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- Front boby tharaka@rainforestrescueinternational.org (Administrator)
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Topics
Art
- Mandalas We are all circles on the great mandala, and by changing the intensity of color, we clarify the fullness of each circle.
- Tantric Art You are invited to sign up on the mailing list to be notified of appearances and events in your area, new additions to the collection, and updates on this website.
Blogroll
- Handmade Vanilla Place an Order with Drea & Kabir by emailing the studio: mediumisthemessage(at)mac(dot)com
- Namaspirit Rideshare & Couchsurf Our studio enjoys global community, share your travels, and ours!
- Our List Think back to when people formed green peace, or that other community list that got so big and went mainstream. We have an alternative list in progress, and its going to be earth worthy!
Buying & Mail Order
- Bioverde Tea Dezengo Online Yoga Shop and Tea House
- Buy Handmade.org An online community supporting handmade art and craft people/process.
- Healing with Whole Foods with Drea Contact Drea and find out what supplements will work for you.
- Meditation Silks Handcrafted Scarves, made with all natural dyes, mail order past work or pre-order commissioned pieces to come! Contact Drea!
- Oils Source your oils from Drea and find a wide selection from many sources and options to create your own line.
Festivals
- Beloved The Oregon coastal forest venue is located a little over two hours from Portland and Eugene.
- Woven Media An event in Bali, featuring community in action via dance, art and yoga.
Food Communication
- Handcrafted Vanilla ioVerde is pleased to offer unique, rare teas that have been grown by smallholders and processed within their community from Forest Gardens of Sri Lanka.
- Healing w/ Whole Foods Catch up with Drea and interact after reading her Sacred Living Blog. Contact her via the weaving or yoga website.
- Natural Foods Friendly Things As we continue to work independently & interdependently something wonderful takes place. Unity! Creation through collaboration. Life is not meant to be lived through the blinders of fear – step out of your comfort zone & start w food!
Gems
- David Humphrey David Humphrey: collector, scholar and educator
Grants
- the-medium You must be a current Washington State resident. You can be a student or a professional.
Hand Craft
- HiiH “Hi Hi” — brings together the function of light, the craft of paper, and the art of sculpture.
- Prayer Flags The custom of flag hoisting dates back to several thousand years. It was found within the nomadic (drogpa) communities and they used to hoist flags to ensure good fortune, love and awareness.
Internet
- Internet Scraper For Scroogle, SSL is used to hide your search terms from anyone who might be monitoring traffic between your browser and Scroogle’s servers.
Music
- Giant Peach as our choice of Yoga Music Namasoul records is djing music by the Giant Peach community! This link is added as part of the new community list which we are co-creating as true independents, including record labels, yoga teachers, crafts people, artists and so on. Listen!
- Music Distribution Using the “Strength in Numbers” concept, and employing grassroots and industry tested practices, IDC has created a whole new avenue for current and next generation artists…
Natural Building
- Earthen Hands Earthen Hand Natural Building was founded in 2002 with the goals to create amazing earthen structures and empower people by training them in natural building practices.
Natural Dyes
- Aurora Silk Cheryl Kolander believes in the healing power of color that is created naturally. She offers a selection of naturally dyed, natural textiles as well as the natural dyes themselves, kits, books, articles, and free tutorials on this site to empower you in y
Nutrition and Massage
- Health & Healing W Drea Our Yoga and Namaspirit friends study massage and healing with whole foods to gain a greater understanding of the body/mind and it the energetic meridians. Drea is leading the way and is ready to give people a challenging experience of their own healing a
- Oils Source your oils from Drea and find a wide selection from many sources and options to create your own line.
Organic Tea Friends
- Bioverde Tea Dezengo Online Yoga Shop and Tea House
- Forest Garden Certification The destruction of forests and ecosystems with high biodiversity, is alarming. The responses to this situation, have been reforestation with monocultures.
- Forest Rescue Mailing list People are joining together to help the rain forest rescue efforts and friends of Bio Verde. Join the mailing list, it will not be sold, it has been created to help us get the tea into our cups! Sharing is caring!
- Handcrafted Vanilla ioVerde is pleased to offer unique, rare teas that have been grown by smallholders and processed within their community from Forest Gardens of Sri Lanka.
- Heavens Tea HEAVENS TEA, A SACRED TEA SCHOOL. PORTLAND, OREGON
- Interactive Project The internet can and should be used to learn, to build and bridge; Namaspirit has started an online project to help connect people, in support of the rain forest rescue efforts by Bio Verde Tea. Get Involved, meet some new friends and bring new awareness
- J-TEA IN EUGENE, OR J-TEA IS A TEA IMPORT COMPANY LOCATED IN EUGENE, OREGON. WE NOW HAVE A SMALL TEA TASTING ROOM WHERE PEOPLE CAN COME IN AND TASTE THE TEA.
