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| The Circle Center is located in downtown Fairfax, CA. It s a space dedicated to supporting people in developing and sharing their hearts gifts in service to others. This center represents a new model of how conscious community networks can be developed and sustained. This is our interview with Circle Center founder Matthew Edwards. This is our third post for Videoblogging Week 2007. Music: Hidden Sky by Jami Seiber via magnatune.com Flickr photos: venturevoice, jtowns, jurvetson, smartfat, sanataroseoldskool, tarzen, santaroseoldskool, weither, santarosaoldskool, kay84, santarosaoldskool, markopoulos, funnystrangerorfunnyhaha, stephansplace, captainburke, ibu Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 3.0 videobloggingweek2007

| The practice of yoga consists of physical, mental and spiritual exercises that originated in India over 5,000 years ago. Will Edmonson is a yoga teacher, bodyworker and holistic wellness consultant living in Berkeley, CA. Free online Yoga can be found at Yoga Today This is our second post for Videoblogging Week 2007. Music: ( minimal secret #9 ) by cdk via ccmixter.org. Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 3.0 videobloggingweek2007

| I ve been practicing Qi Gong for the past three years and I ve found that these simple movements have had a profound impact on my health and well-being. Qi Gong affects the body s flow of energy and comes from the Taoist and Buddhist traditions, Chinese Medicine and martial arts practice. Chinese Medicine holds a reverence for the spiritual interconnection of all life and bases its approach to health and well-being on a holistic understanding of the body. Preventive care of the body and living in accord with the cycles of nature creates well being. Qi gong practice consists of cultivating chi (vital energy) by coordinating breathing patterns with physical postures and motions that integrate the upper and lower body. This practice breaks down energetic blocks to the free flow of chi throughout the body. I m currently taking a class in Chinese Medicine to better understand these profound ancient healing practices. If you re interested in learning more about Chinese Medicine the book for the class is called Between Heaven and Earth. Mark McKenna teaches Qi Gong on Tuesday mornings at the Circle Center in Fairfax, CA. His teacher is Fong Ha of the Integral Ch aun Institute. This is our first post for Videoblogging Week 2007. Music: Biodrift by DJ BLUE via ccmixter.org. Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 videobloggingweek2007

Play Quicktime | Play Flash Our global society faces the challenge of moving from an industrial-growth society to a life-sustaining society. This shift is often referred to as The Great Turning. We spent some of our New Year s holiday collaborating on this videoblog to create a positive vision for the New Year. We used Creative Commons-licensed material detailed below. Here are some resources that we find useful in describing some optimistic social change approaches for the future: COMMUNICATION Non-Violent Communication is an approach to communicating that focuses on creating deep connection and satisfying relationships based on mutual respect, compassion and cooperation. Kent summarizes a weekend workshop of NVC here. COMMUNITY Joanna Macey wrote the book Coming Back to Life, which teaches community practices for facing despair and how to prevent from going psychically numb in the face of global challenges. Macey says, When we deny or repress pain or treat it a private pathology we miss out. When we acknowledge and willing accepting the pain of larger world we open a path for a sense of interconnectedness. HEALTH The New Medicine website by PBS is an excellent resource for understanding mind-body medicine and finding therapies that treat specific conditions with a integrative approach. CONSCIOUSNESS The Institute of Noetic Science s ShiftInAction.com hosted an Essential Shifts Series consisting of interviews with some of the world s best visionary thinkers talking about the current global situation and what we can do about it. GREEN TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS We bought the book Worldchanging: A User s Guide for the 21st Century, which describes some of the latest and greatest solutions for a bright green future. It is packed with sustainable technologies that provide a lot of hope for what is already possible. VIDEO CREDITS Creative Commons Music: Mind Field by DJBLUE from ccmixter.org Interview Audio: Angeles Arrien from ShiftInAction.com Creative Commons Video Arin Crumley s Humanity Lobotomy freakypups Free Hugs for Phoenix And the following Stock Footage from WGBH Labs Sandbox: Clock, La Plaza Newspaper, New Yorkers 1939, Journey into DNA, This Information, Blood Flow, Splashes of Sparks, Of Human Bondage, Nubian Fisherman on the Nile, Crops in the Mist, Ocean Waves at the Shore, Baby Naming Ceremony, King Montgomery, Waikiki Counterclockwise, Nautilus Animation, Time Lapse Nature, Slow Motion Track Creative Commons Flickr Photos monkeyc, blumsy, neoncoil, kevint, benjamin_ellis, blogumentary, joyrex, ousby, tjt195, hawkey, sigman, hawkey, paulbence, hawkey, vithassan, hawkey, weston, lapidim, scatti_frullati, thomashawk, willpate, hawkey, scatti_frullati, cyberscorpion, scatti_frullati, hawkey, docman, k-girl, willemvelthoven, alfredoneto, hawkey, istanbulmike, sigman, tasteful_tn, jamesxv7 Falstad.com Physics Applets: Ripple Tank (2-D Waves) Applet 2-D Circular Square Well Applet This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 License. Want to Share this Video? More information under the share link here.