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The Sedona Meditation Training Company announces its new programs for 2008. As meditation becomes more mainstream, the Sedona Meditation Training Company adapts its programs to the changing needs of its students.

Recently featured in the NY Times, Sarah McLean, the director of the Sedona Meditation Training Co., was one of the founding directors of the Chopra Center in California and has over 20 years' experience in the personal growth arena. She and all the certified trainers at the Sedona Meditation Training Company skillfully demystify meditation and make the practice accessible to anyone.

This March at "Soul of Healing," the Chopra Center co-founders Deepak Chopra, M.D. and David Simon, M.D. will help participants clear their mind, release stress and bring more balance, health and happiness to their lives.

The Chopra Center for Wellbeing will present its signature program Soul of Healing this March 17-21 at La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California. Limited to an intimate group of only 40 guests, Soul of Healing is designed and led by mind-body pioneers Deepak Chopra, M.D. and David Simon, M.D. for those seeking to manage stress, heal physical and emotional pain, and take their well-being to a higher level.

PowWows.com has announced their 5th Annual Member's Choice Awards. The Member's Choice Awards are a way for site members to recognize and honor outstanding powwows and the people affiliated with them for the past year.

The 5th Annual Member's Choice Awards are in. These are the awards granted each year by the Native American web site PowWows.com as a way for their members to recognize and honor outstanding powwows and the people affiliated with them for the past year. Nominations were accepted during December. The top nominees in each category were voted on by the members of the site during the month of January. This years awards had over 25 categories and hundreds of votes.

Markoulakis Publications has produced the second issue of the third volume (volume 3 no. 2) of the printed and online educational periodical entitled "Sparta."

Markoulakis Publications has produced the second issue of the third volume (volume 3 no. 2) of the printed and online educational periodical entitled Sparta. The periodical is accessible for at the following website: www.sparta.markoulakispublications.org.uk.

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The space agency and the Fab Four celebrate anniversaries by beaming the song "Across The Universe" into deep space.

For the first time ever, NASA will beam a song - The Beatles' "Across the Universe" - directly into deep space at 7 p.m. EST on Feb. 4.

The transmission over NASA's Deep Space Network will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the day The Beatles recorded the song, as well as the 50th anniversary of NASA's founding and the group's beginnings. Two other anniversaries also are being honored: The launch 50 years ago this week of Explorer 1, the first U.S. satellite, and the founding 45 years ago of the Deep Space Network, an international network of antennas that supports missions to explore the universe.

This day long workshop promises to teach you everything you ever wanted to know about Kabbalah but were afraid to ask.

For anyone who has ever wondered if Kabbalah is relevant in his or her life should, without a doubt, join Sinai Live at A Day of Kabbalah. This full-day event held at the JCC in Manhattan will present world-class scholars from around the U.S., Israel and even Australia, to express just how powerful and valuable its philosophy is.

Everyone knows that although losing weight is hard, keeping it off is even harder. According to the Dhan Yoga folks, to keep weight off, you must work with your mind.

"'Mindset' plays a key (although often unconscious) role in gaining, losing and keep excess weight off," believes Ilchi Lee, president of the University of Brain Education in South Korea. He explains, "Usually heavy thoughts and emotional baggage account for why people put on the pounds. While trying to slim down through exercise and diet, both old and new emotions arise to challenge or even defeat their best efforts."

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Russia's first LGBT film festival, Side by Side, is stimulating dialogue nationally and internationally.

In recent days Side by Side ("Bok o Bok"), Russia's first annual international lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender film festival scheduled for 2-5 October, 2008 in Saint Petersburg, has been receiving an unprecedented level of attention in the nation's press and media.

Intensive Yoga Meditation Retreat will be in Rishikesh, India from April 5, 2008 to April 26, 2008. The retreat is at Sadhana Mandir Ashram (the ashram of Swami Rama), which is directly on the River Ganges at the entrance to the Himalayas. Those familiar with the writings and teachings of Swami Rama will especially enjoy this retreat, as the retreat is based directly on those teachings.

Sadhana Mandir is offering a three week Swami Rama Intensive and Yoga Meditation Retreat starting Saturday, April 5, 2008, and ending on Saturday, April 26, 2008. This Program will be of interest to those familiar with Swami Rama and who want to explore the teachings and practices in greater depth. Swami Rama is widely known to have presented the deeper teachings of Yoga in extremely clear and accessible ways, and with the perspective that the goal of Yoga is nothing less than the direct experience of one's true Self (Atman, Purusha) in this very lifetime.

Mystical and scenic Sedona plays host to a powerful Feng Shui Intensive Training Program on February 22 - 26, 2008 at the Radisson, Poco Diablo Resort.

An ancient practice is enjoying a renaissance in Western culture. Feng Shui (pronounced "fung schway") has its roots in Chinese culture and has been used for centuries by people seeking to improve their lives through the use of color, materials and object placement in order to invite positive energy, or "Chi" into their homes and workplaces.