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To register for workshops, please call or write Kat:
206-650-7449, or kat@fouraims.com

If you are in financial need, please request a sliding scale, rather than not attend.

Movie & Potluck Night at the Four Aims!
Friday, May 21    7-9:30 pm

We had a great start to our Movie & Potluck Night here in April, with delicious food, great conversation and a very moving film making for a memorable evening.  For our next film, I put my vote in for the Academy Award nominated documentary "The Cove." Here's  the write-up:

Daring animal activists arrive with surveillance equipment at a scenic cove in Taijii, Japan, to capture footage of a secretive and heavily guarded operation run by the world's largest supplier of dolphins. As the group sets out to expose the horrifying truths behind the capture of dolphins for the lucrative tourist industry, they also uncover an environmental catastrophe. Louie Psihoyos directs this riveting, Oscar-winning documentary.  This film is deemed "suspenseful and emotional."  At 92 minutes long, I thought we could stay after to discuss or process, if need be.  As well, if anyone has a preferred film to watch, please respond!

Potluck begins at 7-ish; film around 8 pm.  We have a big screen to project upon, and lots of bolsters and cushions against the wall for comfortable seating.  Please let me know what potluck item you'd like to share so we can adjust accordingly, and if you can't bring anything-come anyway!!!  There will be tea and soda on hand; beer and wine are fine to bring as well.  Feel free to bring a friend!

Spring Equinox Practice
with Kat Allen

Bringing in the the Light
Saturday, March 20   9-11:30 am

Bring your body, mind and spirit to an experience of luminosity: the aim of yoga and other healing practices!  This fun, energizing all-levels yoga class will focus on slowly developing heat in the body and awakening a "lightening" of the psycho-spiritual self.  Asana, breath, mudra and vedic chanting will be followed by a guided visualization on the Inner Light. Yoga Nidra (the deepest relaxation) will balance and complete the sequence.  Cost $25

"At first a yogi feels his mind is turbulent, tumbling like a waterfall;
In mid-course, like the Ganges, it flows on slow and gentle;
In the end, it is a great vast ocean,
Where the lights of Child and Mother merge in one."
- Tilopa


 Gift Cards for any occasion

      Consider giving the gift of health and healing!  Possible gift ideas:
  • a yoga series: 5 class cards from $80-85
  • a body-psychotherapy session: 1.25 hours with Kat for $100.
  • various workshops: from $35-85



Returning to the Four Aims this summer:


Special Workshops with Vedic Priest and Master Healer

Amaranandu Bhairavan - "Nandu"
to be announced July 2010

Experience the extraordinary healing power of Amarananda Bhairavan, internationally renowned vedic priest, master healer, teacher of ancient tantra, and author of visionary books,  Kali's Odiyya--A shamans true story of Initiation, and Medicine of Light--A Shamans Journey through Mystic Space-time. Immerse yourself in teachings excerpted from Deep Soul Healing Seminars. These seminars pack powerful, ancient techniques from the goddess centered matrifocal cultures of pre-vedic India, for wellness and abundance. For more information about Nandu and his seminars, visit http://www.mystictantra.com.

Descriptions of Nandu's Past Events:


Puja to Lakshmi
for Abundance and Prosperity

A puja is a worship of the divine as well as a method of connecting with the divine. It is an invocation of blessing and grace. During the long history of humankind, we have discovered many facets of the divine and that these facets can be accessed through appropriate chants, mystic gestures and energized offerings. Lakshmi is the aspect of the divine feminine that is worshiped as the goddess of wealth, prosperity, good fortune, love, fertility and divine radiance.

Please bring flowers and, if you have your own, icons/pictures/statues of Lakshmi and /or Ganesha for blessings.




Healing With Mantras

This workshop focuses on teaching simple yet potent mantras and chants to enhance health and wellness, both physical and emotional. Through the proper use of these mantras and chants that can resonate their vibrations on specific energy centers and channels, you will also be able to unleash caches of hidden energy.
During this 4 hour workshop, we will:
  • Discuss the subtle energy system of the light body within
  • Learn fundamentals of the chakras
  • Understand the marmas or power centers associated with these charkas
  • Learn the elements and their specific mantras
  • Practice pronouncing and chanting specific mantras to affect the elements
  • Practice mudras and chants to energize these power centers
There will also be ample time for questions and answers



Chants for Abundance

This workshop teaches a specific ritual to invoke abundance in your life. By learning to invoke the goddess Lakshmi, we are learning to invoke the energy of wealth, prosperity, good fortune, love, fertility and divine radiance in our lives.

During this 4 hour workshop we will:
  • Learn simple and easy to chants/mantras to awaken the Center of Abundance within us
  • Learn specific mudras to activate channels that can empower us
  • Perform a group ritual for abundance
  • Learn the historic and cosmological origins of goddess Lakshmi
  • Take home a short powerful practice to transform and unleash abundance

There will also be ample time for questions and answers.


NOTE: Each four hour workshop is $108. If you register for both, the total cost is $180, a discount of $36.



Individual Rice Readings
Divination of Energy Body & Ritual Rectification

50 minute personal sessions
scheduled between 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
$108
Bhairavan uses a method of divination called Oti Nottam (developed by the odiyyas) to see the astral body, karmic sheath and its marma-chakra systems, the mystic shield and layers of mental realms. During this process he invokes and then becomes a vessel for his tutelary spirits that guide the session. Blemishes, prana flow impairments and other harmful abnormalities are detected and rituals are done as needed to remedy and eliminate any that are found.



Registration: As space is limited you will want to pre-pay for your
workshops and individual rice readings at your earliest convenience by going to:
www.mystictantra.com
and clicking on the banner across the top "Seattle Workshops and Rice Reading."
This will take you to Pay Pal. Please indicate on your Pay Pal payment page what program you are registering for.


Who is Amaranada Bhairavan?
Amarananda Bhairavan, affectionately known as Nandu, is an internationally renowned Vedic Priest and Master Healer. During his joyous childhood amongst an extended family on the west coast of India, Amarananda trained in Oti vidya, a tantra unique to Odiyyathis or tribal medicine women of Kerala. Initiated at the age of nine by his aunt, Amarananda Bhairavan remains a direct descendant of this six thousand year old tradition of goddess worship. His mystical education and initiations in the ancient Oti vidya tantric practices are the subject of his two visionary books: Kalis Odiyya: A Shamans True Story of Initiation and Medicine of Light: A Shamans Journey through Mystic Space-Time.
A Vedic scholar, mystic, artist and author, Amarananda Bhairavan holds a Masters Degree in Sanskrit from the University of Bangalore, Bangalore, India. His sacred yantra paintings hang in homes and temples throughout the United States and India. Amarananda regularly travels the world giving lectures and workshops, performing pujas and fire ceremonies, and conducting private consultations and healing rituals.

Embodying a rare combination of wisdom, compassion, humility and transformative power, Amarananda uses ancient Oti vidya rituals to purify consciousness and remedy distress. Amarananda also teaches classes on the painting of sacred yantras as a spiritual ritual for empowerment and devotion.

For more information about Nandu and his seminars, visit http://www.mystictantra.com




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