Weekend – Oct 15 - 17 2010 $335 (+ HST)
Insight Meditation (Vipassana) is the foundation of Buddhist meditation practices. Simple, yet profound and powerful, it helps build awareness in each moment so you can begin to understand and free yourself from restrictive patterns, whether mental, emotional and physical. Ongoing practice leads not only to compassion and open-heartedness, but clarity and wisdom. Andy also uses active self-inquiry meditations to tackle specific conflicts. Qigong techniques will be specially selected by Shifu James to enhance cleansing, opening and grounding during the retreat. Qigong regulates body, energy (Qi) and mind. It has been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), internal martial arts and spiritual transformation. Location: Harmony Dawn Retreat.
Perhaps this path drew me because it did not ask me to believe. Simply to look for myself. To observe and let go. And then one day (well probably not one day. probably a series of moments over many different days that let to a day where the moments came together) I understood. Not everything. Maybe not even one discreet thing. But understanding came to me and it came not from a book not from my teacher but from meditation.
~Carrie B. MD
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It was a wonderful, peaceful, gentle, nourishing in all ways, weekend....for which I thank you hugely.
It was timely for me in terms of life's trajectory and life's events. And in terms of the world's. I was also grateful for the warmth of your home - in all ways - including the temperature (I say this as my frozen fingers struggle to hit the right keys!) I returned home with my physical pain much reduced. Openness and stillness can accomplish so much even just at that level! Sometimes it is such a struggle to be human, living, breathing and doing, doing, doing. It has always bewildered me. I shall work on finding the peace in it all. And even creating it to the best of my ability.
I would certainly like to be part of future workshops.
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This past weekend was a very special and memorable experience at Harmony Dawn for me. I cannot begin to thank you both for the warmth, compassion, care and thoughtfulness that you put into making this retreat something that shall stay with me forever. I had no idea of what I was getting myself into when I showed up on the Friday evening, but I immediately was put at ease and felt very comfortable in the silence and reflective nature of the weekend. For me, it gave me the space and opportunity to just sit with everything that is in turmoil in my life right now and it helped me clarify what I need to do as well as what I don't need to do. Working through the physical pain I experienced helped to release me from the negative emotions I have been hanging onto for so long - it was very freeing.
~Tracey
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