Yoga & Psychospiritual Inquiry Retreat
With Sarah Powers and Jennifer Welwood
Land of Medicine Buddha, Santa Cruz, CA
June 19-25, 2008
Sarah's Teachings:
 Compassionate
Presence, Yin /Yang Yoga and Buddhist Meditation. The practices of yoga
and meditation provide the potential for living with gentleness and insight.
In our yoga sessions, we can clear the body and mind of extraneous and depleting
elements, while enhancing our awareness and vital energy or Qi(chi). Studying
and practicing the Buddha Dharma, we can enhance a recognition of our basic
goodness, allowing our inherent authentic nature to be revealed and embodied.
Each morning we will practice an extended yoga session while the afternoons
will be devoted to the experience of Psychospiritual inquiry.
While in the Yin practice each day, Sarah will give a talk focusing on
the themes of Sati (mindfulness) and Karuna (compassion) as important
aspects in our daily practice and of course, our way of living. A balanced
flow asana practice will follow, with time each day for pranayama and
4 meditation sessions.
Sarah Powers has been teaching since 1987. She blends
the insights and practices of Yoga and Buddhism to create an integral
practice. She incorporates both a Yin style of holding poses which emphasizes
the balancing of Ch’i in the meridians and organs, and a Vinyasa
style of moving with the breath, blending essential aspects of the Iyengar,
Ashtanga, and Viniyoga traditions. Pranayama is also included in her practice
and classes. Sarah has been a student of Buddhism in both Asia and the
U.S. She has been inspired by such teachers as Jack Kornfield in the Theravadin
tradition (Vipassana), Toni Packer, whose roots stem from the choiceless
awareness of the Zen tradition, while Tsoknyi Rinpoche is her Tibetan
teacher. She also draws inspiration from the Self Inquiry of the Advaita
Vedanta philosophy. She lives in Marin, California with her husband Ty,
where she homeschools her daughter Imani, and teaches yoga and meditation
classes. For more on Sarah, see her Yin
& Vinyasa video/dvd and Insight
Yoga video/dvd.
Jennifer's Teachings:
 The
deepest possibility of human life is to realize and embody our essential
nature. Although our essential nature is intrinsic and indestructible, we
become disconnected from it through identifying with conditioned patterns
that arise from our personal histories. Learning to recognize and reconnect
with the truth of who we are is the process of realization, while unwinding
the patterns that prevent us from embodying this in our lives is the process
of transformation. Both are necessary if we are to live our lives from our
essence rather than from our conditioning.
While it is relatively easy to glimpse our essential nature during practice
sessions, retreats, or moments of transcendence, the greatest challenge
is to embody it in our daily living--to live the truth of who we are rather
than occasionally experiencing it. This is evolutionary work that requires
particular understandings and methods.
In this part of the retreat we will focus on teachings and practices
that directly support and catalyze the journey toward embodied transformation.
This will include psychological inquiry and process work, as a vehicle
for recognizing and loosening the conditioned patterns that obstruct our
essential nature. It will also include the profound and sacred work of
cultivating the subtle body, which is the bridge that allows our essential
nature to manifest in time and space, in this body and in this life. As
the subtle body awakens, we develop the energetic basis for becoming an
essential person. Then, rather than living our life as the conditioned
person who has temporary experiences of our essential nature, we begin
to live our life as a personal embodiment and expression of our essential
nature. This is the only true basis for happiness, fulfillment, and meaning
in a human life.
Jennifer Welwood, M.A., MFT, has been a spiritual practitioner
since 1970, and a psychotherapist since 1988. She has been leading groups,
retreats, and seminars that integrate deep psychological and spiritual
work for 20 years.
Date:
June 19-25, 2008
Location:
Land of Medicine Buddha, Santa Cruz, CA
www.medicinebuddha.org
Cost:
Single: $1650
Double: $1350
Triple (women only): $1150
Quad (women only): $950
Deposit: $300
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Yoga & Psychospiritual
Inquiry Retreat
The Land of Medicine Buddha
Santa Cruz, CA
June 19-25, 2008
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