Wrap Skirts from Vintage Saris

We just received a new shipment of the Magic Wrap skirts today!  These are made from vintage saris & each one is unique.  They can be worn a dozen ways or more - as a wrap-a-round skirt, or a dress.  Let your imagination be your guide!  And they are delightful to wear, floating on the air as you walk.  Or dance!

Come in and see the new skirts - maybe one is for you...

An Evening with Life in Balance - Crystal Bowls, Healing Sound and Meditation

About a year and a half ago we hosted Life in Balance for an evening of healing sound and meditation. People are still talking about it. So, a couple of weeks ago, when we received a phone call from Ami, wondering if we'd be interested in hosting them again in mid-August, we said, "Yes! Our answer is Yes!" 


Join us for an intimate evening of sound healing meditation with Sounds True recording artists Life In Balance. Friday, August 17, 2012 from 7:30-9pm

Cost is $25 in advance or at the door. Space is limited, so don't delay!

To register, stop in to Radiance, 9 W Grant St, Lancaster, PA or phone us at 717-290-1517

This evening will include guided meditation and an immersion in healing sound. Bring a yoga mat and/or blanket to lie on the floor. Dress in comfortable layers.

Working with the Four Agreements

The treasured teachings of Don Miguel Ruiz have been on the New York Times best seller list for many years.  We'll be exploring and revealing the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.

The First Agreement:  “Be impeccable with Your Word”

The Second Agreement:  “Don’t Take Anything Personally”

The Third Agreement:  “Don’t Make Assumptions”

The Fourth Agreement: “Always Do Your Best”

Are you ready to be in the driver's seat of your life? We'll meet for this workshop in a safe and non-judgmental container. Imagine living a whole new way of life where you are free to be who you really are, to live your life free from worry about what others think of you What would it be like to live without judging yourself and others, respect yourself and everyone else and have them respect you in return, to live without fear of expressing yourself, free of conflict with yourself and others.  Take the risk to explore life, and live without guilt, fear, shame, and regret.  Imagine loving yourself just the way you are!  Bring a bagged lunch & snacks, water, cushion to sit on, and dress in comfortable layers.

Join Jaque for this day of exploration.  In the morning, we will work with each of the Agreements, and in the afternoon Jaque will facilitate a powerful shamanic healing circle to address the personal lessons revealed to each participant.

Class will be held at Radiance, 9 W Grant St, Lancaster, PA, across the cobblestones from historic Central Market

Saturday, September 22, 2012, from 10 am - 6 pm

Cost for the workshop is $55 in advance, $65 the day of the class.  Call Radiance, 290-1517, or stop by to register.

Jaque Hanson is a Shamanic Energy Healer, as well as a Reiki and Shambala Master/Teacher, Certified Massage Therapist, Kundalini and Hatha Yoga teacher currently living in Carlisle, PA.  She believes that this is the time we have all been waiting for, and sees herself as a vessel, providing a safe container in which others may peel back their outer layers and allow their true radiance to emerge.

Basic Tribal Ethnofusion
Dance Classes With Zan Asha 

at Radiance
Tuesday evenings 6:30 to 8
Sept 25 – Oct 30, 2012


Tribal Belly Dance is an amalgam of dances from North Africa, India and Asia, utilizing both upper body strength with traditional Middle Eastern Movements for a feminine, but powerful dance display. The unique aspect of Tribal also includes the use of cues from each dancer to guide the dance, instead of choreography.

Basic Tribal Ethnofusion explores basic body posture, use of arms, hips, stomach, and rhythmic cues, turns, and transitions, to create a wonderful dance piece.

$80 for the 6-week series of classes.  Beginners are welcome.

Classes are held at Radiance, 9 W Grant St., Lancaster (across the cobblestones from Central Market).  Call Radiance, 717-290-1517, or stop in to register.
Dress comfortably for class, and bring a water bottle.

Zan Asha is a New York City Dancer and Theater director.  She led the first Gothic Belly Dance Troupe in NYC (www.choveXani.com). She has studied under such notable dance greats as Morocco and Carolina Nericcio, with training in Indian Dance from Lotus Music and Dance. Her work encompasses the love of theater and dance, and includes her theatrical women's series known as "Night of 1000 Goddesses" and "Shadows of The Harem." She currently teaches classes in dance and veils work.

