April 5th to April 10th, 2024
Embodied Life™ Johanneshof Graduate Retreat
Herrischried, Germany (Zen Center Johanneshof)
With Russell and Linda Delman
Dear ELMP Grads,
We are thrilled to gather at Johanneshof Zen Center April 5-10 to deepen our practices and explore guiding others in this work.
As our community matures, we realize that integrating a pre-planned curriculum with interactive, group driven study is the most potent model for our next steps. Your interests and questions will help guide the specifics.
A few of our personal enthusiasms:
Over the past few years we have experienced greater clarity about the use of Spatial Awareness and what we call "space shifting" for:
-activating change when stuck
-creating new possibilities in a relationship entanglement
-giving reliable access to the "larger space" or spiritual world.
We sense that many of us are at a plateau in our meditation practice that will benefit from an accelerant. We look forward to activating this possibility.
The inseparability of language, particularly metaphor, from embodied experience, and how to adapt that for ourselves and others.
The possibilities that emerge from our ever-deepening relationship to the Earth (grounding), Atmosphere ( breathing) and the Golden Ball (centering).
As we continue to ripen in our understanding, we recognize that our two intentions, 1) deepening practices and 2) guiding others are, fundamentally, one.
Deepening practices, for us, means to really see how these teachings are life path of moving from a limited, historic self-identity to a more universal, awareness-based sense of self. That does not mean that the path is the same for everyone. Rather that each of us, on a path of awareness, need to be able to:
-Sit consistently with our own life process with acceptance, care and curiosity
-Know ourselves in both movement and stillness
-Authentically and reliably access the "Larger Self, True I, Original Nature", as we take care of and learn from our historic self--dentities.
The uniqueness of "The Embodied Life" is the diversity of practices within this one vision: Awareness, inner and outer, warmed by loving-kindness, changes everything. We can know this as our most essential state!
One of the most potent ways of deepening our practice is to learn the keys to guiding others. This is obvious for "Embodied Life Teachers" yet equally true for those who have no intention of guiding others. Looking "behind the curtain" of these teachings is helpful for everyone.
For example:
-What is unique about Embodied Meditation and how to offer it to "anti-meditators"
-Why a meditation practice gets stuck or is difficult to maintain
-How to teach Focusing without teaching Focusing.
Our main intention - that each of us experience a new level of warm-hearted awareness and that we naturally share this in our lives.
We truly hope you can join us for this retreat. Being together will bring great Joy.
From our hearts to yours..Russell and Linda
Tuition: Euro 450. Please transfer E100 as a deposit to hold your spot.
To register and pay: click here.
Lodging: Accommodation: Food&Beverage :Organization and Tax:Total price
Studio including full bathroom 450 Euro 225 Euro 70Euro 745 Euro
Single room 300 Euro 225 Euro 70 Euro 595 Euro
Double room 225 Euro 225 Euro 70 Euro 520 Euro
Multi-bed room 120 Euro 225 Euro 70 Euro 410 Euro
To make your lodging arrangements and payments please contact Johanneshof directly at johanneshof@dharma-sangha.de
The Zen Center Johanneshof
The Zen Center Johanneshof is dedicated to the teaching and practice of meditation, mindfulness, wisdom and compassion. We follow a monastic daily routine that begins every morning with zazen (quiet sitting meditation) and ends in the evening with zazen.
We offer different events: social weekend seminars, meditation weeks (sesshin), seminars with a focus on psychological aspects, communication (mindful cooperation), yoga, Feldenkrais and other bodywork methods. From mid-September to mid-December our 90-day practice period takes place. The Zen events will be led by Zentatsu Baker Roshi, Ikyo Ottmar Angel Roshi and Paul Ryuten Rosenblum Roshi. The seminars in psychology and bodywork are taught by longtime sangha members.
In the Psychology category, we offer events on three different topics: communication and attentive togetherness; psychological aspects of Zen practice; and systemic constellation work. We explore the respective topics as partial aspects of Zen practice. All events are led by longtime Sangha members and are suitable for both new and experienced practitioners.
For more information about Zen Center Johanneshof visit them on the web at www.dharma-sangha.de