Hay House – Spiritual Retreats & Events 2009

Louise Hay formed Hay House in 1987, fully 22 years ago now. Beginning as an independent publishing company it has grown and evolved over the years. Activities now include HayHouse radio network launched in 2005 and an ever increasing number of annual events and author tours.

 2009 is no exception and in these challenging times of change and uncertainty more are more will be looking for information and guidance to navigate their life choices. Let’s take a look then at some of the wonderful opportunities on offer over the coming months.

With Barack Obama coming into office tomorrow there could be no better time to attend "I Can Do It!" This year in Toronto April 2-5, it will feature Colette Baron-Reid, Gregg Braden, Sylvia Browne, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, John Holland, Caroline Myss, Dr. Christiane Northrup, Marcelle Pick, Cheryl Richardson, Brian L. Weiss, M.D.  You can join your favorite authors for the whole retreat or go for a specific day.

Or April 30 – May 3 join a massive line up of – Colette Baron-Reid, Joan Z. Borysenko, Ph.D., Gregg Braden, Sonia Choquette, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Jonathan Ellerby, Ph.D., Steven D. Farmer, Jonathan Goldman, Jean Haner, Louise L. Hay, Robert Holden, Ph.D., John Holland, Mark Husson, Deborah King , Loretta LaRoche, Robert L. Leahy, Denise Linn, Frank Lipman, Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D., Lauren Mackler, Denise Marek, Thomas Moore, Caroline Myss, Dr. Christiane Northrup, Robert Ohotto, Marcelle Pick, Chris Prelitz, Gary R. Renard, Cheryl Richardson, Mona Lisa Schulz, M.D., Ph.D., Caroline Sutherland, Eldon Taylor, Sandra Anne Taylor, Doreen Virtue, Brian L. Weiss, M.D., Lisa Williams, Marianne Williamson For I CAn Do It! in San Diego

And if you are into cruises and fancy seeing Alaska in the summer there is I Can Do It! 2009 At Sea July 11-18, 2009 Featuring Gregg Braden, Sonia Choquette, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Louise L. Hay, John Holland, Caroline Myss, Cheryl Richardson, Iyanla Vanzant, Brian L. Weiss, M.D.

Other highlights to look out for are  Wayne Dyer’s 2009 Live Tour
Excuses Begone! How to Change Lifelong Self-Defeating Thinking Habits

4/3/09 Toronto Canada

5/1/09 San Diego

7/11/09 Alaska

10/23/09 right here on Maui, Hawaii

An Intensive with Colette Baron-Reid
Your Partnership With Spirit …. Discovering the Truth of Having It ALL

Date: February 18, 2009 – February 22, 2009, Scottsdale Arizona

Your Partnership With Spirit …. Discovering the Truth of Having It ALL is a 5-day intensive about a Quantum Shift in perception. It’s about releasing false assumptions and beliefs that you’ve learned about yourself, and your relationship to the world around you. It’s about remembering, experiencing and reclaiming the powerful Truth about who you really are—Spirit first, human second.

Caroline Myss Tour -2009. This will be a day long workshop with Caroline Myss- Beyond Reason: Healing though Mystical Wisdom and Common Sense.

The day explores the mystical qualities involved in the experience of healing, instructing readers to move beyond the dilemma of needing to find logical reasons for why an illness has developed and instead get on with the task of personal transformation.

3/7/09 Boston MA

3/29/09 Mesa AZ

4/2/09 Toronto Canada

5/1/09 San Diego CA

7/11/09 Alaska cruise

 Brian L. Weiss, M.D. 2008-2009 Tour
Many Lives, Many Masters: Experiencing Your Past Lives will be an all day workshop with one of the best know past life regressionists.

Do you want to know what happens before we are born and after we die and also our possible future lives. In such knowledge we awaken from the constrictions of our past conditioning to release anxieties and fears.

3/8/09 New York City

3/29/09 Seattle WA

4/2/09 Toronto Canada

5/1/09 San Diego CA

7/11/09 Alaska cruise

There are many other events with different authors and teacher full details can be found at Hay House Events 2009 Including Eckhart Tolle’s tour of Australia & New Zealand!

