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Zia Parker
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Registration for the Plant Communicator Llama Trek, August 6-9 will close on July 6, so we can begin to plan for this exciting voyage into the wild world. This will be an exercise in becoming more intimate with our "back-yard"--our trailhead will be…
Registration for the Plant Communication High County Llama Trek, August 6-9 will close soon, so we can begin to plan for this exciting voyage into the wild world. This will be an exercise in becoming more intimate with our "back-yard"--our trailhead…
INSPIRATION * SUPPORT * TRAINING * NETWORKING
Plant Communication High Country Llama Trek at high country, West Boulder County
August 6, 2009 at 6pm to August 9, 2009 at 7pm
Registration for the Plant Communicator Llama Trek, August 6-9 will close on July 6, so we can begin to plan for this exciting voyage into the wild world. This will be an exercise in becoming more intimate with our "back-yard"--our trailhead will be…
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- How are you currently involved in the Transition movement?
- I've been involved as a Permaculturist and Permaculture teacher.
I will be presenting at the PC Design Course at the Jerome's place, Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture in late Sept, 08 on the subject of Direct Communication with Nature.
I attended the Boulder Transition Training 9/11-13, and many GoLocal Boulder events.
- In what ways do you identify with the Transition movement? Why are you interested?
- I love the Earth! I am the Earth!
It's time to get a move on.
This is the most practical, inclusive, pro-active, loving, intelligent family of earth-lovers I've found yet.
- What background and skills do you bring to this community?
- The thread that holds my diverse areas of focus together is working for a renaissance of Earth/Human relations.
My primary professional focus has been helping people develop healthy relationships with their bodies. My new horizon is helping people develop healthy relationships with the earth, through Permaculture and the Transition movement, and weaving love of body and love of Earth into a harmonious healthy tapestry. I'm not sure how this dance will go--but I love the challenge, and it feels like it has my name on it.
I am a movement therapist and massage therapist. I've specialized in working with pain, severe auto accidents, and helping people get the most from their bodies as athletes and musicians. I use a combination of movement education, hands-on work, and exercise. I have been fortunate to teach and learn in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas in a wide range of healing arts; including movement education, bodywork, multi-cultural dance/theater and Permaculture.
Aston-Patterning, an holistic system-oriented body therapy method is where I have hung my professional hat for over 25 years, and I'm on the Aston national faculty. Over the last 10 years, I've developed Agua Alma, aquatic bodywork & training which supports physical rehabilitation, personal growth and planetary healing.
I love the wilderness, and have been involved in llama-packing for 15 years, and offer llama-packing trips for early teens, women, and families.
I have also been involved in many social and cultural service projects, such as being the primary organizer for the Tolantongo Cross-cultural & Cross-Species Gathering in Hildago, Mexico; catalyzing the Heyteyneytah Project of the Arapaho Wind River Reservation.
I am the president of the board for Musical Missions of Peace, Cameron Powers and Kristina Sophia's inspiring work in the Arab-speaking countries as "musical ambassadors". Our current project involves setting up Arab music schools in Iraqi refugee camps in Syria and Jordan. www.musicalmissions.com
Thank you Les Squires, for "Transition Colorado", there is so much to learn from each other! The best is yet to come!
For more information, see my resume on www.ziaparker.com
- How can you help the growth/acceptance/vitality of the Transition movement?
- My main focus is developing Willow Way, 6481 N. 63rd as a Permaculture demo-site and educational venue.
We will be offering Permaculture Design courses, and Re-skilling courses.
I'm very keen on furthering cultural understanding of direct communication with nature: the elements, plants and animals. I'll continue to offer courses in this focus.
I have been into this work for a long time. I spent my 20's in British Columbia in a homesteading lifestyle which was enormously helpful in calming my nervous system, creating deep bonds with the land, and helping me see that I could get along with very little and be happy.(actually, this was one of the happiest periods of my life, even though I made an average of $300./yr). I was manager of a small health food store, and started to learn about herbs, natural food, and gardening.
