2) June 4 – 17, 2007: “Consciousness, Nature, Biodanza
and Holotropic Breathwork”.

Dr. Dennis McKenna, ethnopharmacologist. Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Health Products Research Group, Technology Centre, B.C. Institute of Technology, Burnaby, BC, Canada. (See bio for more information)

Lecture 1:
What is not patented is prohibited: the criminalization of nature. The talk will focus on issues surrounding how natural products, plants, traditional medicines, indigenous knowledge; even genes should be regulated in the age of globalization. Humanity has managed to maintain a relationship with nature for the past 100,000 years (or so) with virtually no regulation. Now we are entering an era in which multinational corporations are asserting their ownership of nature, governments are preemptively banning psychoactive plants with no justification; corporations and the pharmaceutical industry are even patenting the human genome. Where does this stop? Who owns nature? Who owns indigenous knowledge? Who is regulating the regulators?

Lecture 2:
Bitter Brews and other Abominations: the uses and abuses of some little known psychoactive plants.

Christos Daskalakos, was born in Johannesburg of Greek decent. The strains of music and dance were a constant feature while he was growing up. While studying at university his love for dance and movement led him to train as a contemporary dancer and teacher and for ten years he was a member of the Moving Into Dance Company. His formal education is as an architect and urban designer and he presently runs an architectural practice with an interest in Visionary/Spiritual architecture. he is also a part time lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand in the School of Architecture. The common thread running through both his construction related work and dance has been the development of people, exploring ways of enhancing their skills and providing opportunities for personal growth. Christos says "My mission in life is to create beauty in the world – beauty in our environment, beauty in our relationships and beauty of the heart". See http://www.biodanza.co.za/facilitators_christos_daskalakos.html.

Christos will lead four Biodanza sessions and will give the following lectures:

• Dances of Life - The origins, principles and outcomes of Biodanza

• From the Big Toe to the Soul - Transformation through Movement

Optional: The Architecture of Movement - a look at how worldview and ritual, structure space.

Biodanza is a system of human affective integration and growth stimulated by music, rhythm and emotions. In the context of the work carried out at Wasiwaska, Biodanza draws on the principles of trance and transcendence allowing us to enter into a space of expanded consciousness from where we can establish essential connections with everything that exists - the cosmic whole. The movement also allows us to embody and integrate the knowledge we gain from other journeys and experiences.

Karen Helle Grue, Danish Jungian psychotherapist and certified Holotropic Breathwork facilitator. (See bio for more information) Karen will lead two Holotropic Breathwork sessions and will give the following lecture:

• How the Psyche Creates a Deeper Understanding of Itself Through the Language of Symbols. The process of lifting the curse of the loss of deeper connection to inner and outer reality, seen through the fairytale 'East of the Sun and West of the Moon'.

Holotropic Breathwork
A method developed by Stan and Christiana Grof. The basic elements in Holotropic Breathwork are deeper and accelerated breathing, evocative music, and facilitation of energy release through a specific form of bodywork. With the eyes closed and lying on a mat, each person uses their own breath and the music in the room to enter a non-ordinary state of consciousness. This state activates the natural inner healing process of the individual's psyche, bringing him or her a particular set of internal experiences. With the inner healing intelligence guiding the process, the quality and content brought forth is unique to each person and for that particular time and place. While recurring themes are common, no two sessions are ever-alike.