Mesa Creative Arts Center Calendar of Classes and Events

Summer 2010

Your RSVP for all classes helps us to plan our time and order supplies. Thank you for calling or emailing ahead to let us know you are coming. 


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Jun 6: 13 Original Clan Mothers Meeting. (Men welcomed.) Sunday, 11am-1pm. Join this supportive circle of friends in self discovery through Native American teachings. Each month we will study the lesson of one of the 13 Original Clan Mothers, archetypal women elders who taught “The People” how to be Human Beings. Based on the book, The 13 Original Clan Mothers by Jamie Sams. Moderated by Kate Silberberg. No fee. Your donation helps support our healing work at The Mesa.

Jun 6: Tools for Chicks. Sunday, 1-4pm. OK ladies, tired of the guys being the only ones to play with power and hand tools? In this workshop designed specifically for women, you’ll learn the names and uses of hand and power tools and get a chance to try them out. Drill holes in metal with a drill press, cut wood with power saws, plane a board, use cordless drills, grinders, air tools, and more, all under the non-chauvinistic supervision of The Mesa’s resident Tool Techie, Brad Silberberg. Fee: $45. Please RSVP 724-947-3097 or email.

Jun 10: Reiki Share. Thursday, 7-9:30pm. Those of us who help others as healers need healing too. We invite all Reiki students and practitioners from Reiki I to Master/Teacher level to join us to share techniques, give and receive Reiki healings. Please RSVP and let us know if you have a table you can bring. Suggested donation: $5-10. Your donation helps support our healing work at The Mesa.

Karma Ken Harsh Returns to The Mesa!
Jun 11: Special Rock and Crystal Sale with Ken Harsh. Friday, 3-7pm and after Medicine Wheel ceremony (see listing below). All rocks and crystals contain healing energy and knowing that can help us improve our health and our lives. While we always have some rocks available in our gift shop, it’s been almost a year since Karma Ken Harsh has brought his wares to The Mesa. Here’s an opportunity to purchase rocks and crystals from around the world that Ken has gathered for their beauty and ability to help us heal. Find the stones you need to help you and spend time with this delightful and witty world traveler.

Jun 11: Medicine Wheel Healing Ceremony with Ken Harsh. Friday, 7-8:30pm. Join Karma Ken Harsh for this special healing ceremony in the Mesa Medicine Wheel. Ken will also have his rocks and crystals available for purchase after the ceremony. Your donation helps support our healing work at The Mesa. Bring snacks to share for after the ceremony.

Jun 12: Ascension Magic, Sacred Geometry, and Crystals. Saturday, 10am-5pm. The power of stones and crystals when combined with the ancient mystery school teachings of sacred geometry and words of power will help raise your soul consciousness and that of Mother Earth. Learn techniques to help yourself and Humanity enter the energy of 2012, and light realms of the Avatars. Our shaman sage, Ken Harsh, promises a teaching experience you will not soon forget, with handouts, videos, Mer-ka-bas, crystal skulls, stones, and words of power. With Ken Harsh. Fee: $75. Please RSVP, 724-947-3097 or email.

If you’ve never been in a workshop with Karma Ken Harsh, you’re in for a treat. Ken is funny, wise, and walking encyclopedia of spiritual and metaphysical knowledge. He is an author, punster, and DVD presenter who has lectured for thousands of years and more. His wealth of experience and connection with stones, crystals, and sacred sites such as Egypt, Ireland, Hawaii, Stonehenge, Machu Picchu and others help him with the wisdom necessary for this workshop, one sure to delight and instruct.

Jun 13: Oneness Spirit Fair at The Red Theatre. Sunday, 1-6pm. Join in the fun with psychic readings, musical performances, drumming, Mayan Calendar teachings, a Flower séance, group healings, and more. Mesa Directors Kate and Brad Silberberg will be offering seashell divination readings, tuning fork energy adjustments, Magical Thinking Healings™, and sales of our rocks, crystals, handmade crafts, and metaphysical gifts. Admission: $5. Readings $20/20min. Location: The Red Theatre, 3028 Brereton St., Pittsburgh, PA 15219. For more information call Christin, 412-327-8982.

Jun 17: Singing Bowl Meditation and Healing. Thursday, 7-9:30pm. The sounds of metal Singing Bowls have been used for centuries for meditation, healing, and energizing. The vibrations of sonic energy from them can reset your whole energy system, thoughts, and emotions, while balancing your cellular processes. Come learn the history, construction and use of metal Singing Bowls and participate in a meditation with them. We’ll teach you to play them and give you a chance to feel their vibration for yourself. Each participant will receive a mini energy balancing and healing session, laying on the floor surrounded with the bowls. With Brad and Kate Silberberg. Fee: $30.

Jun 18: Introduction to the Chakras. Friday, 7-9:30pm. You may have heard a little bit about chakras, but do you have a sense of where they are in your body or what they do? Do you really feel that you understand how these spinning wheels of light in your human energy system operate? Each of these vortexes of subtle energy broadcast, receive, process, and distribute different vibrations of mental, emotional, spiritual, and life force energies for you. They help you process all aspects of your inner and outer life but can become under- or over-energized, blocked, or even damaged. Learn about the chakra system, how to recognize each chakra’s issues, and how you can keep yours balanced and energized for a healthier life. With Brad and Kate Silberberg. Fee: $30.

