Sky of Mind: Exploring the Heart of Consciousness the Horses' Way
When you become the master of your own mind, troubling thoughts come and go like clouds moving across a clear blue sky, making space for even higher, deeper, more creative forms of consciousness.
This Introductory workshop is designed to enhance and deepen self-awareness and confident presence. Through the non-verbal experiences of Holotropic Breathwork (HBW) and insightful engagement with horses, you'll feel what living is like as an improvisational art as opposed to a conditioned formula. The workshop experiences will open doorways to Mind, Heart and Body that enhance a sense of peaceful, purposeful and joyful living that may simply be waiting for the appropriate stimulus for awakening. To manifest anything significant, you must distinguish between fantasy and imagination. Attachment to the fantasy of what life SHOULD be obscures important information in the moment, leading to disillusionment and disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, enhances reality, not so much changing it as expanding our perception of its possibilities and revealing a higher order
HBW is a non-traditional, experiential modality for deep personal self-discovery and healing developed by Stanislov Grof, MD. HBW has been taught and practiced all over the world for over 40 years and is now combined with Equine Experiential Learning in this Epona workshop.
As a long time students of various mindfulness practices, such as Vipassana, Metta, and Eckhart Tolle's model, the facilitators bring to the workshop a deep trust in the healing potential of expanded states of consciousness and of the innate wisdom of the Life Force within each human being, these states being activated in Holotropic Breathwork and in guided reflective and active interactions with horses. Because horses are hard-wired for states of expanded awareness and non-attachment, they can model and communicate non-judgmentally these qualities to us through their embodied presence, acting as a kind of personal mirror for our self-discovery.
In the end you will find that becoming more horse-like in your thinking is a shortcut to freeing your mind from misguided habits that keep you from living your dreams. Between the time with horses and HBW, you will develop new skills for heartfelt self-awareness, self-confidence and self-soothing, and open to greater peace, balance and joy in your life.
This workshop fulfills one of the prerequisites for application to the Epona Apprenticeship Program. View the prerequisites at http://taoofequus.com/ap_prereqs.html
Facilitators: Mary-Louise Gould, AAI, Epona Senior Faculty, Certified Holotropic Practitioner, Carol Roush, AAI, Epona Senior Faculty
Cost: $1100
For more information, contact Carol by email at carol@medicinehorseranch.com or call 520-455-5058.
Cancellation Policy: Cancellation up to 30 days prior to the event start date results in a credit of one-half the workshop tuition. There is no tuition credit for a cancellation 30 days or less before the event start date.
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