Build Your Own Rocket Stove!

The rocket stove was invented for use in developing nations as a highly efficient, low tech alternative to traditional resource guzzling cook-stoves and open flame fires. While traditional stoves and fires rely on coal, wood or gas for fuel, the rocket stove can cook a whole dinner using just twigs and grasses. Constructed from recycled materials, the rocket stove is an affordable and sustainable cook-stove design that is so simple anyone can learn to build it. Makes a great camp or outdoor kitchen stove.

Join us July 11th from 1 to 4pm for a rocket stove-building workshop. We will also discuss the importance of appropriate technology in today's world. And you will leave with your own finished stove!

Cost: $50-$35 per person, sliding scale. Materials are included.

Class will be held at Radiance, 9 W Grant St, Lancaster, PA 17603
Call 717-290-1517, or stop by to register

Wilson Alvarez is co-owner of Homegrown Edible Landscaping Co. with his wife Natasha. He has a background in history and anthropology and has spent the last seven years studying the local ecosystem and sustainable living techniques. Homegrown is a human-powered business and is based in Lancaster City.

A Woman's Power: Intuition, Creativity & Healing

A Woman’s Power: Intuition, Creativity, & Healing
With Gurunater Kaur Khalsa
Saturday, June 19, 2010 1-5pm

As women, we have natural gift of awareness, intuition, creativity, power and healing. Yet many of us have forgotten our Divine gifts, trapped in the limitations of outdated beliefs, unconscious defenses and imprinted reactions. In this workshop, you will experience ancient yogic practices of mantra (repeated affirmations), asanas (specified bodily movements) and meditation: three powerful tools that in combination open the gateway to reconnect with your Divine essence and feminine power. The workshop provides an access to your natural gifts of intuition, creativity, and healing by focusing on:
· balancing the chakras - the energy centers of consciousness
· opening the heart center - the doorway to increased acceptance of yourself
· expanding intuition and the dynamic flow of the creative nature of a woman

$60 Pre-register by June 16 phone Radiance at 717-290-1517 or stop in for more information. Radiance is located at 9 W Grant St, across the cobblestones from Central market in downtown Lancaster,
Gurunater Kaur has been teaching Kundalini Yoga since 1976. She has made gemstone malas for many international dignitaries, including Yogi Bhajan and the Dalai Lama. She is a Certified Hypnotherapist doing Past Life Regressions and Reiki Master, Polarity Therapist, Therapeutic Touch, & Sat Nam Rasayan Practitioner. She is an ordained minister since 1984 and a member of The National Guild of Hypnotists, Mid-Atlantic Yoga Association, International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association.
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New Shipment of African Market Baskets

We've aways offered Fair Trade African market baskets from Ghana here at Radiance. We just got a new shipment of them yesterday & a new style! These oval "totes" have taller ends & seem like they would be perfect for carrying yoga gear or taking to the beach. Or to market. Come take a look!

Radical Urban Sustainability Class

Radical Urban Sustainability:
Theories and Techniques for Transforming Our City
A two-evening course with Wilson Alvarez
Thursdays, May 13th & 20th, 2010 6:30pm-8:45pm
Cost: Sliding scale of $35-$50

Picture this: Lancaster is completely surrounded by a twenty-foot wall. There is no way to go over it, under it or around it, no food or resources coming in or going out. What skills would we need to obtain the food, water and other materials required to sustain life? How could we create a system that would be truly sustainable without any input from the outside world?

Join us for this 2-part course as we explore cutting-edge theories and techniques that can be used to create a truly self-renewing system, right here within the city and inside our homes.

