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01243 544454

www.healthysound.com

soundworks@sacredsound.net

Yoga Retreat with Jackie Jones

Join us for a weekend of yoga, guided meditation and relaxation. A small group retreat to ensure individual attention. For those wanting to deepen their yoga practise or just take time to recharge away from the demands of daily life. The retreat is run by yoga therapist Jackie Jones who has had 17 years experience of studying yoga worldwise.

www.jackiejonesyoga.com

01743 367186

SHARING THE MUSIC with Nick Prater

An introductory training course for
practising and aspiring voice workshop
teachers and choir leaders with Nick Prater
A weekend in a beautiful and supportive
environment where we will explore a range of
teaching skills including;
• Enabling a real listening mood in your group
• Integrating warm-up techniques into the session
• Introducing and encouraging improvisation
• Working with different vocal ranges
• Some arranging and composing basics
• Incorporating movement with the singing
There will also be space to share and learn from each other’s
experiences
Fri Feb 17th (6.00) - Sun Feb 19th (2.00)
at Holycombe House, Warks
(www.holycombe.com)
All accomodation, organic food and tuition included in the cost of
£175 (single room supplement not included)
Nick is a musician, teacher and composer who has been running singing workshops,
choirs and training courses for over 20 years. He has published 4 books of
material for voices.
please phone or email Nick 01803 849001
Nick@prater.totalserve.co.uk www.nickprater.co.uk
“Sharing the Music - a truly inspiring weekend; Nick created a safe, caring atmosphere
and a ‘listening space’ where our voices and ideas were encouraged to bloom
and grow (forever!). Highly recommended.”

01803 849001

www.nickprater.co.uk

Nick@prater.totalserve.co.uk

AVAILABLE FOR WEEKEND COURSE

www.oxfordyogalotus.co.uk

luisajane@hotmail.com.

AVAILABLE FOR WEEKEND COURSE

Yoga & Life Coaching with Marion
Spring Beginnings Weekend Retreat - Yoga, Life Coaching and Meditation

Have a fresh start and get a boost after Winter. Re-energise and connect with your full potential. Spring into action this year at Spring Beginnings weekend retreat with the perfect blend of Yoga, Life Coaching and Meditation - your opportunity to shake off those Winter blues and start afresh.

Spring Beginnings offers you the chance to start moving your life forwards, achieving your goals and fulfilling your dreams. A unique blend of Yoga, Meditation and NLP Life Coaching helps you unlock your inner strength, release negative thought patterns and get equipped to start reaching your important goals - and you can benefit from all of this while relaxing at a tranquil countryside retreat.

At Spring Beginnings, your days will consist of yoga, life coaching, meditation and leisure time. You will:

- Discover and unlock the power that lies within you
- Feel motivated and inspired
- Benefit from supportive group and life coaching
- Gain control and fulfil on your potential
- Gain inner peace and happiness
- Relax in tranquil countryside surroundings

Enrol before 31 December 2011 and SAVE £25 with our special early bird discount!

Costs:
£275 all-inclusive (Price is based on shared room. Single bed supplement is £20.00 for the weekend)
For more info and to book your place:
www.yogaCircle.co.uk/holidays_weekends.html

Email: marion@yogaCircle.co.uk

www.yogaCircle.co.uk/holidays_weekends.htm

Email: marion@yogaCircle.co.uk

Phone: 07951 657 982

Dreaming Awake with Manda Scott

Therapeutic Sound in the Community Course with The British Academy of Sound Therapy

Module 3

This wonderfully versatile course offers a wealth of skills, games and strategies for working with groups and communities.  Features Himalayan bowls, crystal bowls, gong and drum.  Content includes sound baths, relaxation sessions, 'soundscapes', performances, drum circles, drum journey/relaxation sessions, conflict resolution and working with narrative using sound.  A module in October 2011, January and April 2012.
 

01243 544454

www.healthysound.com

soundworks@sacredsound.net

Therapist Level Diploma in Sound Therapy with The British Academy of Sound Therapy

Module 1 - Mantra Therapy 

Learn how to use mantra for helping to improve health and wellbeing.  During this module we will focus on mantra therapy, breath and voice-work techniques which promote energy stimulation/relaxation.  This module can be taken as CPD (continuing professional development) or as part of the whole course which consists of 3 modules.

