An ever-changing societal/economic model demands an increased sense of self-reliance and ingenuity. MARIELLE HIGLER, the "Money Whisperer" helps you answer those two important questions that come up as you get older, What do I really want to do?...and How am I going to pay for it? Marielle’s new book Showing Up For The Golden Years shares a wealth of suggestions, ideas for new, second or third careers and ways to give positive meaning to the baby boomer experience.

After 23 years as an entrepreneur in upstate New York and raising her two children as a single mother, Marielle left her empty nest behind in search of her future. She came to Seattle to write her book: Showing Up for the Golden Years, Resetting the Retirement Mindset. The book appeals to the power of human resilience and self-reliance in us to find or create the solutions to life’s challenges. She is convinced that freedom to choose is a birthright and that the best-laid plans will go awry if we don’t control our money. These beliefs were instrumental in her decision to become a money coach. She is a certified Financial Recovery Counselor and works as The Money Whisperer from her Bellevue office.

Chanting at the chakras (subtle energy centers) and using yogic bandhas (locks) can open the door to the love and wisdom of your higher Self. This class is designed for those with Learn to Meditate Level 1 or equivalent training.

Taught by RICK JOHNSTON, Ananda meditation teacher.

Ananda Yoga offers classic asanas with affirmations and energizing pranayam movements that will bestow physical strength and relaxation, inspiration and inner peace, and clarity of mind. Our meditative and individualistic style makes Ananda Yoga suitable for both beginning and intermediate levels of practice.

Join MICHAEL DENNIS, dedicated volunteer teacher of Ananda Yoga for Higher Awareness, for inspiration and guidance in raising your inner awareness through asana and pranyam.

Ananda Yoga offers classic asanas with affirmations and energizing pranayam movements that will bestow physical strength and relaxation, inspiration, inner peace, and clarity of mind. Our meditative and individualistic style makes Ananda Yoga suitable for both beginning and intermediate levels of practice.

Join RASHMI DAVE, dedicated volunteer teacher of Ananda Yoga for Higher Awareness, for inspiration and guidance in raising your inner awareness through asana and pranyam.

In addition to discussing concepts from the book Women, Food, and God, we will incorporate eating exercises to experience them. You will discover your brilliant underlying reasons for overeating and quickly turn them around, becoming more loving and present to yourself, eating mindfully for utmost enjoyment and honoring your truth.

Come be supported in your journey to your true body in this uplifting ongoing group. Facilitated by DENISE HOLZ, nutritionist and certified life coach. In her business, Enlightened Weight Loss, Denise helps emotional eaters become healthy and free.

Why don’t all our wishes and desires get fulfilled? Perhaps the way we ask determines how our dreams come true.

Join an intentional wishing circle to become a better steward of your heartfelt desires. Monthly we have influences to assist our manifestations. Practice a proven method of clear and concise requesting. By coming together we can join our energy for a joyous and prosperous life. Using Shamanism and astrology craft your intentional path of abundance.

SHIELA BAKER has been a practicing shaman since 1997, combining counseling with astrology, Earth-based spirituality, insight, humor, and compassion. She is also a certified Iyengar Yoga and Ananda Yoga instructor.

More information about Shiela may be found on her website, www.shamanweaver.com. phone 206-903-9404 or email at Shiela@shamanweaver.com

Have you been looking for a group meditation opportunity in Seattle? Meditating with others is a vital necessity for deepening your meditation experience. It also is a great help to others. Join us twice a month at East West Bookshop for prayer, chanting and affirmation, followed by guidance into a 40-minute meditation.

Join GORDY RYAN world-acclaimed professional drummer and drum teacher. Tonight Gordy will lead a fun experiencial circle. Come play your heart-IN.

Gordy Ryan has played with Olatunji Drums of Passion, founded by the late Babatunde Olatunji, a Nigerian elder called "the world's foremost ambassador of African music," and with Gabrielle Roth for more than 25 years. He has written and recorded music for film, theatre, television, and albums with artists such as David Sanborn, Carlos Santana, Mickey Hart, Airto, and Spike Lee. A founding member of the Africa Institute, he has explored the clarification of consciousness in studies with Oscar Ichazo since 1970.

