WE ARE NOT ON MAIN STREET ANYMORE
2021 Sperry Avenue, Suite 22
Ventura, California 93003
805~794~9878
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Our Intention and Our VisionOur
vision and mission for A Place of Peace is to provide a Sanctuary of
Peace in the Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties – to be available and
accessible to those in need of a Place to go for: assistance,
connection, education, spiritual development, outreach –
community. We provide a place for people to come together for
inspiration, creation and service – to raise consciousness toward
balance and healing. Balanced and harmonious individuals create stable families and stable
families become viable members in their community and society as a
whole. It does take a village to change the world! At A Place of
Peace we begin one by one – one service at a time, one session, one meditation, one
lecture, one class….We
are a community within the community for the community – a “Place” to
journey: emotionally, spiritually and personally - a home for body/mind/soul.
We beieve we all continuously recover from fear and negativity.
Our vision is to support and inspire Peace, Love, Harmony and Balance.
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A
Place of Peace Recovery Home for Women will have its own page on our
site very soon. We hope you will come back to visit and see what is on
our horizon.
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Weekday Morning Meditation 7:30 AM Tuesdays - Fridays.
We come together in our community circle to begin
our day and to raise our minds, hearts, and energies toward Love and Peace as we
ignite our light.
We surrender the day in our sweet, quiet, gentle
sanctuary.
For a brief look at our meditations see this 1 minute video at: http://vimeo.com/24452524
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Yoga: Tues. & Thurs. at 8:30AM
with Gina
Chair and Mat
Gina
Bartiromo, MA, CYI, completed her yoga instructor training at Kripalu
Center for Yoga and Health in Massachusetts, the first and largest yoga
and retreat center in the United States. Rather than emphasizing the
perfect pose, Kripalu yoga integrates body, mind and spirit using
consciousness and compassion to accentuate our unique potential.
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A Message from Rev. Teri - 1/12
 Greetings
of Peace, Love, & Light to Our Friends of A Place of Peace!
I wish you and those you love Blessings of Abundance, Health and Peace in 2012. 2011 was a beautiful time of growth and of service at A Place of Peace - we say farewell with fond memories. We look forward to growing together even more in 2012. We hope you will join us when you can. We
entered our 2nd year in our new home at Thanksgiving and we are looking
forward to sharing our "Place" with all the new folks who have found
their way to our sanctuary. It is such a
quiet oasis in town for our
journey...on "a road less traveled". If you have not found
us yet - Inside the complex it feels like a
retreat, and at night - Camelot. We have grounds for our
children on Sundays and a Gazebo for our Community
events....a lawn for our outdoor concerts, drum circles, full moon
gatherings, and weddings, etc. It
is just beautiful! Pictures soon! Our Sanctuary, our
5 new offices, and our Gazebo-Peace Patio, are surrounded by rivers of
running water and
huge old trees. There is ample parking all around the
complex and once you step onto
the inside grounds ...the pathways are just pure peace.
Our Sanctuary is aglow now as we move into our second year here! We
welcome new practitioners, Our Wellness Center is growing, our classes
are expanding, and we experience harmony in our hearts. Our exciting news is the A Place of Peace Recovery Home for Women we
will open soon, off-site. We have the assistance of our new and
wonderful
Development Director, Monique De La Cruz, who brings her experience in
opening four others in the California area. We will keep you
posted. If you are interested in contributing to the Home's
opening you may do so with Pay Pal below, or by sending a check to our
address above. We so appreciate any donations toward this
new project - $5, $10, $20, $50...$100 or more - it's all a
blessing
and a gift from one heart to another! The clients who will come
to this Home will be devoted and dedicated to creating a positive life
for themselves and their children - in being competent and contributing
members of Ventura County. We believe people who want to change
can - especially with the support and love of a peaceful community and
with the "right" classes, guidance and focus. We offer that here
at A Place of Peace. Our program is unique and we believe
it will provide the women who come with all that is needed to make the
permanent changes necessary and desireable for their graduation into a
balanced and healthy life. Summer was a relaxing time. Our BBQ and Concert
was wonderful, and filled with lots of love energy. We met
some new folks who have decided to join our circle and others who stop
by from time to time. We look forward to another - soon. The
fall brouight us to our 2nd Thanksgiving Morning Meditation and it was
shared with many of our beautiful friends. Our Open House was
festive - we were blesed with sweet music offered by gifted musicians/violinists. We
are working on being of Service this year and - We
shared Christmas Carols witih the elderly in December and found our
time given was more of a gift to us than to them for their joy filled
our hearts! We collected gifts for families and delivered them to
the Fire Department to distribute the those in need. Our Christmas
Eve Service celebrated the Light of the Christ consciousness born in
our hearts, the Miracle of the Lights of Hanukkah, and Winter Solstice
bringing the son back to us . On New Years Eve we met in our circle
and in the quiet of our hearts where we journeyed together into a land
of possibility and peace. We moved through the blessings and lessons
of 2011 into the new year 2012 surrendered in that peace - imagining a
different world. And
now in the new year we hope to grow further in our journey of Love.
