Annual event featuring practitioners and services specializing in holistic health and wellness. Held in the parking lot in front of Soup to Nuts Natural Grocery in Geneva, this is a great event for families and those interested in a natural lifestyle.

It’s the annual Black Hat/Pumpkins for a Cure weekend in downtown Geneva!

Make a purchase at Crystal Life while wearing a black hat and we’ll take 20% off your highest priced item!

Pumpkins for a Cure will host a pumpkin and mum sale on the Courthouse lawn Friday, September 28 – Sunday, September 30. All proceeds will benefit the Zellmer Childhood Disease Foundation (ZCDF).

Activities will include face painting for children, a clown making balloon animals, fall crafts, performances by Jeanie B and the Jelly Beans, a professional pumpkin carver, wagon rides, a farmers market, and a mum and pumpkin sale.

Many of the downtown shops and restaurants participate by providing special offers and activities for anyone wearing a black hat!

Join Atala at the Infinity Foundation in Highland Park, IL for this field trip!

Invite nature spirits to show themselves to you as they are everpresent. Digital cameras, in particular, can capture spiritual energies unseen by the naked eye. Properly prepare yourself and your camera to capture the nature spirits of rocks, trees, water, and air. Interact with and photograph nature spirits.

This photographic outing is at a local preserve. Digital cameras work best, but inexpensive cameras can work as well or better than more expensive ones, so bring both if you have them, or a film camera if that is what you use. All levels of photographic knowledge welcome. Bring your camera, a tripod is useful, something to kneel on, a sweet for the nature spirits, and dress for the outdoors. Bring a snack if, you would like one, and water. Meet at Infinity to carpool to the preserve 10 minutes away.

Call 847.831.8828 to reserve your place. Phone lines are open 24/7

Or reserve your place at www.infinityfoundation.org

Learn the basic qualities of crystals and how to use them, as well as a simple technique to program (inspire) them for a 28 day cycle.

Grandfather Buffalo teaches earth-centric traditions ranging from crystal therapy to goddess, Celtic, Christian, runic and Native American traditions. While he trained with a Blackfoot shaman and is part Cherokee, he presents from a non-tribal perspective.

Kung Fu Master Anthony Ernst will be sharing peaceful, centered ways for the youth to protect themselves in the presence of bullies or other negative situations. Victor van Slee, one of our founders, will be assisting in this lesson. 

This BP meeting will begin at 6:30 pm, instead of the regular 7 pm, so that we can take advantage of the park and natural light.

Please dress in comfortable clothes that will allow free movement and won’t constrain.

Please use the NORTH entrance to Wheeler Park. There is a nice area there where the group will be able to work on the grass, free from other park activities.

In the event of bad weather, we will meet in the lower portion of the Crystal Life building, at The Fox Valley Jewish Neighbors meeting hall. The entrance to this area of the building is just off the alley that runs between Crystal Life and the Geneva History Center.

Do you want to learn how to use a pendulum? Maybe you want to brush up on your use? Come this Saturday and learn the basics of pendulums!

Atala Toy is President of Crystal Life and of ISIC. She is an expert, consultant, lecturer and author in the field of consciousness; her books include “We Are Not Alone; A Guidebook on Interdimensional Cooperation” and, just released, “Nature Spirits, Spirit Guides and Ghosts: How to talk with and photograph beings of other realms.”

Ralph Osier is a certified Arborist who specializes in rebalancing soil. He will discuss the truths and myths of how a garden functions, as well as some dowsing techniques to help determine what the imbalances are.

ISIC is a holistic practitioners program in which practitioners applying alternative methodologies to their practices can socialize and share knowledge with one another. 

TheosoFEST is an annual open-house festival celebrating the wisdom of the ages, the unity of all life, and spiritual self-transformation. We invite you to join us for this free event exploring spirituality and community! Bring your friends and family! Enjoy presentations and activities ranging from Astrology to Zen!

Make a day of it! Browse exhibits and vendor booths, experience hands-on demonstrations, sample tasty vegetarian food, visit the Quest Book Shop, explore the Olcott Library, stroll around the grounds, or meditate in nature.

Join Atala at 11:30 at the Olcott Labyrinth as she leads a meditative walk! Walk is approximately 45 minutes.

Atala will also be giving a talk on Nature Spirits of the Greater Chicago Area.

So you think fairies, elves and rock spirits are only ancient myths? They are alive and well – and in your own yard and home! You’ll learn some other prime locations in Chicagoland to find nature spirits, how to contact them, and see actual photographs of Chicago area nature beings!

Look for the Crystal Life booth while you’re visiting!

Savor the flavor of Geneva during Festival of the Vine,  the autumn harvest celebration. This annual festival is a celebration of the flavors of fall.  Initially a celebration of anything grown on a vine, the festival now revolves around food and wine.  Sip wines from around the world and sample mouth-watering international specialties prepared by Geneva restaurateurs while you enjoy versatile local and Chicagoland musical and dance entertainers on the Flavor Fare stage.  Additional festival events include an arts and crafts show, merchant wine offerings, flower market, live demonstration stage, Kids’ Corner, complimentary trolley and horse-drawn carriage rides plus great shopping in Geneva’s historic downtown.

To view hours and an events schedule, please visit the Geneva Chamber website.

This month long exhibit celebrates the world of the green men and green women – the teachers and philosophers of the nature world. These portrait studies are of green people and their friends whose images are naturally depicted in the energy of trees and stones.

Crystal Life will be closed so our “Labor Force” can enjoy this national day off.