Seminars
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To register for a seminar or connect with a group coming to the Christine Center, please call 715-267-7507 or e-mail the Christine Center at christinecenter@ceas.coop . Where a tuition is listed, meals and lodging are extra. |
The Diamond Approach to Essential Development II The Diamond Approach to Essential Development I How to Know and Trust Your Inner Guidance Facilitators: Gyandev and Diksha McCord Join Gyandev and Diksha McCord (two of the main teachers at Ananda Village in California) for their third retreat at the Christine Center. This year the focus is on developing the full potential of your intuition, or inner guidance. It's invaluable for success in every area of your life:Â relationships, work, problem-solving, health, creativity, and above all, spiritual growth. Intuition is your living link with the highest wisdom and truth. You'll learn how to:
You'll gain power and direction in this process through an array of effective yoga techniques, especially Ananda Yoga (registered) (postures and breathing practices), meditation, visualization and affirmation -- all from the rich teachings of the great yoga master, Paramhansa Yogananda (author of Autobiography of a Yogi), and his direct disciple, Swami Kriyananda, the founder of Ananda. Come dive into the power and practicality of your own soul/intuition during this highly experiential weekend. For full info on the retreat, visit http://www.WaysToFreedom.com/Wisconsin.html Writings of the Mystics: Rumi and You! Facilitator: Karen Howland Let your pen see the page as a transcendant space. Rumi wrote "let the beauty we love be what we do." As we write and share, we will invoke the numinous to reveal itself in the mundane. We will listen to the birds singing begween the words and listen close. The mystical writers -- Hafiz, Lalla, Mary Oliver, Annie Dilllard -- will hellp us "fall into a place where everything is music." Meditation and walking are also a part of this experience. Come ready to revel and heal the split between spirit and body and leave any stress behind as we remember how vast and free we really are! Wisconsin Weekend Myofascial Release Feast June 6-8, 2008 Liaison Person: Mary Bart This retreat is a feast of Myofascial Release Therapy -- for MFR therapists and by MFR therapists. All therapists must have taken seminars by John F. Barnes, PT, or an Advanced Release Therapy seminar by Lori Zeltwanger, PT. This approach to Myofascial Release will be focused on, as retreatants treat one another, beginning Friday evening and concluding Sunday noon. No tuition. There will be a meeting room fee of $10 per person. To arrange for lodging and meals, call Liz at 715-267-7507 or email christinecenter@ceas.coop. With questions about this retreat, call Mary Bart, WCMT #04-046, 715-267-4715 or email marybart@tds.net The Mystery of Mary: Wisdom for our World, a Labyrinth Retreat Facilitator: Mary Kaye Medinger Using the ancient prayer of the labyrinth, a form of walking meditation, participants will explore the meaning for our time of Mary of Nazareth, she who is called the Mother of God, the Black Madonna, the Great Mother. By exploring the mysteries of her life, we will explore the mysteries of our own lives. Using art and music from across the ages, as well as finger labyrinths, a 28' canvas labyrinth and the natural "labyrinth" on the grounds of the Christine Center, we will be pilgrims for a weekend, on a journey to a deeper understanding of the concept of the sacred feminine. Come and learn more about the woman who has inspired everything from the Chartres cathedral in France to contemporary novels like The Secret Life of Bees! Tuition: $150 Leadership Conversations for ORGANIZATIONAL Sustainability Facilitators: Is your organization profitable, green, enduring and fun?
