Workshop Descriptions
First Annual Dreaming Mountain Summer Festival
Yoga
• Kids Yoga with Amela Hall:
Come play and explore yoga through story and imagination! Best suited for children ages 2-6. All are welcome.
• Jivamukti Yoga with Sofi Dillof:
Moving Towards Oneness
This hour-and-a-half long yoga asana class will focus the chakras. Using the physical poses along with chanting and breath, we will work to remove those obstacles which keep us from to truly connecting to the world around us.
• Love and Breath with Lori Flammer-Mortimer and Nicholas Mortimer:
A two-hour journey to open-hearted presence. For singles and couples. Please bring a yoga mat to lie on and a cushion or yoga block to sit on.
• Kirtan with Lori Flammer-Mortimer and Nicholas Mortimer
Call and response chanting in Sanskrit, a language of vibration. Kirtan is a Bhakti 'devotional' yoga practice that fosters heart-centered connection and bliss.
Survival Skills
• Fire By Friction with the Roots School
Come learn to make fire in the ancient ways using the bow drill and hand drill to make a coal and blow it into flames.
• Earth Awareness with the Roots School
This workshop will focus on indigenous methods of using the senses and expanding your awareness as well as how to move in the forest instead of through it.
Build a Cob Oven
In this hands-on workshop, participants will make a beautiful wood-fired bread and pizza oven out of clay and sand. The entire process of earth oven construction will be covered, beginning with foundations and ending with a roof. During the course of the day, individual workshop sessions will include: building the firebrick oven floor; sculpting the sand form that will be used to build the oven; foot mixing of clay and sand – the ingredients that make up the earth oven; construction of the earth oven itself; preparing, mixing and applying the oven’s insulation – made from straw and clay slip; and finally the mixing and application of a rough coat of earthen plaster. Participants will leave the workshop with the understanding and experience necessary to build their own earth oven.
Nervous Systems Health with Guido Mase 
Guido Mase will help you discover the secrets to balancing mood, ensuring energy, and supporting restful sleep with herbs. Too often modern medicine approaches disturbances in the spirit and nervous system with a strategy of sedation. Traditionally, herbalism takes a very different approach, believing that tonification and strengthening of the physiology's vital rhythms and relaxation power should take a central role. Learn about gentle yet powerful natural medicines for nurturing this essential body system, and how their appropriate use can help relieve conditions such as anxiety, irritability, depression, insomnia, lack of focus, and fatigue without unpleasant side effects. Take a stroll with Guido though the fields and forests around Dreaming Mountain. We will focus on medicinal plant species, including many common weeds, and touch upon botanical tidbits that aid in plant identification. Bring your questions!
Wild Herb Walk with Larken Bunce
Join Larken to explore the medicinal landscape and learn how you can use local plants for food and healing. You'll use all of your senses--touching, tasting, sniffing, looking, and even listening to the herbs you meet. You'll discuss examples of the Doctrine of Signatures (one way plants can tell you how they can be used), a little plant chemistry, harvesting techniques and
lots of practical applications for our wild green friends.
Herbal First Aid Kit with Larken Bunce
Learn what goes into a successful natural first-aid kit, including herbal remedies, homeopathics, essential oils and common kitchen ingredients. Larken will address bruises, cuts, bites and stings, muscle strains, headaches, shock and trauma, diarrhea, nausea, indigestion and more. Sample and take-home instructions to prepare basic home remedies, including teas, tinctures, glycerites, poultices, oxymels, oils and salves. You'll even make an herbal band-aid!
Keeping Children Healthy with Mary Niles 
Keeping Children Healthy in a Toxic World:
Herbal and Naturopathic Approaches
This class explores the physiological reasons why children are uniquely susceptible to toxic chemicals in their environment. Current research suggests persistent exposure to chemicals may be connected with certain acute and chronic illnesses. We will discuss the role of diet, supplementation, herbs, essential oils and other naturopathic strategies which can help our children stay healthy and more efficiently detoxify their bodies. Additionally, strategies will be discussed that empower parents to minimize their children's exposure to chemicals and create as toxin-free an environment as is possible in today's world.
