Free & Upcoming Lectures at Gateways Bookstore

Tuesday, September 5 at 7 p.m.

with Carol Skolnick

Free Introduction to 3-part Workshop Series

Three workshops based on Byron Katie's "The Work."
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Thursday, September 7 at 7 p.m.

with Bob Stahl, Ph.D

"Mindfulness Meditation as Medicine: Working with Anxiety"

This presentation will focus on how mindfulness meditation can work with anxiety, fear and panic. Anxiety can have many names and variations some are called: worry, fear, panic, concern, uneasiness, trepidation, fright, foreboding, dread, and apprehension. By whatever name you call it, anxiety is generally and characteristically uncomfortable. Anxiety has also been shown to be precursors to various health conditions, some are: muscle-skeletal tension, insomnia, high blood pressure, migraines, skin disorders. and Gastrointestinal upsets. Mindfulness mediation can help us gain access to our own deep inner resources and we can learn to not only live with anxiety but potentially transform it.

Friday, September 8 at 7 p.m.

with James Jarvis & Leigh Wunce

Astrology Night: Creating Inner Peace

With the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars in Libra this month there is a strong urge to create harmony, balance and peace. Join James Jarvis, master astrologer & Leigh Wunce, medical intuitive for an informative and enlightening event covering this month's planetary changes and astrological techniques for cultivating inner peace . Learn more at www.lifeqwest.com and www.yourbodywisdom

Astrology Night will resume the usual second Monday of every month in October.

Monday, September 11 at 7 p.m.

with Bari Tessler

Introduction to Conscious Bookkeeping

Bari Tessler earned her masters in Somatic Psychology from Naropa University. She is a teacher, therapist, speaker and the founder of Conscious Bookkeeping. Conscious Bookkeeping's intention is to support you in living into more clarity, knowledge, intimacy, ease and success with your relationship to money and bookkeeping.

Wednesday, September 13 at 7 p.m.

with Sandra Pastorius and Kelsey Ramage

Authoring Your Own Life: Integrating the Cycles of Saturn

Astrologers Sandra Pastorius and Kelsey Ramage offer their fresh, unique insights on integrating the cycles of Saturn in our lives. Learn to develop skills and strategies for growing up and aging well, including re-structuring and being accountable, overcoming fears, and balancing our inner parents, while responding to the subtle wisdom of timing and rhythm. Everyone faces major transits from Saturn at least every seven years. This talk offers a free intro to their workshop, Integrating the Cycles of Saturn, held Saturday September 23 (for info, call 831-425-8052).
Sandra Pastorius, aka Laughing Giraffe, is a veteran Astrologer in practice since 1979, offering chart readings, mentoring and workshops. Her writing appears each year in the annual We'Moon Astrological Datebook. In the late '90's she produced three major Astrological Forums in Santa Cruz. Her forthcoming work, "The Zodiac As Medicine" is woven with years of study in the healing arts. She currently resides in Ashland, Oregon. Kelsey Ramage has been an astrological counselor for over 20 years, offering compassionate readings with intuitively focused perspectives on life path, life change, and cycles of learning for individuals and relationships. She enjoys working with all ages, including adolescents. What she loves about astrology is that it gives us language for the mysterious aspects of our lives and of our era.
Recommended books: Cosmos & Psyche - Richard Tarnas
Making the Gods Work for You - Caroline W. Casey
Saturn in Transit - Erin Sullivan

Thursday, September 14 at 7:30 p.m..

a movie by Paradise Films

"Naked in Ashes"

Friday, September 15 at 7 p.m.

Marc Allen (New World Library)

The Type-Z Guide to Success: A LAZY PERSON'S MANIFESTO FOR WEALTH and Fulfillment

How to have success with ease....
Is it possible to be successful — doing what you love to do — and still have a life of ease, with plenty of time for what matters most to you in your life? Marc Allen answers these questions with a resounding YES! — and gives us an amazingly simple four-step program anyone can implement to create success, even if you’re lazy, disorganized, inexperienced, overwhelmed, or financially challenged. You’ll leave this talk loaded with solid, easy-to-use tools for success!

Monday, September 18 at 7 p.m.

The Mystic Jamms Band

Our monthly kirtan/ bhajans night of sacred song

Music is the universal language that speaks directly to the heart, bringing peace & joy to everyone it touches. That peace and joy creates a place where healing can occur naturally... Come join The Mystic Jamms Band for a new monthly kirtan/bhajans night of sacred song. Learn more at www.karmatalk.com/JAMMS_concerts.htm

Wednesday, September 20 at 7 p.m.

with Non Violent Communication

Bring Your Fight Night

Bring your Fight Night - And you can sit back and watch Certified Trainers use Nonviolent Communication and role-play to resolve it for you. Oh so easy! Then you can ask questions, or make your own comments and contributions. Bring work situations, love, or even inner conflicts.

