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Candace Rogers When you approach your relationships as a spiritual practice in becoming more conscious rather than looking to relationships to make you happy or to fulfill you, a powerful shift takes place. You move from being identified with your reactions, disappointments, and entitlements to developing your capacity to evenly witness whatever arises. In this practice, you do not become distant and detached as some people fear. Rather, this practice helps you to experience your mind like a mirror. A mirror receives but does not grasp. In this state, compassion, clarity and grace may enter. Since experiencing a dramatic awakening as a student in Naka-Ima, Candace has dedicated her life to the evolution of human consciousness. Candace has has been teaching Naka-Ima and The Practice (Naka-Ima Part II) for six years. Candace graduated with a Bachelors Degree from The Evergreen State College after studying psychological counseling and women’s studies. For 6 years, she worked as an advocate for survivors of domestic and sexual violence. She taught classes on family violence, saw clients for counseling sessions and facilitated support groups. Candace currently co-owns a trucking company with her partner, Mark.  Deborah Riverbend "The most prominent theme of my life has been following my spirit
and excitement. This
has led me to teach in New York inner city schools; create and teach
in open learning environments for emotionally disturbed teenagers;
live on a kibbutz; raise my son on a lesbian commune; travel
extensively in SE Asia and India; hand build my adobe home; live
without running water and electricity; study in a doctoral program
for experimental education at Harvard University; bike ride across
America; create, produce, and act in political theatre,; study
Jewish law, tradition, and mysticism, as proscribed in the Torah,
Talmud, and Kabbalah; juggle fire; undergo Jungian therapy and
dream analysis; practice and create women’s culture and
ritual; teach transformational and business courses while living
communally with a staff of twenty; be a backyard goat and sheep
farmer; win an anti-nuclear power case “pro se” in
the New Hampshire Supreme Court; study Reiki; create large applique
wall hanginhgs; have three of my political banners travel the
U.S. for a year in an art show entitled “Proclaiming
Dreams of Peace and Justice”; practice meditation and yoga in an
Indian ashram, at U.S. retreats, and at home; design and sew clothing
professionally; work for Cesar Chavez as the New York/New Jersey
organizer for the United Farm Workers grape boycott; be arrested
numerous times at anti-war demonstrations; co-create and teach Naka-Ima
workshops for the past twelve years.  Larry Kaplowitz Larry Kaplowitz |