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		<title>Canadian Tenor Mark Masri to Headline ANASAZI Foundation Event</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mesa, Arizona (November 2, 2011) – Soulful Canadian tenor and EMI recording artist Mark Masri will perform with national recording acts Lindsey Stirling and Firefly at ANASAZI Foundation’s Scholarship Gala, November 17, at the Legado Hotel in Gilbert, Arizona.  The event raises funds for financially challenged families seeking intervention and treatment services to save a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.anasazi.org/wilderness-therapy-blog/wp-content/uploads/Masriopt.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-569" title="Mark Masri" src="http://www.anasazi.org/wilderness-therapy-blog/wp-content/uploads/Masriopt-150x150.jpg" alt="Mark Masri" width="150" height="150" /></a>Mesa, Arizona (November 2, 2011) – Soulful Canadian tenor and EMI recording artist Mark Masri will perform with national recording acts Lindsey Stirling and Firefly at ANASAZI Foundation’s Scholarship Gala, November 17, at the Legado Hotel in Gilbert, Arizona.  The event raises funds for financially challenged families seeking intervention and treatment services to save a son or daughter in crisis.</p>
<p>Renowned internationally for his passionate vocals and romantic ballads, Masri’s music spans both classical and contemporary genres.  His ability to sing in six languages, including Italian in his virtuosic performance of “Caruso,” adds to his romantic appeal, which has been described by the <em>Boston Globe</em> as “melting the hearts of female audience members like chocolate in the palm of warm hands.”</p>
<p>Masri has performed and recorded with many notable artists, including Jim Brickman and Olivia Newton-John.  He recently appeared in back-to-back PBS specials with Brickman and legendary hit-maker David Foster.</p>
<p>Joining Masri at the November 17 event is hip-hop violinist Lindsey Stirling, who gained national fame as a fan favorite on <em>America’s Got Talent</em>.  Nashville recording artists Firefly will open the show and perform the event’s theme song, titled “Here Comes Hope.”</p>
<p>The Scholarship Gala also highlights the remarkable stories of ANASAZI alumni – young people who have overcome significant personal challenges to rebuild family relationships and achieve goals that once seemed beyond their reach.  For reservations and table sponsorships, call (800) 678-3445 or e-mail sponsorships@anasazi.org.</p>
<p><strong>ABOUT ANASAZI FOUNDATION</strong></p>
<p>ANASAZI Foundation is a nonprofit (501c3), nationally recognized, licensed, and Joint Commission-accredited behavioral healthcare provider known for its nurturing and non-punitive approach to helping young people.  ANASAZI&#8217;s menu of services includes a 42-day, wilderness-based intervention and treatment program for youth 12-17 and adults 18+, as well as parenting workshops and community drug awareness and education forums.  Visit <a href="http://www.anasazi.org/">www.anasazi.org</a> for more information.</p>
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		<title>Fall 2011 ANASAZI DawnStar Walking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Rourke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ANASAZI Foundation will conduct a four-day DawnStar Walking for alumni and friends November 18-21 in Arizona&#8217;s beautiful Tonto National Forest. The short wilderness-based program will follow ANASAZI&#8217;s annual Scholarship Dinner and Alumni Gathering on November 17. Participants in the DawnStar Walking will learn from the Seven Paths of the ANASAZI Way and discover what nature [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ANASAZI Foundation will conduct a four-day DawnStar Walking for alumni and friends November 18-21 in Arizona&#8217;s beautiful Tonto National Forest. The short wilderness-based program will follow ANASAZI&#8217;s annual Scholarship Dinner and Alumni Gathering on November 17. </p>
<p>Participants in the DawnStar Walking will learn from the Seven Paths of the ANASAZI Way and discover what nature teaches about leadership. The course also includes hiking, instruction in primitive skills, and plenty of time for cooking, eating, and games. The cost for each participant is $650, and separate programs are available for adolescents (12-17) and adults (18+).</p>
<p><strong>Admission Packets/Additional Information</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.anasazi.org/wilderness-therapy-blog/wp-content/uploads/Dawnstar-Expeditions-Enrollment-Packet-Adult.pdf">Adults (age 18+)</a><br />
<a href="http://www.anasazi.org/wilderness-therapy-blog/wp-content/uploads/Dawnstar-Expeditions-Enrollment-Packet-Age-12-17.pdf">Adolescents (age 12-17)</a></p>
<p>A deposit of $100 is required to secure participation. Reservations will be made on a first-come, first-served basis with only nine slots available per group&#8211;so ACT SOON!  For more information or to pay by phone, please contact us at 800-678-3445.  Questions may also be directed to alumni@anasazi.org.</p>
<p>ANASAZI Foundation<br />
1424 S. Stapley Drive<br />
Mesa, Arizona  85204</p>
