Omega 2020 Catalog

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WELCOME TO A NEW DECADE OF LEARNING

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Workshops Retreats Online Learning ANGEL KYODO WILLIAMS P. 23

GABOR MATÉ P. 107

BYRON KATIE P. 43

DON MIGUEL RUIZ P. 25

TARA BRACH P. 76

KRISHNA DAS P. 97

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LYNDA BARRY P. 94

RHONDA V. MAGEE P. 82

ADYASHANTI P. 124

SHERRI MITCHELL P. 83

JOHN TODD P. 52

HARVILLE HENDRIX P. 32

LATHAM THOMAS P. 82

NEVŞAH F. KARAMEHMET P. 118

ALBERTO VILLOLDO P. 121

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More than simply a place, Omega is a global community that awakens the best in the human spirit and cultivates the extraordinary potential that exists in us all.

CONTENTS 12 Dining 14 R&R Retreats 16 Workshops 19 Yoga Service Initiative 28 Brown University’s Mindfulness Center Programs 30 Veterans, Trauma & Resilience Initiative 48 Arts Week 53 Omega Center for Sustainable Living 57 Retreat Week 63 Mindfulness Initiative 72 Family Week 116 Omega Women’s Leadership Center 127 Scholarships, Tiered Pricing & Tuition Discounts 127 Nonprofit Retreats 128 New York City Programs 129 Wisdom at Work: Professional Trainings 133 All-Inclusive Stay 136 Continuing Education Credits 138 Online Learning 140 Omega Seasonal Team Opportunities 142 Teacher Index 145 Membership

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COVER ART Carianne Mack Garside Supercell Softening oil on panel, 60 x 72 inches

”Uncover your unique contribution to the coming decade.”

Dear Friends, I’ve been thinking about what I’d like to see in the coming decade. So much change is happening so quickly—from weather patterns to gender roles to technology.

I keep asking myself: How can we use these challenges as opportunities to stop repeating past mistakes, take responsibility, and create brighter outcomes?

And I keep arriving at the same answer: relationships. When we each grow in relationship to ourselves, we discover and develop our relationship with our family, our friends, our human community, and our planet. Together, we can build the kinds of relationships that heal wounds, bridge differences, solve problems, and uplift everyone.

This connection between personal and global well-being is fundamental to everything we do at Omega.

Our beautiful Rhinebeck campus provides a living classroom to help people grow, give more, love better, and live more authentically. The natural beauty of our campus, the nourishing food we serve, the extraordinary teachers and participants who gather from around the world, and the ways in which our staff care about our participants— all make the environment in which teaching happens, as important as the teaching itself.

Transformative personal experiences unfold and relationships are nurtured.

I hope you’ll join us for one of the more than 350 workshops you’ll find in the following pages to uncover your unique contribution to the coming decade. I know the time we all spend together on campus this year will seed possibilities for more insight, connection, and joy in the world. And that fills me with hope for what’s to come.

See you on campus,

Robert “Skip” Backus Chief Executive Officer

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Discover Shared Values Omega’s Values Holism

Community

Sustainability We hold an optimistic view that each of us can contribute toward a regenerative future.

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We believe human beings thrive in connection with one another.

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We believe that the well-being of each of us is deeply connected to the well-being of all living things.

Service We believe service is a path toward greater understanding of ourselves, others, and the world we share.

Integrity We treat others as we ourselves would want to be treated, and focus on the collective good.

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Seed Possibilities for a New Decade Every year, tens of thousands of people gain deep insights, develop fresh ideas about the world, and build community through Omega. Our workshops, trainings, and classes enable these profound learning moments.

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Learn to meditate, even if you’re a fidgety skeptic.

(Warren, page 20)

Earn Continuing

Education Credits CE We offer more than 40 workshops with continuing education credits.

(Explore our complete listing on page 136)

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“I find myself longing to be back at Omega.

I adore the simplicity of everything there.

All your needs are provided for and you can really dig in to the program or workshop you are attending. I can’t wait to visit again.”

—TRIPADVISOR MEMBER MRS SIMPSON, VA

Relieve your chronic pain by

uncovering repressed emotions.

(Sachs, page 83)

Teach your children how

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Change your perception of aging.

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to navigate anxiety.

you’ll actually stick to.

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Start a writing practice (Barry, page 94)

Develop a better

relationship with your dog.

(Kurlander, page 43)

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Get Inspired to Make a Difference Come see what the future of sustainability looks like Take a free tour of the Omega Center for Sustainable Living (OCSL), the first building in the world to achieve both LEED Platinum and Living Building Challenge certification. You’ll learn how our state-of-the-art building has reclaimed more than 45 million gallons of wastewater, prevented more than 860,000 pounds of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere, and produced more than 500,000 kWh of solar energy—all while using net zero energy from the grid.

More than a building, the OCSL is a hub for climate education and action. When you visit, you join environmental organizations, activists, educators, and students to network and learn through a variety of programs. To get involved, see page 53.

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Do you believe in a world where empathy, compassion, and love are integral to leadership? We do, too.

Women play critical roles worldwide in transforming what it means to lead, and shifting the leadership paradigm from “power over” to “power with” others.

Whether you are an aspiring leader who wants to hone skills and deepen self-understanding or an established leader looking to give back and impact the world, the Omega Women’s Leadership Center (OWLC) is here to support you to Do Power Differently®.

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The OWLC’s programs are designed for all who identify as women. To get involved, see page 116.

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Find Us in Rhinebeck, NY … and Everywhere

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With deep roots in New York’s Hudson Valley, our Rhinebeck campus is a place of natural beauty. What’s more, we are a global community of learners, educators, and leaders.

23,000 visitors in person 2,000,000 visitors online 200,000 social media followers 130 countries reached

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Join Us Online

Through live stream, on-demand, and online courses, you can participate in Omega’s teachings on your own schedule and at your own pace. For current programs, see page 138.

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Featuring the following teachers and more…

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JOAN BORYSENKO

ANGEL KYODO WILLIAMS

WINONA LADUKE

KRISHNA DAS

TIM OLMSTED

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KAREN MICHEL

Introducing our new podcast Now you can ‘drop in’ on classes and intimate conversations with artists, climate change provocateurs, spiritual teachers, health experts, and more.

Join longtime public radio journalist Karen Michel, as she sits down with the great thinkers, creative talent, and social visionaries who teach at Omega.

Together we explore the many ways to awaken the best in the human spirit.

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Gather Around the Table

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Come together with other participants for delicious farm-to-table meals that provide warmth, nourishment, and a sense of community.

What can you expect? Local, sustainable, nutrient-dense, and mostly plant-based meals. The food we serve is prepared by a dedicated team of chefs, cooks, and servers, all guided by Omega’s executive chef, Malcom Sanz.

Dining Hall Hours Breakfast 7:00 a.m. to 8:45 a.m.

Lunch Noon to 2:00 p.m.

Dinner 6:00 p.m. to 7:15 p.m.

“I want people to taste the Hudson Valley harvest at its finest.”

—MALCOM SANZ, EXECUTIVE CHEF

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Food that meets your dietary needs Gluten-free? Vegan? You’ll find a delicious meal that will leave you feeling nourished. We also take special care to provide options for people with common food allergies.

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We are proud to work with the following local farmers Angello’s Distributing, Inc. organic produce Blue Roof Honey Chimney Hill Farm maple syrup Feather Ridge Farm eggs Hawthorne Valley Farms yogurt Jack Fox, Forager ramps La Bella Pasta Little Seed Gardens sprouts

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McEnroe Organic Farm composting Markristo Farms local greens Old Saw Mill Farm, LLC fruit Organic Nectars agave Red Barn Produce produce Ronnybrook Dairy Farm milk & butter Thompson-Finch Farm strawberries Wonderland Farm produce

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Don’t Miss These Campus Experiences!

Rest & Rejuvenate

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Try one of Omega’s most popular programs: an R&R retreat!

You’ll enjoy getting in touch with what’s important to you, doing as much or as little as you want, unwinding in nature, rejuvenating with yoga, tai chi, and meditation classes, developing a new skill, or simply relaxing.

Available May to October, R&R Retreats are $25/day weekdays and $38/day weekends, plus accommodations and meals (2-night minimum stay; see page 133).

Learn more at eOmega.org/rest

Feel Good Pamper yourself at the Omega Wellness Center.

We offer more than 45 services and our wellness concierge can help you find the perfect treatment for you.

Learn more at eOmega.org/feelgood or call 800.954.0082.

Treat Yourself “If rejuvenation is what you seek, then Omega is the place to be.”

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The Omega Café at the center of campus is an ideal spot to grab a coffee, sweet treat, or light meal. It’s also a great place to mingle with other workshop participants.

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Browse Shop our collection of books, jewelry, clothing, and more at the Omega Store.

You can also find the essential toiletries you need here.

Move Your Body, Mind & Spirit Relax and unwind with daily open classes (morning, midday, afternoon) in yoga, tai chi, meditation, or movement. Our classes are designed for both beginners and experienced practitioners.

Do you want to better understand opposing views but often don’t have a good way to do so? Omega’s partnership with Living Room Conversations can help you do just that.

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We’re pleased to host once-a-month talks on campus in 2020.

Check kiosks for dates and times.

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Have a Meaningful Conversation

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May

PEMA CHÖDRÖN

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The on-campus program is sold out; call 800.944.1001 to be added to the wait list.

A Weekend Retreat With Pema Chödrön Course 1102-247/Tuition $495 ($445 Members) SS, MI, LE

Pema Chödrön is widely beloved for her insightful, down-to-earth teachings of Tibetan Buddhism for Western audiences.

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Don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience one of today’s most prominent Buddhist teachers and hear her new insights, conveyed with her characteristic warmth, clarity, and humor.

Grow your potential.

Help us grow ours.

Become a member.

See eOmega.org/membership.

This year, Pema Chödrön explores the Buddhist teachings on three steps to working with emotions; in other words, three steps to courage. The three steps are refraining, transforming, and using emotions as the path of awakening.

This exploration helps us work with the negative emotions that cause us—and others—harm. These emotions are addictive cravings, aggression, indifference, jealousy, and pride. Pema Chödrön shows us how to work with these negative emotions with kindness and clarity.

TIM OLMSTED

The weekend includes talks, guided meditations, and question-and-answer sessions with Pema Chödrön. Tim Olmsted guides us in meditation practices that show us how to apply the weekend’s teachings to our everyday lives. Silence is observed from the end of Friday night’s retreat session until Saturday dinner.

Pema Chödrön will not be teaching during the Saturday afternoon session; Olmsted will offer a talk and a series of guided meditations. The retreat begins Friday at 7:00 p.m.

Pema Chödrön, whose best-selling books include When Things Fall Apart, is one of the most prominent Buddhist teachers in the West today. pemachodron.org

Tim Olmsted is president of the Pema Chödrön Foundation and founder and senior instructor for Tergar International. steamboatbuddhistcenter.org

Join Pema Chödrön Live Online

Register now at eOmega.org/pemalive.

DA Discounts Available; see page 127 SS Special schedule; see eOmega.org MI More information provided after registration

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WEEKEND WORKSHOP Arrive Friday  Begin Friday at 8:00 p.m.  End Sunday at noon

OMEGA MINDFULNESS PROGRAM

MAY 10-15

The Way of Awareness

An Immersion Experience in Mindfulness & Heartfulness Will Kabat-Zinn and Jon Kabat-Zinn Course 1205-468/Tuition $555 ($500 Members) SS, MI, LE WILL KABAT-ZINN

Mindfulness is often spoken of as “the heart of Buddhist meditation.�

However, its essence is universal. As the Theravadan monk and Buddhist scholar, Nyanaponika Thera, put it in his classic work, The Heart of Buddhist Meditation, mindfulness is the unfailing master key for knowing the mind, and is thus the starting point; the perfect tool for shaping our relationship to the mind, and is thus the focal point; and the lofty manifestation of the achieved freedom of the mind, and is thus the culminating point.

We will be engaging in a range of formal and informal meditation practices, including the body scan, various forms of guided movement, sitting meditation, and walking meditation. There will be an emphasis on the cultivation of mindfulness in all daily activities to foster a seamless continuity of life and practice. The applications of mindfulness in the face of the full catastrophe of the human condition, including stress, pain, illness, our own tacit assumptions, implicit biases, and the challenges of social inequity will be emergent themes.

JON KABAT-ZINN

Will Kabat-Zinn is a mindfulness and meditation teacher whose passion is to help people wake up to their own deepest nature.

Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, is founder of MBSR and the MBSR Clinic at University of Massachusetts Medical School. jonkabat-zinn.com

Terri Cole

Course 1302-384/Tuition $370 ($335 Members)

Learn the art of healthy, flexible personal boundaries to transform your relationships and your life.

Drawing boundaries, setting limits, or prioritizing personal preferences is a distinct skill set not taught in school.

There is a misconception that to do these things you must be selfish, mean, or confrontational. The fear of being labeled “difficult� and a lack of solid “how-to� knowledge prohibits many highly capable women from honoring their truest selves.

In Boundary Bootcamp™ for Women explore how you can draw boundaries with ease and grace in all areas of your life. When you uncover your inherited boundary blueprint and your own boundary style, you can start to make more authentic behavioral choices in the world.

Based on Terri Cole’s two decades of experience with high functioning, yet exhausted women, this program includes: • • • •

5-DAY WORKSHOP Arrive Sunday Begin Monday at 9:00 a.m. End Friday at noon

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Strategies to find and work through blocked emotions The seven biggest boundary struggles and strategies for each How to stop past boundary issues from dictating your future Identifying unconscious “repeating realities� that no longer serve you Specific techniques and strategies to integrate what you learn this weekend into daily life

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This workshop begins Sunday at 7:30 p.m. This workshop has extended hours, including early morning meditations and evening sessions, and includes stretches of extended silent practice as well as periods of conversation and dialogue about our unfolding experiences.

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Mindfulness has everything to do with open-hearted attention to the unfolding of experience as it is. In most Asian languages, the word for “mind� and the word for “heart� are the same word. Therefore, we can understand mindfulness better if we simultaneously hear it as heartfulness and cultivate it in that way. During this retreat, we will be cultivating intimacy with our own experience as the days unfold, letting life itself become the curriculum.

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Terri Cole is a licensed psychotherapist and host of The Terri Cole Show podcast. terricole.com

Course 1205-289/Tuition $390 ($350 Members) MI

NICK FLYNN

When first approaching the idea of writing our memoir, says acclaimed poet, memoirist, and playwright Nick Flynn, we often write what we believe is our unique autobiography—but as we press on, we discover that our story is connected to everyone’s story, and only then can we access the deeper mysteries of life.

Under Flynn’s guidance, we look for those moments when we begin to stutter and stumble when talking about our projects, and then push more deeply into the shadows of our misremembered past. We wrestle with these deeper mysteries, as well as the concept of bewilderment, and how we can embody both in our memoirs—through syntax, our access to the duende, leaps into the unconscious, or simply circling around what is unsaid, unknown, and unrealized.

Be willing to push deeper into this shadow world and be open to question why you tell the particular stories about your life that you do.

Nick Flynn is an award-winning writer, playwright, and poet. He currently teaches creative writing at the University of Houston. nickflynn.org

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Preconference Intensives

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Join the yoga service community, dive into practice, and start the conversation early with one of three preconference intensives. The intensives can be taken alone, or as part of the Yoga Service Conference.

Programs start on Friday at 10:00 a.m. and end at 5:00 p.m. See eOmega.org/ysc for more information.

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DEVELOPING LEADERS An Inquiry Into Values, Mission & Service David Lipsius

Course 1201-240/Tuition $95 ($85 Members) SS, CE

Discover how the principles of traditional yoga philosophies can help you unlock your unlimited leadership potential and bring forth the extraordinary leader that already exists inside you.

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David Lipsius is the former CEO of Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, Yoga Alliance, and The Yoga Alliance Foundation.

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Leslie Salmon Jones and Jeff W. Jones

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Bridging Cultural Divides Through Yoga, Rhythm 18 & Compassion Course 1201-239/Tuition $95 ($85 Members) SS

Tap into internal resources of wisdom and guidance with deep listening through the lens of an embodied practice of movement, yoga, and live music. Learn how the Afro Flow Yoga® model integrates the individual with the community, the environment, and our ancestors.

Leslie Salmon Jones is the creator of Afro Flow Yoga™. lesliesalmonjones.com

Jeff W. Jones is a multi-instrumentalist and composer. afroflowyoga.com

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A Transformative Immersion Into Yoga & Social Justice Michelle Cassandra Johnson and Kerri Kelly Course 1201-241/Tuition $95 ($85 Members) SS

Explore the intersection of contemplative practices and justice as we share collective space to wade through what arises when we speak truth from our social location or embodied racial identities.

Michelle Cassandra Johnson (she/her) is a licensed clinical social worker and has been a leading antiracism trainer.

Kerri Kelly (she/her) is founder of CTZNWELL, an organization working to democratize well-being for everyone. ctznwell.org

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Service Conference 9 th Yoga DEVELOPING LEADERS, EXPANDING

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REACH & GROWING IN COMMUNITY

Course 1302-242/Tuition $345/270/195 ($310 Members) SS, MI, CE

“Harmonious relationships require awareness, not agreement, so that barriers that result in misunderstanding, discord, and harm can be dissolved.” —Dr. Gail Parker Join us for the 9th annual Yoga Service Conference and dive deep into an exploration of service-based leadership models that reflect YSC values of collaboration, inclusivity, and community.

The era of top-down leadership is ending. New ways of leading are evolving, and we believe that the yoga service model holds tremendous potential for creative and collaborative opportunities. With its unique combination of yoga practice, conscious relationship, and self-reflection/self-inquiry, yoga service encourages a horizontal leadership model that’s truly collaborative and emergent.

At this year’s conference, copresented by the Yoga Service Council and Omega Institute, we explore the idea of collaborative leadership through keynote talks, cofacilitated breakout workshops, Common Interest Community gatherings, and a Saturday evening community-building party.

You do not need to be a yoga teacher to join us—social workers, health care providers, school teachers, counselors, therapists, and others will find the resources, inspiration, and support necessary to make yoga and mindfulness practices inclusive, effective, sustainable, and accessible to all.

Choose one of the three Preconference Intensives on May 15.

Then, join the full conference to: • • • • • •

Network and build community Learn leadership skills and strategies Discover how to build a sustainable service-based practice Explore the relationship between neuroscience and trauma Develop and maintain a self-care practice Learn about the expanding role of research in yoga

Rajni Tripathi David Lipsius Michelle Cassandra Johnson Kerri Kelly Leslie Salmon Jones Jeff W. Jones Jennifer Cohen Harper Dr. Gail Parker Dr. Sat Bir Singh Khalsa Allie Middleton Marlysa Sullivan Jenna Weintraub Colin Lieu RW Alves

You also have the opportunity to attend roundtable discussions with Yoga Service Council advisors and board members.

Kwasi Boaitey

Leave the conference with a renewed sense of purpose as a member of a dynamic community working for individual and collective change—and a new way of looking at what it means to be a service-based leader.

Kathryn Monti Thomas

Teachers are subject to change. See eOmega.org/ysc for more information.

Rachel Allen

Tina Paul Danielle Rousseau Jana Long Mel Buttarra

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WEEKEND WORKSHOPS Arrive Friday Begin Friday at 8:00 p.m. End Sunday at noon

OMEGA WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP CENTER PROGRAM

MAY 15-17

Centering Leadership in Presence I & II

ANGEL KYODO WILLIAMS

Drawing Power From What Matters In Challenging Times Reverend angel Kyodo williams Sensei Course 1302-440/Tuition $390/315/240 ($350 Members) LE

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Developing Leaders See left.

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They don’t stimulate the pressure we feel when confronting everyday situations They use approaches of the mind to address habits, patterns, and behaviors that are held in our body

The result? We find it difficult to translate our training and our best intentions into how we show up as leaders.

This workshop, for all who identify as women, combines training for the heartmind with training for the body-mind to be present in another way. Third Way methodology teaches self-diagnostic tools and practical skills we can apply in the moment and over time to take our leadership capacity to the next level.

We learn to use the power of centering in presence to manage energy, exhibit grace under pressure, and listen without taking things personally. We go beyond mind-only practices that allow patterns of ancestral, generational, and day-to-day anxiety to drive us. We tap into the deep wisdom of our bodies to develop positive boundaries, increase self-awareness, and release unwanted behaviors with selfcompassion, humor, and love.

Scholarships are available; see eOmega.org/scholarships.

Skill in Action See left.

Reverend angel Kyodo williams Sensei is an author, activist, and maverick teacher who bridges the worlds of spirit and justice. angelkyodowilliams.com

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9th Annual Yoga Service Conference See left.

Divine Light Healing

JUNE 12-14

Rob Wergin

See page 38.

Our past experiences can cause energetic stagnation and blockages in our mind and body. These blocks often lead to disease, dysfunction, distress, disconnection, or despair in our lives. During this healing weekend with Rob Wergin, you experience multiple hands-on healing experiences and Divine Light transmissions that create opportunities to clear old patterns, experiences, and beliefs.

Navigating Anxiety in Children JUNE 29-JULY 3

Youth, Yoga & Mindfulness See page 51.

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Little Flower Yoga & Mindfulness Teacher Training See page 79.

AUGUST 14-16

Retreat to Spirit See page 88.

SEPTEMBER 20-25

Yoga for Trauma Survivors See page 105.

OCTOBER 9-11

Healing the Wounds of Racial Distress See page 120.

Explore more at eOmega.org/yogaservice

Course 1302-251/Tuition $395 ($355 Members) MI, LE

This process releases physical, mental, and emotional discomfort, as well as pain, disease, and addictions—reconnecting you with your true expression. When reconnecting to divine energy, the mind and body are filled with unconditional love and light, and balance is restored. Blockages and stagnation are released, old wounds are healed, dis-ease is dismissed, and many aspects of life are transformed.

Additionally, through lectures, discussions, and shared explorations, you restore and maintain a joyful healing connection with the divine that allows you to continue your journey of reconnection and wellness. Return home with a renewed connection to divine energy and a healthier, more vibrant body, mind, and spirit.

This workshop is also offered in October (see page 115).

Additional energy work of any kind (i.e., massage, cranial therapy, etc.) is not advised during this retreat.

Rob Wergin is a clairvoyant, clairsentient, and clairaudient who has helped tens of thousands of people of all ages and religions. robwergin.com

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Omega Institute and the Yoga Service Council have partnered together to provide an array of yoga service programs that offer practical skills and effective tools, a sense of purpose and passion, and the heartfelt inspiration to make a difference in the world.

Leadership can be cultivated by anyone. More than a position, being a true leader calls us to practice ways of being that catalyze collective action toward a shared vision. Yet most of us have learned leadership approaches that have two major obstacles:

ROB WERGIN

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HOW TO GUIDE MEDITATION: A TRAINING AND RETREAT

Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics

Jeff Warren

Course 1405-299/Tuition $450 ($405 Members) MI

For the Defiantly Unenlightened of All Persuasions

Meditation can restore sanity in a world that often seems out of control. Jeff Warren, a best-selling author who has been celebrated for his dynamic and accessible style of teaching, offers this training and retreat to empower you to guide others in meditation—as a way to care for yourself and others.

Jeff Warren Course 1302-228/Tuition $370 ($335 Members) MI

Dive into the mysterious heart of practice with meditation teacher and award-winning writer Jeff Warren, coauthor of the best seller Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics.

In addition to several sitting and guided meditation sessions, we explore topics including the power of holding space, the fundamental attentional skills that During this retreat we explore how mindfulness JEFF WARREN underlie practice, how these skills can be threaded and meditation “work” from the inside and through different “forms” or techniques (from meditating on the breath how to recognize what core attentional skills are being trained, so to sound to movement), how to work with common meditation-related we can develop them in both sitting and in life. We also learn what it challenges, how to use accessible language, and the centrality of honesty means to be our own teacher, able to adapt our meditation to fit our and teaching “where you’re at.” own unique circumstances and nervous system.

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Warren teaches that meditation can be ridiculously helpful, and it doesn’t have to look anything like the stereotypes, nor do we need to buy into a particular worldview to enjoy its benefits and perspective. We experience sitting meditation and discussion, as well as movement and nature excursions to keep the energy moving and the body limber. We learn to make a practice our own by finding an object, a style, and an approach that works for us.

This retreat is designed for total beginners as well as more experienced practitioners.

We engage in experiential exercises, including writing and guiding our own meditations in small groups. We learn through feedback and, always, mindful attention to our own experience. As we get clearer about how to share meditation, our own practice deepens immeasurably.

A 2-day version of this training, without retreat, is offered in September (see page 107).

Jeff Warren, a meditation instructor and journalist celebrated for his accessible style of teaching, is coauthor of the New York Times best seller Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics. jeff warren.org

5-DAY WORKSHOPS Arrive Sunday Begin Monday at 9:00 a.m. End Friday at noon

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Lisa Williams

Rest, Restore & Rewrite Your Life

ADVANCED MEDIUMSHIP MASTERY LEVEL III Course 1405-237/Tuition $550 ($495 Members) MI

Are you ready to take your skills as a medium or psychic to the next level?

Join renowned psychic medium, best-selling author, and spiritual teacher Lisa Williams and discover how to step beyond your comfort zone and develop your intuitive gifts in a safe and supportive environment.

Through hands-on practice, including giving at least two readings, you discover how to isolate your senses; open, close, and blend with spirit; understand advanced symbols and connect with spiritual guides; hear and deliver specific messages; and how to care for and protect yourself.

You also receive introductions on meditation, physical mediumship, speed readings, psychic detection, and trance work, as well as guidance on how to establish your own mediumship business.

This training prepares you to pursue certification in Advanced Mediumship; for more information, see lisawilliamsschool.com.

Lisa Williams is a psychic medium, bestselling author, television personality, spiritual teacher, and founder of the Lisa Williams School of Spiritual Development. lisawilliams.com

YOGA NIDRA RETREAT John Vosler

Course 1405-436/Tuition $485 ($435 Members) MI, CE

Experience five days of deep restoration, relaxation, and reflection. Using the practice of yoga nidra guided meditation, we begin to restore the body, clear the mind, and shift the habitual patterns that keep us from being calm, clear, and balanced.

JOHN VOSLER

Yoga nidra uses the biological process of sleep to systematically release stored physical, emotional, and mental tensions. Through this restorative process, we can begin to release unconscious programming that keeps us locked in the past. All we have to do is show up, lie down, and let go.

This week we move our bodies before we take a resting position, clear our minds, and create intentions to live from a new perspective. We allow our emotions to be experienced. Then we take this felt sense of being back into our personal life, family life, work life, and love life.

This program uses various lineages of yoga nidra, including iRest and the Integrative Amrit Method.

John Vosler, a senior teacher at the Amrit Yoga Institute, leads Yoga Nidra Teacher Certification programs and is an Integrative Restoration Institute Certified iRest Teacher.

JOIN Omega’s Seasonal Team

eOmega.org/joinus See page 140 for details.

DA Discounts Available; see page 127 SS Special schedule; see eOmega.org MI More information provided after registration

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5-DAY WORKSHOPS Arrive Sunday Begin Monday at 9:00 a.m. End Friday at noon

MAY 17-22

THE MORE BEAUTIFUL WORLD OUR HEARTS KNOW IS POSSIBLE Charles Eisenstein

Course 1405-539/Tuition $125 SS, MI, LE

Our hearts know it, because we have seen it, experienced glimpses of what life and the world could be.

Yet as individuals and a society, we carry habits and programs of the old and dying “Story of Separation.”

We cannot easily know how to get from here to there; often, we doubt what we have seen. This retreat is a CHARLES EISENSTEIN deprogramming from the old story and an immersion in a new (and ancient) story. It crystallizes a next step toward the world we know is possible. It engages a great power within you, and it will inspire a hope that comprehends the full situation on this planet.

Charles Eisenstein is a thought leader and writer focusing on themes of human culture and identity. He is the author of several books, most recently Climate: A New Story, Sacred Economics, and The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible. charleseisenstein.org

ANIMAL FROLICS QIGONG

Strength of the Bear, Balance of the Crane Ken Cohen

Brian Weiss and Carole K. Weiss

Course 1405-213/Tuition $995 ($895 Members) SS, MI, LE

This date is sold out. This workshop is also offered in July and October (see pages 68 and 122).

Gain theoretical knowledge, intensive BRIAN WEISS AND CAROLE K. WEISS practical skills, and experience in past-life regression therapy in one of only three Past-Life Therapy Trainings being offered by Brian and Carole K. Weiss in 2020. This unique opportunity adds a new dimension to the therapeutic repertoire of health-care professionals, while nonprofessionals explore their own past lives as a way toward increased self-understanding and an understanding of the nature of human existence. Highlights include:

• Learning techniques of hypnosis, visual imagery, meditation, and working with past lives • History and current research related to hypnosis, visual imagery, meditation techniques, and working with past lives • Mind-body connection and its relationship to healing physical and psychological illness • How to identify the capacity of a client to undergo hypnosis, conduct a hypnotic induction, and interpret the content of a client’s hypnotic recall • Observing and experiencing many individual and group regression sessions and demonstrations This training offers an invaluable opportunity to learn past-life therapy techniques while exploring our own past lives and to retrieve and release memories from childhood and prior lives in order to build healthy relationships, enhance creativity, and find greater satisfaction in life. It is valuable for health-care professionals as well as nonprofessionals who want an in-depth experience of this approach to self-exploration.

Participants receive a certificate of completion from the teacher at the conclusion of this training. Participants cannot transfer out of this workshop once it begins.

Brian Weiss, MD. See biographical information on page 70.

Carole K. Weiss, MSW, CHT, has been coteaching with her husband, Brian Weiss, since 1995.

Course 1405-353/Tuition $495 ($445 Members)

Created by the second century doctor of Chinese medicine, Hua Tuo, the Animal Frolics are the oldest healing exercises in the world and the standard against which other qigong methods are measured.

Discover gentle yet dynamic exercises that are meditation in motion and connected to the Taoist quest for longevity, health, and peace. Learn a complete qigong wellness routine, based on the rooted strength of the Bear, the balance of the Crane, the suppleness of the Monkey, the grace of the Deer, and the power of the Tiger.

By practicing these ancient postures and movements, we awaken an ancient part of ourselves and the Paleolithic wisdom of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. We find the spirit of the animals within, and, like them, learn how to connect to the healing power of nature. Although practice oriented, there is also time for discussion of qigong philosophy and an introduction to exciting research that shows how and why qigong improves health.

No previous experience is necessary; beginners and all levels are welcome.

KEN COHEN

Ken Cohen, MA, a renowned grandmaster of qigong and tai chi, is author of The Way of Qigong and other works. qigonghealing.com

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Past-Life Therapy Training

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This workshop begins Sunday at 8:00 p.m. Tuition covers the Omega portion of this workshop. At the end of the workshop, participants choose a a self-determined tuition amount that reflects their feeling of value, gratitude, and desire to support Charles Eisenstein and his ongoing work.

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MAY 17-22

SEASONAL YOGA & AYURVEDA

Practical Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times Melina Meza Course 1405-503/Tuition $475 ($425 Members) MI, CE

Ayurveda, yoga’s sister science, is one of the world’s oldest systems of healing.

One of the many gifts it conveys is the importance of looking into nature to find distilled wisdom that can help inspire us in our journey towards optimal well-being.

As we are interconnected with Mother Nature, we can more powerfully keep in tune with ourselves by attuning to her seasonal rhythms. In this unique 5-day workshop, we’ll emphasize the importance of sequencing for the seasons and adapting yoga postures, dietary approaches, cleansing techniques, daily rituals, and lifestyle routines to synchronize with the seasonal changes.

Students will learn Ayurvedic philosophy applicable to today’s lifestyle and asanas to strengthen the body’s inherent tendencies toward seasonal imbalances. The workshop will inspire the self-knowledge to deepen your practice both on and off the mat.

Melina Meza is a pioneer in the field of yoga, nutrition, and Ayurvedic Health, with over 20 plus years teaching experience. melinameza.com MELINA MEZA

LE Limited enrollment; register early CE Continuing education; see page 136 Professional Training Tiered Pricing; see page 127

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5-DAY WORKSHOPS Arrive Sunday Begin Monday at 9:00 a.m. End Friday at noon

MAY 17-22

OUR KARMA, OUR JOURNEY Transforming Universal Issues Lorraine Goldbloom Course 1405-273/Tuition $365 ($330 Members)

What is karma, and how does it really affect us? How can we understand our karmic path?

Join Lorraine Goldbloom for this workshop, as she gives a fresh perspective on the meaning and nature of karma on our incarnational journey.

A Concert & Conversation With Peter Buffett Join Emmy Awardwinning composer and philanthropist Peter Buffett for an entertaining, thought-provoking, and heart-opening evening of musical performance and dialogue. Using his own life as an example, Peter reflects honestly on the past while challenging us to reimagine the future.

Evening performances are open to all on campus this week.

An essential part of this experience will be VortexHealing® Divine Energy Therapy group LORRAINE GOLDBLOOM healings on issues that arise for students during class, as well as a healing to help clear each person’s biggest karmic obstacle, which is unique to each person.

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Undergo deep transformational energy work on the universal issues of shame, anxiety, control, loss, and anger. Plus, discover how each issue holds us out of being present in the moment, and investigate how we can return to wholeness. Enjoy a daily module of gentle movement in an atmosphere of play, to allow each participant to come into their body and experience grounding and presence. Uncover how oneness moves into a personal journey, and ultimately returns home to oneness.

MAY 17-22

VOICE, BREATH & BEING Jean McClelland

Course 1405-451/Tuition $450 ($405 Members) MI

There is no greater joy JEAN MCCLELLAND than when we open our mouth to speak or sing and our voice comes out with power, emotion, and nuance. This state of flow is often elusive, but with the proper awareness we can coordinate the muscles responsible for breath and sound so our voice becomes spontaneous, free, open, and expressive.

Guided by singer Jean McClelland, you receive hands-on work in the Alexander Technique to become aware of how your body can support your respiratory muscles and stimulate your breath. You learn the principles of breathing coordination as taught by Carl Stough to strengthen your diaphragm for fuller respiration and a stronger voice. We also do group exercises and sing spirituals and folk songs to open to the joy of expressing yourself in community and discover your body’s ability to “sing you.”

You return home with resources and exercises to continue strengthening your breath and your voice. Singers, lapsed singers, and non-singers alike are welcome—no previous skill or experience is necessary.

Lorraine Goldbloom is a teacher of VortexHealing® Divine Energy Healing, and has worked in the healing field for more than 20 years.

Jean McClelland is a faculty member at the Columbia University School for the Arts, a senior teacher of the Alexander Technique and one of only a few teachers of Carl Stough’s breathing coordination.

lorrainegoldbloom.com

jeanmcclellandvoice.com

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MAY 22-25

EFT Tapping Professional Skills Training

Use Your Brain to Transform Energy Into Matter

EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUES

TURNING THOUGHTS TO THINGS

Dawson Church Course 1405-253/Tuition $535 ($480 Members) SS, MI, CE

Dawson Church

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is a method used by more than 20 million people worldwide. It has revolutionized the practices of thousands of professionals such as life coaches, therapists, and health-care workers.

Course 1503-254/Tuition $415 ($370 Members) SS, MI

In this professional training, you develop your skills in evidence-based Clinical EFT, which has demonstrated efficacy in more than 100 studies. Step-by-step, with extensive guidance and feedback from Dawson Church, author of The EFT Manual, you build your understanding and practice the 48 core techniques of EFT, including more than 12 hours of hands-on demonstrations and supervised exercises.

Gain advanced tools to help your clients, even those with difficult conditions. Train to use unique 2-minute techniques that are proven to reduce stress. Learn how traumatic experiences are encoded in the brain and how EFT techniques can remove the emotional charge from negative childhood experiences and address severe trauma and emotional flooding.

Health professionals and coaches, as well as anyone interested in tapping to reduce stress, are invited to this training.

This course begins Monday at 8:00 a.m. Prerequisite: You must complete the free online EFT seminar at theeftseminar.com. ACCME credits are available for $80. All other available CE credits are $50 (see page 136). See eOmega.org for professional course objectives.

DAWSON CHURCH

Every creation begins as a thought—from a symphony to a marriage to an ice cream cone.

When we have an intention, a complex chain of events begins in our brains. Intentions and the energy we cultivate determine the nature of our material reality. If you’ve wondered how you can create your ideal life, discover what science now shows your mind can do.

Join Dawson Church, author of Mind to Matter, for a romp through the science of turning your thoughts to things. Learn ways to use your mind to create bliss neurotransmitters in your brain, anti-aging hormones in your body, and even change molecules in the physical world. Practice seven methods to generate the brainwave frequencies that result in “coherent mind”—the signature pattern of “master manifesters,” people who create effortlessly.

You also interact with new technologies that demonstrate how quickly matter responds to thought, and hear inspiring stories about how people have used these methods to transform health, wealth, relationships, and more.

This course begins Friday at 7:30 p.m.

Dawson Church, PhD, is founder of the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare and director of the Veterans Stress Project. dawsonchurch.com

DA Discounts Available; see page 127 SS Special schedule; see eOmega.org MI More information provided after registration

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MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND WORKSHOPS Arrive Friday Begin Friday at 8:00 p.m. End Monday at noon

MAY 22-25

Radical Dharma Camp Bringing the Truth Home

Reverend angel Kyodo williams Sensei and Jasmine Syedullah Course 1503-435/Tuition $395/320/245 ($355 Members) SS, MI

JASMINE SYEDULLAH

ANGEL KYODO WILLIAMS

Going beyond race training 101, Radical Dharma Camp is an immersive experience designed to gather and connect people already committed to implementing racial justice and anti-oppression interventions in their circles of community, identity, faith, and vocation.

Together we take a deep dive into the framework and practices of a radical dharma approach to confronting white supremacy, racial injustice, and the intersections of dominance and isolation that keep us from personal and collective liberation.

We use games, exercises, play, and practice for you to: • Engage across lines of difference in real-time to learn skills necessary to move through the fears and resistance that limit your ability to act from love • Understand the essential roles of embodiment and self-care to collective liberation • Learn to apply the RDfive: Framework for Liberation to generate interventions relevant to your specific context and conditions • Gain insight into skillful use of caucuses, congresses, and how to be accountable to “telling these times” • Network with others to disrupt the arrogance of individualism and pain of isolation

Programs that talk about race, love, and liberation.

Radical Dharma Camp rigorously challenges you to be present to how systemic suffering and injustice lives in you personally and within all of us in redeeming ways that invite introspection, wonder, vulnerability, accountability, and love.

See page 19.

MAY 15-17

Centering Leadership in Presence I and II Drawing Power From What Matters In Challenging Times MAY 22-25

Radical Dharma Camp Bringing the Truth Home

Reverend angel Kyodo williams Sensei is an author, activist, and spiritual teacher who bridges the worlds of spirit and justice. angelkyodowilliams.com

See left.

Jasmine Syedullah, PhD, is an abolitionist, academic, and coauthor, with williams and Rod Owens, of Radical Dharma.

Radical Dharma Circle

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MAY 22-25

RELAX & WRITE

QIGONG ENERGY MEDICINE

Tapping Your Unconscious for Life & Art Maia Danziger

How to Heal With Life Force

Course 1503-260/Tuition $395 ($355 Members) MI

Ken Cohen

Are you a writer struggling to tap into your creative well? The Relax & Write™ method proves the blank page is nothing to fear.

Course 1503-344/Tuition $355 ($320 Members)

External Qi Healing (EQH) is the core of China’s ancient healing science of qigong. In EQH, healing energy is projected from the palms and, without physically touching the client, directed into an area of illness, distress, or pain.

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Scholarships are available; see eOmega.org/scholarships. Required reading: Radical Dharma.

OMEGA WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP CENTER PROGRAM

KEN COHEN

First, we will learn a complete personal qigong practice—gentle exercises and meditations that cleanse the body of imbalanced or unneeded energy and recharge it with vitality. Personal practice prepares and centers the healer and increases sensitivity to qi (life energy). Then we will learn the methods of EQH energy assessment, including how to sense the qi of each individual organ, and specific therapeutic gestures used to treat imbalance. We also explore External Qi wellness “tune-ups,” the use of voice and intent in healing, maintaining appropriate boundaries, and EQH as an adjunct to other modalities such as acupuncture, massage, and Reiki.

Beginners are welcome. No previous experience is required.

Ken Cohen, MA, a renowned grandmaster of qigong and tai chi, is author of The Way of Qigong and other works. qigonghealing.com

Most of us write using only a small part of our available resources.

These resources—intuition, creativity, and deeper knowing—are the foundations of good writing and a fully realized life. Created by Maia Danziger, the Relax & Write method unlocks our unconscious and uses its material to develop our passion for writing and living. In a safe, nonjudgmental setting, we practice deep relaxation, guided meditation, sensory awareness, and tapping into the “observer self” to awaken the inner voice we’ve always wanted to hear—and put that voice to paper.

As Danziger skillfully builds our writing into a practice, she also playfully and poetically demystifies the process, MAIA sharing insights and anecdotes from DANZIGER her experiences and those of her students. You leave with a writing method that forges a repeatable path; a clear, accessible way to get deep writing done.

Maia Danziger, author of Relax & Write, is an Emmy Award-winning actress and certified professional coactive coach for writers and artists. relaxandwrite.com

LE Limited enrollment; register early CE Continuing education; see page 136 Professional Training Tiered Pricing; see page 127

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2/4/20 11:25 AM

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND WORKSHOPS Arrive Friday Begin Friday at 8:00 p.m. End Monday at noon

MAY 22-25

Mastering the Message Lisa Williams

Course 1503-238/Tuition $395 ($355 Members)

Are you seeking a better way to deliver LISA WILLIAMS messages from spirit? Do you struggle with the fear of misinterpreting the message? Are you ready to push beyond your comfort zone and capture the true essence of the communication that spirit gives you?

Are you ready to connect at a deeper level with spirit?

Join renowned psychic medium, best-selling author, and spiritual teacher Lisa Williams for this unique workshop and discover how to: • • • •

Gain understanding of your communication style Recognize emotional evidence Engage the kaleidoscope of memories Master the messages you are receiving from spirit

JUDY KUSHNER-DEGROOT

LEE PERLMAN

LIZ MAZLISH

MAY 22-25

THE OPENING THE HEART WORKSHOP Course 1503-358/Tuition $335 ($300 Members) SS, MI, LE

The Opening the Heart Workshop SM (OTH) offers a holistic approach to emotional health that integrates mind, body, and spirit. Taught for more than four decades, this workshop draws on a powerful blend of contemporary positive psychology and ancient wisdom traditions. Learn to find and work through blocked emotions, let go of pieces of the past, reconnect with your own core truths, and deepen self-respect and self-love.

Discover how to move ahead in your life by opening to the natural emotional intelligence and wisdom within your heart. In this safe place—guided by experienced, compassionate teachers—hearts begin to relax, pain eases, connection is nurtured, and inspiration invited.

Scholarships are available. Teachers are subject to change.

Linda Aranda Belliveau, M.Ed, has led OTH workshops for 39 years, and trains others in the approach. She specializes in personal growth and grief support.

Al DeGroot, a senior staff member at OTH for more than 20 years, co-designed the OTH workshops for couples and for men.

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This weekend training is packed with knowledge and hands-on exercises to help bring your messages from spirit to the next level.

AL DEGROOT

LINDA ARANDA BELLIVEAU

Mediumship Mastery Level III (see page 20) is recommended.

Lee Perlman, PhD, a faculty member at MIT, founded the MIT Educational Justice Institute and has facilitated OTH and other workshops in a variety of settings.

Lisa Williams is a psychic medium, best-selling author, television personality, spiritual teacher, and founder of the Lisa Williams School of Spiritual Development.

Liz Mazlish, MA, has staffed OTH since the 1980s. She works with clients with depression, anxiety, grief, and trauma as well as relationship, LGBTQ, and work issues.

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Judy Kushner-DeGroot began leading OTH in the early 1980s. She co-designed the OTH for couples workshop and works with individuals, couples, and LGBTQ groups.

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MAY 29-31

Pilin Anice

A Yoga & Meditation Retreat

BECOME A MINDFUL MAMA

DEEP LISTENING

Course 1702-407/Tuition $335 ($300 Members)

How do we stay present and grounded while juggling the demands of motherhood, careers, and relationships? How do we make space to connect with ourselves? Start by joining yoga teacher and mom Pilin Anice for a weekend to slow down, recharge, and explore what it means to be a mindful mama.

In this nurturing workshop, you learn tools to improve your mental and physical well-being through movement, meditation, mindfulness, and Ayurvedic self-care. Together we: • Decompress with rejuvenating yoga and joyful dance • Establish simple accessible ways to nurture yourself daily • Practice breathing and meditation techniques to release “mom guilt” and open fully to the present moment • Connect and share collective insights and wisdom • Learn Abhyanga massage and other Ayurvedic self-care rituals to balance and soothe the nervous system Return home feeling restored, vibrant, and empowered with tools to mother yourself and your children mindfully. Open to mothers and grandmothers with children of all ages. No previous experience with yoga or dance is necessary.

Pilin Anice is a yoga, dance, and meditation instructor, wellness expert, and model who has been featured on Good Morning America, The Today Show, and in the New York Times. pilinanice.com PILIN ANICE

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Jillian Pransky Course 1702-257/Tuition $305 ($275 Members) MI, CE

Our body responds to everything we perceive. Our tension is the stress JILLIAN PRANSKY response finding a home in the body. While often a useful initial response to what makes us feel unsafe, tension eventually limits our comfort, vitality, and well-being. It’s far more exhausting to live in armor than it is to truly relax.

Deep Listening is the habit of paying close and tender attention to the body, mind, and heart so we can meet our stress differently. This type of attention provides us with a greater capacity—physically, mentally, and emotionally— to respond calmly, clearly, and wisely, and also to engage more fully in life.

Offering essential teachings from her book, Deep Listening, Jillian Pransky guides us to release blocked energy, surrender layers of deeply held tension, nurture our capacity for self-compassion, and help access inner wisdom.

With a blend of mindful slow flow and restorative yoga, mindfulness, reflection, walking in nature, and off-the-mat awareness practices, you learn Deep Listening tools that focus on experiencing your connectedness. This feeling of connection not only changes the way you respond to stress, it also leaves you feeling more at peace and sets the conditions for you to evolve and grow.

Jillian Pransky, author of Deep Listening, is a certified yoga therapist who teaches regularly at prominent wellness centers throughout the country. jillianpransky.com

DA Discounts Available; see page 127 SS Special schedule; see eOmega.org MI More information provided after registration

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MAY 29-31

The Four Agreements For A Better Life Course 1702-235/Tuition $425 ($380 Members)

In the best-selling book The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz Sr. revealed the principles that can transform our lives into an expression of unconditional love: Be impeccable with your word, don’t take anything personally, don’t make assumptions, and always do your best.

This weekend, don Miguel Ruiz and his sons, don Miguel Ruiz Jr. and don Jose Ruiz, share how to apply the Four Agreements in your everyday life. You also learn about and explore the Fifth Agreement: Be skeptical, but learn to listen in a way that reflects your personal life.

You also practice proven techniques to challenge the fearbased beliefs that rob you of happiness and keep you from living the life you really want to live.

DON MIGUEL RUIZ JR., DON JOSE RUIZ, AND DON MIGUEL RUIZ SR.

Don Miguel Ruiz Sr., MD, was born into a rural Mexican family of traditional healers and after a near-death experience dedicated his life to sharing the wisdom of Toltec traditions. miguelruiz.com Don Miguel Ruiz Jr. is a nagual (shaman), a Toltec master of transformation, and author of The Five Levels of Attachment. miguelruizjr.com Don Jose Ruiz is author of The Fifth Agreement, a modern-day shaman, and a Toltec master of transformation. miguelruiz.com

Plus Online Session Join Brett Bevell for one follow-up Zoom call to review Reiki distant healing practices, plus Q&A session.

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The Wisdom of Reiki Conference An Immersion for Reiki Practitioners Course 1702-290/Tuition $375 ($335 Members) SS

WILLIAM LEE RAND

KAREN NOÉ

FRANS STIENE

BRETT BEVELL

In this weekend immersion designed to heal and awaken, you gather in community with other practitioners to gain insights, skills, and spiritual wisdom through a deep exploration of Reiki—one of the most popular energy healing practices in the world. Facilitated by leading Reiki teachers and authors from diverse lineages, you embark on a profound healing journey that includes: • Experiencing a Holy Fire Reiki session designed to liberate you to fulfill your life purpose • Discovering the Inner Layers of the 5 Precepts of Reiki • Exploring the wisdom of how Reiki heals • Learning a powerful Japanese healing chant • Experiencing Reiki shares, clinics, and community Learn to access and experience powerful Reiki healing meditations through your own psychic connection with the divine intelligence of Reiki.

Become empowered to contact departed loved ones and access angelic wisdom and support during sessions for enhancing Reiki attunements.

MICHÈLE E. DENIS

HELENE WILLIAMS

Teachers are subject to change.

William Lee Rand is founder and president of the International Center for Reiki Training (ICRT) and developer of the Karuna Reiki® system of healing. reiki.org

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There are many Reiki lineages, but the energy itself is universal and divine.

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Through dynamic presentations, group discussions, and question-and-answer sessions, you discover the source of self-limiting beliefs that inhibit joy and create needless suffering in life. Learn to shift your awareness by applying a powerful code of conduct based on Toltec wisdom that can transform your life into a new expression of freedom, true happiness, and unconditional love.

Frans Stiene is cofounder of the International House of Reiki and Shibumi International Reiki Association, and coauthor of several critically acclaimed books. ihreiki.com Karen Noé is a psychic medium, spiritual counselor, Reiki Master healer, author of We Consciousness, and founder of the Angel Quest Center. karennoe.com Reiki master Brett Bevell is author of several books, including Psychic Reiki and The Wizard’s Guide to Energy Healing, and a pioneer in the field of energy healing apps. brettbevell.com

Michèle E. Denis, MA, RYT-500, is founder of the Westcoast Reiki Centre in Vancouver and is also an Usui and Karuna Reiki® master teacher. westcoastreikicentre.ca

Helene Williams, BSN, RN, founder and president of the Lancaster Community Reiki Clinic, has more than 10 years of experience providing Reiki in health care settings. helenewilliamsreiki.com

LE Limited enrollment; register early CE Continuing education; see page 136 Professional Training Tiered Pricing; see page 127

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2/7/20 12:43 PM

WEEKEND WORKSHOPS Arrive Friday Begin Friday at 8:00 p.m. End Monday at noon

OMEGA WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP CENTER PROGRAM

MAY 29-31

HOME REPAIRS FOR WOMEN DIY Plumbing Can Be Fun Judaline Cassidy Course 1702-486/Tuition $380/305/230 ($340 Members) MI, LE

Want to take your DIY skills to the next level? Doing It Yourself can be fun and can help you approach other life challenges with newfound confidence. In this hands-on JUDALINE CASSIDY workshop, you will gain comfort with a job frequently left to professionals: plumbing. Judaline Cassidy is passionate about working with all who identify as women to help them overcome their fear of DIY and learn to fix things without calling for help.

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Understand the basics of plumbing Handle tools including drills, hammers, and plumbing equipment Learn to repair and install a sink and toilet

ROBIN BOUDETTE

MAY 29-31

How to Tap Into Your Mind’s Potential to Break Bad Habits Judson Brewer and Robin Boudette

Course 1702-265/Tuition $495 ($445 Members) SS, MI, CE

We are all vulnerable to craving. Whether it’s a compulsion to check social media, binge eat, smoke, drink, feed anxious thought loops, or any other behavior we may find ourselves uncontrollably repeating.

Why are bad habits so hard to overcome? When and how does willpower fail? Is there a key to conquering the cravings we know are unhealthy for us? Can we hack our brain’s learning circuitry to break bad habits, and cultivate behaviors and mindstates that support our health and happiness?

Leave feeling empowered to complete fix-it projects and save money instead of delaying or calling a professional.

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Join psychiatrist and neuroscientist Judson Brewer and psychologist and behavior-change expert Robin Boudette to explore how our minds work and how we can tap into the processes that encourage habitual behaviors in order to break unhealthy patterns. Learn how the mind works to form habits and pragmatic ways to engage this very same brain process to change habits.

Scholarships are available; see eOmega.org/scholarships.

Judaline Cassidy is a feminist plumber, activist, trailblazer, and founder of Tools & Tiaras, Inc.

In very accessible ways, we learn how awareness, curiosity, and mindfulness practices can interrupt habits, and discover how to build our natural capacity for awareness, kindness, and curiosity.

Weaving together patient stories, mindfulness practice, and the latest scientific findings, this workshop offers a path for moving beyond cravings, reducing stress and anxiety, increasing selfcompassion, and living a fuller life.

toolsandtiaras.org

MAY 29-31

THE BOOK OF SOUL

Creating a Path to What Matters Mark Nepo Course 1702-371/Tuition $375 ($335 Members) MI

Are you seeking to inhabit an authentic and wholehearted life?

Join Mark Nepo, author of The Book of Soul, to explore our struggle to embody the soul on Earth through a messy human life. Discover how, underneath our differences, we can be who we are and create a path to what matters.

In this workshop, Nepo opens a heart space through which you discover your own gifts and wisdom. Through poetry, stories, metaphors, reflection, journaling, and dialogue, you uncover reliable truths you can return to as you begin to widen your circle in the world.

After being born physically, Nepo explains, we unfold within a second womb, meant to incubate our better angel. Our journey from innocence to experience is how we emerge from the second womb. This workshop invites us to delve into that process of transformation in all its mystery, difficulty, and inevitability.

Mark Nepo is a poet, philosopher, and New York Times best-selling author. marknepo.com MARK NEPO

JUDSON BREWER

BROWN MINDFULNESS PROGRAM

This program is helpful for mental health professionals looking to deepen their understanding of the behavioral and brain mechanisms underlying addictive and habitual behaviors and individuals hoping to break habits such as emotional eating and anxiety.

We engage in experiential exercises, including writing and guiding our own meditations in small groups. We learn through feedback and, always, mindful attention to our own experience.

As we get clearer about how to share meditation, our own practice deepens immeasurably.

CE and CME credits are available and included in tuition (see page 136). See eOmega.org for professional course objectives.

Judson Brewer, MD, PhD, is director of research and innovation at the Mindfulness Center and associate professor in psychiatry at the School of Medicine at Brown University. drjud.com

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Robin Boudette, PhD, is a licensed psychologist, behavior-change expert, and mindfulness teacher with more than 25 years of clinical experience.

an Omega Rest & Rejuvenation Retreat eOmega.org/rest See page 14 for details.

robinboudettephd.com

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WEEKEND WORKSHOP

5-DAY WORKSHOP

Arrive Friday Begin Friday at 8:00 p.m. End Sunday at noon

Arrive Sunday Begin Monday at 9:00 a.m.

End Friday at noon

MAY 29-31

THE WHOLE BODY Sharon Landrith

Course 1702-292/Tuition $395 ($355 Members) MI

For thousands of years, most spiritual traditions have attempted to separate spirit and matter. The results have been denial, spiritual bypassing, and repression. The gaps between the ascending in spirit and the daily life as form do not reflect one another.

Throughout the weekend we explore through direct experience, periods of silence, meditation, and guided transmissions.

Sharon Landrith is a spiritual teacher and intuitive counselor, in the lineage of Adyashanti, whose teachings are deeply rooted in silence. sharon-landrith.com

RECLAIM YOUR CREATIVE PURPOSE 5 Steps to Freeing the Creative Within Diana Rowan Course 1805-544/Tuition $425 ($380 Members) MI

We all carry a creative spark within, which makes us feel alive, connected, and fulfilled. Over time and life’s burdens, however, we can DIANA ROWAN lose touch with this guiding light.

Creative blocks and anxieties loom large. If you are struggling with creative inspiration and motivation, this workshop is designed for you.

Your creative spark shines inside you still, an eternal flame that will never go out. In our time together, you will learn how to reconnect to your glorious creative flame­—your purpose—and how to live your purpose out loud.

Through teaching and meditations, group discussion, and writing, you’ll learn the 5-step Bright Way System that has helped creatives from all walks of life to rekindle their inspiration and—so importantly— take action. The Bright Way System can be used for life. As you spiral through the 5 steps, you will gain depth and momentum, fostering a lifetime of creative motivation, confidence, and fulfillment.

Diana Rowan is a creative alchemist and founder of the Bright Way Guild, a virtual learning environment dedicated to inspiring a global community of creatives. dianarowan.com

For Yoga Teachers, Yoga Therapists & Medical Professionals Terry Roth Schaff and Karen Abramson MAY 29–31

2-Day Course 1702-345/Tuition $375 ($335 Members) MI, CE

MAY 31–JUNE 5

5-Day Course 1805-346/Tuition $750 ($675 Members) SS, MI, CE

MAY 29–JUNE 5

7-Day Course 1707-347/Tuition $1,125 ($1,025 Members) SS, MI, CE

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Adaptive Yoga Training

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In this weekend retreat with spiritual teacher Sharon Landrith, we explore the microcosm of the interior of the body. The Silent Ground, the dynamic movement of light, and love arising and falling as thoughts and appearances SHARON LANDRITH are discovered within. The vast universal body of consciousness without is realized as the same, simply the microcosm of the whole. The division of within and without is dissolved. The focus in the body without boundary is the most accessible moment by moment awakening to our shared natural state.

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This adaptive yoga training gives you the tools you need to offer yoga as a complimentary therapeutic modality for students and patients with musculoskeletal and neurological conditions.

Guided by yoga therapist Terry Roth Schaff and yoga teacher Karen Abramson, you learn to: • Teach postures and sequences for particular issues, including which ones to exclude • Understand basic anatomy and physiology as it relates to specific conditions • Modify yoga postures for people with physical impairments affecting stability, balance, flexibility, and range of motion • Structure classes so that students with medical issues can participate and enjoy their yoga experience safely and comfortably Attend for 2, 5, or all 7 days and learn yoga sequences to address medical conditions including osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, lordosis, kyphosis, spondylolisthesis, bulging and herniated discs, stenosis, piriformis syndrome, SI joint derangement, labral tears, and bursitis.

This training is appropriate for yoga teachers and therapists, nurses, physical and occupational therapists, physicians, and other medical professionals and experienced yogis interested in deepening their practice.

It is approved by the Arthritis Foundation and the International Association of Yoga Therapists and offers yoga teachers, yoga therapists, and nurses with continuing education credits.

Materials fee: 2-day course fee is $25; 5-day fee is $100; 7-day fee is $125; include when you register.

TERRY ROTH SCHAFF AND KAREN ABRAMSON

Terry Roth Schaff, C-IAYT, E-RYT, is a medical yoga therapist, trainer, and author of Medical Yoga Therapy, Yoga for a Healthy Spine, and Warm Water Yoga. schaffyogatherapy.com

Karen Abramson, E-RYT, is a certified Schaff Yoga Therapy Warm Water Yoga teacher and administrator at Schaff Yoga Therapy.

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“Omega is world-renowned for outstanding mind-body programs. The Mindfulness Center at Brown is known for scientific rigor, applied to mindfulness-based programs. The synergies of our evidencedriven collaborations are palpable, and we are delighted that many people benefit as a result.”

—Eric B. Loucks, MD, Executive Director of Brown University’s Mindfulness Center

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Mindfulness Programs With Brown University

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In partnership with the Mindfulness Center, Brown University School of Public Health, Omega is pleased to offer the Mindfulness Center at Brown’s evidence-based Mindfulness-Based Programs at our campus in Rhinebeck, New York.

At the core of Omega’s work with the Mindfulness Center at Brown is the shared mission to offer programs that support good health—mentally, physically, and emotionally. Through the cultivation of awareness, our ability to care for ourselves, others, and the environment has been shown to increase. Therefore, we believe a personal practice such as mindfulness—one that teaches you are more than your body, thoughts, or circumstances—is essential.

Led by director Dr. Eric B. Loucks, director of research and innovation Dr. Judson Brewer, global ambassador and program director Florence Meleo-­M eyer, and associate director Dianne Horgan, the Mindfulness Center at Brown is highly committed to this same essential work through rigorous research, programming that is informed by and grounded in science, and partnerships to serve even more people through mindfulness.

Unsurpassed Research To separate fad from fact, the Mindfulness Center at Brown is dedicated to rigorous mindfulness research and providing evidence-based mindfulness training for individuals, schools, hospitals, and businesses, for professionals and the general public.

Academic Curricula Development In support of individual and collective well-being, the Mindfulness Center at Brown researches Mindfulness-Based Programs and expands and improves curricula to insure that programs offer opportunities that support human flourishing.

Dedicated to Serving Society In the past year, the Mindfulness Center at Brown has begun to work with indigenous peoples in the US and has also expanded partnerships internationally through their Global Mindfulness Collaborative and closer to home with UMASS Memorial Health Care. The Mindfulness Center at Brown’s new and exciting partnership with the Center for Mindfulness at UMASS Memorial Health Care was formed with the primary goals of serving society and providing teacher education in Mindfulness-Based Programs and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn.

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FLORENCE MELEO-MEYER

JUDSON BREWER

BROWN MINDFULNESS PROGRAM

MAY 31-JUNE 7

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in Medicine, Practice & Science A 7-Day Professional Training Retreat Florence Meleo-Meyer and Judson Brewer Course 1807-266/Tuition $1,000 ($900 Members)

BROWN MINDFULNESS PROGRAMS

MAY 29-31

How to Tap Into Your Mind’s Potential to Break Bad Habits

MAY 31-JUNE 7

MBSR in Medicine, Practice & Science

Train intensively in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction with teachers from the Mindfulness Center at Brown University.

