Welcome to Week 1

Mantras for Peace:

A Wisdom Gathering

Featuring global thought leaders dedicated to a vibrant future through both ancient and innovative subtle activism practices.

 

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Week 1 Speakers

The Interviews

Punnu Wasu

Sikh and multicultural devotional musician speaks on the power of sound and mantra for transformation.

 

 

Once you install the mantra within your being, it starts resonating. It starts cleansing the physical, mental, emotional, intellectual and bliss bodies. It makes you more and more peaceful, calm, and happy! Whenever I’m disturbed by any situation, if I chant, I am relaxed and power of mantra and music tunes the environment all around me."
Punnu Singh Wasu is an Indian vocalist, musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He was born and raised in Hyderabad, India into a family that has a true love for Kirtan and spirituality. He began studying harmonium and singing at the tender age of 5. At age 10, he moved on to learning Hindustani (Indian Classical Music) while traveling with his father throughout India singing the beautiful verses of Kirtan. Nowadays Punnu performs Kirtan, Xtatic Kirtan, Indian Fusion, Indian Classical music, Sufi, Bollywood music as well as Sound Healing. He also has his own Kirtan Academy for studying devotional music and traditional Indian instruments as well as Sound Healing Academy and leads music workshops in combination with yoga & meditation.
Punnu recorded and released his first album Bhakti Child in 2011 followed by Karuna in 2013. His third album Sathgur Daata will be released shortly. 
He shares his vast knowledge and experience of more than 35 years in his meditation classes, workshops, Meditation Teacher Trainings, Advanced Meditation Trainings and Yoga Nidra Teacher Trainings at his workplace The Yoga Barn in Bali and all around the world.
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Zena El Khalil

Artist, activist, and TED fellow speaks about her life's work of peacemaking in Lebanon.

 


At the beginning of my career, my art was about raising the issues of patriarchy in Lebanon. After a period of introspection and awakening, instead of finger pointing, I started to look at the former militia men in power as mirrors of myself. I started to ask in my art “How can I bring them into my heart? How can love transform? How can I be a vehicle for love?”
Zena is an artist, author, sacred activist and yoga instructor based in Beirut, Lebanon. She uses visual art, site-specific installation, performance and ritual to explore and heal war torn sites of trauma. She also curates events and workshops dedicated to elevating human consciousness through the mediums of ceremony, sound and art. Merging art and healing modalities, she has been conducting healing ceremonies across Lebanon in spaces that have historically endured trauma and violence. With the intention of transforming these places and objects in them into generators of peace and reconciliation in nature and with communities, these ceremonies include a process of meditation, chanting, whirling and fire ceremony through which she creates paintings, sculptures, sound and video art.
During the 2006 invasion of Lebanon Zena was one of the first largely followed Middle Eastern bloggers, her heartfelt eyewitness writings were published in the international press, including the BBC, CNN and the Guardian. In 2008, she was invited to speak at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo and soon after, completed her memoir, “Beirut, I Love You” now translated in several languages. In 2017, Zena held a groundbreaking national scale exhibition on peace and reconciliation entitled “Sacred Catastrophe: Healing Lebanon” at the Beit Beirut, a former sniper’s nest and war-torn building now renovated into a museum symbolic of Lebanon’s troubled conflicts. In 2018 Zena was awarded a Senior Fellowship with TED.
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Mari Smith

Top marketing expert discusses how to use social media as a personal peacemaking practice.

 

 

"When on social media, develop your soft skills.  Go beyond the glimpse, be discerning and listen,  go deeper into what you choose to engage with … have empathy and compassion for what you find.  Before you hit the send button, ask yourself, ‘What is my deepest intent?’ this will keep your ego in check and allow you to respond with empathy."
Often referred to as “the Queen of Facebook,” Mari Smith is considered one of the world’s foremost experts on Facebook marketing and a top Social Media Thought Leader. Facebook hired Mari to teach businesses throughout the U.S. and to help create the company’s Blueprint certification programs. Forbes describes Mari as, “… the preeminent Facebook expert. Even Facebook asks for her help.” IBM named Mari as one of seven women who are shaping digital marketing. Mari is an in-demand keynote speaker, dynamic live webcast host, corporate social media strategist, and popular brand ambassador. She is coauthor of Facebook Marketing: An Hour A Day, and author of The New Relationship Marketing. Mari also has a passion for personal and professional development and helping raise consciousness on the planet; she is a founding member of ATL (Association of Transformational Leaders) and a member of TLC (Transformational Leadership Council).
MARI'S FREE GIFT 
Join Mari Smith's fabulous online community in the Social Scoop Facebook Group. You'll receive an abundance of peer support, plus priority access to Mari and her team. Learn the latest Facebook and social media trends, tips, tools, news, and updates. Mari is renowned for helping demystify all the social media changes and generously sharing her knowledge. You'll also receive 3 Free Facebook Marketing Guides when you join the group and provide your email address.
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Devi Ward Erickson

The founder of The Institute of Authentic Tantra Education speaks on pleasure activism for developmental and racial trauma healing.

 

 

"My lineage of Tibetan Tantrik practices was founded by women. Most of the other (patriarchal) traditions end the central channel at the navel; they totally erase the pelvis! We understand that during orgasm the moving prāṇas brush the central channel, giving us a glimpse of enlightenment. I think it is a travesty of justice that we as human beings don’t have instruction on how to make our orgasm last for more than 10 seconds... to be more than a genital sneeze."
Devi Ward Erickson is the Founder of the Institute of Authentic Tantra Education,the first and only government accredited professional training institute using the Tibetan Five Element Tantric practices for holistic sexual healing. Devi is an ACS Certified Sexologist, Certified Tantric Healer, Certified Reiki Practitioner, Certified Meditation Instructor, and has been teaching meditation and personal growth workshops for over 20 years.
Devi is an author and the Host of Sex is Medicine Podcast on Itunes and tunein.com. She has been featured as a Tantric Healing Expert in countless articles and over 30 different radio and television networks world wide including Playboy Radio, Men’s Health Magazine, CBS, NBC Rogers TV and the movieSexology with Gabrielle Anwar and Catherine Oxenberg.She was most recently featured in VH1 “Couples Retreat and Ebony Magazine.
Connect with Devi and discover the art of using pleasure as medicine!
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Christine Marie Mason

Futurist, author, and entrepreneur paints a picture of resilience through sound, voice, and mantra

 

 

"We can weave together peace, pleasure, and polyvagal theory; it’s only when you’re in deep relaxation and not in a defended state that you can actually feel pleasure. Your peace is not just your key to walking in the world in an undefended state, it’s opening the doorway to enjoying your given embodied life."
Christine is the founder of Rosebud Woman. She has a deep interest in women's wellness and the liberation of all people. She hosts a weekly podcast, the rose woman, and writes weekly letters on love power and womanhood to more than 30,000 people. As a yogi, bhakta, tantrika and mystic Christian, Christine draws on ancient wisdom, while working with current modalities including neuroscience informed collective trauma healing. She's authored seven books, and is the co-founder of Sundari, an experimental community, meditation center and medicinal farm on Hawaii. She's appeared on radio, tv, print and podcasts (from NPR to Vogue to TEDx), speaking on conscious entrepreneurship, freeing the mind and body, activism and sexual and intimate wellness. She's a mother of four and a grandmother. She's taught yoga and led chant, alongside Adam Bauer, all over the world, from Argentina to India.
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Global Chant Circle

We invite participants to think, chant, or sing simple mantras for peace at least once per day for 108 days.

LokāḄ SamastāḄ Sukhino Bhavantu

May all the beings in all the worlds be happy!

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