Our circle is growing -- you are welcome to join us September 11th, at 10 am

Our Sunray circle, which comprises Virginia, Maryland, and DC, is growing significantly.  After a trip to the Sunray Peace Village for the 27th Annual Elders Gathering, I met four women from Maryland who are interested in the Sunray practice.  We also have a couple of other community members who live in Maryland and N. Va. 

On Sunday, September 11th, (the 10th anniversary), we are going to meet for practice in Falls Church, VA.  We will practice the Dance of the Directions, the Sunray Basic Meditation, and the Heart Sutra, followed by a sharing circle. 

If you are interested in joining us, please email bjsiebel@msn.com.  

Wisdom Streams from the Sky -- Webcasts with Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo -- First webcast this Saturday, March 19th, at 3 pm Eastern Daylight Time

Hello friends,


This coming Saturday, March 19th, at 3 pm, Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo is going to be offering a live webcast from the Adawi Temple at the Sunray Peace Village. You can watch by going to the Sunray website, http://www.sunray.org/. The broadcast will be shown in the top center of the home page. We would encourage people to show their appreciation and support these webcasts by making a donation.

Venerable Dhyani is going to speak for up to 90 minutes, and will lead people through the Medicine Wheel Mandala practice. It is a very volatile time, and this practice helps stabilize the mind and one's surroundings.

Please join us! And please invite others to watch. This will be our first public webcast.

Thank you.

Baltimore student of Venerable would like to find others in the area.

Greetings,


If there are others who follow Ven. Dhyani Ywahoo's teachings in the Baltimore (MD) area who would like to meet regularly to listen to her talks and create community, I'd be interested in assisting in such a group.  My house could also be a site for meeting also (in Baltimore on the west side). I've known of Dhyani's teachings for years and have read her book. And this appears to be the time in my life to go deeper with her studies. If you are interested, please contact Mare at marecrom@gmail.com.

Brian at bjsiebel@msn.com coordinates the blog and our larger area activities. 

Thanks.

We need your help -- to bring webcasting of Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo to the world

Hello friend,

We need your help. As soon as we are able to -- by or before January 2011 -- we would like to begin webcasting Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo teaching live every month from the Adawi Temple at the Sunray Peace Village. After each live broadcast, we hope to make a taped version available, and even an audio version that could be downloaded into your MP3 player.

We intend to broadcast these teachings without charge, so that the widest possible audience can view them -- indeed, anyone in the world who has internet access should be able to watch -- and to manifest the greatest potential benefits.

To sustain these broadcasts, and to sustain Venerable's teachings in the world, we are going to ask anyone who is touched by her teachings and is able to donate to make a regular sustaining pledge. To make this work, monthly or quarterly pledges will be most beneficial, at whatever level one can afford to give.

Sustaining funds are needed to not only cover the costs of running the broadcasts -- which might cost a couple hundred dollars each month for broadband, videography, broadcasting, and website charges -- but to support Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo so that she can teach.

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That's the preview.

To bring us to the point where we can launch this project to the world, we need some seed money. The seed money will enable us to upgrade the website so it can host the webcasts after they have been broadcast live, set up a smooth system for people to make sustaining pledges, and cover broadcasting expenses for several months until our viewership and support levels are able to sustain us into the future.

We would like to raise $3,000 or more, of which we have already raised $2,000. If you would like to make a financial contribution to launch the webcasting of Venerable Dhyani, please make a tax deductible gift here. Just write "webcasting" on the purpose line.

We would also love volunteers who would like to work on this project going forward. If you would like to help, please e-mail Brian at bjsiebel@msn.com and he will find a way to plug you in.

Thank you. We hope you are as excited as we are about this opportunity to bring Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo's teachings to more and more people. Please make a gift to help bring this about.

Wadogh,

Brian J. Siebel
President, Sunray Meditation Society

We are still here

We still have a local presence of Sunray members in the VA, DC, and MD region who practice according to the teachings of Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo.  But we have not been meeting regularly like we were last year and early this year.  We hope to get together again soon. 

If you would like to be in touch, you can e-mail bjsiebel@msn.com. 

For ongoing Sunray activities, I would encourage you to visit http://www.sunray.org/ and/or http://www.sunraypeacevillage.blogspot.com/. 

Monthly meditation in Falls Church, this Sunday, May 23rd, at 11 am

Once a month we host meditation practice in Falls Church.  This month it will be Sunday, May 23rd.  Going forward, we will try to host these the third Sunday of each month.  Notice will be posted on the blog in any event.  If you would like to attend, and need directions or to be picked up from East Falls Church metro, please e-mail bjsiebel@msn.com.  If you know where we are already, please RSVP.

Wadogh!

2010 Elders Gathering -- We Are Relatives in the Dance of One

Click here for more information.

You may register here for the 2010 Elders Gathering.

The new Sunray Meditation Society website is now live.

You can find it at http://www.sunray.org/. Check it out. Feel free to post any feedback or comments you have here, or at our Sunray Peace Village blog here.

May Day 2010. A Day of Wow.

Rev. Louise and I stepped out of the car into a climax forest. Large virgin trees, never-been-harvested forest-land and un-mined blue granite held a special tone of life in this large public park. The trees here are Ent-like: talkative in the Tolkien-sense with a profound resonant field of wisdom.

Today, we all followed the song of our hearts. We gathered together to nurture a collective vision. Before this May Day, Antonio, a caller of the people, followed his vision and his heart song. Others followed their hearts, too. They came together in community to create a labyrinth in this park to begin something wonderful.

And today, they continued. This May Day, this special day in a climax forest, Sacred Dance teachings were given.

About 50 people sang and danced together in the collective unity of one heart. In the span of 9 hours, we learned and practiced four (yes 4!) sacred Sunray dances. Dance Mistress Madeleine shared these teachings. Fire keeper Red Bear was present. It was deepening. We all learned.

It was a glorious weekend where I personally felt good prayers coming to fruition. The imprints of many open-hearted prayers from long-ago called forth this gathering. The imprints from the kind hearts of other Sunray people in the S.E. were also very evident.

It was a good weekend. Much joy and good medicine was generated for the benefit of all. And it appears, a new cycle of community and Ywahoo teachings begins again.

Good Medicine circles around.

Wado.

Lucrezia
 
(If anyone has photos of the weekend events, please send them to bjsiebel@msn.com.  Thank you.)

The event just below is THIS Saturday, May 1st.

We hope to see you there.  No need to pre-register.  All are welcome!