Since August of 07, I've been working to create sustainable community at "Willow Way", which is en route to becoming a Permaculture model and educational venue. This is picking up a thread I was weaving with in the late 80's in West Africa with an agro-forestry project I started while in the Peace Corps. The Finca Permanente project I started was used as a model for a $2.5 million project by the EU, and several organizations collaborated to keep up with what I started, including the UNDP, UNFAO, EU, USAID as well as the Peace Corps. I had a blast with the women in our project doing improvised theater at the "Finca Permanente" seminars for local villagers.
I have been on the teaching teams of several Permaculture Design Courses: Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute, Navaho Permaculture Design Institute, the High Altitude Permaculture Design Institute, and I've shared PC techniques on the Arapaho reservation in WY.
My favorite passion is developing skills for learning and teaching direct communiction with nature. This arena is rich with new understanding, new literature and new interest. We are shedding some of our cultural amnesia, and remembering that we are human! and humans have communicated with others on our precious planet for millenia! It is only in the last blink of an eye, in terms of the evolution of life forms, that we have forgotten how to dialogue and have personal relationships of reciprocity with the elements, the plants and the animals.
- Your Favorite Books/Websites/Blogs/RSS Feeds for Information about the Transition Movement
- • “The Secret Teachings of Plants” , Stephen Harrod Buhner—Establishes the premise that opening our hearts to their full capacity as thinking organs, hormonal organs, and sensing organs can allow us to communicate with plants, as indigenous people around the world have done for many centuries. This is also a beautiful compendium of literature on the subject, with contributors throughout the ages. Thorough description of how to navigate the territory of plant-human relations.
• “Living as if the God in All Life Matters”, Machaelle Small Wright—one of the modern pioneers of plant communication. Wonderful success stories of communicating with the “devas” (energy essences) of plants for a truly collaborative gardening experience.
• “Perelandra Workbook”—“How To” from Machaelle Small Wright, and many other smaller books have followed on microbial balancing, flower essences, etc.
• “Flower Essence Repertory A Comprehensive Guide to North American and English Flower Essences for Emotional and Spiritual Well-Being”, Patricia Kaminski and Richard Katz. Published by the Flower Essence Society, this Rudolf Steiner influenced volume provides categorization by plant name as well as by physical symptoms. It also covers theoretical basis of the use of flower essences as well as it’s history. It describes how to develop relationship with plants as well as guidelines for making flower essences.
• “Intelligence in Nature”, Jeremy Narby Overviews scientific studies into intelligence in nature which are brought into relationship with Narby’s personal experiences with Amazonian wisdom about the Nature’s ways of knowing. Probes the question of what humanity can learn from nature’s economy and knowingness in its own search for a saner and more sustainable way of life.
• “The Spell of the Sensuous”, David Abrahms For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature, and they carried on active relationships not only with other people but with other animals, plants, and natural objects (including mountains, rivers, winds, and weather patterns) that we have only latelyly come to think of as “inanimate”. Weaving together deep experiences with the shamanic elders of Indonesia and Nepal, Abrahms skillfully queries, what will it take for us to recover a sustaining relation with the breathing earth?
• “Plant Spirit Shamanism”, Ross Heaven and Howard Charing Draws parallels between shamanic practices in South America, the Caribean, and Europe in regard to going beyond understanding plants for their bio-chemical properties to recognizing and learning how relate to their spiritual/energetic healing capacities.
• “Visionary Plant Consciousness”, Edited by J.P. Harpignies An anthology of discussions between Andrew Weil, Jeremy Narby, Alex Grey, Kat Harrison, Terrence McKenna, Dale Pendell and others. Many of these are taken from Bioneers conferences over many years. Discussions include psychotrophic plants and others.
