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News and
Events
soma earth is
about guiding others to listen deeply, grow into, and become
co-creators with Nature. Through eco-architecture, wilderness
retreats, body mind therapy and building SOUL teachings,
interviews & writings, soma earth seeks to bring integration
between human beings, NATURE and their own true nature.
soma earth ARCHITECT is a pioneering architectural
firm emphasizing HEALTHY, EMF-FREE, NON-TOXIC, ENERGY EFFICIENT,
NATURAL building materials & systems for GREEN, SUSTAINABLE,
ECO-ARCHITECTURE - new buildings as well as renovation
projects. We are also passionate about designing spaces that are ALIVE
and full of SOUL!
design
from the inside out
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Ingrid Cryns - Eco-Architect
"Hauling my own wood out of a forest from a generous
client's property, for the Green Living Show booth"
Upcoming APRIL events - APRIL IS LOOKING LIKE A VERY
BUSY MONTH!
ECSTATIC TRANCE POSTURES WORKSHOP
THURSDAY APRIL 16, 6:30 - 9:30 PM
Come TOMORROW NIGHT to another monthly
experiential workshop, Ecstatic Trance Postures, at
WONDERWORKS, 79A Harbord
Ave. (just west of Spadina, south of Bloor). We highly recommend that
you try one at least once. Wake up to your more intuitive right
brain and explore the shamanic worlds of alternative realities. For
more detail scroll to the bottom of this email. They are
EXTREMELY FUN and enjoyable. ........read more below
TOTAL HEALTH SHOW
FRIDAY APRIL 17, 4 PM - SUNDAY APRIL 19, 6 PM
My good friend, Helen McLellan, is hosting her TOTAL HEALTH SHOW again this
coming weekend at the North Building, Metro Toronto Convention Centre,
255 Front St. West, Toronto. I highly recommend that you take the
time to visit and learn how to empower your own health and healing with
her many talks and explore the exhibits.
GREEN LIVING SHOW
FRIDAY APRIL 24, 10 AM - SUNDAY APRIL 24, 6 PM
Make sure you block off the
time to visit us in person at our booth (#2322) at the upcoming GREEN LIVING SHOW, NEXT WEEK
FRIDAY at the Direct
Energy Centre, CNE. Please
mark your calendars for this great event in ONLY 1 week from now, where
you can meet vendors in all areas of your life who live & create
passionately to make our world a better place through innovative,
sustainable products.
I am very excited to announce that I will be launching
my new, self-published, book , soma earth HOME ENERGETIC BALANCING at 10 AM at the Green Living Show. Scroll down
for more info. about this book below........
We have also established a wonderful creative alliance
with The
Fourth Pig - a non-profit educative
and natural builder worker co-operative who will be assisting in
building and sharing our booth. We are very excited to be
working with Co-founder, Melinda Zytaruk and her fellow
workers! We are designing our booth together to be built with all
natural, sustainable, local round log & recycled woods, lashed with
hemp rope and pegged together without any nails! We will
have a small scale model of a strawbale wall and are also creating full
scale a wattle
& daub wall with natural
plastering demonstrations occurring throughout the weekend. It
should look stunning and we are very excited to have started building
it today! [Here
you can read about what we designed for our booth last year]
BUILDING BIOLOGY
I am now in the training program to become a Certified
Building Biology Practitioner
(BBP). Just came back from a FANTASTIC workshop with Paula
Baker-Laporte........Scroll
down for more info. about this below........
Stay tuned for the next month's newsletter where we will
start our mini-series articles about the various stages of what the
steps are and what to look out for when creating your dream, off-grid,
natural & sustainable home. Here
is a link to the start of one of the
ways we plan to be informing you about......
And finally, If you or anyone you know is considering
buying property, please feel free to contact me or to forward this
email ASAP as there are multiple considerations to be aware of BEFORE
you buy your land that you may not know about. In our following
newsletters we are starting a series of articles to give you tips on
what these beginning steps are and what to look out for at each stage.
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BOOK LAUNCH
Green Living Show
10 AM, April 24, 2009
CNE, Toronto, Ontario
Come meet us at the Green Living Show where I
will be launching my latest book, soma earth HOME ENERGETIC
BALANCING. The book is a collection of several years of experience
in working with how to clear the energies in my home that I finally
decided would be a great thing to share with others. It's
intended as a loose guide, kind of like a cook book, with 21 different
possibilities that you can put together on your own of what might
attract you to do for yourself. My intention is to empower people
with more awareness of how their inner world is influenced and affected
by their outer world environments. This is all part of my building
SOUL mission that my blog is about as well.
