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| Oakwood Retreat Center 2009 Public Events April 17-19 Midwest Yoga Retreat with Thomas Michael Fortel / Spring Renewal Weekend My name is Thomas Fortel and I warmly invite you to this weekend of fun and reflection with our Midwestern yoga community. I live in Big Sur Ca, am from St. Louis and look forward each year to this retreat time in the heartland of our country. The practices of yoga are unfailing in their effect to quiet and calm, to heal, to energize and deeply restore the practitioner. They promote a balance of mind and heart and an integration of inner and outer, of the individual with the Supreme. We'll gather on this spring time weekend on Friday afternoon, April 17 for a 5-7 pm class, dinner and opening circle. On Saturday we'll begin with a 7:15-8:30 am Pranayama practice, 10 am-12:30 pm morning active practice and a 5 -6:30 pm restorative, forward bend and twist-licious experience. We’ll finish on Sunday with Pranayama, breakfast, active practice and lunch.  Thomas Michael Fortel is an lyengar trained, Ashtanga and Anusara influenced Hatha Yoga teacher. He is also a registered nurse, astrologer and massage therapist. A student of yoga since 1982, Thomas studied with Rodney Yee in a 3-year teachers training intensive in Oakland, California, from 1994 to 1996. Since 1997, he has taught and conducted workshops worldwide from his resident teaching position at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. Thomas is a unique and gifted teacher who blends his medical background, years of yoga practice and teaching with his spiritual path. Most of all, he offers presence, love and attention to the individual students and the group field. Thomas says, “For me, the yoga room is a sort of alchemical oven where the powers of transformation are constantly unfolding within each one of us.” Registration and information: Contact: Andreas Weinrich, (812) 322-6433 Email: aweinrich@sbcglobal.net Web: www.yogawiththomas.com Fall Weekend October 30 - November 1 April 24th-26th Ladies’ Spring Fling Drum Thing with Sally Childs-Helton, Ph D Experience the power of the drum for the expression of creativity, spirituality and healing. Retreat features hands-on instruction using drums, small hand percussion instruments, our bodies and voices and includes: The skills necessary to play comfortably in any group, regardless of experience or skill level Guidance and support to reach next level of playing and facilitation skills Improvisational and part-oriented world drumming, including African drumming using body movement and voice to quickly learn drumming skills and synchronize groups How to buy and care for drums and hand percussion instruments Using the power of the drum for creativity, spirituality, healing, ritual and community building Sally is a percussionist, ethnomusicologist, music educator, and mentor with over 30 years of te4aching and facilitating experience. She holds a BME, and a MA and PhD in Ethnomusicology, and is a certified Music for People guided music improvisation teacher. Her teachers include David Darling, Glen Velez and Arthur Hull, and she continues to study with musicians from many different musical and cultural backgrounds. Sally teaches and conducts workshops in hand drums, ethnic and classical percussion, music improvisation, creativity, and performance anxiety management around the US, Canada, and Britain. Dr. Childs-Helton also teaches ethnomusicology and music at the university level. Information: Sally Childs-Helton 317 251-8099 atomland@iquest.net Web: www.womendrum.org Fall Weekend/Women Drum Oct. 2-4 June 5-18 Buddhist Meditation ~ 13 days Jhanas with Leigh Brasington This retreat will emphasize the application of the meditative absorptions in a regular sitting practice and is suitable only for experienced meditators with prior retreat experience. The Jhanas, commonly called the meditative absorptions, are a method of one-pointed concentration taught in Theravaden Buddhism. The retreat will emphasize the teaching of this technique plus its application to insight (Vipassana) practice. The retreat will be held in Noble Silence with sitting and walking meditation and personal interviews. Practice in the meditative absorptions provides a strong and stable foundation for the arising and understanding of the experience of insight. Leigh Brasington has been practicing since 1985 and is the senior American student of the late Venerable Ayya Khema. She confirmed Leigh’s practice and requested that he begin teaching. Leigh assisted Venerable Ayya Khema starting in 1994, and he began teaching retreats in 1997. For more information, visit Leigh’s website at http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/6774/index.html Tri State Dharma / David Nurree 513-731-3530 davidnurree00@current.net Cost: To be determined $100 deposit June 26th-July 1st Chi-Lel QiGong for Health, Longevity, Creativity & Mental Clarity with Frank Chan In Chinese the work “Qigong” has two characters, Qi (Chi) and Gong. “Qi” or “chi” means life energy and “Gong” means daily effort. In short, Qigong is a practice to use chi for different purposes including self-healing. Chi-Lel TM, a trademark of Luke and Frank Chan, means chi therapy. It is their version of Zhineng Qigong, a medical method developed in China by Dr. Pang Ming, who founded the worlds largest medicineless hospital. Practitioners of this method number more than ten million. Frank and his brother Luke brought this self-healing art to the West in 1995 and have taught workshops in the US, Canada and Europe. Registration and information: Contact Frank Chan 916 772-0868 Email: info@chilel.com Web: www.chilel.com July 3–5 Journey into the Fire A weekend intensive for spiritual transformation and personal empowerment  What would be possible if you could step fully into the fire of your being? Can the reality of who we truly are emerge in the world? Is there a way to use everything we do—as a means to let our inner being become more real to us and those around us? This program is designed for those just starting their journey of discovery, those who have been on their path for a while and are looking for new invigoration, those who have been sitting in the same place and are feeling stuck, or those who are already “there” and want to increase the intensity of their experience. For two days, we safely take you as deep as you want to go. Facilitators & Information: http://emissaries.org/journey_into_the_fire.php Registration: OakwoodRetreatCenter@Webstop.com / 756 747-7027 Sept. 25–27 Opening to Lovingkindness & Compassion A Metta Retreat with Susan Schmickle Lovingkindness, compassion and generosity are innate qualities of being. When brought consciously into our daily life and awareness, we are led beyond the feelings we experience into compassionate action, creative and positive change, and deep spiritual and personal transformation. We come to know these qualities as our birthright and learn to see and reveal them in every aspect of our experience no matter the emotion. Explore opening to and expressing these qualities. Held respectfully in an atmosphere of inquiry and contemplation it will include periods of meditation, talks and dialogue, Q&A, and coaching on continuing in practice. Beginners and experienced practitioners welcome.  