Immerse yourself in a healing session with meditative live guitar music.
Bring your favourite blanket and a pillow if you like. Join us in dreamy relaxation, allow your mind to drift with soft meditative guitar music, deep into a warm and comforting space for your healing to begin...

What can you expect from the session? Calming deep relaxation, clarity of mind- ease of decision making, balanced energy system and chakras, softening of aches and pains..... clear pathways to creativity!

Where:  The College Project, Marksbury Road BS3 5JJ
When: Monday 23 April 19:30 -21:30
Cost: £10 /£8 concessions

Length: 1 hour 15mins followed by sharing feedback over a cup of tea and feel free to bring some healthy tasty nibbles to share.

* There are now only 3 spaces available so please if you would like to be 
part of this unique session book quickly to avoid disappointment!  Or contact us to put your name down ready for the next session 

Healer Saru Solan offers one to one 'Soup For The Soul' - a holistic session tailored to your needs... optimal, relaxation, healing, pain relief. The opportunity to take some much welcomed 'me time' using a variety of massage and healing techniques to create the perfect blend for your health. 
Aura readings and spirit guide paintings. She is based in both Long Ashton & Southville.
www.sarusolan.com 07500 907 068

Musician Jacob Morrison gives private guitar and ukulele lessons in Long Ashton & Southville, and is available for ukulele workshops. He is a multi-instrumentalist who performs with the likes of the Pindrop Band, Ilya, and Bex Baxter, amongst others around Bristol. www.jacobmorrison.com 

07905 743 956  

Karl Belizaire from UnLtd, the national youth charity, will be talking about the UnLtd Awards for young social entrepreneurs.
All welcome! We have free tea and biscuits. Please RSVP to alastair@schumacherinstitute.org.uk 

Esther O'Callaghan OBE from the Factory  Foundation will be talking about her work with disadvantaged youth focusing on careers within the music industry.
Esther O'Callaghan is one the country's leading social entrepreneurs, having helped to start the Factory Foundation - an off-shoot of the legendary Factory Records, which was pretty much responsible for the Madchester scene of the early-90s, if you are of that generation.
This is the first talk Social Capitalist is putting on in the OP space. SC is a new volunteer-programme by the Schumacher Institute. 

You are all invited if you can make it, and it would also give you a chance to learn more about SC's first project the North Street Spring Fayre happening 19th May. 

http://www.facebook.com/events/378445998863129/

Immerse yourself in a healing session with meditative live guitar music.
Bring your favourite blanket and a pillow if you like. Join us in dreamy relaxation, allow your mind to drift with soft meditative guitar music, deep into a warm and comforting space for your healing to begin...

What can you expect from the session? Calming deep relaxation, clarity of mind- ease of decision making, balanced energy system and chakras, softening of aches and pains..... clear pathways to creativity!

Where:  The College Project, Marksbury Road BS3 5JJ
When: Monday 23 April 19:30 -21:30
Cost: £10 /£8 concessions

Length: 1 hour 15mins followed by sharing feedback over a cup of tea and feel free to bring some healthy tasty nibbles to share.

* There are now only 3 spaces available so please if you would like to be 
part of this unique session book quickly to avoid disappointment!  Or contact us to put your name down ready for the next session 

Healer Saru Solan offers one to one 'Soup For The Soul' - a holistic session tailored to your needs... optimal, relaxation, healing, pain relief. The opportunity to take some much welcomed 'me time' using a variety of massage and healing techniques to create the perfect blend for your health. 
Aura readings and spirit guide paintings. She is based in both Long Ashton & Southville.
www.sarusolan.com 07500 907 068

Musician Jacob Morrison gives private guitar and ukulele lessons in Long Ashton & Southville, and is available for ukulele workshops. He is a multi-instrumentalist who performs with the likes of the Pindrop Band, Ilya, and Bex Baxter, amongst others around Bristol. www.jacobmorrison.com 

07905 743 956 

"Be your own medicine" 

This event is a unique opportunity to see how the Elements of Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Space can be engaged to restore and keep us balanced, using a wholesome approach to Yoga.

Anyone who is interested in yoga is welcome.
This workshop is a multi-dimensional concept, and can be applied beyond yoga practice and teaching, bodywork and therapy, into the needs of modern daily life. It uses the human subtle energy systems, brought to you in a very playful way, so even if your yoga practices are still quite basic, this way of experiencing yoga will inspire you to understand & chose which are the appropriate practices for you.

Elemental yoga is a fun and interactive exploration of the 5 forces and shows how simple it is to bring the wise Medicine of Nature's Elements into the spirit of Yoga ritual.

