Boulder, CO
July 25-27, 2008
Friday, July 25, 6:30-8:30pm; Saturday, July 26, 12:00-5:30pm; Sunday, July 27, 11:00am-3:30pm
Om Time Yoga
2035 Broadway
Boulder, CO 80302
Transforming the Heart: Weekend Meditation Workshop
An awakened heart is emotionally connected, yet free from being caught in emotions, open to enlightened states of awareness yet intuitively skillful in daily life. Many of us awaken on the mental and physical level, yet remain partially blocked on the level of the heart. This workshop, based on Sally Kempton's powerful Awakened Heart transmission, explores the three main factors in holding the awakened heart: our connection to the energy of the heart center, our skill at recognizing and dissolving obstructive emotions, and our ability to open to essential feeling states. We'll use meditation, self-inquiry, sacred movement, and the wisdom of tantric philosophy to open our own heart-energy and move into the enlightened heart. We'll investigate--and lift-- some of the veils that cover the heart, moving through concepts, emotions, and obstructions that keep us from living as our best self. We'll work with such transformative processes as radical forgiveness and heart-based samyama. We'll learn how to access the inner beloved, and how to transform charged relationships, desires, and fears.
For Information and to Register:
720-565-6115
877-668-4631
www.omtime.com
New York City, NY
August 14, 6:15-9pm
Shri Yoga of NYC
443 Greenwich St.
New York, NY 10013
Practical Enlightenment, Enlightened Practice
How can we move through the world in a way that brings our Awakening into everyday situations?
Sally offers a series of inquiries, contemplations, and meditations that make enlightened awareness accessible and practical. Based on selected verses from the tantras, this class is a short course in turning daily life into a dance with the divine.
To register visit ShriYogaNYC.com.
Any questions, please e-mail the studio at shriyoga@shriyoganyc.com
Lenox, MA
August 15-17th
Kripalu Retreat Center
Practical Enlightenment: How to Recognize and Act from your own Divine Power
This two-day practice/study retreat, based on teachings from the Kashmiri Shaivite texts Spanda Karikas and Shiva Sutras, unfolds a life-changing paradigm for living an enlightened life. Through contemplations, meditation, study and group work, you'll learn to recognize the sacred energies that are constantly working through your body, mind, and actions, and discover how to see your thoughts, actions, perceptions as doorways into radiant awareness.
You'll learn:
* What it really means to say that divine consciousness has everything in the world, and what you can do to recognize accept the divinity at your core
* How powerful sacred energies constantly move through your mind, perceptions, and actions—and how to consciously connect to these energies so that they begin to serve our highest purposes.
* Why we perceive reality differently at different levels of consciousness
* How to unleash the true creativity of your mind
* How to understand and access the dynamic power of the sacred feminine in both men and women.
* The cut-to-the-chase path to freedom, joy and love.
The weekend will include meditation, movement, written and group practice, all held in the sublime atmosphere of the Kripalu Center in Lenox, Massachusetts.
For Information and Registration, call 800 741-7353 or www.kripalu.org
Red Feather Lakes, CO
August 29-30, 2008
Shambhala Mountain Center
4921 County Rd 68-C
Red Feather Lakes, CO 80545
Practical Enlightenment: A Contemplative and Anusara Yoga Workshop
with Sally and Anusara Teacher Jeanie Manchester
This multi-layered workshop with two master teachers, offers a practical, training in embodying awakened awareness, aimed at giving participants tools for lasting emotional and mental freedom. Using a synergistic practice of meditation, Anusara Yoga, contemplative exercises and inquiry, journaling and transformative emotional work, we will take the principles from one of the most enlightened philosophies in the world, and experience their transformative power directly.
Participants will learn:
* Non-dual techniques for experiencing mental and emotional freedom, bringing awareness into the body, and transmuting the energy blocks that obstruct us.
* How to explore the inner body and expand consciousness in the three main bodily centers.
* Practices for using the energy of thought to go beyond thought
* Unfailing principles and tools for experiencing unity awareness in daily life.
* Methods for grounding insight and awareness in the body itself.
For further info or to register call (888) STUPA-21 or visit www.shambhalamountain.org
Estes Park, CO
Yoga Journal Colorado Conference including 3-Day Anusara Yoga Gathering
September 21-28
Anusara Conference
September 22-24
YMCA of the Rockies
Details at YogaJournal.com or call to register 800.561.9398
Carlsbad, CA
October 12, 10:00am - 5:30pm
Bodacious Living Yoga Studio
300 Carlsbad Village Drive, Suite 205
Carlsbad, CA 92008
Practical Enlightenment
For information, call (760) 720-9642 or email info@bodaciouslivingyoga.com.
