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SUMMARY:Karma Yoga Program  - November 2018 Intake Day
DESCRIPTION:Mindfulness and beyond: a three-month internship\, learning and serving in a conscious community\nOne of Clear Sky’s primary purposes is to be a container for the discipline of Karma Yoga. \nThis ancient practice offers great opportunities for insights and new levels of personal freedom. \n\nWhat is Karma Yoga?\nEssentially\, we define Karma Yoga as training in mindfulness through action. Clear Sky is a modern-day working monastery\, and if you spend time here\, you will be training in Karma Yoga through all the activities it takes to run the center. \nIf you are accepted into the program\, you will participate in the general running of the center’s activities and programs. Depending on your experience or interests\, you may also be assigned to a specific department or project. \nFor more information and to ask for an application form\, visit the Karma Yoga Service Stay Program page.
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SUMMARY:Karma Yoga Program - October 2018 Intake Day
DESCRIPTION:Mindfulness and beyond: a three-month internship\, learning and serving in a conscious community\nOne of Clear Sky’s primary purposes is to be a container for the discipline of Karma Yoga. \nThis ancient practice offers great opportunities for insights and new levels of personal freedom. \n\nWhat is Karma Yoga?\nEssentially\, we define Karma Yoga as training in mindfulness through action. Clear Sky is a modern-day working monastery\, and if you spend time here\, you will be training in Karma Yoga through all the activities it takes to run the center. \nIf you are accepted into the program\, you will participate in the general running of the center’s activities and programs. Depending on your experience or interests\, you may also be assigned to a specific department or project. \nFor more information and to ask for an application form\, visit the Karma Yoga Service Stay Program page.
URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/karma-yoga-program-october-2018-intake-day/
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SUMMARY:Ignite Your Spiritual Life - An Online Course
DESCRIPTION:The critical lost art of the spiritual container and how it can reignite your spiritual life\nThis course has already run \nIf you’re like many people\, you may know what will help keep you calm and centered – like a regular meditation practice\, yet you have a hard time applying it in your daily life. \nEspecially in these turbulent times\, when it seems nobody is immune from growing levels of fear\, depression\, and anxiety in the world\, we cignan feel overwhelmed by what’s going on around us. \nEven with a regular meditation time\, you may still feel pulled off-center through the day. This is because your energy drains away\, little by little or even in sudden spills\, like nectar would from a leaky cup with no lid. \nYet\, it’s possible even on the busiest days to stay centered\, alive\, and engaged. You can learn to set up your life to support and protect your energy\, and re-ignite your spiritual life. \n\nHow can you do this? You can forge your life into a cup that supports your precious energy\, by learning about the art of the spiritual container. By repairing these holes in your metaphorical leaky cup\, you can redesign your everyday life to be more like you’re in the protective space of retreat. \nSounds impractical?\nWell\, don’t worry. Like you\, we’re not monks or nuns – not in this lifetime\, at least. This is a practical course that looks at how we can thrive and grow in a busy world – it’s not about learning how to withdraw\, or fit in hours of formal meditation. \nThe magic of a retreat – a cup that holds the nectar\nSo what are we talking about when we mention the supportive container of a retreat? If you haven’t been in retreat before\, take a moment and open your heart to the beauty of the experience. \n \nImagine moving in a space where you’re calm and bright enough to notice the simple beauty of life around you. A space where\, whatever happens\, you’ve got energy and a sense of equanimity to keep things in perspective. \nSimple chores feel joyful and alive\, instead of mundane. You move from task to task with ease\, seeing things just as they are and responding to what’s needed rather than reacting to what’s happening. \nPicture yourself being more compassionate\, friendly\, and open to other people. You enjoy the space to see when confusion or negative thoughts creep in for yourself or others\, and let them pass by without giving them energy to grow. \n\nDo you recognize anything there? Those moments when the ego seems to quieten and all is right with the world? We can get contact with this on a morning walk in nature with a beloved pet\, a stroll on the beach\, or a slow Sunday at home. \nThese moments don’t have to be fleeting moments you long for\, yet can’t get right now. Many moments in your daily life can be closer to this than you may think – whether you’re at work\, at home\, at school\, or commuting\, there are things you can do to bring the beauty of retreat into your day. \nYou won’t be able to do that\, however\, unless you acknowledge what’s been missing. \nWhat’s missing? Attention to the outer supports you need for a strong container\nSo\, what isn’t working in our daily lives? Why do people trying their best to find calm\, presence\, and joy still sometimes feel disheartened\, stuck\, or lost? \nWell\, in fact it’s not surprising. Especially in difficult times\, the daily demands of living will stay very much in charge – unless we tweak our lives to better support us. Unless we learn to carry our cup carefully and take care of it\, our precious nectar is bound to spill out or get diluted by what’s around us. \nIf the inner work you’re doing isn’t sustaining you\, then\, you’re probably missing the importance of the outer supports you need – especially if you’re one of those people who tends to take care of others\, more than you take care of yourself. \nYet once you set up these outer supports\, your life will be a better container for generating and sustaining a sense of calm\, focus\, and joy. \nOuter support: The Five Principles of a good spiritual container\nFrom years of running a retreat centre\, and applying what we learn to our own lives\, we’ve rediscovered five ancient principles that help create the right outer conditions we’re talking about: \n \n1. Honor your space \n2. Structure and routine are your friends \n3. It’s easier with others \n4. Cleaning up big areas of your life frees up energy \n5. Conversations shape the space where we meet \n\n  \nThese are the factors that have made Clear Sky work\, a place that wakes people up and supports their practice. And these same principles can transform and support our daily lives\, too. \nThat’s why we created this course. We’ll share with you the insights and learning we’ve had from creating Clear Sky – a physical and virtual centre for awakening – in the form of these five simple yet empowering principles\, that have been time-tested over centuries. \n\nAs well as the core content on each of the principles\, each webinar will include meditations and exercises to try in your daily life\, and will end with question-and-answer sessions. \n\n\nAre you carrying a leaky cup? Try the quiz!\nSee how you’re doing in terms of the Five Principles\, and get simple tips for using them to free up energy. Click the image to open up a new page and take the quiz. \n \n\nWhy take the course? Ignite Your Spiritual Life will help you:\n** establish a more consistent meditation practice \n** redesign your life to be more in line with your spiritual aspirations \n** get relief from being reactive and stressed by daily events \n** move through blocks and old patterns that seemed like they’d never shift \n** connect with your heart and other people at a deeper level \n** make bigger a difference in the world from a more grounded and confident place \n** clarify where you want to direct your energy \nThough not required\, we highly recommend participants do a weekend retreat during or after the course to bring what they are learning deeper into consciousness\, especially if they have not experienced a retreat before. \nLearn more about the five principles in this 40-minute\, edited recording from a live webinar\, on March 29\, 2017: \n \n\n◊◊◊ \nTestimonials\n\n	\n\n\n\nThe presenters were very good ... I think these principles are relevant not just for a spiritual practice but life as a whole.\nCourse Participant\, Spring 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen I was making my list of aspirations and plans for 2017\, I realized that I was structuring it from the five principles learned in the course “Outer Clarity.” The learnings served as a good medicine for doubts about how to lead transformations I want in my life.\nAll the principles have reinforced for me that it is necessary to water the outside garden very carefully\, with attention and presence\, so that the flowers of compassion and love can flourish inside and in my relations. Thank you\, dear Karen\, Duncan\, and Sangha.\nLuana Messena\, 5 Principles Course\, Brazil 2017\n\n\n\n\n\nIt's really\, really brought me back home to myself... I found myself in the past very scattered and would put off all the important things\, the spiritual aspects of life\, the mindfulness and so on\, just to blast through my day and get things done\, but now I am really taking pause. I still don't get everything done\, but I don't get everything done in a much more calm way\, haha\, in a much more soulful way... So for me that was probably the most important takeaway from the six week program is just you can't let those things slide no matter what because when you do\, you're giving up little bits of your soul and then you've really lost. ..That for me was wonderful to come back to.\nMorgana from Victoria\, Spring 2018\n\n\n\n\n\nI am so impressed and happy with Karen and Duncan. You have done a fabulous job with this course\, and have provided a role model example of working together. I loved hearing your real life stories\, things that you have struggled with in life- this added another level of reality to it that was applicable to my reality too. \nCourse Participant\, Spring 2017\n\n\n\n\n\nI found the course filled with a lot of practical information. I would recommend it to anybody interested in improving their spiritual practice. Thanks Karen and Duncan!\nCourse Participant\, Spring 2018\n\n\n\n\n\nToward the end\, I realized that the principles give you a format to bring Dharma into - which reassures you that they are deeper than just the surface.\nGretta\, Mental Health Therapist\, Spring 2018\n\n\n\n\n\nThank you\, thank you\, thank you!\nParticipant\, Spring 2018\n\n\n\n\n\nTo have a weekly course like that it created space for me to reflect in a different way and to pause in a different way to focus on some of these questions.\nAnd [the principles] are so basic\, they're so important and that's why they're profound..[your course gave me] a feeling of more alignment with my path.\nMeg O Leary\, Spring 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe course had a big impact on me. It not only helped me to organize my life in different aspects\, like the respect towards my personal living spaces or the way I relate to others and with time\, I also understood the power meditation can have in my life and how it can contribute to making more assertive choices.\nI had a very strong empowering sensation of conscience expansion and  learned how to better deal with my emotions\, specially my anxiety\, throughout the meditation on spaciousness. Now\, I understand I am a better person and for that I’m very grateful.\nLemuel Simis\, 5 Principles Course\, Brazil 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMy environment has changed\, the way I organize my activities\, my communication and trust in others ... Applying those principles can hold love and clarity for even big groups\, creating a genuine awakening field."\nEmmanuel Ponte - Five Principles Course\, Brazil 2017\n\n\n\n\n\nI think this course is a beautiful\, utterly grounded and relevant way of making the spiritual life very real and integrated with how we are living every day of our lives. I also think that this course lays an important foundation for a meditation practice that can actually go somewhere as well as allowing a practice that may already be strong to better feed the other parts of our lives for a really well-rounded and truly fulfilling life.\nRuth Levin - Movement Educator & Solopreneur - Spring 2018\n\n\n\n\n\nI highly recommend the Ignite Your Spiritual Life online course. It is a great introduction for people exploring the Dharma path\, but it's valuable in daily life too! The course is also a great refresher for experienced practitioners\, which helps strengthens your spiritual practice and allows you to connect with the community.\nJenai Lieu\, Program Coordinator\, Spring 2018\n\n\n\n\n\nKaren's guided meditations were lovely; they provided new ways to meditate and increase space-awareness- on the relevant issues. I'd like to go back and review them all so I can do them again. In fact\, I'd be happy to review the whole course week by week\, just from the recordings.\nCourse Participant\, Spring 2017\n\n\n\n\n\nThank you! I really felt both Karen and Duncan were so caring and sincere.\nParticipant\, Spring 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith this course we learned how to strengthen our practice taking care of our meditation space\, creating wholesome habits\, exchanging and strengthening the practice with the support of the Sangha and so on. The outside is not separated from the inside. That is why taking care of the outside with attention\, generosity and joy\, we meet the clarity within us.\nRita Chirata\, 5 Principles Course\, Brazil 2017\n\n\n\n		\n\n\n\n◊◊◊\n \n\nFurther Information – Click to read more\n\n                \n    \n            \n                                    \n                        \n                        \n                    \n                    Details of what we'll be teaching you.\n                            \n            \n                Since this course is about establishing a consistent meditation practice (the inner) and getting your life (the outer) more in line with your spiritual aspirations\, we’ve made each session a balance of this inner and outer work. \nWe start with a guided meditation or mindfulness practice to support a deepening daily reflective practice\, and then give fresh practical tips for integrating it into your daily life. \nTurning to the outer\, each session then focuses on one key principle for creating what we call a “spiritual container.” The container is the outer supportive conditions you can set up in your life to support your inner practice\, reconnect with your heart\, and help you break through old patterns that are holding you back. (See our How it Works page for more information on the 5 key principles of a spiritual container) \nEach session is lively and interactive\, including breakout sessions for discussion in groups\, sharing via the chat function\, and time for Q&A. We offer home “play” exercises (we prefer this to home “work” as the exercises are designed to be exploratory and fun!) for trying outside of the weekly sessions to explore and integrate the topics. \nWeek 1:   Creating a supportive space for your growth\n\nThree supports for being more mindful and present in daily life.\nThe missing element. Understand what a spiritual container is\, why it’s often forgotten\, and why it’s so important to achieving your goals.\nContacting that “aaahh” feeling that a well-created space can instantly create\nSix key aspects for creating a space to support your growth.\n\nWeek 2 :  Transforming habit and making friends with structure\n\nFresh awareness - tools for getting out of auto-pilot mode.