Jun 19: Tie Dye Time. Saturday, 2-4pm. For adults and children. Tie dying is fun-- and EASY, too! Bring 2 white 100% cotton T-shirts that you’ll twist and fold up to dip in or squirt with colored dyes to make beautiful, one-of-a-kind garments. With Kate and Brad Silberberg. Fee: $30. Please RSVP by Jun 16. 724-947-3097 or email.

Jun 20: Making Gourd Rattles. Sunday, 1-4pm. In many cultures around the world, Shamans and medicine people have used rattles for ceremony, to move energy, and bring healing. Construct your own ceremonial or healing rattle from a dried gourd and a stick you select, then decorate it with paint, woodburning, feathers, leather, beads, etc. We’ll talk about ways to use your rattle and do a little ceremony to spiritually activate it.. With Kate and Brad Silberberg. Fee: $45. Please RSVP, 724-947-3097 or email.

Jun 21: Summer Solstice Medicine Wheel Ceremony. (Kids Welcome) Monday, 6:30-9pm. This date combines the longest day and shortest night of the year. It’s also a time of opportunity for change in your life as powerful energies open doorways for you. Join us in a Native American based ceremony in the Mesa Medicine Wheel to celebrate Father’s Day, connect with the natural world and helping spirits, greet the coming of Summer, express gratitude, and ask for help. Bring a covered dish to share for a pot luck dinner inside The Mesa after the ceremony. With Brad and Kate Silberberg. Your monetary donation helps support our healing work at The Mesa.

Jun 24: Create a Prayer Mandala. Thursday, 7-9:30pm. Mandalas are graphic symbols, often symmetrical in nature, that represent our inner and outer Universes. They have been used for centuries for prayer, centering, mental and spiritual focus, and healing. Create your own prayer Mandala by collaging pictures from magazines, objects from Nature, and craft store items we supply, as well as small personal objects you bring with you. We’ll talk about ways to use your Mandala for personal wholeness, wellness, peace, and abundance. With Kate Silberberg. Fee: $30. Must RSVP, 724-947-3097 or email. Bring small objects and magazine photos for your Mandala.

Jun 25: Soul-to-Soul Connection. Friday, 7-9:30pm. Are there things you needed to say to others but they just wouldn’t listen? Did those issues bring emotional pain or keep you apart? Unresolved issues with estranged or departed friends or loved ones can cause us to hold onto their Spirit or them to ours. Either way, it keeps both from progressing on their respective Spiritual Paths. Learn this safe, simple, and effective technique to connect on the Spirit Level at any time with anyone, alive or not. In this workshop, each participant will be helped to connect with a loved one they need to heal with to resolve unfinished business. Learn to use this same method to send Earthbound souls home to the Spirit Side or disconnect psychic cords. With Brad and Kate Silberberg. Fee: $30.

Jun 26: Making a Native American Style Drum. Saturday, 1-5pm. The sound of the drum is the heartbeat of Mother Earth and a deep primal connection for every one of us. The Lakota Sioux say that it is the voice of the drum that allows us to talk with Spirit in ceremony. We need more drums and people drumming to help reconnect Humanity to each other, Mother Earth, and All Our Relations. Here’s a chance to make your own Native American style hand drum in a sacred manner from a maple hoop and Elk rawhide. You’ll be amazed how good it feels to create your own drum with your own hands to use for ceremony, prayer, healing, shamanic journeywork, or to reconnect with your inner self. (Everyone goes home with a beautiful working drum.) We’ll make the drum beaters and awaken these drums during a “birthing ceremony” after the drums have thoroughly dried. (Saturday, August 28.) With Brad and Kate Silberberg. Fee: $90. You must pre-register and pay by June 11 to reserve your place in this workshop. Make checks out to: “Mesa Creative Arts”, 30 Miller Business Park Dr. Burgettstown, PA 15021, or use your major charge card over the phone, 724-947-3097.

Jun 27: Reiki I. Sunday, 10-5pm. Open to all ages. Reiki is an ancient method of hands-on energy healing that can be used to help yourself and others. It gently works to heal on the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels. We are all hard-wired for it and simply need to be reminded how it works. Getting a Reiki attunement does just that and opens a door to higher energies and spiritual expansion that will change your life. Learn the traditional story of Reiki, get an attunement, and experience giving and receiving an energy healing as you connect to this gentle way of bringing change and healing into your life and the lives of others. With Reiki Master Brad Silberberg. Fee: $120. Please RSVP 724-947-3097 oremail.


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Jul 2: Working with Native American Spirits. Friday, 7-9:30pm. Many people are discovering Native American wisdom, life ways, and ceremonies as ways to connect with the Natural World and its spiritual and healing energies. The spirits of Native American ancestors are around us all of the time and many are willing to help those with a good heart who want to walk the Red Road. Learn techniques to connect and work with these spirits and get a mini reading from gifted psychic, Paul Meidinger, to find out which spirits might be already helping you or waiting to do so. With Psychic and Healer, Paul Meidinger. Fee: $30. Must RSVP, 724-947-3097 or email.

