The ancient indigenous societies have always had their feet deeply connected to mother earth, Papatuanuku.<\/p>\n
They saw and acknowledged the sacred within nature and the web of life. Connection and relationship was everything. They understood the cycles, the
\n ebb and flow of tides, the waxing and the waining moon and everything under the sun was a part of their living cosmology. <\/p>\n
Today science is grudgingly realising that our planet is a super organism, though they most definitely don't want to shout it from the roof tops. Yet most
\n indigenous tribes are saying \"hey white man, guess what we have been endeavouring to tell you for hundreds of years!<\/p>\n
So as we close in on the 2nd decade of the 21st Century, the revival of the old knowledge and ways becomes urgent as the elders pass down their language
\n and culture and myths, less it falls away in the froth of harmogony and be lost forever. <\/p>\n
Whats on over the Eco-Weekend
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Over 100 workshops and seminars! Featuring 90-minute immersions into eco in all its flavours with wisdom walkers, musicians, healers, craftworkers,
\n dancers, eco-activists, people who care Friday night concert. Door sales available or free with Festival tickets.<\/p>\n
The festival begins with a fire ceremony on The Plains, followed by an evening of international indigenous music featuring Sika World Tribal Music
\n Kailash Healing Soundscapes, and Georgia - I Wish U Heaven: the sacred songs of Prince Rogers Nelson.<\/p>\n
Saturday night begins with Barry Brailsford, loved and acclaimed historian of the wisdom traditions of indigenous Pacific peoples, presenting Song
\n of the Ages. This is followed by the celebrated New Zealand documentary, Water Whisperers, which exploring the work of ten communities healing damaged
\n waterways.<\/p>\n
Mike ODonnell, celebrated waterman and story teller, continues the water theme with his waterman performance.<\/p>\n
This is a prelude to the stream cleanup on Sunday. The evening finishes with Trance Dance Music with DJ Anirvan.<\/p>\n
Saturday night also features an Interactive Mayan Sacred Theatre with Vasumi followed Voices of Sacred Earth Choir and Dance led by Jyoshna la Trobe. Tribal
\n Fusion Dance music and poetry led by Zane Lazos and Gus Simonovic is followed by an open to all, drumming circle with Jimi Dale, Plus the Kawai Purapura
\n Festival Experience:<\/p>\n
Accommodation marae style, camping and limited twin share
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Come and experience something different, yet compelling.<\/p>\n
You will come away from this event, with a greater understanding of the magnificence of this planet that sustains us all and shares breath with us
\n minute by minute.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.kawaipurapura.co.nz\/voices-of-sacred-earth<\/a><\/p>\n 14 Mills Lane, Albany, North Shore, Auckland 0632 - 1 Kilometer West of This was the write up to the 2016 event.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We live on a planet of majestic proportions, teaming with life within a biosphere of mega-trillions of beings.<\/p>\n From the microscopic and invisible to the macro-captivating mega fauna, from viruses and bacteria to the great blue whales and kauri and redwoods. However - what of the future, where are we going as a human species? What is the destiny of our planet in these rapidly changing of times? And who best Listen to an inspiring introduction to what the weekend ofthe 11, 12 & 13th March will share. This engaging discussion with representatives of this Wisdom keepers who hold life as sacred are still today found in indigenous societies whose closeness to clan and kin is also mirrored in their perceptive Some say that the greatest pollution on our planet is situated between our ears and if we were able to clear our thoughts of all our wounds, divisiveness, Eventuating in reconnecting with the sacredness of our great sustainer - our planet Mother Earth.<\/p>\n This interview calls on our deeper self to think, feel and intuit, what is our connection to self, family, community as well as to life nature and our Talking of Australian first peoples, possibly 80,000 years of story of immersing with nature. <\/p>\n That from India we hear the urgency that it is high time to discontinue our disconnection and come together. That it is high time we dropped our arrogance This is about the importance of really acknowledging our connection to mother earth and having deep reverence for what we have inherited.<\/p>\n The Elders \u2013 if we do not honour our elders and listen to their accumulated knowledge and know how, in a few years from now they will have all gone, and At present there are around 200 similar festivals hapening around our planet celebrating our connection as a vibrant community as well as committing to This is how a new paradigm presents itself.