 

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Yoga Didn’t Originate In India?

 Yoga is commonly believed to be a practice started by Sadhus and Sanyasis of India in the ancient times, but it is not true. One will be surprised to know that first yoga exercise had been introduced in Baghdad in Iraq and later in Iran and Moracco. This was stated by Munger-based Yoga Ashram and Bihar School of Yoga head Swami Niranjananand Saraswati while delivering a lecture at Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library on Sunday.

From there, he said, this was practised in Christian states and then came to India where Sadhus and Sanyasis preserved it. Swami said all the literatures published by his institutions are also translated in Persian and sent to Iraq and Iran which are certified by the governments of those countries. Every year people from those countries also come to Munger, he added.

Swami said what is shown on TV and preached and practised by various yoga gurus was not real yoga. He said about 5,000 years back Maharishi Patanjali had described yoga as a discipline and a source to keep human mind in peace. Read the full article here

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Karma & The Law Of Attraction

Inherent within life, and its great mystery, there is a mechanism to facilitate the expansion of consciousness. This we will call the Law of Sympathetic Attraction or as it is more popularly know now the ‘Law of Attraction’. We commonly know the law of sympathetic attraction as ‘like attracts like’. However, less obviously but equally important, the term also covers the principle that ‘opposites attract’ – opposites being the polarized extremes of the same principle.

In the creation of karma – that which we are holding in denial, in separation, in sub-consciousness, is held at the particular vibrational frequency at which movement was stopped, for example pain, fear or rage. Even held still, that which is denied is held in the magnetic energy field of the emotional body, albeit disconnected from conscious awareness.

Through the law of sympathetic attraction, the separation in us, attracts to us a reflection of a corresponding vibrational frequency to that at which it is held. The purpose being, that the external reflection of what ever it is that we are holding in sub-consciousness (that we are in denial of within us), is attracted to us to create a vibrational resonance. When the external manifestation comes, the resonance begins to vibrate what it reflects within us (that we are attempting to hold still). In vibrating, what is held within us is caused to move. When it moves we begin to feel it: and when we feel it we can become conscious of it; when we are conscious of it, we can then be present to it. We can then allow it to move, and allow it the expression it needs to resume its movement and transformation into expansion and life.

We release what we are holding by allowing the feelings to move – by feeling and expressing them. Allowing them to move, allows what is held in denial of life to resume the movement in the expansion and evolution of consciousness; and to be transformed from the fixed frequency and form in which it was held. As we experience such release, understanding often arises from the feelings of what was held and the scripts and behaviors that have been wrapped around it, and thus the subconscious becomes conscious.

KARMA (Subconscious) > REFLECTION < Resonating / Vibrating > MOVEMENT > RELEASE > HEALING > UNIFICATION > LIBERATION (Conscious)

In this way we can reclaim those places from sub-consciousness and separation, and re-unify them into the entirety of our being. Not only do we liberate the energetic life-force that is held still as denied feeling, but we also liberate the energy that is required to keep holding that place still. So, we reclaim our life-force, our ‘power’ and become that much more present in and to ourselves.

REFLECTIONS OF SEPARATION
The experiences we have in life, that come to us where we experience pain, separation or suffering of any kind, are reflections of places in us where those energies and patterns are held. We couldn’t feel what we feel, unless it was already within us to be felt. Our feelings do not come from outside, they are not created by the external circumstance. The external is not the cause of the feelings; it is simply a reflection of what is already held within us; it serves as the ‘trigger’. It is in fact the mechanism of our healing, the means of our liberation. The external, however painful is putting us in the place where our liberation can occur, right here, right now in the present moment.

Equally, all the unified experiences that life brings us – be they joy, harmony or love – are reflections of what is within us. Scripts arising from separation like “I’m not good enough” or “I’m unlovable” often do not allow us to fully receive, accept or believe the unified reflections, as us.

