Advanced Courses
Rounding Retreat for Peace
Join Thom Knoles and discover:
how to create peace in yourself,
in your relationships
and in the world.
- a three day retreat -
Thursday evening
through Sunday afternoon,
June 25 to 28, 2009
If everyone in the world had your consciousness, would they be able to find peace amid the tumult of modern life?
Do
you have to bite your tongue not to snap at the person who cuts in
front of you at the grocery store? When your spouse, your lover, is
telling you how they feel, do you hear another human reporting their
experience, or is your mind racing for ways not to be blamed? When the
girl in front of you at the stoplight misses the green because she's
texting, do you lay on the horn, or do you wait, knowing that,
eventually, she will find her way to move and you, eventually, will
arrive at your destination?
What is your personal peace status?
Convincing
evidence has been reported for decades now that consciousness is a
field; that means that one's influence on the world-at-large is not
limited merely to the person-to-person contact that occurs in one's
daily life.
Our personal inner state of mind radiates into the broader consciousness field.
Therefore, it becomes all the more important to know how to stabilise our own personal highest state of consciousness.
If we are miserable personally, then that quality pollutes the collective consciousness field.
Even
if we hide behind closed doors making contact with no one, it is
impossible not to influence others within our social horizon.
Through
the group practise of individual meditation sessions during our
Retreat, we will radiate the highest life-supporting influence into the
atmosphere of the collective.
Transmitting
the vibration of inner peace from its source, the effect of this deep
peace fans out expansively and compensates for the negativity that is
being generated constantly by millions of unhappy people.
So,
in addition to learning for ourselves how to maintain our best state
for the world, we will immediately be doing something profound on-site
to help cool the stress in the collective consciousness.
Join Thom Knoles
for a three-day weekend of intensive meditation and stress release
through the process of rounding, and an in-depth study of our personal
responsibility in bringing peace to our troubled world. In between our
rounding sessions we will discover the secrets of the ancient rishis,
studying the techniques for finding true peace, first within ourselves,
our own consciousness, and then the ways in which we may begin to
out-picture this peace in the world at large.
Location
Our retreat will take place at La Casa de Maria Retreat Center.
Located up the coast near Santa Barbara, La Casa de Maria is set on
twenty-six woodland acres bisected by San Ysidro Creek. Vegetarian
meals, specially prepared to enhance the rounding experience will be
served.
Rounding
"Rounding"
is a process that includes a simple sequence of yoga positions, or
asanas, that are easy to learn and can be practiced by anyone, and a
specific breathing technique, pranayama, which, when practiced
immediately before meditation, conditions one's consciousness to move
smoothly toward transcendence and also help one's body more easily to
process the unstressings that may be a part of deep meditation.
Costs and Particulars
Costs for three nights, all meals inclusive, are as follows:
Double occupancy: $850 per person
Single occupancy: $1250 per person
Space is limited. To guarantee your reservation, pre-register before April 30 by emailing Adele here, or calling her at: 818.907.8767
EXPLORING THE VEDA
with
THOM KNOLES
Thom Knoles is recognized as one of the world’s foremost teachers of Vedic science, the science of consciousness. In a six-seminar recorded course of nearly 80 hours, students learn techniques for deepening meditation, correcting the mistakes of the intellect and manifesting the life experiences that reveal our true state of fulfillment.
Exploring the Veda, facilitated by Jeff Kober, is held on evenings and weekends in six 10 to 16 hour seminars. Our course will continue with Exploring the Veda, Part 2 beginning Saturday, May 23 here at our home on Ethel Avenue. If you would like to join us, please contact Adele.
Healthy vegetarian meals will be provided.
Prerequisite: In order to participate in Exploring the Veda you must have been instructed in Vedic Meditation.
Course Fee: $600 for each ofthe first six seminars. If you are interested in the accelerated,six-course package, inquire about our discounted complete course fee.
To sign-up, or for further information, contact Adele by email or phone: 818.907.8767.