Summer Sanctuary

19th to 24th January, 2008

Come to the 2008 Summer Sanctuary.  Take a break from the pressures of life and enjoy the opportunity to refresh, reflect and revitalise yourself in the company of others who share the same interests and needs.

The beginning of the New Year is a perfect opportunity as we naturally look towards the year ahead.  Everyone can benefit enormously from regularly taking stock of themselves and their lives, from opening up to the realities they face there, from celebrating their successes and from making plans to deal with current challenges.  Reviewing our existing goals and deciding what to do then are natural next steps.

REFRESH

Come and enjoy good company, good food, good exercise and an enlivening environment.  Luxuriate in having time to rest, meditate and reconnect with yourself.  The four days of the workshop offer wonderful opportunities for all of this.  We will have fun, we will relax, we will refresh ourselves.  At the same time, in order to promote the lives we want for ourselves and others, we need to be realistic about what is going on in the world around us right now.

REFLECT

We are faced on a daily basis with information about threats to us personally and to the planet as a whole.  This information, graphically presented in the media, is understandably taking its toll on many people.  We are worried and the truth is that we should be, for the world situation is very, very serious.  We need to reflect on this and on what we can do.

In the midst of all of this, as well, we are, of course, living our day-to-day lives.  We have needs, desires and hopes that are important.  Related to this, a significant question arises: Are we living in alignment with our true needs and our spiritual aspirations.  It is fundamental that we reflect on these too.

REVITALISE

In general terms, what to do is obvious.  We need to revitalise ourselves and the planet, to foster aliveness and abundance with such intensity and power that vast changes occur in our own lives and in the world around us.

We will explore techniques, both old and new.  They combine ancient wisdom with modern science and they involve learning individual practices that will change our personal lives and bring about needed changes on a global scale.  These practices will include:

• an exciting and liberating shift of world view

• harnessing the amazing power of consciousness

• embracing the basic union in everything and

• learning how to manage our intentions and goals so we harness the enormous power available in that union. 

This workshop can take you far beyond anything you may yet have imagined as possible in your life.  These are very exciting possibilities.