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 The
events that take place at the institute's Retreat Center in
Petaluma range from 2-hour presentations to weekend workshops
to month-long residential programs. To register for any of
these events, please contact the organizers listed in the
event descriptions, which you'll find by clicking on the "more..."
links below.
Click here for a listing of additional IONS events.
Institute of noetic sciences
retreat center events
2008 and beyond
(events are
2008 unless otherwise noted)
**click to go directly
to a list of
upcoming evening and afternoon Events on the IONS
campus**
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Fariba Bogzaran
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artists'
reception with fariba bogzaran
At this reception, artist/scholar Fariba
Bogzaran will offer stories, poems, and
the rare treat of Rumi's poetry chanted
in Persian.
The reception accompanies an exhibition
of paintings by Fariba Bogzaran, The
Third Script, that is showing at IONS
from March 1 - May 31st.
Sat, May 10, 4 - 6pm
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Michael Harner
Foundation for Shamanic Studies |
Foundation
for Shamanic Studies (Journeywork) —
three-year program in advanced initiations
in shamanism and shamanic healing
Originated by Dr. Michael
Harner, this course is the most advanced
training in shamanism and shamanic healing
offered by the Foundation for Shamanic Healing,
and generally is considered unparalleled
in the world. It involves intensive extended
training in progressively higher levels
of very advanced shamanism, including initiations
into rare and little-known practices and
principles.
2008: May 18 - 23, Sept 21 - 26,
Oct 26 - 31 (1st of a series)
2009: Mar
23 - Apr 3, Apr 20 - 25, May 17 - 22, Oct
4 - 9
2010: Apr 11 - 22,
May 2 - 7, Oct 3 - 8, Oct 17 - 22
2011: Mar 27 - Apr
8, May 1 - 6, May 22 - 27, Oct 9 - 14
2012: Mar 18 - 30,
May 6 - 11, Oct 7 - 12, Oct 21-26
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Marilyn Schlitz, Tina
Amorok & Cassandra Vieten
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Living
Deeply —
workshop Intensive
This workshop blends the
rigors of science with the deep wisdom of
the world's spiritual traditions.
Join IONS research staff Marilyn Mandala
Schlitz, PhD; Cassandra Vieten, PhD; and
Tina Amorok, PsyD; as they offer key insights
from the decade-long qualitative and quantitative
research study of how people transform their
lives.
Bring your sense of adventure, an open mind,
curiosity, and the intention to facilitate
a deeper and more meaningful life for yourself
and others.
May
23 - May 25
more...
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Rennie Davis,
Foundation for a New Humanity
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The
Earth Guardian Workshop
If you are a person who feels drawn to nature
and loves gardens, plants and animals, the
chances are you have latent Earth abilities,
not unlike animals in the Asian tsunami
that moved away from the shor before the
water struck.
This extraordinary one-day session will
activate your 14 senses (not 5) to hear
incoming Earth changes. You will learn the
Earth Guardian talents you personally possess.
You will discover ancient skills and wisdoms
that can aid and serve our planet in this
time of the Earth.
May 25
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Luisah Teish &
Uzuri Amini
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Courting
the Muse —
A Weekend Retreat in Creative Intimacy
In this weekend workshop, participants will
find their sources of inspiration through
dream work, visualization, breath work and
movement.
This workshop is suitable for people of
varying ages and occupations, beginners
as well as seasoned artists.
May 30 - June 1
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Jesse
Koren & Sharla Jacobs
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Rejuvenate
Your Practice Intensive
Learn how to build your successful Holistic
or Coaching Practice using heart-based strategies
so you can help more people and make more
money than you ever thought was possible.
June 5 –
8
August 21 – 24
November 13 – 16
more...
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Russell Delman
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RUSSELL
DELMAN —
Embodied Life Retreat
The Embodied Life™ refers
to an approach to human transformation developed
by Russell Delman. These programs are an
integration of the teachings of Moshe Feldenkrais,
Zen based meditation and guided inquiry.
All of the practices are based on learning
to be present with the reality of our inner
experience in an open, authentic and curious
way.
June
7 - 11
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Susan
Taylor
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Meditation
Specialist™ Certification - Clinics
1 - 4
Gannett HealthcarE GROUP
This four-part course for healthcare professionals
provides in-depth training in the theory,
science, and practice of meditation therapy
with a focus on the use of meditation as
a true healing science. Graduates will gain
the skills, tools, and framework for incorporating
meditation into their medical practice or
for developing a private meditation therapy
practice. Participants must attend all four
clinics in order to receive certification
as a meditation specialist™. Susan
Taylor, PhD, teaches the seminar.