The most effective forms of therapy educate us in the nature of our imbalance while encouraging us to become responsible for the conditions we are experiencing. We teach a dynamic form of natural diagnosis, a Self-practice based vibrational medicine, and approach every condition from the objective and creative view of the Elements in Nature.

Elemental Yoga Therapy is a complete system that will gain reliable results for any imbalanced health condition, and was created by the teachers of Swara Yoga School, who have implimented it with consistant clinical success for over 10 years.

To receive a newsletter about our vision for Community Health Care and read more about ongoing study opportunities in longer courses visit www.swara-yoga.com

How to book:
Email Gayle at: innersmilemassage@gmail.com
Call Gayle: 07825683440
Full cost: £160 (deposit £60 in advance) 

The College hosts regular open days, talks, discussions & performances.
Sundays - Day long talks with films and food, covering a range of subjects.
For regular updates follow us on this website or visit our facebook page. 

Greetings beautiful people, due to the great success of the last event we are happy to announce that we are able to continue with our intention of bringing quality events to the community near and far on a regular basis. 

If you are interested in getting involved i.e. performing, volunteering, running a workshop or setting up a stall, please email asafogyata@gmail.com as soon as possible. Also If anybody took pictures of the last event can they please send them to us.

Prison Break is a project raising money and awareness for a number of charities, including The Prison Reform Trust, Amnesty and Clean Break.

Over March 2012 a number of events will be hitting the streets of Bristol, culminating in a huge experiencial performance / immersive game, giving 120 audience members a night a taste of a prison experience - from which only the most daring and brave may escape.

The Prison Break organisers are looking for support and collaboration with College Co-creators, email lydiacoenmason@gmail.com if you would like to get involved.
http://www.prisonbreak.org.uk/get-involved/ 

25th March, 2012
10am-5pm
Cost: £20

Book your place by emailing: jackeehughes@hotmail.com 

Artist and performer Raisa Breslava will lead a lab where she will take teenagers on a journey of finding and activating their unique inner power and confidence. Using physical movement, games, improvisation and performance devising techniques she will illustrate and awaken the groups' Tools for Empowerment. Some of these tools include: Trust, Awareness, Responsibility, Intuition and the power of Vulnerability.

Raisa Breslava is an innovative new artist, born in Latvia, graduated recently from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, with 1stclass honours and is now working across many disciplines from Physical Theatre and dance to Performance Art and Fine Art. No matter what medium or form her work takes, her primary concern is for it to be a catalyst for uncompromisingly honest self-reflection.

For more info on Raisa: 
http://www.raisabreslava.com/sessionsworkshops.html

…to Playfully unlock your Creative Potential and get what's inside you OUT...
… Connect yourself fully to your Wholeness and Reawaken your playful and inspired genius…
…..Dissolve and Release negative beliefs and patterns that have limited you or stood in your way….
“…a polite warning; prolonged exposure to Jamie Catto could blow your mind…” The Daily Telegraph

Experience 2 Days of techniques, processes and discussions gathered from Jamie Catto's 20 years of making films and albums around the World with like-minded, inspiring fellow creators to kickstart you projects and bring your great ideas into the material World.

"Jamie Catto is kind, wise, open, boundlessly energetic, optimistic and passionate. His musical skills - while formidable - are trumped by his remarkable ability to light fires under otherwise reluctant people. I adore him." Stephen Fry

Jamie Catto, Creator, Producer/Director of the multi-award winning global 1 Giant Leap films and albums and founder member of Faithless is now leading uniquely transformative workshops. Drawing from his ground-breaking filming, recording and philosophy voyages across all 5 continents, he is weaving the project-building Productions skills with soulful and purely creative techniques and exercises to spark both Professional and Personal breakthroughs.

"A genius film-maker." Bono
EMAIL: jamiecatto@mac.com for more info
"A genius film-maker." Bono

Manifesto
We want to put our own selves into the work. We want to create a movement of introspection and self inquiry where the viewer becomes the subject of the piece
It’s about you. If we dare to show ourselves in all our raw glory, really express what’s going on in the chaos and the shadows then we have a chance to connect to something real in our audience. Because when I talk about me, you’ll hear about you.
We turn up to work every day pretending we’re not neurotic and obsessed and insatiable and full of doubt. And we waste so much energy keeping up this mutual pretence for each other because we think if people saw the truth, if people really knew what was going on in our heads, all the crazy truth of our dark appetites and self loathing, then we'd get rejected.

