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Taoist Arts Center :
Summer Retreat 2009
Exploring Meditation
A New York City Retreat
A Journey through Chinese Meditation Friday June 5th thru Monday June 8th |
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Exploring Meditation is the Taoist Arts Center's 2009 summer retreat in New York City. Director Susan Rabinowitz will teach traditional Chinese Meditation techniques guiding students of all styles and levels of experience past the externals and into the heart of meditation. Students will receive thorough and clear instruction, learning traditional meditation techniques of the masters. |
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Free from routine stress, and guided by a master teacher, here is a rare opportunity to learn and practice Chinese Meditation. Seasoned students of all styles will find their practice enriched and rejuvenated. Newcomers to these wonderful arts will get off to a relaxing yet powerful start. The insights to be gained from this retreat will be useful to meditators, healers, athletes, everyone who wants to achieve a clear, relaxed, balanced spirituality. |
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Exploring Meditation will help you
* Relax
* Awaken spirituality
* Calm your emotions
* Activate your chakras
* Expand your consciousness
* Harmonize body, mind and spirit
* Resonate your with innermost self, nature and the universe |
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BEGINNERS WELCOME !
FOR INFORMATION CALL 212-477-7055.
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Exploring Meditation: A Journey through Chinese Meditation:
6 modular yet connected workshops designed to help students harmonize with themselves, nature and the universe.
Over the centuries the Chinese have developed their own meditation techniques and adapted those of India, Tibet and elsewhere. These workshops will explore the Buddhist and Taoist Meditation traditions through six very different but effective techniques for expanding awareness. Special emphasis will be given to the Taoist Water Method of Lao Tzu, a unique meditation tradition with a gentle approach that has many applications to daily life.
Friday: June 5th
7:00 to 9:30 PM
SLEEPING CHI KUNG
Widely practiced for health and rejuvenation, Sleeping Chi Kung is based upon the circulation of internal energy. The relaxed postures help students sleep more restfully, relieve pain and tension and re-balance chronic health conditions. A great addition to anyone's daily routine, Sleeping Chi Kung can be helpful for all who wish to feel healthier and more at ease with themselves and the world around them.
Saturday: June 6th
Noon to 2:30 PM.
CHAKRA BALANCING
Some of the oldest Buddhist meditations on mindfulness of the body vanished from India but were preserved in Southeast Asia. In this version of the White Bone Meditation from the Theravada tradition students learn to visualize their skeleton and then their chakras (energy centers) in order to connect with the energy of the universe. With its use of visualization and its power to help students cut through attachments to a calm, clear awareness, the Chakra Balance Meditation is an excellent introduction to the central Buddhist tradition of meditation.
Saturday: June 6th
3:30 to 6:00 PM.
OPENING YOUR CENTRAL CHANNEL
Our Central Energy Channel goes through the center of our bodies from the top of our head down into the earth and unites all our chakras, tantiens and energetic centers. In this workshop we will learn traditional Chinese meditation techniques to help us open, refine and balance the energies of our body and mind, so we may merge them with our central energy channel, our chakras and our aura (etheric body) for increased health, relaxation and spirituality..
Sunday: June 7th
Noon to 2:30 PM.
THE GENTLE RAIN
Taoist Inner Dissolving (often called The Gentle Rain) is the central practice in the Water Tradition. As water wears away rock, Inner Dissolving enables us to wear away obstacles to our spiritual growth leading us gently inward to our being and helping us to fully live our lives. It is extremely effective while also gentle. The meditations taught in this workshop will help us to become aware of our hidden motivations and enable us to change or eliminate those that we no longer find useful. The Gentle Rain will be helpful for all those who wish to develop peaceful, relaxed, energy and feel more at one with the universe around them.
Saturday - June 7th
3:30 to 6:00 PM
TAOIST COSMIC RESONANCE MEDITATION
Taoism preserved and developed the native meditation traditions of China, Tibet and elsewhere. In this meditation from the Water Tradition of Lao Tzu, students learn to feel and transform the energies of their mind and body, so they may resonate with the energies of their inmost selves, of nature and the universe around them. Cosmic Resonance provides a tangible connection to a profound but little known tradition of Taoist meditation.
Monday Night - June 8th
7:00 to 9:30 PM.
GODS MEDITATING IN THE CLOUDS
This powerful set was a favorite of Taoist Grand master Liu Hung Chieh of Beijing, China. It unites Taoist Meditation with the motions of Gods in the Clouds Chi Kung to relax our nervous system, increase circulation of blood and chi, strengthen our internal organs, open our hearts and expand our spirituality.
Open to Beginners, and students of all traditions at all levels of experience.
Students are welcome to attend all 4 days of workshops or any combination of the above. |
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Personalize these courses to fit your schedule.
Come for 1-2-3 or 4 days.
Classes are modular and combine well with each other for maximum benefit.
You may take all the courses of just the ones you choose.
Exploring Meditation: A Journey Through Chinese Meditation will leave you feeling more calm, peaceful and awakened to the universal in daily life. |
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BEGINNERS WELCOME
FOR INFORMATION CALL 212-477-7055. or you may REGISTER HERE |
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Exploring Meditation will include instruction in Water-method Chi Kung (qigong). The Water-method gently dissolves energy blockages while strengthening the body, mind and spirit, thereby avoiding the potential harm that may result from more forceful practices. All Water Method practices are designed to harmonize individuals with themselves, their environment and the universe around them. Instructor Susan Rabinowitz, Director of the Taoist Arts Center, has more than thirty years experience in the internal arts of Meditation, Tai Chi Chuan and Chi Kung. Susan has studied meditation with several outstanding teachers, including Master B.P. Chan, Ping Cheng and Taoist Master Bruce Kumar Frantzis, a lineage master in the Taoist Meditation tradition of Lao Tzu. |
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Tuition
Complete Summer Seminar
Friday 6/5 thru Monday 6/8 $285
Individual Workshops
Friday Night $ 60
Saturday & Sunday
All Day - Noon to 6:00 PM $100
Half Day - Noon to 2:30 PM $ 60
Half Day - 3:30 to 6:00 PM $ 60
Monday Night $ 60 Instruction is provided at the Taoist Arts Center in New York City.
Location: The Taoist Arts Center
342 East 9th Street (between 1st and 2nd Ave)
New York City, New York 10003
Information: 212-477-7055
REGISTER HERE |
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Here are a few comments from students at our previous retreats:
- 'Meditation just makes you feel calmer.' Robin B.
- 'I enjoyed learning a way to relax into myself, gently but with real results. I was able to renew myself, body, mind and spirit.' Terry T.
- 'The relaxing atmosphere and nurturing quality of Susie's teaching are conducive for a wonderful learning environment This workshop really helped me to deepen my practice.' Max Q
- 'Susan's adaptable and concise teaching style wiggled into cracks in my tension and helped it open naturally from the inside.' Tyler B.
If you would like to read more comments from our friends and students please see our Reviews page.
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If you would like to read more about our past summer seminars please visit the following pages SUMMER SEMINAR NYC 2009 SUMMER SEMINAR NYC 2008 SUMMER SEMINAR NYC 2007, SUMMER SEMINAR NYC 2006, SUMMER SEMINAR NYC 2005, CAMP RETREAT NY 2002 - 03, CAMP RETREAT VA 2001 To read more about our PAST EVENTS |
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