1 days program starts Mar 24, 2009. Take a journey to meet yourself. Using the four entry points of body, senses, thoughts and feelings, you will find that you exist beyond all of these.

6 days program starts Mar 24, 2009. This course meets for one hour a day, for seven days, using hypnosis to reconnect with your mind and body at a very deep level.

3 days program starts Mar 31, 2009. This suprisingly playful course offers understanding, experience and methods to radically enhance your work time and your daily life activities.

3 days program starts Apr 1, 2009. Exploring the heart opens new ways to connect with and express yourself in your daily life. It also creates an inner bridge to deepen your meditation.

4 days program starts Apr 2, 2009. The structure of this course is designed to focus our total energy into the search for who we really are.

7 days program starts Apr 3, 2009. An OSHO meditative therapy where we use gibberish to empty the mind of all garbage, allowing a great silence to arise from within.

3 days program starts Apr 4, 2009. Reliving past lives is a way to transform your present life.

1 days program starts Apr 5, 2009. The ancient Tantric meditation techniques from The Book of Secrets are easy to practice as they use breathing, seeing, hearing, smelling, touch, and the whole body as a door to consciousness. Learn to enjoy every moment of your life, without condemnation

3 days program starts Apr 10, 2009. In this treasure hunt you first rediscover the talents and treasures of the golden child alive in you. You retrieve the freshness of the star child, move from wounded child to wonder child and resource yourself with joy, imagination, creativity, authe

7 days program starts Apr 10, 2009. In this course � which meets one hour a day for seven days � you will learn to use self-hypnosis. It is a practical tool for daily life.

21 days program starts Apr 11, 2009. This innovative meditative therapy takes place three hours a day for three weeks: the first week is laughter, the second crying, and the third silent witnessing.

1 days program starts Apr 11, 2009. Description coming soon

3 days program starts Apr 12, 2009. A strong, flexible back is important for maintaining our posture, for keeping the nervous system pathways strong and clear, for improving circulation to the brain. The powerful, deep massage work of Ayurvedic Yoga enhances strength and flexibility.

7 days program starts Apr 12, 2009. Ayurvedic Yoga Massage is powerful, deep massage work based on ancient Indian science � Ayurveda.

1 days program starts Apr 12, 2009. Take a journey to meet yourself. Using the four entry points of body, senses, thoughts and feelings, you will find that you exist beyond all of these.

3 days program starts Apr 14, 2009. This suprisingly playful course offers understanding, experience and methods to radically enhance your work time and your daily life activities.

4 days program starts Apr 16, 2009. The difference between hypnosis and meditation: from mind to no-mind … and, how easy it is to learn self-hypnosis.

7 days program starts Apr 17, 2009. An OSHO meditative therapy, lasting seven days, two hours a day. The first hour is for reliving your childhood, and the second hour is for sitting in silent meditation.

7 days program starts Apr 20, 2009. This Training provides additional tools, a deeper understanding of the technique and additional knowledge and skills, with lots of practice.

3 days program starts Apr 22, 2009. In this course we gently and surely befriend the full range of our breathing again, and take its help to claim back the capacity to feel the fullness of our lives.

This program will be the final opportunity to hear The Sakyong teach at Shambhala Mountain until 2011.

This retreat provides an opportunity for the Shambhala community to gather, practice and connect with Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, and Acharyas Pema Chödrön and Adam Lobel. The retreat will focus on the sitting practice of meditation and include talks, guided meditation, contemplation practice, and Shamatha yoga. Open to members of Shambhala, this week will count as one week of a dathün.

The Sakyong, Jamgön Mipham Rinpoche is the head of the Shambhala lineage. An incarnation of Mipham the Great, he is also the dharma heir and son of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Shambhala Mountain’s founder. He is the spiritual director of Shambhala, a global network of meditation and retreat centers, and the author of the best-selling books Turning the Mind into an Ally and Ruling Your World. Rinpoche’s background embraces both Eastern and Western cultures. Born in Bodhgaya, India, the site of the Buddha’s enlightenment, he grew up in Boulder, Colorado, and received his spiritual training from his father and other distinguished lamas.