Join us for an afternoon of fun and relaxation. Meet the healing practitioners at East West Bookshop and grab a Free treat when you attend, generously donated by our good neighbor Peaks Frozen Custard. Whether it's a chair massage, energy work, sound healing or a mini consult your looking for, today is your day to explore and connect! Feel free to bring your friends too.

Tonight noted astrologer and author DAVID POND will be exploring the current astrological patterns that are impacting all of us and suggesting ways to align with the energy of these times. The signature theme astrologically for the next several years is the Uranus/Pluto square, which we are now in and will peak 2012-2015. Outer planet aspects are collective in nature and will impact all of humanity. Freedom loving Uranus in Aries is at odds with the power hungry controlling Pluto in Capricorn. This is an explosive, evolutionary/revolutionary aspect that we see so evidenced in the world today.

We will explore this collectively as to what we might expect, and more importantly, in our individual lives, this same revolutionary spirit of breaking free of whatever is oppressing us will also seek expression. The evolutionary stirrings of Uranus in Aries calls for listening to the voice of “I want to do, what I want to do, when and how I want to do it.” David will explore ways to use the current astrology to help you prepare for collective changes and create room in your life for the personal innovative growth available.

It is very exciting to be on the planet as humanity collectively awakens to a higher state of heart consciousness. Take time to learn practical means of dropping fear in order to choose love more freely, allowing ego to serve rather than to lead. Receive a healing energetic group attunement that aligns the heart chakra with the higher self.

JENNIFER YOST has been a counselor & energy intuitive healer, working in the healing arts for 15 years. She is a visionary & conduit of "The One Gathering."

Ultimately our goal in life is to achieve a state of constant union with the divine. MSI, a modern day Master of Sanskrit and of the science of union, has created a commentary on the yoga sutras of ancient yoga master Patanjali. Teachers from the Ishaya Tradition will lead tonight’s class based on the teachings and simple mechanics of yoga in this book, Enlightenment, the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.

Kriya Yoga was popularized by Paramhansa Yogananda in his now classic story, Autobiography of a Yogi. In tonight's class, KRIYACHARYAS HRIMAN and PADMA McGILLOWAY explain the history, underlying principles and the training offered by Ananda for those interested in learning kriya yoga.

Each person’s life path is unique, as is each person’s experience of illness, wellness, and healing. Join DINI SCHWARZ, a licensed naturopathic physician, and others who want to cultivate well-being. All are welcome, whether your goal is to simply optimize your health or to live life joyfully with chronic health conditions. Honor your individual health process in a group setting and discover joyful moments and a sense of well-being along your path.

Dr. Schwarz practices Naturopathic Medicine at Mindful Health PLLC located next to the University Village. She delights in working with people to cultivate wellness and healing.

Ananda Yoga offers classic asanas with affirmations and energizing pranayam movements that will bestow physical strength and relaxation, inspiration and inner peace, and clarity of mind. Our meditative and individualistic style makes Ananda Yoga suitable for both beginning and intermediate levels of practice.

Join MICHAEL DENNIS, dedicated volunteer teacher of Ananda Yoga for Higher Awareness, for inspiration and guidance in raising your inner awareness through asana and pranyam.

Ananda Yoga offers classic asanas with affirmations and energizing pranayam movements that will bestow physical strength and relaxation, inspiration, inner peace, and clarity of mind. Our meditative and individualistic style makes Ananda Yoga suitable for both beginning and intermediate levels of practice.

Join RASHMI DAVE, dedicated volunteer teacher of Ananda Yoga for Higher Awareness, for inspiration and guidance in raising your inner awareness through asana and pranyam.

Are you feeling low in energy, anxious or stressed, or do you simply have a desire to take life deeper? Don't miss this amazing opportunity to learn more about the importance of your breath, its healing qualities, learn gentle breath exercises and experience a breath session in a group setting.

For over 10 years TRACEY STOVER has worked internationally teaching the breath to individuals and groups, and trains practitioners on how to incorporate breath awareness into their own unique practices.

