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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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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 - 2/12

Greetings of Peace, Love, & Light to Our Friends of A Place of Peace! 

We are in the midst of our 2nd year in our new home since leaving Main Street, Downtown Ventura, 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 in our second year here! We welcome new practitioners, Our Wellness Center is growing, our classes are expanding, and we experience harmony in our hearts.  See "About Us" to learn about our practitioners - the gifts they offer.

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 classes, guidance and focus from the heart.  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.  

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:

Sandra Jo Higginbotham, Elisa Rodriguez, Jeanne Fitzgerald Benitez, Steve Yapp, Illayne and Mark Keil, Jill Foreman, Nancy Portolla, Missy Lambrinos, Jim DeSchmidt, Roger Bowman and Penny Woodgate, Diane Mortenson

                                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,  Massage Therapy, Hypnotherapy, Food Disorder Guidance and Women's Issues, Seminars, Yoga, Far infrared Sauna, A Course in Miracles Study Groups, Ministry, Weddings, and more. 

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
*Music/Musicians* for Sundays Wanted
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

     *Eating Disorder Eating You Up Inside?  
Talk with Mary Ellen, MSW to heal the pain...
805-426-5414
Every Tuesday at Noon



*Writer's Group meets - 1st Tuesday of month


 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



*Full Moon Circle 7pm

Reflective Luminous Walk ~ Journey into Self

All aspects of Creation speak to us of our Oneness,
the Divine Presence that guides us all. 
The light of the Full Moon illuminates that which blocks our Love and our manifestations. The full moon ritual is for honoring and celebrating the light.
Join us for a candlelit walking meditation under the moon's light, releasing those blocks into the fire and chanting to bring peace to our hearts.


       
     *Kirtan - May 16th at 6pm  
Usually Last Wednesday of the Month

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
 


*Crystal Bowls Vibration and Sound Healing
Last Wednesday of every month at 7PM 
with Deborah and Richard Debuque

*Drum Circle with Doug
 

Every 2nd Wednesday each Month  7 to 9 
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 Second Friday of the Month
     7PM Wake Up   
   
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Saturday
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Coming Soon           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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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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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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 : )

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

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