BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Clear Sky Meditation Centre - ECPv6.17.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Clear Sky Meditation Centre REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20210314T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20211107T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20220313T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20221106T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20230312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20231105T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20240310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20241103T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20250309T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20251102T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Edmonton BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20220313T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20221106T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20230312T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20231105T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20240310T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20241103T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20250309T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20251102T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240613 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240705 DTSTAMP:20251209T102356Z CREATED:20240122T181943Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251209T102356Z UID:21205-1718236800-1720137599@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Meditation Circle: Living the Body Electric DESCRIPTION:Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online or In-Person | March 21-23\, 2025 \n \n \n \n “Astrology allows us to identify our unique challenges and strengths as individuals in order to more fully embody and live our spiritual awakening. “Dharma empowers us to transcend our challenges\, leverage our strengths and reduce the suffering within ourselves and those around us.” -Catherine Pawasarat Sensei \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we want breakthroughs. We want liberation\, freedom\, and the ability to manifest our most profound vision for this lifetime. And ironically\, the only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and to break away from our timeworn\, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline\, which builds the supporting structures for breakthrough. Astrologically\, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei\, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation\, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we can lean on the idealized notion of being a “free spirit.” This aspiration can lead to chafing around boundaries and authority\, two of the hallmarks of Saturn. It’s easy to project these qualities onto someone or something else\, as our disowned shadow. Integrating these qualities in ourselves is key to true spiritual growth. Drawing on AstroDharma as a resource can help us get there.  Historically\, Saturn was associated with the Grim Reaper or Father Time\, and it’s still known as the Lord of Karma. Wherever we have Saturn in our natal astrological chart\, we are likely to experience restrictions or obstacles. Integrating our Saturn involves learning to dismantle these constraints\, and upcycling the resources thereby acquired as foundations upon which to build the rest of our lives. In this way\, we begin to participate in the conscious shaping of our karma. The planet Saturn is the doorway to working consciously with more transpersonal and universal energies. After all\, it is the gatekeeper from the personal inner planets to the transpersonal or generational outer planets. In AstroDharma\, the outer planets—Uranus\, Neptune\, and Pluto—offer the transformative energy we need for breakthroughs\, through their mighty forces of revolution\, dissolution\, and destruction\, respectively. Accessing and working consciously with these powerful energies requires discipline and self-mastery: in other words\, integration (vs. projection) of Saturn. An untrained\, undisciplined warrior cannot navigate these stormy forces of change. Instead\, karmic tempests repeatedly knock us sideways. Saturn’s authority and responsibility are the keys to breaking through the locks of our conditioned karma to our greater potential—and rising to the challenge of our total transformation. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  This course for you if:You’d like to study an astrological Dharmic framework for spiritual understanding with a wisdom teacher in the Namgyal lineage.You’d like to explore where you fall subject to projections—those aspects of yourself which have been forced into the unconscious\, thus cast onto others—and learn to own them as a more integrated human being.You’d like to transform challenges in your life by leveraging unseen strengths and talents.You’d like greater clues into the particular shapings of gestating in your mother’s womb\, and how your womb experience is impacting your life.You’d like insights into how you can best connect with awakening states of unity.You want to understand the patterns of others\, as well as your own\, to be a more skilled and compassionate being in the world. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In other words\, we must integrate Saturn to become what we truly want to be.In AstroDharma\, we refer to our North Node as our “Dharma\,” our Dharmic path. Learning to manifest our North Node is the most challenging path we can undertake because it involves swimming upstream against the heavy current of our South Node’s familiar and habitual Karma. However\, we cannot work with our North Node\, our true potential\, unless we work with Saturn. Mastery requires incredible discipline. An Olympic figure skater lands that quadruple axle on the ice because they’ve invested thousands of training hours towards achieving this potential.  Over the course\, we will show you how to examine your natal chart\, and look at participants’ charts together\, focusing on Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the associated 10th house. We also encourage you to bring burning questions arising from your life—particularly related to challenges around blocks and authority themes—so we can study how they show up in your chart astrolodharmically. Think about specific questions which will be of particular benefit to you\, and which will help you towards being of benefit to others. For those attending in person\, Catherine Sensei will lead us in somatic AstroDharma mandalas to embody our Saturn together. These mandalas can be a compelling\, visceral experience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "I greatly appreciate the depth of knowledge and level of expertise that is shared by Sensei. Her teachings are always well prepared and transformative in my spiritual growth." \n Michele C.Astrologer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What You’ll Learn: A review of AstroDharma and how it is unique.How to examine and map your own astrological natal chart’s placements\, particularly Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the related 10th house.What happens with Saturn\, Capricorn\, and the 10th house? Why are they considered difficult? How can we access their potential wisdom and mastery?Tools for recognizing and working with reality as it is\, mapping karma and potential. How to work with obstacles\, authority\, and discipline\, toward the growth of your greater potential.About AstroDharma“AstroDharma” is what Catherine Pawasarat Sensei calls her unique synthesis of Buddhist teachings on spiritual awakening (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology\, based on the teachings of Carl Jung. These two powerful tools help us better understand ourselves and the patterns we manifest in our lives. The more we know about ourselves\, the more choices we have. Then\, we can make better choices so that we may lead healthier\, better-integrated lives. Furthermore\, we can also more deeply understand the patterns of those around us\, and support the potential in others\, which is key to Buddhist practitioners’ bodhisattva vow. Saturn relates to what we’d like to manifest in the world\, the areas of life we’d like to master and teach to others. It’s a rare and significant achievement to integrate both external authority and our inner tyrant into self-discipline and skilled judgment. Working with our Saturn\, over time and with conscious effort\, we gradually learn to take responsibility for shaping our own karma. This is easier said than done. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teacher - Catherine Sensei \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catherine Pawasarat Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher\, attendant\, consort\, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts. Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationThis weekend retreat will be led by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei at Clear Sky Meditation Center in Eastern BC. This course is offered online or in-person. Schedule / Class Times: For onsite retreatants\, please arrive in good time for orientation at 5 pm Mountain Time on the Friday. The first class will be at 7 pm Mountain Time. The retreat will formally end at 3 pm Mountain Time on the Sunday. Classes will be 60-90 mins in duration\, with classes in the morning and evening and possibly the afternoon each day (Mountain Time) – the exact schedule to be confirmed. Please ensure you are available for the whole weekend to focus on the course material and attend classes live. Online participants are expected to attend classes live.  We will arrange class times to be comfortable for most time zones. However we understand that some class times might occur after midnight in some regions\, if this is the case for you\, please let us know when you register.  Then we can provide a recording so you can catch up on that particular class. What Does the Course Cost?In-Person Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher plus 2) accomodation and meal costs for your stay Clear Sky Meditation Centre. Online Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher  2) online administration fee of $170 CAD. Keen practitioner pricing: 5% savings on program fees available until February 14\, 2025. Important: The last day to register is one week prior to the retreat start date. Please register early. Questions?If you have questions about the retreat\, please contact the Clear Sky Retreat Manager at 250-429-3929  (phone) or at bookings@clearskycenter.org (email). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Clear Sky \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Located in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature.  Founded by Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. In adherence with our quadruple bottom line\, we source our food as local and organic as possible. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Locally-grown organic food \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supportive meditation guidance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stunning bedroom views \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonus Gift for Course ParticipantsOnline AstroDharma Course INCLUDEDCatherine Sensei also offers an online Intro to AstroDharma course which you will be able to access at the end of this course. This will help you continue your studies. Access to the self-study course is available upon request for participants who complete the retreat. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "This retreat centre is the REAL THING. It's a modern monastery with people grounded in the present and practicing old and new methods of living in a spiritual community. This group walks the talk. I have made the trek from Ontario all the way to this remote corner of BC every year for the last 16 years to study with these teachers\, interact with these fellow seekers\, and bask in the beauty of this gorgeous property." \n Linda H. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FAQs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Dana\n \n\n You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. The dharma has been built on generosity. No-one is excluded for lack of funds but it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able Typically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course.  As we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure.  Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us.  Conversely\, if you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. Learn more about the practice of dāna here. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Admin Fee\n \n\n In a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. We’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. The admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, it can be surprising the costs of setting up a good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online. The admin fee changes based on date of registration. *We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. — Below are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: high speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)online class systems (Zoom)registration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)communication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)online storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)quality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.online calendar booking system to allow students to book interviewswebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.We welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daily Schedule \n \n\n Specific times may change – this is a rough guide (MST) \n6:30 – 7:30 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:15 AM: Breakfast: Prepare\, eat\, clean up8:15 – 8:45 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice9:00 – 10:00 AM: Class with Teachers10:00 – 10:30 AM: Walk10:30 – 11:30 AM: Group Practice led by Sangha11:30 – 12:30 PM: Personal Practice12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch: Prepare\, eat\, clean up1:30 – 3:00 PM: Personal Practice3:00 – 4:00 PM: Group Practice led by Sangha4:00 – 5:30 PM: Personal Practice5:30 – 7:00 PM: Dinner: prepare\, eat\, clean up7:00 – 7:30 PM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:30 PM: Group Practice and Q & A with Teachers8:30 – Beyond: Personal Practice & bed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Food\, Weather\, Accommodation and How to Get Here\n \n\n Click here for details on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PSYCHEDELICS/MICRODOSING\n \n\n We recognize and respect plant medicine as an important part of some people’s spiritual paths.  Please note\, the meditation practice on this retreat is very powerful. Consuming mind-altering substances will detract from your experience and could cause negative side-effects.  We ask that you refrain from microdosing or consuming mind-altering substances during this retreat and in the days immediately following it.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION\n \n\n We aim to make our retreats as accessible as possible.  As a centre run entirely by Karma Yoga (selfless service)\, retreat fees only cover food\, accommodation and the equipment required to offer them online. We do not have paid staff.  The teachings themselves are offered on the basis of Dāna (pay-from-the-heart).  For some\, this is still a barrier of entry. If you are seeking financial assistance to attend a retreat\, please complete a Scholarship Application form. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/meditation-circle-body-electric-june-2024/ CATEGORIES:Coaching,Meditation Circle,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20240524T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20240602T150000 DTSTAMP:20251209T101545Z CREATED:20230907T232718Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251209T101545Z UID:20221-1716562800-1717340400@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Breathing Meditation Retreat DESCRIPTION:Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online or In-Person | March 21-23\, 2025 \n \n \n \n “Astrology allows us to identify our unique challenges and strengths as individuals in order to more fully embody and live our spiritual awakening. “Dharma empowers us to transcend our challenges\, leverage our strengths and reduce the suffering within ourselves and those around us.” -Catherine Pawasarat Sensei \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we want breakthroughs. We want liberation\, freedom\, and the ability to manifest our most profound vision for this lifetime. And ironically\, the only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and to break away from our timeworn\, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline\, which builds the supporting structures for breakthrough. Astrologically\, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei\, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation\, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we can lean on the idealized notion of being a “free spirit.” This aspiration can lead to chafing around boundaries and authority\, two of the hallmarks of Saturn. It’s easy to project these qualities onto someone or something else\, as our disowned shadow. Integrating these qualities in ourselves is key to true spiritual growth. Drawing on AstroDharma as a resource can help us get there.  Historically\, Saturn was associated with the Grim Reaper or Father Time\, and it’s still known as the Lord of Karma. Wherever we have Saturn in our natal astrological chart\, we are likely to experience restrictions or obstacles. Integrating our Saturn involves learning to dismantle these constraints\, and upcycling the resources thereby acquired as foundations upon which to build the rest of our lives. In this way\, we begin to participate in the conscious shaping of our karma. The planet Saturn is the doorway to working consciously with more transpersonal and universal energies. After all\, it is the gatekeeper from the personal inner planets to the transpersonal or generational outer planets. In AstroDharma\, the outer planets—Uranus\, Neptune\, and Pluto—offer the transformative energy we need for breakthroughs\, through their mighty forces of revolution\, dissolution\, and destruction\, respectively. Accessing and working consciously with these powerful energies requires discipline and self-mastery: in other words\, integration (vs. projection) of Saturn. An untrained\, undisciplined warrior cannot navigate these stormy forces of change. Instead\, karmic tempests repeatedly knock us sideways. Saturn’s authority and responsibility are the keys to breaking through the locks of our conditioned karma to our greater potential—and rising to the challenge of our total transformation. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  This course for you if:You’d like to study an astrological Dharmic framework for spiritual understanding with a wisdom teacher in the Namgyal lineage.You’d like to explore where you fall subject to projections—those aspects of yourself which have been forced into the unconscious\, thus cast onto others—and learn to own them as a more integrated human being.You’d like to transform challenges in your life by leveraging unseen strengths and talents.You’d like greater clues into the particular shapings of gestating in your mother’s womb\, and how your womb experience is impacting your life.You’d like insights into how you can best connect with awakening states of unity.You want to understand the patterns of others\, as well as your own\, to be a more skilled and compassionate being in the world. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In other words\, we must integrate Saturn to become what we truly want to be.In AstroDharma\, we refer to our North Node as our “Dharma\,” our Dharmic path. Learning to manifest our North Node is the most challenging path we can undertake because it involves swimming upstream against the heavy current of our South Node’s familiar and habitual Karma. However\, we cannot work with our North Node\, our true potential\, unless we work with Saturn. Mastery requires incredible discipline. An Olympic figure skater lands that quadruple axle on the ice because they’ve invested thousands of training hours towards achieving this potential.  Over the course\, we will show you how to examine your natal chart\, and look at participants’ charts together\, focusing on Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the associated 10th house. We also encourage you to bring burning questions arising from your life—particularly related to challenges around blocks and authority themes—so we can study how they show up in your chart astrolodharmically. Think about specific questions which will be of particular benefit to you\, and which will help you towards being of benefit to others. For those attending in person\, Catherine Sensei will lead us in somatic AstroDharma mandalas to embody our Saturn together. These mandalas can be a compelling\, visceral experience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "I greatly appreciate the depth of knowledge and level of expertise that is shared by Sensei. Her teachings are always well prepared and transformative in my spiritual growth." \n Michele C.Astrologer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What You’ll Learn: A review of AstroDharma and how it is unique.How to examine and map your own astrological natal chart’s placements\, particularly Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the related 10th house.What happens with Saturn\, Capricorn\, and the 10th house? Why are they considered difficult? How can we access their potential wisdom and mastery?Tools for recognizing and working with reality as it is\, mapping karma and potential. How to work with obstacles\, authority\, and discipline\, toward the growth of your greater potential.About AstroDharma“AstroDharma” is what Catherine Pawasarat Sensei calls her unique synthesis of Buddhist teachings on spiritual awakening (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology\, based on the teachings of Carl Jung. These two powerful tools help us better understand ourselves and the patterns we manifest in our lives. The more we know about ourselves\, the more choices we have. Then\, we can make better choices so that we may lead healthier\, better-integrated lives. Furthermore\, we can also more deeply understand the patterns of those around us\, and support the potential in others\, which is key to Buddhist practitioners’ bodhisattva vow. Saturn relates to what we’d like to manifest in the world\, the areas of life we’d like to master and teach to others. It’s a rare and significant achievement to integrate both external authority and our inner tyrant into self-discipline and skilled judgment. Working with our Saturn\, over time and with conscious effort\, we gradually learn to take responsibility for shaping our own karma. This is easier said than done. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teacher - Catherine Sensei \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catherine Pawasarat Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher\, attendant\, consort\, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts. Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationThis weekend retreat will be led by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei at Clear Sky Meditation Center in Eastern BC. This course is offered online or in-person. Schedule / Class Times: For onsite retreatants\, please arrive in good time for orientation at 5 pm Mountain Time on the Friday. The first class will be at 7 pm Mountain Time. The retreat will formally end at 3 pm Mountain Time on the Sunday. Classes will be 60-90 mins in duration\, with classes in the morning and evening and possibly the afternoon each day (Mountain Time) – the exact schedule to be confirmed. Please ensure you are available for the whole weekend to focus on the course material and attend classes live. Online participants are expected to attend classes live.  We will arrange class times to be comfortable for most time zones. However we understand that some class times might occur after midnight in some regions\, if this is the case for you\, please let us know when you register.  Then we can provide a recording so you can catch up on that particular class. What Does the Course Cost?In-Person Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher plus 2) accomodation and meal costs for your stay Clear Sky Meditation Centre. Online Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher  2) online administration fee of $170 CAD. Keen practitioner pricing: 5% savings on program fees available until February 14\, 2025. Important: The last day to register is one week prior to the retreat start date. Please register early. Questions?If you have questions about the retreat\, please contact the Clear Sky Retreat Manager at 250-429-3929  (phone) or at bookings@clearskycenter.org (email). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Clear Sky \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Located in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature.  Founded by Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. In adherence with our quadruple bottom line\, we source our food as local and organic as possible. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Locally-grown organic food \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supportive meditation guidance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stunning bedroom views \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonus Gift for Course ParticipantsOnline AstroDharma Course INCLUDEDCatherine Sensei also offers an online Intro to AstroDharma course which you will be able to access at the end of this course. This will help you continue your studies. Access to the self-study course is available upon request for participants who complete the retreat. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "This retreat centre is the REAL THING. It's a modern monastery with people grounded in the present and practicing old and new methods of living in a spiritual community. This group walks the talk. I have made the trek from Ontario all the way to this remote corner of BC every year for the last 16 years to study with these teachers\, interact with these fellow seekers\, and bask in the beauty of this gorgeous property." \n Linda H. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FAQs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Dana\n \n\n You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. The dharma has been built on generosity. No-one is excluded for lack of funds but it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able Typically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course.  As we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure.  Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us.  Conversely\, if you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. Learn more about the practice of dāna here. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Admin Fee\n \n\n In a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. We’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. The admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, it can be surprising the costs of setting up a good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online. The admin fee changes based on date of registration. *We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. — Below are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: high speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)online class systems (Zoom)registration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)communication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)online storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)quality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.online calendar booking system to allow students to book interviewswebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.We welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daily Schedule \n \n\n Specific times may change – this is a rough guide (MST) \n6:30 – 7:30 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:15 AM: Breakfast: Prepare\, eat\, clean up8:15 – 8:45 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice9:00 – 10:00 AM: Class with Teachers10:00 – 10:30 AM: Walk10:30 – 11:30 AM: Group Practice led by Sangha11:30 – 12:30 PM: Personal Practice12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch: Prepare\, eat\, clean up1:30 – 3:00 PM: Personal Practice3:00 – 4:00 PM: Group Practice led by Sangha4:00 – 5:30 PM: Personal Practice5:30 – 7:00 PM: Dinner: prepare\, eat\, clean up7:00 – 7:30 PM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:30 PM: Group Practice and Q & A with Teachers8:30 – Beyond: Personal Practice & bed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Food\, Weather\, Accommodation and How to Get Here\n \n\n Click here for details on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PSYCHEDELICS/MICRODOSING\n \n\n We recognize and respect plant medicine as an important part of some people’s spiritual paths.  Please note\, the meditation practice on this retreat is very powerful. Consuming mind-altering substances will detract from your experience and could cause negative side-effects.  We ask that you refrain from microdosing or consuming mind-altering substances during this retreat and in the days immediately following it.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION\n \n\n We aim to make our retreats as accessible as possible.  As a centre run entirely by Karma Yoga (selfless service)\, retreat fees only cover food\, accommodation and the equipment required to offer them online. We do not have paid staff.  The teachings themselves are offered on the basis of Dāna (pay-from-the-heart).  For some\, this is still a barrier of entry. If you are seeking financial assistance to attend a retreat\, please complete a Scholarship Application form. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/breathing-meditation-retreat-2024/ CATEGORIES:Featured Courses,Group Retreats,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Breathing-Meditation-Retreat-Square.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20240414T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20240505T110000 DTSTAMP:20251206T085908Z CREATED:20240121T231048Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251206T085908Z UID:21095-1713087000-1714906800@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:From Ordinary to Extraordinary: Walking the Eightfold Noble Path (Online) DESCRIPTION:Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online or In-Person | March 21-23\, 2025 \n \n \n \n “Astrology allows us to identify our unique challenges and strengths as individuals in order to more fully embody and live our spiritual awakening. “Dharma empowers us to transcend our challenges\, leverage our strengths and reduce the suffering within ourselves and those around us.” -Catherine Pawasarat Sensei \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we want breakthroughs. We want liberation\, freedom\, and the ability to manifest our most profound vision for this lifetime. And ironically\, the only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and to break away from our timeworn\, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline\, which builds the supporting structures for breakthrough. Astrologically\, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei\, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation\, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we can lean on the idealized notion of being a “free spirit.” This aspiration can lead to chafing around boundaries and authority\, two of the hallmarks of Saturn. It’s easy to project these qualities onto someone or something else\, as our disowned shadow. Integrating these qualities in ourselves is key to true spiritual growth. Drawing on AstroDharma as a resource can help us get there.  Historically\, Saturn was associated with the Grim Reaper or Father Time\, and it’s still known as the Lord of Karma. Wherever we have Saturn in our natal astrological chart\, we are likely to experience restrictions or obstacles. Integrating our Saturn involves learning to dismantle these constraints\, and upcycling the resources thereby acquired as foundations upon which to build the rest of our lives. In this way\, we begin to participate in the conscious shaping of our karma. The planet Saturn is the doorway to working consciously with more transpersonal and universal energies. After all\, it is the gatekeeper from the personal inner planets to the transpersonal or generational outer planets. In AstroDharma\, the outer planets—Uranus\, Neptune\, and Pluto—offer the transformative energy we need for breakthroughs\, through their mighty forces of revolution\, dissolution\, and destruction\, respectively. Accessing and working consciously with these powerful energies requires discipline and self-mastery: in other words\, integration (vs. projection) of Saturn. An untrained\, undisciplined warrior cannot navigate these stormy forces of change. Instead\, karmic tempests repeatedly knock us sideways. Saturn’s authority and responsibility are the keys to breaking through the locks of our conditioned karma to our greater potential—and rising to the challenge of our total transformation. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  This course for you if:You’d like to study an astrological Dharmic framework for spiritual understanding with a wisdom teacher in the Namgyal lineage.You’d like to explore where you fall subject to projections—those aspects of yourself which have been forced into the unconscious\, thus cast onto others—and learn to own them as a more integrated human being.You’d like to transform challenges in your life by leveraging unseen strengths and talents.You’d like greater clues into the particular shapings of gestating in your mother’s womb\, and how your womb experience is impacting your life.You’d like insights into how you can best connect with awakening states of unity.You want to understand the patterns of others\, as well as your own\, to be a more skilled and compassionate being in the world. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In other words\, we must integrate Saturn to become what we truly want to be.In AstroDharma\, we refer to our North Node as our “Dharma\,” our Dharmic path. Learning to manifest our North Node is the most challenging path we can undertake because it involves swimming upstream against the heavy current of our South Node’s familiar and habitual Karma. However\, we cannot work with our North Node\, our true potential\, unless we work with Saturn. Mastery requires incredible discipline. An Olympic figure skater lands that quadruple axle on the ice because they’ve invested thousands of training hours towards achieving this potential.  Over the course\, we will show you how to examine your natal chart\, and look at participants’ charts together\, focusing on Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the associated 10th house. We also encourage you to bring burning questions arising from your life—particularly related to challenges around blocks and authority themes—so we can study how they show up in your chart astrolodharmically. Think about specific questions which will be of particular benefit to you\, and which will help you towards being of benefit to others. For those attending in person\, Catherine Sensei will lead us in somatic AstroDharma mandalas to embody our Saturn together. These mandalas can be a compelling\, visceral experience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "I greatly appreciate the depth of knowledge and level of expertise that is shared by Sensei. Her teachings are always well prepared and transformative in my spiritual growth." \n Michele C.Astrologer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What You’ll Learn: A review of AstroDharma and how it is unique.How to examine and map your own astrological natal chart’s placements\, particularly Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the related 10th house.What happens with Saturn\, Capricorn\, and the 10th house? Why are they considered difficult? How can we access their potential wisdom and mastery?Tools for recognizing and working with reality as it is\, mapping karma and potential. How to work with obstacles\, authority\, and discipline\, toward the growth of your greater potential.About AstroDharma“AstroDharma” is what Catherine Pawasarat Sensei calls her unique synthesis of Buddhist teachings on spiritual awakening (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology\, based on the teachings of Carl Jung. These two powerful tools help us better understand ourselves and the patterns we manifest in our lives. The more we know about ourselves\, the more choices we have. Then\, we can make better choices so that we may lead healthier\, better-integrated lives. Furthermore\, we can also more deeply understand the patterns of those around us\, and support the potential in others\, which is key to Buddhist practitioners’ bodhisattva vow. Saturn relates to what we’d like to manifest in the world\, the areas of life we’d like to master and teach to others. It’s a rare and significant achievement to integrate both external authority and our inner tyrant into self-discipline and skilled judgment. Working with our Saturn\, over time and with conscious effort\, we gradually learn to take responsibility for shaping our own karma. This is easier said than done. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teacher - Catherine Sensei \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catherine Pawasarat Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher\, attendant\, consort\, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts. Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationThis weekend retreat will be led by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei at Clear Sky Meditation Center in Eastern BC. This course is offered online or in-person. Schedule / Class Times: For onsite retreatants\, please arrive in good time for orientation at 5 pm Mountain Time on the Friday. The first class will be at 7 pm Mountain Time. The retreat will formally end at 3 pm Mountain Time on the Sunday. Classes will be 60-90 mins in duration\, with classes in the morning and evening and possibly the afternoon each day (Mountain Time) – the exact schedule to be confirmed. Please ensure you are available for the whole weekend to focus on the course material and attend classes live. Online participants are expected to attend classes live.  We will arrange class times to be comfortable for most time zones. However we understand that some class times might occur after midnight in some regions\, if this is the case for you\, please let us know when you register.  Then we can provide a recording so you can catch up on that particular class. What Does the Course Cost?In-Person Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher plus 2) accomodation and meal costs for your stay Clear Sky Meditation Centre. Online Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher  2) online administration fee of $170 CAD. Keen practitioner pricing: 5% savings on program fees available until February 14\, 2025. Important: The last day to register is one week prior to the retreat start date. Please register early. Questions?If you have questions about the retreat\, please contact the Clear Sky Retreat Manager at 250-429-3929  (phone) or at bookings@clearskycenter.org (email). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Clear Sky \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Located in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature.  Founded by Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. In adherence with our quadruple bottom line\, we source our food as local and organic as possible. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Locally-grown organic food \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supportive meditation guidance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stunning bedroom views \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonus Gift for Course ParticipantsOnline AstroDharma Course INCLUDEDCatherine Sensei also offers an online Intro to AstroDharma course which you will be able to access at the end of this course. This will help you continue your studies. Access to the self-study course is available upon request for participants who complete the retreat. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "This retreat centre is the REAL THING. It's a modern monastery with people grounded in the present and practicing old and new methods of living in a spiritual community. This group walks the talk. I have made the trek from Ontario all the way to this remote corner of BC every year for the last 16 years to study with these teachers\, interact with these fellow seekers\, and bask in the beauty of this gorgeous property." \n Linda H. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FAQs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Dana\n \n\n You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. The dharma has been built on generosity. No-one is excluded for lack of funds but it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able Typically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course.  As we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure.  Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us.  Conversely\, if you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. Learn more about the practice of dāna here. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Admin Fee\n \n\n In a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. We’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. The admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, it can be surprising the costs of setting up a good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online. The admin fee changes based on date of registration. *We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. — Below are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: high speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)online class systems (Zoom)registration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)communication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)online storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)quality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.online calendar booking system to allow students to book interviewswebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.We welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daily Schedule \n \n\n Specific times may change – this is a rough guide (MST) \n6:30 – 7:30 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:15 AM: Breakfast: Prepare\, eat\, clean up8:15 – 8:45 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice9:00 – 10:00 AM: Class with Teachers10:00 – 10:30 AM: Walk10:30 – 11:30 AM: Group Practice led by Sangha11:30 – 12:30 PM: Personal Practice12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch: Prepare\, eat\, clean up1:30 – 3:00 PM: Personal Practice3:00 – 4:00 PM: Group Practice led by Sangha4:00 – 5:30 PM: Personal Practice5:30 – 7:00 PM: Dinner: prepare\, eat\, clean up7:00 – 7:30 PM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:30 PM: Group Practice and Q & A with Teachers8:30 – Beyond: Personal Practice & bed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Food\, Weather\, Accommodation and How to Get Here\n \n\n Click here for details on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PSYCHEDELICS/MICRODOSING\n \n\n We recognize and respect plant medicine as an important part of some people’s spiritual paths.  Please note\, the meditation practice on this retreat is very powerful. Consuming mind-altering substances will detract from your experience and could cause negative side-effects.  We ask that you refrain from microdosing or consuming mind-altering substances during this retreat and in the days immediately following it.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION\n \n\n We aim to make our retreats as accessible as possible.  As a centre run entirely by Karma Yoga (selfless service)\, retreat fees only cover food\, accommodation and the equipment required to offer them online. We do not have paid staff.  The teachings themselves are offered on the basis of Dāna (pay-from-the-heart).  For some\, this is still a barrier of entry. If you are seeking financial assistance to attend a retreat\, please complete a Scholarship Application form. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/the-eightfold-ennobling-path/ CATEGORIES:Online Courses,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024-PD-Courses-Facebook-Covers.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20240323T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20240427T120000 DTSTAMP:20251205T092021Z CREATED:20230905T161824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251205T092021Z UID:20192-1711188000-1714219200@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Integrating Mindfulness: Tools for Holistic Living (In-Person or Online) DESCRIPTION:Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online or In-Person | March 21-23\, 2025 \n \n \n \n “Astrology allows us to identify our unique challenges and strengths as individuals in order to more fully embody and live our spiritual awakening. “Dharma empowers us to transcend our challenges\, leverage our strengths and reduce the suffering within ourselves and those around us.” -Catherine Pawasarat Sensei \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we want breakthroughs. We want liberation\, freedom\, and the ability to manifest our most profound vision for this lifetime. And ironically\, the only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and to break away from our timeworn\, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline\, which builds the supporting structures for breakthrough. Astrologically\, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei\, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation\, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we can lean on the idealized notion of being a “free spirit.” This aspiration can lead to chafing around boundaries and authority\, two of the hallmarks of Saturn. It’s easy to project these qualities onto someone or something else\, as our disowned shadow. Integrating these qualities in ourselves is key to true spiritual growth. Drawing on AstroDharma as a resource can help us get there.  Historically\, Saturn was associated with the Grim Reaper or Father Time\, and it’s still known as the Lord of Karma. Wherever we have Saturn in our natal astrological chart\, we are likely to experience restrictions or obstacles. Integrating our Saturn involves learning to dismantle these constraints\, and upcycling the resources thereby acquired as foundations upon which to build the rest of our lives. In this way\, we begin to participate in the conscious shaping of our karma. The planet Saturn is the doorway to working consciously with more transpersonal and universal energies. After all\, it is the gatekeeper from the personal inner planets to the transpersonal or generational outer planets. In AstroDharma\, the outer planets—Uranus\, Neptune\, and Pluto—offer the transformative energy we need for breakthroughs\, through their mighty forces of revolution\, dissolution\, and destruction\, respectively. Accessing and working consciously with these powerful energies requires discipline and self-mastery: in other words\, integration (vs. projection) of Saturn. An untrained\, undisciplined warrior cannot navigate these stormy forces of change. Instead\, karmic tempests repeatedly knock us sideways. Saturn’s authority and responsibility are the keys to breaking through the locks of our conditioned karma to our greater potential—and rising to the challenge of our total transformation. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  This course for you if:You’d like to study an astrological Dharmic framework for spiritual understanding with a wisdom teacher in the Namgyal lineage.You’d like to explore where you fall subject to projections—those aspects of yourself which have been forced into the unconscious\, thus cast onto others—and learn to own them as a more integrated human being.You’d like to transform challenges in your life by leveraging unseen strengths and talents.You’d like greater clues into the particular shapings of gestating in your mother’s womb\, and how your womb experience is impacting your life.You’d like insights into how you can best connect with awakening states of unity.You want to understand the patterns of others\, as well as your own\, to be a more skilled and compassionate being in the world. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In other words\, we must integrate Saturn to become what we truly want to be.In AstroDharma\, we refer to our North Node as our “Dharma\,” our Dharmic path. Learning to manifest our North Node is the most challenging path we can undertake because it involves swimming upstream against the heavy current of our South Node’s familiar and habitual Karma. However\, we cannot work with our North Node\, our true potential\, unless we work with Saturn. Mastery requires incredible discipline. An Olympic figure skater lands that quadruple axle on the ice because they’ve invested thousands of training hours towards achieving this potential.  Over the course\, we will show you how to examine your natal chart\, and look at participants’ charts together\, focusing on Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the associated 10th house. We also encourage you to bring burning questions arising from your life—particularly related to challenges around blocks and authority themes—so we can study how they show up in your chart astrolodharmically. Think about specific questions which will be of particular benefit to you\, and which will help you towards being of benefit to others. For those attending in person\, Catherine Sensei will lead us in somatic AstroDharma mandalas to embody our Saturn together. These mandalas can be a compelling\, visceral experience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "I greatly appreciate the depth of knowledge and level of expertise that is shared by Sensei. Her teachings are always well prepared and transformative in my spiritual growth." \n Michele C.Astrologer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What You’ll Learn: A review of AstroDharma and how it is unique.How to examine and map your own astrological natal chart’s placements\, particularly Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the related 10th house.What happens with Saturn\, Capricorn\, and the 10th house? Why are they considered difficult? How can we access their potential wisdom and mastery?Tools for recognizing and working with reality as it is\, mapping karma and potential. How to work with obstacles\, authority\, and discipline\, toward the growth of your greater potential.About AstroDharma“AstroDharma” is what Catherine Pawasarat Sensei calls her unique synthesis of Buddhist teachings on spiritual awakening (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology\, based on the teachings of Carl Jung. These two powerful tools help us better understand ourselves and the patterns we manifest in our lives. The more we know about ourselves\, the more choices we have. Then\, we can make better choices so that we may lead healthier\, better-integrated lives. Furthermore\, we can also more deeply understand the patterns of those around us\, and support the potential in others\, which is key to Buddhist practitioners’ bodhisattva vow. Saturn relates to what we’d like to manifest in the world\, the areas of life we’d like to master and teach to others. It’s a rare and significant achievement to integrate both external authority and our inner tyrant into self-discipline and skilled judgment. Working with our Saturn\, over time and with conscious effort\, we gradually learn to take responsibility for shaping our own karma. This is easier said than done. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teacher - Catherine Sensei \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catherine Pawasarat Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher\, attendant\, consort\, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts. Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationThis weekend retreat will be led by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei at Clear Sky Meditation Center in Eastern BC. This course is offered online or in-person. Schedule / Class Times: For onsite retreatants\, please arrive in good time for orientation at 5 pm Mountain Time on the Friday. The first class will be at 7 pm Mountain Time. The retreat will formally end at 3 pm Mountain Time on the Sunday. Classes will be 60-90 mins in duration\, with classes in the morning and evening and possibly the afternoon each day (Mountain Time) – the exact schedule to be confirmed. Please ensure you are available for the whole weekend to focus on the course material and attend classes live. Online participants are expected to attend classes live.  We will arrange class times to be comfortable for most time zones. However we understand that some class times might occur after midnight in some regions\, if this is the case for you\, please let us know when you register.  Then we can provide a recording so you can catch up on that particular class. What Does the Course Cost?In-Person Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher plus 2) accomodation and meal costs for your stay Clear Sky Meditation Centre. Online Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher  2) online administration fee of $170 CAD. Keen practitioner pricing: 5% savings on program fees available until February 14\, 2025. Important: The last day to register is one week prior to the retreat start date. Please register early. Questions?If you have questions about the retreat\, please contact the Clear Sky Retreat Manager at 250-429-3929  (phone) or at bookings@clearskycenter.org (email). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Clear Sky \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Located in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature.  Founded by Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. In adherence with our quadruple bottom line\, we source our food as local and organic as possible. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Locally-grown organic food \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supportive meditation guidance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stunning bedroom views \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonus Gift for Course ParticipantsOnline AstroDharma Course INCLUDEDCatherine Sensei also offers an online Intro to AstroDharma course which you will be able to access at the end of this course. This will help you continue your studies. Access to the self-study course is available upon request for participants who complete the retreat. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "This retreat centre is the REAL THING. It's a modern monastery with people grounded in the present and practicing old and new methods of living in a spiritual community. This group walks the talk. I have made the trek from Ontario all the way to this remote corner of BC every year for the last 16 years to study with these teachers\, interact with these fellow seekers\, and bask in the beauty of this gorgeous property." \n Linda H. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FAQs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Dana\n \n\n You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. The dharma has been built on generosity. No-one is excluded for lack of funds but it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able Typically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course.  As we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure.  Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us.  Conversely\, if you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. Learn more about the practice of dāna here. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Admin Fee\n \n\n In a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. We’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. The admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, it can be surprising the costs of setting up a good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online. The admin fee changes based on date of registration. *We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. — Below are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: high speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)online class systems (Zoom)registration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)communication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)online storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)quality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.online calendar booking system to allow students to book interviewswebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.We welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daily Schedule \n \n\n Specific times may change – this is a rough guide (MST) \n6:30 – 7:30 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:15 AM: Breakfast: Prepare\, eat\, clean up8:15 – 8:45 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice9:00 – 10:00 AM: Class with Teachers10:00 – 10:30 AM: Walk10:30 – 11:30 AM: Group Practice led by Sangha11:30 – 12:30 PM: Personal Practice12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch: Prepare\, eat\, clean up1:30 – 3:00 PM: Personal Practice3:00 – 4:00 PM: Group Practice led by Sangha4:00 – 5:30 PM: Personal Practice5:30 – 7:00 PM: Dinner: prepare\, eat\, clean up7:00 – 7:30 PM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:30 PM: Group Practice and Q & A with Teachers8:30 – Beyond: Personal Practice & bed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Food\, Weather\, Accommodation and How to Get Here\n \n\n Click here for details on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PSYCHEDELICS/MICRODOSING\n \n\n We recognize and respect plant medicine as an important part of some people’s spiritual paths.  Please note\, the meditation practice on this retreat is very powerful. Consuming mind-altering substances will detract from your experience and could cause negative side-effects.  We ask that you refrain from microdosing or consuming mind-altering substances during this retreat and in the days immediately following it.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION\n \n\n We aim to make our retreats as accessible as possible.  As a centre run entirely by Karma Yoga (selfless service)\, retreat fees only cover food\, accommodation and the equipment required to offer them online. We do not have paid staff.  The teachings themselves are offered on the basis of Dāna (pay-from-the-heart).  For some\, this is still a barrier of entry. If you are seeking financial assistance to attend a retreat\, please complete a Scholarship Application form. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/integrating-mindfulness-2024/ CATEGORIES:Integrating Mindfulness,Online Courses,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Integrating-Mindfulness-Feature-Image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20240308T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20240317T170000 DTSTAMP:20260307T075825Z CREATED:20231212T032055Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260307T075825Z UID:20687-1709924400-1710694800@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:The Five Stages of Emptiness Meditation Retreat (In-Person or Online) DESCRIPTION:Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online or In-Person | March 21-23\, 2025 \n \n \n \n “Astrology allows us to identify our unique challenges and strengths as individuals in order to more fully embody and live our spiritual awakening. “Dharma empowers us to transcend our challenges\, leverage our strengths and reduce the suffering within ourselves and those around us.” -Catherine Pawasarat Sensei \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we want breakthroughs. We want liberation\, freedom\, and the ability to manifest our most profound vision for this lifetime. And ironically\, the only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and to break away from our timeworn\, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline\, which builds the supporting structures for breakthrough. Astrologically\, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei\, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation\, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we can lean on the idealized notion of being a “free spirit.” This aspiration can lead to chafing around boundaries and authority\, two of the hallmarks of Saturn. It’s easy to project these qualities onto someone or something else\, as our disowned shadow. Integrating these qualities in ourselves is key to true spiritual growth. Drawing on AstroDharma as a resource can help us get there.  Historically\, Saturn was associated with the Grim Reaper or Father Time\, and it’s still known as the Lord of Karma. Wherever we have Saturn in our natal astrological chart\, we are likely to experience restrictions or obstacles. Integrating our Saturn involves learning to dismantle these constraints\, and upcycling the resources thereby acquired as foundations upon which to build the rest of our lives. In this way\, we begin to participate in the conscious shaping of our karma. The planet Saturn is the doorway to working consciously with more transpersonal and universal energies. After all\, it is the gatekeeper from the personal inner planets to the transpersonal or generational outer planets. In AstroDharma\, the outer planets—Uranus\, Neptune\, and Pluto—offer the transformative energy we need for breakthroughs\, through their mighty forces of revolution\, dissolution\, and destruction\, respectively. Accessing and working consciously with these powerful energies requires discipline and self-mastery: in other words\, integration (vs. projection) of Saturn. An untrained\, undisciplined warrior cannot navigate these stormy forces of change. Instead\, karmic tempests repeatedly knock us sideways. Saturn’s authority and responsibility are the keys to breaking through the locks of our conditioned karma to our greater potential—and rising to the challenge of our total transformation. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  This course for you if:You’d like to study an astrological Dharmic framework for spiritual understanding with a wisdom teacher in the Namgyal lineage.You’d like to explore where you fall subject to projections—those aspects of yourself which have been forced into the unconscious\, thus cast onto others—and learn to own them as a more integrated human being.You’d like to transform challenges in your life by leveraging unseen strengths and talents.You’d like greater clues into the particular shapings of gestating in your mother’s womb\, and how your womb experience is impacting your life.You’d like insights into how you can best connect with awakening states of unity.You want to understand the patterns of others\, as well as your own\, to be a more skilled and compassionate being in the world. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In other words\, we must integrate Saturn to become what we truly want to be.In AstroDharma\, we refer to our North Node as our “Dharma\,” our Dharmic path. Learning to manifest our North Node is the most challenging path we can undertake because it involves swimming upstream against the heavy current of our South Node’s familiar and habitual Karma. However\, we cannot work with our North Node\, our true potential\, unless we work with Saturn. Mastery requires incredible discipline. An Olympic figure skater lands that quadruple axle on the ice because they’ve invested thousands of training hours towards achieving this potential.  Over the course\, we will show you how to examine your natal chart\, and look at participants’ charts together\, focusing on Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the associated 10th house. We also encourage you to bring burning questions arising from your life—particularly related to challenges around blocks and authority themes—so we can study how they show up in your chart astrolodharmically. Think about specific questions which will be of particular benefit to you\, and which will help you towards being of benefit to others. For those attending in person\, Catherine Sensei will lead us in somatic AstroDharma mandalas to embody our Saturn together. These mandalas can be a compelling\, visceral experience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "I greatly appreciate the depth of knowledge and level of expertise that is shared by Sensei. Her teachings are always well prepared and transformative in my spiritual growth." \n Michele C.Astrologer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What You’ll Learn: A review of AstroDharma and how it is unique.How to examine and map your own astrological natal chart’s placements\, particularly Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the related 10th house.What happens with Saturn\, Capricorn\, and the 10th house? Why are they considered difficult? How can we access their potential wisdom and mastery?Tools for recognizing and working with reality as it is\, mapping karma and potential. How to work with obstacles\, authority\, and discipline\, toward the growth of your greater potential.About AstroDharma“AstroDharma” is what Catherine Pawasarat Sensei calls her unique synthesis of Buddhist teachings on spiritual awakening (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology\, based on the teachings of Carl Jung. These two powerful tools help us better understand ourselves and the patterns we manifest in our lives. The more we know about ourselves\, the more choices we have. Then\, we can make better choices so that we may lead healthier\, better-integrated lives. Furthermore\, we can also more deeply understand the patterns of those around us\, and support the potential in others\, which is key to Buddhist practitioners’ bodhisattva vow. Saturn relates to what we’d like to manifest in the world\, the areas of life we’d like to master and teach to others. It’s a rare and significant achievement to integrate both external authority and our inner tyrant into self-discipline and skilled judgment. Working with our Saturn\, over time and with conscious effort\, we gradually learn to take responsibility for shaping our own karma. This is easier said than done. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teacher - Catherine Sensei \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catherine Pawasarat Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher\, attendant\, consort\, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts. Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationThis weekend retreat will be led by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei at Clear Sky Meditation Center in Eastern BC. This course is offered online or in-person. Schedule / Class Times: For onsite retreatants\, please arrive in good time for orientation at 5 pm Mountain Time on the Friday. The first class will be at 7 pm Mountain Time. The retreat will formally end at 3 pm Mountain Time on the Sunday. Classes will be 60-90 mins in duration\, with classes in the morning and evening and possibly the afternoon each day (Mountain Time) – the exact schedule to be confirmed. Please ensure you are available for the whole weekend to focus on the course material and attend classes live. Online participants are expected to attend classes live.  We will arrange class times to be comfortable for most time zones. However we understand that some class times might occur after midnight in some regions\, if this is the case for you\, please let us know when you register.  Then we can provide a recording so you can catch up on that particular class. What Does the Course Cost?In-Person Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher plus 2) accomodation and meal costs for your stay Clear Sky Meditation Centre. Online Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher  2) online administration fee of $170 CAD. Keen practitioner pricing: 5% savings on program fees available until February 14\, 2025. Important: The last day to register is one week prior to the retreat start date. Please register early. Questions?If you have questions about the retreat\, please contact the Clear Sky Retreat Manager at 250-429-3929  (phone) or at bookings@clearskycenter.org (email). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Clear Sky \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Located in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature.  Founded by Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. In adherence with our quadruple bottom line\, we source our food as local and organic as possible. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Locally-grown organic food \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supportive meditation guidance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stunning bedroom views \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonus Gift for Course ParticipantsOnline AstroDharma Course INCLUDEDCatherine Sensei also offers an online Intro to AstroDharma course which you will be able to access at the end of this course. This will help you continue your studies. Access to the self-study course is available upon request for participants who complete the retreat. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "This retreat centre is the REAL THING. It's a modern monastery with people grounded in the present and practicing old and new methods of living in a spiritual community. This group walks the talk. I have made the trek from Ontario all the way to this remote corner of BC every year for the last 16 years to study with these teachers\, interact with these fellow seekers\, and bask in the beauty of this gorgeous property." \n Linda H. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FAQs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Dana\n \n\n You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. The dharma has been built on generosity. No-one is excluded for lack of funds but it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able Typically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course.  As we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure.  Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us.  Conversely\, if you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. Learn more about the practice of dāna here. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Admin Fee\n \n\n In a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. We’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. The admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, it can be surprising the costs of setting up a good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online. The admin fee changes based on date of registration. *We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. — Below are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: high speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)online class systems (Zoom)registration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)communication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)online storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)quality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.online calendar booking system to allow students to book interviewswebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.We welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daily Schedule \n \n\n Specific times may change – this is a rough guide (MST) \n6:30 – 7:30 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:15 AM: Breakfast: Prepare\, eat\, clean up8:15 – 8:45 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice9:00 – 10:00 AM: Class with Teachers10:00 – 10:30 AM: Walk10:30 – 11:30 AM: Group Practice led by Sangha11:30 – 12:30 PM: Personal Practice12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch: Prepare\, eat\, clean up1:30 – 3:00 PM: Personal Practice3:00 – 4:00 PM: Group Practice led by Sangha4:00 – 5:30 PM: Personal Practice5:30 – 7:00 PM: Dinner: prepare\, eat\, clean up7:00 – 7:30 PM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:30 PM: Group Practice and Q & A with Teachers8:30 – Beyond: Personal Practice & bed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Food\, Weather\, Accommodation and How to Get Here\n \n\n Click here for details on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PSYCHEDELICS/MICRODOSING\n \n\n We recognize and respect plant medicine as an important part of some people’s spiritual paths.  Please note\, the meditation practice on this retreat is very powerful. Consuming mind-altering substances will detract from your experience and could cause negative side-effects.  We ask that you refrain from microdosing or consuming mind-altering substances during this retreat and in the days immediately following it.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION\n \n\n We aim to make our retreats as accessible as possible.  As a centre run entirely by Karma Yoga (selfless service)\, retreat fees only cover food\, accommodation and the equipment required to offer them online. We do not have paid staff.  The teachings themselves are offered on the basis of Dāna (pay-from-the-heart).  For some\, this is still a barrier of entry. If you are seeking financial assistance to attend a retreat\, please complete a Scholarship Application form. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/five-stages-emptiness-retreat-online/ CATEGORIES:Featured Courses,Group Retreats,Online Courses,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2024-PD-courses-Square-IG-Post-4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240208 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240301 DTSTAMP:20251209T091316Z CREATED:20231205T030926Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251209T091316Z UID:20623-1707350400-1709251199@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Meditation Circle: Body\, Speech & Mind - Liberating Stuck Patterns DESCRIPTION:Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online or In-Person | March 21-23\, 2025 \n \n \n \n “Astrology allows us to identify our unique challenges and strengths as individuals in order to more fully embody and live our spiritual awakening. “Dharma empowers us to transcend our challenges\, leverage our strengths and reduce the suffering within ourselves and those around us.” -Catherine Pawasarat Sensei \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we want breakthroughs. We want liberation\, freedom\, and the ability to manifest our most profound vision for this lifetime. And ironically\, the only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and to break away from our timeworn\, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline\, which builds the supporting structures for breakthrough. Astrologically\, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei\, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation\, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we can lean on the idealized notion of being a “free spirit.” This aspiration can lead to chafing around boundaries and authority\, two of the hallmarks of Saturn. It’s easy to project these qualities onto someone or something else\, as our disowned shadow. Integrating these qualities in ourselves is key to true spiritual growth. Drawing on AstroDharma as a resource can help us get there.  Historically\, Saturn was associated with the Grim Reaper or Father Time\, and it’s still known as the Lord of Karma. Wherever we have Saturn in our natal astrological chart\, we are likely to experience restrictions or obstacles. Integrating our Saturn involves learning to dismantle these constraints\, and upcycling the resources thereby acquired as foundations upon which to build the rest of our lives. In this way\, we begin to participate in the conscious shaping of our karma. The planet Saturn is the doorway to working consciously with more transpersonal and universal energies. After all\, it is the gatekeeper from the personal inner planets to the transpersonal or generational outer planets. In AstroDharma\, the outer planets—Uranus\, Neptune\, and Pluto—offer the transformative energy we need for breakthroughs\, through their mighty forces of revolution\, dissolution\, and destruction\, respectively. Accessing and working consciously with these powerful energies requires discipline and self-mastery: in other words\, integration (vs. projection) of Saturn. An untrained\, undisciplined warrior cannot navigate these stormy forces of change. Instead\, karmic tempests repeatedly knock us sideways. Saturn’s authority and responsibility are the keys to breaking through the locks of our conditioned karma to our greater potential—and rising to the challenge of our total transformation. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  This course for you if:You’d like to study an astrological Dharmic framework for spiritual understanding with a wisdom teacher in the Namgyal lineage.You’d like to explore where you fall subject to projections—those aspects of yourself which have been forced into the unconscious\, thus cast onto others—and learn to own them as a more integrated human being.You’d like to transform challenges in your life by leveraging unseen strengths and talents.You’d like greater clues into the particular shapings of gestating in your mother’s womb\, and how your womb experience is impacting your life.You’d like insights into how you can best connect with awakening states of unity.You want to understand the patterns of others\, as well as your own\, to be a more skilled and compassionate being in the world. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In other words\, we must integrate Saturn to become what we truly want to be.In AstroDharma\, we refer to our North Node as our “Dharma\,” our Dharmic path. Learning to manifest our North Node is the most challenging path we can undertake because it involves swimming upstream against the heavy current of our South Node’s familiar and habitual Karma. However\, we cannot work with our North Node\, our true potential\, unless we work with Saturn. Mastery requires incredible discipline. An Olympic figure skater lands that quadruple axle on the ice because they’ve invested thousands of training hours towards achieving this potential.  Over the course\, we will show you how to examine your natal chart\, and look at participants’ charts together\, focusing on Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the associated 10th house. We also encourage you to bring burning questions arising from your life—particularly related to challenges around blocks and authority themes—so we can study how they show up in your chart astrolodharmically. Think about specific questions which will be of particular benefit to you\, and which will help you towards being of benefit to others. For those attending in person\, Catherine Sensei will lead us in somatic AstroDharma mandalas to embody our Saturn together. These mandalas can be a compelling\, visceral experience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "I greatly appreciate the depth of knowledge and level of expertise that is shared by Sensei. Her teachings are always well prepared and transformative in my spiritual growth." \n Michele C.Astrologer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What You’ll Learn: A review of AstroDharma and how it is unique.How to examine and map your own astrological natal chart’s placements\, particularly Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the related 10th house.What happens with Saturn\, Capricorn\, and the 10th house? Why are they considered difficult? How can we access their potential wisdom and mastery?Tools for recognizing and working with reality as it is\, mapping karma and potential. How to work with obstacles\, authority\, and discipline\, toward the growth of your greater potential.About AstroDharma“AstroDharma” is what Catherine Pawasarat Sensei calls her unique synthesis of Buddhist teachings on spiritual awakening (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology\, based on the teachings of Carl Jung. These two powerful tools help us better understand ourselves and the patterns we manifest in our lives. The more we know about ourselves\, the more choices we have. Then\, we can make better choices so that we may lead healthier\, better-integrated lives. Furthermore\, we can also more deeply understand the patterns of those around us\, and support the potential in others\, which is key to Buddhist practitioners’ bodhisattva vow. Saturn relates to what we’d like to manifest in the world\, the areas of life we’d like to master and teach to others. It’s a rare and significant achievement to integrate both external authority and our inner tyrant into self-discipline and skilled judgment. Working with our Saturn\, over time and with conscious effort\, we gradually learn to take responsibility for shaping our own karma. This is easier said than done. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teacher - Catherine Sensei \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catherine Pawasarat Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher\, attendant\, consort\, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts. Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationThis weekend retreat will be led by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei at Clear Sky Meditation Center in Eastern BC. This course is offered online or in-person. Schedule / Class Times: For onsite retreatants\, please arrive in good time for orientation at 5 pm Mountain Time on the Friday. The first class will be at 7 pm Mountain Time. The retreat will formally end at 3 pm Mountain Time on the Sunday. Classes will be 60-90 mins in duration\, with classes in the morning and evening and possibly the afternoon each day (Mountain Time) – the exact schedule to be confirmed. Please ensure you are available for the whole weekend to focus on the course material and attend classes live. Online participants are expected to attend classes live.  We will arrange class times to be comfortable for most time zones. However we understand that some class times might occur after midnight in some regions\, if this is the case for you\, please let us know when you register.  Then we can provide a recording so you can catch up on that particular class. What Does the Course Cost?In-Person Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher plus 2) accomodation and meal costs for your stay Clear Sky Meditation Centre. Online Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher  2) online administration fee of $170 CAD. Keen practitioner pricing: 5% savings on program fees available until February 14\, 2025. Important: The last day to register is one week prior to the retreat start date. Please register early. Questions?If you have questions about the retreat\, please contact the Clear Sky Retreat Manager at 250-429-3929  (phone) or at bookings@clearskycenter.org (email). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Clear Sky \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Located in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature.  Founded by Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. In adherence with our quadruple bottom line\, we source our food as local and organic as possible. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Locally-grown organic food \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supportive meditation guidance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stunning bedroom views \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonus Gift for Course ParticipantsOnline AstroDharma Course INCLUDEDCatherine Sensei also offers an online Intro to AstroDharma course which you will be able to access at the end of this course. This will help you continue your studies. Access to the self-study course is available upon request for participants who complete the retreat. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "This retreat centre is the REAL THING. It's a modern monastery with people grounded in the present and practicing old and new methods of living in a spiritual community. This group walks the talk. I have made the trek from Ontario all the way to this remote corner of BC every year for the last 16 years to study with these teachers\, interact with these fellow seekers\, and bask in the beauty of this gorgeous property." \n Linda H. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FAQs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Dana\n \n\n You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. The dharma has been built on generosity. No-one is excluded for lack of funds but it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able Typically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course.  As we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure.  Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us.  Conversely\, if you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. Learn more about the practice of dāna here. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Admin Fee\n \n\n In a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. We’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. The admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, it can be surprising the costs of setting up a good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online. The admin fee changes based on date of registration. *We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. — Below are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: high speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)online class systems (Zoom)registration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)communication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)online storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)quality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.online calendar booking system to allow students to book interviewswebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.We welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daily Schedule \n \n\n Specific times may change – this is a rough guide (MST) \n6:30 – 7:30 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:15 AM: Breakfast: Prepare\, eat\, clean up8:15 – 8:45 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice9:00 – 10:00 AM: Class with Teachers10:00 – 10:30 AM: Walk10:30 – 11:30 AM: Group Practice led by Sangha11:30 – 12:30 PM: Personal Practice12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch: Prepare\, eat\, clean up1:30 – 3:00 PM: Personal Practice3:00 – 4:00 PM: Group Practice led by Sangha4:00 – 5:30 PM: Personal Practice5:30 – 7:00 PM: Dinner: prepare\, eat\, clean up7:00 – 7:30 PM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:30 PM: Group Practice and Q & A with Teachers8:30 – Beyond: Personal Practice & bed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Food\, Weather\, Accommodation and How to Get Here\n \n\n Click here for details on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PSYCHEDELICS/MICRODOSING\n \n\n We recognize and respect plant medicine as an important part of some people’s spiritual paths.  Please note\, the meditation practice on this retreat is very powerful. Consuming mind-altering substances will detract from your experience and could cause negative side-effects.  We ask that you refrain from microdosing or consuming mind-altering substances during this retreat and in the days immediately following it.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION\n \n\n We aim to make our retreats as accessible as possible.  As a centre run entirely by Karma Yoga (selfless service)\, retreat fees only cover food\, accommodation and the equipment required to offer them online. We do not have paid staff.  The teachings themselves are offered on the basis of Dāna (pay-from-the-heart).  For some\, this is still a barrier of entry. If you are seeking financial assistance to attend a retreat\, please complete a Scholarship Application form. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/meditation-circle-feb-2024/ CATEGORIES:Coaching,Meditation Circle,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231116T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231207T200000 DTSTAMP:20251208T070157Z CREATED:20230918T165250Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251208T070157Z UID:20294-1700161200-1701979200@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Meditation Circle: Community Classes for Inner Well-Being (Online or In-Person) DESCRIPTION:Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online or In-Person | March 21-23\, 2025 \n \n \n \n “Astrology allows us to identify our unique challenges and strengths as individuals in order to more fully embody and live our spiritual awakening. “Dharma empowers us to transcend our challenges\, leverage our strengths and reduce the suffering within ourselves and those around us.” -Catherine Pawasarat Sensei \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we want breakthroughs. We want liberation\, freedom\, and the ability to manifest our most profound vision for this lifetime. And ironically\, the only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and to break away from our timeworn\, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline\, which builds the supporting structures for breakthrough. Astrologically\, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei\, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation\, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we can lean on the idealized notion of being a “free spirit.” This aspiration can lead to chafing around boundaries and authority\, two of the hallmarks of Saturn. It’s easy to project these qualities onto someone or something else\, as our disowned shadow. Integrating these qualities in ourselves is key to true spiritual growth. Drawing on AstroDharma as a resource can help us get there.  Historically\, Saturn was associated with the Grim Reaper or Father Time\, and it’s still known as the Lord of Karma. Wherever we have Saturn in our natal astrological chart\, we are likely to experience restrictions or obstacles. Integrating our Saturn involves learning to dismantle these constraints\, and upcycling the resources thereby acquired as foundations upon which to build the rest of our lives. In this way\, we begin to participate in the conscious shaping of our karma. The planet Saturn is the doorway to working consciously with more transpersonal and universal energies. After all\, it is the gatekeeper from the personal inner planets to the transpersonal or generational outer planets. In AstroDharma\, the outer planets—Uranus\, Neptune\, and Pluto—offer the transformative energy we need for breakthroughs\, through their mighty forces of revolution\, dissolution\, and destruction\, respectively. Accessing and working consciously with these powerful energies requires discipline and self-mastery: in other words\, integration (vs. projection) of Saturn. An untrained\, undisciplined warrior cannot navigate these stormy forces of change. Instead\, karmic tempests repeatedly knock us sideways. Saturn’s authority and responsibility are the keys to breaking through the locks of our conditioned karma to our greater potential—and rising to the challenge of our total transformation. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  This course for you if:You’d like to study an astrological Dharmic framework for spiritual understanding with a wisdom teacher in the Namgyal lineage.You’d like to explore where you fall subject to projections—those aspects of yourself which have been forced into the unconscious\, thus cast onto others—and learn to own them as a more integrated human being.You’d like to transform challenges in your life by leveraging unseen strengths and talents.You’d like greater clues into the particular shapings of gestating in your mother’s womb\, and how your womb experience is impacting your life.You’d like insights into how you can best connect with awakening states of unity.You want to understand the patterns of others\, as well as your own\, to be a more skilled and compassionate being in the world. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In other words\, we must integrate Saturn to become what we truly want to be.In AstroDharma\, we refer to our North Node as our “Dharma\,” our Dharmic path. Learning to manifest our North Node is the most challenging path we can undertake because it involves swimming upstream against the heavy current of our South Node’s familiar and habitual Karma. However\, we cannot work with our North Node\, our true potential\, unless we work with Saturn. Mastery requires incredible discipline. An Olympic figure skater lands that quadruple axle on the ice because they’ve invested thousands of training hours towards achieving this potential.  Over the course\, we will show you how to examine your natal chart\, and look at participants’ charts together\, focusing on Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the associated 10th house. We also encourage you to bring burning questions arising from your life—particularly related to challenges around blocks and authority themes—so we can study how they show up in your chart astrolodharmically. Think about specific questions which will be of particular benefit to you\, and which will help you towards being of benefit to others. For those attending in person\, Catherine Sensei will lead us in somatic AstroDharma mandalas to embody our Saturn together. These mandalas can be a compelling\, visceral experience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "I greatly appreciate the depth of knowledge and level of expertise that is shared by Sensei. Her teachings are always well prepared and transformative in my spiritual growth." \n Michele C.Astrologer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What You’ll Learn: A review of AstroDharma and how it is unique.How to examine and map your own astrological natal chart’s placements\, particularly Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the related 10th house.What happens with Saturn\, Capricorn\, and the 10th house? Why are they considered difficult? How can we access their potential wisdom and mastery?Tools for recognizing and working with reality as it is\, mapping karma and potential. How to work with obstacles\, authority\, and discipline\, toward the growth of your greater potential.About AstroDharma“AstroDharma” is what Catherine Pawasarat Sensei calls her unique synthesis of Buddhist teachings on spiritual awakening (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology\, based on the teachings of Carl Jung. These two powerful tools help us better understand ourselves and the patterns we manifest in our lives. The more we know about ourselves\, the more choices we have. Then\, we can make better choices so that we may lead healthier\, better-integrated lives. Furthermore\, we can also more deeply understand the patterns of those around us\, and support the potential in others\, which is key to Buddhist practitioners’ bodhisattva vow. Saturn relates to what we’d like to manifest in the world\, the areas of life we’d like to master and teach to others. It’s a rare and significant achievement to integrate both external authority and our inner tyrant into self-discipline and skilled judgment. Working with our Saturn\, over time and with conscious effort\, we gradually learn to take responsibility for shaping our own karma. This is easier said than done. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teacher - Catherine Sensei \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catherine Pawasarat Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher\, attendant\, consort\, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts. Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationThis weekend retreat will be led by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei at Clear Sky Meditation Center in Eastern BC. This course is offered online or in-person. Schedule / Class Times: For onsite retreatants\, please arrive in good time for orientation at 5 pm Mountain Time on the Friday. The first class will be at 7 pm Mountain Time. The retreat will formally end at 3 pm Mountain Time on the Sunday. Classes will be 60-90 mins in duration\, with classes in the morning and evening and possibly the afternoon each day (Mountain Time) – the exact schedule to be confirmed. Please ensure you are available for the whole weekend to focus on the course material and attend classes live. Online participants are expected to attend classes live.  We will arrange class times to be comfortable for most time zones. However we understand that some class times might occur after midnight in some regions\, if this is the case for you\, please let us know when you register.  Then we can provide a recording so you can catch up on that particular class. What Does the Course Cost?In-Person Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher plus 2) accomodation and meal costs for your stay Clear Sky Meditation Centre. Online Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher  2) online administration fee of $170 CAD. Keen practitioner pricing: 5% savings on program fees available until February 14\, 2025. Important: The last day to register is one week prior to the retreat start date. Please register early. Questions?If you have questions about the retreat\, please contact the Clear Sky Retreat Manager at 250-429-3929  (phone) or at bookings@clearskycenter.org (email). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Clear Sky \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Located in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature.  Founded by Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. In adherence with our quadruple bottom line\, we source our food as local and organic as possible. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Locally-grown organic food \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supportive meditation guidance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stunning bedroom views \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonus Gift for Course ParticipantsOnline AstroDharma Course INCLUDEDCatherine Sensei also offers an online Intro to AstroDharma course which you will be able to access at the end of this course. This will help you continue your studies. Access to the self-study course is available upon request for participants who complete the retreat. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "This retreat centre is the REAL THING. It's a modern monastery with people grounded in the present and practicing old and new methods of living in a spiritual community. This group walks the talk. I have made the trek from Ontario all the way to this remote corner of BC every year for the last 16 years to study with these teachers\, interact with these fellow seekers\, and bask in the beauty of this gorgeous property." \n Linda H. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FAQs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Dana\n \n\n You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. The dharma has been built on generosity. No-one is excluded for lack of funds but it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able Typically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course.  As we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure.  Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us.  Conversely\, if you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. Learn more about the practice of dāna here. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Admin Fee\n \n\n In a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. We’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. The admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, it can be surprising the costs of setting up a good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online. The admin fee changes based on date of registration. *We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. — Below are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: high speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)online class systems (Zoom)registration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)communication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)online storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)quality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.online calendar booking system to allow students to book interviewswebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.We welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daily Schedule \n \n\n Specific times may change – this is a rough guide (MST) \n6:30 – 7:30 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:15 AM: Breakfast: Prepare\, eat\, clean up8:15 – 8:45 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice9:00 – 10:00 AM: Class with Teachers10:00 – 10:30 AM: Walk10:30 – 11:30 AM: Group Practice led by Sangha11:30 – 12:30 PM: Personal Practice12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch: Prepare\, eat\, clean up1:30 – 3:00 PM: Personal Practice3:00 – 4:00 PM: Group Practice led by Sangha4:00 – 5:30 PM: Personal Practice5:30 – 7:00 PM: Dinner: prepare\, eat\, clean up7:00 – 7:30 PM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:30 PM: Group Practice and Q & A with Teachers8:30 – Beyond: Personal Practice & bed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Food\, Weather\, Accommodation and How to Get Here\n \n\n Click here for details on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PSYCHEDELICS/MICRODOSING\n \n\n We recognize and respect plant medicine as an important part of some people’s spiritual paths.  Please note\, the meditation practice on this retreat is very powerful. Consuming mind-altering substances will detract from your experience and could cause negative side-effects.  We ask that you refrain from microdosing or consuming mind-altering substances during this retreat and in the days immediately following it.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION\n \n\n We aim to make our retreats as accessible as possible.  As a centre run entirely by Karma Yoga (selfless service)\, retreat fees only cover food\, accommodation and the equipment required to offer them online. We do not have paid staff.  The teachings themselves are offered on the basis of Dāna (pay-from-the-heart).  For some\, this is still a barrier of entry. If you are seeking financial assistance to attend a retreat\, please complete a Scholarship Application form. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/meditation-circle-november-2023/ CATEGORIES:Coaching,Meditation Circle,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20231112T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20231210T110000 DTSTAMP:20251208T071221Z CREATED:20230609T213532Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251208T071221Z UID:19686-1699781400-1702206000@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Warriors of the Heart: The Bodhisattva Path (Online) DESCRIPTION:Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online or In-Person | March 21-23\, 2025 \n \n \n \n “Astrology allows us to identify our unique challenges and strengths as individuals in order to more fully embody and live our spiritual awakening. “Dharma empowers us to transcend our challenges\, leverage our strengths and reduce the suffering within ourselves and those around us.” -Catherine Pawasarat Sensei \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we want breakthroughs. We want liberation\, freedom\, and the ability to manifest our most profound vision for this lifetime. And ironically\, the only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and to break away from our timeworn\, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline\, which builds the supporting structures for breakthrough. Astrologically\, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei\, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation\, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we can lean on the idealized notion of being a “free spirit.” This aspiration can lead to chafing around boundaries and authority\, two of the hallmarks of Saturn. It’s easy to project these qualities onto someone or something else\, as our disowned shadow. Integrating these qualities in ourselves is key to true spiritual growth. Drawing on AstroDharma as a resource can help us get there.  Historically\, Saturn was associated with the Grim Reaper or Father Time\, and it’s still known as the Lord of Karma. Wherever we have Saturn in our natal astrological chart\, we are likely to experience restrictions or obstacles. Integrating our Saturn involves learning to dismantle these constraints\, and upcycling the resources thereby acquired as foundations upon which to build the rest of our lives. In this way\, we begin to participate in the conscious shaping of our karma. The planet Saturn is the doorway to working consciously with more transpersonal and universal energies. After all\, it is the gatekeeper from the personal inner planets to the transpersonal or generational outer planets. In AstroDharma\, the outer planets—Uranus\, Neptune\, and Pluto—offer the transformative energy we need for breakthroughs\, through their mighty forces of revolution\, dissolution\, and destruction\, respectively. Accessing and working consciously with these powerful energies requires discipline and self-mastery: in other words\, integration (vs. projection) of Saturn. An untrained\, undisciplined warrior cannot navigate these stormy forces of change. Instead\, karmic tempests repeatedly knock us sideways. Saturn’s authority and responsibility are the keys to breaking through the locks of our conditioned karma to our greater potential—and rising to the challenge of our total transformation. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  This course for you if:You’d like to study an astrological Dharmic framework for spiritual understanding with a wisdom teacher in the Namgyal lineage.You’d like to explore where you fall subject to projections—those aspects of yourself which have been forced into the unconscious\, thus cast onto others—and learn to own them as a more integrated human being.You’d like to transform challenges in your life by leveraging unseen strengths and talents.You’d like greater clues into the particular shapings of gestating in your mother’s womb\, and how your womb experience is impacting your life.You’d like insights into how you can best connect with awakening states of unity.You want to understand the patterns of others\, as well as your own\, to be a more skilled and compassionate being in the world. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In other words\, we must integrate Saturn to become what we truly want to be.In AstroDharma\, we refer to our North Node as our “Dharma\,” our Dharmic path. Learning to manifest our North Node is the most challenging path we can undertake because it involves swimming upstream against the heavy current of our South Node’s familiar and habitual Karma. However\, we cannot work with our North Node\, our true potential\, unless we work with Saturn. Mastery requires incredible discipline. An Olympic figure skater lands that quadruple axle on the ice because they’ve invested thousands of training hours towards achieving this potential.  Over the course\, we will show you how to examine your natal chart\, and look at participants’ charts together\, focusing on Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the associated 10th house. We also encourage you to bring burning questions arising from your life—particularly related to challenges around blocks and authority themes—so we can study how they show up in your chart astrolodharmically. Think about specific questions which will be of particular benefit to you\, and which will help you towards being of benefit to others. For those attending in person\, Catherine Sensei will lead us in somatic AstroDharma mandalas to embody our Saturn together. These mandalas can be a compelling\, visceral experience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "I greatly appreciate the depth of knowledge and level of expertise that is shared by Sensei. Her teachings are always well prepared and transformative in my spiritual growth." \n Michele C.Astrologer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What You’ll Learn: A review of AstroDharma and how it is unique.How to examine and map your own astrological natal chart’s placements\, particularly Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the related 10th house.What happens with Saturn\, Capricorn\, and the 10th house? Why are they considered difficult? How can we access their potential wisdom and mastery?Tools for recognizing and working with reality as it is\, mapping karma and potential. How to work with obstacles\, authority\, and discipline\, toward the growth of your greater potential.About AstroDharma“AstroDharma” is what Catherine Pawasarat Sensei calls her unique synthesis of Buddhist teachings on spiritual awakening (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology\, based on the teachings of Carl Jung. These two powerful tools help us better understand ourselves and the patterns we manifest in our lives. The more we know about ourselves\, the more choices we have. Then\, we can make better choices so that we may lead healthier\, better-integrated lives. Furthermore\, we can also more deeply understand the patterns of those around us\, and support the potential in others\, which is key to Buddhist practitioners’ bodhisattva vow. Saturn relates to what we’d like to manifest in the world\, the areas of life we’d like to master and teach to others. It’s a rare and significant achievement to integrate both external authority and our inner tyrant into self-discipline and skilled judgment. Working with our Saturn\, over time and with conscious effort\, we gradually learn to take responsibility for shaping our own karma. This is easier said than done. