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Join us for our September Festival
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Hilde-Fest 2016: The Music of Heaven in All Things
September 16-18 (Friday-Sunday)
with Susan Lincoln and our own Gabriele Uhlein, OSF, PhD
A special music and singing celebration of Hildegard of Bingen. It will include intuitive music-making, musicians of various instruments as healers, and an explanation of Hildegard's music as expression of soul and integration. Saturday evening features a special concert of song and sound.
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Coming in October Special Guest Presenter Robert Sardello, PhD, Author and Spiritual Teacher
Living Life: through Stillness into Heartful LIFE
October 20 - 24 (Thursday-Sunday)
A liminal Christine Center meditation experience with Robert Sardello and our own Gabriele Uhlein, OSF, PhD
The Mystics know the secret - openness to utter Stillness, being present with LIFE, and releasing what we experience, each moment. This contemplative meditation retreat will transform your way of being in the world. Beginners as well as advanced meditators are welcome. The meditation will be simple, yet utterly profound in its transformative power.
Robert taught for many years at the University of Dallas, and is a Founding Fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. Learn More
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More September and October Programs
Visit reservation page for information
or call 715.267.7507.
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The beauty of our late summer garden thanks to our wonderful volunteers. |
Nurturing the Sacred Within
September 18-23 (Sunday-Friday)
with Corrina Thomas, FSPA
Come learn the chakra system, a God-given gift placed within our bodies, like a compass to guide us on our life's journey. It provides a map to follow on the path to personal growth. We may be focused on rising above the limitations of our lives to better understand spiritual realms, or we may be on a path to bring spiritual concepts that we know are true into the actions of our everyday life. We will learn how to nurture the sacred that is within each one of us in a way that is practical and direct, and profound.
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Heart Centered Meditation and Yoga
September 19-21 (Monday-Wednesday)
with Katherine Banbury
and Marge Zulaski, OSF, PsyD
This retreat is for relaxation, restoring energy and enjoying yourself. No prior knowledge of yoga or meditation is necessary. Katherine will lead yoga practice that will bring you back home to yourself with joy, empowerment and harmony. Marge will guide heart meditations that focus on experiencing the heart as a spiritual center of your body. Conversations will invite you to express what you are learning and experiencing.
The Six Perfections of Mahayana Buddhism
September 23-2
5 (Friday-Sunday)
With
Susan Mickel, MD, PhD
Mahamudra Level 1, Meditation Taught
in the Pointing Out Way Style
September 25-October 2 (Sunday-Sunday)
With Susan Mickel
Aging into Higher Consciousness:
Awake the Potential to Shape Aging
October 5-7 (Wednesday-Friday)
With Delmarie Gibney, FSPA and Lucia Leck
Hosted close to the time of the autumnal equinox, when life is being harvested and the balance between light and darkness is shifting, we focus on our own aging process, looking back at who we have been and forward to to who we are becoming. Engaging in this transition inspires a shift in consciousness, where we become aware of how we can actively shape our own aging instead of drifting into old age.
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Nurture Your Nature Women's Retreat
October 14-16 (Friday-Sunday)
With Coleen Elwood and Tara Cindy Sherman
Please note: Deadline for registration is Friday, October 7.
Experience blending ancient tantric techniques with earth based shamanic practices for a weekend immersed in the beauty of autumn and
an exploration of SHAKTI.
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A heart opens wide
Grasps the key of compassion
Gifts the Cosmos
by Henrita Frost, SSND
Recently the Christin
e Center was gifted with this lovely heart shaped dish. During preparation for our Spiritual Deepening for Global Transforma
tion Program whose theme was Compassion, we decided to pass the heart
dish around during our closing Wisdom Circle.
It is our custom to use this Circle to gather the group's collective wisdom from the weekend - wisdom that now belongs to all participants and remains in the ethos of the Christine Center and spreads to the world.
Then one of our planners kept saying, "Something needs to be placed in the heart dish." Early one morning the idea came - of course, a key chain with a globe. The globe symbolizes the call of our times, the urgent necessity of our times, which is to open our hearts to the global community - the invitation to global citizenship.
Yes, we must be concerned about our own nation which seems to be in turmoil. However, all of creation seems to be in pain yearning for healing.
This heart dish holds the key to a wisdom that companions compassion. In the Buddhist tradition, I have discovered a companionship of wisdom with compassion. I believe a wisdom that is contained in these words of Thomas Merton, "Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things."
We are interdependent, interconnected, we are sister and brother - We Are One! We are invited together to set free a wisdom compassion to heal our global community.
Wisdom companion
Exclude no one from concern
Compassion for all
Visit Our Christine Center Circle of Compassion Blog
Creative Volunteer Opportunities Available
Volunteer to read, share, or write for the blog.
Visit here.
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Consider Monthly Online Giving
Why give monthly?
- It's Convenient: use a debit or credit card
- It's Simple: sign up once online.
- It's Helpful: budget your giving plan by selecting an amount that works for you.
How monthly giving helps the Christine Center?
Recurring monthly donations provide support for continual upkeep of the Center.
As always, every gift matters; we are grateful for your generosity.
our new Fund Development
Coordinator, Ann Swanson, at
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Donate Good Stuff to
Our Rummage
Sale
by Thursday September 22
If you live close by or are coming to the Christine Center in the next few weeks, consider bringing some good/great stuff you were planning to donate somewhere.
- Household items (kitchen ware, dishes, art, decorations, linens...)
- Books
- Garage and garden items (tools, small machinery, maintenance supplies)
- Seasonal decorations (especially Christmas!)
- Small furniture
Of course, you are also invited to the Rummage Sale
September 30-October 2
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