Thursday, September 21 at 7 p.m.

with Tama Kieves

"This Time I Dance! Creating the Work You Love"

If you’re successful doing work you don’t love, what could you do with work you do love?” Get excited with Tama Kieves, best-selling author of This Time I Dance! Creating the Work You Love. Kieves, a former Harvard lawyer, turned writer, international teaching catalyst and leading career coach, shares how she switched lives--plus proven strategies that’s helped thousands worldwide to discover and live their creative dreams. Interactive & fun! www.ThisTimeIDance.com

Friday, September 22 at 7 p.m.

with Pandit Sanjay Rath (Sagittarius Publications, 2006)

“Collected Papers in Vedic Astrology”

How Vedic Astrology Illuminates the Spiritual Path
Learn how Vedic astrology gives insight into our spiritual journey. Each participant will learn to identify the planet that represents the soul in their chart, and what lesson that planet is teaching them. Pandit Sanjay Rath comes from a traditional family of Vedic Astrolgers from Jagannath Puri, India. He was trained by his uncle in a tradtional lineage that belongs to Rishi Atri, one of the seven main sages of the Vedas. He is a prolific author and respected teacher of students world wide, and educates people in Vedic Astrology through the Sri Jagannath Center and Jagannath Institute of Vedic Astrology.

Wednesday, September 27 at 7 p.m.

with Tulku Orgyen Zangpo Rinpoche

The Tibetan Art of Dreaming

The dream world is a potent realm containing secrets to the depths of our hearts and minds. Yet we often are unable to enjoy the abundance and power of the dream. The Tibetan masters spent thousands of years perfecting ways to awaken our consciousness, using the dream world to see through this great illusion, maya, and to illuminate our true potential. These profound and subtle techniques were kept secret for hundreds of years and even today are often restricted and rare to recieve. In this evening introduction, reincarnated Tibetan Buddhist master Tulku Orgyen Zangpo Rinpoche will explain how to use the dream as a gateway to opening our hearts to others. In that compassionate environment, we will begin to explore our sense of self, learning powerful techniques to transform our experience of ourselves and our lives. Future in-depth workshops will be offered on this topic, going deeper into gaining control and lucid clarity in the dream state, unlocking the possiblity of travel to other planes of consciousness, meetings with divine beings, visionary experiences, and the blossoming of our boundless heart of tender compassion. Before he was born, TULKU ORGYEN ZANGPO RINPOCHE was prophesied to be a reincarnate awakened being. From the first years of his life he was raised a spiritual master. He spent his entire life in spiritual retreat and reflection in remote holy places of the sacred Himalayan mountains of Tibet. For 15 years he contemplated, studied, and meditated on the Buddha's teachings of wisdom and compassion with Tibet's greatest modern saint, His Holiness Jigmed Puntsok. Rinpoche has only recently come out of Asia to share the hidden teachings of his spiritual legacy. He now resides in Santa Cruz, California and is the founder of the Compassion Fellowship, an organization dedicated to sharing the wisdom of compassion.

Thursday, September 28 at 7 p.m.

with David and Sabrineh Fideler

“Love's Alchemy : Poems from the Sufi Tradition”

Rumi is not alone, but an extraordinarily great representative of a vast, thousand-year-old tradition of Persian mystical poetry < a magnificent, still-living tradition that speaks a common language. In this presentation, David Fideler will explore some central symbols of Persian Sufi poetry and discuss how, according to the Sufi tradition, the path of love can lead us beyond our limited selves. David and his wife Sabrineh will also read and perform short poems from the Sufi tradition, in both Persian and English, with musical accompaniment on Persian instruments. About the presenters David Fideler, Ph.D., is a student of Sufism and Persian mystical poetry. Sabrineh Fideler is a native speaker of Persian and holds a degree in Persian–English translation from Azad University in Tehran. Their book, Love’s Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, is being published in Spring2006 by New World Library and contains many works of Persian Sufi poetry and many Persian poets < never before translated into English.

About Gateways

A Nonprofit, Independent Bookseller

Gateways Books, Gifts and Music is a nonprofit store founded in 1978 dedicated to providing support for people on the path of mindful living. We are devoted to creating a better world that fosters both inner and outer peace and in which the interconnectedness of all things is a primary value. Profits from Gateways support the philanthropic activities of the Hanuman Fellowship, a nonprofit corporation inspired by teachings of Baba Hari Dass, a master teacher of yoga philosophy and practice. In addition to Gateways, the fellowship sponsors a number of projects, including Sri Ram Ashram, an orphanage for 50 destitute and orphaned children, a school for 300 children and a medical clinic in Haridwar, India.