<\/p>\n This could be classified as punctuated equilibrium or a new intelligence that we create by tapping into global group mind … and all it needs is Communities coming to share are from Te Henga community on the West Coast of Auckland <\/p>\n http:\/\/www.tehengabethells.co.nz<\/a> to to tell of their success,<\/p>\n From Auroville in Pondicherry in India as to how community can bring about a positive vision for tomorrow, by building a spiritual city at peace within Film feature called Ever the land\u2019 in the setting of the forest region of Te Urewera and T\u016bhoe and their making of a building they call a living marae. Plus a sweat lodge as performed by the First Nations of North America and an opportunity to participate in what it is to join an experience what has been Children today are more open and receptive to story from native and indigenous people as it relates to nature and the earth that supports them \u2013 they a We are transitioning from being able to manufacture and manifest from out of chaos into creators and co creators where we consciously choose how we create When we surrender to the deepest connection - to mother earth \u2013 we open ourselves to another way of seeing our relationship with our planet \u2013 many people Some of the presenters at this Voices of the Sacred Earth:<\/p>\n Jonathan Evatt and the Colombian Kogi Indians of South America <\/p>\n http:\/\/www.greenplanetfm.com\/members\/greenradio\/blog\/VIEW\/00000001\/00000294\/Jonathan-Evatt-on-the-Co lumbian-Native-Kogi-and-their-message-for-humanity.html#00000294<\/a>.<\/p>\n Graeme Sait World renown on the sacredness of the soil and its health on both planet and person. www.ntshealth.com.au\/about-graeme-sait<\/a> <\/p>\n Water Man River ecologist storyteller Mike O\u2019Donnell from Paeroa<\/p>\n
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the Northern Motorway.<\/p>\n
\n To the council of all beings - all breathing in concert and growing and surviving within the seasonal cycles of a fecund yet increasingly stressed
\n mother planet.<\/p>\n
\n can speak to these challenges, other than the races and cultures who have held onto the old ways - the indigenous, the first nations - the ones who
\n keep the soles of their feet firmly planted on the surface of the great mother, Gaia, Papatuanuku, our profound sustainer.<\/p>\n
\n forthcoming event is persuasive and captivating. Knowing that there are devoted people, 'being the change we want to see in the world' is heartening.
\n Let's support them by furthering this notion as we mobilise to care for our individual and collective future - for all biota. <\/p>\n
\n seeing, hearing, and especially their acute sense of smell and taste including that of touch. Out in the wilderness, the last realms of quietness they
\n have not become desensitised as we have become in our Western cities where we exist in air conditioned, glass tinted isolation, looking out at the
\n environment beyond the building, separated and disconnected instead of \u2018being it\u2019 and immersing and breathing in the pulse of nature - in the ever
\n present moment.<\/p>\n
\n loss and separation and become far more heart centred a wave of change emanating from us-all, could lift not only our own aspirations but that of the
\n localised community that radiating outwards would encompass the larger global community and planet as a whole.<\/p>\n
\n great planet.<\/p>\n
\n and escapism and unify as individuals, community and as a society and take a deep look as to what is to be human on our planet. We have more and more
\n technologies and tools yet more people are finding themselves exceedingly lonely and alone. Festivals like this one allow for organic connection of
\n people in a delightful natural setting.<\/p>\n
\n we will lose the vast repository of ancient training and knowing that these elders embody, and hold close to themselves. It will be too late as one
\n of main reasons is, because theirs is an oral language and not written down.<\/p>\n
\n revere the earth for sustaining us with the requirements to life \u2013 air, water and an earth based tasty food chain. However, when these gatherings align
\n with the right intent to increase the harmonic of peace and connection, new possibilities present themselves. New potentialities of community peace
\n can spontaneously spring forth with innovative and novel expressions of the moment. This innevitably shapes our conversation and ushers forth new contextual
\n opportunities never thought possible until their immediate emergence.<\/p>\n
\n a change of heart.<\/p>\n
\n nature. http:\/\/www.auroville.org<\/a> <\/p>\n
\n http:\/\/evertheland.com\/about<\/a> <\/p>\n
\n a catalyst for psychological change for accessing our own consciousness as well as interacting with group consciousness.<\/p>\n
\n exceptionally quick to pick on concepts and integrate information into their being …<\/p>\n
\n and shape our future, one that is cooperative by nature and that will benefit the whole other than to service to self.<\/p>\n
\n experience life changing moments when they let go of their past conditioning and spontaneously receive information or manifest a mystical experience
\n some could say - from the earth mother \u2013 that can change their life for ever and for the better …<\/p>\n