Saturday, April 14

1pm-doors

last session 7:30

$24 for non-members

$9 for members

(a savings of $15 each event!)

2012 is off to a great start as we begin our 3rd year of offering Days of Renewal. We couldn’t do these healing days without the healers who give of their time and skill to work with our guest.

Are you a healer who wants to connect into more community? Are you interested in Terra’s Temple and want to be of service? Our next Day of Renewal is coming up this Saturday and we are stil seeking a few more folks to give of their time in the “later” shift: 3:30-8, last session at 7:30.

If you are available please contact Temple Priestess April C. Taylor at magikal1act

Join Ashely Apple of the Yoni Temple co-hosted with April C. Taylor of Terra’s Temple for an intimate and fun evening exploring the depths of our bodies and beings.

From Ashely: “Understanding the female physical sexual anatomy introduces us to the importance of vaginal muscle control and strength. Creating a relationship with our yoni’s helps women connect their heart/mind to their sex. Explore how to cultivate more pleasure with muscle control while strengthening the reproductive organs in this intimate circle of women.”

Tuesday, February 21
Gather at 6:45
Circle at 7pm
Closing by 9pm

Please, as always, wear red as you wish, and bring easy snacks share following our circle.
RSVP to April C. Taylor (Temple Priestess): magikal1act@gmail.com

We are asking for a $5-10 donation to cover costs.

Ashley Apple is a clinical herbalist, alchemist, licensed esthetician and yoga teacher with a passion for exploring energy expansion and the awakening of Consciousness. She lived in Thailand and India for four years studying and teaching Tantra yoga, holistic nutrition and herbalism. Presently, Ashley lives in Berkeley, CA, teaching workshops and retreats on whole foods nutrition, sacred sexuality, alchemy with herbal medicine and Tantra yoga. She is the founder of The Yoni Temple in Oakland, an intimate waxing boutique and educational space for exploring the feminine mysteries. www.TheYoniTemple.com

Ashley will be teaching a workshop the weekend following our Red Tent:https://www.facebook.com/events/291117860953187/

She is offering participants $10 off her workshop! Jade eggs are for sale too: $50

St. Valentine’s Day Special Offer: Bring a
beloved friend or partner to receive $5 off one admission!

Day of Renewal

Nourish the Body, Mind and Spirit
Saturday
February 11
1- 8 pm

$24 non-members
$9 members
St. Valentine’s Day Special Offer: Bring a
beloved friend or partner to receive $5 off one admission!

In service to the well-being of ourselves, our communities and the world, Terra’s Temple invites you to a Day of Renewal. Join us for a day of wonderful healing, connecting to source and replenishing.

Our Healing Day offers you the opportunity to attend to your most sacred space- your self. Drink from the well of source and take the time to simply be- with your self, in your body, with others and with the divine. We have a host of new practitioners ready to help you in your healing journey. Come receive various sessions in massage, energy work, counseling, life coaching, intuitive readings, tarot and much more. Tend to your own well- being, listen to and make music, connect with others, sip our special Temple Tea and rejuvenate yourselves!

Become a member on Renewal Day and get in free!

Bring a snack to share!

Take advantage of this fabulous opportunity and arrive early to allow yourself the time to fully embrace the healing that Terra’s Temple offers.

*a gentle wink here*
Given the ever- growing popularity of this event, we ask everyone to be mindful of their session sign-ups. This will ensure that everyone has an opportunity to partake in the day of renewal. Maximize your experience with potent sessions of quality not merely quantity. Allow time to meditate and integrate.

Our first Day Of Renewal for 2012 will be on Saturday, February 11, 2012. More information to follow but if you are healer who would be interested in joining our growing community and featuring your skills please read on and be in touch with Temple Priestess, April C. Taylor, magikal1act@gmail.com for more information.

Blessed Be!

We are seeking healers of all sorts for this healing day.   The day goes from 1pm-8pm with two shifts.

Here is info to summarize:

• The Day of Renewal is an awesome opportunity to showcase your healing work or modality
• You can do 10-20 minute mini sessions. Designed to introduce your work to someone new.
• Day of Renewal begins at 1pm, and in spite of our continual encouragement to arrive early to partake in the most, we often have a slower beginning.
• We encourage everyone, healers and guests to bring snacks to share and as always there will be some yummy Temple tea concoction brewing on the stove.
• If you have business cards or other promotional material, feel free to bring them and allow this to be a time to showcase your work and talents.Please also share this event with your own clients, friends and circles.

