Vanessa in California January - February 2012

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Offerings with Vanessa January 27 - Februrary 8, 2012 in Santa Barbara, Pt. Reyes, Sebastopol and Mill Valley, California

Friday, January 27th at 7pm
Evening Sitting in Santa Barbara, Southern California
directions

Sunday, January 29th from 11am - 4pm
Day Long Retreat in Santa Barbara
directions

Monday, January 30 - Tuesday, January 31
Private Sessions in Santa Barbara
email to schedule a time

Thursday, February 2nd at 7pm
Evening Sitting in Pt. Reyes, Northern California
at a Private Home in Inverness Park
directions

Friday, February 3rd at 7pm
Evening Sitting in Sebastopol
at a Private Home on Ross Station Road
directions

Sunday, February 5th from 11am to 4pm
Day Long Retreat in Mill Valley
at a Private Home on Wellesley Drive
directions

Monday February 6 - Wednesday, February 8
Private Sessions with Vanessa in Mill Valley
email to schedule a time

To schedule a Session, or for more information about these events, please email:

Offerings@VanessaStone.org

Upcoming Events - 2012 Calendar

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Offerings with Vanessa in 2012
in Austin, California, Hawaii, India

Click here to go to Vanessa’s 2012 Calendar

Vanessa in Austin: Summer 2011

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We gratefully announce a summer of deepening and study with Vanessa.
Please join us for these upcoming offerings at the Amala Foundation:

Sunday, June 12, from 11am - 5pm
Day Long Retreat: Heart Centered Service ~ Working Consciously with Children

Thursdays, June 16, July 21, & August 18, at 7pm
Evening Sittings at the Amala Foundation Sanctuary

Thursday, June 30th, 7 - 9 pm
Experiential Evening: Introduction to the Spiritual Use of Essential Oils

Saturday, July 23 & Sunday, July 24, from 10am - 5pm
Weekend Immersion: The Spiritual Use of Essential Oils

Tuesdays, July 5, 12 & 19, 7 - 8 pm
Deepening Call Series: Realization In Everyday Life

Register for Upcoming Events

Heart Centered Service ~ Working Consciously with Children
Sunday, June 12th, from 11 am to 5 pm
"Children are the earth's most precious resource."
A day to explore service as a spiritual practice, including rooted presence, deep listening, and honoring the sacred when in service to all beings, especially children. We invite all who will serve at this summer's Amala youth projects to join us.

Please pre-register for this Retreat, offered for $100:
REGISTER HERE FOR DAY LONG RETREAT

Weekend Immersion: The Spiritual Use of Essential Oils Saturday, July 23rd & Sunday, July 24th, from 10 am to 5 pm An in-depth exploration of the spiritual use of essential oils. Learn the energetic properties of plants and flowers, the art of sacred anointing, and the practice of ritual bathing. Deepen your awareness and understanding of the potent medicinal qualities of plants and flowers through essential oil alchemy.

Please pre-register for this Immersion, offered for $300:
REGISTER HERE FOR WEEKEND IMMERSION

Deepening Call Series: Realization in Everyday Life Tuesdays, July 5th, 12th & 19th from 7 - 8 pm Central Time
A series of Sittings via live call exploring the theme of realization through our humanity in everyday life, in relation to self, other, and world. The series includes weekly practices and self-inquiry, and offers a rare opportunity to deepen in study with Vanessa and community members worldwide.

Please pre-register for this Call Series, $15/drop-in call or $35/series of three calls:
REGISTER HERE FOR DEEPENING CALLS

Vanessa's teaching inspires the realization that there is no true separation, that all beings have a direct contact with what is real and alive at the heart of all matter. Events with Vanessa are a celebration of remembrance, recognition, and gratitude, offering an authentic and healing space to inquire, share and cultivate an inner relationship with Truth.
"This is an invitation to deepen into the heart of Living, to return to what is essential:
to redefine the purpose of this Life and realize the Gift within this human experience."
We look forward to connecting with you at the Foundation in Austin this summer.
In Loving Service,

The Amala Foundation
512-476-8884
1006 S. 8th Street, Austin, Texas 78704
haripriya@amalafoundation.org

India Service Retreat with Vanessa: Fall 2012

Sat, 4 Jun 2011 20:20:25 -1000

November, 2012
Bhatti Mines, New Delhi, India

A Service Retreat with Vanessa to the Bhatti Mines School in the fall of 2012 offers an unparalleled opportunity for deepening on your walk of service as a spiritual path. If you are interested in joining Vanessa in service in India, and would like to be informed of the details of attending this retreat, please contact haripriya@amalafoundation.org.