01243 544454

www.healthysound.com

soundworks@sacredsound.net

Ecopsychology training at re•vision

Ecopsychology Course with Chris Robertson

The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that makes us human. To damage this community is to diminish our own existence.       
Thomas Berry

This new course will be from 18 November 2011 – 16 June 2012 involving two residential weekends at Holycombe and four Friday/Saturdays at re•vision. We aim to support the development of:
. ecopsychological literacy and sensibility

. ecopsychology practices and community

 A green eye on psychological
The shift from ego-centric to eco-centric calls for:

1. a seeing through of personal symptoms to their collective/cultural complex
2. understanding our narcissistic culture as a symptom of disconnection from the web of life
3. the humbling appreciation of nature, including the other-than-human, as healer and our culture as client
4. an appreciation of beauty and compassion as healing gifts of the earth

A psychological eye on ecology
Our apparent stubbornness to respond to ecological imperatives needs deeper reflection on the complex dilemmas around such questions as:

1. how to engage the  lived experience of inter-dependence that cuts through idealised and denigratory projections onto nature?
2. are the destructive and violent aspects of human behaviour an inherent reflection of nature itself?
3. might the separation from nature be part of human nature and have an evolutionary purpose?
4. might current human behaviour be seen as acting out a collective trauma?

Ecopsychology posits that the ‘basic fault’ is not just in our personal or interpersonal relationships but in our wider relationship with the other-than-human world. We live in a culture that continuously emphasises and promotes independence rather than inter-dependence. Such a cultural pathology requires a re-visioning of the therapeutic role to question how we lost our way and to address the wider context of suffering.
A re-visioned role would involve not only a shift in consciousness away from our anthropomorphic perspective but also a new craft to ground this new consciousness.  If our response to potential species extinction is not solely about our survival strategies, then we must address issues of meaning and re-imagine the crisis in which we are participants, if not perpetrators.
This deeper reflection cannot be merely a conscious process.  A first step is to acknowledge and face into our personal and collective shadow - the other side of our egoic self-importance. Working through this process can also liberate trapped energy and revitalise our imaginations to break free like theGreen Man. We will work with dreams, rituals and story to renew our sense of community and interconnection with the web of life.
for whom?
The training is for those in the helping professions who want to integrate the challenge of ecological awareness into their work and for those engaged in ecological action who to deepen their understanding and to learn a relational craft.
Application and details at www.re-vision/ecopsychology:

A weekend to explore who you are as a Woman

Friday 24th February at 5 00 pm until Sunday 26 Feb at 4 00 pm
At
Holycombe House,  Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire

Led by Louise de Caux

 
You're a busy woman, wanting to have it all – work, home, love,  play, a loving relationship. However, the reality is, you're sacrificing yourself for work and for your family. You feel lost and overwhelmed with all the things you have to do, burnt out, possibly dead inside. You have lost the connection to your heart, to your body, to who you are as a woman.  Behind your everyday mask of normality, what nobody knows, is that you are vulnerable, tender and human, scared of losing yourself completely and that you long to be in touch with your heart and who you are as a woman.  
              
You’d like to feel more alive, to feel your feminine sexuality.  And so you've tried various things: talking with your women friends, retail therapy, psychotherapy, connecting therapy, massage therapy, ‘ignoring this problem’ therapy.  Some things have helped but there is still this empty aching part of you that is calling to be satisfied.

It’s now the time to turn to your own inner resources and to connect to your feminine intuition and heart intelligence to discover who you are as  a vibrant, alive sexual woman.  To shine the way that you were meant to shine.    Now it’s time to try something different.  To be a in a place where you can be authentic and accepted for who you are.  In a non-judgemental environment where you can say anything – even the most unthinkable thing that you can think of – something that you have never told anyone else.  A place where it is safe to be unsafe.

During this weekend,we will be working together as an intimate group of women -  sharing our stories, visioning our future and culminating in a celebration of our own uniqueness as a  WOMAN.  We will be using circle work, storytelling, art, meditation, connecting with nature, dance and movement and gentle touch to open up our senses, to connect to our hearts and to come home to our birthright - living the joy and aliveness which comes from embracing everything that we are as a WOMAN.