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teacher - Catherine Sensei \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catherine Pawasarat Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher\, attendant\, consort\, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts. Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationThis weekend retreat will be led by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei at Clear Sky Meditation Center in Eastern BC. This course is offered online or in-person. Schedule / Class Times: For onsite retreatants\, please arrive in good time for orientation at 5 pm Mountain Time on the Friday. The first class will be at 7 pm Mountain Time. The retreat will formally end at 3 pm Mountain Time on the Sunday. Classes will be 60-90 mins in duration\, with classes in the morning and evening and possibly the afternoon each day (Mountain Time) – the exact schedule to be confirmed. Please ensure you are available for the whole weekend to focus on the course material and attend classes live. Online participants are expected to attend classes live.  We will arrange class times to be comfortable for most time zones. However we understand that some class times might occur after midnight in some regions\, if this is the case for you\, please let us know when you register.  Then we can provide a recording so you can catch up on that particular class. What Does the Course Cost?In-Person Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher plus 2) accomodation and meal costs for your stay Clear Sky Meditation Centre. Online Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher  2) online administration fee of $170 CAD. Keen practitioner pricing: 5% savings on program fees available until February 14\, 2025. Important: The last day to register is one week prior to the retreat start date. Please register early. Questions?If you have questions about the retreat\, please contact the Clear Sky Retreat Manager at 250-429-3929  (phone) or at bookings@clearskycenter.org (email). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Clear Sky \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Located in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature.  Founded by Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. In adherence with our quadruple bottom line\, we source our food as local and organic as possible. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Locally-grown organic food \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supportive meditation guidance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stunning bedroom views \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonus Gift for Course ParticipantsOnline AstroDharma Course INCLUDEDCatherine Sensei also offers an online Intro to AstroDharma course which you will be able to access at the end of this course. This will help you continue your studies. Access to the self-study course is available upon request for participants who complete the retreat. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "This retreat centre is the REAL THING. It's a modern monastery with people grounded in the present and practicing old and new methods of living in a spiritual community. This group walks the talk. I have made the trek from Ontario all the way to this remote corner of BC every year for the last 16 years to study with these teachers\, interact with these fellow seekers\, and bask in the beauty of this gorgeous property." \n Linda H. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FAQs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Dana\n \n\n You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. The dharma has been built on generosity. No-one is excluded for lack of funds but it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able Typically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course.  As we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure.  Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us.  Conversely\, if you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. Learn more about the practice of dāna here. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Admin Fee\n \n\n In a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. We’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. The admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, it can be surprising the costs of setting up a good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online. The admin fee changes based on date of registration. *We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. — Below are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: high speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)online class systems (Zoom)registration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)communication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)online storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)quality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.online calendar booking system to allow students to book interviewswebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.We welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daily Schedule \n \n\n Specific times may change – this is a rough guide (MST) \n6:30 – 7:30 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:15 AM: Breakfast: Prepare\, eat\, clean up8:15 – 8:45 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice9:00 – 10:00 AM: Class with Teachers10:00 – 10:30 AM: Walk10:30 – 11:30 AM: Group Practice led by Sangha11:30 – 12:30 PM: Personal Practice12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch: Prepare\, eat\, clean up1:30 – 3:00 PM: Personal Practice3:00 – 4:00 PM: Group Practice led by Sangha4:00 – 5:30 PM: Personal Practice5:30 – 7:00 PM: Dinner: prepare\, eat\, clean up7:00 – 7:30 PM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:30 PM: Group Practice and Q & A with Teachers8:30 – Beyond: Personal Practice & bed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Food\, Weather\, Accommodation and How to Get Here\n \n\n Click here for details on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PSYCHEDELICS/MICRODOSING\n \n\n We recognize and respect plant medicine as an important part of some people’s spiritual paths.  Please note\, the meditation practice on this retreat is very powerful. Consuming mind-altering substances will detract from your experience and could cause negative side-effects.  We ask that you refrain from microdosing or consuming mind-altering substances during this retreat and in the days immediately following it.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION\n \n\n We aim to make our retreats as accessible as possible.  As a centre run entirely by Karma Yoga (selfless service)\, retreat fees only cover food\, accommodation and the equipment required to offer them online. We do not have paid staff.  The teachings themselves are offered on the basis of Dāna (pay-from-the-heart).  For some\, this is still a barrier of entry. If you are seeking financial assistance to attend a retreat\, please complete a Scholarship Application form. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/bodhisattva-path-online-course/ CATEGORIES:Online Courses,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2023-PD-courses-Square-IG-Post.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230924T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230924T170000 DTSTAMP:20260307T075907Z CREATED:20230822T170027Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260307T075907Z UID:20107-1695569400-1695574800@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Spiritual Awakening\, Healing & Ecological Restoration: A Buddhist Mystic Perspective DESCRIPTION:Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online or In-Person | March 21-23\, 2025 \n \n \n \n “Astrology allows us to identify our unique challenges and strengths as individuals in order to more fully embody and live our spiritual awakening. “Dharma empowers us to transcend our challenges\, leverage our strengths and reduce the suffering within ourselves and those around us.” -Catherine Pawasarat Sensei \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we want breakthroughs. We want liberation\, freedom\, and the ability to manifest our most profound vision for this lifetime. And ironically\, the only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and to break away from our timeworn\, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline\, which builds the supporting structures for breakthrough. Astrologically\, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei\, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation\, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we can lean on the idealized notion of being a “free spirit.” This aspiration can lead to chafing around boundaries and authority\, two of the hallmarks of Saturn. It’s easy to project these qualities onto someone or something else\, as our disowned shadow. Integrating these qualities in ourselves is key to true spiritual growth. Drawing on AstroDharma as a resource can help us get there.  Historically\, Saturn was associated with the Grim Reaper or Father Time\, and it’s still known as the Lord of Karma. Wherever we have Saturn in our natal astrological chart\, we are likely to experience restrictions or obstacles. Integrating our Saturn involves learning to dismantle these constraints\, and upcycling the resources thereby acquired as foundations upon which to build the rest of our lives. In this way\, we begin to participate in the conscious shaping of our karma. The planet Saturn is the doorway to working consciously with more transpersonal and universal energies. After all\, it is the gatekeeper from the personal inner planets to the transpersonal or generational outer planets. In AstroDharma\, the outer planets—Uranus\, Neptune\, and Pluto—offer the transformative energy we need for breakthroughs\, through their mighty forces of revolution\, dissolution\, and destruction\, respectively. Accessing and working consciously with these powerful energies requires discipline and self-mastery: in other words\, integration (vs. projection) of Saturn. An untrained\, undisciplined warrior cannot navigate these stormy forces of change. Instead\, karmic tempests repeatedly knock us sideways. Saturn’s authority and responsibility are the keys to breaking through the locks of our conditioned karma to our greater potential—and rising to the challenge of our total transformation. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  This course for you if:You’d like to study an astrological Dharmic framework for spiritual understanding with a wisdom teacher in the Namgyal lineage.You’d like to explore where you fall subject to projections—those aspects of yourself which have been forced into the unconscious\, thus cast onto others—and learn to own them as a more integrated human being.You’d like to transform challenges in your life by leveraging unseen strengths and talents.You’d like greater clues into the particular shapings of gestating in your mother’s womb\, and how your womb experience is impacting your life.You’d like insights into how you can best connect with awakening states of unity.You want to understand the patterns of others\, as well as your own\, to be a more skilled and compassionate being in the world. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In other words\, we must integrate Saturn to become what we truly want to be.In AstroDharma\, we refer to our North Node as our “Dharma\,” our Dharmic path. Learning to manifest our North Node is the most challenging path we can undertake because it involves swimming upstream against the heavy current of our South Node’s familiar and habitual Karma. However\, we cannot work with our North Node\, our true potential\, unless we work with Saturn. Mastery requires incredible discipline. An Olympic figure skater lands that quadruple axle on the ice because they’ve invested thousands of training hours towards achieving this potential.  Over the course\, we will show you how to examine your natal chart\, and look at participants’ charts together\, focusing on Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the associated 10th house. We also encourage you to bring burning questions arising from your life—particularly related to challenges around blocks and authority themes—so we can study how they show up in your chart astrolodharmically. Think about specific questions which will be of particular benefit to you\, and which will help you towards being of benefit to others. For those attending in person\, Catherine Sensei will lead us in somatic AstroDharma mandalas to embody our Saturn together. These mandalas can be a compelling\, visceral experience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "I greatly appreciate the depth of knowledge and level of expertise that is shared by Sensei. Her teachings are always well prepared and transformative in my spiritual growth." \n Michele C.Astrologer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What You’ll Learn: A review of AstroDharma and how it is unique.How to examine and map your own astrological natal chart’s placements\, particularly Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the related 10th house.What happens with Saturn\, Capricorn\, and the 10th house? Why are they considered difficult? How can we access their potential wisdom and mastery?Tools for recognizing and working with reality as it is\, mapping karma and potential. How to work with obstacles\, authority\, and discipline\, toward the growth of your greater potential.About AstroDharma“AstroDharma” is what Catherine Pawasarat Sensei calls her unique synthesis of Buddhist teachings on spiritual awakening (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology\, based on the teachings of Carl Jung. These two powerful tools help us better understand ourselves and the patterns we manifest in our lives. The more we know about ourselves\, the more choices we have. Then\, we can make better choices so that we may lead healthier\, better-integrated lives. Furthermore\, we can also more deeply understand the patterns of those around us\, and support the potential in others\, which is key to Buddhist practitioners’ bodhisattva vow. Saturn relates to what we’d like to manifest in the world\, the areas of life we’d like to master and teach to others. It’s a rare and significant achievement to integrate both external authority and our inner tyrant into self-discipline and skilled judgment. Working with our Saturn\, over time and with conscious effort\, we gradually learn to take responsibility for shaping our own karma. This is easier said than done. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teacher - Catherine Sensei \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catherine Pawasarat Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher\, attendant\, consort\, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts. Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationThis weekend retreat will be led by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei at Clear Sky Meditation Center in Eastern BC. This course is offered online or in-person. Schedule / Class Times: For onsite retreatants\, please arrive in good time for orientation at 5 pm Mountain Time on the Friday. The first class will be at 7 pm Mountain Time. The retreat will formally end at 3 pm Mountain Time on the Sunday. Classes will be 60-90 mins in duration\, with classes in the morning and evening and possibly the afternoon each day (Mountain Time) – the exact schedule to be confirmed. Please ensure you are available for the whole weekend to focus on the course material and attend classes live. Online participants are expected to attend classes live.  We will arrange class times to be comfortable for most time zones. However we understand that some class times might occur after midnight in some regions\, if this is the case for you\, please let us know when you register.  Then we can provide a recording so you can catch up on that particular class. What Does the Course Cost?In-Person Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher plus 2) accomodation and meal costs for your stay Clear Sky Meditation Centre. Online Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher  2) online administration fee of $170 CAD. Keen practitioner pricing: 5% savings on program fees available until February 14\, 2025. Important: The last day to register is one week prior to the retreat start date. Please register early. Questions?If you have questions about the retreat\, please contact the Clear Sky Retreat Manager at 250-429-3929  (phone) or at bookings@clearskycenter.org (email). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Clear Sky \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Located in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature.  Founded by Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. In adherence with our quadruple bottom line\, we source our food as local and organic as possible. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Locally-grown organic food \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supportive meditation guidance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stunning bedroom views \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonus Gift for Course ParticipantsOnline AstroDharma Course INCLUDEDCatherine Sensei also offers an online Intro to AstroDharma course which you will be able to access at the end of this course. This will help you continue your studies. Access to the self-study course is available upon request for participants who complete the retreat. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "This retreat centre is the REAL THING. It's a modern monastery with people grounded in the present and practicing old and new methods of living in a spiritual community. This group walks the talk. I have made the trek from Ontario all the way to this remote corner of BC every year for the last 16 years to study with these teachers\, interact with these fellow seekers\, and bask in the beauty of this gorgeous property." \n Linda H. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FAQs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Dana\n \n\n You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. The dharma has been built on generosity. No-one is excluded for lack of funds but it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able Typically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course.  As we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure.  Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us.  Conversely\, if you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. Learn more about the practice of dāna here. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Admin Fee\n \n\n In a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. We’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. The admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, it can be surprising the costs of setting up a good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online. The admin fee changes based on date of registration. *We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. — Below are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: high speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)online class systems (Zoom)registration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)communication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)online storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)quality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.online calendar booking system to allow students to book interviewswebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.We welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daily Schedule \n \n\n Specific times may change – this is a rough guide (MST) \n6:30 – 7:30 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:15 AM: Breakfast: Prepare\, eat\, clean up8:15 – 8:45 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice9:00 – 10:00 AM: Class with Teachers10:00 – 10:30 AM: Walk10:30 – 11:30 AM: Group Practice led by Sangha11:30 – 12:30 PM: Personal Practice12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch: Prepare\, eat\, clean up1:30 – 3:00 PM: Personal Practice3:00 – 4:00 PM: Group Practice led by Sangha4:00 – 5:30 PM: Personal Practice5:30 – 7:00 PM: Dinner: prepare\, eat\, clean up7:00 – 7:30 PM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:30 PM: Group Practice and Q & A with Teachers8:30 – Beyond: Personal Practice & bed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Food\, Weather\, Accommodation and How to Get Here\n \n\n Click here for details on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PSYCHEDELICS/MICRODOSING\n \n\n We recognize and respect plant medicine as an important part of some people’s spiritual paths.  Please note\, the meditation practice on this retreat is very powerful. Consuming mind-altering substances will detract from your experience and could cause negative side-effects.  We ask that you refrain from microdosing or consuming mind-altering substances during this retreat and in the days immediately following it.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION\n \n\n We aim to make our retreats as accessible as possible.  As a centre run entirely by Karma Yoga (selfless service)\, retreat fees only cover food\, accommodation and the equipment required to offer them online. We do not have paid staff.  The teachings themselves are offered on the basis of Dāna (pay-from-the-heart).  For some\, this is still a barrier of entry. If you are seeking financial assistance to attend a retreat\, please complete a Scholarship Application form. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/spiritual-awakening-healing-ecological-restoration/ CATEGORIES:Featured Courses,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Spiritual-Awakening-Square.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230916T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230917T150000 DTSTAMP:20260307T080025Z CREATED:20230702T231813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260307T080025Z UID:19672-1694851200-1694962800@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Integrating Mindfulness: Weekend Retreat (In-Person & Online) DESCRIPTION:Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online or In-Person | March 21-23\, 2025 \n \n \n \n “Astrology allows us to identify our unique challenges and strengths as individuals in order to more fully embody and live our spiritual awakening. “Dharma empowers us to transcend our challenges\, leverage our strengths and reduce the suffering within ourselves and those around us.” -Catherine Pawasarat Sensei \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we want breakthroughs. We want liberation\, freedom\, and the ability to manifest our most profound vision for this lifetime. And ironically\, the only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and to break away from our timeworn\, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline\, which builds the supporting structures for breakthrough. Astrologically\, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei\, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation\, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we can lean on the idealized notion of being a “free spirit.” This aspiration can lead to chafing around boundaries and authority\, two of the hallmarks of Saturn. It’s easy to project these qualities onto someone or something else\, as our disowned shadow. Integrating these qualities in ourselves is key to true spiritual growth. Drawing on AstroDharma as a resource can help us get there.  Historically\, Saturn was associated with the Grim Reaper or Father Time\, and it’s still known as the Lord of Karma. Wherever we have Saturn in our natal astrological chart\, we are likely to experience restrictions or obstacles. Integrating our Saturn involves learning to dismantle these constraints\, and upcycling the resources thereby acquired as foundations upon which to build the rest of our lives. In this way\, we begin to participate in the conscious shaping of our karma. The planet Saturn is the doorway to working consciously with more transpersonal and universal energies. After all\, it is the gatekeeper from the personal inner planets to the transpersonal or generational outer planets. In AstroDharma\, the outer planets—Uranus\, Neptune\, and Pluto—offer the transformative energy we need for breakthroughs\, through their mighty forces of revolution\, dissolution\, and destruction\, respectively. Accessing and working consciously with these powerful energies requires discipline and self-mastery: in other words\, integration (vs. projection) of Saturn. An untrained\, undisciplined warrior cannot navigate these stormy forces of change. Instead\, karmic tempests repeatedly knock us sideways. Saturn’s authority and responsibility are the keys to breaking through the locks of our conditioned karma to our greater potential—and rising to the challenge of our total transformation. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  This course for you if:You’d like to study an astrological Dharmic framework for spiritual understanding with a wisdom teacher in the Namgyal lineage.You’d like to explore where you fall subject to projections—those aspects of yourself which have been forced into the unconscious\, thus cast onto others—and learn to own them as a more integrated human being.You’d like to transform challenges in your life by leveraging unseen strengths and talents.You’d like greater clues into the particular shapings of gestating in your mother’s womb\, and how your womb experience is impacting your life.You’d like insights into how you can best connect with awakening states of unity.You want to understand the patterns of others\, as well as your own\, to be a more skilled and compassionate being in the world. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In other words\, we must integrate Saturn to become what we truly want to be.In AstroDharma\, we refer to our North Node as our “Dharma\,” our Dharmic path. Learning to manifest our North Node is the most challenging path we can undertake because it involves swimming upstream against the heavy current of our South Node’s familiar and habitual Karma. However\, we cannot work with our North Node\, our true potential\, unless we work with Saturn. Mastery requires incredible discipline. An Olympic figure skater lands that quadruple axle on the ice because they’ve invested thousands of training hours towards achieving this potential.  Over the course\, we will show you how to examine your natal chart\, and look at participants’ charts together\, focusing on Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the associated 10th house. We also encourage you to bring burning questions arising from your life—particularly related to challenges around blocks and authority themes—so we can study how they show up in your chart astrolodharmically. Think about specific questions which will be of particular benefit to you\, and which will help you towards being of benefit to others. For those attending in person\, Catherine Sensei will lead us in somatic AstroDharma mandalas to embody our Saturn together. These mandalas can be a compelling\, visceral experience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "I greatly appreciate the depth of knowledge and level of expertise that is shared by Sensei. Her teachings are always well prepared and transformative in my spiritual growth." \n Michele C.Astrologer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What You’ll Learn: A review of AstroDharma and how it is unique.How to examine and map your own astrological natal chart’s placements\, particularly Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the related 10th house.What happens with Saturn\, Capricorn\, and the 10th house? Why are they considered difficult? How can we access their potential wisdom and mastery?Tools for recognizing and working with reality as it is\, mapping karma and potential. How to work with obstacles\, authority\, and discipline\, toward the growth of your greater potential.About AstroDharma“AstroDharma” is what Catherine Pawasarat Sensei calls her unique synthesis of Buddhist teachings on spiritual awakening (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology\, based on the teachings of Carl Jung. These two powerful tools help us better understand ourselves and the patterns we manifest in our lives. The more we know about ourselves\, the more choices we have. Then\, we can make better choices so that we may lead healthier\, better-integrated lives. Furthermore\, we can also more deeply understand the patterns of those around us\, and support the potential in others\, which is key to Buddhist practitioners’ bodhisattva vow. Saturn relates to what we’d like to manifest in the world\, the areas of life we’d like to master and teach to others. It’s a rare and significant achievement to integrate both external authority and our inner tyrant into self-discipline and skilled judgment. Working with our Saturn\, over time and with conscious effort\, we gradually learn to take responsibility for shaping our own karma. This is easier said than done. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teacher - Catherine Sensei \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catherine Pawasarat Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher\, attendant\, consort\, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts. Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationThis weekend retreat will be led by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei at Clear Sky Meditation Center in Eastern BC. This course is offered online or in-person. Schedule / Class Times: For onsite retreatants\, please arrive in good time for orientation at 5 pm Mountain Time on the Friday. The first class will be at 7 pm Mountain Time. The retreat will formally end at 3 pm Mountain Time on the Sunday. Classes will be 60-90 mins in duration\, with classes in the morning and evening and possibly the afternoon each day (Mountain Time) – the exact schedule to be confirmed. Please ensure you are available for the whole weekend to focus on the course material and attend classes live. Online participants are expected to attend classes live.  We will arrange class times to be comfortable for most time zones. However we understand that some class times might occur after midnight in some regions\, if this is the case for you\, please let us know when you register.  Then we can provide a recording so you can catch up on that particular class. What Does the Course Cost?In-Person Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher plus 2) accomodation and meal costs for your stay Clear Sky Meditation Centre. Online Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher  2) online administration fee of $170 CAD. Keen practitioner pricing: 5% savings on program fees available until February 14\, 2025. Important: The last day to register is one week prior to the retreat start date. Please register early. Questions?If you have questions about the retreat\, please contact the Clear Sky Retreat Manager at 250-429-3929  (phone) or at bookings@clearskycenter.org (email). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Clear Sky \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Located in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature.  Founded by Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. In adherence with our quadruple bottom line\, we source our food as local and organic as possible. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Locally-grown organic food \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supportive meditation guidance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stunning bedroom views \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonus Gift for Course ParticipantsOnline AstroDharma Course INCLUDEDCatherine Sensei also offers an online Intro to AstroDharma course which you will be able to access at the end of this course. This will help you continue your studies. Access to the self-study course is available upon request for participants who complete the retreat. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "This retreat centre is the REAL THING. It's a modern monastery with people grounded in the present and practicing old and new methods of living in a spiritual community. This group walks the talk. I have made the trek from Ontario all the way to this remote corner of BC every year for the last 16 years to study with these teachers\, interact with these fellow seekers\, and bask in the beauty of this gorgeous property." \n Linda H. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FAQs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Dana\n \n\n You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. The dharma has been built on generosity. No-one is excluded for lack of funds but it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able Typically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course.  As we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure.  Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us.  Conversely\, if you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. Learn more about the practice of dāna here. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Admin Fee\n \n\n In a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. We’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. The admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, it can be surprising the costs of setting up a good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online. The admin fee changes based on date of registration. *We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. — Below are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: high speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)online class systems (Zoom)registration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)communication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)online storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)quality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.online calendar booking system to allow students to book interviewswebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.We welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daily Schedule \n \n\n Specific times may change – this is a rough guide (MST) \n6:30 – 7:30 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:15 AM: Breakfast: Prepare\, eat\, clean up8:15 – 8:45 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice9:00 – 10:00 AM: Class with Teachers10:00 – 10:30 AM: Walk10:30 – 11:30 AM: Group Practice led by Sangha11:30 – 12:30 PM: Personal Practice12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch: Prepare\, eat\, clean up1:30 – 3:00 PM: Personal Practice3:00 – 4:00 PM: Group Practice led by Sangha4:00 – 5:30 PM: Personal Practice5:30 – 7:00 PM: Dinner: prepare\, eat\, clean up7:00 – 7:30 PM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:30 PM: Group Practice and Q & A with Teachers8:30 – Beyond: Personal Practice & bed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Food\, Weather\, Accommodation and How to Get Here\n \n\n Click here for details on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PSYCHEDELICS/MICRODOSING\n \n\n We recognize and respect plant medicine as an important part of some people’s spiritual paths.  Please note\, the meditation practice on this retreat is very powerful. Consuming mind-altering substances will detract from your experience and could cause negative side-effects.  We ask that you refrain from microdosing or consuming mind-altering substances during this retreat and in the days immediately following it.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION\n \n\n We aim to make our retreats as accessible as possible.  As a centre run entirely by Karma Yoga (selfless service)\, retreat fees only cover food\, accommodation and the equipment required to offer them online. We do not have paid staff.  The teachings themselves are offered on the basis of Dāna (pay-from-the-heart).  For some\, this is still a barrier of entry. If you are seeking financial assistance to attend a retreat\, please complete a Scholarship Application form. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/weekend-retreat/ CATEGORIES:Featured Courses,Group Retreats,Integrating Mindfulness,Online Courses,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2023-Programming-Horizontal-Instagram-Post-Square-5.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230907T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230928T200000 DTSTAMP:20251209T102220Z CREATED:20230810T174907Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251209T102220Z UID:20058-1694113200-1695931200@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Meditation Circle: Community Classes for Inner Well-Being (Online or In-Person) DESCRIPTION:Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online or In-Person | March 21-23\, 2025 \n \n \n \n “Astrology allows us to identify our unique challenges and strengths as individuals in order to more fully embody and live our spiritual awakening. “Dharma empowers us to transcend our challenges\, leverage our strengths and reduce the suffering within ourselves and those around us.” -Catherine Pawasarat Sensei \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we want breakthroughs. We want liberation\, freedom\, and the ability to manifest our most profound vision for this lifetime. And ironically\, the only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and to break away from our timeworn\, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline\, which builds the supporting structures for breakthrough. Astrologically\, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei\, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation\, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we can lean on the idealized notion of being a “free spirit.” This aspiration can lead to chafing around boundaries and authority\, two of the hallmarks of Saturn. It’s easy to project these qualities onto someone or something else\, as our disowned shadow. Integrating these qualities in ourselves is key to true spiritual growth. Drawing on AstroDharma as a resource can help us get there.  Historically\, Saturn was associated with the Grim Reaper or Father Time\, and it’s still known as the Lord of Karma. Wherever we have Saturn in our natal astrological chart\, we are likely to experience restrictions or obstacles. Integrating our Saturn involves learning to dismantle these constraints\, and upcycling the resources thereby acquired as foundations upon which to build the rest of our lives. In this way\, we begin to participate in the conscious shaping of our karma. The planet Saturn is the doorway to working consciously with more transpersonal and universal energies. After all\, it is the gatekeeper from the personal inner planets to the transpersonal or generational outer planets. In AstroDharma\, the outer planets—Uranus\, Neptune\, and Pluto—offer the transformative energy we need for breakthroughs\, through their mighty forces of revolution\, dissolution\, and destruction\, respectively. Accessing and working consciously with these powerful energies requires discipline and self-mastery: in other words\, integration (vs. projection) of Saturn. An untrained\, undisciplined warrior cannot navigate these stormy forces of change. Instead\, karmic tempests repeatedly knock us sideways. Saturn’s authority and responsibility are the keys to breaking through the locks of our conditioned karma to our greater potential—and rising to the challenge of our total transformation. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  This course for you if:You’d like to study an astrological Dharmic framework for spiritual understanding with a wisdom teacher in the Namgyal lineage.You’d like to explore where you fall subject to projections—those aspects of yourself which have been forced into the unconscious\, thus cast onto others—and learn to own them as a more integrated human being.You’d like to transform challenges in your life by leveraging unseen strengths and talents.You’d like greater clues into the particular shapings of gestating in your mother’s womb\, and how your womb experience is impacting your life.You’d like insights into how you can best connect with awakening states of unity.You want to understand the patterns of others\, as well as your own\, to be a more skilled and compassionate being in the world. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In other words\, we must integrate Saturn to become what we truly want to be.In AstroDharma\, we refer to our North Node as our “Dharma\,” our Dharmic path. Learning to manifest our North Node is the most challenging path we can undertake because it involves swimming upstream against the heavy current of our South Node’s familiar and habitual Karma. However\, we cannot work with our North Node\, our true potential\, unless we work with Saturn. Mastery requires incredible discipline. An Olympic figure skater lands that quadruple axle on the ice because they’ve invested thousands of training hours towards achieving this potential.  Over the course\, we will show you how to examine your natal chart\, and look at participants’ charts together\, focusing on Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the associated 10th house. We also encourage you to bring burning questions arising from your life—particularly related to challenges around blocks and authority themes—so we can study how they show up in your chart astrolodharmically. Think about specific questions which will be of particular benefit to you\, and which will help you towards being of benefit to others. For those attending in person\, Catherine Sensei will lead us in somatic AstroDharma mandalas to embody our Saturn together. These mandalas can be a compelling\, visceral experience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "I greatly appreciate the depth of knowledge and level of expertise that is shared by Sensei. Her teachings are always well prepared and transformative in my spiritual growth." \n Michele C.Astrologer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What You’ll Learn: A review of AstroDharma and how it is unique.How to examine and map your own astrological natal chart’s placements\, particularly Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the related 10th house.What happens with Saturn\, Capricorn\, and the 10th house? Why are they considered difficult? How can we access their potential wisdom and mastery?Tools for recognizing and working with reality as it is\, mapping karma and potential. How to work with obstacles\, authority\, and discipline\, toward the growth of your greater potential.About AstroDharma“AstroDharma” is what Catherine Pawasarat Sensei calls her unique synthesis of Buddhist teachings on spiritual awakening (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology\, based on the teachings of Carl Jung. These two powerful tools help us better understand ourselves and the patterns we manifest in our lives. The more we know about ourselves\, the more choices we have. Then\, we can make better choices so that we may lead healthier\, better-integrated lives. Furthermore\, we can also more deeply understand the patterns of those around us\, and support the potential in others\, which is key to Buddhist practitioners’ bodhisattva vow. Saturn relates to what we’d like to manifest in the world\, the areas of life we’d like to master and teach to others. It’s a rare and significant achievement to integrate both external authority and our inner tyrant into self-discipline and skilled judgment. Working with our Saturn\, over time and with conscious effort\, we gradually learn to take responsibility for shaping our own karma. This is easier said than done. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teacher - Catherine Sensei \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catherine Pawasarat Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher\, attendant\, consort\, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts. Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationThis weekend retreat will be led by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei at Clear Sky Meditation Center in Eastern BC. This course is offered online or in-person. Schedule / Class Times: For onsite retreatants\, please arrive in good time for orientation at 5 pm Mountain Time on the Friday. The first class will be at 7 pm Mountain Time. The retreat will formally end at 3 pm Mountain Time on the Sunday. Classes will be 60-90 mins in duration\, with classes in the morning and evening and possibly the afternoon each day (Mountain Time) – the exact schedule to be confirmed. Please ensure you are available for the whole weekend to focus on the course material and attend classes live. Online participants are expected to attend classes live.  We will arrange class times to be comfortable for most time zones. However we understand that some class times might occur after midnight in some regions\, if this is the case for you\, please let us know when you register.  Then we can provide a recording so you can catch up on that particular class. What Does the Course Cost?In-Person Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher plus 2) accomodation and meal costs for your stay Clear Sky Meditation Centre. Online Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher  2) online administration fee of $170 CAD. Keen practitioner pricing: 5% savings on program fees available until February 14\, 2025. Important: The last day to register is one week prior to the retreat start date. Please register early. Questions?If you have questions about the retreat\, please contact the Clear Sky Retreat Manager at 250-429-3929  (phone) or at bookings@clearskycenter.org (email). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Clear Sky \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Located in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature.  Founded by Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. In adherence with our quadruple bottom line\, we source our food as local and organic as possible. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Locally-grown organic food \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supportive meditation guidance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stunning bedroom views \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonus Gift for Course ParticipantsOnline AstroDharma Course INCLUDEDCatherine Sensei also offers an online Intro to AstroDharma course which you will be able to access at the end of this course. This will help you continue your studies. Access to the self-study course is available upon request for participants who complete the retreat. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "This retreat centre is the REAL THING. It's a modern monastery with people grounded in the present and practicing old and new methods of living in a spiritual community. This group walks the talk. I have made the trek from Ontario all the way to this remote corner of BC every year for the last 16 years to study with these teachers\, interact with these fellow seekers\, and bask in the beauty of this gorgeous property." \n Linda H. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FAQs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Dana\n \n\n You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. The dharma has been built on generosity. No-one is excluded for lack of funds but it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able Typically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course.  As we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure.  Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us.  Conversely\, if you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. Learn more about the practice of dāna here. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Admin Fee\n \n\n In a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. We’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. The admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, it can be surprising the costs of setting up a good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online. The admin fee changes based on date of registration. *We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. — Below are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: high speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)online class systems (Zoom)registration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)communication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)online storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)quality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.online calendar booking system to allow students to book interviewswebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.We welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daily Schedule \n \n\n Specific times may change – this is a rough guide (MST) \n6:30 – 7:30 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:15 AM: Breakfast: Prepare\, eat\, clean up8:15 – 8:45 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice9:00 – 10:00 AM: Class with Teachers10:00 – 10:30 AM: Walk10:30 – 11:30 AM: Group Practice led by Sangha11:30 – 12:30 PM: Personal Practice12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch: Prepare\, eat\, clean up1:30 – 3:00 PM: Personal Practice3:00 – 4:00 PM: Group Practice led by Sangha4:00 – 5:30 PM: Personal Practice5:30 – 7:00 PM: Dinner: prepare\, eat\, clean up7:00 – 7:30 PM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:30 PM: Group Practice and Q & A with Teachers8:30 – Beyond: Personal Practice & bed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Food\, Weather\, Accommodation and How to Get Here\n \n\n Click here for details on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PSYCHEDELICS/MICRODOSING\n \n\n We recognize and respect plant medicine as an important part of some people’s spiritual paths.  Please note\, the meditation practice on this retreat is very powerful. Consuming mind-altering substances will detract from your experience and could cause negative side-effects.  We ask that you refrain from microdosing or consuming mind-altering substances during this retreat and in the days immediately following it.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION\n \n\n We aim to make our retreats as accessible as possible.  As a centre run entirely by Karma Yoga (selfless service)\, retreat fees only cover food\, accommodation and the equipment required to offer them online. We do not have paid staff.  The teachings themselves are offered on the basis of Dāna (pay-from-the-heart).  For some\, this is still a barrier of entry. If you are seeking financial assistance to attend a retreat\, please complete a Scholarship Application form. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/meditation-circle-september-2023/ CATEGORIES:Coaching,Meditation Circle,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230811T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230820T150000 DTSTAMP:20251209T085458Z CREATED:20230205T223441Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251209T085458Z UID:18756-1691766000-1692543600@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Breathing 2.0 Meditation Retreat DESCRIPTION:Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online or In-Person | March 21-23\, 2025 \n \n \n \n “Astrology allows us to identify our unique challenges and strengths as individuals in order to more fully embody and live our spiritual awakening. “Dharma empowers us to transcend our challenges\, leverage our strengths and reduce the suffering within ourselves and those around us.” -Catherine Pawasarat Sensei \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we want breakthroughs. We want liberation\, freedom\, and the ability to manifest our most profound vision for this lifetime. And ironically\, the only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and to break away from our timeworn\, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline\, which builds the supporting structures for breakthrough. Astrologically\, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei\, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation\, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we can lean on the idealized notion of being a “free spirit.” This aspiration can lead to chafing around boundaries and authority\, two of the hallmarks of Saturn. It’s easy to project these qualities onto someone or something else\, as our disowned shadow. Integrating these qualities in ourselves is key to true spiritual growth. Drawing on AstroDharma as a resource can help us get there.  Historically\, Saturn was associated with the Grim Reaper or Father Time\, and it’s still known as the Lord of Karma. Wherever we have Saturn in our natal astrological chart\, we are likely to experience restrictions or obstacles. Integrating our Saturn involves learning to dismantle these constraints\, and upcycling the resources thereby acquired as foundations upon which to build the rest of our lives. In this way\, we begin to participate in the conscious shaping of our karma. The planet Saturn is the doorway to working consciously with more transpersonal and universal energies. After all\, it is the gatekeeper from the personal inner planets to the transpersonal or generational outer planets. In AstroDharma\, the outer planets—Uranus\, Neptune\, and Pluto—offer the transformative energy we need for breakthroughs\, through their mighty forces of revolution\, dissolution\, and destruction\, respectively. Accessing and working consciously with these powerful energies requires discipline and self-mastery: in other words\, integration (vs. projection) of Saturn. An untrained\, undisciplined warrior cannot navigate these stormy forces of change. Instead\, karmic tempests repeatedly knock us sideways. Saturn’s authority and responsibility are the keys to breaking through the locks of our conditioned karma to our greater potential—and rising to the challenge of our total transformation. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  This course for you if:You’d like to study an astrological Dharmic framework for spiritual understanding with a wisdom teacher in the Namgyal lineage.You’d like to explore where you fall subject to projections—those aspects of yourself which have been forced into the unconscious\, thus cast onto others—and learn to own them as a more integrated human being.You’d like to transform challenges in your life by leveraging unseen strengths and talents.You’d like greater clues into the particular shapings of gestating in your mother’s womb\, and how your womb experience is impacting your life.You’d like insights into how you can best connect with awakening states of unity.You want to understand the patterns of others\, as well as your own\, to be a more skilled and compassionate being in the world. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In other words\, we must integrate Saturn to become what we truly want to be.In AstroDharma\, we refer to our North Node as our “Dharma\,” our Dharmic path. Learning to manifest our North Node is the most challenging path we can undertake because it involves swimming upstream against the heavy current of our South Node’s familiar and habitual Karma. However\, we cannot work with our North Node\, our true potential\, unless we work with Saturn. Mastery requires incredible discipline. An Olympic figure skater lands that quadruple axle on the ice because they’ve invested thousands of training hours towards achieving this potential.  Over the course\, we will show you how to examine your natal chart\, and look at participants’ charts together\, focusing on Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the associated 10th house. We also encourage you to bring burning questions arising from your life—particularly related to challenges around blocks and authority themes—so we can study how they show up in your chart astrolodharmically. Think about specific questions which will be of particular benefit to you\, and which will help you towards being of benefit to others. For those attending in person\, Catherine Sensei will lead us in somatic AstroDharma mandalas to embody our Saturn together. These mandalas can be a compelling\, visceral experience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "I greatly appreciate the depth of knowledge and level of expertise that is shared by Sensei. Her teachings are always well prepared and transformative in my spiritual growth." \n Michele C.Astrologer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What You’ll Learn: A review of AstroDharma and how it is unique.How to examine and map your own astrological natal chart’s placements\, particularly Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the related 10th house.What happens with Saturn\, Capricorn\, and the 10th house? Why are they considered difficult? How can we access their potential wisdom and mastery?Tools for recognizing and working with reality as it is\, mapping karma and potential. How to work with obstacles\, authority\, and discipline\, toward the growth of your greater potential.About AstroDharma“AstroDharma” is what Catherine Pawasarat Sensei calls her unique synthesis of Buddhist teachings on spiritual awakening (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology\, based on the teachings of Carl Jung. These two powerful tools help us better understand ourselves and the patterns we manifest in our lives. The more we know about ourselves\, the more choices we have. Then\, we can make better choices so that we may lead healthier\, better-integrated lives. Furthermore\, we can also more deeply understand the patterns of those around us\, and support the potential in others\, which is key to Buddhist practitioners’ bodhisattva vow. Saturn relates to what we’d like to manifest in the world\, the areas of life we’d like to master and teach to others. It’s a rare and significant achievement to integrate both external authority and our inner tyrant into self-discipline and skilled judgment. Working with our Saturn\, over time and with conscious effort\, we gradually learn to take responsibility for shaping our own karma. This is easier said than done. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teacher - Catherine Sensei \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catherine Pawasarat Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher\, attendant\, consort\, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts. Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationThis weekend retreat will be led by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei at Clear Sky Meditation Center in Eastern BC. This course is offered online or in-person. Schedule / Class Times: For onsite retreatants\, please arrive in good time for orientation at 5 pm Mountain Time on the Friday. The first class will be at 7 pm Mountain Time. The retreat will formally end at 3 pm Mountain Time on the Sunday. Classes will be 60-90 mins in duration\, with classes in the morning and evening and possibly the afternoon each day (Mountain Time) – the exact schedule to be confirmed. Please ensure you are available for the whole weekend to focus on the course material and attend classes live. Online participants are expected to attend classes live.  We will arrange class times to be comfortable for most time zones. However we understand that some class times might occur after midnight in some regions\, if this is the case for you\, please let us know when you register.  Then we can provide a recording so you can catch up on that particular class. What Does the Course Cost?In-Person Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher plus 2) accomodation and meal costs for your stay Clear Sky Meditation Centre. Online Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher  2) online administration fee of $170 CAD. Keen practitioner pricing: 5% savings on program fees available until February 14\, 2025. Important: The last day to register is one week prior to the retreat start date. Please register early. Questions?If you have questions about the retreat\, please contact the Clear Sky Retreat Manager at 250-429-3929  (phone) or at bookings@clearskycenter.org (email). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Clear Sky \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Located in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature.  Founded by Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. In adherence with our quadruple bottom line\, we source our food as local and organic as possible. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Locally-grown organic food \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supportive meditation guidance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stunning bedroom views \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonus Gift for Course ParticipantsOnline AstroDharma Course INCLUDEDCatherine Sensei also offers an online Intro to AstroDharma course which you will be able to access at the end of this course. This will help you continue your studies. Access to the self-study course is available upon request for participants who complete the retreat. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "This retreat centre is the REAL THING. It's a modern monastery with people grounded in the present and practicing old and new methods of living in a spiritual community. This group walks the talk. I have made the trek from Ontario all the way to this remote corner of BC every year for the last 16 years to study with these teachers\, interact with these fellow seekers\, and bask in the beauty of this gorgeous property." \n Linda H. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FAQs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Dana\n \n\n You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. The dharma has been built on generosity. No-one is excluded for lack of funds but it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able Typically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course.  As we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure.  Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us.  Conversely\, if you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. Learn more about the practice of dāna here. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Admin Fee\n \n\n In a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. We’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. The admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, it can be surprising the costs of setting up a good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online. The admin fee changes based on date of registration. *We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. — Below are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: high speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)online class systems (Zoom)registration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)communication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)online storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)quality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.online calendar booking system to allow students to book interviewswebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.We welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daily Schedule \n \n\n Specific times may change – this is a rough guide (MST) \n6:30 – 7:30 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:15 AM: Breakfast: Prepare\, eat\, clean up8:15 – 8:45 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice9:00 – 10:00 AM: Class with Teachers10:00 – 10:30 AM: Walk10:30 – 11:30 AM: Group Practice led by Sangha11:30 – 12:30 PM: Personal Practice12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch: Prepare\, eat\, clean up1:30 – 3:00 PM: Personal Practice3:00 – 4:00 PM: Group Practice led by Sangha4:00 – 5:30 PM: Personal Practice5:30 – 7:00 PM: Dinner: prepare\, eat\, clean up7:00 – 7:30 PM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:30 PM: Group Practice and Q & A with Teachers8:30 – Beyond: Personal Practice & bed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Food\, Weather\, Accommodation and How to Get Here\n \n\n Click here for details on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PSYCHEDELICS/MICRODOSING\n \n\n We recognize and respect plant medicine as an important part of some people’s spiritual paths.  Please note\, the meditation practice on this retreat is very powerful. Consuming mind-altering substances will detract from your experience and could cause negative side-effects.  We ask that you refrain from microdosing or consuming mind-altering substances during this retreat and in the days immediately following it.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION\n \n\n We aim to make our retreats as accessible as possible.  As a centre run entirely by Karma Yoga (selfless service)\, retreat fees only cover food\, accommodation and the equipment required to offer them online. We do not have paid staff.  The teachings themselves are offered on the basis of Dāna (pay-from-the-heart).  For some\, this is still a barrier of entry. If you are seeking financial assistance to attend a retreat\, please complete a Scholarship Application form. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/breathing-meditation-retreat/ CATEGORIES:Featured Courses,Group Retreats,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Breathing-Meditation-Retreat.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230721T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230723T170000 DTSTAMP:20260310T102858Z CREATED:20230328T193439Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260310T102858Z UID:18673-1689958800-1690131600@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:As the Spirit Moves (In-Person and Online) DESCRIPTION:Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online or In-Person | March 21-23\, 2025 \n \n \n \n “Astrology allows us to identify our unique challenges and strengths as individuals in order to more fully embody and live our spiritual awakening. “Dharma empowers us to transcend our challenges\, leverage our strengths and reduce the suffering within ourselves and those around us.” -Catherine Pawasarat Sensei \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we want breakthroughs. We want liberation\, freedom\, and the ability to manifest our most profound vision for this lifetime. And ironically\, the only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and to break away from our timeworn\, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline\, which builds the supporting structures for breakthrough. Astrologically\, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei\, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation\, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we can lean on the idealized notion of being a “free spirit.” This aspiration can lead to chafing around boundaries and authority\, two of the hallmarks of Saturn. It’s easy to project these qualities onto someone or something else\, as our disowned shadow. Integrating these qualities in ourselves is key to true spiritual growth. Drawing on AstroDharma as a resource can help us get there.  Historically\, Saturn was associated with the Grim Reaper or Father Time\, and it’s still known as the Lord of Karma. Wherever we have Saturn in our natal astrological chart\, we are likely to experience restrictions or obstacles. Integrating our Saturn involves learning to dismantle these constraints\, and upcycling the resources thereby acquired as foundations upon which to build the rest of our lives. In this way\, we begin to participate in the conscious shaping of our karma. The planet Saturn is the doorway to working consciously with more transpersonal and universal energies. After all\, it is the gatekeeper from the personal inner planets to the transpersonal or generational outer planets. In AstroDharma\, the outer planets—Uranus\, Neptune\, and Pluto—offer the transformative energy we need for breakthroughs\, through their mighty forces of revolution\, dissolution\, and destruction\, respectively. Accessing and working consciously with these powerful energies requires discipline and self-mastery: in other words\, integration (vs. projection) of Saturn. An untrained\, undisciplined warrior cannot navigate these stormy forces of change. Instead\, karmic tempests repeatedly knock us sideways. Saturn’s authority and responsibility are the keys to breaking through the locks of our conditioned karma to our greater potential—and rising to the challenge of our total transformation. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  This course for you if:You’d like to study an astrological Dharmic framework for spiritual understanding with a wisdom teacher in the Namgyal lineage.You’d like to explore where you fall subject to projections—those aspects of yourself which have been forced into the unconscious\, thus cast onto others—and learn to own them as a more integrated human being.You’d like to transform challenges in your life by leveraging unseen strengths and talents.You’d like greater clues into the particular shapings of gestating in your mother’s womb\, and how your womb experience is impacting your life.You’d like insights into how you can best connect with awakening states of unity.You want to understand the patterns of others\, as well as your own\, to be a more skilled and compassionate being in the world. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In other words\, we must integrate Saturn to become what we truly want to be.In AstroDharma\, we refer to our North Node as our “Dharma\,” our Dharmic path. Learning to manifest our North Node is the most challenging path we can undertake because it involves swimming upstream against the heavy current of our South Node’s familiar and habitual Karma. However\, we cannot work with our North Node\, our true potential\, unless we work with Saturn. Mastery requires incredible discipline. An Olympic figure skater lands that quadruple axle on the ice because they’ve invested thousands of training hours towards achieving this potential.  Over the course\, we will show you how to examine your natal chart\, and look at participants’ charts together\, focusing on Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the associated 10th house. We also encourage you to bring burning questions arising from your life—particularly related to challenges around blocks and authority themes—so we can study how they show up in your chart astrolodharmically. Think about specific questions which will be of particular benefit to you\, and which will help you towards being of benefit to others. For those attending in person\, Catherine Sensei will lead us in somatic AstroDharma mandalas to embody our Saturn together. These mandalas can be a compelling\, visceral experience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "I greatly appreciate the depth of knowledge and level of expertise that is shared by Sensei. Her teachings are always well prepared and transformative in my spiritual growth." \n Michele C.Astrologer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What You’ll Learn: A review of AstroDharma and how it is unique.How to examine and map your own astrological natal chart’s placements\, particularly Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the related 10th house.What happens with Saturn\, Capricorn\, and the 10th house? Why are they considered difficult? How can we access their potential wisdom and mastery?Tools for recognizing and working with reality as it is\, mapping karma and potential. How to work with obstacles\, authority\, and discipline\, toward the growth of your greater potential.About AstroDharma“AstroDharma” is what Catherine Pawasarat Sensei calls her unique synthesis of Buddhist teachings on spiritual awakening (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology\, based on the teachings of Carl Jung. These two powerful tools help us better understand ourselves and the patterns we manifest in our lives. The more we know about ourselves\, the more choices we have. Then\, we can make better choices so that we may lead healthier\, better-integrated lives. Furthermore\, we can also more deeply understand the patterns of those around us\, and support the potential in others\, which is key to Buddhist practitioners’ bodhisattva vow. Saturn relates to what we’d like to manifest in the world\, the areas of life we’d like to master and teach to others. It’s a rare and significant achievement to integrate both external authority and our inner tyrant into self-discipline and skilled judgment. Working with our Saturn\, over time and with conscious effort\, we gradually learn to take responsibility for shaping our own karma. This is easier said than done. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teacher - Catherine Sensei \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catherine Pawasarat Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher\, attendant\, consort\, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts. Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationThis weekend retreat will be led by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei at Clear Sky Meditation Center in Eastern BC. This course is offered online or in-person. Schedule / Class Times: For onsite retreatants\, please arrive in good time for orientation at 5 pm Mountain Time on the Friday. The first class will be at 7 pm Mountain Time. The retreat will formally end at 3 pm Mountain Time on the Sunday. Classes will be 60-90 mins in duration\, with classes in the morning and evening and possibly the afternoon each day (Mountain Time) – the exact schedule to be confirmed. Please ensure you are available for the whole weekend to focus on the course material and attend classes live. Online participants are expected to attend classes live.  We will arrange class times to be comfortable for most time zones. However we understand that some class times might occur after midnight in some regions\, if this is the case for you\, please let us know when you register.  Then we can provide a recording so you can catch up on that particular class. What Does the Course Cost?In-Person Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher plus 2) accomodation and meal costs for your stay Clear Sky Meditation Centre. Online Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher  2) online administration fee of $170 CAD. Keen practitioner pricing: 5% savings on program fees available until February 14\, 2025. Important: The last day to register is one week prior to the retreat start date. Please register early. Questions?If you have questions about the retreat\, please contact the Clear Sky Retreat Manager at 250-429-3929  (phone) or at bookings@clearskycenter.org (email). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Clear Sky \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Located in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature.  Founded by Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. In adherence with our quadruple bottom line\, we source our food as local and organic as possible. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Locally-grown organic food \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supportive meditation guidance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stunning bedroom views \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonus Gift for Course ParticipantsOnline AstroDharma Course INCLUDEDCatherine Sensei also offers an online Intro to AstroDharma course which you will be able to access at the end of this course. This will help you continue your studies. Access to the self-study course is available upon request for participants who complete the retreat. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "This retreat centre is the REAL THING. It's a modern monastery with people grounded in the present and practicing old and new methods of living in a spiritual community. This group walks the talk. I have made the trek from Ontario all the way to this remote corner of BC every year for the last 16 years to study with these teachers\, interact with these fellow seekers\, and bask in the beauty of this gorgeous property." \n Linda H. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FAQs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Dana\n \n\n You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. The dharma has been built on generosity. No-one is excluded for lack of funds but it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able Typically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course.  As we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure.  Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us.  Conversely\, if you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. Learn more about the practice of dāna here. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Admin Fee\n \n\n In a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. We’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. The admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, it can be surprising the costs of setting up a good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online. The admin fee changes based on date of registration. *We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. — Below are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: high speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)online class systems (Zoom)registration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)communication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)online storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)quality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.online calendar booking system to allow students to book interviewswebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.We welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daily Schedule \n \n\n Specific times may change – this is a rough guide (MST) \n6:30 – 7:30 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:15 AM: Breakfast: Prepare\, eat\, clean up8:15 – 8:45 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice9:00 – 10:00 AM: Class with Teachers10:00 – 10:30 AM: Walk10:30 – 11:30 AM: Group Practice led by Sangha11:30 – 12:30 PM: Personal Practice12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch: Prepare\, eat\, clean up1:30 – 3:00 PM: Personal Practice3:00 – 4:00 PM: Group Practice led by Sangha4:00 – 5:30 PM: Personal Practice5:30 – 7:00 PM: Dinner: prepare\, eat\, clean up7:00 – 7:30 PM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:30 PM: Group Practice and Q & A with Teachers8:30 – Beyond: Personal Practice & bed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Food\, Weather\, Accommodation and How to Get Here\n \n\n Click here for details on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PSYCHEDELICS/MICRODOSING\n \n\n We recognize and respect plant medicine as an important part of some people’s spiritual paths.  Please note\, the meditation practice on this retreat is very powerful. Consuming mind-altering substances will detract from your experience and could cause negative side-effects.  We ask that you refrain from microdosing or consuming mind-altering substances during this retreat and in the days immediately following it.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION\n \n\n We aim to make our retreats as accessible as possible.  As a centre run entirely by Karma Yoga (selfless service)\, retreat fees only cover food\, accommodation and the equipment required to offer them online. We do not have paid staff.  The teachings themselves are offered on the basis of Dāna (pay-from-the-heart).  For some\, this is still a barrier of entry. If you are seeking financial assistance to attend a retreat\, please complete a Scholarship Application form. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/as-the-spirit-moves/ CATEGORIES:Featured Courses,Group Retreats,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/As-the-Spirit-Moves-online.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230713T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230803T200000 DTSTAMP:20251209T100607Z CREATED:20230702T213153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251209T100607Z UID:19801-1689274800-1691092800@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Meditation Circle: Community Classes for Inner Well-Being (Online or In-Person) DESCRIPTION:Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online or In-Person | March 21-23\, 2025 \n \n \n \n “Astrology allows us to identify our unique challenges and strengths as individuals in order to more fully embody and live our spiritual awakening. “Dharma empowers us to transcend our challenges\, leverage our strengths and reduce the suffering within ourselves and those around us.” -Catherine Pawasarat Sensei \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we want breakthroughs. We want liberation\, freedom\, and the ability to manifest our most profound vision for this lifetime. And ironically\, the only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and to break away from our timeworn\, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline\, which builds the supporting structures for breakthrough. Astrologically\, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei\, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation\, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we can lean on the idealized notion of being a “free spirit.” This aspiration can lead to chafing around boundaries and authority\, two of the hallmarks of Saturn. It’s easy to project these qualities onto someone or something else\, as our disowned shadow. Integrating these qualities in ourselves is key to true spiritual growth. Drawing on AstroDharma as a resource can help us get there.  Historically\, Saturn was associated with the Grim Reaper or Father Time\, and it’s still known as the Lord of Karma. Wherever we have Saturn in our natal astrological chart\, we are likely to experience restrictions or obstacles. Integrating our Saturn involves learning to dismantle these constraints\, and upcycling the resources thereby acquired as foundations upon which to build the rest of our lives. In this way\, we begin to participate in the conscious shaping of our karma. The planet Saturn is the doorway to working consciously with more transpersonal and universal energies. After all\, it is the gatekeeper from the personal inner planets to the transpersonal or generational outer planets. In AstroDharma\, the outer planets—Uranus\, Neptune\, and Pluto—offer the transformative energy we need for breakthroughs\, through their mighty forces of revolution\, dissolution\, and destruction\, respectively. Accessing and working consciously with these powerful energies requires discipline and self-mastery: in other words\, integration (vs. projection) of Saturn. An untrained\, undisciplined warrior cannot navigate these stormy forces of change. Instead\, karmic tempests repeatedly knock us sideways. Saturn’s authority and responsibility are the keys to breaking through the locks of our conditioned karma to our greater potential—and rising to the challenge of our total transformation. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  This course for you if:You’d like to study an astrological Dharmic framework for spiritual understanding with a wisdom teacher in the Namgyal lineage.You’d like to explore where you fall subject to projections—those aspects of yourself which have been forced into the unconscious\, thus cast onto others—and learn to own them as a more integrated human being.You’d like to transform challenges in your life by leveraging unseen strengths and talents.You’d like greater clues into the particular shapings of gestating in your mother’s womb\, and how your womb experience is impacting your life.You’d like insights into how you can best connect with awakening states of unity.You want to understand the patterns of others\, as well as your own\, to be a more skilled and compassionate being in the world. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In other words\, we must integrate Saturn to become what we truly want to be.In AstroDharma\, we refer to our North Node as our “Dharma\,” our Dharmic path. Learning to manifest our North Node is the most challenging path we can undertake because it involves swimming upstream against the heavy current of our South Node’s familiar and habitual Karma. However\, we cannot work with our North Node\, our true potential\, unless we work with Saturn. Mastery requires incredible discipline. An Olympic figure skater lands that quadruple axle on the ice because they’ve invested thousands of training hours towards achieving this potential.  Over the course\, we will show you how to examine your natal chart\, and look at participants’ charts together\, focusing on Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the associated 10th house. We also encourage you to bring burning questions arising from your life—particularly related to challenges around blocks and authority themes—so we can study how they show up in your chart astrolodharmically. Think about specific questions which will be of particular benefit to you\, and which will help you towards being of benefit to others. For those attending in person\, Catherine Sensei will lead us in somatic AstroDharma mandalas to embody our Saturn together. These mandalas can be a compelling\, visceral experience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "I greatly appreciate the depth of knowledge and level of expertise that is shared by Sensei. Her teachings are always well prepared and transformative in my spiritual growth." \n Michele C.Astrologer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What You’ll Learn: A review of AstroDharma and how it is unique.How to examine and map your own astrological natal chart’s placements\, particularly Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the related 10th house.What happens with Saturn\, Capricorn\, and the 10th house? Why are they considered difficult? How can we access their potential wisdom and mastery?Tools for recognizing and working with reality as it is\, mapping karma and potential. How to work with obstacles\, authority\, and discipline\, toward the growth of your greater potential.About AstroDharma“AstroDharma” is what Catherine Pawasarat Sensei calls her unique synthesis of Buddhist teachings on spiritual awakening (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology\, based on the teachings of Carl Jung. These two powerful tools help us better understand ourselves and the patterns we manifest in our lives. The more we know about ourselves\, the more choices we have. Then\, we can make better choices so that we may lead healthier\, better-integrated lives. Furthermore\, we can also more deeply understand the patterns of those around us\, and support the potential in others\, which is key to Buddhist practitioners’ bodhisattva vow. Saturn relates to what we’d like to manifest in the world\, the areas of life we’d like to master and teach to others. It’s a rare and significant achievement to integrate both external authority and our inner tyrant into self-discipline and skilled judgment. Working with our Saturn\, over time and with conscious effort\, we gradually learn to take responsibility for shaping our own karma. This is easier said than done. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teacher - Catherine Sensei \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catherine Pawasarat Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher\, attendant\, consort\, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts. Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationThis weekend retreat will be led by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei at Clear Sky Meditation Center in Eastern BC. This course is offered online or in-person. Schedule / Class Times: For onsite retreatants\, please arrive in good time for orientation at 5 pm Mountain Time on the Friday. The first class will be at 7 pm Mountain Time. The retreat will formally end at 3 pm Mountain Time on the Sunday. Classes will be 60-90 mins in duration\, with classes in the morning and evening and possibly the afternoon each day (Mountain Time) – the exact schedule to be confirmed. Please ensure you are available for the whole weekend to focus on the course material and attend classes live. Online participants are expected to attend classes live.  We will arrange class times to be comfortable for most time zones. However we understand that some class times might occur after midnight in some regions\, if this is the case for you\, please let us know when you register.  Then we can provide a recording so you can catch up on that particular class. What Does the Course Cost?In-Person Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher plus 2) accomodation and meal costs for your stay Clear Sky Meditation Centre. Online Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher  2) online administration fee of $170 CAD. Keen practitioner pricing: 5% savings on program fees available until February 14\, 2025. Important: The last day to register is one week prior to the retreat start date. Please register early. Questions?If you have questions about the retreat\, please contact the Clear Sky Retreat Manager at 250-429-3929  (phone) or at bookings@clearskycenter.org (email). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Clear Sky \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Located in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature.  Founded by Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. In adherence with our quadruple bottom line\, we source our food as local and organic as possible. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Locally-grown organic food \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supportive meditation guidance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stunning bedroom views \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonus Gift for Course ParticipantsOnline AstroDharma Course INCLUDEDCatherine Sensei also offers an online Intro to AstroDharma course which you will be able to access at the end of this course. This will help you continue your studies. Access to the self-study course is available upon request for participants who complete the retreat. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "This retreat centre is the REAL THING. It's a modern monastery with people grounded in the present and practicing old and new methods of living in a spiritual community. This group walks the talk. I have made the trek from Ontario all the way to this remote corner of BC every year for the last 16 years to study with these teachers\, interact with these fellow seekers\, and bask in the beauty of this gorgeous property." \n Linda H. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FAQs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Dana\n \n\n You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. The dharma has been built on generosity. No-one is excluded for lack of funds but it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able Typically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course.  As we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure.  Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us.  Conversely\, if you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. Learn more about the practice of dāna here. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Admin Fee\n \n\n In a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. We’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. The admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, it can be surprising the costs of setting up a good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online. The admin fee changes based on date of registration. *We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. — Below are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: high speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)online class systems (Zoom)registration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)communication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)online storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)quality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.online calendar booking system to allow students to book interviewswebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.We welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daily Schedule \n \n\n Specific times may change – this is a rough guide (MST) \n6:30 – 7:30 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:15 AM: Breakfast: Prepare\, eat\, clean up8:15 – 8:45 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice9:00 – 10:00 AM: Class with Teachers10:00 – 10:30 AM: Walk10:30 – 11:30 AM: Group Practice led by Sangha11:30 – 12:30 PM: Personal Practice12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch: Prepare\, eat\, clean up1:30 – 3:00 PM: Personal Practice3:00 – 4:00 PM: Group Practice led by Sangha4:00 – 5:30 PM: Personal Practice5:30 – 7:00 PM: Dinner: prepare\, eat\, clean up7:00 – 7:30 PM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:30 PM: Group Practice and Q & A with Teachers8:30 – Beyond: Personal Practice & bed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Food\, Weather\, Accommodation and How to Get Here\n \n\n Click here for details on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PSYCHEDELICS/MICRODOSING\n \n\n We recognize and respect plant medicine as an important part of some people’s spiritual paths.  Please note\, the meditation practice on this retreat is very powerful. Consuming mind-altering substances will detract from your experience and could cause negative side-effects.  We ask that you refrain from microdosing or consuming mind-altering substances during this retreat and in the days immediately following it.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION\n \n\n We aim to make our retreats as accessible as possible.  As a centre run entirely by Karma Yoga (selfless service)\, retreat fees only cover food\, accommodation and the equipment required to offer them online. We do not have paid staff.  The teachings themselves are offered on the basis of Dāna (pay-from-the-heart).  For some\, this is still a barrier of entry. If you are seeking financial assistance to attend a retreat\, please complete a Scholarship Application form. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/meditation-circle-july-2023/ LOCATION:Clear Sky Meditation Center\, 3567 Cockell Road\, PO BOX 19\, Fort Steele\, British Columbia\, V0B 1NO\, Canada CATEGORIES:Coaching,Meditation Circle,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230616T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230618T160000 DTSTAMP:20260716T091500Z CREATED:20230205T213536Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260716T091500Z UID:18672-1686942000-1687104000@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Dharma in the Stars: AstroDharma Basics (In-Person or Online) DESCRIPTION:Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online or In-Person | March 21-23\, 2025 \n \n \n \n “Astrology allows us to identify our unique challenges and strengths as individuals in order to more fully embody and live our spiritual awakening. “Dharma empowers us to transcend our challenges\, leverage our strengths and reduce the suffering within ourselves and those around us.” -Catherine Pawasarat Sensei \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we want breakthroughs. We want liberation\, freedom\, and the ability to manifest our most profound vision for this lifetime. And ironically\, the only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and to break away from our timeworn\, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline\, which builds the supporting structures for breakthrough. Astrologically\, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei\, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation\, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we can lean on the idealized notion of being a “free spirit.” This aspiration can lead to chafing around boundaries and authority\, two of the hallmarks of Saturn. It’s easy to project these qualities onto someone or something else\, as our disowned shadow. Integrating these qualities in ourselves is key to true spiritual growth. Drawing on AstroDharma as a resource can help us get there.  Historically\, Saturn was associated with the Grim Reaper or Father Time\, and it’s still known as the Lord of Karma. Wherever we have Saturn in our natal astrological chart\, we are likely to experience restrictions or obstacles. Integrating our Saturn involves learning to dismantle these constraints\, and upcycling the resources thereby acquired as foundations upon which to build the rest of our lives. In this way\, we begin to participate in the conscious shaping of our karma. The planet Saturn is the doorway to working consciously with more transpersonal and universal energies. After all\, it is the gatekeeper from the personal inner planets to the transpersonal or generational outer planets. In AstroDharma\, the outer planets—Uranus\, Neptune\, and Pluto—offer the transformative energy we need for breakthroughs\, through their mighty forces of revolution\, dissolution\, and destruction\, respectively. Accessing and working consciously with these powerful energies requires discipline and self-mastery: in other words\, integration (vs. projection) of Saturn. An untrained\, undisciplined warrior cannot navigate these stormy forces of change. Instead\, karmic tempests repeatedly knock us sideways. Saturn’s authority and responsibility are the keys to breaking through the locks of our conditioned karma to our greater potential—and rising to the challenge of our total transformation. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  This course for you if:You’d like to study an astrological Dharmic framework for spiritual understanding with a wisdom teacher in the Namgyal lineage.You’d like to explore where you fall subject to projections—those aspects of yourself which have been forced into the unconscious\, thus cast onto others—and learn to own them as a more integrated human being.You’d like to transform challenges in your life by leveraging unseen strengths and talents.You’d like greater clues into the particular shapings of gestating in your mother’s womb\, and how your womb experience is impacting your life.You’d like insights into how you can best connect with awakening states of unity.You want to understand the patterns of others\, as well as your own\, to be a more skilled and compassionate being in the world. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In other words\, we must integrate Saturn to become what we truly want to be.In AstroDharma\, we refer to our North Node as our “Dharma\,” our Dharmic path. Learning to manifest our North Node is the most challenging path we can undertake because it involves swimming upstream against the heavy current of our South Node’s familiar and habitual Karma. However\, we cannot work with our North Node\, our true potential\, unless we work with Saturn. Mastery requires incredible discipline. An Olympic figure skater lands that quadruple axle on the ice because they’ve invested thousands of training hours towards achieving this potential.  Over the course\, we will show you how to examine your natal chart\, and look at participants’ charts together\, focusing on Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the associated 10th house. We also encourage you to bring burning questions arising from your life—particularly related to challenges around blocks and authority themes—so we can study how they show up in your chart astrolodharmically. Think about specific questions which will be of particular benefit to you\, and which will help you towards being of benefit to others. For those attending in person\, Catherine Sensei will lead us in somatic AstroDharma mandalas to embody our Saturn together. These mandalas can be a compelling\, visceral experience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "I greatly appreciate the depth of knowledge and level of expertise that is shared by Sensei. Her teachings are always well prepared and transformative in my spiritual growth." \n Michele C.Astrologer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What You’ll Learn: A review of AstroDharma and how it is unique.How to examine and map your own astrological natal chart’s placements\, particularly Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the related 10th house.What happens with Saturn\, Capricorn\, and the 10th house? Why are they considered difficult? How can we access their potential wisdom and mastery?Tools for recognizing and working with reality as it is\, mapping karma and potential. How to work with obstacles\, authority\, and discipline\, toward the growth of your greater potential.About AstroDharma“AstroDharma” is what Catherine Pawasarat Sensei calls her unique synthesis of Buddhist teachings on spiritual awakening (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology\, based on the teachings of Carl Jung. These two powerful tools help us better understand ourselves and the patterns we manifest in our lives. The more we know about ourselves\, the more choices we have. Then\, we can make better choices so that we may lead healthier\, better-integrated lives. Furthermore\, we can also more deeply understand the patterns of those around us\, and support the potential in others\, which is key to Buddhist practitioners’ bodhisattva vow. Saturn relates to what we’d like to manifest in the world\, the areas of life we’d like to master and teach to others. It’s a rare and significant achievement to integrate both external authority and our inner tyrant into self-discipline and skilled judgment. Working with our Saturn\, over time and with conscious effort\, we gradually learn to take responsibility for shaping our own karma. This is easier said than done. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teacher - Catherine Sensei \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catherine Pawasarat Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher\, attendant\, consort\, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts. Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationThis weekend retreat will be led by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei at Clear Sky Meditation Center in Eastern BC. This course is offered online or in-person. Schedule / Class Times: For onsite retreatants\, please arrive in good time for orientation at 5 pm Mountain Time on the Friday. The first class will be at 7 pm Mountain Time. The retreat will formally end at 3 pm Mountain Time on the Sunday. Classes will be 60-90 mins in duration\, with classes in the morning and evening and possibly the afternoon each day (Mountain Time) – the exact schedule to be confirmed. Please ensure you are available for the whole weekend to focus on the course material and attend classes live. Online participants are expected to attend classes live.  We will arrange class times to be comfortable for most time zones. However we understand that some class times might occur after midnight in some regions\, if this is the case for you\, please let us know when you register.  Then we can provide a recording so you can catch up on that particular class. What Does the Course Cost?In-Person Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher plus 2) accomodation and meal costs for your stay Clear Sky Meditation Centre. Online Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher  2) online administration fee of $170 CAD. Keen practitioner pricing: 5% savings on program fees available until February 14\, 2025. Important: The last day to register is one week prior to the retreat start date. Please register early. Questions?If you have questions about the retreat\, please contact the Clear Sky Retreat Manager at 250-429-3929  (phone) or at bookings@clearskycenter.org (email). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Clear Sky \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Located in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature.  Founded by Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. In adherence with our quadruple bottom line\, we source our food as local and organic as possible. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Locally-grown organic food \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supportive meditation guidance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stunning bedroom views \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonus Gift for Course ParticipantsOnline AstroDharma Course INCLUDEDCatherine Sensei also offers an online Intro to AstroDharma course which you will be able to access at the end of this course. This will help you continue your studies. Access to the self-study course is available upon request for participants who complete the retreat. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "This retreat centre is the REAL THING. It's a modern monastery with people grounded in the present and practicing old and new methods of living in a spiritual community. This group walks the talk. I have made the trek from Ontario all the way to this remote corner of BC every year for the last 16 years to study with these teachers\, interact with these fellow seekers\, and bask in the beauty of this gorgeous property." \n Linda H. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FAQs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Dana\n \n\n You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. The dharma has been built on generosity. No-one is excluded for lack of funds but it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able Typically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course.  As we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure.  Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us.  Conversely\, if you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. Learn more about the practice of dāna here. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Admin Fee\n \n\n In a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. We’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. The admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, it can be surprising the costs of setting up a good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online. The admin fee changes based on date of registration. *We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. — Below are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: high speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)online class systems (Zoom)registration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)communication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)online storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)quality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.online calendar booking system to allow students to book interviewswebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.We welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daily Schedule \n \n\n Specific times may change – this is a rough guide (MST) \n6:30 – 7:30 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:15 AM: Breakfast: Prepare\, eat\, clean up8:15 – 8:45 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice9:00 – 10:00 AM: Class with Teachers10:00 – 10:30 AM: Walk10:30 – 11:30 AM: Group Practice led by Sangha11:30 – 12:30 PM: Personal Practice12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch: Prepare\, eat\, clean up1:30 – 3:00 PM: Personal Practice3:00 – 4:00 PM: Group Practice led by Sangha4:00 – 5:30 PM: Personal Practice5:30 – 7:00 PM: Dinner: prepare\, eat\, clean up7:00 – 7:30 PM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:30 PM: Group Practice and Q & A with Teachers8:30 – Beyond: Personal Practice & bed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Food\, Weather\, Accommodation and How to Get Here\n \n\n Click here for details on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PSYCHEDELICS/MICRODOSING\n \n\n We recognize and respect plant medicine as an important part of some people’s spiritual paths.  Please note\, the meditation practice on this retreat is very powerful. Consuming mind-altering substances will detract from your experience and could cause negative side-effects.  We ask that you refrain from microdosing or consuming mind-altering substances during this retreat and in the days immediately following it.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION\n \n\n We aim to make our retreats as accessible as possible.  As a centre run entirely by Karma Yoga (selfless service)\, retreat fees only cover food\, accommodation and the equipment required to offer them online. We do not have paid staff.  The teachings themselves are offered on the basis of Dāna (pay-from-the-heart).  For some\, this is still a barrier of entry. If you are seeking financial assistance to attend a retreat\, please complete a Scholarship Application form. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/astrology-dharma-retreat/ CATEGORIES:Featured Courses,Group Retreats,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Astrology-Dharma-Retreat.