September 24-26: Othona Centre, Burton Bradstock, Dorset, England:
The Healing Breath: The Aramaic Beatitudes and Spirituality of Jesus.
A weekend retreat on the Beatitudes in Matthew, using chant, movement and meditation and contemplation. The Beatitudes in Aramaic present a subtle psychological process of healing and empowerment. The ³music² of healing that Yeshua plays appears in one form in Matthew, in another in Luke. We will meditate, chant and dance our way through this process of healing, re-experiencing the empowerment that Yeshua offered his original listeners.
Contact: Othona Centre, mail@othona-bb.org.uk. Tel. +44 (0)1308 897130 www.othona-bb.org.uk .
October 5-10: nr Fulda, Germany
Love and Death: The Preciousness of the Soul's Journey
A Soulwork retreat with Murshida Gita Sophia and Murshid Saadi
The soul is a treasure that we explore more and more, with patience, respect and love. The purpose is to reclaim our entire sacred inheritance, and live in fullness, freely fulfilling the purpose of our lives. This also calls for us to contemplate the preciousness of this existence, its limitations, and the passing of the physical bodies of ourselves, as well as those we love and cherish. As we "die before we die" (in the words of the Sufis). “There is no way out but through. New life will only come when one finds the courage to step into the unknown. The unknown often involves embracing that which has been regarded as unacceptable, such as a nice person with repressed feelings having to become a real person with real feelings. All these challenges brought forth by the grieving process are variations on one inescapable theme: will you choose life or death?” – Murshid Moineddin Jablonski. This retreat will be followed by a retreat for initiated Sufi mureeds of the Sufi Ruhaniat International, from October 3-5. Contact: Email Qadima Sabine Brandt, Tel.: +49 (0)30–470 36 783
October 14-17: nr Edinburgh, Scotland:
The Abwoon Interspiritual Leadership Program: Integrative Retreat
This is the final meeting of the Scottish AILP group and is closed to the public. A new group in Germany is forming for modules beginning November 25, 2010 and ending in fall 2013. See below and for full details and application form, see www.eial.org. The new program will be in German and English.
October 23-24: London, England: London Centre for Spirituality:
The Ancient Spirituality of Creation: The Original Meditation of the Aramaic Jesus
Though too often forgotten, the roots of peace in today’s world can be found in the ancient understandings of the foundational stories and practices of the three Abrahamic faiths. This two-day workshop focuses on a spirituality that unites the three main religions of the Middle East and demonstrates how early mystics, including Jesus, may have meditated. In spite of apparent differences, all three religions originally shared an emphasis on sacred beginnings and a vision of a living caravan of ancestors. These ways of contemplation, which were kept alive by the mystics and mystical traditions of the three traditions, including Meister Eckhart, the Sepher Yitzerah, and the classical Sufis, including Rumi and Ibn Arabi. The basic meditations and practices shared seek to reclaim the life-affirming energy of creation as an ongoing reality.The workshop will use short lectures, meditation, chant, Dances of Universal Peace, and body prayer based on Neil Douglas-Klotz’s books. Contact: London Centre for Spirituality, Tel. 020 7621 1391, www.spiritualitycentre.org Email: info@spiritualitycentre.org
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