Organizations are a network of commitments generated from a network of conversations. The ability to generate a thriving organization lies in your ability to create and maintain these key conversations that produce the results you care about. Who is having these conversations in your organization and are these conversations accessible and assessable to you and others? Fit for Leadership, Inc. introduces you to these key conversations and offers you tools for reviewing your opportunities to successfully impact the direction of your organization and community. For information and registration, www.fitforleadership.com, call 715-937-4575 or email janirene@fitforleadership. Tuition: $600 + approx. $295 for meals and lodging. Anticipating Spiritual Deepening Because many of you are intrigued by the three-year certificate program, and because we will not begin the next series until Fall 2009, we have designed pre-certificate weekends that will support your desire for spiritual deepening and help you discern if the three-year program will be right for you. The Christine Center is here day by day holding the sacred space for you to come into your own still point. Anticipating Spiritual Deepening will be scheduled two weekends this year as a specific opportunity for you to draw near to your Source of wisdom. You will have the option of individual spiritual guidance, group guidance and a program that supports your spiritual practice. Beginners and initiates welcome. Choose to participate in one or both of the weekends. Guides: Johanna, Henrita, Cecy. Tuition: Free-will offering. Lodging and meals at regular rate. Letting Go and Moving On: A Women's Retreat Facilitator: Rebecca Connor This retreat is an invaluable opportunity to clear old patterns and habits that get in the way of our ability to live our life fully and with aliveness and clarity. This is an experiential workshop with exercises designed to guide you in living more intentionally and better alignment with the gifts of your unique nature. We work with imagery, ritual, a vision quest, creativity and one another to create the space for each of us to take grounded action within the workshop and outside of the workshop. Facilitated by Rebecca Connor, LMFT, assistant to be announced. Rebecca is a licensed psychotherapist in private practiced in St Louis Park, MN. She has been assisting and leading women™s, mixed and couple™s groups for over 15 years. Rebecca™ specialties include transpersonal, Jungian, trance and somatic based body and spirit centered psychotherapies.To register or for more information call Rebecca at 612-877-1081. See also rebeccaconnor.com. Tuition: $200-$250, plus meals and lodging Go Yoga Jane Facilitator: Jane Reeves Please join Jane Reeves, founder of Go Yoga Jane in Minneapolis, for a weekend of rejuvenation, renewal and quiet time through the practice of hatha yoga and mindfulness meditation. This retreat is open to all ages and abilities. There are various bodywork therapies available upon request such as: bodywork and energetic massage, trigger point therapy, myofascial release, and breathwork. The fee for the yoga retreat is $295, plus meals and lodging. To register or receive more information, call Jane Reeves at 612-741-5746. To learn more about Jane Reeves visit www.goyogajane.com. Diamond Approach I & II The Sacred Feminine/Masculine Self Facilitator: Christina Pratt Explore feminine and masculine energies and your access to yin/yang power. Shamanic skills for balance, wholeness and embrace of the Trickster. Release from the fear of expressing your true nature and Divine Self. Learn to detach from outcome to awaken your Inner Teacher. Pre-requisite: Dance of the Shadow Self Cost: $950, registration includes tuition, shared room, great food, supplies and preparation. Preparation materials sent when deposit received. For more information go to www.lastmaskcenter.org. Contact: events@lastmaskcenter.org or 1-800-927-2527 ext. 02586 Masks of Illusion and the Authentic Self Facilitator: Christina Pratt 1: The Cycle of Transformation Mind/Body Retreat: Yoga and Mindfulness Meditation Facilitators: Susan Mickel and Sue Twiggs This weekend will offer instruction in two traditions: yoga postures and mindfulness meditation. The Buddhist mindfulness tradition originally assumed the awareness of yoga, but for centuries they have been practiced largely separately. This retreat takes the perspective that the two practices can complement each other. The retreat will be silent, alternating periods of yoga, sitting meditation, and walking meditation. There will be leadership at all of the sessions and instruction at most of them, with opportunities to ask questions, group discussion, and talks integrating the two practices with day-to-day life. No prior knowledge of either tradition is necessary to attend. There will be yoga for experienced yoga practitioners as well as instruction for those new to the practice. It is a 2,500-year-old tradition that a price cannot be placed on the teachings of the Buddha. In keeping with this, both teachers are accepting no fixed honorarium for the retreat. There will be an opportunity to make a voluntary donation to the teachers at the end of the retreat. Beloved Child: You are the Future Facilitators: Cecy Corcoran and Phyllis Cleary A program for