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Willow Way,transition skills for Earth~Body healing

We are a developing sustainable community offering courses in Permaculture, focusing on:• maximizing food production • energy & resource conservation • transition skills to increase your resilience in ways that will help the EarthSee More

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2011 Willow Way Permaculture Design Course at Willow Way Permaculture Herb Farm

April 15, 2011 to October 10, 2011

Our certificate Permaculture Design Course spans our high-altitude growing season, providing a wide-ranging learning experience that reflects the diversity inherent in the Rocky Mountain Front Range. Learn how to work with the wisdom of nature to…See More

Mar 31, 2011

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"Zia, You pasted your announcement many places into Transition Colorado. The announcement is not legible. I would strongly suggest, given the number of complaints that we've received, that you EDIT each announcement and…"

Mar 28, 2011

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How are you currently involved in the Transition movement?: I've been involved as a Permaculturist and Permaculture teacher.

I will be presenting at the PC Design Course at the Jerome's place, Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture in late Sept, 08 on the subject of Direct Communication with Nature.

I attended the Boulder Transition Training 9/11-13, and many GoLocal Boulder events.

In what ways do you identify with the Transition movement? Why are you interested?: I love the Earth! I am the Earth!
It's time to get a move on.
This is the most practical, inclusive, pro-active, loving, intelligent family of earth-lovers I've found yet.

What background and skills do you bring to this community?: The thread that holds my diverse areas of focus together is working for a renaissance of Earth/Human relations.

My primary professional focus has been helping people develop healthy relationships with their bodies. My new horizon is helping people develop healthy relationships with the earth, through Permaculture and the Transition movement, and weaving love of body and love of Earth into a harmonious healthy tapestry. I'm not sure how this dance will go--but I love the challenge, and it feels like it has my name on it.

I am a movement therapist and massage therapist. I've specialized in working with pain, severe auto accidents, and helping people get the most from their bodies as athletes and musicians. I use a combination of movement education, hands-on work, and exercise. I have been fortunate to teach and learn in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas in a wide range of healing arts; including movement education, bodywork, multi-cultural dance/theater and Permaculture.

Aston-Patterning, an holistic system-oriented body therapy method is where I have hung my professional hat for over 25 years, and I'm on the Aston national faculty. Over the last 10 years, I've developed Agua Alma, aquatic bodywork & training which supports physical rehabilitation, personal growth and planetary healing.

I love the wilderness, and have been involved in llama-packing for 15 years, and offer llama-packing trips for early teens, women, and families.

I have also been involved in many social and cultural service projects, such as being the primary organizer for the Tolantongo Cross-cultural & Cross-Species Gathering in Hildago, Mexico; catalyzing the Heyteyneytah Project of the Arapaho Wind River Reservation.

I am the president of the board for Musical Missions of Peace, Cameron Powers and Kristina Sophia's inspiring work in the Arab-speaking countries as "musical ambassadors". Our current project involves setting up Arab music schools in Iraqi refugee camps in Syria and Jordan. www.musicalmissions.com

Thank you Les Squires, for "Transition Colorado", there is so much to learn from each other! The best is yet to come!

For more information, see my resume on www.ziaparker.com

How can you help the growth/acceptance/vitality of the Transition movement?: My main focus is developing Willow Way, 6481 N. 63rd as a Permaculture demo-site and educational venue.

We will be offering Permaculture Design courses, and Re-skilling courses.

I'm very keen on furthering cultural understanding of direct communication with nature: the elements, plants and animals. I'll continue to offer courses in this focus.

I have been into this work for a long time. I spent my 20's in British Columbia in a homesteading lifestyle which was enormously helpful in calming my nervous system, creating deep bonds with the land, and helping me see that I could get along with very little and be happy.(actually, this was one of the happiest periods of my life, even though I made an average of $300./yr). I was manager of a small health food store, and started to learn about herbs, natural food, and gardening.

Since August of 07, I've been working to create sustainable community at "Willow Way", which is en route to becoming a Permaculture model and educational venue. This is picking up a thread I was weaving with in the late 80's in West Africa with an agro-forestry project I started while in the Peace Corps. The Finca Permanente project I started was used as a model for a $2.5 million project by the EU, and several organizations collaborated to keep up with what I started, including the UNDP, UNFAO, EU, USAID as well as the Peace Corps. I had a blast with the women in our project doing improvised theater at the "Finca Permanente" seminars for local villagers.

I have been on the teaching teams of several Permaculture Design Courses: Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute, Navaho Permaculture Design Institute, the High Altitude Permaculture Design Institute, and I've shared PC techniques on the Arapaho reservation in WY.

