FALL WORKSHOPS:

DEEP SLEEP WORKSHOP:
Dr. Siegfried Haug, Family & Sleep Therapist & Lynne Paterson ERYT500
Thursday, December 12 @ 6:00-8:30pm.
Join Dr Haug and Lynne Paterson for a workshop designed to help you unlearn poor sleep patterns and re-learn healthy sleep habits, so you can get plenty of good old fashioned rest, without the use of sleeping pills or drugs. Dr. Haug is an expert in the sleep field and the author of "I Want To Sleep: Unlearning Insomnia". He lives in Goshen and has practices in W. Mass and Conn.
RSVP TODAY
Cost: $40/y Dec 5 and $55/after Dec 5.
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COMING IN JANUARY 2014...
RADIANT MIND:
An Exploration of Natural Meditation
January 29 - March 5
Wednesdays 6:00-7:30pm
Course Registration: $125/person
(After Sept 1: $10 Discount for PYS students with current 8-class card)

FREE CALL: Listen to my conversation with RD Shandler, instructor 
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Everyone is welcome to join the course. NO prior meditation experience is necessary.
You may attend the first class ( for $20) without any obligation to register for the six week series;
but you do need to RSVP inorder to attend. I am certain that you will want to join us for the course!!
 
REGISTER ONLINE:
Course Cost $125/person: Buy Now 

"As the darkness of night,
even were it to last a thousand years,
could not conceal the rising sun,
so countless ages of conflict and suffering,
cannot conceal the innate radiance of mind."  - Tilopa (988-1069CE)

Course Description:
A meditation practice is meant to wake us up to the reality of our lives, to the possibility of being fully complete in each moment. Introduction to Radiant Mind explores the experience of open awareness, where we are neither resisting our moment-to-moment experience nor attempting to enhance it. This is a space in which we are aware, relaxed, and able to fully embrace all our experiences, emotions and thoughts without distortion or the need to escape them. In natural meditation, we find ourselves in profound peace and clarity without having to do anything at all.  This state has been given many names: “pure awareness", “unconditioned mind”, “emptiness”, “source-consciousness”, “Buddha-mind”.  It is also called “the unknowable” because it is beyond the reach of thought. Yet, paradoxically, we can know it intimately as our essential nature: fearless, compassionate, indestructible, and timeless.

Benefits:
Through the Radiant Mind process we learn to call off our struggle with the past and our anxious anticipation of the future. We see increasingly how our moment-to-moment experience is filtered by our conditioned belief system and our identification with our thought constructions. As we relax into a deeper sense of just being, we allow everything to be as we find it. We are complete in this moment, and this moment… Because of its healing effects Buddhists have called this natural meditation the “ultimate medicine”.

Participants in this series of mini-workshops will be invited to explore some of the key underlying principles that facilitate resting in simple, effortless presence without suppressing thoughts or aiming at any result.  We will move organically between periods of discussion and practice and periods of silent contemplation. 

Topics explored:
•    Just Sitting: the art of natural meditation.
•    Non-dual Contemplation: Abiding in Presence, favoring neither speech nor silence.
•    Core Fixations and Primary Biases: Learn to free ourselves from conditioning and habits  that perpetuate suffering.
•    Deconstruct thoughts that transport us into the past or future and perpetuate       suffering in the here-and-now.
•      Healing power and dissolving destructive emotions.

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 Michael Shandler, Ed.D. know as Ravi Dass and affectionately called “RD” by his friends has been exploring nondual philosophy and nondual practices since his first encounter with the teachings of Ramana Maharshi in 1970.  Teachers who have influenced his evolution have included Ram Dass, Baba Hari Dass, Adyashanti, Eckhart Tolle, and others. He twice completed the nine-month Radiant Mind course with Peter Fenner and is a certified Radiant Mind coach.  He is the author of several books including Between Pleasure and Pain: The Way of Conscious Living and The Marriage and Family Book: A Spiritual Guide.  RD has been a practitioner of yoga and meditation for over 30 years and holds a Masters and Doctorates in counseling psychology from the University of Massachusetts.

  

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Past Workshops:
WAH! HEALING SOUND WORKSHOP                
SATURDAY, JUNE 22

2:00-5:00pm
$45/advance  ($60/door)

Wah has created a fantastic way to experience the body as a vessel of light and sound. This workshop will put you in the zone of bliss and peace and happiness. Plus you will leave refreshed and relaxed.
Wah will lead participants through simple and fun exercises using voice, sound, breath and meditative awareness to create a tranquil inner state. This is our 2nd year offer this truly fabulous event.  

Wah! is a master teacher, musician and healer. She has spent years studying sound and vibration and she will share her knowledge in an intimtate and personal setting. What could be better?!

Join us!
SATURDAY, JUNE 22 from 2:00 - 5:00pm
Register at the door: $60/person.
There are a few spots open. Come on out.
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We select topics that we know will open your mind and heart!  Our guest teacher workshops will help you put ancient yogic philosophy into the context of your own daily life, in ways that are relevant, insightful and meaningful.

All workshops require a minimum number of participants to run. Registration must be received two weeks before the workshop date. Most visiting teachers book airfare 2-4 weeks in advance of a workshop date, so please, please, please sign up early.

Please check this page and our calendar for upcoming guest teacher workshops.