We all know how to clean our homes with soap and water, but your living space can also build up mental and spiritual grime. Energy from bad feelings, arguments and disappointments, builds up just like dirt and dust.

Join SHIELA BAKER, a practical shaman, to discover simple and effective ways to clear and clean the energy in your home. Learn about the power of a blessing to create a living space that is refreshing, comfortable and welcoming.

Expressions of our soul nature are found within the art we appreciate and also the art we create. Take this afternoon to create a healing piece of art that is full of symbolism and rich meaning to your own soul nature.

Registered therapist and author of Art and the Inner Journey MARGARET ARNETT will lead you on a guided imagery and have you draw out your own unique reminiscences from that imagery. As a group we will discuss our pieces and their meanings. Feel free to bring your own art supplies; paper and crayons will be provided.

In this powerfully personal story, teacher and visionary DAVID SPANGLER recounts the extraordinary forces that introduced him to the spiritual realm. In David’s newest book Apprenticed to Spirit, he explains how a spirit teacher, "John" showed him how to develop what Spangler calls "a mind of the soul" and how to integrate it into everyday life. This is the absorbing memoir of one man's journey to the understanding of how we can all learn to lead lives of greater blessing and be of service to the world as a whole.

"Apprenticed to Spirit is a masterpiece of contemporary spiritual literature because it provides readers with a serious, grounded, and authentic story of how one man earned and sustained his relationship with his nonphysical guide. Few people have genuinely accomplished this goal. David Spangler is one who has successfully made the journey." -- Carolyn Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit and Defy Gravity.

"David Spangler, a great and generous Western spiritual teacher, has written the kind of life story I most want to read: a story of the evolution of the heart. With candor and deep humanity, he describes a life lived in partnership with inner teachers, and devoted to empowering and inspiring others to recognize and claim their own larger purpose. Apprenticed to Spirit is a beautiful modern soul odyssey. Read this book to learn how to navigate inner worlds, how build a spirited community and grow your group angel, and how to discern a true teacher (who, like David, is here to liberate and to bless) on the inner and outer planes. Highly recommended." - Robert Moss, author of Conscious Dreaming, Dreamgates and Active Dreaming

Can death be a spiritual awakening? Tibetan Buddhist scholar ANYEN RINPOCHE, will speak on these topics, using advice from his newest book, Dying with Confidence. Anyen Rinpoche encourages everyone to begin spiritual preparations now.

As he often tells students, regardless of anyone's religious beliefs, that death will certainly come to all of us, we just don’t know when. Anyen will give instructions for a special practice called "phowa" which teaches how to transfer one’s consciousness at the time of death.

Tonight local author and student in the Ruhaniat branch of the Inayati Sufi lineage HALIM DUNSKY will read from his latest book Weeds, Dreams, & Flowers, a collection of poetry and drawings created over a period of more than 20 years. Halim has woven experiences of the mystical, the imaginal and the everyday. With passion and vulnerability, insight, tenderness, humor and questioning Halim opens a window onto the alchemical journey and invites the reader into an experience that spans pain and praise.

Halim is an experienced actor, editor, gardener, and musician; a management consultant in agile software development methods; a dance leader in the Dances of Universal Peace; and a student in the Ruhaniat branch of the Inayati Sufi lineage. He makes his home in the Seattle area.

Come explore Karen Armstrong\\\'s new book, 12 Steps to A Compassionate Life, in a circle of compassion.

The goals of this reading group are to:

1. Foster a greater understanding of compassion.

2. Identify ways to regularly practice compassion in individual and community life.

3. Make a commitment to one or more compassionate actions on the Charter for Compassion site,charterforcompassion.org.

This ongoing forum is facilitated by ROSELLE KOVITZ.

Creative Writing Series PART IV

We’ll continue inspiring your creative spirit using The Elements as a theme. Earth, Air, Fire, & Water are life-giving forces from which we all have evolved. Let’s take our imaginative cues from these powerful and awe-inspiring elements to create magic!

