Intensives and Related Activities

Win

Win and Osha will lead a Valentine's Day weekend Love Intensive February 12, 13, and 14, arrival on Thursday, February 11.

The Intensive will be held at Isis Oasis in Geyserville, CA.

The cost is $350, or $325 if you pay in full by February 1, which includes room and board and the Intensive.

The Love Intensive is like an Enlightenment Intensive except that everyone works on the question, What is love?.

To register, please send a $50 deposit or payment in full to Osha Reader, 47 Heritage Drive, San Rafael CA 94901.

We hope to have you with us.

Osha

Bob Keller

Facilitator:  Bob Keller

Dates: Thursday evening, February 18th to early Monday Afternoon, February 22nd, 2009

Where:  Lake Quinault, Washington
Facilities: Lake Quinault Lodge http://www.visitlakequinault.com/index.cfm

Cost: $599 plus meals and accommodations per person—fully residential.

Mark your calendar now and email or call with your intentions. 

Space is limited.  Please register by December 31, 2009.
Email or call us if you have any questions.  (360) 753-1036
rckeller@healingtherapy.net
administration@healingtherapy.net

We invite you to join us in this seriously devoted inquiry into Truth, Self and the Eternal. It is based on Ancient Meditation practices and modern psychology, and has ties to many other spiritual traditions. 

Benefits: increased self awareness, enhanced authenticity in relating to others; emotional and mental break-throughs; insights about self, life and relationships; levels of inner peace not previously experienced.  And for some—an enlightenment experience…also known as satori, “contact with God,” or Union with Truth.

The enlightenment intensive uses a dyad format for contemplation that is generative—the energy builds between dyad partners, as well as everyone in the room, creating a synergetic generation of the very energy mentioned in Zen literature needed to break through into an enlightenment experience.

The setting is a five day residential retreat with vegetarian meals.  It is started by an introductory evening, followed by 3 days of dyadic contemplation—a contemplation done in tandem with a partner, where turns are taken between contemplation and communication of one partner and attentive listening by the other.  Partners rotate through all participants present.  Other activities are interspersed.  The intensive ends with an integrative morning on Monday.

Joseph Rubano

“You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight to our hearts.”
Cochise, Apache Chief

Dates: March 4-8, 2010

Thursday evening March 4 through Monday late morning March 8*

Offered by: Joseph Rubano. I met this work in 1985. It planted itself deep and keeps growing.

Where: This retreat will be held in a cozy mountain house in Pine Valley, CA (about an hour east of San Diego) Crisp clean air, the smell of pines, a sky full of stars.

Cost: $425 for everything – room, board (simple vegetarian meals) and tuition.

Space is limited. Register early. Call or email Joseph at 760-754-1148, josrubano@hotmail.com.

About the Retreat: Here we practice speaking straight, listening openly and being as real as we are. It is remarkable what happens -- how the pure gold and beauty of being human rises to the surface and shines as soft or radiant light. It is remarkable because there is no guru, no master teacher or master teaching - we are each teacher and what is revealed through us is the teaching. Our combined intention, attention and willingness to be open to the truth of the moment and our courage to communicate it moment to moment creates a living vessel for grace to enter. And it does.

*The retreat is the standard 3-day Intensive. We stay over Sunday night, let the experience continue to ripen and do an integration morning on Monday which includes meditation, writing, drawing, and sharing. This last morning brings many unexpected gifts and helps us make a bridge into the everyday world we are about to return to.

Facilitator: John Stone. I am committed to making intensives regularly available in the upper Midwest and I look forward to supporting you in your inquiry.

This will be the traditional three-day intensive, with some minor changes to the afternoon schedule and the addition of an integration period on Sunday morning. We will use the gong CD to signal changeovers.

Dates: April 7 - 11, 2010

Cost: $425, which includes food and lodging. The cost is $400 if you send in a $100 deposit by March 7 (see www.heartland-ei.com for details)

Location: Bethel Horizons, a secluded rural retreat center on over 500 acres of wooded land located near Dodgeville, Wisconsin, which is about 40 miles west of Madison.

Information: you can phone me at (608) 231-3935, contact me via e-mail at jvstone@charter.net or consult www.heartland-ei.com.

Cynthia

Edrid and Cynthia Nightingale will co-master the 11th Annual Southern California Enlightenment Intensive at the Mt. Baldy Zen Center, located in the mountains above Claremont, California. The 3-day Intensive will begin Thursday evening, April 15th and continue through Sunday evening, April 18th.

Cost for the Intensive is $350, or just $325 if you pay in full by the Ides of March (March 15th).

For more information or to sign up, contact
Edrid at edrid@sandoth.com or
Cynthia at cynightingale@sbcglobal.net.

Edrid

Murray Kennedy

Dates: May 6-14, 2010
3-Day option: Thurs evening May 6 thru Sun evening May 9
7-Day option: Thurs evening May 6 thru Fri morning May 14

Facilitator: Murray Kennedy. Since 1981 I have given 60 Enlightenment Intensives. I love the work deeply; trust it completely. Through the years I have seen it bring fulfillment, joy, healing and the Truth itself to so many people. To me it as an on-going miracle. And it is my great privilege to make it available. I warmly invite you to contact me.

Many people who have taken Enlightenment Intensives have experienced profound and important enlightenments and transformational experiences in their lives and have developed a deep respect for the process. Some are moved to do this work for the benefit of others.

This year, Edrid and Osha will be offering a Masters Training Course at Origin. The course begins in January 2010 with a self-paced home study phase. It ends at a ten-day residential training at Origin, August 13 thru August 22, 2010.

The course is highly personalized and therefore limited to no more than 12 students. Those who wish to take the course must have taken Intensives and feel that they have personally benefitted from them.

Main Study Room at Origin

This course is designed to awaken your capacity to be an Enlightenment Intensive master. You will engage in an in-depth study of the principles and the techniques that a master needs to lead Enlightenment Intensives.

You will receive step-by-step comprehensive training in the core skills you will use when mastering intensives. These include:

• how to organize Intensives
• how to attract participants
• how to train participants in the enlightenment dyad
• how to manage the staff
• how to give the lectures
• how to handle problems that might arise
• how to maintain your ethical standards
• how to guide the group towards direct knowing of truth
• and many other skills.
  

Your training begins as soon as you are accepted as a student. In the home study phase, the student studies written materials and consults with Edrid and Osha. You should plan to start this work in early 2010 so that you have plenty of time to work through the study material. This program requires some committment, as the amount of material you will be studying is significant. Osha and Edrid will be available by phone and internet to guide students during this phase.

The ten-day residential portion (at the end of the individual study phase) is immersion training. You will live and breathe the EI during that period. Each day will be filled with lectures, discussions, drills, and study. The drills are designed to help develop the particular skills you will need for handling the various circumstances that may arise during Intensives, and you will lead short practice Intensives to gain practical experience at being a master. There will be ample time to get all your questions answered.

This course is demanding as well as a profound. Most have found it a deep and rewarding experience. It is not uncommon for students to experience life-changing insights and transformations in their progress toward being an EI master.

Contact Osha (origin@highsierra.org) or Edrid (edrid@sandoth.com) to apply or get additional information.