The Missing Peace Yoga and Meditation with Terry Hagan and Tracy Sheridan June 30 - July 4
During our hectic lives we often are unable to drop beneath our business to find peace within. Yoga can help us gently
reconnect and when combined with meditation one is skillfully directed to greater awareness and the ability to be
present without judgment, worry or expectations.
• Liberating the flow of your energy,
allowing joy, focus and ease to be
more available.
• Deepen your capacity to listen,
reflect and skillfully respond.
• Transform negative states.
• Wake up the body, breath and mind
TRACY SHERIDAN is a certified Hatha Yoga Instructor since 1983 and teaches from the traditions of Kripalu, Iyengar, Anusara, and Ashtangha Yoga. Tracy’s training in dance and movement therapy greatly informs her teaching and her understanding of the moving body.
TERRY HAGAN has over 30 years of experience in Buddha Dharma and was the personal assistant of the late Venerable Namgyal Rinpoche for over a quarter of century. Terry uses his wide range of experience and his love of nature to create a direct accessible
approach to meditation.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 5:00pm till Sunday, July 4, 2010 at 4:00pm
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Members $300 Non-members $360
Holistic Clearing Meditation
Karma Chime Wongmo - July 16 - July 22
Holistic Clearing Meditation is a contemporary, non-sectarian approach to enlightenment based on universal principles and classic meditative practices. It begins with where you are and then, step by step, gently and skillfully unfolds your personal as well as transpersonal path to liberation.
Through Karma Chime’s daily teaching and guidance, group and individual meditation sessions, as well as personal interviews, each participant will learn how to explore and develop four fundamental aspects necessary for awakening. Working directly with your own experience you will learn how to:
Tap your strengths and open them up for further growth and well-being,
Transmute negatives, unwholesome habitual patterns and liberate blocks,
Cultivate areas in your life that are lacking and enrich the scope of your life experience and joy,
Promote depth awareness, integration and freedom, moment by moment by moment.
These four aspects of Holistic Clearing, when explored and cultivated, reveal the rich resources within us that naturally lead to the spacious flow of awakening awareness, compassion, wisdom and skill and means. As such, it grants each being the power to live creatively, harmoniously and fully with calm, clarity and joy.
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(Poster)Members $430, Non-members $520. For queries/registration: 1-866-266-0966.
Please note: Teachers leading retreats/courses at
the Dharma Centre are not paid by
the Centre. The only compensation they
receive are the donations left in their
Dana Bowls by you. Please
give generously. Thank you.
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Karma Chime Wongmo began studying with Namgyal Rinpoche in 1968 and, upon co-founding a centre for Eastern and Western Studies in the USA in 1975, has been teaching Dharma since then. After several years of deep retreat practice in Costa Rica, she returned to Canada and taught at the Academy at the Dharma Centre in Kinmount. In recent years, she has often been the Dharma Centre’s Resident Teacher as well as teaching at other centres in Canada and abroad. With an eclectic background in fine arts, travel, publishing, depth practise and teaching, Karma Chime is an exceptional guide on the path to awakening.
Vipassana (mindfulness/insight) July 30 - August 8
with Terry Hagan and Mala Sikka
Vipassana (mindfulness/insight) meditation is a way to inquire deeply into the nature of our experience.
Cultivating an openness to seeing things as they really are, beyond judgment and opinion, we are able to experience intimately what arises. This direct experience has it’s own vitality and gives rise to the sense of deep calm that comes from knowing something for oneself, beyond any doubt.
We will start by practicing calm abiding (Samatha) and Loving Kindness, gradually shifting the emphasis to insight. This retreat will be in silence with daily dharma talks and time for questions.
-Regular group meditation
-Dharma talks with time for questions
-Individual meditation guidance
-Daily gentle yoga, pranayama and movement - awareness sessions
-Postural integration to enable ease in sitting and in all postures
-All levels of experience welcome
Vipassana means ‘clear seeing’. Ordinary beings like us don’t see things clearly. Our perceptions are distracted and distorted with prejudice and bias. Seeing something clearly means leaving it alone. When you apply Vipassana, there’s a sense that anything could happen: it might work, it might not work. At the same time you have no hope and no fear. So applying the wisdom of Vipassana in our day-to-day life – even the most mundane experience in our life “ is what we aim for.
Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
Terry Hagan has over 30 years of experience in Buddha Dharma and was the personal assistant of the late Venerable Namgyal Rinpoche for over a quarter of century. Terry uses his wide range of experience and his love of nature to create a direct accessible approach to meditation.
Mala Sikka has over 25 years of experience in Buddha Dharma. She has also trained extensively in Shiatsu, movement, dance and Inner Yogas and uses her intimate knowledge of subtle body energy to teach an integrated path of awakening.
This is a popular retreat so do get your bookings in early
PRIOR BOOKING NEEDED FOR THIS COURSE DOWN LOAD REG FORMS FROM
Friday, July 30, 2010 at 5:00p till Sunday, August 8, 2010 at 2:30pm
Full course Members $536 Non-members $657
Weekend rates: Members $150 Non-members $180
Daily life as a Spiritual Practice; Awareness and interdependence in the web of life. August 13 -19th
with David Berry
Spirituality is neither another self improvement subject nor an escape from our day to day living. It is a turning of our attention toward the sum of all that is happening and the essence of what we are. Often we are oblivious to “the field” around us, within us and that is us. We may begin to have inklings that the ups and downs, joys and challenges we experience are projections of our own minds.