See page 130.

JULY 12-17

MBSR Framework for Mindful Living

Learn how to practice and integrate mindfulness into daily life with this MBSR intensive for professionals and those who want to live healthier, more engaged lives.

See page 65.

AUGUST 14-16

Well-Being at Work

Discover mindfulness practices to help relieve workplace stress with MBSR teachers Brenda Fingold and Patti Holland.

See page 86.

Meeting in the Heart: The Practice of Relational Mindfulness

Discover the practice of Insight Dialogue and cultivate awareness, presence, and stability with certified MBSR teachers Florence Meleo-Meyer and Janet Surrey.

See page 94.

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Learn how to tap into your mind’s potential to break bad habits with mindfulness teachers Judson Brewer and Robin Boudette.

See page 26.

AUGUST 23-28

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This 7-day professional training retreat is an opportunity for health-care professionals to train intensively in MBSR. See workshop description on page 130.

OCTOBER 4-11

A 7-Day Mindfulness Meditation Retreat

Deepen your mindfulness meditation practice with a 7-day silent mindfulness meditation retreat guided by teachers from the Mindfulness Center at Brown University.

See page 119.

OCTOBER 11-16

Framework for Living Mindfully: Deepening Practice

Invest in your mindfulness practice beyond basic stress reduction for greater commitment, confidence, joy, and energy in everyday life.

See page 123.

Professional Training

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5-DAY RETREATS Arrive Sunday Begin Monday at 7:00 a.m.

End Friday at noon

CHAPLAIN STEVE TORGERSON

HOWARD LEVENE

OMEGA VETERANS PROGRAM

Veterans, Trauma & Resilience

MAY 31-JUNE 5

A Retreat for Male Veterans

Omega offers hope and healing to veterans and their family members. With a focus on effective complementary and alternative medicine practices that address post-traumatic stress and promote resilience, we offer retreats for veterans and training opportunities for health-care professionals who work with veterans.

Explore more at eOmega.org/veterans.

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Feeling Good About Ourselves Course 1805-497 SS, LE

Join fellow veterans to support one another and renew mind, body, spirit, and relationships in a beautiful, tranquil setting.

This integrative program is designed to help veterans alleviate the psychological, relational, and spiritual injuries of war. It is facilitated by a trained multidisciplinary team of veterans, psychotherapists, and interfaith leaders practicing holistic educational services for more than a decade.

Through wellness practices, small support groups, recreational activities, and expressive arts, we:

MAY 31-JUNE 5

A Retreat for Male Veterans

• Reconnect with ourselves and other veterans • Share experiences in an atmosphere of mutual support and trust • Learn stress management and emotional resilience skills, including mindfulness, qigong, and yoga

Feeling Good About Ourselves See right.

JUNE 21-26

Healing From Military Trauma

A Warrior Renew Program for Women See pages 45 and 90.

We also learn ways to improve communication and relationships.

AUGUST 2-7

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Veterans Yoga Retreat for Men

This workshop gives male veterans the opportunity to share deeply about their experiences and commune with other veterans in an accepting and supportive environment. It is not a substitute for clinical treatment or psychotherapy.

Practices for Comfort & Ease See page 77.

SEPTEMBER 13-18

Veterans Yoga Retreat for Women

This retreat begins Monday at 7:00 a.m. Tuition for this retreat is $695 ($625 Members). Scholarships are available to cover all but $75 of the total cost. Application is required; apply early, as spots fill quickly. See eOmega.org/scholarships for details. Teachers are subject to change.

Practices for Health & Well-Being See page 100.

Scholarships are available; see eOmega.org/scholarships.

MAY 31-JUNE 5

SOUL EMPOWERMENT RETREAT Juan Pablo Barahona and Regan Hillyer Course 1805-234/Tuition $600 ($540 Members)

Do you know what your purpose is? Are you aware of the gifts you are here to embody? The Soul Empowerment Retreat will help you answer these questions. It is a journey of personal evolution to remember who you truly are and what you are here to do.

Juan Pablo Barahona and Regan Hillyer channel the Soul Rememberance Method, and together they guide you on a deep dive to ignite your core soul truth and increase your capacity to receive so you can manifest in all areas of your life—from physical health and wellness to emotional healing, to success, prosperity, and spiritual expansion.

JUAN PABLO BARAHONA AND REGAN HILLYER

Learn to:

Chaplain Steve Torgerson, a former Air Force chaplain, was deployed for Desert Storm and the Bosnian Conflict, and spent a year in Baghdad. He is a board member and facilitator for The Coming Home Project. cominghomeproject.net

Barton Buechner is a 30-year Navy veteran and presently serves on the board of directors of the Chris Kyle “Frog” Foundation.

Howard Levene is a retired naval medical officer, currently in private practice, who has facilitated several previous veterans retreats.

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• Awaken the power of your core and See page 140 for details. your intuition • Increase your capacity to clearly download from source • Harness and balance feminine and masculine energies for manifestation • Use sacred play to call in what you desire • Allow success to flow to you

You return home with effective tools, including a personal manifestation daily ritual.

Juan Pablo Barahona (JuanPa) is founder of JuanPa Global and Kawoq Conscious Living School. He is coauthor, with Regan Hillyer, of The Abundance Codes. juanpablobarahona.com Regan Hillyer is founder of Regan Hillyer International, a global brand dedicated to providing personal development and business training using mindset changing tools and cutting-edge business development strategies. reganhillyer.com

DA Discounts Available; see page 127 SS Special schedule; see eOmega.org MI More information provided after registration

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5-DAY WORKSHOPS

MAY 31-JUNE 5

Arrive Sunday Begin Monday at 9:00 a.m.

End Friday at noon

MINDFULNESS ZEN SILENT RETREAT Randy Wolbert

MAY 31-JUNE 5

Course 1805-569/Tuition $425 ($380 Members) SS

BE YOUR OWN MEDICINE

Tune Into Nature & Wholeness Tom Francescott

TOM FRANCESCOTT

Course 1805-399/Tuition $475 ($425 Members) MI

Meeting each moment, health challenge, or stressful life experience with courage, self compassion, and expanded consciousness allows us to tap into unlimited healing potential that can transform our wounds into strengths.

In a safe and supportive healing space, with nature as a coteacher, naturopathic doctor Tom Francescott guides a group experience of diving deep within to reconnect to self, others, and nature for healing.

This retreat is filled with naturopathic teachings, mindfulness in nature, shamanic journeys, breathwork, qigong, sound meditations, and group sharing. You learn to:

Return home connected, grounded, and empowered with knowledge and clarity to take charge of your healthcare and wellbeing.

This retreat begins Sunday at 8:00 p.m. Wolbert will be assisted by guest teachers Karina Solovieff and Julianne Ballón-Casement.

Randy Wolbert, MSW, Sensei is a long time Zen Student of Marsha Linehan PhD Rōshi. He was appointed a Zen teacher in the Empty Cloud Sangha by Willigis Jaeger Rōshi, and his appointment was confirmed by Marsha Linehan. emptycloudsangha.org

WEEKEND WORKSHOP Arrive Friday Begin Friday at 8:00 p.m. End Sunday at noon

JUNE 5-7

ACTIVATION WEEKEND For Vision, Body & Spirit

MAY 31-JUNE 5

Course 1902-458/Tuition $385 ($345 Members) SS

BLISSOLOGY YOGA

Find a Life of Authentic Connection, Bliss & Purpose Eoin Finn Course 1805-527/Tuition $450 ($405 Members) MI, CE

Learn how to live life with presence, joy, and purpose with this transformative program designed to help you create positive life shifts from the inside out.

Through Blissology Yoga, meditation practices, and insightful discussions, we will experience why quiet time in nature is the essential spiritual gateway. Learn how to read bodily feedback to release “issues from our tissues” and explore techniques to honor our body’s barometer for inner guidance and healing.

Some fluency with hatha yoga is recommended but not essential. You will expand your yoga practice no matter what level you are. If meditation seems hard to you, it will be both easeful and blissful after this course.

This program will deepen your connection to your highest vibrational self and is a potent gift to your own life, your personal relationships, your work, and the planet itself. Be ready to feel inspired and channel bliss.

Eoin Finn, the founder of Blissology Yoga, has been featured in Oprah, InStyle, Vogue, the New York Times and Yoga Journal. blissology.com

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FRANCHESKA MEDINA

Join a creative, nurturing space intended for thought leaders, healers, artists, and creatives of all kinds. On Friday evening, we meet our visionary teachers: wellness advocate Francheska Medina, ascension guide Maryam Hasnaa At-Tauhidi, and modern-day healer Yeradmi Gomes.

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Tom Francescott, ND, is an intuitive naturopathic doctor specializing in environmental detoxification and chronic Lyme disease. He maintains a private practice and natural pharmacy in Rhinebeck, New York. drfrancescott.com

This retreat is intended for those ready for deep practice. Silence is observed with the exception of opening and closing meals, private teacher interviews, and question-and-answer periods. We practice together but do not interact. We separate ourselves from our daily affairs in order to sink deeply into meditative practice, free to transcend the chatter of our busy minds. A brief mindfulness talk is given each morning and a brief open forum is conducted each afternoon.

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• Connect deeply and trust your core healing wisdom • Meet stress and health challenges in a therapeutic, mindful way • Shape shift your DNA and negative thoughts and promote healthy epigenetic expression • Identify food allergies and transform emotional eating habits to enhance metabolism • Boost memory and neuroplasticity with foods, herbs, lifestyle, and supplements • Cleanse the body and heart of environmental and emotional toxins • Support the adrenal glands for better energy, mood, and sleep

You are invited to join in a weeklong zen sesshin, a retreat of cleansing silence, self inquiry, and deep practice of mindfulness. Mindfulness practice RANDY WOLBERT has its roots in Eastern meditative and Western Christian contemplative traditions. In this retreat, mindfulness is the practice of awareness of “what is” at the level of direct and immediate experience, separate from concepts, category, and expectations. It is the practice of living awake, with your eyes wide open, in the present.

On Saturday morning, delve into Conscious Entrepreneurship with Medina. In business, the concept of “playing the game” is generally viewed as the act of compromising your values to climb the proverbial ladder of success. Through a restructuring of our framework, we identify how one can cultivate an integrity-based business model in the digital space.

Saturday afternoon, explore Energy Exchange with At-Tauhidi. Discuss the unconscious power dynamics MARYAM HASNAA that block us from experiencing true intimacy, and AT-TAUHIDI imagine a new blueprint for how we desire to exchange energy with others. During our final session, Gomes guides us in The Art of Slowing Down. We practice yin yoga to relieve tension, increase circulation, and target deep connective tissues and restorative yoga to create a sense of calm and relaxation.

Francheska Medina is a wellness advocate and founder of heyfranhey.com. heyfranhey.com

YERADMI GOMES

Maryam Hasnaa At-Tauhidi is an ascension guide who works with subtle plant medicine, metaphysics, and the Akashic records. maryamhasnaa.com Yeradmi Gomes is a modern-day healer who focuses on meditation, movement, and touch. yeradmi.com

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Sustain the Omega community.

Become a member.

See eOmega.org/membership.

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JUNE 5-7

Getting the Love You Want A Spiritual Path for Couples

Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt Course 1902-244/Tuition $395 ($355 Members) per person SS

The Getting the Love You Want Workshop, based on Imago Relationship Therapy, gives couples the concepts and skills they need to co-create a safe relationship, experience and sustain deep connecting, and experience joyful aliveness. The skills include 1) learning a new way to talk; 2) removing all negativity, and 3) practicing daily connecting behaviors which activate the innate healing powers of intimate partnership, transforming conflict in any relationship to connecting.

HELEN LAKELLY HUNT AND HARVILLE HENDRIX

Using the Imago Process, couples transform their unconscious relationship, in which they were opponents, to a conscious partnership in which they co-create their dream relationship. In the process of becoming connected to each other, partners experience connecting to a larger reality, which makes intimate partnership a spiritual path.

This workshop is also offered internationally by Imago certified workshop presenters. Given its worldwide distribution over the past 30 years, it has helped thousands of couples transform their relationship, their lives, and improve their overall well-being.

Whether your relationship is new or old, whether in crisis or in love, whether you are married or unmarried, you are invited to attend this transformative workshop. As you engage the process, you will be supported and assisted by an Imago qualified clinical staff. $50 materials fee; include when you register. This workshop is also offered in September (see page 107).

Harville Hendrix, PhD, and Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD, are cocreators of Imago Relationship Therapy and the concept of the “conscious relationship.” Coauthors of three New York Times best sellers, their newest book is The Space Between. harvilleandhelen.com

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Plus Online Session March 23, 7:00 p.m. EST. Join Panache Desai for a free introductory Zoom call, including a talk, meditation, and Q&A session.

Sign up at eOmega.org/Desai

JUNE 5-7

INSIGHT MEDITATION FOR BEGINNERS

JUNE 5-7

You Are Enough

Developing a Calm & Clear Mind Matthew Daniell ELENA BENSONOFF

JUNE 5-7

MASTER THE HEALER WITHIN Elena Bensonoff

Course 1902-411/Tuition $370 ($335 Members)

It’s time to take your rightful place as an empowered self-healer.

Through talks and hands-on practices, you learn to:

When our mind is calm, it is fit to look into itself and all of life with more openness and clarity. This clarity leads to insight, which frees us from our own reactive patterns.

Through discussion and periods of silent meditation, we learn sitting and walking meditation methods, how to pay attention to our breath and body, and how the power of present moment awareness can touch and transform our hearts and minds. Emphasis is placed on letting the lessons we learn support the quality of our awareness in all that we do while at Omega and beyond.

This retreat is paced to support beginners; it is appropriate for anyone interested in Insight Meditation, including helping professionals who want to learn skills to use with their clients.

Matthew Daniell is founder and guiding teacher at the Insight Meditation Center of Newburyport, Massachusetts. imcnewburyport.org

Panache Desai Course 1902-392/Tuition $345 ($310 Members) SS

PANACHE DESAI

Changing your energy can take you from pain to peace, from falsehood to freedom, and from inadequacy to an invincible sense of your own power, purpose, and potential.

During this experiential and interactive workshop, spiritual teacher Panache Desai uncovers the myths that have kept you feeling dissatisfied, plagued by a sense of inadequacy, and let down by life.

Throughout the weekend, Desai personally supports you in: • Releasing survival-based energies that stop you from evolving and receiving love, vitality, and connection in your life • Restoring harmony and balance within yourself • Opening up to receive the bounty that is your birthright Learn to quiet your fear and anxiety, and embrace the powerful wholeness that exists within us all. Discover what it takes to live from your highest potential and watch your life transform as you become empowered to live from that connection. Leave with the knowledge that something greater is within your reach.

Panache Desai is a visionary thought leader in the area of human development who has appeared on Oprah Winfrey’s Super Soul Sunday. His newest book is You Are Enough. panachedesai.com

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MOTHER-DAUGHTER YOGA RETREAT Jamine Ackert and Remmy Ackert-Fraser Course 1902-327/Tuition $295 ($265 Members) per person DA

Life is so busy these days; it can be hard for mothers and daughters to slow down and spend quality time with each other. Our girls are growing up so fast, and just when we think we know who they are, they change and mature some more.

This mother-daughter yoga retreat is a perfect time to be with our daughters and connect deeply with them as they navigate the changes in themselves and in the world outside of them.

The weekend offers a mix of grounding practices, authentic conversations, and bonding exercises designed to bring us closer to our daughters and ourselves. We learn a variety of individual and partner yoga poses, meditation, and relaxation exercises and leave the retreat with practices we can do alone and together at home. No previous yoga experience is necessary.

You leave empowered with the practical skills and confidence you need to raise and sustain a high vibrational frequency so you can feel your best each day.

This workshop is recommended for daughters ages 8 and up.

Jamine Ackert, E-RYT 500, has been teaching yoga since 1992, including classes at the Canadian Police College. capitalyoga.com

Elena Bensonoff is founder of Wholistic Inc., and author of Wholistic Wisdom: Awakening Your Inner Healer. She is trained as a clinical pharmacist and blends western medicine with ancient healing modalities. wholistic.com

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• Identify energetic imbalances with muscle testing and refine your testing skills with pendulums and magnets • Protect yourself against environmental toxins and detox the gut, liver, kidneys, and adrenals • Tap into your intuition and harness the power of symbolism and sacred geometry • Understand the chakra system and implement colored light therapy for yourself and others • Become the guide and “interpreter” for the energetic messages in others’ fields • Create strong energetic boundaries in your personal and professional practice

Insight Meditation, also known as Vipassana Meditation, is a simple technique that originated in the Buddha’s teachings more than 2,500 years ago. Its practice teaches us in a gentle, consistent way to calm and steady our mind by grounding our attention in the present moment.

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Reconnect with your innate wisdom and healing gifts so you can master the healer within in this weekend workshop with Elena Bensonoff, a functional, regenerative, and energy medicine practitioner who healed her own severe and chronic asthma with holistic practices.

Course 1902-340/Tuition $370/295/220 ($335 Members)

MATTHEW DANIELL

Remmy Ackert-Fraser developed Mother-Daughter Yoga with her mom, Jamine Ackert, in 2008 at age 10.

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Impressions to Remember

THE ART OF MONOPRINTING Dan Welden Course 2005-262/Tuition $465 ($420 Members) MI, LE

Explore the art of monoprinting with master printmaker Dan Welden.

Develop your skills of observation and awareness and link them with the challenges of the unexpected as you learn to confidently and creatively handle the pigments and tools of this art form.

JUNE 5-7

SOLARPLATE

A Spontaneous Arts Pathway Dan Welden Course 1902-261/Tuition $310 ($280 Members) MI, LE

Join Dan Welden in this artistic adventure of Solarplate, a safer alternative high-quality printmaking process. Designed for the painter, printmaker, photographer, teacher, or someone who simply loves the idea of “mark making,” the process will lead each person into the realm of creating “multiple” impressions.

Using the poetic conversion of sunlight and water, instead of chemicals, Welden facilitates the beginner as well as the advanced artist into new dimensions.

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“Gopura” by Dan Welden

While working with the unknown on an 8 x 10 surface, you have the potential of developing a series of related color impressions. Ideas and inspiration magically unfold through the experience. No prior printmaking experience is necessary.

DAN WELDEN

Monoprinting is one of the most unpredictable and exciting forms of art. You start with a plate, create your design, and instead of applying a layer of ink and printing multiples, you simply paint on the plate, place paper on the image, and apply pressure. The result is a one-of-a-kind impression that resembles a painting more than a print.

This workshop is open to all who desire to create with an open mind and heart, and are willing to embrace wonderfully surprising results.

It is especially liberating for novice and experienced artists wishing to free themselves from creative blocks, fears, and expectations.

Dan Welden, coauthor of Printmaking in the Sun, is past president of the Society of American Graphic Artists. He has shown his work extensively in one-person and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. danwelden.com

JUNE 5-7

5-DAY WORKSHOPS

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The Awakened Self

Arrive Sunday Begin Monday at 9:00 a.m. End Friday at noon

Shefali Tsabary

Course 1902-250/Tuition $395 ($355 Members)

JUNE 7-12

Are you looking to truly liberate yourself from suffering directly? Are you willing to engage your core issues with fierce intensity? In this powerful weekend, clinical psychologist Shefali Tsabary uses humor and joy to guide you on an intensely intuitive path toward your inner liberation.

Tsabary, best-selling author of The Conscious Parent, The Awakened Family, and most recently Out of Control, employs a deeply insightful approach to discipline that integrates Eastern mindfulness with Western psychology. Through interactive exercises and guided teachings, she helps you uncover why it is that you have stayed blocked in your life and how you can begin to liberate yourself from these blockages, including how to detach from identification to this material world and discover a transcendent sense of freedom and joy.

Shefali Tsabary, PhD, is a best-selling author, clinical psychologist, and wisdom teacher. She has been featured on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network numerous times. drshefali.com SHEFALI TSABARY

CORE ZERO BALANCING

Put Energy Into Your Practice Jim McCormick Course 2005-398/Tuition $440 ($395 Members) SS, MI

Zero Balancing (ZB) is a mind-body system of healing and personal transformation that was developed in the 1970s by Dr. Fritz Smith. Its theories and practices combine Western ideas of anatomy and physiology, particularly from osteopathy, with ideas of energetic anatomy and enlightenment from the East. It is a valuable system for reducing physical pain and improving alignment, and has also helped many people gain a deeper connection to their core self.

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In this foundation-level workshop with leading teacher and practitioner Jim McCormick, you explore the intellectual and practical framework behind ZB. Throughout the week, you learn to: • • • • •

Perform the basic ZB protocol and what it feels like to be received Understand the theories and principles of ZB Distinguish body energy and body structure through touch Improve your ability to use energy as a working tool Become familiar with the energetic anatomy of the skeleton

Return home with the skills you need to perform a complete ZB session for clients.

Course begins Sunday at 8:00 p.m. The Zero Balancing Health Association independently offers continuing education credits for this class; see zerobalancing.com for more information. This workshop qualifies for credit toward Zero Balancing Certification.

Jim McCormick, LAc, is president of Zero Balancing Touch Foundation and is on the Zero Balancing Health Association faculty. cambridgehealthassociates.com SS Special schedule; see eOmega.org MI More information provided after registration

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OMEGA MINDFULNESS PROGRAM

JUNE 7-12

MINDFUL SELF-COMPASSION Michelle Becker and Steven Hickman STEWART CUBLEY

MATT BELAY

MICHELLE BECKER

JUNE 7-12

AWAKENING THE CREATIVE The Painting Experience

Stewart Cubley, Matt Belay, and Staff Course 2005-275/Tuition $580 ($520 Members) SS, LE

Artistic freedom is the right to create without being pressured to perform, produce, or succeed. In this expressive painting workshop, everyone is a beginner. Whether you are a veteran painter or are picking up a paintbrush for the first time, the experience is about creative process and free expression, rather than technique, training, or expertise.

In a respectful and nurturing studio environment, you receive individual attention and gentle guidance to: • • • • •

There will be no critiques, analysis, or judgment of the creative work. This workshop may interest people from a wide variety of disciplines, including art, education, counseling, social change, and meditative practices.

Materials will be provided. Cubley is independently offering continuing education credits; see processarts.com for information.

Stewart Cubley, a pioneer of integrative and creative living through the practice of process painting, is coauthor of the book Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous Expression. processarts.com

Self-compassion is a skill that can be learned by anyone. Research has shown it boosts happiness, reduces anxiety and depression, STEVEN HICKMAN and can help you stick to your diet and exercise routine. Gain essential tools for living fully and learn how to: • Handle difficult emotions with greater ease • Motivate yourself with kindness rather than criticism • Transform relationships, old and new This workshop meets a prerequisite for admission to Mindful Self-Compassion teacher training and is valuable for healthcare professionals and nonprofessionals who want an in-depth experience of mindful self-compassion.

This program is an intensive version of the 8-session, empirically supported Mindful Self-Compassion Training developed by Christopher Germer and Kristin Neff. Participants are required to fill out an informed consent form. This program offers CEUs through the UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness; see wisecompassion.com.

Michelle Becker, MA, LMFT, is a senior teacher trainer of Mindful Self-Compassion and Compassion for Couples. wisecompassion.com Steven Hickman, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and executive director of the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion. mbpti.org

JUNE 7-12

HOW TO HEAL YOURSELF WHEN NO ONE ELSE CAN

JUNE 7-12

YOUR RESONANT SELF

Guided Meditations & Family Constellations for Wholeness

Amy B. Scher

Course 2005-377/Tuition $380 ($340 Members)

Sarah Peyton Course 2005-357/Tuition $580 ($520 Members) MI

Family Constellation Work heals trauma at the family level—transgenerationally and historically—as well SARAH PEYTON as at the personal level. How have your ancestors’ journeys impacted you, and how can you transform your family from influencing you with trauma to becoming a resource?

Join neuroscientist Sarah Peyton to experience the convergence of what we are learning about relationships and the brain, and how we can use resonant language and family constellations to create pathways for healing and well-being.

Through lectures, demonstrations, and powerful, guided meditations, you learn to follow the wisdom of the body and resolve blocks to wellbeing. As you strip away your entanglements, you are freed to release your unconscious contracts. You begin to untangle your life energy and discover first-hand the power of meditation to change the brain.

Whether you are a complete beginner or an advanced practitioner of family constellations, this workshop will support and enliven your journey.

Those looking for personal healing, as well as those who work in healing professions, are welcome.

Sarah Peyton, author of Your Resonant Self, is a neuroscience educator, Nonviolent Communication trainer, and family constellations facilitator. yourresonantself.com

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Matt Belay is a Painting Experience Senior Facilitator. He has worked with The Painting Experience since 2004.

How do you typically react to difficulties in life? Do you instinctively fight uncomfortable experiences or find fault in yourself when things go wrong? What if, instead, you took a moment to comfort yourself when you felt bad—as you would do for others?

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Discover a creative voice that is entirely your own Trust your intuitive perception, not the mind’s critical chatter Follow your own authentic energy rather than painting for others Experience your imagination as a doorway to deeper knowing Overcome blocks and explore process painting as a genuine path to spiritual awakening

Course 2005-352/Tuition $585 ($525 Members) MI, LE

AMY B. SCHER

The biggest stumbling block to harnessing our own self-healing power is knowing what to address—in other words, knowing how to heal.

Learn a light-hearted yet powerful energy-based approach to healing in this weekend retreat with Amy B. Scher, best-selling author of How To Heal Yourself When No One Else Can. Since healing herself from anxiety and chronic illness (including Lyme disease and autoimmune conditions) when nothing else worked, Scher has formalized a powerful, energy-based system for healing that is now used by people around the world. While many energy therapies require another person to aid in your treatment, Scher has created self-application techniques to use on your own. You learn her variation on Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), chakra tapping, and more. Throughout the weekend, you also learn to: • Decode the body’s language and symptoms • Use mind-body healing as a compliment to any current medical plan • Tap into the subconscious mind for deeper healing • Release old emotional baggage to truly move forward Amy B. Scher, often referred to as an “accidental guru,” is an energy therapist and best-selling author. amybscher.com

LE Limited enrollment; register early CE Continuing education; see page 136 Professional Training Tiered Pricing; see page 127

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5-DAY WORKSHOPS

OMEGA MINDFULNESS PROGRAM

Arrive Sunday Begin Monday at 9:00 a.m. End Friday at noon

JUNE 7-12

YOU ARE NOT YOUR PAIN

JUNE 7-12

A YOGIC APPROACH TO THE CHAKRAS Thomas Shivanand Amelio

Course 2005-452/Tuition $450 ($405 Members) MI

SINGHASHRI GAZMURI

Chakras are spiritual, psychological, and emotional energy centers that exist within our subtle body.

THOMAS SHIVANAND Ideally, each chakra works in harmony with the AMELIO rest. However, for most of us, the full expression of our chakras is hampered by long-held negative conditionings and suppressions (samskaras/karmas). For example, a fifth chakra calling to expressively create can be constrained by a first chakra fear of losing security.

Guided by yogi Thomas Shivanand Amelio, in this immersion retreat we learn the experiential, vibrational, and energetic yogic practices that can resolve these disharmonies and bring each chakra to full radiance.

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Anyone looking to develop a profound chakra sadhana practice is welcome. No previous experience is necessary.

Thomas Shivanand Amelio is founder of Contemplative Solutions and a founding member and senior teacher at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health. thomasamelio.com

Immerse yourself in life-changing practices and skills for living well with pain and illness. Practice within a supportive environment, guided by highly skilled teachers, and live video presentations and question-and-answer with Vidyamala Burch.

Chronic pain and health issues can feel unbearable, debilitating, and unfair.

Vidyamala sustained spinal injuries as a young woman, requiring multiple surgeries, which left her with partial paraplegia and severe chronic pain. She began to explore mindfulness and meditation to manage her pain and found them to be life-changing. The Breathworks approach to living with chronic pain is evidence-based, backed by research, and has changed thousands of lives.

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Use the breath for pain management, and scan the body to release tension Practice gentle, restorative movement techniques Overcome the tendency to overdo it on good days and collapse on bad days using pacing techniques Learn to live with gratitude and cultivate joy in the small pleasures Meditate to awaken mindfulness, self-compassion, and joy

Singhashri Gazmuri is a mindfulness practitioner and teacher who sits on the executive committee of the British Association of Mindfulness-Based Approaches.

Jon Aaron is a Certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher trainer, a Certified Breathworks instructor, and a core teacher at the New York Insight Meditation Center. breathworks-mindfulness.org.uk

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Vidyamala Burch is founder and codirector of Breathworks and author of Living Well with Pain and Illness: the Mindful Way to Ease Your Suffering, and You Are Not Your Pain. www.breathworks-mindfulness.org.uk

JUNE 7-12

BURLESQUE AS MEDICINE

Retrieving Love & Innocence Through Radical Self-Expression Anna Brooke

JUNE 7-12

Course 2005-489/Tuition $450 ($405 Members) SS, MI

Burlesque is the art of the striptease, a dance-based expression of sacred, sensual, feminine power that honors the body as a unique vessel of mirth, beauty, and spirit. Using burlesque as the foundation for this workshop, we learn how to get out of our own way and dance our truth. This workshop is for anyone tired of feeling held back from authentic selfexpression and ready to try something new.

THE PROMISE OF SELF-LOVE

Practices From the Intersection of Meditation & Psychotherapy Ralph De La Rosa Course 2005-336/Tuition $395 ($355 Members) MI RALPH DE LA ROSA

This retreat teaches the history and moves of burlesque with a variety of movement, breath, and creative self-inquiry exercises that enable us to:

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Create new perspectives and possibilities within our lives Experience belonging, innocence, and empowerment Re-educate fear, shame, and judgment with intentional, deep love Set boundaries to reject lies and embrace truth Establish an embodied practice of sensuality When we strip off our limitations, we reveal our truth in safety and love.

This retreat is open to all levels of dance and movement experience. Please note clothes will be worn at all times.

Anna Brooke is an interdisciplinary healing arts practitioner and has been an internationally known burlesque performer since 2006. legsmalone.com ANNA BROOKE

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Course 2005-566/Tuition $595 ($535 Members)

Learn to live a rich and full life, restore your well-being, and feel that your pain or health condition is well-managed as the Breathworks Team guides us to:

We explore the unique purpose and function of each chakra, as well as mantras, deities, and archetypes associated with the chakras—including the five elements (mahabutas)—and the yogic practices of vichara (inquiry), pranayama (breath practice), mudra (hand seals), bandha (energy locks), and kumbhaka (breath holding). We also learn simple postures to bring greater clarity and harmony to our inner and outer lives.

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The Signature Course of Vidyamala Burch and the Breathworks Team

How can we heal the root causes of feeling “not good enough” and reclaim confidence, clarity, and compassion?

What’s needed is a self-love that is radical. A self-love that can show up when we’re full of joy just as easily as when life is a struggle. A self-love that goes beyond affirmations and ego indulgences and is capable of unburdening our core hurts and reactive defense mechanisms.

In this retreat with Ralph De La Rosa, a psychotherapist and meditation instructor who specializes in working with trauma, we mindfully reestablish what is known as our Buddha nature—the experience of wholeness, worthiness, love, and capacity for immense joy that each of us is born with.

De La Rosa guides us through evidence-based practices for working toward skillfully unburdening these parts of ourselves.

Throughout the weekend, engage in sitting meditation, breathwork, Internal Family Systems “parts work,” dynamic and straightforward talks, journaling breaks, and opportunities to truly rest and rediscover our path. Helping professionals will find information useful for their clients and for self-care.

Ralph De La Rosa, LCSW, author of the best-selling book The Monkey Is the Messenger, is a trauma-focused psychotherapist and seasoned meditation instructor. ralphdelarosa.com

DA Discounts Available; see page 127 SS Special schedule; see eOmega.org MI More information provided after registration

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Arrive Friday Begin Friday at 8:00 p.m. End Sunday at noon

Become a Healing Leader

JUNE 12-14

INDIGENOUS HUICHOL SHAMANISM Journey of the Heart Brant Secunda

Engage, Align & Inspire Stakeholders in Your Business MICHAEL J. GELB

Course 2102-343/Tuition $395 ($355 Members) MI

Course 2102-208/Tuition $420 ($375 Members) SS

DANIKA MARIE HENDRICKSON

JUNE 12-14

RELAX INTO BEING Restore Balance Through Yoga

Danika Marie Hendrickson Course 2102-274/Tuition $305/230/155 ($275 Members)

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Let go of muscular effort and striving Cultivate the art of allowing Experience the contemplative and meditative aspects of yoga Connect with your internal guidance system Explore the elemental energies that support your life path Renew your body, mind, and heart

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Journeying to the four directions through guided spiritual practices Empowering our dream state with daily morning ritual Rejuvenating body, heart, and spirit with ancient chants Connecting with places of power through the art of pilgrimage Celebrating life and dancing our prayers into the altar of Mother Earth

Through our practice, the shamanic circle embraces us, unifying our lives with strength, healing, and love.

Brant Secunda, founder of the Huichol Foundation, is recognized as a global thought leader and spiritual teacher. shamanism.com

Anyone interested in a relaxing, calming, and restorative yoga retreat is welcome—from complete beginners to yoga teachers looking to recharge.

Danika Marie Hendrickson, CYT, is a restorative yoga and Yin Yoga teacher, Ayurvedic practitioner, and a professional astrological counselor. danikahendrickson.com

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Learn how to apply a new, more creative and human paradigm for business Explore the 4 pillars of Conscious Capitalism Grow as a leader by defining a higher purpose for your work Cultivate the emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills to be a healing leader

Michael J. Gelb is a renowned innovator in the fields of creative thinking, accelerated learning, and leadership development. His clients include DuPont, Genentech, Merck, Microsoft, and Nike. michaelgelb.com Raj Sisodia is cofounder and chairman emeritus of Conscious Capitalism Inc. and a founding member of the Conscious Capitalism movement. rajsisodia.com JUNE 12-14

MIX-IT-UP MARK MAKING Jane Davies

Course 2102-450/Tuition $325 ($295 Members) MI, LE

We all make marks of one kind or another, whether doodling while on the phone, drawing a map or diagram, or making art.

JANE DAVIES This weekend is a mark making marathon to help you loosen up and step up the momentum of your art practice.

Instead of going on autopilot when making marks, artist Jane Davies guides you to become conscious of their character and their expressive qualities, and then expand your vocabulary beyond the predictable.

Using a wide variety of materials, you discover techniques to expand on your unique expression. You learn to build dynamic images by emphasizing contrasting marks rather than repetitive ones. You make lines, scribbles, masses, drips, splatters, transfers (transferring paint from one surface to another), collage, and more using acrylic-based paints, inks, drawing materials, papers, and your imagination. Aspiring and experienced artists are welcome.

Jane Davies is a full-time artist working in collage, paint, and encaustics. She is author of four books on collage, mixed media, and ceramics. janedaviesstudios.com

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In this yoga retreat with Danika Marie Hendrickson, you gently build a foundational yoga practice that fosters opening and release and quietly restores your natural harmony and radiance. You practice Yin Yoga to rejuvenate your inner body and strengthen your life force, and restorative yoga to replenish your energy. You also explore teachings from Ayurveda and astrology as you:

Together, we experience sacred rituals to empower our life and find our true nature. We manifest positive energy through the Dance of the Deer Ceremony and tap into the life force of Mother Earth. We find renewal in this healing tradition through:

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In this highly engaging program led by Michael J. Gelb and Raj Sisodia, coauthors of The Healing Organization, you learn a transformative, liberating, and uplifting way of thinking about business and the role you play in it. Throughout the weekend, you:

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When you are in balance, you feel vital and peaceful, at ease with yourself and your surroundings. But when you fall out of balance, stress and fatigue can inhibit your capacity to experience wholeness.

Imagine a world in which businesses make human flourishing their first priority. What if these businesses—which prioritize the welfare of all their stakeholders, and which help heal their employees, customers, and communities—are more profitable and prosperous than their industry peers?

Shamanism is an ancient healing tradition and way of life. Ceremony, sacred dance, vision quest, and pilgrimages to places of power in nature are all essential aspects of Shamanism.

In this immersive retreat with Brant Secunda, an internationally acclaimed shaman, healer, and ceremonial leader in the indigenous Huichol tradition of Mexico, we discover ancient indigenous teachings and learn traditional practices for personal and planetary healing.

Michael J. Gelb and Raj Sisodia

“Spare Parts #3” by Jane Davies

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WEEKEND WORKSHOPS Arrive Friday Begin Friday at 8:00 p.m. End Sunday at noon

JUNE 12-14

Aging Backwards for All Ages

MIRANDA ESMONDE-WHITE

Miranda Esmonde-White and Master Trainer Team Course 2102-402/Tuition $395 ($355 Members) MI

This workshop is for people of all ages who want to learn how to maintain or regain a youthful body. Miranda Esmonde-White introduces and guides you through The Essentrics® Workout which incorporates the most up-to-date scientific studies and ancient knowledge in healthy aging.

and a profound new way of looking at the aging process.

Through full-body strengthening and stretching, Essentrics workouts increase your body awareness, raise your energy, improve your range of motion, alignment, and posture— while relieving chronic pain. Personalized modifications are provided by Miranda and her team of Master Trainers during the group fitness classes.

Your body is designed to age slowly, not rapidly. The knowledge you gain in this workshop will guide you into how to remain healthy, pain-free, and energetic throughout your life—regardless of chronological years. Groundbreaking new science suggests we have more control over the aging process than was previously thought.

Connect your mind and body in a workout of dynamic, yet gentle exercises that are safe for all ages, body types, and fitness levels.

Miranda Esmonde-White is a leading educator and best-selling author on healthy aging. She is the creator of the Essentrics® fitness technique and the PBS fitness show Classical Stretch. essentrics.com

A combination of group fitness classes, breakout sessions, group discussions, and lectures will provide you with the necessary steps towards regaining a youthful body,

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OMEGA YOGA SERVICE PROGRAM

ENHANCE YOUR INTUITION & PSYCHIC ABILITIES

JUNE 12-14

Course 2102-374/Tuition $305 ($275 Members) MI

Meeting Stress With Inner Strength

Everything you need to know is within you.

All you have to do is trust your intuition and heighten your innate psychic abilities.

Jennifer Cohen Harper

Karen Noé

NAVIGATING ANXIETY IN CHILDREN

Course 2102-447/Tuition $295 ($265 Members) CE

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Do you live or work with children whose anxiety is overwhelming them? Do you worry about them choosing harmful coping mechanisms as they struggle with the stress of their lives?

This weekend, discover ways to access important information in every area of your life—career, relationships, finances, and When children can’t cope, challenges more. Learn to receive signs and become stressors and anxiety replaces messages from the celestial realm, anticipation. Children often get the determine if the information is real, message that their anxiety is something clear energy around you to increase to get rid of or push away, but like all insights, and quiet your mind to emotions our anxiety has a job to do.

JENNIFER COHEN increase clarity. You also learn to HARPER In this engaging workshop, we explore use the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) embodied and effective ways to help prepare to remove emotional blockages that prevent children for anxiety-producing situations, navigate you from receiving messages you desire. stress, reduce overwhelm and reactivity, and Working with others, you learn to feel the harness their capacity for self-compassion. energy of an individual’s personal objects, Leave with a new framework for relating to sense and see auras, and use a pendulum anxiety, along with concrete practices to help to receive intuitive answers to big and small children learn to access their inner resources, calm questions. You also enjoy their anxiety, transform their relationship to stress, fun exercises to test your and thrive even when life is challenging. intuitive abilities, tap into This workshop is designed for parents and other your inner guide, and see caregivers, educators, health-care providers, how you can retrieve counselors, coaches, and others who find anxiety information that you and stress impacting the children in their care. desire.

Content applies to children up through the teen Karen Noé is a psychic years (and you may just find some practical medium, spiritual applications for navigating your own worries as counselor, healer, and well). founder of the Angel Jennifer Cohen Harper is founder of Little Flower Quest Center in Yoga + Mindfulness and author of the children’s Ramsey, New Jersey. book Thank You Body, Thank You Heart. karennoe.com

JUNE 12-14

SPIRITUAL HABITS

Practices to Create More Ease in Your Life Eric Zimmer Course 2102-335/Tuition $315 ($285 Members)

Do you feel overwhelmed by the frantic pace of day to day life? Do you feel like you lose touch with the deeper, wiser part of yourself amidst this chaos?

In this retreat with behavior coach, podcast host, and ERIC ZIMMER author Eric Zimmer, you learn a set of spiritual habits to help you feel more peaceful and stable, no matter what is going on around you. Zimmer, who moved from homelessness and drug addiction to building the life he wanted for himself, shares a set of practices that fit into your everyday life.

Through direct teaching, group discussion, and independent reflection, you dive deep into five spiritual teachings, the behaviour principals that make it easy to build any habit, and the fundamental elements that drive all spiritual transformation. You explore traditional practices as well as less formal practices to do throughout the day.

You return home with a set of spiritual habits to apply to your own unique daily life.

Eric Zimmer is a behavior coach who helps people make significant life changes and create habits that help them achieve the goals they set for themselves. oneyoufeed.net

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5-DAY WORKSHOP Arrive Sunday Begin Monday at 9:00 a.m.

End Friday at noon

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WHAT COMES NEXT?

Finding Clarity in the Chaos Hollye Jacobs and Frances Schultz Course 2102-487/Tuition $340 ($305 Members) MI

HOLLYE JACOBS

FRANCES SCHULTZ

Life’s inevitable upheavals—illness, divorce, loss, addiction, depression, or any kind of trauma or difficult transition—can leave us feeling fragile, uncertain, and overwhelmed. Find your way to what’s next by tapping into your intuitive wisdom.

Your guides are Hollye Jacobs and Frances Schultz, friends and founders of FROLLYE: A Filling Station for the Soul. Having weathered everything from cancer to natural disasters to bad haircuts, Hollye and Frances will offer guidance and tools for finding clarity, purpose, and a path forward. Through lecture, discussion, and guided exercises, you will open your mind, heart, and soul to new possibilities and learn to apply them in your daily life. Caution: Contains laughter.

Hollye Jacobs, RN, MS, MSW, is a nurse, social worker, child development specialist, and author of The Silver Lining: A Supportive and Insightful Guide to Breast Cancer. thesilverpen.com Frances Schultz is a journalist, artist, and author of The Bee Cottage Story: How I Made a Muddle of Things and Decorated My Way Back to Happiness and California Cooking and Southern Style. francesschultz.com

Gokhale Method Posture Principles in Joyful Motion Esther Gokhale Course 2102-332/Tuition $395 ($355 Members) MI

Dance is an unusually rich avenue for improving strength, flexibility, circulation, posture, mood, and connection. The Gokhale Method® is an efficient and effective way to reach a new level of wellness in your body.

Esther Gokhale has been a practitioner of integrative therapies, yoga, and dance all her life. She is creator of the Gokhale Method and author of 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back. gokhalemethod.com

JUNE 12-14

WOMEN’S QIGONG FOR SENSUALITY & VITALITY Deborah Davis

Course 2102-324/Tuition $330 ($295 Members) MI

Are you feeling disconnected from your body? Do you want to feel more sensual and alive? Have you lost your libido and want to revive it?

Acupuncturist and medical intuitive Deborah Davis guides you to revitalize the women’s power center, the Uterine Palace, with gentle movements and breath.

Davis shares an ancient Chinese teaching of longevity and sexuality—internal alchemy—which circulates primordial energies to nourish your body and spirit and increase sexual vitality. Learn slow and gentle qigong movements to calm the mind, settle the emotions, and ground your energies.

This workshop is for women of all ages who want to reclaim their sensuality and appreciate their radiant feminine essence. There is no nudity in this class.

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SACRED SEXUALITY Infinite Possibilities for Ecstatic Connections Barbara Carrellas and Cyndi Darnell Course 2205-530/Tuition $550 ($495 Members) MI

Deborah Davis, LAc, author of Women’s Qigong for Health & Longevity, is an acupuncturist and medical intuitive specializing in women’s health. deborahdavis.com

You’ll have permission to bring your whole self to sexual exploration which emphasizes consent, boundaries, and risk taking. When we feel confident bringing energy, presence, and intention to our erotic practices, a world of pleasure opens up.

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Join Esther Gokhale (GO-clay), whose lifelong crusade to vanquish back pain began after she experienced crippling back pain during her first pregnancy and her own unsuccessful back surgery, and learn to apply these principles for yourself.

Gokhale is independently offering continuing education credits; see details at gokhalemethod.com/continuing_education_professionals.

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THE POSTURE-DANCE CONNECTION

People of all ages, abilities, and genders are welcome; no previous dance experience is required.

CYNDI DARNELL

Explore, embrace, and expand your authentic, ecstatic sexual self. Learn to confidently embody pleasure, understand desire, celebrate playfulness, and enjoy infinite erotic possibilities through Tantric practices, mindfulness, discussion, movement, sound, and breath. Learn how pleasure complements soulful self-inquiry. Discover how integrating eroticism into spiritual practice sustains our vision for a more heartcentered, connected world.

JUNE 12-14

Throughout this workshop, you explore Gokhale Method posture principles as you learn Brazilian, Latin American, and African dance moves. Discover the interwoven intellectual, visual, kinesthetic, and aesthetic cues of the Gokhale Method, which is based on historical, anthropological, and medical research on populations who have virtually no musculoskeletal pain. Connect to the wisdom of your body and find your way into your own natural power as you dance your way through the Gokhale Method.

BARBARA CARRELLAS

This workshop is for couples, singles, and other relationship configurations and all levels of experience. All genders and sexual preferences are welcome. There will be no nudity and no explicit sexual touch. There will be some partnered practices; singles will be paired—with consent. To be assured of working with a partner of your choice, come with a friend.

Barbara Carrellas is the founder of Urban Tantra® and author of Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twentyfirst Century, Ecstasy is Necessary: A Practical Guide to Sex, Relationships and Oh So Much More, and Luxurious Loving. barbaracarrellas.com Cyndi Darnell is an Australian sexologist, counselor, and sacred sexuality teacher based in New York City and featured in O-The Oprah Magazine, the Washington Post, and the New Yorker magazine. cyndidarnell.com

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OMEGA WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP CENTER PROGRAM

JUNE 14, 2020-MARCH 30, 2021

Coaching for Transformation: A Women’s Cohort A 9-Month Professional Coaching Certification Program

SHARON BROWN

KATHY GROSSO

MARY K. KUENTZ

MADHU KRISHNAPPA MARON

Course 2205-455/Tuition $8,495 ($8,395 Members) SS, MI Call 800.944.1001 to register.

How can we be more humane, compassionate, and loving, while still feeling accomplished in the world? Join a cohort of women inspired to learn a holistic approach for living that draws on the best aspects of the feminine and masculine. Coaching for Transformation: A Women’s Cohort helps you study and practice coaching in a safe, courageous environment where issues facing women— such as leadership, communication, and identity—are explored in a sacred space of transformation.

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Open to all who identify as women, this unique Coaching for Transformation (CFT) certification course recognizes and celebrates women as catalysts for transforming themselves, their communities, and their world. While many coaching models focus on taking action, the CFT process helps women break through limiting beliefs, become aware of the wisdom in their bodies, identify their emotions, and understand underlying needs.

This 9-month coach certification program, accredited by the International Coach Federation, begins with a weeklong intensive at Omega. After your initial week of training (June 14-19), you deepen relationships and training with online webinars (Tuesdays at 7:008:30 p.m. EST; June 23, 2020-March 30, 2021),

discussions, and assignments complemented with three additional weekends on campus: August 7-9, September 18-20, and October 9-11, 2020.

As you work through curiosity and openness, you align with your personal power, strengthen your authentic voice, and connect with a clarified sense of purpose.

Whether you are a parent desiring to strengthen your presence in the family, a business owner seeking to grow in leadership, or a social activist called to catalyze change in your community, Coaching for Transformation: A Women’s Cohort equips you to take heart-centered actions for yourself, your community, and the world.

Coaching for Transformation is a professional certification progam with a total of 140 in-person and online class hours, 10 mentor hours, 40 practice coaching hours, business and marketing preparation, access to an online learning community, weekly online discussions, and oral and written assessments. You also work directly with a Coaching for Transformation certified coach of your choice for 6 hours (not included in the program cost). Teachers are subject to change.

TEACHERS Mary K. Kuentz, CPCC, PCC Sharon Brown, MS, PCC Madhu Krishnappa Maron, PCC Kathy Grosso, ACC

140 Total Hours 85 In-Person 55 Webinar In-Person/ On-Campus Dates June 14-19 August 7-9 September 18-20 October 9-11

For more information about a free introductory webinar, scholarships, and housing discounts, see eOmega.org/coaching.

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5-DAY WORKSHOPS

JUNE 14-19

Arrive Sunday Begin Monday at 9:00 a.m. End Friday at noon

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Photography as a Way, a Path, a Vocation Paul Sunday

JUNE 14-19

THE GODDESS UNMASKED

Course 2205-475/Tuition $475 ($425 Members) MI

Reveal Your Truth & Claim Your Power Abiola Abrams Course 2205-365/Tuition $450 ($405 Members) SS, MI ABIOLA ABRAMS Are you missing in action in your own life? Do you make things look great on the outside but inside you’re suffering? It’s time to stop hiding, pretending you are powerless, and sabotaging your own greatness. The payoff for that is only more of the same.

In this workshop, led by the dynamic Abiola Abrams, you get the support you need to dismantle and make friends with your fears, take off the masks you’re wearing, and stand in the truth of your greatness. You transform the shadow, surrender to the superpower of vulnerability, and ignite your life force energy by learning tools for empowerment, including meditation, art journaling, and visualization.

Working with the group, you create a new goddess roadmap to help you stop playing small and take up your space.

Goddesses of all ages and in all stages of life are welcome.

This workshop examines photography as a way toward mindfulness and awareness.

We will seek to gain insight into territory where the technologies of image capture allow us to experience freedom and clarity.

In the deluge of our image universe, many photographers are seeking a new relationship with photography. For some of us, it is meaningful to return to the reasons we first became smitten with this form, the essence of image creation, and thoughtful PAUL SUNDAY visual attention. Through image-making, meditation instruction, walking meditation, and conversation, we seek to rediscover and redefine our photographic practices. We explore what happens when the desire to live a life of mindfulness comingles with our love of photography.

This workshop begins Sunday at 8:00 p.m. Several guest presenters join us for sessions throughout the week.

Lecture and meditation sessions will take place in the studio, and walking meditation with our cameras will take place on the grounds of Omega. The coursework is suitable for photographers at all levels.

Abiola Abrams is the founder of the Spiritpreneur Academy, and is the award-winning author of The Sacred Bombshell Handbook of SelfLove. womanifesting.com

Paul Sunday is an internationally published photographer and photography educator, and long-time meditator working at the intersection of art and mindfulness. paulsunday.com

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NARRATIVE HEALING

UNRAVELING THE MYSTERIES OF PAIN & TRAUMA

Course 2205-414/Tuition $465 ($420 Members)

KATE JOHNSON

C LISA WEINERT

Unlock your voice, amplify your creative potential, and connect with the people around you in this immersive week of storytelling and healing.

Join Kate Johnson and Lisa Weinert, with a special session appearance from Jamia Wilson, for this full-body, full-spirit storytelling experience. To tell our stories, we must first find them. Sometimes they are locked within our body, sometimes they are hiding behind the swirling thoughts in our mind, sometimes they are shrouded by old stories that no longer serve us. Narrative Healing applies a 3-pronged approach to unveiling our personal narratives: meditation helps to still and clear the mind, yoga allows the body to speak, and writing prompts encourage stories to surface.

This 5-day immersion is a true integration of the mind, body, and spirit. Mornings will include talks and guided meditation, and afternoons feature writing groups and opportunities to practice yoga, generate new creative work, dive deeper into a creative project, and find inspiration in nature. Our aim is to create conditions so we may connect deeply with ourselves and the world around us.

Steven Weiss Course 2205-283/Tuition $435 ($390 Members) SS, LE

Take a journey into the mysteries of trauma and recovery with physician/healer Steven Weiss, creator of the Altar of Creation—a STEVEN WEISS model of healing that weaves together elements of osteopathy, energy medicine, sacred geometry, embryology, engineering, martial arts, and traditions of the Tibetan Bon and Zuni native people.

Through lecture, ceremony, guided meditations, discussion, direct transmissions, and experiential exercises, you: • Practice “getting out of the way,” emptying ourselves to hear the wisdom of the body • Journey into the space of the early embryo’s sacred geometry and divinity, and learn to directly access and hold these visions as a guide to direct healing • Invoke the infinite wisdom and power of the body to heal itself • Gain practical tools and procedures for personal and professional healing

Lisa Weinert is an editor, publicist, literary coach, and founder of the Narrative Healing Program. She is also a yoga student and teacher with specialties in restorative, therapeutic, and trauma-informed yoga. lisaweinert.com

Everyone experiences a direct healing treatment with Weiss and his assistants. All those seeking to learn a transformative healing practice are welcome–both professional practitioners and those new to the healer’s journey.

Jamia Wilson is a feminist activist, writer, and speaker. A leading voice on women’s rights issues for more than a decade, she is also coauthor of Roadmap for Revolutionaries. jamiawilson.com

Steven Weiss, DO, is medical director of the Medicine Lodge Clinic in New York City. altarofcreation.com

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Transform Through the Power of Clarity Breathwork

Clear Blocked Energy, Establish Boundaries & Embody Your Intuitive Powers

This workshop begins Sunday at 7:00 p.m.

ENERGY HEALING FOR EMPATHS

Ashanna Solaris and Dana Dharma Devi

Wendy De Rosa Course 2205-526/Tuition $450 ($405 Members)

Course 2205-501/Tuition $575 ($515 Members) SS, MI

Ashanna Solaris and Dana Dharma Devi have been sharing breathwork and healing for a combined 60 years and have pioneered their own process called Clarity Breathwork—a gentle, compassionate, feminine approach to breathing and healing that has been shifting lives around the planet. When we breathe fully and consciously, we can heal our hearts, minds, and bodies, and open to the divine in everything.

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ASHANNA SOLARIS

This retreat provides the opportunity to accelerate your own personal and spiritual growth. We explore the Clarity DANA DHARMA DEVI Breathwork process. Participants discover how imprints from birth (pre & peri-natal psychology), early childhood, and past experiences may be affecting their lives now. Breathwork sessions and transformational processes guide participants to release these imprints and limiting thoughts and beliefs from the cells of their bodies. Core limiting beliefs are identified and transformed.

Forgiveness processes assist in letting go of the past and freeing stuck energy to create more love, joy, and greater aliveness.

Join us for an empowering, rejuvenating retreat with daily breathwork sessions, live music, kirtan, light body meditations, healing processes, dance and movement, to bring yourself into your fullest embodiment. All levels are welcome.

Ashanna Solaris is a practitioner, trainer, cofounder, and pioneer of the profound practice of Clarity Breathwork, and has led hundreds of trainings, workshops and retreats around the world since 1988. ashannasolaris.com

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SACRED BREATH & TRANSFORMATION

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Kate Johnson, MA, is a core faculty member of MIT’s Presencing Institute and a mentor in Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s online Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Certification.

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A Visionary Healing Intensive

As an empath, you “feel” other people’s energy. And as an overly empathic person, you may “take on” or merge with other people’s energy—becoming stressed, overwhelmed, or ill. Yet, your empathic power is a unique healing gift.

During this 5-day retreat with bestselling author and intuitive healer Wendy De Rosa, you’ll receive the skills and practices to turn “over-sensitivity” into an intuitive healing gift. You’ll discover: • How you can stop taking on other people’s energy • How to ground into your own energy body & maintain your energetic boundaries • Practices to reset your emotional center & receive tools for self-healing • Four different ways of perceiving, receiving, and mastering your intuitive abilities as an empath In addition to discovering healing techniques, you also receive daily healings from Wendy to clear energetic imprints from your spiritual DNA — releasing negative, toxic energy from your entire chakra system and energetic field.

This retreat qualifies as a prerequisite for Wendy’s Intuitive Healer Training Program.

Dana Dharma Devi is a musician, composer, international recording artist, and kirtan leader, as well as a teacher who has copioneered Clarity Breathwork.

Wendy De Rosa is an intuitive energy healer, speaker, bestselling author, and founder of The School of Intuitive Studies and The Intuitive Healer Training Program.

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John Churchill, PsyD, is a clinical pyschologist and licensed practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine and developer of the somatically based contemplative practice path known as Embodying the Open Ground. samadhiintegral.com

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Embodying the Open Ground Rest Into Meditation, Movement & Community John Churchill and Nicole Churchill Course 2205-437/Tuition $795 ($715 Members) SS

Relaxation, lovingkindness, and softening into our natural vulnerability are key elements of Embodying the Open Ground, an approach to meditation that draws upon the inherent intelligence of embodied experience. Grounded in Buddhist and developmental psychology, it is designed to address the psychosomatic needs and cultural conditioning of Western aspirants.

JOHN CHURCHILL

Discover how this non-dual, yogic understanding of body, breath, and consciousness calms the mind and opens us up to the heartfelt ground of being, while simultaneously healing the deep split between mind and body that makes stabilization of recognition easier. Experience the calming release of deep mindfulness through this powerful week of meditation sessions, lectures on mind/body integration practices, Kriya Yoga, movement, somatic integration, chanting, prayer, and community ritual.

In this weeklong retreat, you learn to rest in the essence as a vast openness of dynamic awareness, a transpersonal love that both transcends and includes body and mind.

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WEEKEND WORKSHOPS

SEEKING THE SELF A Creative Path Mari Andrew Course 2302-378/Tuition $345 ($310 Members) SS

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What does it feel like to be creative? Fulfilled in your career? And able to see opportunity in all of life’s losses? In other words, what does it feel like to be wholly and authentically you?

In this weekend retreat with writer, illustrator, and Instagram sensation Mari Andrew, we learn how uncertainty, heartbreak, desire, sensitivity, and exploration offer a road home to who we really are.

Together, we explore how to use our inner painter, poet, and creator to convey our feelings to the outside world. We learn to overcome blocks so our artistic juices flow all year long. We also come to understand why living passionately doesn’t always mean turning our passion into a career—and how to use less-than-fulfilling jobs to fuel our creativity and side projects.

Andrews gently guides us to see how we can endure heartbreak with self-love and bravery, and how sadness, illness, suffering, and disappointment serve an important purpose.

Mari Andrew is a writer, illustrator, and speaker best known for her creative daily posts on Instagram @bymariandrew. bymariandrew.com

NICOLE CHURCHILL

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THE YOGA OF LOVE

Arrive Friday Begin Friday at 8:00 p.m. End Sunday at noon

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Nicole Churchill, MA, MT-BC, is a certified music therapist and transpersonal psychotherapist with expertise in human development, holding ritual space, and creating dynamic learning environments that foster growth through expressive arts.

Lokita Carter

Course 2302-271/Tuition $325 ($295 Members) per person SS, MI

JUNE 19-21

UPGRADE YOUR DNA

Mastery of Flow & Fulfillment Jennifer Hough Course 2302-448/Tuition $444 ($400 Members) SS, LE

JENNIFER HOUGH

Do you feel a sense of urgency that there is more for you in this life? That’s because there is.

Join seer and alchemist Jennifer Hough and discover how your junk DNA, brain, and telomeres hold the key to dormant “super powers.” Learn to transcend the need to live in effort, doubt, or feel a victim of your circumstances. Gain confidence about your ability to see and clarity of direction, and develop expertise to become a living magnet to your heart’s calling.

With Hough’s gentle guidance, you discover how to download the new “thriving operating system” for humanity. You learn to upgrade your senses, free stuck feelings, permanently shift your ability to receive, and “go direct” with your innate wisdom. You also practice advanced metaphysical skills, including using tools to transmute stuckness that is in your way, reset in minutes, and bend time.

Tantra is an ancient, body-based, spiritual way of being that brings all elements of our life into equanimity and harmony. In this workshop, couples learn and experience powerful tantric processes to enhance their intimacy, deepen communication, and bring more spiritual meaning to their relationship and beyond.

Life is unpredictable and finite, and by living authentically and in love we can make a difference in our relationships, and in the world at large. Using practical techniques that continue to benefit us long after we return home, we combine active meditation, tantric breathing practices, communication skills, and more.

This program is suitable for couples with or without prior Tantra experience (couples will work together exclusively).

Lokita Carter, cofounder of the Ecstatic Living Institute, has taught hundreds of SkyDancing® Tantra workshops and coaching retreats for two decades. lokitacarter.com LOKITA CARTER

Return home confident in your ability to thrive in the unknown and feeling supported in your newly discovered powers.

This workshop begins Friday at 7:00 p.m.

Jennifer Hough is an author, holographic seer, and guide who channels the innate ability of metaphysical DNA. thewideawakening.com

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INNER POWER QIGONG

Qi Cultivation and Mastery for Self-Transformation Roger Jahnke Course 2302-453/Tuition $385 ($345 Members) MI

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JUNE 19-21

THE ANGELIC PATH TO SELF-LOVE Lorna Byrne

Course 2302-204/Tuition $405 ($365 Members)

Lorna Byrne has been seeing angels since she was a baby, but did not talk about what she was seeing until seven years ago. Join Byrne in this weekend retreat dedicated to growing love within ourselves.

Return home feeling refreshed and with a more positive outlook on life.

Lorna Byrne is a spiritual teacher, philanthropist, and inspiration to people around the world. She is the author of seven best-selling books, including Angels in My Hair, A Message of Hope From the Angels, and Love From Heaven.