Our Practices
- Free Tibet! Help the children in the Denang Community! Denang Monastery is located in a remote area of Golok in Amdo, Tibet where most families subsist on farming small crops and raising animals. There are currently no local schools and poverty is rampant.
- Maitripa In July, 2008, Maitripa Institute received legal authority to offer graduate degrees in Buddhist Studies in the state of Oregon. This approval means that Maitripa is now a College.
- Meher Baba Oregon This is a group that should care the most about the rain forest rescue tea, Namaspirit friends are introducing the tea and efforts to this community. So far, we know they love chai!
- Portland Shambhala The Shambhala Meditation Center of Portland is part of an international community of 165 meditation centers founded by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and led by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche.
- The Taoist Center Located in Portland, Oregon, The Taoist Center is a place where students of the Dao can gather to study, discuss and examine their connection to the Dao. The Taoist Center also provides practice space for acupuncturists, body workers and students of Asian
Photography
- Lydia Goolia Lydia Goolia has a subtle eye, and has enjoyed sharing her independent efforts in freelance photo work with us! Her impressions are gems!
- Michael Ash A dharma inspired photographer with an eye on the sacred, Ash’s body of work features sacred sites and alchemical moments from locales that truly scan the globe.
- Todd Fleming Photographing Professionally now for over 15 years….
Pottery
- Bonsai Pottery by Drea Namaspirit is a way of happening, a way of love, and our hand crafted pottery is ready for tea and friends. Schedule a viewing with Drea!
- Maverick Pottery Shop This is a new point of purchase that our yoga friends are co-creating, they support crafts people and create work from the heart!
Qi Gong
- Master Hong A western-trained physician in China, researcher, and Grandmaster of Qi Gong, Master Hong came to the United States with the mission of bringing the knowledge and experience of natural healing to the West.
- Qi Gong w Drea & Namaspirit Join the Namaspirit Yoga and Qi Gong Studio, for practice and tea.
Rainforest Rescue
- Analog Forestry Network Analog Forestry is a system which seeks to establish analog ecosystems with architectural structures and ecological functions similar to the original climax or sub climax vegetation. It also seeks to strengthen rural communities, socially.
- Forest Garden Certification The destruction of forests and ecosystems with high biodiversity, is alarming. The responses to this situation, have been reforestation with monocultures.
- Rainforest Rescue International Reintroduction of concepts of sustainable livelihood key to saving Sri Lanka’s magnificent biodiversity says rainforest expert Dr. Ranil Senanayake
Shibori
- Shibori Girl Shibori Girl will be teaching a shibori workshop at the upcoming Chicago Quilt Festival April 17, 9Am-12 Noon.
- Shibori Network The World Shibori Network (WSN) was founded in 1992 in Nagoya, Japan, as a grass roots organization dedicated to the preservation of shibori and similar traditional techniques across the globe.
Skateboarding
- Skate Portland.org A non-profit out to build skateboard parks across portland, they get up and go!
Tea Community
- Tea For Me Please Nicole Ann Martin drinks quite a bit of tea, and she shares her favorites and not-so-favorites with her fellow connoisseurs.
- Tea House Times
Weaving
- Babiks Fine Art Rugs The true handcrafted rugs use all natural dyes, hand knotted by crafts people who care about you, the earth and future generations of children.
- Lezlie King Lez trained as a weaver in Stockholm at Handarbetets Vänners Vävskola. A two hundred and fifty year old school committed to the preservation of traditional hand weaving techniques for making all varieties of textiles for the home and body.
- Namaspirit Weavings Paper weavings are an ancient way of raising up the vibration of your home and practice space. Schedule a viewing with us, we are ready to share our process and fine art with you! Contact us via the weaving studio homepage. Thank you
- Weaving Guilds ANWG is an association of fiber arts guilds located within the Pacific Northwest United States and Western Canada. ANWG does not have individuals as members but each Member Guild is composed of individuals. Individuals pay dues to their Member Guild and t
Wild Crafted
- Ojon Ojon® – “wildcrafted beauty” – The Official Website
Yoga Sessions
- Dezengo Our Yoga in TN
- Exhale Yoga The yoga community is very very large, and we enjoy recognizing each others practices and purposes. Look for Wren; free yoga friday!
- Lotus Yoga School PDX Get certified by people who are in it for the people. Enjoy events and yoga by donation.
- Luna Yoga We are Luna Yoga, a dedicated group of certified yoga instructors with the belief that yoga is for everyone.
- Peoples Yoga The Peoples Yoga is a unique low-cost community-oriented yoga studio located in the lovely Alberta Arts neighborhood.
- Yoga w Drea at Stumptown Drea is a Certified Forrest Yoga teacher who is also well-versed in Universal Yoga, Ashtanga, Vini, Ayurvedic, and Kundalini Yoga. She believes that yoga is a coming into balance and that people come to yoga for a variety of reasons.
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