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		<title>Messages from ANASAZI alumni families and friends…</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All of us at ANASAZI feel blessed by the love and support of our ever-growing ANASAZI family. Below is a sampling of the messages (edited for length) sent recently by alumni families and friends to the Anasazi Tribe and ANASAZI Foundation fan pages on Facebook. &#160; Thank you Anasazi for bringing my son back to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>All of us at ANASAZI feel blessed by the love and support of our ever-growing ANASAZI family. Below is a sampling of the messages (edited for length) sent recently by alumni families and friends to the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/anasazi" target="_blank">Anasazi Tribe</a> and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/anasazifoundation" target="_blank">ANASAZI Foundation fan pages</a> on Facebook.</em></p>
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<p>Thank you Anasazi for bringing my son back to me&#8230;</p>
<p>I LOVE the Anasazi program, the spirit and peace it brings to the lives of so many! I would love to share stories and memories; I have so many good ones!</p>
<p>Hello! i finished my Anasazi experience almost exactly a year ago! and i loved every second of it. and i think the whole program is amazing.</p>
<p>I would love to help out in anyway that I can. Anasazi really changed my life. Not only my life but my brothers’. We have all been blessed. Thank you for having such an impact on my life and the life of my family.</p>
<p>Hey! omg i miss u guys. i wanted you to know that i am very thankful for what you all have done and I am doing well.</p>
<p>I am grateful for Ezekiel and the Anasazi Family for saving my son&#8217;s life and for all the others whose paths were forever changed for the good. I live with my heart at peace.</p>
<p>Wow-such a time in my life that made me who I am today.</p>
<p>Thanks to the staff for all you did for me. I go through life now, knowing who I am, knowing that I CAN make it through ANYTHING!!!</p>
<p>Anasazi was one of the most wonderful and amazing experiences I have ever been through, I am very grateful for having such an important chapter in my life.</p>
<p>Man&#8230;.not a day goes by that I dont think about my time here. Lets see&#8230;..1998 the summer between my junior and senior year. I have some awesome memories of being there. Wasn’t to happy about being there but SSSOOOOOO glad I did.</p>
<p>Wow…It&#8217;s been 4 years and I miss it so much!! I can&#8217;t wait to send my kids so that they can learn the self respect and confidence that I took away with me.</p>
<p>It has been almost ten years since I was on the trial. The program changed my life and the stories are still talked about to this day.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" title="Family Camp" src="http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs280.snc1/10719_1159482760630_1634628182_401815_6359561_n.jpg" alt="" width="453" height="575" /></p>
<p>Its been 12 years since my time at anasazi and i still remember every moment and am so grateful for my sister-in-law, former trail walker, for telling my parents about it. It forever changed my life.</p>
<p>I miss Anasazi! Wow, learned so much&#8230;what a wonderful experience! I wish I was on the trail now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>I&#8217;m so excited to see this site!!! My girls will be too&#8230; we all have AWESOME experiences from Anasazi and still work at having our hearts at peace every day. LOVE the Arbinger Institute and their books and I pass them along every chance I get!</p>
<p>Nothing makes me happier than to help those that help others. Anasazi does it well.</p>
<p>It makes me get teary to think of all the families Anasazi has brought together&#8211; I know it has mine. THANK YOU ANASAZI! <img src='http://www.anasazi.org/wilderness-therapy-blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>You know what&#8217;s completely amazing about these pictures? In each and every single picture, the young walker is covered in dirt, has greasy, oily, matted hair, surrounded by nothing but the wilderness, AND YET has the biggest smile on their faces and a light in their eyes that I&#8217;m sure at the beginning of their adventure wasn&#8217;t there. Thanks ANASAZI&#8230; for putting the light back in our eyes!</p>
<p>I really miss the Anasazi Days!!!! So Peaceful, I need to find myself again!  Thanks, Anasazi, for the memories&#8230;</p>
<p>Thank You ANASAZI for your commitment and putting a stake in the ground and MAKING A DIFFERENCE in the LIVES of all these people. You are all like a TREE UNMOVEABLE and UNSHAKEABLE. You all have TOUCHED, MOVED and INSPIRED!!!! You all are LOVED!!!</p>
<p>I miss the trail! I miss my Anasazi family&#8230;</p>
<p>Some of my best memories! What a treasure to have gone! I didn&#8217;t think it at first, but WOW! Who gets the amazing experiences of ANASAZI! xoxo to all of you!</p>
<p>Anasazi, thanks for hanging in there when programs such as yours come under fire. I wish even more people recognized the good things that can be taught by Mother Earth in helping one find a heart at peace.</p>
<p>Thanks Anasazi for teaching lessons I will never forget!!</p>
<p>I remember our daughter making a fire and cooking for us. It was one of the best nights of my life.</p>
<p>You Guys are AMAZING! Keep up the work! It creates a great change!</p>
