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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 Vision


Our 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 Mornings
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!


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
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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:
emotionally, spiritually, personally.

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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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                    Wednesday       
        Morning Meditation 7:30

       
        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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Friday  
 
       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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Coming Soon....

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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.

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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

Email: info@aPlaceofPeace.org | Tel: 805.794.9878 | 2021 Sperry Avenue, Suite 22, Ventura, California 93003

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