Starting with the mysterious yet practical Three Treasures, you’ll uncover and nurture untapped, natural inner powers for healing, creativity, inner peace, and more.

“Nine Phase Qigong” is distilled from Dr. Jahnke’s The Healing Promise of Qi, Chinese medical theory, Daoist (Taoist), and Buddhist philosophies along with Western physiology, psychology, and quantum physics.

No prior experience is required.

This workshop is perfect for experienced practitioners as well.

Roger Jahnke, OMD, is director of the Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi and author of two best-selling books, The Healer Within and The Healing Promise of Qi. healerwithinfoundation.org

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The Work of Byron Katie Byron Katie Course 2302-246/Tuition $450 ($405 Members)

For almost a decade, Byron Katie suffered from constant thoughts of suicide. Then one morning in 1986, she experienced a life-changing realization.

“In that instant of no-time,” she says, “I discovered that when I believed my BYRON KATIE thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being.”

From this realization came The Work, an astonishingly simple process, accessible to people of all ages and backgrounds, that requires nothing more than a pen and paper, and an open mind. The Work is a way of identifying and questioning the thoughts that cause all the suffering in the world. As Katie guides you with her humor and lovingly incisive clarity, you will find that your stressful beliefs begin to radically shift.

Experience the freedom of undoing whatever makes you unhappy, and allow your mind to return to its true, awakened, peaceful, creative nature.

This workshop is also appropriate for professional counselors and life coaches who wish to use the information and techniques in their practice.

Byron Katie has introduced The Work to millions of people worldwide. She is author of Loving What Is and A Mind at Home With Itself. thework.com

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Best known for her internationally best-selling memoir Angels in My Hair, Byrne teaches that angels are guiding all of us—asking us to remember and grow the spiritual side of ourselves, showing us how to solve problems in our lives, and helping us to release more love into the world.

Qigong originated in China more than 5,000 years ago as a way for early tribal people to heal themselves, manage stress, and gain personal power. Drawing on 40 years of practice and 10 trips to China’s sacred mountains and temples, Roger Jahnke will guide you through the landscape of the “Nine Phases of Cultivation and Mastery of Qi.” These inner alchemy methods awaken and activate naturally occurring inner elixirs for your body, the heartmind (mental/emotional), and the eternal transpersonal self, to transform essential energies for nourishing and empowering life force and creative capacity.

Loving What Is

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Following a relaxed format, each session is set to unfold with conversations, questions, tailored exercises, and meditation practices.

As you gain understanding about your connection with your guardian angel, you discover how self-love can help you let go of the negativity in your life, reduce stress, and become happier and more confident in yourself.

Our greatest promise is this— you can heal your own pain and suffering. How? With qigong.

JUNE 19-21

THROUGH THE EYES OF A CANINE

Develop a Better Relationship With Your Dog David Kurlander Course 2302-249/Tuition $350 ($315 Members)

Anyone who has had a relationship with a dog knows that canines, just like humans, have individual personalities and experiences that shape the way they navigate through life. But we often forget that there are important differences, too.

Many domestic challenges with dogs stem from misunderstanding these differences.

In this workshop, we leave behind our human thought process and see through the eyes of a dog so we can understand how differently they perceive this world. As we dive deep into the conscious mind of our furry family members, we develop an DAVID KURLANDER understanding of the true and natural way of the canine. What makes them pack animals? Why do they have such a clear and defined social structure? How do they communicate so clearly without a vocalized form of language?

We heighten our understanding of what we perceive as “problematic” behaviors, and we learn how to open up our mind’s eye to deepen our connection and create a safe and loving environment for our dogs.

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In this workshop, we will not be working directly with dogs. To accommodate all guests, pets are not allowed on campus.

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David Kurlander is an animal behavior specialist who helps humans relate authentically to animals.

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WEEKEND WORKSHOPS

OMEGA WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP CENTER PROGRAM

JUNE 19-21

Arrive Friday Begin Friday at 8:00 p.m. End Sunday at noon

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OMEGA MINDFULNESS PROGRAM

JUNE 19-21

Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness

Leslie Salmon Jones and Sarah Urech Course 2302-463/Tuition $410/335/260 ($365 Members) SS, LE LESLIE SALMON JONES

Practices for Safe & Transformative Healing DAVID TRELEAVEN

David Treleaven Course 2302-533/Tuition $515 ($465 Members) CE

Is mindfulness meditation safe for those who’ve experienced trauma?

It can be, but mindfulness practice is not one-size-fits-all. Sometimes, those who have experienced trauma may require a different approach.

Drawing on a decade of research and clinical experience, Treleaven shows that mindfulness meditation—if practiced without an awareness of trauma—can exacerbate symptoms of post-traumatic stress.

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Learn how to teach and practice mindfulness in a trauma-sensitive way by recognizing symptoms of traumatic stress and examining practical modifications that support the safety and well-being of clients and students. Integrating contemporary research about the benefits of meditation with the physiological mechanisms of post-traumatic stress, we develop a systemic understanding of trauma-sensitive mindfulness as a practice that works effectively across social difference.

This training is designed for anyone who teaches mindfulness or contemplative practices, including therapists, coaches, and teachers.

CE and CME credits are available and are included in the tuition (see page 136). See eOmega.org for professional course objectives.

David Treleaven, PhD, a writer, educator, and trauma professional, is author of Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness. davidtreleaven.com

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5-DAY WORKSHOPS

SARAH URECH

This experiential workshop focuses on our body as a source of power that can serve us in our everyday challenges as women and as leaders. By extending beyond what our minds tell us we can do, we connect to our embodied wisdom—integrating mind, body, and spirit—and build trust in ourselves and those around us. Through a series of physical practices, including Afro Flow Yoga™, movement, singing, and an optional session on the flying trapeze guided by the Trapeze-Experience™ team, we:

• Cultivate the capacity to take bold risks, overcome fear, and go beyond our edge • Expand our sensory awareness of our body as well as the natural world • Practice being present and accepting of ourselves and others In a supportive, non-judgmental collective of women, we engage in personal reflections and group dialogue and discover why deeper integration is crucial for personal, relational, and global change.

Open to all who identify as women. All fitness levels, abilities, and backgrounds welcome. Trapeze is optional. For beginner trapeze students, safety lines are used at all times. Scholarships are available; see eOmega.org/scholarships.

Leslie Salmon Jones, creator of Afro Flow YogaTM, is a professional dancer, holistic personal trainer, wellness coach, and public speaker. afroflowyoga.com

Sarah Urech is the Omega Women’s Leadership Center senior strategist, a multilingual performer, and social worker. eOmega.org/owlc

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TAI CHI EASY

Practice Leader Certification Training

JUNE 21-26

UNDERSTANDING CHRONIC & MYSTERY ILLNESS

Roger Jahnke and Bob Wolfe Course 2405-454/Tuition $490 ($440 Members) SS

Developed by Roger Jahnke, OMD, Tai Chi ROGER JAHNKE BOB WOLFE Course 2405-459/Tuition $525 ($470 Members) MI Easy™ combines gentle exercises, breath practices, self-massage, and meditation to enhance energy or “qi”—the By understanding the root causes of autoimmune illnesses and how vital essence that creates health, well-being, and harmony—to strengthen, they impact your body’s liver, lymphatic, neurological, and adrenal cleanse, and provide a healing boost for body, mind, and spirit. systems, you can improve your health and prepare to liberate yourself

Muneeza Ahmed

from chronic disease. In this weeklong workshop with Muneeza Ahmed, known as the Intuitive Medicine Woman™, you gain a deeper understanding of the adrenal glands and their connection to the liver, blood sugar, and the central nervous system.

Learn a step-by-step plan for emotional and physical detoxification to bolster your adrenal and circulatory systems. Discover how to rebuild your immune and digestive systems, and sustain hydration and weight loss through personalized nutrition. Gain the knowledge you need about autoimmune conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, Lyme, fibromyalgia, Hashimoto’s, Graves’, Sjogren’s, celiac, Crohn’s, colitis, autism, addiction, infertility, cancer, and more.

Return home with wellness tools that can be instrumental in navigating your way out of chronic illness.

Muneeza Ahmed, the Intuitive Medicine Woman, is a holistic health, nutrition, and emotional wellness coach who has guided thousands of people with chronic and mystery conditions. muneezaahmed.com MUNEEZA AHMED

This step-by-step program supports you in creating powerful practice sessions. Explore: • How to teach the tai chi principles of breathing, relaxation, and mindfulness • Why the slow, flowing movements of tai chi have so many health-enhancing effects, such as increased blood flow, improved cardiovascular fitness, endorphin production, brain plasticity, better sleep, and improved mood • How to share tai chi principles with others in an effective way Appropriate for all ability levels, Tai Chi Easy is a gentle yet powerful practice you can share in your local community, at schools, hospitals, social service agencies, and more. $65 materials fee; include when you register.

Roger Jahnke, OMD, author of The Healing Promise of Qi, is director of the Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi. healerwithinfoundation.org Bob Wolfe is a Tai Chi Easy™ senior trainer with the Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi, a certified hypnotherapist, and a Reiki master.

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5-DAY WORKSHOPS

OMEGA CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING PROGRAM

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Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop

JUNE 21-26

Course 2405-456/Tuition $995 ($895 Members) SS, MI

SPIRITUAL AWAKENING & DIVINE REALIZATION

ELLEN BASS

BELLE BOGGS

5-Day Silent Retreat

Douglas Bentley and Prema Bentley Course 2405-538/Tuition $650 ($585 Members) SS

DOUGLAS BENTLEY

Douglas Bentley has been on his spiritual journey since childhood, leading him to live in India as a monk for 10 years learning directly from great spiritual avatars. sacredwisdom.school Prema Bentley has spent her life focused on spiritual growth and helping others and has studied in India with great spiritual avatars. sacredwisdom.school

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BRONWEN DICKEY

JOE WILKINS

Special guests include literary agents, publishers, and editors, who offer advice on book publishing, the editorial process, placing work in magazines and journals, and the environmental publishing world.

This workshop begins Sunday at 7:30 p.m. This program, by application only, requires submitting writing samples. To learn more, see orionmagazine.org/workshops. Teachers are subject to change.

Ellen Bass’s poetry has won Pushcart Prizes and other awards, and has appeared in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, and The Atlantic. ellenbass.com Belle Boggs is an award-winning fiction and nonfiction author who directs the MFA program in creative writing at North Carolina State University. belleboggs.com Garnette Cadogan is a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. His nonfiction explores the promise and perils of urban life. ipk.nyu.edu/people/garnette-cadogan

Bronwen Dickey is a contributing editor at The Oxford American and an award-winning travel writer. bronwendickey.com Beth Ann Fennelly is the Poet Laureate of Mississippi and was named Outstanding Teacher of the Year at University of Mississippi. bethannfennelly.com

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Participants will be asked to fully dive into and commit themselves to the silence of the retreat so they can move within, to awaken to this eternal moment and the joy and peace it brings.

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Whether you write creative nonfiction, fiction, or poetry, this program is for writers who seek to become better advocates for the environment through their writing. The program features breakout writing sessions dedicated to each genre, faculty readings and lectures, student readings, and presentations on publishing. Each participant receives individualized attention, feedback, and a focused meeting with a faculty member to discuss manuscripts or projects.

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PREMA BENTLEY

Join Douglas and Prema Bentley from Sacred Wisdom School on a 5-day silent retreat focused on the journey of spiritual awakening.

This sacred retreat will allow the space and energies for you to dive deeply inward to unlock the deep stillness, peace, and connectedness that awaits within.

Each day will include teachings, powerful processes, Q&As, and deep meditations and contemplations.

Are you passionate about nature writing or writing about the land? The annual Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop is a unique opportunity to connect with Orion magazine writers and editors to understand more deeply the Orion perspective on the relationship between literature and the natural world. This renowned workshop is cosponsored by the Omega Center for Sustainable Living.

Joe Wilkins, a frequent Orion contributor, is widely published and lauded for his fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. joewilkins.org

OMEGA VETERANS PROGRAM

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HEALING FROM MILITARY TRAUMA

Thanks to the JM McDonald Foundation for their generous support of this program.

A Warrior Renew Program Lori S. Katz Course 2405-551 SS, LE

This Warrior Renew workshop is for women who have served in the military (veterans or current service members) and have experienced Military Sexual Trauma (MST). MST can impact the mind, body, and spirit. This retreat offers a safe, healing environment to resolve issues of the past and increase resiliency, and the encouragement to move forward in a positive way.

Through therapeutic activities, including discussion, lectures, writing, mindful awareness, aromatherapy, movement, and group experiences using an integrative approach, we:

This program is not an exposure-based treatment; you will not be asked to share or listen to trauma stories. Required: Six months of sobriety and emotional stability prior to workshop. By application only; apply early as spots fill quickly. Tuition is $480 ($430 Members).

Scholarships are available to cover all but $75 of the total cost; see eOmega.org/scholarships for details.

• Work to resolve feelings of anxiety, anger, and resentment, including injustice and betrayal, self-blame, grief, and shame • Learn effective self-regulation and communication skills • Explore the impact of MST on relationships and how to cultivate trusting and healthy loving connections with others

Lori S. Katz, PhD, a clinical psychologist and developer of the Warrior Renew treatment program, has worked with veterans for more than 28 years, specializing in military trauma.

LORI S. KATZ

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ROOT TO RISE

Follow the Aztec Path to Heal & Lead Robyn Moreno Course 2502-462/Tuition $295 ($265 Members) MI

Do you remember who you were before others told you who you should be? Do you have a feeling that something is missing no matter what you do? Then it’s time to root down and rise.

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Insights to Get Your Meditation Practice Off the Cushion & Into the Real World

MINDFUL ANIMATED MOVEMENT WORKSHOP

Integrating Mindfulness with Art Material Exploration, Movement & Stop-Motion Animation Laura Bellmont Course 2502-492/Tuition $360 ($325 Members) LE

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Cultivate the practice of mindfulness through the magic of a stop-motion Under the guidance of animation filmmaking lens, curandera (Mexican combined with art materials folk healer) Robyn and grounding movement.

Moreno, we’ll use Using “DragonFrame practices from Stop Motion” software, Curanderismo (Mexican LAURA BELLMONT Bellmont’s animation folk healing tradition) process enables an exploration to journey back to the root by of art materials that encourages tapping into the strength of our being present in an environment ancestors. From this grounded of awareness without judgement. place, we rediscover our true Fine motor skills marry repetitive essence, our voice, our story, and motion while the eyes relax and our unique gifts—and create a the hand explores materials at roadmap of how we can share each animation station. After them with the world. experiencing each station, the The Nahuatl (Aztec) word for group explores large-scale truth means “rootedness,” and movement exercises which are this weekend we will root into our also by the lens for a “pixilation” own truth in the safety of sacred (the animation of a living sisterhood through movement subject). These movements (yoga and dance), meditation, enable participants to let go in sharing circles, inspired their bodies with a certain tactile journaling, and connecting to freedom designed for every nature through relaxed, spiritual mover. hikes.

Workshop participants will: This workshop is designed for • Learn to focus their women who are being called to thoughts while following lead, heal, or grow. guided prompts to let go Robyn Moreno is an curandera, and play abstractly with life coach, Latinx leader, and materials and the repetitive Emmy-nominated TV host who use of technology appears regularly on morning • Experience tactile meditative shows. She has interviewed a benefits of exploring a number of powerhouse women, range of materials which from Rihanna to Jennifer Lopez aid in quieting the mind to Hillary Clinton. robynmoreno.com • Receive guidance through simple and complex ROBYN MORENO movements of the body enabling body scans, breath work, and focus exercises Participants receive a link to the finished animated short film that they can view and share.

Laura Bellmont, MA, author of Animation Lab for Kids, is an illustrator and certified educator. thelittleanimationstudio.com

Biet Simkin Course 2502-514/Tuition $390 ($350 Members) MI

Awaken to a realistic and down-toearth approach to enlightenment while being immersed in art, music, and the transcendent with spiritual teacher and BIET SIMKIN author of Don’t Just Sit There! Biet Simkin.

Dive into what is blocking you from freedom and joy.

Biet is a master Fourth Way teacher and brings these ancient teachings and experiences by exploring the 44 laws that prevent us from enlightenment. Her course uses intense high vibrational meditation techniques that include breathwork and vulnerability work to transcend the emotional center and go to the other side where miracles are born.

While Biet’s studies as a spiritual teacher span over 40 years—she was raised by an awakened teacher and learned to meditate as a toddler— what makes her work unique is the amount of levity and art that she brings into everything she touches.

Come to this workshop prepared to remember who you actually are and leave operating from that space.

Biet Simkin is a spiritual teacher, artist, and author of Don’t Just Sit There! who has been on a spiritual path for 30+ years and founded The Center of the CycloneTM meditation. bietsimkin.com

JUNE 26-28

FOOD, WINE & AGRI-CULTURE JOURNEY OF THE AMALFI COAST Course 2502-529/Tuition $425 ($380 Members) SS

VINCENZO LAURIA

CARLA CANTE

WAYNE HOMSI

Journey with us on a virtual tour to the southern part of Italy and absorb with all your senses the beauty, culture, gastronomy, and wines of the Amalfi Coast.

Travel through time in Naples, ferry over to the island of Capri, enjoy limoncello in Sorrento, and experience the majesty of Ravello.

Join a professionally trained chef, a sommelier and culinary professor, and an Italian architect/art history professor as you immerse yourself in a culinary and cultural experience from the comfort of Omega’s campus. Create delicious meals from the Amalfi Coast, taste and experience southern Italian wines, and learn about the rich history, art, and people. This workshop includes Italian art and history discussions, hands-on cooking demonstrations, wine tastings, and a dinner celebrating the delicacies the group has prepared.

During the weekend, you learn how to cook amazing southern Italian meals; how to identify, select, and pair southern Italian wines with the proper foods; and food sustainability and 0 kilometer philosophy.

Chef, sommelier, and retired professor of the Culinary Institute of America, Vincenzo Lauria is a native of Naples, Italy, and author of A Tavola. He specializes in Italian food and wine tours.

Carla Cante, architect and professor of art history, is a tour operator specializing in food, wine, and culture trips in Italy and Europe.

Award-winning executive chef at Casual Elegance Catering, Wayne Homsi has cooked for numerous celebrities, including President Bill Clinton.

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Plus Online Session Join Shannon Kaiser for 1 followup group coaching Zoom call to identify next steps on your writer journey.

Radiant Living Prescriptions for Ageless Beauty

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Christiane Northrup Course 2502-525/Tuition $425 ($380 Members)

In this weekend, beloved teacher Christiane Northrup shows that we have it in us to make growing older an entirely different experience, both for our bodies and for our souls.

CHRISTIANE NORTHRUP

SASHA GRAHAM

ALISON DENICOLA

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AWAKEN YOUR INNER MAGIC

A Yoga & Tarot Weekend

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Explore and awaken your intuitive potential and inner magic with this inspired blend of yoga and Tarot.

Meet and explore the archetypes and symbols of the Tarot, which are deeply connected to intuition and collective consciousness using yoga, movement, intuitive practices, and meditation. Using guided visualizations, journaling, and partner practice, learn ways to access your higher mind while discovering the magical qualities that lie dormant within you.

Enjoying vibrant good health Having a fulfilling sex life Gaining the capacity to love without losing ourselves Increasing the ability to move our bodies with ease and pleasure Accessing clarity and authenticity in our relationships— especially the one we have with ourselves

When we find the connection between our thoughts, beliefs, physical health, and life circumstances, we find that we are in the driver’s seat of our lives and can make profound changes. Nothing is more exhilarating or empowering.

Christiane Northrup, MD, is a pioneer in the field of women’s health and wellness, and best-selling author of Goddesses Never Age: The Secret Prescription for Radiance, Vitality and Well-Being, Mother-Daughter Wisdom: Understanding the Crucial Link Between Mothers, Daughters, and Health, and Dodging Energy Vampires: An Empath’s Guide to Evading Relationships That Drain You and Restoring Your Health and Power. drnorthrup.com

Sasha Graham and Alison DeNicola Course 2502-417/Tuition $400 ($360 Members) SS, MI

In this program that focuses on the images from the Rider Waite Tarot deck you will:

JUNE 26-28

REMAINING RESOURCEFUL

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) & Ericksonian Hypnosis

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Rachel Hott Course 2502-430/Tuition $395 ($355 Members) MI

Learning to master the tools of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Ericksonian Hypnosis RACHEL HOTT connects us to the inner resources needed to meet both challenges that we choose to pursue as well as the ones that life presents us with. By utilizing interactive exercises and short demonstrations, we will share anchoring and reframing techniques that will help you maintain your center, your confidence, your compassion and self worth in situations that have triggered a “stuck state.” Participants will learn how to use hypnotic language when guiding others and themselves.

Since the mid-1980s, Hott has been leading NLP and Ericksonian Hypnosis workshops with people ranging from ages 18-88 with all backgrounds and professions. The best way to prepare is to come with a curious and open mind and willingness to participate. NLP and Ericksonian Hypnosis skills help you remain resourceful in all situations.

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an Omega Rest & Rejuvenation Retreat eOmega.org/rest See page 14 for details.

Rachel Hott, PhD has been codirector of The NLP Center of New York since 1986, where she leads workshops in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Ericksonian Hypnosis, and individual and couple counseling. nlptraining.com

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Reveal and embody the archetypes and suits of the Tarot through yoga and movement Ignite your intuition using guided meditations with the Fool, High Priestess, and Empress from the Major Arcana Work with intention, visioning and other practices that access higher mind and spark magic Empower your senses and uncover your intuitive strengths Do mini readings for yourself and others

Sasha Graham, founder of the Tarot Outreach Program, is author of Llewellyn’s Tarot Diva, 365 Tarot Spreads, and 365 Tarot Spells and served as editor and writer of Lo Scarabeo’s Tarot Series; Tarot Fundamentals, Tarot Experience, and Tarot Compendium. sashagraham.com

Shannon Kaiser Course 2502-542/Tuition $390 ($350 Members) MI

Do you have a story, a message, and a deep desire to help others with your ideas and personal experience? Is there a book inside you that’s yearning to be expressed, but you don’t know how to move forward? Remove all worry and get insider knowledge on how to write, publish, and market your book. Discover how to share your message with a full heart and impact the world in a positive way.

With Shannon Kaiser’s stepby-step process, you’ll gain the confidence and clarity not only to write and publish your book, but also to spread your message.

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Get fast-track inside knowledge of the publishing industry and how to break in Remove hidden blocks that keep you from following through Secure a literary agent and a lucrative publishing deal Create a support system and loyal audience Develop a crystal-clear vision of your purpose, your message, and a step-by-step action plan for publishing

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Northrup explains that the state of our health is dictated far more by our beliefs than by our biology. She works to shift our perceptions about getting older and show us what we are entitled to expect from our later years—no matter what our culture tries to teach us to the contrary—including:

STEP INTO YOUR PURPOSE

Catapult your success by stepping over unnecessary setbacks. Turn your literary dreams into abundant reality, and create a movement with your divine purpose, experience, and perspective.

Shannon Kaiser is the bestselling author of five books on the psychology of happiness, including The Self-Love Experiment. playwiththeworld.com SHANNON KAISER

Alison DeNicola is a yoga and meditation teacher, energy healer, and author of Mudras for Awakening the Energy Body Deck & Book Set, and Mudras for Awakening the Five Elements Deck & Book Set. alisondenicola.com

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Feed your creativity.

Become a member.

See eOmega.org/membership.

arts week

DONNA MIKKELSEN

Calling all artists!

Be a part of one of the most creative and community building weeks of the year—Omega Arts Week. Immerse yourself in your art—painting, storytelling, writing, trapeze, movement, music, and more—during mornings and afternoons. Mingle with other creative souls during mealtimes and evening events. Enjoy the annual Circus Night on Wednesday. Share what you’ve created during participant showcases on Thursday night. All are welcome, from the budding to the accomplished artist. Join us as we celebrate and support the creative spirit.

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Annual Circus Night on Wednesday evening

ARTS WEEK Arrive Sunday Begin Monday at 9:00 a.m.

End Friday at noon

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SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY Creativity & Collaboration Through Symmetry Drawing

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Donna Mikkelsen

Every Life Has a Story That Matters

STORYTELLING YOUR LIFE

Course 2605-423/Tuition $425 ($380 Members) MI

Drawing with both hands simultaneously engages both hemispheres of the brain, focuses the senses, and stimulates the creative process. It’s also a lot of fun.

Chris Wells Course 2605-427/Tuition $425 ($380 Members) SS, MI, LE

DONNA MIKKELSEN

Return home with new skills for finding balance and focus in your everyday life as well as for accessing the creativity inside of you to use anywhere at any time.

This workshop is designed for people with any level of experience and ability who are interested in the brain, mindfulness, healing, teaching, team building, dance, visual art, or design. Teachers will discover a fun tool to help build teamwork and leadership skills for their students.

Donna Mikkelsen is an ambidextrous artist who has been developing a method of symmetry drawing for more than 25 years. ambiarts.net

In this joyful and engaging exploration of life, designed exclusively for Omega Arts Week, award-winning storyteller Chris Wells leads you on an adventure of discovering your greatest stories.

Through an evocative combination of conversations, writing prompts, and assignments designed to take you on a journey of rediscovery through the most significant events of your life, you gain practical and effective tools for making art from life experience.

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UKULELE ZEN

Music, Mindfulness & Creative Play Stuart Fuchs and Sarah Carlisle

Chris Wells, an Obie award-winning performer, writer, and community leader, is founding artistic director of the arts organization ArtChurch, The Secret City. mrchriswells.com

Course 2605-301/Tuition $440 ($395 Members) SS, MI

The ukulele offers an accessible way to bring music-making into your daily life. Whether you are new to the ukulele or have been playing it for years, you gain useful practice tips, playing techniques, meditative listening skills, and learn how to approach musicmaking from a nonjudgmental state of mind.

Enjoy holistic ukulele classes, casual jam sessions, and an exploration of diverse musical styles in a supportive and joyful environment. Ukulele Zen is a unique method that weaves movement and breathing exercises—as well as sitting and walking meditation practices from the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh—and playfully applies them to the music-making process. These practices help you access an effortless technique so you can play for longer and with less discomfort.

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Your creations are shared at the end of the week as the retreat culminates in a transformative storytelling performance.

Folks leave with a story they can tell on their feet, as well as a more integrated, empowered self.

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Learn to use Spontaneous Symmetry as an artistic tool in this workshop with ambidextrous artist Donna Mikkelsen. Through periods of movement, full-body symmetry drawing, music, collaborative art making, and journaling, you discover not only a drawing tool but a means for meditation, self-reflection, and improved well-being. Collaborative Symmetry explores radial symmetry drawing in pairs and in larger groups as a means to explore leadership, teamwork, and nonverbal communication.

Writing your own story has the potential to illuminate a deeper understanding of your self, your purpose, and where you are on your own path.

CHRIS WELLS

Leave with new skills and inspiration to continue your music journey at home.

This workshop begins on Sunday at 8:30 p.m.

Stuart Fuchs is a classical guitarist, ukulele virtuoso, teaching artist, and sound healer who is passionate about sharing the healing benefits of music. stufuchs.com Sarah Carlisle trained as a classical and jazz musician. She has studied Kundalini Yoga since 1998 and currently plays and records with kirtan artist Snatam Kaur Khalsa.

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SARAH CARLISLE

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SIMPLIFYING THE LANDSCAPE

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Interpreting the Essence of Place

KAMIKAZE CREATING

Kate McGloughlin

Intuitive Art & Writing in Wild Abandon

Course 2605-520/Tuition $440 ($395 Members) MI

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On Omega’s idyllic grounds, The Woodstock School of Art’s own Kate McGloughlin will lead this en plein air painting workshop, an immersive experience that she has taken around the globe to help painters navigate the visual pitfalls and stumbling blocks that can make painting on location seem overwhelming.

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This course was designed to help artists simplify their approach to landscape painting by learning the practical aspects of painting in the field and capturing the essence of place by creating meaningful sketch book entries. Using a system of visual interpretation with three values and three shapes to achieve the greatest visual impact—in whichever medium they choose—participants thrive in a warm and collegial environment with demonstrations, easel critiques, and personalized attention.

Frequent discussions about design, composition, color, and intention keep this class lively and informative.

Bring your spirit of adventure. All levels of experience welcome.

Kate McGloughlin is a celebrated painter, printmaker, and instructor at the center of the Artists Colony of Woodstock—The Woodstock School of Art. katemcgloughlin.com

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Jill Badonsky JILL BADONSKY

Course 2605-333/Tuition $455 ($410 Members) MI

Kamikaze, a Japanese word meaning “divine wind,” describes the very essence of this workshop led by Jill Badonsky, a multimedia artist and inspirational humorist. We engage with such gale force as to blow our inner critic away and float on the breeze of creativity.

Fleeting multimedia projections, poetry, music, and offbeat prompts ease you into unlocking an authentic creative voice without overthinking or scaring it away.

Perfectionist tendencies and immobilizing self-judgments are effortlessly excused from the room as you experience the freedom of these intuitive techniques for sketching, whimsical painting, and creative writing.

This workshop is designed for all levels of experience, including beginners as well as seasoned writers and artists.

It is especially helpful for writers looking to define their voice in an inspiring environment that explores fresh approaches to creativity; those who are having trouble getting started or returning to creativity and need a little structure; and anyone wanting to open up to the fun, flow, and mindfulness that are natural states in the creative process.

Jill Badonsky, M.Ed, is a multimedia artist, playwright, poet, certified yoga teacher, and author of three books about creativity. kaizenmuse.com

JUNE 28-JULY 3

FLYING TRAPEZE

An Adventure in Self-Discovery Trapeze-Experience Course 2605-441/Tuition $595 ($535 Members) MI, LE

Face and overcome your fears. Break through mental, emotional, and physical blocks. Take yourself to the edge and leap beyond your comfort zone with the flying trapeze.

Led by Peter Gold’s Trapeze-Experience™ team, this popular workshop is an extraordinary way to bond with others, enrich the quality of moment-to-moment experiences, and become more present as a result of bringing conscious awareness to the transformation process. In a fun and supportive environment, this workshop is an accelerated experience of learning and transformation that leads to deep realizations about yourself and your relationship with life.

Experience the exhilaration of flying on the trapeze and the joy of progressive mastery of a unique skill, while exploring the deeper nature of how you confront life and create your own reality.

Beginners and advanced trapeze students alike are invited.

For beginners, safety lines are used at all times.

Advanced students can come out of lines if approved by Peter Gold.

A weekend version of this workshop is also offered (see page 56).

2-hour trapeze sessions are available May 29-June 28; see eOmega.org/fly.

Trapeze-Experience™ is an industry-leading organization, founded by Peter Gold, that promotes wellness and personal freedom through the flying trapeze experience. trapeze-experience.com

“Just Begin Again” by Jill Badonsky

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Creating Art With Meaning Taking Your Art to Another Level Bret Cook Course 2605-512/Tuition $560 ($505 Members) MI

JANET GILMORE AND JIMMIE DALE GILMORE

Tickle your imagination, get past creative blocks, and expand the possibilities of your art in this experiential workshop. The principles of design, composition, technique, and thinking outside the box will be covered. Lectures, assignments, and critiques will help you develop insight into creativity and meaning, whether you work in oils, acrylics, pastels, pen and ink, graphite, airbrush, BRET COOK photography, or sculpture. You will learn best practices to further your artistic understanding, inspiration, and scope of imagination, all while seeing how others approach creativity.

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SONGWRITING

Jimmie Dale Gilmore

Bret Cook is an artist, teacher, and master of many mediums and is currently working in the US Virgin Islands on a monumental underwater sculpture that will become an artificial reef.

Bring a guitar or small keyboard if you have one. If you would like to receive feedback, bring 30 printed copies (or a recording) of a song you have written.

Three-time Grammy nominated musician Jimmie Dale Gilmore creates resonant music that blends esoteric philosophy, literature, psychology, and spirituality with elements of country, folk, pop, blues, and rock music. jimmiegilmore.com

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This class is for artists of all levels in all mediums. It is individualized for each student in their medium of choice.

The group explores what it is that makes songs such an essential and potent part of human communication, in an environment where everyone can flourish. A small amount of time is given to discussion of the business aspect of songwriting.

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Course 2605-304/Tuition $460 ($415 Members) SS, MI, LE

This workshop for beginning and advanced songwriters focuses on songwriting as a tool for self-discovery. While Jimmie Dale Gilmore creates an atmosphere of interaction and collaboration, the emphasis is on providing perspectives and motivation for ongoing individual creativity.

OMEGA YOGA SERVICE PROGRAM

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YOUTH YOGA & MINDFULNESS

Teaching Yoga & Mindfulness to Today’s Youth Course 2605-272/Tuition $490/415/340 ($440 Members) SS, CE

The Holistic Life Foundation (HLF) teaches yoga and mindfulness to youth classified as “high-risk” or “hard-toreach” in urban environments, as well as youth in private schools and rural and international settings.

ALI SMITH

Guided by Holistic Life Foundation founders Ali Smith, Atman Smith, and Andres Gonzalez, you gain a deeper understanding of the needs of youth in diverse environments and learn new yoga and mindfulness skills to help fulfill those needs.

Through practice, lectures, and discussions, you learn asanas, pranayama, centering exercises, mindfulness practices, and meditations. You also learn youth engagement principles, teaching philosophies, and strategies for working with “problem” students, while exploring methods to make the whole approach practical and fun.

This is an exceptional opportunity for anyone at any skill level in yoga and mindfulness interested in teaching these techniques to today’s youth,

ATMAN SMITH

ANDRES GONZALEZ

SAT BIR SINGH KHALSA

including teachers, yoga instructors, and helping professionals who wish to use the techniques in their practices.

Teachers are subject to change.

The Holistic Life Foundation, founded in 2001 by brothers Ali Smith and Atman Smith and Andres Gonzalez, has offered yoga and mindfulness programs to some 10,000 young people and 4,500 adults. hlfinc.org Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, PhD, is director of research for the Kundalini Research Institute and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. kundaliniresearchinstitute.org

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Ecological Literacy Immersion Program Designing for Our Regenerative Future: A 4-week Certificate Program

Solving today’s challenges requires ecological literacy—an understanding of the patterns and principles that underlie all living systems.

TEACHERS: Abrah Dresdale

This transformational 4-week residential certificate program uses the frameworks of regenerative design—a whole systems, place-based approach to problem solving that considers the connections between society, nature, and individuals—to provide participants with instruments and tools for innovation.

Connor Stedman

Using the 250-acre Omega campus as our classroom, we learn to consciously design for our learning goals, the physical and ecological landscape, and the social systems that support human well-being and carry our designs forward into the future.

Dina Falconi

While deepening our understanding of place, we examine current global challenges and learn from the solutions that exist at Omega and around the world.

Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees

Guided by experts in the fields of permaculture, regenerative agriculture, ecological engineering, water and soil science, wilderness awareness, and whole systems design, we explore the potential for building a regenerative future.

Now in its 8th year, ELIP has fostered a growing community of changemakers who continue to share ideas among alumni/ae and with each new class.

Dave Jacke Deb Habib John Todd Josephine Papagni

Kavitha Rao Ken Greene Laura Weiland Ricky Baruc

Participants earn an internationally recognized Permaculture Design Certificate.

Robert “Skip” Backus

Tuition for this program (Course 2626-480) is $3,425 ($3,325 Members) for 4 weeks and includes platform camping and meals. Accommodations may be upgraded for an additional fee. Register early for discounted rates. Limited scholarships are available.

Space limited, apply early. Teachers are subject to change.

Steve Gabriel and more

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Omega’s Ecological Literacy Immersion Program (ELIP) provides a unique and inspiring curriculum inviting participants to move from fragmented and mechanical thinking to seeing, designing, and interacting in the world through the understanding of whole living systems.

Contact us at ocsl@eOmega.org for more information or to make an appointment.

Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop See page 45.

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Ecological Literacy Immersion Program

See left.

JULY 3-5

Grow Food Everywhere See left.

JULY 5-10

Earth Wisdom of the Teyuna Elders See page 59.

AUGUST 2-7 RICKY BARUC AND DEB HABIB

JULY 3-5

Reaffi rming Indigeneity See page 78.

GROW FOOD EVERYWHERE

AUGUST 2-7

Ricky Baruc and Deb Habib

See page 79.

For Great Health & Community

Course 2702-481/Tuition $345/270/195 ($310 Members)

It is possible to do something positive to help reverse climate change, while improving your well-being and developing a more sacred connection to the land. Now is the critical moment in time to build personal and community resilience, healthy soil, and good food for all.

This weekend, through discussion, contemplative practice, and plenty of hands-on experience, we gain skills and techniques to establish gardens and grow delicious food—from lawns and windowsills, to schools and urban lots—using low-cost local resources, with minimal maintenance and climate-resilient methods.

Guided by farmers and educators Ricky Baruc and Deb Habib, we practice several methods to create beautiful gardens and small farms that prepare us to take the lessons learned immediately into our lives and communities.

Those new to gardening return home with enough knowledge and skill to grow their own food. Experienced growers learn new techniques to enrich their current practices. We all gain ideas, methods, and inspiration to transform our gardening, communities, and lives.

Educating for a Sustainable Future AUGUST 9-14

Healing the Wounds of Turtle Island See page 83.

SEPTEMBER 18-20

Permission to Care: Activating Our Ability to Relate to Climate Change See page 102.

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Handcrafted Herbal Body-Care See page 119.

We are grateful to the following organizations for their significant support of the OCSL:

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2020 OCSL PROGRAMS

ELIP participants are automatically enrolled in this program at no cost.

Ricky Baruc and Deb Habib, EdD, run Seeds of Solidarity, a solarpowered farm and education center, and are authors of Making Love While Farming: Field Guide to a Life of Passion and Purpose. seedsofsolidarity.org

omegacenter for sustainable living

The Omega Center for Sustainable Living (OCSL) demonstrates and teaches what is possible through regenerative thinking and design. Our award-winning building, EcoMachineTM, planning retreats, community organizing, and innovative educational programming and events create an opportunity for visitors and students to connect more deeply with the places where they live and work. Join us in 2020 and explore opportunities to address social, economic, and environmental challenges with a holistic approach to sustainable living.

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WEEKEND WORKSHOPS Arrive Friday Begin Friday at 8:00 p.m. End Sunday at noon

OMEGA MINDFULNESS PROGRAM

JULY 3-5

TRAIN YOUR BRAIN TO CHANGE THE WORLD

A Neuroscience-Based Approach to Social Change Due Quach Course 2702-574/Tuition $395 ($355 Members)

The Calm Clarity approach to driving transformation and social change shows us how to be effective leaders, activists, and human beings.

JIMMIE DALE GILMORE

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Jimmie Dale Gilmore

An Expressive Retreat to Change Your Life

ADVANCED SONGWRITING Course 2702-305/Tuition $335 ($300 Members) MI, LE

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In this Advanced Songwriting workshop with Grammy-Award nominee Jimmie Dale Gilmore, we further explore songwriting as a tool for self-discovery, building on insights and techniques from the Songwriting workshop. The interaction and strong communication experienced in this supportive setting is a fruitful means of opening new possibilities and inspiration for further individual work.

Admission to this workshop is limited to people who have studied previously with Gilmore, with no exceptions. Bring a guitar or small keyboard if you have one. If you would like to receive feedback, bring 30 printed copies (or a recording) of a song you have written.

Three-time Grammy nominated musician Jimmie Dale Gilmore creates resonant music that blends esoteric philosophy, literature, psychology, and spirituality with elements of country, folk, pop, blues, and rock music. jimmiegilmore.com

DANCE YOUR BLISS Rachel Fleischman Course 2702-287/Tuition $355 ($320 Members) MI

Are you ready for an exuberant and deeply restorative experience?

Dance Your Bliss™ is a powerful, movement-rich psychotherapeutic system that reconnects us to our best selves.

Acknowledging emotions that are stored in the body is an empowering catalyst to change.

Experience your body’s inherent wisdom in this cutting-edge combination of neuroscience with dance, guided meditation, expressive arts, and life-affirming exercises. Practice leading techniques to heal emotions, unleash power and passion, create abundance, and live with more creativity and confidence.

Through a synthesis of movement, guided imagery, kinetic writing, art-making, poetry, and play, you learn to live with more presence and balance, move in new and exciting ways, love your body like never before, and boost your energy, vitality, and joy.

Join a community of all levels that supports transformation in life and relationships with laughter, learning, and compassion. Return home a little lighter and a lot more blissful.

All are welcome; no dance experience is necessary.

DUE QUACH

Calm Clarity is a social enterprise based on the premise that humans move between three patterns of brain activation. Brain 1.0 is activated when our freeze-flight-fight system takes over and makes us build walls and contract. Brain 2.0 kicks in when our reward system takes over, causing us to chase immediate ego gratification. Brain 3.0 is activated when our brain is integrated—enabling us to access inner wisdom and compassion—to manifest a greater vision and purpose.

Leaders of social change must learn to activate Brain 3.0 to inspire others with a vision. Calm Clarity grew out of Quach’s realizations that world peace is not possible without inner peace; community healing is contingent upon personal healing; and tools to transform systems are most effective when grounded in science and wisdom. $20 materials fee; include when you register.

Due Quach (pronounced ‘Zway Kwok’) is a social entrepreneur, founder of Calm Clarity, and author of Calm Clarity. calmclarity.org

JULY 3-5

MUSIC, MEDITATION & NATURE

How Deep Listening Can Open Up Paths to Meditation Garth Stevenson Course 2702-507/Tuition $325 ($295 Members) MI

The deeper we can listen, the quicker we can quiet down our minds and be in the moment. Focusing our awareness and GARTH STEVENSON sensitivity to sound, Garth Stevenson will lead easy to moderate hikes along the beautiful trails at Omega. Upon arriving at a location suitable for sitting, a brief talk will be given about how his experiences playing music in nature have informed his musical language. Participants will be encouraged to focus their listening on the interaction and harmony between the music, the sounds of nature, and the spaces in between. The music will slowly begin, perhaps with the sound of the bow gently pulling across the strings, blending seamlessly into the natural sounds of the environment. The meditative music will continue for 30-40 minutes, then will be followed by a period of silence to focus on the natural sounds such as wind, insects, birds, and water which usually sound much more potent after the music than they did before.

Hikes will most likely be 30 minutes to the location and 30 minutes back.

Focusing our awareness and sensitivity on sound will be the main focus of the workshop. The deeper we can listen, the quicker we can quiet down our minds and be in the moment.

Rachel Fleischman, LCSW, REAT, is a psychotherapist, speaker, master teacher, and creator of the Dance Your Bliss™ method and Being Bliss™ CDs.

Garth Stevenson is a composer and double bassist whose solo albums, Alpine, Flying, and Voyage are informed by carrying his 150-year-old double bass into remote wilderness areas including Antarctica and Tuva. His work as a film composer includes Chappaquiddick and Tracks.

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WRITING YOUR STORY Krista Vernoff

Course 2702-282/Tuition $325 ($295 Members) MI

“Tell the truth. Bare your soul. Laugh while you do it.” —Krista Vernoff Whether you are a poet, songwriter, essayist, novelist, or a screenwriter, your lived experience must inform your writing.

BILL PHILIPPS

JULY 3-5

SIGNS FROM SPIRIT Bill Philipps Course 2702-296/Tuition $370 ($335 Members) MI

Join psychic medium Bill Philipps to connect with the other side and receive inspiring messages of peace, healing, and hope.

You return home with the inspiration, motivation, and professional tips you need to keep writing your story.

Krista Vernoff, a former Omega Seasonal Staff member, is an Emmy-nominated television writer best known for her Golden Globe-winning work on Grey’s Anatomy and Shameless.

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You return home with the skills to recognize signs from spirit that your deceased loved ones are still around you, communicating with you, and influencing your life’s journey.

Bill Philipps is an internationally renowned psychic medium, spiritual teacher, and author of Expect the Unexpected and Signs From the Other Side. billphilipps.com

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Discover the Healing Power of Nature, Art & Ritual Day Schildkret Course 2702-425/Tuition $375 ($335 Members)

DAY SCHILDKRET

Life is full of transitions—birth, leaving home, big moves, job changes, marriage, sobriety, divorce, death, and more. These profound moments change us, but we often miss the opportunity to mark them and acknowledge their purpose, meaning, and insight.

Guided by artist Day Schildkret, you learn a tangible, accessible, and powerful tool to honor and sanctify life’s cycles and transitions based on the 7-step process popularized in his book Morning Altars. Inspired by nature, you create a personal altar and rituals specifically for what you’re going through in your life while simultaneously strengthening your capacity to bring wonder, gratitude, creativity, and nonattachment to each moment—practices that make your life richer and more resilient for whatever transitions are ahead.

Anyone who loves nature and is looking for a hands-on creative practice for moving through a life transition with grace and beauty is welcome.

Day Schildkret is an artist and creator of Morning Altars, a celebration of impermanent earth art. Through his social media presence and international workshops and installations he is bringing ephemeral art to the collective human imagination. morningaltars.com

Meggan Watterson Course 2702-410/Tuition $385 ($345 Members) MI

The gospel of Mary Magdalene reveals a radical love that sits at the heart of the Christian story.

Her gospel says that we are not sinful; we are not to feel ashamed or unworthy for being human.

In fact, our purpose is to be fully human, to be a “true human being”—that is, a person who has remembered that we are a messy, limited ego, and also, we are a limitless soul.

And all we need to do is to turn inward (again and again); to meditate, like Mary Magdalene, in the way her gospel directs us, to reach a clarity or singularity of heart that lets us see past the ego of our own little lives to what’s more real, and lasting, and infinite, and already here, within.

Through lecture, discussion, and practice of the Soul-Voice meditation together, we learn about Mary Magdalene as a figure of spiritual authority in the earliest form of Christianity. We discover why her gospel was excluded from the current form of the New Testament, and explore the secret teachings Christ gave to her.

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Through a series of exercises, meditations, group support, and periodic readings sprinkled throughout the weekend, you learn to clear your mind of doubt, fear, and ego, so you can heal from the past and recognize the realm of spirit on earth. Discover how to remain connected to the ones you love and change your preconceived notions about life after death.

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This writing workshop with Golden Globe-winning writer and producer Krista Vernoff helps you move past KRISTA VERNOFF what holds you back in writing and guides you to put your truth into words. In a nurturing creative environment, you practice spontaneous writing exercises, use creative writing prompts, connect with your inner voice, delve deep into your life experiences, and share your stories to receive positive feedback and support rather than criticism. You learn to call up and draw on your own life experiences—your pain, joy, longing, and fears, along with the funny, the dramatic, and the real—and use that truth in your writing mode of choice.

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We return home with a deeper understanding of why Mary Magdalene’s teachings are so relevant at this point in time and with an experience of the love Mary’s gospel reveals, a love that changes everything.

Meggan Watterson, author of Mary Magdalene Revealed, is a Harvard-trained feminist theologian and founder of the REDLADIES. megganwatterson.com

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RADICAL DHARMA CIRCLE

Reverend angel Kyodo williams Sensei and Jasmine Syedullah

JULY 3-5

Course 2702-438/Tuition $350/275/200 ($315 Members) SS

MASSAGE, MEDITATION & YOGA FOR LOVE

Encounter race where it lives in your life. Rooted in the radical supposition that regardless of color or status, race has harmed us all—though in different ways—Radical Dharma Circle is an encounter with awareness and practices of dismantling the negative impacts of racialization on our collective minds, hearts, and bodies.

Shai Plonski

Course 2702-401/Tuition $345 ($310 Members) per person CE

One of the most powerful ways to communicate our essential truth with others is to move it from our heads to our hearts—and through our hands.

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Join Shai Plonski, author of The Joy of Giving Massage, in this retreat for couples, friends, and family members. You and your loved one(s) learn loving touch massage, meditation, and yoga practices that nurture loving appreciation and gratitude for these special partners in your life. As you learn to exchange massage with each other, you discover a gentle, loving way to help release stress, ease into sleep, and experience a deep sense of play and gratitude.

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Return home with experience performing short and skilled massage flows for the back, neck, shoulders, feet and head; heart-opening meditations; and customized yoga flows that help you release tension and tune into your body.

This highly experiential weekend features identity and issue-based caucuses, full-group congresses, and capacity-building using embodied practices we need to expand our sense of spaciousness to find a more complete truth and greater awareness, understanding, and compassion across lines of difference and among our own tribes.

ANGEL KYODO WILLIAMS

We learn to: • Move past clever language to courageously explore our relationship to race through deep listening • Develop practices that cut through bias while increasing personal space and capacity • Begin to unpack and reveal the relationship between intersecting oppressions and how they work to keep us apart • Confront the stored history and impact of race on how we show up • Engage in issue-based caucuses and full-group congresses to meet race where it matters in our lives Scholarships are available; see eOmega.org/scholarships.

Reverend angel Kyodo williams Sensei is an author, activist, and spiritual teacher who bridges the worlds of spirit and justice. angelkyodowilliams.com Jasmine Syedullah, PhD, is an abolitionist, academic, and coauthor, with williams and Lama Rod Owens, of Radical Dharma.

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You must attend with a partner. The minimum age for this workshop is 12. Teens must attend with an adult registered in the workshop.

Shai Plonski is the best-selling author of The Joy of Giving Massage and founder of the Still Light Centre in Toronto, Canada.

JULY 3-5

FLYING TRAPEZE

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An Adventure in Self-Discovery Course 2702-442/Tuition $395 ($355 Members)

See workshop description on page 50.

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CONTEMPLATING 400 YEARS OF INEQUALITY

A Mindfulness & Compassion Retreat Angel Acosta and Michelle Coghill Chatman Course 2805-555/Tuition $395 ($355 Members)

On the 400th anniversary of the arrival of enslaved Africans to the United States, we take a contemplative walk through history to process our collective past, for present healing. This dynamic training uses a 20-foot timeline to deepen our understanding of the history of racial and socioeconomic inequality.

The work draws upon research at the intersection of restorative practices, mindfulness, and intergenerational healing. Together, we begin to envision how to transcend implicit bias and develop a more compassionate society. Through mindfulness-based and embodiment practices, we learn to: • Facilitate the timeline experience independently and integrate it into professional and educational settings • Carry out an archaeology of self, a methodology created by Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz • Engage in mindful listening and group dialogue • Make connections to self-care and wellness in our efforts to address issues of structural inequality • Understand the theoretical frameworks that inform social mindfulness

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This retreat aims to provide space for self-care and rejuvenation, as well as time to process the most critical issues facing our country. Veterans and newcomers to equity work are welcome.

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During the annual Omega Retreat Week, we bring together a group of extraordinary teachers from many traditions to add breadth and depth to the spiritual journey.

Among these retreats you will find a number of practices, ranging from inward contemplation to outward spiritual activism.

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Angel Acosta is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University and consults for the NYC Department of Education, UNICEF, and Columbia in mindfulness and social justice.

Michelle Coghill Chatman, PhD, is assistant professor in the Crime, Justice, and Security Studies program at the University of the District of Columbia. qem.org/michelle-coghill-chatman-phd

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Séance & Beyond

Exploring Spiritualist Mediumship in the Lily Dale Tradition

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Lauren Thibodeau and Shannon Taggart Course 2805-571/Tuition $435 ($390 Members)

Blending art with science and the past with the present, this workshop provides an introduction to Spiritualism as it’s practiced at Lily Dale, the world’s largest Spiritualist community.

LAUREN THIBODEAU

Guided by Lauren Thibodeau, a Lily Dale registered medium, and Shannon Taggart, author of Séance, you learn how to develop yourself as a medium while you explore the history of this American-born religion. You examine the seance in all its forms, as well as other topics, including spoon bending, table tipping, medium’s cabinets, ectoplasm, materialization, trance and transfiguration, and instrumental-transcommunication, electronic voice phenomena, and psychic photography.

In a supportive environment, you discover your personal intuitive and mediumistic style, learn the five key elements of mediumship messages, practice discerning mediumistic evidence from “clairvoyant clutter,” and review ethical approaches to the practice.

No previous experience is necessary. All are welcome.

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Lauren Thibodeau, MBA, LPC, PhD, is a medium, professional counselor, and author of Natural-Born Intuition and Natural-Born Soulmates.

She is a registered medium at Lily Dale Assembly who has participated in academic studies with the University of Virginia and Yale, and her forensic work was featured in the television show Psychic Investigators. drlauren.com

SHANNON TAGGART

Shannon Taggart is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York whose photographs have been exhibited and featured in TIME, the New York Times Magazine, Discover, and Newsweek. Her work has been recognized by Nikon, Magnum Photos, the Inge Morath Foundation, American Photography, and the Alexia Foundation for World Peace. Her book Séance features over 150 of her photographs exploring Spiritualist practices. shannontaggart.com

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MAMO RODRIGO AT SOLSTICE

5-DAY WORKSHOP

MAMO SENCHINA

Arrive Sunday Begin Monday at 9:00 a.m. End Friday at noon

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JULY 5-10

Earth Wisdom of the Teyuna Elders

Ancient Teachings for the Modern World Course 2805-519/Tuition $495/420/345 ($445 Members) SS

MAMO SEYBIN AND MAMO MIQUELITO MARAWITA

The Teyuna Elders, indigenous spiritual leaders from Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, are journeying to Omega so they can share their earth wisdom with Westerners. Join this rare opportunity to experience spiritual guidance and healing in a sacred space.

The Teyuna—a name that means “thinker of clear thoughts”—are one of the few indigenous cultures whose wisdom survived colonization. Their lives, especially those of their mamos and zagas (male and female spiritual leaders), are dedicated to upholding “Earth’s Original Law,” which states that everyone must protect and nurture the planet—our collective home.

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Mamos and zagas of the Teyuna are rigorously trained from birth to develop an intimate connection to Aluna, Universal Consciousness.

Through a practice of deep meditative listening, they develop sublime inner vision, clear sentience, and profound healing ability. Their training also provides them with compassionate leadership skills to best support the communities they serve. They learn to carefully listen to each tree, bird, river, and plant for information about how to best serve in their role as stewards of the Earth. Recently, the Teyuna’s spiritual leaders received direct messages from the Earth Mother to speak with Westerners about the imminent threat to life on Earth.

MAMO FERNANDO

Gather with the Teyuna for this special retreat to learn what we as a species have forgotten about personal and planetary healing. Throughout the week, you experience sacred teachings of the earth, circle discussions, healings, sacred ceremonies, and intimate, ancient teachings about reclaiming our inspiration to nurture nature and free ourselves from separation through direct experiences of oneness.

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Teachers are subject to change.

Teyuna Elders include mamos and zagas from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region in Colombia, who are traveling across the United States to share their indigenous wisdom with Westerners. The Teyuna (Spanish: Tayrona) mamos and zagas live from a space of harmony and are endeavoring to restore harmony where there is chaos. teyunafoundation.org ZAGAS AND MAMOS STUDYING MAP OF LINEA NEGRA

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MINDFUL EXPOSURE THERAPY FOR ANXIETY A Professional Training for Extreme Emotions Chris Molnar Course 2805-558/Tuition $595 ($535 Members) SS, MI

Are you a health-care professional helping clients with strong emotional states? Designed for mental and other health-care professionals, the Mindful Exposure Therapy for Anxiety (META) program teaches us how to adapt mindfulness-based interventions to the needs of people hijacked by the symptoms of anxiety, trauma, depression, OCD, and other stressexacerbated conditions.

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When stress is extreme, threat physiology and “automatic pilot” activate, often producing regretted actions in relationships and impairing the health of mind and body. However, fight, flight, and freeze are not the only responses available to our clients. Using evidence-based practices such as Interpersonal Mindfulness (IM) to strengthen the “tend and befriend” response, the perceived threat is reduced, helping to bring about a physiological state that supports compassionate responding.

META combines state-of-the-art behavioral, interpersonal, and emotional processing therapies with scientific findings from the neuroscience of learning and motivation, and also the “sublime states” from Buddhist psychology. In this professional course, we’ll experience META, explore scientific findings, unpack the four self-contained modules that reflect extreme emotional states, and access a model of ongoing peer consultation, including adaptations and resources.

This workshop begins Sunday at 8:00 p.m.

Molnar is independently offering continuing education credits; see eOmega.org for more information.

Chris Molnar, PhD, is founder and president of Mindful Exposure Therapy for Anxiety and Psychological Wellness Center (META Center) and has adapted her training in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), and Interpersonal Mindfulness (IM) to the needs of stressed individuals. meta4stress.com

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ALL HEAVEN WILL BREAK LOOSE

INNER COMPASS

Navigating Life’s Transitions Kathleen Voldstad

A Course in Miracles Retreat

Course 2805-560/Tuition $435 ($390 Members)

Pam Grout and Lisa Natoli Course 2805-565/Tuition $450 ($405 Members) MI

Join us for a week of loving and living A Course in Miracles. Notice we didn’t say “learning A Course in Miracles.” We’re going to switch off our thinking caps, cut up our vision boards, and rest in the sweet, sweet experience of loving, creating, and being who we really are—joy personified. Come master the art of intention to manifestation with ACIM teachers Pam Grout and Lisa Natoli.

Bring a journal, an open mind, the willingness to drop your old story, and your biggest, boldest idea. We’ll be creating, writing, and generating a field of true possibility.

There will be plenty of time for question and answer, daily lessons, and celebration. The world will never be the same. Neither will any of us!

Life is a series of changes but navigating them isn’t easy. Kathleen Voldstad, a yoga and meditation teacher trained in MindfulnessBased Stress Reduction, will help you clarify a personal path forward through whatever transition you’re facing: retirement, empty nest, change in relationship status, health issues, or other turns on life’s road.

Discover how to blend traditional spiritual practices with the latest developments in contemporary psychology in order to navigate healthy change and embrace the opportunities that arise from having an open heart and mind. Regardless of where we are on life’s journey, change is a certainty and how skillfully we manage it impacts our well-being.

Our work will be based on a holistic framework of guided reflections and visualizations, gentle yoga, journaling, compassion, and selfcompassion practices.

Pam Grout is the New York Times best-selling author of 20 books including E-Squared and Course in Miracles Experiment. pamgrout.com Lisa Natoli is creator of The 40-Day Program for Transformation and founder of The Healing Cure. lisanatoli.com

KATHLEEN VOLDSTAD

Kathleen Voldstad is trained in secular and Buddhist contemplative practices and holds graduate degrees in clinical psychology and yoga. She is a psychotherapist and teacher in the Integrative Medicine department of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

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NUTRITIONAL PSYCHIATRY TRAINING FOR HEALTH-CARE PROFESSIONALS Drew Ramsey

Course 2902-460/Tuition $520 ($470 Members) MI, CE BRETT BEVELL

JULY 10-12

FIRST & SECOND DEGREE REIKI TRAINING Brett Bevell

Course 2902-297/Tuition $330 ($295 Members) DA, MI

With compassion and humor, Reiki master Brett Bevell guides us in learning Reiki techniques for self-treatment and teaches us how to perform healing sessions on others.

We also learn how to engage sacred Reiki symbols to increase the power of Reiki treatments, bring focus for mental health, and send Reiki treatments distantly.

No previous Reiki experience is required. $15 materials fee; include when you register.

Brett Bevell is a Reiki master, poet, performance artist, and featured healer on the Soulvana app by Mindvalley. He is the author of several books, including Psychic Reiki, The Wizard’s Guide to Energy Healing, The Reiki Magic Guide to Self-Attunement, and Reiki for Spiritual Healing. brettbevell.com

DREW RAMSEY

This course is an excellent way for social workers, physicians, psychologists, and counselors to enhance their clinical practice with foundational nutritional psychiatry procedures and interventions.

CE and CME credits are available and included in the tuition (see page 136). See eOmega.org for professional course objectives.

Drew Ramsey, MD, is founder of the Brain Food Clinic and author of Eat Complete, 50 Shades of Kale, and The Happiness Diet. drewramseymd.com

Connecting with Loved Ones & Guides Across the Veil Suzanne Giesemann

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Course 2902-318/Tuition $380 ($340 Members)

We all have a natural ability to connect with those who exist beyond this physical dimension. Discover your own innate gifts and how to develop your spiritual skills with instructor and evidence-based medium Suzanne Giesemann.

Combining evidential stories, theory, and practical exercises, you learn how to personally make connections with any aspect of higher consciousness—including loved ones who have passed and your own team of unseen helpers.

As a bonus, you experience the palpable energy and wisdom shared in a special session with Suzanne’s guides, Sanaya. You return home with the heightened ability to experience the love, joy, and messages of hope that your team in spirit will bring.

Suzanne Giesemann, MA, a former U.S. Navy commander, author, and host of the Messages of Hope radio show, has been recognized as a highly credible medium by Dr. Wayne Dyer and others. suzannegiesemann.com

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In this Reiki training, we receive initiations for both first and second degree Reiki using a sacred process called attunement. For many, simply being attuned to Reiki is lifechanging because the attunement raises our overall energy vibration, causing us to shed negative life patterns.

Weaving his experience as an active clinician, farmer, and mental health advocate, Ramsey guides you through cuttingedge research on specific nutrients and their impact on brain health, the clinical studies supporting nutritional interventions in mental health, and specific instructions for food assessment and nutritional intervention. This workshop includes opportunities to practice that directly translate to clinical settings, ensuring you return home with functional skills.

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Reiki is one of the most popular and widely recognized forms of energy healing in the world. Founded by Japanese mystic Mikao Usui, Reiki literally translates as “divine (or universal) life force.” When properly applied, Reiki maintains health and well-being and can unveil our deepest spiritual nature.

