Workshops, Retreats and Seminars 2011-2012
February Retreat: Meditation Retreat. Forgiveness and Gratitude Michele Benzamin-Miki, Caitriona Reed Click for Details |
February 17-20 2012 at Manzanita Village |
NLP Certification Training at Manzanita Village Michele Benzamin-Miki, Caitriona Reed Click for Details |
April 2-14 2012 Manzanita Village |
Warrior Heart Path Aikido and Iaido with Sensei Michele Benzamin-Miki Click for Details |
Spring 2012 (date TBA) at Manzanita Village |
Circles: Transgender Empowerment Retreat Caitriona Reed, Michele Benzamin-Miki Click for Details |
May 11-13, 2012 at Manzanita Village |
Advance registration is required for all Retreats and Workshops
Questions? Please call +1-760-782-9223 or email manzanita@ordinarydharma.org
I am grateful beyond words for the remarkable work of Caitríona and Michele.
No spiritual teachers I know bring a broader, more relevant range of knowledge, experience, and well-honed skills for awakening us to fullness of being.
While thoroughly schooled in ancient traditions, their work is fresh and bold, igniting both courage and joy for meeting the challenges of today’s world.
For over a decade my own life and teaching has been enriched by their adventurous creativity and passionate respect for life.
Joanna Macy. Activist, Teacher, and Author of “World as Lover, World as Self” and “Coming Back to Life”, and Co-founder of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Silent Meditation Retreat:
Forgiveness and Gratitude,
Loving-kindness and Compassion
February 17-20 at Manzanita Village
Begins Friday evening at 6 PM
Includes instruction and teachings. Beginners Welcome.
Michele Benzamin-Miki, Caitriona Reed
Did you ever lie awake at night because of something you wish you hadn’t done, or because of the way someone has hurt you?
Did it leave a scar that never completely healed?
or perhaps you hope it’s not really affecting you anymore
and try to put it out of your mind?
Forgiveness begins with forgiving yourself
and it’s never really done until all the forgiving is over and finished
and the only thing that remains is Gratitude.
.. Gratitude for the lessons learned,
.. Gratitude for the opportunity to move
beyond the separation that caused hurt and regret in the first place
.. Gratitude to know that you really can be free
of resentment, regrets, resignation, and fear.
As long as you are still saying “I forgive,” then judgment is still there.
With gratitude you release yourself from the tyranny of an imagined past, and open the door to completely transforming your life here and now, and move towards authentic Compassion, Loving kindness, Creativity, Achievement, and the Celebration of life.
We have been on sabbatical of several months and we are really looking forward to this retreat. Please join us.
This will be a silent Mindfulness/Vipassana retreat
We will be introducing you to some very powerful skills to anchor Gratitude, Expanded Awareness, and Loving-kindness in ways you can bring into your daily life as part of a dynamic ongoing practice.
Three days at Manzanita Village, including meals and accommodation.
$195 (+$200 accommodation and meals)
To register by mail send a check to:
Ordinary Dharma PO Box 67, Warner Springs, CA 92086
To register by phone call:
1.310-339-1660
NLP Certification Training at Manzanita Village
April 2-14
Begins Monday morning. Arrive Sunday night.
Michele Benzamin-Miki, Caitriona Reed Click for Details
Reflect for a moment on the difference between driving your car knowing that the owner’s manual is probably in the glove compartment, should you ever need it and driving your car knowing that you have …
- The expertise of a factory trained engineer
- The skill of a formula one driver
- A road map that shows every highway, shortcut and landmark you are ever likely to need.
Are you a coach, therapist, educator, activist, business owner, trainer, consultant, public-speaker, sales person, performer, artist?
Are you a player or just a spectator? Are you passionate about learning, and developing new skills to deepen your essential understanding of the world?
Learn creative problem-solving, and communication skills that will give you the leading edge in any and every situation.
This course is a high-energy, content-rich, immersion in specific practical skills, valuable in themselves, and more than that, priceless as the means for you to engage in the creativity that allows for unlimited scope in how you can apply and create brand new skills and applications; in your own life, and for the benefit of your clients, students, and team members.
Reduced Rates through December 31- $500 off regular price EXTENDED THROUGH JAN 31
AND you can bring a friend for half price
(Click Here for more information on this 14 day training)
or
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Two week training intensive $4497 (through December 31)
bring a friend add only $2225
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
SPRING CIRCLES
May 11-13, 2012 Manzanita Village
Safe Space for trans women and men and allies Print or download flier
For all transgendered people, friends, family, and allies
and anyone who questions current normative gender paradigms
Caitriona Reed, Michele Benzamin-Miki, Darya Norvet
“The ease and the freedom I feel at Manzanita lets me let go and feel free…. free of all fears and the sense of abandonment I sometimes feel in my everyday life. What is more beautiful than a human being who has just realized that she is actually alive?”
Sara Carmichael, participant at Circles
Partial scholarships available. . . for all women, men, g/q ,and others questioning gender binaries and stereotypical identity/ies
Conference highlights include:
- Workshops and discussion groups co-created by participants
- Accommodation and fine vegetarian, mostly organic meals
- An atmosphere of safety, confidentiality, and ease
- Time for relaxation, sauna, naps, walks in the surrounding hills
Exploration of issues such as:
- Internalized oppression, internalized transphobia
- Identity beyond binary paradigms (female/male straight/gay etc etc)
- The Wisdom of Insecurity, trusting our Power
- Class, Race, and Gender
- Strategies for facilitating change: personal, communal, and societal
- Trans issues and the law
- Coming Out to Our Family and Children
- The place for genderqueer, trans, and ‘two-spirit’ people in traditional societies
- Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Spiritual Practice and Trans Issues
- Transition issues
- Relationships
- Transgender Liberation Movement ‘
- Descansos’ reflections on and the landmarks of our life’s journey
- Dance and body-image
Please note: this is not just for trans people ‘in transition.‘ We are all always, all of us, in transition of one sort or another – whether you are gay, straight, trans or otherwise. And if you think you have got your life together, please come anyway to give your support those who do not! We look forward to sharing some time with you.
Print or download flier Registration: $250-$350 includes food and accommodation
Register Here
Sliding Scale $250-$350
Registration includes food and lodging and tuition.
Select options (e.g. if you require a private room)
from the drop down menu on the next page.
To register by mail send a check to:
Ordinary Dharma PO Box 67, Warner Springs, CA 92086
To register by phone call:
1.760-782-9223
Can you help support our scholarship fund? Donations are tax deductible.
WARRIOR HEART PATH
Spring 2012Manzanita Village
The Heart of Non-violence
The Japanese sword has been used for war for too many centuries. The time has come to find ways to use it to make peace, to transform it; and by transforming its violent legacy, to transform ourselves. Nishio Sensei
Please join us for Warrior Heart Path!
This is a great way to try out a martial art path and to set a warrior heart intention for the springtime. You will be training at your level and capacity, so all levels are welcome. Learn physical and mental skills that empower you, in a supportive and fun way.
Vegetarian food & lodging for two nights included
$250 (Friday 6:00 pm – Sunday 11am)
$150 (Saturday only 10:30 am - 9:00 pm)
Beginners welcomed – training for all levels
Register for Retreats by Paypal or Credit Card
Registration includes food and lodging and tuition.
Select options (e.g. if you require a private room
from the drop down menu on the next page.
To register by mail send a check to:
Ordinary Dharma PO Box 67, Warner Springs, CA 92086
To register by phone call:
1.310-339-3531
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