| "If you love someone. . . set them free" |
 Sting was really onto something here! How about pointing someone in the direction of meditation? Meditation can open your life to more joy and spontaneity, and can help you free yourself from being caught in cages of thought - even when you wake up in the middle of the night. Send a friend, or come along yourself to our free talk next Wednesday.
Free introductory session
Wed 29 April
7.30-8.30 pm
Lifeflow City Studio
447 Morphett St, Adelaide |
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| Get some Balance before the Dark Night. . . |
 Dark Night of the Soul - 12-14 June Calling all mystics, or anyone who has been knocked around a bit by life. Enjoy some time out, refresh, and gain a deeper understanding of what happens during any time of change, or when you've achieved what you set out to do, and then ask "Is that all there is...?". There is still one place left on our Balancing Life retreat - on next weekend 1-3 May - book now on 8353 0000. More retreats coming up. ..Joy of Being - 7-day retreat 12-18 July
Did you know. . .
- you don't need any prior meditation experience to come on a Lifeflow retreat. Retreats are also a great complement to any of the Levels courses.
- these retreats are fully catered - all you need to bring is yourself, some loose comfortable clothing, bedding and a sense of curiosity.
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| Find your centre at a Members event. . . |
Working Bee at Kurlana
Weekend of 23-24 May. Come up on the Friday and make it a long weekend. Enjoy the open spaces and deep calm of Kurlana - last chance before it gets too cold. Ask a teacher or call 8353 0000 for more info. 
Weekend retreat at Tara Hills
The world of the mandala: from outer to inner and back againThis retreat will focus on how we can use mandalas to explore the many colours of our minds and for accepting and integrating the different aspects of our lives... Find out more.6-8 June (Queens B'day long weekend) Working Bee at Tara Hills
Sat 20 June, from 10 am. Meet other members and teachers in an informal setting. Not too strenuous. Ask a teacher or call 8353 0000 for more info.
Visualisation at Tara Hills
AbundanceSun 21 June, 11 am.
Working Bees - Tara Hills; Kurlana
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| Dreams are made of this. . . |
| Recently ABC Radio National's All in the Mind produced a couple of programs covering dreams. We've included summaries and links to them here as they relate to material we teach at Lifeflow and may be of interest to anyone practising meditation.
Dreams: the body alive!
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2009/2501221.htm
This program focuses on an interview with Jungian dream analyst, Robert Bosnak, who views a dream as an "...ecosystem of imaginings and powerful bodily experiences...". Bosnak makes two key points that reinforce what we teach at Lifeflow: don't get lost in stories and re-incorporating the energy body.
Bosnak encourages clients to get back to the basic bodily sensation linked with a remembered dream, rather than getting caught up in interpretations. We take the same approach with meditation experiences - encouraging students to stay with the actual physical experience of what is happening. It is very easy to get lost in analysis and stories, and miss the actual feeling of what is going on. Bosnak has found that people's interpretations of dreams are strongly affected by their cultural belief systems - an insight that came from working with both Eastern and Western clients. In the Level 3 Insight modules we introduce meditation principles which explain why this happens.
Another interesting link to what we teach at Lifeflow was a comment from French philosopher Henry Corbin, who noted that in our culture we originally had three realms of reality: physical, mental and also a realm of imagination. In about 700, 800 years ago, 'that realm of the imagination as reality dropped out and it became just mind and matter'. Anyone who has been around Lifeflow courses for a while may recognise the earlier view as similar to our Three Bodies model taught in courses and retreats. (This model will be covered in some detail in this term's Level 2 course).
Dreams: the stuff memories are made of?
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2009/2506080.htm
One theory of dreaming is that it forms part of the process of laying down long term memories. It's a hotly debated issue - read and make up your own mind.
Don't just dream about it, do it!
If you want to get some practice at working with the energy body (or realm of 'imagination'), then book yourself into our 7-day July retreat, Joy of Being. As the retreat runs for a whole week, it gives time for deeper inner experiences to open up, and also for participants to become much more aware of their dream experiences. During the retreat there will be opportunities to explore these experiences and see how they relate to what is happening during meditation, and what is going on in everyday life. |
| Have your say, or show your pix too. . . |
If you come across a great web article, story, or meditation inspired photo that you think would be of interest to others at Lifeflow, then send it in and if it is suitable we'll put in an upcoming Email Update.
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Best wishes to all,
The team at Lifeflow
Lifeflow Meditation Centre
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Joy of Being
4-CD set from Lifeflow |
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This beautiful 4-CD boxed set includes all of the meditations taught in our 7-week courses, delicately interspersed with excerpts from the orchestral music of one of Australia's best known and most loved composers, Ross Edwards. Listen to a sample #1Listen to a sample #2 These Lifeflow meditations can be used to relax and be calm, to help you sleep, and to stay clear and balanced. Use them often to restore your energy and maintain emotional and mental wellbeing. Find out more
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