Cedar Moon

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About the Community

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What we do

Cedar Moon is a community dedicated to growing movement for healing and resilience in the world.
We are co-stewards with Tryon Life Community Farm and the Sacred Land Alliance of seven beautiful half-wooded acres surrounded by a 650-acre forest, all inside Portland. (TLC Farm is a separate and independent nonprofit sustainability education and demonstration center–see www.tryonfarm.org. The SLA is a POC and trans collective focused on making the land available to marginalized people who have less access to land.) We are blessed with the opportunity for the work of our relations with each other and the earth to be shared with thousands of visitors.
We were born in fire. Our evolution on this land between 2004 and 2006 was galvanized by the campaign to prevent the land we occupy from being bulldozed for a high-impact housing development. We have faced the stresses, conflicts, and tensions this high-pressure environment caused, as well as the “standard” ones all communities face, and have developed a clear focus on community process to deal with them.
It is a lot of work to live here. Members pay the equivalent of market-rate rent, and are expected to contribute at least ten hours to the community’s economic work every week, and volunteer with TLC Farm. We have weekly meetings, alternating between business “meetings of the minds” and relation-building “meetings of the hearts.” We share evening meals and rotate cooking, cleaning, and maintenance chores. We encourage low-impact density and so have relatively little individual space (though a great deal of shared, communal space).
And yet the rewards are tremendous. We live deeply interwoven with all our relations. We encourage each other to discover our evolving niches in the ecology of change: political action, deep spirit, earth-rooted wisdom.
If your soul yearns to work closely with others in an integrated lifestyle catalyzing the emergence of a new world in the shell of the old, contact us!

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11 years ago

Mujeres que dialogan

Eres mujer, caminas en la vida, en algunos momentos te sientes sola… Despertemos juntas facetas que están dormidas y escondidas por miedos, por límites… Hagámoslo con arte y salero, risas y lágrimas. Te proponemos recorrer el camino con encuentros mensuales para compartir y explorar juntas lo que nos mueve, nos emociona, nos duele, nos preocupa y nos hace reír aquí y ahora. “Las personas más bellas con las que me he encontrado son aquellas que han conocido la derrota, conocido el sufrimiento, conocido la lucha, conocido la pérdida, y han encontrado su forma de salir de las profundidades. Estas personas tienen una apreciación, una sensibilidad y una comprensión de la vida que nos llena de compasión, humildad y una profunda inquietud amorosa. La gente bella no surge de la nada.” Elisabeth Kübler-Ross ¿Quiénes somos? Somos cuatro mujeres amigas, artistas, escritoras y terapeutas que llevamos veinte años compartiendo un camino de exploración interior a través de los sueños, el arte y el teatro. De esta vivencia que compartimos surgió el deseo de abrirnos a otras mujeres. El compartir te lleva a descubrir quién eres, cuál es tu esencia, cuál es tu color, tu huella en el mundo. A través de actividades como el teatro, la visualización o la creatividad dialogaremos con nosotras mismas y con el grupo, ensanchando la percepción de nuestras esencias. Fechas: sábado 24 de octubre, sábado 21 de noviembre y sábado 19 de diciembre. Horario: 10:00 a 13:00 Precio: 20€/sesión Contactos: Claire Suanzes – [email protected] – 659 884 354 Neus Valls – [email protected] – 676 053 759 Centro Crealliance – Avda de la Victoria, 73 – 28023 Madrid – www.crealliance.net
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6 years ago