\nLoosening and transforming unhelpful habits.\nConsciously choosing structures and routines so that you’re free to explore.\nHarnessing the power of ritual.\n\nWeek 3:   Quieting the monkey mind \n\nCalming internal dialog and chatter.\nCleaning up draining conversations and speech patterns.\nThe power of forgiveness.\nEstablishing healthy and generative communication\n\nWeek 4:    Part 1: Cleaning up big areas of your life frees up energy\n\nIdentifying big areas in your life that drain your energy.\nBeginning to ease the common drain and tension around money.\nExploring your vision and purpose.\n\nWeek 5:   Part 2: Cleaning up big areas of your life frees up energy\n\nWorking with distractions and overload.\nGetting off the “hamster wheel”.\nDeveloping a healthy relationship with time.\nLearning to “do nothing” - the importance of making space to play.\n\nWeek 6:   The power of community\n\nMeditations to strengthen kindness and compassion.\nEmbracing healthy relationships.\nThe power of community to support your growth.\nBringing it all together - how a  strong spiritual container is a launchpad for your growth.\n\n            \n    \n            \n                                    \n                        \n                        \n                    \n                    The people who'll be teaching you\n                            \n            \n                Your hosts for this course have all experienced life-changing growth and unfoldment through their involvement with Clear Sky and its founding teachers.  Between us\, we bring years of studying and practicing in the lineage\, of teaching and meditating around the world\, and of governance and management of Clear Sky Centre. \nHere\, we’ve brought together the fruits of all our learning into the five principles\, offered here for the first time publicly as an online course. \nMain Hosts:\n\nKaren McAllister  \nAfter meeting our founding teachers in Japan\, I managed the meditation centre there for many years while serving simultaneously as part of the Clear Sky Board. In 2003\, I helped search for a site for Clear Sky\, looking at around 30 properties until we found our current location in the magical Kootenays. \nI'm now Chair of the Board and Director of Business Development. I'm passionate to be teaching the much-ignored principles of nurturing the factors - like honor your space\, structure\, and communication - that create the conditions we need to wake up more in daily life. I see how I learned and embodied these principles in my different roles at Clear Sky\, as the centre went from self-starter to second-stage growth. This is what I call “the hands-on way of doing an MBA with a spiritual bottom line!” \nIn my free time\, I love travelling\, speaking Portuguese and reading history\, architecture\, and art books. \nDuncan Cryle \nI'm the former Clear Sky Chair\, a certified Mindfulness teacher\, Dharma teacher\, and an IBM Executive in Toronto. \nThrough 15 years of teaching meditation and mindfulness\, alongside an active career working all over the world\, I’ve learnt a lot about an integrated spiritual path.  With a Ph.D. in philosophy in my pocket\, I was gung ho to join a monastery until I met my root teachers Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat in Japan in 2001\, who turned my views upside down and encouraged me to grow and contribute at the busy end of life!   \nA founding member of Clear Sky in 2004\, I’m amazed at the power that working together in compassionate service has for enriching and widening spiritual growth.  Combined with a dynamic relationship and a challenging career\, I have fun with a wide-ranging and holistic approach to spiritual growth.  The spiritual container is a key aspect to this and I’m delighted to teach and share this course.\n \nAll of that made me more energetic\, active and with the will of exploring this big world. Not only that\, but gave me the strength to transform my daily practice making it more consistent. The changes and insights keep coming up and the Sangha has a giant role in maintaining my spiritual growth.\nI deeply thank the teachers Karen and Duncan for not giving up on guiding us through this wonderful path.\n   Tamires Low\nThe course has introduced complementary concepts that supported me on constructing a more consistent and deep practice\, which has contributed significantly for me to see the values that are really important to me\, and also gave me strength to keep them and go ahead\, no matter what the external circumstances may be. \n I can only give thanks for having the opportunity of being part of this group. Deep gratitude for the teachers that offered the course\, to the team that created it and to the Sangha that participated on the first group\, for allowing ourselves to be together on this learning.\nAna Paula Ueti\nYour Other Hosts:\nMichelle Heinz \nI began studying with the founding teachers and community of Clear Sky in 2003. With them I re-ignited that spark for life I'd been desperately missing and seeking. \nI love plunging into things and that’s exactly what I did with Clear Sky. Visiting Clear Sky every summer\, I started by developing the farm and land\, and then joined the Board of Directors. I then moved from Japan to live at and run the centre for 8 years. I still thrive on connecting with and bringing all kinds of people and events to Clear Sky. \nNow based in Nelson B.C.\, I'm part of a wakeful and innovative team. I help run a co-working space where I'm delighted to say that meditation\, mindful collaboration and teamwork are an integral part of my work day.  \nFun for me includes punning with friends\, finding new ways to eat sea buckthorn berries and getting outside whenever I can. \n\nAndy Rogers \nI first got interested in meditation through a school friend of mine who went on to become a monk in Thailand. I left the UK 20 years ago\, ending up in Japan for several years where I met Clear Sky's founding teachers through one of their students - and a founding member of Clear Sky - John Munroe. \nI've lived at Clear Sky for long periods since 2009 and also served as Treasurer and Board Member for five years. I now offer a weekly meditation and dharma class in nearby Kimberley. \nLiving or spending time at Clear Sky puts you in all kinds of roles. I've cooked for 30 people\, presented at AGMs\, written blogs and created budgets\, pulled weeds and repaired fences. And I can now see clearly that where I thrived and where I've struggled can be directly related to each of our new principles in some way. Can't wait to share them with you! \nI'm now Clear Sky's head copywriter and an active member of the Business Development team - the creators of this course! I love playing golf here in the picturesque Rockies\, though the golf season is painfully short! When I'm not pounding the magnetic dartboard in the Clear Sky office\, I also earn a living as a copywriter. \n\nMaryline Fortier \nI was introduced to Clear Sky through joining the Karma Yoga program (a 3-month service stay). I was instantly seduced by a new way of life - a way that my depth was seeking. I found a place\, a community where people work together and accompany yogis like me in the awakening process. \nThere\, I discovered what I'm passionate about: diving deeper inside\, understanding what it is to be a wholesome\, spiritual being - a being that is participating in the creation of an abundant life and that believes in the powerful ideal of service for the benefit of all. What an incredible journey! \nOriginally trained as a social work educator\, my eight years of work with youth in schools have convinced me to find a better\, deeper way to teach life skills to our next generation. I am now in a 3-year university course and I intend to start my own business in the fields of life skills and second-language teaching \nNow\, I am on the Clear Sky Sales and Business Development teams - and soon joining our Board of Directors - and my love for our offerings to the world is constantly increasing. I see how what we can provide to people is peaceful and loving states of mind. Working to support that? That's really a life worth living! \n            \n    \n            \n                                    \n                        \n                        \n                    \n                    What's included\n                            \n            \n                What's Included\nBy joining this course\, you’ll get:\n       Six\, 90-minute interactive live webinars covering the five principles\, PLUS view access to recordings. \n       Exercises to give you an understanding of the principles of a spiritual container and how they affect your energy. \n       Reflections and meditations to help you stay grounded\, calm\, and centred. \n       The following tools and support: \nWeekly meditations: \nGuided meditations uploaded once a week during the course. This 15-minute offering is designed to help you quickly re-focus on the week’s principle between webinars\, helping you apply it directly in your day and providing some welcome supportive structure. \nFacebook Group \nJoin us and fellow participants in a private Facebook group focused on the principles. Providing you with an online community to support you between webinars was high on our list. Share about your insights\, explorations\, and discoveries and enjoy mutual support plus extra feedback from course teachers. We’ll also have fun practising and modeling for each other the 5th principle: discover how clear conscious communication creates a space for us to meet and share ideas. \n            \n    \n            \n                                    \n                        \n                        \n                    \n                    Some Frequently Asked Questions\n                            \n            \n                Some Frequently Asked Questions\n \nAm I a good match for this course? \nAre you open to growth and an honest look at your patterns with a heart for changing what isn’t working for you any more? This course could be for you. You should also know that we’re more casual than formal\, more direct than politically correct or touchy feely. We hope that you’ll ask questions and engage with the material to get the most you can from the course. \nWill you try to convert me to Buddhism? \nNope. These principles support your growth\, whichever tradition or system you’re working with. And at the same time\, we’d like you to know that we’ll be referencing or using wisdom from various sources\, and will offer guided meditations and reflections as we go. We encourage you to explore anything you hear with an open heart and discerning mind\, and take the opportunities to ask questions. \nDo I need to have or start a meditation practice to do your course? \nIt helps if you have done some meditation. But don’t worry if you’ve never meditated\, had difficulty establishing a consistent practice\, or even if you feel you’re a “bad” meditator. This course is very much about giving you the support and understanding for an alive and regular meditative practice. \nHow practical is this course? \nWe’ll be looking at the practical\, everyday areas of our lives that – when in better alignment with our inner aspirations – can support our path. So we’ll be inviting and helping you to take ongoing\, practical action in your day-to-day life\, including things like your work\, family\, and relationships with other people. \nWhat interaction will I have with the instructors and other participants? \nTo enrich your learning\, we encourage participants to engage and share with each other in the private Facebook group. Clear Sky’s 3rd principle is about finding and engaging with others on the path\, and this course is one place to truly connect with others. We’ll also open space during the live sessions for questions and answers\, and we welcome your engagement and questions. \nDo you offer any more advanced level courses on this material? \nThis material is incredibly rich. We are developing deeper dives into each principle as well as material on applying the five principles at work\, at home\, and even at an organizational level for heart-centred groups and social enterprises. Look for future announcements via our emails and blogs. \nWhat is the cancellation policy? \nWe’d love to offer refunds\, yet because this series of webinars and the bonus offerings represent hours of dedicated work and we are offering it for a very low minimum offering\, there is a zero-refund policy on this course. We encourage you to register with a clear mind and heart\, and in a spirit of generosity. \n            \n    \n\n\n\n            \n\n\nWhat it costs\nWe offer this course on the basis of dāna.  If you’re not familiar with dāna\, you may have come across related approaches such as “pay from the heart.” Dāna is a Sanskrit term that translates as generosity in English. It’s radically different from the transactional way we normally interact in the world – where we give to get something back\, either a service or thing. Instead\, with dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. \nAs for our part in this pay from the heart model: since we have expenses hosting the classes and we are investing significant amounts of volunteer (service) time and our combined experience in creating\, teaching\, and administrating the course\, we are setting the minimum amount at $120 CAD. All proceeds will go to Clear Sky center. \n \nWe highly recommend taking time to check in with your heart on an amount that feels good. Find the amount you feel balances and honors your aspiration for this course\, the energy we are giving to deliver the course\, and what is sustainable for you. \nIn this pay from the heart exercise\, you might also consider what you pay for different things as a matter of course: a night out with friends\, a session with a chiropractor or acupuncturist\, or an hour with a life coach\, for example. \nYou’ll see equivalent live courses offered for between $120 and $360 CAD.  Over six\, 90-minute classes\, this represents an average of $20-$60 per class. \nWhy do you use a dāna-based model?\n\nThe practice of generosity is central to spiritual unfoldment\, whatever path you follow. In our own Buddhist lineage\, teachings have always been given on the basis of dāna\, and we are committed to this practice and its development in the West. Dāna is also a radical and – we believe – viable economic alternative to capitalism\, which our planet would really benefit from. We all know there must be something better than capitalism or its hungry cousin\, consumerism. We maintain that\, together\, we can offer a financial model that is based in life-affirming mutual support. Please join us in co-creating this promising economic alternative. \n\n 
URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/ignite-spiritual-life-fall-2018/
CATEGORIES:Online Courses
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SUMMARY:Karma Yoga Program - September 2018 Intake Day
DESCRIPTION:Mindfulness and beyond: a three-month internship\, learning and serving in a conscious community\nOne of Clear Sky’s primary purposes is to be a container for the discipline of Karma Yoga. \nThis ancient practice offers great opportunities for insights and new levels of personal freedom. \n\nWhat is Karma Yoga?\nEssentially\, we define Karma Yoga as training in mindfulness through action. Clear Sky is a modern-day working monastery\, and if you spend time here\, you will be training in Karma Yoga through all the activities it takes to run the center. \nIf you are accepted into the program\, you will participate in the general running of the center’s activities and programs. Depending on your experience or interests\, you may also be assigned to a specific department or project. \nFor more information and to ask for an application form\, visit the Karma Yoga Service Stay Program page.
URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/karma-yoga-program-september-2018-intake-day/
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SUMMARY:Karma Yoga Program - August 2018 Intake Day
DESCRIPTION:Mindfulness and beyond: a three-month internship\, learning and serving in a conscious community\nOne of Clear Sky’s primary purposes is to be a container for the discipline of Karma Yoga. \nThis ancient practice offers great opportunities for insights and new levels of personal freedom. \n\nWhat is Karma Yoga?\nEssentially\, we define Karma Yoga as training in mindfulness through action. Clear Sky is a modern-day working monastery\, and if you spend time here\, you will be training in Karma Yoga through all the activities it takes to run the center. \nIf you are accepted into the program\, you will participate in the general running of the center’s activities and programs. Depending on your experience or interests\, you may also be assigned to a specific department or project. \nFor more information and to ask for an application form\, visit the Karma Yoga Service Stay Program page.
URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/karma-yoga-program-august-2018-intake-day/
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SUMMARY:Buddhas in Action Retreat 2018
DESCRIPTION:Awakening In Daily Life\nThis summer retreat is offered by Doug & Catherine Sensei\, Clear Sky’s founding teachers\, \nWhen we’re in the middle of modern samsaric busy-ness\, the spiritual life can feel out of reach. We want to relate meaningfully with those around us\, but we often feel unfulfilled. Work just leaves us feeling worn out and slightly empty. And sometimes the space between self and other feels like a tremendous gap. \nWe all need to earn a living and deal with day-to-day pressures. The wonderful news is that we can use contemporary spiritual practices at work and in relationship to feel fulfilled while doing so. These different parts of our life can support one another in beautiful ways\, leading to great feelings of meaningfulness\, balance\, and connection. \nRead more about spiritual practice at work in this blog\, Awakening Speedily Through Career. \nOur experience shows that blending study\, meditation\, and what we call “awakening through action” profoundly integrates spiritual practice with day-to-day demands. \nTraditionally\, spiritual seekers lived in monasteries or trained with their teacher in remote mountain caves. Throughout both traditions\, meditation and training were supplemented with practical application. \nThis practical application–also called karma yoga or the path of action–helped students learn to embody ever-growing wisdom and awareness moment-to-moment. The idea was always to share these fruits of spiritual practice in meaningful ways with the broader community\, for everyone’s benefit. \nWe’ve spent the last 20 years adapting this tradition of awakening through action to our modern lives\, at home\, in offices\, in conversations\, at our desks\, in meetings\, in bed and in the field. This profoundly practical application can help you find greater joy\, fulfillment\, and calm amidst your busy daily life. \nWhy Use Karma Yoga to Wake Up Your Work & Daily Life?\nBy learning the principles of karma yoga\, you can apply awareness and wisdom to everything you do. Cultivating this practice allows you to transform your work\, home and city life into a connective field of monastic or yogic practice. Your home becomes your monastery\, while your co-workers become your fellow yogis and yoginis. \nThis retreat gives you the building blocks to apply awareness\, compassion\, wisdom\, and strength to each moment. The result is greater fulfillment amid daily life and meaningful connection with others and the world around you. \nPlease note that this retreat and Clear Sky welcome people of all religious backgrounds and beliefs. This retreat is also open to all experience levels. \nWhy the Actions of “Service?”\nCalling our actions “service” instills the notion that we do it with and for others. Service helps both ourselves and others gain greater clarity and contentment throughout our daily activities. \nBy putting others first\, we give the ego a chance to relax. The result is increased success\, effectiveness\, and fulfillment in our work and relationships. This is a profoundly joyful experience. \nThis approach is highly relevant to the Western lifestyle of the 21st century. This course offers you the opportunity to learn from our experience and take it back home and to work with you. \nIn this course\, we’ll draw on traditional meditation and yogic practices and philosophy. We’ll also utilize exercises drawn from Namgyal Rinpoche’s Holistic Clearing practice\, Authentic Leadership\, Theory U\, Fifth Discipline\, Five Dysfunctions of a Team\, as well as original exercises we’ve created expressly for Karma Yoga and Dharma Training development. \nWhat’s Expected from Me if I Come to This Retreat?\nAn open mind and heart\, and a spirit of adventure are excellent things to bring! \nIt’s human to have some apprehensions about doing something new\, meeting new people\, or going to a new place. Particularly when all three happen together. We try to make this as supportive as possible. \nChanges – including positive ones – require movement\, and movement requires engaged energy. We ask you to engage with us around the teachings and activities that will support your learning and unfoldment around awakening in action. \nWhen exploring our growth edges\, it’s natural to feel uncertain and awkward. And it’s very fruitful to transform that emotional tension into creative energy by drawing on your own inner resources – such as inquiry\, going with the flow\, and self-reflection\, just a few of the many kinds of constructive engagement. \nTo maximize your learning\, we ask that you refrain from reading\, using the internet\, or listening to music during the course. We make an exception for journaling\, course assignments\, and dancing during exercises or group celebration – all great resources for integration and growth. \nLastly\, our teaching and Clear Sky operate based on the ancient tradition of dāna or generosity. Please learn more about this profound practice before you register. \n\nAbout the Teachers\nDharma Teachers Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat place great value on using every action as your practice for enlightenment. Combined\, they have been practicing Karma Yoga and meditation for more than 60 years. They both received lay ordination from the Canadian-born Ven. Namgyal Rinpoche\, and have shared teachings of liberation worldwide for decades. \nThis retreat is a rare opportunity to immerse yourself in karma yoga learning and practice over a focused two-week period. Doug and Catherine typically teach students one-on-one at various times. It is suitable for their students who are already practicing karma yoga and for beginners alike. \nJoin this retreat for the valuable opportunity to help share these unique teachings in the contemporary world. \nRead more about the teachers on their website here: Doug & Catherine’s Bios \nDāna (Generosity Based Teaching)\nDoug & Catherine are teaching this meditation retreat via the ancient tradition of Dāna (generosity)\, an offering from them to the attendees. It is considered of supreme value to your life and thus “beyond price” so it is expected that the student will be equally generous and support the teaching and the teachers by making an offering. \nWhile no offering is too small\, also no offering is too great. The giver benefits by offering as much as they can\, given the individual’s circumstances. Along with compassion\, generosity is considered the root of spiritual progress and\, according to the ancients\, therefore the root of our success in daily life as well. \nFind out more about how you can practice Dāna. We invite you to offer Dāna when you register and via the Dāna bowl available at Clear Sky. \n\nFurther Reading\nComing soon \nReady for Buddhas in Action?\nInvest in your growth and unfoldment with master Dharma teachers Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat this summer. Nestled in the Rocky Mountains\, beautiful and innovative Clear Sky meditation centre offers the perfect locale for deep learning.  Receive hands-on training in mind\, body and feeling as Doug & Catherine guide you through Karma Yoga and Dharma Training via classes\, assigned exercises and practice in community. You will also discover the powerful holistic clearing technique and other forms of meditation. \n\nBook Now
URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/buddhas-action-retreat-2018/
CATEGORIES:Group Retreats and Courses
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SUMMARY:Karma Yoga Program - July 2018 Intake Day
DESCRIPTION:Mindfulness and beyond: a three-month internship\, learning and serving in a conscious community\nOne of Clear Sky’s primary purposes is to be a container for the discipline of Karma Yoga. \nThis ancient practice offers great opportunities for insights and new levels of personal freedom. \n\nWhat is Karma Yoga?\nEssentially\, we define Karma Yoga as training in mindfulness through action. Clear Sky is a modern-day working monastery\, and if you spend time here\, you will be training in Karma Yoga through all the activities it takes to run the center. \nIf you are accepted into the program\, you will participate in the general running of the center’s activities and programs. Depending on your experience or interests\, you may also be assigned to a specific department or project. \nFor more information and to ask for an application form\, visit the Karma Yoga Service Stay Program page.
URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/karma-yoga-program-july-2018-intake-day/
LOCATION:Clear Sky Meditation Center\, 3567 Cockell Road\, PO BOX 19\, Fort Steele\, British Columbia\, V0B 1NO\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Karma Yoga Program - June 2018 Intake Day
DESCRIPTION:Mindfulness and beyond: a three-month internship\, learning and serving in a conscious community\nOne of Clear Sky’s primary purposes is to be a container for the discipline of Karma Yoga. \nThis ancient practice offers great opportunities for insights and new levels of personal freedom. \n\nWhat is Karma Yoga?\nEssentially\, we define Karma Yoga as training in mindfulness through action. Clear Sky is a modern-day working monastery\, and if you spend time here\, you will be training in Karma Yoga through all the activities it takes to run the center. \nIf you are accepted into the program\, you will participate in the general running of the center’s activities and programs. Depending on your experience or interests\, you may also be assigned to a specific department or project. \nFor more information and to ask for an application form\, visit the Karma Yoga Service Stay Program page.
URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/ky-intake-june-2018/
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SUMMARY:Western Mysteries Retreat: Body of Truth and Star Group
DESCRIPTION:May 11\, 2018 – May 19\, 2018\nThis retreat has passed\n  \nWestern Mysteries Retreat: Body of Truth and Star Group \nImagine being the change you want to see in the world. \nCreative visualization and active imagination are vital to the spiritual path. They improve our relationships with ourselves and others and grow our desire to benefit all beings. \nBy cultivating powerful visualization skills\, we can imagine our desired way of being into existence. As a bonus\, we strengthen the ability to see through and decrease our negativite states when they arise. \nThe Power of Western Meditations and Star Group\n \nBuddhist philosophy holds that the waking world is no more “real” than the worlds of meditation or dreams. Therefore our ability to imagine new and more diverse positive arisings is an essential skill for the bodhisattva path. \nDuring this retreat\, we’ll follow Namgyal Rinpoche’s pioneering work with these practices\, drawing on his book\, A Body of Truth\, and the Star Group meditation methodology that he developed. \nThe retreat will also include a Tibetan-style ceremony or Wong Kur\, on May 13th. It will center on the Tibetan deity archetype Vajrapani-Hayagriva-Garuda. A Wong Kur is a fun yet powerful ceremony of transmission. Our best word for it in English might be initiation\, or perhaps blessing\, of the energy of that particular archetype. \nWhat to expect:\n\nWe will explore diverse meditations from the Western Mystery tradition. This tradition focuses more on archetypes\, and less on human-centric deities and saints (which are present in traditions like Buddhism and Christianity).\nWe will draw on the use of forms\, elements\, shapes\, movement and color to stimulate transformative energies within us.\nWe will explore a broad spectrum of practices–from meditations on honeycombs to the Great Pyramid and its secret chambers.\nTo create a holistic experience\, we will balance the five elements\, inner and outer\, active and passive energies\, time indoors and outdoors\, alone and in groups.\nYou may discover hidden talents\, and increase your strengths. Negative internal blocks will loosen.\n\nWhat is Star Group?\nDeveloped by Namgyal Rinpoche\, Star Group is a rare and precious practice. Small groups of people meditate together to create a psychic platform where they collectively explore the depths of inner and outer space. Star Group meditation draws on the powers of several minds working together and individually\, increasing the range and power of our exploration\, meditative vision and joy. \nStar Group could be seen as a progression from meditating alone to meditating as a group or collective. This practice provides an outstanding opportunity to draw on meditation as a resource to develop relationship and community skills. \nIntegrating your experiences and energies with others benefits innumerable beings. We invite you to join us to train in becoming more skilled and compassionate for the benefit of all beings. \n*Early Bird Special until April 10th\, 2018.* \nBook Now\n\nAbout the Teachers:\n\n \nWe encourage everyone to find the “teacher within” that we can be. But\, for almost everyone\, we need to apprentice before we can master. Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat apprenticed in the teachings of awakening for decades with their teachers. Between them they have been teaching for more than 30 years. \nTheir explorations and teachings are guided by four principles: spiritual growth\, social connectivity\, economic sustainability and environmental integrity. \nDoug & Catherine teach from various wisdom traditions – including buddhadharma\, Western Mysteries\, modern science\, art and nature – based on broad interests and a non-judgemental approach. We’ve lived and worked overseas for many years\, and a planetary outlook is important to us. So is humour! \nRead more: Full Bios. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“The retreat I just did at Clear Sky was beautiful. The environment of the centre itself settles and energises me immediately. I can relax\, let go and meditate with ease there\, I can go deeper at Clear Sky\, it’s such a supportive environment.”  \nCara Conroy-Low\nDr. of Traditional Chinese Medicine / Cranbrook Acupuncture Clinic\nRead more testimonials about the teachers here.\n  \n\nDāna (Generosity Based Teaching)\nDoug & Catherine are teaching this meditation retreat via the ancient tradition of Dāna (generosity)\, an offering from them to the attendees. It is considered of supreme value to your life and thus “beyond price” so it is expected that the student will be equally generous and support the teaching and the teachers by making an offering. \nWhile no offering is too small\, also no offering is too great. The giver benefits by offering as much as they can\, given the individual’s circumstances. Along with compassion\, generosity is considered the root of spiritual progress and\, according to the ancients\, therefore the root of our success in daily life as well. \nFind out more about how you can practice Dāna. We invite you to offer Dāna when you register and via the Dāna bowl available at Clear Sky. \nContact us about this retreat now using this form:
URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/western-mysteries-retreat-body-truth-star-group/
CATEGORIES:Group Retreats and Courses
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SUMMARY:Becoming a Work of Art - Easter Retreat 2018
DESCRIPTION:Paramis Weekend Retreat\, March 30 – April 2\, 2018. \nJoin us in this short retreat on the Buddhist Paramis (Paramitas). Along with the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Noble Path\, the Paramis form the essential building blocks of Buddhadharma. \n“Better to be a work of art than make a work of art.” – Namgyal Rinpoche \n\n\n\n\nA Meditation Retreat on the Paramis to Build your Foundations: Easter Long Weekend 2018\n\nAre the paramis and the Buddhist body of practice somewhat new to you? If so\, this course will provide you with fundamental resources around which to develop a practice for the rest of your life. \nEvery meditative practice in our tradition\, at some point\, comes back to the Paramis\, also known as the six perfections. These form a flawless path that carries us straight to spiritual enlightenment. It’s simple\, beautiful\, and powerful. Join us for this three-day weekend to get you squarely and joyfully on this path. \n  \nWhy Becoming a Work of Art?\nWould you rather create one work of art or become a work of art? In a culture that values external achievements\, we often forget the hidden gem inside us. This gem creates bliss\, wisdom\, and radiance\, and it is fiercely worth growing. \nLet your internal works of art flourish during our three-day retreat this May Long Weekend on the Paramis. Led by Dharma Teachers Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat\, it is a perfect time to embrace springtime and nurture your inner potential. \nDuring this retreat\, we will study six aspects of consciousness that we may cultivate to become our own inner and outer works of art. These six aspects are called the paramis in Sanskrit\, and have been taught in the buddhadharma for more than two thousand years. \nThis retreat has a powerful experiential meditation component – participants will receive an initiation to the Chenrezi practice. Chenrezi is a form of ‘arising yoga’ from Vajrayana Buddhism. It is a principle practice of compassion that will give you full mind body experience of the Paramis. \nThe paramis are qualities that we grow to feel internally grounded and to act from a positive\, wholesome place in our relationships with others. They help us reside in a clear\, calm\, and loving place\, while becoming more curious and absorbed with our inner and outer worlds. With these qualities\, happiness and beautiful works of art shine. You can read more about the paramis in this Planet Dharma blog.\nWho is this course for?\nBecause we are active people with busy lives\, it is common to feel like we can’t take the time to get grounded. This affects how we work\, play\, and relate to each other. As the saying goes\, “when you’re up to your neck in alligators\, it’s hard to remember that your original intention was to drain the swamp.” \nThis short course is designed for those of us who feel challenged around making the time. \nAs well as studying the paramis\, we’ll explore how to cultivate mindfulness as we go about our daily lives. As our relationships and professional lives blossom\, we’re of greater service to ourselves\, our communities\, and the planet. \nThis retreat is intended to create a work of art that is founded in an abundant and durable happiness … even when there are ‘gators nipping at our heels.\n \n  \nCourse Outcomes:\n\nLearn to be more generous with ourselves and others\, materially\, emotionally and mentally.\nDevelop a greater sense of ease around thorny emotional issues.\nCultivate greater patience in the face of life’s ongoing challenges.\nOpen more energy through less resistance rooted in fear and mistrust.\nFind greater calm and focus based on a clearer sense of one’s place in the world.\nDiscover a closer connection to the wisdom inside us that arises from the development of the above outcomes.\n\n\nAbout the Teachers:\n \nWe encourage everyone to find the “teacher within” that we can be. But\, for almost everyone\, we need to apprentice before we can master. Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat apprenticed in the teachings of awakening for decades with their teachers. Between them they have been teaching for more than 30 years. \nTheir explorations and teachings are guided by four principles: spiritual growth\, social connectivity\, economic sustainability and environmental integrity. \nDoug & Catherine teach from various wisdom traditions – including buddhadharma\, Western Mysteries\, modern science\, art and nature – based on broad interests and a non-judgemental approach. We’ve lived and worked overseas for many years\, and a planetary outlook is important to us. So is humour! \nRead more: Full Bios. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“The retreat I just did at Clear Sky was beautiful. The environment of the centre itself settles and energises me immediately. I can relax\, let go and meditate with ease there\, I can go deeper at Clear Sky\, it’s such a supportive environment.”  \nCara Conroy-Low\nDr. of Traditional Chinese Medicine / Cranbrook Acupuncture Clinic\nRead more testimonials about the teachers here.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis course is open to all experience levels\n\nWe work with beginners and advanced participants alike\, and mold our teaching to the readiness of each student.\nEach student sets the pace and scope of their own development. We do encourage you to stretch your comfort zone so that it becomes broader\, and so you enjoy maximum benefits of the course.\nThe schedule is very accessible (see below for details).\nOur teachers and staff are friendly and well trained\, and have supported many people in becoming ever-evolving works of art.\n\nWhat’s expected from me if I come to this course?\n\nCome with an open and engaged attitude.\n\n© C. Pawasarat\n\n\nParticipate in the program as fully as you’re able.\nFoster and maintain an atmosphere of trust and acceptance in the group-learning environment.\nRefrain from reading\, using the internet or listening to music during the course (except journaling and assigned reading).\nParticipate in Karma Yoga [Note 1 below] service at Clear Sky (maximum of two hours daily).\nSupport the teachers and teachings through the practice of dāna.\n\nWhy come to Clear Sky: Experience the difference:\n\nKnow what it is to truly unwind\, surrounded by pristine\, tranquil nature.\nEnjoy fresh air and wholesome food\, with an emphasis on organic and locally sourced.\nExperience the support of a community that exists to help you reconnect.\nBe part of a working and awakening community that practices what it teaches.\nYou’ll both reinvigorate and integrate what you learn into your daily life.\nShare the learning and growth with other participants\, making new friends who are also on a path of spiritual unfoldment.\nConnect to the teachings that have enlivened humanity over centuries (regardless of religion).\n\n\nWhat else do you need to know?\n\nDāna (Generosity Based Teaching)\n\nDoug & Catherine are teaching this meditation retreat via the ancient tradition of Dāna (generosity)\, an offering from them to the attendees. It is considered of supreme value to your life and thus “beyond price” so it is expected that the student will be equally generous and support the teaching and the teachers by making an offering. \nWhile no offering is too small\, also no offering is too great. The giver benefits by offering as much as they can\, given the individual’s circumstances. Along with compassion\, generosity is considered the root of spiritual progress and\, according to the ancients\, therefore the root of our success in daily life as well. \nFind out more about how you can practice Dāna. We invite you to offer Dāna when you register and via the Dāna bowl available at Clear Sky. \n\n\n 
URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/becoming-work-art-easter-retreat-2018/
CATEGORIES:Group Retreats and Courses
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SUMMARY:Ignite Your Spiritual Life - Spring 2018
DESCRIPTION:This course is now closed to new registrations. Join our mailing list to keep informed of upcoming courses and resources. \nThough not required\, we highly recommend participants do a weekend retreat during or after the course to bring what they are learning deeper into consciousness\, especially if they have not experienced a retreat before. If you are close to Clear Sky\, we highly recommend The Easter weekend retreat focusing on some of the basic Buddhist teachings\, the Paramis: Becoming A Work of Art. \nThe critical lost art of the spiritual container\nand how it can re-ignite your spiritual life\nIf you’re like many people\, you may know what will help keep you calm and centered – like a regular meditation practice\, yet you have a hard time applying it in your daily life. \nEspecially in these turbulent times\, when it seems nobody is immune from the growing levels of fear\, depression\, and anxiety in the world\, we can feel overwhelmed by what’s going on around us. \nEven with a regular meditation time you may still feel pulled off-center through the day as that precious energy gets leaked away. \nYet\, it’s possible even on the busiest days to stay centered\, alive\, and engaged. You can learn to set up your life to support and protect your energy\, and re-ignite your spiritual life. \n\nHow can you do this? By learning about the art of the spiritual container\, and redesigning your everyday life to be more like you’re in the protective space of retreat. \nSounds impractical? \nWell\, like you\, we’re not monks or nuns – not in this lifetime\, at least. This is a practical course that looks at how we can thrive and grow in a busy world – it’s not about learning how to withdraw\, or fit in hours of formal meditation. \nThe magic of a retreat\nIf you haven’t been in retreat before\, take a moment and open your heart to the beauty of the experience. \n \nImagine moving in a space where you’re calm and bright enough to notice the simple beauty of life around you. A space where\, whatever happens\, you’ve got energy and a sense of equanimity to keep things in perspective. \nSimple chores feel joyful and alive\, instead of mundane. You move from task to task with ease\, seeing things just as they are and responding to what’s needed rather than reacting to what’s happening. \nPicture yourself being more compassionate\, friendly\, and open to other people. You enjoy the space to see when confusion or negative thoughts creep in for yourself or others\, and let them pass by without giving them energy to grow. \n  \nDo you recognize anything there? Those moments when the ego seems to quieten and all is right with the world? It can be a morning walk in nature with a beloved pet\, a stroll on the beach\, or a slow Sunday at home. \nYour life can be closer to this than you may think – whether you’re at work\, at home\, at school\, or traveling around\, there are things you can do to bring the beauty of retreat into your day. \nYou won’t be able to do that\, however\, unless you acknowledge what’s been missing. \nWhat’s missing? Attention to the outer supports you need\nSo\, what isn’t working in our daily lives? Why do people trying their best to find calm\, presence\, and joy still sometimes feel disheartened\, stuck\, or lost? \nWell\, in fact it’s not surprising. Especially in difficult times\, the day-to-day demands of living will stay very much in charge – unless we tweak our lives to better support us. \nIf the inner work you’re doing isn’t sustaining you\, then you’re probably missing the importance of the outer supports you need – especially if you’re one of those people who tends to take care of others\, more than you take care of yourself. \nYet once you set up these outer supports\, you’ll find you have a better container for generating a sense of calm\, focus\, and joy. \nOuter support: The Five Principles of a good spiritual container\nFrom years of running a retreat centre\, and applying what we learn to our own lives\, we’ve rediscovered five ancient principles that help create the right outer conditions we’re talking about: \n \n1. Honor your space \n2. Structure and routine are your friends \n3. It’s easier with others \n4. Cleaning up big areas of your life frees up energy \n5. Conversations shape the space where we meet \n  \nThese are the factors that have made Clear Sky work\, a place that wakes people up and supports their practice. And these same principles can transform and support our daily lives\, too. \nThat’s why we created this course. We’ll share with you the insights and learning we’ve had from creating Clear Sky – a physical and virtual centre for awakening – in the form of these five simple yet empowering principles\, that have been time-tested over centuries. \n\nAs well as the core content on each of the principles\, each webinar will include meditations and exercises to try in your daily life\, and will end with question-and-answer sessions. \nRegister Now\n\nTry the quiz!\nSee how you’re doing in terms of the Five Principles\, and get simple tips for using them to free up energy. Click the image to open up a new page and take the quiz. \n \n\n  \nWhy take the course? Ignite Your Spiritual Life will help you:\n\nestablish a more consistent meditation practice\nredesign your life to be more in line with your spiritual aspirations\nget relief from being reactive and stressed by daily events\nbreak through blocks and old patterns that seemed like they’d never shift\nreconnect with your heart and other people at a deeper level\nmake a difference in the world from a more grounded and confident place\nclarify where you want to direct your energy\n\nThough not required\, we highly recommend participants do a weekend retreat during or after the course to bring what they are learning deeper into consciousness\, especially if they have not experienced a retreat before. If you are close to Clear Sky\, we highly recommend The Easter weekend retreat focusing on some of the basic Buddhist teachings\, the Paramis: Becoming A Work of Art. \n  \nA Video Introduction to the Course:\nLearn more about the five principles in this 40-minute\, edited recording from a live webinar\, on March 29\, 2017: \n \n\n◊◊◊ \nTestimonials\n\n	\n\n\n\nIt's really\, really brought me back home to myself... I found myself in the past very scattered and would put off all the important things\, the spiritual aspects of life\, the mindfulness and so on\, just to blast through my day and get things done\, but now I am really taking pause. I still don't get everything done\, but I don't get everything done in a much more calm way\, haha\, in a much more soulful way... So for me that was probably the most important takeaway from the six week program is just you can't let those things slide no matter what because when you do\, you're giving up little bits of your soul and then you've really lost. ..That for me was wonderful to come back to.\nMorgana from Victoria\, Spring 2018\n\n\n\n\n\nI highly recommend the Ignite Your Spiritual Life online course. It is a great introduction for people exploring the Dharma path\, but it's valuable in daily life too! The course is also a great refresher for experienced practitioners\, which helps strengthens your spiritual practice and allows you to connect with the community.\nJenai Lieu\, Program Coordinator\, Spring 2018\n\n\n\n\n\nI am so impressed and happy with Karen and Duncan. You have done a fabulous job with this course\, and have provided a role model example of working together. I loved hearing your real life stories\, things that you have struggled with in life- this added another level of reality to it that was applicable to my reality too. \nCourse Participant\, Spring 2017\n\n\n\n\n\nI found the course filled with a lot of practical information. I would recommend it to anybody interested in improving their spiritual practice. Thanks Karen and Duncan!\nCourse Participant\, Spring 2018\n\n\n\n\n\nI think this course is a beautiful\, utterly grounded and relevant way of making the spiritual life very real and integrated with how we are living every day of our lives. I also think that this course lays an important foundation for a meditation practice that can actually go somewhere as well as allowing a practice that may already be strong to better feed the other parts of our lives for a really well-rounded and truly fulfilling life.\nRuth Levin - Movement Educator & Solopreneur - Spring 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMy environment has changed\, the way I organize my activities\, my communication and trust in others ... Applying those principles can hold love and clarity for even big groups\, creating a genuine awakening field."\nEmmanuel Ponte - Five Principles Course\, Brazil 2017\n\n\n\n\n\nTo have a weekly course like that it created space for me to reflect in a different way and to pause in a different way to focus on some of these questions.\nAnd [the principles] are so basic\, they're so important and that's why they're profound..[your course gave me] a feeling of more alignment with my path.\nMeg O Leary\, Spring 2018\n\n\n\n\n\nKaren's guided meditations were lovely; they provided new ways to meditate and increase space-awareness- on the relevant issues. I'd like to go back and review them all so I can do them again. In fact\, I'd be happy to review the whole course week by week\, just from the recordings.\nCourse Participant\, Spring 2017\n\n\n\n\n\nThe presenters were very good ... I think these principles are relevant not just for a spiritual practice but life as a whole.\nCourse Participant\, Spring 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith this course we learned how to strengthen our practice taking care of our meditation space\, creating wholesome habits\, exchanging and strengthening the practice with the support of the Sangha and so on. The outside is not separated from the inside. That is why taking care of the outside with attention\, generosity and joy\, we meet the clarity within us.\nRita Chirata\, 5 Principles Course\, Brazil 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe course had a big impact on me. It not only helped me to organize my life in different aspects\, like the respect towards my personal living spaces or the way I relate to others and with time\, I also understood the power meditation can have in my life and how it can contribute to making more assertive choices.\nI had a very strong empowering sensation of conscience expansion and  learned how to better deal with my emotions\, specially my anxiety\, throughout the meditation on spaciousness. Now\, I understand I am a better person and for that I’m very grateful.\nLemuel Simis\, 5 Principles Course\, Brazil 2017\n\n\n\n\n\nThank you! I really felt both Karen and Duncan were so caring and sincere.\nParticipant\, Spring 2018\n\n\n\n\n\nThank you\, thank you\, thank you!\nParticipant\, Spring 2018\n\n\n\n\n\nToward the end\, I realized that the principles give you a format to bring Dharma into - which reassures you that they are deeper than just the surface.\nGretta\, Mental Health Therapist\, Spring 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen I was making my list of aspirations and plans for 2017\, I realized that I was structuring it from the five principles learned in the course “Outer Clarity.” The learnings served as a good medicine for doubts about how to lead transformations I want in my life.\nAll the principles have reinforced for me that it is necessary to water the outside garden very carefully\, with attention and presence\, so that the flowers of compassion and love can flourish inside and in my relations. Thank you\, dear Karen\, Duncan\, and Sangha.\nLuana Messena\, 5 Principles Course\, Brazil 2017\n\n\n\n		\n\n\n\n◊◊◊\n \nCourse Dates and Times\n \n \n\n  \n\n\nWhat it costs\n \nWe offer this course on the basis of dāna.  If you’re not familiar with dāna\, you may have come across related approaches such as “pay from the heart.” Dāna is a Sanskrit term that translates as generosity in English. It’s radically different from the transactional way we normally interact in the world – where we give to get something back\, either a service or thing. Instead\, with dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. \nYou’ll see equivalent live courses offered for between $120 and $360 CAD.  Over six\, 90-minute classes\, this represents an average of $20-$60 per class. We highly recommend taking time to check in with your heart on an amount that feels good. Find the amount you feel balances and honors your aspiration for this course\, the energy we are giving to deliver the course\, and what is sustainable for you. \nIn this pay from the heart exercise\, you might also consider what you pay for different things as a matter of course: a night out with friends\, a session with a chiropractor or acupuncturist\, or an hour with a life coach\, for example. \nAs for our part in this pay from the heart reflection : since we have expenses hosting the classes and we are investing significant amounts of our own time and experience in creating and teaching the course\, we are setting the minimum amount at $120 CAD. \nWhy do you use dāna?\n\nThe practice of generosity is central to spiritual unfoldment\, whatever path you follow. In our own Buddhist lineage\, teachings have always been given on the basis of dāna\, and we are committed to this practice and its development in the West. Dāna is also a radical and – we believe – viable economic alternative to capitalism\, which our planet would really benefit from. We all know there must be something better than capitalism or its hungry cousin\, consumerism. We maintain that\, together\, we can offer a financial model that is based in life-affirming mutual support. Please join us in co-creating this promising economic alternative. \n\nRegister Now\n  \nClick here to go back up the page and see Further Information about the course\n  \nNot sure? Fill out this online form and we’ll get back to you.