The science of mental health and nutrition has rapidly evolved over the past decade, resulting in a new set of applicable skills that are transforming clinical practice. In this professional training, health professionals learn the fundamentals of nutritional psychiatry from Drew Ramsey, one of the leaders and founders of this movement.

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SPIRITWALKER

An Introduction to Shamanic Journeying Hank Wesselman Course 2902-284/Tuition $350 ($315 Members) SS, MI

The rediscovery of shamanism has emerged as a major component of the modern world’s spiritual reawakening. This experiential, HANK WESSELMAN introductory weekend with shaman, author, and anthropologist Hank Wesselman grants us direct access to the techniques traditional shamans use to access hidden dimensions of reality and connect with inner sources of power and wisdom.

In the 1970s, while doing fieldwork in Ethiopia, Hank Wesselman experienced spontaneous expanded states of awareness that brought him to direct, personal contact with the ancient methods practiced by tribal peoples. During this workshop, which is appropriate for laypeople and helping professionals, we learn the methods he experienced.

Through these shamanic journey methods, we connect with the inner levels of reality, awareness, and experience to find our spirit helpers and teachers. The workshop concludes with a shamanic healing ritual.

Hank Wesselman, PhD, is an anthropologist and the author of nine books on shamanism, including his Spiritwalker trilogy and Visionseeker. sharedwisdom.com

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The practices of mindfulness, contemplative education, and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) are being widely explored in schools throughout the United States and other countries. Extensive research has shown that mindfulness practices and SEL decrease stress, attention deficit issues, depression, anxiety, and hostility in children, while benefitting health, well-being, and social relationships.

This year’s Mindfulness & Education Conference focuses on how mindfulness and contemplative practices can be powerful tools for social change.

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This gathering is offered in partnership with Transformative Educational Leadership (TEL), a racially and culturally diverse group of educational leaders across sectors that seeks to create systemic transformation based on a deep foundation of inner development.

TEL is rooted in the transformative potential of leadership that integrates cutting-edge application of equity, SEL, and mindfulness in service of creating a culture of belonging in a more compassionate and equitable world.

Deidre Farmbry, PhD, is a career educator and independent consultant. teleadership.org

We welcome experts in the fields of leadership, equity, SEL, mindfulness, and systems transformation to meet and engage as a “beloved community,” lifting each other up for the task at hand.

Through inspiring keynote lectures, question-and-answer sessions, group exercises, and breakout discussions, we: • Explore how our inner development can cultivate values that instill compassionate and courageous action in our spheres of power and circles of influence • Deepen our personal connection to equity issues, and lead from a place where equity is a key decisionmaking principle in integrating a compassionate sense of belonging in schools, educational organizations, and the wider community • Identify next steps for leading racial and climate justice collective action in our schools, our communities, and our planet • Strengthen the interconnection between leadership, equity, SEL, and mindfulness

Ruth King, MA, is an emotional wisdom consultant, life coach, and Insight Meditation teacher.

She is author of Healing Rage and Mindful of Race. ruthking.net Yvette Jackson, EdD, is an adjunct professor at Columbia University and author of The Pedagogy of Confidence. nuatc.org Ram Bhagat, PhD, is creator of Massive Resilience, a traumasensitive restorative practice. rambhagat.com

Michelle Coghill Chatman, PhD, is an assistant professor of criminal justice and youth studies at the University of the District of Columbia.

RUTH KING

YVETTE JACKSON

RAM BHAGAT

Janice E. Jackson, PhD, is senior consultant for equity and inclusion for TEL. teleadership.org Hector Montenegro, PhD, is senior district consultant for the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL). casel.org

DEIDRE FARMBRY

MICHELLE COGHILL CHATMAN

JANICE E. JACKSON

Tom Roderick is founding executive director of Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility. morningsidecenter.org Xiaoan Li, PhD, is program officer at the Fetzer Institute, specializing in spiritual leadership development and healing democracy. fetzer.org Laura I. Rendón is professor emerita at the University of Texas, San Antonio, and a fellow of the Mind and Life Institute. laurarendon.net

HECTOR MONTENEGRO

TOM RODERICK

XIAOAN LI

Linda Lantieri, MA, author of Building Emotional Intelligence, is senior program advisor for TEL. lindalantieri.org

Meena Srinivasan, MA, NBCT, author of Teach, Breathe, Learn, is executive director of TEL. meenasrinivasan.com

Presenters are subject to change.

LAURA I. RENDÓN

LINDA LANTIERI

MEENA SRINIVASAN

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WEEKEND WORKSHOP Arrive Friday Begin Friday at 8:00 p.m.

End Sunday at noon

OMEGA WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP CENTER PROGRAM

JULY 10-12

Mindfulness

Omega mindfulness programs explore a broad spectrum of mindfulness-based modalities, providing effective ways to integrate mindfulness tools into your daily life and work.

OMEGA MINDFULNESS PROGRAMS

MAY 10-15

The Way of Awareness See page 17.

JUNE 7-12

Mindful Self-Compassion See page 35.

JUNE 7-12

You Are Not Your Pain JUNE 19-21

Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness See page 44.

JULY 3-5

Train Your Brain to Change the World See page 54.

JULY 5-10

Contemplating 400 Years of Inequality See page 57.

Mindful Exposure Therapy for Anxiety See page 60.

Judaline Cassidy and Audra Fordin Course 2902-506/Tuition $380/305/230 $340 Members) LE

Want to build a better relationship with your car? By learning more about how your car works and how to tend to its maintenance needs, you increase your confidence on the road and in your life. Expand your know-how of cars and the auto industry to JUDALINE CASSIDY save time and money.

Cassidy and Fordin are committed to women busting the stigma, overcoming their fear of auto maintenance, and becoming self-reliant road warriors. In this hands-on workshop, you: • Understand the basics of auto maintenance and safety • Handle the essential tools needed for roadside emergencies • Look under the hood to learn lifesaving vehicle maintenance, repair, and safety tips all women “auto” know • Learn how to avoid being taken advantage of when making a car purchase or repair

July 10-12 Mindfulness & Education Conference

All who identify as women who are ready to take their relationship with cars to the next level and embrace their inner mechanic are welcome.

JULY 19-24

Scholarships are available; see eOmega.org/scholarships

See page 68.

Judaline Cassidy is a feminist tradesperson, activist, trailblazer, and founder of Tools & Tiaras, Inc. toolsandtiaras.org

See page to the left.

Mindfulness In Education Teacher Training AUGUST 7-9

The Inner Work of Racial Justice

Audra Fordin is a 4th generation auto shop owner and founder of Women Auto Know.

AUGUST 14-16

womenautoknow.com

See page 82.

Mindfulness for Real Life See page 86.

LAUREL PARNELL

Transforming Trauma with EMDR A 7-Day Professional Training

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(Parts 1 & 2) Laurel Parnell

Course 2907-232/Tuition $1,105 ($1,005 Members)

This training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), for mental health professionals who are licensed to provide treatment, sheds new light on trauma survival—incuding sexual and physical abuse, accident and surgical trauma, and grief.

See workshop description on page 131.

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Auto Maintenance 101

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See page 36.

IMPROVE YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR CAR

JULY 12-17

TRANSFORMATIVE EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP (TEL)

Transforming Education From the Inside Out

AUGUST 16-21

Polishing the Mirror of the Heart

Course 3005-548/Tuition $6,500

See page 88.

Omega is proud to partner with TEL for this 3-part training with experts in the fields of leadership, equity, Social and Emotional Learning, mindfulness, and systems change.

See teleadership.org/program for more information.

SEPTEMBER 18-20

Mindfulness at Work See page 104.

SEPTEMBER 20-25

Coming to Our Senses See page 105.

SEPTEMBER 20-25

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy See page 106.

Explore more at eOmega.org/mindfulness

AUDRA FORDIN

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JULY 12-17

Qigong Empowerments Robert Peng

Course 3005-211/Tuition $470 ($425 Members)

As a boy in China, Robert Peng apprenticed secretly under the legendary Buddhist monk Xiao Yao, who trained him in the martial and healing arts. As part of his training, Peng spent 100 days meditating and fasting in a dark, underground chamber deep in the mountains of the Chinese countryside. Xiao Yao visited him daily and instructed him in advanced practices to accelerate his spiritual development.

Afterward, Peng discovered he had developed extraordinary spiritual powers, including the ability to discharge from his hands energy that felt ROBERT PENG like a powerful electric current. Now, he offers a distillation of his training in the form of Qigong Empowerments.

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During the week Peng reveals the fundamentals of qigong to awaken, empower, and integrate three important energy centers that regulate your wisdom, love, and vitality. When these three qualities are activated and harmonized, you transform your energy and improve your relationships and the quality of your life. You learn: • • • • •

JULY 12-17

VISIONARY ART INTENSIVE

Alex Grey and Allyson Grey Course 3005-396/Tuition $535 ($480 Members) SS, MI, LE

Visionary artists Alex Grey and Allyson Grey teach painting and drawing from the wellspring of divine imagination. In this workshop, ALLYSON GREY AND ALEX GREY artists at any level of experience create from the sacred ground and the mystic eye.

Through illustrated talks, vision practices, and group interaction, we empower the process of bringing our heart’s iconography to outer form and examine the worldwide visionary art movement.

Using guided imagery, meditation, shamanic ascent, and live model chakra drawings of body and soul, we open the doors of the imagination to the theater of revelation. Utilizing basic materials such as graphite, colored pencils, pastels, and watercolors, we commit mental pictures to paper and discuss the aesthetic dimension of our mystical experiences.

Explore art as a spiritual path and art as a career, address technical concerns, and define your creative goals.

Alex Grey and Allyson Grey cofounded the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (CoSM), a spiritual creative retreat center outside of New York City. They are currently building Entheon, a Visionary Art sanctuary in the Hudson Valley of New York.

Hologram palm to empower your three dantians Breathing empowerment of the central meridian Three treasures standing meditation to strengthen your willpower Four golden wheels movement exercise to make your body more supple Lotus meditation to open your heart to divine energies

This workshop is appropriate for everyone, including helping professionals.

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Robert Peng, author of The Master Key, is founder of Elixir Light Qigong.

He uses his healing abilities to help people worldwide. robertpeng.com

cosm.org Theologue by Alex Grey

JULY 12-17

JULY 12-17

A Mindfulness & Yoga Retreat

Spirit Medicine

JUST THIS

VISIONSEEKER 2

Beryl Bender Birch

Hank Wesselman Course 3005-285/Tuition $505 ($455 Members) SS, MI

Course 3005-302/Tuition $475 ($425 Members) SS, CE

Truly “practicing” yoga is being mindful, 24/7, in all aspects of your life.

Mindfulness techniques that help you be present, and find peace here and now, are simple. But they only work if you establish a regular practice and keep at it.

In this mindfulness and yoga retreat for practitioners of all levels, Beryl Bender Birch leads you in daily yoga, meditation, and pranayama practices to help you create the practice you need and find peace in a turbulent world.

Enjoy five days of yoga practice, healthy food, peace and quiet, garden paths, reading, resting, walking, early morning meditations, and fun with friends—old and new. Spend your mornings immersed in rejuvenating yoga and breathwork exercises, and your evenings watching leading-edge documentaries that can inspire and change your life.

You return home with practices that help to detox your system, stretch your limits, restore resilience, and reboot your life.

This retreat begins Sunday at 8:00 p.m.

Beryl Bender Birch, activist, director-founder of The Hard & The Soft Yoga Institute, has been teaching yoga and meditation since l974, and has trained a global community of yoga teachers as spiritual revolutionaries for more than 40 years. power-yoga.com

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In the Western world today, interest in complimentary and alternative therapies is on the rise, and increasing numbers of healthcare practitioners and laypersons alike are discovering the HANK WESSELMAN ease with which the healing modalities pioneered by the indigenous peoples can be learned and practiced.

At the core of this week’s work lies an in depth cross-cultural consideration of the nature of illness, healing, and healthcare, in which participants will gain valuable experience in the practice of spirit medicine. We will expand our connections to our inner sources of wisdom and power, deepen our contacts with our spiritual healing masters, experience the initiatory phenomenon of spiritual dismemberment, work with the process of shamanic extraction, and work with a unique approach to soul retrieval.

The Visionseeker workshops provide a shamanic perspective derived from the Hawaiian kahuna tradition in which knowledge of the personal soul cluster, as well as the nature of reality, forms the foundation. This training will be most useful to those who have completed the Visionseeker I workshop or its equivalent.

Hank Wesselman, PhD, is an anthropologist and the author of nine books on shamanism, including his Spiritwalker trilogy and Visionseeker. sharedwisdom.com

DA Discounts Available; see page 127 SS Special schedule; see eOmega.org MI More information provided after registration

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BROWN MINDFULNESS PROGRAM

JULY 12-17

MBSR FRAMEWORK FOR MINDFUL LIVING A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Intensive Florence Meleo-Meyer and Eric López Maya Course 3005-267/Tuition $675 ($610 Members) SS, CE

Have you felt an inner call to approach your life with more wisdom, skill, and compassion? Have you wished to engage your mind and body in ways that can support greater clarity and resilience? Are you interested in learning about and addressing root causes of stress that can make a difference in your life and the lives of students, patients, and clients you serve?

Mindfulness is an innate resource in all human beings that is often overlooked. This workshop offers intentional, step-by-step guidance to cultivate strength and familiarity with this human birthright of awareness, naturalness, openness, and warmth. Through the practices of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), you explore your relationship with the body, mind, heart, and one another in an environment rich in curiosity and engagement.

• Full introduction and guidance of the FLORENCE MELEO-MEYER ERIC LÓPEZ MAYA formal MBSR meditation practices • Introduction and explication of the science and mechanisms of mindfulness like to deepen or reinvigorate their mindfulness • How perception and conditioning shape meditation practice, and for health professionals how we experience the world, and how who wish to apply mindfulness in their work. In a mindfulness can begin to uncouple supportive environment, there is time and space automatic, habitual reactivity for clearer for learning, insight, and healing. seeing and more creative responding This workshop begins Sunday at 7:00 p.m.

• Tools for deeper listening—to ourselves and and ends Friday at 12:15 p.m. You must attend others all six days. CE and CME credits are available • Methods and applications for bringing brief, and included in the tuition (see page 136). See informal mindfulness practices through eOmega.org for professional course objectives. the day to rebalance oneself emotionally, mentally, and physically Florence Meleo-Meyer, MS, MA, LMFT, serves • Workplace applications of mindfulness as global ambassador to the MBSR Affiliates practices for teachers, coaches, social worldwide at the Mindfulness Center, Brown workers, psychologists, physicians, nurses, University. She has trained MBSR teachers and and other health-care providers teacher trainers for over 20 years. brown.edu/ This workshop is a unique opportunity for those who may not have access to an 8-week MBSR class. It is also appropriate for those who would

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Eric López Maya, PhD, is the director of the Mexican Institute for Mindfulness.

WEEKEND WORKSHOPS Arrive Friday Begin Friday at 8:00 p.m. End Sunday at noon

REFLECT & RECHARGE A Contemplative Retreat for Self-Discovery & Renewal Kelly Boys KELLY BOYS

Course 3102-328/Tuition $325 ($295 Members)

Are you looking for the space and time to reflect on your life, your relationships, work and life transitions, or other areas that need attention? This retreat with mindfulness meditation trainer Kelly Boys is an opportunity to reconnect with yourself as you also connect with others in an atmosphere of non-judgment and kindness.

In the process of slowing down and resting, what is most important for each of us can come into clear view.

This weekend, we take time for surfacing our essential questions, looking deeply into the nature of who we are, and locating ourselves on the map of our own journey.

We engage in sitting meditation, yoga nidra (lying down guided meditation), journaling, talks, and group dialogues.

Informed by the intersection of nondual spiritual teachings, mindfulness, and psychological integration work, we uncover a sense of inner wholeness while meeting what we have disowned or lost in ourselves.

Kelly Boys is author of The Blind Spot Effect and founding advisor for the Simple Habit meditation app. kellyboys.org

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Masters of the Tarot Finding Meaning in the Cards Course 3102-416/Tuition $465 ($420 Members) SS, MI

Join five renowned professional tarot readers as MARY K. GREER they share proven methods of receiving messages and finding meaning in the tarot cards. Guided by experts, you learn to trust your intuition and discover how to find modern meanings in the esoteric traditions of the tarot.

Through question-and-answer sessions, demonstration readings, and work with partners and small groups, you learn to give effective readings that transform lives—yours as well as your clients. You also enjoy a panel where you can quiz these deck creators, authors, and psychics and get their advice about your own tarot work.

Return home with new and improved reading skills, enhanced listening skills, and new spreads, layouts, and other methods to make the cards an exciting part of your life.

RACHEL POLLACK

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Based on the world-renowned MBSR course, this 5-day, residential program invites inner exploration as we investigate the science and practice of mindfulness and its potential to impact the quality of one’s life.

This intensive includes:

SHAHEEN MIRO

All levels of readers, from beginner to professional, are welcome. A basic familiarity with tarot is recommended.

Bring a tarot deck of your choice. Teachers are subject to change.

Mary K. Greer, midwife of the soul, is a scholar, teacher, professional tarot consultant, and author of 11 books. marykgreer.com

ELINOR GREENBERG

Rachel Pollack, wise woman and storyteller, is author of 36 books, including the tarot classic 78 Degrees of Wisdom. rachelpollack.com Shaheen Miro, a mystic seer, is coauthor of Tarot for Troubled Times, and creator of The Lunar Nomad Oracle Deck. shaheenmiroinsights.com Elinor Greenberg is a psychologist, Gestalt therapy trainer, and creator of Tarot Counseling, her own blend of psychotherapy and tarot.

Madame Pamita is host of the podcast Magic and the Law of Attraction and author of Madame Pamita’s Magical Tarot. parlourofwonder.com

MADAME PAMITA

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JULY 17-19

UNDERSTANDING BOOK PUBLISHING A Short Course for Writers and Authors Paul Cohen Course 3102-419/Tuition $335 ($300 Members) MI

As an author today, you have unprecedented control over how your book is published, but what good is that control without the knowledge of how to best implement it? Paul Cohen has published more PAUL COHEN than 400 books by authors such as Ram Dass and Deepak Chopra, and this weekend he shares the insider information you need to bring your book into the world.

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You learn the difference between a large house, small press, and selfpublishing; how to find the right publisher; and the difference between types of contracts so you can be empowered in your negotiations. You get detailed instructions on how to self-publish, get backlist titles back into print, find an agent, and market your book successfully. You also get an overview of the top publishing companies, information on how to submit manuscripts and proposals to leading publishers, and guidance for finding the right title for your book.

If you have ever dreamed of publishing a book—whether it’s still just an idea or you have a manuscript ready to go—you leave with a clear path to publishing.

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Paul Cohen is the founder, owner, and publisher of Monkfish Book Publishing Company and president/owner of Epigraph Publishing Service, which offers innovative approaches to publishing for selffinancing authors. monkfishpublishing.com JULY 17-19

YOGA FOR INNER AWAKENING Lesley Desaulniers

Course 3102-559/Tuition $370 ($335 Members) CE

Yoga doesn’t just make your body stronger and more flexible; it can boost your energy and illuminate your inner vision. Take some time to ignite your passion with music, meditation, chanting, and soulful, sweaty vinyasa. Sought-after yoga teacher Lesley Desaulniers and special musical guest Ambika Pressman guide you in an exploration of yoga practices and healing techniques that promote clarity, bliss, and abundance. Experience deep renewal as you: • • • • •

Discover the dynamic power of vinyasa flow set to live music Find strength, stability, and freedom in your yoga poses Practice guided meditations for health and happiness Learn mantras and rituals for inner peace and world healing Restore and refocus your energy through spiritual teachings, intention setting, and deep relaxation In community with others committed to health and inner awakening, immerse yourself in learning that inspires your yoga practice and your life.

For people with 6 months or more of yoga experience.

Lesley Desaulniers is known for her energizing, soulful, and inspiring yoga classes. She was selected by Mantra magazine as one of San Francisco’s leading yoga teachers. lesleyd.com

OMEGA MINDFULNESS PROGRAM

JULY 17-19

THE WAY OF EFFORTLESS MINDFULNESS

A Weekend Retreat with Loch Kelly Course 3102-321/Tuition $390 ($350 Members) SS, MI, CE*

Learn to shift your awareness and return to your true nature in the midst of daily life.

Basic mindfulness begins by calming, focusing, and observing your mind. With the advanced, yet simple practice of effortless mindfulness, LOCH KELLY you can learn to shift into peace, clarity, and compassion; find a supportive, awake space for your emotions; and develop a deep sense of well-being, creativity, and unconditional love.

Guided by licensed psychotherapist and meditation teacher Loch Kelly, you learn to: • Use tools of awareness to help access freedom, focus, and flow in the midst of your daily life • Tune into your awake, joyful nature, which is already present within you • Shift out of your chattering mind and live from your heart-mind • Find your internal source of intelligence, compassion, and flow • Access the support to liberate the root of suffering and welcome all emotions This workshop is open to everyone, including healing professionals who wish to use mindfulness as self-care or with their clients.

At the end of this program, you will receive a certificate of completion in Effortless Mindfulness. *CE/CME credit is pending approval; see eOmega.org.

Loch Kelly, MDiv, LCSW, is an educator, author, and meditation teacher endorsed by Adyashanti as “one of the clearest expressions of authentic awakened freedom and love that I know.” lochkelly.org

JULY 17-19

POWER OF THE AKASHIC RECORDS Tap Into the Wisdom of the Universe Sandra Anne Taylor Course 3102-361/Tuition $375 ($335 Members)

Every detail of your past lives, present situations, and future potentials are kept in records of your eternal life—along with all of the creative, inspirational, professional, financial, and personal guidance you SANDRA ANNE TAYLOR will ever need. The Akashic Records are a powerful force in the world—and they are available to you anytime you desire.

Join Sandra Anne Taylor, author of The Akashic Records, for a weekend dedicated to accessing and exploring the realms of time and the universal mind. Learn to erase unwanted energies and limitations that were written in your past, and establish new vibrations and results for your future records. Connect with your eternal guides to receive information about your true purpose and future success. As you open your soul’s map to receive guidance and direction, you learn how to create the dynamic destiny your soul desires.

Sandra Anne Taylor is a New York Times best-selling author. Her most recent book is The Akashic Records. She is also cocreator of the oracle deck The Akashic Tarot. sandrataylor.net

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A New World

SOUL LEVEL ANIMAL COMMUNICATION

How (or Not) to Bring About Contact

Learn What Animals Are Really Saying

Whitley Strieber and Jeffrey J. Kripal

Danielle MacKinnon

Course 3102-554/Tuition $425 ($380 Members)

Course 3102-293/Tuition $325 ($295 Members) SS, MI

DANIELLE MACKINNON

Have you ever longed to psychically communicate with animals? Is there a way to understand what dogs, cats, horses, and even wild animals are thinking and feeling?

Animal communicator Danielle MacKinnon shows you how to access your innate intuition (even if you aren’t yet aware of it) and connect with various animals using the universal language of all species. Learn how to move between the physical level and soul levels of connection with each animal to assist in achieving the greatest possible outcome for both animal and human.

Return home with valuable animal communication skills you can put into immediate practice. No prior experience is necessary.

daniellemackinnon.com

an Omega Rest & Rejuvenation Retreat eOmega.org/rest See page 14 for details.

ANN KRISTIN LINDSAY

A new world is coming. Join two of the world’s most respected explorers of the unknown for a weekend of lecture, discussion, and wide-ranging theories about paranormal phenomena, alien contact, climate change, and what this exploration means for the future of humanity.

Whitley Strieber is author of Communion, a memoir of his experiences with paranormal entities that became a worldwide phenomenon. Among his published works, The Wolfen, The Hunger, Communion, and Superstorm have been made into films. unknowncountry.com

Jeffrey J. Kripal is an author, Chair of the Board at the Esalen Institute, and Associate Dean of the Faculty and Graduate Programs in the School of the Humanities and the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. jeffreyjkripal.com

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JULY 19-24

A New Beginning

The Spirit of Adventure

WATERCOLOR

But what exactly is the point of analyzing psychic and paranormal phenomena? How does it pertain to human potential? Should we be wary of the public mythologies that wrap around these military campaigns and carefully released videos?

And, what is our role in bringing about contact, in actualizing this alien-human potential?

WATERCOLOR LANDSCAPE

Ann Kristin Lindsay

Ann Kristin Lindsay

Course 3102-342/Tuition $320 ($290 Members) SS, MI, LE

Course 3205-341/Tuition $495 ($445 Members) MI, LE

If you have always wanted to try watercolor painting but have been afraid to, or have tried it and become discouraged, this is the place to come.

During the weekend, we learn to break through our artistic fears and inhibitions and begin to experience the process and possibilities of watercolor painting.

In an atmosphere of fun and exploration we observe the magical interaction of the paint and water.

Through a series of color-mixing adventures we see and understand the effects the colors have on each other which will give us a strong foundation in color mixing for our future painting endeavors.

As we tap and strengthen our artistic selves and understand the creative process more deeply, we conclude with drawing and painting from life—and we learn that, yes, in fact, we can do it!

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Danielle MacKinnon is a nationally recognized intuitive, coach, animal communicator, speaker, and author.

ENJOY

JEFFREY J. KRIPAL

The public reception of the UFO phenomenon and alien contact has changed dramatically since December 2017, when the New York Times published a blockbuster story about a secret Pentagon program tasked to track UFO encounters.

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Throughout the weekend you develop your animal intuitive senses to cultivate healing, harmony, and a deeper connection, and learn about animal lessons and how animals help us evolve through them. You also explore MacKinnon’s simple steps to intuitively receive information from any animal and discover how to go beyond a superficial connection and attain a soul-level connection.

WHITLEY STRIEBER

Our yearning to connect with the world and express its beauty is natural and vital.

Painting watercolor landscapes offers us a way to experience that connection. By focusing on the creative process as an “The Lane” Ann Kristin Lindsay adventure in playful exploration, rather than focusing on a final product, we transform our trepidation into excitement.

We become free to enjoy the journey and marvel at all that happens along the way.

Award-winning artist Ann Kristin Lindsay, author of Watercolor: A New Beginning, helps students of all experience levels who want to feel bolder, more adventurous, and more capable painting in watercolor. As we become comfortable with the unknowns of the creative process—painting without frustration, fear, or judgment— we gain confidence that serves us in life.

Through a series of sequential painting adventures, we explore many facets of watercolor painting, including working with negative space, skies, water, and reflections—all the while experiencing the deeply satisfying, soulful pleasures of watercolor landscape painting.

Ann Kristin Lindsay is an award-winning artist and author of Watercolor: A New Beginning. Her workshops have been featured in O, The Oprah Magazine. annlindsay.org

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5-DAY WORKSHOPS Arrive Sunday Begin Monday at 9:00 a.m. End Friday at noon

JULY 19-24

Past-Life Therapy Training

MORRIS H. ERVIN JR.

OMEGA MINDFULNESS PROGRAM

Brian Weiss and Carole K. Weiss

JULY 19-24

JULY 19-24

MINDFULNESS IN EDUCATION TEACHER TRAINING

WISDOM OF THE TAROT

Course 3205-214/Tuition $995 ($895 Members)

Mary K. Greer and Rachel Pollack

See workshop description on page 21.

BRIAN WEISS AND CAROLE K. WEISS

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JULY 19-24

Somatic Movement Summit V The Elemental Nature of the Body Course 3205-424/Tuition $460 ($415 Members) SS, MI, LE, CE

Choosing a path of opening in the face of global crisis and personal adversity begins a journey inward to connect with the most primordial movements of nature and with the elemental self to reveal our inherent biological capacity for innovation.

Through the somatic awareness practice of Continuum, this restorative retreat investigates the vital chemistry of all life. Embodying the qualities of earth, air, fire, and water awakens the body’s fluid capacity for healing, insight, and creative engagement.

Meeting our intrinsic selves through movement, breath, and sound leads to a sense of wholeness, refreshment, nourishment, and belonging with the natural world. From this inner space of knowing, we can access the empowerment, creativity and courage that leads to manifesting meaningful contributions in the world.

Movement sessions, periods of silence, and opportunities for artful expression, personal reflection, and community exchange combine to offer a fresh model of alive, sensory presence pertinent to educators, health-care practitioners, artists, activists, and all who wish to learn skills for life-force growth.

Teachers are subject to change.

Elaine Colandrea with Megan Bathory-Peeler, Cory Blake, Ellen Cohen, Suzanne Wright Crain, Melanie Gambino, Bonnie Gintis, Rebecca Lawson, Elisabeth Osgood-Campbell, Linda Rabin, Kori Tolbert, Lauren Wadsworth, and Sharon Weil. watermarkarts.org

Morris H. Ervin Jr.

Course 3205-385/Tuition $405 ($365 Members) SS, MI

Course 3205-421/Tuition $455 ($410 Members) MI, CE

What can we learn about ourselves and our lives through the study and reading of the tarot? How do we best access the wisdom teachings of the cards? In this workshop, you learn to use the cards for practical guidance as well as exploring the mysteries—the magical and mystical traditions that have built up around the cards over the last 300 years.

Research shows that students and teachers in school systems that have adopted mindfulness are happier, more focused, more compassionate, and less impacted by stress. What school would pass up a chance to raise test scores, have fewer playground fights, and cultivate a more peaceful learning environment?

As we learn about the cards and explore their images, we discover our own deepest stories and share them with others.

Through this work, we move deeper into discovering and expressing our own wisdom and truth as well as that of the cards.

MARY K. GREER

This training helps us gain the skills to bring the benefits of mindfulness to children in grades K-12.

Educators, counselors, parents, and child-care providers deepen their own mindfulness practices and discover tools to incorporate them into daily life and work.

Throughout the week we balance professional development with personal development, and information with transformation. We This workshop is open RACHEL POLLACK experience an in-depth to those with any level training in Daniel Rechtschaffen’s of experience with tarot.

Mindful Education Workbook Bring your favorite tarot curriculum and explore how to deck. Beginners should apply these teachings to children familiarize themselves with the of different ages, populations, deck in advance. and needs. We examine current Mary K. Greer is a professional research and look at how schools tarot consultant with nearly and organizations are successfully 50 years of experience. She is integrating these transformative author of nine books on tarot practices. We also cultivate our and magic, including Tarot for own mindful awareness, openYour Self. marykgreer.com heartedness, and connection with colleagues who share an inspiring Rachel Pollack is one of the vision for education. world’s foremost authorities on the modern interpretation Morris H. Ervin Jr. teaches of the tarot. She is author mindfulness, Nonviolent of 36 books, including Communication, and restorative 78 Degrees Of Wisdom. justice at University Hospital in rachelpollack.com

Cleveland, Ohio. therealmansa.com

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JULY 19-24

RECLAIMING SELF

The Healing Journey Home Melody Moore and Nikki Myers

JULY 19-24

LUCID DREAMING INTO THE SHADOW Charlie Morley

Course 3205-295/Tuition $430 ($385 Members) MI

Lucid dreaming, the art of consciously directing our dreams, allows us to access the power of our unconscious to heal our minds while we sleep.

The Shadow refers to all that we hide from others—our shame, our fears, and also our divine spirit and our hidden talents. It is a huge source of power that, until we bring it into the light, remains untapped and our full potential unreached.

Charlie Morley is the bestselling author of Dreaming Through Darkness, Dreams of Awakening, and other books.

He teaches lucid dreaming and shadow integration internationally. charliemorley.com

JULY 19-24

WATERFALL QIGONG STYLE

A Qigong Immersion for Vital Living Steven Michael Pague Course 3205-351/Tuition $450 ($405 Members)

Living a resilient life requires vitality in our body, in our sense of love and compassion, and in a deep connection with the wisdom mind.

Waterfall Qigong is an amalgam of teachings both ancient and more recent, handed down, collected, studied, practiced, and taught by Steven Michael Pague for 30 years. It is a generous style that allows each of us to modify the movements to suit our bodies and abilities.

In this workshop, we nourish the three essential aspects of our being through breathwork, postural alignment, selfmassage, focused mind, and many moving and stillness practices of qigong, including animal play. Together, we learn the history of this ancient healing art as we explore how to find the extraordinary in the ordinary in our day-to-day lives. The promises of all health practices require persistent work and effort to achieve benefits, and this immersion is designed to inspire us toward bringing them into our lives on a regular basis.

This workshop is suitable for all body types and for experienced practitioners or beginners. Most of the forms and meditations can be done either standing, seated, or lying down.

Each participant will receive links to videos and writings to assist in ongoing study.

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Steven Michael Pague is a certified instructor in Chinese movement and healing arts with the Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi.

Using the eight-limbed path of yoga, meditation, pranayama (breathwork), lecture, and discussion, we work to reclaim lost parts of ourselves, unmask our true nature, and create healing through re-membering. Our process deepens and strengthens previous therapeutic or step work, or can serve as a starting place for our journey to self-reclamation.

This program is suitable for people in recovery from substance or process addictions, those in recovery from eating disorders, and anyone in the helping professions, including therapists, counselors, pastoral care, addiction sponsors, or yoga teachers.

Melody Moore, PhD, RYT, an expert on self-love, is a psychologist, yoga teacher, and founder of the Embody Love Movement Foundation. drmelodymoore.com

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Nikki Myers, MBA, E-RYT 500, is a yoga teacher, yoga therapist, somatic experiencing practitioner, and certified addictions recovery specialist. y12sr.com

JULY 19-24

Carl Big Heart and Stephanie Flanders

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In this gathering we embrace an understanding that life itself is sacred ceremony. As we bring lasting healing to ourselves and the hoop of being, we recognize life is not a drama in which we are victims, but rather that we are in a creative unfolding of the teachings of our lives. When we come from this honest place, we honor the truth of who we are.

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Through these transformational experiences, we learn to embrace sleep as a spiritual practice during which we can meet, befriend, and transform our shadow side.

STEVEN MICHAEL PAGUE

The timeless teachings of yoga tell us that joy, wisdom, energy, and love lie at the core of our being.

MELODY MOORE NIKKI MYERS Yet, for many of us, our habitually external search for what is already within us makes this true essence inaccessible. This loss of self, due to trauma or unmet needs, is the root of addiction, eating disorders, codependent behavior, and suffering itself.

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In this deep-immersion with best-selling author Charlie Morley, we explore lucid dreaming combined with powerful shadow integration exercises to help us transform our minds from within. We discover Toltec mask practice, shamanic eye gazing, Jungian inquiry, and Tantric Buddhist meditations.

Course 3205-387/Tuition $610 ($550 Members) CE

By participating in ceremonies, including the sweat lodge (a powerful purification and prayer practice with roots found in many of the world’s wisdom traditions), we establish a deeper connection with the receptive and responsive universe. We become a conduit for spirit moving into the world and are reminded that the altar is within the sanctuary of our hearts.

When it is time to reenter our lives after our collaborative journey, we move into the world uplifted, present, and able to stand in our center—that place where all directions meet, and from where all actions can unfold.

Carl Big Heart, beloved elder in his communities, focuses on the universal path of peace, love, and gratitude. bigheart.nl/english Stephanie Flanders, MDiv, is a minister, facilitator of women’s circles and ceremonies, and a gifted healer.

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WEEKEND WORKSHOPS Arrive Friday Begin Friday at 8:00 p.m. End Sunday at noon

JULY 24-26

Miracles Happen The Transformative Power of Past-Life Memories Brian Weiss Course 3302-215/Tuition $395 ($355 Members) MI

Past-life regression therapy has gained widespread recognition as a therapeutic model, and Brian Weiss, best-selling author of Many Lives, Many Masters and Miracles Happen, has become known as the nation’s foremost expert in the field.

BRIAN WEISS

JULY 24-26

Surviving Suicide

This highly experiential workshop explores the latest in hypnotic past-life regression therapy to find a new level of healing for our body, mind, spirit, and relationships.

In large and small group exercises, using experiential techniques, including hypnotic regression exercises, healing visualizations, meditation, and intuitional and right-brain training, we harness the power of love and understanding to transform our lives.

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A Retreat for Professionals Focusing on Self-Care, Meaning & Growth JULIE CEREL

Weiss also demonstrates hypnotic regression in a series of sessions with volunteers from the group. There is ample time for questions and answers, as well as personal interaction with Weiss.

This workshop is valuable for health-care professionals as well as nonprofessionals who want an in-depth experience of this approach to self-exploration.

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Brian Weiss, MD, is chairman emeritus of psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami and the nation’s leading authority on past-life regression therapy. brianweiss.com

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ALL LOVE SEKHEM Wake Up to Love

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Patrick Zeigler Course 3302-248/Tuition $385 ($345 Members)

On a trip to Egypt in 1980, Patrick Zeigler had the opportunity to meditate all night inside the Great Pyramid. During that night, he had a powerful initiation that transformed his life. Patrick continued on his travels to visit a Sufi saint in Khartoum, Sudan. The combination of these two experiences created a foundation for Patrick’s teaching of the energy system known as Sekhem.

All Love Sekhem is a dynamic and experiential workshop focusing on the Sekhem Heart Initiation, a spontaneously occurring awakening of the spiritual heart and a deep integration of our source soul body to our physical body.

The Sekhem Heart Initiation may be experienced as a very strong and noticeable body and cellular vibration with an intense emotional release and mental clearing. It has been referred to as a life changing experience that promotes an extraordinary “in-body” loving connection.

During this workshop you experience the wave that connects our heart to the universe, the effects of which continue to unfold for months after you return home.

Patrick Zeigler has been teaching All Love Sekhem internationally since 1984. all-love.com PATRICK ZEIGLER

MELINDA MOORE

Course 3302-473/Tuition $375 ($335 Members)

Suicide rates have increased by nearly 25% in the last two decades, now claiming more lives than car accidents each year. Those recovering from a suicide attempt benefit greatly from the support and connectedness of a network of people who care about them. However, the people in the network themselves also require support and assistance.

This retreat for professionals brings together leading experts with specialties in grief management, treating anxiety and depression in childhood through adulthood, and suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention.

We focus on post-traumatic growth and self-care to find support after the loss of a loved one or client to suicide. We work in smaller sharing groups, do creativity and meaning-making exercises, share clinical case findings, and turn toward advocacy to discover new pathways to hope, healing, and empowerment.

This workshop is intended for people who have lost a client or loved one to suicide, who are working in the field of suicide prevention and postvention, or who are engaged in clinical work. It is not intended for very recent survivors, but for those who have processed their loss over time and now want to examine the impact of that loss on their personal and professional lives.

Teachers are subject to change.

Julie Cerel, PhD, directs the Suicide Prevention & Exposure Lab at the University of Kentucky. She is principle investigator of the military suicide bereavement study funded by the U.S. Department of Defense. suicidology.org

Vanessa McGann, PhD, specializes in grief and loss in children, adolescents, and adults. She utilizes cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior treatment (DBT), and insight-oriented psychotherapy. vanessalmcgannphd.com Nina Gutin, PhD, is on the advisory board for the Los Angeles (Didi Hirsch) Suicide Prevention Center. She is cochair of the ClinicianSurvivor‘s Task Force at the American Association of Suicidology. suicidology.org

Melinda Moore, PhD, trains clinicians in Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS). She has conducted military suicide treatment and bereavement research at the University of Kentucky and the Robley Rex Veterans Affairs Medical Center. posttraumaticgrowth.com

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JULY 24-26 PATRICIA ALBERE

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MUTUAL AWAKENING The Essential Guide to WE-Space Meditation Patricia Albere Course 3302-573/Tuition $420 ($375 Members)

During the weekend immersion we are guided each step of the way through the five modules and:

Course 3302-309/Tuition $295 ($265 Members)

For more than 20 years, Authentic Writing has been creating a studio where writing happens. We work entirely from life, writing down the moments we have lived, letting the writing itself lead the way so that we are always entering new territory— no maps, no plans. We go for the concrete and the real, trusting the images that come to mind and putting them into words without hesitation. In this way the unique quality of each personal story and writing voice quickly emerges.

Periods of writing alternate with opportunities to read what we’ve written. Responses to each other’s work is specifically designed to support each writer in going further and writing more.

Whether you have written for years or not at all, you will create here a collection of pieces that only you could have written and depart with an invigorated sense of who you are as a person, a writer, and an artist.

Marta Szabo is codirector of Authentic Writing and author of the memoirs The Guru Looked Good and The Imposters. authenticwriting.com

Through the practice, we experience a state of higher relatedness and shared consciousness–one attuned to our evolutionary needs at this time in history.

Patricia Albere is the founder of the Evolutionary Collective and best-selling author of Evolutionary Relationships: Unleashing the Transformative Power of Mutual Awakening and Mutual Awakening: Opening into a New Paradigm of Human Relatedness. She originated Mutual Awakening as a clear, powerful way for people to access a state of higher relatedness. evolutionarycollective.com

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JULY 24-26

MINDFULNESS-BASED TAIJI AND QIGONG Restoring Your Life Force Michael Craft Course 3302-354/Tuition $295/220/145 ($265 Members) MI

Taijiquan (tai chi chuan) is a system of serene, flowing movements originally based on martial arts and used by millions of people around the world as a graceful, meditative exercise. Qigong is an ancient mind-body system for cultivating our natural energy and spirit. Regular practice of these contemplative arts promotes health, strength, confidence, longevity, calmness, and peace of mind. Tai chi’s interactive partner practices also support flexible, healthy boundaries and conscious relationships.

Join us for this refreshing, revitalizing exploration of traditional solo and partner practices emphasizing the fundamental principles of taiji and qigong as contemplative experience. This retreat is designed to give beginning and returning students alike a solid foundation upon which to continue their enjoyment of these wonderful exercises.

Michael Craft has been a practitioner of taijiquan, qigong, and mindfulness meditation for nearly 40 years. He has worked closely with many leading Buddhist and Daoist teachers.

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• Learn the history and science behind Mutual Awakening • Discuss how the practice came into being, and how engaging it creates new pathways in our brains, cultivates flow states, and develops empathy • Discover how your individual meditation practice can serve to propel you into an expanded, dual awakening • Learn where to come from and what to pay attention to as we begin • Become empowered to share the practice with a partner of your choosing

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While an individual spiritual practice is beautiful and useful, it’s obvious that our world is calling us to move beyond our separate sense of self and discover a “we” consciousness that we can access together—one in which consciousness is shared, dynamic, and fluid. Mutual Awakening is a 5-module WE-Space meditation that is done together, speaking, and eyes wide open—because being human is about connection and relationship.

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ASCENSION MAGICK A Weekend Intensive Christopher Penczak Course 3302-373/Tuition $365 ($330 Members)

Ascension Magick is a system of magickal practice for spiritual evolution. It draws from the wisdom of traditional western magick, Qabalah, Wicca, and shamanism and the traditions of Theosophy, lightwork, and eastern spirituality.

Deeply explore the modern mythos and CHRISTOPHER PENCZAK practices of ascension magick during this intensive weekend experience. Understand the path of the ascended masters, and learn how to invoke their allies in the angelic, faery, and starry worlds. Use the power of the seven rays in ritual and meditation to transform yourself and the world.

Guided by witch, teacher, healing practitioner, and ordained minister Christopher Penczak, you explore the pitfalls of ascension spirituality, facing your fear and your shadow self, to fully integrate love and harmony in your self identity. You learn to partner with your own soul, the ascended masters and all your allies in the spiritual realms to manifest a sustainable harmony here on Earth.

Christopher Penczak is cofounder of the Temple of Witchcraft and award-winning author of Ascension Magick and other books.

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SOCIAL EQUITY IN SCHOOLS Capacity Building for Diversity & Cultural Engagement Morris H. Ervin Jr. Course 3302-422/Tuition $365 ($330 Members) MI, CE

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Arrive Friday Begin Friday at 8:00 p.m. End Sunday at noon

Capacity building is a conceptual approach to social or personal development. It focuses on identifying obstacles that inhibit us from MORRIS H. ERVIN JR. understanding and managing emotions, showing empathy, maintaining positive relationships, and making collective decisions.

In this workshop for educators, administrators, counselors, and others who work in a school setting, we explore a contemplative approach to nurture our social and emotional competencies. We examine potent conversations around workplace conflict and learn to utilize mindfulness, nonviolent communication, and restorative practices.

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Through journaling, role playing, movement, discussion, and games, we deepen into our practice of mindfulness and selfcompassion with a goal of helping all employees work to perform functions effectively, solve problems, and set and achieve goals in a positive manner. We learn to: • • • •

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Notice personal triggers, biases, and assumptions around race, gender, class, and privilege Translate judgmental thinking into observations, feelings, needs, and requests Communicate clearly and listen empathically for the needs of diverse populations Practice assertive and active listening calls around controversial issues

Morris H. Ervin Jr. is an educator, motivational speaker, and wellness coach. He was a public school teacher for 10 years in Los Angeles, California, and Cleveland, Ohio. therealmansa.com OMEGA WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP CENTER PROGRAM

This week at Omega offers families a unique balance of time together and time apart so that everyone can have fun, learn, explore, and make new friends. We invite veteran Family Weekers back to continue in the creation of an extended family, and welcome new families to join us.

How to Register: Adults choose one workshop. Kids choose one camp. Call to register.

Adult Workshops: Workshops meet each morning from 9:00 a.m.-noon and on Monday and Tuesday afternoons from 2:30-5:00 p.m. On Wednesday and Thursday afternoons from 2:30-5:00 p.m., take time off to relax or enjoy Dabblers Delights (see eOmega.org)—classes in music, dance, wellness, yoga, and more, led by workshop teachers and special guests. In the evenings, everyone gathers for family entertainment.

Kids Camps: Kids meet every morning from 9:00 a.m.noon and afternoons from 2:30-5:00 p.m.

Teens: Teens form an important part of Family Week.

Please note that Omega has a 10:00 p.m. noise curfew and that all children and teens are expected to be with their families after 11:00 p.m. Teen programs at Family Week fill quickly, so register early.

Registration: Registration begins March 4. If you don’t have children you may still participate in Family Week.

Almost 200 children are on campus, and services and schedules are geared for children and families.

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BOOST YOUR PERSONAL POWER

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Kemi Nekvapil

A Retreat for Women

YOU ARE A PRIORITY

Course 3302-477/Tuition $380/305/230 ($340 Members) MI

The foundation of personal power lies within your own self-care, by placing yourself as a priority. With the common label of caregiver, women are often hindered, externally and internally, from locating themselves at the top of the to-do list. In this highly experiential workshop, you explore the courage, commitment, and vulnerability it requires to shift priority to self. With this shift, you also discover the joy and freedom that can arise for yourself, as well as others and the planet. Through group discussion, coaching, writing, and mindfulness exercises, you: • • • •

Explore your relationship to self-care and prioritizing yourself Gain clarity on personal barriers to well-being and the impact on self and others Learn to ask for what you want from a place of self-worth Take home personalized action plans to further develop your personal power

This workshop is designed for all who identify as women and are ready to boost their personal power by taking their rightful position at the top of their own to-do list.

Scholarships are available; see eOmega.org/scholarships.

Kemi Nekvapil is a speaker, author, and executive coach who specializes in women's leadership and wellness. keminekvapil.com KEMI NEKVAPIL SS Special schedule; see eOmega.org

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TAKE YOUR NEXT LEAP Kemi Nekvapil Course 3405-360/Tuition $405 ($365 Members)

Becoming healthy, purposeful, and happy should not be a hard and humorless endeavor, says Kemi Nekvapil, a life coach and author of Raw Beauty and The Gift of Asking.

Well-being is our birthright, she says. It’s a joyful way of living and it leads to better relationships, family life, and work.

In this workshop, women gain practical tools for renewing energy, improving health, and leaping into a life of clarity and authenticity. Through conversation, meditation, journaling, and other wellness exercises, explore what’s holding you back from taking your next leap in health, life, and work, including: • • •

Letting go of blame, shame, overwhelm, fear, and other internal obstacles Examining what you really want from life and learning how to ask for more, ask for different, and ask for better Setting boundaries with your family, friends, and colleagues that nurture self-respect, clarity, kindness, and connection MI More information provided after registration

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INTUITIVE MAKING

ELIZABETH LESSER

Rustic Building & the Making of Imaginal Artifacts

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THE JOY OF PLAY

Joe Killian with Elizabeth Lesser

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TENNIS INSIDE THE ZONE Becoming More Than an Athlete DANIEL MACK

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Years of education, responsibility, and stress have turned a lot of us into people afraid to have fun, look silly, get dirty, or step outside of our comfort zone, grumpy habits, or boring routines. But as George Bernard Shaw says (and current medical research backs up), “We don’t stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.” In this workshop we reverse the aging process as we learn new games and old standards, including: how to juggle; how to trip and fall with grace; 101 variations of emotionally safe dodge ball; how to look dignified while being out of control on a water slide; and the sneakiest way to conduct immature raids on the kids’ camps.

Elizabeth Lesser co-teaches with Joe this year (on Monday and Tuesday morning) and leads meditation practices and other exercises that help us open our hearts, let go of control, and release what may be blocking our joy. All of this adds up to a safe and warm gathering of kindred spirits and new ways of being a more present partner, playful parent, or generally goofy human being.

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Making things is almost as fundamental to our way of being in the world as breathing.

Intuitive making is a process, a practice—not an end in itself but rather a way to express and explore less accessible parts of ourselves.

Under the guidance of craftsman and artist Daniel Mack, we use rustic materials and building practices to make both practical and “imaginal” artifacts—such as stools, wood and stone carvings; totems; gifts for people in transitions of all kinds; and fanciful rustic sculptures incorporating bones, feathers, and found objects.

In a casual atmosphere of discovery, sharing, and coincidence, we allow object-making to help us learn about human nature from being with nature. Through short exercises to help us encounter parts of the unconscious, we explore nonverbal ways of handling the stress of change and transition.

Joe Killian is an Emmy-winning producer, brand consultant, and founder of the entertainment agency Killian & Company. killianandcompany.com

Elizabeth Lesser is Omega’s cofounder, and a New York Times best-selling author. elizabethlesser.org Anima Figures by Dan Mack

$10 materials fee; include when you register.

Daniel Mack, maker of rustic furniture, architecture, and garden structures, has been researching and teaching about the spiritual importance of creativity for more than 25 years. danielmack.com

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Imagine being aware, balanced, and calm while playing tennis? Moving with ease and being adaptable during competition? Experiencing freedom and joy in the game?

Learn the innovative “More Than an Athlete” approach by Rob Polishook and discover how to “play” the game while focused on the process, in the present ROB POLISHOOK moment, and connecting to yourself. Through ball drills, group games, centering activities, rhythmic music, and positive practice, you learn how to support and encourage yourself (both on and off the court), play loose, and concentrate on what you can control.

This energetic workshop is for tennis players of all skill and experience levels.

Rob Polishook, MA, CPC, is a mental training coach and founder of Inside the Zone Sports Performance Group. insidethezone.com

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SINGING IN THE STREAM

Maggie Wheeler and Emile Hassan Dyer Course 3405-368/Tuition $415 ($370 Members)

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Join us for an experience of the deep, healing power of the voice as we learn and sing ancient and contemporary songs of joy and healing. Singing together creates deeper harmony within ourselves, between each EMILE HASSAN DYER AND MAGGIE WHEELER other, and with the world around us. Throughout the week we learn songs by call-and-response, a technique accessible to beginners and experienced singers alike. Our choral adventures take us back into early forms of chant from African, Aboriginal, and Afro-Cuban traditions, and forward into the music of today. Magic happens when we are bathed in the vibrations of beautiful songs and combined voices. Singing this way relieves tension and creates a sense of well-being that resonates in our bodies and lasts far beyond the moment.

Maggie Wheeler is best known as an actor (she played Janice on NBC’s Friends), but she’s also co-director of the Golden Bridge Community Choir. maggiewheeler.net Emile Hassan Dyer, known as “Jambo” by his fans in Asia, is a vocalist, percussionist, storyteller, and choreographer influenced by the rhythms and music of West Africa. emilehassan.com

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POWER CHORD ACADEMY Perry Dale “PD” Brody Course 3405-511/Tuition $385

Join PD Brody, a professional musician and certified school teacher, to form a band with like-minded musicians. Over the week you will take part in learning, arranging, and rehearsing songs in a band setting. Gain skills, have fun, and collaborate with your bandmates to play like your favorite artist, or create a sound totally your own!

Groups will showcase their songs at the end of the week during a concert in front of a live audience.

Perry Dale “PD” Brody is a 2013 JAM Award Nominee who has released two self-produced EP albums and teaches elementary school when not performing. pdbrody.com

GROUNDATION YOGA

Celebrating a Centered Life Sienna Creasy Course 3405-369/Tuition $410 ($365 Members) CE

“Groundation” is a Jamaican term that describes a balanced, grounded, and centered life. It infuses a sense of belonging, in community, collective consciousness, and the larger cosmos while also instilling a sense of purpose and service in day-to-day life.

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LITTLE LIGHT PLAY CAMP

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Sienna Creasy creates an experience of movement that integrates fierce embodiment with this energy of Jamaica, where she has resided for more than 12 years. This program, for all levels of yoga experience, is a rich fusion of Prana Flow Yoga, restorative yoga pilates, trance dance, meditation, pranayama, yoga nidra, and music—from reggae to rock and roll. We practice as a way to transcend stress while unlocking pathways to joyful inspiration and deep relaxation. The rhythmic beats open energy centers, the yoga stretches and replenishes the body, and the shared laughter and connection is a medicine that cultivates stable strength and sweet surrender.

This camp, for children ages 3 through 5 (must be potty trained), is led by Omega’s vetted Children’s Program staff, and makes use of the facility that serves as Omega’s child-care center throughout the season. The program is focused on joyful play, nature exploration, musical expression, creative arts, and child-centered mindfulness. Limited enrollment. See page 135 for more information.

Join this process of evolution, transformation, and celebration you have long been awaiting.

Sienna Creasy is a prana vinyasa yoga instructor with more than 15 years as an educator. siennacreasy.com

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Kids camps are open only to children accompanied by a parent enrolled in a workshop.

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For kids ages 7-12 JULY 26-31

Ellen Riley and Kino Calderon

An Invent & Build Camp

SPORTS OF ALL SORTS Course 3405-382/Tuition $325 MI

LITTLE FOREST PEOPLE The Ranger Staff

Course 3405-366/Tuition $255 MI, LE

The Ranger Staff is a team with extensive experience running youth programs that nurture and challenge children in safe environments. The team includes musician and teacher Jay Cook, storyteller and naturalist Rich Humphreys, artist and educator Kesse Humphreys, wilderness educators John “Raccoon” Hunt and Lizzie “Raven” Bogosian, and energetic adventure seeker Eric “Epic” Baribeau.

Kino Calderon is a certified personal trainer who specializes in strength and conditioning as well as working with young teens in sports conditioning.

Course 3405-433/Tuition $375

Join us this week as we invent, design, engineer, and build contraptions that do simple tasks such as zipping a zipper, or hammering a nail. While this might sound easy, it takes a lot of planning and testing to get your gizmo to work. Collecting material from the famous Omega junk pile, working alone and in teams, we use hand tools, some power tools (with supervision), and our own wacky imaginations and perseverance to invent and build Rube Goldberg-like gadgets and machines—small and large.

Jenny Lee, MLA, designed and supervised the construction of the Congo Gorilla Forest at the Bronx Zoo and currently teaches elementary school science.

Rahm Rechtschaffen has a master’s degree in architecture and designs and builds houses and furniture.

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The woods surrounding Omega are filled with enchanted groves where the “Little Forest People” live. The Little Forest People Rangers are looking for campers to help create woodland structures for the Little Forest People, drum, sing, spot painted turtles, climb fallen trees, and cook up a hearty batch of bread-on-a-stick and s’mores.

$20 materials fee; include when you register.

Ellen Riley is a veteran of the Omega basketball camp for grownups, taught by NBA coach Phil Jackson and CBA coach Charley Rosen.

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For kids ages 5-10 JULY 26-31

This multi-sport camp— for boys and girls of all skill levels—is led by veteran Family Week coaches Ellen and Kino. Many sports and games are played including basketball, baseball, flag football, kickball, and wiffle ball. The emphasis is on fun, skills, fitness, injury prevention, and mental focus. Yoga and stretching are introduced as a foundation for fitness and injury prevention. Campers enjoy stories from the big leagues, music, prizes, friendly competition, and opportunities to dive deeper into particular sports in breakout sessions.

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JULY 26-31

The Wayfinder Experience Camps Melissa Bowe, Becca Bowe, and Julia Hunt

These camps fill quickly. Call to register.

For a full description of both camps and teachers, visit eOmega.org/familyweek.

For kids ages 10-13 JULY 26-31

LITTLE FOREST PEOPLE Junior Ranger Program The Ranger Staff Course 3405-367/Tuition $255 SS, MI, LE

Junior Rangers is the next level of participation within the magical world of Little Forest People. Junior Rangers experience a crossroads where leadership and creativity meet in the playground of the natural world. The fantasy realms expand as Junior Rangers stretch their independence through play, adventure, and leadership development.

A limited number of teens between the ages of 14 and 16 may register in the Junior Ranger Program as Rangers-In-Training, learning outdoor education and leadership skills.

for Kids ages 12-17 JULY 26-31

THE WAYFINDER EXPERIENCE

A Role-Playing Adventure for Teens Course 3405-388/Tuition $375 SS, MI, LE

$25 materials fee; include when you register.

For Young Adults ages 18-24 JULY 26-31

ADVANCED WAYFINDER EXPERIENCE

A Theater & Life-Training Workshop for Young Adults Course 3405-389/Tuition $375 ($335 Members) SS, MI, LE

$25 materials fee; include when you register.

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Radical Compassion Tara Brach

Course 3502-233/Tuition $365 ($330 Members) SS, MI, CE

The medicine most essential to healing and freedom is compassion— caring for ourselves and all beings. While compassion arises naturally, the flowering of full, mature compassion—Radical Compassion—requires training.

Join psychologist and meditation teacher Tara Brach to learn an applied meditation for cultivating mindfulness-based compassion known as RAIN (recognize-allow-investigate-nurture). Beginning with our inner life, we widen the circles of compassion through a sequence of short talks, guided meditations, and interpersonal meditations and reflections. We also make time for questions and sharing.

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In a safe and respectful space, we practice bringing the RAIN meditation to places we feel emotionally stuck. We begin to discover how radical compassion can help reduce self-judgment and blame, release limiting fears and beliefs, and reconnect us with our natural wisdom, creativity, and kindness.

On a global level, radical compassion frees us from unconscious bias and the pain of separation, allowing us to serve the healing of our society and our living earth.

ACCME and APA credits are available for $80. All other available CE credits are $50 (see page 136). See eOmega.org for professional course objectives.

Tara Brach, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and internationally known meditation teacher. She is author of best-selling books Radical Acceptance and True Refuge, and most recently, Radical Compassion. tarabrach.com

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Arrive Sunday Begin Monday at 9:00 a.m. End Friday at noon

VORTEXHEALING

Divine Energy Healing

OMEGA VETERANS PROGRAM

Ric Weinman

AUGUST 2-7

Course 3605-323/Tuition $390 ($350 Members) SS, MI, LE

VETERANS YOGA RETREAT FOR MEN SOPHIA WISE ONE

JOSHUA SMITH

For ages 16-24 JULY 31-AUGUST 2

Practices for Comfort & Ease

Course 3605-531/Tuition $395 ($355 Members) SS, LE

Research shows that yoga and relaxation practices help veterans reintegrate after the challenging experiences of military service. In this yoga retreat for male veterans, you learn techniques to comfort the body, ease the mind, and promote healing.

ADVANCED WAYFINDER COMMUNITY WORKSHOP

Sophia Wise One and Joshua Smith Course 3502-443/Tuition $295/220/145 ($265 Members) SS

Through mask work, contact improv, trust exercises, creative writing, and fire circles (if weather permits), we deepen the community and self work ignited by previous Wayfinder Experience workshops.

Teens 16 and 17 years of age must be chaperoned.

Chaperones may choose any workshop offered this weekend or an R&R retreat.

Sophia Wise One is a cofounder of The Wayfinder Experience, host of the global holistic healing podcast Vagina Talks with Sophia Wise One, and the author and creator of the I Love My Life Card Game and Oracle Deck.

Experience daily iRest (Integrative Restoration) sessions, a technique endorsed by the U.S. Army Surgeon General and offered at military hospitals nationwide. A guided meditation based on yoga nidra, iRest promotes deep relaxation and acceptance of everything as it is. It helps the nervous system return to a balanced state of well-being, which is necessary to heal unresolved trauma and physical and emotional wounds. Leave with valuable tools to continue your healing journey at home.

Application is required; apply early, as spots fill quickly. Scholarships are available to cover all but $75 of the cost; see eOmega.org/scholarships.

Annie Okerlin, RYT, owner and president of Yogani Studio in Tampa, Florida, is founder and director of the therapeutic yoga program Exalted Warrior Foundation. exaltedwarrior.com Nicholas Caris, RYT, a U.S. Marine veteran who found physical and emotional healing through yoga, teaches adaptive yoga to veterans through the Exalted Warrior Foundation. exaltedwarrior.com AUGUST 2-7

BUDDHISM & PSYCHOTHERAPY IN ACTION:

Exploring Wisdom, Healing & Well-Being Across Traditions Pilar Jennings and Khenpo Pema Wangdak Course 3605-317/Tuition $440 ($395 Members) MI

In the great healing traditions of Tibetan Buddhism and psychotherapy, there is a powerful appreciation for the wish to feel well, recover from all forms of suffering, and live a full and peaceful life. Join Pilar Jennings, psychoanalyst and author of To Heal a Wounded Heart, and The Venerable Khenpo Pema Wangdak, a Tibetan Buddhist monk and founding teacher of the Vikramasila Foundation, to explore a roadmap for healing in the Bodhisattva’s Way.