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230608T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230706T200000 DTSTAMP:20251209T091526Z CREATED:20230224T033312Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251209T091526Z UID:19203-1686250800-1688673600@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Meditation Circle: Community Classes for Inner Well-Being (Online or In-Person) DESCRIPTION:Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online or In-Person | March 21-23\, 2025 \n \n \n \n “Astrology allows us to identify our unique challenges and strengths as individuals in order to more fully embody and live our spiritual awakening. “Dharma empowers us to transcend our challenges\, leverage our strengths and reduce the suffering within ourselves and those around us.” -Catherine Pawasarat Sensei \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we want breakthroughs. We want liberation\, freedom\, and the ability to manifest our most profound vision for this lifetime. And ironically\, the only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and to break away from our timeworn\, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline\, which builds the supporting structures for breakthrough. Astrologically\, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei\, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation\, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we can lean on the idealized notion of being a “free spirit.” This aspiration can lead to chafing around boundaries and authority\, two of the hallmarks of Saturn. It’s easy to project these qualities onto someone or something else\, as our disowned shadow. Integrating these qualities in ourselves is key to true spiritual growth. Drawing on AstroDharma as a resource can help us get there.  Historically\, Saturn was associated with the Grim Reaper or Father Time\, and it’s still known as the Lord of Karma. Wherever we have Saturn in our natal astrological chart\, we are likely to experience restrictions or obstacles. Integrating our Saturn involves learning to dismantle these constraints\, and upcycling the resources thereby acquired as foundations upon which to build the rest of our lives. In this way\, we begin to participate in the conscious shaping of our karma. The planet Saturn is the doorway to working consciously with more transpersonal and universal energies. After all\, it is the gatekeeper from the personal inner planets to the transpersonal or generational outer planets. In AstroDharma\, the outer planets—Uranus\, Neptune\, and Pluto—offer the transformative energy we need for breakthroughs\, through their mighty forces of revolution\, dissolution\, and destruction\, respectively. Accessing and working consciously with these powerful energies requires discipline and self-mastery: in other words\, integration (vs. projection) of Saturn. An untrained\, undisciplined warrior cannot navigate these stormy forces of change. Instead\, karmic tempests repeatedly knock us sideways. Saturn’s authority and responsibility are the keys to breaking through the locks of our conditioned karma to our greater potential—and rising to the challenge of our total transformation. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  This course for you if:You’d like to study an astrological Dharmic framework for spiritual understanding with a wisdom teacher in the Namgyal lineage.You’d like to explore where you fall subject to projections—those aspects of yourself which have been forced into the unconscious\, thus cast onto others—and learn to own them as a more integrated human being.You’d like to transform challenges in your life by leveraging unseen strengths and talents.You’d like greater clues into the particular shapings of gestating in your mother’s womb\, and how your womb experience is impacting your life.You’d like insights into how you can best connect with awakening states of unity.You want to understand the patterns of others\, as well as your own\, to be a more skilled and compassionate being in the world. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In other words\, we must integrate Saturn to become what we truly want to be.In AstroDharma\, we refer to our North Node as our “Dharma\,” our Dharmic path. Learning to manifest our North Node is the most challenging path we can undertake because it involves swimming upstream against the heavy current of our South Node’s familiar and habitual Karma. However\, we cannot work with our North Node\, our true potential\, unless we work with Saturn. Mastery requires incredible discipline. An Olympic figure skater lands that quadruple axle on the ice because they’ve invested thousands of training hours towards achieving this potential.  Over the course\, we will show you how to examine your natal chart\, and look at participants’ charts together\, focusing on Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the associated 10th house. We also encourage you to bring burning questions arising from your life—particularly related to challenges around blocks and authority themes—so we can study how they show up in your chart astrolodharmically. Think about specific questions which will be of particular benefit to you\, and which will help you towards being of benefit to others. For those attending in person\, Catherine Sensei will lead us in somatic AstroDharma mandalas to embody our Saturn together. These mandalas can be a compelling\, visceral experience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "I greatly appreciate the depth of knowledge and level of expertise that is shared by Sensei. Her teachings are always well prepared and transformative in my spiritual growth." \n Michele C.Astrologer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What You’ll Learn: A review of AstroDharma and how it is unique.How to examine and map your own astrological natal chart’s placements\, particularly Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the related 10th house.What happens with Saturn\, Capricorn\, and the 10th house? Why are they considered difficult? How can we access their potential wisdom and mastery?Tools for recognizing and working with reality as it is\, mapping karma and potential. How to work with obstacles\, authority\, and discipline\, toward the growth of your greater potential.About AstroDharma“AstroDharma” is what Catherine Pawasarat Sensei calls her unique synthesis of Buddhist teachings on spiritual awakening (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology\, based on the teachings of Carl Jung. These two powerful tools help us better understand ourselves and the patterns we manifest in our lives. The more we know about ourselves\, the more choices we have. Then\, we can make better choices so that we may lead healthier\, better-integrated lives. Furthermore\, we can also more deeply understand the patterns of those around us\, and support the potential in others\, which is key to Buddhist practitioners’ bodhisattva vow. Saturn relates to what we’d like to manifest in the world\, the areas of life we’d like to master and teach to others. It’s a rare and significant achievement to integrate both external authority and our inner tyrant into self-discipline and skilled judgment. Working with our Saturn\, over time and with conscious effort\, we gradually learn to take responsibility for shaping our own karma. This is easier said than done. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teacher - Catherine Sensei \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catherine Pawasarat Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher\, attendant\, consort\, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts. Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationThis weekend retreat will be led by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei at Clear Sky Meditation Center in Eastern BC. This course is offered online or in-person. Schedule / Class Times: For onsite retreatants\, please arrive in good time for orientation at 5 pm Mountain Time on the Friday. The first class will be at 7 pm Mountain Time. The retreat will formally end at 3 pm Mountain Time on the Sunday. Classes will be 60-90 mins in duration\, with classes in the morning and evening and possibly the afternoon each day (Mountain Time) – the exact schedule to be confirmed. Please ensure you are available for the whole weekend to focus on the course material and attend classes live. Online participants are expected to attend classes live.  We will arrange class times to be comfortable for most time zones. However we understand that some class times might occur after midnight in some regions\, if this is the case for you\, please let us know when you register.  Then we can provide a recording so you can catch up on that particular class. What Does the Course Cost?In-Person Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher plus 2) accomodation and meal costs for your stay Clear Sky Meditation Centre. Online Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher  2) online administration fee of $170 CAD. Keen practitioner pricing: 5% savings on program fees available until February 14\, 2025. Important: The last day to register is one week prior to the retreat start date. Please register early. Questions?If you have questions about the retreat\, please contact the Clear Sky Retreat Manager at 250-429-3929  (phone) or at bookings@clearskycenter.org (email). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Clear Sky \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Located in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature.  Founded by Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. In adherence with our quadruple bottom line\, we source our food as local and organic as possible. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Locally-grown organic food \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supportive meditation guidance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stunning bedroom views \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonus Gift for Course ParticipantsOnline AstroDharma Course INCLUDEDCatherine Sensei also offers an online Intro to AstroDharma course which you will be able to access at the end of this course. This will help you continue your studies. Access to the self-study course is available upon request for participants who complete the retreat. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "This retreat centre is the REAL THING. It's a modern monastery with people grounded in the present and practicing old and new methods of living in a spiritual community. This group walks the talk. I have made the trek from Ontario all the way to this remote corner of BC every year for the last 16 years to study with these teachers\, interact with these fellow seekers\, and bask in the beauty of this gorgeous property." \n Linda H. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FAQs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Dana\n \n\n You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. The dharma has been built on generosity. No-one is excluded for lack of funds but it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able Typically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course.  As we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure.  Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us.  Conversely\, if you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. Learn more about the practice of dāna here. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Admin Fee\n \n\n In a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. We’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. The admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, it can be surprising the costs of setting up a good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online. The admin fee changes based on date of registration. *We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. — Below are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: high speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)online class systems (Zoom)registration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)communication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)online storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)quality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.online calendar booking system to allow students to book interviewswebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.We welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daily Schedule \n \n\n Specific times may change – this is a rough guide (MST) \n6:30 – 7:30 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:15 AM: Breakfast: Prepare\, eat\, clean up8:15 – 8:45 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice9:00 – 10:00 AM: Class with Teachers10:00 – 10:30 AM: Walk10:30 – 11:30 AM: Group Practice led by Sangha11:30 – 12:30 PM: Personal Practice12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch: Prepare\, eat\, clean up1:30 – 3:00 PM: Personal Practice3:00 – 4:00 PM: Group Practice led by Sangha4:00 – 5:30 PM: Personal Practice5:30 – 7:00 PM: Dinner: prepare\, eat\, clean up7:00 – 7:30 PM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:30 PM: Group Practice and Q & A with Teachers8:30 – Beyond: Personal Practice & bed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Food\, Weather\, Accommodation and How to Get Here\n \n\n Click here for details on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PSYCHEDELICS/MICRODOSING\n \n\n We recognize and respect plant medicine as an important part of some people’s spiritual paths.  Please note\, the meditation practice on this retreat is very powerful. Consuming mind-altering substances will detract from your experience and could cause negative side-effects.  We ask that you refrain from microdosing or consuming mind-altering substances during this retreat and in the days immediately following it.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION\n \n\n We aim to make our retreats as accessible as possible.  As a centre run entirely by Karma Yoga (selfless service)\, retreat fees only cover food\, accommodation and the equipment required to offer them online. We do not have paid staff.  The teachings themselves are offered on the basis of Dāna (pay-from-the-heart).  For some\, this is still a barrier of entry. If you are seeking financial assistance to attend a retreat\, please complete a Scholarship Application form. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/meditation-circle-community-classes-for-inner-well-being-online-or-in-person-3/ LOCATION:Clear Sky Meditation Center\, 3567 Cockell Road\, PO BOX 19\, Fort Steele\, British Columbia\, V0B 1NO\, Canada CATEGORIES:Coaching,Meditation Circle,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230507T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230604T110000 DTSTAMP:20251209T104535Z CREATED:20230129T225812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251209T104535Z UID:18674-1683451800-1685876400@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Western Enlightenment: The Path of Kabbalah (Online) DESCRIPTION:Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online or In-Person | March 21-23\, 2025 \n \n \n \n “Astrology allows us to identify our unique challenges and strengths as individuals in order to more fully embody and live our spiritual awakening. “Dharma empowers us to transcend our challenges\, leverage our strengths and reduce the suffering within ourselves and those around us.” -Catherine Pawasarat Sensei \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we want breakthroughs. We want liberation\, freedom\, and the ability to manifest our most profound vision for this lifetime. And ironically\, the only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and to break away from our timeworn\, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline\, which builds the supporting structures for breakthrough. Astrologically\, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei\, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation\, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we can lean on the idealized notion of being a “free spirit.” This aspiration can lead to chafing around boundaries and authority\, two of the hallmarks of Saturn. It’s easy to project these qualities onto someone or something else\, as our disowned shadow. Integrating these qualities in ourselves is key to true spiritual growth. Drawing on AstroDharma as a resource can help us get there.  Historically\, Saturn was associated with the Grim Reaper or Father Time\, and it’s still known as the Lord of Karma. Wherever we have Saturn in our natal astrological chart\, we are likely to experience restrictions or obstacles. Integrating our Saturn involves learning to dismantle these constraints\, and upcycling the resources thereby acquired as foundations upon which to build the rest of our lives. In this way\, we begin to participate in the conscious shaping of our karma. The planet Saturn is the doorway to working consciously with more transpersonal and universal energies. After all\, it is the gatekeeper from the personal inner planets to the transpersonal or generational outer planets. In AstroDharma\, the outer planets—Uranus\, Neptune\, and Pluto—offer the transformative energy we need for breakthroughs\, through their mighty forces of revolution\, dissolution\, and destruction\, respectively. Accessing and working consciously with these powerful energies requires discipline and self-mastery: in other words\, integration (vs. projection) of Saturn. An untrained\, undisciplined warrior cannot navigate these stormy forces of change. Instead\, karmic tempests repeatedly knock us sideways. Saturn’s authority and responsibility are the keys to breaking through the locks of our conditioned karma to our greater potential—and rising to the challenge of our total transformation. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  This course for you if:You’d like to study an astrological Dharmic framework for spiritual understanding with a wisdom teacher in the Namgyal lineage.You’d like to explore where you fall subject to projections—those aspects of yourself which have been forced into the unconscious\, thus cast onto others—and learn to own them as a more integrated human being.You’d like to transform challenges in your life by leveraging unseen strengths and talents.You’d like greater clues into the particular shapings of gestating in your mother’s womb\, and how your womb experience is impacting your life.You’d like insights into how you can best connect with awakening states of unity.You want to understand the patterns of others\, as well as your own\, to be a more skilled and compassionate being in the world. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In other words\, we must integrate Saturn to become what we truly want to be.In AstroDharma\, we refer to our North Node as our “Dharma\,” our Dharmic path. Learning to manifest our North Node is the most challenging path we can undertake because it involves swimming upstream against the heavy current of our South Node’s familiar and habitual Karma. However\, we cannot work with our North Node\, our true potential\, unless we work with Saturn. Mastery requires incredible discipline. An Olympic figure skater lands that quadruple axle on the ice because they’ve invested thousands of training hours towards achieving this potential.  Over the course\, we will show you how to examine your natal chart\, and look at participants’ charts together\, focusing on Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the associated 10th house. We also encourage you to bring burning questions arising from your life—particularly related to challenges around blocks and authority themes—so we can study how they show up in your chart astrolodharmically. Think about specific questions which will be of particular benefit to you\, and which will help you towards being of benefit to others. For those attending in person\, Catherine Sensei will lead us in somatic AstroDharma mandalas to embody our Saturn together. These mandalas can be a compelling\, visceral experience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "I greatly appreciate the depth of knowledge and level of expertise that is shared by Sensei. Her teachings are always well prepared and transformative in my spiritual growth." \n Michele C.Astrologer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What You’ll Learn: A review of AstroDharma and how it is unique.How to examine and map your own astrological natal chart’s placements\, particularly Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the related 10th house.What happens with Saturn\, Capricorn\, and the 10th house? Why are they considered difficult? How can we access their potential wisdom and mastery?Tools for recognizing and working with reality as it is\, mapping karma and potential. How to work with obstacles\, authority\, and discipline\, toward the growth of your greater potential.About AstroDharma“AstroDharma” is what Catherine Pawasarat Sensei calls her unique synthesis of Buddhist teachings on spiritual awakening (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology\, based on the teachings of Carl Jung. These two powerful tools help us better understand ourselves and the patterns we manifest in our lives. The more we know about ourselves\, the more choices we have. Then\, we can make better choices so that we may lead healthier\, better-integrated lives. Furthermore\, we can also more deeply understand the patterns of those around us\, and support the potential in others\, which is key to Buddhist practitioners’ bodhisattva vow. Saturn relates to what we’d like to manifest in the world\, the areas of life we’d like to master and teach to others. It’s a rare and significant achievement to integrate both external authority and our inner tyrant into self-discipline and skilled judgment. Working with our Saturn\, over time and with conscious effort\, we gradually learn to take responsibility for shaping our own karma. This is easier said than done. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teacher - Catherine Sensei \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catherine Pawasarat Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher\, attendant\, consort\, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts. Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationThis weekend retreat will be led by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei at Clear Sky Meditation Center in Eastern BC. This course is offered online or in-person. Schedule / Class Times: For onsite retreatants\, please arrive in good time for orientation at 5 pm Mountain Time on the Friday. The first class will be at 7 pm Mountain Time. The retreat will formally end at 3 pm Mountain Time on the Sunday. Classes will be 60-90 mins in duration\, with classes in the morning and evening and possibly the afternoon each day (Mountain Time) – the exact schedule to be confirmed. Please ensure you are available for the whole weekend to focus on the course material and attend classes live. Online participants are expected to attend classes live.  We will arrange class times to be comfortable for most time zones. However we understand that some class times might occur after midnight in some regions\, if this is the case for you\, please let us know when you register.  Then we can provide a recording so you can catch up on that particular class. What Does the Course Cost?In-Person Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher plus 2) accomodation and meal costs for your stay Clear Sky Meditation Centre. Online Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher  2) online administration fee of $170 CAD. Keen practitioner pricing: 5% savings on program fees available until February 14\, 2025. Important: The last day to register is one week prior to the retreat start date. Please register early. Questions?If you have questions about the retreat\, please contact the Clear Sky Retreat Manager at 250-429-3929  (phone) or at bookings@clearskycenter.org (email). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Clear Sky \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Located in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature.  Founded by Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. In adherence with our quadruple bottom line\, we source our food as local and organic as possible. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Locally-grown organic food \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supportive meditation guidance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stunning bedroom views \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonus Gift for Course ParticipantsOnline AstroDharma Course INCLUDEDCatherine Sensei also offers an online Intro to AstroDharma course which you will be able to access at the end of this course. This will help you continue your studies. Access to the self-study course is available upon request for participants who complete the retreat. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "This retreat centre is the REAL THING. It's a modern monastery with people grounded in the present and practicing old and new methods of living in a spiritual community. This group walks the talk. I have made the trek from Ontario all the way to this remote corner of BC every year for the last 16 years to study with these teachers\, interact with these fellow seekers\, and bask in the beauty of this gorgeous property." \n Linda H. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FAQs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Dana\n \n\n You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. The dharma has been built on generosity. No-one is excluded for lack of funds but it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able Typically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course.  As we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure.  Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us.  Conversely\, if you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. Learn more about the practice of dāna here. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Admin Fee\n \n\n In a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. We’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. The admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, it can be surprising the costs of setting up a good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online. The admin fee changes based on date of registration. *We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. — Below are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: high speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)online class systems (Zoom)registration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)communication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)online storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)quality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.online calendar booking system to allow students to book interviewswebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.We welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daily Schedule \n \n\n Specific times may change – this is a rough guide (MST) \n6:30 – 7:30 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:15 AM: Breakfast: Prepare\, eat\, clean up8:15 – 8:45 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice9:00 – 10:00 AM: Class with Teachers10:00 – 10:30 AM: Walk10:30 – 11:30 AM: Group Practice led by Sangha11:30 – 12:30 PM: Personal Practice12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch: Prepare\, eat\, clean up1:30 – 3:00 PM: Personal Practice3:00 – 4:00 PM: Group Practice led by Sangha4:00 – 5:30 PM: Personal Practice5:30 – 7:00 PM: Dinner: prepare\, eat\, clean up7:00 – 7:30 PM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:30 PM: Group Practice and Q & A with Teachers8:30 – Beyond: Personal Practice & bed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Food\, Weather\, Accommodation and How to Get Here\n \n\n Click here for details on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PSYCHEDELICS/MICRODOSING\n \n\n We recognize and respect plant medicine as an important part of some people’s spiritual paths.  Please note\, the meditation practice on this retreat is very powerful. Consuming mind-altering substances will detract from your experience and could cause negative side-effects.  We ask that you refrain from microdosing or consuming mind-altering substances during this retreat and in the days immediately following it.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION\n \n\n We aim to make our retreats as accessible as possible.  As a centre run entirely by Karma Yoga (selfless service)\, retreat fees only cover food\, accommodation and the equipment required to offer them online. We do not have paid staff.  The teachings themselves are offered on the basis of Dāna (pay-from-the-heart).  For some\, this is still a barrier of entry. If you are seeking financial assistance to attend a retreat\, please complete a Scholarship Application form. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/western-enlightenment-the-path-of-kabbalah-online/ CATEGORIES:Online Courses,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2023-PD-courses-Square-IG-Post-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230318T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230506T120000 DTSTAMP:20251208T070659Z CREATED:20230131T032219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251208T070659Z UID:18815-1679133600-1683374400@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Integrating Mindfulness: Tools for Holistic Living (In-Person or Online) DESCRIPTION:Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online or In-Person | March 21-23\, 2025 \n \n \n \n “Astrology allows us to identify our unique challenges and strengths as individuals in order to more fully embody and live our spiritual awakening. “Dharma empowers us to transcend our challenges\, leverage our strengths and reduce the suffering within ourselves and those around us.” -Catherine Pawasarat Sensei \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we want breakthroughs. We want liberation\, freedom\, and the ability to manifest our most profound vision for this lifetime. And ironically\, the only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and to break away from our timeworn\, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline\, which builds the supporting structures for breakthrough. Astrologically\, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei\, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation\, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we can lean on the idealized notion of being a “free spirit.” This aspiration can lead to chafing around boundaries and authority\, two of the hallmarks of Saturn. It’s easy to project these qualities onto someone or something else\, as our disowned shadow. Integrating these qualities in ourselves is key to true spiritual growth. Drawing on AstroDharma as a resource can help us get there.  Historically\, Saturn was associated with the Grim Reaper or Father Time\, and it’s still known as the Lord of Karma. Wherever we have Saturn in our natal astrological chart\, we are likely to experience restrictions or obstacles. Integrating our Saturn involves learning to dismantle these constraints\, and upcycling the resources thereby acquired as foundations upon which to build the rest of our lives. In this way\, we begin to participate in the conscious shaping of our karma. The planet Saturn is the doorway to working consciously with more transpersonal and universal energies. After all\, it is the gatekeeper from the personal inner planets to the transpersonal or generational outer planets. In AstroDharma\, the outer planets—Uranus\, Neptune\, and Pluto—offer the transformative energy we need for breakthroughs\, through their mighty forces of revolution\, dissolution\, and destruction\, respectively. Accessing and working consciously with these powerful energies requires discipline and self-mastery: in other words\, integration (vs. projection) of Saturn. An untrained\, undisciplined warrior cannot navigate these stormy forces of change. Instead\, karmic tempests repeatedly knock us sideways. Saturn’s authority and responsibility are the keys to breaking through the locks of our conditioned karma to our greater potential—and rising to the challenge of our total transformation. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  This course for you if:You’d like to study an astrological Dharmic framework for spiritual understanding with a wisdom teacher in the Namgyal lineage.You’d like to explore where you fall subject to projections—those aspects of yourself which have been forced into the unconscious\, thus cast onto others—and learn to own them as a more integrated human being.You’d like to transform challenges in your life by leveraging unseen strengths and talents.You’d like greater clues into the particular shapings of gestating in your mother’s womb\, and how your womb experience is impacting your life.You’d like insights into how you can best connect with awakening states of unity.You want to understand the patterns of others\, as well as your own\, to be a more skilled and compassionate being in the world. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In other words\, we must integrate Saturn to become what we truly want to be.In AstroDharma\, we refer to our North Node as our “Dharma\,” our Dharmic path. Learning to manifest our North Node is the most challenging path we can undertake because it involves swimming upstream against the heavy current of our South Node’s familiar and habitual Karma. However\, we cannot work with our North Node\, our true potential\, unless we work with Saturn. Mastery requires incredible discipline. An Olympic figure skater lands that quadruple axle on the ice because they’ve invested thousands of training hours towards achieving this potential.  Over the course\, we will show you how to examine your natal chart\, and look at participants’ charts together\, focusing on Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the associated 10th house. We also encourage you to bring burning questions arising from your life—particularly related to challenges around blocks and authority themes—so we can study how they show up in your chart astrolodharmically. Think about specific questions which will be of particular benefit to you\, and which will help you towards being of benefit to others. For those attending in person\, Catherine Sensei will lead us in somatic AstroDharma mandalas to embody our Saturn together. These mandalas can be a compelling\, visceral experience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "I greatly appreciate the depth of knowledge and level of expertise that is shared by Sensei. Her teachings are always well prepared and transformative in my spiritual growth." \n Michele C.Astrologer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What You’ll Learn: A review of AstroDharma and how it is unique.How to examine and map your own astrological natal chart’s placements\, particularly Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the related 10th house.What happens with Saturn\, Capricorn\, and the 10th house? Why are they considered difficult? How can we access their potential wisdom and mastery?Tools for recognizing and working with reality as it is\, mapping karma and potential. How to work with obstacles\, authority\, and discipline\, toward the growth of your greater potential.About AstroDharma“AstroDharma” is what Catherine Pawasarat Sensei calls her unique synthesis of Buddhist teachings on spiritual awakening (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology\, based on the teachings of Carl Jung. These two powerful tools help us better understand ourselves and the patterns we manifest in our lives. The more we know about ourselves\, the more choices we have. Then\, we can make better choices so that we may lead healthier\, better-integrated lives. Furthermore\, we can also more deeply understand the patterns of those around us\, and support the potential in others\, which is key to Buddhist practitioners’ bodhisattva vow. Saturn relates to what we’d like to manifest in the world\, the areas of life we’d like to master and teach to others. It’s a rare and significant achievement to integrate both external authority and our inner tyrant into self-discipline and skilled judgment. Working with our Saturn\, over time and with conscious effort\, we gradually learn to take responsibility for shaping our own karma. This is easier said than done. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teacher - Catherine Sensei \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catherine Pawasarat Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher\, attendant\, consort\, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts. Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationThis weekend retreat will be led by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei at Clear Sky Meditation Center in Eastern BC. This course is offered online or in-person. Schedule / Class Times: For onsite retreatants\, please arrive in good time for orientation at 5 pm Mountain Time on the Friday. The first class will be at 7 pm Mountain Time. The retreat will formally end at 3 pm Mountain Time on the Sunday. Classes will be 60-90 mins in duration\, with classes in the morning and evening and possibly the afternoon each day (Mountain Time) – the exact schedule to be confirmed. Please ensure you are available for the whole weekend to focus on the course material and attend classes live. Online participants are expected to attend classes live.  We will arrange class times to be comfortable for most time zones. However we understand that some class times might occur after midnight in some regions\, if this is the case for you\, please let us know when you register.  Then we can provide a recording so you can catch up on that particular class. What Does the Course Cost?In-Person Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher plus 2) accomodation and meal costs for your stay Clear Sky Meditation Centre. Online Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher  2) online administration fee of $170 CAD. Keen practitioner pricing: 5% savings on program fees available until February 14\, 2025. Important: The last day to register is one week prior to the retreat start date. Please register early. Questions?If you have questions about the retreat\, please contact the Clear Sky Retreat Manager at 250-429-3929  (phone) or at bookings@clearskycenter.org (email). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Clear Sky \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Located in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature.  Founded by Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. In adherence with our quadruple bottom line\, we source our food as local and organic as possible. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Locally-grown organic food \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supportive meditation guidance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stunning bedroom views \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonus Gift for Course ParticipantsOnline AstroDharma Course INCLUDEDCatherine Sensei also offers an online Intro to AstroDharma course which you will be able to access at the end of this course. This will help you continue your studies. Access to the self-study course is available upon request for participants who complete the retreat. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "This retreat centre is the REAL THING. It's a modern monastery with people grounded in the present and practicing old and new methods of living in a spiritual community. This group walks the talk. I have made the trek from Ontario all the way to this remote corner of BC every year for the last 16 years to study with these teachers\, interact with these fellow seekers\, and bask in the beauty of this gorgeous property." \n Linda H. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FAQs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Dana\n \n\n You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. The dharma has been built on generosity. No-one is excluded for lack of funds but it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able Typically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course.  As we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure.  Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us.  Conversely\, if you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. Learn more about the practice of dāna here. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Admin Fee\n \n\n In a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. We’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. The admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, it can be surprising the costs of setting up a good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online. The admin fee changes based on date of registration. *We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. — Below are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: high speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)online class systems (Zoom)registration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)communication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)online storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)quality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.online calendar booking system to allow students to book interviewswebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.We welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daily Schedule \n \n\n Specific times may change – this is a rough guide (MST) \n6:30 – 7:30 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:15 AM: Breakfast: Prepare\, eat\, clean up8:15 – 8:45 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice9:00 – 10:00 AM: Class with Teachers10:00 – 10:30 AM: Walk10:30 – 11:30 AM: Group Practice led by Sangha11:30 – 12:30 PM: Personal Practice12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch: Prepare\, eat\, clean up1:30 – 3:00 PM: Personal Practice3:00 – 4:00 PM: Group Practice led by Sangha4:00 – 5:30 PM: Personal Practice5:30 – 7:00 PM: Dinner: prepare\, eat\, clean up7:00 – 7:30 PM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:30 PM: Group Practice and Q & A with Teachers8:30 – Beyond: Personal Practice & bed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Food\, Weather\, Accommodation and How to Get Here\n \n\n Click here for details on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PSYCHEDELICS/MICRODOSING\n \n\n We recognize and respect plant medicine as an important part of some people’s spiritual paths.  Please note\, the meditation practice on this retreat is very powerful. Consuming mind-altering substances will detract from your experience and could cause negative side-effects.  We ask that you refrain from microdosing or consuming mind-altering substances during this retreat and in the days immediately following it.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION\n \n\n We aim to make our retreats as accessible as possible.  As a centre run entirely by Karma Yoga (selfless service)\, retreat fees only cover food\, accommodation and the equipment required to offer them online. We do not have paid staff.  The teachings themselves are offered on the basis of Dāna (pay-from-the-heart).  For some\, this is still a barrier of entry. If you are seeking financial assistance to attend a retreat\, please complete a Scholarship Application form. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/integrating-mindfulness-holisitc-living-2023/ CATEGORIES:Integrating Mindfulness,Online Courses,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Integrating-Mindfulness-Feature-Image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230304T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230304T113000 DTSTAMP:20260307T075951Z CREATED:20230102T224016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260307T075951Z UID:18419-1677924000-1677929400@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Supportive Habits for Resilience & Growth (Free Webinar) DESCRIPTION:Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online or In-Person | March 21-23\, 2025 \n \n \n \n “Astrology allows us to identify our unique challenges and strengths as individuals in order to more fully embody and live our spiritual awakening. “Dharma empowers us to transcend our challenges\, leverage our strengths and reduce the suffering within ourselves and those around us.” -Catherine Pawasarat Sensei \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we want breakthroughs. We want liberation\, freedom\, and the ability to manifest our most profound vision for this lifetime. And ironically\, the only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and to break away from our timeworn\, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline\, which builds the supporting structures for breakthrough. Astrologically\, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei\, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation\, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we can lean on the idealized notion of being a “free spirit.” This aspiration can lead to chafing around boundaries and authority\, two of the hallmarks of Saturn. It’s easy to project these qualities onto someone or something else\, as our disowned shadow. Integrating these qualities in ourselves is key to true spiritual growth. Drawing on AstroDharma as a resource can help us get there.  Historically\, Saturn was associated with the Grim Reaper or Father Time\, and it’s still known as the Lord of Karma. Wherever we have Saturn in our natal astrological chart\, we are likely to experience restrictions or obstacles. Integrating our Saturn involves learning to dismantle these constraints\, and upcycling the resources thereby acquired as foundations upon which to build the rest of our lives. In this way\, we begin to participate in the conscious shaping of our karma. The planet Saturn is the doorway to working consciously with more transpersonal and universal energies. After all\, it is the gatekeeper from the personal inner planets to the transpersonal or generational outer planets. In AstroDharma\, the outer planets—Uranus\, Neptune\, and Pluto—offer the transformative energy we need for breakthroughs\, through their mighty forces of revolution\, dissolution\, and destruction\, respectively. Accessing and working consciously with these powerful energies requires discipline and self-mastery: in other words\, integration (vs. projection) of Saturn. An untrained\, undisciplined warrior cannot navigate these stormy forces of change. Instead\, karmic tempests repeatedly knock us sideways. Saturn’s authority and responsibility are the keys to breaking through the locks of our conditioned karma to our greater potential—and rising to the challenge of our total transformation. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  This course for you if:You’d like to study an astrological Dharmic framework for spiritual understanding with a wisdom teacher in the Namgyal lineage.You’d like to explore where you fall subject to projections—those aspects of yourself which have been forced into the unconscious\, thus cast onto others—and learn to own them as a more integrated human being.You’d like to transform challenges in your life by leveraging unseen strengths and talents.You’d like greater clues into the particular shapings of gestating in your mother’s womb\, and how your womb experience is impacting your life.You’d like insights into how you can best connect with awakening states of unity.You want to understand the patterns of others\, as well as your own\, to be a more skilled and compassionate being in the world. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In other words\, we must integrate Saturn to become what we truly want to be.In AstroDharma\, we refer to our North Node as our “Dharma\,” our Dharmic path. Learning to manifest our North Node is the most challenging path we can undertake because it involves swimming upstream against the heavy current of our South Node’s familiar and habitual Karma. However\, we cannot work with our North Node\, our true potential\, unless we work with Saturn. Mastery requires incredible discipline. An Olympic figure skater lands that quadruple axle on the ice because they’ve invested thousands of training hours towards achieving this potential.  Over the course\, we will show you how to examine your natal chart\, and look at participants’ charts together\, focusing on Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the associated 10th house. We also encourage you to bring burning questions arising from your life—particularly related to challenges around blocks and authority themes—so we can study how they show up in your chart astrolodharmically. Think about specific questions which will be of particular benefit to you\, and which will help you towards being of benefit to others. For those attending in person\, Catherine Sensei will lead us in somatic AstroDharma mandalas to embody our Saturn together. These mandalas can be a compelling\, visceral experience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "I greatly appreciate the depth of knowledge and level of expertise that is shared by Sensei. Her teachings are always well prepared and transformative in my spiritual growth." \n Michele C.Astrologer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What You’ll Learn: A review of AstroDharma and how it is unique.How to examine and map your own astrological natal chart’s placements\, particularly Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the related 10th house.What happens with Saturn\, Capricorn\, and the 10th house? Why are they considered difficult? How can we access their potential wisdom and mastery?Tools for recognizing and working with reality as it is\, mapping karma and potential. How to work with obstacles\, authority\, and discipline\, toward the growth of your greater potential.About AstroDharma“AstroDharma” is what Catherine Pawasarat Sensei calls her unique synthesis of Buddhist teachings on spiritual awakening (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology\, based on the teachings of Carl Jung. These two powerful tools help us better understand ourselves and the patterns we manifest in our lives. The more we know about ourselves\, the more choices we have. Then\, we can make better choices so that we may lead healthier\, better-integrated lives. Furthermore\, we can also more deeply understand the patterns of those around us\, and support the potential in others\, which is key to Buddhist practitioners’ bodhisattva vow. Saturn relates to what we’d like to manifest in the world\, the areas of life we’d like to master and teach to others. It’s a rare and significant achievement to integrate both external authority and our inner tyrant into self-discipline and skilled judgment. Working with our Saturn\, over time and with conscious effort\, we gradually learn to take responsibility for shaping our own karma. This is easier said than done. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teacher - Catherine Sensei \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catherine Pawasarat Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher\, attendant\, consort\, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts. Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationThis weekend retreat will be led by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei at Clear Sky Meditation Center in Eastern BC. This course is offered online or in-person. Schedule / Class Times: For onsite retreatants\, please arrive in good time for orientation at 5 pm Mountain Time on the Friday. The first class will be at 7 pm Mountain Time. The retreat will formally end at 3 pm Mountain Time on the Sunday. Classes will be 60-90 mins in duration\, with classes in the morning and evening and possibly the afternoon each day (Mountain Time) – the exact schedule to be confirmed. Please ensure you are available for the whole weekend to focus on the course material and attend classes live. Online participants are expected to attend classes live.  We will arrange class times to be comfortable for most time zones. However we understand that some class times might occur after midnight in some regions\, if this is the case for you\, please let us know when you register.  Then we can provide a recording so you can catch up on that particular class. What Does the Course Cost?In-Person Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher plus 2) accomodation and meal costs for your stay Clear Sky Meditation Centre. Online Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher  2) online administration fee of $170 CAD. Keen practitioner pricing: 5% savings on program fees available until February 14\, 2025. Important: The last day to register is one week prior to the retreat start date. Please register early. Questions?If you have questions about the retreat\, please contact the Clear Sky Retreat Manager at 250-429-3929  (phone) or at bookings@clearskycenter.org (email). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Clear Sky \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Located in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature.  Founded by Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. In adherence with our quadruple bottom line\, we source our food as local and organic as possible. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Locally-grown organic food \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supportive meditation guidance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stunning bedroom views \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonus Gift for Course ParticipantsOnline AstroDharma Course INCLUDEDCatherine Sensei also offers an online Intro to AstroDharma course which you will be able to access at the end of this course. This will help you continue your studies. Access to the self-study course is available upon request for participants who complete the retreat. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "This retreat centre is the REAL THING. It's a modern monastery with people grounded in the present and practicing old and new methods of living in a spiritual community. This group walks the talk. I have made the trek from Ontario all the way to this remote corner of BC every year for the last 16 years to study with these teachers\, interact with these fellow seekers\, and bask in the beauty of this gorgeous property." \n Linda H. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FAQs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Dana\n \n\n You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. The dharma has been built on generosity. No-one is excluded for lack of funds but it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able Typically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course.  As we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure.  Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us.  Conversely\, if you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. Learn more about the practice of dāna here. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Admin Fee\n \n\n In a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. We’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. The admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, it can be surprising the costs of setting up a good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online. The admin fee changes based on date of registration. *We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. — Below are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: high speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)online class systems (Zoom)registration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)communication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)online storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)quality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.online calendar booking system to allow students to book interviewswebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.We welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daily Schedule \n \n\n Specific times may change – this is a rough guide (MST) \n6:30 – 7:30 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:15 AM: Breakfast: Prepare\, eat\, clean up8:15 – 8:45 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice9:00 – 10:00 AM: Class with Teachers10:00 – 10:30 AM: Walk10:30 – 11:30 AM: Group Practice led by Sangha11:30 – 12:30 PM: Personal Practice12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch: Prepare\, eat\, clean up1:30 – 3:00 PM: Personal Practice3:00 – 4:00 PM: Group Practice led by Sangha4:00 – 5:30 PM: Personal Practice5:30 – 7:00 PM: Dinner: prepare\, eat\, clean up7:00 – 7:30 PM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:30 PM: Group Practice and Q & A with Teachers8:30 – Beyond: Personal Practice & bed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Food\, Weather\, Accommodation and How to Get Here\n \n\n Click here for details on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PSYCHEDELICS/MICRODOSING\n \n\n We recognize and respect plant medicine as an important part of some people’s spiritual paths.  Please note\, the meditation practice on this retreat is very powerful. Consuming mind-altering substances will detract from your experience and could cause negative side-effects.  We ask that you refrain from microdosing or consuming mind-altering substances during this retreat and in the days immediately following it.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION\n \n\n We aim to make our retreats as accessible as possible.  As a centre run entirely by Karma Yoga (selfless service)\, retreat fees only cover food\, accommodation and the equipment required to offer them online. We do not have paid staff.  The teachings themselves are offered on the basis of Dāna (pay-from-the-heart).  For some\, this is still a barrier of entry. If you are seeking financial assistance to attend a retreat\, please complete a Scholarship Application form. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/supportive-habits-resilience-growth/ CATEGORIES:Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Supportive-Habits-Workshop.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230218T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230218T113000 DTSTAMP:20260310T103021Z CREATED:20230131T041101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260310T103021Z UID:18871-1676714400-1676719800@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Creating a Supportive Womb for Spiritual Growth (Free Webinar) DESCRIPTION:Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online or In-Person | March 21-23\, 2025 \n \n \n \n “Astrology allows us to identify our unique challenges and strengths as individuals in order to more fully embody and live our spiritual awakening. “Dharma empowers us to transcend our challenges\, leverage our strengths and reduce the suffering within ourselves and those around us.” -Catherine Pawasarat Sensei \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we want breakthroughs. We want liberation\, freedom\, and the ability to manifest our most profound vision for this lifetime. And ironically\, the only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and to break away from our timeworn\, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline\, which builds the supporting structures for breakthrough. Astrologically\, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei\, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation\, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we can lean on the idealized notion of being a “free spirit.” This aspiration can lead to chafing around boundaries and authority\, two of the hallmarks of Saturn. It’s easy to project these qualities onto someone or something else\, as our disowned shadow. Integrating these qualities in ourselves is key to true spiritual growth. Drawing on AstroDharma as a resource can help us get there.  Historically\, Saturn was associated with the Grim Reaper or Father Time\, and it’s still known as the Lord of Karma. Wherever we have Saturn in our natal astrological chart\, we are likely to experience restrictions or obstacles. Integrating our Saturn involves learning to dismantle these constraints\, and upcycling the resources thereby acquired as foundations upon which to build the rest of our lives. In this way\, we begin to participate in the conscious shaping of our karma. The planet Saturn is the doorway to working consciously with more transpersonal and universal energies. After all\, it is the gatekeeper from the personal inner planets to the transpersonal or generational outer planets. In AstroDharma\, the outer planets—Uranus\, Neptune\, and Pluto—offer the transformative energy we need for breakthroughs\, through their mighty forces of revolution\, dissolution\, and destruction\, respectively. Accessing and working consciously with these powerful energies requires discipline and self-mastery: in other words\, integration (vs. projection) of Saturn. An untrained\, undisciplined warrior cannot navigate these stormy forces of change. Instead\, karmic tempests repeatedly knock us sideways. Saturn’s authority and responsibility are the keys to breaking through the locks of our conditioned karma to our greater potential—and rising to the challenge of our total transformation. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  This course for you if:You’d like to study an astrological Dharmic framework for spiritual understanding with a wisdom teacher in the Namgyal lineage.You’d like to explore where you fall subject to projections—those aspects of yourself which have been forced into the unconscious\, thus cast onto others—and learn to own them as a more integrated human being.You’d like to transform challenges in your life by leveraging unseen strengths and talents.You’d like greater clues into the particular shapings of gestating in your mother’s womb\, and how your womb experience is impacting your life.You’d like insights into how you can best connect with awakening states of unity.You want to understand the patterns of others\, as well as your own\, to be a more skilled and compassionate being in the world. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In other words\, we must integrate Saturn to become what we truly want to be.In AstroDharma\, we refer to our North Node as our “Dharma\,” our Dharmic path. Learning to manifest our North Node is the most challenging path we can undertake because it involves swimming upstream against the heavy current of our South Node’s familiar and habitual Karma. However\, we cannot work with our North Node\, our true potential\, unless we work with Saturn. Mastery requires incredible discipline. An Olympic figure skater lands that quadruple axle on the ice because they’ve invested thousands of training hours towards achieving this potential.  Over the course\, we will show you how to examine your natal chart\, and look at participants’ charts together\, focusing on Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the associated 10th house. We also encourage you to bring burning questions arising from your life—particularly related to challenges around blocks and authority themes—so we can study how they show up in your chart astrolodharmically. Think about specific questions which will be of particular benefit to you\, and which will help you towards being of benefit to others. For those attending in person\, Catherine Sensei will lead us in somatic AstroDharma mandalas to embody our Saturn together. These mandalas can be a compelling\, visceral experience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "I greatly appreciate the depth of knowledge and level of expertise that is shared by Sensei. Her teachings are always well prepared and transformative in my spiritual growth." \n Michele C.Astrologer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What You’ll Learn: A review of AstroDharma and how it is unique.How to examine and map your own astrological natal chart’s placements\, particularly Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the related 10th house.What happens with Saturn\, Capricorn\, and the 10th house? Why are they considered difficult? How can we access their potential wisdom and mastery?Tools for recognizing and working with reality as it is\, mapping karma and potential. How to work with obstacles\, authority\, and discipline\, toward the growth of your greater potential.About AstroDharma“AstroDharma” is what Catherine Pawasarat Sensei calls her unique synthesis of Buddhist teachings on spiritual awakening (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology\, based on the teachings of Carl Jung. These two powerful tools help us better understand ourselves and the patterns we manifest in our lives. The more we know about ourselves\, the more choices we have. Then\, we can make better choices so that we may lead healthier\, better-integrated lives. Furthermore\, we can also more deeply understand the patterns of those around us\, and support the potential in others\, which is key to Buddhist practitioners’ bodhisattva vow. Saturn relates to what we’d like to manifest in the world\, the areas of life we’d like to master and teach to others. It’s a rare and significant achievement to integrate both external authority and our inner tyrant into self-discipline and skilled judgment. Working with our Saturn\, over time and with conscious effort\, we gradually learn to take responsibility for shaping our own karma. This is easier said than done. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teacher - Catherine Sensei \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catherine Pawasarat Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher\, attendant\, consort\, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts. Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationThis weekend retreat will be led by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei at Clear Sky Meditation Center in Eastern BC. This course is offered online or in-person. Schedule / Class Times: For onsite retreatants\, please arrive in good time for orientation at 5 pm Mountain Time on the Friday. The first class will be at 7 pm Mountain Time. The retreat will formally end at 3 pm Mountain Time on the Sunday. Classes will be 60-90 mins in duration\, with classes in the morning and evening and possibly the afternoon each day (Mountain Time) – the exact schedule to be confirmed. Please ensure you are available for the whole weekend to focus on the course material and attend classes live. Online participants are expected to attend classes live.  We will arrange class times to be comfortable for most time zones. However we understand that some class times might occur after midnight in some regions\, if this is the case for you\, please let us know when you register.  Then we can provide a recording so you can catch up on that particular class. What Does the Course Cost?In-Person Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher plus 2) accomodation and meal costs for your stay Clear Sky Meditation Centre. Online Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher  2) online administration fee of $170 CAD. Keen practitioner pricing: 5% savings on program fees available until February 14\, 2025. Important: The last day to register is one week prior to the retreat start date. Please register early. Questions?If you have questions about the retreat\, please contact the Clear Sky Retreat Manager at 250-429-3929  (phone) or at bookings@clearskycenter.org (email). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Clear Sky \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Located in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature.  Founded by Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. In adherence with our quadruple bottom line\, we source our food as local and organic as possible. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Locally-grown organic food \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supportive meditation guidance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stunning bedroom views \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonus Gift for Course ParticipantsOnline AstroDharma Course INCLUDEDCatherine Sensei also offers an online Intro to AstroDharma course which you will be able to access at the end of this course. This will help you continue your studies. Access to the self-study course is available upon request for participants who complete the retreat. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "This retreat centre is the REAL THING. It's a modern monastery with people grounded in the present and practicing old and new methods of living in a spiritual community. This group walks the talk. I have made the trek from Ontario all the way to this remote corner of BC every year for the last 16 years to study with these teachers\, interact with these fellow seekers\, and bask in the beauty of this gorgeous property." \n Linda H. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FAQs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Dana\n \n\n You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. The dharma has been built on generosity. No-one is excluded for lack of funds but it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able Typically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course.  As we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure.  Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us.  Conversely\, if you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. Learn more about the practice of dāna here. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Admin Fee\n \n\n In a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. We’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. The admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, it can be surprising the costs of setting up a good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online. The admin fee changes based on date of registration. *We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. — Below are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: high speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)online class systems (Zoom)registration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)communication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)online storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)quality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.online calendar booking system to allow students to book interviewswebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.We welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daily Schedule \n \n\n Specific times may change – this is a rough guide (MST) \n6:30 – 7:30 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:15 AM: Breakfast: Prepare\, eat\, clean up8:15 – 8:45 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice9:00 – 10:00 AM: Class with Teachers10:00 – 10:30 AM: Walk10:30 – 11:30 AM: Group Practice led by Sangha11:30 – 12:30 PM: Personal Practice12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch: Prepare\, eat\, clean up1:30 – 3:00 PM: Personal Practice3:00 – 4:00 PM: Group Practice led by Sangha4:00 – 5:30 PM: Personal Practice5:30 – 7:00 PM: Dinner: prepare\, eat\, clean up7:00 – 7:30 PM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:30 PM: Group Practice and Q & A with Teachers8:30 – Beyond: Personal Practice & bed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Food\, Weather\, Accommodation and How to Get Here\n \n\n Click here for details on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PSYCHEDELICS/MICRODOSING\n \n\n We recognize and respect plant medicine as an important part of some people’s spiritual paths.  Please note\, the meditation practice on this retreat is very powerful. Consuming mind-altering substances will detract from your experience and could cause negative side-effects.  We ask that you refrain from microdosing or consuming mind-altering substances during this retreat and in the days immediately following it.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION\n \n\n We aim to make our retreats as accessible as possible.  As a centre run entirely by Karma Yoga (selfless service)\, retreat fees only cover food\, accommodation and the equipment required to offer them online. We do not have paid staff.  The teachings themselves are offered on the basis of Dāna (pay-from-the-heart).  For some\, this is still a barrier of entry. If you are seeking financial assistance to attend a retreat\, please complete a Scholarship Application form. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/creating-supportive-womb-spiritual-growth/ CATEGORIES:Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Creating-a-Womb-Workshop.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230212T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230312T103000 DTSTAMP:20251209T102535Z CREATED:20221128T191336Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251209T102535Z UID:18104-1676192400-1678617000@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Integral Spirituality Part Two: Mapping 21st Century Awakening (Online) DESCRIPTION:Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online or In-Person | March 21-23\, 2025 \n \n \n \n “Astrology allows us to identify our unique challenges and strengths as individuals in order to more fully embody and live our spiritual awakening. “Dharma empowers us to transcend our challenges\, leverage our strengths and reduce the suffering within ourselves and those around us.” -Catherine Pawasarat Sensei \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we want breakthroughs. We want liberation\, freedom\, and the ability to manifest our most profound vision for this lifetime. And ironically\, the only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and to break away from our timeworn\, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline\, which builds the supporting structures for breakthrough. Astrologically\, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei\, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation\, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we can lean on the idealized notion of being a “free spirit.” This aspiration can lead to chafing around boundaries and authority\, two of the hallmarks of Saturn. It’s easy to project these qualities onto someone or something else\, as our disowned shadow. Integrating these qualities in ourselves is key to true spiritual growth. Drawing on AstroDharma as a resource can help us get there.  Historically\, Saturn was associated with the Grim Reaper or Father Time\, and it’s still known as the Lord of Karma. Wherever we have Saturn in our natal astrological chart\, we are likely to experience restrictions or obstacles. Integrating our Saturn involves learning to dismantle these constraints\, and upcycling the resources thereby acquired as foundations upon which to build the rest of our lives. In this way\, we begin to participate in the conscious shaping of our karma. The planet Saturn is the doorway to working consciously with more transpersonal and universal energies. After all\, it is the gatekeeper from the personal inner planets to the transpersonal or generational outer planets. In AstroDharma\, the outer planets—Uranus\, Neptune\, and Pluto—offer the transformative energy we need for breakthroughs\, through their mighty forces of revolution\, dissolution\, and destruction\, respectively. Accessing and working consciously with these powerful energies requires discipline and self-mastery: in other words\, integration (vs. projection) of Saturn. An untrained\, undisciplined warrior cannot navigate these stormy forces of change. Instead\, karmic tempests repeatedly knock us sideways. Saturn’s authority and responsibility are the keys to breaking through the locks of our conditioned karma to our greater potential—and rising to the challenge of our total transformation. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  This course for you if:You’d like to study an astrological Dharmic framework for spiritual understanding with a wisdom teacher in the Namgyal lineage.You’d like to explore where you fall subject to projections—those aspects of yourself which have been forced into the unconscious\, thus cast onto others—and learn to own them as a more integrated human being.You’d like to transform challenges in your life by leveraging unseen strengths and talents.You’d like greater clues into the particular shapings of gestating in your mother’s womb\, and how your womb experience is impacting your life.You’d like insights into how you can best connect with awakening states of unity.You want to understand the patterns of others\, as well as your own\, to be a more skilled and compassionate being in the world. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In other words\, we must integrate Saturn to become what we truly want to be.In AstroDharma\, we refer to our North Node as our “Dharma\,” our Dharmic path. Learning to manifest our North Node is the most challenging path we can undertake because it involves swimming upstream against the heavy current of our South Node’s familiar and habitual Karma. However\, we cannot work with our North Node\, our true potential\, unless we work with Saturn. Mastery requires incredible discipline. An Olympic figure skater lands that quadruple axle on the ice because they’ve invested thousands of training hours towards achieving this potential.  Over the course\, we will show you how to examine your natal chart\, and look at participants’ charts together\, focusing on Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the associated 10th house. We also encourage you to bring burning questions arising from your life—particularly related to challenges around blocks and authority themes—so we can study how they show up in your chart astrolodharmically. Think about specific questions which will be of particular benefit to you\, and which will help you towards being of benefit to others. For those attending in person\, Catherine Sensei will lead us in somatic AstroDharma mandalas to embody our Saturn together. These mandalas can be a compelling\, visceral experience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "I greatly appreciate the depth of knowledge and level of expertise that is shared by Sensei. Her teachings are always well prepared and transformative in my spiritual growth." \n Michele C.Astrologer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What You’ll Learn: A review of AstroDharma and how it is unique.How to examine and map your own astrological natal chart’s placements\, particularly Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the related 10th house.What happens with Saturn\, Capricorn\, and the 10th house? Why are they considered difficult? How can we access their potential wisdom and mastery?Tools for recognizing and working with reality as it is\, mapping karma and potential. How to work with obstacles\, authority\, and discipline\, toward the growth of your greater potential.About AstroDharma“AstroDharma” is what Catherine Pawasarat Sensei calls her unique synthesis of Buddhist teachings on spiritual awakening (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology\, based on the teachings of Carl Jung. These two powerful tools help us better understand ourselves and the patterns we manifest in our lives. The more we know about ourselves\, the more choices we have. Then\, we can make better choices so that we may lead healthier\, better-integrated lives. Furthermore\, we can also more deeply understand the patterns of those around us\, and support the potential in others\, which is key to Buddhist practitioners’ bodhisattva vow. Saturn relates to what we’d like to manifest in the world\, the areas of life we’d like to master and teach to others. It’s a rare and significant achievement to integrate both external authority and our inner tyrant into self-discipline and skilled judgment. Working with our Saturn\, over time and with conscious effort\, we gradually learn to take responsibility for shaping our own karma. This is easier said than done. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teacher - Catherine Sensei \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catherine Pawasarat Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher\, attendant\, consort\, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts. Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationThis weekend retreat will be led by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei at Clear Sky Meditation Center in Eastern BC. This course is offered online or in-person. Schedule / Class Times: For onsite retreatants\, please arrive in good time for orientation at 5 pm Mountain Time on the Friday. The first class will be at 7 pm Mountain Time. The retreat will formally end at 3 pm Mountain Time on the Sunday. Classes will be 60-90 mins in duration\, with classes in the morning and evening and possibly the afternoon each day (Mountain Time) – the exact schedule to be confirmed. Please ensure you are available for the whole weekend to focus on the course material and attend classes live. Online participants are expected to attend classes live.  We will arrange class times to be comfortable for most time zones. However we understand that some class times might occur after midnight in some regions\, if this is the case for you\, please let us know when you register.  Then we can provide a recording so you can catch up on that particular class. What Does the Course Cost?In-Person Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher plus 2) accomodation and meal costs for your stay Clear Sky Meditation Centre. Online Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher  2) online administration fee of $170 CAD. Keen practitioner pricing: 5% savings on program fees available until February 14\, 2025. Important: The last day to register is one week prior to the retreat start date. Please register early. Questions?If you have questions about the retreat\, please contact the Clear Sky Retreat Manager at 250-429-3929  (phone) or at bookings@clearskycenter.org (email). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Clear Sky \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Located in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature.  Founded by Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. In adherence with our quadruple bottom line\, we source our food as local and organic as possible. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Locally-grown organic food \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supportive meditation guidance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stunning bedroom views \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonus Gift for Course ParticipantsOnline AstroDharma Course INCLUDEDCatherine Sensei also offers an online Intro to AstroDharma course which you will be able to access at the end of this course. This will help you continue your studies. Access to the self-study course is available upon request for participants who complete the retreat. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "This retreat centre is the REAL THING. It's a modern monastery with people grounded in the present and practicing old and new methods of living in a spiritual community. This group walks the talk. I have made the trek from Ontario all the way to this remote corner of BC every year for the last 16 years to study with these teachers\, interact with these fellow seekers\, and bask in the beauty of this gorgeous property." \n Linda H. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FAQs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Dana\n \n\n You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. The dharma has been built on generosity. No-one is excluded for lack of funds but it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able Typically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course.  As we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure.  Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us.  Conversely\, if you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. Learn more about the practice of dāna here. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Admin Fee\n \n\n In a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. We’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. The admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, it can be surprising the costs of setting up a good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online. The admin fee changes based on date of registration. *We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. — Below are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: high speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)online class systems (Zoom)registration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)communication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)online storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)quality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.online calendar booking system to allow students to book interviewswebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.We welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daily Schedule \n \n\n Specific times may change – this is a rough guide (MST) \n6:30 – 7:30 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:15 AM: Breakfast: Prepare\, eat\, clean up8:15 – 8:45 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice9:00 – 10:00 AM: Class with Teachers10:00 – 10:30 AM: Walk10:30 – 11:30 AM: Group Practice led by Sangha11:30 – 12:30 PM: Personal Practice12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch: Prepare\, eat\, clean up1:30 – 3:00 PM: Personal Practice3:00 – 4:00 PM: Group Practice led by Sangha4:00 – 5:30 PM: Personal Practice5:30 – 7:00 PM: Dinner: prepare\, eat\, clean up7:00 – 7:30 PM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:30 PM: Group Practice and Q & A with Teachers8:30 – Beyond: Personal Practice & bed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Food\, Weather\, Accommodation and How to Get Here\n \n\n Click here for details on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PSYCHEDELICS/MICRODOSING\n \n\n We recognize and respect plant medicine as an important part of some people’s spiritual paths.  Please note\, the meditation practice on this retreat is very powerful. Consuming mind-altering substances will detract from your experience and could cause negative side-effects.  We ask that you refrain from microdosing or consuming mind-altering substances during this retreat and in the days immediately following it.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION\n \n\n We aim to make our retreats as accessible as possible.  As a centre run entirely by Karma Yoga (selfless service)\, retreat fees only cover food\, accommodation and the equipment required to offer them online. We do not have paid staff.  The teachings themselves are offered on the basis of Dāna (pay-from-the-heart).  For some\, this is still a barrier of entry. If you are seeking financial assistance to attend a retreat\, please complete a Scholarship Application form. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/integral-spirituality-2/ CATEGORIES:Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Integral-Spirituality-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230126T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230223T200000 DTSTAMP:20251209T103440Z CREATED:20221217T044741Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251209T103440Z UID:18359-1674759600-1677182400@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Meditation Circle: Community Classes for Inner Well-Being (Online or In-Person) DESCRIPTION:Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online or In-Person | March 21-23\, 2025 \n \n \n \n “Astrology allows us to identify our unique challenges and strengths as individuals in order to more fully embody and live our spiritual awakening. “Dharma empowers us to transcend our challenges\, leverage our strengths and reduce the suffering within ourselves and those around us.” -Catherine Pawasarat Sensei \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we want breakthroughs. We want liberation\, freedom\, and the ability to manifest our most profound vision for this lifetime. And ironically\, the only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and to break away from our timeworn\, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline\, which builds the supporting structures for breakthrough. Astrologically\, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei\, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation\, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we can lean on the idealized notion of being a “free spirit.” This aspiration can lead to chafing around boundaries and authority\, two of the hallmarks of Saturn. It’s easy to project these qualities onto someone or something else\, as our disowned shadow. Integrating these qualities in ourselves is key to true spiritual growth. Drawing on AstroDharma as a resource can help us get there.  Historically\, Saturn was associated with the Grim Reaper or Father Time\, and it’s still known as the Lord of Karma. Wherever we have Saturn in our natal astrological chart\, we are likely to experience restrictions or obstacles. Integrating our Saturn involves learning to dismantle these constraints\, and upcycling the resources thereby acquired as foundations upon which to build the rest of our lives. In this way\, we begin to participate in the conscious shaping of our karma. The planet Saturn is the doorway to working consciously with more transpersonal and universal energies. After all\, it is the gatekeeper from the personal inner planets to the transpersonal or generational outer planets. In AstroDharma\, the outer planets—Uranus\, Neptune\, and Pluto—offer the transformative energy we need for breakthroughs\, through their mighty forces of revolution\, dissolution\, and destruction\, respectively. Accessing and working consciously with these powerful energies requires discipline and self-mastery: in other words\, integration (vs. projection) of Saturn. An untrained\, undisciplined warrior cannot navigate these stormy forces of change. Instead\, karmic tempests repeatedly knock us sideways. Saturn’s authority and responsibility are the keys to breaking through the locks of our conditioned karma to our greater potential—and rising to the challenge of our total transformation. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  This course for you if:You’d like to study an astrological Dharmic framework for spiritual understanding with a wisdom teacher in the Namgyal lineage.You’d like to explore where you fall subject to projections—those aspects of yourself which have been forced into the unconscious\, thus cast onto others—and learn to own them as a more integrated human being.You’d like to transform challenges in your life by leveraging unseen strengths and talents.You’d like greater clues into the particular shapings of gestating in your mother’s womb\, and how your womb experience is impacting your life.You’d like insights into how you can best connect with awakening states of unity.You want to understand the patterns of others\, as well as your own\, to be a more skilled and compassionate being in the world. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In other words\, we must integrate Saturn to become what we truly want to be.In AstroDharma\, we refer to our North Node as our “Dharma\,” our Dharmic path. Learning to manifest our North Node is the most challenging path we can undertake because it involves swimming upstream against the heavy current of our South Node’s familiar and habitual Karma. However\, we cannot work with our North Node\, our true potential\, unless we work with Saturn. Mastery requires incredible discipline. An Olympic figure skater lands that quadruple axle on the ice because they’ve invested thousands of training hours towards achieving this potential.  Over the course\, we will show you how to examine your natal chart\, and look at participants’ charts together\, focusing on Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the associated 10th house. We also encourage you to bring burning questions arising from your life—particularly related to challenges around blocks and authority themes—so we can study how they show up in your chart astrolodharmically. Think about specific questions which will be of particular benefit to you\, and which will help you towards being of benefit to others. For those attending in person\, Catherine Sensei will lead us in somatic AstroDharma mandalas to embody our Saturn together. These mandalas can be a compelling\, visceral experience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "I greatly appreciate the depth of knowledge and level of expertise that is shared by Sensei. Her teachings are always well prepared and transformative in my spiritual growth." \n Michele C.Astrologer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What You’ll Learn: A review of AstroDharma and how it is unique.How to examine and map your own astrological natal chart’s placements\, particularly Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the related 10th house.What happens with Saturn\, Capricorn\, and the 10th house? Why are they considered difficult? How can we access their potential wisdom and mastery?Tools for recognizing and working with reality as it is\, mapping karma and potential. How to work with obstacles\, authority\, and discipline\, toward the growth of your greater potential.About AstroDharma“AstroDharma” is what Catherine Pawasarat Sensei calls her unique synthesis of Buddhist teachings on spiritual awakening (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology\, based on the teachings of Carl Jung. These two powerful tools help us better understand ourselves and the patterns we manifest in our lives. The more we know about ourselves\, the more choices we have. Then\, we can make better choices so that we may lead healthier\, better-integrated lives. Furthermore\, we can also more deeply understand the patterns of those around us\, and support the potential in others\, which is key to Buddhist practitioners’ bodhisattva vow. Saturn relates to what we’d like to manifest in the world\, the areas of life we’d like to master and teach to others. It’s a rare and significant achievement to integrate both external authority and our inner tyrant into self-discipline and skilled judgment. Working with our Saturn\, over time and with conscious effort\, we gradually learn to take responsibility for shaping our own karma. This is easier said than done. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teacher - Catherine Sensei \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catherine Pawasarat Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher\, attendant\, consort\, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts. Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationThis weekend retreat will be led by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei at Clear Sky Meditation Center in Eastern BC. This course is offered online or in-person. Schedule / Class Times: For onsite retreatants\, please arrive in good time for orientation at 5 pm Mountain Time on the Friday. The first class will be at 7 pm Mountain Time. The retreat will formally end at 3 pm Mountain Time on the Sunday. Classes will be 60-90 mins in duration\, with classes in the morning and evening and possibly the afternoon each day (Mountain Time) – the exact schedule to be confirmed. Please ensure you are available for the whole weekend to focus on the course material and attend classes live. Online participants are expected to attend classes live.  We will arrange class times to be comfortable for most time zones. However we understand that some class times might occur after midnight in some regions\, if this is the case for you\, please let us know when you register.  Then we can provide a recording so you can catch up on that particular class. What Does the Course Cost?In-Person Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher plus 2) accomodation and meal costs for your stay Clear Sky Meditation Centre. Online Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher  2) online administration fee of $170 CAD. Keen practitioner pricing: 5% savings on program fees available until February 14\, 2025. Important: The last day to register is one week prior to the retreat start date. Please register early. Questions?If you have questions about the retreat\, please contact the Clear Sky Retreat Manager at 250-429-3929  (phone) or at bookings@clearskycenter.org (email). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Clear Sky \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Located in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature.  Founded by Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. In adherence with our quadruple bottom line\, we source our food as local and organic as possible. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Locally-grown organic food \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supportive meditation guidance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stunning bedroom views \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonus Gift for Course ParticipantsOnline AstroDharma Course INCLUDEDCatherine Sensei also offers an online Intro to AstroDharma course which you will be able to access at the end of this course. This will help you continue your studies. Access to the self-study course is available upon request for participants who complete the retreat. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "This retreat centre is the REAL THING. It's a modern monastery with people grounded in the present and practicing old and new methods of living in a spiritual community. This group walks the talk. I have made the trek from Ontario all the way to this remote corner of BC every year for the last 16 years to study with these teachers\, interact with these fellow seekers\, and bask in the beauty of this gorgeous property." \n Linda H. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FAQs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Dana\n \n\n You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. The dharma has been built on generosity. No-one is excluded for lack of funds but it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able Typically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course.  As we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure.  Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us.  Conversely\, if you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. Learn more about the practice of dāna here. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Admin Fee\n \n\n In a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. We’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. The admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, it can be surprising the costs of setting up a good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online. The admin fee changes based on date of registration. *We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. — Below are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: high speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)online class systems (Zoom)registration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)communication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)online storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)quality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.online calendar booking system to allow students to book interviewswebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.We welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daily Schedule \n \n\n Specific times may change – this is a rough guide (MST) \n6:30 – 7:30 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:15 AM: Breakfast: Prepare\, eat\, clean up8:15 – 8:45 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice9:00 – 10:00 AM: Class with Teachers10:00 – 10:30 AM: Walk10:30 – 11:30 AM: Group Practice led by Sangha11:30 – 12:30 PM: Personal Practice12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch: Prepare\, eat\, clean up1:30 – 3:00 PM: Personal Practice3:00 – 4:00 PM: Group Practice led by Sangha4:00 – 5:30 PM: Personal Practice5:30 – 7:00 PM: Dinner: prepare\, eat\, clean up7:00 – 7:30 PM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:30 PM: Group Practice and Q & A with Teachers8:30 – Beyond: Personal Practice & bed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Food\, Weather\, Accommodation and How to Get Here\n \n\n Click here for details on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PSYCHEDELICS/MICRODOSING\n \n\n We recognize and respect plant medicine as an important part of some people’s spiritual paths.  Please note\, the meditation practice on this retreat is very powerful. Consuming mind-altering substances will detract from your experience and could cause negative side-effects.  We ask that you refrain from microdosing or consuming mind-altering substances during this retreat and in the days immediately following it.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION\n \n\n We aim to make our retreats as accessible as possible.  As a centre run entirely by Karma Yoga (selfless service)\, retreat fees only cover food\, accommodation and the equipment required to offer them online. We do not have paid staff.  The teachings themselves are offered on the basis of Dāna (pay-from-the-heart).  For some\, this is still a barrier of entry. If you are seeking financial assistance to attend a retreat\, please complete a Scholarship Application form. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/meditation-circle-community-classes-for-inner-well-being-online-or-in-person-2/ LOCATION:Clear Sky Meditation Center\, 3567 Cockell Road\, PO BOX 19\, Fort Steele\, British Columbia\, V0B 1NO\, Canada CATEGORIES:Coaching,Meditation Circle,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230121T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230211T120000 DTSTAMP:20230119T000433Z CREATED:20220818T171853Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230119T000433Z UID:17171-1674295200-1676116800@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Money & Spirituality: Integrating Spiritual and Material (Online) DESCRIPTION:Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online or In-Person | March 21-23\, 2025 \n \n \n \n “Astrology allows us to identify our unique challenges and strengths as individuals in order to more fully embody and live our spiritual awakening. “Dharma empowers us to transcend our challenges\, leverage our strengths and reduce the suffering within ourselves and those around us.” -Catherine Pawasarat Sensei \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we want breakthroughs. We want liberation\, freedom\, and the ability to manifest our most profound vision for this lifetime. And ironically\, the only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and to break away from our timeworn\, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline\, which builds the supporting structures for breakthrough. Astrologically\, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei\, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation\, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we can lean on the idealized notion of being a “free spirit.” This aspiration can lead to chafing around boundaries and authority\, two of the hallmarks of Saturn. It’s easy to project these qualities onto someone or something else\, as our disowned shadow. Integrating these qualities in ourselves is key to true spiritual growth. Drawing on AstroDharma as a resource can help us get there.  Historically\, Saturn was associated with the Grim Reaper or Father Time\, and it’s still known as the Lord of Karma. Wherever we have Saturn in our natal astrological chart\, we are likely to experience restrictions or obstacles. Integrating our Saturn involves learning to dismantle these constraints\, and upcycling the resources thereby acquired as foundations upon which to build the rest of our lives. In this way\, we begin to participate in the conscious shaping of our karma. The planet Saturn is the doorway to working consciously with more transpersonal and universal energies. After all\, it is the gatekeeper from the personal inner planets to the transpersonal or generational outer planets. In AstroDharma\, the outer planets—Uranus\, Neptune\, and Pluto—offer the transformative energy we need for breakthroughs\, through their mighty forces of revolution\, dissolution\, and destruction\, respectively. Accessing and working consciously with these powerful energies requires discipline and self-mastery: in other words\, integration (vs. projection) of Saturn. An untrained\, undisciplined warrior cannot navigate these stormy forces of change. Instead\, karmic tempests repeatedly knock us sideways. Saturn’s authority and responsibility are the keys to breaking through the locks of our conditioned karma to our greater potential—and rising to the challenge of our total transformation. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  This course for you if:You’d like to study an astrological Dharmic framework for spiritual understanding with a wisdom teacher in the Namgyal lineage.You’d like to explore where you fall subject to projections—those aspects of yourself which have been forced into the unconscious\, thus cast onto others—and learn to own them as a more integrated human being.You’d like to transform challenges in your life by leveraging unseen strengths and talents.You’d like greater clues into the particular shapings of gestating in your mother’s womb\, and how your womb experience is impacting your life.You’d like insights into how you can best connect with awakening states of unity.You want to understand the patterns of others\, as well as your own\, to be a more skilled and compassionate being in the world. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In other words\, we must integrate Saturn to become what we truly want to be.In AstroDharma\, we refer to our North Node as our “Dharma\,” our Dharmic path. Learning to manifest our North Node is the most challenging path we can undertake because it involves swimming upstream against the heavy current of our South Node’s familiar and habitual Karma. However\, we cannot work with our North Node\, our true potential\, unless we work with Saturn. Mastery requires incredible discipline. An Olympic figure skater lands that quadruple axle on the ice because they’ve invested thousands of training hours towards achieving this potential.  Over the course\, we will show you how to examine your natal chart\, and look at participants’ charts together\, focusing on Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the associated 10th house. We also encourage you to bring burning questions arising from your life—particularly related to challenges around blocks and authority themes—so we can study how they show up in your chart astrolodharmically. Think about specific questions which will be of particular benefit to you\, and which will help you towards being of benefit to others. For those attending in person\, Catherine Sensei will lead us in somatic AstroDharma mandalas to embody our Saturn together. These mandalas can be a compelling\, visceral experience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "I greatly appreciate the depth of knowledge and level of expertise that is shared by Sensei. Her teachings are always well prepared and transformative in my spiritual growth." \n Michele C.Astrologer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What You’ll Learn: A review of AstroDharma and how it is unique.How to examine and map your own astrological natal chart’s placements\, particularly Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the related 10th house.What happens with Saturn\, Capricorn\, and the 10th house? Why are they considered difficult? How can we access their potential wisdom and mastery?Tools for recognizing and working with reality as it is\, mapping karma and potential. How to work with obstacles\, authority\, and discipline\, toward the growth of your greater potential.About AstroDharma“AstroDharma” is what Catherine Pawasarat Sensei calls her unique synthesis of Buddhist teachings on spiritual awakening (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology\, based on the teachings of Carl Jung. These two powerful tools help us better understand ourselves and the patterns we manifest in our lives. The more we know about ourselves\, the more choices we have. Then\, we can make better choices so that we may lead healthier\, better-integrated lives. Furthermore\, we can also more deeply understand the patterns of those around us\, and support the potential in others\, which is key to Buddhist practitioners’ bodhisattva vow. Saturn relates to what we’d like to manifest in the world\, the areas of life we’d like to master and teach to others. It’s a rare and significant achievement to integrate both external authority and our inner tyrant into self-discipline and skilled judgment. Working with our Saturn\, over time and with conscious effort\, we gradually learn to take responsibility for shaping our own karma. This is easier said than done. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teacher - Catherine Sensei \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catherine Pawasarat Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher\, attendant\, consort\, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts. Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationThis weekend retreat will be led by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei at Clear Sky Meditation Center in Eastern BC. This course is offered online or in-person. Schedule / Class Times: For onsite retreatants\, please arrive in good time for orientation at 5 pm Mountain Time on the Friday. The first class will be at 7 pm Mountain Time. The retreat will formally end at 3 pm Mountain Time on the Sunday. Classes will be 60-90 mins in duration\, with classes in the morning and evening and possibly the afternoon each day (Mountain Time) – the exact schedule to be confirmed. Please ensure you are available for the whole weekend to focus on the course material and attend classes live. Online participants are expected to attend classes live.  