Healing Arts Faire

There are so many modalities that can modify the body, mind, and spirit, and scores if not hundreds of practitioners offering their services in town. How is one to negotiate the maze? Word of mouth works best, of course, but for those who would rather sample on their own without having to make a large commitment of time or money, the Healing Arts Faire at The Center of the Heart might be just the thing. 

The Center for Spiritual Living’s periodic event offers the opportunity to experience energetic healing, psychic readings, massage, as well as a wide variety of other modalities in brief, inexpensive sessions. Mini-treatment sessions in such areas as Energy & Chakra work, Color readings, Angel & Tarot Card readings, massage, Intuitive readings, and even the hard-to-find John of God Crystal Bed healing, are available for as little as $20 for 15 minutes. Full sessions are also available for additional cost. The faire also features a variety of merchandise booths offering wares for healing or decoration, clothing and more. A portion of proceeds from the noon to 5:30 pm event on Saturday, September 22, will be donated to women and children’s charities around Santa Barbara.

Pure Intent Workshop

Coming next weekend to Center of the Heart is a one-day workshop that attempts to answer the question “What would my life look like if I could summon and receive everything I desire?” The problem, as posed, is that for many people the present moment is obscured by the fog of uncertainty – we don’t know what’s coming because we haven’t chosen and summoned what we truly desire. When that issue is compounded with the effect of our fears robbing our power and immobilizing our lives, it’s no wonder that we are afflicted by self-doubt and low self-esteem.

But according to the workshop, that’s not how it has to be. Instead, there’s the theory that we are intended to have a superlative life experience. Pure Intent is a 4½-hour workshop that defines the uniquely personal processes of simply observing our desires. We discern what brings us joy, summon our choices, align our vibration to receive, and upon receiving what we summoned, refine the next desire that arises.

Workshop leader Mark Sawicki is an author and facilitator who has pursued metaphysical knowledge for more than 29 years. In 1995, he began the study of the Science of Mind with Dr. Maureen Hoyt at the Granada Hills Center for Spiritual Living, where he eventually served as board president. In 2004, Mark studied Reconnective Healing with Eric Pearl and was a certified Level 3 practitioner for seven years. Sawicki began working on the idea of the Pure Intent workshop in 2014, and in 2016-17 transformed his years of accumulated knowledge into a 240-slide PowerPoint that includes video, animation, and custom graphics. While the workshop is designed for those unfamiliar with personal demonstrative creation, it may also provide fresh insights for the adept and experienced practitioner.

Admission to the 10 am to 4:30 pm (with breaks) workshop on Saturday, September 29, costs $90 if registered before this Saturday, September 22, or $125 afterward or at the door. Get more information and register online at www.pureintent.com/workshops. Center of the Heart, a Center for Spiritual Living, is located at 487 N. Turnpike Road, across from SBCC’s Wake Center. Call (805) 964-4861 or visit www.centeroftheheart.com.

Guided Book Circle Begins

I Am the Word: A Guide to the Consciousness of Man’s Self in a Transitioning Time has proven popular and transformative for a number of people ever since the book was first published at the beginning of the decade. Said to be the channeled from “Ascended Masters” through author and medium Paul Selig, “The Word” is said to provide a concise and immensely powerful program in self-awareness that can ease negative complexes and align one’s existence with its highest purpose.

Now, Patricia Diorio, a local psychologist who has studied and practiced the book for years, is set to offer a public book group to continue her work in the field, delving deep into the tome that provides to-the-point psychological and existential insights, along with self-development exercises and affirmations to strip away residual fear, self-doubt, and self-sabotaging habits that impede success. Diorio, the creator, executive producer, and co-host of the Get Conscious Now! television show that runs on public access in Santa Barbara and has been syndicated in more than 20 markets across the U.S., will host a free introductory evening from 6 to 7 pm on Tuesday, September 25, at the Impact Hub, the first book circle and discussion group at the co-working facility in its history. The regular ongoing circle begins the following Tuesday, October 2.

“(The book) is not simply thought-provoking information that reaches deeply into the recesses of our souls,” Diorio says in her invitation. “It is vibrational. Reading this book and working with the powerful intentions it offers actually lifts the vibrational frequencies of our bodies. The experience is palpable and real. The guides provide to-the-point psychological and existential insights, along with self-developing exercises and affirmations, which begin to strip away residues of fear, self-doubt, and self-suffocating habits.

“If you are spiritually curious, adventuresome, and sincerely interested in a life-changing experience as a successful creator of your reality, then this group is for you.”

The circle takes place at Impact Hub’s State Conference Room, 1117 State Street. Free.

Also at the Hub

Impact Hub is partnering with Conscious Good Films to present a recurring documentary film series focused on community, consciousness, and global awareness. The series kicks off with May I Be Happy, a heartwarming, feature-length documentary intended to broaden awareness about the practice of teaching mindfulness to youth. Through poetic cinematography and sequences of teachers leading mindfulness practices with kids from different backgrounds – from elite private schools, to public schools, and juvenile detention centers – the film brings awareness of the benefits of mindfulness as a way out of violence and suffering, and as an attainable solution for younger generations. Interviews with teachers and leaders in the field of mindfulness research and education, including Dr. Dan Siegel and Vinny Ferraro, offer insights into the growing practice of mindfulness in education.

General admission to the 6:30 to 9 pm screening on Thursday, September 27, at Impact Hub’s Chapala Event Center (1221 Chapala St.) is $10; members pay $5. (The Hub also offers meditation every Monday, yoga every Tuesday and Edgu, a movement meditation, every Wednesday, but you have to be a member. As the 1980s AmEx commercial put it, membership has its privileges.) Call (805) 284-0078 or visit https://impacthubsb.com 

Yoga for Equinox

Divinitree Santa Barbara, which has new owners, is ringing in the new season with a free community yoga class and more at Leadbetter Beach this Saturday, September 22. Divinitree’s Bridget Bottoms leads a Community All Levels Yoga class at 10:30 am on the lawn to the right of the end of the parking lot – the last patch of grass when you’re facing the beach. A celebratory potluck picnic follows the class at 11:45 – bring snacks and drinks to share as well as reusable cups, plates, and utensils – and at 1:30, people can join in such activities as surfing, stand up paddle boarding, swimming, slacklining, practicing acroyoga, or just continue to hang out and connect.

The following evening brings a special Fall Equinox Detox back at the downtown studio, where Natalie Dawn Sampila leads a three-hour celebration of our bodies, calling awareness to our own natural healing abilities through yoga, Ayurveda oils, marma therapy, sweat, kriyas, pranayama, chanting, meditation, and even some laughter. The session is designed to help uproot deeply seated toxins that can lodge in the body and become locations for disease to set in. Breaking up the ama and moving it out through diet, teas, and sweat leave the body replenished and stronger. Sampila has been studying Ayurveda since 2004 is certified by Ayurvedic Institute of America. 

Sattvic (clear nourishing food) refreshments will be served after the session, which takes place 6:30 to 9:30 pm on Sunday, September 23, and costs $40 general, $35 DiviniTree members ($5 discount by September 20). DiviniTree is located at 25 E. De La Guerra St. Call (805) 897-3354 or visit http://sb.divinitree.com.