Jul 3: Medicine Wheel Vision Ceremony. Saturday, 2-4pm. In these troubling times, we could all use a vision of what to do to help ourselves, Mother Earth, and Humanity, but it may not be practical for each of us to go on a traditional Vision Quest. Join us as we bring the Mesa’s Sacred Pipe into the Medicine Wheel in a ceremony to ask for a vision for each participant present. With Brad and Kate Silberberg. Your donation helps support our healing work at The Mesa. Please RSVP, 724-947-3097 or email. Bring a blanket to sit/lie on in the Wheel.

Jul 4: Independence Day. The Mesa will be closed.

Jul 7-28: Stained Glass Basics. Four Wednesday afternoons, 1-4pm. We’ve been asked to offer stained glass classes during the daylight hours, so here it is. Learn the basics of the art and craft of Stained Glass while creating your own colorful suncatcher to bring dancing rainbow light into your home. Students will learn to design, cut, grind, fit, foil, and solder glass. We’ll help you with the drawing for your project and guide you to complete it. With Brad Silberberg. Fee: $200 includes materials. Must RSVP by July 1, 724-947-3097 or email.

Jul 8: Reiki Share. Thursday, 7-9:30pm. Those of us who help others as healers need healing too. We invite all Reiki students and practitioners from Reiki I to Master/Teacher level to join us to share techniques, give and receive Reiki healings. Please RSVP and let us know if you have a table you can bring. Suggested donation: $5-10. Your donation helps support our healing work at The Mesa.

Jul 9: Working With Tuning Forks. Friday, 7-9:30pm. Tuning forks do more than make a tone when you strike them. They activate your energy systems and open portals for higher dimensional healing to come through with their precise vibrations. Experience the amazing sound energy and vibration of tuning forks for healing, relaxation, energizing, and balancing. We’ll experiment with chakra colored Solfeggio scale forks, Otto tuners, Brain tuners, Om forks, and Angel tuners. Participants will each receive a mini sonic healing. With Brad and Kate Silberberg. Fee: $30.

Jul 10: Glass Prayers Workshop. Saturday, 10am-4pm. No experience necessary, all supplies provided. Glass is about Light, and it’s all around us: we look through windows and into mirrors, we pour water into glass, and wear glass beads. Both ordinary and magical, glass comes from Mother Earth – the basic element of any glass being silica, a kind of quartz. As seen in Dr. Emoto’s experiments with water, as hot glass cools and freezes it holds the energy and intent of what we put into it. In this all-day workshop, you’ll be introduced to glass fusing (joining glass by nearly melting it in a hot kiln), making two small pieces to hold the prayers and intentions you put into them while you work. We’ll open with smudging and prayers to the Directions, Angels and Ancestors. You’ll have a choice; to make small Held Objects, (for your altar, for meditation or just to hold a little piece of Light in your hand) small Wearable Prayer pendants, or one of each. You’ll be able to incorporate dichroic glass (shimmering glass that looks like it’s lit from inside) into your pieces. With Virginia glass artist, Worth Cooley-Prost. Fee: $110. Bring your lunch (feel free to share), something for notes, and an open heart. Class size limited to 10 participants, must RSVP by Friday, July 9th, 724-947-3097 or email.

Jul 11: Show and Sale of Fused Glass Jewelry by Worth Cooley-Prost. Sunday, 11am-4pm. Come by and see the luminous earrings, pendants, and other works of glass art, each infused with prayers and good intentions for your life.

Jul 11: 13 Original Clan Mothers Meeting. (Men welcomed.) Sunday, 11am-1pm. Join this supportive circle of friends in self discovery through Native American teachings. Each month we will study the lesson of one of the 13 Original Clan Mothers, archetypal women elders who taught “The People” how to be Human Beings. Based on the book, The 13 Original Clan Mothers by Jamie Sams. Moderated by Kate Silberberg. No fee. Your donation helps support our healing work at The Mesa.

This workshop has been rescheduled for Saturday, August 14th so we can attend the Summer Spirit Fair at the Rex Theater. (see below)
Jul 11: Make a Native American Style Flute. Sunday, 1-4pm. Here’s a simple and good sounding pentatonic scale flute based on Native American style courting flutes you can make in just a few hours start to finish. We’ll use parts made from PVC water pipe yet still learn the principles of flute construction. We’ll decorate them and even learn the basics of how to make music with our new flutes. (Everyone will go home with a working flute.) With Brad Silberberg. Fee: $45. Must RSVP, 724-947-3097 or email.

JUST ADDED:
Jul 11: Summer Spirit Fair at the Rex Theater. Sunday, 11am-5pm. Join us at the Rex in Southside as we once again offer our great metaphysical and gift items for sale. Brad will be taking the Mesa show on the road, offering energy balancing with tuning forks and seashells as Kate and the Clan Mothers hold down the fort at The Mesa. Admission: $5. Readings and healings: $20/20min. For more information contact Jean Haller at Journeys of Life, (412) 681-8755.

