Meetings and Booking
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How to Book
You can book via the contact form.
Just tell us the meeting, the dates you want to attend and how many
people are coming. You will then get an email confirming that your
place is booked. We aim to confirm the booking within 48 hours.
Alternately contact Steve or Cath on the landline 01200 429460 or mobile 07564 240829
Payment is made when you arrive.
Ajnanda Shon
February 19th, 2012
What is 'Holistic Awakening' and why is it essential?
A talk by Ajnanda Shon - author of the forthcoming book, 'Being Love Awareness'
Some teachers say awakening is all about awareness, others, all about love or all about being. When all three aspects are realised and realised as one, this is Holistic Awakening. The unity of consciousness, the bliss of compassion and the sacredness of being are revealed. A total Awakening of mind, heart and body, realising the oneness of infinite awareness, infinite love and infinite being. It is deeper than just non identification from thought and experience, but realises freedom from dualistic emotions or suffering, such as anger, fear, grief and jealousy as well, for profound mental and emotional health. It is a depth of realisation of being that then knows itself without mystery. The meaning of life and existence, the purpose and sacredness of everything and the necessity of tragedy in boundless compassion, are directly revealed
'The do nothing view works here and there. Holistic awakening can work everywhere.'
Ajnanda Shon
Visit Ajananda's Website
Steve Taylor
Saturday, March 31st, 2012. 11 am to 5 pm
Calderdale Yoga Centre, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire
Cost £30
Steve Taylor is the author of Waking From Sleep, The Fall, Making Time and his latest book Out of the Darkness. He is a lecturer in psychology at Leeds Metropolitan University and a researcher in transpersonal psychology at Liverpool John Moores University. Eckhart Tolle has described his work as 'An important contribution to the global shift in consciousness...His acute mind is imbued at all times with the higher faculty of spiritual awareness.' He was recently included in Mind, Body, Spirit magazine's list of the 100 most spiritually influential living people. His main interest is in temporary awakening experiences and the shift into a permanently awakened state.
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David Bingham
Saturday,Sunday June 2 & 3 2012. 11 am to 5 pm
Calderdale Yoga Centre, Hebden Bridge
Cost £30 per day or £50 for Saturday and Sunday
Non Conceptual Awareness is the Awareness within which all experiences arise.
It is the Knower of everything that is known.
Presence-Awareness-Existence is the totality.
It is untouched by all relative phenomena that arises within it.
We cannot move towards It nor away from It.
It is never lost or concealed.
It is the Timeless, Infinite Being that we truly are.
Steve Ford
Saturday & Sunday,July 28 & 29 11 am to 5pm
Calderdale Yoga Centre, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire
Cost £30 per day or £50 for Saturday and Sunday
Steve had an awakening in the 1990's and holds contemplative meetings and retreats which reflect his grounding in non-dual reality.
'When we are not projecting thoughts and emotions, all we are is an opening for being - for true expression.'
Jeff Foster
Saturday & Sunday, Sept 29 & 30
Calderdale Yoga Centre, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire
Cost £30 per day or £50 for Saturday and Sunday
Jeff Foster shares the timeless non-dual wisdom of spiritual awakening, pointing us beyond suffering, to a deep acceptance of the present moment, even in the midst of physical and emotional pain, relationship conflict, addiction and loss.
'Think of the word 'nonduality' as a 'finger pointing to the moon' (as they say in Zen) directing your attention to the wholeness of all life, to the Oneness which exists here and now. It points to an intimacy, a love beyond words, a completeness right at the heart of present experience. It points to where you already are. It points back Home. It is beyond comprehension, yet it is as obvious as breathing, as familiar as the feeling of your heart beating in your chest, as ordinary as the sights and sounds and smells appearing in this room.
Timothy Freke
November 24th
Calderdale Yoga Centre, Hebden Bridge
Tim is a philosopher or lover of wisdom who is pioneering a simple new way to experience a profound spiritual awakening, which fully embraces our everyday humanity. He has spent his life exploring the awakened state he often simply calls The Mystery Experience.
Tim has articulated his own revolutionary philosophy of lucid living designed to help people go beyond ideas and actually experience a deep awake state, which replaces out-dated spiritual jargon with clear new concepts which are simple to understand.
He has also developed a profoundly simple Mystery of the Moment attention technique and a number of powerful I to I practices, which quickly awaken practitioners to The Mystery Experience and help them commune with others in oneness and Big Love.
Tim has an honours degree in philosophy and is an internationally respected authority on world spirituality. He is the author of over thirty books that have established his reputation as a scholar and free-thinker.
He is best known for his groundbreaking work on Christian Gnosticism with his close friend Peter Gandy, including The Jesus Mysteries, which was a top 10 best-seller in the UK and USA, and a Book of the Year in the UK Daily Telegraph. In recent years he has articulated his own lucid philosophy in The Laughing Jesus, Lucid Living, and How Long is Now?
Tim is also an innovative stand-up philosopher a concept he developed from the ancient idea of a philosopher as a traveling spiritual entertainer who transformed people's consciousness.
He is a passionate and playful communicator, whose enthusiasm for life is contagious. He is often featured in documentary films and chat shows broadcast by the global media, such as the BBC and the History Channel. Tim is the founder of The Alliance for Lucid Living, (The ALL), an organization dedicated to our collective awakening. He lives with his wife Debbie and their two children in Glastonbury, England.
Visit Tim's Web Site
Mandi Solk
Mandi Solk's meetings are suspended due to her house move.
To contact Mandi:
Tel: 07881 665 909
or email: mandi@non-duality-north.com
Watch Mand Solk's Video