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Weekly
Sundays at Noon ~ Chanting & Drumming Prayers for Ukraine
December
Saturday, Dec. 3rd ~ Monthly Sweat Lodge
Saturday, Dec. 3rd ~ Holiday Shopping Day
Wednesday, Dec. 7th ~ Monthly Fire Ceremony
January
Sunday, Jan 1st ~ New Year's Day Sweat Lodge
January 14-15th ~ 2023 Long Dance
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Chanting & Drumming Prayers for Ukraine
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Every Sunday at 12 pm to 1 pm, we will hold a Chanting and Drumming Prayer ceremony for the people of Ukraine in the Sound Peace Chamber.
Click here for more info.
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 December 3rd - fire starts @ 10 am
~led by Nan Citty
~firekeeper Paradise Kirkland
~elder Steve Citty
The fire will start at 10 am. We will go in the lodge when the stones are hot (usually about an hour to an hour-and-a-half. You are encouraged to come early and prayerfully prepare for the lodge.
For more information click HERE
To call or text: Steve Citty 865-300-4424
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Saturday, December 3rd
10am-4pm
It is the Season to give. This
shopping day offers an opportunity to shop and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee and a cookie and a friendly conversation with other persons of like mind.
The Center for Peace gift-shop carries:
- very high-quality silver and gemstone jewelry
- Native American type jewelry and items
- beautiful rocks
- minerals and crystals of all sizes
- sage, cedar, Palo Santo and other aromatic herbs used in ceremony
All of our items are hand-picked, with very few duplicates.
Come shop our selection:
- pendants
- stones
- beaded velvet bags
- bracelets
- earrings
- spheres
- sage bundles
- massage stones
- silver crosses
- smudging supplies
Each visitor will be given an index card (or more) for you to make your Wish List on, so bring your partner, friends and family for a day of leisurely browsing our shop. Each person will have an opportunity to shop for anyone that they choose to do so, while their relative, partner or friend enjoys a cup of tea or coffee and a cookie and a friendly conversation with other persons of like mind.
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 Fire Ceremony Wednesday, December 7th
6:45 pm
~ led by Katy Koontz
The purpose of the FIRE CEREMONY is to heal and purify both the planet’s physical oceans and the oceans of cosmic thought.
At 7 pm local time, fire elder's light ceremonial fires at each of the Peace Sound Chambers around the world. Those present watch the fire in silence until it burns out, giving to it what we want to transmute in our lives and staying open to the messages and teachings it brings.
Come to the fire ceremony if you enjoy focused meditation, if you are looking for new ideas and insights, if you seek to release and transmute something that does not serve you, if you want to join in the service of healing the oceans (both physical and cosmic) or if you’re simply called to participate in a ceremony that honors this powerful elemental force.
We suggest you arrive by 6:45 pm.
All are welcome.
Donations are appreciated.
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IMPORTANT NEW INFORMATION
Please note that NOT all Events or Dances require participants to pre-test for Covid. When it is required, it will be posted. Masks are optional.
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January 14th – January 15th, 2023
Led by Katy Koontz & Colby McLemore– Dance Chiefs
"In the Long Dance of life. . .
every step forward awakens three opportunities for the human:
one: placement in eternity,
two: purification of past forms, and
three: new opportunities for adventure;
for in the instance of eternal time the new always refreshes and cleanses."
~ Beautiful Painted Arrow
(Joseph Rael, Beautiful Painted Arrow, is a mystic, visionary, poet, and artist of Southern Ute and Picuris Pueblo decent who has taken his teaching around the world. Pursuing a vision that he experienced many years ago, Joseph inspired the development of some 60 Peace Sound Chambers all over the globe. The Long Dance is another of his many visions.)
Are you tired of fighting with what seems to be your fate? Or maybe you have a vision and would like help manifesting it. The Long Dance is a powerful ceremony for focusing your intention to create your future and then dancing into it. This dance was the vision of Native American elder Joseph Rael, Beautiful Painted Arrow, who chiefed this dance for many years before releasing it to new chiefs upon his retirement, assuring that his powerful gift would continue blessing the People.
The Long Dance takes place inside the Peace Sound Chamber at night, a fertile time to bring forth associations and receive guidance from the subconscious. The dancers begin by moving sunward in a circle around the chamber as the drummers’ drum in the sacred center, continuing to drum in one long, uninterrupted round throughout the dance. As the beat of the drum reverberates against the walls, the chamber itself becomes a drum, and the dancers’ feet the drumbeaters. As the dance continues into the night, the dancers go deeper and deeper into a meditative state, dancing their intentions for the future while reflecting on their past.
For more information click HERE
Due to this being an inside Dance, we ask all participants
pre-test. Masks are not required but is certainly OK to wear one if you want to.
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Thanks to an upgrade by PayPal, we are now able to donate to specific funds and projects at the Center.
Try it out and share the love.
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If you shop online at Amazon.com, PLEASE follow this link by clicking on the logo above and Amazon will contribute 0.5% of your purchase to the Center For Peace. There is no additional charge to you.
Then bookmark that Amazon Smile page and every purchase that you make on Amazon all year will generate a donation to the Center For Peace.
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We are asking for sponsorship through monthly donations.
These donations do not need to be large but if those who love the Center for Peace could help by committing a few dollars on a monthly basis it could be the difference between always hoping that someday we will be able to build or provide those needed areas (i.e. showers, sleeping areas, restrooms) and actually making it happen.
If you have participated in any of the programs, offerings, and events that occur on an ongoing basis at the Center for Peace you have already felt the personal blessings from these activities. Our mission is to be a Spiritual Center for our community which extends to anyone open to this learning path.
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The Center For Peace is a 501(c)(3) not for profit corporation. Your donations are tax deductible.
We exist on donations.
If you have ever come to the Center For Peace and liked what you found, PLEASE consider donating now; either a one time donation, or set up an ongoing donation through PayPal.
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If you shop online at Amazon.com, PLEASE follow this link by clicking on the logo above and Amazon will contribute 0.5% of your purchase to the Center For Peace. There is no additional charge to you.
Then bookmark that Amazon Smile page and every purchase that you make on Amazon all year will generate a donation to the Center For Peace.
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The Center for Peace is a non-profit religious corporation in the State of Tennessee. Donations to the Center for Peace can be claimed as deductions from income for income tax purposes.
Active Council Members of the Center for Peace:
Nan Citty
Knoxville, TN
865-405-6809
Steve Citty
Knoxville, TN
865-300-4424
Ashley King
Maryville, TN
865 466-0157
Teresa McKee
Lenoir City,TN
865-755-0778
Sandy Palmer
Seymour, TN
865-304-0765
Heather Robinson
Seymour, TN
865-414-9492
Jeanne Robinson
Seymour, TN
865-428-3070
Lee Sinnott
Johnson City, TN
336-624-5829
Peggy Towson
Knoxville, TN
865 661-9111
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The Peace Sound Chamber is available for chanting, vision quests and ceremonies of many different types.
You are encouraged to come to the chamber and chant, drum, meditate or simply sit (the chamber Spirits love it); please check first that there is not something already scheduled. Please call at least two weeks in advance to reserve our facilities as usage requires council approval
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