Jul 15: Drum Circle Jam. Thursday, 7-9:30pm. We invite you to bring your African Djembe drums or rhythm instruments to celebrate and play together. Never played before? We’ve got three drums of our own we’ll share, and lots of rhythm toys. With Kate and Brad Silberberg. Fee: $10. Please RSVP, 724-947-3097 or email.

Jul 16: Exploring Past Lives. Friday, 7-9:30pm. Have you ever felt that some part of you has been around far longer than your current physical age? Have you had uncanny experiences of “already knowing” a person, place, or thing the first time you saw them? Do you have vivid historical dreams or memories of things that you know didn’t happen to you in this lifetime? How about unexplained phobias or ethnic foods you crave? All of these experiences can be clues to previous incarnations. In this class we’ll discuss the time line of your Soul’s existence and talk about the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth we, as Souls, have all experienced. Included will be a guided group past life journey to see part of your past. With Brad Silberberg. Fee: $30.

Jul 17: Glass Bead Making. Saturday, 10am-4pm. Look out! Glass bead making is addictive. With a simple torch and just a few tools you can make them on your kitchen table. Learn the basics of making beautiful beads from hot glass with a special torch and colored glass rods. It's really safe and easy-- and so much fun! With Brad Silberberg. Fee: $95 (Includes all materials for class. Kits available to purchase and take home.) Must RSVP by July 14, 724-947-3097 or email.

Jul 17: Paint Your Drum. Saturday, 1-4pm. Painted symbols on the heads of drums add energy to their sound and can invoke the Spirits of the symbols depicted. Painting on your drum also helps identify it and personalize it as yours. Do you have a drum that you bought or made that you’ve wanted to paint? We’ll help you with the design and painting on the head of your drum using long lasting acrylic paints. With Kate Silberberg. Fee: $45. Please RSVP, 724-947-3097 or email.

Jul 18: Reiki II. Sunday, 10am-4pm. Move up to the 2nd level of this ancient, powerful yet gentle system of energy healing. When it comes to healing with spiritual energy there is no time, no space. Everything is right here and right now. Receive the second level attunement and Reiki activation and power symbols. Learn how to send healing to others from a distance, as well as sending healing for situations, past, present, or future. Give and receive a Reiki healing as you learn more about how to help others by doing service as a conduit for healing energy. With Reiki Master, Brad Silberberg. Fee: $145. Please RSVP, 724-947-3097 or email.

Jul 22: Despacho Ceremony. Thursday, 7-9pm. Our first Despacho ceremony at The Mesa with Peruvian Shaman, Amaru Li, had such a great impact on the course of our lives that we have decided to hold one of our own. Join us and participate in the ancient shamanic practice of despacho, or “offering”. When a despacho is made, the participants re-create the universe using herbs, leaves and other traditional ingredients. The despacho is also infused with your intentions and your advance thanks to Pacha Mama (Mother Earth) for the fulfillment of those intentions. After creating our despachos, the bundles and all participants will be blessed and then our despachos will be burned in a fire ceremony outside, sending the offerings and intentions to the cosmos to be answered. With Brad and Kate Silberberg. Your donation helps support our healing work at The Mesa. Please RSVP by July 19, 724-947-3097 or email.

Join us as South African Psychic Healer, Viven Perumal returns for healings and workshops:
Viven will be offering private healing and surgery sessions. Call 724-947-3097 to arrange yours.
 
Jul 23: Psychic Healing and Psychic Surgery Demonstration. Friday, 7-9:30pm. Join us as we host Psychic Healer and Psychic Surgeon, Viven Perumal of the Sanctuary of Truth and Wisdom of Durban, South Africa for an informative evening about psychic healing and surgery. Viven will offer healings to attendees to demonstrate his techniques. Admission is Free. A donation helps support the Sanctuary of Truth and Wisdom and The Mesa. (Suggested donation if you receive a healing: $35-50.) Please RSVP by July 16, 724-947-3097 or email.

Jul 24:-25: Spiritual Healing/Psychic Surgery Course. Saturday and Sunday, 9am-5pm both days. This two day course is designed for all who are called to the practice of healing, either as a beginner or for those who want to increase their knowledge and practice of healing. In addition to introducing methods of Spiritual healing, there will be lectures and demonstrations. Healers will be taught to use specific healing colors, channeled from The Higher Spirit Planes, and how to ultimately work with Spirit Doctors and Surgeons, in helping to bring relief to those that are in pain and distress. An important aspect of healing involves reconditioning of the subconscious mind of the patients. Once a firm knowledge base is established, healers will be taught the sensitivity of vibration, which is essential to experience the power of the Universal White Light, the Christ Light. Different mind projection techniques will be practiced so that healers will develop their levels of concentration to build a stronger vibration for healing using The White Light. With Spiritual Healer and Psychic Surgeon, Viven Perumal of the Sanctuary of Truth and Wisdom. Fee: Preregister and pay by July 16 for only $260, pay $285 after July 16. Send Checks made out to “Mesa Creative Arts”, 30 Miller Business Park Dr., Burgettstown, PA 15021, or call 724-947-3097 to pay with a major credit card.