You are always welcome in our casual circle anytime. Personally,
I am so very grateful for each moment spent and each heart encountered
at A Place of Peace - so many beautiful hearts! The gift of
Peace I find just showing up each day fills me with joy...with hope.
Deep gratitude fills my soul! Peace to your heart! Teri
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Thank you
for your donations to A Place of Peace's new project - APOP Recovery
Home for Women - $5, $10, $20, $50...$100 or more - it's all a
blessing
and a gift from one heart to another! The clients who will come
to this Home will be devoted and dedicated to creating a positive life
for themselves and their children - in being competent and contributing
members of Ventura County. Our Pay Pal link is below - at the very bottom, our phone number and address are listed below, and your donation is tax deductable. Together with love and peace all things are possible. Thank you!
We
deeply appreciate the pledges, gifts and donations from all of our
friends, community, and supporters of A Place of Peace. Thank you
from the bottom of our hearts!
We especially thank and acknowledge the following sparks of light for their gracious willingness to help:
Illayne and Mark Kiel Jill Foreman Nancy Portolla Missy Lambrinos Jim DeSchmidt Roger Bowman and Penny Woodgate Blessings...A Place of Peace is within you! |
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 Welcome to our site. Thank you for stopping by. We always have something going on at A Place of
Peace -
browse our site to find out more of what we are doing. Currently we
offer Counseling
for: Individuals, Relationships and Groups, Pre-Marital Counseling as
well as Couple's Counseling, Smoking Cessation, Retreats, Meditation, a Wellness Center, Reiki, Myofascial Therapy, Massage Therapy, Hypnotherapy, EFT, Food Disorder Guidance, Seminars, Skin Care, Yoga, Far infrared Sauna, A Course in
Miracles Study
Groups, Ministry, Weddings, and more. Soon we will open A Place of Peace Recovery Home for Women - this is our latest focus and joyous commitment.
A Place of Peace is a
Community of love and peace dedicated to becoming a visible, viable, and
constant presence of love and hope in our community, to opening hearts and
minds that we might extend outward - through and beyond; individuals, families,
community, and country toward healing, peace, joy and power in the universe. A Place of Peace is within you! Teri (805) 794~9878 |
A Place of Peace
Calendar of Events | Friday Night Reflective Cinema
HAPPY
February 3rd at 7PM
Happy People = Happy World
Does
money make you HAPPY? Kids and family? Your work? Do you live in a
world that values and promotes happiness and well-being? Are we in the
midst of a happiness revolution?
For
his current project HAPPY, Belic teamed up with Hollywood heavyweight
Tom Shadyac, who executive produced, to direct the feature documentary.
HAPPY combines powerful human stories from around the world with
cutting edge science to give us a deeper understanding of our most
valued emotion. Taking us from the
bayous of Louisiana to the deserts of Namibia, from the beaches of
Brazil to the villages of Okinawa, HAPPY explores the secrets behind
our most valued emotion.
HAPPY is the winner of numerous awards and is the latest film from Academy Award® nominated director Roko Belic.
Sundays ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~SUNDAY INTERFAITH SERVICE
COMMUNITY MEDITATION, INSPIRATION, CELEBRATION
Every Sunday at 11 am with Rev. Teri All are welcome
Those who come to A Place of Peace do not see religion as its base but
rather spirituality - focusing on belief in the divine fundamental
nature, the oneness & interconnectedness of all that is -
everything is alive, has spirit, awareness, & energy. We
acknowledge our divine nature & experience its presence within us
as we experience that inner knowingness...a yearning to love & be
loved...to serve & assist...to forgive...to connect... and to be at
peace.