Ananda Yoga offers classic asanas with affirmations and energizing pranayam movements that will bestow physical strength and relaxation, inspiration and inner peace, and clarity of mind. Our meditative and individualistic style makes Ananda Yoga suitable for both beginning and intermediate levels of practice.

Join MICHAEL DENNIS, dedicated volunteer teacher of Ananda Yoga for Higher Awareness, for inspiration and guidance in raising your inner awareness through asana and pranyam.

NO ANANDA YOGA TODAY - come back next week!

Ananda Yoga offers classic asanas with affirmations and energizing pranayam movements that will bestow physical strength and relaxation, inspiration, inner peace, and clarity of mind. Our meditative and individualistic style makes Ananda Yoga suitable for both beginning and intermediate levels of practice.

Join RASHMI DAVE, dedicated volunteer teacher of Ananda Yoga for Higher Awareness, for inspiration and guidance in raising your inner awareness through asana and pranyam.

This council is open to professional/ non-professional-indigenous/non indigenous practitioners who define their spiritual path as shamanic in nature. Using this forum as an opportunity to share, teach, or discuss various topics intrinsic to any shamanic path.

In our first meeting we explored the nature of the shaman’s road and causes of soul loss.

The Winter sessions will examine the nature of spirits in both the non-ordinary worlds and within nature. We are here to teach and learn from one another so bring your knowledge and experience to share and a pair of good ears to listen.

JAN VAN YSSLESTYNE, experienced shaman and contributing author of First Fish, First People, Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim, will start off this time of support and sharing.

Sound is one of the manifestations of God, used by spiritual healers of virtually every tradition to facilitate spiritual growth and healing. Whether it is known as AUM or the Word, it is axiom within spiritual texts worldwide that sound created the physical universe, preceding even light.

Today master sound healing alchemists and teachers Paradiso and Rasamayi will show you how to transform virtually any challenge into a blessing. You’ll learn and experience Vedic and Himalayan chakra/key protocols to help heal yourself and others, reduce discord, remove spiritual blockages and augment the harmonious vibrations of love, joy, health, abundance and inner peace.

Are you ready for a sound experience that transcends physical healing, connecting you with the divine and activating your soul's potential for peace, joy, purpose and abundance on all levels?

Paradiso, master didjeridoo player with five bestselling CDs, who has performed at Carnegie Hall and has been billed alongside luminaries including Steven Halpern, Michael Bernard Beckwith and Neale Donald Walsch. Rasamayi is a Singing Bowl Master Alchemist who has served in the evolution of thousands nationwide with the Crystal Tones Alchemy Singing Bowls and voicework.

These twin flames travel worldwide to share the divine vibrations of love and light; their collaborative debut CD, 3rd Eye Rising, is an instant #1 bestseller which debuted at #5 on the worldwide charts.

See also Sunday's AUM Tune-up Workshop with Paradiso and Rasamayi!

Learn where you may always find your angelic guides and friends! Join acclaimed sound healer Rasamayi and Angel Therapy Practitioner® Andria Wagner to experience powerful techniques to harmonize your chakras via the vibrations of the angels and sound. Receive chakra meditations with the angelic choir and alchemy crystal singing bowls to experience profound peace, raise your awareness, enhance your understanding of your physical and etheric bodies, clarify and expand your energetic vibration and strengthen communications with the Angels, your higher Self and the Divine.

Don't miss the Group Sound Activation at 7 pm and the Aum Tune-up Workshop Sunday, Aug 15!

Receive heart healing, remove fears, open your third eye, learn how to work with crystals, receive power animals to assist you with healing, learn to receive messages with clarity, and release blockages to personal growth, career, relationships and more during this dynamic workshop with Angel Therapy Practitioner® Andria Wagner, Medium and Author. Your specific healing needs will be addressed and personalized guidance will be given to each attendee.

You will feel renewed strength, connectedness to your guides and support from all of your Spiritual team in heaven. You will experience greater trust in your guides to take home and continue your ascension process on your own.