(This is a very interactive, hands-on, practical course that will involve not only the presenter providing healing for class participants, but will involve participants receiving and giving healings with others in the class.)

Jul 29: Introduction to Seashell Healing and Divination. Thursday, 7-9:30pm. Seashells have been prized for their healing and divinatory properties going back before the time of Atlantis. Like the bones of land animals, shells are crystalline mineral forms that were engineered and made by the consciousness of living beings from the ocean and carry signature energy patterns from their species. Every sea creature also has its own lesson or message for us that offers guidance for our lives. Learn how the energetic memory of seashells can be used to harmonize and rebalance your own energy systems when shells are held or placed on the body and how each shell’s message can provide clues to solving the riddles of your life. Join us for this overview of seashell identification, healing properties of specific seashells, divinatory meanings, and techniques to work with shell energy for personal change and healing. With, Kate Silberberg. Fee: $30. Please RSVP, 724-947-3097 or email.

This workshop has been rescheduled to Sunday, August 1st, 1-3:30pm so we can attend the ”Peaceburgh” Transformational Leaders Tribute. (See below:)
Jul 30: Introduction to Kinesiology (Muscle Testing). Friday, 7-9:30pm. Anything that is balancing, healing, or true for you makes your body’s energy system coherent and makes your muscles strong. Things that are unbalancing, harmful, or false for you push your energy system into disharmony and make your muscles weak. (Didn’t you get the manual?) You can use this amazing physical phenomenon to communicate with the non-verbal parts of your Being; body, mind, or Spirit, or use it to get guidance from your Spirit Guides. Learn how to let your body's muscle system responses tell you what foods, supplements, or treatments are beneficial or detrimental for you. Get answers to questions about past traumas and what drives your thoughts and emotions by letting your body show you what’s troubling your inner mind. We’ll show you different methods of testing yourself and others and how to formulate questions. With Brad and Kate Silberberg. Fee: $30.

Just announced:
Jul 30: “Peaceburgh” Transformational Leaders Tribute. Friday, 7-10pm. Mesa Directors Kate and Brad Silberberg have been invited to be honored along with about 25 other leaders of the Pittsburgh area spiritual community for our roles as “transformational leaders”. This award is from local area therapist and visionary, Victoria Hanchin, author of "We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Pittsburgh's Role in the Mayan Calendar and the Shift of the Ages," which appeared in one of the last Point of Light magazines. The awards are her personal effort to create “a process to recognize that there are so many of us in Pittsburgh taking a stand for a transformed world that works for all, seeing who is in this fast- flowing River together, celebrating our shared vision, and taking a stand with and for one another to keep it evolving”. It is her hope that the process will help these leaders to work more closely with each other to bring even greater positive changes for our area and the world. Victoria envisions these awards as inspiring cooperation and helping others to strive toward walking our shared spiritual path. We are humbled and honored to be included with the others on this short list of people from our area who have worked tirelessly for The Light. Location: First United Methodist Church, 5401 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15232. Details to follow.

Jul 31: Making a Native American Style Drum. Saturday, 1-5pm. The sound of the drum is the heartbeat of Mother Earth and a deep primal connection for every one of us. The Lakota Sioux say that it is the voice of the drum that allows us to talk with Spirit in ceremony. We need more drums and people drumming to help reconnect Humanity to each other, Mother Earth, and All Our Relations. Here’s a chance to make your own Native American style hand drum in a sacred manner from a maple hoop and Elk rawhide. You’ll be amazed how good it feels to create your own drum with your own hands to use for ceremony, prayer, healing, shamanic journeywork, or to reconnect with your inner self. (Everyone goes home with a beautiful working drum.) We’ll make the drum beaters and awaken these drums during a “birthing ceremony” after the drums have thoroughly dried. (Saturday, August 28.) With Brad and Kate Silberberg. Fee: $90. You must pre-register and pay by July16 to reserve your place in this workshop. Make checks out to: “Mesa Creative Arts”, 30 Miller Business Park Dr. Burgettstown, PA 15021, or use your major charge card over the phone, 724-947-3097.


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Rescheduled from July 30th:
Aug 1: Introduction to Kinesiology (Muscle Testing). Sunday, 1-3:30pm. Anything that is balancing, healing, or true for you makes your body’s energy system coherent and makes your muscles strong. Things that are unbalancing, harmful, or false for you push your energy system into disharmony and make your muscles weak. (Didn’t you get the manual?) You can use this amazing physical phenomenon to communicate with the non-verbal parts of your Being; body, mind, or Spirit, or use it to get guidance from your Spirit Guides. Learn how to let your body's muscle system responses tell you what foods, supplements, or treatments are beneficial or detrimental for you. Get answers to questions about past traumas and what drives your thoughts and emotions by letting your body show you what’s troubling your inner mind. We’ll show you different methods of testing yourself and others and how to formulate questions. With Brad and Kate Silberberg. Fee: $30.

Aug 2: Why Western Medicine Isn’t Working Lecture at the Upper St. Clair Library. Monday, 7-8:30pm. Join Mesa Directors Brad and Kate Silberberg as they present a lecture about how Western (Allopathic or “body as machine”) medicine isn’t helping people to get well and stay that way. Upper St. Clair Library, 1820 McLoughlin Run Rd., Upper St. Clair, PA 15241 (rear of the Upper St. Clair municipal building). Free to the public. For more information contact the library, 412-835-5540.