An Open Letter from Our Dear Friend, Marta Benavides

Very dear sisters and brothers of the USA and the planet... we have talked about the massacre which has happened for a second time in Colorado, USA.. WE EXTEND TO YOU OUR SINCERE CONDOLENCES. We are so sorry, we do not wish this suffering on any one, or any nation anywhere.

We must STOP, STOP AND SEE. This is a call to figure out why, why. It is not that a very intelligent, nice white young man, who had, it seems, "a good future ahead" went crazy.. No, it is that something is empty and wrong.

How can it be that to what such destructive films, that so creatively show violence, in such way that people could not even distinguish between real fire and special effects? how can it be that such gore is consider family distraction, and even recreation? how can it be that then we can not see the suffering by wars and the human made destruction of nature inflected on not millions, but billions of people all over the world right now? and how can it be that this film was to bring the largest gain ever for that ''industry", and they are still showing it, under heavy police surveillance,so this weekend they will get the earnings planned?

This week in El Salvador, five families have been awaiting in prayers and tears, the police digging common graves in the earthquake stricken hill near San Salvador, looking for the bodies of their five teenagers who were sequestered as they got out of school a month ago.. this is our daily bread here.. and it can not and must not be for us or for you.

Hermanas y hermanos, please,please, take time to meditate, that is to look for the medi-cine, medi-tate, on this happening.. Stop, stop, and decide to SEE the call.. it happened in AURORA, COLORADO.. THE MEANING OF AURORA IS DAWN, THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW DAY.. THE LIGHT OF THE NEW DAY..

We in El Salvador and C.A., know what it means to experience every day such horrifying massacres, they truly keep us terrorized. For us is the combination of a flow of arms, organized crime, extremely corrupting organized crime, and the flow of drugs to the North. Besides the horrible deaths, this is very expensive for us , thus it means lack of jobs, opportunities for youth, lack of education, health, housing , transportation, in other words tears and tears and a LACK OF A MEANINGFUL FUTURE NOW AND DECADES BEYOND TODAY.

We remember what happened not too long ago in Norway, today is the anniversary of that massacre, where a most bizarre long and well planned attack on youth and the city was perpetrated by a young man, who did not have any of the poverty needs that often are seen in the North, as the source of the violence we experience in our impoverished countries. And the same has happened in Finland this year too.

SISTERS AND BROTHERS, IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO FEEL THE PAIN.. WE MUST BE READY TO BE THE CHANGE WE ARE AND HAVE BEEN DREAMING AND LOOKING FOR. WHAT IS THE PRESENT AND FUTURE WE NEED. EACH OF THE PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE DECISIONS WE MAKE TODAY, CREATE THE COLLECTIVE PRESENT AND FUTURE FOR OURSELVES, THE FUTURE GENERATIONS, AND THE CONDITIONS FOR MOTHER EARTH AND MOTHER NATURE.

IT IS TIME TO DECIDE, WE MUST CHOOSE TO BE AWAKE .. and HERE IS A GIFT, do please look at the info on the PEACE CAMP BELOW
MUCH LOVE.. Marta-- El Salvador-- SIGLO XXIII

Furoshiki Fabric Lunch Wraps Are Here!

We just received some of these gorgeous lunch wraps today, and are already planning to order more.  They are even more wonderful than we expected them to be! 

The ancient Japanese tradition of knotting, folding and twisting, dating back to the 17th century, is the technique used for these traditionally-styled lunch carriers. When untwisted, they make a lovely placemat for your meal.

Double-sided and machine washable, these cotton furoshiki (pronounced f-ROHSH-kee) wraps are sewn from colorful fair trade textiles hand printed by artisans using wooden blocks and wax batik techniques perfected over generations. Whether you are packing food at home, picking up take-out or just need a versatile bag, these wraps make it easy to say goodbye to plastic bags, vinyl totes and other eco un-friendly food containers.

We also have some stainless steel food containers at Radiance, that pair nicely with these cloth wraps.

Radiance will be closed on Wednesday, July 4, so that we can have picnics with our families.  There will not be a yoga class on Wednesday evening.

We WILL be open all day tomorrow, Tuesday the 3rd and again on Thursday, as usual. 

Keep cool!