Experience direct healing, guidance, messages and instruction from the Archangels and your Guardian Angels with Angel Therapy Practitioner®, author and medium ANDRIA WAGNER. You will leave refreshed, lighter, clearer and more content. The Angels wish to guide you with all that you do, connecting you with your life purpose and soul's path.

Andria is a guide for transformational healing and learning. She is an educator, wellness consultant and workshop presenter teaching throughout the country.

Lucid dreaming has real potential to transform your life! Learn how experienced lucid dreamers are using this unique state of consciousness to heal themselves physically and emotionally, seek out telepathic and precognitive information, and meet in a shared dreamspace.

ROBERT WAGGONER, author of Lucid Dreaming-Gateway to the Inner Self, will share techniques to achieve this lucidity.

Robert is President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, co-editor of the e-zine The Lucid Dream Exchange and has had more than one thousand lucid dreams.

In these unsettled times, it is important to learn how to heal ourselves and our communities; this is the purpose of the Incan Medicine Wheel! Tonight DENISE KINCH will bring you a genuine experience of the wisdom of the Andes. After studying in the ancient Paq’o lineage of Don Manuel Quispe,

Denise has received the title of Medicine Person. Denise will take you through a guided slide show presentation experience of her time in the Andes documenting previous Medicine Wheel retreats she has lead.

Come join the birthday party with astrologer, ANDREA BRUCKNER, to learn more about your astrological sign and how it relates to your life. Questions welcomed! Celebrate with a 20% off birthday coupon from East West and a delicious, complimentary dessert from our good neighbor Peak's Frozen Custard!

We get stuck when our conscious beliefs oppose the beliefs we hold in our unconscious mind. In this presentation we will review how our beliefs get formed, how they impact our lives and most importantly, how we can change them. YOLANDA AGUIRRE will lead a demonstration of a belief change using PSYCH-K and will teach you how to muscle test one other and support each other in changing one common limiting belief.

This fun and experiential evening will conclude with a raffle for full sessions, to be done at a later date with PSYCH-K practitioners

How would you create a space of love? Anastasia\'s vision of such a space is presented in Vladimir Megre\'s Ringing Cedars series of books. Join STANETTE in the Tea Garden for a group discussion that will include some empowering and fun exercises designed to begin the process of aligning with Anastasia and empowering your creative version of this dream.

Each person’s life path is unique, as is each person’s experience of illness, wellness, and healing. Join DINI SCHWARZ, a licensed naturopathic physician, and others who want to cultivate well-being. All are welcome, whether your goal is to simply optimize your health or to live life joyfully with chronic health conditions. Honor your individual health process in a group setting and discover joyful moments and a sense of well-being along your path.

Dr. Schwarz practices Naturopathic Medicine at Mindful Health PLLC located next to the University Village. She delights in working with people to cultivate wellness and healing.

Ananda Yoga offers classic asanas with affirmations and energizing pranayam movements that will bestow physical strength and relaxation, inspiration and inner peace, and clarity of mind. Our meditative and individualistic style makes Ananda Yoga suitable for both beginning and intermediate levels of practice.

Join MICHAEL DENNIS, dedicated volunteer teacher of Ananda Yoga for Higher Awareness, for inspiration and guidance in raising your inner awareness through asana and pranyam.

Ananda Yoga offers classic asanas with affirmations and energizing pranayam movements that will bestow physical strength and relaxation, inspiration, inner peace, and clarity of mind. Our meditative and individualistic style makes Ananda Yoga suitable for both beginning and intermediate levels of practice.

Join RASHMI DAVE, dedicated volunteer teacher of Ananda Yoga for Higher Awareness, for inspiration and guidance in raising your inner awareness through asana and pranyam.

SUREN SHRESTHA will teach those who want to further their advancement in healing with Tibetan singing bowls and have previously taken his advanced level training. Learn more protocols for specific health issues. Space limited!

Rejoice all who favor tea as their beverage of choice and also those who may know tea not. Enjoy the pleasure of sharing company and drinking tea in a community setting.

Take this opportunity to smile and savor tea with great reverence, invoking a heightened sense of awareness and also of gratitude for the simpler things in life. Feel free to bring your favorite teas, tea wisdom and tea traditions to the table. Facilitated by STEVE BONNELL, East West Tea Garden curator.