Elzbeth Gould (13 Moon Mystery School) and April C. Taylor (Terra’s Temple Priestess) are creating an evening for women of all ages. We are inviting grandmothers, mothers and daughters, aunts and nieces, caregivers and friends to come and share in the magic of women’s spaces and the power of the Red Tent movement. “What does it mean to grow up as a girl into a woman?” “How do we support one another through the changes tides of life as a human female?” “What are the stories and thoughts we can share from our varied prospectives?” Join us and bring a young woman to share this experience with you.

Please wear red and bring snacks to share beforehand. This event is open to all women but we would appreciate knowing you are coming. Please RSVP April: magikal1act@gmail.com

New Moon night

Monday, January 23, 2012

Gather at 6:45

Circle at 7pm.

Closing by 8:30 (since it is a school night)

Donations to the Temple appreciated ($5-20)

Future Red Tent Temples: Feb 21 and Mar 22, 2012. More info soon…

We are seeking healers of all sorts for this healing day.   We have only one shift: 11:30-5 with a break in the middle of the day.

Here is info to summarize:

• The Day of Renewal is an awesome opportunity to showcase your healing work or modality
• This is a special free day for teachers.
• You can do 5, 10, 15 or 20 minute mini sessions.
• Day of Renewal begins at 12 pm and in spite of our continual encouragement to arrive early to partake in the most, we often have a slower beginning.
• We encourage everyone, healers and guests to bring snacks to share and as always there will be some yummy Temple tea concoction brewing on the stove.
• If you have business cards or other promotional material, feel free to bring them and allow this to be a time to showcase your work and talents.

  Please also share this event with your own clients, friends and circles. I know I have spoken with a bunch of you already, so please disregard this email but if you are interested in volunteering this month and have yet to speak with me, please contact me, Sefora, at sefora@terrastemple.com or 510-601-6198

As a priestess of Wicca and a student of Ifa, this time of year is wonderful and divine for me. I have come to understand the circle of life and the thin line between the living and the dying. That’s what this time of the year is for me.

The other night I was sitting with my fellow sister priestess’s of Terra’s Temple. We were telling the tales of our ancestors remembering those that we have already connected to or hoping to connect with on a deeper level.

I recall my story one of  my own desire to connect with my paternal grandmother who was lost to the family when my father was 11. I never knew her, like so many in my extended family that left before my birth.

The roots of my family tree are deep and dark. They reach across the Pacific to the lands that have colonized by Kings and Queens from so many other nations. The roots branch out over this land, digging deep to the indigenous souls that are still walking this earth. There are places where the roots go to that I don’t even know and can’t imagine.

These peoples are the peoples that are unknown to me. I don’t know their names and I don’t know their faces. I have no information or family documents to pull out of the archives. I only have access to the manifestos of the slave ships – bearing their real names transformed to suit the needs of their buyers. Even this information is difficult to decipher.

I’m speaking about this not as a way to depress folks here. No, on the contrary. I’m speaking about this as way help those who may have the same disconnect, grief and potential struggle with the unknown ancestor.

I wouldn’t say that I am struggling. I’ve let go of that some time ago because of an amazing experience I had over seven years ago when the struggle, disconnect and grief were eased.

It happened on the night before I was to fully step into my path of study in Ifa.

I dreamt that I was walking down a dirt path. In front of me was a large and beautiful brightly colored wooden gate. I remember feeling as if I were heading somewhere I had known but had never been. The gate opened…and behind those ancient doors were so many beautiful dark skinned people with beautiful smiles just for me. I was welcomed into this old, old family with the love of a thousand unknown ancestors.

They knew me…deeply, and I knew them deeply.

I still don’t know their names. But it doesn’t matter. They know me.

If you have gaps in your ancestral lineage, if there are those in your family tree that are unknown or intentionally forgotten, I would like to offer that they know you even if you have no photos or names to connect with here on this plane. They know you because they saw your birth even though you didn’t see their death.

If you can please consider taking time in these sacred nights to honor your unknown ancestors as well as the known. Light candles to them and call to those that are most bright and loving — they will come and love you back. They may have been waiting for you just as mine were waiting for me – with joyous, loving and open arms.

Blessings to you and all that you love.

Makenna in Spirit

I write this a their child and as the future ancestor to many other children – following my path.