Aug 4 & 5: Reconditioning Of The Mind, The Main Motor. Wednesday and Thursday evening, 7-10pm. Many of the bodily ailments such as cancer, skin problems, and heart irregularities, amongst others, are a direct result of an over burdened subconscious mind conditioned over time. This course will help you identify how baggage in the mind from past situations leads to bodily ailments and sicknesses in the present. Participants will be given exercises to unravel and overcome the many blockages in the mind and learn techniques to recondition the mind to create a healthy life and a more prosperous future. Students will be taught the relationship of the three minds and how they interact with each other. This course is specifically designed to help people understand the workings of the mind and can also help healers and counselors in helping their patients to identify and resolve emotional and physical blockages. With Psychic Healer and Psychic Surgeon, Viven Perumal of the Sanctuary of Truth and Wisdom. Fee: Preregister and pay by July 28 for only $140. Pay $155 after July 28. Send Checks made out to “Mesa Creative Arts”, 30 Miller Business Park Dr., Burgettstown, PA 15021, or call 724-947-3097 to pay with a major credit card.

Aug 6: Playing Native American Flutes. Friday, 7-9:30pm. Have you bought or made a Native American style flute? Are you playing it? Playing any wind instrument will exercise your breath, but these spiritual ones will exercise your Soul. Learn about the history and construction of these easy to play pentatonic scale wind instruments. Try beginner and advanced techniques for making music from your heart. Bring your own flute or borrow one of ours. With Brad Silberberg. Fee: $30.

Aug 7: Sweat Lodge Ceremony. Saturday: preparations starting at 1pm, fire to be lit around 2pm, ceremony to commence around 4pm. Potluck dinner to follow ceremony. Join us as we go into the Lodge for purification and healing of body, mind, and spirit. Dress for Lodge Ceremony: Shorts with or without shirts for men, T-shirts and shorts or cotton dresses for women. Please note that women on their Moon Time will be asked to pray outside of the Lodge. Bring a small towel for inside the Lodge and large ones to dry off afterwards. This will be our first ceremony led by Brad and Kate Silberberg. Your monetary donation helps support our healing work at The Mesa. Must RSVP, 724-947-3097 or email. Help with Lodge preparation before the ceremony and cleanup afterwards is needed as well as supplies of firewood, stones, blankets, water, etc. We will need volunteers to act as fire and door keepers during he ceremony.

Aug 8: 13 Original Clan Mothers Meeting. (Men welcomed.) Sunday, 11am-1pm. Join this supportive circle of friends in self discovery through Native American teachings. Each month we will study the lesson of one of the 13 Original Clan Mothers, archetypal women elders who taught “The People” how to be Human Beings. Based on the book, The 13 Original Clan Mothers by Jamie Sams. Moderated by Kate Silberberg. No fee. Your donation helps support our healing work at The Mesa.

Aug 8: Yarn Coil Baskets. Sunday, 1-4pm. To the Navajo (Diné) culture, basket making is a material expression of the Navajo world view, a metaphor for creation and our progress through life. When their baskets are made, they are started from the center (or navel) and spiral outward to mark the “way out”; the path through life. Every aspect of Navajo life, whether secular or spiritual in nature, is connected to Hózhó. (Pronounced “Ho-show”-- striving for balance and harmony together with beauty and order.) Learn this simple winding and sewing technique based on this traditional Native American basketry method while you learn about the concept of Hózhó. Make your own beautiful coiled basket out of contemporary materials-- clothes line rope wrapped with colorful pieces of yarn. Make yours as a meditative or creative practice that mirrors the spiral path of your own life. With Kate Silberberg. Fee: $45. Please RSVP, 724-947-3097 or email.

Aug 9-13: Avatar Camp for Kids. Monday through Friday, 1-3pm. Visit Pandora and join us for a week’s study of ways to go from Sky People to Avatars to Na’vi and protect the Home Tree (planet Earth). During Monday through Thursday’s sessions we’ll study ways to connect with the Web of Life through going out in Nature, crafts, play, and other activities. We will tell stories, share experiences, and discuss ways we can feel connected with the living things around us and be good stewards of the Earth. On Friday, we will celebrate being Avatars with face painting, Avatar refreshments, music, dance, and ceremony. With Kate and Brad Silberberg and friends. Fee: $100 per child for whole week. Family discount: $90 per child for 2 or more. Please RSVP by August 2, 724-947-3097 or email. 


If you’d like to help us publicize our Avatar Camp, or would like to
 give the information to a friend, you can view and print a PDF of
 the camp flyer by clicking the image at left.



Aug 12: Reiki Share. Thursday, 7-9:30pm. Those of us who help others as healers need healing too. We invite all Reiki students and practitioners from Reiki I to Master/Teacher level to join us to share techniques, give and receive Reiki healings. Please RSVP and let us know if you have a table you can bring. Suggested donation: $5-10. Your donation helps support our healing work at The Mesa.