children who resonate with Presence; for typical kids who could find God in a flower, a song or walk in the woods. Because we are aware of Spirit alive and well in our youngsters, and because we want to learn from them, the Christine Center opens its doors to you. Beloved Child is an intergenerational retreat in which we welcome our inner child and walk with children into timeless wisdom, spontaneous delight and creative stillness. Tuition: $150 per adult ($50 for children under 15) plus lodging and meals. Ask about family rates. Living Yoga Facilitator: Jenifer Ebel Lightness, clarity, transparency, joy, and peace are but a few of the qualities that come as we wake up with yoga. The Yoga Sutras clearly state the need to establish a steady practice and maintain it over a long period of time. This is Yoga as a long-term investment, a lifestyle and for most people, a whole new way of being in body, mind and spirit. The Sutras offer us a myriad of ways to fortify the practice. They offer us ways to give depth and richness to a practice which then calls us in to it. In a sense, the "practice" does us. The Living Yoga program is for anyone wanting a yoga-infused life. In this program, through stories, experiences and the timeless teachings of the ancients you will find practical ways to Live Your Yoga every day. Living Yoga is a great program for yoga teachers to take (CEUs available) to strengthen their own practices and understanding of yoga and to deepen their relationship to it. A thorough integration of the science of yoga is the springboard for effective teaching. Fee: $500, plus meals and lodging Awakening the Gift of Positive Self Esteem in Others and in Yourself: An Introduction to the Virtues Project The Virtues Project is an approach which calls people to the remembrance of the virtues, the qualities of character and simple elements of spirituality honored by all cultures and sacred traditions. The mission of the Virtues Project is to provide empowering strategies that teach us to recognize virtues and inspire the practice of them in everyday life. The Virtues Project is used for parenting, development of character, and classroom discipline in programs. The Five Strategies of the Virtues Project are used worldwide for healing programs, prevention, and intervention. This workshop will focus on the strategies which will enable you to:
This workshop is for those who want to enhance their personal and professional relationships at home, school, workplace, and in the community. Expect to be uplifted and inspired! Tuition: $40 Signature Program Celebrating Conscious Presence: Weekend Retreat September 5-8, 2008 Based on the methods of Eckhart Tolle™s The Power of Now and The New Earth We are pleased to present the third annual Celebrating Conscious Presence. This year we will practice the Power of Now and participate in insightful discussions and exercises based on it. We will also move to Sacred Dance and Chant and be guided in Reiki/Qigong to release energy for healing and greater consciousness. Take advantage of this opportunity for you to be drawn into the awakened state through the Conscious Presence field of the facilitators and the Group Presence. We will be focusing on the Essential You and through many experiential activities deepen our Conscious Awareness. This is an interactive workshop where you are the key for opening Joy and Love. So come and join us for this journey of Conscious Presence ” this Celebration of the Real YOU.Dates: Friday, September 5, 7 p.m. thru Sunday, September 7, 1 p.m. Location: Christine Retreat Center, Willard, Wisconsin Tuition: $130.00 (after August 4th $165) Room and board are additional and are available at the Christine Center.To Register contact: Randy Lanari (651 251 6075) or randylanari@yahoo.com Guides for Celebrating Conscious Presence David Nelson, Earth Mentor, is a Master Level Reiki and Qigong instructor and wellness coach based in Minneapolis, MN. He is an accomplished guide for the utilization of the universal energy flow of Chi in promoting healing and higher consciousness. David will guide us in exercises in body-awareness, centeredness, and energy healing. For more information visit www.icoachlife.comJohanna Seubert Ph.D. has been spiritual director at the Christine Center for many years specializing in mystical spirituality. Her primary path to Conscious Presence is the Diamond Approach of the Ridhwan School. Johanna will lead us in experiencing Essential Nature. Randy Lanari M.A. has been leading personal growth groups and workshops in Minnesota since 1986 including Living Love, Sufi Dance, and the Power of Now. He currently is a facilitator of a weekly Eckhart Teachings Local Group in St. Paul. Join in as Randy leads the circle into the realm of the Power of Now, discussion, exercises, chant, and Spiritual Dance. Rainbow Reiki First Degree This workshop includes the traditional first degree of Usui Reiki and special unique Rainbow Reiki techniques and teachings, including more symbols and mantras. This workshop is for people who have never taken Reiki and for those with years of experience. It is the gateway into the profound and comprehensive Rainbow Reiki System. There are no pre-requisites for Rainbow Reiki First Degree. This workshop includes: 4 traditional Usui initiations “ the