February 10th - 13th 2011
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ALL EVENTS ARE INDEPENDENT OF EACH OTHER except where noted
Welcome!
We invite you to join us for the 7th annual Celebration of Love here in the southern end of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia February 10 through 13th. We gather for this year's event to share with kindred spirits the exploration and deep gratitude for our gift and capacity to love ourselves, others and all life everywhere. This year's celebration will be held at the newly opened Heartstone Lodge at Heartstone Retreat Center an addition to the South River Highlands Country Retreat property. The event will be held in the remodeled dairy barn with large stone fireplace and ample gathering space.
Over the past several years we have looked at the Intelligence in All Life, Self Mastery as a path for healing the world and Conscious Evolution as a personal and global happening. Throughout each year we have been introduced to and have explored geometric energetic systems, or sacred geometry, learning how these systems blueprints, with our permission, can unfold within us, affecting all that is both within us and outside us, expanding and deepening our heart's capacity to experience, extend and BE LOVE.
Our focus this year is Creating and Living in a Coherent Field... Physical, mental, emotional and spiritual fields. Everything is energy. The importance of balance and harmony, both in and between all aspects of our being and with all life everywhere, is more apparent than ever. As we learn how to create more loving harmony and balance in health and well being in ourselves, this naturally extends outward to our families, communities and planet.
Speakers and facilitators will discuss and give guidance to a broad variety of approaches to creating and living in a harmonious energy field. These approaches will span: coherency as a natural state of being in health; coherency in breath of the soul; heart coherency with vibrational medicine; finding internal & external coherency through internal observation and private practice; coherency through sound and coherency through walking a path of spiritual enlightenment, by becoming Living Light.
All these paths join in the heart - the intelligent center and generator of Love and Life.
Come CELEBRATE LOVE!! Bring your loved ones, friends & family sharing your love with others.
I AM, Antonia Albano, with each of you in ...
I AM, Antonia Albano, with each of you in ...
...message of the TRILOGY
The trilogy formed by the first three 'Messengers of Love' from the Divine Symbols™...sacred geometry for the new millennium™
www.soulsign.com; www.adamgainsburg.com; Articles by Adam: http://soulsign.com/articles
A licensed traditional acupunturist, national & international teacher in clinical nutrition & well being for over 20 years, Don will explore an integrated perspective of heart coherence, which includes modern developments in the fields of Heart Rate Variability, Neurocardiology, and Specialized Kinesiology. Don will present the growing body of evidence that indicates how our emotional states impact heart coherence and how maintaining coherence supports our evolution on emotional scales.
Don will look at cellular coherence and coherence of the earth fields. He will examine the role of a balanced Autonomic Nervous System and its relationship with heart coherence. A balanced Autonomic Nervous System is essential for the body to be in a state of self-healing and optimal functioning.
Don will look at various barriers that interfere with our ability to achieve and maintain coherence and overall integration. He will include a discussion on nutrition and lifestyle imbalances and deficiencies that affect our ability to manage our physical, emotional, energetic, and spiritual well-being.
This presentation will be experiential including ways of developing and maintaining greater coherence individually as well as a culture. $ Love Donation
** Any healers who wish to stay an extra day or two to offer their gifts are invited to do so. I know that many who come have many amazing gifts to offer. If you are interested, please call Antonia directly @ 540.461.1401
Help us get out the word! Come join us February 9-13, 2011 for an exciting exploration of Creating & Living in a Coherent Energy Field and for the introduction of the newest Messenger of Love,the 5th of the Divine Symbols™ ...sacred geometry for the new millennium™. Thank you for who you are and what you bring to the tapestry of all existence. Antonia Albano |
FREE TIME: Those who stay on the farm for the week's activities may came earlier or stayed later to have unstructured time for the sharing of healing work, meditation, walks by the river, walking on the 250 acre farm, journaling, walking up to the State of Grace Pulsation Center, experiencing the MesoAmerican Pyramidal Love Seat, etc
LODGING: Farm lodging is limited to 23 depending on sleeping arrangements. Cabin cost is $50./night/person; private guest room with one queen bed @$85/night, two studios, each with queen bed, one has queen sofa bed & one a single sofa chair @ $105 & $85/night & 7 single dorm beds are offered @ $40./night. Three night minimum on cabins, two night minimum on all other farm lodgings. Authentic rustic log cabins, dating from 1775 to early 1900s plus the new Heartstone Lodge & Retreat Center accomodations, are shared. Cabins may be co-ed. Linens, towels, toiletries, plates/flatware, condiments etc are supplied in cabins & The Creamery. Linens, towels, robes, toiletries are furnished for accommodations in the Lodge. 3 cabins have TV/DVD/DVDs & fireplaces. No WI-FI or land lines on farm. Plenty of HOTEL accommodations are available nearby in town if needed. A special rate at 2 hotels for this event. Suggestion for farm stays: pack lightly. Cabins will be assigned based on arrival & departures & special needs. There are no private cabins available for this event. www.southriverhighlands.com
FOOD: Grocery stores are nearby for breakfast, lunch & dinner, as are restaurants in local towns nearby. There is a commercial kitchen in the dairy barn/Lodge with a large refrigerator, no freezer & a large commercial gas stove. All use of kitchen will be on a shared cleaning basis. We live in a sparsely populated county yet are blessed with a small organic grocery Healthy Foods Co-op in downtown Lexington 4 miles away. Pot Luck dinners (healthy food please) will be at Heartstone Lodge Thursday, Friday Saturday evenings.