Aug 13: Giving Psychic Readings. Friday the 13th!, 7-9:30pm. Having the ability to “read” people intuitively or psychically and giving psychic readings for strangers in a setting like a Spirit Fair or private reading can be very different. Learn the metaphysical mechanics of giving readings, including how to tune in, asking yourself questions to get more specific information, and how to work with clients. Gifted psychic Paul Meidinger will give psychic information, observe technique, and provide feedback as participants practice reading each other. With Paul Meidinger. Fee: $30. Must RSVP, 724-947-3097 or email.

Aug 14: Making Paper Beads. Saturday, 1-4pm. (Adults and Children) Do you have stacks of old magazines you don’t know what to do with? Here’s a way to recycle, and make fantastic looking beads at the same time. By cutting magazine pages into tapered strips and rolling and gluing them into tubes, you can create colorful patterns that make exciting beads. This is not only a great “rainy day craft” idea for kids, but a great way to create fashionable jewelry for yourself! Create beads and string your own colorful necklace. With Kate Silberberg. Fee: $45. Bring colorful magazines to cut up.

Aug 14: Postponed until Fall 2010 (Date TBA). Make a Native American Style Flute. Saturday, 1-4pm. Here’s a simple and good sounding pentatonic scale flute based on Native American style courting flutes you can make in just a few hours start to finish. We’ll use parts made from PVC water pipe yet still learn the principles of flute construction. We’ll decorate them and even learn the basics of how to make music with our new flutes. (Everyone will go home with a working flute.) With Brad Silberberg. Fee: $45. Must RSVP, 724-947-3097 or email.

Aug 15: Crystals and Their Uses. (For Adults and Kids) Sunday, 1-4pm. Native Americans say that rocks are the oldest beings on this Earth and have seen all of history. Each one contains its own particular energy and consciousness that we can interact with directly. Crystal and mineral specimens can help us heal specific issues, teach us about energy and consciousness, and improve the energy environment of our homes. Learn how to awaken and use the energy and wisdom of your rocks and crystals to help yourself and others. We’ll discuss mineral identification, healing and manifesting uses, clearing of crystals, and more. We always have a great time in this class and come up with new ways to work with stones. With Brad and Kate Silberberg. Fee: $45.

Aug 16: Intro to Holistic and Natural Healing at the South Park Library. Monday, 6:30-8:30pm. Join Mesa Directors Brad and Kate Silberberg as they present an overview of Holistic and Natural Healing at the South Park Library, 2575 Brownsville Rd. South Park, PA 15129. Free to the public. For more information, contact the library, 412-833-5585 or www.southparklibrary.org.

Aug 19: “Healer 101”. Thursday, 7-9:30pm. Whether you’ve learned a healing modality in a class or have intuitive abilities, working with others for their healing can be challenging and confusing. It may be hard enough just believing in your new healing skills, but dealing with people?!! Learn methodology to put your gifts to work while you assess your client’s energy, emotions, issues, and likely causes of discomfort and dis-ease. Find out where to start, how to listen, what kind of questions to ask, and how to build confidence, so you can relax and really help your clients. Get tips on running a healing practice, legal issues to be aware of, and ethical considerations that affect you as a helping professional. With Brad and Kate Silberberg. Fee: $30.

Aug 20: Introduction to Overtone Singing. Friday, 7-9:30pm. Overtone singing (also known as “Throat Singing”) is a very powerful healing vibration you can create with your voice by singing two sounds simultaneously. (Yes, that’s right-- a drone note and an overtone note at the same time!) These techniques and their highly spiritual vibration have been used for Buddhist prayer, energy clearing, and pure entertainment in cultures around the world. Learn about several types of this fascinating vocal form while listening to recorded and live examples and see if you can do it yourself. With Brad Silberberg. Fee $30.

Aug 21: Choosing the Soul’s Passion. Saturday, 10am-4pm. There are times in life that we feel there is something missing. We try to fill this empty space within us with many material and physical things; religion, new cars or boats, new physical partners, drugs, alcohol, food, and other addictions without finding satisfaction. More and more, people are looking inward to fill that void with Soul Connections. This workshop is for those who are tired of trying and are ready to begin doing. It is for those who are ready to integrate their Soul and Divinity into their physical body. With the help of Joan Campbell’s Guides, we will look at our past and present life to assist us in releasing blocks and embracing the Divine Life of our Soul’s Longing. If you are ready to look at yourself honestly and take responsibility for what and who you are, this workshop will serve as a tool for bringing in the Passion of your Soul. With Joan Campbell. Fee: $75. Must RSVP by August 14, 724-947-3097 or email.

This workshop will include:

• Identifying energy drains and energy highs that keep you stuck in your Humanness.
• Identifying your specific energy blocks (and those of the group), that cause you to shirk responsibility.
• Identifying the many ways that you compromise yourself and therefore compromise your Soul essence.
• Recognizing ways that you are keeping your Spirit (Soul, Divinity or whatever you want to call it) stuck in the shadows, stuck on the outside looking in.
• Bringing in your Soul and Angelic Energies to help in the process.

