Miro was Hypnotized!
Hilarious.

One of the greatest  highlights from the unschooling conference Miro and I attended (and presented at) in New Hampshire, April 2013 was the entertaining Stage Hypnosis show by Roderick Russell. Miro volunteered to be hypnotized and who knew he could dance like that????? The show absolutely entertaining.

If you are interested in learning more about the amazing Roderick Russell, who also happens to be a sword swallower and fire eater, please visit his site here. 

Although the Life Rocks Unschooling Conference ended just a few days ago, the experience left Miro and I completely changed forever. We are both putting together our posts about our experiences, but for now, Miro and I are resting and trying to recover from the flu. But in the meantime, we wanted to share with you a video of our talk we gave at the Life Rocks Unschooling Conference in New Hampshire, on April 4th, 2013.

Together, Miro and I wrote our script for our talk. We rehearsed and practiced our presentation countless …

Forty kilometers from Cuzco, is the small town of Maras where we find the Salinas Salt Ponds tucked into the valley.
For quite possibly thousands of years, a flowing subterranean spring from the mountains above, has filled the 3,000 salt-pools below. Through a series of channels, the farmers block the flow determining which pool the water flows to. Once the pool is filled, the flow of water is blocked, allowing the sun to evaporate the water which can take up to one month.

As the salt water becomes supersaturated, salt crystals begin …

 
Connecting Communities
Two years later, I sat down with David of ProjectNuevoMundo.org, and the organizer of the 2010 Conscious Convergence in Guatemala that we attended in Guatemala. I speak with Dave about his ideas of intentional communities, eco-villages, sustainability, indigenous communities, plant medicines including ayahuasca, and holding a vision to create a new forms of energy exchange.

 
We featured Dave in a Podcast Episode #5 – Community, Sustainability & Alternate Forms of Energy Exchange
Exploring new models for sustainable living and creating a community of unity.
This episode includes Lainie & Miro’s experiences at the Conscious Convergence gathering July 17 & 18, honoring …

Photographing Peru’s Coneheads
Miro and I first came into contact with Brien Foerester and the amazing elongated skulls of Paracas Peru in December of 2011 when we visited the Paracas History Museum. From that day on, I have become fascinated with the enigma of the skulls here in Peru and have visited every museum containing one of these enigmas as often as I could. In summer of 2012, I volunteered to travel to Paracas to photograph the skulls so they would have a documentation of the skulls in the collection of this private museum. The Paracas History Museum is the home of the largest …

Here in Cusco Peru, volunteer-tourism is a large contributor to the overall tourism economy. We were luck to meet an American college student who was concerned about all the different aspects of this form of tourism and is writing her senior thesis on the subject.