This course will be divided into four modules which weave together meditative communications skills, ( Focusing) & ecology.
This is a hands-in-the-earth course in four modules,( each one stands alone as well).
Renew: our lifestyle,re-energise,learn sustainable skills
Ecology: off grid dharma center,bringing us a chance to live & contemplate ressources.
Focusing: E.Gendlin's way; integrating body,heart & mind through our body sensations,& verbalising these in pair work.Focusing will be part of the communication skills learned & used for this course. Regenerating: over grazed land: planting organic orchards,designing & creating a food forest.
Elements: these courses will be steeped in elements meditation practice as well as being very practical, hands on, creating, designing & sharing our ideas.
Spiritual practice: will include silent & guided meditations, a main theme based on a classical buddhist teaching, dhamma talks, one to one support during the week & online in between the courses,
Focusing: sessions in pairs during the week, one to ones & group sharings, spiritual text contemplation & drawing in all Focusing style.
Daily guided Anatomy Laboratory: conscious movement in Bonnie Bainbridge style Habitats: ecological building skills & innovations using clay, straw, pallets, imagination & ingenuety.
REFRESH
Finding keys to living sustainably, through meditation, ecological building, permaculture & Focusing.
With Noon Baldwin
1st Module : 28th March to 3rd April 2024
Themes for each of the modules :
Module 1: Planting organic orchard or hedges,clearing, making swales- Focusing with texts & drawing- Four Foundations of mindfulness -Anatomy Laboratory:conscious movement-Design & create time with sharings-one to ones
Module 2: Ecological Building: mud walls -Focusing with texts & drawing-Four Brahma Viharas, (loving kindness,compassion,sympathetic joy,equanimity), -Anatomy Laboratory:conscious movement, Design & create time with sharings-one to one support.
Module 3: -Creating woven raised beds in orchard 1, planting orchard 2, designing food forest orchard 3 -Focusing with texts & drawing- - Seven Factors of Enlightenment -Anatomy Laboratory:conscious movement,Design & create time with sharings -one to one support.
Module 4: Eco Building skills: making a vegetal roof The Eight Fold path to Cessation -Anatomy Laboratory:conscious movement -Design & create time with sharings-one to ones- -Focusing with texts & drawing
We will have an online platform for groups to share after each week & with subsequent courses to keep a follow through thread of sharing.
Practicals
The space of practice that is Ekuthuleni is made available with a heart of practice and integrity. All of what is here has been offered in one way or another - through, energy, time, in meditation or money. This is the spirit of dana or generosity.
There is a non refundable and non transferable booking fee for each retreat. If events are cancelled due to Covid , Ekuthuleni will refund the booking fee entirely. The booking fee covers basic costs (such as food, insurance, gas and water).
We are a non profit organisation and for all other costs we depend on donations, dana. It is this way of participation and generosity that really keeps the Dharma rolling, as in dharma centers all over the world!
Costs
Each weeklong module will cost €230 to be paid in advance.
Over & above people are invited offer donations/dana to the cook, to Noon for teachings & managing. Dana is offerred at the end of the module and for one to one support online.