But in fact, the opposite is true. It’s when we dare to reveal the truth that we unwittingly give everyone else permission to do the same. To be here, present, vulnerable and authentic. We’re on a mission to make self-reflection hip for just a moment, just long enough to save us. If we can all collectively acknowledge our insanity, the amount of energy we’ll inherit that has been wasted on the mask will be enough to creatively solve any global crisis.

more info in its way...

Imagine... a global network of women working together to support the greatest shift of behaviour that humanity has ever seen - the shift  from dominating life, to honouring and co-creating with nature; the shift away from patriarchal dominance to balanced leadership that values the feminine and seeks to protect life on Earth.

Women are wired to collaborate, to care take, to serve the community, to ensure well being and to lead from the heart. Our qualities and leadership are needed now more than ever. TreeSisters is about harnessing our gifts to bring about the scale of change needed to rebalance our relationship with nature, and ensure the safety of our children

Shakti Dance with Kate, Singing circle with Chloe, Transfiguration meditation with Silvia, Massage & Yoga with Gayle & Marinella... & a whole lot more! 

Come to share in connecting with our beautiful Earth's support, warmth, to nourish & celebrate community.http://www.treesisters.org/For info contact katejoyner@hotmail.com

For information, please phone  07974 889 615      
email  info@campus-skatepark.co.uk
or visit http://campus-skatepark.co.uk 

Every full moon, whatever day of the week it falls on, we're having a feast. Everyone is welcome. For no other reason than it will be perfectly joyful. Simply bring a little food to share. Salad, breads, a bag of oranges, a large bowl of peas, cake. Whatever you feel like eating! 
A guideline is to bring no more of one thing that you could possibly eat yourself and then share with everyone - we don't really want lots of spare food at the end of the night. 

Kirtan is part of the path of Bhakti (Devotional) Yoga. The repetition of meditative and ecstatic Sanscrit chants is a powerful and deeply transformative practice, quieting the mind, opening the heart and taking us deeper into Silence.
No previous experience of chanting or singing is necessary. Please bring a cushion and a blanket. This will be a regular session on the 2nd Thursday of each month.

"Tim’s voice echoes the luminosity of true devotion and the passionate fire in the heart of a contemporary mystic, bringing us home to the source - silence" -  Chloe Goodchild, Founder of The Naked Voice
For more information visit www.timchalice.com or e-mail Tim at om@timchalice.com.

Featuring: Jez riley French - field recordist, composer, listener. 
Matt Davies who works with random composition and live field recordings.
Kathy Hinde wil present ‘Piano Migrations’ - a piano played by birds.Matthew Olden responds with his own live sampling software, the ‘jungulator’.

on early bird offer until feb 18th tickets at £149, then priced at £199  
Do you want to learn Spanish but don't have the time or energy for weeks of study? What if you could get conversational in just two days? Wecome to a whole new world of learning – the way that will unlock your Inner Spark and have you speaking new languages and learning new skills faster than you ever thought possible!

The application of just some of the methods incorporated in the Inner Spark accelerated learning courses enables children in a pioneering school in southern Russia to cover the ENTIRE 7 year secondary syllabus in JUST 2 YEARS.
With the addition and application of the best full brain/full body learning and research techniques, this model is taken to an even higher level, allowing language to be learned to conversational level in JUST 2 DAYS, and GCSE level in JUST 5 DAYS.
The surprising thing about Inner Spark curriculum content is that not only will you learn a language faster than ever before, but also pick up martial arts, yoga and singing skills, because these activities are what support you in learning the language quicker! At the end of the first day of Inner Spark Spanish,  this is what one student had to say - 'I just feel great, I am so taken by everything that I learnt today, the great experience, the wonderful people. I am learning so much, not just Spanish. It's awesome. I am so happy. Thank you.' Ana Capone.

Students will also receive 21 days of online follow-up Spanish lessons to review their learning. Daily emails with 15 minute exercises and mini versions of the course. 
There are only 9 places available.
If, by the middle of the first day, you don’t feel the course is offering you amazing value, we’ll even offer you your money back in full.

'I have been teaching Spanish this weekend, together with Tanya's programme and Tanya's method. I am completely amazed by how much people have learnt in such a short space of time. It is very rewarding and very encouraging. The method is fantastic and I'm ready to learn more.' Anne Marie Gravil, Spanish Teacher.

