This month at ADHC

• Introduction to Art & Meditation Therapy
• Art Therapy – Transforming RECYCLED materials into ART
• Kombucha & Mushrooms as an Elixir for Healing! Learn to make your own~
• Movement Therapy – Harmonize to One

Sunday April 8, 15, 22 & 29, 11:30am – 12:30pm

Introduction to Art & Meditation Therapy

Anastajah Stearns is a mindfulness meditation facilitator, having studied with Noah Levine for 5 years. She is a co-leader of the weekly community group and the women’s sangha at Against the Stream. Ceci Castelblanco is an artist and therapist working in the healing community and art community to affect individuals along their personal journeys.

Taking meditation off the cushion and into daily life, Anastajah coaches people in eating and walking practices at The Ashram in Malibu. Her background is as a holistic health practitioner (since 1995), massage therapist, yoga instructor, and doula. Passionate about volunteering, she works with teens and women in recovery. Currently enrolled in the Against the Stream Facilitator 2 Training and the Spirit Rock Dedicated Practitioner Program, she is a grateful student of the dharma.

Saturday April 7, 14, 21 & 28 12noon – 2pm

Art Therapy – Transforming RECYCLED materials into ART

We want to encourage you to think of materials that end up in the trash or as recycled and unusable in a different way!  Get inspired~  Collect your plastic bags and bring to this class!!!! Here you will find out how these ‘throw away’ items can transform into wonderful pieces of art.  Stretch your creativity and imagination.  It is so wonderful and relaxing to know that each material object has multiple purposes.  We will be SHOWCASING this work into an art show at the end of the month on RECYCLED ART. Create abstract surface designs that are reminiscent of painting with plastic…. sound intriguing?  Get your ART ON PEOPLE!

Saturday April 14 @ 2pm  Wednesday 18 @ 7pm, Wednesday 25th @ 7pm

Kombucha & Mushrooms as an Elixir for Healing! Learn to make your own~

Kombucha is an effervescent tea-based beverage that is often consumed for its anecdotal health benefits or medicinal purposes.  This traditional Japanese elixir is said to detoxify the body and energize the mind.   In this workshop you will learn and be guided step by step on how to make your own.  You will be provided with all the tools and materials so that at the end of these lessons, you will have made your own KOMBUCHA!!

Sunday April 8, 15, 22, & 29 1pm- 2:30pm

Movement Therapy – Harmonize to One

Enjoy a healing approach to Movement within yourself through combinations of meditation, breathe work, visualization, vocalization and the use of music, all supporting a graceful guided journey into the discovery of meditation in movement… Awaken the mind through awakening the body is the motto to follow with the goal to bring each participant into refinement, relaxation, and to become aware and one with the simplest of movements, escalating to more explorative movements, it’s not about the movement itself, but by the acknowledgement of how each slight movement, when done consciously, affects the brain, the breath and connections in ones entire body. The awareness one has during this process in feeling conscious of all the minute parts of movement that make them up is therapeutic in creating HARMONY and WELLBEING!

We invite you to attend our free new programs (non-members are also welcome)(classes will be in the garden unless it rains, in which case they will move into the lounge)

Sound Therapy

Sat. 3  11:30am-1pm  Christo Pellani will teach powerful self-healing techniques to release stress, energize, balance, and strengthen your body, while calming and focusing your mind, by accelerating your life force energy. Guided visualization and movement to live drumming.

Introduction to Meditation

Sun. 4, 11, and 18  12pm-1:15  Our harmony of day-to-day life can easily get knocked off balance by poor diet, negative thinking, relationships, or work environments, over-working our bodies or minds, or lack of sleep, pushing us past the point where intuition can warn us something is wrong. Returning to balance can be achieved with simple techniques that will be taught.

Cleansing Your Body and Your Soul

Mon. 5  5:30pm-7 Wisdom starts with learning how to treat your body and dispel toxins to make space for healing and vibrant energy. Learn a healthy way to embark on a full-body cleanse.

Visual Art–Paint a Mural

Sat. 10  11:30am-1pm  John Park will guide you through techniques for painting and mural art (he oversaw the group painting of the mural in our parking lot).

How to Get Money to Fall in Love with You: Improving Your Relationship with Wealth

Mon. 12  5:30pm-7  Learn from an expert how to create wealth by changing your attitudes and behaviors. This will be an interactive workshop everyone can benefit from attending. David Miller is an Agape Licensed Spiritual Practitioner and is familiar with the challenges facing creating people.

Tools for Core Healing

Mon. 19  5:30pm-7  Drew Martinez and Monica Loren will teach you simple ways to promote your own healing, wellness, and happiness. Experience exercises and tools that will help anyone.

Essential Oils and Aromatherapy

Wed. 21  7pm-9  Dr. Nick and April will discuss the healing powers of essential oils, which have been used throughout history for their medicinal benefits.

Medicine Man—Plants for Spiritual Growth

Sat. 31  11:30am-1pm  A Hawaiian medicine man will bring the knowledge of the elders and his own expertise in plants and herbs to teach about benefiting from nature’s gifts. He will show how to turn a garden into an ecosystem that can sustain more life as a personal healing exercise.

You’ve all been reading the news about government crackdowns on patient associations that were allegedly not in full compliance with California state law. At the Arts District Healing Center, we are taking measures to ensure that we are in full compliance and that we are able to continue serving you for the indeterminable future. In efforts to safeguard our organization, Arts District Healing Center is re-registering all existing members and revamping membership requirements. To demonstrate private membership, all re-registering members will be required to provide membership dues at $12 a year. These funds go directly to our collective cultivation efforts. To demonstrate that our members do collectively cultivate, all re-registering members will be required to participate in some level of our collective cultivation, from soils development to flowering. All existing members have the choice to re-register no later than January 2^nd, 2012.

‘Collective cultivation is not an option; it is a prerequisite for membership. Your participation in cultivation is what directly keeps our overhead low and allows us to provide your medicine at the lowest reimbursement possible. Please do not take lightly the responsibility that comes with membership, but experience it as an opportunity for incredible personal and political growth. Our rights as patients are on the line and it is up to every member to stand up and fight. All it takes is soil, water, sunlight, and love.’