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 The
events that take place at the institute's Retreat Center in
Petaluma range from 2-hour presentations to weekend workshops
to month-long residential programs. To register for any of
these events, please contact the organizers listed in the
event descriptions, which you'll find by clicking on the "more..."
links below.
Click here for a listing of additional IONS events.
Institute of noetic sciences
retreat center events
2008 and beyond
(events are
2008 unless otherwise noted)
**click to go directly
to a list of
upcoming evening and afternoon Events on the IONS
campus**
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Saleem Berryman,
Living in Truth
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Lifting
the Veils Retreat—
This 9-day retreat is a
discovery of our own magnificent power to
generate illusions so brilliantly designed
that we believe they are reality. It is
also a discovery of our capacity to wake
up to the trances in our life that are causing
suffering, so that we can more fully unveil
the presence, joy and authentic expression
of our true being. An additional intention
of this retreat is to explore elegant and
powerful ways to effortlessly transform
the patterns of our everyday life experience
in ways that best express our deepest truth.
This retreat is for anyone who would like
to experience greater freedom and ease in
any area of their life. This is one of two
retreats that act as a foundation for the
Living in Truth Training.
July
19 - 27
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Lee Lipsenthal, MD,
Finding Balance, Inc
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Lee
Lipsenthal— Finding
Balance Teacher Training Program
This 5 day teaching program
will cover core areas of research on physician
health, personality structure and inter-personal
function. It is designed to train the participant
to be a facilitator teacher in the area
of physician and medical trainee health.
The program will train the participant to
teach small and large group classes in the
area of physician health and lead seminars
in this area.
This program is designed for medical school
and residency faculty. Nursing and counseling
faculty may also find this to be useful.
July
19 - 23
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The Monroe Institute
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Monroe
Institute —
Gateway Voyage®
The heart of The Monroe
Institute programs is the Gateway Voyage®.
This six-day intensive learning adventure
is designed to provide the participant with
tools that can enable:
- development and exploration
of human consciousness;
- deeper levels of self-discovery;
- expansion of one's awareness;
- willful control of that
awareness;
- communication with and
visits to other energy systems and realities.
July
19 - 25
November 1 - 7
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Rennie
Davis
Better
Than Imagined
In this workshop you will make the world's
greatest discovery yourself
Evolving
the Dream
In this workshop you will learn how your
greatest teacher for change is your own
dream body.
July
26 and 27
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Alan Sheets & Barbara Tovey
New Equations
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New
Equations —
The
Physical Expression of the Soul
Training Program
New Equations directly
addresses human spirituality and how it
is physically expressed in the world today.
Participants in this multi-session training
program learn how to connect and communicate
with people in such a way that those with
whom they engage discover the physical expression
of their own spiritual nature.
NEW SERIES:
August 9 - 16
November 11 - 18
(the 2008 program continues in 2009)
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Jesse
Koren & Sharla Jacobs
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Rejuvenate
Your Practice Intensive
Learn how to build your successful Holistic
or Coaching Practice using heart-based strategies
so you can help more people and make more
money than you ever thought was possible.
August 21 – 24
November 13 – 16
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Lydia Becker
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SKAN-Reichian
Therapy —
Exploring
the Body of Emotions
Weekend workshop with Lydia Becker
Skan Therapy is based on
the work of Wilhelm Reich. Skan can be defined
as a process of re-establishing the unobstructed
flow of the body's own life-energy. This
can be felt whole bodily as a sensation
of "streaming" and pleasure, and
emotionally as love, enjoyment and happiness.
In the process of this work, by its very
nature, the individual wil often confront
so-called "difficult emotions,"
as we are exploring the habitual patterns
of armoring that are deeply rooted in the
biological reality of the body-mind. Whatever
comes up can be felt, expressed and released
in safety.
September
5 - 7
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Jean
Houston
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WEST
COAST MYSTERY SCHOOL — THE MYSTERY
OF DEEP PARTNERSHIP
Beginning
with spiritual partnership in the form of
the Beloved of the Soul, this five-weekend
program explores the path of intimate companionship,
finding ways of bestowing this miraculous
capacity to all our relations.