It's been  one year since the College was locked & boarded up. It is now a thriving centre for the community, Come to celebrate with us! The structure of the day will be: 
Creative workshops in the day (2-4.30pm). 
- Combining Movement, Rhythm, Music & Martial arts. - Asafo Gyata - Amanzi & Ka-zimba
- A singing workshop - Chloe Laing - Creation sounds
- Bicycle drawing and making bread on an open fire - Rachel & Guy - APE project
- Cutlery making - Aeddon - Umbrella services
Creating a peoples circle discussion around the communities involvement in the future development of "The College' (5-7pm) 
Some fantastic live performances from an eclectic mix of seasoned and up & coming Artists from Bristol & London including :A warm-up by the African Sambistas, Moussa, Creation Sounds, Sousa, Nubian Sunshine, Kev da Poet,YCG, Alex the Triangulator, Sicnis & more to follow.... (7.30 -10pm)
Massage & other healing practices will be available throughout the event in the Healing area. 2-5pm
We will also be selling glorious home cooked food including fresh pizza's from our fabulous Cob oven!

For more info don't hesitate to contact Asafo Gyata on 07960 742691 orasafogyata@gmail.com 
We are asking for donations for this event with 1/3 of the money going directly to support the work of ISBO, (see the link below) http://www.peoplesorganizing.org/index.html , 

Public speaker and independent brain researcher Wai H. Tsang returns to Bristol to present the third installment of the Fractal Theory of the Brain, Mind and Consciousness. Building on the material from the first two talks, a quick overview of the theory is summarized and key points will be recapped to make this presentation  standalone. 

Wai will show there is a simple underlying process behind how the brain works which is able to explain all our emergent behaviours and properties of mind. Furthermore he will show that this process is the same as and continuous with, the process of society, life on earth and the Cosmos.

Ideas that leading brain researchers and artificial intelligence experts have only so far been able to hint at, will be demonstrated clearly in this cutting edge talk. While discussing the latest and most up to date ideas in neuroscience today, Wai will show that behind the mind numbing myraid complexity of the brain lies a stunningly beautiful and elegant simplicity.Whereas the first two talks dwelt mainly with the Brains Fractal structure, physiology, and the fractal psychological processes of the brain/mind; this talk will show how this fractal substrate all comes together through language to create our mental inner universe, our representations of ourselves, external reality and the social world. He will demonstrate that language and its fractal nature naturally emerges from the fractal brain theory and is an intrinsic part of it.
Later continuing the exploration of the idea that the Nature of Consciousness is the same as the Nature of God (That is the undivided and indivisible one Consciousness), and the idea that the Microcosm is as the Macrocosm; he will explore the spiritual/mystical idea of the Cosmic battle between light and dark and show that this is the key to understanding the nature of personal transformation and the imminent transformation of the World.
This talk will be extremely relevant and utterly compelling for anyone interested in Psychology, NLP, Linguistics, Law of Attraction, Self Development, Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, Cosmology or Esoteric Religion i.e. Tantra, Mystical Yoga, Kabbalah, Sufism, Gnosticism, Vajrayana Buddhism, Taoism, etc. 

Public speaker and independent brain researcher Wai H. Tsang returns to present the second installment of the Fractal Theory of the Brain, Mind and Consciousness. Whereas the first talk dwelt mainly with the Brains Fractal structure and neural substrate, this talk will demonstrate the fractal process of the brain and explore more the cognitive and psychological level of our fractal inner universe.

Building on the material from the first talk, key points will be recapped to make this presentation standalone. Wai will show there is a simple underlying process behind how the brain works which is able to explain all our emergent behaviours and properties of mind. Furthermore he will show that this process is the same as and continuous with, the process of society, life on earth and the Cosmos. Ideas that leading brain researchers and artificial intelligence experts have only so far been able to hint at, will be demonstrated clearly in this cutting edge talk. While discussing the latest and most up to date ideas in neuroscience today, Wai will show that behind the mind numbing myriad complexity of the brain lies a stunningly beautiful and elegant simplicity. In the later part of the talk he develop the ideas presented in the first talk i.e. the Nature of Consciousness is the same as the Nature of God, and the idea that the Microcosm is as the Macrocosm; to show how the process of our lives is a reflection of the Divine and Cosmic process, thereby showing what it means to complete or make perfect that process. This talk will be extremely relevant and utterly compelling for anyone interested in Psychology, Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, Cosmology or Esoteric Religion i.e. Tantra, Mystical Yoga, Kabbalah, Sufism, Gnosticism, Vajrayana Buddhism, Taoism.

For details please email wai.tsang69@googlemail.com.


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Stone Carving Course With Bill Billington - for full details click here
6 week course starting 10 Nov 2011

Whether you've always wanted to give it a try, or you're looking foir a new creative experience, this course promises
to be a diverse and fulfilling opportunity to learn the art of stone sculpture - for full course details, please click here.

