June 15 - 22; 7 days with Master Wu (Sunday evening to Sunday lunch)

*Pre-requisite: Completion of level I & level II training
See November 28 to December 5, 2008 for level I training

Taiji level III
Life-long Training Program: Qigong

• Chinese Shamanic External Qi-healing Principles
• Yijing (I Ching) Sixty-Four Hexagrams Divination (Beginning)
• Wudang Taiji (Humanity)
• Chinese Calligraphy and Qi-healing I
• Internal Alchemy Meditation III

With annual opportunities to meet with a growing qigong family, this program is an invitation to promote balance, peace, and harmony in your life. The purpose of this program is to create communities of practitioners dedicated to the study of Classical Chinese Wisdom Traditions to support each other on this path to deeper Knowing and Enlightenment.

Traditional teachings in Chinese Shamanic Qigong will be offered over the long term. Traditional style teaching in China encompasses two key components. First, a student commits to learn from a master for his/her whole life. Second, the master commits to transmit knowledge from the lineage directly to the student.

The training is deeply grounded because the knowledge received grows as it is cultivated through daily practice.

Master Zhongxian Wu was born on China’s eastern shore in the city of Wenlin in Zhejiang Province, where the sun’s rays first touch the Chinese mainland. He began practicing Qigong and Taiji at an early age. Inspired by the immediate strengthening effects of this practice, Master Wu committed himself to the life-long pursuit of the ancient arts of internal cultivation. He devoted himself to the study of Qigong, martial arts, Chinese medicine, Yijing science, Chinese calligraphy, ancient Chinese music and Tibetan Buddhism over the next thirty years, studying with some of the best teachers in these fields.

Registration for this program is done directly with Master Wu.
Contact him at: qi@masterwu.net or 503-936-3390
His web site is: www.masterwu.net

June 27 - July 6; 9 days with Steve Armstrong and Kamala Masters

Insight and the Art of Equanimity

Insight or Vipassana meditation is the simple and direct practice of moment-to-moment observation of the mind/body experience through an open, precise and accepting awareness. The practice of equanimity is the development of a non-reactive and engaged mind. Together these practices provide a stable foundation for investigating attitudes of mind that condition understanding. Momentum in insight practice and the art of equanimity fosters clarity and confidence from which one can live with a balance of wisdom and compassion. This course is suitable for beginners and experienced meditators, men and women from all life experiences, backgrounds and diverse communities. A warm welcome to all.

Steven Armstrong has practiced insight meditation since 1975. He has served for many years at the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts as Executive Director, Board member and senior teacher. As a monk in Burma under the guidance of Sayadaw U Pandita he undertook intensive, silent practice of insight and lovingkindness meditations for 5 years and in Australia, he studied the Buddhist psychology (abhidhamma) with Sayadaw U Zagara. He continues his practice under the guidance of Sayadaw U Tejaniya. Steve is a co-founding teacher of the Vipassana Metta Foundation’s dharma sanctuary and hermitage on Maui. He has been leading meditation retreats internationally since 1990 and encourages spiritual development through cultivating insightful awareness and liberating understanding of the core teachings of the Buddha in all life activities.

Kamala Masters is one of the founders and teachers of the Vipassana Metta Foundation on Maui, where she is currently developing Ho'omalamalama, a sanctuary-hermitage for long term practice. She teaches retreats in the Theravada tradition at venues worldwide, including being a Core Teacher at the Insight Meditation Society at Barre, Massachusetts. Practicing since 1975, her teachers have been the late Anagarika Munindra of India and Sayadaw U Pandita of Burma with whom she continues to practice. Kamala has a commitment to carrying and offering the purity of the teachings of the Buddha in a way that touches our common sense and compassion as human beings. She lives in Hawaii where she raised 4 children, and is now blessed with 5 grandchildren.

Retreat cost: $450 plus dana offering.  Register Here

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