Very often what is held within us, is painful, traumatic, uncomfortable, distressing, terrifying, all the things that we didn’t ant to feel and probably still don’t. So when an external reflection begins to resonate with those places within us, and we begin to feel them, habitually we put even more energy into holding them still and we put even more energy into denying those feelings. In doing this, we add more energy to what it is we are already holding. So the intensity, the quantity of energy that is held increases, and the energy needed to hold it still, and prevent us from feeling it, increases. We tie up more life force, more of our power, and give it over to denial, give it over to sub-consciousness and lose even more presence. This is how Karma perpetuates and holds our awareness in unconsciousness.
 

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Spiritual, Love Relationship Guide

A simple guide of agreeable ideals and intentions as a foundation and touch stone for spiritual love relationship.

We believe that our relationship has a spiritual basis and serves our own evolution.

 

 

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How To Get Your Kids To Love Yoga

All yogi parents would love to see their children reap the benefits of yoga, but the surest way to get kids to run the other way is to force it on them, says Judith Hanson Lasater, an East-West psychologist and a yoga teacher. Realizing that children will rebel when forced into situations, Lasater let her three little ones come to yoga on their own. "If I had made them do yoga, I would have been missing the whole point," she says. "It’s when they choose it, with their own intention, that it really has value."

Lasater recommends making your practice part of everyday life—and a public part—so that kids can join in if they choose but don’t feel that they have to. "Do your practice or meditate in the living room," she says. "Eventually, they’ll ask to do it with you." When Lasater’s children asked to be part of her practice, she took the empowerment one step further and asked them to help lead the session. "If they wanted to do Handstands, we did Handstands," she says with a laugh. The strategy seems to have worked. All three of her grown children practice yoga, and Lasater’s daughter taught yoga while in college.

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Ten Rules For Being Human

Found this the other day and while I feel ‘school’ is somewhat an oversimplification it also has validity. Enjoy……

1.	You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it’s yours to keep for the entire period.
2.	You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, "life."
3.	There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately "work."
4.	Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.
5.	Learning lessons does not end. There’s no part of life that doesn’t contain its lessons. If you’re alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.
6.	"There" is no better a place than "here." When your "there" has become a "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here."
7.	Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
8.	What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9.	Your answers lie within you. The answers to life’s questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
10.	You will forget all this.

 

by Cherie Carter-Scott

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What Is Karma?

What is karma? How does it work? Traditionally, it is taught that karma is simply the law of cause and effect, the fruits of past actions and little more is said about its mechanism and workings than that. Subsequently, much misunderstanding and vagueness has arisen and continues to be perpetuated.
 
It seems very difficult for us to free ourselves of the idea of karma as a cosmic justice system. In fact, karma has nothing to do with justice and retribution and does not at all work like this.

What I’ve come to understand through my own spiritual process and work as a healer, is that karma is created when, and wherever, we have created separation in ourselves. Separation is created when we have had any kind of experience where our feeling response was overwhelming, traumatic, painful – or something that we simply didn’t want to feel,  and so separated from ourselves ‘in’ the experience.

With each creation of separation, there is an accompanying sense of defeat.

We invariably have experienced these things at a very early age or in other lifetimes. In healing work, I consistently find for example, that when we have died suddenly, traumatically, in heightened emotion like fear or rage, that the feeling experience of the event is deeply trapped in the emotional body. The emotional and other subtle bodies imprint on the cellular memory of the physical body itself. This is a more extreme example, but common.

The same principle holds true for the whole spectrum of less intense feeling experiences regardless of when in the past they occurred. There are any number of ways in which feelings – at the time of the experience – are too much to bear or undesirable. If the feelings of an experience are too overwhelming for us, we separate ourselves from them in order to not have to feel them. In order to do that, we have to stop them moving.  What we do in effect is to abandon our ‘self’ that is in the moment of the experience and cut off from it, leaving it there.

So we can say that, karma is the sum of all of our past that we couldn’t or wouldn’t be present to at the time of the experience, still held within us as unresolved and unhealed as separation. To recap: separation is created whenever we are unable to be fully present to our experience in the moment, and deny our feelings.  Separation and denial push the feelings of the experience into sub-consciousness. When we aren’t present in the moment, we are not ‘conscious’.