Learn the 3rd Protocol techniques of Gong Bath and Vibrational Bowl Massage. Covers puja or prosperity practice, water aspects and healing environments.

Have you been looking for a group meditation opportunity in Seattle? Meditating with others is a vital necessity for deepening your meditation experience. It also is a great help to others. Join us twice a month at East West Bookshop for prayer, chanting and affirmation, followed by guidance into a 40-minute meditation.

Intermediate: Learn the use of singing bowl placement, the importance of sound intervals, and the 1st and 2nd protocols for treatment on clients.

One and Two Bowl Healing:

If you only have one or two singing bowls, learn how to effectively use them without a needing a whole set. This class is also specifically designed for healing practitioners and those wishing to learn how to facilitate treatments with of the use of a massage table. A sleep and relaxation protocol will be also be given.

Fundamentals: Learn the basics of playing Tibetan singing bowls, and the tingsha, and take home key self-healing techniques for head, stomach and feet. Also, if you only have one or two singing bowls, learn how to use them without a whole set. There are specific ways to use the bowls individually, according to their tone and postition.

MARGARET ANN LEMBO, author of Chakra Awakening and the Angel Gemstone Oracle Deck will show you how to bring balance, prosperity, joy, and overall wellness to your life. Tonight we’ll use gemstones and crystals to tap into the amazing energy within you. Margaret will lead an overview of the seven main chakras that influence everything from prosperity to intuition.

Experience simple techniques with gems, crystals, affirmations and aromatherapy to manifest any goal and create positive change in your physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

Join us for an experience of immersion in healing sound and vibration that reverberates throughout your body to your soul.

SUREN SHRESTHA, a native of Nepal and author of How to Heal with Singing Bowls brings his bowls, techniques and ancient wisdom directly from a village where people were customarily healed with the sacred sound current. He learned from Tibetan monks and yogi Tahalkishor Maharaj, and has traveled extensively in the U.S. sharing this knowledge.

Suren is raising funds through his teaching to build an orphanage for homeless children in his native village.

Please bring a mat or blanket to lie on.

Author for Native American studies and cultural preservationist SUSAN GUYETTE offers us her newest book, Zen Birding, co-written with David White. Zen birding relates to us spiritual aspects of "being" through birding stories. Understanding through connection – by seeing, hearing, and listening – creates a symbiotic relationship to nature and her messages.

In Native American thought, we are all relations, connected to each other. Perceiving life in cyclical time or through the seasons grounds us to familial interaction, continuity and the earth.

Creative Writing Series PART III

We’ll continue inspiring your creative spirit using Past, Present & Future as a theme. Whether you love ancestral history or want to draw the cities of the future, your imagination knows no bounds of time. So come and dance along your own timeline! Bring a pen and notebook and be ready to get inspired! For writers of all levels and experience.

Learn and practice time-tested breath techniques (“pranayama”) to help calm the “monkey” mind and deepen your experience of meditation. This class is designed for those with Learn to Meditate Level 1 or equivalent training.

Taught by Ananda Meditation Teacher, RICK JOHNSTON

Ananda Yoga offers classic asanas with affirmations and energizing pranayam movements that will bestow physical strength and relaxation, inspiration and inner peace, and clarity of mind. Our meditative and individualistic style makes Ananda Yoga suitable for both beginning and intermediate levels of practice.

Join MICHAEL DENNIS, dedicated volunteer teacher of Ananda Yoga for Higher Awareness, for inspiration and guidance in raising your inner awareness through asana and pranyam.

Ananda Yoga offers classic asanas with affirmations and energizing pranayam movements that will bestow physical strength and relaxation, inspiration, inner peace, and clarity of mind. Our meditative and individualistic style makes Ananda Yoga suitable for both beginning and intermediate levels of practice.

Join RASHMI DAVE, dedicated volunteer teacher of Ananda Yoga for Higher Awareness, for inspiration and guidance in raising your inner awareness through asana and pranyam.