We will arrange class times to be comfortable for most time zones. However we understand that some class times might occur after midnight in some regions\, if this is the case for you\, please let us know when you register.  Then we can provide a recording so you can catch up on that particular class. What Does the Course Cost?In-Person Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher plus 2) accomodation and meal costs for your stay Clear Sky Meditation Centre. Online Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher  2) online administration fee of $170 CAD. Keen practitioner pricing: 5% savings on program fees available until February 14\, 2025. Important: The last day to register is one week prior to the retreat start date. Please register early. Questions?If you have questions about the retreat\, please contact the Clear Sky Retreat Manager at 250-429-3929  (phone) or at bookings@clearskycenter.org (email). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Clear Sky \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Located in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature.  Founded by Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. In adherence with our quadruple bottom line\, we source our food as local and organic as possible. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Locally-grown organic food \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supportive meditation guidance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stunning bedroom views \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonus Gift for Course ParticipantsOnline AstroDharma Course INCLUDEDCatherine Sensei also offers an online Intro to AstroDharma course which you will be able to access at the end of this course. This will help you continue your studies. Access to the self-study course is available upon request for participants who complete the retreat. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "This retreat centre is the REAL THING. It's a modern monastery with people grounded in the present and practicing old and new methods of living in a spiritual community. This group walks the talk. I have made the trek from Ontario all the way to this remote corner of BC every year for the last 16 years to study with these teachers\, interact with these fellow seekers\, and bask in the beauty of this gorgeous property." \n Linda H. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FAQs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Dana\n \n\n You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. The dharma has been built on generosity. No-one is excluded for lack of funds but it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able Typically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course.  As we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure.  Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us.  Conversely\, if you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. Learn more about the practice of dāna here. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Admin Fee\n \n\n In a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. We’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. The admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, it can be surprising the costs of setting up a good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online. The admin fee changes based on date of registration. *We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. — Below are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: high speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)online class systems (Zoom)registration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)communication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)online storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)quality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.online calendar booking system to allow students to book interviewswebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.We welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daily Schedule \n \n\n Specific times may change – this is a rough guide (MST) \n6:30 – 7:30 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:15 AM: Breakfast: Prepare\, eat\, clean up8:15 – 8:45 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice9:00 – 10:00 AM: Class with Teachers10:00 – 10:30 AM: Walk10:30 – 11:30 AM: Group Practice led by Sangha11:30 – 12:30 PM: Personal Practice12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch: Prepare\, eat\, clean up1:30 – 3:00 PM: Personal Practice3:00 – 4:00 PM: Group Practice led by Sangha4:00 – 5:30 PM: Personal Practice5:30 – 7:00 PM: Dinner: prepare\, eat\, clean up7:00 – 7:30 PM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:30 PM: Group Practice and Q & A with Teachers8:30 – Beyond: Personal Practice & bed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Food\, Weather\, Accommodation and How to Get Here\n \n\n Click here for details on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PSYCHEDELICS/MICRODOSING\n \n\n We recognize and respect plant medicine as an important part of some people’s spiritual paths.  Please note\, the meditation practice on this retreat is very powerful. Consuming mind-altering substances will detract from your experience and could cause negative side-effects.  We ask that you refrain from microdosing or consuming mind-altering substances during this retreat and in the days immediately following it.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION\n \n\n We aim to make our retreats as accessible as possible.  As a centre run entirely by Karma Yoga (selfless service)\, retreat fees only cover food\, accommodation and the equipment required to offer them online. We do not have paid staff.  The teachings themselves are offered on the basis of Dāna (pay-from-the-heart).  For some\, this is still a barrier of entry. If you are seeking financial assistance to attend a retreat\, please complete a Scholarship Application form. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/money-spirituality-online-2023/ LOCATION:Clear Sky Meditation Center\, 3567 Cockell Road\, PO BOX 19\, Fort Steele\, British Columbia\, V0B 1NO\, Canada CATEGORIES:Coaching,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/money-and-spirituality-feature.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230114T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20240204T170000 DTSTAMP:20251209T101314Z CREATED:20231211T221125Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251209T101314Z UID:18750-1673683200-1707066000@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Multiple Realities: Bardos & Beyond (Online Course) DESCRIPTION:Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online or In-Person | March 21-23\, 2025 \n \n \n \n “Astrology allows us to identify our unique challenges and strengths as individuals in order to more fully embody and live our spiritual awakening. “Dharma empowers us to transcend our challenges\, leverage our strengths and reduce the suffering within ourselves and those around us.” -Catherine Pawasarat Sensei \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we want breakthroughs. We want liberation\, freedom\, and the ability to manifest our most profound vision for this lifetime. And ironically\, the only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and to break away from our timeworn\, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline\, which builds the supporting structures for breakthrough. Astrologically\, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei\, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation\, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we can lean on the idealized notion of being a “free spirit.” This aspiration can lead to chafing around boundaries and authority\, two of the hallmarks of Saturn. It’s easy to project these qualities onto someone or something else\, as our disowned shadow. Integrating these qualities in ourselves is key to true spiritual growth. Drawing on AstroDharma as a resource can help us get there.  Historically\, Saturn was associated with the Grim Reaper or Father Time\, and it’s still known as the Lord of Karma. Wherever we have Saturn in our natal astrological chart\, we are likely to experience restrictions or obstacles. Integrating our Saturn involves learning to dismantle these constraints\, and upcycling the resources thereby acquired as foundations upon which to build the rest of our lives. In this way\, we begin to participate in the conscious shaping of our karma. The planet Saturn is the doorway to working consciously with more transpersonal and universal energies. After all\, it is the gatekeeper from the personal inner planets to the transpersonal or generational outer planets. In AstroDharma\, the outer planets—Uranus\, Neptune\, and Pluto—offer the transformative energy we need for breakthroughs\, through their mighty forces of revolution\, dissolution\, and destruction\, respectively. Accessing and working consciously with these powerful energies requires discipline and self-mastery: in other words\, integration (vs. projection) of Saturn. An untrained\, undisciplined warrior cannot navigate these stormy forces of change. Instead\, karmic tempests repeatedly knock us sideways. Saturn’s authority and responsibility are the keys to breaking through the locks of our conditioned karma to our greater potential—and rising to the challenge of our total transformation. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  This course for you if:You’d like to study an astrological Dharmic framework for spiritual understanding with a wisdom teacher in the Namgyal lineage.You’d like to explore where you fall subject to projections—those aspects of yourself which have been forced into the unconscious\, thus cast onto others—and learn to own them as a more integrated human being.You’d like to transform challenges in your life by leveraging unseen strengths and talents.You’d like greater clues into the particular shapings of gestating in your mother’s womb\, and how your womb experience is impacting your life.You’d like insights into how you can best connect with awakening states of unity.You want to understand the patterns of others\, as well as your own\, to be a more skilled and compassionate being in the world. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In other words\, we must integrate Saturn to become what we truly want to be.In AstroDharma\, we refer to our North Node as our “Dharma\,” our Dharmic path. Learning to manifest our North Node is the most challenging path we can undertake because it involves swimming upstream against the heavy current of our South Node’s familiar and habitual Karma. However\, we cannot work with our North Node\, our true potential\, unless we work with Saturn. Mastery requires incredible discipline. An Olympic figure skater lands that quadruple axle on the ice because they’ve invested thousands of training hours towards achieving this potential.  Over the course\, we will show you how to examine your natal chart\, and look at participants’ charts together\, focusing on Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the associated 10th house. We also encourage you to bring burning questions arising from your life—particularly related to challenges around blocks and authority themes—so we can study how they show up in your chart astrolodharmically. Think about specific questions which will be of particular benefit to you\, and which will help you towards being of benefit to others. For those attending in person\, Catherine Sensei will lead us in somatic AstroDharma mandalas to embody our Saturn together. These mandalas can be a compelling\, visceral experience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "I greatly appreciate the depth of knowledge and level of expertise that is shared by Sensei. Her teachings are always well prepared and transformative in my spiritual growth." \n Michele C.Astrologer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What You’ll Learn: A review of AstroDharma and how it is unique.How to examine and map your own astrological natal chart’s placements\, particularly Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the related 10th house.What happens with Saturn\, Capricorn\, and the 10th house? Why are they considered difficult? How can we access their potential wisdom and mastery?Tools for recognizing and working with reality as it is\, mapping karma and potential. How to work with obstacles\, authority\, and discipline\, toward the growth of your greater potential.About AstroDharma“AstroDharma” is what Catherine Pawasarat Sensei calls her unique synthesis of Buddhist teachings on spiritual awakening (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology\, based on the teachings of Carl Jung. These two powerful tools help us better understand ourselves and the patterns we manifest in our lives. The more we know about ourselves\, the more choices we have. Then\, we can make better choices so that we may lead healthier\, better-integrated lives. Furthermore\, we can also more deeply understand the patterns of those around us\, and support the potential in others\, which is key to Buddhist practitioners’ bodhisattva vow. Saturn relates to what we’d like to manifest in the world\, the areas of life we’d like to master and teach to others. It’s a rare and significant achievement to integrate both external authority and our inner tyrant into self-discipline and skilled judgment. Working with our Saturn\, over time and with conscious effort\, we gradually learn to take responsibility for shaping our own karma. This is easier said than done. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teacher - Catherine Sensei \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catherine Pawasarat Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher\, attendant\, consort\, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts. Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationThis weekend retreat will be led by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei at Clear Sky Meditation Center in Eastern BC. This course is offered online or in-person. Schedule / Class Times: For onsite retreatants\, please arrive in good time for orientation at 5 pm Mountain Time on the Friday. The first class will be at 7 pm Mountain Time. The retreat will formally end at 3 pm Mountain Time on the Sunday. Classes will be 60-90 mins in duration\, with classes in the morning and evening and possibly the afternoon each day (Mountain Time) – the exact schedule to be confirmed. Please ensure you are available for the whole weekend to focus on the course material and attend classes live. Online participants are expected to attend classes live.  We will arrange class times to be comfortable for most time zones. However we understand that some class times might occur after midnight in some regions\, if this is the case for you\, please let us know when you register.  Then we can provide a recording so you can catch up on that particular class. What Does the Course Cost?In-Person Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher plus 2) accomodation and meal costs for your stay Clear Sky Meditation Centre. Online Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher  2) online administration fee of $170 CAD. Keen practitioner pricing: 5% savings on program fees available until February 14\, 2025. Important: The last day to register is one week prior to the retreat start date. Please register early. Questions?If you have questions about the retreat\, please contact the Clear Sky Retreat Manager at 250-429-3929  (phone) or at bookings@clearskycenter.org (email). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Clear Sky \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Located in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature.  Founded by Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. In adherence with our quadruple bottom line\, we source our food as local and organic as possible. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Locally-grown organic food \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supportive meditation guidance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stunning bedroom views \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonus Gift for Course ParticipantsOnline AstroDharma Course INCLUDEDCatherine Sensei also offers an online Intro to AstroDharma course which you will be able to access at the end of this course. This will help you continue your studies. Access to the self-study course is available upon request for participants who complete the retreat. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "This retreat centre is the REAL THING. It's a modern monastery with people grounded in the present and practicing old and new methods of living in a spiritual community. This group walks the talk. I have made the trek from Ontario all the way to this remote corner of BC every year for the last 16 years to study with these teachers\, interact with these fellow seekers\, and bask in the beauty of this gorgeous property." \n Linda H. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FAQs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Dana\n \n\n You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. The dharma has been built on generosity. No-one is excluded for lack of funds but it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able Typically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course.  As we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure.  Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us.  Conversely\, if you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. Learn more about the practice of dāna here. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Admin Fee\n \n\n In a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. We’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. The admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, it can be surprising the costs of setting up a good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online. The admin fee changes based on date of registration. *We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. — Below are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: high speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)online class systems (Zoom)registration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)communication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)online storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)quality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.online calendar booking system to allow students to book interviewswebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.We welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daily Schedule \n \n\n Specific times may change – this is a rough guide (MST) \n6:30 – 7:30 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:15 AM: Breakfast: Prepare\, eat\, clean up8:15 – 8:45 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice9:00 – 10:00 AM: Class with Teachers10:00 – 10:30 AM: Walk10:30 – 11:30 AM: Group Practice led by Sangha11:30 – 12:30 PM: Personal Practice12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch: Prepare\, eat\, clean up1:30 – 3:00 PM: Personal Practice3:00 – 4:00 PM: Group Practice led by Sangha4:00 – 5:30 PM: Personal Practice5:30 – 7:00 PM: Dinner: prepare\, eat\, clean up7:00 – 7:30 PM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:30 PM: Group Practice and Q & A with Teachers8:30 – Beyond: Personal Practice & bed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Food\, Weather\, Accommodation and How to Get Here\n \n\n Click here for details on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PSYCHEDELICS/MICRODOSING\n \n\n We recognize and respect plant medicine as an important part of some people’s spiritual paths.  Please note\, the meditation practice on this retreat is very powerful. Consuming mind-altering substances will detract from your experience and could cause negative side-effects.  We ask that you refrain from microdosing or consuming mind-altering substances during this retreat and in the days immediately following it.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION\n \n\n We aim to make our retreats as accessible as possible.  As a centre run entirely by Karma Yoga (selfless service)\, retreat fees only cover food\, accommodation and the equipment required to offer them online. We do not have paid staff.  The teachings themselves are offered on the basis of Dāna (pay-from-the-heart).  For some\, this is still a barrier of entry. If you are seeking financial assistance to attend a retreat\, please complete a Scholarship Application form. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/bardos-online-course/ CATEGORIES:Featured Courses,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2024-PD-courses-Square-IG-Post.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221225T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221230T140000 DTSTAMP:20251208T065919Z CREATED:20210123T200545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251208T065919Z UID:9426-1671984000-1672408800@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Nine Vajrayana Empowerments DESCRIPTION:Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online or In-Person | March 21-23\, 2025 \n \n \n \n “Astrology allows us to identify our unique challenges and strengths as individuals in order to more fully embody and live our spiritual awakening. “Dharma empowers us to transcend our challenges\, leverage our strengths and reduce the suffering within ourselves and those around us.” -Catherine Pawasarat Sensei \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we want breakthroughs. We want liberation\, freedom\, and the ability to manifest our most profound vision for this lifetime. And ironically\, the only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and to break away from our timeworn\, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline\, which builds the supporting structures for breakthrough. Astrologically\, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei\, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation\, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we can lean on the idealized notion of being a “free spirit.” This aspiration can lead to chafing around boundaries and authority\, two of the hallmarks of Saturn. It’s easy to project these qualities onto someone or something else\, as our disowned shadow. Integrating these qualities in ourselves is key to true spiritual growth. Drawing on AstroDharma as a resource can help us get there.  Historically\, Saturn was associated with the Grim Reaper or Father Time\, and it’s still known as the Lord of Karma. Wherever we have Saturn in our natal astrological chart\, we are likely to experience restrictions or obstacles. Integrating our Saturn involves learning to dismantle these constraints\, and upcycling the resources thereby acquired as foundations upon which to build the rest of our lives. In this way\, we begin to participate in the conscious shaping of our karma. The planet Saturn is the doorway to working consciously with more transpersonal and universal energies. After all\, it is the gatekeeper from the personal inner planets to the transpersonal or generational outer planets. In AstroDharma\, the outer planets—Uranus\, Neptune\, and Pluto—offer the transformative energy we need for breakthroughs\, through their mighty forces of revolution\, dissolution\, and destruction\, respectively. Accessing and working consciously with these powerful energies requires discipline and self-mastery: in other words\, integration (vs. projection) of Saturn. An untrained\, undisciplined warrior cannot navigate these stormy forces of change. Instead\, karmic tempests repeatedly knock us sideways. Saturn’s authority and responsibility are the keys to breaking through the locks of our conditioned karma to our greater potential—and rising to the challenge of our total transformation. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  This course for you if:You’d like to study an astrological Dharmic framework for spiritual understanding with a wisdom teacher in the Namgyal lineage.You’d like to explore where you fall subject to projections—those aspects of yourself which have been forced into the unconscious\, thus cast onto others—and learn to own them as a more integrated human being.You’d like to transform challenges in your life by leveraging unseen strengths and talents.You’d like greater clues into the particular shapings of gestating in your mother’s womb\, and how your womb experience is impacting your life.You’d like insights into how you can best connect with awakening states of unity.You want to understand the patterns of others\, as well as your own\, to be a more skilled and compassionate being in the world. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In other words\, we must integrate Saturn to become what we truly want to be.In AstroDharma\, we refer to our North Node as our “Dharma\,” our Dharmic path. Learning to manifest our North Node is the most challenging path we can undertake because it involves swimming upstream against the heavy current of our South Node’s familiar and habitual Karma. However\, we cannot work with our North Node\, our true potential\, unless we work with Saturn. Mastery requires incredible discipline. An Olympic figure skater lands that quadruple axle on the ice because they’ve invested thousands of training hours towards achieving this potential.  Over the course\, we will show you how to examine your natal chart\, and look at participants’ charts together\, focusing on Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the associated 10th house. We also encourage you to bring burning questions arising from your life—particularly related to challenges around blocks and authority themes—so we can study how they show up in your chart astrolodharmically. Think about specific questions which will be of particular benefit to you\, and which will help you towards being of benefit to others. For those attending in person\, Catherine Sensei will lead us in somatic AstroDharma mandalas to embody our Saturn together. These mandalas can be a compelling\, visceral experience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "I greatly appreciate the depth of knowledge and level of expertise that is shared by Sensei. Her teachings are always well prepared and transformative in my spiritual growth." \n Michele C.Astrologer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What You’ll Learn: A review of AstroDharma and how it is unique.How to examine and map your own astrological natal chart’s placements\, particularly Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the related 10th house.What happens with Saturn\, Capricorn\, and the 10th house? Why are they considered difficult? How can we access their potential wisdom and mastery?Tools for recognizing and working with reality as it is\, mapping karma and potential. How to work with obstacles\, authority\, and discipline\, toward the growth of your greater potential.About AstroDharma“AstroDharma” is what Catherine Pawasarat Sensei calls her unique synthesis of Buddhist teachings on spiritual awakening (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology\, based on the teachings of Carl Jung. These two powerful tools help us better understand ourselves and the patterns we manifest in our lives. The more we know about ourselves\, the more choices we have. Then\, we can make better choices so that we may lead healthier\, better-integrated lives. Furthermore\, we can also more deeply understand the patterns of those around us\, and support the potential in others\, which is key to Buddhist practitioners’ bodhisattva vow. Saturn relates to what we’d like to manifest in the world\, the areas of life we’d like to master and teach to others. It’s a rare and significant achievement to integrate both external authority and our inner tyrant into self-discipline and skilled judgment. Working with our Saturn\, over time and with conscious effort\, we gradually learn to take responsibility for shaping our own karma. This is easier said than done. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teacher - Catherine Sensei \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catherine Pawasarat Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher\, attendant\, consort\, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts. Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationThis weekend retreat will be led by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei at Clear Sky Meditation Center in Eastern BC. This course is offered online or in-person. Schedule / Class Times: For onsite retreatants\, please arrive in good time for orientation at 5 pm Mountain Time on the Friday. The first class will be at 7 pm Mountain Time. The retreat will formally end at 3 pm Mountain Time on the Sunday. Classes will be 60-90 mins in duration\, with classes in the morning and evening and possibly the afternoon each day (Mountain Time) – the exact schedule to be confirmed. Please ensure you are available for the whole weekend to focus on the course material and attend classes live. Online participants are expected to attend classes live.  We will arrange class times to be comfortable for most time zones. However we understand that some class times might occur after midnight in some regions\, if this is the case for you\, please let us know when you register.  Then we can provide a recording so you can catch up on that particular class. What Does the Course Cost?In-Person Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher plus 2) accomodation and meal costs for your stay Clear Sky Meditation Centre. Online Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher  2) online administration fee of $170 CAD. Keen practitioner pricing: 5% savings on program fees available until February 14\, 2025. Important: The last day to register is one week prior to the retreat start date. Please register early. Questions?If you have questions about the retreat\, please contact the Clear Sky Retreat Manager at 250-429-3929  (phone) or at bookings@clearskycenter.org (email). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Clear Sky \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Located in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature.  Founded by Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. In adherence with our quadruple bottom line\, we source our food as local and organic as possible. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Locally-grown organic food \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supportive meditation guidance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stunning bedroom views \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonus Gift for Course ParticipantsOnline AstroDharma Course INCLUDEDCatherine Sensei also offers an online Intro to AstroDharma course which you will be able to access at the end of this course. This will help you continue your studies. Access to the self-study course is available upon request for participants who complete the retreat. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "This retreat centre is the REAL THING. It's a modern monastery with people grounded in the present and practicing old and new methods of living in a spiritual community. This group walks the talk. I have made the trek from Ontario all the way to this remote corner of BC every year for the last 16 years to study with these teachers\, interact with these fellow seekers\, and bask in the beauty of this gorgeous property." \n Linda H. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FAQs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Dana\n \n\n You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. The dharma has been built on generosity. No-one is excluded for lack of funds but it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able Typically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course.  As we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure.  Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us.  Conversely\, if you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. Learn more about the practice of dāna here. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Admin Fee\n \n\n In a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. We’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. The admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, it can be surprising the costs of setting up a good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online. The admin fee changes based on date of registration. *We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. — Below are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: high speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)online class systems (Zoom)registration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)communication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)online storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)quality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.online calendar booking system to allow students to book interviewswebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.We welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daily Schedule \n \n\n Specific times may change – this is a rough guide (MST) \n6:30 – 7:30 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:15 AM: Breakfast: Prepare\, eat\, clean up8:15 – 8:45 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice9:00 – 10:00 AM: Class with Teachers10:00 – 10:30 AM: Walk10:30 – 11:30 AM: Group Practice led by Sangha11:30 – 12:30 PM: Personal Practice12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch: Prepare\, eat\, clean up1:30 – 3:00 PM: Personal Practice3:00 – 4:00 PM: Group Practice led by Sangha4:00 – 5:30 PM: Personal Practice5:30 – 7:00 PM: Dinner: prepare\, eat\, clean up7:00 – 7:30 PM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:30 PM: Group Practice and Q & A with Teachers8:30 – Beyond: Personal Practice & bed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Food\, Weather\, Accommodation and How to Get Here\n \n\n Click here for details on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PSYCHEDELICS/MICRODOSING\n \n\n We recognize and respect plant medicine as an important part of some people’s spiritual paths.  Please note\, the meditation practice on this retreat is very powerful. Consuming mind-altering substances will detract from your experience and could cause negative side-effects.  We ask that you refrain from microdosing or consuming mind-altering substances during this retreat and in the days immediately following it.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION\n \n\n We aim to make our retreats as accessible as possible.  As a centre run entirely by Karma Yoga (selfless service)\, retreat fees only cover food\, accommodation and the equipment required to offer them online. We do not have paid staff.  The teachings themselves are offered on the basis of Dāna (pay-from-the-heart).  For some\, this is still a barrier of entry. If you are seeking financial assistance to attend a retreat\, please complete a Scholarship Application form. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/nine-vajrayana-empowerments/ CATEGORIES:Group Retreats,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Nine-Vajrayana-Empowerments-Retreat.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221216 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221226 DTSTAMP:20251209T103258Z CREATED:20220514T160601Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251209T103258Z UID:16287-1671148800-1672012799@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:16 Buddha Body Practice (In-Person Meditation Retreat) DESCRIPTION:Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online or In-Person | March 21-23\, 2025 \n \n \n \n “Astrology allows us to identify our unique challenges and strengths as individuals in order to more fully embody and live our spiritual awakening. “Dharma empowers us to transcend our challenges\, leverage our strengths and reduce the suffering within ourselves and those around us.” -Catherine Pawasarat Sensei \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we want breakthroughs. We want liberation\, freedom\, and the ability to manifest our most profound vision for this lifetime. And ironically\, the only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and to break away from our timeworn\, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline\, which builds the supporting structures for breakthrough. Astrologically\, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei\, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation\, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we can lean on the idealized notion of being a “free spirit.” This aspiration can lead to chafing around boundaries and authority\, two of the hallmarks of Saturn. It’s easy to project these qualities onto someone or something else\, as our disowned shadow. Integrating these qualities in ourselves is key to true spiritual growth. Drawing on AstroDharma as a resource can help us get there.  Historically\, Saturn was associated with the Grim Reaper or Father Time\, and it’s still known as the Lord of Karma. Wherever we have Saturn in our natal astrological chart\, we are likely to experience restrictions or obstacles. Integrating our Saturn involves learning to dismantle these constraints\, and upcycling the resources thereby acquired as foundations upon which to build the rest of our lives. In this way\, we begin to participate in the conscious shaping of our karma. The planet Saturn is the doorway to working consciously with more transpersonal and universal energies. After all\, it is the gatekeeper from the personal inner planets to the transpersonal or generational outer planets. In AstroDharma\, the outer planets—Uranus\, Neptune\, and Pluto—offer the transformative energy we need for breakthroughs\, through their mighty forces of revolution\, dissolution\, and destruction\, respectively. Accessing and working consciously with these powerful energies requires discipline and self-mastery: in other words\, integration (vs. projection) of Saturn. An untrained\, undisciplined warrior cannot navigate these stormy forces of change. Instead\, karmic tempests repeatedly knock us sideways. Saturn’s authority and responsibility are the keys to breaking through the locks of our conditioned karma to our greater potential—and rising to the challenge of our total transformation. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  This course for you if:You’d like to study an astrological Dharmic framework for spiritual understanding with a wisdom teacher in the Namgyal lineage.You’d like to explore where you fall subject to projections—those aspects of yourself which have been forced into the unconscious\, thus cast onto others—and learn to own them as a more integrated human being.You’d like to transform challenges in your life by leveraging unseen strengths and talents.You’d like greater clues into the particular shapings of gestating in your mother’s womb\, and how your womb experience is impacting your life.You’d like insights into how you can best connect with awakening states of unity.You want to understand the patterns of others\, as well as your own\, to be a more skilled and compassionate being in the world. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In other words\, we must integrate Saturn to become what we truly want to be.In AstroDharma\, we refer to our North Node as our “Dharma\,” our Dharmic path. Learning to manifest our North Node is the most challenging path we can undertake because it involves swimming upstream against the heavy current of our South Node’s familiar and habitual Karma. However\, we cannot work with our North Node\, our true potential\, unless we work with Saturn. Mastery requires incredible discipline. An Olympic figure skater lands that quadruple axle on the ice because they’ve invested thousands of training hours towards achieving this potential.  Over the course\, we will show you how to examine your natal chart\, and look at participants’ charts together\, focusing on Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the associated 10th house. We also encourage you to bring burning questions arising from your life—particularly related to challenges around blocks and authority themes—so we can study how they show up in your chart astrolodharmically. Think about specific questions which will be of particular benefit to you\, and which will help you towards being of benefit to others. For those attending in person\, Catherine Sensei will lead us in somatic AstroDharma mandalas to embody our Saturn together. These mandalas can be a compelling\, visceral experience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "I greatly appreciate the depth of knowledge and level of expertise that is shared by Sensei. Her teachings are always well prepared and transformative in my spiritual growth." \n Michele C.Astrologer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What You’ll Learn: A review of AstroDharma and how it is unique.How to examine and map your own astrological natal chart’s placements\, particularly Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the related 10th house.What happens with Saturn\, Capricorn\, and the 10th house? Why are they considered difficult? How can we access their potential wisdom and mastery?Tools for recognizing and working with reality as it is\, mapping karma and potential. How to work with obstacles\, authority\, and discipline\, toward the growth of your greater potential.About AstroDharma“AstroDharma” is what Catherine Pawasarat Sensei calls her unique synthesis of Buddhist teachings on spiritual awakening (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology\, based on the teachings of Carl Jung. These two powerful tools help us better understand ourselves and the patterns we manifest in our lives. The more we know about ourselves\, the more choices we have. Then\, we can make better choices so that we may lead healthier\, better-integrated lives. Furthermore\, we can also more deeply understand the patterns of those around us\, and support the potential in others\, which is key to Buddhist practitioners’ bodhisattva vow. Saturn relates to what we’d like to manifest in the world\, the areas of life we’d like to master and teach to others. It’s a rare and significant achievement to integrate both external authority and our inner tyrant into self-discipline and skilled judgment. Working with our Saturn\, over time and with conscious effort\, we gradually learn to take responsibility for shaping our own karma. This is easier said than done. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teacher - Catherine Sensei \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catherine Pawasarat Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher\, attendant\, consort\, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts. Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationThis weekend retreat will be led by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei at Clear Sky Meditation Center in Eastern BC. This course is offered online or in-person. Schedule / Class Times: For onsite retreatants\, please arrive in good time for orientation at 5 pm Mountain Time on the Friday. The first class will be at 7 pm Mountain Time. The retreat will formally end at 3 pm Mountain Time on the Sunday. Classes will be 60-90 mins in duration\, with classes in the morning and evening and possibly the afternoon each day (Mountain Time) – the exact schedule to be confirmed. Please ensure you are available for the whole weekend to focus on the course material and attend classes live. Online participants are expected to attend classes live.  We will arrange class times to be comfortable for most time zones. However we understand that some class times might occur after midnight in some regions\, if this is the case for you\, please let us know when you register.  Then we can provide a recording so you can catch up on that particular class. What Does the Course Cost?In-Person Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher plus 2) accomodation and meal costs for your stay Clear Sky Meditation Centre. Online Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher  2) online administration fee of $170 CAD. Keen practitioner pricing: 5% savings on program fees available until February 14\, 2025. Important: The last day to register is one week prior to the retreat start date. Please register early. Questions?If you have questions about the retreat\, please contact the Clear Sky Retreat Manager at 250-429-3929  (phone) or at bookings@clearskycenter.org (email). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Clear Sky \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Located in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature.  Founded by Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. In adherence with our quadruple bottom line\, we source our food as local and organic as possible. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Locally-grown organic food \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supportive meditation guidance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stunning bedroom views \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonus Gift for Course ParticipantsOnline AstroDharma Course INCLUDEDCatherine Sensei also offers an online Intro to AstroDharma course which you will be able to access at the end of this course. This will help you continue your studies. Access to the self-study course is available upon request for participants who complete the retreat. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "This retreat centre is the REAL THING. It's a modern monastery with people grounded in the present and practicing old and new methods of living in a spiritual community. This group walks the talk. I have made the trek from Ontario all the way to this remote corner of BC every year for the last 16 years to study with these teachers\, interact with these fellow seekers\, and bask in the beauty of this gorgeous property." \n Linda H. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FAQs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Dana\n \n\n You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. The dharma has been built on generosity. No-one is excluded for lack of funds but it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able Typically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course.  As we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure.  Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us.  Conversely\, if you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. Learn more about the practice of dāna here. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Admin Fee\n \n\n In a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. We’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. The admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, it can be surprising the costs of setting up a good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online. The admin fee changes based on date of registration. *We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. — Below are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: high speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)online class systems (Zoom)registration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)communication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)online storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)quality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.online calendar booking system to allow students to book interviewswebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.We welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daily Schedule \n \n\n Specific times may change – this is a rough guide (MST) \n6:30 – 7:30 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:15 AM: Breakfast: Prepare\, eat\, clean up8:15 – 8:45 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice9:00 – 10:00 AM: Class with Teachers10:00 – 10:30 AM: Walk10:30 – 11:30 AM: Group Practice led by Sangha11:30 – 12:30 PM: Personal Practice12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch: Prepare\, eat\, clean up1:30 – 3:00 PM: Personal Practice3:00 – 4:00 PM: Group Practice led by Sangha4:00 – 5:30 PM: Personal Practice5:30 – 7:00 PM: Dinner: prepare\, eat\, clean up7:00 – 7:30 PM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:30 PM: Group Practice and Q & A with Teachers8:30 – Beyond: Personal Practice & bed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Food\, Weather\, Accommodation and How to Get Here\n \n\n Click here for details on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PSYCHEDELICS/MICRODOSING\n \n\n We recognize and respect plant medicine as an important part of some people’s spiritual paths.  Please note\, the meditation practice on this retreat is very powerful. Consuming mind-altering substances will detract from your experience and could cause negative side-effects.  We ask that you refrain from microdosing or consuming mind-altering substances during this retreat and in the days immediately following it.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION\n \n\n We aim to make our retreats as accessible as possible.  As a centre run entirely by Karma Yoga (selfless service)\, retreat fees only cover food\, accommodation and the equipment required to offer them online. We do not have paid staff.  The teachings themselves are offered on the basis of Dāna (pay-from-the-heart).  For some\, this is still a barrier of entry. If you are seeking financial assistance to attend a retreat\, please complete a Scholarship Application form. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/16-buddha-body-retreat/ CATEGORIES:Group Retreats,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/16-buddha-body-retreat.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221017T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221113T210000 DTSTAMP:20251205T092438Z CREATED:20220901T173204Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251205T092438Z UID:17274-1666035000-1668373200@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Integral Spirituality: New Dimensions of Awakening (Online) DESCRIPTION:Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online or In-Person | March 21-23\, 2025 \n \n \n \n “Astrology allows us to identify our unique challenges and strengths as individuals in order to more fully embody and live our spiritual awakening. “Dharma empowers us to transcend our challenges\, leverage our strengths and reduce the suffering within ourselves and those around us.” -Catherine Pawasarat Sensei \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we want breakthroughs. We want liberation\, freedom\, and the ability to manifest our most profound vision for this lifetime. And ironically\, the only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and to break away from our timeworn\, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline\, which builds the supporting structures for breakthrough. Astrologically\, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei\, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation\, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we can lean on the idealized notion of being a “free spirit.” This aspiration can lead to chafing around boundaries and authority\, two of the hallmarks of Saturn. It’s easy to project these qualities onto someone or something else\, as our disowned shadow. Integrating these qualities in ourselves is key to true spiritual growth. Drawing on AstroDharma as a resource can help us get there.  Historically\, Saturn was associated with the Grim Reaper or Father Time\, and it’s still known as the Lord of Karma. Wherever we have Saturn in our natal astrological chart\, we are likely to experience restrictions or obstacles. Integrating our Saturn involves learning to dismantle these constraints\, and upcycling the resources thereby acquired as foundations upon which to build the rest of our lives. In this way\, we begin to participate in the conscious shaping of our karma. The planet Saturn is the doorway to working consciously with more transpersonal and universal energies. After all\, it is the gatekeeper from the personal inner planets to the transpersonal or generational outer planets. In AstroDharma\, the outer planets—Uranus\, Neptune\, and Pluto—offer the transformative energy we need for breakthroughs\, through their mighty forces of revolution\, dissolution\, and destruction\, respectively. Accessing and working consciously with these powerful energies requires discipline and self-mastery: in other words\, integration (vs. projection) of Saturn. An untrained\, undisciplined warrior cannot navigate these stormy forces of change. Instead\, karmic tempests repeatedly knock us sideways. Saturn’s authority and responsibility are the keys to breaking through the locks of our conditioned karma to our greater potential—and rising to the challenge of our total transformation. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  This course for you if:You’d like to study an astrological Dharmic framework for spiritual understanding with a wisdom teacher in the Namgyal lineage.You’d like to explore where you fall subject to projections—those aspects of yourself which have been forced into the unconscious\, thus cast onto others—and learn to own them as a more integrated human being.You’d like to transform challenges in your life by leveraging unseen strengths and talents.You’d like greater clues into the particular shapings of gestating in your mother’s womb\, and how your womb experience is impacting your life.You’d like insights into how you can best connect with awakening states of unity.You want to understand the patterns of others\, as well as your own\, to be a more skilled and compassionate being in the world. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In other words\, we must integrate Saturn to become what we truly want to be.In AstroDharma\, we refer to our North Node as our “Dharma\,” our Dharmic path. Learning to manifest our North Node is the most challenging path we can undertake because it involves swimming upstream against the heavy current of our South Node’s familiar and habitual Karma. However\, we cannot work with our North Node\, our true potential\, unless we work with Saturn. Mastery requires incredible discipline. An Olympic figure skater lands that quadruple axle on the ice because they’ve invested thousands of training hours towards achieving this potential.  