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SUMMARY:Ignite Your Spiritual Life - Spring 2017
DESCRIPTION:This course has finished. \n\nHow the critical lost art of the spiritual container can make you feel more alive in every moment.\nThere are ways to feel fully alive and engaged\, with enough space to reconnect more deeply with your heart\, and with other people\, even on the busiest days. \nHow? By learning how to live your everyday life more like you’re in a retreat. And no\, we’re not talking about living in silence\, or renouncing the world. \nThe magic of a retreat\nImagine moving in a space where you’re calm and bright enough to notice the beauty around you. Where\, if something happens\, you’ve got the energy and space to deal with it. Simple chores feel joyful. Imagine moving from task to task with ease\, feeling like whatever happens\, things are happening just as they should. Picture yourself being compassionate\, joyful\, and confident with other people. \nThis can be true for you when you’re at work\, home\, school\, or you’re traveling the world. \nHowever\, you won’t be able to do that consistently unless you acknowledge what you’re missing. \nThe reality of our daily lives\nYou’d like to be feeling a sense of genuine\, ongoing transformation. Yet somehow\, you still see your habits strongly in place – holding you back – while your aspirations get buried in the busyness of life. \nSo\, what isn’t working in your daily life? Why\, even with a spiritual practice\, and when you’re a good person trying to make a difference in the world\, do you sometimes feel disheartened\, stuck\, or lost? \n \nWhat’s missing? Attention to the outer supports you need\nWhile the inner work is indeed essential\, it could be that you’ve skipped over the importance of having the outer conditions to support you. \nOnce you set up these outer supports\, you’ll have a better container for holding the energy\, focus\, and joy you need. \nOuter support: The Five Principles of a good spiritual container\nFrom years of running a retreat centre\, and applying what we learn to our own lives\, we’ve rediscovered five ancient principles that help create the right outer conditions that we’re talking about: \n\nHonor your space\nStructure and routine are your friends\nIt’s easier with others\nCleaning up big areas of your life frees up energy\nConversations shape the space where we meet\n\nThese are the factors that have made Clear Sky work\, as a place that wakes people up and supports their practice. And these same principles can transform and support our daily lives\, too. \nThat’s why we created this course. Starting April 19th\, we’ll share with you the insights and learning we’ve had from creating Clear Sky – a physical and virtual centre for awakening – in the form of these five simple\, yet empowering principles that have actually been time-tested over centuries. \nTry the quiz!\nSee how you’re doing in terms of the Five Principles\, and get simple tips for using them to free up energy \n \n  \n\nA Short Video Introduction to the Course:\n \nLike to hear more?\nLearn more about the five principles in this 40-minute\, edited recording from a live webinar\, on March 29\, 2017:\n \nReady to register? Click here now\n  \n“Learning about the five principles has been quite a twist. Although they seem like simple guidelines for a wholesome life\, if deeply studied they can lead to quite a big positive transformation. I’ve recently realized how after the course I’ve been shaping my life around the five principles in every way.\nMy environment has changed\, the way I organize my activities\, my communication and trust in others … Applying those principles can hold love and clarity for even big groups\, creating a genuine awakening field.”\nEmmanuel Ponte\n\n\n  \nFurther Information – Click to read more\n\n                \n    \n            \n                                    \n                        \n                        \n                    \n                    Details of what we'll be teaching you.\n                            \n            \n                Since this course is about establishing a consistent meditation practice (the inner) and getting your life (the outer) more in line with your spiritual aspirations\, we’ve made each session a balance of this inner and outer work. \nWe start with a guided meditation or mindfulness practice to support a deepening daily reflective practice\, and then give fresh practical tips for integrating it into your daily life. \nTurning to the outer\, each session then focuses on one key principle for creating what we call a “spiritual container.” The container is the outer supportive conditions you can set up in your life to support your inner practice\, reconnect with your heart\, and help you break through old patterns that are holding you back. (See our How it Works page for more information on the 5 key principles of a spiritual container) \nEach session is lively and interactive\, including breakout sessions for discussion in groups\, sharing via the chat function\, and time for Q&A. We offer home “play” exercises (we prefer this to home “work” as the exercises are designed to be exploratory and fun!) for trying outside of the weekly sessions to explore and integrate the topics. \nWeek 1:   Creating a supportive space for your growth\n\nThree supports for being more mindful and present in daily life.\nThe missing element. Understand what a spiritual container is\, why it’s often forgotten\, and why it’s so important to achieving your goals.\nContacting that “aaahh” feeling that a well-created space can instantly create\nSix key aspects for creating a space to support your growth.\n\nWeek 2 :  Transforming habit and making friends with structure\n\nFresh awareness - tools for getting out of auto-pilot mode.\nLoosening and transforming unhelpful habits.\nConsciously choosing structures and routines so that you’re free to explore.\nHarnessing the power of ritual.\n\nWeek 3:   Quieting the monkey mind \n\nCalming internal dialog and chatter.\nCleaning up draining conversations and speech patterns.\nThe power of forgiveness.\nEstablishing healthy and generative communication\n\nWeek 4:    Part 1: Cleaning up big areas of your life frees up energy\n\nIdentifying big areas in your life that drain your energy.\nBeginning to ease the common drain and tension around money.\nExploring your vision and purpose.\n\nWeek 5:   Part 2: Cleaning up big areas of your life frees up energy\n\nWorking with distractions and overload.\nGetting off the “hamster wheel”.\nDeveloping a healthy relationship with time.\nLearning to “do nothing” - the importance of making space to play.\n\nWeek 6:   The power of community\n\nMeditations to strengthen kindness and compassion.\nEmbracing healthy relationships.\nThe power of community to support your growth.\nBringing it all together - how a  strong spiritual container is a launchpad for your growth.\n\n            \n    \n            \n                                    \n                        \n                        \n                    \n                    The people who'll be teaching you\n                            \n            \n                Your hosts for this course have all experienced life-changing growth and unfoldment through their involvement with Clear Sky and its founding teachers.  Between us\, we bring years of studying and practicing in the lineage\, of teaching and meditating around the world\, and of governance and management of Clear Sky Centre. \nHere\, we’ve brought together the fruits of all our learning into the five principles\, offered here for the first time publicly as an online course. \nMain Hosts:\n\nKaren McAllister  \nAfter meeting our founding teachers in Japan\, I managed the meditation centre there for many years while serving simultaneously as part of the Clear Sky Board. In 2003\, I helped search for a site for Clear Sky\, looking at around 30 properties until we found our current location in the magical Kootenays. \nI'm now Chair of the Board and Director of Business Development. I'm passionate to be teaching the much-ignored principles of nurturing the factors - like honor your space\, structure\, and communication - that create the conditions we need to wake up more in daily life. I see how I learned and embodied these principles in my different roles at Clear Sky\, as the centre went from self-starter to second-stage growth. This is what I call “the hands-on way of doing an MBA with a spiritual bottom line!” \nIn my free time\, I love travelling\, speaking Portuguese and reading history\, architecture\, and art books. \nDuncan Cryle \nI'm the former Clear Sky Chair\, a certified Mindfulness teacher\, Dharma teacher\, and an IBM Executive in Toronto. \nThrough 15 years of teaching meditation and mindfulness\, alongside an active career working all over the world\, I’ve learnt a lot about an integrated spiritual path.  With a Ph.D. in philosophy in my pocket\, I was gung ho to join a monastery until I met my root teachers Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat in Japan in 2001\, who turned my views upside down and encouraged me to grow and contribute at the busy end of life!   \nA founding member of Clear Sky in 2004\, I’m amazed at the power that working together in compassionate service has for enriching and widening spiritual growth.  Combined with a dynamic relationship and a challenging career\, I have fun with a wide-ranging and holistic approach to spiritual growth.  The spiritual container is a key aspect to this and I’m delighted to teach and share this course.\n \nAll of that made me more energetic\, active and with the will of exploring this big world. Not only that\, but gave me the strength to transform my daily practice making it more consistent. The changes and insights keep coming up and the Sangha has a giant role in maintaining my spiritual growth.\nI deeply thank the teachers Karen and Duncan for not giving up on guiding us through this wonderful path.\n   Tamires Low\nThe course has introduced complementary concepts that supported me on constructing a more consistent and deep practice\, which has contributed significantly for me to see the values that are really important to me\, and also gave me strength to keep them and go ahead\, no matter what the external circumstances may be. \n I can only give thanks for having the opportunity of being part of this group. Deep gratitude for the teachers that offered the course\, to the team that created it and to the Sangha that participated on the first group\, for allowing ourselves to be together on this learning.\nAna Paula Ueti\nYour Other Hosts:\nMichelle Heinz \nI began studying with the founding teachers and community of Clear Sky in 2003. With them I re-ignited that spark for life I'd been desperately missing and seeking. \nI love plunging into things and that’s exactly what I did with Clear Sky. Visiting Clear Sky every summer\, I started by developing the farm and land\, and then joined the Board of Directors. I then moved from Japan to live at and run the centre for 8 years. I still thrive on connecting with and bringing all kinds of people and events to Clear Sky. \nNow based in Nelson B.C.\, I'm part of a wakeful and innovative team. I help run a co-working space where I'm delighted to say that meditation\, mindful collaboration and teamwork are an integral part of my work day.  \nFun for me includes punning with friends\, finding new ways to eat sea buckthorn berries and getting outside whenever I can. \n\nAndy Rogers \nI first got interested in meditation through a school friend of mine who went on to become a monk in Thailand. I left the UK 20 years ago\, ending up in Japan for several years where I met Clear Sky's founding teachers through one of their students - and a founding member of Clear Sky - John Munroe. \nI've lived at Clear Sky for long periods since 2009 and also served as Treasurer and Board Member for five years. I now offer a weekly meditation and dharma class in nearby Kimberley. \nLiving or spending time at Clear Sky puts you in all kinds of roles. I've cooked for 30 people\, presented at AGMs\, written blogs and created budgets\, pulled weeds and repaired fences. And I can now see clearly that where I thrived and where I've struggled can be directly related to each of our new principles in some way. Can't wait to share them with you! \nI'm now Clear Sky's head copywriter and an active member of the Business Development team - the creators of this course! I love playing golf here in the picturesque Rockies\, though the golf season is painfully short! When I'm not pounding the magnetic dartboard in the Clear Sky office\, I also earn a living as a copywriter. \n\nMaryline Fortier \nI was introduced to Clear Sky through joining the Karma Yoga program (a 3-month service stay). I was instantly seduced by a new way of life - a way that my depth was seeking. I found a place\, a community where people work together and accompany yogis like me in the awakening process. \nThere\, I discovered what I'm passionate about: diving deeper inside\, understanding what it is to be a wholesome\, spiritual being - a being that is participating in the creation of an abundant life and that believes in the powerful ideal of service for the benefit of all. What an incredible journey! \nOriginally trained as a social work educator\, my eight years of work with youth in schools have convinced me to find a better\, deeper way to teach life skills to our next generation. I am now in a 3-year university course and I intend to start my own business in the fields of life skills and second-language teaching \nNow\, I am on the Clear Sky Sales and Business Development teams - and soon joining our Board of Directors - and my love for our offerings to the world is constantly increasing. I see how what we can provide to people is peaceful and loving states of mind. Working to support that? That's really a life worth living! \n            \n    \n            \n                                    \n                        \n                        \n                    \n                    What's included\n                            \n            \n                What's Included\nBy joining this course\, you’ll get:\n       Six\, 90-minute interactive live webinars covering the five principles\, PLUS view access to recordings. \n       Exercises to give you an understanding of the principles of a spiritual container and how they affect your energy. \n       Reflections and meditations to help you stay grounded\, calm\, and centred. \n       The following tools and support: \nWeekly meditations: \nGuided meditations uploaded once a week during the course. This 15-minute offering is designed to help you quickly re-focus on the week’s principle between webinars\, helping you apply it directly in your day and providing some welcome supportive structure. \nFacebook Group \nJoin us and fellow participants in a private Facebook group focused on the principles. Providing you with an online community to support you between webinars was high on our list. Share about your insights\, explorations\, and discoveries and enjoy mutual support plus extra feedback from course teachers. We’ll also have fun practising and modeling for each other the 5th principle: discover how clear conscious communication creates a space for us to meet and share ideas. \n            \n    \n            \n                                    \n                        \n                        \n                    \n                    Some Frequently Asked Questions\n                            \n            \n                Some Frequently Asked Questions\n \nAm I a good match for this course? \nAre you open to growth and an honest look at your patterns with a heart for changing what isn’t working for you any more? This course could be for you. You should also know that we’re more casual than formal\, more direct than politically correct or touchy feely. We hope that you’ll ask questions and engage with the material to get the most you can from the course. \nWill you try to convert me to Buddhism? \nNope. These principles support your growth\, whichever tradition or system you’re working with. And at the same time\, we’d like you to know that we’ll be referencing or using wisdom from various sources\, and will offer guided meditations and reflections as we go. We encourage you to explore anything you hear with an open heart and discerning mind\, and take the opportunities to ask questions. \nDo I need to have or start a meditation practice to do your course? \nIt helps if you have done some meditation. But don’t worry if you’ve never meditated\, had difficulty establishing a consistent practice\, or even if you feel you’re a “bad” meditator. This course is very much about giving you the support and understanding for an alive and regular meditative practice. \nHow practical is this course? \nWe’ll be looking at the practical\, everyday areas of our lives that – when in better alignment with our inner aspirations – can support our path. So we’ll be inviting and helping you to take ongoing\, practical action in your day-to-day life\, including things like your work\, family\, and relationships with other people. \nWhat interaction will I have with the instructors and other participants? \nTo enrich your learning\, we encourage participants to engage and share with each other in the private Facebook group. Clear Sky’s 3rd principle is about finding and engaging with others on the path\, and this course is one place to truly connect with others. We’ll also open space during the live sessions for questions and answers\, and we welcome your engagement and questions. \nDo you offer any more advanced level courses on this material? \nThis material is incredibly rich. We are developing deeper dives into each principle as well as material on applying the five principles at work\, at home\, and even at an organizational level for heart-centred groups and social enterprises. Look for future announcements via our emails and blogs. \nWhat is the cancellation policy? \nWe’d love to offer refunds\, yet because this series of webinars and the bonus offerings represent hours of dedicated work and we are offering it for a very low minimum offering\, there is a zero-refund policy on this course. We encourage you to register with a clear mind and heart\, and in a spirit of generosity. \n            \n    \n\n\n\n            \n  \nEarly Bird Bonus Webinar\nSign up by April 5th to attend a special pre-course webinar on Wednesday\, April 12th on this key topic of how to create conditions conducive to your spiritual growth where we spend a third of our day – at work. \n \nWondering how to align your working time more closely with your inner goals\, without turning your working space into a mini-monastery or feeling like the office weirdo? \nWhether you have a lot or little control over your working environment or you work from a home office\, this special webinar will give you practical tips on making it into a sacred container. \n“The course had a big impact on me. It not only helped me to organize my life in different aspects\, like the respect towards my personal living spaces or the way I relate to others and with time\, I also understood the power meditation can have in my life and how it can contribute to making more assertive choices.\nI understood the impact my feelings can have over me and how not letting myself be blindly led by them. Since I am in charge\, everything I need for having an awakened life is within me\, everything that needs to be done is to improve key attitudes and behaviors that exist in me.\nI had a very strong empowering sensation of conscience expansion and  learned how to better deal with my emotions\, specially my anxiety\, throughout the meditation on spaciousness. Now\, I understand I am a better person and for that I’m very grateful.”\nLemuel Simis\n\n\nCost of the Course\n \nThe course is offered on the basis of dāna.  If you are not familiar with dāna\, you may have come across related approaches such as “pay-from-the-heart.” Dāna is a Sanskrit term that is translated as generosity in English. It’s radically different from the transactional way we normally interact in the world – where we give in order to get something back\, either a service or thing. Instead\, with dāna\, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity.  It’s our joy to offer this course\, and we trust you’ll match our time\, energy\, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us. \nEquivalent\, high-quality\, and live courses we believe are likely to be offered for between $150 and $375 CAD.  We suggest that you offer something in this range.  An exercise we highly recommend is taking some time to check in with your heart on an amount that feels good. Find the amount that you feel balances and honors your aspiration for this course\, the energy we are giving to deliver the course\, and what is financially sustainable for you. \nIf you feel in an abundant and solid financial situation\, feel free to offer more.  If you are struggling financially\, you can offer less.  Since we do have expenses such as the hosting platform used for the classes\, and we are investing significant amounts of our own time and experience\, after much reflection we are setting a minimum amount of $90 CAD. \nWhy do you use dāna?\nThe practice of generosity is central to spiritual unfoldment\, whatever path you follow. In our own Buddhist lineage\, teachings have always been taught on the basis of dāna\, and we are committed to this practice and its development in the West.  Dāna is also a radical and – we believe – viable economic alternative to capitalism\, which our planet would really benefit from. We all know there must be something better than capitalism or its hungry cousin\, consumerism. We maintain that\, together\, we can offer a financial model that is based in life-affirming mutual support. Please join us in co-creating this promising economic alternative. \n  \n“With this course we learned how to strengthen our practice taking care of our meditation space\, creating wholesome habits\, exchanging and strengthening the practice with the support of the Sangha and so on. The outside is not separated from the inside. That is why taking care of the outside with attention\, generosity and joy\, we meet the clarity within us.”\nRita Chirata\n“When I was making my list of aspirations and plans for 2017\, I realized that I was structuring it from the five principles learned in the course “Outer Clarity.” The learnings served as a good medicine for doubts about how to lead transformations I want in my life. A valuable framework that allowed me to have the clarity and to better organize the change of some bad habits around disorganization\, lack of discipline\, judgments around the way people communicate\, just to name a few.\nAll the principles have reinforced for me that it is necessary to water the outside garden very carefully\, with attention and presence\, so that the flowers of compassion and love can flourish inside and in my relations. Thank you\, dear Karen\, Duncan\, and Sangha.”\nLuana Messena\n\n  \nClick here to go back up the page and see Further Information about the course\n  \nNot sure? Fill out this online form and we’ll get back to you.
URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/ignite-spiritual-life-spring-2017/
CATEGORIES:Online Courses
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140827
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140904
DTSTAMP:20260421T151326
CREATED:20180625T180129Z
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UID:3707-1409097600-1409788799@test.clearskycenter.org
SUMMARY:Living Explorations with Tarchin Hearn
DESCRIPTION:The living world is our temple\, classroom and laboratory. Join us to explore personal healing and deep ecology with visiting teacher Tarchin Hearn. Enjoy a mixture of indoor and outdoor teachings and meditations on Clear Sky’s 300-acres – including our one-acre food forest\, grasslands reclamation plot\, and woodland areas. \nRemember that just as our lives are intertwined with others\, the human experience is inexorably permeated by our environment. Learn to open your body and mind to the rich and abundant flow of life; wonder in the connections of creatures and communities; consider the building blocks of life from cells\, organs\, and organisms through to holistic systems. \nThis retreat will offer a mixture of walking and sitting meditations\, with exercises to increase body awareness and cultivate a sense of clarity\, presence and compassion. \nRetreat Dates:\nFull Retreat: Wed\, August 27 to Wed\, September 3\, 2014\nWeekend Only: Fri\, August 29 to Sun\, August 31\, 2014
URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/living-explorations-tarchin-hearn/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140718
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140721
DTSTAMP:20260421T151326
CREATED:20180625T175537Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180625T175537Z
UID:3705-1405641600-1405900799@test.clearskycenter.org
SUMMARY:Pull Yourself Clear - Leadership Retreat
DESCRIPTION:As a leader you are often flat out on-the-run\, day after day. Work/life balance can seem like a pipe dream. Just how are you supposed to get in balance while overloaded? \nWe can help. \nCome join us and other leaders for a 3-day retreat where you can pull yourself clear from your daily grind\, unwind in a restful place designed to lower your stress and help you develop skills to keep you in a more balanced state. \nOur facilitators are themselves from the corporate world and they’re also dedicated mindfulness practitioners who will provide practical support\, insightful exercises and simple tools you can take right into your workplace. \nOn this weekend you will also learn\nmore about the individual styles of yourself and your team\,\npractical and helpful communication skills\,\nhow to consistently hold high-quality conversations and reap their benefits for your organization\,\nways to establish and maintain mindfulness\, which unleashes your ability to respond constructively and thoughtfully even in stressful situations.\nSo spend this weekend balancing “being” with “doing”\, and take some of that spaciousness back to the office.\nWork/life balance isn’t a myth. It’s entirely achievable.\nJoin us and make the move toward a better balance. \nLeadership Retreat: July 18th – 21st\, 2014
URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/pull-clear-leadership-retreat/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140405T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140405T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T151326
CREATED:20180625T173658Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180625T173658Z
UID:3701-1396699200-1396720800@test.clearskycenter.org
SUMMARY:Seed\, Stalk\, Flower - A 5Rhythms Movement Workshop with Evangelos in Cranbrook BC
DESCRIPTION:There is an order in life\, a cycle—a beginning\, a middle\, an end. Using the cycle of the flower as a metaphor\, we give birth to a new self by examining who we are through each of the 5Rhythms: Flowing Staccato Chaos Lyrical and Stillness.\nWe will practice letting go of the past and embracing the truth that everything and everyone is impermanent. All moments\, all ideas—positive or negative—fade away. Do you hold on tightly or have you learned to dance through the theatre of life? We will dance\, explore our own mortality\, fall in love with the miracle of life\, and reinvent ourselves throughout this workshop. This 5Rhythms workshop theme was inspired by the Japanese Butoh tradition.
URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/seed-stalk-flower-5rhythms-movement-workshop-evangelos-cranbrook-bc/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140208T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140208T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T151326
CREATED:20180625T173333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180625T173333Z
UID:3699-1391860800-1391882400@test.clearskycenter.org
SUMMARY:5Rhythms Dance Workshop: Eye of the Storm
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop we learn to find peace in the middle of chaos. We will participate in a process that leaves us feeling grounded and rejuvenated\, and empowers us to meet any challenge\, big or small. This is an invitation to explore the motion of Flowing\, Staccato\, Chaos\, Lyrical and Stillness. Movement – wild\, gentle\, true\, ordinary\, breath-taking – in dynamic balance through body\, heart and mind. There is no right or wrong\, only presence and unconsciousness. When we are unconscious\, we miss out on seeing the great beauty of storms. Free the body and everything else comes naturally. It is a matter of choice. The Storm is in you! \n$110 at the door
URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/5rhythms-dance-workshop-eye-storm/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140125
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140127
DTSTAMP:20260421T151326
CREATED:20180625T172800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180625T172800Z
UID:3697-1390608000-1390780799@test.clearskycenter.org
SUMMARY:Learn to Meditate Weekend Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Do you want to learn to meditate and generate more calm\, space and awareness in your life this 2014?\nJoin us at Clear Sky on January 25 and 26\, 2014 for a weekend of guided instruction\, intended to acquaint you with tools that you can continue to apply and refine in your daily life. This is a wonderful opportunity to receive first hand instruction by highly experienced meditation teachers as well as live\, immersion-style\, in a community setting. Clear Sky is located on a stunning piece of property\, at the foot of Bull Mountain\, hosting many fabulous views\, wild life viewing opportunities and peaceful walking trails. Your investment in this opportunity is $479 per person.
URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/learn-meditate-weekend-retreat/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20131227
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140102
DTSTAMP:20260421T151326
CREATED:20180625T172420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180625T172420Z
UID:3695-1388102400-1388620799@test.clearskycenter.org
SUMMARY:Spirituality and the Sublimation of Unwholesome Money Patterns
DESCRIPTION:An informative and experientially based workshop. We will look at bringing our unconscious money patterns out of the dark and into the light so we can examine the origin and cessation of our conditioned patterns. Meditation\, contemplation and movement will be included in the daily curriculum and exploration.
URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/spirituality-sublimation-unwholesome-money-patterns/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20131015
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20131029
DTSTAMP:20260421T151326
CREATED:20180609T034123Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180609T034412Z
UID:3575-1381795200-1383004799@test.clearskycenter.org
SUMMARY:Permaculture Design Certificate Course
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy the stunning rocky mountains and the beautiful facilities at Clear Sky Meditation Center\, while receiving a top notch education in permaculture design. This is the intensive two week PDC format following the full 72 hour PDC curiculum as laid out in “Permaculture\, A Designers Manual\,”(Mollison 1983). The course is taught by Jesse Lemieux of Pacific Permaculture (see our website for more information).
URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/permaculture-design-certificate-course-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20131005
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20131007
DTSTAMP:20260421T151326
CREATED:20180609T033751Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180609T033751Z
UID:3573-1380931200-1381103999@test.clearskycenter.org
SUMMARY:Food Forest Two-Day Intensive Training
DESCRIPTION:Gain a solid foundation in Food Forest theory as well as hands on-experience with an on-site one acre food forest with one of Canada’s most experienced forest gardeners.
URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/food-forest-two-day-intensive-training/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130915
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130930
DTSTAMP:20260421T151326
CREATED:20180609T033510Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180609T033510Z
UID:3571-1379203200-1380499199@test.clearskycenter.org
SUMMARY:Clear Sky Two-week Retreat : Synthesis as a Key Element in our Path
DESCRIPTION:Every summer at Clear Sky generates a shift in this dharma teaching and the consciousness of our awakening community\, generating precious gems that inspire us to explore our liberation further and more deeply. \nThis retreat provides an opportunity to enjoy the emergent treasures from the summer and take another quantum leap in our personal and community evolution. This is the first September Doug Sensei and Clear Sky have offered this opportunity to integrate all the fruits from the learnings and explorations from the summer season.
URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/clear-sky-two-week-retreat-synthesis-key-element-path/
CATEGORIES:Group Retreats and Courses
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20130803T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130803T170000
DTSTAMP:20260421T151326
CREATED:20180609T033326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180609T033326Z
UID:3569-1375531200-1375549200@test.clearskycenter.org
SUMMARY:Mindful Parenting
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is open to anyone with children who wants to explore parenting as a path to awakening. Through facilitated discussions and structured meditations\, we will explore what opportunities for moment-to-moment awareness children bring to our lives. We will talk about our challenges and find strength in a community of others who are also walking this path.
URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/mindful-parenting/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130601
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130617
DTSTAMP:20260421T151326
CREATED:20180608T183405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180608T183405Z
UID:3554-1370044800-1371427199@test.clearskycenter.org
SUMMARY:June Foundation Practices
DESCRIPTION:Clear Sky launches its 2013 summer season with this two-week retreat and precious opportunity to complete a body of the Ngondro foundation practices\, accompanied by twice-daily formal teachings with Doug Sensei. \nAll great musicians learn the scales\, and in some ways they are playing the scales their whole life\, although not always clearly recognizable as such. So too\, with the spiritual life: the Ngondro foundation practices are the spiritual scales that we are playing throughout our lives.
URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/june-foundation-practices/
CATEGORIES:Group Retreats and Courses
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130216
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130318
DTSTAMP:20260421T151326
CREATED:20180608T183137Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180608T183137Z
UID:3552-1360972800-1363564799@test.clearskycenter.org
SUMMARY:Clear Sky Winter Retreat : Jewel Ornament of Liberation
DESCRIPTION:During this four-week meditation retreat\, Sensei will provide retreatants an opportunity to study and practice meditation in a silent and intensive way. Sensei will provide twice daily group sits or classes\, with the rest of the time consisting of individual practice and private meetings with Sensei. This course provides a precious opportunity to receive teachings and do a significant body of meditative practice. \nTeachings will draw on a combination of fundamental texts\, with the primary text being:\nThe Jewel Ornament of Liberation: The Wish-Fulfilling Gem of the Noble Teachings by Gampopa \n(2-week retreats are also possible for those unable to attend for the whole month.)
URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/clear-sky-winter-retreat-jewel-ornament-liberation/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120623
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120709
DTSTAMP:20260421T151326
CREATED:20180604T221107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180604T221107Z
UID:3548-1340409600-1341791999@test.clearskycenter.org
SUMMARY:Foundation Practice with Achariya Doug Duncan
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Clear Sky for this two-week retreat which offers a precious opportunity to complete a body of practice and to uncover what’s beyond the curtain of life as we know it. You are welcome to consult with Doug Sensei\, who will also give teachings twice daily\, about what practice is best for you at this particular point in time.
URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/foundation-practice-achariya-doug-duncan/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120602
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120616
DTSTAMP:20260421T151326
CREATED:20180604T220124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180604T220124Z
UID:3545-1338595200-1339804799@test.clearskycenter.org
SUMMARY:Permaculture Design Certificate Course
DESCRIPTION:This 2-week intensive residential course will again be taught by Jesse Lemieux of Pacific Permaculture\, and will arm you with the skills needed to design for sustainability in any situation and climate.
URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/permaculture-design-certificate-course/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120525T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120527T170000
DTSTAMP:20260421T151326
CREATED:20180625T174907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180625T174907Z
UID:3703-1337932800-1338138000@test.clearskycenter.org
SUMMARY:A 5Rhythms Workshop
DESCRIPTION:What is your relationship to wealth and prosperity? What is your relationship to your body? \nLearn to dance to the Rhythms of Abundance and together let’s explore our relationship to money\, wealth\, and well-being. No previous movement experience is needed.
URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/a-5rhythms-workshop/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120505
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120507
DTSTAMP:20260421T151326
CREATED:20180604T215849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180604T215849Z
UID:3543-1336176000-1336348799@test.clearskycenter.org
SUMMARY:Tools For Change: A Holistic Approach
DESCRIPTION:Join us at our breathtaking campus of Clear Sky for an educational weekend on our unique local grasslands ecosystem\, with biologist and agrologist Peter Davidson and landscape architect and environmental planner Leslie Lowe.
URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/tools-change-holistic-approach/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120406
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120413
DTSTAMP:20260421T151326
CREATED:20180604T215631Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180604T215631Z
UID:3541-1333670400-1334275199@test.clearskycenter.org
SUMMARY:Willful Blindness with Cecilie Kwiat
DESCRIPTION:Classes will focus on how the mind does not want to see certain things; instead\, it takes elaborate measures to remain innocent about certain beliefs or actions.\nWe will learn to see how every poison has a power that can be harnessed towards dharmic unfoldment.
URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/willful-blindness-cecilie-kwiat/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120213
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120313
DTSTAMP:20260421T151326
CREATED:20180604T215347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180604T215347Z
UID:3539-1329091200-1331596799@test.clearskycenter.org
SUMMARY:Clear Sky Month-Long Insight Retreat 2012
DESCRIPTION:Meditation is the practice of learning to see what is. Whether we are looking for the first time or working to deepen our view\, a nurturing environment and supportive community are essential to our progress. \nThe first two weeks of this retreat focuses on the still mind\, deepening our understanding\, which leads to freedom from karma. The second two weeks focuses on the moving mind\, strengthening our clarity and providing increased freedom of manifestation. \nPlease arrive between 9th and 11th Feb. for Part One\nFor Part Two\, arrival date is 26th Feb.\n(Part One is not a prerequisite for Part Two.)
URL:https://test.clearskycenter.org/event/clear-sky-month-long-insight-retreat-2012/
CATEGORIES:Group Retreats and Courses
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