Aug 22: Soul Calling Psychic Readings or Soul Alignment Intensives (DNA Repatterning) with Joan Campbell. Sunday, noon-4:00pm. If you missed her at our Spirit Fairs, here’s your chance to get a reading with our special guest Joan Campbell.

In the Soul Calling Psychic Reading your Soul is given the opportunity to come in and present you with the next step on your Soul's Path. For many of you it's time to focus on your Soul's passion. It's time to stop asking questions about your every day existence and open up to your Divinity. As you pursue the Soul's Passion you will automatically be given all you need for a fulfilling experience in your day to day human journey.

The Soul Alignment Intensive identifies a specific block or pattern stored in your DNA. This pattern is preventing you from fully connecting with your Soul Essence and its passion to experience life fully. You receive information on how the block came to be stored in the DNA of your body to insure survival in a past life or an ancestor's life. With your permission, your Soul and other Spirit Beings bring in pure universal energies to help you release and clear the block.

Fee for either type of reading: $40 for a 25 min session, $75 for 50 min session. Other readers and healers will also be available to help you. Please call for details or to set an appointment by July 15, 724-947-3097, or email.

Aug 22: Dream Catchers. (For Adults and Kids) Sunday, 1-4pm. Dreams are an important part of our “inner life”. Make sure that you’ll only have good ones by taking home a dream catcher you make yourself. Learn the traditions and legends of these Native American objects, create your own, and decorate it with beads and feathers. We’ll teach you how to activate it so you or your loved ones will sleep better. With Kate Silberberg. Fee: $30. Please RSVP, 724-947-3097 or email.

Aug 26: Toning and Healing. Thursday, 7-9:30pm. (Non-singers welcome!) When you use your voice, it vibrates your body from the inside out. By singing specific tones and vowel sounds, you activate the different subtle energy centers (chakras) in your body, clearing and freeing them. Tones you have trouble sustaining indicate weakness in your system. Repeating those tones and sounds can heal and strengthen those weak places. Experience how pitch, rhythm, timbre, and harmonics affect your energy system. Learn the benefits of toning for energizing, calming, and balancing your energy system for greater health and vitality. With Brad and Kate Silberberg. Fee: $30.

Aug 27: A Night at the Improv. Friday, 7-9:30pm. During our last Rhythm Renewal drumming circle with Jim Donovan, we were each called upon to play a solo as the group maintained a backing beat. Each one of us encountered our own personal emotional barrier, (“The Wall”) as we faced performing before the group. Being called upon to respond quickly without time to think is one way to discover and overcome fears, inhibitions, and “walls” that keep us from letting out our true selves. Sometimes, by facing our “walls” and pushing forward, we find they are not as real and solid as we thought. As we found out in our “Going Hog Wild” class, participating in improvisational situations also raises our energy as it lowers our guard. Join us as we discuss “walls” and how to go over, around, or through them as we take turns engaging in improvisational toning, acting, singing, movement, and… who knows what? Maybe we’ll even dismantle a few of our “walls” as we get past the challenges of judging and comparing ourselves to move toward greater personal freedom. With Brad and Kate Silberberg. Fee: $30. Please RSVP, 724-947-3097 or email.

Aug 28: Make a Drum Beater/Drum Birthing Ceremony. Saturday, 1-5pm. Have you made a Native American style frame drum with us or others but not “birthed” (spiritually activated) it yet? Need to make a drum beater or want to make a more attractive one? We’ll start by making drum beaters from a stick and stitching sleek leather heads for them. Then we’ll hold a sacred ceremony to contact and activate the Spirits of our drums together. (Come for one or both activities.) With Kate and Brad Silberberg. Drum beater Fee: $25. (Please bring your old beater if you have one so we can re-use the leather.) Suggested Donation for Drum Birthing: $10. Please RSVP, 724-947-3097 or email.

Aug 29: Glass Bead Making. Sunday, 10am-4pm. Look out! Glass bead making is addictive. With a simple torch and just a few tools you can make them on your kitchen table. Learn the basics of making beautiful beads from hot glass with a special torch and colored glass rods. It's really safe and easy-- and so much fun! With Brad Silberberg. Fee: $95 (Includes all materials for class. Kits available to purchase and take home.) Must RSVP by August 25, 724-947-3097 or email.

Aug 29: Embossed Metal Milagro Ornaments. Sunday, 1-4pm. The word “Milagro” means miracle in Spanish. Milagros are small embossed tin ornaments or charms made in Latin American countries like Mexico and Peru as religious charms and votive offerings. They are visual reminders of the prayers of need, thanksgiving, or celebration one wants to send out into the Universe. Make your own Milagros out of easy to work embossing metal, in gold, silver, or copper finishes to activate your prayers. With Kate Silberberg. Fee: $45. Please RSVP, 724-947-3097 or email.


September 2010 and beyond:
We’re hard at work on our schedule for Fall 2010. Look for it here by the middle of August.

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Located near The Post Gazette Pavilion, (Now called “First Niagra Pavilion”) The Mesa Creative Arts Center is within 30 min. of Sewickley, 45 min. of Downtown Pittsburgh, Washington, PA, Mt. Lebanon, and Beaver, PA,
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