Please visit our
India Service Retreat
page for further information
about the Retreat and the School.

Visit our
Information for Participants
page for specifics about the Retreat.

Visit our
Fundraising Resources
page for support in fundraising for the School.

Background on Bhatti Mines School Project:

The Amala Foundation has committed to offer its support and partnership to the Bhatti Mines School through fundraising and service trips to teach and work at the school. This school, located outside of New Delhi, works to educate 200 children in an effort to improve their quality of life and end child labor practices. This will be Amala’s third service trip to the school.

Without water or power, the 30,000 residents of the villages of Bhatti Mines face extreme hardship of poverty and unemployment, which forces many children to find manual labor jobs to help support their families. Additionally, the right of the people to occupy the land around the former mine continues to be unrecognized by the government: the villagers lack even the most basic services, and their homes are routinely bulldozed by the authorities.

The Amala Foundation is dedicated to improving the human condition through service, empowerment, and inspirational education. Our programs seek a peaceful and equitable future for all people by helping communities develop sustainably, consciously and lovingly.

Hawaii Residential Retreat with Vanessa: Spring 2012

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April 10 - 20, 2012
Big Island of Hawaii

The Hawaii Residential Retreat is a potent opportunity to deepen an authentic spiritual walk, cultivating true relationship with the Beloved. This is a Retreat of immersion: living awake to the presence of God in every moment, every task, every day.

Meetings with Vanessa four times each day guide the Retreat experience. Times of solitary Inquiry in nature help deepen roots in the One Relationship, while living in community provides an opportunity to make God real in everyday life. A beautiful sanctuary for transmutation and healing is created by the alchemy of the Retreat environment and the willingness of those who give themselves to the experience.

For more information, please click here:
Hawaii Residential Retreat

To register for the Hawaii Retreat,please contact Heather at 808-896-7748 or by email at Heather@AmalaFoundation.org

We invite you to receive this profound opportunity to immerse yourself in remembrance and exploration of the One Essential Relationship...

Vanessa in Hawaii: Spring 2012

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March & April 2012
Big Island of Hawaii

Vanessa will gratefully be sharing and serving on the Big Island through February and March of 2012, offering Residential Retreats, Evening Sittings, and a limited number of Private Sessions. If you would like to host a Sitting in your home while Vanessa is on the Island, please be in touch. We look forward to connecting with you at these upcoming events with Vanessa on the Big Island:

Tuesday, April 10 - Friday, April 20
Hawaii Residential Retreat
This is a beautiful opportunity for ten days of immersion in direct relationship with the Force of Life. For more information about the offering, please click here: Hawaii Residential Retreat

Saturday, March 17th & Sunday, March 18th
9am - 3pm for Children
8am - 4pm for Volunteers
The 7th Annual
CAMP MANA
We invite the entire community to unite in service to our Island youth. For more information visit our Camp Mana webpage.

For more information about upcoming events, to host a Sitting or Retreat, or to register for a Residential Retreat, please contact us at 808-896-7748 or Heather@AmalaFoundation.org

Silent Retreat with Vanessa: Spring 2011

Tue, 8 Mar 2011 03:13:16 -1000

May 6 - 11, 2011
Mount Madonna Center, Santa Cruz Mountains, California

Realization through our humanity & within everyday Life
This week of devotion, sharing and celebration is open to all who are moved to deepen on their path ~ cultivating experiential wisdom through inquiry, strengthening roots in remembrance, and responding fully to the offering of Life. Noble Silence will support our dive into the Essence of Living, meeting the Heart of God within and without.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

"This retreat is an opportunity to devote all attention to recognizing and experiencing the Unity as it appears within you and throughout your life. This is an invitation to deepen into the heart of Living, to return to what is essential: to redefine the purpose of this Life and realize the Gift within this human experience. This Retreat is for those sincerely willing to realize God in every speck and expression of creation, throughout the human condition and woven into everyday life."