<p>I never thought I could ever miss lentils and rice so much! ah the hiking, fire circles, just the beauty of being out in nature! I miss it so much I would go back in a second if i could! I have learned so much from my experience at anasazi and i continue to have awakenings yes ive had many since! Not only have i found inner peace and something i love. But I have found myself! Keep walking forward:)</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t been on the trail since like &#8217;01 but i tell you what i miss it a ton! it was an awesome time in my life surprising enough!</p>
<p>Wow!! i remember anasazi like 9 years ago it was amazing wish i could do it again.</p>
<p>I was ther over 17 yrs ago ( Early 90&#8242;s I was 12 then, I am now 31) Gees, but its still good to remember the great times On the Trail&#8230;&#8230;Oh how life was SOOO simple back then, before Marriage, Kids Life!! Wish I could go back!</p>
<p>I have a great love for Ezekiel and for the people who I walked with on the trail. What a wonderful program!</p>
<p>The sites i saw and everything i learned wow i can honestly say it was the best time of my life and a experience i will never forget and i cant wait till i am old enough to come work there and give the same experience i got when i was there. to everyone at Anasazi thank you and love ya.</p>
<p>I needed a good focus. The Anasazi experience is too special for most to understand, and I still think about it!</p>
<p>Wow! It&#8217;s been 13 years! Definitely a life-changing experience that I will never forget</p>
<p>I think about Anasazi and how &#8220;at ease&#8221; life was at that moment in time. Wilderness is so healing. It is nice to be able to get away from it all to think about life. I hope to lead my boys in the same direction that you led me. I always know who I can turn to. Thank you.</p>
<p>I am ANASAZI! I&#8217;ll do what I can and make others I know aware!!!!</p>
<p>A way of life, you have given many families new life! Thank You!</p>
<p>Awesome Anasazi, Thank You! May you continue to Bless More Lives!</p>
<p>ANASAZI IS A GIFT OF HOPE- THANK YOU ANASAZI FOR TOUCHING OUR HEARTS AND OUR LIVES!</p>
<p>My son has been doing well since his 11 weeks in the field. As his dad, I am very proud that he is healthy and has been in full time college living with his brothers in Tucson. He is a wonderful young man.</p>
<p>I loved Anasazi! It&#8217;s been 14 years almost!!!!! I cannot believe it&#8217;s been so long. I still talk about Anasazi…I feel so lucky to have had the experience.</p>
<p>This makes me smile. Still walking softly on the earth! Sending good feelings to all!</p>
<p>It has been 20 years since I was on the trail&#8230; But I still remember every bit of it like it was yesterday and I remember all my counselors and Paul Newman My shadow~ Oh the good memories!</p>
<p>I just got off the phone with Ezekiel and have made a contribution and a commitment to help Anasazi. They were there for my family and daughter in our time of great need and I will now be there for them in theirs. I am Wise Flying Eagle and I have spoken, with my mouth, my heart *and* my checkbook. Please <a href="https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&amp;SESSION=1ABom9U2RarDb4qzk3NaNPWqmZtN43IXZBIhJVBtxRlejBXwAyqCyoanMTq&amp;dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1ffc45dc241d84e9538c532da79baccf7c26f850d773643350" target="_blank">do likewise</a>.</p>
<p>You guys are awesome!! you made such a difference in the life of my son. We talk about the trail all of the time. He loved those 6 weeks and what he learned there I will never be able to thank you enough. thanks!!</p>
<p>Really this place made a HUGE difference in my life, thank you guys so very much!! i miss the trail a lot, and the good ol food we all had out there LOL! again thank you so much for everything</p>
<p>I went to Anasazi when I was 17, i am 21 now, I loved every moment I was out there. You guys helped me out so much.</p>
<p>My thanks to all you wonderful, wonderful people. You do the work of angels…I stand up and applaud you all.</p>
<p>The best life saving foundation there is</p>
<p>I agree, everyone should experience Anasazi, it was a life altering experience for our entire family…Thank you!!!</p>
<p>Everyone I&#8217;ve met associated with Anasazi has been remarkable. I am so impressed with your mission, your work, your people.</p>
<p>You should be very proud of all the great work you have done for &#8220;Kids&#8221;.  Anasazi is a precious gift.</p>
<p>My husband and I had such a life-changing experience for ourselves, and our daughter&#8230;. The walkers out on the trail truly had unconditional love for all of the kids who were participating. The one thing that I personally took for myself in the program was that as a parent, YOU TRULY ARE A MIRROR FOR YOUR CHILD OR TEENAGER&#8230;.. They reflect off of you, be it either positive or negative&#8230;. So So true. It really works&#8230;.. Just go to the grocery store, and take note of the smiles you get back, if you smile first&#8230; Awesome world we live in&#8230; Thanks Anasazi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Probably one of the best moments in my life&#8230; seeing my mom and dad again after 9 weeks&#8230; I love them sooo much!</p>
<p>Anasazi does amazing things for amazing kids! I feel so blessed that my family had the opportunity to learn and grow thru this program! Thanks to all of you who help those of us who need you so much!</p>
<p>Best time of my life, that&#8217;s for dang sure.</p>
<p>Thanks for giving me my life back!!!</p>
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