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Together we’ll learn about the sacred Buddhist teachings in Shantideva’s Bodhisattva’s Way of Life and how to apply them to spiritual and psychological healing. Through meditation, discussions, and guided exercises, we discover methods for increasing self-compassion, addressing trauma, and releasing beliefs that limit happiness and meaningful connection with others.

This retreat is open to beginning and experienced meditators, as well as clinicians who want to apply the healing arts of Buddhist spirituality in clinical work.

Pilar Jennings, PhD, is author of To Heal a Wounded Heart: On the Transformative Power of Buddhism & Psychotherapy in Action. drpilarjennings.com Khenpo Pema Wangdak is the first Tibetan recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor for his humanitarian work. vikramasila.org

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In this workshop led by Ric Weinman, we learn VortexHealing and practice energy healing on ourselves and others. We reestablish our grounding cord, work with the divine web (which feeds the vital life web), learn about the human energy system, channel at a distance, and practice meditations for the spiritual heart.

VortexHealing is more than a powerful healing art. It is designed to accelerate your spiritual evolution and ripen you toward spiritual awakening.

The divine lineage that powers VortexHealing is focused on manifesting awakening in this life for its students. As a result, this workshop can create a noticeable evolution in your energy system and consciousness.

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Players age 16-24 who have taken a Wayfinder Experience workshop in the past are invited.

Guided by Annie Okerlin and veteran Nicholas Caris, and NICHOLAS CARIS supported by a community of brothers, you practice yoga and learn to modify postures to accommodate unique physical limitations and ailments—including chronic pain and amputations.

VortexHealing® is a holistic energy-healing art taught around the world. It is the heart of the Merlin lineage, a divine lineage that works directly through consciousness and matter, enabling you to channel not just divine energy, but also divine consciousness. You can heal not only your physical and RIC WEINMAN emotional body, but also your karmic body, releasing deep karmic issues held there.

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In this follow-up, advanced workshop for young adults, intrepid adventurers can take the Wayfinder Experience one step further and learn powerful strategies to be heart-centered warriors, healers, and magic users in everyday life.

Joshua Smith (aka Josh the Word) is a rapper and educator who uses music to facilitate conversations around empathy building, and has released several albums, including 2016’s Psyched Out.

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Ric Weinman was a full-time healer for 15 years until Merlin reawakened his past knowledge of VortexHealing and moved him to teach its magic. vortexhealing.org AUGUST 5

A Concert & Conversation With Peter Buffett Join Emmy Award-winning composer and philanthropist Peter Buffett for an entertaining, thought-provoking, and heartopening evening of musical performance and dialogue. Using his own life as an example, Peter reflects honestly on the past while challenging us to reimagine the future. Evening performances are open to all on campus this week.

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AUGUST 2-7

REAFFIRMING INDIGENEITY

A Leadership Retreat for Indigenous Peoples

AUGUST 2-7

SONGWRITING FROM THE HEART David Wilcox and Beth Nielsen Chapman

Course 3605-356/Tuition $530 ($475 Members)

The deeper side of songwriting is the practice of knowing your own heart. In this workshop—for music lovers and those at all levels of songwriting experience—you tap into your own channel of inspired originality and create songs straight from the heart.

DAVID WILCOX

Spend the week dancing between spontaneity and structure as you learn how to take that first inkling of an idea and shape it into a song you can be proud of.

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Though David Wilcox and Beth Nielsen Chapman make their living from songwriting, they teach the craft not just as a way to make a living but as a way to feel more alive. Through group exercises, solo BETH NIELSEN CHAPMAN writing time, examples from the teachers’ storehouse of songs, and help with your own songs, you learn how to write and sing from the center of your voice, unlocking presence, power, and energy with the least effort.

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David Wilcox is a celebrated American singer-songwriter who has been touching the hearts of audiences for more than 20 years. His recordings include Out Beyond Ideas and Blaze. davidwilcox.com

Beth Nielsen Chapman has written hit songs for megastars, including Bette Midler and Elton John, and earned a Grammy nomination for This Kiss by Faith Hill. bethnielsenchapman.com

Sherri Mitchell, Michael Yellow Bird and Sachem Hawkstorm Course 3605-562 SS, LE

Though we recognize that every population faces challenges, indigenous peoples are uniquely situated at a nexus point of human rights, environmental justice, and survival on Mother Earth. For indigenous peoples, colonization is not ancient history but a continuing process of genocide, appropriation of traditional culture, loss of cultural identity, and the loss of and removal from ancestral lands.

This retreat, led by and held for indigenous peoples, is a leadership exploration and a healing process focused on mindful decolonization strategies to undo the legacy of colonization in each of us. Leaders will learn how to: • • • • •

Engage in responsible land guardianship and restoration Address trauma that arises from devaluation such as high suicide rates, addiction, and cancer Reincorporate sacred laws into our daily life Mindfully decolonize ourselves and our communities Lead our peoples forward during this time of great change

The experience will benefit current and future leaders as indigenous wisdom is being sought to move humanity away from the brink of destruction and back toward alignment with life.

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MICHAEL YELLOW BIRD

SACHEM HAWKSTORM

Application required. Upon acceptance, registration fee is $75 and includes meals and dormitory housing. Learn more at eOmega.org/decolonization.

Sherri Mitchell, JD, is an indigenous rights activist, spiritual teacher, author, and transformational changemaker. sacredinstructions.life Michael Yellow Bird, PhD, coauthor of For Indigenous Minds Only and Decolonizing Social Work, is a citizen of the Three Affiliated Tribes (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara).

Sachem Hawkstorm is the hereditary sachem (chief) of the Schaghticoke People who participated in the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Plus Online Session Join Kori Burkholder for a follow-up Zoom call to check in on your dream manifestation, identify next steps, and receive a bonus creative project.

AUGUST 2-7

FLYING SOULO

AUGUST 2-7

Your Story on Stage

PAINT YOUR DREAMS INTO REALITY

Tracey Erin Smith

Create, Dream, Plan & Manifest

Course 3605-476/Tuition $545 ($490 Members) SS

Transform your life’s stories into a 10-minute Solo Theatre Show or Keynote. Through improvisation, writing exercises, and one-on-one coaching, uncover the stories that need to be told and reveal your truth and message in a powerful and entertaining show.

This workshop culminates in a short performance of the work created in class.

All levels of experience are welcome.

Tracey Erin Smith is host and creator of the popular Amazon Prime documentary series Drag Heals and founder and artistic director of SOULO Theatre. She recently won the Diamond First Place Toronto Star Readers Choice Award for Best Theatre Instructor. traceyerinsmith.com TRACEY ERIN SMITH

Kori Burkholder Course 3605-379/Tuition $525 ($470 Members) SS, MI

Designed especially for busy adults, those who have lost touch with what truly fulfills them, entrepreneurs wanting inspiration, and anyone with a dream they want to focus their creative energy on, this workshop is packed with fun and engaging art experiences.

KORI BURKHOLDER

Take this opportunity to turn your attention to your individual dreams and goals, and indulge your creativity by trying out new materials, including watercolor, linoleum block printing, mixed-media collage, and acrylics. Each day we focus on a new theme, each building upon the last, such as crafting your big vision, digging for your why, and befriending your inner critics.

Learn to trust your intuition and find deep messages in your work that lead to discoveries and breakthroughs. Return home feeling energized and inspired, with a plan for what to do next and a gallery of visual touchstones to keep you inspired.

Materials are included.

Kori Burkholder is creator of The Inspirality Method and a certified career and creativity coach. koriburkholder.com

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AUGUST 2-7

SPANISH LANGUAGE IMMERSION FOR BEGINNERS

Diana Zuckerman and Arián Gutiérrez Zuckerman Course 3605-279/Tuition $400 ($360 Members)

Immerse yourself in the language and cultures of Spain and Latin America.

Spanish Language Immersion for Beginners provides you with the knowledge and skills you need to easily and effectively communicate in Spanish as if you were in a Spanish-speaking country, and you don’t even need a passport.

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Taught exclusively in Spanish, we focus on communication rather than grammar to help you form questions and grow your vocabulary. In a comfortable and upbeat environment, instructors Diana Zuckerman and Arián Gutiérrez Zuckerman create reallife situations—in the classroom, the dining hall, and elsewhere on campus—that inspire you to use your Spanish.

The Cloud Institute’s EfS Curriculum Design Studio Jaimie P. Cloud Course 3605-482/Tuition $495 ($445 Members) SS, MI, CE

The Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education prepares pre-K-16 school systems by inspiring educators and engaging students through meaningful content and learner-centered, placebased, inquiry-based, and project-based instruction.

Research shows that the Education for Sustainability (EfS) framework has multiple positive effects on student achievement, commitment to democratic participation, teacher effectiveness, and school culture.

In this 5-day curriculum design studio, we use JAIMIE P. CLOUD backwards design, or Understanding by Design, to reorient, innovate, build, and map curricula designed to meet academic standards and EfS standards, performance indicators, and enduring understandings—without additional class time or add-ons.

Educators, curriculum specialists, administrators, and program designers learn what EfS is and how to embed EfS into curricula, assessments, performance criteria, and performance tasks. Gain access to expertise, resources, and tools to re-orient and enrich curricula. Through working sessions, learning circles, coaching, peer review, and optional mini-sessions, you develop units and protocols that prepare students to participate in, and lead with us, the shift toward a sustainable future.

The program’s first day, entitled “Introduction to Education for Sustainability,” is also available as a one-day option for a tuition cost of $149 ($139 members). $33 materials fee; include when you register.

Jaimie P. Cloud is founder and president of the Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education and the author of the Education for Sustainability framework. cloudinstitute.org

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Through a variety of interactive activities, including conversations, music, poetry, movement, and meeting native Spanishspeakers, you rapidly develop a level of fluency and ease.

Through the use of cognates, blending simple and complex language, repetition, gestures, visuals, and props, you learn to express yourself in any tense—past, present, or future. You master a surprising amount of material to make speaking Spanish more interactive, and a lot more fun.

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OMEGA YOGA SERVICE PROGRAM

AUGUST 2-9

Little Flower Yoga & Mindfulness Teacher Training Jennifer Cohen Harper, Mayuri Gonzalez, and Argos Gonzalez Course 3607-217/Tuition $1,285 ($1,185 Members) SS, MI, CE

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MAYURI GONZALEZ

ARGOS GONZALEZ

Little Flower Yoga (LFY) Training is a comprehensive program in yoga and mindfulness practices for children and youth ages 3-18. Registered by Yoga Alliance, and offering up to six optional graduate level credits, this training focuses on the complete physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being of students.

The foundation of this training is rooted in building your own self-awareness and deepening personal practice—after all, we can’t teach what we don’t know. From there, you learn a wide range of activities that you can immediately implement with the kids you work with. You learn a clear, structured framework, based on a five element methodology, that allows you to teach an integrated experience of yoga and mindfulness in any setting, from the classroom to the studio.

Return home with a deeper understanding of child development, the capacity and confidence to create programming that meets children’s needs, and the knowledge to teach in a safe, engaging, and compassionate way, even when things get tough. This weeklong immersion combines all three levels of the LFY certification program for a deeply

empowering experience, rich with opportunities for your own personal practice.

This course includes access to 3 hours of webinar content pre-training and 3 hours of webinar content post-training. $45 materials fee; include when you register. This training begins Sunday at 7:30 p.m. Completion of this training and additional online components (register separately) qualifies you for LFY Certification. For information on certification and optional graduate level credits offered through the University of the Pacific, see littlefloweryoga.com.

Jennifer Cohen Harper is founder of Little Flower Yoga and immediate past president of, and current advisor to, the Yoga Service Council. littlefloweryoga.com Mayuri Gonzalez, E-RYT, RCYT, director of LFY’s School Yoga Project, is a nationally recognized trainer and instructor in mindfulness and children’s yoga. littlefloweryoga.com Argos Gonzalez, director of professional development for LFY’s School Yoga Project, is a teacher, lecturer, and mindfulness and yoga instructor. littlefloweryoga.com

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Trance Mediumship Exploration & Discovery Tony Stockwell

Become a Psychic Detective Tony Stockwell

Course 3605-325/Tuition $545 ($490 Members)

Tony Stockwell returns to Omega this year to share his extraordinary wealth of knowledge about the fascinating world of altered states of consciousness, often called trance mediumship, and teach us how to develop it, use it, and control it.

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Through theory and practice, we discover the many and varied energies and levels of this amazing phenomena. We explore and expand our knowledge of trance mediumship in all of its forms, from light overshadowing to deep trance to inspirational guided speaking. We also study the blending of our own energies with spirit and how this can improve not only our trance mediumship development, but also other aspects of our spiritual work.

Course 3702-326/Tuition $315 ($285 Members)

Tony Stockwell has worked on numerous unsolved crimes, often alongside the police and private detectives.

In this workshop he shows you how to use photographs, maps, and clippings to unlock the truth of the past with the aim of bringing healing and understanding to those that still seek answers. Using psychometry, clairvoyance, remote viewing, intuition, and mediumship, you also learn effective methods to help bring clarity and answers to grieving families.

Under Stockwell’s guidance, you work on high-profile historical cases, peeling away TONY STOCKWELL layers of truth and gleaning new insights that only your psychic awareness can reveal. Through theory and Each of us is given support throughout the week to ensure that our practice, you explore and expand your knowledge of mediumship trance mediumship development is enhanced and stretched as we: and other aspects of spiritual work.

• Learn about many aspects of trance and associated phenomena Tony Stockwell is one of the most well-known and respected • Experience trance demonstrations psychic mediums in England. He has worked in the fields of trance • Connect with the power of spirit and journey through the many mediumship and with unsolved crimes for more than 30 years. levels of awareness Stockwell has had four television series—The Psychic Detective, • Join properly structured trance and experimental groups Street Psychic, Psychic School, and Psychic Academy—and • Find out how trance states can enhance the development of appeared regularly on 6ixth Sense. He is also the author of four mental mediumship books. tonystockwell.com

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Astrology, Consciousness & the Great Shift Course 3702-329/Tuition $350 ($315 Members) SS, MI MAURICE FERNANDEZ

GEMINI BRETT

KAY TAYLOR

ANNE ORTELEE

Astrology is at the forefront of a great shift—a revolution in consciousness that is moving away from contemporary mechanistic models and reclaiming the validity of magical, ancient, spiritual traditions.

Maurice Fernandez is a leading evolutionary astrologer and author, currently serving as the president of the Organization for Professional Astrology. mauricefernandez.com

Join six expert voices from modern astrology as they weave their individual threads of thought about this emerging world into a beautiful cosmic tapestry—an intellectual and spiritual adventure in consciousness.

Kay Taylor is the education director for the Organization for Professional Astrology and author of Soul Path Way. kaytaylor.com

Learn how contemporary astrology is not just a tool to track future cycles but a profound body of knowledge for self-realization. Understand how your chart can help you resolve karmic tangles, manifest your true potential, and harmonize with your soul’s highest purposes.

And discover how astrology—when combined with topics like yoga, reincarnation, personality assessment, body-mind healing, depth psychology, and quantum physics—offers an effective way to better answer the bigger questions about life, death, and evolution.

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KATHRYN ANDREN

All levels are welcome—even those without previous experience with astrology.

Teachers are subject to change.

Gemini Brett is a shamanic “StarryTeller,” an astronomy-for-astrologers authority, and a leader in the movement to re-nature astrology. geminibrett.com

Anne Ortelee is a certified astrologer, treasurer for the Organization for Professional Astrology, and host of three weekly podcasts. anneortelee.com Rick Levine has received a number of prestigious astrology awards. He was the subject of the DVD Quantum Astrology and he produces a popular monthly video. patreon.com/ricklevine Kathryn Andren is an astrologer, poet, visionary artist, massage therapist, energy healer, and founder of The Love Astrologer. theloveastrologer.com

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For Mood, Stress & Sleep

Level One

EVIDENCE-BASED QIGONG & TAI CHI

SHAMANIC REIKI HEALING

Yang Yang

Stacey Gibbons and Jonathan Hammond

Course 3702-255/Tuition $370 ($335 Members) SS

Course 3702-319/Tuition $295 ($265 Members) SS, MI

Chinese philosophy teaches that when we align our thoughts and actions with the Abiding Truths, we are happy, more likely to have a positive mood, and be successful in life. Western science has demonstrated the powerful, positive effects of qigong and tai chi on mood, stress, and sleep.

All levels of experience, from novices to seasoned practitioners, benefit from Yang’s caring, fun, and wise instruction.

Yang Yang, PhD, is founder and director of the Center for Taiji and Qigong Studies and a clinical specialist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

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Omega Wellness Weekend is the perfect opportunity to do what you have promised yourself for years: Take a break and dedicate some quality time for your health, well-being, and happiness.

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Address physical and energetic causes of symptoms and weight challenges Cook delicious, healthy, whole foods that balance blood sugar and reduce inflammation Identify food allergies and heal leaky gut WAYNE HOMSI Relate to your body and exercise in a new, playful way Boost your adrenal glands, relax in stressful situations, and create balance Incorporate a daily meditation and qiqong practice

Return home rested and inspired to maintain a healthy new lifestyle.

Tom Francescott, ND, is an intuitive naturopathic doctor specializing in transformational health care and healing chronic Lyme disease. drfrancescott.com Kathy Fitzgerald has spent more than 20 years expanding her psychic talent and curiosity and studying with a number of gifted teachers.

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Award-winning executive chef at Casual Elegance Catering, Wayne Homsi has cooked for numerous celebrities, including President Bill Clinton.

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Receive the Reiki Level One attunement to activate our innate ability to heal Practice self-healing methods and intuitive strategies for the transmission of Reiki Integrate shamanic techniques to access alternate realities beyond time and space Explore shamanic methods that open us to the healing forces of the earth and the elements Give and receive a complete Shamanic Reiki session Discover how to create a healing environment and develop a Shamanic Reiki healing practice Engage life-shifting practices to empower us as a Shamanic Reiki healer

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You return home with a deeper connection to the Abiding Truths, such as Innate Human Kindness, and a simple yet profound 15-minute daily routine to cultivate a positive mood, transforming stress into wisdom, happiness, and sound sleep.

We all are capable of practicing Reiki, and in this experiential weekend we practice simple, yet powerful, techniques that combine Reiki with intuitive approaches from diverse shamanic cultures.

Over the course of the workshop, we:

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In this workshop, Yang Yang guides you in WaQi, an evidence-based program distilled from classic qigong and tai chi practice. You learn a set of functional meditations and movement practices to awaken your body’s healing energy. A recent study funded by the National Institutes for Health, using Yang’s WaQi program, demonstrated the significant positive effects of qigong and tai chi on sleep and anxiety.

Shamanic Reiki blends the timeless wisdom of two ancient healing traditions with new approaches and practical teachings.

We explore a systematized and intuitive approach to manifesting profound natural healing.

Stacey Gibbons holds a master certification in Traditional Reiki.

She has taught traditional and Shamanic Reiki since studying with Llyn Roberts in the 1990s. shamanicreikiworldwide.com

Jonathan Hammond is a master teacher and faculty member for Shamanic Reiki Worldwide, as well as a traditional Usui Reiki master. mindbodyspiritnyc.com

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an Omega Rest & Rejuvenation Retreat eOmega.org/rest See page 14 for details.

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THE INNER WORK OF RACIAL JUSTICE

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A Mindfulness Retreat Confronting and Transforming Racial Bias & Injustice Rhonda V. Magee Course 3702-553/Tuition $395 ($355 Members) VANESSA VALENTI

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Amplify Your Voice

Speaking Up to Advance Change Course 3702-496/Tuition $385/310/235 ($345 Members) MI, LE

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Women in record numbers are speaking up and leading change. To sustain the movement and continue to advance the issues we hold dear, we need communication skills to promote our message and resilient self-care practices to keep us grounded. These savvy media influencers— from award-winning websites, innovative TED talks, and two decades of creating social change through communication—give you the skills to amplify what matters most to you. Through reflection, writing, healing circles, and self-care, you will unleash the power of voice to create a new narrative for social change.

Throughout the weekend, you: • Develop skills to project your ideas through op-ed articles, public speaking, publishing, and more • Identify and inhabit your unique voice and message • Explore how self-care can fill you up and fuel your mission • Engage in stimulating conversations with media luminaries

Join us this weekend in a deep exploration of systemic racism–and its healing–from a mindfulness-based approach.

Rhonda V. Magee, chair of the board of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute and a renowned teacher of mindfulness-based interventions for social justice, leads this event.

Together, through silence, collective inquiry, talks, small group work, and mindful practice, we confront ways to transform our biases and face injustice—in our daily lives and in the world. All levels of practice are welcome, from beginning to longtime mindfulness practitioners.

Rhonda V. Magee, JD, MA, is professor of law at San Francisco School of Law, board chair of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, and author of The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness.

Open to all who identify as women, this workshop builds a powerful community of leaders and changemakers.

Scholarships are available; see eOmega.org/scholarships. Teachers are subject to change.

Latham Thomas is a best-selling author and founder of Mama Glow. mamaglow.com

Vanessa Valenti is cofounder and ceo of FRESH Speakers. vanessavalenti.com

Jamia Wilson is an award-winning author and executive director of the Feminist Press. jamiawilson.com

AUGUST 7-9

MEDITATION FOR SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION & EMOTIONAL HEALING Bhante Wimala

Course 3702-315/Tuition $305/230/155 ($275 Members) SS

Buddhist meditation techniques help us train the mind to be fully present in each moment in order to understand our thoughts, feelings, and emotions, and also to guide them to be wholesome, realistic, and positive. Research now shows that meditation techniques can be applied to alleviate pain, improve health, increase vitality, and buffer day-to-day encounters with stress.

This weekend, which is appropriate for both nonprofessionals and helping professionals, we sample a variety of meditation traditions, philosophies, techniques, and practices from yogic and Buddhist traditions. We meditate together to transform our character and get in touch with the best of who we are spiritually. Self-reflection, positive affirmations, and the practice of present-moment awareness (sathi) are some of the tools that we explore so we can purify the mind and learn to transcend grief, anger, and negative feelings.

Bhante Wimala, a Buddhist monk from Sri Lanka, teaches traditional and modern training techniques with a unique sensitivity to Western minds.

Guest Teachers: Marianne Schnall is the founder of feminist.com. marianneschnall.com Samhita Mukhopadhyay is the executive editor of Teen Vogue. samhitamukhopadhyay.com

BHANTE WIMALA

RHONDA V. MAGEE

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OMEGA CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING PROGRAM

AUGUST 9-14

Healing the Wounds of Turtle Island Indigenous Wisdom for Global Transformation

Sherri Mitchell, Steven Newcomb, and Miigam’agan Course 3805-561/Tuition $395/320/245 ($355 Members) SS

“Right now, indigenous knowledge is at the heart of human survival.”

—Sherri Mitchell In a time marked by societal upheaval and dramatic environmental changes, it is common to feel overwhelmed and hopeless.

Indigenous wisdom offers insights that can help us understand how we arrived at this point, and provides a pathway toward harmony with others and deepened connections to Mother Earth.

This powerful retreat is led by Indigenous scholars Sherri Mitchell (Penahwapskek Nation), Steven Newcomb (Shawnee/Lenape), and Clan Mother Miigam’agan (Mi’kmaq First Nation). Through their storytelling, wisdom teachings, and fireside discussions, we gain tools and guidance to:

NICOLE SACHS

Understanding the mind-body connection is key to freeing ourselves from the protective mechanism by which the brain and nervous system create chronic pain.

CAROLINE LEE DEWEY

Steven Newcomb is a Shawnee-Lenape scholar and author, and Director of the Indigenous Law Institute.

Miigam’agan is a Wabanaki/Mi’kmaw grandmother of the Fish Clan from Esgenoôpetitj/Burnt Church. Her life has been devoted to promoting an understanding of indigenous matriarchal systems.

ATHENA ALLREAD

When repressed emotions are allowed to surface, the body settles into an equilibrium that eliminates pain signals sent in a fight or flight mode.

Guided by Nicole Sachs and her assistant teachers, you discover precisely how to invite these repressed feelings to rise, leading to a mind-body transformation. Through discussion, meditation, art therapy, energy work, yoga, and other healing practices, you establish a bedrock foundation for long-lasting wellness.

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A Mind-Body Approach

Course 3805-303/Tuition $430 ($385 Members) MI

Return home with hope, grounded in evidence-based experience and knowledge that have formed the basis of indigenous teachings for millennia.

Sherri Mitchell, JD, is an indigenous rights activist, spiritual teacher, author, and transformational changemaker.

Freedom from Chronic Pain

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• Explore the collective, historical trauma that is at the root of our disconnection with one another and Mother Earth • Understand the impacts of colonization on our thinking, ways of being, and relationships • Reconnect the heart-based wisdom of the Mother into our decision-making and values

AUGUST 9-14

Teachers are subject to change.

Nicole Sachs, LCSW, is creator of JournalSpeak, a groundbreaking language of wellness. She is author of The Meaning of Truth and the online course Freedom From Chronic Pain. thecureforchronicpain.com Caroline Lee Dewey, LMSW, is a Reiki master, meditation teacher, and integrative JournalSpeak specialist. carolineleedewey.com

STEVEN NEWCOMB

ERIN SHIVONE

Athena Allread, 200RYT, is a writer, shaman, and cofounder of Lanikai Wellness Studio. seasideshaman.com

Erin Shivone, LMT, 200RYT, is cofounder of Lanikai Wellness Studio. She specializes in Ayurveda, massage, and craniosacral therapy.

MIIGAM’AGAN

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Lisa Schlosberg, LMSW, is a certified personal trainer and integrative nutrition holistic health coach.

LISA SCHLOSBERG

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SHERRI MITCHELL

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For girls ages 5-12 AUGUST 9-14

THE RADIANT POWER OF GIRLS Jai Fuller

Course 3805-404/Tuition $295 SS

It’s never too early to connect to your radiant power. Guided by seasoned camp leader Jai Fuller, you are invited to discover the inherent, divine, and graceful power you embody as a young woman.

GURMUKH KAUR KHALSA

SNATAM KAUR KHALSA

Girls come together for a beautiful week full of fun and meaningful experiences. New friendships are made while you find courage and go beyond your fear through fun partner and group trust-building activities and games. Learn the grace and rhythm of gatka, a traditional North Indian martial art that builds confidence and strength.

Play, dance, craft, laugh, and share in a safe and sacred space. Practice yoga and meditation and learn how to honor and love yourself. Be a part of a group, learn to listen, and develop leadership skills as you work together to complete team-building challenges.

Come away with a true sense of belonging to the global gathering of girls and lasting knowledge about your own fundamental power, value, and voice. Return to your families and communities with a renewed radiance, as a young ambassador of love and light.

WAHE GURU KAUR KHALSA

SUKHMANI

AUGUST 9-14

This workshop begins Sunday at 7:45 p.m. and ends Friday at 12:45 p.m. Girls must be chaperoned.

Chaperones may choose any workshop offered this week or an R&R Retreat.

The Radiant Power of Women

Jai Fuller, founder of Khalsa Camp, teaches prenatal, kids, and parent-baby yoga classes. She helped run Khalsa Childcare for more than 15 years.

Course 3805-403/Tuition $630/555/480 ($565 Members) SS, CE

For teens ages 13-16 AUGUST 9-14

A World Women’s Summit

It’s time for the tribes of all the women of the world to gather in the name of love and light. It’s time for all women everywhere to meditate, love, and laugh together—and bring song, dance, healing, and peace to all.

In our five days together, we radiate the light the world needs right now by practicing Kundalini Yoga, Sadhana, chanting, meditation, rhythm, and dance. We enjoy eating healthful, prana-filled foods in community together. We pray for the world through sacred chanting that makes us stronger individually and collectively.

We share time with women from around the world—sisters, mothers, daughters, students, teachers, and friends. Our union in solidarity is the greatest gift we can give to this world and the generations to come.

As we are held in the gentle forest and the womb that is the land of Omega, our minds become quieter and our hearts open. This is how we bring peace to the world.

This workshop begins Sunday at 8:00 p.m. and ends Friday at 12:30 p.m. Teachers are subject to change.

JAI FULLER

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THE RADIANT POWER OF TEENS Coming of Age From Girls to Women Atma Khalsa and Jai Fuller Course 3805-405/Tuition $295 SS

ATMA KHALSA

Embrace your radiant spirit in this program for teenage girls. Experience friendship, find support, and gain tools to help you navigate this powerful time of transition in your life.

Learn the practice of gatka, a traditional martial art that builds confidence, strength, and balances the hemispheres of the brain. Enjoy crafting, being in nature, playing games, sharing, and spa night with an intimate group of teens. This time is balanced with special sessions together with the Radiant Power of Women workshop, during which you experience the powerful effects of practicing Kundalini Yoga, meditation, and chanting in a large group of women.

Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa is a leading teacher of Kundalini Yoga in the United States and internationally. She is author of The 8 Human Talents and Bountiful, Beautiful, Blissful. goldenbridgeyoga.com

In community with other teens, you reflect, laugh, make discoveries, and connect deeply with one another as true sisters, beyond competition or insecurities. In this safe and nurturing atmosphere, you find the courage to accept where you are and who you are becoming along the path to radiant womanhood.

Snatam Kaur Khalsa is an American singer, peace activist, and author raised in the Sikh and Kundalini Yoga tradition. She is author of Original Light and creator of the Grammy-nominated CD Beloved. snatamkaur.com

This workshop begins Sunday at 8:00 p.m. and ends Friday at 12:30 p.m.

Teens must be chaperoned. Chaperones may choose any workshop offered this week or an R&R Retreat.

Wahe Guru Kaur Khalsa, daughter of Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa and Gurushabd Singh Khalsa, is a Kundalini Yoga teacher and student of Yogi Bhajan. goldenbridgeyoga.com

Atma Khalsa has been working with children since her early teens, creating spaces for them to learn tools of self-expression, thought, and connection.

Sukhmani, E-RYT 500, is cofounder of the mantra band Sukha. Their first album, Rise, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Age Album.

Jai Fuller, founder of Khalsa Camp, teaches prenatal, kids, and parentbaby yoga classes. She helped run Khalsa Childcare for more than 15 years. khalsacamp.net

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5-DAY WORKSHOPS Arrive Sunday Begin Monday at 9:00 a.m.

End Friday at noon

Plus Online Session Join Rob Harris for an individual post-workshop video screening and feedback Zoom call.

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AUGUST 9-14

DIGITAL STORYTELLING

HANDS OF LIGHT

5-Day Immersion Into Brennan Healing Skills

Translate Your Teaching to Video

Priscilla Bright Course 3805-316/Tuition $440 ($395 Members) MI

Rob Harris

Enter into the sacred realm of the healer as you deepen your natural healing gifts in this inspiring hands-on training.

Course 3805-359/Tuition $525 ($470 Members) MI BIFF MITHOEFER

ERIC ARCHER

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YIN YOGA TEACHER TRAINING MODULE 1 Biff Mithoefer and Eric Archer

Course 3805-397/Tuition $400 ($360 Members) SS, MI, LE, CE

Yin Yoga uses long-held postures that support us in accessing the deeper, more yin parts of ourselves.

All skill levels, from beginner to advanced, are welcome. Join us in forming a heart-based, joyous healing community to restore your spirit and renew your inner healer.

In this teacher training, we explore the ways Yin Yoga can affect our physical, energetic, and emotional bodies. By understanding the basic principles of Yin Yoga, we learn how to lead a yin class and incorporate yin postures and philosophy into any yoga teaching or practice.

This program offers contact hours through the Brennan School for some professional groups, see priscillabright.com for information.

Together, we:

Priscilla Bright, MA, is an international teacher and energy healer. She is the former dean of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing. priscillabright.com

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Explore the teachings of Taoist philosophy, the practice of nonstriving, and how it influences our lives and teachings Learn about the movement of qi (or prana) in the body and how it can be affected by Yin Yoga practice Develop our understanding of postures and sequencing Gain a true understanding of what it means to hold a safe, sacred space for a Yin Yoga practice

This Yin Yoga Teacher Training is suitable for yoga teachers and practitioners at all levels of experience.

This training begins Sunday at 7:30 p.m. and is part of a nonsequential professional certification program; see biffmithoeferyoga.com for more information.

Biff Mithoefer, E-RYT 500, author of The Yin Yoga Kit, teaches Yin Yoga throughout the U.S. and internationally. biff mithoeferyoga.com

Eric Archer is a teacher, musician, and artist whose work has been incorporated into mindfulness curriculums at the Finger Lakes School of Massage and The Millbrook School. ericarcherarts.com

ENJOY

By the end of this workshop, you will create a practice video of your own to continue to work on at home. Then, one month after the workshop, you’ll reconvene online to screen a promotional video and receive individualized feedback from Harris.

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Expand your intuitive energysensing abilities Give a deep full-body energy healing Soften blocks to your own energy flow and strengthen your energy field Better understand the energy dynamics in your relationships with others Practice useful energy self-care, including healthy energy boundaries Connect with your soul’s purpose as a healer

Join former New York Times video journalist Rob Harris for a creative, inspiring, and highly productive weeklong exploration into digital storytelling. Through discussion, video viewings, and hands-on practice, you explore the ins and outs of planning, shooting, and editing two different types of content—practices and teachings. Also, learn how to create promotional content to inspire an audience to sign up for classes.

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Developed by Barbara Brennan, bestselling author of Hands of Light, Brennan Healing Science is one of the most comprehensive approaches to energy healing and human transformation. It supports deep physical, emotional, and spiritual health through working with the human energy field. Guided and individually assisted by energy healer Priscilla Bright, you learn how to:

Do you want to turn your yoga, qigong, or meditation class into a successful online course? Do you want a compelling video to introduce yourself to your audience? In today’s digitalfirst world, practitioners of all kinds need high-quality video to market workshops and sell their content online.

No prior video experience is necessary.

Rob Harris is a former New York Times staff video journalist and former Omega digital director with more than 20 years of experience with film and video.

ROB HARRIS

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OMEGA MINDFULNESS PROGRAM

Arrive Friday Begin Friday at 8:00 p.m. End Sunday at noon

AUGUST 14-16

Plus Online Session Sunday, June 28 1:00 p.m. EST. Join Tim Desmond for a free introductory session of guided meditations. Sign up at eOmega.org/Desmond

Daisy Lee

AUGUST 14-16

RADIANT LOTUS QIGONG Course 3902-372/Tuition $375 ($335 Members)

Radiant Lotus Qigong gives us the tools we need to take personal responsibility for our health and well-being. Drawing on more than 25 years of study with teachers in China and Tibet, this weekend Daisy Lee offers a sampling of the qigong practices she has found to be the most rejuvenating and healing.

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PATTI HOLLAND

BROWN MINDFULNESS PROGRAM

AUGUST 14-16

WELL-BEING AT WORK

Work is Messy, Mindfulness Can Help Brenda Fingold and Patti Holland

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Through gentle, non-invasive exercises, we discover ways to increase our strength and overall well-being, gain greater flexibility and range of motion, and boost immunity.

Course 3902-446/Tuition $395 ($355 Members)

Learn practices from Wuji Hundun Qigong, which Lee studied under her late teacher Master Duan Zhi Liang, who lived to be 107 years old. Also return home with knowledge of the Zang Fu Qigong set that has helped thousands of Lee’s students meet their detox and rejuvenation goals.

During this interactive, experiential workshop, we explore mindfulness practices that can be done on our own and integrated into the workday when we return home.

Through dialogue and personal reflection, we examine ways in which mindfulness can help us make choices that support wellbeing in the workplace.

Open to men and women at all levels of experience, from beginner to advanced.

Based on the curriculum developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and author of Full Catastrophe Living, we learn tools and strategies to navigate the “full catastrophe” of work so we can offer our best without losing ourselves. Weaving concepts from MBSR and the everyday experiences of our lives, we examine what well-being is for each of us as we begin to clarify our expectations and personal needs.

Daisy Lee, founder of Radiant Lotus Qigong, is a level III advanced qigong instructor, clinical practitioner, and international trainer. radiantlotusqigong.com

DAISY LEE

Despite our efforts to create a reasonable routine and manage multiple demands, many of us often feel overwhelmed, exhausted, and deflated.

Brenda Fingold, JD, MA, is assistant director of workplace and leadership education at the Mindfulness Center at Brown University. She was previously a litigator, partner, and professor of law. brown.edu/mindfulnesscenter

HOW TO STAY HUMAN IN A F*CKED-UP WORLD

Mindfulness for Real Life Tim Desmond Course 3902-439/Tuition $325 ($295 Members)

There is a tremendous amount of suffering in the world. Yet many of us are motivated to leave things here in a better state than we found them.

Join Tim Desmond, an esteemed Buddhist philosopher and co-organizer of Occupy Wall Street, and discover a path toward embracing the beauty, pain, longing, and trauma of the here and now.

Based in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, Desmond’s longtime teacher, we practice sitting and walking meditation with an emphasis on embracing suffering with compassion.

Desmond offers individualized, guided practices using Dialogue-Based Mindfulness Training.

Desmond shares his own life experiences, including childhood homelessness, decades of grassroots political organizing, and losing his wife to cancer—and tells how he learned to apply Buddhist teachings to emerge with inner strength, joyful resilience, and a deep understanding of human suffering.

Tim Desmond, LMFT, is cofounder of Morning Sun Mindfulness Center and author of How to Stay Human in a F*cked-Up World. timdesmond.net

Patti Holland, MS, CRC, is assistant director for mindfulness in public health and medicine initiatives at the Mindfulness Center at Brown University. She has more than 30 years in the field of psychiatric rehabilitation. brown.edu/mindfulnesscenter

SARAH BOWEN

AUGUST 14-16

SPIRITUAL REBEL

Deepen Your Spirituality & Purpose Sarah Bowen Course 3902-545/Tuition $335 ($300 Members) MI

Are you spiritually rebellious?

Join other rebels as we clarify our personal beliefs, toss out any “sacred trash” we might be clinging to, and experience deep connection to our unique purposes. Try inspiring practices drawing from more than 20 spiritual paths and wisdom traditions as well as the modern pop-culture narratives of Star Wars and Harry Potter.

In this creative, interactive workshop, Spiritual Rebel author and spirituality teacher Sarah Bowen will help you: • Dig in to release old beliefs that may no longer fit you • Experience new ways to connect with whatever inspires your spirituality • Learn about new trends in modern spirituality (including virtual reality) • Seed a plan to extend purpose more fully into your life • Discover how to share these insights with your community or in your professional practice Deep enough for seasoned professionals and gentle enough for absolute beginners, this workshop helps not only seekers, but also agnostics, atheists, and the spiritual-but-not-religious curate their own creative spiritual path.

Sarah Bowen is the award-winning author of Void If Detached: Seeking Modern Spirituality Through My Father’s Old Sermons, and Spiritual Rebel: A Positively Addictive Guide to Finding Deeper Perspective and Higher Purpose.

TIM DESMOND

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Plus Online Session May 31 2:00 p.m. EST. Join Sarah Prout for a free introductory Zoom call and learn the 5 keys to setting magnetic intentions. Sign up at eOmega.org/Prout

AUGUST 14-16

THE NATURAL SINGER

AUGUST 14-16

Manifest Your Intentions, Dreams & Desires

Find Your True Voice Claude Stein Course 3902-312/Tuition $355 ($320 Members) SS, MI, LE

TAMA KIEVES

AUGUST 14-16

THRIVING THROUGH UNCERTAINTY Uncover Your Inspired Roadmap Tama Kieves

• Discover inspired answers and make the best decisions of our lives • Master our mindset to feel happy and confident now, not later • Uncover the path of grace that already awaits us • Show up and create magic, even when it doesn’t seem like life is showing up for us Whether in a career transition or expansion, divorce, dealing with illness, or seeking the next step in life, learn to use uncertainty as a launching pad for clarity and joy.

In a safe, supportive environment, we move beyond doubt and step into our greatest potential.

Tama Kieves, an honors graduate of Harvard Law School, is author of This Time I Dance!: Creating the Work You Love, which was a finalist for the Nautilus Book Award, Inspired & Unstoppable, Thriving Through Uncertainty, and A Year Without Fear. Featured on Oprah radio, TEDx, and in USA Today, she is a sought-after speaker and career/success coach. tamakieves.com

As you get comfortable expressing more of your true self, your heart opens and you overcome fears, reclaiming the beauty of your powerful and authentic voice.

Whether you are a total beginner or want to take public performing to the next level, you will benefit from Stein’s remarkable ability to channel the beautiful music and messages that lie within each of us. Therapists, coaches, and workshop leaders also find these techniques valuable.

Claude Stein, creator of Natural Singer Method™, is a multiplatinum, award-winning voice coach. naturalsinger.com

SARAH PROUT

Course 3902-348/Tuition $375 ($335 Members) MI

Manifest the life you want by learning to actively guide your emotions and your energy to shape your reality.

Guided by emotional empowerment and manifestation expert Sarah Prout, author of Dear Universe, you explore the realms of manifestation to begin to heal your past, spark the magic of the present moment, and empower your future as you raise your vibration and open your heart to limitless possibilities.

Together we meditate, connect, dream, share stories, journal, reflect, experience “manifesting hot seats,” and map out a solid plan of inspired action to rise above fear, embrace love, and remember your power.

Sarah Prout is an inspirational speaker, podcast host, and author of the best-selling Dear Universe. She has been called a “Manifestation Guru”

by Cosmopolitan magazine. sarahprout.com

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When life doesn’t go according to plan, that’s precisely when creative destiny begins. Discover how to unlock extraordinary faculties and opportunities that most of us don’t even realize we have. Using the principles of Tama Kieves’ book, Thriving Through Uncertainty, we practice timetested coaching strategies and transformational exercises to:

Relax your throat, deepen breathing, hit notes, project confidently, and share stunning breakthroughs in authentic selfexpression. There are group songs, harmonies, and individual attention to support your process.

Sing out fearlessly in a judgmentfree environment with expert instruction in a fun and thrilling group experience.

Sarah Prout

AUGUST | EOMEGA .ORG

Course 3902-395/Tuition $350 ($315 Members) MI

Learn to sing like you’ve always wanted to in The Natural Singer workshop with renowned voice teacher Claude Stein.

AUGUST 14-16

YOGA NIDRA Glenn Black

Course 3902-307/Tuition $310 ($280 Members) DA, SS, LE, CE

Yoga nidra is a process to guide you into deeper states of relaxation and profound awareness. It promotes sleep, learning, and mental and physical rejuvenation, and can remove deep-seated fears.

In the state of yoga nidra, the body and mind are no longer obstacles to attaining concentration and meditation—the higher stages of yoga.

GLENN BLACK

In this weekend workshop guided by yoga teacher Glenn Black, we delve into this new space of consciousness and open the door to observe the subconscious field and travel to other dimensions of space and time. We also learn a Kriya Yoga technique called chaturtha pranayama, a meditation which includes breath awareness, mantra, and guided chakra rotation.

CLAUDE STEIN

We prepare for yoga nidra and Kriya Yoga with Black’s signature Human Movement practice, which he developed over five decades of yoga and bodywork, to assist us in finding appropriate and safe ways to move.

Glenn Black has an inspiring, no-nonsense style of teaching that comes from more than 50 years of intensive study of yoga, movement, and therapeutic bodywork.

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5-DAY WORKSHOPS

Arrive Friday Begin Friday at 8:00 p.m. End Sunday at noon

Arrive Sunday Begin Monday at 9:00 a.m. End Friday at noon

OMEGA YOGA SERVICE PROGRAM

OMEGA MINDFULNESS PROGRAM

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AUGUST 16-21

RETREAT TO SPIRIT

Polishing the Mirror of the Heart

Expand Into Service & Leadership

Amina Naru and Pamela Stokes Eggleston AMINA NARU

PAMELA STOKES EGGLESTON

Saki F. Santorelli

Course 4005-310/Tuition $575 ($515 Members) SS, MI

Course 3902-390/Tuition $350/275/200 ($315 Members)

Due to the demands of typical leadership roles, many leaders become overwhelmed and emotionally exhausted.

Imagine a new paradigm of horizontal and compassionate co-leadership that is rooted in conscious relationship, self-care, vibrational alignment, and contemplative practice. Founders of Retreat to Spirit Amina Naru and Pamela Stokes Eggleston share their distinctive leadership model and expertise to help you: • • • • • AUGUST | EOMEGA .ORG

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Create healthy boundaries Clear old energy and let go of toxic people and things Develop distinctive and empowering self-care techniques Use yogic principles, compassion, and energy healing tools Discover unconventional methods of co-leadership to help navigate your personal and professional lives.

Through self-inquiry, discussion, breath work, meditation, and embodied movement, we will learn how self-care and healing are a necessary part of a life of service.

When our inner spirit is depleted, everything suffers, including our service to others.

This workshop immersion is designed for everyone—including those in leadership roles in the office or home, those who wish to become leaders, and those searching for more meaning and purpose to discover embodied, synchronistic connections.

Amina Naru, E-RYT, is owner of Posh Yoga in Wilmington, Delaware, former co-executive director of the Yoga Service Council, and a cofounder of Retreat to Spirit. retreat2spirit.com

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Pamela Stokes Eggleston, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, is the founder and director of Yoga2Sleep, former co-executive director of the Yoga Service Council, and a cofounder of Retreat to Spirit. retreat2spirit.com

“Love is the merchandise/which the world demands/If you store it in your heart/every soul will become your customer,” says the Sufi teacher Hazrat Inayat Khan. There is an art to entering our true heart and there is also a price: the slow surrender of our limited self to the unlimited.

SAKI F. SANTORELLI

All this comprises what the Sufi’s call the “rust” on the heart. This retreat is an invitation to tenderly and bravely dissolve this rust. Together, we’ll practice meditation and mindfulness as a way of soothing, relaxing, and polishing the mirror of the heart. Exploring awareness practices from the Sufi and Buddhist traditions, structured and spontaneous moments of conversation, dialogue, and inquiry, silence and stillness, poetry and story, music and movement, we learn to lean into the feeling of love, linger in love, and, so being, open into the fullness we actually are.

This workshop begins Sunday at 7:00 p.m. and has extended hours including early morning meditations and evening sessions.

Saki F. Santorelli, EdD, MA, is the retired executive director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

AUGUST 16-21 AUGUST 14-16

DEVELOP SUCCESSFUL WORKSHOPS

A Lab for Teachers, Writers & Workshop Producers

WRITING THE UNTHINKABLE Lynda Barry

Course 4005-229/Tuition $455 ($410 Members) MI, LE

This program is sold out. Please call 800.944.1001 to be added to the wait list.

Simple Secrets Revealed at Last!!! Writer/ Omega Institute opened in 1977 in rented facilities, with only a Cartoonist TELLS ALL in ACTION-PACKED 2-week season and two dozen programs. Since then, Omega has Workshop!!! Write STORIES as NATURALLY as LYNDA BARRY grown exponentially to become one of the nation’s largest and most You Dream Them!!! Use: Memory!!! Pictures!!! influential nonprofit holistic learning centers.

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In this workshop, Omega program strategist Michael Craft shares insights on the art “When people try to write stories, they tend to drag the of planning, marketing, producing, and evaluating successful workshops. It is a forum stories behind them,” says writer and cartoonist Lynda for teachers and others involved in developing workshops to explore their long-term Barry. “They think the story and question it and try to goals, methods, and resources. Through lecture, discussion, and writing exercises, we arrange it into something understandable, which is no fun follow the development of a workshop idea from initial inspiration to implementation. at all! It makes a person feel exhausted and cranky. The We learn how to identify our own niche, discover and reach the right market, and work best way to write is to let the image pull you. You should with outside vendors and media. We also explore how to best utilize the publishing be water-skiing behind it, not dragging it like a barge. industry, websites, mailing lists, course copy, professional contracts, and production Writing should take you for a ride.” standards to successfully promote workshops. Special emphasis is on cultivating the Focusing first on memory, we embark on a journey into core qualities of a successful workshop, and on writing course copy that both inspires the unexpected. Memories come as uncontrollably as and sells. We also discuss how to interest established venues dreams—you may end up remembering things you haven’t in our work and how to evaluate our workshops strategically. thought of since you were a kid. Then we move into fiction.

The final session features an experiential “pitch slam.”

“It’s a way of writing that’s freaky, vivid, and a lot of fun,” Michael Craft, Omega’s business and program development Barry says. strategist, is an experienced trend tracker, copywriter, author, Lynda Barry is an award-winning writer, a 2019 MacArthur and leader of tai chi and meditation workshops.

Foundation “genius grant” recipient, and cartoonist.

Michael Craft

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BUILDING A VOCAL COMMUNITY Ysaye M. Barnwell and George Brandon

Course 4005-311/Tuition $395 ($355 Members) DA, SS, LE

YSAYE M. BARNWELL

For more than 30 years, Ysaye M. Barnwell and George Brandon have been building a vocal community at Omega. Each year, their workshop is a gathering of former participants and a celebration for those joining the class for the first time.

This is a rare opportunity to be part of a large and welcoming community and chorus of uncommon voices, where no experience is necessary.

Discussions of the social, political, and spiritual contexts for the songs— taught in the oral tradition—enhance the experience of the music.

This workshop begins Monday at 9:30 a.m.

Ysaye M. Barnwell, PhD, musician, actress, and educator, has performed as a member of the a cappella quintet Sweet Honey in the Rock for nearly 35 years.

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ESSENTIAL SOMATICS

Restore Freedom of Movement Martha Peterson Course 4005-334/Tuition $450 ($405 Members) MI, LE

AUGUST 16-30

Become a Qigong Healer An Intensive 14-Day Professional Training Robert Peng Course 4014-212/Tuition $2,795 ($2,695 Members)

Enhance and empower your innate healing energy and learn both hands-on and remote healing techniques in this 14-day intensive training with qigong master Robert Peng.

See workshop description on page 131.

AUGUST 16-21

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Chinese & Watercolor Painting Lian Zhen Course 4005-350/Tuition $435 ($390 Members) MI, LE

Join this 5-day immersion in Chinese painting and watercolor with a master of the art form, Lian Zhen.

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George Brandon, PhD, is an anthropologist, composer, and integrative sound and music practitioner who founded and leads the Blue Unity Orchestra.

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The group explores African-American history and culture through a wide range of vocal music, including African-American congregational and choral traditions, chants from Africa and the diaspora, spirituals, blues, gospel, and music of the Civil Rights movement and contemporary struggles. We also experience the joy of finding our own voice in a chorus of other voices.

This workshop begins with an introduction to Chinese painting styles. Then, we learn how to use Chinese brushes, ink, and colors, and get an overview of Asian art theory. After two days, we move on to watercolor. We learn the fundamentals of composition and coloring, and Zhen’s unique techniques, including color pouring and blending.

Have you tried everything to relieve chronic muscle pain and physical discomfort, only to find short-term MARTHA PETERSON relief—or none at all? Trauma, stress, and repetitive actions can change not only how we sense ourselves but how we move over time, locking us into physical discomfort and emotional disconnect Corn, by Lian Zhen from ourselves. Over time we can become a product of our habits and Throughout the week, there is plenty of opportunity for us to practice stress responses. Eliminating muscle pain, stiffness, and the feeling of and experiment with our painting process. Returning participants “getting old” starts with the brain and how it senses and moves us. This refresh their technique and have the option of painting new subjects. is the key to flexibility and freedom of movement. $45 materials fee; include when you register. Please Clinical Somatic Educator and movement expert Martha Peterson teaches you how to restore fluid, effortless, and joyful movement on your own—at any time and place. Learn to restore your brain’s ability to relax your muscles, stop habitual pain and tightening, improve coordination and stability, and lengthen muscles safely without stretching.

Be more present and comfortable in your body and life. Return home with a daily routine of easy, safe, and effective movements that restore improved muscle function and achieve long-term pain relief.

Martha Peterson, CCSE, is a leader in the field of Somatic Education, author of the book Move Without Pain, and chief executive officer of Essential Somatics®, an internationally known training center for Clinical Somatic Education. essentialsomatics.com

note, once class has begun, if you should choose to transfer out of this course, the materials fee due upon registration is nonrefundable.

Lian Zhen has exhibited his paintings internationally and has works in the MIT Museum. He is author of Chinese Watercolor Techniques: Painting Animals; Chinese Painting Techniques for Exquisite Watercolor; Chinese Watercolor Techniques for Exquisite Flowers; and Chinese Landscape Techniques for Watercolor. lianspainting.com LIAN ZHEN

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5-DAY WORKSHOPS

WEEKEND WORKSHOPS

Arrive Sunday Begin Monday at 9:00 a.m. End Friday at noon

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AUGUST 21-23

HAKOMI MINDFUL SOMATIC PSYCHOTHERAPY An Experiential Introduction Jaci Hull Course 4102-444/Tuition $320 ($290 Members) SS, MI

JACI HULL

Discover Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy, a method that integrates mindfulness and somatics into the psychotherapy process with profoundly effective results.

PARALLEL PERCEPTION: SPIRITUAL PRACTICES FOR DEVELOPING PERSONAL POWER

AUGUST 16-21

EXPLORING PARALLEL PERCEPTION Lujan Matus

Course 4005-563/Tuition $1,495 ($1,395 Members)

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Lujan Matus is known as a seer and master intuitive empath with a unique ability to immerse individuals and groups in a rarefied state, where the subtle currents of the interconnective universe become tangible and interdimensional awareness comes within reach.

Lujan’s own initiation began when at the age of seven he encountered Master Lo Ban, also known as the old nagual Lujan (familiar to students of Carlos Castaneda’s writings). This seer imparted to him many treasures, including a variety of powerful physical practices and deep awareness cultivation techniques that revolve absolutely around the adaptive axis of pure heart consciousness.

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Lujan’s teachings release shamanism from the subtexts embedded within a sorceric view in favor of the timeless wisdom that truly embodies the essence of the intelligence that arrives through emptiness.

In this rare, rigorous retreat of special interest to practitioners of Taoist, Buddhist, Toltec and shamanic teachings, and all seekers of meaning, we explore the core spiraling routines of the art of Lo Ban Pai, open the energy gates of the body, discuss the possibility of true energetic freedom, and begin to amalgamate past and future continuums within present consciousness.

Lujan Matus is a seer, master intuitive empath and author of Who Am I? An In-Depth Guide To Empathic Communion, The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception, and Awakening the Third Eye: Discovering the True Essence of Recapitulation. parallelperception.com

OMEGA VETERANS PROGRAM

AUGUST 16-21

HEALING FROM MILITARY TRAUMA

A Warrior Renew Program Lori S. Katz Course 4005-552

This 5-day retreat addresses unique aspects of military sexual trauma for women veterans and active duty service members.

By application only.

See workshop description on page 45.

LORI S. KATZ

The dynamic use of mindfulness is a foundation of the Hakomi Method.

Loving presence and the healing relationship are also central elements in Hakomi, and together create a deep sense of safety and connection. When integrated into the therapy session, Hakomi techniques provide a rapid, experiential access route to unconscious core beliefs and implicit memories that invisibly shape our lives and behavior. Once conscious and directly experienced, these memories and beliefs are available for reconsolidation and transformation, including the healing of attachment issues. This process evokes a powerful “felt sense” for the client, allowing them to take ownership of core patterns as they emerge, and integrate new options.

The Hakomi method was developed over 35 years, and is supported by thousands of hours of clinical experience and by advances in the neuroscience of mindfulness and attachment. It is effective for both brief and long-term therapy in a wide range of applications including work with individuals, couples, and groups.

Hakomi Institute is independently offering continuing education credits; see hakomiinstitute.com/workshopstrainings/ces.

Jaci Hull, MA, LMFT, is a leading trainer and member of the board of directors at the Hakomi Institute. hakomiinstitute.com

AUGUST 16-23

YOGA DARSHANA A 7-Day Workshop Kofi Busia Course 4007-306/Tuition $635 ($570 Members) SS

In Yoga Darshana, Kofi Busia leads us on an exploration of how to live a wise and fulfilled life through Iyengar Yoga as a physical and spiritual darshana (Sanskrit for view, or system), and as a way to be in the world.

Using postures (asanas) and breath control (pranayama), and learning to focus and develop the mind, we tap into both the practical and esoteric teachings of yoga that can dramatically improve the way we think and feel.

During the week, Busia guides each of us as we study our body’s capacities and limits, correcting our postures—with KOFI BUSIA surgeon-like precision—to change our relationship to our body and how we approach yoga.

Yoga and fitness instructors, helping professionals, and anyone seeking to further their study will find this workshop useful.

Yoga Darshana is for those already familiar with Iyengar Yoga.

Kofi Busia studied with B.K.S. Iyengar in India and has been teaching yoga in the Iyengar tradition for more than 40 years. kofibusia.com

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Wired for Love: A Couples Workshop

BEYOND HOPE & FEAR Becoming Fully Human Along the Path to Freedom Tim Olmsted Course 4102-406/Tuition $335 ($300 Members) SS

Creating an Owner’s Manual for a Secure-Functioning Relationship Stan Tatkin and Tracey Boldemann-Tatkin DAN MILLMAN

AUGUST 21-23

TAO OF THE PEACEFUL WARRIOR Dan Millman Course 4102-330/Tuition $380 ($340 Members) MI

Come explore the universal roots of spiritual practice and reawaken your connection to the cosmos through three major traditions— Taoism, yoga, and Zen.

• New approaches to the practice of meditation • Eastern and western solutions to happiness • The 12 dharmas of daily life • The yoga of relationships, business, and everything else • A path to optimum health and fitness • How to flow with the Great Tao and foster harmony with the natural world • How to live an ordinary life in an extraordinary way You return home with a renewed sense of perspective and a deeper trust in your own life path and process.

Dan Millman is author of The Four Purposes of Life and 15 other books that have touched millions of readers. He is a former world champion athlete and Oberlin College professor. peacefulwarrior.com

“There’s nothing more difficult on the planet than another person, and our primary romantic partner is more difficult than most,” says Stan Tatkin, clinician, researcher, and developer of A Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy® (PACT).

During this intensive, couple experts Stan Tatkin and Tracey BoldemannTatkin uncover the realities of the human condition and what it means to create and sustain a secure functioning, long lasting, and happy relationship with another person. They lead couples through exercises designed to help them identify one another’s attachment styles, read body language and arousal states, and manage conflicts to build secure-functioning relationships. Discuss the fundamental biological realities of human bonding and the psychobiological particulars of your partner. The invaluable tools you learn in this couples workshop can be implemented immediately to help you move forward in your relationship and grow as a couple.

Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, a couples therapist, researcher, teacher, and developer of A Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy® (PACT), is founder of the PACT Institute. stantatkin.com Tracey Boldemann-Tatkin, PhD, has served as the director of various philanthropic family foundations over three decades. This sensitivity to family systems helps guide her work as co-executive of the PACT Institute. thepactinstitute.com AUGUST 21-23

CONSCIOUS ELDERING

Aging With Intention & Passion Ron Pevny Course 4102-536/Tuition $395 ($355 Members) MI

There is a profound need for conscious elders at this point in history—for those who are not just getting older but who would like their second half of life to be full of growth, purpose, and service.

Guided by conscious aging pioneer Ron Pevny, learn how to set about doing the emotional and spiritual inner work that is required to become a conscious elder. In conversation, ceremony, and reflective time outdoors, we review our lives, explore our legacies, and clarify our intentions. We explore the five foundations of conscious aging—belief, release, purpose, community, and spiritual deepening—and identify and release old patterns that no longer serve us. As we open to new possibilities, we begin to chart a path to claiming and embodying our potential as an elder using this new paradigm.

RON PEVNY

Over the weekend, we’ll explore this beautiful journey through teachings, discussions, and sessions of meditation. This weekend program is open to anyone interested in transforming their heart and experience of the world, experienced meditators, and those who are just starting out.

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Join Dan Millman, author of the spiritual classic Way of the Peaceful Warrior, to learn how to integrate ancient traditions of the East with modern wisdom of the West from a peaceful warrior’s perspective. Through lecture, partner dialogues, and direct experience, we explore:

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The Yoga & Zen of Daily Life

Course 4102-381/Tuition $410 ($365 Members) per person SS, MI, LE

At the heart of everything we do is the desire to experience the happiness and ease that we imagine to be possible. Yet, in our day-to-day experience our mind and our heart seem unreliable and uncooperative. During this weekend retreat, we’ll explore the uplifting and empowering message of the Buddha, that the essential nature of any experience we might have, however difficult or confusing, is wisdom that is open and compassionately connected to the world.

We’ll discover how to use the energy and richness of life, our thoughts and emotions, our hopes and fears, our work and our relationships as the foundation for the journey to awakening. We’ll learn to bring all of life’s experience to path— as the basis for inner peace and equanimity, as a source of radiant compassion, and finally, as brilliant wisdom.

Tim Olmsted is president of the Pema Chödrön Foundation and founder and senior instructor for Tergar International. He has studied meditation with the great masters of our time, including Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, and Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. steamboatbuddhistcenter.org

TIM OLMSTED

Anyone over 50 is welcome, including retirees, career shifters, and those in mid-career.

Ron Pevny, MA, is founding director of the Center for Conscious Eldering and author of Conscious Living, Conscious Aging: Embrace and Savor Your Next Chapter. centerforconsciouseldering.com

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Circlesongs

OMEGA WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP CENTER PROGRAM

AUGUST 21-23

COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS FOR WOMEN

Bobby McFerrin

Transforming Conflict Into Understanding Diana Adams

Course 4102-464/Tuition $380/305/230 ($340 Members) LE

DIANA ADAMS

Do you avoid conversations that involve critical feedback, disagreement, or saying no? Do you ask for less than what you really want? Do you hope to take your leadership or team management to the next level professionally?