Preserve the Serra de Carnaxide

This event will be supported by the meeting of a group of collectives of citizens, who are promoting the preservation of a mountain range. Then, we will have a popular dinner and we will see one of the interviews that will broadcast between February 1st and 6th. Description of the civic movement Serra de Carnaxide, with 600 hectares, is one of the few green spots in the metropolitan area of ​​Lisbon that can contribute to the improvement of air quality and public health, promoting adaptation to climate change. There are currently urbanization projects that threaten the Serra de Carnaxide, some of which are ongoing and others are in the planning or project phase. Its implementation would destroy the Serra, causing significant impacts in the short, medium and long term, both for the populations and for the environment, which includes interesting dimensions in terms of soil, water, flora and fauna, in addition to classified architectural heritage. The preservation of the Serra will promote the sustainability of the water environment (rivers and groundwater) and the associated ecosystems. The richness in groundwater is evidenced by its past use, materialized in the architectural heritage constituted by the Carnaxide aqueduct and the Francesas aqueduct (both subsidiaries of the Águas Livres aqueduct) and its skylights, circular structures and mother-of-water . Current scientific knowledge, sustained governance practices, as well as agreements and treaties to which Portugal is committed, including the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (imposing targets to be reached by 2020), impose the urgent need for a new management of the territory of Serra of Carnaxide. It is possible to find innovative solutions for an integrated and sustainable management of the natural and architectural heritage of the Serra de Carnaxide, recognizing and taking advantage of its immense environmental and socio-economic value, in addition to tou
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13 years ago

Whitsun festival

What do you know about your feelings? Where do they come from and what are they there for? “Most people are not in the least aware of the fact that they create their feelings themselves. For them, feelings are involuntary, irrational surges of sensation which originate somewhere mysterious, deep in their subconscious. In fact, a feeling arises from an interaction between thought and environment.” Quote from the book “Feelings, How to Use Them Intelligently”, Vivian Dittmar. To know more about how you create feelings through interpretation of what is happening allows you to interact in a powerful way with your environment. This is not about controlling and manipulating your feelings. Instead, it is about knowing their true source and being able to take responsibility. It is about using your feelings to connect to life and share your beauty and your inspiration  while at the same time healing old emotions that previously were not visible. This festival can completely change your perspective on how you deal with feelings in your life! And more: It will surely enrich your perspective on how to be in the world and contribute powerfully to a sustainable, creative and nourishing lifestyle. An atelier for consciousness, creativity and joie de vivre. With lectures, performances, workshops, live music, children’s and youth camps… Small workshops in the afternoon allow a deeper immersion into the experiential spaces of feelings. “Feelings as powers” – Whitsun festival in ZEGG Community (Germany, near Berlin) 22.05. – 27.05.2015 Designed and performed together with Vivian Dittmar, the author of the book “Feelings, How to Use Them Intelligently” [email protected]
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9 years ago

Permaculture Design Certificate in the Caribbean

The Permaculture Design Certificate Course will be held at Richmond Vale Academy (RVA), a school and community that encourage, teach and inspire sustainable living. On site, you will find the fruit forest, a vegetable garden based on the permaculture principles, chicken and pig farm, horses and a beautiful beach. Price 1,150 USD Includes 3 meals per day, accommodation and the 10 days course. The 10 days Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Course will open your heart and your mind to a new world by connecting human beings and nature together as one. The course plan, which is based on Bill Mollison’s book “Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual”, will give you an introduction to permaculture as a science that can give the opportunity to live a sustainable life You will learn about agriculture, natural building, water harvesting, alternative energy, natural forests, waste management, animal systems, community development, designing your own real-world projects with an eye towards repairing, restoring and regenerating human ecosystems. A typical day will consist of some lecture time, field observations, practical application, working on your own design, group discussions, and time for personal reflection. We will have movies and lectures in the evenings. The topics we cover during the 10 days will follow Mollison’s outline and cover topics. The teachers: Leon-C. Malan, PhD Leon Malan is a certified permaculture design instructor. He is a professor in environmental studies at Colby-Sawyer College in New Hampshire, USA where he teaches permaculture, food systems and sustainable agriculture. Luke Punnett Vincentian Permaculturist. He lives off the grid with his wife and two children in Queensberry, St. Vincent. He is the founder of Chatoyer Gardens, Permaculture design farm, which supplies organic produce to clients weekly through a Community Supported Agriculture initiative. He is a beekeeper, a Permaculture teacher and consultant.

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