You and I are life forms with billions of years of experience on our resume in a magnificent web of life we call an ecosystem. There are patterns in us and in the world that call for our attention. The call to awaken is not merely personal or even generational. Awakening is an opportunity and perhaps a responsibility for our species. What we do matters.
During this week, we will look to our birth, be mindful of our death, and contemplate the time in between those events. This course will have meditative time drawing on Buddhist and other traditions including science. There will be time spent in nature and exercises to clarify what we have known all along: Daily life is a spiritual practice and spiritual life is a daily practice.
Walk the 400 acres of retreat property where 40 years of meditation has been supported by the multitude of animal and plant life. Explore living as part of an ecology, where you are part of a greater expression of life. The homework from the course will be living the rest of this life attentive to energy and the context within and around us.
(Poster)Members $485.00
Non-members $590.00
About David Berry:
David Berry began his studies with the Bhikku Ananda Bodhi in 1971. After the Bhikku was ordained as Namgyal Rinpoche, David studied with him and joined him on travels to Antarctica, Indonesia, and the high Arctic. A month before his death, Namgyal Rinpoche ordained David in Sept 2003.
David is a co-founder and facilitator of the Sustainable Water Resources Roundtable where American federal agencies, states, corporations and non for profits work on sustainability of water resources. He is a Board Director of e3 bank, a green bank based in Philadelphia. David was at the White House Council on Environmental Quality for six years chairing two groups he founded; Interagency Group on Sustainable Development Indicators and Industrial Ecology. Under David’s leadership, these groups raised awareness of environmental, social and economic trends, supported collaboration among Agencies and encouraged creative action by individuals and organizations.
David uses ceremony when working with the Prayer Vigil for the Earth on the National Mall that he co-founded in Washington DC, (www.oneprayer.org). He teaches at meditation retreats, and more often, his spiritual work is woven into his talks and facilitation work around the world. He has accepted several invitations to speak on sustainability and spirituality at the Russian Academy of Science to scientists from around the globe. He has often preformed on Korean and American television and radio including Garrison Keillor’s "Prairie Home Companion". David Berry inspires people to calm, get in touch with their vision, and to make it happen. He lives near Washington D.C.
H.E AYANG RINPOCHE: The True Nature of Mind and Guru Dragpo (Fierce Guru) Empowerment Aug.26 - 29
A special visit by His Eminence to honour the Dharma Centre's Ruby Jubilee (40th year).
For experienced meditators.
Interview with Rinpoche required in Toronto Aug.26 or at the meditation centre Aug.27.
(Details soon)
Western Mysteries Retreat:- Sacred Geometry and Harmony with Lama Sonam Gyatso Sept.02 - 06
Details to follow; contact: Rab Wilke (rab@astrocyclics.com)
Mindfulness of Breathing Meditation Retreat
with Jack Connelly Sept.10 - 12
Meditation that focuses on breath is a powerful tool that helps to stabilize concentration and presence. It was the practice that the Buddha used to begin meditation and his final emergence into full enlightenment under the bodhi tree.
Although there are many kinds of meditations to enjoy and choose from, without the ability to concentrate and stabilize the mind, often little progress is made. This practice is of benefit to anyone who wishes to establish focus and awareness as a part of their meditations and life.
Come and join Jack in an exploration of the breath. This weekend will include guided meditations, talks, question and answer periods, as well as periods of silent meditation.
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Jack Connelly has been involved in the study and practice of meditation for over 30 years, including several years in Asia with both Buddhist and Hindu teachers. He now lives in the Peterborough area where he has a practice of Acupuncture and Shiatsu Therapy. Jack draws on a wide range of experiences in his meditation classes, in a way that incorporates the essences of these ancient traditions in a non-religious and easily accessible form.
Nature of Mind, Mind of Nature
3 week meditation retreat
with Tarchin Hearn Oct.12 - Nov.2
- experimental insight meditation
- deep ecological experience
- personal empowerment
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Since the late 1960s Tarchin Hearn has studied and practised various expressions of Buddha Dharma, predominantly through the guidance and inspiration of the Venerable Namgyal Rinpoche. He was ordained as a monk by H.H. the XVI Karmapa and lived under this discipline for 12 years. He began to teach full time in 1977. He travels extensively, teaching regularly in Canada, Australia and New Zealand as well as many other parts of the world. Tarchin has written a number of books, and is closely associated with the Wangapeka Study and Retreat Centre near Nelson in the South island of New Zealand: www.wangapeka.org
The 7th Kundrol Rinpoche: -
Tibetan Bon Ngondro Retreat Nov.12 - 16
Kundröl Rinpoche will be offering his first official retreat in North America November 12-16th at the Dharma Centre of Canada. Rinpoche has been coming to North America and generously sharing his wisdom and teachings since 2004.
Ngöndro is the authentic starting place as well as being a complete practice within itself. It is also the doorway through which every practitioner must enter in order to explore more deeply the extraordinary teachings of Bön and the blessings of its lineage holders.
Ngöndro presents an integrated series of nine preliminary or foundation practices which tame the mind, preparing the student to turn their mind inward towards the path, purify illnesses, obstacles, and mental obscurations encountered along the way in order to reveal the primordially perfected nature of the practitioner's mind.
We welcome you to join us for what will prove to be an enriching personal experience for students wishing to settle deeper into their practice and learn from the wisdom of this authentic Bön teacher.
Please email zamongyal@rogers.com for more information.
Friday November 12, 2pm to Tuesday November 15, 12pm
Contact: Deborah Bell, zamongyal@rogers.ca or 705.445.0169 or 416.704.3836
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