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SUMMARY:Buddhas in Action: Awakening in Daily Life
DESCRIPTION:A Karma Yoga Retreat | August 9-24\, 2019\nCreate an unshakeable spiritual practice in our busy modern world.\nWe all need to earn a living and deal with day-to-day pressures. We want to relate meaningfully with those around us\, but we often feel unfulfilled. Work just leaves us feeling worn out and slightly empty. And sometimes the space between self and other feels like a tremendous gap. \nWhen we’re in the middle of modern samsaric busy-ness\, the spiritual life can feel out of reach. The wonderful news is that we can use contemporary spiritual practices at work and in relationship to feel fulfilled while doing so. These different parts of our life can support one another in beautiful ways\, leading to great feelings of meaningfulness\, balance\, and connection. \nThis retreat gives you the building blocks to apply awareness\, compassion\, wisdom\, and strength to each moment. The result is greater fulfillment amid daily life and meaningful connection with others and the world around you. \n \n  \nSEE EARLY BIRD RATES\n  \nWhy Practice Karma Yoga?\nWe’ve spent the last 14 years adapting this tradition of awakening through action to our modern lives\, at home\, in offices\, in conversations\, at our desks\, in meetings\, in bed and in the field. This profoundly practical application can help you find greater joy\, fulfillment\, and calm amidst your busy daily life. \nBy learning the principles of karma yoga (awakening through action)\, you can apply awareness and wisdom to everything you do. Cultivating this practice allows you to transform your work\, home and city life into a connective field of monastic or yogic practice. Your home becomes your monastery\, while your co-workers become your fellow yogis and yoginis. \nOur experience shows that blending study\, meditation\, and what we call “awakening through action”\, profoundly integrates spiritual practice with day-to-day demands. \n“Karma yoga has made me aware of how to streamline my energy to a sustainable\, smooth level of work. It has given me invaluable practice on focusing my attention on the task at hand.” – Lisa Feder \nPlease note that this retreat and Clear Sky welcome people of all religious backgrounds and beliefs. This retreat is also open to all experience levels. \nSEE EARLY BIRD RATES\n\nMeet the Teachers of this profound retreat\nDoug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Center. \nAchariya Doug Duncan received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978\, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct\, humourous and compassionate engagement with students\, Doug embraces various traditions\, contemporary psychology\, and science\, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state. \nCatherine Pawasarat has trained daily with 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. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life\, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies. \n \nWhat is Karma Yoga?\nWe’ve received some questions about the practice of awakening through action or Karma Yoga. Here is a short video which dives deeper into what you can expect on this retreat. \n \nWho are we?\nTo help you get acquainted with us\, some community members made this short video during our 2017 Buddhas in Action retreat. To learn more about us and our incredible community\, click here! \n \n  \nDaily Schedule\nThis is an active meditation retreat. There will be a combination of silent meditation and active exercises to help integrate your meditation into daily life. The exercises focus on body\, speech (communication & feelings) and mind (your heart) and will be practiced in pairs and in groups. There will be a daily morning classes and evening meditation with Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat. \nIn order to focus on your meditative work\, we ask that participants put away your cellphone\, books and digital technologies for the duration of the retreat. That said\, some speech exercises may invite you to use your cellphone or laptop as a way of practicing a wholesome relationship with technology. \nCreating a strong discipline for your practice will make the retreat highly immersive\, focused and profound. \n \nDāna\nThis course is offered by Doug & Catherine Sensei based on the ancient principle of generosity\, or Dāna.  You may have come across this is 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 their joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match their time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy. \nLocation\nClear Sky is a 300-acre meditation cushion nestled in the Canadian Rocky mountains. We are 30 minutes from Cranbrook International airport in Cranbrook\, B.C. \nFees\nAs a charitable organization\, we strive to provide locally sourced organic meals and comfortable accommodations at an affordable price.  Fees vary depending on your accommodation choice and early bird pricing. You can find more information on the course registration page. \nRegister Now
URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/buddhas-action-awakening-daily-life/
LOCATION:Clear Sky Meditation Center\, 3567 Cockell Road\, PO BOX 19\, Fort Steele\, British Columbia\, V0B 1NO\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Group Retreats and Courses
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SUMMARY:Insight Meditation Retreat
DESCRIPTION:A Ten-Day Meditation Retreat | March 15-24\, 2019\nWhy do we lose bliss? How do we regain it?\nBy popular demand\, our founding teachers are offering this ten-day insight meditation retreat. \nMost think of meditation as a sense of calm and concentration that leads to bliss. Yet\, bliss is impermanent and subject to loss. \nThrough training the mind to simply observe what is happening in the moment\, we realize that the self is that which searches for bliss\, and that this search is itself the root\, source\, and continuance of the struggle. \nThe path of insight leads us to the realization that there’s no inherent\, independent\, self identity to be found. This is called liberation\, awakening\, freedom. And it’s just a good idea. \nRead more on the Planet Dharma website now or click the button below to register now. \n  \nSee Early Bird Rates\n  \nThe teachers offer this retreat by the ancient principle of dana\, or generosity. Dana is paid separately to the registration fees\, which Clear Sky charges  to cover your food and accommodation.
URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/insight-meditation-retreat/
LOCATION:Clear Sky Meditation Center\, 3567 Cockell Road\, PO BOX 19\, Fort Steele\, British Columbia\, V0B 1NO\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Six Yogas of Naropa - Dream Yoga & Light Yoga
DESCRIPTION:The Six Yogas of Naropa are one of the central practices of the Tibetan Kagyu lineage\, to which Clear Sky belongs. \nDuring these two weeks\, we will be focusing on the third and fourth Yogas of Naropa: Dream Yoga and Light Yoga. \nThese practices form a path to freedom through the development of deep understanding into the way things and formations arise and pass away. \nMeanwhile\, the teachings are grounded in the deep understanding of the fundamental principles and practices of Tantra. \nTo do this work\, each of us must leave behind all partial views and develop a complete “viewing.” \nBy studying the energy channels of the body\, the bindhus (hormones)\, and the overall functioning of the energy systems\, the Diamond Body emerges. A radiant energy body\, the Diamond Body is no longer subject to the blocks and malformations that are the natural result of conditioned patterns. \nWe enJOY–and share with all beings–the radiant and blissful result: kundalini energy. This burns up the amassed undergrowth of our unwholesome patterns\, resulting in the natural liberation of energy\, loving kindness and compassion. \nDumo Heat Yoga and Illusory-Body Yoga were taught and practiced in 2017. Bardo Yoga and Transformation Yoga be the focus of retreat at the end of 2019. \nDāna (Generosity Based Teaching)\nDoug & Catherine are teaching this meditation retreat via the ancient tradition of Dāna (generosity)\, an offering from them to the attendees. It is considered of supreme value to your life and thus “beyond price” so it is expected that the student will be equally generous and support the teaching and the teachers by making an offering. \nWhile no offering is too small\, also no offering is too great. The giver benefits by offering as much as they can\, given the individual’s circumstances. Along with compassion\, generosity is considered the root of spiritual progress and\, according to the ancients\, therefore the root of our success in daily life as well. \nFind out more about how you can practice Dāna. We invite you to offer Dāna when you register and via the Dāna bowl available at Clear Sky. \n\nBook Now
URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/six-yogas-naropa-dream-yoga-light-yoga/
LOCATION:Clear Sky Meditation Center\, 3567 Cockell Road\, PO BOX 19\, Fort Steele\, British Columbia\, V0B 1NO\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Karma Yoga Program - July 2018 Intake Day
DESCRIPTION:Mindfulness and beyond: a three-month internship\, learning and serving in a conscious community\nOne of Clear Sky’s primary purposes is to be a container for the discipline of Karma Yoga. \nThis ancient practice offers great opportunities for insights and new levels of personal freedom. \n\nWhat is Karma Yoga?\nEssentially\, we define Karma Yoga as training in mindfulness through action. Clear Sky is a modern-day working monastery\, and if you spend time here\, you will be training in Karma Yoga through all the activities it takes to run the center. \nIf you are accepted into the program\, you will participate in the general running of the center’s activities and programs. Depending on your experience or interests\, you may also be assigned to a specific department or project. \nFor more information and to ask for an application form\, visit the Karma Yoga Service Stay Program page.
URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/karma-yoga-program-july-2018-intake-day/
LOCATION:Clear Sky Meditation Center\, 3567 Cockell Road\, PO BOX 19\, Fort Steele\, British Columbia\, V0B 1NO\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Exploring Mandalas with Karma Sonam Senge
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to integrate greater wholeness and connection in your life through transforming color and form into tools which you can use for life long learning. Senge will lead us through explorations of form and color to demonstrate how the mind is affected and shaped by these\, drawing from diverse eastern and western traditions including art\, sacred geometry and mysticism. \nOn Sunday\, there will be an initiation given on the Tibetan deity\, Vajrayogini. \nCost:\nRegister by September 30th\nNon-members $189 Members $175\, all inclusive. \nRegister after September 30th\nNon-members pay $209 Members pay $199. \nDana\, a donation to the teacher\, is not included in any costs as teachings are always given for free. Everyone is encouraged to give generously\, according to their situation\, in order to help support the teacher and for further teachings to flourish and be of benefit for others.
URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/exploring-mandalas-karma-sonam-senge/
LOCATION:Clear Sky Meditation Center\, 3567 Cockell Road\, PO BOX 19\, Fort Steele\, British Columbia\, V0B 1NO\, Canada
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