East West Magazine Fall 2014 | Page 10

Saturday, October 18 Sunday, October 19 East West Psychic Fair 12-6pm both days EVENTS Oct • Nov • Dec • 2014 Thursday, October 16 Freedom from Stress 7:30pm • Free, but call to reserve a seat We tend to think stress is caused by the conditions of our life. In fact, stress is not found in circumstances, but in our own minds and hearts. This is good news, because while it’s often impossible to have circumstances be as we want, it is possible to influence our own minds and thus short-circuit stress before it becomes harmful. David Gamow, author of Freedom from Stress, left Wall Street to immerse himself in living eastern teachings for the past 30 years. As founder of Clarity Seminars, he has taught stress reduction to 25,000 people at places like Stanford, NASA, GE, the U.S. Treasury, and the U.N. Friday, October 17 Ayurveda Fundamentals 7:30pm • Free, but call to reserve a seat Ayurveda offers a pathway for achieving optimum health, defined as a balance of body, mind and senses, the foundation blocks to true health. This class will explain the approach of living in harmony with the natural world, including how emotions affect digestion, how spirituality plays a role in defining health, and how the natural rhythms of the day and seasons are directly linked to our personal and communal health. Acharya Shunya Pratichi Mathur is founder and head of Vedika Global in Emeryville, CA, and the president of the California Association of Ayurvedic Medicine. www.VedikaGlobal.org Join us for meditation every Wednesday at noon in our events room 10 Come to East West to get guidance on what’s going on in your life during two days of private consultations with a wonderful selection of professional practitioners. Get the help you need to clear, expand and uplift your energy, from past-life illumination to angelic guidance, and from spirit-channeled messages to healings of the astral and energetic bodies, you will find the insights, answers and healing you seek. Each practitioner will keep a separate schedule, and separate payment will be made to each, not to East West. You must be present to sign up for appointments. The fair will operate on a firstcome basis, with several practitioners available at all times. Saturday, October 18 Wired for Love: Understanding Your Partner’s Brain and Attachment Style 7:30pm • Free, but call to reserve a seat Synthesizing principles from neuroscience, attachment theory, and the regulation of emotional states, Dr. Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, will share how the use of simple gestures and words can help diffuse anger and make love last. Tatkin is a clinician, researcher, teacher, and developer of A Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy (PACT®). He and his wife, Tracey Boldemann-Tatkin, founded the PACT Institute, which offers CE training to psychotherapists around the world. His latest book, Wired for Love, is essential reading for those interested in understanding the complex dynamics at work behind love and trust in intimate relationships. www.StanTatkin.com Monday, October 20 Simple Tools for Managing Stress and Finding Inner Peace 7:30pm • Free, but call to reserve a seat Join philanthropist and spiritual coach Barb Schmidt for a discussion of her new book The Practice: Simple Tools for Managing Stress, Finding Inner Peace, and Uncovering Happiness, based on over thirty years of spiritual study. Learn how to incorporate this simple framework for achieving inner peace and happiness into your daily life. The evening will include a five-minute meditation, a sacred mantra writing activity, and a focused attention group exercise. www.BarbSchmidt.com Wednesday, October 22 Making the Most of Your Time with Healers 7:30pm • Free, but call to reserve a seat We are so often looking to others to help us through times of physical or emotional healing and we are so often disappointed. How can we make the most of our time in the presence of those we believe have something to offer us? How can we organize our thoughts and our questions? What is reasonable to expect from others when we are ill? How can we help others help us? Join Dr. Shanti Rubenstone, doctor of internal medicine and spiritual life coach, to explore these questions and enhance your experience in all areas of health care. Thursday, October 23 The Fun of Staying in Touch 7:30pm • Free, but call to reserve a seat Attorney Roberta Grimes had two experiences of light in childhood that prompted her to spend decades studying nearly 200 years of abundant and consistent communications from the dead, and to explore quantum physics and the nature of consciousness. Her latest book, The Fun of Staying in Touch, summarizes signs from the dead and the many ways in which we are learning to better communicate with the dead. Tonight she’ll discuss the varied and surprising w ^\