with DEVA PREMAL & MITEN
Lake Ainsworth Sport & Recreation Centre, Lennox Head.
14th - 17th March 2008
Following their first highly successful retreats in Australia in 2006 and 2007, Deva and Miten offer a further opportunity to experience the joy and blissful healing power of sacred song and chant.
Throughout the ages every culture, tradition and religion has one common thread: the power of song. The singing voice is our most potent of healing instruments...and yet in these days of radio, television and recorded music, it lays dormant in most of us. (When was the last time you really opened your voice in joy and sang from your heart to the open sky and the stars?)
It's
almost like having limbs and not using them. Many people have the idea
that they can't sing - an idea usually implanted at the most sensitive
time of our lives - childhood.
The result is an unconscious resistance to one of our most natural resources
- making music ourselves. And what more beautiful way to make music
than to sing our own song!?
This gathering is for people who have a longing in their hearts to sing their own "YES!" to Life...a longing to sing, "THANK YOU!" to Existence...a longing to celebrate Love, and to open the door to their own Inner Peace. This can be done easily, by using the voice. By chanting ancient, sacred mantras, and Native American songs and dances we feel ourselves uplifted on the wings of harmony. We become aware of our voices melting with others, entering a world of undiluted bliss.
It
doesn't take much, just a willingness to let go into love, a willingness
to drop the mind and dive into an ocean of sound. Here we experience the
joy of being One with others, and with everything. We can feel it...because
we are it!
There is no chanting or singing experience required to enjoy the ECSTATIC
CHANT & DEVOTIONAL SINGING retreat. There will be time between sessions
of music and meditation, and three daily meals, to enjoy the spectacular
natural surrounds of the Pacific Ocean and Lake Ainsworth, as well as
the complete sports facilities at the venue.
Lake Ainsworth, Lennox Head, is 7 minutes north of Ballina (the nearest
airport), and 12 minutes south of Byron Bay. The Gold Coast airport is
1 hour north, and Brisbane is 2.5 hours north.
Accomodation is either in fan-cooled dorm rooms of up to 6 people (each
with attached bathroom), or camping, or a few single and double rooms.
Costs:
Dorm Accom:$560 -Single or Double Private Accom:$610 -Camping:$510
(Aus$)
To register::
Please download the registration form here (right click 'save target as...') .................pdf
110k
Medical
Consent Form:
Dept.
Sport and Recreation require(you
must fill this out and send with your registration)
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Contact:
Alison Pearl
PO Box 234
Mullumbimby 2482
Ph: 02 66 845 570
apearl@mullum.com.au