Laurel Springs Retreat Center Single Occupancy: $1950 Deposit: $250 DEPOSIT AND CANCELLATION
Golden Heart Yoga
Santa Barbara, CA
November 2-7
Romancing the Spirit: A 5-day Practice Retreat
Taught by Durgananda Sally Kempton, with yoga by certified Anusara Teacher Tara Judelle
"You embrace some form, saying "I am this." By God, you are not this or that. You are "Unique One" "Heart-Ravishing!"
Rumi
What does it really mean to ride the edge between your uniquely personal self and your divine Self? According to the tantric masters, one secret is to realize the divine nature of your own energy.
This retreat offers Durgananda Sally Kempton's transmission of that experience, rooted in the wisdom and practice of the masters of the Spanda lineage.
Durgananda transmits a series of practices and insights for working with sacred energies that can help you reset the frame of your life. During five full days of meditation, yoga, contemplation, self-inquiry, art, and exploratory voice-dialogue, you'll learn
* how to bring higher levels of awareness into the body
* the essentials of tantric psychological work
* how to work with the divine energy at the core of your thinking, your feeling, and your awareness.
* How to map your personal spiritual journey
The sacred atmosphere of the retreat, which includes several days of silence, will be powerfully enhanced by its beautiful setting, a state-of-the-art retreat center in the hills above Santa Barbara.
The retreat includes key teachings from the a powerful enlightened tantric text, the Spanda Karikas, or Stanzas on Divine Pulsation, and will help you deepen and integrate the practices that have been explored in Sally's teleconferences throughout the year.
Laurel Springs Retreat Center, 2720 Painted Canyon Road, Santa Barbara, California
Check out Laurel Springs at: http://www.laurelspringsretreat.net
Enrollment is limited. Click the link below to make your payment.
Double Occupancy: $1500
Your $500 deposit is due by September 1, 2008 with the remainder of your payment due on or before October 1, 2008.
If you cancel before September 1, 2008, we will refund $350 of your deposit. If you must cancel after September 1, 2008 AND WE CANNOT FILL YOUR SPOT, no deposit is refunded.
If you cancel after October 1, 2008 after paying the balance in full, and we can fill your place, we will refund the balance paid MINUS $150. If we cannot fill your spot, we cannot refund any monies due to our contract with Laurel Springs Retreat Center.
Please note: all registrations three weeks prior to start date of the retreat must pay in full by credit card at time of registration.
Annapolis, MD
Saturday and Sunday, November 16-17, 2008
179 Admiral Cochrane Drive, Suite 120
Annapolis, MD 21401
Saturday, November 16, 2:30-5:30 PM
Opening the Heart in Meditation
The heart connects our personal self to our awakened soul. Meditation in the heart is all about connection--to our own love, to others, to the integration of masculine and feminine. Heart-centered meditation can shift everything in our lives: our relationships, our sense of self, our ability to access wisdom.
This three-hour workshop unfolds a method for relaxing into the heart in meditation, and offers powerful practices for releasing some of the core emotional obstacles that block the heart. In this workshop you'll learn:
* a meditation for entering the heart and stilling the mind
* methods for working with thoughts in meditation
* how to release blocks in the heart
* how to kindle warmth in the heart
Sunday, November 17, 9AM-1PM
Karma and Transformation
In the eastern traditions, it's said that karma is the most powerful force in our lives. Our pleasure and pain, our character, the way our mind works, and even our ability to practice yoga are said to be the results of karma. Yet, contrary to popular lore, karma is never fixed. Our karmas are fluid, and the more we understand how to work with the force of karma, the more we are able to turn difficult situations into blessings.
This workshop brings to life the yogic teachings on karma, exploding myths, and showing you how to chart the workings of karma in your life and the lives of others. It will help you see the distinction between the karma you're born with and the karma you create. We'll explore practices for transforming karmic difficulties, the nature of karmic agreements, and how yoga and meditation interact with karma. This workshop is designed to give you powerful insight into your life's journey, along with meditations, self-inquiry practices, and other tools for transformation.
Among the topics we'll explore:
* types of karma and how they work
* how to know when an unexpected event is destined
* karmic relationships
* changing your karma: what can and cannot be transformed
* can we take on other's karma?
* how to know when you've completed a karma
* Turning difficult karmas into blessings
To register: Call 410-224-3278 or go to www.goldenheartyoga.com and click Register on the Home Page
