Manzanita Village


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NLP Certification

April 2-14 2012

Residential Training.

Manzanita Village, Warner Springs.

Inclusive price $4494

Two-pay option $2320

Bring a friend for half price

REDUCED PRICES THROUGH JAN 31

Practitioner and Master Practitioner Certification. Residential Training Program. Accommodations and meals included!

Tel: 760-782-9223 for information or to reserve your place at special price!

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Podcasts
Talks, Talking points,
Guided Meditations, NLP,
and Hypnotic Inductions

Coaching and Hypnosis
Hypnotherapy, Coaching, NLP

Aikido and Iaido
Aikido and Iaido for adults and children

Meditation Online
Distance Coaching, Learning, Training, through Teleseminars and Webinars

Trans Circles
Trance Gender.
Freedom from the binary paradigm. Retreats every Spring and Fall.
A Quotation for Today
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And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong

Slideshow of the Village

Photographs of Manzanita Village Retreat. Some recent, some recently revisited. Enjoy!

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A Charmed Life

Have you ever wondered how everything seems to go right for some people, while others just keep beating their heads against the wall? Or after they learned to stop beating themselves up, they are lost in disappointment and regret; going round in circles, wondering why things are so hard. How many people do you know who are always blaming life, other people, and the past, for the difficulties in their life? [...]

Earth Day 2011

I had felt ambivalent about Earth Day since it first showed up in the early 1970’s. Isn’t every day Earth day? Would fish celebrate ‘Water Day’? [...]

Relationship basics

The relationship you have with others, whatever sort of relationship that may be – professional, romantic, and everything in between—is inevitably a reflection of the relationship you have with yourself.  That means that any internal conflict you have within yourself— any conflict of values, or unfinished business – will show up on the outside.

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Wild Mind

You could write a book to unpack the idea of the wild. In fact there have been several. I am thinking in particular of Gary Snyder’s Practice of the Wild. Join us for a retreat to learn ways to open to the simplicity of living from the innate and naturally wild capacity of mind. [...]

Meditation Retreats - Three Things You Shound Know

A Meditation Retreat is an ideal way to begin to learn to meditate. Beginners often say that they are not ready to come to a retreat yet. In fact, coming to a retreat is the very best way to establish a working understanding of meditation, [...]

The Wisdom of Insecurity

The more you come into balance and congruence with your own mind, the more you trust the fluidity and flow of it. This is the subject for our retreat over Labor Day weekend in September. [...]

The NLP training July 8-17

One of the great masters of Budo (a physically demanding Japanese dance and performance-art form) didn’t take up the art until after he was seventy. [...]

Introduction to Manzanita Village

Retreats at Manzanita Village are open to all. They weave together the teachings and practices of the Buddhist Traditions with the timeless themes of Peace-Making and Non-Violence, Social-Justice, Personal Integration and Creativity. Retreats follow the traditional forms of monastic practice, blending Theravada (Vipassana) practice with Thien (Zen). [...]