Sunday April 3, 2011 2-4pm a Global Healing Event took place at Santosha Space in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Atwater Village. Hypnotiq Solutions and Santosha Space sponsored the event for “Voices From Chornobyl”. Practitioners from various modalities donated their time and specialties for the fundraising effort. Those who attended were able to choose from a 10-15 minute mini-session of acupressure, hypnosis, full body massage, HypnoArt, and neuro-linguistic programing or to select all of the above.
Tickets were $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Attendees were able to sample acupressure/shiatsu with Adrienne Montoya, CMT; Hypnosis with Peter Bedard, M.A., C.Ht.; full body massage with Cat Macary, LMT and co-owner of Santosha Space; HypnoArt with Thea Pueschel, C.Ht, kinesthetic visualist; neuro-inguistic programming with Wendy Watson, C.Ht., NLP practitioner. All proceeds raised directly benefited the theatrical play “Voices From Chornobyl.” Voices From Chornobyl (VFC) has partnered with the Chernobyl Children’s Project USA upon the 25th anniversary of this horrific nuclear event to raise awareness and money for the children whose health is still affected today.
Cindy Marie Jenkins an Atwater Village resident penned the play, she felt that the message of the catastrophic event in Chernobyl needed to extend beyond book form. The effort has extended into a 5-year journey, first with an adult adaptation and now a children's interactive play. The play has been performed through readings over the last five years in various incarnations. VFC teamed up with the UK Chernobyl Charities and plan for readings around the world this month to commemorate the 25th year of the disaster. The VFC team is assembling more readings and desire to expand awareness events for Chernobyl including art exhibits and on-line outreach.
If you happen to notice that Chornobyl and Chernobyl are spelled differently within this article, it is on purpose. Chornobyl reflects the Ukrainian spelling, and Chernobyl reflects the Russian spelling. Since, the event occured in the Ukraine the playright decided to use the Ukranian spelling.
The participants of the Global Healing Event were able to walk away relaxed and informed. It is not too late to help the fundraising efforts for the VFC Friday April 15, 2011 there will be a Staged Reading and a Radiation Talkback at the Paul G. Gleason Theatre 6520 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90028 and Tuesday April 26th at 9pm Brazilian Yoga and Pilates a Reading and Radiation Talkback 3191 Casitas Ave. #114 Los Angeles, CA 90039
Chernobyl is now open for tourism. Which has many thinking that the threat and the health issues are no longer relevant however children are being born with health issues and adults are still suffering from various cancers and health issues. It is reported in various publications that the the radiation levels are still 35x the normal rate of exposure.
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