Holistic Collaboration: An interview with Carolyn Vinup on creating success

Carolyn Vinup

Passion. Hard Work. Commitment to cultivating transformation. That only begins to describe Carolyn Vinup, an independent woman who owns her own businesses and helps others run their businesses with more focus, clarity and strategy. This is one of her many taglines: "Creating sacred space where your soul can dance." Carolyn is passionate about cultivating conscious spaces and her work is powerful and transforming. She integrates Feng Shui, sound healing, qigong, space clearing and blessing … [Read more...]

GATE: Transforming Media & the Arts — An interview with visionary John Raatz

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Read: the announcement for the GATE2 event on February 4 Called a modern-day Renaissance man, John Raatz seemingly does it all. He's an experienced communicator, strategist, administrator, musician, teacher and entrepreneur. He has been a personal manager in the entertainment industry, representing both high-profile celebrity actors and musicians. He's been a successful stockbroker, a major executive at a public relations agency, a professional blues/rock guitarist, a pilot, a publisher … [Read more...]

Let’s celebrate love in its purest form

My sister Shawn loves Mickey Mouse, cats and shopping at Wal-Mart.

It's February, the month when we express our love to our Valentines with special dinners, cards adorned with hearts, chocolate and flowers. It's a time when we open our hearts. This year, I want to share with you a love of my life who seeks nothing in return for the love she freely shares with anyone...and anything. For you see, my youngest sister, Shawn, never learned that strings are attached to love. She never learned that love could be used as a tool to get what you want. And she never … [Read more...]

May your inner dragon keep you brave in 2012

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Two decades ago, before the human potential movement morphed into Oprah and Buddhist principles paved the way for Presence studies, The Edge was created in the Upper Midwest to share insights on the essence of spirituality and the integration of alternative healing and conventional medicine. It was a time of great expansion. Holistic business was booming as new centers opened far and wide to offer treatments and classes on complementary therapies. New shops opened to share books and gifts to … [Read more...]

Edge Life Expo Preview: Children of the New Dawn

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An interview with Insiah Beckman, Chanda Parkinson and Sunny Dawn Johnston on their upcoming seminar at Minneapolis Edge Life Expo With the dawning of the Age of Aquarius and a greater focus on the evolution of human consciousness, children have always been a part of the conversation. The next generation. The ones who lead humanity forward. The ones who are born with innate gifts that synchronize perfectly with the challenges that lie in front of us. Three highly intuitive teachers -- … [Read more...]

The path of least resistance

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The first time it happened was in the early 1990s. I had been a daily newspaper writer in Missouri for about ten years, and I was toying with the idea of making a career change. I set up an interview at a school of traditional Chinese medicine in Santa Fe and, before I knew it, I was throwing my bags in the backseat of my VW and heading down the road to New Mexico. As the miles passed behind me, I thought about how I needed a change in scenery, about how rewarding it would be to help people … [Read more...]

Food Inc. : An Edge Interview with Robert Kenner

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The critically acclaimed and Academy Award-nominated film Food Inc. - filmmaker Robert Kenner's exposé of corporate farming in America - also is one of the top-grossing theatrical documentaries of all time. In the three years since its release, Food Inc. remains part of the conversation as America wrestles with obesity, diabetes and other health conditions that are linked to the poor quality of food consumed by Americans and produced by only a handful of multi-national … [Read more...]

Your Abundance Mindset: Cultivating a Richer Life

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An interview with Carole Hyder and Cyndi Dale The public yearns to not only find jobs that put money on the table, but also satisfy their souls. In response to that, two Twin Cities businesswomen -- Cyndi Dale, president of Essential Energy, a successful corporation that offers intuitive-based consulting and healing, and corporate consulting, and Carole J. Hyder, an internationally known Feng Shui consultant and speaker -- will present a program to help others cultivate a richer life. "Your … [Read more...]

Thank you so much!

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Every week, talk show host Jimmy Fallon does a regular segment on his “Late Night” program in which he scribbles brief thank you notes to random things and people. When I first saw the sequence, it was Christmas time and I assumed the host was showing his gratitude in the spirit of the holidays. Over time, I realized the show’s writers were just having fun…for example, “Thank you, tanning beds, for looking like human Panini makers.” Jimmy’s crew has inspired me to offer some Thank … [Read more...]

Envisioning Anew: An interview with Lake Harriet Spiritual Community

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Center for Conscious Living: The renewed vision of LHSC with Theresa Rose MINNEAPOLIS -- The names have changed, but the energy beneath the dome at Lake Harriet Spiritual Community remains just as refreshing and awakening as ever. It inspires people to reconnect with their true nature, go beyond what they thought was possible and embody the soul that yearns to be expressed. The energy here inspires change -- perhaps the only constant in the community's 23-year history in the landmark … [Read more...]