Summer Retreat
with Michelle and Joel Levey
Thriving with All Our Relations:
Meditation, Nature, and Community
August 21-26, 2012
Indralaya, Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands, Washington, USA
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This retreat will focus on the synergy of meditation, nature, and community as pathways to the practice of deep relationship, creative generativity, and regeneration. Weaving inspirations from many traditions and teachers of the Dharma, Joel & Michelle Levey will guide us in a variety of treasured and time-honored practices for cultivating mindful awareness and deepening the loving-kindness, compassion, insight, and creativity we bring to life. This week offers a special opportunity to establish a personal practice of meditation; a practice that integrates into daily life and work; deepens your sense of connection and interrelationship with your world; and increases your capacity to be resilient and thrive in these challenging times.
Guided by experienced teachers, infused by the beauty of Orcas Island's holy book of nature, and supported by the company of kindred spirits, this retreat offers a rare blend of wisdom teachings, meditations, heartfelt silence, opportunities for group dialogue and deep reflections. Come prepared to joyfully discover the miraculous in every moment as you open your heart and mind to encounter reality as it truly is, and behold the true nature and potentials of yourself and All your Relations."
October 26-28 at Mount Madonna Center near Santa Cruz, CA
Meditation and Medicine:
Exploring the Vital Role of Contemplative Disciplines
in MindBody Medicine & the Healing Arts
with Joel & Michelle Levey
This program distills essential insights from decades of research and experience developed in teaching Meditation and Medicine programs to thousands of physicians, faculty, nurses, students, and other health caring professionals around the globe. Drawing inspiration from diverse contemplative traditions, participants will explore practices from five categories of meditation - Concentration, Mindfulness, Reflective, Creative, and Heart-Centered - each of which have profoundly practical benefits for both clinicians and patients. Understanding a variety of practices that are easy to learn and teach helps to expand the range of options of what to recommend to patients, and also provides clinicians with a wealth of material and insights to improve their own self-care, well-being, clinical performance, and interpersonal relationships while actively engaged in helping others.
Washington D.C. Area
Oct. 14, 2012
Workshop for the Celebration Center for Spiritual Living
October 15, 2012 at the American Society for Anesthesiology
Managing Stress and Burnout for Anesthesia Professionals:
Exploring the Methods of Essential Mind-Fitness Techniques
Developing Resilience at Work
Professional Issues (PI) track
With Leveys and Dr. Kenneth J. Sapire,
at Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC.
