The following is a month-by-month list of all events, including satsangs, intensives, retreats, and special events.
• Bay Area Satsangs & Workshops
• Retreats and Yoga Nidra Training 2008-2009
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Berkeley, CA
Event, date and time to be announced.
Sausalito, CA
Event, date and time to be announced.
Larkspur, CA
RICHARD MILLER AT YOGA STUDIO, LARKSPUR LANDING
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YOGA SUTRA OF PATANJALI:
The Flowering of Freedom: Dialogues from Silence on the Nature of Enlightened Living
In-Depth Presentation including chanting of sutras, breakdown of Sanskrit text, and interactive discussion
Course includes chanting booklet and Yoga Sutra Workbook compiled by Richard
Class meets monthly on Wednesdays at 2:00 - 4:30 pm
For information contact: Kathi McTeigue (707) 876-3380 or kathi@nondual.com
To register contact: Yoga Studio Larkspur: (415) 388-8800
2700 Larkspur Landing Circle
Larkspur, CA 94939
www.yogastudiolarkspurlanding.com
Sonoma County, CA
Integrative Restoration iRest Yoga Nidra with John Records
8 week series
Wednesday May 7, 14, 21, 28
7:00-8:00pm
$48 prepaid series or $15 drop in
Register at BodyWorks or at the first class
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Integrative Restoration iRest is a gentle and easy to learn practice that teaches you how to relax and reduce the stresses of daily life. This restorative meditative process is beneficial for issues such as chronic headache, insomnia, pain, and Post Traumatic Stress, and helps release self-destructive patterns while promoting psychological, physical, and spiritual healing and well-being. iRest is rooted in the ancient meditative practice of Yoga Nidra, and assists us to live contented lives, free of conflict, anxiety, fear and suffering. This is accomplished through the embodiment of pure awareness and the release of negative body sensations, emotions, beliefs and stress that give rise to self-destructive patterns.
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Chicago (Loyola University), IL
April 26, 2008 – Introduction to iRest for Professionals
For more information or to register: www.integrativerest.com
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Introductory Weekend (12-hour) and/or
Chicago (Loyola University), IL
April 27-May 2, 2008 — Level 1 Yoga Nidra Teacher Training
For more information or to register: www.integrativerest.com
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42-Hour iRest Level I Training
This 42-hour level I certificate training, suitable for both beginners and advanced practitioners, reveals iRest as both a personal practice as well as a tool for use with individuals and groups in Yoga practice, psychotherapy, and clinical, hospital, and class settings.
Anticipate a dynamic learning environment that includes interactive dialogue and experiential sessions. 42 CEU hours available for YA, PSY, MFT, LCSW and RN. Highlights of the training include:
• Presentation of the three steps and ten stages of Yoga Nidra
• Current Research that underlies each step and stage of Yoga Nidra
• How to develop a personal practice of Yoga Nidra
• Beginning steps of how to teach/utilize Yoga Nidra to groups and individuals
• 12 Yoga Nidra experiential practice sessions
• Dyads to master the steps and stages of Yoga Nidra
• Small peer discussion groups
• Post-Training consultation groups and private mentoring via phone conference
San Rafael, California
May 22 – June 1, 2008 — 10-Day Residential Retreat
(retreat full - waiting list open)
Santa Sabina Retreat Center
For more information contact: Kathleen McTeigue: kathi@nondual.com or call 707-876-3380
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"Abiding as pure Being, transcending thought through love intense, is the essence of Supreme Devotion" —Ramana Maharshi
Meditation arises naturally when we are completely devoted to abiding as pure Being. Then, spontaneously awakening to True Nature is close at hand; an awakening that is independent of striving and is self-validating, requiring no outside authority to confirm its existence. Retreat is your time to dive into undistracted meditation and realize your birthright, a joy and peace that ‘passeth all understanding’ and that is always present, even during the most difficult of circumstances.
During retreat Richard presents the direct path of meditation, the path that all awakened sages have walked and the path that we walk in our awakening to authentic freedom. Each day offers periods of guided and silent meditation, BodySensing hatha yoga, iRest yoga nidra, interactive dialogue and supportive practices that serve awakening. And since silence nurtures undistracted abiding as Being, we hold social silence during prolonged periods of the retreat.
When you knowingly live in and as your natural state of Pure Presence you are pervaded by an ease of being that opens your heart and mind to realizing your true unborn and unconditioned nature in the midst of daily life. Here, awakening spontaneously arises, heralding the end of searching, the end of suffering and the beginning of fulfillment.
Special Retreat Events: Marlies Coucheret (marliescocheret.com) will join us for an afternoon/evening of ecstatic movement. Jai Uttal (jaiuttal.com) will join us for an evening of devotional chanting, and Hannah Schoen Caratti (yogahealingarts.com) will be with us throughout sharing her love of chanting and sacred flute.
Santa Sabina Retreat Center is located in San Rafael, North of San Francisco, in the heart of Marin County. Easy transportation is available from San Francisco and Oakland airports. Comfortable rooms are situated around an open courtyard. There are walking trails nearby and sitting gardens to enhance your personal experience. Meals are gourmet vegetarian.
Banff, AB Canada
July 27-Aug 1 2008 — Level II Integrative Restoration iRest Yoga Nidra Training — 42-Hour, 5-Day Residential Training
Please note: Participation in Level I is a pre-requisite for taking the Level II training
The iRest Level II training offers 42 CEU hours: YA, PSY, MFT, LCSW & RN
Cost: $1076.00 before April 18. Includes lunches. $1221.00 after April 18. Accommodation prices include breakfast and dinner. Click Banff Centre Web Registration below for more information.
Join us in the magnificent Canadian Rockies at the Banff Centre. You will be surrounded by extraordinary natural beauty, find extensive hiking trails out your door and experience stellar views and delicious food.