When we avoid important conversations to shy away from conflict, we miss opportunities for connection and compassionate problem solving.

We also don’t boldly ask for what we want. In a professional environment, courageous communication is an essential leadership tool to become a strong supervisor or advance on a team. In personal relationships, these skills help us manifest the relationships we want and enhance intimacy.

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Join mediator and communication educator Diana Adams to hone techniques for empathetic, assertive communication during conflict, including roleplay, active listening, verbal de-escalation, boundarysetting, Non-Violent Communication, and mediation. Throughout the workshop you: • Uncover internal and external obstacles to communication with an intersectional lens • Learn to effectively advocate for yourself to improve your professional, as well as personal, relationships • Plan and rehearse a courageous conversation to have when you return home

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All who identify as women who want to enhance communication skills to be more powerful in personal and professional relationships are welcome.

Scholarships are available; see eOmega.org/scholarships.

Diana Adams, Esq., is a leading mediator and collaborative lawyer teaching communication techniques that de-escalate conflict and support assertive communication. dianaadamslaw.net AUGUST 21-23

YOUR SPIRIT GUIDES AWAIT Get to Know Your Spirit Team Elizabeth Harper Course 4102-313/Tuition $325 ($295 Members)

Before incarnating, you assembled a spirit team. This group of wise light beings who love you unconditionally, whose goal is to help you navigate your soul’s plan, remains with you always. Communicating with these guides can greatly impact your life, offering infinite wisdom, support, and love.

Luckily, you don’t have to be a medium to connect to them.

In this workshop you discover the healing, enlightening love of your own spirit team of light beings by learning how to interpret their divine messages. You get to know your spirit guides personally—their names, how they show themselves to you, why they’re with you, and more—as well as realize your own life’s purpose based on the names that your spirit team members have given you.

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Join Elizabeth Harper for a fun, purposeful, and illuminating journey back to your true self.

Discover the radiant light at the core of your being and the blessed life that awaits you.

If you love to sing, you are welcome to join the Circlesongs workshops with legendary vocal virtuoso Bobby McFerrin and his inspiring team of master teachers for seven joy-filled days of improvised musicmaking. If you are new to Circlesinging, we also offer a 2-day program of fun and games for all singers, which is especially perfect for beginners.

Bobby first developed Circlesongs as a solo a cappella performer, when he needed other voices to help manifest his musical ideas. He gave the audience parts to sing, layering harmonies and rhythms, using call and response, conducting and composing his spontaneous inventions. During his years of worldwide touring, evolving along with his groups Voicestra and Gimme5, his Circlesongs concerts celebrated all kinds of music, Americana or classical, R&B, gospel, folk, pop, rock, beatboxing—combined with any sound he could imagine.

In this workshop, Bobby is joined by his diversely gifted team of Circlesongs teachers—including Voicestra and Gimme5 members David Worm, Judi Vinar, Rhiannon, and Joey Blake, as well as international Circlesongs teachers Christiane Karam, Zuza Gonçalves, Rizumik (Tiago Grade), Gaël Aubrit, and other members of this thriving global singing tribe.

This Circlesongs adventure with Bobby and his teachers builds confidence and trust, and nurtures our creativity to deepen individual and community musical expression through improvisation. The program features large and small group sessions for experimentation at all levels. Peer-group electives might include harmony, body percussion, music theory, freestyle language, vocal embodiment techniques, exploration of musical styles, and much more. Everyone will create their schedule from multiple electives to customize their experience.

While learning techniques required for ensemble singing (blend, balance, tuning, and sensitivity), Circlesongs also provides an intuitive and direct experience that deepens our fundamental musicianship (including harmony, counterpoint, rhythmic precision, and active listening). The program is transformational for singer-songwriters, teachers, composers, instrumentalists, conductors, classically-trained or selftaught. Every song, every voice has a place in the circle.

The 7-day program is open to singers at any level of Circlesongs experience; the 2-day “Making Stuff Up” program is designed especially for beginners, but is fulfilling for everyone. Circlesongs for children will be taught each morning by Goussy Celestin, open to all kids ages 4-12 enrolled in the Omega Children’s Program.

Teachers are subject to change. Limited spots are available. Registration is by phone only.

Call 800.944.1001.

Elizabeth Harper is a clairvoyant, psychic artist, and spiritual guide and the awardwinning author of Wishing: How to Fulfill Your Heart’s Desires. sealedwithlove.com DA Discounts Available; see page 127 SS Special schedule; see eOmega.org MI More information provided after registration

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Course 4207-518/Tuition $1,350 ($1,250 Members) SS, MI, LE

Course 4102-517/Tuition $600 ($540 Members) SS, MI, LE

CIRCLESONGS: IT’S ABOUT US

This lively 2-day workshop is open to everyone who wants to sing, especially beginners. Filled with fun and games, this program explores the fundamentals of Circlesongs and improvisation.

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This joyful 7-day workshop focuses on deepening musical skills, creativity, and community. It is ideal for professional singers, instrumentalists, songwriters, conductors, music and voice teachers, students, or anyone who loves to sing.

CIRCLESONGS: MAKING STUFF UP

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Bobby McFerrin is an inspiration to singers around the world who celebrate his innovative technique and spirit. His solo performances and collaborations with great artists—including Yo-Yo Ma, Chick Corea, and the Vienna Philharmonic—are the stuff of legend. Along the way, there were 10 Grammy Awards and a #1 global hit “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” bobbymcferrin.com

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5-DAY WORKSHOPS Arrive Sunday Begin Sunday at 8:00 p.m. End Friday at 12:30 p.m.

LYNDA BARRY

DAN CHAON

AUGUST 23-28

Writing from Workbook 52 AUGUST | EOMEGA .ORG

Lynda Barry and Dan Chaon

Course 4205-230/Tuition $440 ($395 Members) MI, LE

Lynda Barry and Dan Chaon have been teaching together since 2013.

Together they have developed a set of writing exercises that are part of their forthcoming book, Workbook 52.

This workshop is about a way of creating a sustainable writing practice for anyone, at any level, who may be interested in writing but is having a hard time figuring out how to start or continue a story. It’s based on using a common but extraordinary sort of memory—the kind that

instantly “floods” us, like when a smell or a song triggers a vivid image of a certain place in time.

Participants learn an easy method to create the circumstances for these kinds of images to come, and set them down quickly in writing.

We start by using autobiographical memory, and then learn to apply it to writing fiction.

Lynda Barry is an award-winning writer, a 2019 MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” recipient, and cartoonist whose comic strip Ernie Pook’s Comics ran for 30 years.

Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will, received the 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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founded by Gregory Kramer, PhD, brings together meditation, wisdom teachings, and relationship. In this 5-day retreat, meditation is cultivated seamlessly with silence and dialogue as we reflect on universal themes and draw from innate and collective wisdom. With a shared intention to wake up together, meditators share the vitality of presence while engaging with one another.

Insight Dialogue is a whole life practice that extends the benefits of mutual practice long after the retreat is over. This retreat offers a synergy of guidance, silence, dialogue practice, and community, in which we: FLORENCE MELEO-MEYER

JANET SURREY

BROWN MINDFULNESS PROGRAM

AUGUST 23-28

MEETING IN THE HEART

The Practice of Relational Mindfulness Florence Meleo-Meyer and Janet Surrey Course 4205-268/Tuition $725 ($650 Members) SS

Our greatest human joys and sorrows thread through the fabric of our deepest relationships. From our earliest days, survival depends on care from and connection with others. Arising from multiple factors, our relationships offer sustenance and sorrow, disappointment and solace, joy, and vulnerability, and can lead to freedom and love. This week we focus on the cultivation of awareness, presence, mental stability, and calmness as resources and capacities to meet the natural conflicts, confusions, and stresses of relating.

This relational retreat supports greater awareness and steadiness while alone and in your interactions with others, through the practice of Insight Dialogue. Insight Dialogue, a relational meditation practice,

• Cultivate conditions to increase attentional capacity • Receive support to develop and strengthen a more balanced sense of self in relationship • Encourage and deepen attitudes of acceptance, patience, and compassion • Identify, discuss, and apply, through direct experience, subtle comprehension of human relational suffering and the potential to shift toward release and relief This retreat fulfills part one of the Professional Education elective, Relational Mindfulness with the Brown Mindfulness Center. Part two is fulfilled with attendance at two online tutorials for MBSR teachers.

This workshop begins Sunday at 8:00 p.m. and ends Friday at 12:30 p.m.

Florence Meleo-Meyer, MS, MA, LMFT, serves as global ambassador to the MBSR affiliates worldwide at the Mindfulness Center, Brown University. She has trained MBSR teachers and teacher trainers for more than 20 years. brown.edu/mindfulnesscenter Janet Surrey is a practicing clinical psychologist and Insight Dialogue teacher. She has practiced in the Insight tradition for more than 30 years and trained as a community dharma leader at Spirit Rock.

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THE SHAMAN’S MIND TOM MYERS

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RESILIENCE

Taking the Strain & Coming Back Stronger Tom Myers Course 4302-523/Tuition $410 ($365 Members) MI

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PROJECT TRUE STORYTELLING WORKSHOP Write Your “Too Much Information” Story Eva Tenuto and Micah Blumenthal Course 4205-504/Tuition $495 ($445 Members) MI

Join TMI Project cofounder and Executive Director Eva Tenuto and workshop leader Micah Blumenthal as they create a space to help you uncover the story you most need to tell and teach you how to tell it in a way that guarantees you’ll be heard powerfully.

Some of what you can expect: • Writing exercises designed to help you to tell the parts of your stories you usually leave out because of shame or stigma • Skills for crafting a compelling true personal narrative • Tips to become a captivating live storyteller • Exercises to explore emergent themes in your writing and to connect experiences to personal or professional goals Eva Tenuto is the cofounder and executive director of TMI Project and her own true stories have been published on Longreads. com and in Drinking Diaries, Goodbye to All That, and more. tmiproject.org

Micah Blumenthal leads TMI Project workshops, serves as the manager at Good Works Institute Greenhouse Kingston, and is creator of DAY 1. He is on the board of Wild Earth (a non-profit Wilderness School), Radio Kingston, The Center for Creative Education, and O+.

Deep grief, trauma, sustained illness, a constant frustration—all of these can sap your resilience— structural, physiological, or psychological health. Your neural net, your chemical circulation, and your myofascial system all exhibit elasticity and plasticity. How can you enhance your adaptability?

Using the breath, stretching, awareness meditation, and focused attention, we explore the limits of the neural, biochemical, and fascial “whole-body” systems: how to make stress work for you, and what to do to lessen distress, increase balance, and have the most resilient system possible.

Course 4302-331/Tuition $295 ($265 Members) MI

To think like a shaman is to align with a magical spectrum of possibilities that is available to us in any given moment. Huna, the ancient esoteric philosophy of Hawaii, teaches you how to connect with those possibilities.

A spiritual system of ideas, hidden knowledge, and shamanic practices, Huna offers a gateway to personal growth and emotional and physical healing, cocreating our highest potential and manifesting our dreams.

Embedded in the Hawaiian spiritual tradition is the transformative practice of Ho’oponopono; a potent and multilayered healing modality that opens you to new ways of seeing and being. In this highly experiential and mindexpanding workshop, beginners and advanced practitioners alike merge with the psyche of the shaman and discover the innate, inner power that lies within each of us. Learn to infuse your thinking with the spirit of aloha, and step into the limitlessness that awaits.

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TMI Project is a nonprofit transmedia organization teaching true storytelling workshops and creating inspiring live performances that focus on the “too much information” parts of a story, the parts typically left out because of shame or stigma. We believe that sharing radically candid, true personal narratives ignites human connection and inspires both storytellers and listeners to take action for positive social change.

This course is designed to build your resilience and help you recognize the signs of ongoing distress or growing resilience in your students, patients, or clients.

Jonathan Hammond

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EVA TENUTO

AUGUST 23-28

No one lives a stress-free life.

The question is, how to handle it in a health enhancing manner, rather than having it slowly break down your resilience. Resilience is a state of the body that reflects into your state of mind. New understandings of how our whole systems act and interact gives us methods of self-regulation and energy management.

Huna Wisdom to Change Your Life

Jonathan Hammond is a master teacher and faculty member for Shamanic Reiki Worldwide, as well as a traditional Usui Reiki Master. mindbodyspiritnyc.com

We’ve heard of IQ, and most of us have heard of EQ—Emotional Intelligence. But what about KQ—Physical Intelligence? Tune into your body’s “hunches” and sensations to make the best use of your organismic responses to life situations.

Myers is independently offering continuing education credits; see anatomytrains.com.

Tom Myers, LMT, BCSI, is author of Anatomy Trains and coauthor of Fascial Release for Structural Balance. anatomytrains.com

JONATHAN HAMMOND

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September

Lift your voice—and help others do the same.

Become a member.

See eOmega.org/membership.

THOMAS HÜBL

5-DAY FESTIVAL Arrive Sunday Begin Sunday at 6:00 p.m. (with dinner) End Friday at noon (then lunch)

AUGUST 30–SEPTEMBER 4

The Celebrate Life Festival Exploring Our Roots | Restoring Our Home Thomas Hübl Course 4405-256/Tuition $600/525/450 ($540 Members) SS

Join the Celebrate Life Festival Live Online Register now at eOmega.org/festival

“Knowing where you’re coming from has an effect on where your life is going. Looking into the past is like opening your way forward.” —Thomas Hübl

2-1/2 day residential and 2-day commuter options are also available; see eOmega.org/celebrate for details.

One of the most popular and dynamic consciousness events in Europe, The Celebrate Life Festival will be held in the United States for only the second time in its 17-year history.

Hosted by renowned spiritual teacher Thomas Hübl, and featuring a group of global leaders and visionary guest speakers, the highly acclaimed Celebrate Life Festival is a unique, catalytic event.

This year, we’ll explore our roots—from the genealogy of where we come from to the deep-seated trauma and emotional resonance of our ancestral history—opening up new possibilities for our future.

This 5-day immersive experience combines spiritual practice with engaging talks, musical performances, guided movement and meditation, plus interactive group practices for collective restoration and community building. The Festival is a powerful vessel for personal and cultural transformation. Join with kindred spirits from across the globe to invite new possibilities for growth and evolution.

See eOmega.org/celebrate for full schedule and more information.

Thomas Hübl, founder of the Academy of Inner Science, teaches somatic awareness practices, advanced meditative practices, and transformational processes to address individual and collective trauma.

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KRISHNA DAS

RICKIE BYARS

DONNA DE LORY

RUSSILL PAUL

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MANOSE, DEVA PREMAL, AND MITEN

SEPTEMBER 4-7

Course 4503-508/Tuition $415 ($370 Members) SS

Join us for our 16th annual Ecstatic Chant retreat, one of the most popular events at Omega. A remarkable opportunity to experience some of the Western world’s leading devotional singers, this inspiring weekend nourishes the soul with a rich tradition of musical prayer and meditation.

JAI UTTAL

VISHAL VAID

STEVE GORN

RADHANATH SWAMI

Krishna Das

Known in Sanskrit as kirtan, devotional chanting awakens a longing in the heart for the experience of inner silence, boundless love, and intimate union with the divine. Emerging from Hindu traditions in India, kirtan is practiced by millions of people. The call-and-response, rhythmic quality of these unifying chants kindles an exhilarating, joyful mood and is accepted as one of the surest paths to enlightenment. In recent years, pioneering musicians and seekers have brought this magical tradition to the West.

Deva Premal & Miten with Manose

Throughout the weekend—including an all-night Saturday session—we explore a variety of chants and chanting styles, interspersed with rejuvenating sessions of meditation, yoga, and story sharing.

Parvathy Baul

This program ends Monday at 12:30 p.m. Performers are subject to change.

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This year’s Ecstatic Chant is dedicated to our beloved teacher Ram Dass.

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SEPTEMBER 7

SPECIAL LABOR DAY CHANT SESSION

Radhanath Swami

Krishna Das, Deva Premal & Miten, Jai Uttal, Parvathy Baul, and Manose Course 4601A-508EX SS

This special Labor Day Ecstatic Chant takes place on Monday, September 7, from 2:30 p.m. to midnight, and includes performances by Krishna Das, Deva Premal & Miten, Jai Uttal, Parvathy Baul, and Manose.

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Tuition for this one-day program is $85 ($75 Members) for those who participated in the weekend Ecstatic Chant, and $135 ($120 Members) for others (plus accommodations and/or commuter charges). To take advantage of the special $85 rate, please call Omega at 800.944.1001 to register.

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SHARON GANNON

RIMA RABBATH

KATYA GRINEVA

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Jivamukti Yoga Immersion Course 4604-535/Tuition $495 SS

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Jivamukti Yoga® Immersion takes you deeper into the study of Jivamukti Yoga and its five tenets: nonviolence, devotion, meditation, scripture, and music. Led by Jivamukti Yoga cofounder Sharon Gannon, and joined by Advanced Certified Jivamukti Yoga teacher Rima Rabbath and musician Katya Grineva, this immersion is perfect for Jivamukti teachers who are looking for a refresher course, yoga students from other disciplines who are curious about what goes on in a Jivamukti Yoga teacher training, and those brand new to yoga. Deepen your yoga practice, meet old and new friends, and build a worldwide yoga community. The immersion includes: • The Special Labor Day Chant Session on Monday from 2:30 p.m. to midnight (see page 97) • Daily asana practice • Meditation instruction and daily practice • Study of the Bhagavad Gita and Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra • Investigation of the link between yoga and vegetarianism

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This workshop begins Monday at 1:00 p.m. and concludes Friday at 12:30 p.m. Certified Jivamukti Yoga teachers already enrolled in the apprenticeship program can receive credit hours toward their 800-hour certification. Vegan food options will be available throughout the retreat.

NINA RAO AND KRISHNA DAS

SEPTEMBER 8 KRISHNA DAS

Bringing Chanting Into the Practice of Living Krishna Das With Nina Rao

Sharon Gannon, the cofounder of Jivamukti Yoga, is an accomplished yogi, scholar, activist, author, poet, and musician who teaches the ancient methods of yoga in a modern context.

Course 4601B-510/Tuition $80 ($70 Members) SS

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Rima Rabbath teaches at the Jivamukti Yoga School, leads Jivamukti Immersions, and is very active in the apprenticeship program. yogasouk.com Katya Grineva, a Russian-born pianist, has been a soloist with the Manhattan Virtuosi Orchestra and the European Philharmonic Orchestra in France. katyagrineva.com

Heart Practice of Chanting

NINA RAO

Join Krishna Das for this one-day chanting retreat and devotional practice. This is a special opportunity to study with one of the foremost devotional singers in the world.

We spend the morning exploring the spiritual path with group chanting of Hanuman Chalisas with Nina Rao. Guided by Krishna Das in the afternoon, we revel in call-and-response chanting, stories about Das’s beloved guru, Sri Neem Karoli Baba, and discussions about life, with plenty of opportunities for questions and answers.

Sharing his heart through music and chanting is the basis of Das’s devotional practice, his way of serving the divine within himself and others. In this chanting retreat, we can embark on our own devotional journey with him.

Workshop hours are 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

Krishna Das is one of the foremost devotional singers in the world.

He has released numerous CDs and is author of Chants of a Lifetime. krishnadas.com

Nina Rao, Krishna Das’s assistant, tours with him, playing cymbals and singing. In 2013 she released a double-CD Antarayaami. ninaraochant.com

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SEPTEMBER 11-13

DO LESS, ACHIEVE MORE

SEPTEMBER 11-13

WISE AT HEART Writing as a Path To Insight Mark Matousek

BETHANY C. MEYERS

Course 4702-537/Tuition $350 ($315 Members) MI

RUBY WAX

SEPTEMBER 11-13

SPEAKING FROM THE HEART Ruby Wax Course 4702-547/Tuition $375 ($335 Members)

Learn how to stay authentic, clear-thinking, and nonreactive in the face of stressful situations, whether it be public speaking, talking to a boss, dealing with a family member, or confronting aggressive behavior.

In this workshop, taught by the irrepressible Ruby Wax, we use mindfulness, role play, and exercises to express ourselves without fear of judgment. We learn to “be ourselves,” which is one of the hardest skills of all.

We leave knowing how to express ourselves, while “being ourself,” staying clear thinking, authentic and therefore powerful even in the face of what scares us.

Ruby Wax is an American actress, comedian, mental health campaigner, lecturer, and author who has resided in the United Kingdom since the 1970s. In 2015 she was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) for Services to Mental Health. rubywax.net

Mark Matousek, MA, a writer, teacher, and Buddhist practitioner, is the author of two acclaimed memoirs, Sex Death Enlightenment and The Boy He Left Behind, as well as When You’re Falling, Dive and Ethical Wisdom. markmatousek.com

EXPLORING BODY NEUTRALITY the be.come project

Bethany C. Meyers and Whitney Hull-Benson Course 4702-570/Tuition $450 ($405 Members) LE

Explore the ways in which diet culture and societal beauty standards have deterred us from appreciating who we are at our core. Led by the founder of the be.come project, a bodyneutral, I-can-do-it approach to fitness, and cohosted by a holistic nutritionist, this retreat turns body positivity on its head.

Through community, conversation, journaling, movement, and vulnerability, we come to realize that health exists at every size.

Begin using the term body neutrality instead of body positivity. Some days we feel good about our bodies, some days we feel bad about our bodies, but all days we respect our bodies.

Learn be.come project 25-minute routines—which include the alignment of pilates, the lengthening of yoga, and the musicality of dance. Each routine begins with a warmup, flows through the right side of the body, bridges to the left side, and concludes with a high-energy finish.

In addition, explore ways to properly align your body to help prevent injuries, gain mobility, and improve posture balance. The be.come project retreat is open to all levels, all body sizes, all genders, and is pregnancy-friendly.

Kate Northrup Course 4702-528/Tuition $320 ($290 Members) MI

We’ve all been taught that the only way to create success is to work longer and harder. To get better results, we’re told, we have to put in more time and energy.

In this workshop, author Kate Northrup reveals another way.

We learn data- and soul-driven time and energy management practices that result in saving time and making more money—all with less stress. We explore using rest as a growth strategy, discover how cyclical planning can work in concert with our biology and nature to get us into momentum, and encounter a new paradigm of working and living that allows us to do less while achieving more.

Women of all ages and in all stages of life are welcome, from artists to moms to careershifters to current and aspiring business owners. We leave with a map for reorienting our work and life so that it’s nourishing, relaxing, and joyful—as well as wildly productive.

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Many of us live in a general condition of fear, pretending it’s not there, living our lives at top speed, pushing ourselves relentlessly, and talking to ourselves in a steady stream of critical thoughts such as “I’m not good enough” or “Everyone thinks I’m a fraud.” This is not your condition; it is the human condition at this time, in this culture, and realizing this solves half the problem.

Through expressive writing, dyadic work, one-on-one coaching, and group discussion, you come to discover MARK MATOUSEK that “you are the storyteller, not the story,” and that the power to awaken is already within you. Known for his inspiring work with students, Mark Matousek creates a warm, supportive atmosphere in which to do this life-changing work.

His unique method, Writing To Awaken, has helped countless people around the world to reach their creative and spiritual goals. This workshop is open to writers of all levels.

SEPTEMBER 11-13

A Revolutionary Reorienting for Ambitious Women

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A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled

Writing is an unparalleled tool for cultivating wisdom through self-inquiry. In this transformational workshop, you learn to use writing as a path to insight, creative growth, and spiritual freedom. When you turn your attention inward, you discover the wisdom that is already inside you. Exploring core narratives, wounds, and beliefs, you learn to separate the false from the real and become your own guide on the path of awakening. Mark Matousek teaches that, “When you tell the truth, your story changes. When your story changes, your life is transformed.”

WHITNEY HULL-BENSON

Kate Northrup is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, speaker, and mother who has built a multimedia digital business committed to supporting ambitious women that reaches hundreds of thousands globally. She is the author of Money: A Love Story and Do Less. katenorthrup.com

Bethany C. Meyers, founder of the be.come project, is a fitness and lifestyle entrepreneur in New York City. thebecomeproject.com Whitney Hull-Benson is a certified holistic nutritionist and an advocate for radical food and body empowerment.

KATE NORTHRUP

innatenutritionist.com

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OMEGA VETERANS PROGRAM

SEPTEMBER 13-18

SEPTEMBER 13-18

Veterans Yoga Retreat for Women

Practices for Health & Well-Being Annie Okerlin With Susan Alden Course 4805-532/Tuition $395 ($355 Members) SS, LE ANNIE OKERLIN

In this yoga retreat for women veterans, we gather as a community to gain skills that develop resilience and nourish, strengthen, and heal the body and mind. Guided by Annie Okerlin and U.S. Army veteran Susan Alden, we practice yoga while learning to accommodate unique physical limitations and ailments—including chronic pain and amputations. We experience daily guided meditations in iRest (Integrative Restoration), a technique endorsed by the U.S. Army Surgeon General and offered at military hospitals nationwide.

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Based on the ancient practice of Yoga Nidra, iRest promotes deep relaxation and acceptance of everything as it is. It helps the nervous system return to a balanced state of well-being, which helps to heal unresolved trauma, as well as physical and emotional wounds.

We leave with skills that continue to serve us in life, helping us to restore life balance and reintegrate after the challenging experiences of military service.

Application is required; apply early, as enrollment is limited and spots fill quickly. Scholarships are available to cover all but $75 of the total cost; see eOmega.org/scholarships.

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Annie Okerlin, RYT, is founder and director of the therapeutic yoga program Exalted Warrior Foundation and has worked extensively with wounded warriors at Walter Reed. exaltedwarrior.com Lieutenant (fmr) Susan Alden, RYT, is a graduate of the United States Military Academy and executive director of Warriors at Ease. warriorsatease.org

SUSAN ALDEN

SEPTEMBER 13-18

FROM ENTANGLEMENT TO FREEDOM

SACRED MOVEMENT RITUALS & CEREMONIES Monika Nataraj

SEPTEMBER 13-18

Explore the depths and transformation of mystical ceremony, inspired by the wisdom traditions of Indian and Tibetan tantra, Shamanism, and Sufism.

Dorothy Charles

Tap into the power of prayer, meditation, and sacred dance from around the world on this magical journey with Monika Nataraj as your guide.

Nataraj, a pioneer of sacred practices for women and an international tantra teacher, has brought these teachings to 24 countries around the world over the past two decades.

Throughout the week, we discover the secrets of tantra—the integrated yoga of intimacy. We are introduced to embodied tools to weave ritual in everyday life, including rites of passage, harmonizing with the lunar cycles, balancing yin and yang energies, and invoking deities and the elements of nature. We also explore a full array of esoteric and practical techniques of the divine feminine.

Suzi Tucker

Monika Nataraj, creator of Mystical Dance® and Shakti Spirit®, is an international tantra teacher.

Course 4805-478/Tuition $575 ($515 Members) MI

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Navigating Intergenerational Legacy Through Family Constellations

Using the lens and process of Family Constellations, we explore the myriad ways in which our personal, family, and community history shape current life. Family SUZI TUCKER Constellations is a fundamental living philosophy experienced through a profound three-dimensional process. As we set up our individual tableaus, we quickly begin to see our common ground—the hidden language of the family soul that so often informs our current ways of belonging, our optimism, and our permission to thrive.

RELATIONAL GESTALT PRACTICE Course 4805-457/Tuition $425 ($380 Members) SS, LE

Our sense of self develops in connection with others, and our experience in early relationships shape our beliefs: beliefs about ourselves, other people, and what is possible for us in our lives. While we cannot change the past, we can change the parts of our lives that we find difficult or unfulfilling by having new experiences of relating and being related to in a healthy way. When our need for attunement is met, then our limiting beliefs can shift. In a safe group setting that is committed to practicing kindness, acceptance, and honesty we are supported in learning to fully identify and skillfully express our emotions in healthy ways.

In this workshop, we will take time for basic Relational Gestalt Awareness practices. We will learn skills that improve our ability to make contact, explore how to establish healthy boundaries, develop and track awareness of our physical sensations and emotions, learn to communicate our needs and wants effectively, and discover habitual relational patterns that prevent us from cultivating the type of connection we long for.

The workshop will be a mixture of didactic and experiential exercises, individual sessions with the leader, and the support of the group.

We also explore our subliminal maps. Together, we locate where life-force became blocked, where love became distorted, where optimism became unwelcome. Do we live inside the parameters of war, suicide, abuse, early death—the deep disturbances of previous generations? Once we discover those braided cords, we can learn how to break free of their hidden legacies.

Suzi Tucker, author of Gather Enough Fireflies, cofounded the Bert Hellinger Institute and went on to study, teach, and facilitate family constellations across the United States and Canada. suzitucker.com

DOROTHY CHARLES

Course 4805-376/Tuition $450 ($405 Members)

MONIKA NATARAJ

Dorothy Charles is the cofounder of Tribal Ground Circle, an educational community studying and practicing Gestalt Awareness Practice, Relational Gestalt Practice, and other work evolving from the lineage of Richard Price, gestalt teacher and cofounder of Esalen Institute. dorothycharles.com

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SEPTEMBER 13-18

LIGHT WARRIOR TRAINING CAMP

Harnessing Sensitivity as a Superpower Karen Kan Course 4805-500/Tuition $480 ($430 Members)

MINGTONG GU

SEPTEMBER 13-18

WISDOM HEALING QIGONG

Practices for Physical & Emotional Transformation Mingtong Gu Course 4805-243/Tuition $485 ($435 Members) SS

Immerse yourself in a healing retreat with qigong master Mingtong Gu and experience the power of Wisdom Healing Qigong. Through experiential practices and discussion, you learn to:

This retreat is for anyone who wants to learn more about healing qigong practice, those who are addressing specific health conditions—such as cancer, diabetes, Lyme disease, addiction, or chronic pain—or those who work with patients and want to support the healing journey of others.

Mingtong Gu, founder of the Chi Center, is a qigong master who offers the ancient teachings of Wisdom Healing Qigong for contemporary times. chicenter.com

Best of all, you’ll learn how to consciously connect to Zero Point to manifest your ideal future reality. No experience in energy healing is necessary.

Karen Kan, MD, is a doctor of Light Medicine, founder of the Academy of Spiritual Medicine, and best-selling author of Guide to Healing Chronic Pain. karenkan.com

Kelly Notaras

Course 4805-375/Tuition $450 ($405 Members) MI

Do you have a book in you, just waiting to come into form? Are you yearning to get unstuck?

Kickstart—or reignite—the writing journey with the confidence you need to get your physical manuscript in hand.

KELLY NOTARAS

This 5-day immersion with longtime book editor and writing coach Kelly Notaras provides both instruction and inspiration—explaining everything you need to know about breaking into the transformational nonfiction market, as well as providing plenty of time to drop in, write, and revise. Establish the daily habit of writing and sustain productive sessions for hours. Hone your “hook”—a book’s north star—so it’s both saleable and magnetic. Learn to navigate a variety of publishing options and gain insights about whether to start with a proposal or a full-length manuscript. Receive support from an expert who has edited books for Hay House, Sounds True, HarperCollins, Penguin, and Hyperion Books.

Whether you’re just starting out or already have a draft underway, this workshop is the next step toward making your book dream a reality.

Kelly Notaras is founder of kn literary arts, an editorial studio that has helped more than 600 authors, including several New York Times best sellers. knliterary.com

SEPTEMBER 13-18

CLEAR & PRESENT

Overcome Fear & Supercharge Your Career

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Michael J. Gelb Course 4805-494/Tuition $575 ($515 Members)

Public speaking is the number one skill you can cultivate to supercharge your career. It’s also the number one fear of the American public. Many of the finest professional performers and speakers MICHAEL J. GELB get butterflies in their stomach before going on stage, but they seem to know how to get the butterflies to fly in formation.

During this transformational workshop, you’ll learn their secrets.

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• Deepen your understanding and practice of qigong • Balance your body, mind, heart, and spirit through qigong movement, sound healing, and visualization practices • Improve energy flow, reduce stress, and slow the aging process • Transform negative emotions into a productive and creative force • Tap into your potential to help prevent illness, cure disease, and enhance quality of life

• Divine Muscle Testing™: how to access divine truth through your body • Intuitive Impressioning™: how to access intuitive information for decision making • Healing by Proxy-Prop™: how to perform remote healing on yourself and others • Cloud Sculpting™: how to move matter with your mind (telekinesis) • Transformational Telepathy™: how to telepathically resolve relationship conflicts with ease and speed • Environment Clearing Magic™: how to clear your home of entities and other low vibrational energies

Write The Book You Were Born to Write

SEPTEMBER | EOMEGA .ORG

As millions of people in China have already discovered, there is a powerful, natural way to address health conditions and stimulate inner healing for living a happy, healthy life.

Are you a highly sensitive person wanting to live a life of joy and purpose? Sensitive souls have an incredible gift and are here to help the world ascend from darkness to light.

Unfortunately, many suffer from overwhelm, anxiety, depression, and even autoimmune illness because they don’t know how to manage sensitivity and turn it into a superpower. Together, we learn:

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The ability to express yourself effectively is key to success in sales, leadership, and life. Yes, some people seem to have more of a talent for speaking, and others find themselves at a loss for words. But, whether you are an extrovert or introvert, presenting is a skill everyone can learn.

Do you know how to ask for what you want? Can you formulate requests that others can readily fulfill? One of the simple keys to happiness is the ability to know our most important needs and to enroll others in helping us fulfill those needs. These same skills are essential if we want to be effective in changing the world for the better. If you want to help save the earth, raise funds for a charity, or champion the rights of others, then you’ll need to speak in a compelling and memorable way.

Learn a simple, powerful, practical approach to improve your ability to be clear and present in any kind of situation from a job interview to a formal speech. You’ll also be guided to unlearn the habits you have developed that may interfere with your natural brilliance as a communicator. Engage, influence, and inspire others so you will become a powerful advocate for your ideas and ideals.

Michael J. Gelb, author of 17 books including Clear & Present: 8 Transformational Public Speaking Secrets to Overcome Fear and Supercharge Your Career and How to Think Like Leonardo DaVinci, is a world-renowned innovator in the field of leadership development.

KAREN KAN

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5-DAY WORKSHOPS

WEEKEND WORKSHOPS

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End Friday at noon

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SEPTEMBER 18-20

Dynamic Aging

SEPTEMBER 13-18

ANCIENT SECRETS OF LIFE-MASTERY

Yogishri Sudarshan Kannan Course 4805-415/Tuition $450 ($405 Members) SS, CE

When you learn to unleash the infinite powers within you, you become a master of all circumstances.

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MICHAELA BOEHM

STEVE JAMES

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FREEDOM & BELONGING

An Embodied Exploration Michaela Boehm and Steve James

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Yogishri Sudarshan Kannan, a philosopher, spiritual master, and Himalayan yogi, shares the principles of life transformation as propounded by the holy masters and siddhas of yore. This ancient wisdom has been decoded by Yogishri, who presents it in modern context.

Course 4805-470/Tuition $550 ($495 Members) MI

Throughout the week, you engage in powerful yogic meditation sessions based on ancient Himalayan techniques and directed towards deep purification and mastery over one’s mind.

You practice yogic and prana kriyas (breathing movements) aimed at facilitating healing at the intracellular level by tapping the cosmic life-force energy. You learn to release deep-rooted emotional blocks, improve clarity for effective decision-making, and increase your power to materialize goals with more ease.

We will explore our relational patterns both through the lens of ancestral and familial patterning as well as uncovering and releasing the imprints of previous relationships.

Course begins Monday at 6:30 a.m.

This retreat is designed to connect you deeper with your body as an instrument of perception and connection.

Utilizing nature and awakening the senses, we engage in practices that deepen and expand your capacity.

From what arises through your body you can offer powerfully to relationships, creativity, community, and yourself.

Yogishri Sudarshan Kannan has dedicated his life to philosophy and spirituality. Through discourses based on ancient texts like the Bhagavad Gita and Upanishads, he inspires people to experience life in totality and progress towards their ultimate purpose. infinitewings.in

Through a series of solo explorations, partnered processes, and somatic movement, we will be working with our constrictions, concerns, and contractions around intimacy, the erotic, and our desired relationship.

Who we come from, our father and mother lineage, as well as who we’ve engaged with relationally inform us deeply. They influence our whole trajectory in life, including how we make a living, who we choose as partners, how we behave relationally and sexually, and how we cope with the rigors of life.

Michaela Boehm is an expert in intimacy and sexuality, author of The Wild Woman’s Way, and founder of The Non-Linear Movement Method®. michaelaboehm.com

Steve James brings experience in elite athletic performance, contemplative and spiritual disciplines, the arts, and extreme outdoor survival into his embodiment teachings, and has released a DVD series for his Movement Koan® Method. guruviking.com

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Simple Exercises to Restore Strength & Build Confident Movement Katy Bowman

Course 4902-236/Tuition $385 ($345 Members) MI, LE

KATY BOWMAN

What if changing how you move could improve how you feel, no matter your age? Challenge the myths of aging and invest in your wellness by learning how to care for your body—feet, ankles, knees, hips, back, shoulders, pelvic floor, brain, and all the rest—in a wholebody, whole-life way.

Guided by biomechanist and movement enthusiast Katy Bowman, this weekend you explore how to move in ways that use all parts of your body, discover how nature can enhance your movement experience, and learn a wide variety of non-exercise movement you can introduce into your everyday life to keep your body robust as you age.

As you get rid of old habits and patterns and bring more movement into your life, it’s possible to look, move, and feel younger than you did a decade ago.

All ages, experience levels, and body types are welcome.

Katy Bowman is founder of Nutritious Movement and author of Dynamic Aging, Move Your DNA, and six other books on natural human movement. She combines big-picture education on biomechanics, kinesiology, and physiology with exercises that help bodies regain strength and mobility so that whole-body, whole-life movement is possible. nutritiousmovement.com OMEGA CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING PROGRAM

SEPTEMBER 18-20

PERMISSION TO CARE Activating Our Ability to Relate to Climate Change Renee Lertzman Course 4902-534/Tuition $425 ($380 Members) MI

Climate change is one of the most important and existential issues of our times, but many people become overwhelmed or avoid the discussion out of anxiety, fear, or hopelessness. The issue is especially poignant for the youth of today, who often feel the world is ending around them.

RENEE LERTZMAN

Real resilience and capacity has to include our ability to bring our full selves. To do that, we must acknowledge our deepest anxieties, fears, and concerns in safe spaces without judgment or fear of recrimination.

This can be accomplished by translating complex psychological and social science research insights into clear, applied, and profound tools for effective communication and engagement.

Through lecture, meditation, writing exercises, and small group practice, this program—led by a nationally-recognized leader in the study of climate anxiety and communication—builds our capacity for compassion-based leadership and activism.

This intensive is especially suitable for educators, psychologists, counselors, social workers, HR administrators, parents, environmental practitioners, and activists of all ages faced with climate changerelated anxiety, overwhelm, and depression.

Renee Lertzman, PhD, works with government, business, philanthropic, and non-governmental sectors to design research tools, engagement practices, and strategies for the challenging nature of environmental work. reneelertzman.com

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AWAKENING THE WISDOM OF AWARENESS IN THE HEART OF EMOTIONS

SEPTEMBER 18-20

An Educational & Therapeutic Approach TARA BENNETT-GOLEMAN

RESTORING THE RHYTHM OF REST & RENEWAL

Tara Bennett-Goleman and Daniel Goleman Course 4902-428/Tuition $375 ($335 Members)

How can emotions serve as opportunities for insight and connection rather than confusion and reactivity?

Through lectures, discussions, and experiential exercises, learn to: • Expand our emotional bandwidth by changing limiting habits of thought, emotion, behavior, and relationship • Widen the gap between impulse and action • Find a resonant basis for relationship Return home with new skills for bringing empathic attunement to transform habits of the heart.

Tara Bennett-Goleman, MA, is a workshop leader, psychotherapist, and author of the best seller Emotional Alchemy. tarabennettgoleman.com

SEPTEMBER 18-20

ON BEING HUMAN

Waking Up, Living Real & Listening Hard Jennifer Pastiloff Course 4902-258/Tuition $400 ($360 Members) MI

Get ready to become more free as you tell the truth about who you are and listen fiercely to others doing the same.

In this workshop for women, best-selling author Jennifer Pastiloff guides you to create what it is you truly want for yourself. Dive deep into a soulful JENNIFER PASTILOFF journey with questions such as: If I wasn’t afraid, what would I do? Who would I be if no one told me who I was? Can I be more fearless? Can I be afraid and do it anyway?

Let yourself expand beyond your comfort zone to explore what it means to be creative, human, and free—through writing, yoga, and even a dance party or two. We focus less on yoga postures and more on diving into life in all of its unpredictable, messy beauty.

Jennifer Pastiloff is author of the best-selling memoir On Being Human and a frequent contributor to Shape magazine. jenniferpastiloff.com

SEPTEMBER 18-20

RADICAL REMISSION 10 Healing Factors to Change Your Life Kathryn Doherty and Caryn Murray Course 4902-445/Tuition $295 ($265 Members) SS

Thousands of people have overcome cancer against tremendous odds.

In this workshop, you can learn how they did it. Based on the book Radical Remission by Kelly Turner, teachers Kathryn Doherty and Caryn Murray share the 10 healing factors that survivors have been found to share in common. You learn to: • Take charge of your healing • Strengthen your immune system by radically changing your diet • Choose supplements that are right for your body • Identify your strongest reasons for living • Access and strengthen your intuition • Release suppressed emotions held in your body • Increase positive emotions in your day-to-day life • Accept love and support from others • Develop a daily spiritual practice • Make movement and exercise a daily habit You leave with 1-, 6-, and 12-month action plans to implement right away. Those who wish to prevent or overcome cancer or another health challenge, and those supporting friends or family, are welcome.

Health-care professionals learn valuable tools they can use with their patients.

A Retreat for Busy People

Gloria Burgess Course 4902-294/Tuition $335 ($300 Members)

Without pauses, music would be just a cacophonous string of noise. The same is true for us. Without rest, the grand symphony of our life is nothing more than a stream of meaningless activity.

This workshop is an invitation to enter the exquisite realm of sanctuary, a gracious time out of time where you can slow down and say “no” to crazy busy and “yes” to the natural and necessary rhythm of rest and renewal.

When you recharge and renew, you can move into a deeper celebration of your own magnificence, realigning your gifts with what makes you come fully alive. Having touched the eternal, you return home inspired and equipped with lifegiving practices to reinvigorate yourself and reignite your life.

Anyone who wants to give up the whirling blur of busyness and prioritize their own health and well-being is welcome, especially caregivers of all kinds.

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Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., is a psychologist, science journalist, and author of Emotional Intelligence. danielgoleman.info

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Join best-selling authors Tara BennettGoleman and Daniel Goleman for this exploration of how to put our emotional wisdom into practice in our everyday lives. Enjoy a first-person introduction DANIEL GOLEMAN to Bennett-Goleman’s teachings on the mindful repatterning of emotional habits, which integrates therapeutic and meditative perspectives and practices. Then explore Goleman’s work on emotional intelligence and its underlying neuroscience basis.

KATHRYN DOHERTY

Gloria Burgess, PhD, is an international speaker, writer, and leadership coach. She is the founder of Jazz Inc., a company focused on leadership formation and development. gloriaburgess.com

Scholarships are available. See eOmega.org/scholarships.

Kathryn Doherty is a certified Radical Remission™ instructor, coach, speaker, and breast cancer survivor. radicalremission.com Caryn Murray is a a stage 4 appendiceal cancer survivor and a certified Radical Remission™ instructor. radicalremission.com

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YOUR BODY, YOUR LIFE

Befriend Your Body to Live Your Best Life Erica Mather Course 4902-308/Tuition $325 ($295 Members) MI

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Throughout our lives, many women struggle with disordered eating, compulsive exercising, and body dysmorphia. Our negative body image distorts everything from our thoughts and beliefs to our ethics, goals, and ways we relate to others. Join Erica Mather and discover how yoga provides the keys to learning how we can embody, trust, befriend, and ally with the body.

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As we engage in lecture, group discussions, yoga practice, and journal-writing exercises, we focus on four metrics that are common sources of judgement: how the body looks, what the body can do, how the body feels, and just being or existing. We examine damaging ideas that are often ingrained in us during childhood, and learn to nurture happiness and enhance our positive thoughts. We discover new mindsets and behaviors to help improve our relationship with our body and show up more authentically in the world.

No previous yoga experience is necessary.

Erica Mather, MA, is a bodyimage expert, yoga therapist, Forrest Yoga lineage holder, and creator of the Adore Your Body program. ericamather.com ERICA MATHER

MICHAEL CARROLL

OMEGA MINDFULNESS PROGRAM

SEPTEMBER 18-20

MINDFULNESS AT WORK

Making a Living While Living a Life Michael Carroll Course 4902-286/Tuition $370 ($335 Members) MI

Faster, smarter, cheaper—that’s what the modern workplace is all about. Yet science is now telling us what millions of people have known for hundreds of generations: Learning to mindfully sit still is a very healthy thing to do.

Are these two approaches at odds? Or can our drive for success and creative excellence find much-needed wisdom in the practice of mindfulnessawareness meditation?

Whether you are a CEO, hairstylist, physician, computer engineer, or truck driver, one of our greatest modern-day challenges is finding spiritual fulfillment through our daily work.

During this workshop we explore how mindfulness-awareness meditation can help us transform the hassles, conflicts, and anxieties of the workplace into valuable opportunities for spiritual and professional growth.

Through discussion and experiential practice, we learn how mindfulness can help us develop honesty, agility, openness, courage, and authenticity—characteristics that allow us to thrive in the workplace.

Anyone in any profession who wants to be more engaged and fulfilled by their work is welcome.

Michael Carroll, a former Wall Street executive and author of Awake at Work, is a teacher in the KagyuNyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. awakeatwork.net

SEPTEMBER 18-20

CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICE IN HIGHER EDUCATION MIRABAI BUSH

RHONDA V. MAGEE

Course 4902-568/Tuition $395 ($355 Members) SS, CE

Under the leadership of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, colleges and universities nationwide have integrated contemplative practices into a variety of their courses—from literature to physics to architecture.

These practices include yoga, contemplative reading and writing, mindful listening, and other practices that cultivate compassion and mindfulness.

As a result, schools report that students are showing an increased sense of personal and professional integration, as well as improvements in cognitive, intrapersonal, and interpersonal skills.

In the digital, wired world of today’s teenagers and 20-somethings, this is a remarkable feat.

Through presentations, demonstrations, and question-and-answer sessions, three leading experts in the field introduce contemplative practices, review the related neuroscience VIJAY KANAGALA research on meditation and learning, give examples of successful courses, and engage us in thinking about the role of contemplation in our own work.

Educators and administrators in higher education are invited to learn about contemplative practices in higher education, how to bring them into their own schools and classrooms, and how these practices can improve their own life.

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Mirabai Bush is cofounder, former executive director, and a senior fellow of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. mirabaibush.com Rhonda V. Magee, JD, is professor of law at the University of San Francisco where she teaches contemplative law practice.

Vijay Kanagala, PhD, is an assistant professor of higher education and student affairs administration at the University of Vermont.

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SEPTEMBER 20-25

Coming to Our Senses

SEPTEMBER 20-25

FORREST YOGA INTENSIVE TRAINING

Healing Ourselves & the World Through Mindfulness

Denise Hopkins and Heidi Sormaz

Course 5005-434/Tuition $595 ($535 Members) SS, CE

Enhance your teaching skills while deepening your personal practice in this Forrest Yoga intensive training with Denise Hopkins and Heidi Sormaz.

DENISE HOPKINS

We begin each day with chanting, drumming, and meditation to create the space for healing followed by a 2-hour yoga practice that will heighten your awareness and challenge your body. We create a sanctuary where you can open up, work through issues, go beyond your perceived limitations, and get your individual needs addressed.

Yoga teachers who have taken a minimum of a 200-hour yoga teacher training in any tradition and are ready to move deeper into themselves and improve their teaching are welcome.

This training begins Monday at 8:45 a.m. and ends Friday at 12:15 p.m.

Denise Hopkins is a Forrest Yoga Mentor Guardian Teacher and has been teaching since 2005. denisehopkinsyoga.com

SEPTEMBER 20-25

YOGA & WRITING FOR ANXIETY Learning to Embrace Your Weird Lisa Jakub Course 5005-543/Tuition $445 ($400 Members)

After retiring from an 18-year Hollywood acting career that appeared successful on the outside, Lisa LISA JAKUB Jakub needed to look at what was true on the inside.

She had social anxiety and a debilitating panic disorder that often made it hard to leave the house. Ultimately, she found yoga and mindfulness were powerful ways to manage her mental health and thrive.

This workshop includes lecture, mindful group discussions, writing exercises, beginner-friendly asana, and meditation practice that will give us the tools to: • Create a practice to support mental and emotional well-being • Access our creativity in order to address trauma and heal from past experiences • Explore and transform the inner critic, samskara, and identifying narratives • Use neuroplasticity to identify detrimental mental patterns and make changes to thoughts and behaviors • Learn how to use ancient yogic philosophy and therapeutic writing to gain a deeper understanding of our purpose, connection, and authentic power This class is accessible to all. Beginners to yoga and writing are welcome.

Lisa Jakub is an author, RYT 500 yoga teacher, mental wellness advocate, and retired actor. RealLisaJakub.com

Course 5005-469/Tuition $555 ($500 Members) SS, MI, LE

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) emphasizes that the ultimate meditation practice is life itself and how we are in relationship to it moment by moment.

In this 5-day retreat led by Jon Kabat-Zinn—internationally known for his work in bringing mindfulness practices into the mainstream of medicine and society more broadly—we engage in a range of practices to cultivate greater mindfulness and heartfulness. The retreat is based on the forms of practice that underlie MBSR, an approach that Kabat-Zinn and his colleagues worldwide have been engaged in and researching for 40 years.

During the program, we engage in periods of formal meditation practice interspersed with group dialogue and informal talks by Kabat-Zinn. We explore the possibility of growing more deeply into ourselves in ways that can allow us to live our lives as if it really mattered, in the only moment we ever have—this one—to understand more profoundly how we fit into and belong in the larger world of our society, the body politic, and the planet, as well as within our own skin.

We use the gateways of the senses to wake up to and increasingly inhabit the domain of awareness itself, along with its manifestations in silence and stillness, in motion and language, in compassion and kindness, in conversation and inquiry, and in acting skillfully in the world.

We also explore mindfulness practice from our moment-to-moment lived experiences in community during the time we are together, and from the perspectives of social justice, implicit bias, racism, public health, and ethical action.

Professionals and laypeople are welcome, as are newcomers and longtime practitioners of mindfulness.

This workshop begins on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. and has extended hours, including early morning meditations and evening sessions.

Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD. See biographical information on page 17.

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Heidi Sormaz, PhD, E-RYT 500, is a Forrest Yoga Guardian Teacher and has been teaching yoga since 2001. heidisormaz.com

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In the afternoon, we dive deep into a 4-hour session of training where we build the essential elements of teaching, including effective sequencing (of both poses and classes), sadhana (spiritual exercises), personal and professional HEIDI SORMAZ ethics, safe and effective hands-on assisting, developing a charismatic presence, and the importance of honesty and clear, concise, and powerful communication.

JON KABAT-ZINN

OMEGA YOGA SERVICE PROGRAM

SEPTEMBER 20-25

YOGA FOR TRAUMA SURVIVORS Anneke Lucas

Course 5005-493/Tuition $450 ($405 Members) CE

As a trauma survivor, do you wish for a yoga practice that keeps you safe and meets your needs? Anneke Lucas, a survivor of sex slavery and advocate for sex trafficking victims, created the trauma-sensitive Unconditional Model that explores yoga in its ANNEKE LUCAS greatest capacity to (re)connect the mind with the body and the greater self with the mind.

In a safe environment, you learn to take full ownership of your practice, use movement to stimulate SSRI inhibitors to help with depression, and incorporate practices for soothing self-care. You also learn specific mindfulness tools to drastically increase self-acceptance and take healing into your own hands.

Apart from survivors, yoga teachers and other providers are also welcome to learn to create an environment to reduce potential triggers and how to deal with incidents that may be triggering. Everything in the workshop is optional. All levels are welcome.

Anneke Lucas, E-RYT 500, is founder of Liberation Prison Yoga and creator of the Unconditional Model of trauma-sensitve yoga teaching, which helps teachers become aware and unconditionally present for their students. annekelucas.com

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SEPTEMBER 20-25

RADICAL ALIVENESS Ann Bradney

Course 5005-338/Tuition $495 ($445 Members) LE

SEPTEMBER 20-25

THE NEW HUMAN BIOLOGY

“There is a state in which you are fully alive, authentic, and spontaneous,” writes Ann Bradney. “You are open to all of your feelings, connected to your strength and your truth. You are not afraid to know anything about yourself. I call this radical aliveness.”

Perceiving Your Source Consciousness Within Alexandra Marquardt Course 5005-420/Tuition $400 ($360 Members)

Our nervous systems are becoming more sensitive. To work with this new human biology, we must activate our subtle energy system and awaken our body’s deep inner knowledge to transmute discomfort on all levels.

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Fourth generation healer and psychic Alexandra Marquardt’s SOURCE programs offer practical, grounded ways to manifest coherence and strength emotionally, spiritually, mentally, and physically. In this SOURCE Remembrance workshop, you learn to listen to the divine rhythmic cycles within your anatomy, awaken the breath of life along the midline, and open to the source of creation within your physical self through guided meditations.

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Through hands-on practice you learn to listen to your body, which helps you set stronger boundaries and allows for freedom to emerge.

You also learn how to sense and unblock trauma effects in the chakra sysem, allowing divine source, envisioned as liquid light, to become available to you as an inner guide, carrying gifts of inspiration, purpose, humility, reverence, and joy.

Anyone looking to relax and heal within their own light is welcome.

Alexandra Marquardt is a mentor, speaker, psychic, and healer. She is founder of LightWorks Healing Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico. sourcemysteryschool.com

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SEPTEMBER 20-25

WRITING LIFE

A Deep Dive Into Your Life & Writing Chris Wells Course 5005-461/Tuition $425 ($380 Members) SS, MI, LE

Bring your best idea or writing project and dive deep into a joyful and moving exploration of yourself and your work.

Chris Wells, creator of the Writing Life workshops, guides you through an evocative series of conversations, deep and reflective questions, and assignments that take you on a passionate journey of self-discovery. With dynamic writing prompts and creative exercises, his expertise helps you get at what you want to write and make decisions on how to move forward. You write as much as possible over the course of the week and leave with a ton of new writing and a greater sense of yourself as an artist.

Writers of all genres are welcome—bloggers, memoirists, playwrights, academics, historians, performers, novelists, travel writers, you name it. No previous writing experience is required.

The Radical Aliveness approach to personal growth, spiritual development, and social awareness is a unique group process that welcomes powerful feelings and dynamic group interactions. Working with the personal, interpersonal, and systemic, it demands courage, engagement with others, and a desire to discover and develop your potential within an accelerated time frame and setting.

Work on your relationship to yourself, others, and the world in radically alive ways. Find what stands in the way of realizing your full potential, move past old blocks to all that you are and want to be, and uncover the power and goodness at the source of your most destructive patterns so that you can bring your gifts to the world.

An interview is required for admission into this workshop; please see eOmega.org. Ann Bradney is independently offering continuing education credits; see radicalaliveness.org for information.

Ann Bradney is founder and director of the Radical Aliveness Institute and previously served on the faculty at the Core Energetics Institute in New York, where she received her certification studying under John Pierrakos. annbradney.com

JAMIE R. FORSYTH

OMEGA MINDFULNESS PROGRAM

SEPTEMBER 20-25

ACCEPTANCE & COMMITMENT THERAPY (ACT) IN MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICE A 5-Day Professional Training Retreat John P. Forsyth and Jamie R. Forsyth Course 5005-495/Tuition $875 ($785 Members) MI, CE

Acceptance and mindfulnessbased practices are rapidly making their way into mental health care, medicine, and society. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a newer evidence-based approach that offers empowering solutions to the problem of human suffering.

ACT seeks to transform the root sources of human suffering by balancing mindfulness and acceptance processes with commitment and behavior change in the service of living a more vital life. Through lectures, live and video demonstrations, and practical experiential exercises, we learn skills and strategies to help our clients live well and meaningfully, without first having to control or eliminate sources of emotional and psychological pain. We also learn how ACT can be integrated effectively into mental health practice.

All mental health professionals, including graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, are welcome.

Familiarity with ACT is not required.

CE and CME credits are available and included in the tuition (see page 136).

See eOmega.org for professional course objectives. Clinical worksheets and other practical tools will be provided.

John P. Forsyth, PhD, is an author, speaker, researcher, and trainer in the use of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). drjohnforsyth.com

Chris Wells, an Obie awardwinning performer, writer, and community leader, is founding artistic director of the arts organization ArtChurch, The Secret City. mrchriswells.com

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Jamie R. Forsyth, PhD, bridges various approaches and streams of practice within an ACT point of view.

ANN BRADNEY

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SEPTEMBER 25-27

Hello Again

A Fresh Start for Parents & Their Adult Children Gabor Maté and Daniel Maté

GABOR MATÉ

Course 5102-540/Tuition $375 ($335 Members)

DANIEL MATÉ

Father-and-son Gabor and Daniel Maté lead this candid and probing inquiry into what it means to outgrow and transform past-based dynamics in adult parent-child relationships.

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SEPTEMBER 25-27

A Spiritual Path for Couples Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt

Course 5102-245/Tuition $395 ($355 Members) per person

See workshop description on page 32.

This program examines the historical source of old patterns with compassion, humor, and insight, and—most importantly—helps to clear the way for a new relationship, unencumbered by what came before.

Gabor Maté is a retired physician, best-selling author of 4 books in 25 languages, including In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction, and a speaker with expertise on addiction, trauma, childhood development, and the relationship of stress and illness. drgabormate.com

Daniel Maté is an award-winning musical theatre songwriter, educator, and “mental chiropractor.”

He has received the Edward Kleban Prize, a Jonathan Larson Grant, and the ASCAP Foundation’s Cole Porter Award for Excellence in Music and Lyrics. walkwithdaniel.com SEPTEMBER 25-27

Level Two

A Training for Everyone

SHAMANIC REIKI HEALING

HOW TO GUIDE MEDITATION

Stacey Gibbons and Jonathan Hammond

Jeff Warren and Julianna Raye

Course 5102-320/Tuition $295 ($265 Members) SS, MI

In the shamanic worldview, we all are interconnected through time and space STACEY GIBBONS JONATHAN by a living, conscious web. This concept, HAMMOND understood as “oneness,” allows us to affect change regardless of our physical placement in time and geography. In this workshop we expand our work with Reiki to benefit another, or a situation, backward in time, forward into the future, and across geographical distance.

This experiential weekend deepens our integration of two ancient healing forms—Shamanism and Reiki. We practice time-tested methods that enhance intuition and expand consciousness as we: • Receive the Shamanic Reiki Level Two attunement and three powerful energetic symbols • Establish an inner sanctum and investigate the consciousness of the attunement symbols • Shapeshift and journey with a winged-spirit guide one-on-one, for long distance and personal healing • Increase the potency of the energy we channel, and receive and give a Shamanic Reiki treatment • Perform an ancient empowerment ceremony Prerequisite: Shamanic Reiki Healing: Level One (see page 81).

Stacey Gibbons holds a master certification in Traditional Reiki. She has taught traditional and Shamanic Reiki since studying with Llyn Roberts in the 1990s. shamanicreikiworldwide.com

Jonathan Hammond is a master teacher and faculty member for Shamanic Reiki Worldwide, as well as a traditional Usui Reiki master. mindbodyspiritnyc.com

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Getting the Love You Want

The American teacher and author Ram Dass once said, “If you think you’re so enlightened, go spend a week with your parents.” Family relationships are often fraught with complexity, and the unique relationship between parent and child can be challenging well into adulthood. Old dynamics have a way of clouding our views of one another in the present, giving rise to unpleasant reactions and interactions. Sometimes we seek to avoid conflict by keeping each other at an emotional arm’s length, creating yet another impediment to genuine connection. Moving beyond these repetitive patterns would free us up to relate to one another in the present and enjoy the many benefits of an authentic relationship. But how?

Course 5102-300/Tuition $385 ($345 Members) MI JEFF WARREN

JULIANNA RAYE Become empowered to guide others in meditation during this training for anyone who wants to safely and intelligently share practice with friends and colleagues.

Best-selling author Jeff Warren and mindfulness teacher Julianna Raye discuss topics including the power of holding space, the fundamental attentional skills that underlie practice, how these skills can be threaded through different “forms” or techniques (from meditating on the breath to sound to imagination to movement), how to work with common meditation-related challenges, how to use accessible language, and the centrality of honesty and teaching “where you’re at.”

The weekend includes a mix of guided meditation, experiential exercises, and discussion. Expect a thrilling weekend of empowerment, exploration, and community connection.

A 5-day version of this training that includes a retreat is offered in May (see page 20).