"Waking the Tiger", Peter Levine--landmark work on author's trauma work, "Somatic Experiencing"
"The Body Bears the Burden", Robert Scaer--deeper into the neuro-psysiology of Peter Levine's work
"The Dreaming Body", Arnold Mindell--landmark book of pioneering "process-oriented" therapy of Mindell, establishing multi-dimensional approach to match our multi-dimensional selves
"Instinct for Freedom", Alan Clements--Theraveda Buddhism and beyond ...to individuality as map to personal freedom
"Daughters of Copper Woman", Anne Cameron--ancient indigenous wisdom
"Of Water and Spirit", Malidoma Patrice Some, Western scholar and African shaman's account of the important role of water in bridging wide spans of consciousness
"Living Water", OlofAlexandersson--views of Austrian naturalist and inventor on the essential characteristics of water relative to current environmental energy issues in our technological age
"The Chalice and the Blade", Riane Eisler--landmark book regarding pre-modern age of cooperation and peace, now recognized as the "Goddess culture"
"Plant Spirit Medicine", Eliot Cowan--reports of exceptional experiences working with shamanic traditions to access healing power of plants as energy medicine
"Talking with Nature", "Journeying into Nature", Michael Roads--reports on refined communications with nature
- Your Personal Website (if you have one)
- www.aguaalma.com; www.alpinesprings.net">http://www.willowwaywellness.com; www.aguaalma.com; www.alpinesprings.net
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- zia.parker is my Skype address
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Sustainable Community has 2 rooms available
We share a large house on 2 acres, with a lovely pond, patio, movement studio and vegetable gardens just 10 min from downtown Boulder. We are insulating, solar-izng, soil building and deepening our kinship with the land just as fast as we can! If this sounds like your path, please give a call.
The common areas to be shared include: a large living room with fireplace, a very large well-equipped kitchen. There is also a very large (about 25 x 35 sq feet) sun room that faces the koi pond & mag… Continue
The common areas to be shared include: a large living room with fireplace, a very large well-equipped kitchen. There is also a very large (about 25 x 35 sq feet) sun room that faces the koi pond & mag… Continue
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Dancing Truth Mandala at The Starhouse
December 17, 2009 from 7pm to 10pm
How do we remain centered while working for social change in a time of global crisis? This evening presents the Truth Mandala, a group practice created by scholar and activist Joanna Macy, woven together with dancing that unites us to the health and…
I am almost ready for a dress rehearsal on the presentation mentioned below. If you are free Monday afternoon, please consider attending.
Designing the Future - Dress Rehearsal at David Braden's house
December 14, 2009 from 1pm to 3pm
WINTER HARVEST: COMMUNITY POTLUCK, APPRECIATION, AND TALENT NIGHT at Boulder Elks Club
December 11, 2009 from 5pm to 10pm
A time of reflection.
A time for good cheer.
A time for friends and family.
A special time of year!
All Permies, Transitioners, Bioneers, Friends and Families are cordially invited to A Winter Harvest: Community Potluck, Appreciation, and Talent Ni…
A community of citizens that believes we have the power to build community resilience and self-reliance such that all species, now and in the future, will be able to meet their basic needs while maintaining a healthy planet.
NEW DATE! Potluck and Used Book Exchange!
WHEN: Friday, January 15th at 6 pm
WHERE: 11093 Zephyr Street, Westminster, CO
DETAILS: Bring a dish to share and bring your good used books that you don't mind exchanging or giving away. Fiction, non-fict…
UPDATE:
Due to a conflict with another event, I am changing the date of the Potluck/Used Book Exchange to Friday, January 15th.
Power of Community / Transition W/A/B Meeting at Crescent Grange
December 8, 2009 from 7pm to 9pm
Come one Come all. Power of Community - The Story of How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, 53 minutes.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba's economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half – and food by 80 percent – people we…
EVENT POSTPONED UNTIL Jan 12 "Be the Change: Turning Vision into Action" - Transition Tuesdays Continue at the Mercury Cafe at Mercury Cafe
December 8, 2009 from 7pm to 9pm
How can Denver become more resilient, sustainable and vibrant in the next 20 years?
How can you work with others today to help make that future a reality?
Join us as we take the next steps together in designing Denver’s future!
Tuesday, Dec. 8
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Do you know about the fun raiser at Studio Soma? I think you would like it!
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thanks!
I can't seem to get the web site to allow me to send you a message. Ugg. Anyway, concerning getting to know you and the living space you had mentioned:
Zia,
I have finished my DU class and now have time to dedicate to getting to know you and your friends at Willow Way. I will be going from Longmont to Boulder Friday at 7PM and could stop by for a short visit on my way to the dance at 62nd and Arapahoe. Would you be willing / able to have me drop in? thanks ... Don
I create flower and vibrational essences so I am already communicating with plants. It's an amazing connection!
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