About Susan:Susan Schmickle has been practicing meditation in the Buddhist Vipassana tradition for 10 years and trained as a meditation teacher with Matthew Flickstein of the Forest Way. She has taken basic ShadowWork facilitation training through ShadowWork Seminars, Inc, as well as leadership development courses. Susan co-facilitates a spiritual workshop intensive “The Deepening” offered by the Emissaries of Divine Light and facilitates retreats and intensives using both traditional and modern practices of meditation and inquiry. She is a Newfield Network trained life coach and specializes in spiritual and personal transformation. Information/registration: Susan Schmickle 765-702-4176 / email: dharmaleaf@earthlink.net October 2nd-4th Women Drum Fall 2009 with Sally Childs-Helton, Ph D October 2-4 2009 12th Annual WomenDrum Women’s Drumming Retreat with Sally Childs-Helton, Ph.D. Experience the power of the drum for the expression of creativity, spirituality, healing, ritual, and community building. The retreat features hands-on instruction using drums, small hand percussion instruments, our bodies and voices, and includes:
Sally is a percussionist, ethnomusicologist, music educator, and mentor with over 35 years of teaching and facilitating experience. She holds a BME, and an MA and PhD in Ethnomusicology, and is a certified Music for People guided music improvisation teacher and a Remo HealthRhythms facilitator. Her teachers include David Darling, Glen Velez and Arthur Hull, and she continues to study with musicians from many different musical and cultural backgrounds. Sally teaches and conducts workshops in hand drums, ethnic and classical percussion, music improvisation, creativity, and performance anxiety management around the US, Canada, and Britain. Dr. Childs-Helton also teaches ethnomusicology and music at the university level, accompanies and composes for dance, theater, and chorus, and drums for Wild Mercy, an eclectic Celtic band (www.wildmercy.com). Sally creates a safe, supportive, and playful environment for musical, creative, and personal growth. Information: www.womendrum.org for photos, more info, cost, staff bios, and updates. Sally Childs-Helton 317 251-8099 / bchildshelton@indy.rr.com Registration: OakwoodRetreatCenter@Webstop.com / 756 747-7027 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Midwest Yoga Retreat
with Thomas Michael Fortel Fall Weekend, October 30 – November 1 My name is Thomas Fortel and I warmly invite you to this weekend of fun and reflection with our Midwestern yoga community. I live in Big Sur Ca, am from St. Louis and look forward each year to this retreat time in the heartland of our country. The practices of yoga are unfailing in their effect to quiet and calm, to heal, to energize and deeply restore the practitioner. They promote a balance of mind and heart and an integration of inner and outer, of the individual with the Supreme. We'll gather on this fall
weekend on Friday afternoon, October 30 for a 5-7 pm class, dinner and opening
circle. On Saturday we'll begin
with a 7:15-8:30 am Pranayama practice, 10 am-12:30 pm morning active practice
and a 5 -6:30 pm restorative, forward bend and twist-licious experience. We’ll finish on Sunday with Pranayama, breakfast, active practice and lunch.
Thomas is a unique and gifted teacher who blends his medical background, years of yoga practice and teaching with his spiritual path. Most of all, he offers presence, love and attention to the individual students and the group field. Thomas says, “For me, the yoga room is a sort of alchemical oven where the powers of transformation are constantly unfolding within each one of us.” Registration and information: Email: andreas@bloomingspirit.net November 6-13 ~ 7 days or weekend Buddhist Vipassana Meditation Retreat with John Travis John Travis is a senior teacher with Spirit Rock in California and founder of Mountain Stream Meditation Center in Nevada City, California. He has practiced mindfulness meditation for over 35 years and completed a four-year teacher/counselor training with Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart. He has studied eight years with senior teachers of the Tibetan and Vipassana traditions in India, Nepal, Thailand, and Burma. Trained by Jon Kabat-Zinn, John teaches stress reduction workshops, facilitates men’s groups, and co-facilitates ongoing Holotropic Breathwork workshops. He is a pastoral counselor and hypnotherapist and has completed two years training in the Hokomi Method of body-centered psychotherapy. For more information: about John check his web site: http://www.mtstream.org/ Tri State Dharma / David Nurree 513-731-3530 davidnurree00@current.net Cost: To be determined $100 deposit OTHER EVENTS & OFFERINGS: Attunement Circle: Each third Sunday of the month at 2:00 P.M. Open to the public / no admission charge For information regarding Attunement: www.attunement.org HEALERS RESPITE: OCTOBER 23rd-25th, 2009 This will be our 3rd Annual Healers Respite Retreat. It is open to all Energy Workers, Healers and Care Givers to come together and enjoy the company of likeminded folks and to enjoy rest and relaxation. Come and share in the art of service and join with others in drumming, native circle and sweat, hiking, the arts and more. Information: Sharee-Laine 937 477-8187 / email: reikicenter@yahoo.com Private and Small Group Retreats, Weddings and Family Reunions welcome. Oakwood Retreat Center is open to the business community as well. Retreat, Renew, Celebrate, Play, Discover, Create |
