16 Guidelines for Life Introductory Workshop

Cultivating our inner development is essential for our own happiness as well as the wellbeing of our communities and the world at large. But can we articulate a non-sectarian, universal framework of ethics to guide that development? Can we experience the relationship between virtue and wellbeing?

 The 16 Guidelines for Life are a set of straightforward, practical tools for developing peace, happiness and meaning in everyday life. Inspired by a 7^th-century Tibetan text, the 16 Guidelines offer a presentation of universal wisdom that is suitable for people of all ages, cultures and traditions.

MBSR Mindfulness Retreat September 2010

While this is not IMISA organized event, this retreat run by Simon and Lisa might be of value and interest to you.

As we head towards the second half of the year it sometimes feels like things can speed up; and it is valuable in the midst of that to take time to slow down in order to take stock and replenish.

There is still space on the September MBSR retreat in McGregor. Join us for 3¹/₂ days of  exploration of mindful practice, group enquiry and dropping into widening circles of stillness.

We hope that you will take this opportunity to nourish and restore yourself, away from the frenetic movement of our daily lives. Aside from mindfulness practice, there will be time to treat yourself to a treatment from one of the body therapists in the village.

While this is not an IMISA organized event, this course provided by one of our members, Julie McIntosh might be of value and interest to you.

minding the food space

presents

October 2010 Course

“Eating, Praying, Loving Yourself to Health and Wholeness”

A mindfulness-based intervention for women who want to create a healthier relationship with food, eating, their bodies and themselves.

Dates: Monday 11^th October to Monday 29^th November 2010

Times: 17h30-20h00

Place: Schoenstatt, Constantia

Facilitator: Julie McIntosh is a registered dietician, who for the past 18 years has dedicated her nutrition therapy practice to helping girls and women recover from eating disorders and disordered eating. She has presented her working perspective on eating disorders at numerous congresses and published a manual, now in its second edition.

She has lectured on a part-time basis at the Department of Dietetics, University of Natal, and to under-graduates and post-graduates in Cape Town.

Julie is also a mindfulness meditation teacher, and own experience of mindfulness as a powerful healing modality has deepened her commitment to sharing this with others.

This programme has been developed under the guidance and supervision of allied health care professionals trained in mindfulness facilitation.

More details can be found on the website: www.mindingthefoodspace.co.za

Please phone (021) 715 9774 to book your place on the course.

Awake in the Wilderness

While this is not IMISA organized event, this event provided by our members, Matthew & Pete might be of value and interest to you.

Awake in the Wilderness is a mindfulness-based retreat in the Umfolozi Game Reserve area in South Africa. The Umfolozi Game reserve is a 40 000 hectare African wilderness, well known for its large carnivores and other big mammals, especially elephant, black rhino and white rhino. The area used for the retreat is restricted so there are no cars, computers, phones or other people. The natural stillness and quiet that results, provides an excellent setting for connecting inwardly.

Practicing mindfulness in the African wilderness in the presence of big game brings us to our senses in a profound way and draws us into silence, stillness and a sense of interconnectedness with all of nature.

MBSR Mindfulness Retreat September 2010

While this is not an IMISA organized event, this retreat run by Simon & Lisa might be of value and interest to you.

 We invite you to a Mindfulness Spring Retreat in the tranquil space of Temenos in Macgregor, for 3¹/₂ days of relatively intensive exploration of mindful practice, group enquiry and dropping into widening circles of stillness.

We hope that you will take this opportunity to nourish and replenish yourself, away from the frenetic movement of our daily lives. Of course, when we deepen awareness, we notice that the freneticism is arising from our own thinking minds, and that what is occurring around and to us, is really a projection of what is going on inside our own heads. And we approach this movement, individually and collectively, with curiosity, softening and kindliness, and so touch the deeper stillness behind and beneath the movement. All of our time together will be orientated towards this replenishing spaciousness. We hope you will also avail yourselves of the body therapists in the village and treat yourselves to a relaxing massage.

The retreat is predominantly for MBSR graduates, although we welcome those who have experience and interest in mindfulness as well.