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Austin Progressive Potluckers http://www.austinprogressivecalendar.com/potluck.htm
2) Personal Enrichment Events Calendars: a) The Austin
Chronicle’s Community Events
Calendar http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/index.php?ubercategory=Community&category=Events b) The Austin
Chronicle Literature Events Section http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/index.php?ubercategory=Arts&category=Litera has many interesting thought-provoking
community events c) http://www.austinholistic.com/ exists
to promote the creation of personally healthy lives in balance with nature and
the environment by providing resources, information and a greater sense of
Community. The site offers free
listing on its web calendar, listings of practitioners and opportunities for
publication of informative articles by local writers
Contains resources about Austin and national community fund raising
and activist organizations, personal enrichment opportunities, peace-building
and anti-war resources and social calendar resources. e) Austin
Progressive Calendar http://www.austinprogressivecalendar.com/ *go to website to enter your
event info on a web-form
-contact: selwyn@austintx.com f)
New Texas Magazine is available for free at various sites
around the city and contains many holistic health resources. (phone:
512-462-1990) g) Good Life
Magazine, http://www.goodlifemag.com/ is available
free around town has an excellent calendar of events, including health,
meditation, and support groups 3) Personal Enrichment Email Newsletters a) Catalyst for Fun
Austin Community Activism Newsletter b) www.hollyshothappenings.com 4) Personal
Enrichment Resources:
invites you to join them at their potluck dinners, once a month - share food
- meet fascinating people - network with other thinkers like you. Our motto is
"Changing the world... one covered dish at a time"
Contains Austin-area community fund raising and
activist events, personal enrichment and social
opportunities and peace building resources.
**To View past issues: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catalystforfun
Submissions
accepted send to Amanda at catalystforfun-owner@yahoogroups.com
Listings of
parties, trips, charities, cultural/arts, business networking,
recreational, personal growth.a)
Directories:
ii) http://www.austinholistic.com/ is the premier online resource for the
Austin, Texas, metropolitan area to access the holistic community of
practitioners, businesses and organizations and to learn more about spiritual
and holistic lifestyles.
b) Personal Enrichment Educational Centers
i) ACC Continuing Education Classes http://www.austincc.edu/ce/schedules.html
For more info: 512-223-7542
ii) Casa de
Luz, http://www.casadeluz.org/,
is a macrobiotic restaurant and healing center, which hosts many classes,
including personal growth, cooking and exercise.
1701 Toomey Rd, 476 2535
Meal Service times: Lunch 11:30 to 2, Dinner 6 to 8 Daily -to subscribe to Casa
de Luz email alerts, send an email to casadeluz1@aol.com
iii) Omega
at The Crossings. a new progressive learning center and meeting place
located in the Texas Hill Country, that is a campus of the well-known Omega
Center in Rhinebeck, New York.
http://www.eomega.org/ (hit the
Omega at the Crossings Link) The Crossings is situated on more than 200 acres in
the pristine Balcones Canyonlands Preserve just 20 minutes outside downtown
Austin. The curriculum will include programs designed for the business
community, with trainings and seminars in team building, creativity in the
workplace, and management skills. Many classes will offer continuing education
opportunities in a variety of fields.
The Crossings features beautifully
designed, state-of-the-art facilities. Amenities include gracious
accommodations, beautiful dining hall and cafe, bookstore, wellness center and
spa, Olympic-length lap pool, hot tub, cold dip, steam rooms, sauna,
well-appointed classrooms, yoga studios, and meeting rooms, meditation
sanctuary, and miles of hiking trails.
iv) Southwest Vipassana Meditation
Center—(near Dallas, TX) http://www.dhamma.org/schtex.htm
Tel: (214)
521-5258 or (972) 932-7868; Fax: (214) 219-5125 (registration); (972) 962-8858
(center).
E-Mail:info@siri.dhamma.org
The Center hosts 10 day and longer retreats that are free (donations accepted)
v) The Austin Center
for Attitudinal Healing (http://www.tacah.org/)
The Center is a non-profit organization that provides support and tools to promote inner peace for those dealing with life's challenges, and for people who seek opportunities for healing relationships in all areas of our lives. It is founded on the premise that by recognizing and letting go of fearful, limiting attitudes, greater peace of mind may be
achieved,
regardless of life's circumstances. 512-327-1961
is a nonprofit Fitness Center
for the Mind and Heart. We offer programs designed to tap the creativity, the
love and the playfulness of the human spirit. The Center is based on the work of
humanistic and transpersonal psychologists like Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow and
Virginia Satir.
viii)
SIMS Foundation http://www.simsfoundation.org
is a non profit organization founded and based in Austin, Texas, which
creates the opportunity for low cost mental health services for Austin area
musicians and their immediate families.
x) Women Empowering
Women http://www.envisionconnection.com/,
Join a community of women who are growing both spiritually and
intellectually, through an on-going process of acceptance and support.
Take
one weekend out of your life to initiate change, and begin your journey
within.
a) United Way’s On-Line Community Directory lists many support groups and community resources listed on is available at: http://www.irissoft.com/fcfh/ For more information contact Holly Alexander at holly.alexander@unitedwaycapitalarea.org
b)
The University of Texas Student Groups:
(many of which you don’t not have to be a student to join)
6) Wellness Practitioner Listings:
a) http://www.byregion.net/ and click on
healers link/southwest region
b) Austin Holistic http://www.austinholistic.com/ is a directory of local instructors
c) Wellness Instructor Guide http://www.yogateacher.com/text/links/austinwellnesslinks.html has list of wellness practitioners.
d)
Charles McInerney teaches yoga, meditation and arranges retreats. http://yogateacher.com/
e) Mark Shafer, Ph.D, teaches many meditation, relationship, and attitudinal healing workshops and leads conscious community groups www.mshafer.com, 512-442-9677
a) Spiritually Centered Exercise:
i) Dance Classes:
ii) Yoga Teachers Directory
b) Directories of Spiritual Organizations:
i) The Austin-American Statesman www.statesman.com has a religion section in its Saturday edition
ii) Austin
Interreligious Ministries Organization’s Membership Guide lists the many
churches listed by denomination: http://www.ammaustin.org/members.htm
*please call to double-check the schedule and time for bands playing at the venues below!
Stubb’s Barbeque
Maria’s Taco Express (at around 12:30-around 2:00)
Threadgill’s Restaurant South
d) New
Thought Spirituality Groups:
i) Church of Religious Science
a) Austin Center for Religious Science
Minister: Walt Brewer
Meeting Sundays
at 10:30AM at Casa de Luz
1701 Toomey Road off Lamar - North of Barton
Springs and South of
Riverside by Zach Scott and Schlotsky's
go to http://www.casadeluz.org/ for a
map
Office Contact Info: 512-301-4499, austincrs@earthlink.net
*To
Subscribe to Walt’s weekly e-thought send name and email to
austincrs@earthlink.net
b) First Church of RS in Austin http://nvcrs.org/index.html