Pema Chödrön is a leading exponent of teachings on meditation and how they apply to everyday life. Widely known for her charming and down-to-earth interpretation of Tibetan Buddhism for Western audiences, Pema studied under the meditation master Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and currently studies with Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche and Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. Pema is the resident teacher at Gampo Abbey, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, the first Tibetan monastery for Westerners. She is author of The Wisdom of No Escape, Start Where You Are, When Things Fall Apart, The Places that Scare You, No Time to Lose, and Practicing Peace in Times of War.

Acharya Adam Lobel leads meditation workshops, courses on Buddhist philosophy and the social vision of Shambhala. Adam is also the Acharya for the Mipham Academy, an advanced, annual intensive for Buddhist philosophical and contemplative studies at Karme Choling in Vermont. He teaches meditation to youths within the prison system and a mental health institution. Adam holds a Masters of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School, where he is helping to establish a track for Buddhist ministers and chaplains. His research focuses on philosophy, phenomenology, meditation, and the Great Perfection tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.

The payment schedule for the program is as follows: 50% due upon registration with Shambhala Mountain, and 50% due on June 17, 2009.

Shambhala Mountain is committed to making this precious opportunity to hear The Sakyong and Acharyas Pema Chödrön and Adam Lobel teach at the same program available to as many members of the Shambhala community as possible. If you require financial assistance we strongly urge you to fill out and return a scholarship application.

Indoor accommodations are currently filled. If you wish to place your name on the waitlist for Lodge or Red Feather accommodations, or if you have other housing questions, please send an email to housing@shambhalamountain.org with Sangha Retreat Waitlist in the subject line and your housing preference in the body of the email. When rooms become available, they will be assigned in the order email requests are received.

This program is expected to sell out, so if a shared tent is an acceptable housing option for you please register now to assure your place in the program. You may place your name on the wait list for upgraded housing whether or not you are registered for the program.

Refining the Technique & Process of Vipassana Meditation

10-day Vipassana & Loving-kindness Retreat
Led by Ven. Pannyavaro

Ven. Pannyavaro (Pannya) is an Australian who ordained as a Buddhist monk over 20 years ago. A meditation teacher in the Burmese Vipassana tradition and founder and webmaster of BuddhaNet.net.

Pannya is the resident teaching monk at Bodhi Tree Forest Monastery and Retreat Centre in Northern New South Wales. Pannyavaro also teaches regularly in SE Asia.

The Buddha gave clear, precise instructions for systematically training our hearts and minds. The practice traditions are anchored in this practical approach to mental and spiritual development.

The art of meditation and mental training is like any other art; one needs to patiently train and practice the skills of the art, otherwise the free flowing ‘Art’ never fruits.

Daily interviews and Dharma talks will assist and guide meditators as they progress along the paths of these practices. The purpose of these retreat is to gain understanding and insight into the way our minds and beings interact with and affect our internal and external worlds. It is designed to cultivate clear self awareness and develop a number of tools that can be applied usefully to daily life.

Easter Weekend – Vipassana & Loving-kindness Retreat
Led by Ven. Pannyavaro

10th April (Friday 5:30 PM) to 13th April (Monday 3:00 PM)

Daily interviews and Dhamma talks will assist and guide meditators as they progress along the paths of these practices. The purpose of a retreat is to gain understanding and insight into the way our minds and beings interact with and affect our internal and external worlds. It is designed to cultivate clear self-awareness and develop a number of tools that can be applied usefully to daily life.

There is no set cost. The retreats are by Dana. Dana means ‘giving’. In the tradition the teachings are given freely. For the teachings to continue you can give to support the teachers and the monastery. So there is no set cost – your Dana donation is up to you.

Bookings and further information:

Bodhi Tree Forest Monastery & Retreat Centre
78 Bentley Road, Tullera, via Lismore NSW 2480
Phone: (02) 6628 2426
Email: webmaster@buddhanet.net
Website: www.buddhanet.net/bodhi-tree/