APRIL



ANI RINCHEN KHANDRO
The Twyn Community Centre, Caerphilly
(opposite the Post Office)

Saturday 5th April 10am – 4pm with a break for lunch
Sunday 6th April 9.30am – 1.30pm
Sunday 6th April 3pm - 4pm
last session after lunch at 17 Princes Avenue, Caerphilly


HEALTHY BODY PEACEFUL MIND
TAI CHI QIGONG & MEDITATION
Course Fee: £60

Ani Rinchen Khandro is a life ordained Buddhist nun who recently completed a three and a half year retreat. She is also an experienced practitioner of Tai Chi /Qigong, which she has taught since 1988. This course will use meditation in both movement and stillness. Relaxing and energising body and mind by alternating simple yet powerful Qigong exercises with sitting and walking meditations we learn to focus our physical and mental being into an integrated whole. With regular practice this will decrease stress, increase energy and lead to a healthy body and peaceful mind. Rinchen will present a series of Qigong exercises which direct healing and nourishing energy to all the major internal organs.
She will also teach a variety of meditation techniques which help to calm and clear the mind. There will also be time for questions and discussion. This course is suitable for beginners as well as experienced practitioners.
Please wear loose, comfortable clothes.



JUNE


DONAL CREEDON



FREEDOM AND THE STREAM

6th - 14th June 2008

Buddhist teachings speak the stream of becoming in which we are caught. That stream is an ever ending movement of grasping and suffering. It manifests in our daily life as an ongoing sense of anxiety, uncertainty, hope and fear and "Waiting for Godot". However, according to the Buddha there is another way of being which is living in freedom out of the stream of time and becoming.In our retreat we will meditate, discuss and explore together these and other vital issues. Meditation will include simple sitting practices as well as some vajrayana visualizations."
10 day course