At A Place of Peace we come together each week to stop for
awhile, to look & listen from our hearts as to who we truly are - our goals, our dreams, our visions and our path
We come to raise our
consciousness.
We come together to reawaken our light.
Then, we
return to our daily lives anew!
We offer a home for the soul & a bridge to the Oneness in all traditions
- A Place of Peace to journey:
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Tuesday
Morning Meditation 7:30
Chair Yoga 8:30 AM with Gina
Healing Food and Body Issues - Every Tuesday
Lunch & Learn on our Patio with Mary Ellen Cullen, MSW
Noon to 1:00
Full Moon Circle - We
gather in our circle on the
lawn outside, warmed by our firepit and heat lamps if needed
February 7th at 6pm
The
New Moon is the time when our intentions can establish roots - a time
for planning and seeding. The light the Full Moon offers illuminates
that which blocks We greet the Moon, call in the directions, share,
chant, meditate and reflect upon, write and burn in the fire that which
we feel no longer serves us...and we chant some more.
Writer's Group meets - 1st Tuesday of month
February 7th
All
writers: wannabes, part time, frustrated, closet, lazy, brilliant,
wondering-if-I-can-write...writers - bring a piece of your writing to
share if you can - if not, come anyway : )
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Kirtan - 6pm Last Wednesday of the Month January 25th
Without
the work of mentally quieting the mind, kirtan can carry us
effortlessly to a place of quiet, to stillness. One of the oldest
sacred music traditions of the world, the kirtan call-and-response
chanting genre comes to us from India. Using ancient Sanskrit mantras,
the kirtan calls upon sacred energies which serve to quiet the mind,
remove obstacles, and bring us back to the center of our being.
Monthly Wednesday Night Lecture
Last Wednesday of the Month 7PM
January 25th
Crystal Bowls Vibration and Sound Healing
with Deborah and Richard Debuque
Drum Circle with Doug
Every 2nd Wednesday each Month 7 to 9 February 8th
Bring your drum for an evening of rhythm and energy! We will be on
our lawn in good weather, by the running river of water, or we will
fill our sanctuary with sacred sounds if we need to be inside!
Come make music with us....Dance and Play!
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Thursday
Morning Meditation 7:30
Chair Yoga 8:30 AM with Gina
A Course in Miracles Study/Process Group
Every Thursday
Every Thursday 12:30 PM & 6:30 PM
A Course in Miracles Studies with Teri - Study/Process/Meditation Group.
We share our journey with the lessons: our questions, answers and thoughts, applications in our lives, as well as the struggles. We support each other’s walk as we deepen our understanding and application of ACIM.
We come together to learn there is only love or fear and we reach for
Love....The opposite of Love is Fear but what is all encompassing can
have no opposite.
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Morning Meditation 7:30
Reflective Cinema
Every First Friday of the Month
February 3rd - 7PM - Happy
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Saturday
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A Place of Peace Recovery Home for Women...You Can Heal Your Life Classes ....Friday Dance Class....Sunday Movement Class....Singles
Group and Retreat....Wolf Meditation...ACIM
Retreat...Couple's Retreat...Women's Groups...And
More....
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We
are developing a new website for easier and more accessible viewing.
Martie has graciously offered her wonderful expertise in creating
a more user friendly site - we thank her in advance for her time and talent. We are looking forward to the
unveiling soon : )
| Practioners
from the area are welcome to hold their Workshops, Seminars, Retreats
and Classes at A Place of Peace. Please call for information and
schedule availability (805)~794~9878 or email teri@aplaceofpeace.org We are also available for Weddings and Memorials. | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Far Infrared Sauna.
Infrared
sessions increase blood circulation, strengthen the cardiovascular
system, are healing for: chronic fatigue, high & low blood
pressure, coronary artery disease, heavy metal toxicity &
musculoskeletal conditions, diabetes...infrared reduces scaring from
wounds.
Our
Sauna is available in a peaceful, candle-lit room with a peaceful
waterfall for your relaxation. Sessions are on $1 a minute and are so
very soothing/healing. Call for an appointment or talk with one of our practitioner |
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