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Dear Friends,

We are happy to begin archiving yoga and meditation sessions for kids and teens in our Special Events videos! The hatha yoga classes are instructed and demonstrated by Michelle Mae and Steve Abate. These classes are age specific and lead kids and teens through basic postures that will bring about a balance of calm, awareness, energy and fun. Adults may enjoy them too!

Jan Nicholson and Karen Ferguson will lead meditation classes for kids and teens as well. These meditation sessions are coming soon.

To access Yoga for Kids and Yoga for Teens, go to the left of the screen and click on "Program Archive/Podcasts." Then scroll down and click on "Special Events Video." A list will come up allowing you to watch or download each video.

June 20, 2010

On the auspicious day of Medicine Buddha, June 19, 2010 at 8:07pm, our most beloved teacher and one of the great scholars and masters in Nyingmapa Buddhism, rinpoche passed into parinirvana peacefully and beautifully. All stages of meditation were perfectly demonstrated according to the teachings of the Buddha and Guru Padmasambhava, and as Khenchen Rinpoche himself taught for so many years. He entered fearlessly without any emotion or attachment, joyfully and with confidence at his home, Arya Palo Ling, in the presence of his beloved brother, Venerable Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche, and Jomo Lorraine, and during the sangha’s practice of Vajrasattva in the glorious Copper-colored Temple at Palden Padma Samye Ling monastery. Surrounded by every lush spring quality of gentle breezes, birds singing, flowers blooming, and deer playing in the meadows, he remains in thugdam meditation.

On Thursday March 25, 2010, Rudolph Bauer, PhD, ABPP, will be presenting a workshop entitled "The Journey to Oneness: The Four Levels of Consciousness" at Symposium 2010 in Washington DC.

More on the workshop:

In the world’s contemplative traditions, the spiritual journey involves an expansion of consciousness from everyday experience to a broader awareness of oneness with the universe. In this day-long experiential workshop on meditation, we’ll explore the stages of this journey, beginning with a heightened appreciation of “standard issue” thinking, sensation, and fantasy. From there, we’ll focus on the fundamental meditative awareness that we’re not our thoughts and feelings. We’ll proceed to an “awareness of awareness,” in which we give up our life’s storyline and experience no longer being fused with our normal identities, but rather experience the field of awareness as our own self. We’ll even explore the fourth, and rarest, level: the sense of pure awareness or pure radiant void, a mystical state achieved at the highest levels of Tibetan Buddhism. While achieving the final state may be a long shot in this one-day workshop, you’ll experience a rich and profound voyage to the edges of your current state of awareness.

Rudolph Bauer, Ph.D., director of the Gestalt Therapy Training Center in Washington, D.C., and codirector of the Washington Center for Consciousness Studies, has published extensively on existential psychotherapy and studied with many Tibetan Dzogchen and Chinese Qigong masters.

http://www.brunolevy.com/video2.html

Workshops include one with Rudolph Bauer, PhD, ABPP:

What is the Wonder of All Wonders?
Pure Awareness: On Becoming the Field

This workshop will help participants learn to hold the awareness state by entering this innate and immediate field of awareness, resting deeply in the field and at moments becoming the field of consciousness.

Read about the other workshops at this 2 day conference and all information at:
www.ciis.edu/publicprograms
415-575-6175 10am to 5pm Mon - Fri
Fax: 415-593-9042 Attn: Public Programs