Baby Buddhas: Meditation for Children with Lisa Desmond
"I can see her body relax, her smile appear...it is amazing to me that a child so young can access the calm strength and the feelings of safety and security in this way. I believe she has a tool for life." Mom of two-year-old Hannah
Come join Lisa at Dreaming Mountain Summer Festival and learn in her 20-minute introductory workshop how to meditate with children, guiding them to become calmer, kinder and more thoughtful to themselves and the world around them, learning a tool to develop a stronger sense of self and how to comfort themselves when feeling anxious. Her book, 'Baby Buddhas–A Guide for Teaching Meditation to Children' will be available at the festival.
ImproviZENsation with Majalehn
"Still-Moving" Meditative Practice/Profound Performance Arte
A New Danse of Theatre contemplative discipline explores the dynamic relationship between movement and stillness. Learning to cultivate an awareness of the present moment, we slow down, breathe deeply and fine tune our "interpretuitive" intelligence. This slow-mo very soft contact improviZENsation, with David Whyte's poignant poetry as background narrative, eases us gently into a Provocative Ensemble Performance style. No prior experience necessary.
Reiki with Sukhada Repass
Come experience a relaxing Reiki session. Sukhada will be offering mini 20-minute Reiki Sessions during the three-hour period. Suitable for all ages.
KIDS WORKSHOP EVENTS
Danse Improv for Kids
We will run very fast, weave in and out and around each other, move oh so very slow, follow the leader, make unusual shapes with our supple/subtle bodies and much more. The guided structures are designed for improvising the magical, miraculous moment of movement into choreographic ecstacy with energized, eclectic music as our inspiration. Bring your parents, props, poetry, fabric and fantasies..Open to all ages.
Henna Design/Temporary Tattoo
The mehndi design is applied with henna paste, made from crushed leaves ofthe henna plant, mixed with organic lemon juice and eucalyptus essential oil. This ancient body adornment can last 10 days to 3 weeks..Temporary tattoo paints will be used for designs that last 3-5 days and
simulate the real thing.
Makiaje:Fantastic Face Painting
These folk arte, new Renaissance designs and magnificent masques are improvised using non-toxic water-colour hand-blended imported paints, including sparkle dust and glitter...uplifting the creative spirit, quite dramatic and exotic!!!
Environmental Dance with Kristin Borquist
Environmental Dance is a simple way to celebrate our belonging to our planet, to feel, embody and explore forms of nature we share with other beings, to be in the Mystery. Environmental Dance gives a way to access, rekindle, strengthen and expand our connection to nature, learning we are part of a community, we are loved, and we are connected to source.
Soul Spa with Sharon Snow and Lisa Buell
“We believe that each of us has the power to create whatever we want in
our lives and in the world. Science is now confirming what the
spiritual community has known throughout the ages – we are powerful
energetic beings who have the capacity to create through focusing the
energy of our thoughts, invoking the universal principal of attraction,
and then responding with action, to the people, opportunities and
events that come our way, to bring our thoughts into form, our visions
into reality.” – S. Snow & L. Buell
Open Studio Kids Crafts with Denise Schomody
Walk away wearing colorful jewelry using the victorian tradition of paper bead making, make your own stationary or gift wrap with potato prints, or weave a dream catcher in the native american tradition. Choose one or all! This will be open studio style, so all are welcome any time between 1-3 pm. Those interested in making a dream catcher are encouraged to walk the grounds and cut a suitable branch in advance (loppers available at the studio) (the branch must be from a live tree - thank your tree if you take a branch! - and the branch must be strong enough to form a circle and sustain some pressure. the resulting circle would be sized in a diameter of about 4"-6"). Join us!
Events At A Glance
Sat., July 14, 2007
-Yoga for all ages
-Meditation for children and adults
-Chanting
-Herbal Classes
-Build a Cob Oven
-African Dance
-Wilderness Survival Skills
-Pottery Workshop
-Kirtan
-Wild Herb Walk
About Dreaming Mountain
Dreaming Mountain is a private 372-acre hideaway with fantastic views of the Green Mountains, swimming ponds and hiking trails. Visit their website for more information.
