Friday Night Film Showings
Before the film, join us for a Raw Food Potluck that begins around 6:30pm - bring a live, organic dish to share with 6-8 people (include a recipe card with list of ingredients). Plates, napkins & utensils provided by Alchemy Cafe. Please bring oyur own mug. Film will start at 7pm. After the film, there will be a community discussion around issues discussed in the film.
February 2010 : Exploring Sacred relationship with ourselves, others & the planet
Feb 19th America the Beautiful
Filmmaker Darryl Roberts goes on a two year journey to examine America’s new obsession; physical perfection. In America the Beautiful, we learn secrets, confessions, and strikingly harsh realities as Roberts unearths the origins and deadly risks of our nation’s quest for physical perfection. In America the Beautiful we see how these increasingly unattainable images contribute greatly to the rise in low self-esteem, body dismorphia, and eating disorders for young women and girls who also happen to be the beauty industry’s largest consumers. $10-20 donation; $5 with student ID. The Growing Green Wellness Center 7pm. Potluck dinner & talk starts @ 6:30pm.
Feb 26 Birth as we Know It
A beautiful film depicting the possibility of an ecstatic birth. Incredible footage of Russian waterbirths in the Black Sea. A groundbreaking new film aimed at illuminating future parents on the mpacts of conscious conception, pregnancy and birth. In this stunningly beautiful feature titled “Birth As We Know It” (1hr, 15 minutes), Director Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova shares her experiences as one of the co-creators of the “Conscious Birth” movement in Russia during the early 1980's. It included a very effective birth preparation program which culminated in summer birth-camps at the Black Sea where women gave birth to their babies in warm shallow lagoons. The movie features eleven natural births, including home birth, water birth, birth of twins, breech delivery and an astounding self-birth by Tanya Sargunas - a world renowned Spiritual Midwife and pioneer of Conscious Birth in Russia. The midwife community calls this film "the most profound and comprehensive guide to conscious birth in the world", because it delivers a powerful transmission of what it really takes to give birth consciously and gracefully.
Join Imani for a talks on:
Raising Sensual Children in a Consumer World – Tuesday, Jan 12th @ 7pm &
Conscious Conception & Sexual Healing – Tuesday, Jan 26th @ 7pm
Both talks are free and will be held in the Alchemy Café.
The Growing Green Co-op | 197 New Britain Avenue | Hartford, CT 06106 | imani@thegreenvibration.com | 860.983.5276