My favorite passion is developing skills for learning and teaching direct communiction with nature. This arena is rich with new understanding, new literature and new interest. We are shedding some of our cultural amnesia, and remembering that we are human! and humans have communicated with others on our precious planet for millenia! It is only in the last blink of an eye, in terms of the evolution of life forms, that we have forgotten how to dialogue and have personal relationships of reciprocity with the elements, the plants and the animals.

Your Favorite Books/Websites/Blogs/RSS Feeds for Information about the Transition Movement: • “The Secret Teachings of Plants” , Stephen Harrod Buhner—Establishes the premise that opening our hearts to their full capacity as thinking organs, hormonal organs, and sensing organs can allow us to communicate with plants, as indigenous people around the world have done for many centuries. This is also a beautiful compendium of literature on the subject, with contributors throughout the ages. Thorough description of how to navigate the territory of plant-human relations.

• “Living as if the God in All Life Matters”, Machaelle Small Wright—one of the modern pioneers of plant communication. Wonderful success stories of communicating with the “devas” (energy essences) of plants for a truly collaborative gardening experience.

• “Perelandra Workbook”—“How To” from Machaelle Small Wright, and many other smaller books have followed on microbial balancing, flower essences, etc.

• “Flower Essence Repertory A Comprehensive Guide to North American and English Flower Essences for Emotional and Spiritual Well-Being”, Patricia Kaminski and Richard Katz. Published by the Flower Essence Society, this Rudolf Steiner influenced volume provides categorization by plant name as well as by physical symptoms. It also covers theoretical basis of the use of flower essences as well as it’s history. It describes how to develop relationship with plants as well as guidelines for making flower essences.

• “Intelligence in Nature”, Jeremy Narby Overviews scientific studies into intelligence in nature which are brought into relationship with Narby’s personal experiences with Amazonian wisdom about the Nature’s ways of knowing. Probes the question of what humanity can learn from nature’s economy and knowingness in its own search for a saner and more sustainable way of life.

• “The Spell of the Sensuous”, David Abrahms For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature, and they carried on active relationships not only with other people but with other animals, plants, and natural objects (including mountains, rivers, winds, and weather patterns) that we have only latelyly come to think of as “inanimate”. Weaving together deep experiences with the shamanic elders of Indonesia and Nepal, Abrahms skillfully queries, what will it take for us to recover a sustaining relation with the breathing earth?

• “Plant Spirit Shamanism”, Ross Heaven and Howard Charing Draws parallels between shamanic practices in South America, the Caribean, and Europe in regard to going beyond understanding plants for their bio-chemical properties to recognizing and learning how relate to their spiritual/energetic healing capacities.

• “Visionary Plant Consciousness”, Edited by J.P. Harpignies An anthology of discussions between Andrew Weil, Jeremy Narby, Alex Grey, Kat Harrison, Terrence McKenna, Dale Pendell and others. Many of these are taken from Bioneers conferences over many years. Discussions include psychotrophic plants and others.

"Waking the Tiger", Peter Levine--landmark work on author's trauma work, "Somatic Experiencing"

"The Body Bears the Burden", Robert Scaer--deeper into the neuro-psysiology of Peter Levine's work

"The Dreaming Body", Arnold Mindell--landmark book of pioneering "process-oriented" therapy of Mindell, establishing multi-dimensional approach to match our multi-dimensional selves

"Instinct for Freedom", Alan Clements--Theraveda Buddhism and beyond ...to individuality as map to personal freedom

"Daughters of Copper Woman", Anne Cameron--ancient indigenous wisdom

"Of Water and Spirit", Malidoma Patrice Some, Western scholar and African shaman's account of the important role of water in bridging wide spans of consciousness

"Living Water", OlofAlexandersson--views of Austrian naturalist and inventor on the essential characteristics of water relative to current environmental energy issues in our technological age

"The Chalice and the Blade", Riane Eisler--landmark book regarding pre-modern age of cooperation and peace, now recognized as the "Goddess culture"

"Plant Spirit Medicine", Eliot Cowan--reports of exceptional experiences working with shamanic traditions to access healing power of plants as energy medicine

"Talking with Nature", "Journeying into Nature", Michael Roads--reports on refined communications with nature

Your Personal Website (if you have one): http://www.willowwaywellness.com; www.aguaalma.com; www.alpinesprin...