This is a five-weekend program with Jean
Houston and Peggy Rubin.
Part one - Fri, Feb 22, 6pm - Sun, Feb
24, 1:30pm (completed)
Part
two - Fri, May 2,
6:00pm - Sun, May 4, 1:30pm (completed)
Fri, Sept 12, 6:00pm - Sun, Sept 14, 1:30pm
Fri, Oct 10, 6:00pm - Sun, Oct 12,
1:30pm
Fri, Dec 5, 6:00pm - Sun, Dec 7, 1:30pm
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Barbara Kauffman,
Auric Lights
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Regression
Therapy Intensive Training, Level I
Barbara Kauffman is a prominent
board certified regression therapist, educator,
lecturer, and researcher with over fifteen
years of experience in the field of past-life
regression.
This course, which is certified by the International
Board for Regression Therapy, is based on
the training of Henry Leo Bolduc who is
a pioneer in the field of past life regression
with over 45 years experience before his
retirement in 2007.
September
15 - 20
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Creative Memories
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Creative
Memories Scrapbooking Weekend with felicia
schonborn-young
Let's Celebrate and Preserve
Your Memories into Treasured Keepsakes.
Your Life, Your Story, Your Way —
I'll show you how with top quality photo
albums & Organizing Products.
September
19 - 21
2009:
March 20 - 22
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Ralph Metzner
Metzner Alchemical Divination Training
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Metzner
Alchemical Divination Training, with Ralph
Metzner —
The Metzner Alchemical
Divination® training is offered in three
5-day modular workshops that can be taken
in any sequence. In these workshops, participants
will experience the divinations for themselves
as well as light-fire purifying energy meditations
(Agni Yoga); and they will practice guiding
them for others in dyads and small groups.
Please note: The divinations are
educational and are not intended as a form
of psychotherapy or treatment for any conditions.
Each of the three workshops also includes
a number yogic-alchemical light-fire practices,
designed to clear the perception channels,
for the divinations. Participants who successfully
complete all three workshops obtain a Certificate
of Completion.
September
21 - 26
2009: February 1 - 6
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Michael Harner
Foundation for Shamanic Studies |
Foundation
for Shamanic Studies (Journeywork) —
three-year program in advanced initiations
in shamanism and shamanic healing
Originated by Dr. Michael
Harner, this course is the most advanced
training in shamanism and shamanic healing
offered by the Foundation for Shamanic Healing,
and generally is considered unparalleled
in the world. It involves intensive extended
training in progressively higher levels
of very advanced shamanism, including initiations
into rare and little-known practices and
principles.
2008: Sept 21 - 26,
Oct 26 - 31 (1st of a series)
2009: Mar
23 - Apr 3, Apr 19 - 24, May 17 - 22, Oct
4 - 9
2010: Apr 11 - 22,
May 2 - 7, Oct 3 - 8, Oct 17 - 22
2011: Mar 27 - Apr
8, May 1 - 6, May 22 - 27, Oct 9 - 14
2012: Mar 18 - 30,
May 6 - 11, Oct 7 - 12, Oct 21-26
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Making Money
Make Change
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Making
Money Make Change
A national gathering for
young progressive people with wealth, creating
space to support and challenge each other
to use our financial and other resources
to contribute to social change and join
fully in movements of social justice.
October
2 - 5
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Susan
Taylor
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Meditation
Specialist™ Certification - Clinics
1 - 4
Gannett HealthcarE GROUP
This four-part course for healthcare professionals
provides in-depth training in the theory,
science, and practice of meditation therapy
with a focus on the use of meditation as
a true healing science. Graduates will gain
the skills, tools, and framework for incorporating
meditation into their medical practice or
for developing a private meditation therapy
practice. Participants must attend all four
clinics in order to receive certification
as a meditation specialist™. Susan
Taylor, PhD, teaches the seminar.
