Intensives & Retreats 2008: Austin, TX and Lennox, MA
Wake Up Now: Discover the Joy of Your True Self
Weekend Retreat at The Crossings Austin, TX
June 27-29, 2008
According to the non-dual wisdom traditions of Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta, the spiritual journey involves awakening from the dream of separation and realizing the peace, love, and joy of our essential spiritual nature, which is pure oneness. Only by awakening to our essential nature can we experience complete relief from suffering and dissatisfaction.
Through guided meditations, self-inquiry, talks, dialogues, and dyadic exercises, spiritual teacher Stephan Bodian will guide you toward experiencing this spiritual awakening in yourself. Once you’ve awakened to who you really are, your life will change in significant and powerful ways. You don’t have to exert tremendous effort or spend years on a meditation cushion to awaken—you just need to have the willingness to look deeply into your own heart and mind.
Stephan Bodian has been practicing and teaching the path of awakening for more than 35 years. A spiritual teacher, a licensed psychotherapist, and the bestselling author of Meditation for Dummies, he has studied with some of the great spiritual masters of our age.
JUNE 27 – 29, 08
Program Fee: $275
To learn more about The Crossings or to sign up for the retreat, click here.
Wake Up Now: A Journey Through the Stages of Spiritual Awakening
Weekend Retrreat at Kripalu Center, Lennox, MA
July 25-27, 2008
With the growing popularity of satsang in the West, more and more people are waking up to the radiant emptiness of their essential spiritual nature. But few realize that awakening is often just the beginning of a prolonged and challenging journey of spiritual unfolding that may be fraught with pitfalls as well as promise.
In this workshop, spiritual teacher Stephan Bodian invites you to glimpse your true nature directly, right now, without arduous practice, and then leads you through the stages that generally follow: the “wake” of awakening, when the mind tends to obscure or co-opt your realization; the embodiment process, in which you learn to actualize your awakening in every area and dimension of your life; and the ongoing challenge of freeing the dark or frozen places in the psyche that awakening by itself may not reach.
Through guided meditations, self-inquiry, talks, dialogues, and dyadic exercises, you’ll learn how to navigate your way through the obstacles that may follow awakening and discover the peace, love, joy, and fulfillment that fully embodied awakening brings.
Stephan Bodian is a spiritual teacher, a psychotherapist, a popular workshop leader, and the author of the new book Wake Up Now: A Guide to the Journey of Spiritual Awakening (McGraw-Hill, 2008). He has been practicing and teaching the path of awakening for more than 35 years.
For more information or to register for this retreat, contact Kripalu Center at 866-200-5203, or visit www.kripalu.org.
