The Healing VoiceA Week Intensive
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RESIDENTIAL WEEK INTENSIVE- many people say this is the best week of their life! April 30 - May 7, 2010 BELTANE week in the heart of beautiful Somerset countryside  Very near Glastonbury (The Mystical Centre of Britain). In breath taking valley nestling between two sacred hills Gourmet vegetarian food. Starts Friday evening Wonderful and magical and utterly life changing
£759 (Fully Residential) Wonderful magical, healing and utterly life changing week. Each week has a different theme. Learning and developing the ancient shamanic practice of overtone chanting, vocal purification practices, transformative breathing, vocal yogas, sonorous meditations, sacred chants, mantras and sonic practices to transform family curses into their corresponding blessings and heal the ancestral lines. Also, journeying through the MANDALA OF GREEN TARA, we experience the union of the sacred masculine and feminine, bliss and emptiness. Beautiful continuous chant and practice. 
Working to discover love and ourselves and to magically transform afflictive or difficult relationships or difficult aspects of otherwise loving relationships. We will do this ceremonially, working with one of the most powerful of all deities, the Great Goddess Tara, the quick acting Mother of all the Buddhas, powerful and able to bring enlightenment in this lifetime. Traditionally equally loved and revered by men and women, many, including almost all Tibetan Buddhists, from the most sophisticated to the simplest, including the Dalai Lama, maintain their deep connection with this feminine manifestation of the divine, who acts swiftly and confers compassion, enlightened action, liberation, emotional and physical healing and long life. Through working with the extraordinary energies of Tara we are able to ease the blockages to achievements in work, in life and in emotional and physical health , bring about order and flow in our lives, to liberate us from afflictive emotions making us depressed, unhappy and frustrated, leading us to ecstasy, joy and freedom and work towards achieving the essential state of reality and become enlightened. The April-May 2010 retreat is held over the festival of Beltane or May Day, a festival of fecundity when the forces of heaven penetrate the earth (represented in traditional England by the Maypole). We will celebrate and harness these forces using sound as the bridge between the worlds to connect to the source of power through the instrument of our own voice and purify the body, the elements and past karma. In Tibetan Buddhism, the ultimate liberation is to transform the elements of the body into the essence of their substance - the rainbow colours and ultimately achieve the rainbow body. 
Jill only does one week-long residential retreat of this kind a year - always different and people come to them from all over the world so do book soon . |
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October 30th - November 5th 2010 9:30am - 6.30 pm (later on Thursday) £549 (non-residential) It is essential to book early for this 
Wonderful and magical and utterly life changing. It is essential to book early for this. During the weekend we will learn and practice overtone chanting, vocal purifications, transformative breathing, sacred chants, mantras, dream -work, healing ancestral lines, and transforming negative inherited patterns into corresponding blessings. THE MANDALA of Conscious Birthing and Dying. All Jill’s mandala ceremonies comprise continuous chant, spiritual practice and joyful deep transformative inner work. The aim of the Autumn 2010 ceremony, over the Festival of the Dead (All Saints - the Blessed Dead- and All Souls) is to transform emotional patterns as played out in life, which condition the nature of our departure from it. We will learn the practice of conscious living and dying, fundamental to Tibetan Buddhism. We will explore the geography of the Bardo and the nature and play of mind which occurs there. Since we signed up for death by being born, learning how to remain conscious and to recognize the mind when the body separates from it, is essential. While necessary for all of us when we make that transition - these are still principally teachings and vocal practices for enlightenment in this life. As a group, we become the mandala, or structure of consciousness, the alchemical balance of male and female (the union of these two is the ultimate spiritual path, sought within many traditions.) This ceremony, is different to previous retreats and equally good for those continuing the work or starting for the first time, and is for anyone seeking liberation now. We use chant to free us from the afflictive emotions which maintain us ego bound, depressed, unhappy and frustrated, and liberate us into a state of joy and release from the entrapping games of the mind. We practise the highly sophisticated vocal yogas the Tibetans have for making this ultimate transition by directing our consciousness at the moment of death, in order to direct the processes we go through beneficially. The aim is not only for ourselves, but also to help others at this time. Essential housework for mortals, this is a roadmap for leaving this world and a guide for living in it, in a state of illumination. People come from all over the world and inexpensive accommodation is available very close-by. On registering we can send you a list. |