Retreat with Vanessa offers an authentic and healing space to inquire, share and cultivate an inner relationship with Truth. This is a Retreat of immersion: living awake to the Presence within every moment, every task, and every day. Solitary inquiry, study of nature and noble Silence allow for direct experience within.

Vanessa’s teaching inspires the realization that there is no true separation: that all beings have a direct contact with what is real and alive at the heart of all matter. Time spent in Retreat is a celebration of remembrance, recognition, and gratitude.

Please contact
heather@amalafoundation.org
for more information.

Peace Walk at San Quentin Prison, California

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June 9 & 10, 2012
Marin County & San Quentin State Prison, Northern California

RAISING $25,000 to SUPPORT
the YOUTH of the WORLD

Retreat with Vanessa
and Peace Walk Orientation Day
Saturday, June 9th, 11am - 5pm
Marin County, Northern California

Champions for Children
San Quentin Prison Walkathon
Sunday, June 10th, 8am - 3pm
San Quentin State Prison, Bay Area
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Click here to register for the Walkathon

Fundraise for the Walkathon

Contact us about this event

MAKE A DONATION
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Champions for Children is a compassionate group of men incarcerated in San Quentin State Prison who have organized to support the Global Youth Peace Summit, a project committed to empowering youth to grow into peace leaders of a global community. The men were inspired by their direct experience of healing from the wounds of violence in their work with Vanessa in the prison to support the work of the Amala Foundation.

Champions for Children: Curtis, Sam, Gino, Stephen & J.W.

The Champions for Children Walkathon is a way for the men to make a difference in the world while they are incarcerated, to serve and give back. These men are walking to ensure youth affected by violence receive the support and healing needed to follow a brighter life path and grow into compassionate men and women.

The fundraising goal is $25,000, which will offer much-needed support for youth affected by violence to attend the Fifth Annual Global Youth Peace Summit. The Peace Walk addresses the roots of violence and offers a path of healing to the men who walk as well as to the youth it ultimately serves.

The Walkathon will create a global community in the prison, echoing the One Village of unity in diversity that is created at the Global Youth Peace Summit: an environment of love, respect, honesty, and community. This powerful offering will deeply impact those who participate, bringing together those walking and all who support the event in celebration of service, compassion and unity.

The Champions for Children Walkathon will be a weekend event, including an Orientation Retreat with Vanessa on May 14th in Marin and the Walkathon on May 15th in San Quentin State Prison.

The Walkathon Orientation Retreat with Vanessa on Saturday, May 14th, is designed to align volunteers with the heart of service, to deepen the experience and prepare for entering the prison. We are walking in solidarity with these men, to help realize our common vision of service to the youth of the world. It is the quality of our attention and devotion that will determine the depth of our direct experience. We are entering the prison to walk with the men, to be served as much as to serve, to be fully available to the offering. It is in our willingness to be impacted that we touch the heart of service. This is an opportunity to engage spiritually, ignite loving kindness and support consciousness within the prison walls.

We ask that all who wish to participate in the Walkathon attend the Orientation Retreat with Vanessa. If you cannot attend the Retreat, but feel strongly called to join the Walkathon, please contact us.
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REGISTER NOW!
To participate in the Walkathon,
you must register by March 23rd.
To walk in this event, all participants
commit to raising at least $250.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE WALKATHON

MAKE A DONATION
Your donation will offer meaningful support that makes a difference on many levels. Children impacted by violence will be offered the opportunity to heal and turn their lives around, finding the support, family and community they need to thrive, inside and out. The Walkathon is also an opportunity for the men in prison to unite, as youth do in the Summit, as One Village of love, respect, honesty and community.

CLICK HERE TO MAKE A SECURE ONLINE DONATION

START FUNDRAISING
Take giving a step further by reaching out to your friends and family for support for this project. Not only will this uplift the people directly affected by the Walkathon, but it will give more people the opportunity to learn about the project. To set up a free online donation page,

CLICK HERE TO START FUNDRAISING

CONTACT US
Please contact us if you have any questions about the Walkathon, the efforts of the Champions for Children, or the Global Youth Peace Summit. Thank you for your participation and support. We look forward to walking with you.

In Loving Service,
The Amala Foundation

heather@amalafoundation.org
808-896-7748