My name is Louise de Caux and I've worked for many years in Human Resources and experienced first hand the soulless atmosphere that is often experienced in today’s workplace. I have burnt out twice along the way.  I have lost touch with anything but work – it cost me my connections with my family, a loving relationship and my health.  I longed for something different and I found it through my work in dance, tantra, soul responding and coaching.  I am a trained Coach and Counsellor, and a Graduate of the Art of Being.   I run workshops for women  and have a coaching practice  to help women like you, like me, like us to find and embrace their aliveness and feminine radiance.

To find out more, call me on 07999 842905 between the hours of 10 am and 6 00 pm  or send me an email at ldecaux@btinternet.com registering your interest with ‘Simply Being a Woman’ as the subject line and I will get back to you by return.  Holycombe House is a beautiful retreat – take a look at the website:  www.holycombe.com.  The early bird price for the workshop is £125 if paid in full before 31 January 2012.   Thereafter the cost will be £150.  Shared accommodation and vegetarian food is £140.

ldecaux@btinternet.com

07999 842905

http://www.theyogahall.co.uk/

Therapist Level Diploma in Sound Therapy with The British Academy of Sound Therapy

Module 2 - Drum Therapy

Learn how to use the frame drum for helping to improve health and wellbeing.  During this module we will focus on drum massage and energy stimulation/relaxation using rhythm as well as drum meditation/journeying.  This module can be taken as CPD (continuing professional development) or as part of the whole course which consists of 3 modules.

01243 544454

www.healthysound.com

soundworks@sacredsound.net

Dancing the Eleusinian Mysteries a dancing journey towards transformation with Chrisandra

July 6th – 8th 2012
The Eleusinian Mysteries, held annually in honour of Demeter and Persephone, were the most sacred and revered of all the ritual celebrations of ancient Greece. They took place in the city of Eleusis, possibly as far back as the early Mycenaean period, and continued for almost two thousand years. Participants pledged never to divulge the secrets of the mysteries and the details of what took place remains unknown even today. 
On this weekend we will recreate the eight days of the mysteries through circle, world and meditation dance using mainly Greek music. Dancing will take place mostly in the Angel room with some outside activities at special locations weather permitting.
The weekend is residential at this beautiful and special venue which is in the grounds of a Norman castle and close to a holy well and the Rollright Stones. The house has six acres of grounds including a natural stream and a labyrinth. A haven of peace and tranquillity it is surrounded by beautiful countryside and nature. A truly special place.
There will be 15 places only, mostly in twin bedded rooms with a limited number of single rooms (£20 supplement) on a first come basis. We will bring food to share for the weekend with the option for a catered meal on the Saturday evening.
The course will begin at 7.30 on Friday 6th July and end at 4.30 on Sunday 8th July. The cost including accommodation and drinks (but not food) is £169 and a deposit of £70 secures your place.
Chrisandra has been leading dance events since the 1990s and has a special interest in Greek and Armenian dance. She has danced with ‘Greek Rhythms’ since the early 1990s and formed ‘Kilikia’ Armenian dance group in 2007. She visits both Greece and Armenia regularly to study dance. She is known for her clear teaching style and enabling approach.
'Chrisandra is a very special person,who brings us all joy by sharing her understanding and love of circle dance,music and world culture' (Jan)
For further information and to book contact: Chrisandra@tesco.net     Tel 0115 9554962      Web site www.wix.com/nottinghamworld/dance

Chrisandra@tesco.net

Tel 0115 9554962

www.wix.com/nottinghamworld/dance

Therapist Level Diploma in Sound Therapy with The British Academy of Sound Therapy

Module 3 - Gong Therapy

Learn how to use the gong for helping to improve health and wellbeing.  During this module we will focus on gong therapy, breath, stance and rhythm/playing techniques which promote energy stimulation/relaxation.  This module can be taken as CPD (continuing professional development) or as part of the whole course which consists of 3 modules.

01243 544454

www.healthysound.com

soundworks@sacredsound.net

Fri 28 - Sun 30