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Sister
Moutique Ayodele El
Sister
Moutique Ayodele El has co-led the Jizo Peace Center's
celebrations of Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday for
the last three years. She is active in The Million Mom
March, the Greater Kern County Brady Campaign for Gun
Safety and has directed local performances of the Vagina
Monologues. She is an empathic masseuse who has facilitated
retreats and fasts in Harlem, New York. She continues
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Tomoe
Nakamura
Tomoe
Nakamura resides in Osaka, Japan and San Francisco, CA.
Ruth and Tomoe met at the 60th Anniversary of the nuclear
bombing in Hiroshima, Japan in 2005. Tomoe is the official
Japanese translator and Japanese community liason for
the Jizo Peace Center. She shares traditional knowledge
about Jizo and helped lead the Memorial Ceremony for Lost
Children in May, 2009. Currently she is pursuing a college
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Rachel
York-Bridgers
Rachel
York-Bridgers, co-leader of weekly Yoga and Meditation
at the Jizo Peace Center, has been practicing various
styles of yoga for fifteen years and teaching for six.
She finds yoga and meditation a means for nurturing inner
peace and compassion, becoming a gift we receive and give
anew. She is also a dedicated parent, partner, environmentalist,
and activist originally from Canada, now living in beautiful
Pine Mountain Club, CA.
One
of Rachel's favorite quotes:
"The universe is not a collection of objects, it
is a communion of subjects" Thomas Berry
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Sarah-Jane
SunJay Owen
Sarah-Jane
SunJay Owen, a lovely art professor, musician, yoga teacher,
and sound healer has given teachings generously at the
International Peace Day in 9/07 and also the Universal
Love Workshop in 2/08 held at the Jizo Peace Center. She
brought her large ceremonial drum “River Song”
on both occasions to include as many as 8 beaters keeping
rhythm and singing at the Peace Pole. Due to the sacredness
of the process, no photos were taken of the drumming.
Also
at both of the above events, SunJay led chakra balancing
sessions in the Jizo Meditation Room where we all lay
with our heads to the center. SunJay played a combination
of rattles, drums, and gongs that relaxed and centered
us for a nice energization and healing.
Ms.
Owen helped out with the Pine Mountain Roots and Shoots’
entry at the Chalk Festival in Frazier Park in the fall
of 2007. She outlined the tree on the pavement and showed
the children how to use chalk to create the desired affects
for bark and fruit.
SunJay’s
current schedule is listed at www.powwowlodge.com.
We
look forward to Sarah-Jane Owen sharing interesting and
enlightening activities with us again.
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Rev.
Chris Faulconer
Rev.
Chris Faulconer is the joyful Founder and Director of
the 21st Century Mystery School.* She led workshops at
the Jizo Peace Center's 9/07 International Peace Day celebration
and at the 24 Hour Peace Vigil in 8/08
After
25 years designing computer systems for aerospace and
studying with many traditional people, she developed a
Journeying process combining ancient wisdom and empowerment,
assisting individuals to connect to their own inner resources.
As an ordained minister, she is available for births,
weddings, and memorials. Her teaching and counseling practice
is located in Claremont and Pine Mountain, where she lives.
Call 661-242-1818 for more information or an appointment.
*The mission of the school is to provide practical application
of ancient wisdom teachings relevant to the modern world
and to empower ordinary people to live extraordinary lives.
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Michael
Attie, a long-time meditator, founder, and teacher of
the Don't Worry Zendo, presented his Squeezebox Swami
Show on April 13, 2007 at the Jizo Peace Center. He has
been a student of Zen, Vipassana and Advaita Vedanta for
over forty years. Mike has written several original songs
with inspirational themes to the accompaniment of accordion.
In India, in 1973, the revered Guru Neem Karoli Baba told
him to teach Dharma in the West and gave him the name
of Vivekananda. Mike also spent time meditating at a Zen
monastery on the slopes of Mt. Fuji in Japan. After a
trip to Nepal, he became the founder of Dharma Banners,
a company that designs and manufactures prayer flags of
all the worlds’ religions. He is a poet and performance
artist who has authored three books, Many Ways, Middle
Way, No Way—a Guide to Meditation, Spiritual
Awakening and Fun, This Smiling Heart—Collected
Poems, and The Love Beggars, poems 1995-2005.
He continues to lead an informal, friendly, non-sectarian
meditation group on Tuesday nights in Los Angeles as well
as an all day sitting once a month at his home at 444
Flores, Los Angeles, CA. For further information see www.dontworryzendo.com.
Mike led a privileged childhood and for a time inherited
his father's lingerie store on Hollywood Boulevard where
he became known as “The Lingerie Monk”. After
learning the trade of converting gas refrigerators to
propane, he was called “The Blue Flame” by
his neighbors in a remote area of Northern California.
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