COSTS FOR WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS & CONCERTS: Costs are $Love Donations or 'BluePot' (a fair monetary exchange honoring the costs & efforts of the presenters) unless otherwise noted. The presenters have agreed to greatly reduce their usual class costs :) Please come support these events so that we can continue to bring in presenters from across the country & help this event to grow in scope.
TRANSPORTATION: (From the South) or (From the North) Closest airport is Roanoke (ROA) http://www.roanokeairport.com, 50 miles from Heartstone Lodge & Retreat Center (1366 Stuartsburg Rd/SR 703, Buena Vista, VA). Rental cars are available at the airport or private taxi ($75+ tip) by prior reservation with Barney or Antonia. Check with Antonia regarding the arrival times of other participants for sharing of rides. Transportation will be made available to get groceries to the town of Lexington. Driving directions to the Lodge will be put on the website. You may also call either Antonia or Barney to get them emailed to you directly.
CLOTHING: Temperatures can range from low 20s – 60s. Dressing in layers is suggested. Please bring a pair of heavy socks or slippers as it is requested that shoes/boots be removed inside retreat space. You will wish to wear or bring a good pair of warm walking boots if you plan to walk on the farm. Remember to pack lightly (i.e. one small or medium suitcase as luggage space is limited). Bring a flash light for walking in the winter evening. It is dark here in the country with few, if any, lights & the parking areas are a short walk from the cabins or to the Lodge.
SHARING OF HEALING WORK: In years past, it has been suggested that after the event we extend time on the farm by one or two days for those who wished to stay & share their healing work with others that were interested. Each year several participants take advantage of this & wished that they could stay longer as this event is attended by some very accomplished practitioners with much to share. In honoring that request we have reserved the Lodge, sleeps 8-10 depending on sleeping arrangements, for Monday, Feb 14th & Tuesday, Feb. 15th. Above Lodging rates apply. If you are interested please let Antonia know so that she may share that information with those attending.
PLEASE CONTACT: Antonia @ 540.461.1401 or email: antonia@southriverhighlands.com by February 6th. Check the farm website: www.southriverhighlands.com or Heartstone Lodge and Retreat Center for information & photographs of the farm (open all buttons). On the 'HOME' page you will find a button called 'Celebration of Love' for information & reference on the event & the Divine Symbols™. Driving directions (From the South) or (From the North) . The Heartstone Lodge & Retreat Center is our newest offering having opened mid May 2010. Its website is still being developed though there are photos of facility & accommodations available for your viewing both from hyperlinks on this site or calling Antonia to email specific photos.
The farm is located above the confluence of the South & Maury Rivers four miles from the charming historic town of Lexington, Virginia – the resting place of Stonewall Jackson & Robert E Lee & the campuses of Washington & Lee University & Virginia Military Institute (www.lexingtonvirginia.com). Buena Vista is the home of Southern Virginia University just two miles from the farm. The Chessie Trail begins across the entry road to the farm & winds along the Maury River for 7 miles. An Appalachian Trail head (AT) is 8 miles away for those interested in more activity before or after the events.