June
12 –
15, 2008 (Clinic 2)
October 5 –
8, 2008 (Clinic 3)
October 18 – 20, 2008 (Clinic 1)
March 8 –
11, 2009 (Clinic 4)
March 11 – 14, 2009 (Clinic 2)
June 4 – 7, 2009 (Clinic 3)
October 19 – 22, 2009 (Clinic 4)
October 23 – 25, 2009 (Clinic 1)
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Charles Tack
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The
Roots of Attraction: Beyond the Personal—
The powerful force of attraction
constantly grabs us and forces us to pay
attention to something outside ourselves.
Whether we resist it, ignore it, run away,
leap towards it, every attraction--to a
person, an object or a cause--is trying
to awaken some aspect of our soul. In this
workshop, we explore how to let our attractions
feed and nourish us by attending to what's
calling our heart and soul.
June
27 - 29 (part 1)
October 9 - 12 (part 2)
more...
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School of The
New Spirituality
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GRandparents'
weekend! —
Co-sponsored
by IONS and Neale Donald Walsch's School
of The New Spirituality
This is the first Grandparents'
Weekend being held at the IONS Retreat Center.
This special event was inspired by the shared
experiences of grandparents and grandchildren
at IONS conferences in past years. This
is an opportunity for grandparents to spend
quality time with a grandchild and for both
generations to enjoy each other's company
and to discover how you can support and
develop each other's creativity and potential.
July
4 - 6
more...
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Saleem Berryman,
Living in Truth
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Lifting
the Veils Retreat—
This 9-day retreat is a
discovery of our own magnificent power to
generate illusions so brilliantly designed
that we believe they are reality. It is
also a discovery of our capacity to wake
up to the trances in our life that are causing
suffering, so that we can more fully unveil
the presence, joy and authentic expression
of our true being. An additional intention
of this retreat is to explore elegant and
powerful ways to effortlessly transform
the patterns of our everyday life experience
in ways that best express our deepest truth.
This retreat is for anyone who would like
to experience greater freedom and ease in
any area of their life. This is one of two
retreats that act as a foundation for the
Living in Truth Training.
July
19 - 27
more...
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The Monroe Institute
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Monroe
Institute —
Gateway Voyage®
The heart of The Monroe
Institute programs is the Gateway Voyage®.
This six-day intensive learning adventure
is designed to provide the participant with
tools that can enable:
- development and exploration
of human consciousness;
- deeper levels of self-discovery;
- expansion of one's awareness;
- willful control of that
awareness;
- communication with and
visits to other energy systems and realities.
July
19 - 25
November 1 - 7
more...
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Andrew
Harvey
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Spiritual
Activism — Compassion in Action
This
four-weekend program, led by Andrew Harvey,
explores the concept of Spiritual Activism
and trains participants in key aspects of
becoming and being a Sacred Activist.
When the deepest and most grounded spiritual
vision is married to a practical and pragmatic
drive to transform all existing political,
economic and social institutions, a holy
force - the power of wisdom and love in
action - is born. This force I define as
Sacred Activism.
— Andrew Harvey.
The Realm of the Soul
Fri, July 25 - Sun, July 27
The Realm of the Heart
Fri, Sept 26 - Sun, Sept 28
The Pathways of the Intellect
Fri, Dec 12 - Sun, Dec 14
The Wisdom of the Body
Date of final program to be announced
more...
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Alan Sheets & Barbara Tovey
New Equations
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New
Equations —
The
Physical Expression of the Soul
Training Program
New Equations directly
addresses human spirituality and how it
is physically expressed in the world today.
Participants in this multi-session training
program learn how to connect and communicate
with people in such a way that those with
whom they engage discover the physical expression
of their own spiritual nature.
NEW SERIES:
August 9 - 16
November 11 - 18
(the 2008 program continues in 2009)
more...
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Lydia Becker
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SKAN-Reichian
Therapy —
Exploring
the Body of Emotions
Weekend workshop with Lydia Becker
Skan Therapy is based on
the work of Wilhelm Reich. Skan can be defined
as a process of re-establishing the unobstructed
flow of the body's own life-energy. This
can be felt whole bodily as a sensation
of "streaming" and pleasure, and
emotionally as love, enjoyment and happiness.
