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EASTER MEDITATION RETREAT
April 2nd to 4th 2010 at the beautiful Shambala
Centre, Findhorn
Residential weekend retreat.
Friday 3pm - Sunday 4pm
Suitable for beginners or experienced meditators.
Some sessions are optional to
enable you to tailor the retreat to your own requirements.
If you would like to learn more about meditation, explore different ways of meditating and perhaps learn some new techniques that you feel comfortable with and can fit into your routine at home and work, then this relaxing, regenerating and revitalising weekend workshop is for you!
Throughout this retreat you will experience basic forms of meditation using breath, awareness, movement, sound, chanting, mantras, mudras and guided visualisation. We will also be working with the archangels to activate your chakras to a higher level. You will have the opportunity to join in some Tibetan yoga sessions, perhaps on the beach and participate in the spiritual life of Shambala. On Saturday evening we will visit the incredibly peaceful Pluscarden Abbey to hear the monks chanting. As Shambala is right on Findhorn Bay, please bring your swimming costume and towel if you enjoy swimming in the sea. Shambala is within minutes of the main Findhorn Community buildings, shop, Universal Hall and sanctuary.
This weekend offers you the opportunity to:
· Experience and learn several different meditation techniques
· Discover the most effective way for you to meditate
· Recharge your batteries
· Relax, Rejuvenate and Refresh
· Take some time out for yourself
· Enjoy some simple and effective yogic exercises and inspirational chanting
· Develop skills to use in your daily life to help you become and remain calm, relaxed, focused and energised.
You will experience the basic forms of meditation using breath, awareness,
movement, sound, chanting, mantras, mudras and guided visualisation. To bring
balance to the weekend you will have the opportunity to join in some yoga
sessions, possibly on the beach and participate in the spiritual life of
Shambala.
As Shambala is on the waters edge, please bring
your swimming costume and towel if you would like to swim in the sea.
The yoga,
chanting and some meditation sessions will be optional in order to assist you to
tailor the weekend according to what you need and enjoy - you may prefer to opt
out of some sessions in order to sleep, swim, walk or spend time exploring the
world famous Findhorn foundation.There are many paths to inner peace. As we are all different, the best path, or
combination of paths, is the one that suits you. True inner peace, like
true happiness, is not dependent on external circumstances, but becomes the
mental/emotional bedrock of our existence. Therefore inner peace, like
contentment, is a skill that can be learnt. Meditation is the
tool for finding inner peace that is common to all traditions in some form or
another.
Research has shown that when we meditate our brain wave pattern alters from the
usual beta waves, through the more relaxed alpha waves, to theta and even delta.
Alpha ranges from 7-12 HZ and is a place of deep relaxation where we access our
creativity. In sleep and the higher states of meditation we experience theta, at
4-7 HZ. This is where the senses are withdrawn from the external to the
internal, and is the optimum level for deep thought. Delta waves occur at
0.5-3HZ in the deepest sleep or deepest meditation and confers a profound sense
of deep peace.
Meditation Retreat Schedule
Friday
Registration 3pm
4-6pm Session: Introductions, Benefits of Meditation, Types of Meditation, the
Importance of Preparation, Postures & Mudras, Short Meditation - GCCP
7.15-8.30pm Session: Meditative Chanting. World peace meditation.
Saturday
9am-1pm Session: Preparation, Meditations using the Breath, Guided
Visualisation, Walking Meditation, 5 Tibetan Yogas.
2pm Trip to Findhorn Beach. (If the weather is bad we will visit the Findhorn
Foundation instead)
4-6pm Session: GCCP, Sitting Meditations, Mantras, Working with the Archangels
we will use Meditation, Exercises and Invocations to raise the vibration of our
Chakras to a higher level.
7.15pm Drive to Pluscarden Abbey for 8pm Compline, to listen to the monks
chanting.
Sunday
(We will have a late start this morning to allow time for packing.)
9.45am Taize
10.45am-1pm Session: GCCP, Breathing Meditations, individual choice of sitting
or mantra meditation, The 5 Tibetans, Chanting from different traditions.
1.45pm-4pm Session: Guided Visualisation, sharing and discussion.
Angel Wishes, Conclusion.