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Natural Awakenings Readers Can Win Tickets to Renaissance Festival
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atural Awakenings of the Twin Cities is giving away tickets to the Minnesota Renaissance
Festival, in Shakopee. Publisher Jackie Flaherty is holding a drawing for 12 sets of two tickets to the festival, which is held from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekends from August 16 through September 28. Now in its 44th season, the Minnesota Renaissance Festival is an interactive outdoor
event that recreates a fictional, 16th-century English fantasy kingdom. A variety of events include 16 stages with live entertainment, games and activities, 250 arti- san booths, food and beverages. Each weekend has its own theme, such as Wine, Chocolate and Romance, Ye Old Pet Fest and Oktoberfest. For children, there are more than 50 free activities, including the Fairy Wing Forest, or Dr. Thora Pandora’s Chemistry Experience, fairy wand and pirate tat making, Mermaid Cove, a petting zoo and the Secret Garden. Other children’s offerings include face painting, check- ers, fencing, caricatures, and games such as Kings of the Log. Drawings for the free tickets will be held randomly throughout August. For details, rules and instructions on how to enter, visit
NATwinCities.com or NaturalAwakenings TwinCities on Facebook.
Location: Renaissance Festival Grounds, 12364 Chestnut Blvd., Shakopee. Free parking. For more information, call 952-445-7361 or visit
RenaissanceFest.com. See ad, page 19.
Career Coach Offers Personal Marketing Package
K Kelly M. Lewis
elly M. Lewis, certified career coach and owner of Kelly M. Lewis Coaching and Associates, in Edina, is offering a new career coaching program that includes additional sessions designed to help clients market themselves once they’ve chosen a new career.
Lewis uses a variety of methodologies, testing and coach-
ing tools to help people identify their natural talents and choose careers aligned with those talents to result in thriving careers.
Lewis says her commitment to her clients is that they will understand the next and right steps for them, how to prepare and how their approach fits their lives and goals in a practical, reality-based way. With the new program, clients will learn how to market themselves and develop a plan for pursuing work in their new careers. “The key to a career you love lies in its alignment with who you truly are:
your innate talents, aptitudes and personality,” Lewis says. “Work doesn’t feel like ‘work’ if you are doing what you were designed to do.” Lewis has more than 17 years of business management experience and has
helped such companies as Target, U.S. Bank and PepsiCo with talent management and career destination planning. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Interpersonal Com- munications at Concordia University, in St. Paul.
Location: 4820 W. 77th St., Ste. 104, Edina. For more information or to schedule a free career strategy session, call 952-456-8467, email
Kelly@KellyMarieLewis.com or visit
KellyMarieLewis.com. See ad, page 22 .
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The Prayer Project P
aramahansa Jagadish, a globally renowned master healer, teacher and spiritual leader based in Califor- nia, is encouraging people worldwide to participate in The Prayer Project. The project and its accompanying Toolbox of Prayer book, both created by Jaga- dish, aim to spread the blessing and impact of prayer and offer perspective on how the world’s predominant reli- gions and cultures approach prayer. Jagadish is rallying people of the
world to step forward with a few minutes of joyful prayer each day to lead the planet into a time of transfor- mation. He is asking people to simply pray for peace for three minutes, three times, for a total of nine minutes a day. “We have bartered away our future for little gain by destroying the rain forests, oceans, wilderness, plant and animal species, and we have enabled dramatic climate change with no solution in sight,” says Jagadish. “The Prayer Project began when I thought about the sad state of the world today and wondered how I could help spread a message of peace and an experience of divine joy that everyone could participate in.” The Prayer Project aims to create a connection between all philosophies and faiths in one single, unified voice. “Prayer is truly universal,” Jagadish
says. “It is a singular bond that binds us to so many things: our ancestors, other cultures, individuals, nations, religions and spiritual communities.”
The Prayer Project is available on
Amazon.com or as a free PDF at
Prayer-Project.com. For more informa- tion, visit
Prayer-Project.com.
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