Classes, Retreats, & Events
The Self & Soul Center provides ongoing training, classes, and spiritual events to support a student's lifelong process of unfoldment. The courses include psychological and spiritual trainings that focus on the whole self -- body, mind and spirit -- to integrate one's essential self into a true human being.
Meditation and chanting, inquiry and sensate focusing, disengaging from the inner critic, and developing compassion are the core skills which are taught to support recognition and knowing oneself. These tools naturally support maturation and allow greater ease to enter one's life.
If finances are a problem please contact us about our work exchange program.
Into the Body, Soul's Orientation, Community Meditations, Qualities of Being, SoulWork
From a transpersonal perspective this course teaches the basic skills to identify and work with your personality. Learn to recognize and disengage from the inner critic, self-soothe agitated internal states through the use of empathic statements, own projections (positive and negative parts of oneself that are placed on others), understand old patterns of relating and their effect in the present, and practice a grounding meditation to connect with the Self. Certificates of attendance are available for health care professionals. These tools provide a doorway that allow for deepening in the other courses and are a prerequisite for the ongoing Soul's Orientation series.
Fall Dates: Part A: September 11 (7-9:30pm), 12th (9:30-4:30pm), 13th (9:30-12pm) $150.
At Breitenbush Parts A & B: November 8th (6pm) - 11th (12pm) Register through Breitenbush
Classes are also available as audiofiles from our website. Certificates of attendance are available for health care professionals.
Come out of your head and into your body. This class removes the words using sound and movement to own the energy behind your reactions and habitual stories. In a safe, nonjudgmental, relational environment, you are welcomed into greater expression and acceptance of your authentic self.
Fall semester: Wednesdays - Sept 9,23; Oct. 7,21; Nov. 4,18; Dec. 2,16
4:30-6:30 pm
Cost: $240. Must preregister by 28th
The Soul's Orientation: Expanding Relatedness
Purpose:
There is a place of intelligence, joy and compassion inside every human being and this has been called the true Self or soul. The Soul's Orientation trainings deepen the spiritual and psychological skills introduced in Mining the Gold to help us recognize and orient our lives around the expression of our souls rather than the limitations of ego. Our soul's expression is a creative endeavor that unfolds within the context of one's purpose in the world. The group is a vehicle to birth and create our soul's expression. continued.....
Creating support in these challenging times.
Sunday Afternoon Meditations begin with a relationship practice and are followed by a grounding, centering meditation. 1:30 pm Newcomers Instruction, Intro talk; 1:45 - 2:30 pm Meditation; Dates: June 7, Aug 2, Sept 13, Oct 18, Nov 15, Dec 6
2nd & 4th Tuesday Evening Meditations: 5:30 - 6:30 pm
July 14th: Zikr: Sufi chanting and meditation
July 28: Turning meditation
Explore and own aspects of the Source through the vibrational medicine of chanting. Each class attunes you to a quality of your true nature, one of the 99 names of God from the Sufi tradition, chosen to transform and heal what is arising in the group and world consciousness. Introductory lecture (pdf format)
Fall Semester: Sundays, 3 to 6 pm - Aug. 9, Sept. 13, Oct. 18, Nov. 15, Dec. 6
Next open class: Aug. 9th, Introductory class for fall semester
First timers: $10
Cost: $99. for 5
Touching the Inner Healer: A SoulWork retreat with Mariam Baker and Saadi Douglas Klotz
Many challenges of everyday life center on our relationship to health and our bodies. In this retreat we will use sacred movement, Sufi zikr, Dances of Universal Peace, walking meditation, wazifa practice and guided group SoulWork to be at home in one's body, and to clarify the effect that our relationship to "body" has on our work and personal relationships. The retreat is limited to SoulWork practitioners, those who have previously experienced a personal SoulWork session, a guided SoulWork retreat, or by special permission.
Dates: October 22-25, 2009
Time: begins with dinner at 6pm on 22nd and ends at noon on the 25th
Location: Dolphin House, 9820A Wagner Creek Road, Talent, Oregon Directions
Cost: $425. for heated two person room; tenting and unheated spaces available at a discount
Expanding Relationship to the Inner and Outer Friend: A SoulWork Retreat with Yahya Nadler and Raphael Birney
This retreat re-opens us to the freshness and dynamism of relationship through letting go of the past and connecting to the presence within, using the Dances of Universal Peace, chanting, walking meditations and group SoulWork (integrating aspects of oneself).
Friday, Nov. 20th, 7-9pm introductory evening $10. Saturday: 9:30-4:30pm $75. or $75. for both if pd a wk in advance
At The Center for Spiritual Living, 1905 Hartnell Avenue Redding, CA (530)221-4849