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The Banff Centre Website/Registration
• Small peer groups where you learn to teach iRest and receive personal feedback
• Fishbowl sessions where you observe and learn to apply iRest to the individual
• Dyads that teach the principles of empathic resonance, nondual Presence and how to handle issues of reactivity and ethics in the teacher-student relationship
• Didactic sessions that instruct you on how to adapt iRest to group and individual settings
• Experiential sessions to help you deepen your personal practice and understanding of iRest
• Post-Training private and group consultation and mentoring will be available
St. Louis, Missouri
August 8-13, 2008 — Residential Silent Retreat with Joan Ruvinsky
Information and registration: Terry Wilson
573-491-3392 or twilson@socket.net
$320 weekend only or $690 for 5-day retreat, includes housing and vegetarian meals.
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Visit Joan's Pathless Yoga website
Living as Presence, all thought, image, perception and experience are seen to be simply coagulations of pure awareness. Nothing to seek...nothing to reject...just realizing things as they are, simultaneously real and shimmeringly transparent. This predominantly silent retreat fulfills one of the requirements for the Center of Timeless Being iRest Yoga Nidra Teacher Certification.
Kripalu, Lenox, MA
Aug. 24-29 2008 — Level II Integrative Restoration iRest Yoga Nidra Training — 42-Hour, 5-Day Residential Training
Please note: Participation in Level I is a pre-requisite for taking the Level II training
The iRest Level II training offers 42 CEU hours: YA, PSY, MFT, LCSW & RN
Cost: $825 + Accommodations (Cost does not include DVD of the training)
Registration: www.kripalu.org
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• Small peer groups where you learn to teach iRest and receive personal feedback
• Fishbowl sessions where you observe and learn to apply iRest to the individual
• Dyads that teach the principles of empathic resonance, nondual Presence and how to handle issues of reactivity and ethics in the teacher-student relationship
• Didactic sessions that instruct you on how to adapt iRest to group and individual settings
• Experiential sessions to help you deepen your personal practice and understanding of iRest
• Post-Training private and group consultation and mentoring will be available
San Rafael, CA
Sept. 7-12 — Level II Integrative Restoration iRest Yoga Nidra Training — 42-Hour, 5-Day Residential Training
Please note: Participation in Level I is a pre-requisite for taking the Level II training
The iRest Level II training offers 42 CEU hours: YA, PSY, MFT, LCSW & RN
Registration: Center of Timeless Being (707) 876-3380
Download the flyer
Download the registration form
Register online
• Small peer groups where you learn to teach iRest and receive personal feedback
• Fishbowl sessions where you observe and learn to apply iRest to the individual
• Dyads that teach the principles of empathic resonance, nondual Presence and how to handle issues of reactivity and ethics in the teacher-student relationship
• Didactic sessions that instruct you on how to adapt iRest to group and individual settings
• Experiential sessions to help you deepen your personal practice and understanding of iRest
• Post-Training private and group consultation and mentoring will be available
Maria Stein, OH
Oct. 3-5 — Introduction to Integrative Restoration iRest Yoga Nidra
Oct. 5-10 — Level I Integrative Restoration iRest Yoga Nidra Training
Spiritual Center of Maria Stein www.spiritualcenter.net
For Information Contact: Sharon Shultz (937) 843-6638 shultzlake@woh.rr.com
or Janice George (614) 262-6634 or Katy Knowles (513) 272-6122
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Eastman, Quebec
October 9-13, 2008
4-day Residential Silent Retreat with Joan Ruvinsky
Information and registration: Charles-Alexandre Mercure
450-770-0720 or charlymerc@hotmail.com
$620 includes housing and vegetarian meals
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Visit Joan's Pathless Yoga website
Absorbed in the essential, yet fully participating in sensing, acting and responding, Consciousness unfolds through us, in us, and as us, dissolving the apparent separation the body/mind suggests. This predominantly silent retreat fulfills one of the requirements for the Center of Timeless Being iRest Yoga Nidra Teacher Certification.
Calgary, AB Canada
Nov. 6-12 — 6-Day Residential Retreat
FCJ Christian Life Centre
Hosted by the Yoga Association of Alberta www.yoga.ca
For information and registration: YAA (780) 427-8776; yaa@yoga.ca
Anita (780) 432-7152; Julie (780) 433-5960
There Is No Mirror To Polish
Love and truth are always knocking from the inside, looking for recognition and longing for expression. But are we listening? Are we ready to welcome with an open heart our heart’s deepest longing for freedom? Love is always present, but do we have the eyes to see, ears to hear and a heart that is truly open to receive what is always here waiting for us, already the case?
Love, truth, authenticity and freedom awaken when we realize our true nature, which is always our nearest, always patiently waiting to be recognized. Join us for retreat, which offers us the opportunity to experience That which is our nearest. Held in silence, retreat offers us periods of lying, sitting and walking meditation, body and breath sensing sessions, satsang (gathering in the deep truth of being) and periods of inquiry into our heart’s deepest longing—freedom to be who we really are. Only when you are finally willing to be living truth will the world be at peace.
Tampa, FL
January 7-11, 2009
4-day Residential Silent Retreat with Joan Ruvinsky
Information and registration: Molly Birkholm
786-489-9854 or mbirkholm@yahoo.com
$650 includes housing and vegetarian meals
Download the flyer
Visit Joan's Pathless Yoga website
Gathered in being, Silence gives expression to body-sensing yoga, pranayama, quiet sitting, chant and inquiry, both interior and spoken, as we celebrate the myriad of forms the formless takes. This predominantly silent retreat fulfills one of the requirements for the Center of Timeless Being iRest Yoga Nidra Teacher Certification.