real roots of Reiki “ the Reiki principles of Dr. Mikao Usui, their spiritual meaning and practical use in daily life & healing energy work “ the Rainbow Reiki systematic whole body treatment “ Systematic chakra healing “ Intuitive Reiki “ Stress release “ Special positions for various health problems - the Rainbow Reiki de-blocking symbol and its mantra “ chakra balancing “ Reiki meditation “ Short whole body Reiki treatment “ the homeopathic massage “ how to cleanse the aura “ the main and secondary charkas, their functions and ways to treat them “ how to prepare Reiki water and Reiki oil “ how to treat animals, plants, food & water “ how to activate the healing powers of stones. Pease Note: Even if you are already a Master of Usui or Karuna Reiki you will learn many new techniques in Rainbow Reiki I Training to assist you in your healing work. Tuition: $295 plus meals and lodging Sacred Language Facilitator: Karen Howland Explore Native American writer, Joy Harjo, who whispers "secrets from the center of the world." Reconnect with your own journey through words. Together we'll listen with our "soul to the ground" and discover the beat of our heart in words. How do words heal, reveal beauty and truth in the world? Celebrate repetition, assonance, alliteration, and other writing tools that help us "write fire." Tuition: $150 Mind, Body and Spirit Weekend Retreat Facilitators: Amy Wilinski and Lori Andrus Join Amy and Lori for a weekend of nurturing your mind, body and spirit. They will lead you on an inner journey that gives you an opportunity to reconnect with your authentic self. This wonderful retreat offers time for quiet reflection, laughter, sharing stories, dreaming, creating, and connecting with nature! Join us for this opportunity to experience yourself differently! Experience with us: sunrise yoga, making natural self-care products, using gemstones for healing, guided meditations, intuitive drawing, and many more experiential activities. Join us under the star-filled night sky connecting with spirit at a Drumming and Fire Ceremony one evening and finding your inner feminine Belly Dancing the next! Enjoy strolling through the miles of beautiful trails and connecting with others on a deep and personal level. For information and to register: Amy Wilinski at Golden Light Healing, 920-609-8277, GoldenLightHealing@bayland.net, www.GoldenLightHealing.net Tuition: $195, plus meals and lodging Anticipating Spiritual Deepening Because many of you are intrigued by the three-year certificate program, and because we will not begin the next series until Fall 2009, we have designed pre-certificate weekends that will support your desire for spiritual deepening and help you discern if the three-year program will be right for you. The Christine Center is here day by day holding the sacred space for you to come into your own still point. Anticipating Spiritual Deepening will be scheduled two weekends this year as a specific opportunity for you to draw near to your Source of wisdom. You will have the option of individual spiritual guidance, group guidance and a program that supports your spiritual practice. Beginners and initiates welcome. Choose to participate in one or both of the weekends. Guides: Johanna, Henrita, Cecy. Tuition: Free-will offering. Lodging and meals at regular rate. Rainbow Reiki Second Degree This workshop includes: Initiation into the three traditional 2nd degree symbols and their mantras plus initiation into two Rainbow Reiki symbols and their mantras (3rd eye activation & to strengthen the 3rd chakra) - distant healing with Reiki for yourself, others, & groups - mental healing - Rainbow Reiki Feng Shui Techniques - Rainbow Reiki Karma Clearing - working with the inner child and higher self for healing and personal development - how to contact angels, power animals, and other spiritual beings with the means of Rainbow Reiki - distant Reiki treatments to the past and future - programming crystals with Rainbow Reiki - aura massage with the help of the inner child - practice using the symbols in Reiki treatments. Pre-requisite: Rainbow Reiki First Degree Tuition: $295 plus meals and lodging Signature Program Yoga: Santosha (Contentment, Satisfaction) Santosha is part of the vey foundation of a life in yoga. In his translation of the Yoga Sutras, Alistair Shearer states that "Contentment is the equanimity that sees things as they are, undistorted by expectation, need or fear." The Yoga Sutras promise that contentment brings joy when we learn to let go of our attachment to objects as a source of happiness and strengthen and deepen our inner life. This seminar offers an opportunity to do just that. Through asana, pranayama, self study, discussion, interactive workshops and meditation, discover the methods yoga provides us to cultivate Santosha. The Mahabharata offers: "Contentment is indeed the highest heaven. Contentment is supreme joy. There is nothing higher than satisfaction. It is complete in itself." Tuition: $200, plus meals and lodging Signature Program Signature Program April 3-5, 2009