Topics include:

Week 1:
May 13th
Sustainability Theory:
Systems thinking
Stone age economics/nature awareness
Voluntary simplicity

Food:
Forest gardening
Small scale intensive agriculture
Mushroom cultivation
Micro-livestock
Home-scale fish production

Landscape Decontamination:
Bio-remediation
Myco-remediation
Bio-char production

Week 2:
May 20th
Appropriate Technology:
Human Powered Machines
Composting Toilets
Rocket Stoves
Low Impact Home Designs

Water:
Watershed Rehabilitation
Grey-water systems
Rainwater Catchment

Class will be held at Radiance, 9 W Grant St, Lancaster, PA 17603
Call 717-290-1517, or stop by to register

Wilson Alvarez is co-owner of Homegrown Edible Landscaping Co. with his wife Natasha. He has a background in history and anthropology and has spent the last seven years studying the local ecosystem and sustainable living techniques. Homegrown is a human-powered business and is based in Lancaster City.

New Spring Mural at Radiance

This is a photo of the new mural hanging in the stairwell at Radiance. Eli Weaver has been painting a series of seasonal murals for us, so this is the Spring mural. Demeter and Kore strolling through the meadow, leaving early flowers in their footsteps. Come see us and the mural anytime!

In Tune With the Moon and Astrology Readings with Dan Furst

An Free Evening of Sacred
Chant and Sound Healing with
Dan Furst

April 27 (Tue), 7:00pm
at Radiance
9 W. Grant St., Lancaster, PA
717-290-1517


Dan Furst’s acclaimed book Dance of the Moon: Celebrating the Sacred Cycles of the Earth has been published this year by Llewellyn Worldwide. He’ll be at Radiance to sign his book and talk about how and guide an exploration into sacred chant and the healing powers of sound and intention.

“Dan Furst is one of the best astrology writers out there.”
 Rob Brezsny, Free Will Astrology

Dan Furst has been a professional astrologer for over thirty years. He has written his immensely popular Universal Festival Calendar since 1998 on his Hermes 3 website – http://www.hermes3.net -- which Body and Soul called “a wonderful site, full of historical and mythological information.” He’s an internationally-respected authority on rituals and spiritual practices around the world. He has worked as a writer, actor, teacher and ceremonial artist in New York, Hawaii, Japan, India and Egypt, and lives now in Urubamba near Cusco, Peru.

Dan will be at Radiance, in Lancaster April 27 – 28 for private astrology and tarot readings at special Friends of Radiance rates: $150 for Astrocartography, $125 for birth chart and transit readings (both 90 minutes), $45 for tarot readings (30 minutes). All astrology readings are recorded to mp3 files that can be played on any computer. Bring a flash drive, and you can take everything – recording, chart and maps – home with you when we’re done. For information, and to book an astrology reading with Dan: (717) 290 – 1517 or e-mail LabyrinthHerbs@aol.com

Threads of Connection, Strands of the Web

An Exhibit at Radiance
9 W Grant St., Lancaster, PA
March 15 through May 30, 2010
Artist Reception on Friday, April 2, 5-8pm

Born of the deep desire to celebrate our connection with the natural world, Sylvan Thorncraft looks for the magical spark that resides in all things to inspire her fabric collage work. The spirits of the forest, the divas of the flowers, the dancing clouds slowly emerge from luminous layers of silk and gauze. A large portion of these pieces are created with cast off women's blouses, in the spirit of honoring women's intimate connection with fabric and the making of thread, cloth and clothing through time. Fabric invites us in, it touches our skin, protects us, lives with us. In many cases, Thorncraft's work is as much inspired by finding "the perfect" bit of cloth for a piece as it is by the desire to express a specific vision. Their creation is organic and fluid, arranging a layer then looking for what that layer is calling for next, working to bring the individual parts into relationship, into the community that is the finished piece.

Sylvan Thorncraft lives and works in the eastern Catskill Mountains of New York. Having been engaged with the creative process all of her life, she celebrates how sewing connects her to her female ancestors, both known and unknown. Student of nature and the ancient traditions of the people who knew her so intimately, she hopes to tap into the deep sea of our collective wisdom for the images she creates. To see more please visit her web site: www.emeraldspritestudio.com