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Maya Center Spring Workshops: A Theme of Hope
This season we turn our focus of healing and spiritual growth on workshops that will bring us practical skills to break through the bonds and barriers placed in our lives to emerge with renewed strength, hope, and energy. As the world becomes more complicated & fast paced, & with ever increasing challenges, we may wonder how we can continue to cope with the daily obstacles while still trying to meet our own needs and desires.
Our spring workshops are designed to teach you skills to break through the daily challenges, and live your life fully - with strength, energy, purpose, and lasting hope. These powerful workshops will assist you to develop the ability to see and move through difficulties, while maintaing focus on hope, peace and contentment in every moment.
Our weekend workshops are held at the Maya Center in Isle LaMotte, in a blissful setting of peace, tranquility, along the western lakeshore of Lake Champlain. Accomodations are available for overnight stay in the main building or carriage house, please inquire for further information.
http://www.mayactr.org/
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Reaching the Mountain Top
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May 1st
Reaching the Mountain Top: Living with Meaning, Courage, & Purpose in a Health Crisis
Dr. Jeanette O'Conor
Stowe Weekend of Hope, Stowe Vt
The experience of critical illness is a devastating and all consuming process, where the perspective is often on how the illness has taken control of our life. Yet in the midst of such a crisis, a transformative shift can take place- and the illness can become an unfolding journey filled with learning and wisdom. In the midst of this transformation, even the most difficult struggle can bring forth new life meaning, purpose, strength, and courage.
This session will focus on learning how to make this transformative shift using powerful lessons from those who have struggled, suffered, yet thrived; and have then gone on to conquer their mountain top.
Registration: Free to Cancer Patients; see Stowe Weekend of Hope website
http://www.stowehope.org
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May 1st
Breaking Through to HOPE
Dr. Jeanette O'Conor
Stowe Weekend of Hope, Stowe VT
Critical illness can strip away every aspect of our physical, mental, emotional, and spirituals self and leave us feeling raw and naked at the core of our being. In this interactive session we will focus on how new perspectives and a transformative shift can manifest into daily skills that will teach us to break through and emerge from pain with renewed strength and lasting hope. This session builds upon the prior session "Reaching the Mountain Top".
Registration: Free to Cancer Patients, see Stowe Weekend of Hope website
Dr. O'Conor is the medical director and founder of the Maya Center for Integrated Medicine. Dr. O'Conor's expertise is helping those with critical illness achieve new levels of health and well-being through integrative therapies and mind-body medicine. She has published in the field of integrative medicine and self-healing, and she has developed a successful four month program titled "Journey to Healing" which has helped many women to work through their physical and emotional pain to achieve states of happiness, health, and wellness.
http://www.stowehope.org
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Inspiration
To Hope
by John Keats
When by my solitary hearth I sit,
When no fair dreams before my “mind’s eye” flit,
And the bare heath of life presents no bloom;
Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed,
And wave thy silver pinions o’er my head.
Whene’er I wander, at the fall of night,
Where woven boughs shut out the moon’s bright ray,
Should sad Despondency my musings fright,
And frown, to drive fair Cheerfulness away,
Peep with the moon-beams through the leafy roof,
And keep that fiend Despondence far aloof.
Should Disappointment, parent of Despair,
Strive for her son to seize my careless heart;
When, like a cloud, he sits upon the air,
Preparing on his spell-bound prey to dart:
Chase him away, sweet Hope, with visage bright,
And fright him as the morning frightens night!
Whene’er the fate of those I hold most dear
Tells to my fearful breast a tale of sorrow,
O bright-eyed Hope, my morbid fancy cheer;
Let me awhile thy sweetest comforts borrow:
Thy heaven-born radiance around me shed,
And wave thy silver pinions o’er my head!
Should e’er unhappy love my bosom pain,
From cruel parents, or relentless fair;
O let me think it is not quite in vain
To sigh out sonnets to the midnight air!
Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed,
And wave thy silver pinions o’er my head!
In the long vista of the years to roll,
Let me not see our country’s honour fade:
O let me see our land retain her soul,
Her pride, her freedom; and not freedom’s shade.
From thy bright eyes unusual brightness shed—
Beneath thy pinions canopy my head!
Let me not see the patriot’s high bequest,
Great Liberty! how great in plain attire!
With the base purple of a court oppress’d,
Bowing her head, and ready to expire:
But let me see thee stoop from heaven on wings
That fill the skies with silver glitterings!
And as, in sparkling majesty, a star
Gilds the bright summit of some gloomy cloud;
Brightening the half veil’d face of heaven afar:
So, when dark thoughts my boding spirit shroud,
Sweet Hope, celestial influence round me shed,
Waving thy silver pinions o’er my head.
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Mindfulness for Living Now
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May 28-30th:
Mindfulness for Living Now: Opening with Courage in Difficult Times
Dr. Arnold Kozak
Location: Maya Center, Isle LaMotte
Being in the present moment is a natural way to inspire hope by harnessing our focus in the lived experience of now. This way of being moves us into acceptance and all the benefits that flow from being in contact with what is so. From this place of equanimity we can focus on the future with choice, spaciousness, and optimism. During this meditation-intensive weekend, we will look within ourselves to open to the kind of hope made possible by letting go of limiting expectations, beliefs, and rules. We will work with metaphors from Arnie’s bestselling and award winning book, Wild Chickens and Petty Tyrants: 108 Metaphors for Mindfulness (Wisdom). Throughout this workshop you will develop a repertoire of practical metaphors for mind, self, acceptance, practice, and coping with “ordinary craziness.” No previous experience with meditation is required. All levels welcome.
Dr. Arnold Kozak is recognized as an innovator in the field of mindfulness-based psychology. Dr. Arnie Kozak is northern New England’s leading expert in the field of mindfulness. Dr. Kozak’s ability to translate ancient healing traditions into pragmatic applications suitable for modern lifestyles through the use of metaphors have made him a strong voice in healthcare and business. Dr. Kozak is a licensed psychologist and lecturer in psycholodgy at the University of Vermont. He is the founder of Exquisite Mind, and author of "Wild Chickens and Petty Tyrants: 108 Metaphors for Mindfulness".
Registration fee $225.00, to register go to our website link below. Accomodations separate fee.
http://www.mayactr.org
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