Spirit and Culture Archives - Page 9 of 10

Learning Consensus at Earthaven

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on January 7, 2011. Posted in Conscious Relating, Governance and Legal, Membership. No Comments on Learning Consensus at Earthaven

by Diana Leafe Christian “This is harder than I thought!” exclaimed Ohbeeb. She was in front of the room practicing facilitating a meeting. She was saying, “Excuse me; would you like to get on the stack?” to another participant who was having fun pretending to be mildly disruptive. It was...

Honoring the Dark Time of Year

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on October 22, 2010. Posted in Celebrations and Gratitudes, Nature, Social Events, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on Honoring the Dark Time of Year

by Kailtlin Hetzner The air is brisk and cool, the leaves turn the beautiful shades of autumn, the summer is gone and the season calls us inward. It is time to prepare for winter—not only physically for the cold but a slowing down in other ways too. We are approaching Halloween, All Hallows...

Business profile: Southeast Wise Women

Written by Lee Warren on July 21, 2010. Posted in Businesses, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on Business profile: Southeast Wise Women

Women will gather from across the Southeast at the 6thannual Southeast Women’s Herbal Conference on October 1-3, at Lake Eden in scenic Black Mountain, NC. With over 60 classes by more than 30 teachers, the weekend focuses on herbal education, nourishing foods, wholistic sexuality, and ecology....

Remembering Snow!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on March 2, 2010. Posted in Celebrations and Gratitudes, Nature. No Comments on Remembering Snow!

written by Arjuna da Silva The biggest snowstorm in close to forty years visited us this past December, just in time for the Solstice. Yes, it was a white Kwanzaa (hmm…that’s another story!*), and a deep one too. We received over a foot of the White Blessing, and proceeded to dwell in...

Holivillage Ecodays!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on December 5, 2009. Posted in Celebrations and Gratitudes, Social Events, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on Holivillage Ecodays!

by Arjuna da Silva From Samhain (the season that includes Halloween—“hallowed evening” on October 31st and the Day of the Dead on November 2nd) to New Year’s, the season of holy days and celebrations helps buffer the shift to increasingly cold weather. Now in early December, many...

The Wise Women of the Blue Ridge Are At It Again

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 28, 2009. Posted in Businesses, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on The Wise Women of the Blue Ridge Are At It Again

If you plan to visit Earthaven the weekend of October 2-4, don’t expect to see many women. Not only do Earthaven and neighbor women organize the conference, but it has become such a draw that Earthaven is virtually “men-only” when the Earthaven and neighbor women head down the mountain to the...

Earthaven Celebrates 15th Anniversary

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 25, 2009. Posted in Celebrations and Gratitudes, Social Events, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on Earthaven Celebrates 15th Anniversary

Earthaven’s 15th anniversary celebration began with the Founders’ Dinner on Thursday, September 10, and continued with a parade and ceremony Friday afternoon, September 11. Founders Paul Caron, Chuck Marsh, Lillah & Gary Schwartz, Michaeljon Druin, Sally & Randy...

News notes – Summer 2009

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on July 20, 2009. Posted in Conscious Relating, Village Economics, Village Life. No Comments on News notes – Summer 2009

We had a wonderful forum workshop with Achim and Ina from ZEGG community in Germany. We’ve been using the forum process for a few years and it was great to have some refresher training! Suchi, Kimchi, and Gaspar have been facilitating forum at Earthaven for the past couple years. Arjuna,...

New Members

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on May 2, 2007. Posted in Celebrations and Gratitudes, Medicine Wheel, Members. No Comments on New Members

Lyndon Felps became a full member at our Sunday, April 22 Council meeting. He celebrated his leap over the candle by leapfrogging over it, to much laughter and applause, then making lots of happy-sounding monkey screeches as we lifted him up and sang our welcome song. Lyndon was born and raised...

Why A Peace Garden?

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on April 7, 2007. Posted in Conscious Relating, Gardens, Nature. No Comments on Why A Peace Garden?

By Suchi Lathrop Community can sometimes be an un-peaceful place, as we deal with a myriad of personalities and the rough edges of unresolved issues. And even when we are feeling peaceful in community, we can still feel deeply unsettled by our knowledge of war and oppression in the world. Of...