Jeff Warren, a meditation instructor and journalist celebrated for his accessible style of teaching, is coauthor of the New York Times best seller Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics. jeffwarren.org Julianna Raye, a founding member of Brightmind Meditation, has been training individuals and groups in the Unified Mindfulness system for nearly two decades. juliannaraye.com

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TREE & CLIMATE WHISPERING

Heal Ecological Damage, Upgrade Human Thinking

SEPTEMBER 25-27

Jim Conroy and Basia Alexander

DRUMSONG

Course 5102-339/Tuition $345 ($310 Members) DA, SS

The Art & Spirit of Drumming for Women

JIM CONROY

Ubaka Hill Course 5102-288/Tuition $305/230/155 ($275 Members) MI

UBAKA HILL

Innovative drummer, teacher, and performer Ubaka Hill leads this celebration of women’s drumming through the traditions of various cultures, both ancient and contemporary.

Beginning and more advanced drummers are invited to join Ubaka in exploring our ancestral connections to the rhythmic pulse of drumsong. Her spirited and engaging guidance leads you into your own personal power through intuitive drumming, drumsong, storytelling, and chanting.

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Throughout the weekend, we focus on developing and improving drumming techniques and our own rhythmic vocabulary. Together, we experience the unifying and revitalizing effects of group playing, toning, and singing.

Ubaka also leads us in an exploration of topics related to women’s drumming traditions and drumming techniques in the United States and around the world.

Ubaka Hill, founder of the Million Women Drummers Gathering Global Initiative, is a nationally known inspirational performer and teacher of the art and spirit of drumming.

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Do we want a healthy and livable planet for ourselves and future generations? Of course. Will the governmental/corporate complex do enough in time? No. We, ourselves, can consciously heal ecological damage and upgrade the fabric of human thought to collaboration with nature.

In this workshop, we are empowered to bring spirit through us and focus our consciousness to heal backyard, local, and global ecosystem degradation to restore livability. Guided by nature healers Jim Conroy and Basia Alexander, we learn the secrets of what nature needs so she can thrive. We communicate, collaborate, and cocreate with nature through Healing Whispers® and Climate Whispers®. And we use gentle guided meditations to connect deeply with trees, nature beings, and earth.

With like-hearted people, we commune with trees on Omega’s campus and get inspired by our experience of partnership with nature.

Through vivid examples of success, we find the courage to move beyond environmental despair and go home with the tools of spirit, healing, and consciousness that can bring forth a healthy and livable planet.

This workshop begins Friday at 7:30 p.m.

Jim Conroy, PhD, The Tree Whisperer®, is an expert Nature Communicator™, speaker, and cofounder of the Institute for Cooperative BioBalance.

Basia Alexander is a thought leader and coauthor of the Tree Whispering and Live and Let Live series of books. partnerwithnature.org

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SOUND MEDICINE EXPANSIVE

Awaken the Healing Power of Sound Rich Goodhart Course 5102-291/Tuition $325 ($295 Members) MI

THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION (TM) TECHNIQUE

Lisa Kwock and James Dallas

Course 5102-556/Tuition $325 ($295 Members) SS

Use the profound efficacy of sound healing to deepen This 2-day Transcendental Meditation® retreat, led your healing practice with Rich Goodhart. Sound is a by highly experienced certified TM® teachers, utilizes LISA KWOCK JAMES DALLAS universal pathway to source. Applying it consciously Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s specialized retreat structure is one of the most powerful tools available to an energy healer. to deepen personal experience and gain a more profound understanding of how Shamanic Sound Healing is a potent form of energy medicine to live a Consciousness-BasedSM life for ourselves, our community, and the planet. that can effectively transform our mind-body states, bringing Each participant will enjoy a structured program of extended TM practice, new awareness and real healing attunement. The most significant instruction in Maharishi YogaSM Asanas, and deeper intellectual understanding of sound healing instrument we have, our own voice, carries the the growth of higher states of consciousness. These extended periods of deep vibrational essence of one’s embodied truth, directly channels rest and silence wash away accumulated stress and tension. Participants report our emotional field, and can be a dynamic catalyst of personal that TM retreats boost energy, clarity, and happiness for many months to come. evolution.

In addition, the retreat will include a TM refresher session, to ensure optimal This transformational retreat is imbued with deep commitment to results from your TM practice, and a wonderful mini-concert of Maharishi integrity and grounded wisdom as we engage sound’s ability to Gandharva VedaSM music performed by expert Gandharva musicians. Gandharva inspire healing responses, expansion and renewal in all aspects Veda has been called the eternal music of nature that enlivens harmony, peace, of our being. We learn group and personal sound practices in and balance in the individual and the environment. complement with master practitioner Rich Goodhart’s exquisitely This course is open to any adult who has learned the TM technique. At the time multidimensional sound medicine immersions. Rich brings of registration you will be asked to verify your TM instruction date and name of lifetimes of sound experience, along with his collection of exotic instructor. If you have not learned the TM technique, visit TM.org to find a certified world instruments, to inspire the journeys. teacher near you. You must reside on campus during the course and stay through Great for those looking to deepen the end (no early departures). their sound practice—and anyone Lisa Kwock is a certified teacher of the Transcendental Meditation Program, interested in self-healing. director of the Hudson Vally TM, and the director of the TM Center for Rich Goodhart is an international Leadership Performance. She studied directly with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and world musician, master level has been meditating for more than 45 years. tm.org sound and shamanic healer, and Jim Dallas is a certified teacher of the Transcendental Meditation Program and author of The Sound Inside the codirector of TM Centers in Greater New Jersey. tm.org Sound. richgoodhart.com RICH GOODHART

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Marisa Peer

RENEGADE WRITING

Course 5102-259/Tuition $495 ($445 Members)

Your mind will do what it thinks you want it to do—so what are you asking of it? How you talk to yourself determines everything from your health to the quality of your relationships to your satisfaction with your work. The more accurate, precise, and specific you are with the dialogue between yourself and your mind, the more effective you are at creating the life you’ve been longing to live.

Anyone looking to make positive, lasting change is welcome.

Marisa Peer, founder of multi-award winning Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT), is a therapist, hypnotherapist, and motivational speaker. She is author of five books, including I Am Enough, Ultimate Confidence, and You Can Be Thin. marisapeer.com

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SHAMAN DUREK

SEPTEMBER 25-27

THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT

A Shamanic Journey of Transformation Shaman Durek Course 5102-349/Tuition $350 ($315 Members) MI

Butterflies undergo dramatic change in their lifetime. Using their journey as a model for our own, Shaman Durek, a 6th generation shaman, takes us through the three stages of transformation—from caterpillar to cocoon to butterfly—so we can become the spiritual leaders we are meant to be and that the world desperately needs.

We start our journey as the caterpillar, realizing that even while we don’t see the big picture, we nonetheless gather the nourishment we need to get ourselves into the cocoon.

Once in the cocoon, we learn shamanic techniques to take the information we’ve gathered and transform it, letting go of what we no longer need so we can recognize and embrace our inner power. We then explore how to use that power to break out like the butterfly and bring our unique presence and spiritual leadership to the world.

You probably know how to write.

But do you know how to get yourself—your real personality— into that writing? You can spend your whole life waiting to overcome fear so you’re finally free to show up authentically on the page—or you can join writer Janelle Hanchett and just cut to the chase.

In this safe, dynamic, and playful workshop, Janelle uses humor, craft, and critical metaanalysis to help you examine and deconstruct that which stands between you and what you really want to write. Through writing prompts and discussion, you work toward defining your unique story, voice, and perspective. You also learn tangible habits and straightforward practices that enable you to let go of outcomes, manage criticism, and bring your complex humanity more fully to your writing so you can connect more deeply with your readers.

Writers of all genres looking to develop a sense of purpose and direction—and forge a new relationship with fear—are welcome.

Janelle Hanchett is creator of the blog Renegade Mothering, where she invites readers to join her in “the fight against helpful parenting advice.” She is author of I’m Just Happy to Be Here. renegademothering.com

Anyone looking for deep and lasting metamorphosis is welcome.

CAROLE WESTERMAN

SEPTEMBER 27-OCTOBER 2

THE SOFT SIDE OF YOGA

Nourish & Renew With Yin & Aromatherapy Carole Westerman Course 5205-491/Tuition $445 ($400 Members) MI, CE

Yoga is known to calm the body and regulate the nervous system, but not all yoga classes make us feel that way.

If you’re looking for a slowpaced, self-nurturing approach to this ancient tradition, join this weeklong workshop and discover the softer side of yoga.

Learn various techniques and postures rooted in yin yoga, restorative yoga, yoga nidra, and mindful slow flow. Explore a variety of meditations, journaling exercises, and breathwork to add to your self-care routine. Essential oils enhance the experience of this retreat by providing aromatherapy that matches the intention of each pose or practice.

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As you begin to change the way your mind works, you start to think, feel, and perceive on a new level, rewriting outdated, unwanted, and self-sabotaging thought paradigms. You return home with empowering beliefs and emotions—new models of reality— already in place.

Janelle Hanchett

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Guided by hypnotherapist and therapist Marisa Peer, this weekend you learn new mental habits to help you get what you want. You experience several Rapid Transformational Therapy hypnotic regression sessions where you can make deep and lasting change in your models of reality and learn tools to put into practice immediately.

The Power of Story, Voice & Authenticity

Return home with a renewed sense of self, greater awareness of your personal stress triggers, and practical tools to practice self-care.

No previous yoga or meditation experience is necessary; all practices can be modified for all levels. Essential oils are optional; anyone may opt out of aromatherapy at any time.

Shaman Durek is a spirit hacker and New Age visionary committed to putting the power of change back into people’s hands. shamandurek.com

Carole Westerman, MA, ERYT-500, a yoga teacher and master Reiki practitioner, is the owner of Evolve to Harmony in Omaha, Nebraska.

MARISA PEER

JANELLE HANCHETT

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Keep the inspiration coming long after your workshop ends.

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Empower the healer within as you learn to bring the healing experience out into the world in this rare 5-day, 5-level training program with author, teacher, and breathwork healer David Elliott.

Begin with the basics, including fundamentals of breathwork, essential oils, sound healing, and intuition exercises. Then learn to guide others in 2-stage Pranayama Breath meditation. As you progress through the week, you build your healing work out into understanding group energies and leading group work, including breathwork circles.

Through focused discussions and partnered work, you explore how to create topics for healing groups, how to prepare, how to show up, and ultimately, how to work with the energy of any group. Then you delve into the business side of healing work with a deep exploration into the concepts of self-love, exchange, money, value, abundance, and purpose.

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an Omega Rest & Rejuvenation Retreat eOmega.org/rest See page 14 for details.

Lectures, discussions, exercises, and partnered breakout sessions develop your connection to intuition, boost confidence around your gifts and talents, and open your heart to the power of self-love.

This course ends Friday at 12:30 p.m. A Certificate of Attendance is available and included in the tuition.

David Elliott is a healing artist who uses breathwork and energy work to help others. davidelliott.com

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Healing With the Spiritual Principles of Chinese Medicine

Anysia Marcell Kiel

FIND YOUR WAY HOME

Jean Haner Course 5205-418/Tuition $655 ($590 Members)

There is a little known spiritual side of Chinese medicine that works to restore balance to your energy and emotions and bring you home to your true self. This “acupuncture for the spirit” offers you a way to heal your life, solve your problems, and experience greater joy, love, ease, and success in life.

Jean Haner, author of Your Hidden Symmetry and The Wisdom of Your Face, has been studying and researching Chinese medicine for nearly 40 years and is known for her ability to translate this age-old wisdom into practical solutions for modern problems. jeanhaner.com

We all carry imprints based on energy we were called to transmute in family lines, soul agreements, and collective cultural ANYSIA MARCELL KIEL demographics. Even though we moved through the experiences, we may hold their imprints in our energy fields, if we are attached through our human ego. This can cause manifestation of disease, illness, emotional, or spiritual issues. When we view the root causes of these manifestations with awareness, we can consciously choose to release them. Then, we can align with our birth blueprints and are able to live a soul-centered life in the frequency of divine unconditional love.

During this workshop, we integrate our higher selves and utilize soul tools.

We incorporate guided imagery and energy exercises, releasing imprints and experiences. Everyone receives an attunement to a new frequency.

We connect to source and ground ourselves in divine unconditional love.

You leave the workshop with a new awareness of your life, new energy tools, and you will be vibrating at a new energetic frequency.

Anysia Marcell Kiel, MFA, is a healing medium and award-winning author. She is founder of the Soul-Centered Healing method.

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FINDING TRUE FULFILLMENT The Art of Ego Relaxation Miranda Macpherson Course 5205-521/Tuition $475 ($425 Members) SS

Love, peace, and joy is the natural condition of your heart at rest in pure being. Yet, commonly we live on the surface of ourselves, disconnected from the font of inner nourishment that is always present MIRANDA MACPHERSON to nourish, refine, and expand us. This 5-day retreat is dedicated to relaxing the chase for “more,” unwinding unworthiness, giving up spiritual resistance, and releasing anything that limits you from finally relaxing, feeling satisfied, and truly being at peace.

During this rare opportunity, you will leave the outer world behind and journey into the deepest longings of your heart. Together, we will practice ego relaxation with the important themes of your life, compassionately learning to get out of our own way and truly listen, supported by this beautiful environment. At every stage of the spiritual path, there is grace to help you heal and thrive. Through holistic inquiry, meditation, and devotional chanting we will: • • • • •

Recognize grace as your unchanging ground Receive the love that ends the sense of lack Open to the presence that dissolves your obstacles Abide in the silent nectar of your vast heart Find a more easeful, fulfilling way of being in this world from a consciousness beyond it

The format is experiential and powerfully transformative, with practices designed to help you function from inner guidance rather than conditioned patterns of mind. Learn how to surrender, ask, and listen, and receive expanded teachings on the practice of meditation, devotion, prayer, and self-inquiry.

This course begins Sunday at 7:30 p.m. and ends Friday at 11:30 a.m.

JEAN HANER

Miranda Macpherson, author of Meditations on Boundless Love and The Way of Grace, founded the OneSpirit Interfaith Foundation in London and leads the Living Grace Sangha in Northern California. mirandamacpherson.com

JAMES VAN PRAAGH

SEPTEMBER 27-OCTOBER 2

Advanced Intuitive Training James Van Praagh

Course 5205-488/Tuition $795 ($715 Members)

Are you a little bit (or a lot) psychic, intuitive, or empathic?

Your natural spiritual gifts are the key to making great decisions and living your very best life. Boost your psychic performance in this intensive training with James Van Praagh, renowned spiritual medium and New York Times best-selling author of more than a dozen spiritual classics.

Van Praagh shares intuitive techniques perfected over three decades that allow you to tap into your own inner knowing to enhance your own life—and, if you desire, to build your own spiritual business. Discover your strongest “clair” sense (clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience) to open the door to the most powerful guidance. Identify and break through barriers that are holding you back. Learn techniques to call on your guides, angels, and departed loved ones for guidance and support, and become more aware of helpful signs the universe sends you every day to discover your true purpose and keep you on course.

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Course 5205-465/Tuition $525 ($470 Members) MI

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Guided by empath and energy healer Jean Haner, each day you learn new energy balancing practices, interactive exercises, and guided meditations to gently and effectively create true change. From ancestral healing to activating your future self, to finding your joy and connecting you to your sacred life purpose, you experience ways to reclaim your life and move forward in a brand new way.

MERGING WITH YOUR INNER HEALER

Guiding and inspiring you every step of the way, Van Praagh also shares messages from your spirit guides, ancestors, and departed loved ones. Leave with increased confidence in your unique psychic abilities and advanced tools you need to access the wisdom of the universe for yourself, loved ones, and clients.

James Van Praagh is a pioneer in the mediumship movement and is recognized as one of the most accurate spiritual mediums working today. vanpraagh.com

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RADIANT LOTUS WOMEN’S QIGONG

SONGWRITING ESSENTIALS

Daisy Lee

Lara Herscovitch

Course 5205-364/Tuition $470 ($425 Members)

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The foundation of Radiant Lotus Qigong is a philosophy of compassionate action, positive selfreflection, and leading by example with gentle strength. Whether you desire optimum health or want to manage concerns around mood, menstruation, menopause, or breast health, Radiant Lotus Women’s Qigong (RLWQ) offers a transformative and individualized practice combining the most potent Chinese, Tibetan, and Western energy concepts for women’s health.

The ancient exercise of qigong supports hormonal balance, breaks down physical blockages, and boosts your body’s natural self-healing potential.

Join founder Daisy Lee to learn this accessible self-care system for women. Through nutritional modifications, emotional guidance, and qigong exercises specific to your needs, discover how RLWQ helps to:

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• Reduce or eliminate cysts and benign tumors • Improve menstrual cycles • Reduce or eliminate menopausal symptoms • Increase strength and feelings of centeredness while lessening stress • Improve self-esteem and peaceful well-being • Develop more radiant skin and support gentle weight loss or balance This program is designed specifically for all who identify as women.

Daisy Lee, founder of Radiant Lotus Women’s Qigong, is a level III advanced Qigong instructor, clinical practitioner, and international trainer. radiantlotusqigong.com

Course 5205-400/Tuition $465 ($420 Members) MI

Are you an aspiring songwriter with an interest in exploring the songwriting process more deeply? Are you looking for direction and support to help you stretch beyond your current comfort zone?

In this collaborative, creative workshop, songwriter and performer Lara Herscovitch encourages you to drop the LARA HERSCOVITCH formulas you’ve been taught and begin to embrace exploration and the authenticity of your voice. In a supportive environment, you enjoy protected time and space to work with confidence on your craft, write individually or together, and give and receive constructive feedback.

OCTOBER 2-4

Each day focuses on a key element of songwriting, including analysis and discussion. We explore elements of songs, including structure, concept, meaning, lyrics, rhythm, tempo, chords, and melody. We also discuss topics such as building creative confidence and courage, the songwriting process, and developing healthy creative habits.

Manage Emotions, Beat Anxiety & Achieve Peak Performance

Return home with increased confidence in your creativity, an expanded sense of your songwriting potential, and a deeper awareness of the core components of songwriting. Designed for those with some instrumental, vocal and songwriting experience as well as beginner and intermediate songwriters.

Lara Herscovitch is an award-winning songwriter-poet-performer and former state troubadour of Connecticut. laraherscovitch.com

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BECOME A MEDICAL INTUITIVE Tina M. Zion

Course 5205-337/Tuition $465 ($420 Members) SS, MI

TINA M. ZION

Build natural intuitive skills and improve your ability to feel, sense, and see the entire person, on all levels, in this experiential program with Tina M. Zion. Through presentations and hands-on practice sessions, learn how to:

• Discover the original cause of illness through inner sight • Include healing techniques during your medical intuition session • Eliminate your fear as a practitioner and as a client • Understand the electrical nature of emotions, thoughts, and the human body • Perceive the aura by scanning • Understand the ethical nature of medical intuition Leave with the recognition that medical intuition is a learned skill and with the awareness and understanding to welcome spiritual guidance into your work.

This workshop is for medical practitioners, energy healers, professional intuitives and mediums, and anyone who wants to develop medical intuitive skills.

DAISY LEE

Tina M. Zion is award-winning author of Become a Medical Intuitive and Advanced Medical Intuition and a fourth generation psychic medium who teaches internationally. tinazion.com

TAZ BHATIA

THE SUPER-POWERED BRAIN

Taz Bhatia Course 5302-432/Tuition $375 ($335 Members)

Mental health problems, anxiety, inattention, depression, and brain fog are becoming more prevalent throughout our society. Whether due to technology use, environmental toxins, cultural shifts, or shifting biochemistry, these triggers often leave us feeling fatigued, sluggish, and unable to perform at our peak.

Discover your personalized plan for combating these symptoms in this weekend workshop with Taz Bhatia, a board-certified integrative medicine physician, wellness expert, and author of Superwoman Rx. Bhatia lays out the seven principles of a “Super Powered Brain” and helps you structure your own Brain Rx—a personalized formula for peak performance. Drawing from Ayurvedic, Chinese, and Western systems of medicine, each nutrition and exercise plan addresses areas affecting health, including weight loss, anxiety and depression, skincare, and PMS symptoms. You learn to identify your personal brainboost and tailor the information to best suit your needs. You also gain tips for helping your brain powered child.

Taz Bhatia, MD, a board-certified integrative medicine physician and wellness expert, is author of What Doctors Eat, The 21 Day Belly Fix, and Superwoman Rx. doctortaz.com

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An Illuminated Life OCTOBER 2-4

YOUR DIRECT PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT Haemin Sunim

Course 5302-449/Tuition $360 ($325 Members)

ORA NADRICH

OCTOBER 2-4

NURTURE YOUR AUTHENTIC SELF

Living With Self-Love & Acceptance Course 5302-431/Tuition $375 ($335 Members)

As Gautama Buddha said, “You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” Yet, so many of us stave off, avoid, or make excuses not to receive it.

You cannot love that which is false to your heart and soul.

• Build mindfulness skills to strengthen awareness of the authentic self • Learn supportive meditations and positive affirmations that can be used daily • Practice honest communication with others • Use journaling as a ritual to support the authentic self • Begin to make self-love and authenticity a way of life for yourself Ora Nadrich, author of Live True and Says Who?, is founder and president of the Institute for Transformational Thinking. oranadrich.com

Return home feeling happier, more loving, and more appreciative of life, with a personal path toward enlightenment that works best for you.

Haemin Sunim is a Zen Buddhist teacher, author of Love for Imperfect Things, and founder of the School of Broken Hearts in Seoul, South Korea. haeminsunim.com

Course 5302-231/Tuition $360 ($325 Members) MI

Get ready to meet your personal “team of light”—God energy, angels, spirit guides, and loved ones who have crossed over—in order to find your highest and best path in life.

During this retreat with Laura Lynne LAURA LYNNE JACKSON Jackson, we explore how to call in and open up to the angelic realm, meet our spirit guides, and ask for and receive specific, tangible signs from the other side. We learn to enlist the other side as helpers in our everyday life—both in practical and profound ways.

Together we practice exercises that awaken, develop, and strengthen our intuitive, clairvoyant, clairaudient, clairsentient, claircognizant, and mediumistic abilities. This heightens our ability to receive messages and connect with the other side.

Experiencing signs and messages from the other side also helps us gain confidence in our paths and our choices, and gets us into the “flow of light” of the universe. As we connect more deeply with our team of light, we live more vibrant, engaged lives in the here and now.

Laura Lynne Jackson is an international speaker, teacher, psychic medium, and New York Times best-selling author. lauralynnejackson.com

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INFINITY FULL MOON WEEKEND Embrace the Power Within Kelly Morris Course 5302-557/Tuition $375 ($335 Members) SS, MI

Join meditation expert Kelly Morris for an empowering weekend under the Aries full moon. During this weekend we step away from our busy lives to immerse ourselves in the natural world and learn sacred feminine earth-based meditation practices that enable us to awaken, heal, and step into our power. These practices show us how to connect with the Earth/Gaia; how to key into our innate wisdom, power, and love; and how to come home to who we truly are, free of the limiting constructs exemplified by patriarchy.

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Join Ora Nadrich, founder of the Institute for Transformational Thinking, and discover how to live authentically in all areas of your life. By recognizing unhealthy habits and old patterns that dim the light of your true nature, you learn to truly let go of the self that no longer serves your wellbeing—and welcome in a fully embodied self of pure, authentic truth. Throughout the weekend, you:

Through meditations, a dharma talk, question-and-answer sessions, shared discussions, and small group exercises, you learn several methodologies for reaching a state of enlightenment. You begin to increase your self-awareness, discover your true nature, and experience your free, pure, limitless self.

Laura Lynne Jackson

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Ora Nadrich

Are you searching for that one single or correct path to enlightenment? Zen Buddhist teacher Haemin Sunim says there is no such thing. But the best-selling author and most influential monk on social media offers a fast and direct approach to initial enlightenment that anyone can achieve.

Opening to the Secret Language of the Universe

Participate in a guided Aries full moon bonfire ceremony and learn how to transmute personal trauma into clean, usable energy. Through journaling, digital detox, and spending time alone in nature, we learn to drop civilization to honor our truths and return to our animal roots.

Return home knowing how to hold moon fire ceremony, how to connect effectively with the sentient being that is Pachamama/ Gaia, how to connect with our own internal rhythms, and how to maintain a meditation practice that dissolves the mandates of patriarchy and awakens you to your authentic wholeness.

KELLY MORRIS

This workshop is for those who identify as women. It is appropriate for both beginner and expert meditators.

HAEMIN SUNIM

Kelly Morris is a globally recognized teacher who brings meditation to women via the Infinity Call, a subscription-based meditation service. theinfinitycall.com

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LIVE YOUR PURPOSE Bring More Meaning to Everyday Life Devi Brown Course 5302-355/Tuition $395 ($355 Members) MI

Do you desire more meaning in your life? Are you ready to get unstuck?

It’s time to let yourself move forward through this process of dissolving limiting beliefs and opening up to spiritually fulfilling practices.

Discover the depths of living a life of purpose and learn how to utilize purpose in everyday life—exactly where you are right now.

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Guided by wellness entrepreneur Devi Brown, you engage in group discussions, partner activities, lectures, writing exercises, and meditation practice. You deepen your understanding of your self and your role within the world.

Throughout the weekend, you develop a daily practice that honors your true self.

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Return home more in touch with your intuition and ready to apply your gifts and skills to create a life enhanced with more purpose.

This workshop is designed to benefit professionals in any field who want to feel more fulfilled in what they are doing, and anyone who wants to enhance feelings of joy and peace in their daily lives.

Devi Brown is a seasoned broadcaster, a Deepak Chopracertified Vedic meditation teacher, a practitioner of spiritual psychology, author of Crystal Bliss, and founder of the Karma Bliss brand. devibrown.com DEVI BROWN

FAITH HUNTER

DAY SCHILDKRET

LAURA DICKSTEIN THOMPSON

ANGELA WILLIAMS-JONES

SABRINA MOSCOLA

KO IM

OCTOBER 2-4

Yoga & Creativity Retreat Reignite and Explore Your Creative Self Course 5302-499/Tuition $345 ($310 Members) SS

Do you love yoga? Do you also love being creative? Join us for this weekend retreat designed to reignite and explore your creative self presented by NY YOGA + LIFE™ magazine. Yoga, sound, journaling, and meditation help us create space in our bodies and minds so that we can more easily reconnect to our creativity. Sessions will be led by yoga teacher Faith Hunter, international impermanent earth artist Day Schildkret of Morning Altars, director of education at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) Laura Thompson, and many more.

Daily yoga sessions help balance the nervous system, purify toxins, and release tension deeply rooted in the mind, body, and soul. A forest bathing meditation on the Omega grounds will be followed by a plein-air drawing activity as a chance to reconnect with the senses. Also, experience Morning Altars, a hands-on, earth-based practice from Schildkret’s book that teaches how nature and art are effective ways to heal, grieve, celebrate, and honor life transitions.

This course begins Friday at 7:00 p.m.

Teachers are subject to change.

NY YOGA + LIFE™ magazine is New York’s only free magazine celebrating yoga, art, music, wellness, and NY lifestyle.

Faith Hunter is the owner and creator of Embrace Yoga DC and architect of Spiritually Fly™. faithhunter.com Day Schildkret is an artist and author of Morning Altars: A 7-Step Practice to Nourish Your Spirit through Nature, Art and Ritual. morningaltars.com Laura Dickstein Thompson, EdD, is the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) director of education and Kidspace gallery curator.

Angela Williams-Jones, E-RYT, YACEP, is a 500+ hour yoga teacher, a Reiki master, and team leader for NY YOGA + LIFE. Sabrina Moscola, RYT, trained in Yin Yoga under Corina Benner and is features editor for NY YOGA + LIFE. Ko Im is an award-winning storyteller, multidisciplinary artist, and deputy editor of NY YOGA + LIFE.

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FEMINIST SELF-DEFENSE

Embrace the Power Within Rachel Piazza ALBERT FLYNN DESILVER

MAUREEN HANCOCK

OCTOBER 2-4

WRITING, INTUITION & YOUR SPIRITUAL JOURNEY Albert Flynn DeSilver and Maureen Hancock

Course 5302-386/Tuition $395 ($355 Members) MI

Are you ready to reconnect to your innate creative potential? To write forth the truth of your direct experience? To discover who you really are?

Join internationally published author and memoirist Albert Flynn DeSilver and spirit medium Maureen Hancock for an extraordinary journey into the heart of creativity.

• Learn techniques to heighten and strengthen our intuitive capacities • Acquire powerful writing skills to boost communication confidence with self and others • Practice dynamic meditation and movement techniques to connect to a deeper creativity • Enjoy time for writing, relaxing, and reconnecting to our inner lives in a safe, innovative, and supportive community We strengthen our connection with spirit and Maureen Hancock will demonstrate mediumship, connecting with some participants.

Guided by Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu specialist and women’s and gender studies professor Rachel Piazza, learn an evidence-based 3-pronged approach to selfdefense that combines physical techniques and boundary-setting skills within a social justice framework. Through lecture, conversation, and physical tactics based in Jiu-Jitsu, a ground fighting system that uses leverage and technique—not force—to subdue assailants, we gain basic skills in evading and escaping physical control and neutralizing an attacker.

We return home with greater confidence, practical tactics we can use right away, and an understanding of how we can use our bodies to free ourselves from gender power dynamics through collective, joyful resistance.

Women, teens, and people vulnerable to gender-based violence of any physical ability are welcome. The techniques can be modified to match any fitness level.

Teens must be chaperoned.

Chaperones may choose any workshop offered this weekend or an R&R Retreat.

Rachel Piazza is founder of Feminist Self-Defense, which has been featured in the New York Times and The Economist. feministselfdefense.com

Albert Flynn DeSilver is a poet, writer, and mindfulness meditation instructor. His latest book is Writing as a Path to Awakening.

Rob Wergin

Course 5302-252/Tuition $395 ($355 Members) MI, LE

Our past experiences can cause energetic stagnation and blockages in our mind and ROB WERGIN body. These blocks often lead to disease, dysfunction, distress, disconnection, or despair in our lives.

During this weekend with Rob Wergin, we experience multiple hands-on healing experiences and divine light transmissions that create opportunities to clear old patterns, experiences, and beliefs.

This process releases physical, mental, and emotional discomfort, as well as pain, disease, and addictions—reconnecting us with our true expression. When reconnecting to divine energy, our mind and body are filled with unconditional love and light, and balance is restored, blockages and stagnation are released, old wounds are healed, dis-ease is dismissed, and many aspects of life are transformed.

Additionally, through lectures, discussions, and shared explorations, we restore and maintain a joyful healing connection with the divine that allows us to continue our journey of reconnection and wellness.

We return home with a renewed connection to divine energy and a more vibrant body, mind, and spirit.

This workshop is also offered in May (see page 19). Additional energy work of any kind (i.e., massage, cranial therapy, etc.) is not advised during this retreat.

Rob Wergin is a clairvoyant, clairsentient, and clairaudient who leads transformational sessions throughout the United States. robwergin.com

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TOUCHING THE JAGUAR Learning Daily Practices for Transforming Yourself and Your Relationship to Earth John Perkins

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Experience innovative writing exercises, dynamic meditation practices, original movement experiences, open writing time, discussion, and personal sharing through which we:

Unlike other self-defense courses that make participants feel vulnerable and fearful, Feminist Self-Defense is a fun and liberating celebration of power that leaves us feeling uplifted from the inside out.

Divine Light Healing

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Discover the practice of writing as an exploration of consciousness, a practice toward deeper selfawareness and intuition, an exploration that moves us along the path of awakening to our true nature.

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Course 5302-409/Tuition $390 ($350 Members) SS

“Touching the jaguar” for Amazonian shamans means confronting fears, breaking through barriers, and JOHN PERKINS energizing ourselves to manifest our personal and communal dreams. Fear—of change, failure, success, not being loved—holds us back from creating the life we want.

This weekend empowers you to follow your heart’s greatest desires and explore your role in reversing climate change. John shares his knowledge from training with indigenous shamans, advising presidents and corporate CEOs, forming businesses, and organizing social and environmental movements. He leads you through practices, meditations, shamanic journeys, and fire ceremonies that: • Empower you to identify and overcome your fears and blockages • Teach you techniques for creating positive change • Integrate indigenous wisdom and traditions in ways that ground you in a chaotic world • Develop daily practices to channel your passions into action “I’ve always seen a strong connection,” John says, “between my lives as a shaman, economic change agent, and social-environmental activist. This workshop brings those worlds together.”

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Maureen Hancock is author of the best-selling book The Medium Next Door and star of the documentary Psychic in Suburbia. maureenhancock.com

RACHEL PIAZZA

John Perkins, founder of Dream Change and the Pachamama Alliance is the best-selling author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, Shapeshifting and Touching the Jaguar: Transforming Fears into Actions to Change the World. johnperkins.org

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omegawomen’s leadership center The OWLC offers an integrated approach to personal growth, leadership development, and social change. Whether you are a seasoned leader or beginning your leadership voyage, our programs are designed for all who identify as women to strengthen their leadership so that we can help create a world that works—for everybody. Join us in 2020 to learn, explore, make friends, build alliances, and develop your leadership skills as part of a community dedicated to advancing a global culture of equality and care.

2020 Women’s Leadership Center Workshops MAY 15-17

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Home Repairs for Women DIY Plumbing Can Be Fun See page 26.

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Boost Your Personal Power You Are a Priority See page 72.

AUGUST 7-9

JUNE 14, 2020-MARCH 30, 2021

Coaching For Transformation: A Women’s Cohort A 9-Month Professional Coaching Certification Program

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JUNE 19-21

Trust Your Body’s Wisdom Access Your Power See page 44.

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Improve Your Relationship With Your Car Auto Maintenance 101 JULY 24-26

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Public Speaking for Women Leaders A Persuasive Communication Workshop

Amplify Your Voice Speaking Up to Advance Change See page 82.

AUGUST 21-23

Courageous Conversations Transforming Conflict Into Understanding See page 92.

OCTOBER 4-9

The Omega Women’s Leadership Intensive Become the Kind of Leader the World Needs Now See page to the right.

See page 128.

For online courses see pages 138 and 139 Tiered pricing and scholarships are available. See eOmega.org/scholarships.

We are grateful to the following organizations for their significant support of the OWLC: H EN RY L . K I M ELMAN FAM I LY FO U N DATI O N

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“There was life before Omega and life after Omega.

This was a watershed moment in my life.”

—WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP INTENSIVE PARTICIPANT OMEGA WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP CENTER PROGRAM

The Omega Women’s Leadership Intensive Become the Kind of Leader the World Needs Now Course 5405-490/Tuition $495/420/345 ($445 Members) SS, MI, LE

Whether guiding a family, working in an organization, running a business, or holding public office, leadership involves deciding what matters most.

Today, the old “command and control” leadership model is giving way to “connect and collaborate,” and women are playing a central role in this important shift.

Guided by expert teachers, we explore five leadership essentials—

Mallika Dutt is the founder of global human rights organization Breakthrough and a leading innovator in producing multimedia experiences that have shifted the hearts and minds of millions of people. mallikadutt.com

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Articulate our core values Strengthen our capacity to communicate with authenticity and impact Create a compelling and actionable vision Engage in a healing exploration of our “vessel” or embodied self Learn to incorporate self-care practices, intersectionality, and empathy into our work • Sketch a year’s leadership plan to put our values into action, elevate our voice, and actualize our vision Whether you are a seasoned leader or beginning your leadership journey, this intensive can help you be the courageous, wise, and nurturing leader the world needs today.

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This highly experiential workshop is for all who identify as women and want to use their leadership to create a caring, just, and sustainable future for everybody. Through reflection, dialogue, writing, movement, meditation, and contact with nature, we delve deep into our leadership stories in an intimate setting. In an intergenerational, multiracial circle of women, we examine current and historic systems of power and privilege and how they intersect, and learn what we can do to advance change.

We engage in transformative exercises that awaken us to do power differently at the personal, relational, and global level.

values, voice, vision, vessel, and voyage. Together we:

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$25 materials fee; include when you register. Application required; see eOmega.org/owlc. This workshop begins Sunday at 8:00 p.m. Teachers are subject to change.

Leslie Salmon Jones

Carla Goldstein

Sarah Urech

Sharon Salzberg

is the creator of Afro Flow Yoga™ and is committed to the empowerment of all people to develop mastery over their physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. afroflowyoga.com

is Omega Institute’s president, cofounder of the Omega Women’s Leadership Center, and has over 25 years of public interest advocacy experience. eOmega.org/OWLC

is senior strategist for the Omega Women’s Leadership Center. A multilingual performer and social worker, she has performed and taught in 18 countries. eOmega.org/OWLC

(online guest faculty) is a central figure in the field of meditation, a world-renowned teacher, cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society, and a New York Times best-selling author. sharonsalzberg.com

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NIRMALA NATARAJ

ENERGETIC SENSITIVITY

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THE POWER OF SISTERHOOD

Using Our Stories to Access Feminine Wisdom Kelly McNelis and Nirmala Nataraj Course 5405-502/Tuition $495 ($445 Members)

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When women share their wisdom, stories, and go deep with one another, they transform the world. Unfortunately, too many women harbor stories of betrayal, abandonment, and loss when it comes to sisterhood. So how can we transform patterns of disempowerment—which have been exacerbated by sexism and a zero-sum-game mentality around “success” that limits our feminine capacity for collaboration—into true connection in our personal and professional lives?

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When we experience disconnection from other women, it’s usually because we have chosen stories that perpetuate this. The Power of Sisterhood demonstrates that our stories as women can either separate or bring us together, and encourages us to move toward sisterhood without sacrificing our truth in the process.

The workshop incorporates journaling, role playing, and experiential exercises, as well as trust-building activities with partners, small groups, and the larger group.

All who identify as women between the ages of 18 and 80 are welcome.

Kelly McNelis is the founder of Women For One and best-selling author of Your Messy Brilliance: 7 Tools for the Perfectly Imperfect Woman. womenforone.com Nirmala Nataraj is a New York– based writer, editor, book midwife, theater artist, and mythmaker, and Women for One’s director of creative content and strategy. nirmalanataraj.com

OCTOBER 4-9

ELLEN SALTONSTALL

YOGA & BODYMIND BALLWORK FOR HEALTHY AGING

Bone Strength, Alignment, Balance, & Tension Release Ellen Saltonstall Course 5405-515/Tuition $475 ($425 Members) MI, CE

This workshop inspires participants to develop a sustainable home yoga practice, building bone and muscle strength, skillful balance, and tension release. We look at the biomechanics of key areas of the body, and practice poses specifically chosen and adapted to help realign and dissolve tension while also building strength.

Come away with fun, practical, and effective ways to foster healthy aging. Classes include Bodymind Ballwork, a bodywork method using rubber balls which dramatically eases tension in the muscles, connective tissue, and joints. We also practice pranayama and meditation, underscoring our magnificent body-mind-spirit connection.

Ellen Saltonstall is a New York City-based yoga teacher, therapist, and author of Yoga for Arthritis, Yoga for Osteoporosis, and The Bodymind Ballwork Method. ellensaltonstall.com OCTOBER 4-9

THE MIRACLE COURSE

AWAKENING THROUGH BREATH Nevşah F. Karamehmet Course 5405-522/Tuition $550 ($495 Members) MI

Are you ready to make serious and lasting changes in your life? Your physical, psychological, and emotional well-being are inextricably linked to the way you breathe.

NEVŞAH F. KARAMEHMET In this experiential workshop with bestselling author Nevşah F. Karamehmet, you learn simple and effective methods for changing your life by changing the way you breathe.

Through experiential exercises, breathing sessions, group discussions, writing practices, and lectures, you breathe new life into your business, relationships, and physical, emotional, and spiritual health. Guided by Nevşah, you identify and examine dysfunctional breathing habits and learn to address the underlying psychological or physiological issues that caused them. Then, you learn to push positively past them.

You learn to define your core values, set meaningful and achievable goals, and develop essential breathing practices to improve health and well-being, dissolve emotional charges, and deepen your connection with your authentic self. Return home with a greater understanding of your unique mission in life and new skills to take control of your destiny from within.

Nevşah F. Karamehmet, founding president of the International Breath Coaching Federation, is a meditation teacher, researcher, educator, speaker, and author. nevsah.com

Navigating Your Unique Path Michelle J. Howe Course 5405-546/Tuition $495 ($445 Members) MI

Designed for personal and professional empowerment for those who are awakening professionals, empaths, or deep feelers, this workshop shares fundamental truths, insights and tools to walk a clearer (calmer, brighter, more joyful) path.

It’s time to gain a deeper understanding of the dynamics of energetic sensitivity, personal power, vibrational resonance, and much more. This workshop introduces you to new concepts, tools, and vibrations that strengthen your mind, expand your heart, and lighten your way forward as you advance on your unique path.

Michelle J. Howe integrates highvibrational teachings within a sacred and safe space with you.

This powerful workshop is designed to be interactive with plenty of time for questions, experientials, introspection, guided meditations, and more.

In this workshop, you: • Embrace the path and process of awakening • Learn to love, trust, and value yourself, and your sensitivity • Understand how to navigate drama, setbacks, and challenges in life • Create stability, strength, and safety within yourself.

Participants are encouraged to wear comfortable clothing, bring a private journal, and allow themselves to relax in a safe learning environment.

Michelle J. Howe is a powerful channel of high vibrational, healing energies who awakens and guides heart-centered individuals, teams, and organizations on the Path to Joyful Expansion. empathevolution.com

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BROWN MINDFULNESS PROGRAM

OCTOBER 4-11

A 7-Day Mindfulness Meditation Retreat FLORENCE MELEO-MEYER

Discover the Insight Inside You

Florence Meleo-Meyer, Bob Stahl, and Eric B. Loucks Course 5407-269/Tuition $1,000 ($900 Members) SS, MI

Mindfulness meditation can help you access deep, innate resources for healing, growth, and transformation. It offers the possibility of a healthy way to be in relationship with the inevitable joys and challenges of life, and can give you freedom from stress, anxiety, pain, and illness.

BOB STAHL

In this silent retreat in the Insight Meditation tradition, led by teachers from the Mindfulness Center at Brown University, you are skillfully guided into an investigation into the inner workings of your mind and body through daily teachings on sitting meditation, walking meditation, and the principles of contemplative practice. You also receive clear guidance for how to be in silence and learn the key Buddhist psychological concepts behind all mindfulnessbased programs.

This retreat is suitable for anyone wishing to deepen a mindfulness practice.

It may also be of interest to those teaching or aspiring to teach mindfulness in healthcare, psychology, education, science, government, or other business or corporate settings.

ERIC B. LOUCKS

This retreat begins Sunday at 7:00 p.m.

Florence Meleo-Meyer, MS, MA, LMFT, serves as global ambassador to the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction affiliates worldwide at the Mindfulness Center at Brown University. brown.edu/mindfulnesscenter Bob Stahl, PhD, teaches Insight Meditation retreats and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction programs and teacher trainings worldwide. He is a Senior Teacher for Brown University’s Mindfulness Center. brown.edu/mindfulnesscenter

Eric B. Loucks, PhD, is director of the Mindfulness Center at Brown University. He is experienced teaching a number of mindfulnessbased interventions. brown.edu/mindfulnesscenter

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Throughout the week, you practice accessing moment-to-moment awareness in your daily activities as well as in the natural world. In individual and group practice discussions, you deepen understanding and strengthen your own personal practice while cultivating your innate capacity for resilience and insight.

FEATURING

HANDCRAFTED HERBAL BODY-CARE Make Your Own Personal Care Products Dina Falconi Course 5502-484/Tuition $345/270/195 ($310 Members) MI, LE

Are you looking for a better way to treat yourself and the planet? Learn to make customized, nontoxic, personal-care products perfectly suited to your skin, hair, and body.

Whether you want to avoid the chemicals found in many products, are interested in a zero-waste lifestyle, or simply enjoy making things, herbalist Dina Falconi, author of Earthly Bodies & Heavenly Hair, reveals the art and science of making homecrafted body-care products. She shares her favorite master recipes and answers your questions about how to use all-natural ingredients to support, soothe, nourish, and heal the body.

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Reiki Master Training & Certification Brett Bevell

Course 5502-298/Tuition $400 ($360 Members)

Explore advanced Reiki practices using three sacred Reiki master symbols that allow you to empower and teach others to all levels of Reiki, plus advanced Psychic Reiki healing techniques.

See workshop description on page 132.

Get hands-on experience as Falconi guides you step-by-step in how to make healthy creams, salves, balms, herbal oils, face cleansers, mouthwashes, and more. You learn to create an individual skin, hair, and body-care plan for yourself, and practice creating a plan for someone else. You also enjoy a luxurious herbal facial treatment with the items you make in the workshop.

DINA FALCONI

Return home with samples and the knowledge you need to create your own natural, personalized, body-care products.

Dina Falconi is a clinical herbalist with a strong focus on food activism and nutritional healing.

She is also an avid gardener, wildcrafter, and permaculturist. botanicalartspress.com

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The Empath’s Survival Guide

OCTOBER 9-11

DEVOTIONAL YOGA TRAINING

Ignite the Power of Your Empathy & Intuition

Nubia Teixeira

Course 5502-394/Tuition $395 ($355 Members) CE

NUBIA TEIXEIRA

Bhakti yoga is the yoga of devotion.

If you are looking to bring more Bhakti to your yoga flow, let Nubia Teixeira guide you in this devotional yoga training.

Perceiving yoga as a healing art, Teixeira’s refinement and unique style overflows with sacred meaning and heartfelt inspiration. For this training, she has gathered many gems of embodied Bhakti to share with you via yogasana flows, which are infused with sacredness and devotion. Based on compositions from her Bhakti Nova School of Yoga, you practice flowing from stationary pose to stationary pose in a choreography-like sequence.

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Each day you: • Experience ritualist yoga that honors the five elements • Practice Bhakti flow, an organically sequenced mixture of traditional asanas, yogasanas, and mudras • Explore Bhakti history, teachings, philosophy, poetry, and prayer Designed especially for intermediate yoga practitioners and yoga teachers, this training supports you in bringing the beauty of Bhakti to yoga sequences in inspiring and potent ways.

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Nubia Teixeira is an author, yogini, teacher trainer, and Odissi dancer who has been teaching yoga for almost 30 years. bhaktinova.com

Judith Orloff Course 5502-206/Tuition $430 ($385 Members) MI

There is a powerful connection between your emotions, intuition, and empathy. Join JUDITH ORLOFF psychiatrist and empath Judith Orloff and learn to use these gifts wisely without becoming overloaded or drained.

In a welcoming and supportive community, we explore what it means to be an empath, or highly sensitive person, and learn practical skills to: • • • • • • • • • • •

Recognize what blocks your empathy and intuition Tell the difference between intuition and fear Use strategies to prevent sensory overload Avoid emotional hangovers and compassion fatigue Stop absorbing the stress of others Combat narcissists and other energy vampires Express your empathic needs in relationships Heal with intuition and empathy Read the body language of others Use oracle cards to receive intuitive guidance Use journaling as a technique for empowerment

As we fine-tune how to nurture these sensitivities while staying grounded, we become a model of how to be sensitive, heart-centered, and strong— characteristics that are necessary for changing our own lives and having a positive influence in the world.

All are welcome, including those who wish to use these tools in clinical practice to help clients achieve greater health and wellness.

Judith Orloff, MD, is a psychiatrist, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA, and author of many books, including Thriving as an Empath. drjudithorloff.com

OMEGA YOGA SERVICE PROGRAM

OCTOBER 9-11

HEALING THE WOUNDS OF RACIAL DISTRESS What’s Yoga Got to Do With It?

Gail Parker, Amina Naru, and Pamela Stokes Eggleston Course 5502-391/Tuition $350/275/200 ($315 Members) CE

Race-based stress and trauma are so common in our culture that we are not always aware of the negative impact. Yet, we have all had experiences, some of them painful, that arise from our racial or ethnic identity. The focus of this workshop is on the ability of restorative yoga to aid in the recovery of trauma and the alleviation of stress based on racial and ethnic wounding. In this workshop participants will take a look at their relationship to race and ethnicity, their hidden and unhealed wounds, and will discover the healing power of self-study, restorative yoga, connection, and shared narrative to support healing.

Even if you have never had a direct experience of racial wounding, as aware members of the human family we know that when something affects one of us it affects us all. This workshop is relevant to yoga therapists, yoga teachers, educators, medical and health care professionals, and behavioral health specialists regardless of their racial or ethnic identity, who are interested in becoming engaged in this work.

We will learn what constitutes race based stress and trauma, how it differs from PTSD, the cultural conditioning that contributes to racial wounding, the impact of intergenerational trauma, our vulnerabilities that make this a difficult conversation, and ways to identify what triggers you. We will identify where racial stress and trauma land in the body, and how restorative yoga can be used as an effective selfcare tool to buffer the nervous system, increase resilience, and strengthen your psychological immune system as you navigate the stresses and traumas that arise from daily-lived experiences associated with race.

GAIL PARKER

AMINA NARU

PAMELA STOKES EGGLESTON

Gail Parker, PhD, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, a psychologist, educator, author, and thought leader, is a lifelong practitioner of yoga. She serves as a faculty member in the department of Integrative Medicine at Beaumont Hospital’s School for Yoga Therapy in Royal Oak, Michigan.

Amina Naru, E-RYT, is owner of Posh Yoga in Wilmington, Delaware, former co-executive director of the Yoga Service Council, and a cofounder of Retreat to Spirit. retreat2spirit.com Pamela Stokes Eggleston, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, is the founder and director of Yoga2Sleep, former co-executive director of the Yoga Service Council, and a cofounder of Retreat to Spirit. retreat2spirit.com

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The Great Shamanic Initiation The Sacred Keys to Embody a Timeless Wisdom Alberto Villoldo, Marcela Lobos, and the Medicine Women and Men of the High Andes

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Course 5502-383/Tuition $395 ($355 Members) SS

Join Alberto Villoldo, Marcela Lobos, and the Medicine Women and Men of the High Andes in a weekend of ceremony and sacred rites of passage. This is the first time the Medicine Women will come from the high mountains to transmit their rites of initiation of the divine feminine, which will be offered to all participants.

Marcela and the female shamans will anoint the women in a ceremony of return to our Divine Mother, where you can heal the wounds inflicted on the feminine for centuries. Alberto and the medicine men will lead a rite of passage to mend the fabric of the wounded masculine and find forgiveness and healing. We will take part in an empowerment ceremony offering you the Sacred Keys, that allow you to embody a timeless wisdom from the stars given to the shamans at the beginning of time. These keys help you find a destiny where you can bring joy and peace to all beings, starting with yourself.

MARCELA LOBOS

Aberto Villoldo, PhD, a medical anthropologist and psychologist, has studied the spiritual practices of the Amazon and the Andes for more than 30 years. thefourwinds.com

Marcela Lobos was born and raised in Chile, where she leads expeditions with women shamans who belong to a matriarchal society. thefourwinds.com The Q’ero Shamans and Medicine Women are traveling from the high Andes of Peru to share initiation ceremonies that help transform us and usher in a new era for the planet.

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The Q’ero Shamans consider themselves the midwives of a new time for humanity.

In an evening ceremony you will be invited to toss into a fire the old and stale beliefs that keep you tied to your past and family of origin, and to shed the musty, worn-out legacy of our history.

Q’ERO SHAMANS

This course will include follow-up Zoom calls. The shamans will be available for private healing sessions during the weekend, on a first-come first-served basis. All attendees will be invited to participate in the Solstice Global Healing ceremony led by the Andean Shamans in June and December.

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PAINTING FROM THE HEART

Inspiration, Imagination & Transformation

DAVID SALTMAN

Lori Goldberg, “Trash Fish 111,” 11 x 14 in., ink on vellum

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Course 5605-479/Tuition $465 ($420 Members) MI

As the great painter Marc Chagall said, “If you create from the heart, nearly everything works, if from the head, almost nothing.”

Set your creativity free and find new inspiration in this hands-on painting and drawing workshop with visual artist Lori Goldberg. Develop your understanding of self-expression and the creative process as you joyfully rediscover your innate sense of play. Find inspiration through direct observation, guided exercises, collaboration, and self-expressive exploration.

In this hands-on workshop, you are guided on a dynamic inner and outer journey by the environment, each other, and your innermost

authentic self. You learn to: • Connect to your visual intelligence and express yourself from a deeply intuitive place • Utilize new skills and approaches in the mechanics of drawing and painting • Record your observations of the everyday world with a new awareness • Unblock your creative blocks and awaken all of your senses Designed for anyone wishing to explore drawing and painting beyond ordinary methods, this workshop is open to all levels of experience.

Lori Goldberg, represented by Hote Gallery, LA, is a multimedia artist who exhibits regularly across Canada and Europe. lorigoldberg.ca

OCTOBER 11-16

Therapeutic Tai Chi & Qigong An Intensive Training for Health Professionals David Saltman Course 5605-362/Tuition $435 ($390 Members)

This hands-on training with David Saltman covers the application of traditional tai chi and qigong for health and healing with a special focus given to the clinical needs of hospital patients and health-care clients.

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THE TRUST TECHNIQUE Being With Animals

James French and Shelley Slingo Course 5605-429/Tuition $545 ($490 Members) SS, MI, LE

The Trust Technique is based on the theory that deepening the connection between humans and animals can transform the lives of both. It uses mindfulness and focused presence techniques as a basis for resolving problems for humans and for pets or other animals.

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Past-Life Therapy Training Brian Weiss and Carole K. Weiss Course 5605-216/Tuition $995 ($895 Members)

See workshop description on page 21.

BRIAN WEISS AND CAROLE K. WEISS

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A Creative Return to What Matters Most

Meditation & Breathwork Retreat

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Flora Bowley Course 5605-516/Tuition $580 ($520 Members) MI

Flora Bowley believes creative expression, intuitive wisdom, and personal freedom are intricately connected, and she’s passionate about rekindling the flames of inspiration that reunite us with a deep sense of human aliveness.

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Through a unique blend of hands-on, intuitive art practices, authentic movement, free form writing, visualizations, and soulful connection, The Art of Aliveness offers a dynamic and playful space to nurture and rediscover the parts of ourselves that make us feel most alive.

ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE WITH GRACE Scott Schwenk

Course 5605-363/Tuition $450 ($405 Members) SS

Grace is the force that makes the impossible possible. Grace is inherent in every particle in the cosmos, and is revealed as we dissolve, digest, and alchemize the habitual tension patterns of body, thought, and emotion. Tune into the grace that exists within you at this workshop with Scott Schwenk, a meditation teacher who lived and studied in a HinduTantric monastery for several years.

Schwenk gently guides you to begin a transformative breathwork practice that allows you to access the stillness of your SCOTT SCHWENK mind. Learn breathing patterns Known worldwide for her unique to help reduce stress, anxiety, depression, ability to instill creative courage, selfand inflammation. Through empowered acceptance, and wild freedom, Bowley’s mantra practice and lucid explorations, you gentle and encouraging approach to the learn to recognize the faces of grace that creative process is perfect for anyone willing exist within you. You discover how to expand to show up with an open and curious heart. your capacities to work and live from this No art, movement, or writing experience is inner dynamism. In a container of deep inner necessary. silence, you explore the deepest realities of Flora Bowley is a painter, pioneer, and author the transformative power of grace. of Brave Intuitive Painting and Creative Build and strengthen your willingness to Revolution. florabowley.com recognize grace and love in all situations. Return home ready to integrate new insights into your everyday life and experiences.

Daily practice of the Trust Technique creates a shared peace of mind and reduces anxious over-thinking—one of the main causes for so-called “behavioral problems” in pets and humans. This dynamic approach does not objectify animals, but rather recognises all animals as sentient equals and transcends an unhealthy approach of dominance or control.

Humans and other animals work in trusted cooperation, which leads to more truthful communication and manifests in shared well-being.

Through talks, demonstrations, and practice sessions (including time spent with rescue dogs, sheep, and horses), we learn the core concepts of the Trust Technique and develop true comfort and confidence with animals. We also develop a daily therapeutic practice we can share with animal companions in our life— including sensitive animals or animals that have lost trust with humans.

This workshop offers practical skills for those who care for animals, including veterinarians, animal practitioners and rescuers, and those who live with pets or simply have a love of animals.

Upon registration your contact information will be shared with French and Slingo so they can be in touch with you prior to the workshop.

James French, the primary teacher and creator/founder of the Trust Technique, is an animal communication healer and Reiki master. trust-technique.com Shelley Slingo, secondary teacher and director of the Trust Technique, is a therapist and animal assisted healer. trust-technique.com

Scott Schwenk is a coach and meditation teacher known for his intense empathy and clairaudience (intuitive hearing). scottschwenk.com

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BROWN MINDFULNESS PROGRAM

OCTOBER 11-16

FRAMEWORK FOR LIVING MINDFULLY Deepening Practice

Robert Smith and Elana Rosenbaum Course 5605-270/Tuition $675 ($610 Members) SS

ROBERT SMITH

Invest in your mindfulness practice beyond basic stress reduction. Continue your journey, begun with Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), and explore practices such as working with thoughts and emotions, and fostering a deeper connection to your body’s inherent wisdom. Draw on the formal and informal practices of MBSR to bring variety to practice, exploring new doorways into presence.

In this 5-day immersion, you learn to foster greater commitment, confidence, joy, and energy in your life. You experience some longer practice periods, more silence, and time to dialogue in large and small groups. You also explore your practice through various expressions, including writing, art, and movement.

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You learn to identify and investigate qualities that are a natural outgrowth of practice: intention, kindness, curiosity, creative responding, equanimity, steadfastness, and more. You create and become part of a community of learning and practice to support your deepest intentions to be awake and present—moment-to-moment—for all of life’s moments.

This workshop begins Sunday at 7:30 p.m. and ends Friday at 12:15 p.m.

Robert Smith, DO, is assistant clinical professor of family medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and senior teacher for Oasis Professional Education Programs. brown.edu/mindfulnesscenter Elana Rosenbaum, MS, LICSW, teaches MBSR at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.

She is a leader in the clinical application of mindfulness to cancer care.

OCTOBER 11-16

JUMP START YOUR MEMOIR Write It From the Heart

GOLDMINING YOUR SHADOWS Pixie Lighthorse

Course 5605-572/Tuition $445 ($400 Members) SS

Course 5605-277/Tuition $380/305/230 ($340 Members)

Jump Start Your Memoir is an inspiring immersion for the beginning writer and is nurturing for the burnt-out professional. It is about honoring your own voice in a safe, inviting place.

Nancy Slonim Aronie says, “I can’t teach writing. I don’t think anyone can. But I can make it safe and I’ve learned when people feel safe, they go deep. The writing gets more powerful, the heart goes deeper, and the words flow faster. Getting the story of your life out of your body means you don’t have to carry the weight of it around anymore. When people ask if it’s therapy, I answer, ‘No, but it’s therapeutic to write the truth.’”

NANCY SLONIM ARONIE

Dive into writing and discover your own rhythms, use your own language, and tell your own story. Together, we laugh, we cry, and we write.

Nancy Slonim Aronie, author of Writing From the Heart, is a distinguished writer and founder of the Chilmark Writing Workshop on Martha’s Vineyard. chilmarkwritingworkshop.com

“Shadow” is the term for the disowned and discarded aspects of personality that shape our lives and relationships. Becoming familiar with our shadow reveals lost innocence, gifts, and hurts seeking healing. Working with our shadow effectively breaks repetitive cycles of suffering.

Guided by Pixie Lighthorse, author of Goldmining the Shadows, you learn to take responsibility for how your wounds are showing up in your life and rippling out into the world.

When we harm ourselves with thoughts and unhealed emotions, we also do harm to others.

This retreat combines lecture, discussion, and practice for strengthening your band of tolerance and empathy for self and others. We also connect with the land and water at Omega as part of our healing process.

Pixie Lighthorse is the author of the Prayers of Honoring series, Boundaries & Protection, and Goldmining the Shadows, and has created more than 50 online courses applying integrative transformative practice, animal and plant studies, and the Medicine Circle into self-healing work. pixielighthorse.com

OCTOBER 11-16

SHAMANIC REIKI HEALING MASTER PRACTITIONER TRAINING Healing and Empowerment

Stacey Gibbons with Emily Wallace Course 5605-322/Tuition $655 ($590 Members) SS, MI

Shamanism teaches us to use the powers of nature to heal. In Reiki, we channel life force energy to heal and restore balance.

In this master level certification program, we experience the combined powers of shamanic and Reiki healing and apply detailed, proven methods to enhance our healing skills for practice with others and for personal well-being.

Through ancient practices and dynamic group and partner exchanges, we gain hands-on experience in healing work. We apply Shamanic Reiki approaches to: • Expand consciousness and work with spirit guides • Balance energetic trauma and shift attachment to past events • Remove energy intrusions and harmful energetic cords • Attune to the master Reiki energy via symbols and transmission • Conduct comprehensive absentee healing sessions • Shamanically travel to prevent soul loss and restore soul qualities • Initiate as healers through ancient fire ceremony • Integrate Reiki with Tibetan, Maya, Quechua, and Siberian practices

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In the beauty of nature and with the support of a residential retreat, you have space and time to reignite your practice and return home to a deepening trust in yourself.

STACEY GIBBONS

Join like-hearted people in this lively experiential gathering. Reconnect with nature’s transformative powers and the innate ability to heal and balance through complex times.

Begins Sunday at 8:00 p.m. This training is open to level two and/or master level Reiki practitioners with some shamanic experience, or to others with permission from Gibbons. It is a prerequisite for advanced and Shamanic Reiki Teacher programs.

Stacey Gibbons holds a master certification in Traditional Reiki and has studied extensively with shamans of diverse backgrounds. shamanicreikiworldwide.com Emily Wallace is a Shamanic Reiki master teacher, intuitive energy healer, and certified hypnotherapist.