Over the course\, we will show you how to examine your natal chart\, and look at participants’ charts together\, focusing on Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the associated 10th house. We also encourage you to bring burning questions arising from your life—particularly related to challenges around blocks and authority themes—so we can study how they show up in your chart astrolodharmically. Think about specific questions which will be of particular benefit to you\, and which will help you towards being of benefit to others. For those attending in person\, Catherine Sensei will lead us in somatic AstroDharma mandalas to embody our Saturn together. These mandalas can be a compelling\, visceral experience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "I greatly appreciate the depth of knowledge and level of expertise that is shared by Sensei. Her teachings are always well prepared and transformative in my spiritual growth." \n Michele C.Astrologer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What You’ll Learn: A review of AstroDharma and how it is unique.How to examine and map your own astrological natal chart’s placements\, particularly Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the related 10th house.What happens with Saturn\, Capricorn\, and the 10th house? Why are they considered difficult? How can we access their potential wisdom and mastery?Tools for recognizing and working with reality as it is\, mapping karma and potential. How to work with obstacles\, authority\, and discipline\, toward the growth of your greater potential.About AstroDharma“AstroDharma” is what Catherine Pawasarat Sensei calls her unique synthesis of Buddhist teachings on spiritual awakening (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology\, based on the teachings of Carl Jung. These two powerful tools help us better understand ourselves and the patterns we manifest in our lives. The more we know about ourselves\, the more choices we have. Then\, we can make better choices so that we may lead healthier\, better-integrated lives. Furthermore\, we can also more deeply understand the patterns of those around us\, and support the potential in others\, which is key to Buddhist practitioners’ bodhisattva vow. Saturn relates to what we’d like to manifest in the world\, the areas of life we’d like to master and teach to others. It’s a rare and significant achievement to integrate both external authority and our inner tyrant into self-discipline and skilled judgment. Working with our Saturn\, over time and with conscious effort\, we gradually learn to take responsibility for shaping our own karma. This is easier said than done. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teacher - Catherine Sensei \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catherine Pawasarat Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher\, attendant\, consort\, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts. Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationThis weekend retreat will be led by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei at Clear Sky Meditation Center in Eastern BC. This course is offered online or in-person. Schedule / Class Times: For onsite retreatants\, please arrive in good time for orientation at 5 pm Mountain Time on the Friday. The first class will be at 7 pm Mountain Time. The retreat will formally end at 3 pm Mountain Time on the Sunday. Classes will be 60-90 mins in duration\, with classes in the morning and evening and possibly the afternoon each day (Mountain Time) – the exact schedule to be confirmed. Please ensure you are available for the whole weekend to focus on the course material and attend classes live. Online participants are expected to attend classes live.  We will arrange class times to be comfortable for most time zones. However we understand that some class times might occur after midnight in some regions\, if this is the case for you\, please let us know when you register.  Then we can provide a recording so you can catch up on that particular class. What Does the Course Cost?In-Person Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher plus 2) accomodation and meal costs for your stay Clear Sky Meditation Centre. Online Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher  2) online administration fee of $170 CAD. Keen practitioner pricing: 5% savings on program fees available until February 14\, 2025. Important: The last day to register is one week prior to the retreat start date. Please register early. Questions?If you have questions about the retreat\, please contact the Clear Sky Retreat Manager at 250-429-3929  (phone) or at bookings@clearskycenter.org (email). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Clear Sky \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Located in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature.  Founded by Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. In adherence with our quadruple bottom line\, we source our food as local and organic as possible. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Locally-grown organic food \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supportive meditation guidance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stunning bedroom views \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonus Gift for Course ParticipantsOnline AstroDharma Course INCLUDEDCatherine Sensei also offers an online Intro to AstroDharma course which you will be able to access at the end of this course. This will help you continue your studies. Access to the self-study course is available upon request for participants who complete the retreat. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "This retreat centre is the REAL THING. It's a modern monastery with people grounded in the present and practicing old and new methods of living in a spiritual community. This group walks the talk. I have made the trek from Ontario all the way to this remote corner of BC every year for the last 16 years to study with these teachers\, interact with these fellow seekers\, and bask in the beauty of this gorgeous property." \n Linda H. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FAQs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Dana\n \n\n You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. The dharma has been built on generosity. No-one is excluded for lack of funds but it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able Typically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course.  As we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure.  Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us.  Conversely\, if you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. Learn more about the practice of dāna here. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Admin Fee\n \n\n In a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. We’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. The admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, it can be surprising the costs of setting up a good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online. The admin fee changes based on date of registration. *We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. — Below are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: high speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)online class systems (Zoom)registration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)communication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)online storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)quality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.online calendar booking system to allow students to book interviewswebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.We welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daily Schedule \n \n\n Specific times may change – this is a rough guide (MST) \n6:30 – 7:30 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:15 AM: Breakfast: Prepare\, eat\, clean up8:15 – 8:45 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice9:00 – 10:00 AM: Class with Teachers10:00 – 10:30 AM: Walk10:30 – 11:30 AM: Group Practice led by Sangha11:30 – 12:30 PM: Personal Practice12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch: Prepare\, eat\, clean up1:30 – 3:00 PM: Personal Practice3:00 – 4:00 PM: Group Practice led by Sangha4:00 – 5:30 PM: Personal Practice5:30 – 7:00 PM: Dinner: prepare\, eat\, clean up7:00 – 7:30 PM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:30 PM: Group Practice and Q & A with Teachers8:30 – Beyond: Personal Practice & bed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Food\, Weather\, Accommodation and How to Get Here\n \n\n Click here for details on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PSYCHEDELICS/MICRODOSING\n \n\n We recognize and respect plant medicine as an important part of some people’s spiritual paths.  Please note\, the meditation practice on this retreat is very powerful. Consuming mind-altering substances will detract from your experience and could cause negative side-effects.  We ask that you refrain from microdosing or consuming mind-altering substances during this retreat and in the days immediately following it.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION\n \n\n We aim to make our retreats as accessible as possible.  As a centre run entirely by Karma Yoga (selfless service)\, retreat fees only cover food\, accommodation and the equipment required to offer them online. We do not have paid staff.  The teachings themselves are offered on the basis of Dāna (pay-from-the-heart).  For some\, this is still a barrier of entry. If you are seeking financial assistance to attend a retreat\, please complete a Scholarship Application form. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/integral-spirituality/ CATEGORIES:Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Integral-Spirituality-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221004T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221025T203000 DTSTAMP:20251212T072009Z CREATED:20220509T143617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251212T072009Z UID:16039-1664910000-1666729800@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Beyond Coping (Online and In-Person) DESCRIPTION:Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online or In-Person | March 21-23\, 2025 \n \n \n \n “Astrology allows us to identify our unique challenges and strengths as individuals in order to more fully embody and live our spiritual awakening. “Dharma empowers us to transcend our challenges\, leverage our strengths and reduce the suffering within ourselves and those around us.” -Catherine Pawasarat Sensei \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we want breakthroughs. We want liberation\, freedom\, and the ability to manifest our most profound vision for this lifetime. And ironically\, the only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and to break away from our timeworn\, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline\, which builds the supporting structures for breakthrough. Astrologically\, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei\, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation\, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we can lean on the idealized notion of being a “free spirit.” This aspiration can lead to chafing around boundaries and authority\, two of the hallmarks of Saturn. It’s easy to project these qualities onto someone or something else\, as our disowned shadow. Integrating these qualities in ourselves is key to true spiritual growth. Drawing on AstroDharma as a resource can help us get there.  Historically\, Saturn was associated with the Grim Reaper or Father Time\, and it’s still known as the Lord of Karma. Wherever we have Saturn in our natal astrological chart\, we are likely to experience restrictions or obstacles. Integrating our Saturn involves learning to dismantle these constraints\, and upcycling the resources thereby acquired as foundations upon which to build the rest of our lives. In this way\, we begin to participate in the conscious shaping of our karma. The planet Saturn is the doorway to working consciously with more transpersonal and universal energies. After all\, it is the gatekeeper from the personal inner planets to the transpersonal or generational outer planets. In AstroDharma\, the outer planets—Uranus\, Neptune\, and Pluto—offer the transformative energy we need for breakthroughs\, through their mighty forces of revolution\, dissolution\, and destruction\, respectively. Accessing and working consciously with these powerful energies requires discipline and self-mastery: in other words\, integration (vs. projection) of Saturn. An untrained\, undisciplined warrior cannot navigate these stormy forces of change. Instead\, karmic tempests repeatedly knock us sideways. Saturn’s authority and responsibility are the keys to breaking through the locks of our conditioned karma to our greater potential—and rising to the challenge of our total transformation. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  This course for you if:You’d like to study an astrological Dharmic framework for spiritual understanding with a wisdom teacher in the Namgyal lineage.You’d like to explore where you fall subject to projections—those aspects of yourself which have been forced into the unconscious\, thus cast onto others—and learn to own them as a more integrated human being.You’d like to transform challenges in your life by leveraging unseen strengths and talents.You’d like greater clues into the particular shapings of gestating in your mother’s womb\, and how your womb experience is impacting your life.You’d like insights into how you can best connect with awakening states of unity.You want to understand the patterns of others\, as well as your own\, to be a more skilled and compassionate being in the world. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In other words\, we must integrate Saturn to become what we truly want to be.In AstroDharma\, we refer to our North Node as our “Dharma\,” our Dharmic path. Learning to manifest our North Node is the most challenging path we can undertake because it involves swimming upstream against the heavy current of our South Node’s familiar and habitual Karma. However\, we cannot work with our North Node\, our true potential\, unless we work with Saturn. Mastery requires incredible discipline. An Olympic figure skater lands that quadruple axle on the ice because they’ve invested thousands of training hours towards achieving this potential.  Over the course\, we will show you how to examine your natal chart\, and look at participants’ charts together\, focusing on Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the associated 10th house. We also encourage you to bring burning questions arising from your life—particularly related to challenges around blocks and authority themes—so we can study how they show up in your chart astrolodharmically. Think about specific questions which will be of particular benefit to you\, and which will help you towards being of benefit to others. For those attending in person\, Catherine Sensei will lead us in somatic AstroDharma mandalas to embody our Saturn together. These mandalas can be a compelling\, visceral experience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "I greatly appreciate the depth of knowledge and level of expertise that is shared by Sensei. Her teachings are always well prepared and transformative in my spiritual growth." \n Michele C.Astrologer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What You’ll Learn: A review of AstroDharma and how it is unique.How to examine and map your own astrological natal chart’s placements\, particularly Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the related 10th house.What happens with Saturn\, Capricorn\, and the 10th house? Why are they considered difficult? How can we access their potential wisdom and mastery?Tools for recognizing and working with reality as it is\, mapping karma and potential. How to work with obstacles\, authority\, and discipline\, toward the growth of your greater potential.About AstroDharma“AstroDharma” is what Catherine Pawasarat Sensei calls her unique synthesis of Buddhist teachings on spiritual awakening (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology\, based on the teachings of Carl Jung. These two powerful tools help us better understand ourselves and the patterns we manifest in our lives. The more we know about ourselves\, the more choices we have. Then\, we can make better choices so that we may lead healthier\, better-integrated lives. Furthermore\, we can also more deeply understand the patterns of those around us\, and support the potential in others\, which is key to Buddhist practitioners’ bodhisattva vow. Saturn relates to what we’d like to manifest in the world\, the areas of life we’d like to master and teach to others. It’s a rare and significant achievement to integrate both external authority and our inner tyrant into self-discipline and skilled judgment. Working with our Saturn\, over time and with conscious effort\, we gradually learn to take responsibility for shaping our own karma. This is easier said than done. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teacher - Catherine Sensei \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catherine Pawasarat Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher\, attendant\, consort\, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts. Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationThis weekend retreat will be led by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei at Clear Sky Meditation Center in Eastern BC. This course is offered online or in-person. Schedule / Class Times: For onsite retreatants\, please arrive in good time for orientation at 5 pm Mountain Time on the Friday. The first class will be at 7 pm Mountain Time. The retreat will formally end at 3 pm Mountain Time on the Sunday. Classes will be 60-90 mins in duration\, with classes in the morning and evening and possibly the afternoon each day (Mountain Time) – the exact schedule to be confirmed. Please ensure you are available for the whole weekend to focus on the course material and attend classes live. Online participants are expected to attend classes live.  We will arrange class times to be comfortable for most time zones. However we understand that some class times might occur after midnight in some regions\, if this is the case for you\, please let us know when you register.  Then we can provide a recording so you can catch up on that particular class. What Does the Course Cost?In-Person Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher plus 2) accomodation and meal costs for your stay Clear Sky Meditation Centre. Online Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher  2) online administration fee of $170 CAD. Keen practitioner pricing: 5% savings on program fees available until February 14\, 2025. Important: The last day to register is one week prior to the retreat start date. Please register early. Questions?If you have questions about the retreat\, please contact the Clear Sky Retreat Manager at 250-429-3929  (phone) or at bookings@clearskycenter.org (email). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Clear Sky \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Located in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature.  Founded by Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. In adherence with our quadruple bottom line\, we source our food as local and organic as possible. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Locally-grown organic food \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supportive meditation guidance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stunning bedroom views \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonus Gift for Course ParticipantsOnline AstroDharma Course INCLUDEDCatherine Sensei also offers an online Intro to AstroDharma course which you will be able to access at the end of this course. This will help you continue your studies. Access to the self-study course is available upon request for participants who complete the retreat. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "This retreat centre is the REAL THING. It's a modern monastery with people grounded in the present and practicing old and new methods of living in a spiritual community. This group walks the talk. I have made the trek from Ontario all the way to this remote corner of BC every year for the last 16 years to study with these teachers\, interact with these fellow seekers\, and bask in the beauty of this gorgeous property." \n Linda H. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FAQs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Dana\n \n\n You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. The dharma has been built on generosity. No-one is excluded for lack of funds but it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able Typically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course.  As we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure.  Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us.  Conversely\, if you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. Learn more about the practice of dāna here. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Admin Fee\n \n\n In a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. We’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. The admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, it can be surprising the costs of setting up a good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online. The admin fee changes based on date of registration. *We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. — Below are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: high speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)online class systems (Zoom)registration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)communication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)online storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)quality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.online calendar booking system to allow students to book interviewswebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.We welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daily Schedule \n \n\n Specific times may change – this is a rough guide (MST) \n6:30 – 7:30 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:15 AM: Breakfast: Prepare\, eat\, clean up8:15 – 8:45 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice9:00 – 10:00 AM: Class with Teachers10:00 – 10:30 AM: Walk10:30 – 11:30 AM: Group Practice led by Sangha11:30 – 12:30 PM: Personal Practice12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch: Prepare\, eat\, clean up1:30 – 3:00 PM: Personal Practice3:00 – 4:00 PM: Group Practice led by Sangha4:00 – 5:30 PM: Personal Practice5:30 – 7:00 PM: Dinner: prepare\, eat\, clean up7:00 – 7:30 PM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:30 PM: Group Practice and Q & A with Teachers8:30 – Beyond: Personal Practice & bed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Food\, Weather\, Accommodation and How to Get Here\n \n\n Click here for details on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PSYCHEDELICS/MICRODOSING\n \n\n We recognize and respect plant medicine as an important part of some people’s spiritual paths.  Please note\, the meditation practice on this retreat is very powerful. Consuming mind-altering substances will detract from your experience and could cause negative side-effects.  We ask that you refrain from microdosing or consuming mind-altering substances during this retreat and in the days immediately following it.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION\n \n\n We aim to make our retreats as accessible as possible.  As a centre run entirely by Karma Yoga (selfless service)\, retreat fees only cover food\, accommodation and the equipment required to offer them online. We do not have paid staff.  The teachings themselves are offered on the basis of Dāna (pay-from-the-heart).  For some\, this is still a barrier of entry. If you are seeking financial assistance to attend a retreat\, please complete a Scholarship Application form. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/beyond-coping-online-person/ CATEGORIES:Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Add-a-heading.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220929T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221013T203000 DTSTAMP:20251209T092545Z CREATED:20220901T175832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251209T092545Z UID:17296-1664479800-1665693000@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Meditation Circle: Community Classes for Inner Well-Being (Online or In-Person) DESCRIPTION:Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online or In-Person | March 21-23\, 2025 \n \n \n \n “Astrology allows us to identify our unique challenges and strengths as individuals in order to more fully embody and live our spiritual awakening. “Dharma empowers us to transcend our challenges\, leverage our strengths and reduce the suffering within ourselves and those around us.” -Catherine Pawasarat Sensei \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we want breakthroughs. We want liberation\, freedom\, and the ability to manifest our most profound vision for this lifetime. And ironically\, the only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and to break away from our timeworn\, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline\, which builds the supporting structures for breakthrough. Astrologically\, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei\, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation\, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we can lean on the idealized notion of being a “free spirit.” This aspiration can lead to chafing around boundaries and authority\, two of the hallmarks of Saturn. It’s easy to project these qualities onto someone or something else\, as our disowned shadow. Integrating these qualities in ourselves is key to true spiritual growth. Drawing on AstroDharma as a resource can help us get there.  Historically\, Saturn was associated with the Grim Reaper or Father Time\, and it’s still known as the Lord of Karma. Wherever we have Saturn in our natal astrological chart\, we are likely to experience restrictions or obstacles. Integrating our Saturn involves learning to dismantle these constraints\, and upcycling the resources thereby acquired as foundations upon which to build the rest of our lives. In this way\, we begin to participate in the conscious shaping of our karma. The planet Saturn is the doorway to working consciously with more transpersonal and universal energies. After all\, it is the gatekeeper from the personal inner planets to the transpersonal or generational outer planets. In AstroDharma\, the outer planets—Uranus\, Neptune\, and Pluto—offer the transformative energy we need for breakthroughs\, through their mighty forces of revolution\, dissolution\, and destruction\, respectively. Accessing and working consciously with these powerful energies requires discipline and self-mastery: in other words\, integration (vs. projection) of Saturn. An untrained\, undisciplined warrior cannot navigate these stormy forces of change. Instead\, karmic tempests repeatedly knock us sideways. Saturn’s authority and responsibility are the keys to breaking through the locks of our conditioned karma to our greater potential—and rising to the challenge of our total transformation. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  This course for you if:You’d like to study an astrological Dharmic framework for spiritual understanding with a wisdom teacher in the Namgyal lineage.You’d like to explore where you fall subject to projections—those aspects of yourself which have been forced into the unconscious\, thus cast onto others—and learn to own them as a more integrated human being.You’d like to transform challenges in your life by leveraging unseen strengths and talents.You’d like greater clues into the particular shapings of gestating in your mother’s womb\, and how your womb experience is impacting your life.You’d like insights into how you can best connect with awakening states of unity.You want to understand the patterns of others\, as well as your own\, to be a more skilled and compassionate being in the world. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In other words\, we must integrate Saturn to become what we truly want to be.In AstroDharma\, we refer to our North Node as our “Dharma\,” our Dharmic path. Learning to manifest our North Node is the most challenging path we can undertake because it involves swimming upstream against the heavy current of our South Node’s familiar and habitual Karma. However\, we cannot work with our North Node\, our true potential\, unless we work with Saturn. Mastery requires incredible discipline. An Olympic figure skater lands that quadruple axle on the ice because they’ve invested thousands of training hours towards achieving this potential.  Over the course\, we will show you how to examine your natal chart\, and look at participants’ charts together\, focusing on Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the associated 10th house. We also encourage you to bring burning questions arising from your life—particularly related to challenges around blocks and authority themes—so we can study how they show up in your chart astrolodharmically. Think about specific questions which will be of particular benefit to you\, and which will help you towards being of benefit to others. For those attending in person\, Catherine Sensei will lead us in somatic AstroDharma mandalas to embody our Saturn together. These mandalas can be a compelling\, visceral experience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "I greatly appreciate the depth of knowledge and level of expertise that is shared by Sensei. Her teachings are always well prepared and transformative in my spiritual growth." \n Michele C.Astrologer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What You’ll Learn: A review of AstroDharma and how it is unique.How to examine and map your own astrological natal chart’s placements\, particularly Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the related 10th house.What happens with Saturn\, Capricorn\, and the 10th house? Why are they considered difficult? How can we access their potential wisdom and mastery?Tools for recognizing and working with reality as it is\, mapping karma and potential. How to work with obstacles\, authority\, and discipline\, toward the growth of your greater potential.About AstroDharma“AstroDharma” is what Catherine Pawasarat Sensei calls her unique synthesis of Buddhist teachings on spiritual awakening (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology\, based on the teachings of Carl Jung. These two powerful tools help us better understand ourselves and the patterns we manifest in our lives. The more we know about ourselves\, the more choices we have. Then\, we can make better choices so that we may lead healthier\, better-integrated lives. Furthermore\, we can also more deeply understand the patterns of those around us\, and support the potential in others\, which is key to Buddhist practitioners’ bodhisattva vow. Saturn relates to what we’d like to manifest in the world\, the areas of life we’d like to master and teach to others. It’s a rare and significant achievement to integrate both external authority and our inner tyrant into self-discipline and skilled judgment. Working with our Saturn\, over time and with conscious effort\, we gradually learn to take responsibility for shaping our own karma. This is easier said than done. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teacher - Catherine Sensei \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catherine Pawasarat Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher\, attendant\, consort\, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts. Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationThis weekend retreat will be led by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei at Clear Sky Meditation Center in Eastern BC. This course is offered online or in-person. Schedule / Class Times: For onsite retreatants\, please arrive in good time for orientation at 5 pm Mountain Time on the Friday. The first class will be at 7 pm Mountain Time. The retreat will formally end at 3 pm Mountain Time on the Sunday. Classes will be 60-90 mins in duration\, with classes in the morning and evening and possibly the afternoon each day (Mountain Time) – the exact schedule to be confirmed. Please ensure you are available for the whole weekend to focus on the course material and attend classes live. Online participants are expected to attend classes live.  We will arrange class times to be comfortable for most time zones. However we understand that some class times might occur after midnight in some regions\, if this is the case for you\, please let us know when you register.  Then we can provide a recording so you can catch up on that particular class. What Does the Course Cost?In-Person Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher plus 2) accomodation and meal costs for your stay Clear Sky Meditation Centre. Online Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher  2) online administration fee of $170 CAD. Keen practitioner pricing: 5% savings on program fees available until February 14\, 2025. Important: The last day to register is one week prior to the retreat start date. Please register early. Questions?If you have questions about the retreat\, please contact the Clear Sky Retreat Manager at 250-429-3929  (phone) or at bookings@clearskycenter.org (email). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Clear Sky \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Located in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature.  Founded by Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. In adherence with our quadruple bottom line\, we source our food as local and organic as possible. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Locally-grown organic food \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supportive meditation guidance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stunning bedroom views \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonus Gift for Course ParticipantsOnline AstroDharma Course INCLUDEDCatherine Sensei also offers an online Intro to AstroDharma course which you will be able to access at the end of this course. This will help you continue your studies. Access to the self-study course is available upon request for participants who complete the retreat. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "This retreat centre is the REAL THING. It's a modern monastery with people grounded in the present and practicing old and new methods of living in a spiritual community. This group walks the talk. I have made the trek from Ontario all the way to this remote corner of BC every year for the last 16 years to study with these teachers\, interact with these fellow seekers\, and bask in the beauty of this gorgeous property." \n Linda H. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FAQs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Dana\n \n\n You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. The dharma has been built on generosity. No-one is excluded for lack of funds but it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able Typically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course.  As we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure.  Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us.  Conversely\, if you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. Learn more about the practice of dāna here. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Admin Fee\n \n\n In a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. We’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. The admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, it can be surprising the costs of setting up a good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online. The admin fee changes based on date of registration. *We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. — Below are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: high speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)online class systems (Zoom)registration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)communication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)online storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)quality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.online calendar booking system to allow students to book interviewswebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.We welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daily Schedule \n \n\n Specific times may change – this is a rough guide (MST) \n6:30 – 7:30 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:15 AM: Breakfast: Prepare\, eat\, clean up8:15 – 8:45 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice9:00 – 10:00 AM: Class with Teachers10:00 – 10:30 AM: Walk10:30 – 11:30 AM: Group Practice led by Sangha11:30 – 12:30 PM: Personal Practice12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch: Prepare\, eat\, clean up1:30 – 3:00 PM: Personal Practice3:00 – 4:00 PM: Group Practice led by Sangha4:00 – 5:30 PM: Personal Practice5:30 – 7:00 PM: Dinner: prepare\, eat\, clean up7:00 – 7:30 PM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:30 PM: Group Practice and Q & A with Teachers8:30 – Beyond: Personal Practice & bed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Food\, Weather\, Accommodation and How to Get Here\n \n\n Click here for details on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PSYCHEDELICS/MICRODOSING\n \n\n We recognize and respect plant medicine as an important part of some people’s spiritual paths.  Please note\, the meditation practice on this retreat is very powerful. Consuming mind-altering substances will detract from your experience and could cause negative side-effects.  We ask that you refrain from microdosing or consuming mind-altering substances during this retreat and in the days immediately following it.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION\n \n\n We aim to make our retreats as accessible as possible.  As a centre run entirely by Karma Yoga (selfless service)\, retreat fees only cover food\, accommodation and the equipment required to offer them online. We do not have paid staff.  The teachings themselves are offered on the basis of Dāna (pay-from-the-heart).  For some\, this is still a barrier of entry. If you are seeking financial assistance to attend a retreat\, please complete a Scholarship Application form. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/meditation-circle-community-classes-for-inner-well-being-online-or-in-person/ LOCATION:Clear Sky Meditation Center\, 3567 Cockell Road\, PO BOX 19\, Fort Steele\, British Columbia\, V0B 1NO\, Canada CATEGORIES:Coaching,Meditation Circle,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220721T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220804T203000 DTSTAMP:20251205T085149Z CREATED:20220701T132826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251205T085149Z UID:16859-1658431800-1659645000@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Meditation Circle: Community Classes for Inner Well-Being (Online or In-Person) DESCRIPTION:Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online or In-Person | March 21-23\, 2025 \n \n \n \n “Astrology allows us to identify our unique challenges and strengths as individuals in order to more fully embody and live our spiritual awakening. “Dharma empowers us to transcend our challenges\, leverage our strengths and reduce the suffering within ourselves and those around us.” -Catherine Pawasarat Sensei \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we want breakthroughs. We want liberation\, freedom\, and the ability to manifest our most profound vision for this lifetime. And ironically\, the only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and to break away from our timeworn\, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline\, which builds the supporting structures for breakthrough. Astrologically\, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei\, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation\, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As spiritual explorers\, we can lean on the idealized notion of being a “free spirit.” This aspiration can lead to chafing around boundaries and authority\, two of the hallmarks of Saturn. It’s easy to project these qualities onto someone or something else\, as our disowned shadow. Integrating these qualities in ourselves is key to true spiritual growth. Drawing on AstroDharma as a resource can help us get there.  Historically\, Saturn was associated with the Grim Reaper or Father Time\, and it’s still known as the Lord of Karma. Wherever we have Saturn in our natal astrological chart\, we are likely to experience restrictions or obstacles. Integrating our Saturn involves learning to dismantle these constraints\, and upcycling the resources thereby acquired as foundations upon which to build the rest of our lives. In this way\, we begin to participate in the conscious shaping of our karma. The planet Saturn is the doorway to working consciously with more transpersonal and universal energies. After all\, it is the gatekeeper from the personal inner planets to the transpersonal or generational outer planets. In AstroDharma\, the outer planets—Uranus\, Neptune\, and Pluto—offer the transformative energy we need for breakthroughs\, through their mighty forces of revolution\, dissolution\, and destruction\, respectively. Accessing and working consciously with these powerful energies requires discipline and self-mastery: in other words\, integration (vs. projection) of Saturn. An untrained\, undisciplined warrior cannot navigate these stormy forces of change. Instead\, karmic tempests repeatedly knock us sideways. Saturn’s authority and responsibility are the keys to breaking through the locks of our conditioned karma to our greater potential—and rising to the challenge of our total transformation. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  This course for you if:You’d like to study an astrological Dharmic framework for spiritual understanding with a wisdom teacher in the Namgyal lineage.You’d like to explore where you fall subject to projections—those aspects of yourself which have been forced into the unconscious\, thus cast onto others—and learn to own them as a more integrated human being.You’d like to transform challenges in your life by leveraging unseen strengths and talents.You’d like greater clues into the particular shapings of gestating in your mother’s womb\, and how your womb experience is impacting your life.You’d like insights into how you can best connect with awakening states of unity.You want to understand the patterns of others\, as well as your own\, to be a more skilled and compassionate being in the world. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In other words\, we must integrate Saturn to become what we truly want to be.In AstroDharma\, we refer to our North Node as our “Dharma\,” our Dharmic path. Learning to manifest our North Node is the most challenging path we can undertake because it involves swimming upstream against the heavy current of our South Node’s familiar and habitual Karma. However\, we cannot work with our North Node\, our true potential\, unless we work with Saturn. Mastery requires incredible discipline. An Olympic figure skater lands that quadruple axle on the ice because they’ve invested thousands of training hours towards achieving this potential.  Over the course\, we will show you how to examine your natal chart\, and look at participants’ charts together\, focusing on Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the associated 10th house. We also encourage you to bring burning questions arising from your life—particularly related to challenges around blocks and authority themes—so we can study how they show up in your chart astrolodharmically. Think about specific questions which will be of particular benefit to you\, and which will help you towards being of benefit to others. For those attending in person\, Catherine Sensei will lead us in somatic AstroDharma mandalas to embody our Saturn together. These mandalas can be a compelling\, visceral experience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "I greatly appreciate the depth of knowledge and level of expertise that is shared by Sensei. Her teachings are always well prepared and transformative in my spiritual growth." \n Michele C.Astrologer \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What You’ll Learn: A review of AstroDharma and how it is unique.How to examine and map your own astrological natal chart’s placements\, particularly Saturn\, its ruler\, Capricorn\, and the related 10th house.What happens with Saturn\, Capricorn\, and the 10th house? Why are they considered difficult? How can we access their potential wisdom and mastery?Tools for recognizing and working with reality as it is\, mapping karma and potential. How to work with obstacles\, authority\, and discipline\, toward the growth of your greater potential.About AstroDharma“AstroDharma” is what Catherine Pawasarat Sensei calls her unique synthesis of Buddhist teachings on spiritual awakening (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology\, based on the teachings of Carl Jung. These two powerful tools help us better understand ourselves and the patterns we manifest in our lives. The more we know about ourselves\, the more choices we have. Then\, we can make better choices so that we may lead healthier\, better-integrated lives. Furthermore\, we can also more deeply understand the patterns of those around us\, and support the potential in others\, which is key to Buddhist practitioners’ bodhisattva vow. Saturn relates to what we’d like to manifest in the world\, the areas of life we’d like to master and teach to others. It’s a rare and significant achievement to integrate both external authority and our inner tyrant into self-discipline and skilled judgment. Working with our Saturn\, over time and with conscious effort\, we gradually learn to take responsibility for shaping our own karma. This is easier said than done. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Teacher - Catherine Sensei \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Catherine Pawasarat Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher\, attendant\, consort\, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts. Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Course Details \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Time and LocationThis weekend retreat will be led by Catherine Pawasarat Sensei at Clear Sky Meditation Center in Eastern BC. This course is offered online or in-person. Schedule / Class Times: For onsite retreatants\, please arrive in good time for orientation at 5 pm Mountain Time on the Friday. The first class will be at 7 pm Mountain Time. The retreat will formally end at 3 pm Mountain Time on the Sunday. Classes will be 60-90 mins in duration\, with classes in the morning and evening and possibly the afternoon each day (Mountain Time) – the exact schedule to be confirmed. Please ensure you are available for the whole weekend to focus on the course material and attend classes live. Online participants are expected to attend classes live.  We will arrange class times to be comfortable for most time zones. However we understand that some class times might occur after midnight in some regions\, if this is the case for you\, please let us know when you register.  Then we can provide a recording so you can catch up on that particular class. What Does the Course Cost?In-Person Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher plus 2) accomodation and meal costs for your stay Clear Sky Meditation Centre. Online Participants: 1) dāna to the Teacher  2) online administration fee of $170 CAD. Keen practitioner pricing: 5% savings on program fees available until February 14\, 2025. Important: The last day to register is one week prior to the retreat start date. Please register early. Questions?If you have questions about the retreat\, please contact the Clear Sky Retreat Manager at 250-429-3929  (phone) or at bookings@clearskycenter.org (email). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Clear Sky \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Located in the BC rocky mountains\, we offer over 300-acres to deepen your practice and reconnect with nature.  Founded by Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei\, we are home to students from around the globe who are dedicated to co-creating a supportive and innovative space for awakening in our modern world. In adherence with our quadruple bottom line\, we source our food as local and organic as possible. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Locally-grown organic food \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supportive meditation guidance \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stunning bedroom views \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bonus Gift for Course ParticipantsOnline AstroDharma Course INCLUDEDCatherine Sensei also offers an online Intro to AstroDharma course which you will be able to access at the end of this course. This will help you continue your studies. Access to the self-study course is available upon request for participants who complete the retreat. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "This retreat centre is the REAL THING. It's a modern monastery with people grounded in the present and practicing old and new methods of living in a spiritual community. This group walks the talk. I have made the trek from Ontario all the way to this remote corner of BC every year for the last 16 years to study with these teachers\, interact with these fellow seekers\, and bask in the beauty of this gorgeous property." \n Linda H. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FAQs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Dana\n \n\n You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart”. Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity”. With dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. The dharma has been built on generosity. No-one is excluded for lack of funds but it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able Typically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course.  As we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma\, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure.  Another form of giving dāna is to offer service\, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way\, we invite you to contact us.  Conversely\, if you are financially secure\, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers\, teachings\, and center. Learn more about the practice of dāna here. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Admin Fee\n \n\n In a traditional model of in-person teachings\, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover\, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself\, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers\, and of the supporting center. We’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna\, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood. The admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know\, it can be surprising the costs of setting up a good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online. The admin fee changes based on date of registration. *We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings\, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee\, please contact the course Registrar via registrar@planetdharma.com so we can support you to attend. — Below are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting: high speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)online class systems (Zoom)registration / admin systems (Eventbrite\, Basecamp)communication systems to keep everyone informed\, share connection details\, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)online storage (for example\, Dropbox\, to allow us to let students watch recordings\, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later\, and Amazon cloud)quality sound\, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.online calendar booking system to allow students to book interviewswebsite hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses\, teachings\, blogs and other resources.We welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable\, abundant and for the benefit of all beings! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daily Schedule \n \n\n Specific times may change – this is a rough guide (MST) \n6:30 – 7:30 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:15 AM: Breakfast: Prepare\, eat\, clean up8:15 – 8:45 AM: Walk &/or Personal Practice9:00 – 10:00 AM: Class with Teachers10:00 – 10:30 AM: Walk10:30 – 11:30 AM: Group Practice led by Sangha11:30 – 12:30 PM: Personal Practice12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch: Prepare\, eat\, clean up1:30 – 3:00 PM: Personal Practice3:00 – 4:00 PM: Group Practice led by Sangha4:00 – 5:30 PM: Personal Practice5:30 – 7:00 PM: Dinner: prepare\, eat\, clean up7:00 – 7:30 PM: Walk &/or Personal Practice7:30 – 8:30 PM: Group Practice and Q & A with Teachers8:30 – Beyond: Personal Practice & bed \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Food\, Weather\, Accommodation and How to Get Here\n \n\n Click here for details on how to get here\, what to bring and what to expect.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PSYCHEDELICS/MICRODOSING\n \n\n We recognize and respect plant medicine as an important part of some people’s spiritual paths.  Please note\, the meditation practice on this retreat is very powerful. Consuming mind-altering substances will detract from your experience and could cause negative side-effects.  We ask that you refrain from microdosing or consuming mind-altering substances during this retreat and in the days immediately following it.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION\n \n\n We aim to make our retreats as accessible as possible.  As a centre run entirely by Karma Yoga (selfless service)\, retreat fees only cover food\, accommodation and the equipment required to offer them online. We do not have paid staff.  The teachings themselves are offered on the basis of Dāna (pay-from-the-heart).  For some\, this is still a barrier of entry. If you are seeking financial assistance to attend a retreat\, please complete a Scholarship Application form. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In-Person Registration\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Online Registration URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/meditation-circle-summer-2022/ LOCATION:Clear Sky Meditation Center\, 3567 Cockell Road\, PO BOX 19\, Fort Steele\, British Columbia\, V0B 1NO\, Canada CATEGORIES:Coaching,Meditation Circle,Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR