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Hometown:: US Canada Border

Relationship Status:: Single

Website 1:: http://www.peacethroughart.us

Website 2:: http://peaceportal.ning.com

Website 3:: http://www.peaceartcards.com

Website 4:: http://www.naturalstemcellhealth.com

Website 5:: http://www.alanalea.com

What do you do to make a living?: Illustration (mainly botanical), Art (mainly for Peace), network marketing (mainly for health)

What kind of hobbies do you have?: Staying up all night on the computer...

In a world where you were pursuing your deepest, most heartfelt callings, what would you be doing?: I do... Go see www.peacethroughart.us. I'm completely compelled to use all of my creative energies, for peace. Have been for 20 years...

What is the most important thing you have learned in your life?: To be patient, while the details of the story are revealing and rearranging themselves. Also, never to give up on Loving, no matter what....

At this turbulent moment in history, what do you think is the most important thing a person can do to help humankind (and the rest of the planet) survive the many dangers that confront us?: Be unconditionally peaceful and loving. Yes. Unconditionally.

Why did you decide to join this community?: I found it through my friend Deb's network. The words on the front page captured my heart and interest. It's very late, I'm very tired having just worked on my ning site, yet this felt like a breath of fresh air... I'll look forward to coming back to look around, and to answer more of these questions another day....

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Flash eCard collaboration by two PeacePortal.ning.com members: music by Sharon Abreu, concept by Peace Through Art. Click on the image below to view...

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At 5:35am on July 28th, 2007, John Andreadis said…: Hi Alana:

I just joined your Peace Portal, which I read about through David's email this morning. Thanks so much for your efforts. I look forward to learning more about your work. Thanks for creating the Peace Portal and I'm honored to be part of it.

Peace and Love,

John

At 11:23pm on July 18th, 2007, Alana Lea said…: Pretty isolated unless you also have a life in Canada - which most of us do. I have a thriving life in Vancouver, so that's the draw for me. When I lived there without the Canadian visits, it was not my cup of tea!

At 10:32pm on July 18th, 2007, Rhodes Hileman said…: As a sailor, I am attracted to Point Roberts. What's it like to live there?

At 10:52am on July 5th, 2007, Alana Lea said…: Hi David. Yes, free downloads really bring people. If you give something with a global appeal then....

I think the RSS feeds do the notifications, but I'm not really sure... I am getting a lot of correspondence right now because I opted to monitor what's going up. Looks like I just created myself a new job! Haven't had time yet to check out the zadz sites, but will before long. While I'm intent on building community out of the people who've become visitors and subscribers to Peace Through Art, it seems like all I do any longer is sit in front of the computer - and it's beautiful outside - don't want to miss it all!

I like that you're perfectly natural on camera. There are long videos of our Vancouver Community whirling, but would have to ask someone to edit and format one for posting. Someday. Right now the person who would do that is busy preparing for a solid month, day and night, of whirling in Turkey. The rest of us are practicing for a special 'sema' that we will do to honor the 800th anniversary of Rumi's birth at the end of September. A professional film person did come to an event where we participated, and edited a clip for a documentary promo, so will see if her format works for the web.

Today, will try to post something to bring attention to Live Earth. Bet you'll be out there somewhere, talking to your camera... enjoy!

At 1:17am on July 5th, 2007, David Sunfellow said…: Hello Alana. Free downloads of interfaith flags? That's a great idea! I've been planning to give NHNE bumper stickers to our subscribers, but following your lead, may broaden that idea.

Your network looks like it is off to a lively start. That's a good sign. I've been waiting for Ning to add the critical global notifications feature (so we can tell when new information has been posted to our networks) before encouraging more activity on NHNE's Ning network.

So one of those clustrmap dots is you, huh? That's funny. And you were watching my podcast. That's even funnier, especially considering how, uhm, comfortable I am on camera. Do you have any video clips up of your performances? Or dances? That would be nice.

At 5:16pm on July 4th, 2007, Alana Lea said…: Hi David, Thanks for taking the time to look around. Yes, I'm always amazed by those maps. In fact, when I felt isolated with my global vision, living in a small US town, it gave me great hope to click on the map each night to see the globe light up. You remind me to get one now for the Peace Portal. It seemed to all burst loose last year when I offered the free downloads of interfaith prayer flags. They're still there for anyone who subscribes.

I'm encouraged too by the growth of the network, and welcome your participation there. I hope we'll have a lively mix of people who are doing something, not just dreaming and talking, about peace. Please feel welcome to jump in... I didn't have time to write good questions for the entry, was doing too many things at once. Hope to make those more thoughtful soon.

I've spent some of my free time cruising NHNE and enjoy what and who I find here too. Had to laugh last night - was in a Vancouver internet cafe, crouched over the computer to listen to your voice on your first podcast! Put that dot on your map!

At 11:32am on July 4th, 2007, Alana Lea said…: Hi David, Thanks for taking the time to look around. Yes, I'm always amazed by those maps. In fact, when I felt isolated with my global vision, living in a small US town, it gave me great hope to click on the map each night to see the globe light up. You remind me to get one now for the Peace Portal. It seemed to all burst loose last year when I offered the free downloads of interfaith prayer flags. They're still there for anyone who subscribes.

I'm encouraged too by the growth of the network, and welcome your participation there. I hope we'll have a lively mix of people who are doing something, not just dreaming and talking, about peace. Please feel welcome to jump in... I didn't have time to write good questions for the entry, was doing too many things at once. Hope to make those more thoughtful soon.

I've spent some of my free time cruising NHNE and enjoy what and who I find here too. Had to laugh last night - was in a Vancouver internet cafe, crouched over the computer to listen to your voice on your first podcast! Put that dot on your map!

At 12:09am on July 4th, 2007, David Sunfellow said…: Hello Alana, I've had a chance to browse your websites. They are beautiful. It's good to see such talent put to work for a worthy cause. Judging by the clustrmaps you have on your main website, your work is spreading all over the world. How delightful to know that, and be able to see it visually demonstrated on a map. I was so impressed with the map, in fact, that I've added a couple to NHNE websites. Maybe someday NHNE will have spread as far and wide as you have. In the meantime, I've also joined your network, which looks like it is off to a good start!

At 2:31pm on July 1st, 2007, Alana Lea said…: Carol, it is wonderful to meet you, as I don't often meet people who feel the connection between the UK and Middle East.

When I was 20, I hitchhiked out of France one winter, hoping to get a ride to Greece. However, I got a ride going in the opposite direction, so landed in Morocco instead! My first memory there was getting on a bus in Tangiers, heading south with a group of men who were just coming home from Mecca, doing a spiritual practice called dhikr all night long. As a Catholic girl, I was in culture shock - and awe at the profound peace I felt surrounding me.

Years later I returned to the UK, arriving in Scotland, at Findhorn, somewhat against my personal will, in time for the First International Sacred Dance Festival in 1984. There I was swept into the inner circle of global peace dance instuctors, went to Iona on a retreat, and was inwardly instructed to bring what I'd learned to the US to energize the chakra points of the West Coast. Did that for quite a while, and eventually met my Sufi teacher, Saadi Neil Douglas-Klotz who mentored me in Dances of Universal Peace.

I have studied with him for 20 years, the first 15 devoted to the Aramaic words of Jesus, then finally getting the courage to learn about Islam. What I have learned thus far is so beautiful, and brings me great peace. I hope to dispel some of the fear that has been cast around it by those who wish to separate and divide to conquer.

In 1992 I co-led a Sacred Dance tour of sacred sites of the UK with Peter Vallance (now a sacred dance guru of Findhorn), and we found ourselves at Stonehenge one late afternoon, having simply asked for permission to enter the gates after the tourists left. I led all Dances by the guidance of the moment.... We found ourselves spiraling between the great stone columns singing "Spirit of Peace, to your cause we give our strength, that Love may reign and war may cease, Mir, Miru, Mir."

Most of us were in tears by then. And, for some reason, it felt right to offer the first half of the Aramaic Lord's Prayer in there, which we were just about to begin as that photo was taken.

Since then, I wanted to see if sacred dance was a woo-woo experiment coming through a confused seeker, or the real deal, so I put it to the test: inner city high risk youth, prisons, corporate gatherings. If it was medicine for our souls, I figured it would work anywhere. It did.

These days I'm whirling with Persian, Turkish and Canadian dervishes to live sung musical prayers in Vancouver, B.C. It is absolutely sublime.... and, I'm ready to travel again!

At 11:51am on July 1st, 2007, Carol Horn said…: Just found the comment you left on my page, and so went to view your photo at Stonehenge--tee hee, I remember such . . . Later today, I'll post a photo on my page here of one of our groups during a candlelight ceremony at Karnak Temple in Luxor. I produced such journeys, where we rented the temples for privacy (not to interfere with other travelers, and offend locals) and with staff musicians (usually either temple bells or harp) and each participant with their own single 7 metal bowl and a candle did our choreographed "dance processions" through the massive columns of the enormous complex to and around the sacred lake. I designed a simple costume, (which was quite elegant in fact) which each participant donned as the initial part of the ceremonial process. What times those were. The political conditions would not allow such these days, but we managed to slip in to a time window that lasted fifteen years. What a blessing that was. --Carol