Awareness Meditation Retreats
at Spirit Fire Meditation
Retreat Center
With Donna Mitchell-Moniak
three-day: Thursday, September 18 - Sunday, September 21
four-day: Sunday, October 26 - Thursday, October 30
Awareness meditation is a new, practical, effective, and immediately accessible form of meditation. We expand breath and refine our senses while holding an asana of deep inner silence. Awareness meditation offers a unique experience of heart and being. Heart-mind is taken beyond concept to lived luminescence. All levels of meditative practice welcome.
“I was astonished how day after day Donna guided us on a path to Radical Enlightenment. It was all there if we were paying attention!" JP
I attended the Awareness Meditation Retreat outside of Boulder, CO in May 2007 with Donna Mitchell-Moniak
teaching, sharing and compassionately guiding our diverse
group of conscious seekers. Very subtly, as if with tiny steps
over the weekend, I awakened with a new and limitlessness sense
of Heart, finding a loving
flow of life within that's always present beyond our artificial
sense of self and ego. This was the beginning of a new and
exciting journey that is still unfolding and revealing itself
with blessings.
David Fitch, merchandise consultant
Learning to meditate is like learning to read!
Broader understandings and expanded opportunities open to
us through meditation. But, like reading, we first have to
learn the foundational steps that will make a lifetime of meditating
with all its benefits possible.
Awareness Meditation
is the form of meditation and conscious living taught by
Donna to many people over the last 20 years. They and their
lives are the testament of its efficacy in opening one to
the fullness of oneself and the depth of one’s
being. This practice used
to be called Heart-Breath-Awakeness
which describes the technique and result but is a mouthful!
Awareness Meditation is both simple and radical. It is to
learn to live as a heart beating in the world, aware and attuned;
and to learn to breathe freely with the flow of Life.
Cost:
Food and Lodgings: $95 per day/night
Meditation and teachings are by donation.
A donation to the teacher is suggested and appreciated.
Deposit: $100
Register by sending your check to:
Spirit Fire Meditative Retreat Center
407 West Leyden Rd.
Leyden, MA 01337 or
413-624-3955 for credit card payments
2008 Dates
- April 6-20 (4 day)
- July 2-6 (4 day)
- three day Thurs, Sept 18- Sun, Sept 21
- four-day: Sun, Oct 26 - Thurs, Oct 30
I think the retreat was very special: mostly silent, sacred, Mother Nature, and Donna’s total understanding of what the group needed to know and practice. She was gentle but firm in her direction and (once again) teachings came out "new,” direct, simple, and GENIUS! This was/is the fast track for Everyman.” Jennifer Paris
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Mondays and Wednesday nights at 7 pm for 5 weeks
with Donna Mitchell-Moniak
Beginning Monday, September 22 at Spirit Fire
This 10-session program explores the evolution of consciousness through the PBS series Beyond Theology and then group discussion. We will examine fundamental challenges of our time, addressing the roots of contemporary culture wars and global environmental crises. The series focuses on the emergence of a worldview that integrates science and spirituality, while exploring the notion that the guiding myths of modern civilization are in transition. Each week we will watch a 30-minute episode about a particular topic and then discuss it as a group. Bill Moyers, journalist and public commentator, said of the PBS series that it "shows us a hopeful vision of faith based on the deepest longings of heart and mind.
Cost: donation
Where: Spirit Fire Meditative Retreat Center 407 West Leyden Rd, Leyden, MA
Contact: Donna with questions 413-624-3955 or donnasol@mindspring.com
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with Jill Badonsky
Friday, October 10 - Sunday, October 12
stay for an extra day because of the holiday, Monday October 13!
at Spirit Fire Meditative Retreat Center
Join author, workshop leader, creativity coach and yoga teacher, Jill Badonsky for this second annual refuge into the beauty of autumn colors, the company of souls who value creativity, laughter, and growth; delicious healthy gourmet food, and a space to relax, restore, and regroup. With the economy causing worry, more than ever we need to use our creative power to magnetize abundance, prosperity and joy.
Activate or deepen your creativity in the company of like-minded souls, experience the magic that Shaman Chris Magalene creates with her healing nature journey with archetypes, join Jill in daily yoga/walking/movement for creativity and bliss experience, to enhance your intuition, imprint powerful messages into your body and spirit, and cleanse your emotions, experience journal and creative writing made easy and imaginative, bring projects you have not had time to complete or discover new ways to creatively express yourself ... or just participate according to your own intuitive rhythm and partake in the healing restoration of being in the country and the nurturing of delicious and healthy food.
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with Jacqueline Ryan Brodnitzki, RYT
Friday, November 14 - Sunday, November 16
Enjoy this rejuvenating weekend of yin yoga, hatha yoga, meditation and hiking.
For more information visit:
innerbalanceyoga.net/_wsn/page8.html.
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Meditation
is both a service to oneself
and to the world. We gather
each Monday evening to
reaffirm our connection
to all of life and to direct
our energies to peace,
brotherly love and the
well being of all creation.
Meditation begins promptly
at 7:00 PM for approximately
a half an hour followed
by informal discussion.
When: Mondays
@ 7 PM
Location: 407 W. Leyden Rd.
Leyden, MA 01337
Cost: Free
***Please
call first to make sure
the meditation will be
happening: 413.624.3955
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