At the mental level, an additional scenario occurs: we produce and wrap ‘scripts’ around the denied feelings and separation. Scripts are the stories we run in our minds about the experience, often to justify the denial and separation, and then maintain it.

Invariably, the stories revolve around some form of judgment, of ourselves, the other or both. Scripts are created in layers each time the feelings are triggered and denied. New layers of the script are created to protect the wounds from being felt, and to divert any possibility of exposing the denial. They therefore also maintain separation.

These scripts become the subconscious belief systems and patterns through which we experience and live our lives. In our identification with thought and emotion we come to believe this as who we are and how reality is. We then act and behave as if these scripts are true and real. In this light everything we believe is conditioned by past experience held in the subconscious mind.

Our actions are dictated by our beliefs and feelings. Because the source of their motivation is held in sub-consciousness, most of our behavior is enacted without our conscious awareness of the true reason behind it.

Let us look at an example of a script that many of us share. The script is “I’m not good enough”. In an everyday situation, someone is saying something complementary about us and inside us a small voice is refuting or diminishing everything they are saying as they say it. Or someone offers to do something for us and we say “oh no it’s fine I can manage” even though we really do need help.
These are examples of the influence a script might have on us. Underneath the script are the feelings we are holding.  The script is formed in response to these feelings. In the layers of consciousness above the feelings and the scripts are the stories our mind creates about the experience of the moment.

It is easy to see then why self inquiry is so valuable as a spiritual practice. To pursue it relentlessly requires great courage and determination as it ultimately reveals ‘not knowing’ which is uncomfortable in the extreme to the egoic mind.

Our karma, then, exists in different layers of our subconscious. In our subconscious are the feelings, and the woundings of separations, caused and held by their denials, and the layers of scripts arising from them. The interwoven patterns of these held feelings and their stories, is what makes up the greater part of our ego personality.  It is in the process of identification with these subconscious patterns, their desires, drives and beliefs, that we largely construct our identity. The source of this identification being subconscious, we have no awareness of our personality’s true nature and construction. We simply believe the way we are, is ‘just the way we are’. It’s also important to make clear that all of this is actually the past, trapped within us, replaying itself over and over again, seeking release. All of this exists in our internal reality.

Karma = Separation = Past Feeling/Wounds + Their Scripts & Stories : Held Subconscious by Denial
 

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Listening As Meditation

One of the simplest forms of meditation is listening. You don’t even have to sit still to practice listening. Except for when you are asleep, listening is always happening. You are either listening to the mind or to something else. When we are not listening to the mind, the opportunity exists to be aware that listening is still happening. Listening is part of Awareness, which is a name that is often given to our true nature. If you look closely at who you really are, you find only Awareness—vast empty space that is aware, conscious. You are this consciousness, this awareness, of the mind, of feelings, of sounds, of sights, of sensations, of energy, of what is in any moment.

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Loneliness

~
There is a loneliness
far  deeper than
solitude can ever descend,
it is the depth
of the soul itself,
how can we speak
of such depth
how can we avoid
the inevitable pull
of it’s
undeniable gravity.
In the eyes
of the Divine
lies the only remedy
the depth
it’s cause
and cure
our own
infinity.
~

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Wayne Dyer Movie

Wayne Dyer has just released his first movie ‘Ambition to Meaning – finding your life’s purpose’. While I haven’t seen it yet Dr Dyer has consistently produced quality work for decades now and I’m sure this follows on.

Ambition to meaning is a compelling portrait of three modern lives in need of new direction and new meaning. In this his first-ever movie, Wayne Dyer explores the spiritual journey in the second half of life when we long to find the purpose that is our unique contribution to the world. Filmed on coastal California’s spectacular Monterey Peninsula, Ambition to Meaning captures every person’s longing for a more purposeful, soul-directed life.

Here is a list of screening locations and times. Ambition to Meaning is also available on DVD

Below is the trailer….enjoy!

 

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