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| UPCOMING EVENTS · Past Events Welcoming
Happiness Yoga: An
Art of Love Welcoming
Happiness MORE INFO Happiness is available to us in each moment. Yet many of us search for happiness – thinking that if we get the “right” job, or partner, or home, or whatever – we’ll find the magical thing to make us happy. Movies and myths present stories of picture perfect happiness that we strive for. Yet how often do we actually explore our own individual definitions of happiness? This weekend experience will be filled with opportunity to truly step into experiential exploration - in body, mind and heart - of what it means to have a joyful life journey. We’ll look at the difference between fleeting moments of “happiness,” and a deeper, more long-lasting sense of “joy” of being alive, or vitality. We’ll start to re-attune our ways of thinking - and seeing and being in the world - toward joy, releasing stories and habits that no longer support a joyful life. And we’ll explore the issue of being happy with yourself as a foundation for experiencing life as a joyful journey. This will be a truly experiential and embodied exploration, not just about our thinking! Come prepared to connect with joy, to breathe in the present moment, to appreciate the beauty of life – your own and the stunning nature of Kirkridge Retreat Center, and to laugh for no other reason than “we can.” All this in a supportive community of joy-creators. Leave with practices to use in daily life, and a joyful-living action plan of your own. Based on the work of Ekchart Tolle, Robert Holden (founder of The Happiness Project), and many other spiritual teachings and practice, we’ll consider questions like: Is happiness what I really want? Join us this weekend and find out! YOGA:
AN ART OF LOVE Yoga: An Art of Love combines powerful, deeply moving and playful experiences to deepen your capacity for self-awareness, acceptance and love. As a path of union, yoga brings together the consciousness in body, mind and heart to experience spiritual union (a state of presence we often call “love.”) This retreat is designed specifically to cultivate unconditional love in each area of your life. Gentle yoga, Vinyassa flow and Yin Yoga will be our guiding physical experiences, with the support of shared intentional touch, journaling, pairs and group work. We allow these to be gateways for dissolving resistance to the love that always exists in and through us. You are welcome at this retreat whatever your level of yoga experience. The only prerequisite is your willingness to connect authentically with yourself, other men and your innate love within. Suggestions: * Bring a journal (preferably ring-bound so you
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Awaken
to happiness – it’s here in each moment. Yet many of
us search for happiness outside of ourselves, or expect others to
make us happy. And what’s more, have you ever thought about
what happiness really is? What are you looking for, anyway? Search
no more. Choose to see the joy of this moment. Re-attune your ways
of thinking and being in the world towards joy – a deeper-felt,
peace-inducing, long-lasting sense of aliveness. In essence, welcome
happiness and joy into your life rather than try to find it. And
take responsibility to look within for the thoughts and behaviors
that block receiving happiness, and transform your life by creating
habits of thought and action that support experiencing more joy.
Why search for a succession of fleeting moments of “happy”
when you can be connected all of the time to a sense of joy for
being alive? This weekend experience will be filled with opportunity
to truly step into experiential exploration - in body, mind and
heart - of what it means to have a joyful life journey…