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Lifeflow Studio
8 / 259 Glen Osmond Rd,
Frewville SA 5063
AUSTRALIA
T: 61 8 8379 9001
F: 61 8 8379 9012
E: info@lifeflow.com.au
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Members-only retreats at Tara Hills and Kurlana – go deeper with your practice
 Lifeflow members-only retreats build on the experience that you gain at our public retreats. Each retreat is supervised and includes classes, guided meditations and deep relaxation sessions (and stretch and breathe during our summer retreat). A teacher is also available for one on one sessions. There are many fewer sessions than in our main retreats - this allows greater autonomy but also requires more self guidance and ability to structure your own day in retreat. Prerequisites apply to all of these retreats - details are below.
Join up now to become a member - follow this link for details.
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Summer
10-day retreat at Tara Hills 2012-2013
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Opening to death, opening to life
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pm Fri 28 Dec 2012–2 pm Sun 6 Jan 2013
Ann Calvert and Lisa Hancock
About this retreat
Every time you meditate you are practicing letting go. And even if only for a short time, you are actually letting your idea of a fixed identity ‘die’. Impermanence and death are an integral part of life. They are also central to the teachings of the meditation tradition: learning to let go of your identity is viewed as a necessary part of living life to the full.
We will begin this retreat by exploring our various cultural beliefs and rituals surrounding death, and investigating how our own Western beliefs shape our own attitudes to life. We will then draw on meditation teachings to develop both conceptual, and also a direct emotional understanding of death and impermanence. What does it feel like to fully let go? Where does this leave our sense of self? How can we utilize a deep appreciation for the fragility of our lives, and of the inevitability of our deaths, to fully embrace living?
As with all Members Retreats there will be a daily guided meditation and a deep relaxation session, allowing ample time for members to develop their own practice. The first formal session will be deep relaxation starting at 2 pm on the Friday. You can arrive any time from 10 am onwards on the Friday, and everyone is welcome to come for lunch that day.
Please note that prerequisites apply to this
retreat. Participants are expected to stay for the entire 10 days.
Also, if you are going straight back to work after this retreat,
we recommend that you allow one extra day to settle back into your
normal routines before recommencing work, ie arranging your leave
so that you are not required back at work until Tue 8 Jan.
Retreat Fee
All details about fees for this retreat are included in the
members' newsletter, Insight. Click here to see a list of the current and previous issues. |
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information and prerequisites - see below. |
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Easter retreat at Kurlana
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Tantra – the path of self-contained joy
(Theme will continue over both Easter and October long weekends)
Retreat starts with lunch at 1 pm on Friday 29 March
You are welcome to arrive any time on the Friday morning.
Retreat finishes after lunch on Monday 1 April
Graham Williams et al
About this retreat
Joy can be a wonderful explosion of ecstasy, almost drunken in its overwhelming exuberance. But is it possible to sustain a state of joy? This is one of the main aims of the path of integration and when you live with joy it’s a quiet, peaceful sense of being alive in your body. Your body is your life, and the aim is to live in your body, being in touch with its core; the creative drive of your instincts, the warmth of your heart and the clarity of your head.
This retreat will show how to discover self-contained joy so that it doesn’t matter whether you feel up or down, full of energy or low in energy. Self-contained joy can be sustained because it’s not dependent on what’s happening around you. You will learn how to draw up the wealth, resources and energy of your instincts and how to integrate them with your thoughts and emotions so that you can build a rich, warm relationship with your body, with yourself, with your friends and community and with the world.
Retreat Fee
All details about fees for this retreat are included in the
members' newsletter, Insight. Click here to see a list of the current and previous issues.
Find out more about retreats at Kurlana
You can find out more about retreats at Kurlana, including information about facilities and what to bring, at our retreats at Kurlana page. Particularly note that Kurlana lies in the Fruit Fly Exclusion Zone in SA - click here to find out more. |
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information and prerequisites - see below. |
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7-Day
retreat at Tara Hills
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Acting from balance
Begins with lunch at 1 pm on
Sunday 7 July
Finishes after lunch on Saturday 13 July
About this retreat
At the heart of the meditation tradition is the experience of balance, when your body, thoughts and emotions are connected and working in the same direction. This is a blissful state; it can be directly felt right through the body and mind. But, it can be more than just a moment of quiet peace – this state can actually serve as an inner compass for navigating through life’s journey. By learning to act from this balanced state you may find that life doesn’t always ‘work to the plan’, but it can open to a richness and contentment beyond your expectations.