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Sustainable Community has 2 rooms available

We share a large house on 2 acres, with a lovely pond, patio, movement studio and vegetable gardens just 10 min from downtown Boulder. We are insulating, solar-izng, soil building and deepening our kinship with the land just as fast as we can! If this sounds like your path, please give a call.

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At 4:34pm on March 28, 2011, Les Squires said…: Zia,

You pasted your announcement many places into Transition Colorado. The announcement is not legible. I would strongly suggest, given the number of complaints that we've received, that you EDIT each announcement and replace it with a simple link to the information. That will honor your work as it deserves.

Let me know if you have questions.

At 12:19pm on May 22, 2010, Les Squires said…: *** Second Notice ***

Hi Zia,

We have received several complaints that groups who use EVENTS to advertize their ongoing meetings spanning several months are "hogging" the event calendar on the Transition Colorado homepage. Here is a complaint received this morning:

"The on going events take up way to much space in the events section of the front page. Put two more on and nothing current will show up. It is 9PM on Saturday night - Nothing for Sunday or Monday is showing."

I'm asking you to do two things:

1) Go to http://transitioncolorado.ning.com/groups/group/new and create a GROUP for your event. Then you can invite people to join your group. Cut & paste information from your Event into the new group. You can then communicate with your new group as often as you wish thru it's email listserv.

2) Limit your Event announcement to two days per month -- e.g., the 1st and the 15th -- beginning and ending ON THE SAME DAY. Your announcement will appear on the 1st and on the 15th, freeing up our homepage for current events to be displayed.

Thanks! Let me know if you have questions.

Les Squires
Creator and Admin
Transition Colorado
+1 303 926 5159
LSquiresSkype

At 9:55am on May 16, 2010, Les Squires said…: Hi Zia,

We have received several complaints that groups who use EVENTS to advertize their ongoing meetings spanning several months are "hogging" the event calendar on the Transition Colorado homepage. Here is a complaint received this morning:

"The on going events take up way to much space in the events section of the front page. Put two more on and nothing current will show up. It is 9PM on Saturday night - Nothing for Sunday or Monday is showing."

I'm asking you to do two things:

1) Go to http://transitioncolorado.ning.com/groups/group/new and create a GROUP for your event. Then you can invite people to join your group. Cut & paste information from your Event into the new group. You can then communicate with your new group as often as you wish thru it's email listserv.

2) Limit your Event announcement to two days per month -- e.g., the 1st and the 15th -- beginning and ending ON THE SAME DAY. Your announcement will appear on the 1st and on the 15th, freeing up our homepage for current events to be displayed.

Thanks! Let me know if you have questions.

Les Squires
Creator and Admin
Transition Colorado
+1 303 926 5159
LSquiresSkype

At 10:06am on March 14, 2010, Phillip Rish said…: Spring 21 Bald Mountain ceramony? I am not familar with that event. I sounds like something I would like to attend. Can you send more information about that? Thanks!

For sure!!!! I will most definatly be there this Thursday! I hope to get a chance to talk with you more then........Namaste.

At 11:12am on October 23, 2009, Mira Claire said…: Hay!!! There you are! I thought that we had connected somewhere but couldn't place it. Glad to see your part of the movement for community and urban sustainability! I really want to create a community centered around that idea, with a hostel and studio and gardens up north to grow at... lots of ideas looking to make happen!
Do you know about the fun raiser at Studio Soma? I think you would like it!
Much love,
Mira

At 1:28pm on August 4, 2009, Les Squires said…: Hi Zia. Just a reminder that we've moved our Transition Louisville activities to a new site. If you want to keep up with current LV, please click here.. Hope to see you at one of our Tuesday evening gettogethers.

At 12:13pm on March 12, 2009, Donald Studinski said…: Zia, you can write to me at
dstudin at yahoo dot com
thanks!

At 12:08pm on March 12, 2009, Donald Studinski said…: Zia,
I can't seem to get the web site to allow me to send you a message. Ugg. Anyway, concerning getting to know you and the living space you had mentioned:
Zia,
I have finished my DU class and now have time to dedicate to getting to know you and your friends at Willow Way. I will be going from Longmont to Boulder Friday at 7PM and could stop by for a short visit on my way to the dance at 62nd and Arapahoe. Would you be willing / able to have me drop in? thanks ... Don

At 12:24pm on February 15, 2009, Michele Melio said…: Thanks Zia. We've actually reached a setback on our community garden and our HOA is trying to decide whether I can even plant any veggies in my flower bed. We don't have yards. We all live in condos and townhomes. However, we're not giving up the fight. Have a great event.