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Yoga In Daily Life - A Holistic Approach To Personal Growth
Friday 4th Nov 2011, 7pm - FREE of charge - donations welcome.

“When we get off our yoga mat, we move into the yoga mat of life”.
In our busy daily lives it is often hard to find the time for a solid ongoing spiritual practice. Agama Yoga invites you to join this inspiring talk about
how to integrate our practice into our daily life and how to transform all actions and activities into yoga, into union. This talk is suited to those
dabbling in yoga and similar disciplines as well as experienced practitioners. 

About the teacher: Gabriella is a dedicated yogini and teacher. She has a background and is inspired by  traditions such as Tantra Yoga,
Advaita Vedanta, Buddhism and more. She has been teaching workshops, retreats, women's groups and yoga classes around the world since 2005.
For more information visit uk.agamayoga.com/teacher_bio

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Feminine Yoga Workshop -"The Union of Wisdom & Love"
Saturday 5th & Sunday 6th Nov 2011

2 days feminine exploration of the hidden transformative beauty of body, emotions and mind... connecting to the woman's heart...
During this workshop we will learn and experience different ways to connect to our feminine nature with the help of different tools: such as active and
guided meditations, dance, discourses and Hatha yoga. Expressing and celebrating our world in it's full splendor, allowing our being to return to
its feminine natural state, and to awaken love into Blossoming.

This is an opportunity to take quality time for yourself together with other women in 'Shaktihood'. This workshop will leave you with practical tools
that will help you to improve your life, deal with your emotions and bring joy and love to your actions, thoughts and Being.

Schedule (12 hours):  Saturday 2pm-8pm Sunday 10am-4pm

Registration 
For registration please phone Silvia on 07523 448 562 or email  silvia@agamayoga.com
For questions regarding the workshop content please email Gabriella shaktiHood@gmail.com
For more details about the workshop visit uk.agamayoga.com
For more details about Gabriella visit uk.agamayoga.com/teacher_bio


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Fractal Brain Theory and the Nature of Consciousness
Sunday 9th October 2011

Public speaker and independent brain researcher Wai H. Tsang will be presenting a comprehensive theory of the brain and mind. He will explain that the brain is a fractal computing architecture and reveal an elegant way of understanding the brain's structure and operation, showing the same basic fundamental structure and process, being repeated at all scales and all places in the brain.  Something  that leading brain researchers and artificial intelligence experts have only so far been able to hint at, will be demonstrated clearly in this cutting edge talk. While discussing the latest and most up to date ideas in neuroscience today, Wai will show that behind the mind numbing myraid complexity of the brain lies a stunningly beautiful and elegant simplicity.

In the later part of the talk he will deal with the question of the Nature of Consciousness and show that the reason why contemporary philosophers and neuroscientists haven't been able to find the answer is because they are asking the wrong questions by assuming consciousness reduces to the physical brain. Wai will explain how the physical brain and the entire illusory physical universe reduces ultimately to One consciousness that may be called God.

This talk will be extremely relevant and utterly compelling for anyone interested in Psychology, Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, Cosmology or Esoteric Religion i.e. Tantra, Mystical Yoga, Kabbalah, Sufism, Gnosticism, Vajrayana Buddhism, Taoism.


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Innovation in Education (+ Food & Film)
Sunday 2nd October 2011

Inner Spark talks and workshops unleash the participants’ power and creativity, uncovering their natural desire to learn.
They leave people feeling inspired, motivated and moved to action.

Sunday's talk will be delivered by Tanya Moore and will include: review of current issues in Education and highlighting the need for change. Offering of solutions – Inner Spark Schools and workshops, using collaboration, creativity and putting children at the centre of their learning. A look at Educational approaches across the world, and sharing of effective teaching techniques. History, constraints and limitations in Western Education summary of Educational ideas and learning practises used in Tekos, Russia. Methodologies that can be used in Education with immediate effect overview of pedagogical approaches that will be used in Inner Spark Schools Offering of advanced learning techniques, including memory techniques that can be used to enhance all teaching and learning.

"Tanya has an incredible way of getting the best out people, she does it with passion, humility and gets to the greater you which is hiding inside. Keep doing your amazing work Tanya." - The Coach with the Hat, aka Elliot Kay.


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Esoteric Religion, Apocalypticism, Revolutionary Movements
Sunday 18th September 2011
Public Speaker Wai H. Tsang will explore some interest ideas that lie behind the formation and success of Revolutionary Movements,
which have been neglected by Political Scientists and Sociologists.