Retreat Fee
All details about fees for this retreat are included in the
members' newsletter, Insight. Click here to see a list of the current and previous issues. |
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information and prerequisites - see below. |
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October
long w/e retreat at Kurlana
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Tantra – the path of self-contained joy
(Theme continues from the Easter long weekend)
Retreat starts with lunch at 1 pm on Saturday 5 October
You are welcome to arrive any time on the Saturday morning.
Reteat finishes after lunch on Monday 7 October
Graham Williams et al
About this retreat
Joy can be a wonderful explosion of ecstasy, almost drunken in its overwhelming exuberance. But is it possible to sustain a state of joy? This is one of the main aims of the path of integration and when you live with joy it’s a quiet, peaceful sense of being alive in your body. Your body is your life, and the aim is to live in your body, being in touch with its core; the creative drive of your instincts, the warmth of your heart and the clarity of your head.
This retreat will show how to discover self-contained joy so that it doesn’t matter whether you feel up or down, full of energy or low in energy. Self-contained joy can be sustained because it’s not dependent on what’s happening around you. You will learn how to draw up the wealth, resources and energy of your instincts and how to integrate them with your thoughts and emotions so that you can build a rich, warm relationship with your body, with yourself, with your friends and community and with the world.
Retreat Fee
All details about fees for this retreat are included in the
members' newsletter, Insight. Click here to see a list of the current and previous issues.
Find out more about retreats at Kurlana
You can find out more about retreats at Kurlana, including information about facilities and what to bring, at our retreats at Kurlana page. Particularly note that Kurlana lies in the Fruit Fly Exclusion Zone in SA - click here to find out more. |
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information and prerequisites - see below. |
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Summer
10-day retreat at Tara Hills 2013-2014
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Theme tba
2
pm Sat 28 Dec 2013 – 2 pm Mon 6 Jan 2014
John Burston et al
About this retreat
Further details tba
As with all Members Retreats there will be a daily guided meditation and a deep relaxation session, allowing ample time for members to develop their own practice. The first formal session will be deep relaxation starting at 2 pm on the Friday. You can arrive any time from 10 am onwards on the Friday, and everyone is welcome to come for lunch that day.
Please note that prerequisites apply to this
retreat. Participants are expected to stay for the entire 10 days.
Also, if you are going straight back to work after this retreat,
we recommend that you allow one extra day to settle back into your
normal routines before recommencing work, ie arranging your leave
so that you are not required back at work until Wed 8 Jan.
Retreat Fee
All details about fees for this retreat are included in the
members' newsletter, Insight. Click here to see a list of the current and previous issues. |
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information and prerequisites - see below. |
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General Information
About members-only retreats
The Lifeflow Members’ Retreats at Tara Hills have been set
up especially to support members build their own retreat practice.
Each retreat will include a daily meditation class that will focus
on the practical exercises from a recent Level 3 and 4 module, along
with two other guided meditation sessions each day. The remaining
time will be left free so that members can do their own meditation
practice.
These retreats are self catered and do not have the close supervision
of a public retreat. This results in considerable savings to our
members. It is expected that anyone attending these retreats is
able to be self guided in their meditation exercises. A Lifeflow
teacher will be present and available for interviews so you can
check up on how your retreat work is going.
Find out more
For bookings and more information contact Lifeflow on 8379 9001.
Pricing information
Pricing information is included in the members' newsletter, Insight. Click here to see a list of the current and previous issues.
Prerequisites
for members-only retreats
| 7-Day or 10-Day retreats at Tara Hills |
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Attending or have completed Level
2, 3 or 4 AND attended at least two public retreats; |
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If not attending the city classes,
then completion of three public retreats. |
Kurlana retreats
The only requirement for Kurlana
retreat is membership. However, we do recommend that you have completed
at least one public retreat. Accommodation at Kurlana is very limited,
and most people camp near the house or in the bush reserve. Please
check with a teacher before enrolling in a Kurlana retreat.
See our general info page that has more about members-only retreats at Kurlana.
General
If you have not completed the prerequisites
outlined above, but still wish to attend a members-only retreat, then
please contact the Centre on (08) 8379 9001 or email.
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