The Nakashima Foundation for Peace is continuing with the Tools for Peace series. The curriculum shares skills for coping, self-care, communication, and exploring your own inner peace.
UPCOMING Tools for Peace Worskshop
Sound Healing with Inspiring Messages
Arts Building on the Nakashima campus in New Hope, PA
$75/$35 students, limited space
The sounds gently guide the nervous system out of stress and into a parasympathetic state of rest and relaxation, allowing the mind to settle and the body to soften. Uplifted into an integral healed version of yourself, you are able to go forward in certitude, sincerity and sovereign authenticity.
George Nakashima has created a place of harmony and beauty. Come experience a remarkable fusion of space and sound.
Bring a blanket and pillow if you wish to lie on the floor.v
presenters:
Miriam Belov, MAT/RMT is a Director on the Board of the Nakashima Foundation for Peace. She is a #1 best-selling author, certified Reiki Master Teacher and healing intuitive. Miriam led 3 Global Connections from the Nakashima Peace Table in Auroville, India. With a MAT from Brown University, she has taught notably at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the United Nations and the U.S. Dept. of Labor, Women’s Bureau. Miriam creates bespoke solutions for the individual and institutions. www.wellnessagenda.com
Nancy Boas is a certified sound facilitator, studying the ASM method and grounding her intuitive relationship with sound in formal training and practice. She plays the crystal singing bowls, Koshi chimes, and the monochord. Through immersive soundscapes, she gently guides the body into states of relaxation, balance and ease. Nancy’s work holds space with gratitude, care and reverence – offering moments of peace, reflection, and restoration.
Damon Brandt’s creative process has included music as a central part. Studying piano at the age of 9, he later became an award-winning performer playing at Town Hall in NYC. In college he studied flute with which he has maintained a dedicated practice ever since. While in Santa Fe, New Mexico he was introduced to the Native American flute by Indigenous musician Walking Star who became his teacher. His global travels as an art dealer have included ceremonial traditions where music plays an integral role. It has been an honor for Damon to incorporate the Native American flute into sound meditation, using its breath driven tones to support relaxation and inner stillness.
past Tools for Peace Worskshops
Forest Bathing – Sold Out
Sunday, May 18th, 2 – 4pm
$50 per person
Forest Therapy, also known as “Shinrin-Yoku,” refers to the practice of spending time in forested areas for the purpose of enhancing health, happiness, and a sense of awe. The Japanese words translate into English as “Forest Bathing” and refer to bathing in the beneficial compounds which trees emit, such as oxygen and phytoncides. Join certified Nature and Forest Therapy guide Anisa George for a guided forest bathing session, followed by a foraged tea ceremony at the end.
Anisa George is a writer, performer, food forest designer, and certified member of the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides. Her work focuses on tuning attention to the more-than-human-world. She has been leading walks in the Philadelphia region since 2019 and currently is the resident forest therapy guide at Morris Arboretum, Mt. Cuba, and Winterthur.
Tools for Peace was initiated in 2024 to be of service to the community. The Nakashima Board of Advisors felt a need to respond to turbulent times on a grassroots level to help folks find a grounding sense of peace, power, and rest amidst the beauty and nature of the Nakashima campus.
Miriam Belov, a member of the Foundation Advisory Board, hosted two workshops, You Being Peace, in 2024. Belov is a #1 best-selling author, certified Reiki Master Teacher, a healing intuitive, and has a private practice at www.wellnessagenda.com. A pioneering expert with a dual Masters from Brown University, Miriam has taught notably at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the United Nations, Auroville, and the US Department of Labor.
Belov’s first workshop focused on “tools” to experience inner peace. Belov taught intentional meditation, body awareness and mindfulness, plus the importance of gratitude, affirmation and “glimmers.” Belov’s workshop in the Fall focused on Reiki, an ancient and revered healing process from Japan. Guests also learned how to consult the chakra system to access their own inner peace.
A concurrent series was led by Barbara Simmons in Compassionate Listening in April and June, helping participants with a deeper type of listening than normally used. After a brief description of these tools, small break-out listening groups gathered outside, taking in the trees, the ponds, and the birds to center them.
Barbara Simmons is on our Foundation Board of Directors and served as Executive Director for 30 years at The Peace Center, a peace and justice organization. Simmons was a founding producer of PeaceTalks radio. She currently serves as Ambassador to L.O.V.E. is the Answer, is on the Board of the Alpha Community Education Foundation, and serves on the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion committee of Bucks County Women’s Advocacy Coalition. Simmons is an adjunct instructor at Arcadia University’s International Peace and Conflict Resolution master’s program.
View a recording of Miriam Belov’s You Being Peace workshop below.