Here is an excerpt from the book's Introduction;
"Your home is anywhere YOU are. It is the
home within you and the home around you - in your sleeping place or
your work place. Your energetic home is about how you interact
with the many invisible layers of your reality and your outer
environment. There are numerous methods and modalities that can
balance the unseen energies in your home, office or even your
land.
soma
earth HOME ENERGETIC BALANCING helps you to live
in harmony with your environment rather than unknowingly 'swimming'
against it. My goal is to help you to create a different reality
by cleansing and dissolving blocks that you may not even know
about. Sometimes we don't need to actually know all those
details, just knowing how to keep things clear and flowing is all that
is necessary. You can enhance or shift your destiny or your
physical condition if you know how to pay attention to your environment
and the relationship that this has to your personal life, health and
fortune. The purpose of this book is to show you a variety of
choices and give you tools as well as the freedom of how to combine
them in ways that match best in terms of who you are and what you
prefer. The intention is as a continuously growing and living
record of the methods that I have discovered on my own path and journey
of healing my physical body, which in turn led me to an awareness of
the need to heal and balance the spaces that I live and work
in."
For more information please contact Ingrid at: info@somaearth.com
416-656-4444
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Eco-Nest House, Riverside Retreat Farm, Durham, Ontario
Building Biology
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I recently enjoyed a fantastic 2 day workshop on Building Biology at Riverside (where the only Eco-Nest in Ontario is
built). I am deeply inspired by Architect Paula Baker-Laporte, of
Eco-Nest, who designed this house (which you can rent as a cottage to
experience it!) and Joshua Thorton, of Natural
Building, who built it. I've had Paula's book on my bookshelf for
years, treat it a bit like a 'bible' for my work and have typed up her
building specification notes throughout the book, to use in my work -
especially for chemically sensitive/environmental illness clients.
What is a Building Biologist you ask? From the Building Biology Institute
website;
"A Bau-biologist is a researcher, architect,
engineer, and doctor, all in one. He or she offers a preventive and
healing medicine and a creative and unifying influence. A Bau-biologist
is a worker in the global effort to solve the problems that come from
modem ways of building and settlement planning-ways that disregard
nature and human culture.
To work for a better and more beautiful world is an extraordinary,
necessary, and satisfying job. The goal is:
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to regain order
and harmony in our surroundings,
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to restore the
balance between nature, our buildings, and ourselves to help build
bridges for the realization of a world that is ecologically
oriented."
I highly recommend everyone should take a workshop with Paula
Baker-Laporte and meet her in person. Paula grew up in
Toronto and her mother still lives here, so she will be coming to
Ontario regularly. She went to U of T for her architecture degree
and knew a number of people from that 'era' of my life, from my
early '20's, really well! Her body of work is profound for me and
I am so grateful that I decided to take this course and get even
better at what I love doing. I am now officially in a training
program to become a Certified Building Biology Practitioner (BBP).
For more info, pictures and weblinks, click
to my blog here
I will be selling her books, Eco-Nest & A
Healthy House, at the Green
Living Show, April 24 - 26, 2009 - I highly recommend both of them -
let me know if you want one.
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Ecstatic Trance Postures
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March/2009
Thursday,
April 16, 2009
Next workshop dates are:
Wed. May 13, 2009
Wed.
June 17, 2009
LOCATION:
WONDERWORKS, 79A Harbord
Ave. (just west of Spadina, south of Bloor)
Free or by Donation +/- $25
"I
recall going to your class a long, long time ago, and to this day, I
love trees (I was a tree and a frog in your class), as I have so much
appreciation for trees and frogs now. It's amazing how your class
has changed my life, literally. Your teaching of the class feels
so very safe, and sacred, and the altered state (as strange as it is,
and somewhat a bit scary, as I love control), this class does wonders
for me."
- S.Hurst, Toronto
Ecstatic Trance Postures
There are over 75 possible postures & always a new posture in each
workshop. An exploration of specific body postures that act as a
biological door, or gateway to the Alternate Reality while in a trance
state. Experience the science of ecstatic body feeling.
Learn from direct experience & raise your immune system.
Possible types of experience:
- A
profound sense of joy and deep love
- An
increase of energy & immune system boost
- An
absorbing or clearing of emotional and/or physical toxins
- Receiving
a flow of healing energy
- A
direct experience of being a plant or animal, or
- A
journey to lower world, middle world or upper world
realities, or
- Divination
- Hearing advice or given images to interpret as advice
Experience the
science of Shamanism & ecstatic body feeling. While sitting or
standing in a very specific posture, listening to a rattle shake in a
steady manner for only 15 minutes, participants enter into a trance
state. The rattle allows an "acoustic driving" affect that
blocks the verbal left hemisphere of the brain and opens access to the
intuitive right hemisphere. The postures act as a biological door,
like a gateway in our body to allow us to open up into the 'Alternate
Reality'. It is about learning from direct experience.
There are over 50 known postures labeled in groupings
such as: Healing, Divination, Metamorphosis, Spirit Journeys,
Initiation: Death and Rebirth, Living Myths, and Celebration.
It
is about learning from direct experience.
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Contact Information
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Ingrid Cryns
416.656.4444
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Building SOUL BLOG
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A forum for
innovative discussions connecting individuals globally about what are
healthier, green, sustainable, soul-full ways of living, savouring the
flavours of the soul as expressed in art, music, poetry and architecture.
Through the format of a BLOG-zine, documenting our
journey in co-creating soul-filled living spaces, we intend to inspire
as well as create a focus for learning new ways to live on the earth in
greater harmony with all.
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