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Facilitator/Teacher Biographies Mary Bart, having taken numerous methods of myofascial release and other forms of bodywork, embraces the John F. Barnes method as the cr¨me de la cr¨me. For her, all of her studies of craniosacral, neuromuscular, somatic, massage, and myofascial therapies over a 15 year period, come together in Barnes comprehensive system of therapy. She is a past director of the Center and now resides at her home next door to the Center grounds. She can be reached at marybart@tds.net or (715) 267-4715. C'ariel Bezin has a Master's Degree in Education. As a YMCA Child Care Director, she attended a Virtues Project conference hosted by the founders of the project, Linda and Dan Popev. After obtaining grants to train her employees in the Virtues Project, the program was implemented in a preschool, daycare, and eight before and after school programs. She conducted a community Virtues Project by teaching virtues to children in two summer school classes for the Adams-Friendship School District in 2004. She has implemented the Virtues Project for a half-hour daily to children in the first through fourth grades at St. Francis Academy for the 2007-2008 school year.Nancy Boler was introduced to yoga in Nepal while she was teaching mathematics in the Peace Corps in 1994. Her experience of inexplicable peace and simplicity in Nepal led her to seek a yoga practice when she returned. She began her formal practice in 1997 and was certified in 2000 at the Kripalu Center for Yoga in Lenox, Massachusetts. Henrita Frost, a School Sister of Notre Dame from Wilton, CT, has been ministering at the Christine Center since January 2007. She has served her congregation nationally in the areas of health care, aging and leadership and internationally, at their Generalate in Rome, Italy, as a resource person in Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation. She also has ministered as an occupational therapist and as a director of services for poor and marginalized persons. Henrita has a Certificate in Spiritual Direction from the Center for Spirituality and Justice in Bronx, NY. Mary Kaye Medinger has served as founding director of Wisdom Ways Center for Spirituality, a ministry of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. She holds degrees in history and in elementary education and a certificate in holistic health studies, all from the College of St. Catherine, as well as a Master of Arts in Pastoral Studies from the University of St. Thomas. She has extensive experience as a free lance presenter, and lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. Susan Mickel is a trained Christian spiritual director and a behavioral neurologist. She has been practicing meditation for twelve years, seven of them vipassana. Mary Jo Meadow, a student of Joseph Goldstein and a Catholic nun, is her major vipassana teacher and the founding teacher of RES. Susan's undergraduate major was in comparative religions. A behavioral neurologist cares especially for patients with diseases of the brain that affect thinking and behavior. After many years as a Presbyterian and an elder in the Presbyterian Church, she recently became a Roman Catholic.Theresa O™Connor. Throughout a career spanning three decades, Theresa has been and continues to be a forerunner in the fields of transpersonal and energy psychology as well as mind-body and vibrational medicine. Through her work as an enlightenment coach, holistic psychotherapist, and healer, the paths of many have been brightened, expanded, and enriched. With a graduate degree from Yale University in the area of psychosomatic research and mind-body interventions, Theresa has been using well-researched and leading edge modalities since her 1981 graduation. Theresa is a member of the Association of Comprehensive Energy Psychology, the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energy and Energy Medicine, and the American Holistic Nurses Association. Thomas Ryan, CSP, is a catholic priest and Kripalu yoga teacher who directs the Paulist North American Office for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations. He has authored seven books, among them Prayer of Heart and Body: Meditation and Yoga as Christian Spiritual Practice; Wellness, Spirituality and Sports; Disciplines for Christian Living; Four Steps to Spiritual Freedom (Paulist Press) and over 100 articles in a wide variety of journals. He leads retreats throughout the U.S. and Canada and in Europe. Santikaro Bhikkhu was born in Chicago. After getting an unmarketable degree in Creative Writing, he joined the U.S. Peace Corps and landed in Thailand. Here, and discovered the Buddha-Dhamma. Besides residing at Suan Mokkhabalarama for 14 years serving as the English translator for Buddhadasa Bhikkhu and leading meditation retreats, Santikaro has been active in numerous social activities in Thailand such as Phra Sekhiyadhamma, the nationwide network of socially concerned monks, and the annual Dhamma Walk for the preservation of Songkhla Lake. Sr. Johanna Seubert, FSPA, has a doctorate in music and has taught music on all levels. Her past experience includes chairing the Viterbo College music department, director of novices for her religious community, liturgy director, director of The Christine Center, and presenter of retreats and workshops. Her most recent interest and focus is on mystical spirituality as she continues her study and practice at The Christine Center and as a member of the Ridhwan Spiritual School in California. |