5 Ways to Know Yourself
as a Spiritual Being
March 2010
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MARCH REGISTRATION IS CLOSED
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MARCH 12 (Friday PM) -
Exploring Absolute &
Relative Rest
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Pacific / 10:00 pm to
12:00 midnight Eastern
Type of Program:
Deepening the techniques
Leader:
Shinzen Young
Prerequisites: Previous experience in practicing Focus on Rest: Standard and Focus on Rest: Do Nothing.
Comments: People often associate the word meditation with achieving a calm, deep, pleasant, restful experience. Actually this is only part of the process but certainly an important part. One could say that there are two types of meditative rest: relative and absolute. In this retreat you’ll explore both. Relative rest is a soothing, pleasant sensory experience involving up to six "flavors" (Relaxation, Light, Silence, Peace, Blank, Quiet). Absolute rest is, strictly speaking, not a sensory event because it’s outside of time and space.
In the Basic Mindfulness system, relative rest is first taught through the Standard (6-flavor) version of Focus on Rest. The experience of Absolute Rest is explored either through the "only note vanishings" option of Focus on Change or the Do Nothing option of Focus on Rest. In this program you’ll use the Standard version and Do Nothing option of Focus on Rest to complement each other, auguring deeper and deeper into the experience of "calm abiding."
Suggested Reading: The Significance of Restful States, Return to the Source, Focus on Rest Summary
Fee: $10 per person (This fee does not include charges, if any, by your long distance phone service.)
MARCH 13 (Saturday AM)
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Sharpening Focus on Change
8:00 am to
12:00 pm Pacific / 11:00 am to 3:00 pm Eastern
Type of Program:
Sharpening the technique
Leader:
Shinzen Young
Prerequisites: Previous experience in practicing Focus on Change.
Comments: This retreat is designed to sharpen your ability to use the Focus on Change approach to practice, perhaps using "special exercises."
Suggested Reading: Focus on Change Summary
Fee: $20 per person (This fee does not include charges, if any, by your long distance phone service.)
MARCH 13 (Saturday PM)
- Focus In: Part 2
1:00 pm to
5:00 pm Pacific / 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm Eastern
Type of Program:
Core curriculum
Leader: Shinzen Young
Prerequisites: Participation in Focus In: Part 1 or its equivalent in the form of an Onsite Retreat or private work with Shinzen/facilitator.
Comments: This program completes the instruction of the Focus In technique. In Part 1 you learned how to work with the “atoms” of subjective experience – Feel, Image and Talk. It Part 2 you’ll learn how to combine those atoms into “molecules” – working with the whole system at once and working with it’s 2-element subsystems, such as Talk-Feel Space.
Suggested Reading: Focus In Summary
Fee: $20 per person (This fee does not include charges, if any, by your long distance phone service.)
MARCH 14 (Sunday AM)
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Practice
in Motion & in Life
5:00 am to
9:00 am Pacific / 8:00 am to 12:00 pm Eastern
Type of Program:
Special theme retreat
Leader:
Shinzen Young
Prerequisites: Previous experience in practicing Focus In, Focus Out, and Focus on Rest: Standard Version.
Comments: This retreat is designed to deepen your ability to practice as you move and do activities, thus enhancing your ability to apply them to situations in daily life.
Suggested Reading: Focus In Summary, Focus Out Summary, Focus on Rest Summary
Fee: $20 per person (This fee does not include charges, if any, by your long distance phone service.)
MARCH 14 (Sunday PM)
- Focus Out: Part
1
10:00 am
to 2:00 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm Eastern
Type of Program:
Core curriculum
Leader:
Shinzen Young
Prerequisites: No previous experience required.
Comments: The goal of this program is to begin learning the formal apparatus of Focus Out. You will learn how to anchor yourself in the present moment by focusing on external vision (“Sight”), external hearing (“Sound”) and physical-type body sensations (“Touch”).
This program represents Part 1 of learning the Focus Out technique. Part 2 will be offered next month.
Suggested Reading: Focus Out Summary. Also be sure to read the following if you have not previously done so. (Even if you have already read these, a review may not hurt.)
What is Mindfulness?
About Posture
How to Note and Label
5 Ways to Know Yourself as a Spiritual Being
Fee: $20 per person (This fee does not include charges, if any, by your long distance phone service.)