PIXIE LIGHTHORSE

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The Call of Retreat

A 7-Night Silent Retreat with Adyashanti Course 5707-736/Tuition $700 ($630 Members) SS, MI

Retreat is an unobstructed opportunity to plunge into the heart of existence. It’s a chance to take time for committed inquiry, silence, meditation, and contemplation— to listen and respond to the call of our true nature.

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When we go on retreat, we make a commitment to truth, to life, and to each other.

We retreat from the numerous ways we avoid life and ourselves, and instead delve into the awakened life of freedom and love. We immerse ourselves in the spiritual life, turning away from unreality in all of its various forms and turning toward the direct experience of existence as a unified whole. Then we bring that wholeness, love, and freedom back with us into our daily lives.

Retreat is a true communion of souls who share the intention for the divine reality of things to reveal itself. In this sense, the call of retreat is of immense importance.

It is a way of responding to and embodying the spiritual impulse in a deep and committed way both for our own benefit and the benefit of all beings everywhere.

For when one conscious being awakens and evolves, it contributes to the awakening and evolution of the whole.

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This retreat is held in silence, including meals. All participants must reside on the Omega campus during the retreat, must arrive on time, and must stay through the end of the retreat (except for emergencies). This retreat requires parents to come without their children. The retreat begins Friday at 7:00 p.m. and ends Friday at noon. There are no refunds once the retreat has started.

Adyashanti is an American-born spiritual teacher devoted to serving the awakening of all beings. His teachings are an open invitation to stop, inquire, and recognize what is true and liberating at the core of all existence. He is author of The Way of Liberation, Falling into Grace, True Meditation, and The End of Your World. adyashanti.org

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WEEKEND WORKSHOPS

OCTOBER 23-25

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NO MORE DRAMA WITH MAMA

How to Accept, Forgive, and Even Love a Critical Parent

OCTOBER 23-25

SOBER CURIOUS Choosing Sobriety for Presence & Deep Connection Ruby Warrington Course 5902-524/Tuition $375 ($335 Members) SS, MI

Opting out of the dominant drinking culture is a conscious lifestyle choice for anybody invested in their overall well-being. And while living “hangover-free” inevitably leads to greater joy, confidence, clarity, and connection, choosing not to drink is sometimes a lonely and conflicted decision.

RUBY WARRINGTON

• Debunk some of the most frequently upheld myths and common fears about giving up alcohol • Learn to build mental fortitude and rebalance emotional well-being as we pursue our most fulfilling life • Make new connections with fellow sober-curious souls • Find our own paths to a healthier relationship with alcohol, ourselves, and the world around us Using journaling, storytelling, and astrology to unpack our personal boozestories, the weekend is open to all no matter where you are on your sober or sober-curious path. However, this program is not a replacement for rehab or 12-step recovery.

OCTOBER 23-25

NATURAL EYE CARE

Your Guide to Healthy Vision & Healing Marc Grossman Course 5902-550/Tuition $335 ($300 Members) MI

How you see helps determine who you are. Visual symptoms provide valuable MARC GROSSMAN messages that allow you to become more aware of your true soul nature. This eye-opening program, based on Marc Grossman’s new book Natural Eye Care, integrates the art and science of expanding your vision. It also explores the practical and spiritual aspects of vision, teaching you to reprogram your consciousness, gain skills to enhance your perception of the world, and improve your vision—whether you have myopia, presbyopia, cataracts, macular degeneration, or other eye conditions.

Grossman, an optometrist and acupuncturist, uses a full range of mind-body therapies, including Chinese medicine, applied kinesiology, holistic vision, and Continuum Movement therapy.

His pioneering approach can help you see more, feel more, and be more—in everything from intimate and business relationships to career choices and financial planning.

Marc Grossman OD, LAc, is a developmental behavioral optometrist and acupuncturist with more than 40 years of experience. He is coauthor of the international best-seller Magic Eye Beyond 3D and Natural Eye Care. naturaleyecare.com

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CARLA OLLA

OCTOBER 23-25

COME TOGETHER

An Uplifting Yoga Retreat for Women Corinne Gervai and Carla Olla Course 5902-567/Tuition $345 ($310 Members)

A powerful dynamic happens when women come together in a healing circle. Through physical movement, creative expression, song, dance, and yoga, we begin to connect more deeply with ourselves, and with others. We’ll share in the spirit of community and unity, opening up a space for creativity and exploration.

Led by the founders of two Hudson River Valley yoga studios, this weekend retreat gives us an opportunity to meet new friends, deepen connections, and take time to relax as we: • Move and breathe in vinyasa flow yoga for all levels • Find our creative expression in a playful way through painting, collage, and working with found objects • Dance like no one is watching • Experiment with musical instruments and voice for free-flowing expression • Journal thoughts, feelings, and intentions • Connect through circle shares • Take care of ourselves in restorative poses, pampering rituals, and meditation This workshop is for those who identify as women. No yoga, art, music, or dance experience necessary.

Corinne Gervai is founder and director of Euphoria Yoga in Woodstock, and taught at The Jivamukti Yoga School in New York City. euphoriayoga.org Carla Olla, RYT-300, is founder of Rhinebeck Yoga Center, and a Yoga Alliance certified teacher with certificates in Ayurveda Yoga, Reiki, and Thai Yoga Massage. rhinebeckyogacenter.com

Following an outpouring of enthusiasm for her film, Look at Us Now Mother!–which follows Gayle Kirschenbaum’s journey with her mother as their turbulent relationship transforms to love and friendship–this weekend workshop guides us through the process of forgiveness and healing.

Learn the 7 steps to restoring relationships that matter during this forgiveness immersion, a hands-onworkshop where we are asked to evaluate and reform our thinking.

Kirschenbaum introduces her method of turning negatives into positives through understanding, acceptance, and forgiveness. By doing so, we shift from feeling anger to having compassion, and experience freedom and power we have rarely felt before. We go from being the victim of our stories to the hero.

The workshop is for adult children, particularly daughters who have unresolved issues with a parent or someone close to them. That person can long be deceased. The majority of attendees are women since the mother/daughter relationship is the most highly charged relationship, but the workshop is open to all genders.

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Ruby Warrington, author of Material Girl, Mystical World, and Sober Curious, is founder of The Numinous. rubywarrington.com

Course 5902-505/Tuition $375 ($335 Members) SS

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Guided by Ruby Warrington, author of Sober Curious, we are guided to gently unpack some of the deeper reasons for our drinking habits, while discovering new tools for managing the transition to sobriety.

Together we:

Gayle Kirschenbaum

If we don’t resolve a primary relationship such as a parent, we continue to hold onto the anger and resentment and it affects all aspects of our lives—our personal and professional relationships, career, and our health.

This course begins Friday at 7:00 p.m.

Gayle Kirschenbaum is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, TV producer, and blogger. Called “the Nora Ephron of documentaries,” she has turned the camera on herself in her most recently completed feature documentaries. gaylekirschenbaum.com

GAYLE KIRSCHENBAUM

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OCTOBER 23-25

Intelligence of Awakening OM C. Parkin

Course 5902-564/Tuition $375 ($335 Members) SS

Join this retreat with an awakened wisdom teacher of the silent tradition, known to his students as “OM.” We begin with an introduction to awakening, then enter deep inner silence, followed by darshan (direct realization). He shares his knowledge of the absolute through conversations, inner work, and lecture.

In his work, OM embodies the connection between the Eastern teaching of nonduality and Christian mysticism, of depth psychology and philosophy, beyond the boundaries of religions and denominations. He refers to the tradition of advaita, which was revived in the 20th century by Shri Ramana Maharshi and Shri H.W.L. Poonja. OM works in the tradition of these teachers and is rooted in early Christian teaching.

During darshan, we are invited to ask questions or share our deepest feelings. Each of OM’s answers has the clear and sharp flavor of uncompromising truth. Penetrating straight through the questions, OM focuses directly at the questioner themselves, dropping deeper than thought or feelings alone can do.

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Master OM C. Parkin is a renowned European wisdom teacher and the founder of the mystery school Enneallionce and Gut Saunstorf, a modern monastery. His books include Birth of the Lion, and Intelligence of Awakening. He has been helping people find their true nature for more than 30 years and founded the modern satsang movement in Europe. This is his first teaching tour in America. om-c-parkin.com

OM C. PARKIN

OCTOBER 23-25

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THE FULL SCOPE OF YOGA

VEDIC MEDITATION

How to Succeed in Meditation Without Trying

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A Journey Into Asana, Meditation, & Pranayama

Light Watkins Course 5902-498/Tuition $585 ($525 Members) SS, MI, LE

There’s a lot of conflicting information out there about how to meditate. In this weekend comprehensive training, you sort fact from fiction as you learn an easy method for meditating successfully without having to rely on meditation apps, drop-in studios, or outside guidance.

Colleen Saidman and Rodney Yee Course 5902-472/Tuition $450 ($405 Members)

Through lecture, conversation, and guided meditation practices, Vedic meditation teacher Light Watkins guides you through a step-by-step, practical meditation process that can create deep rest in your mind and body and allow you to find more time in your day to meditate. You also discover how to end your battle with getting comfortable, trying to still your “monkey mind,” and just sitting there going over your to-do list.

Beginning meditators are welcome. Those who have been practicing Vedic meditation for more than a year or who have taken a Transcendental Meditation course receive an advanced meditation technique.

Everyone leaves with an enjoyable, self-sufficient meditation practice that works for them, plus ongoing support from Light, including access LIGHT to future trainings.

WATKINS Light Watkins has been meditating since 1998. He is author of The Inner Gym and Bliss More. His TEDx talk on meditation myths has garnered hundreds of thousands of views.

RODNEY YEE AND COLLEEN SAIDMAN

Yoga has long been recognized as a spiritual and physical journey to experience life directly and be at peace. To further your journey, spend this weekend exploring asana, meditation, and pranayama with two of the nation’s most respected yoga teachers: Colleen Saidman and Rodney Yee.

We start with practices designed to slowly open the body, and then turn up the heat with asana. Finally, we cool down with restorative poses, pranayama, and meditation, leaving the body stretched, happy, and relaxed.

Through our practice, we also enhance our natural physical rhythms while learning how to listen to our body. We explore practices to release tension and restlessness so we can be present in our life with vigor and a sense of calm.

Colleen Saidman, owner of Yoga Shanti in Sag Harbor and New York City, is the author of Yoga for Life. yogashanti.com Rodney Yee has created dozens of DVDs, including Rodney Yee’s Yoga for Beginners. yeeyoga.com

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Omega Scholarships

HOW TO APPLY It’s easy to apply online. For the most up-to-date information on scholarship opportunities, eligibility criteria, and links to applications, visit eOmega.org/scholarships.

You can also email scholarships@eOmega.org or call 845.266.4444.

TIERED PRICING Financial circumstances are different for everyone and often vary throughout our lifetimes. In response, Omega offers Tiered Pricing* on select programs.

Tiered Pricing works on an honor system. When you register, choose the price that is appropriate for you. Regular tuition reflects the price of your workshop. Tier 1 and Tier 2 are supported by Omega’s donors.

Regular The tuition fee helps Omega retain world-class teachers, present unique educational opportunities, and sustain the campus

TUITION DISCOUNTS DA Did you know senior citizens (60 years old and over), full-time students, and veterans are eligible to receive a 10% tuition discount* on any workshop in our catalog that’s designated with the code DA? Look for the DA code near the tuition in each course description.

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We believe that the benefits of a holistic education should be available to everyone. Scholarships are one of the ways we are building a holistic learning community, increasing our responsiveness to barriers that exist, and creating greater access to the educational opportunities we offer.

You’ll find full and partial scholarships for programs with many of our top teachers, in every area of our workshop offerings.

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* Tiered Pricing and tuition discounts are subject to change and cannot be combined with other discounts.

NONPROFIT RETREATS Nonprofit Retreats at Omega provide working retreat grants to organizations that enhance community life and focus on a range of social, economic, and environmental issues in the Hudson Valley, and beyond.

Presented in partnership with the New York Council of Nonprofits (NYCON), these retreats have served more than 5,000 people from over 400 organizations since 2005.

To apply for a 2021 Nonprofit Retreat or to learn more, contact Omega’s community engagement manager Betty Schlicht at Bettys@eomega.org.

Omega is grateful to the Dyson Foundation and Rose & Kiernan, Inc. for their generous support of this program.

Donor-Supported Tier 1 Thanks to our contributors, we offer this tuition for those with temporary or minor financial needs Donor-Supported Tier 2 Our contributors’ generosity makes this tuition available for those in need of deeper financial assistance

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MEET US IN NYC OMEGA WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP CENTER PROGRAM

Public Speaking for Women Leaders

A Persuasive Communication Workshop Barbara Tannenbaum

At the New York Open Center* | New York City | 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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JUNE 26 UW20-300

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Refine and deepen your ability to successfully express yourself in an intensive full-day course with expert public speaking strategist Barbara Tannenbaum.

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*This event is not affiliated with the Open Center.

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As women, we are leading in new ways and learning to activate the power of our voice when conveying ideas and catalyzing action. In this highly personalized workshop for leadership development, we devise strategies to strengthen our skills to communicate with increased confidence, clarity, and impact, covering topics such as gender and communication, nonverbal communication strategies, the use of voice to convey leadership, and specific persuasive strategies that influence audiences. We also address ways to overcome blocks to effective communication.

Each participant has the opportunity to deliver a prepared personal presentation that will be video recorded. Instruction includes personal coaching from Tannenbaum, as well as feedback from other participants.

Open to all who identify as women. Enrollment is limited to 10; register early. Choose from three 1-day events: June 24, 25, or 26. Lunch will be served and is included in tuition.

Limited scholarships are available; see eOmega.org/scholarships.

Barbara Tannenbaum, PhD, is president of Dynamic Communication and senior lecturer at Brown University.

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PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS Wisdom at Work, LLC, is an expression of Omega’s commitment to personal and professional development. Omega has joined with New York State to offer you a selection of training programs that are licensed under the Bureau of Proprietary School Supervision (BPSS), a division of the New York Department of Education.

Attendance

Students who do not attend 85% or more of the program sessions will not receive a passing grade.

Students who are more than 1 hour late for the class will be marked as “late” and can speak with the instructor about making up the material missed.

Campus

Omega reserves the right to cancel a program at any time.

Some programs may have a special cancellation policy; see individual workshop descriptions.

Travel insurance is recommended; see eOmega.org/insurance.

Complaints

If a student feels a decision made by Omega faculty is inappropriate or unfair, they may address the problem in two ways. We encourage students to try to resolve the issue with the individual directly. If an informal approach is not successful, students may file a grievance in writing to the Wisdom at Work registrar within ten (10) days of the event. The registrar will complete the investigation of the complaint within ten (10) days of receipt of the complaint. These procedures may not be used if a formal complaint with a State or Federal agency or a court action has already been filed by the student on the same complaint.

Please note in keeping with BPSS regulations, a BPSS-licensed teacher will be present in classes.

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Students who violate the policies of Omega will be subject to disciplinary action. The most serious form of disciplinary action is dismissal. Conduct constituting grounds for dismissal includes but is not limited to: reporting to class under the influence of alcohol and/or illegal drugs; using abusive or offensive language; and threatening or intimidating others.

Severe violations may cause dismissal without re-enrollment or re-admission privileges.

Disclosure

Students are responsible for reviewing relevant catalog course copy and Omega procedures before registering. They are responsible for assessing the risk any activity poses to them, choosing a safe course of action for themselves.

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Conduct and Dismissal

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Omega’s campus is more than 250 acres, and includes a lake, hiking trails, and over 13 classrooms and 75 housing units. Vehicles are not allowed on campus. Contact the school registrar before registering if you have a physical disability that affects your mobility so we may better accommodate you.

Students can also contact BPSS at any time at the address below: New York State Education Department Bureau of Proprietary School Supervision Investigations and Audit Unit 116 West 32nd Street, 5th Floor New York, New York 10001

Refunds

All Wisdom at Work trainings are eligible for a 100% tuition refund.

The failure of a student to notify the Wisdom at Work registrar in writing of withdrawal may delay refund of tuition due pursuant to Section 5002 of the Education Law. Please call 800.944.1001 for more information.

Pass/Fail

All Wisdom at Work courses are pass/fail.

Wisdom at Work Administrators

Joel Levitan, Wisdom at Work Director Holly VanLeuvan, Wisdom at Work Registrar and BPSS Agent

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The student should be aware that some information in the catalog may change. It is recommended that students considering enrollment check with the school director to determine if there is any change from the information provided in the catalog. In addition, a catalog

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will contain information on the school’s teaching personnel and courses/curricula offered.

Please be advised that the State Education Department separately licenses all teaching personnel and independently approves all courses and curricula offered. Therefore, it is possible that courses/curricula listed in the school’s catalog may not be approved at the time that a student enrolls in the school or the teaching personnel listed in the catalog may have changed.

It is again recommended that the

student check with the school director to determine if there are any changes in the courses/ curricula offered or the teaching personnel listed in the catalog.

Prior Credit

Wisdom at Work does not grant credit for previous education and training.

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PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS

BROWN MINDFULNESS PROGRAM

MAY 31-JUNE 7

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in Medicine, Practice & Science A 7-Day Professional Training Retreat Florence Meleo-Meyer and Judson Brewer Course 1807-266/Tuition $1,000 ($900 Members) SS, MI, LE, CE

This comprehensive program offers health-care and other professionals an opportunity to come together under the direct guidance of foundational leaders in the practice and science of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). Participants engage with mindfulness practices and their direct application personally and professionally.

Through direct experience, reflection, and dialogue, you assimilate core tenets of MBSR and how these apply in health-care settings. You also learn the underlying scientific principles and mechanisms, review the new developments in the exponentially expanding mindfulness field, and explore how these are applied to improve health in practice and society.

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Grounded in a continuity of mindfulness practice, mutual respect, and exploration, participants contribute to a learning community that supports introspection and the cultivation of wisdom. The ethos of MBSR expressed as innate wholeness, sovereignty, and participation support the development of self-awareness, resilience, and compassion.

Innovative approaches to employ mindful awareness into one’s daily life can lead to greater personal satisfaction, while also informing decisions that affect patients, clients, systems, and society.

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This program is founded on synergistic learning, employing both conceptual understanding and experiential engagement with the intention of developing embodied wisdom. Through a combination of guided meditation practices as taught in the MBSR program, didactic presentations, dialogue, reflection, and inquiry, whole person knowledge that is practical and immediately applicable can develop.

JUDSON BREWER AND FLORENCE MELEO-MEYER

This retreat is open to professionals and individuals who come prepared for the intensive nature of this training. Understanding the ethic of embodying mindfulness practice in one’s life before attempting to share this with others is essential.

Specific themes and areas of focus include: • Seamless cultivation of mindfulness through formal and informal practices, silence, conversation, and dialogue • Respond skillfully in the face of stress, pain, anxiety, and burnout, within ourselves and when working with others • Mindful approaches to develop resilience with workplace challenges • Review of research supporting the clinical value of MBSR • Explication of Teacher Education pathway • Exploration of the ethical principles and core elements of the ethos expressed within MBSR through non-harming, compassion, and wisdom Enrollment period is October 2019 through start date. CE and CME credits are available and included in tuition (see page 136). It is required that you attend all sessions for CE/CME certification. See eOmega.org for professional course objectives and more information. This training begins Sunday at 7:00 p.m. This program has lengthy, extended hours with daily early morning sessions beginning at 6:00 a.m. and evening sessions ending at 9:00 p.m. There are no breaks during scheduled sessions, which may run up to 3 hours. There may be periods of time outside normal workshop hours when silence will be expected. Attendance at this retreat does not constitute authorization

by Meleo-Meyer or Brewer to teach Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.

Florence Meleo-Meyer, MS, MA, LMFT, serves as global ambassador to the MBSR Affiliates worldwide at the Mindfulness Center at Brown University.

She has trained MBSR teachers and teacher trainers for over 20 years. brown.edu/mindfulnesscenter

Judson Brewer, MD, PhD, is director of research and innovation at the Mindfulness Center and associate professor in psychiatry at the School of Medicine at Brown University. He is a thought leader in the field of habit change and the “science of selfmastery,” having combined more than 20 years of experience with mindfulness training with his scientific research. brown.edu/mindfulnesscenter

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Transforming Trauma With EMDR (PARTS 1 & 2) A 7-Day Professional Training Laurel Parnell Course 2907-232/Tuition $1,105 ($1,005 Members) SS, MI, LE, CE

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a powerful therapeutic method for healing trauma-based problems. Shedding new light on trauma survival—including sexual and physical abuse, accident and surgical trauma, and grief—EMDR is opening the doors of the heart to genuine spiritual transformation. Through lecture, hands-on practice, and demonstrations, we learn: • • • • •

As per Parnell Institute guidelines, attendance is limited to mental health professionals who have a master’s degree or higher in the mental health field and are licensed or certified through a state or national board, which authorizes independent practice.

Laurel Parnell, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and director of the Parnell Institute for EMDR, and is an expert and pioneer in EMDR trauma therapy. She is the author of five books, including A Therapist’s Guide to EMDR. parnellemdr.com

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$25 materials fee; include when you register.

Enrollment period is October 2019 through start date. CE and CME credits are available and included in the tuition (see page 136). See eOmega.org for professional course objectives and more information. In accordance with the Parnell Institute and EMDRIA standards, to complete EMDR basic training requirements, participants must complete this course, receive 10 hours of consultation Protocols and procedures for using EMDR with LAUREL PARNELL from a Parnell Institute-approved consultant, and then a wide range of diagnostic categories take a Parnell Institute Advanced Clinical Workshop & Client selection criteria and cautions necessary for safe Refresher Course (Part 3). All three parts of the training must be completed use of EMDR within two years. Only licensed mental health professionals may register for Techniques for working with blocked processing and abreactions this course. Participants are required to submit licensure documentation (catharsis) before registration and must bring copies of their documentation to How to use EMDR with adults traumatized as children the training. By registering for this training, you acknowledge your Methods for developing inner resources used for interweaves, ego understanding that you will be asked to serve as a client in the service of strengthening, and client closure everyone’s learning. You agree that you are psychologically stable enough to How to integrate EMDR into clinical practice with a range of take on a client role in this setting, and that you will do what is needed to take clients and presenting problems care of yourself if any discomfort arises as a result.

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Become a Qigong Healer An Intensive 14-Day Professional Training Robert Peng Course 4014-212/Tuition $2,795 ($2,695 Members) SS, MI, LE

You can become a qigong healer. This 14-day intensive training introduces you to the qigong energy healing techniques and meditations that qigong master Robert Peng learned from his teacher Xiao Yao, a legendary monk with remarkable healing gifts. Enhance and empower your innate healing energy and discover how to use both hands-on and remote healing techniques of qigong as you learn: • Qigong theory and practices, including the sword finger and third eye empowerment • Meridian meditations, including lung, large intestine, stomach, spleen, and heart • Yang healing techniques, including dian xue, power palm, and tai-chi press • Yin healing techniques, including huafu healing, qigong hypnosis, and s-pattern to reorganize the energy field Return home with self-empowerment exercises to help you continually improve your healing skills and power, and the ability to conduct a full qigong healing session with remarkable effect.

This training is appropriate for nonprofessionals as well as healing professionals.

No prior qigong experience is required. Robert Peng does not offer healing sessions during this workshop.

Enrollment period is September 2019 through start date. Participants receive a certificate of completion from the teacher at the conclusion of this training.

ROBERT PENG

Robert Peng, author of The Master Key, is founder of Elixir Light Qigong who uses his healing abilities to help people worldwide. robertpeng.com

LE Limited enrollment; register early CE Continuing education; see page 136 Professional Training Tiered Pricing; see page 127

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PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS

OCTOBER 9-11

Reiki Master Training & Certification Brett Bevell

Course 5502-298/Tuition $400 ($360 Members) MI

BRETT BEVELL

In the sacred tradition of Reiki training, a Reiki master is empowered with the energetic ability to initiate others into the Reiki system of natural healing.

Once that ability is hardwired into our energetic system through master level Reiki initiation, it changes life for the better by raising our vibration and attracting situations, people, and circumstances that are in alignment with our soul’s highest purpose.

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In this 2-day training with Reiki master Brett Bevell, we are initiated with three master level symbols and learn how to use these symbols to deepen our own healing practice and initiate others into the Reiki system. We also explore advanced Reiki practices that enhance psychic ability as well as techniques that allow one individual to send Reiki healings to many people simultaneously.

This workshop is for those who want to become professional Reiki teachers, as well as those who want to simply deepen their healing practice. All who complete this training receive Reiki master certification.

Enrollment period is February 2020 through start date. Previous training in Reiki second degree is required and students must have a foundational knowledge of the three second-degree Reiki symbols. All who complete Bevell’s First & Second Degree Reiki Training (see page 61) are eligible.

Brett Bevell. See biographical information on page 61.

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Therapeutic Tai Chi & Qigong An Intensive Training for Health Professionals David Saltman Course 5605-362/Tuition $435 ($390 Members) MI, LE

This hands-on training covers the application of traditional tai chi and qigong for health and healing. We explore the relationship between specific movements and the body organs and systems. Special focus is given to clinical needs of hospital patients and health-care clients, including cardiac rehab, stroke rehab, subacute clinical recovery, postoperative issues, physical therapy, occupational therapy, gait and balance training, and sleep disorders.

We learn highly effective exercises for those in wheelchairs or bedridden.

We also learn how to do a 1-minute workout, a 2-minute workout, a 5-minute workout, a workout while driving a car, and a workout in confined spaces.

We train in traditional qigong each morning and traditional tai chi chuan in the afternoons. We also

practice Tai Chi Ruler, a rare healing form that is not being taught anywhere else on the East Coast. We return home with tools for clinical practice and improved health.

No previous experience is necessary. This workshop is suitable for health-care professionals and for all interested in the healing effects of tai chi and qigong. Advanced practitioners are welcome.

Enrollment period is March 2020 through start date.

David Saltman has been practicing Chinese meditative and martial arts for nearly 40 years, studying with master S.T. Ying in California and master B.P. Chan in New York. davidsaltman.com

DAVID SALTMAN DA Discounts Available; see page 127 SS Special schedule; see eOmega.org MI More information provided after registration

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All-Inclusive Stay Our simple lodgings are a perfect fit for your campus experience.

Accommodations & Meals Package Fees

The All-Inclusive Stay includes: • Accommodations (see descriptions on next page) • Three delicious farm-to-table meals a day in our Dining Hall • Daily Open Classes in yoga, tai chi, meditation, and movement • Evenings at Omega: concerts, films, and special classes • Trails for running and walking • Tennis and basketball • Ram Dass Library, Sanctuary, Omega Center for Sustainable Living, and more • Free Wi-Fi (available in most locations on campus)

Sleep. Eat. Play. Explore.

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Per Person Rates

2-night

3-night

5-night*

7-night

Single Cabin Room A

$756

$1,057

$1,505

$2,107

Couple Cabin Room A

$564

$789

$1,125

$1,575

Double Cabin Room A

$604

$844

$1,200

$1,680

Single Cabin Room B

$628

$880

$1,260

$1,764

Couple Cabin Room B

$436

$609

$865

$1,211

Double Cabin Room B

$446

$619

$865

$1,211

Dorm Single

$410

$574

$820

$1,148

Tent Cabin Single

$376

$526

$750

$1,050

Tent Cabin Double

$292

$410

$590

$826

Camping

$246

$345

$495

$693

Commuter Fee

$110

$150

$200

$280

Rates do not include course tuition.

Lodging can only be booked as part of an Accommodations & Meals Package.

Commuter Fee is required only for those not staying in Omega accommodations. * 5-night rate is based on weekday prices.

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Accommodations Double Cabin Room A Shared Room With Private Bath 2 double beds. Heat. Air-conditioning.

Wheelchair-accessible rooms available.

Register with a companion, or a same-gender roommate will be assigned to you.

Single or Couple Cabin Room A Private Room With Private Bath 1 queen bed. Heat. Ceiling fan.

Air-conditioning.

Single or Couple Cabin Room B

DOUBLE CABIN ROOM

DORM SINGLE

Private Room With Shared Bath 1 queen bed. Bath shared with adjoining room.

Heat. Air-conditioning. Ceiling fan.

Double Cabin Room B Shared Room With Shared Bath 2 twin beds. Bath shared with adjoining room.

Heat. Ceiling fan. No air-conditioning.

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Dorm Single Private Room With Shared Bath 1 twin bed. Hall bath shared by 5-to-12 guests.

Heat. Air-conditioning. Pillow and blanket provided. You may rent sheets and towels for a small fee, or bring your own. Dorms are generally single gender, but may be coed.

SINGLE/COUPLE CABIN ROOM

TENT CABIN

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Tent Cabin Single & Double Private or Shared Room With Shared Bath 2 twin beds. Wood-framed, screened walls with canvas roof. Bathhouse nearby. No heat.

No air-conditioning. You may rent sheets, towels, and pillows for a small fee. Register with a companion, or reserve as a private room.

Camping 1 pre-assigned campsite. Bathhouse nearby.

Bring your own tent and all appropriate camping gear. Stoves, campfires, and recreational vehicles are not allowed on campus.

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CAMPING

Omega is conveniently located about 90 miles north of New York City and the major metropolitan area airports. There are a variety of ways to easily travel to and from our campus if you take public transportation.

See eOmega.org/travel.

Commuter Fee The commuter fee includes the full benefits of our unique All-Inclusive Stay, excluding the cost of accommodations.

Questions?

Call Omega Registration at 800.944.1001, or 845.266.4444 outside the United States.

Images are representative; your assigned room may differ from the samples shown here.

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Planning Your Stay Contact Us Call 800.944.1001 with any questions Monday-Thursday 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. and Friday and Saturday 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

(Saturday hours begin May 9). Please note that phones are closed 1:30-2:00 p.m. for lunch break on Saturdays. All times are Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Friday Arrival Please check in on Friday between 4:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. If staying on campus, your room will be available at 5:00 p.m. Welcome & Orientation is held at 7:30 p.m. Workshops begin at 8:00 p.m. Meals begin with dinner Friday evening and end with lunch on Sunday. Commuters arrive on the same schedule. See course descriptions for exceptions.

Sunday Arrival Please check in on Sunday between 4:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. If you are staying on campus, your room will be available at 5:00 p.m. Welcome & Orientation is held at 7:30 p.m. Workshops begin at 9:00 a.m. Monday morning. Meals begin with dinner Sunday night and end with lunch on Friday. Commuters may check in from 8:00 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. Monday morning. See course descriptions for exceptions.

Departure

Limited Mobility Omega’s campus is lovely, but large and hilly. Contact us before registering if you have a physical disability that affects your mobility so we may better accommodate you. Vehicles are not allowed on campus.

The Omega Store, Wellness Center, and Café accept cash, MasterCard, Visa, Discover, and American Express. In addition, the Store accepts traveler’s checks and the Wellness Center accepts personal and traveler’s checks. There is an ATM located in the Café.

The Children’s Program begins May 31 (available on weekends only after August 30). It is open to children ages 4-12* who are fully toilet trained. You must register at least 7 days in advance; space is limited.

The Children’s Program includes outdoor adventures, sports, nature study, arts and crafts, and games.

Babysitters Parents staying on campus who choose not to use Omega’s Children’s Program, or who are bringing children younger than four, must provide their own babysitter, who must be at least 16 years old.

Babysitters pay adult accommodations fees.

Teens Teens 14* and older may enroll in a workshop with faculty and Omega’s approval. They pay full tuition and adult accommodations fees, and must attend Omega with an adult. Requests must be made at least four weeks before arrival.

Children’s Accommodations Children must be housed with their parents; fees listed in the chart are for a child’s accommodations if they attend with two adults. For single-parent rates and availability, please call. Teens 14 and older pay adult fees for their accommodations; children under 4 stay at no cost. If notified in advance, we can provide cots. Dorms are not an option for parents with children, except during Omega Family Week (see page 72).

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Children must be enrolled in the Children’s Program or be supervised by a babysitter. Children cannot attend workshops with parents.

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You must be checked out of your room by 1:00 p.m. on departure day.

Weekend workshops end Sunday at noon. Monday through Friday workshops end Friday at noon. See course descriptions for exceptions.

Children and Children’s Program

*If your child is 13, please call Registration at 800.944.1001 for options.

Price Per Child Children’s Program*

2-night

3-night

5-night

7-night

$80

$120

$200

$280

A Housing (w/2 adults)

$218

$291

$365

$511

Cancellation Policy

B Housing (w/2 adults)

$188

$256

$340

$476

Omega reserves the right to cancel a program at any time. Some programs may have a special cancellation policy; see individual workshop descriptions. Travel insurance is recommended; see eOmega.org/insurance.

Tent Cabin (w/2 adults)

$136

$184

$240

$336

Camping

$126

$169

$215

$301

Commuter Fee

$46

$62

$80

$112

Refunds are available (less a $55 processing fee) up to eight days before your program or stay. Nonrefundable credit toward a future Omega program or stay (less a $55 processing fee) is available if you give notice between seven and one day(s) before your program or stay. Credit may be applied to any Omega program or stay for one year following date of issue.

* You must pre-register for the Children’s Program.

The Children’s Program does not include accommodations.

No credit or refund is available if you cancel on the arrival day; if you do not show up; or if you leave early for any reason. No refund will be available if you attend a program and are dissatisfied with its presentation or content.

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Continuing Education Thousands of people come to Omega each year to further their professional development by taking programs that offer continuing education credits. Many companies offer their employees assistance in advanced training; check with your employer.

Continuing education credits are awarded in the following categories to the programs listed on page 137. Programs are certified for continuing education credits by the Institute for Better Health (IBH), formerly IAHB, and not by Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, Inc.

Certificate of Attendance

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Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, Inc., is responsible for issuing Certificates of Attendance. There is a $25 fee for a Certificate of Attendance for a workshop that you have attended. In three to six weeks, you will receive a Certificate of Attendance. There will be an additional $25 fee for certificates that need to be reissued. This is not a Continuing Education Certificate. You may request a Certificate of Attendance when you register, or call 800.944.1001.

Important to Note

CONTINUING EDUCATION GUIDELINES

Speaker conflict-of-interest information may be found at ibh.com/disclosure-info or call IBH at 707.595.9010.

Participation

Please review this information prior to registering.

To qualify for CE/CME credit, you must be registered in the workshop, have paid all fees in full, attended all sessions, and fully and actively participated in the program. You must pre-register for CE/CME credit; please be sure to include all related fees when you register. No partial credit will be awarded and credit will not be issued retroactively.

Fees There is a $50 fee for CE credit, unless stated otherwise in the course description. There will be an additional $50 fee for certificates that need to be reissued.

Specific course accreditation approvals, complete course details, and course objectives for workshops designated for CE/CME credit are available at eOmega.org/ce or call 800.944.1001.

Special Requests and Grievances Workshops are held in facilities which are in compliance with the American with Disabilities Act. Please contact Omega staff at 800.944.1001 if special accommodations are required. To file a grievance, please contact our administrative office at 800.944.1001.

Sponsors

Procedures

The Institute for Better Health (IBH) works with Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, Inc., to provide quality educational activities that are available for professional continuing education credit.

To receive CE credit, you must attend the course in full and sign in and out each day of the workshop. Failure to submit all fees and paperwork at the conclusion of the workshop will disqualify you from receiving CE/CME credit. Onsite at the workshop, you will receive a CE handout providing you with important course information. After the conclusion of the course, you will receive an email containing a unique weblink to access the online course evaluation. Upon submission of the online evaluation, your CE Certificate will generate for printing.

IBH is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization located in Santa Rosa, California.

Its mission is to provide innovative, top quality continuing education and continuing medical education activities for professionals. IBH’s programs encompass a comprehensive and multidisciplinary array of educational activities in the form of workshops, conferences, multimedia home-study materials, and customized training programs. Except as otherwise noted, IBH has been approved as a provider of continuing education and continuing medical education by the following organizations.

Please refer to the accreditation chart for designated activities and hours for your profession.

B Bodyworkers and Massage Therapists IBH is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education Approved Provider. Approved Provider #450111-06.

All courses designated for bodyworkers and massage therapists have been submitted to the NCBTMB for course approval.

D Physicians

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of the Institute for Better Health (IBH) and Omega Institute for Holistic Studies. IBH is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

IBH designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ per hour attended. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

E Educators

The Institute for Better Health has been approved by the Washington State Professional Educator Standards Board (WESPSB), a member of NASDTEC, as a Clock Hour Provider for Educators. Learners may claim one Clock Hour for each activity hour attended. Please contact your individual state boards for information regarding reciprocity and any additional requirements.

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Earn CE/CME Credit. Gain New Skills. Enliven Your Work.

Counselors

IBH is a provider of Continuing Education for Certification and Recertification for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors in the State of Texas. Provider #1847-12. Institute for Better Health is a NAADAC approved Education Provider for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #92713. Institute for Better Health is responsible for all aspects of the programing.

All courses designated for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors have been submitted to NAADAC for prior approval. Please visit the course website for updated approval information or call IBH at 707.595.9010.

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The Omega Institute is in the process of submitting an application to the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) aswb.org, through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) Program to offer CE credit for social workers. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Omega Institute maintains responsibility for the content of the social work activities occurring after December 31, 2019.

Approval pending. Please check eOmega.org for further updates.

NY State Counselors & Social Workers

Institute for Better Health (IBH) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. Provider Approval #MHC-0063. Institute for Better Health (IBH) SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0091. Courses that meet the guidelines for the New York State Education Department are approved for 1 contact hour per hour attended. Please see course webpage for specific course approvals.

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S Social Workers 2020 Activities, Approval Pending

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Faculty Dates Hrs B D E G N P S NY YA Birch 7/12–7/17 38.5 Black 8/14–8/16 9.5 Brach 7/31–8/2 11.75 P Brewer & Boudette 5/29–5/31 12.5 P P Bush, Magee, Kanagala 9/18–9/20 13.5 Church 5/17–5/22 22.5 P Cloud 8/2–8/7 27 Cloud 8/3 6 Colandrea, et al.

7/19–7/24 24 P Creasy 7/26–7/31 21 Desaulniers 7/17–7/19 8 Ervin 7/19–7/24 22.5 Ervin 7/24–7/26 10.5 Finn 5/31–6/5 30 Forsyth & Forsyth 9/20–9/25 22.5 P Harper 6/12–6/14 10.5 Harper, Gonzalez & Gonzalez 8/2–8/9 62.5 Hopkins & Sormaz 9/20–9/25 33.5 Kannan 9/13–9/18 33.5 CE/CME pending, see eOmega.org Kelly 7/17–7/19 Khalsa, et al.

8/9–8/14 33.5 Lucas 9/20–9/25 20 Meleo-Meyer & Brewer 5/31–6/7 63 P Meleo-Meyer & López Maya 7/12–7/17 37.25 P Meza 5/17–5/22 23 Mindfulness & Education Conference 7/10–7/12 13.5 Mithoefer & Archer 8/9–8/14 50 Myers & Moore 7/19–7/24 22.5 Parker, Naru & Stokes Eggleston 10/9–10/11 10.5 Parnell 7/10–7/17 37.75 P Plonski 7/3–7/5 10.5 Pransky 5/29–5/31 10.5 Ramsey 7/10–7/12 10.5 P Saltonstall 10/4–10/9 17 Schaff 5/29–5/31 9.75 Schaff 5/29–6/5 32.5 Schaff 5/31–6/5 22.75 Smith, Smith, Gonzalez, Khalsa 6/28–7/3 22.5 Teixeira 10/9–10/11 10.5 Treleaven 6/19–6/21 9.25 P Vosler 5/17–5/22 20 Westerman 9/27–10/2 25 Yoga Service Intensive-Lipsius 5/15 5 Yoga Service Conference 5/15–5/17 8 P Application has been submitted; approval pending

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Continuing Education credits are granted in accordance with Yoga Alliance standards. See yogaalliance.org for more information. All hours are contact hours.

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The Institute for Better Health (IBH) is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Provider approved by the CA Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP#2672) for 1 credit hour per each contact hour.

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Institute for Better Health is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Institute for Better Health maintains responsibility for indicated programs and their content. Attendees will earn 1 CE hour per clock hour.

For professionals not covered by the accrediting agencies listed above: Many state boards accept offerings approved by national or other state organizations. Please check with your own professional licensing board to determine whether the accreditations listed are accepted. We are happy to assist when possible; please contact our continuing education coordinator by email at CEU@ eOmega.org or by phone at 800.944.1001.

Teachers may be able to independently provide CE credits not listed here. Please check teacher websites for specific information. CE credits offered by teachers are not processed or administered by Omega or IBH.

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From Rhinebeck to everywhere

Learn With Us Online Interactive Courses

Available Spring 2020

presented on Omega’s exciting new online learning platform

BUILDING A PARTNERSHIP WORLD

Available Now OMEGA WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP CENTER PROGRAM

Riane Eisler

FINANCIAL WELL-BEING

Tuition $99 ($89 Members)

Gaining Wisdom, Balance & Joy Manisha Thakor Tuition $179 ($160 Members)

In this dynamic, self-guided online course for women, you dramatically increase your fluency and comfort with the role that money plays in your life regardless of the amount you have.

MANISHA THAKOR

Money can stir up a wide range of emotions—including shame, confusion, and fear. Those strong emotions are compounded by the taboo nature of talking about money; the absence of formal personal finance education; and systemic barriers based on gender, race, and class.

Learn both financial and emotional tools and tactics to move you toward financial well-being—defined as experiencing calmness, clarity, and confidence around your personal finances.

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Hands-on learning includes video, written content, and interactive discussions. No mind-numbing jargon or unnecessary multisyllabic words allowed!

Through a series of 10 modules, you:

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• Describe healthy money habits, cash flow, debt and risk management, credit scores, and investing with ease • Examine your money story to improve your relationship with money • Apply finance and investing principles to encourage financial stability and growth • Learn skills for speaking with loved ones about financial habits, goals, and decisions Manisha Thakor, MBA, CFA, CFP, is vice president of financial education at Brighton Jones with over 25 years in finance. moneyzen.com

Learn how to effectively focus your efforts for positive personal, social, and economic change in this dynamic, self-guided online course RIANE EISLER with eminent social systems scientist and cultural historian Riane Eisler.

In five modules, and with grounded optimism drawn from a deep understanding of human history, Eisler takes you beyond conventional ways of thinking as she reveals hidden dynamics of the harmful traditions we’ve inherited from the past and introduces four cornerstones for a safer, saner, more equitable and sustainable way of life.

Weaving together cross-disciplinary insights from cultural history, gender studies, economics, and contemporary neuroscience, Eisler offers a radically transformational new story about what is possible for human beings and the societies we create. As you discover the historically invisible interconnections between gender relations, parent/ child relations, and economic relations, you will see fresh possibilities for your own place in that new story. With these new concepts, language, and practical tools, you can step forward confidently as a leader for partnership in your own family, workplace, community, and world.

Riane Eisler is a social systems scientist, cultural historian, and attorney whose research, writing, and speaking has transformed the lives of people worldwide. rianeeisler.com

Blended Learning

AUGUST 2-7

Omega is pleased to offer 7 programs that will meet both on our Rhinebeck campus and online.

MAY 29-31

THE WISDOM OF REIKI CONFERENCE

William Lee Rand, Frans Stiene, Karen Noé, Brett Bevell, Michèle E. Denis, and Helene Williams (See p. 25 for course description.)

Kori Burkholder

(See p. 78 for course description.)

AUGUST 9-14

DIGITAL STORYTELLING Rob Harris

(See p. 85 for course description.)

AUGUST 14-16

YOU ARE ENOUGH

HOW TO STAY HUMAN IN A F*CKED-UP WORLD

(See p. 33 for course description.)

(See p. 86 for course description.)

JUNE 26-28

AUGUST 14-16

Shannon Kaiser

Sarah Prout

JUNE 5-7

Panache Desai

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PAINT YOUR DREAMS INTO REALITY

Tim Desmond

STEP INTO YOUR PURPOSE: WRITER’S WORKSHOP

MANIFEST YOUR INTENTIONS, DREAMS & DESIRES

(See p. 47 for course description.)

(See p. 87 for course description.)

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Live Stream MAY 8-10, then on demand

A LIVE ONLINE WEEKEND RETREAT WITH PEMA CHÖDRÖN Tuition $99 ($89 Members) $79 early bird price available until April 10

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to study with beloved Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön.

(See p. 16 for course description.)

AUGUST 30-SEPTEMBER 4, then on demand

THE CELEBRATE LIFE FESTIVAL

Exploring Our Roots | Restoring Our Home with Thomas Hübl and friends One of the most popular and dynamic consciousness events in Europe, The Celebrate Life Festival will be held in the United States for only the second time in its 17-year history.

(See p. 96 for course description.)

Omega members choose one online learning course free each year. Become a member today. eOmega.org/membership

Available now OMEGA WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP CENTER PROGRAM

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WOMEN & POWER Tuition $79 ($69 Members)

Get inspired by keynote talks, interviews, and conversations with supporting media from our 16th Women & Power Conference.

(This conference was held at Omega in September 2019.)

Available now OMEGA CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING PROGRAM

DRAWDOWN LEARN CONFERENCE What Schools & Communities Can Do About Climate Change Free Tuition

Learn about Project Drawdown and other climate-solutions roadmaps that help you chart next steps toward climate action goals.

(This conference was held at Omega in October 2019.)

Available now

COMPASSION IN CONNECTION CONFERENCE

Shamanic Energy Medicine

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Gathering Our Strength

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On Demand

One Online Course FREE

Year Round Online And Residential Training Are you ready to embark on a healing journey in which the mystery teachings of the Medicine Way become available to you?

This millenary science is a set of sacred technologies that transform the body, heal the soul, and can change the way we live and die.

At the Four Winds Society’s Light Body School, we have trained thousands of students who are enjoying joyful lives and rewarding careers.

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Aaron, Jon 36 Abrams, Abiola 40 Abramson, Karen 27 Ackert, Jamine 33 Ackert-Fraser, Remmy 33 Acosta, Angel 57 Adams, Diana 92 Adyashanti 124 Ahmed, Muneeza 44 Albere, Patricia 71 Alden, Susan 100 Alexander, Basia 108 Allen, Rachel 18 Allread, Athena 83 Alves, RW 18 Amelio, Thomas Shivanand 36 Andren, Kathryn 80 Andrew, Mari 42 Anice, Pilin 24 Archer, Eric 85 Aronie, Nancy Slonim 123 Arts Week 48 At-Tauhidi, Maryam Hasnaa 31 Aubrit, Gaël 92

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Backus, Robert “Skip” 52 Badonsky, Jill 50 Ballón-Casement, Julianne 31 Barahona, Juan Pablo 30 Baribeau, Eric “Epic” 75 Barnwell, Ysaye M. 89 Barry, Lynda 88, 94 Baruc, Ricky 52, 53 Bass, Ellen 45 Bathory-Peeler, Megan 68 Baul, Parvathy 97 Becker, Michelle 35 Belay, Matt 35 Belliveau, Linda Aranda 24 Bellmont, Laura 46 Bennett-Goleman, Tara 103 Bensonoff, Elena 33 Bentley, Douglas 45 Bentley, Prema 45 Bevell, Brett 25, 61, 132 Bhagat, Ram 62 Bhatia, Taz 112 Big Heart, Carl 69 Birch, Beryl Bender 64 Black, Glenn 87 Blake, Cory 68 Blake, Joey 92 Blumenthal, Micah 95 Boaitey, Kwasi 18 Boehm, Michaela 102

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Boggs, Belle 45 Bogosian, Lizzie “Raven” 75 Boldemann-Tatkin, Tracey 91 Boudette, Robin 26 Bowe, Becca 75 Bowe, Melissa 75 Bowen, Sarah 86 Bowley, Flora 122 Bowman, Katy 102 Boys, Kelly 65 Brach, Tara 76 Bradney, Ann 106 Brandon, George 89 Brett, Gemini 80 Brewer, Judson 26, 28, 29, 130 Bright, Priscilla 85 Brody, Perry Dale “PD” 74 Brooke, Anna 36 Brown, Devi 114 Brown, Sharon 40 Buechner, Barton 30 Buffett, Peter 22, 77 Burch, Vidyamala 36 Burgess, Gloria 103 Burkholder, Kori 78 Bush, Mirabai 104 Busia, Kofi 90 Buttarra, Mel 18 Byars, Rickie 97 Byrne, Lorna 43

C Cadogan, Garnette 45 Calderon, Kino 75 Cante, Carla 46 Caris, Nicholas 77 Carlisle, Sarah 49 Carrellas, Barbara 39 Carroll, Michael 104 Carter, Lokita 42 Cassidy, Judaline 26, 63 Cerel, Julie 70 Chaon, Dan 94 Chapman, Beth Nielsen 78 Charles, Dorothy 100 Chatman, Michelle Coghill 57, 62 Chödrön, Pema 16 Church, Dawson 22 Churchill, John 42 Churchill, Nicole 42 Cloud, Jaimie P. 79 Cohen, Ellen 68 Cohen, Ken 21, 23 Cohen, Paul 66 Colandrea, Elaine 68 Cole, Terri 17 Conroy, Jim 108 Cook, Bret 51 Cook, Jay 75

Craft, Michael 71, 88 Crain, Suzanne Wright 68 Creasy, Sienna 74 Cubley, Stewart 35

D Dallas, Jim 108 Daniell, Matthew 33 Danziger, Maia 23 Darnell, Cyndi 39 Das, Krishna 97, 98 Davies, Jane 37 Davis, Deborah 39 De La Rosa, Ralph 36 De Lory, Donna 97 De Rosa, Wendy 41 DeGroot, Al 24 DeNicola, Alison 47 Denis, Michèle E. 25 Desai, Panache 33 Desaulniers, Lesley 66 DeSilver, Albert Flynn 115 Desmond, Tim 86 Devi, Dana Dharma 41 Dewey, Caroline Lee 83 Dickey, Bronwen 45 Doherty, Kathryn 103 Dresdale, Abrah 52 Durek, Shaman 109 Dutt, Mallika 117 Dyer, Emile Hassan 74

E Eggleston, Pamela Stokes 88, 120 Eisenstein, Charles 21 Elliott, David 110 Ervin, Morris H. Jr. 68, 72 Esmonde-White, Miranda 38

F Falconi, Dina 52, 119 Family Week 72 Farmbry, Deidre 62 Fennelly, Beth Ann 45 Fernandez, Maurice 80 Fingold, Brenda 86 Finn, Eoin 31 Fitzgerald, Kathy 81 Flanders, Stephanie 69 Fleischman, Rachel 54 Flynn, Nick 17 Fordin, Audra 63 Forsyth, Jamie R. 106 Forsyth, John P. 106 Francescott, Tom 31, 81 French, James 122 Fuchs, Stuart 49 Fuller, Jai 84

G Gabriel, Steve 52 Gambino, Melanie 68 Gannon, Sharon 98 Gazmuri, Singhashri 36 Gelb, Michael J. 37, 101 Gervai, Corinne 125 Gibbons, Stacey 81, 107, 123 Giesemann, Suzanne 61 Gilmore, Jimmie Dale 51, 54 Gintis, Bonnie 68 Gokhale, Esther 39 Gold, Peter 50, 56 Goldberg, Lori 121 Goldbloom, Lorraine 22 Goldstein, Carla 117 Goleman, Daniel 103 Gomes, Yeradmi 31 Gonçalves, Zuza 92 Gonzalez, Andres 51 Gonzalez, Argos 79 Gonzalez, Mayuri 79 Goodhart, Rich 108 Gorn, Steve 97 Graham, Sasha 47 Greenberg, Elinor 65 Greene, Ken 52 Greer, Mary K. 65, 68 Grey, Alex 64 Grey, Allyson 64 Grineva, Katya 98 Grossman, Marc 125 Grosso, Kathy 40 Grout, Pam 60 Gu, Mingtong 101 Gutin, Nina 70

H Habib, Deb 52, 53 Hammond, Jonathan 81, 95, 107 Hanchett, Janelle 109 Hancock, Maureen 115 Haner, Jean 111 Harper, Elizabeth 92 Harper, Jennifer Cohen 18, 38, 79 Harris, Rob 85 Hawkstorm, Sachem 78 Hendrickson, Danika Marie 37 Hendrix, Harville 32, 107 Herscovitch, Lara 112 Hickman, Steven 35 Hill, Ubaka 108 Hillyer, Regan 30 Holland, Patti 86 Homsi, Wayne 46, 81 Hopkins, Denise 105 Horgan, Dianne 28

Hott, Rachel 47 Hough, Jennifer 42 Howe, Michelle J. 118 Hübl, Thomas 96 Hull, Jaci 90 Hull-Benson, Whitney 99 Humphreys, Rich 75 Humphreys, Kesse 75 Hunt, Helen LaKelly 32, 107 Hunt, John “Raccoon” 75 Hunt, Julia 75 Hunter, Faith 114

I Im, Ko 114

J Jacke, Dave 52 Jackson, Janice E. 62 Jackson, Laura Lynne 113 Jackson, Yvette 62 Jacobs, Hollye 39 Jahnke, Roger 43, 44 Jakub, Lisa 105 James, Steve 102 Jennings, Pilar 77 Johnson, Kate 41 Johnson, Michelle Cassandra 18 Jones, Jeff W. 18 Jones, Leslie Salmon 18, 44, 117

K Kabat-Zinn, Jon 17, 105 Kabat-Zinn, Will 17 Kaiser, Shannon 47 Kan, Karen 101 Kanagala, Vijay 104 Kannan, Yogishri Sudarshan 102 Karam, Christiane 92 Karamehmet, Nevşah F. 118 Katie, Byron 43 Katz, Lori S. 45, 90 Kelly, Kerri 18 Kelly, Loch 66 Khalsa, Atma 84 Khalsa, Gurmukh Kaur 84 Khalsa, Sat Bir Singh 18, 51 Khalsa, Snatam Kaur 84 Khalsa, Wahe Guru Kaur 84 Kiel, Anysia Marcell 111 Kieves, Tama 87 Killian, Joe 73 King, Ruth 62 Kirschenbaum, Gayle 125 Kripal, Jeffrey J. 67 Kuentz, Mary K. 40 Kurlander, David 43

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Nadrich, Ora 113 Naru, Amina 88, 120 Nataraj, Monika 100 Nataraj, Nirmala 118 Natoli, Lisa 60 Nekvapil, Kemi 72 Nepo, Mark 26 Newcomb, Steven 83 Noé, Karen 25, 38 Northrup, Christiane 47 Northrup, Kate 99 Notaras, Kelly 101

O Okerlin, Annie 77, 100 Olla, Carla 125 Olmsted, Tim 16, 91 Orloff, Judith 120 Ortelee, Anne 80 Osgood-Campbell, Elisabeth 68

P Pague, Steven Michael 69 Pamita, Madame 65 Papagni, Josephine 52 Parker, Gail 18, 120 Parkin, OM C. 126 Parnell , Laura 131 Pastiloff, Jennifer 103 Paul, Russill 97 Paul, Tina 18 Peer, Marisa 109 Penczak, Christopher 71 Peng, Robert 64, 131 Perkins, John 115 Perlman, Lee 24 Peterson, Martha 89 Pevny, Ron 91 Peyton, Sarah 35 Philipps, Bill 55 Piazza, Rachel 115 Plonski, Shai 56 Polishook, Rob 73 Pollack, Rachel 65, 68 Pransky, Jillian 24

Q Q’ero Shamans 121 Quach, Due 54

R Rabbath, Rima 98 Rabin, Linda 68 Ramsey, Drew 61 Rand, William Lee 25 Ranger Staff 75 Rao, Kavitha 52 Rao, Nina 98 Raye, Julianna 107 Rechtschaffen, Rahm 75 Rendón, Laura I. 62 Retreat Week 57 Rhiannon 92 Riley, Ellen 75 Rizumik (Tiago Grade) 92 Roderick, Tom 62 Rosenbaum, Elana 123 Rousseau, Danielle 18 Rowan, Diana 27 Ruiz, Don Jose 25 Ruiz, Don Miguel Jr. 25 Ruiz, Don Miguel Sr. 25

S Sachs, Nicole 83 Saidman, Colleen 126 Saltman, David 132 Saltonstall, Ellen 118 Salzberg, Sharon 117 Santorelli, Saki F. 88 Schaff, Terry Roth 27 Scher, Amy B. 35 Schildkret, Day 55, 114 Schlosberg, Lisa 83 Schnall, Marianne 82 Schultz, Frances 39 Schwenk, Scott 122 Secunda, Brant 37 Shivone, Erin 83 Simkin, Biet 46 Sisodia, Raj 37 Slingo, Shelley 122 Smith , Robert 123 Smith, Ali 51 Smith, Atman 51 Smith, Joshua 77 Smith, Tracey Erin 78 Solaris, Ashanna 41 Solovieff, Karina 31 Sormaz, Heidi 105 Srinivasan, Meena 62 Stahl, Bob 119 Stedman, Connor 52

Stein, Claude 87 Stevenson, Garth 54 Stiene, Frans 25 Stockwell, Tony 80 Strieber, Whitley 67 Sukhmani 84 Sullivan, Marlysa 18 Sunday, Paul 40 Sunim, Haemin 113 Surrey, Janet 94 Swami, Radhanath 97 Syedullah, Jasmine 23, 56 Szabo, Marta 71

T Taggart, Shannon 58 Tannenbaum, Barbara 128 Tatkin, Stan 91 Taylor, Kay 80 Taylor, Sandra Anne 66 Teixeira, Nubia 120 TEL 63 Tenuto, Eva 95 Teyuna Elders 59 Thibodeau, Lauren 58 Thomas , Latham 82 Thomas, Kathryn Monti 18 Thompson, Laura Dickstein 114 Todd, John 52 Tolbert, Kori 68 Torgerson, Steve 30 Trapeze-Experience 50, 56 Treleaven, David 44 Tripathi, Rajni 18 Tsabary, Shefali 34 Tucker, Suzi 100 TwoTrees, Kaylynn Sullivan 52

U Urech, Sarah 44, 117 Uttal, Jai 97

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Warrington, Ruby 125 Watkins, Light 126 Watterson, Meggan 55 Wax, Ruby 99 Weil, Sharon 68 Weiland, Laura 52 Weinert, Lisa 41 Weinman, Ric 77 Weintraub, Jenna 18 Weiss , Carole K. 21, 68, 122 Weiss, Brian 21, 68, 70, 122 Weiss, Steven 41 Welden, Dan 34 Wells, Chris 49, 106 Wergin, Rob 19, 115 Wesselman, Hank 61, 64 Westerman, Carole 109 Wheeler, Maggie 74 Wilcox, David 78 Wilkins, Joe 45 williams, angel Kyodo 19, 23, 56 Williams, Helene 25 Williams, Lisa 20, 24 Williams-Jones, Angela 114 Wilson, Jamia 41, 82 Wimala, Bhante 82 Wise One, Sophia 77 Wolbert, Randy 31 Wolfe, Bob 44 Worm, David 92

Y Yang Yang 81 Yee, Rodney 126 Yellow Bird, Michael 78

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Mack, Daniel 73 MacKinnon, Danielle 67 Macpherson, Miranda 111 Magee, Rhonda V. 82, 104 Manose 97 Maron, Madhu Krishnappa 40 Marquardt, Alexandra 106 Maté, Daniel 107 Maté, Gabor 107 Mather, Erica 104 Matousek, Mark 99 Matus, Lujan 90 Maya, Eric López 65 Mayapuris, The 97 Mazlish, Liz 24 McClelland, Jean 22 McCormick, Jim 34 McFerrin, Bobby 92 McGann, Vanessa 70 McGloughlin, Kate 50 McNelis, Kelly 118 Medicine Women 121 Medina, Francheska 31 Meleo-Meyer, Florence 28, 29, 65, 94, 119, 130 Meyers, Bethany C. 99 Meza, Melina 21 Middleton, Allie 18 Miigam’agan 83 Mikkelsen, Donna 49 Millman, Dan 91 Miro, Shaheen 65 Mitchell, Sherri 78, 83 Miten 97 Mithoefer, Biff 85

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Premal, Deva 97 Prout, Sarah 87

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Landrith, Sharon 27 Lantieri, Linda 62 Lauria, Vincenzo 46 Lawson, Rebecca 68 Lee, Daisy 86, 112 Lee, Jenny 75 Lertzman, Renee 102 Lesser, Elizabeth 73 Levene, Howard 30 Levine, Rick 80 Li, Xiaoan 62 Lieu, Colin 18 Lighthorse, Pixie 123 Lindsay, Ann Kristin 67 Lipsius, David 18 Lobos, Marcela 121 Long, Jana 18 Loucks, Eric B. 28, 119 Lucas, Anneke 105

Molnar, Chris 60 Montenegro, Hector 62 Moore, Melinda 70 Moore, Melody 69 Moreno, Robyn 46 Morley, Charlie 69 Morris, Kelly 113 Moscola, Sabrina 114 Mukhopadhyay, Samhita 82 Murray, Caryn 103 Myers, Nikki 69 Myers, Tom 95

Z Zeigler, Patrick 70 Zhen, Lian 89 Zimmer, Eric 38 Zion, Tina M. 112 Zuckerman, Arián Gutiérrez 79 Zuckerman, Diana 79

Vaid, Vishal 97 Valenti, Vanessa 82 Van Praagh, James 111 Vani, Gaura 97 Vernoff, Krista 55 Villoldo, Alberto 121 Vinar, Judi 92 Voldstad, Kathleen 60 Vosler, John 20

W Wadsworth, Lauren 68 Wallace, Emily 123 Wangdak, Khenpo Pema 77 Warren, Jeff 20, 107

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