The Lifeflow Meditation Centre
The Lifeflow Meditation Centre
What's on for term 1 of 2009
Happy 2009 and welcome to our new-look Lifeflow Email Update!  - new format but same info with easier access to new links on our website.  Term 1 starts week beginning Monday 16th Feb - for info and bookings call us on (08) 8353 0000 or book online.

Best regards,
John Burston.
Meditation courses start from Mon 16 Feb
 
Learn calm and balance with LifeflowReconnect with deep calm at Lifeflow courses...
Learn to meditate - now at Burnside too
Level 2 - Go deeper - Mon 10, Tue 7.30, Thu 5.45
Level 3 - Integration - Thu 5.45
Level 4 - Advanced - Fri 6
If you just want the occasional top up then come along to our Wednesday practice classes - just meditation (plus questions if you have any) - Wed 6-7 pm during and between terms
Coming to your senses - retreat at Tara Hills 
 
Coming to your senses - Lifeflow retreat at Tara HillsMeditation can be used to open to a clear awareness - moment to moment. This comes from learning a skill that is unique to meditation - in addition to focusing your minds on thoughts, emotions, or anything, you can also develop a form of concentration that is open, clear and still. 27-29 March. Find out more...

Or you may like to try one of our other retreats:
Balancing Life - 1-3 May
Dark Night of the Soul - 12-14 June
Joy of Being - 7-day retreat 13-19 July
Guides training courses starts 21 Feb
 
Learn to guide short, simple and effective Lifeflow meditationsWould you like to learn to share the skill of meditation with others?

Following on from the the inaugural guides training program conducted for Southern Adelaide Health Services, this course is designed for people who would like to use the tool of meditation as an adjunct for their work (eg health professionals, social workers, teachers). The course builds on the theory and meditation practice taught in our Learn to Meditate course (which is prerequisite for the Guides training).  It gives you the skills and knowledge needed to lead others through short meditations. The course is conducted by Ann Calvert and Graham Williams, on Saturday mornings, over six weeks. Some places are still available.

Participants from the first guides training course have said:
'...the course was taught in a ...wonderful and inspiring way. I have so many ideas about how to use [meditation] with clients... but most importantly, it is already a valuable tool for use in my own life.'
'...fantastic course - thank you'.

 
Find out more...
Members classes and retreats kick off too 
 
Members-only classes and retreats at Tara HillsExplore new avenues of meditation, gain the support of meeting other like minded meditators or just enjoy time out from the city at any of these Members events:

Seminar at Tara Hills
Bang Crash Opera! A performers tale of getting things back on track
Sun 22 March, 11 am - 1 pm

Easter long weekend retreat at Kurlana
Maps of the mind - a Western and Easter perspective, part 1
10-13 April, Kurlana Mallee Sanctuary

Weekend retreat at Tara Hills
The Elixir of Life
24-26 April

Members receive a 10% discount to all Lifeflow events, plus access to these and other Members-only classes and retreats, plus borrowing rights to our extensive library at Tara Hills Retreat Centre. Find out more about membership.
Article: Open and aware - our feminine side 
 
Graham Williams - Director of the Lifeflow Meditation CentreDo you remember times as a child when you were watching something, or just listening, completely absorbed, and were quite happy to be still? You were meditating - it is something we could all do naturally and easily as children; we just didn't know what we were doing.
A client of mine, after learning to meditate, suddenly remembered ...read more.
At the beach - informal meditation
 
At the beach - informal meditations you can try this summer at the beachGet a bit more out of your next visit to the beach - use it as an informal meditation! Try these pointers:
  • Get there early, get there late: catch the magic of the beach at dawn, the soft light, the gentle calm. Or, arrive just before sunset - catch the warmth and rich colours of the sunset
  • Take your shoes off! Feel the sand under your feet; feel your body touching the earth; awaken your feet!
  • Listening to the sound right through you: practise opening to the sounds and let them wash right through you - you might even have a feeling of the sound being completely through you, as if you were hollow.
  • Feel the water all over your skin as you swim - it's electric
  • Enjoy the afterglow when you get out of the water - it's a gentle aliveness all through your body.

 

Meet the Author - Graham Willliams at Quantum bookshop
 
Graham Williams - author of Life in Balance - the Lifeflow guide to meditationAn engaging speaker and inspiring teacher, Graham will share some of his extraordinary life experience, guide us through several meditations and explain how you can use Life in Balance to develop your own meditation practice. The session will include ample opportunities for questions.

Sunday 15 February, 12 noon
Quantum Bookshop, 111-113 Melbourne St, North Adelaide 
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Best wishes to all,
The team at Lifeflow
Lifeflow Meditation Centre
 

Free Talk - introducing Lifeflow meditation
Free Talk - introducing Lifeflow meditation
Wed 11 Feb
7.30-8.30 pm
 
Come along and find out about meditation, how we teach it, and what the benefits are for you. Our free talks are a great way to meet Lifeflow teachers and to personally experience Lifeflow meditation before signing up for a course or retreat.

No bookings required - just turn up.
If you want to find out more - please phone us on (08) 8353 0000 or visit our Free Talks page.

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