement.  So bring an open heart.  No prior experience needed.

Ramana is a long time student of Sufism.  He is a senior teacher in the Sufi Order International and a Shafayat in the Sufi Healing Order.  He has a small center in Silver Spring.  He teaches and practices the Raphaelite Work, a healing modality that works with presence. 

Also, as promised, Astrologer Gloria Hesseloff will briefly follow-up on last month's presentation, "It's Never Too Late to have a Happy Recession!" We recognize humanity's powerful gift of Free Will empowers us to work in partnership with the Cosmos in creating our highest good.  We will invite in "power" with our words, thoughts, focus and sincere dedication.  Then we direct this awesome ball of energy with our intentions.

See below for copy of Gloria's information:

Sunday, February 1, 2 to 4 p.m.

IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO HAVE A HAPPY RECESSION!

"Opportunities" in the Astrological Trends for 2009

   Through astrological observation, Gloria Hesseloff began informing us about the coming economic crisis 2 years ago,  in January 2007.  This year her message will encourage us to benefit from "the opportunities" available  in these changing times.  Gloria will embrace the alchemical power of humor in her presentation. 

   Scientific Intuitive, Kim Watson will provide insights from physics and metaphysics to empower us to consciously transit and maximize these opportunities.

    We are thrilled that the dynamic duo of Gary Hardnett and Kevin Whisman will entrance us with their truly awesome drumming.  What a way to welcome the energies of 2009.

Click here for Gloria's notes on transits in 2009

Sunday, January 4, 2 to 4 p.m.

Support Your New Year's Resolution with a Happy, Clean Aura

with Francie Boyce

Sunday, November 2, 2008, 2 to 4 p.m.

Ronni Stewart will join us to lead in an eclectic afternoon of information about crystals and experiential exercises in using the crystal along with drumming and journeying.

This meeting was also ACT's General Membership Meeting.  We welcomed the new Co-Creation Council Members

Sunday, October 5, 2008, 2 to 4 p.m.

Linda Mastro, author of Petite Retreats: Renewing Body, Mind and Spirit Without Leaving Home joins us to remind us of the importance of taking time for ourselves to experience life to the fullest. 

Musician, Gary Hardnett will open the October Meeting with a musical meditation.

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 2 to 4 p.m.

Open House for Holistic Health

in partnership with Anne Arundel Community College

Rob Levit, musician, educator and Artist in Residence at Maryland Hall joins us for a presentation entitled

Living on the Edge of Inspiration:

From Creativity to Community

June 1 , 2008

DRUM MEDITATION We begin with the talented Kevin Whisman offering a powerful "drum meditation".  Those of you who have experienced Kevin's drumming know his ability to guide us deep within. We eagerly look forward to that Spirit enhancing experience again.

DIVINE SELF-CARE Bernadette Lea is a multi-talented healer.  She brings her Divine Self-Care program to ACT.   Divine Self Care is:    A way to incorporate Conscious Breathing, Body Awareness Skills, Yoga Based Stretching, Meditation, Affirmations & Intentions, Mudras, Music & more.

March 2, 2008

A Quantum Conversation

with Mathematician, Kim Watson, who is skilled at bridging science and metaphysics.  Learn simple ways to use the New Sciences to manifest your Good.  Create your highest reality by understanding how to bring Science to everyday life.

February 3, 2008

Networking and Sharing

January 6, 2008

"PRACTICING THE POWER OF PRESENCE"

Author John Collings, PhD shares his depth of experience, insight and wisdom to support intentions for the New Year.

ACT Conference

Walking Boldly into Our Soul’s Destiny:  Making the Most of 2012 Energy
(click here for more info)

With Christine Page M.D.

in Annapolis, MD

March 20, 2010

9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

with Soul Destiny Party at 7:30 p.m.

March 21, 2010

10 a.m. to 2 p.m.