In the process of this work, by its very
nature, the individual wil often confront
so-called "difficult emotions,"
as we are exploring the habitual patterns
of armoring that are deeply rooted in the
biological reality of the body-mind. Whatever
comes up can be felt, expressed and released
in safety.
September
5 - 7
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Jean
Houston
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WEST
COAST MYSTERY SCHOOL — THE MYSTERY
OF DEEP PARTNERSHIP
Beginning
with spiritual partnership in the form of
the Beloved of the Soul, this five-weekend
program explores the path of intimate companionship,
finding ways of bestowing this miraculous
capacity to all our relations.
This is a five-weekend program with Jean
Houston and Peggy Rubin.
Part one - Fri, Feb 22, 6pm - Sun, Feb
24, 1:30pm (completed)
Part
two - Fri, May 2,
6:00pm - Sun, May 4, 1:30pm (completed)
Fri, Sept 12, 6:00pm - Sun, Sept 14, 1:30pm
Fri, Oct 10, 6:00pm - Sun, Oct 12,
1:30pm
Fri, Dec 5, 6:00pm - Sun, Dec 7, 1:30pm
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Barbara Kauffman,
Auric Lights
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Regression
Therapy Intensive Training, Level I
Barbara Kauffman is a prominent
board certified regression therapist, educator,
lecturer, and researcher with over fifteen
years of experience in the field of past-life
regression.
This course, which is certified by the International
Board for Regression Therapy, is based on
the training of Henry Leo Bolduc who is
a pioneer in the field of past life regression
with over 45 years experience before his
retirement in 2007.
September
15 - 20
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Creative Memories
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Creative
Memories Scrapbooking Weekend with felicia
schonborn-young
Let's Celebrate and Preserve
Your Memories into Treasured Keepsakes.
Your Life, Your Story, Your Way —
I'll show you how with top quality photo
albums & Organizing Products.
September
19 - 21
more...
also in 2009: March 20
- 22
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Michael Harner
Foundation for Shamanic Studies |
Foundation
for shamanic studies - workshops & training
in shamanism and shamanic healing
Founded by internationally
renowned anthropologist Michael Harner with
a three-fold mission to study, to teach,
and to preserve shamanism, The Foundation
for Shamanic Studies has built a reputation
of consistency and excellence by providing
effective, quality training in Core Shamanism
to interested learners worldwide. Dr. Harner
has been recognized as the pioneer and leader
of the revival of shamanism since the early
60's when he chose to immerse himself in
tribal spiritual traditions rather than
restrict his study to more traditional academic
techniques.
2008:
October 12 - 17
2009:
Mar 15 - 20, April 19 - 24, May 3 - 8, Oct
11 - 16
2010:
Apr 25 - 30, May 16 - 21, June 6 - 11
2011:
Apr 10 -15, May 8 - 13, Oct 23 - 28
2012:
May 20 - 25, Sept 30 - Oct 5
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Meredith Young-Sowers
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Stillpoint
SCHOOL —
Women's program
Spirit Heals:
Awakening
Your Inner Knowing for Self-Healing
Meredith Young-Sowers, spiritual teacher,
medical intuitive and energy healer, has
created this new intensive program to help
women step fully and confidently on the
path to spirit-driven healing. This is a
one-of-a-kind opportunity to involve Meredith
as your guide over an extended period of
time, which will include 2 in-person Intensives,
mentoring, and on-going support from Meredith
and the team at Stillpoint.This two-intensive,
women only program will be offered at IONS
in February and in April of 2009.
INTENSIVE ONE: Sat, Feb 20, at dinner
- Tue, Feb 23, after lunch - 2009
INTENSIVE TWO: Sat, April 24, at dinner
- Tue, April 27, after lunch - 2009
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EVENING and AFTERNOON EVENTS
EVENING Events
At the IONS retreat center campus |
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Fariba Bogzaran
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artists'
reception with fariba bogzaran
At this reception, artist/scholar Fariba
Bogzaran will offer stories, poems, and
the rare treat of Rumi's poetry chanted
in Persian.
The reception accompanies an exhibition
of paintings by Fariba Bogzaran, The
Third Script, that is showing at IONS
from March 1 - May 31st.
Sat, May 10, 4 - 6pm
more...
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Joseph Burkes
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JOSEPH
BURKES, MD - Secrets of the ET Contact Underground
Potluck dinner followed by a presentation
by one of our most insightful investigators
of human initiated contact with extra terrestrial
intelligence. A
Friendly Favors event - registration required.
Thu, April 24, 6pm - 9pm
more...
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