Martín Prechtel OREGON MAY 2007 SCHEDULE
	Annual Weekend Workshop and Evening Talk	Portland, Oregon
May 18th evening talk Portland Oregon	A Talk by Martín Prechtel Friday, May 18th , 7:00 pm The Little Church 5138 NE 23rd Avenue in Portland $3 to $15 sliding scale For more information, call 541-488-1192, e-mail rachrich@jeffnet.org, or check www.floweringmountain.com   download PDF brochure and Registration Form	Stealing Benefacio’s Roses (previously published in UK as The Toe Bone and the Tooth) paperback - $18.95 ORDER HERE | more info
May 19-20 workshop Portland Oregon	Come to A Workshop with Author, Singer, Healer and Teacher Martín Prechtel Saturday and Sunday May 19 - 20, 2007 9:00 am to about 5:00 pm Hillside Community Center Portland, Oregon $150 by May 1; $195 thereafter Making the Sound of the Jeweled Toad What do you do after discovering that your Heart is actually a shiny jeweled Toad trying to dig her way out of the deep hibernating ground of who your think you are? A toad whose wild noise can startle the world into life again, back from this frowning, know-it-all, self-destructive drift toward a synthetic, machine-dependent, free-fall existence in the bottomless abyss of cynicism’s insatiable hunger. What happens when each of us in our own way making our indigenous sounds together finds out that being human does not mean what we have been taught, but that we on the other hand could become a grove of never-before-seen trees whose flowers of deep and unstoppable life-giving sounds make symphonies of natural jazz that cause the real world to sing again, dream again, swim again, jump-up-doing-mysterious-things again, armed only with the unarmed courage that comes from a vision of our diverse collective natural beauty: the sounds of each of our hearts in love with life, a sound of such an irresistible character as to cause the endangered spiritual DNA of all things to jump back out of their hiding place into their normal ecstatic, semi-random exuberant enormity whose staggered flowering, fruiting, reseeding and scattering is the face of the Holy in Nature? Please come, help me, Martín Prechtel, not only to sing, but to try to ritually reseed in the ground of grief’s remembrance, the possibility of a time of hope beyond our own with the flowering of our hands and voices, driven by the magnificent spiritual pump of our dreaming hearts. All Blessings- Martín Prechtel	Frequently Asked Questions About the Workshops Go to REGISTRATION FORM click on book image for more info download PDF brochure and Registration Form
About Martín Prechtel	Martín Prechtel is a master of eloquence and innovative language, and a leading thinker, writer and teacher whose work, both written and oral, hopes to promote the subtle irony and pre-modern vitality hidden in any living language. His life, the well known subject of his previous books, Secrets of the Talking Jaguar and Long Life, Honey in the Heart, took him from his native New Mexico upbringing as a half-blood, Native American from a Pueblo Indian reservation to the village of Santiago Atitlan, where he eventually served the Tzutujil Mayan population as a full village member, becoming a principal in the body of village leaders, responsible for instructing the young people in the meanings of their ancient stories that took place in the rituals of adult rites of passage. Martín once again resides in his native New Mexico. Teaching internationally through story, music, ritual and writing, Martín helps people in many lands to retain their diversity while remembering their own sense of place in the daily sacred through the search for the Indigenous Soul. Broadly cherished, Martín’s third book, The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: Ecstasy and Time, has become a runaway, underground hit. Martín’s fourth book, Stealing Benefacio’s Roses, brilliantly continues the story of his life and visionary understandings. "The Mayan people's main and ancient job is to be beautiful and grateful. Before meeting Martín, I'd never known a representative of such a culture. But I can testify to the integrity, the massive learning, the faithfulness, the lighthearted joy and the hardworking nature of this representative." —Robert Bly "Martín Prechtel is one of the most profound teachers I have ever encountered. He is an unusually gifted artist, musician, storyteller who guides and initiates with passion, kindness, eloquence,wisdom, fierceness and humor, awakening us to the sacred realities present everywhere at all times. To be with Martín is to remember the forgotten divinity that is the very essence of who we are." —Rabbi Aryeh Hirschfield	REGISTRATION FORM Back to top of page

	Frequently asked questions regarding Martín Prechtel workshops in Portland and Ashland, Oregon
	What happens during the workshop? What is it? What we call "workshops" are really co-creative ceremonies in which we pool our creativity, griefs, ancestral inheritances, jokes, failures, and stories to create a collective offering to feed the Holy. They usually involve listening to stories, learning about layers of meaning for the various items we've gathered and brought to the event, beginning to make things for the ceremony, and compiling our individual gifts and creations into a collective offering or shrine. Do I have to come for the whole two days? Yes. Can I attend part time? No. What if I have to leave early to catch a flight or for other reasons? Please avoid leaving early. It makes things harder for Martín, tends to interfere with the ceremony, and can "orphan" partners with whom you have been working over the weekend. Please make your travel arrangements so that you can stay at the workshop until 6:00 pm on Sunday. We realize everyone has busy lives and we appreciate your sacrificing your time for this incredible event. Can I pay with a credit card? Sorry, we are not set up for credit card payments. Are scholarships available? A limited number of work-study scholarships are available. Scholarships are reserved for those who would not otherwise be able to attend. Can I bring my children? We welcome children in a spirit of village togetherness. Children under 12 can participate for free. Please be aware that there may be long stretches of sitting and listening. Do I need to have read Martín's books before attending? Reading Martín's books is not necessary, but it is very helpful in getting a context for what we are doing, and also for getting a sense of Martín's style and background. Thank You! REGISTRATION FORM Back to top of page

 

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