October 5 –
8, 2008 (Clinic
3)
October 18 – 20, 2008 (Clinic 1)
March 8 –
11, 2009 (Clinic
4)
March 11 – 14, 2009 (Clinic 2)
June 4 – 7, 2009 (Clinic 3)
October 19 – 22, 2009 (Clinic 4)
October 23 – 25, 2009 (Clinic 1)
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Trebbe Johnson and Charles Tack
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The
Roots of Attraction: Beyond the Personal—
The powerful force of attraction
constantly grabs us and forces us to pay
attention to something outside ourselves.
Whether we resist it, ignore it, run away,
leap towards it, every attraction--to a
person, an object or a cause--is trying
to awaken some aspect of our soul. In this
workshop, we explore how to let our attractions
feed and nourish us by attending to what's
calling our heart and soul.
October 9 - 12
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Meredith Young-Sowers
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Stillpoint
SCHOOL —
Women's program
Spirit Heals:
Awakening
Your Inner Knowing for Self-Healing
Meredith Young-Sowers, spiritual teacher,
medical intuitive and energy healer, has
created this new intensive program to help
women step fully and confidently on the
path to spirit-driven healing. This is a
one-of-a-kind opportunity to involve Meredith
as your guide over an extended period of
time, which will include 2 in-person Intensives,
mentoring, and on-going support from Meredith
and the team at Stillpoint.This two-intensive,
women only program will be offered at IONS
in February and in April of 2009.
INTENSIVE ONE: Sat, Feb 20, at dinner
- Tue, Feb 23, after lunch - 2009
INTENSIVE TWO: Sat, April 24, at dinner
- Tue, April 27, after lunch - 2009
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Michael Harner
Foundation for Shamanic Studies |
Foundation
for shamanic studies - workshops & training
in shamanism and shamanic healing
Founded by internationally
renowned anthropologist Michael Harner with
a three-fold mission to study, to teach,
and to preserve shamanism, The Foundation
for Shamanic Studies has built a reputation
of consistency and excellence by providing
effective, quality training in Core Shamanism
to interested learners worldwide. Dr. Harner
has been recognized as the pioneer and leader
of the revival of shamanism since the early
60's when he chose to immerse himself in
tribal spiritual traditions rather than
restrict his study to more traditional academic
techniques.
2009:
Mar 15 - 20, May 3 - 8, Oct 11 - 16
2010:
Apr 25 - 30, May 16 - 21, June 6 - 11
2011:
Apr 10 -15, May 8 - 13, Oct 23 - 28
2012:
May 20 - 25, Sept 30 - Oct 5
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Dr. Michaela Gloeckler
Physician's Association for Anthroposophic
Medicine (PAAM)
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International
Post-Graduate medical Training in Anthroposophic
Medicine
This medical training program
is part of an ongoing program of training
in anthroposophic medicine with Dr. Michaela
Gloekler and other faculty members, that
takes place for one week each year. 2009
will be the second year of the program.
Please click the more link below to visit
the PAAM website for additional details.
May
8 - 15, 2009
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EVENING and AFTERNOON EVENTS
EVENING Events
At the IONS retreat center campus |
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Phillip Krapf
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PHILLIP
KRAPF — Meetings with Paul: An Atheist
Discovers His Guardian Angel
Potluck dinner followed by a personal account
on meeting his own angel by Pulitzer Prize
winner and professed unbeliever Phil Krapf.
A Friendly Favors
event - registration required.
Fri, July 25, 6pm - 9pm
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Peter Russell
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Peter
Russell—
Potluck dinner followed by a meeting with
visionary scientist Peter Russell, who has
just released an updated, tenth anniversary
re-release of his award-winning 1998 bestseller
Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace in
Times of Accelerating Change. This book
was considered a classic manifesto for awakening
to the planetary crisis—and much of
it was prophetic as to what has actually
come to pass in the last decade.
A Friendly Favors event - registration required.
Fri, Nov 14, 6pm - 9pm
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Favors - a
web-based community that holds events at IONS and in the
Bay Area. Registration for Friendly Favors events is required.
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