enlightenment for all
- 3 1/2 day workshop
with Greg Branson and Robin Baldock
It seems incredible that the vast majority of people go through life without directly experiencing who they are. We think, we reason, we feel but we do not know. The traditional zen enlightenment process is geared to the needs of the eastern seeker. For the more impatient western temperament it has been shown that by fully communicating ourselves to others the direct experience of enlightenment can more easily be attained and more readily assimilated into our daily lives.
This process, lasting for three days, gives you the best possible chance to attain Self realization. It is rigorous and requires 100% effort for 17 hours each day. The time is spent in contemplative communication diads, with meal and exercise breaks in between. An impressive number of direct experiences usually result.
What is important is that it does not require any belief structure to participate, indeed preconceived ideas are a barrier to enlightenment. All you have to do is to be willing to open up to the truth, to experience yourself without all the mental and emotional baggage that you usually carry around with you. The experience is clear, powerful and usually obvious. Indeed many people give a valid answer in the first day, but answers are not the experience, and one has to go through periods of doubt, despair, anger and fear before the ego lets go and the true self is experienced directly. It is a journey well worth taking and the workshop leaders will fully support you as you plumb the depths on your path of inner discovery.
the creative channel
4hr group
with Robin Baldock
This group meets to study, explore and experiment with spiritual expression, including areas such as self and applied healing, channeling, performance or authentic communication.
Using our creative talents: sound, music, movement, spoken word or indeed any of the expressive creative arts.
What makes it spiritual, what makes it effective and what can be done to support that.
The group has two aspects:
-The inner journey will take time to deepen our ability to contact a deeper place,to develop our capacity to act and express from there in relationship to whatever situation we find ourselves in.
We will utilize techniques of meditation, sound and movement for this purpose
- The outer journey will be about sharing our talent in a sharing circle, so your song, words or whatever gifts of expression you have, can find a welcome space to develop.
Because we want to focus on the performer rather than on whatever skills the performer has acquired, you may sometimes be encouraged to try another medium, and certainly to do without the artifice and technology, to be simple or, in a sense naked, but in one way or another become the beginner again, on the edge of your abilities which is where the true learning often is.
Members of this group may feel they have no performance or artistic skills whatsoever or they may be professionals, but they will have the desire to express themselves more fully or more subtly, they will also recognise they are on a spiritual/healing/self development path and see this as a part of that process.
Learn to Didgeridoo!
One day workshop to learn everything you need to know to play the didgeridoo!
It's easy and fun to get into this instrument and its deep physical vibration which can be felt throughout the body, combined with a wide spectrum of overtones makes it a really useful tool for healing.
You need a didgeridoo, whether it,s a cheap plastic or bamboo one or a the real Australian deal or any of the various options in between.
This workshop will teach:
- a little bit of history, cultural context and traditional uses,
- care and maintenance,
- playing techniques including the all important circular breathing
- and introduce the concept and technique healing with the didgeridoo.
From there, with a bit of practice, you will sound great in no time!
Next Workshop, two places available (which, if filled would bring the cost down to a mere £15 each):
