Shalom Mountain Retreat & Study Center

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All are welcome!

Don't miss the annual Holiday Party! It's a great time to reconnect with old friends, and make some new ones.

BRING A DISH FOR 8 PEOPLE (main dish, salad, side dish, bread & beverage, or dessert).  We'll also have some extra wine and appetizers on hand.
 
Invite along a friend if you like. No Need to RSVP -- just come on over to Barra's house.  If you need directions, call or email Tom Goddard.

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All are welcome!

Don't miss the annual Holiday Party! It's a great time to reconnect with old friends, and make some new ones.

BRING A DISH FOR 8 PEOPLE (main dish, salad, side dish, bread & beverage, or dessert).  We'll also have some extra wine and appetizers on hand.
 
Invite along a friend if you like. No Need to RSVP -- just come on over to Barra's house.  If you need directions, call or email Tom Goddard.

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Many believe that the heart is at least as important an organ as our brain.  This month's gathering will explore how signals from the heart can positively affect how we deal with stress, anxiety, insomnia, and even improve cognitive and athletic performance.

Leda Cummings, longtime CSLer, is a trained PhD research scientist who is licensed to teach a technique called "emWave" technology.  She will demonstrate this technique and guide us in experiencing heart-based communication.  One real benefit is seeing how it enhances intuitive intelligence, which in turn positively affects relationships.  

Here is a chance to learn some new techniques to help us access the wisdom of the heart.  We are a blessed community to have so many good teachers in our midst!  This should be a different approach that most of us have never experienced.  Come join in the curiosity and fun.

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Many believe that the heart is at least as important an organ as our brain.  This month's gathering will explore how signals from the heart can positively affect how we deal with stress, anxiety, insomnia, and even improve cognitive and athletic performance.

Leda Cummings, longtime CSLer, is a trained PhD research scientist who is licensed to teach a technique called "emWave" technology.  She will demonstrate this technique and guide us in experiencing heart-based communication.  One real benefit is seeing how it enhances intuitive intelligence, which in turn positively affects relationships.  

Here is a chance to learn some new techniques to help us access the wisdom of the heart.  We are a blessed community to have so many good teachers in our midst!  This should be a different approach that most of us have never experienced.  Come join in the curiosity and fun.

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See map: Google MapsYour voice is an incredible tool for healing and power. To sing, authentically and unreservedly, can be an ecstatic experience. We'll uncover the vocal gifts that we were all born with, fostering courage and helping us to feel at home with our voices. Working both individually and in small groups, we will use a combination of body mapping, meditation, yoga and nature to ignite passion for the singing experience. Come and set your voice free no matter if you are a chorister, opera singer, shower singer or just sing your children to sleep at night.

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See map: Google MapsLoving relationship is a great gift. It both comforts and challenges us, providing an experience of acceptance and home and calling us to be everything we are: powerful, compassionate, spiritual erotic people. Conscious partnership is a spiritual practice that calls us to expand our capacity to live with loving acceptance and compassion for self and other, seeing one another as holy and perfect. On this retreat, each couple will have focused time to work in the group. We will practice the arts of being great lovers.

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See map: Google MapsChildren 3 and under = Free Children 4-13 = $85 Teens & Adults = $110 Shalom Mountain is a magical place that allows each of us to shine. This festival is a time to play, love, and celebrate together as families without the pressures of the outside world. We will explore fun and play using storytelling, clay, art, dress-up, and much more. Please join us for this fabulous event! Love makes a family – all families, traditional or non-traditional are welcome at the Family Festival.

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See map: Google MapsIn this three-day gathering, the joy of young people at summer camp is enhanced by creating an intentionally loving community of teens, based on the Principles and Skills of Loving. Come laugh, tell your story, create with your peers and engage in a scavenger hunt that requires skill and teamwork. This gathering has become a favorite of young people and has formed the foundation of a lasting community both on and off the Mountain. Come connect with other teens and make an impact on the Mountain and in the Shalom community! All teens ages 12-16 are welcome to attend.

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See map: Google MapsWe are hard-wired to seek the divine, to ask the question "Who am I?" Ironically, it is the very desire to know that prevents us from finding an answer. The divine is ungraspable and unknowlable but it can be experienced. This retreat draws on Western psychology and Buddhist spirituality to offer a direct experience of our fundamental nature -- the great I AM. We do this by taking a point of view beyond the self, beyond the limitations of ego. We can realize that who we are is ever-present, eternal and unchanging. We are bathed in the vastness of our essence and oneness with all things -- this is home, our true nature. Realizing our I AM-ness is an essential aspect of being a fully integrated human being, living an embodied life with wisdom and compassion.

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See map: Google Maps"If you lose touch with the 2 million year old being inside of you, your life is in peril." - Carl Jung Within each of us there resides a deep knowing that holds wisdom beyond what we have learned in our lifetime. When we listen to that Ancient Voice we allow it to guide us like a rudder through our lives and our lives become richer. The challenge in listening is not only making the time and space, but also in knowing how to hear. The language of the Ancient Voice is often one of symbol and metaphor, taking place in that Time Beyond Time -- it is the Essential Story. To hear it we must bypass our logical mind and listen from our Soul. In this retreat we will use the magic of Myth and Story to listen to what the Ancient Voice is saying to each of us, individually and collectively.

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See map: Google MapsIntegrating Life Choices is an extended 5-day retreat that is a specialized version of the basic Shalom Retreat. It is designed to provide time to explore new life choices emerging from the deep inner work and power of loving community. In addition to individual mat work, we expand the experience by teaching the disciplines that help us to integrate and sustain our learnings: meditation, journal writing, morning body prayer and the use of breath as a gateway to transformation. This retreat offers time to wander the woods, visit the sacred sites, sit by the pool, dip into the hot tub or sit quietly listening to the stars and watching the fireflies dance. Come enjoy the glory of Shalom Mountain in the summertime ~ it’s an experience not to be missed!

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See map: Google MapsWith Nance McGee & Roger Cramer Mysticism is the intimate knowledge, based on revelation, of the Source that underlies all existence. Since the beginning of time, mystics have engaged in the perennial quest – a longing for the experience of the One. How do we open ourselves to this revelation? Lawrence Kushner wrote: "Entrances to holiness are everywhere. The possibility of ascent is all the time. Even at unlikely times and through unlikely places. There is no place on earth without Presence. The Holy is always present. Apprehending it depends on my presence to each moment, being inside the face of God as I meet each experience in my life." On this retreat we will explore a variety of entrances: meditation/ prayer, nature, crisis and suffering, the erotic, art and music, relationship. Come because of your longing.

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See map: Google MapsThe joy of young people coming together is enhanced in this three-day retreat, guided by the Principles and Skills of Loving, in a community of young adults. We’ll use role playing, journaling and contemplation. This retreat has become a favorite of young people and forms the foundation of a lasting community on and off the Mountain. Come reflect, laugh and enjoy.

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See map: Google MapsThe Shalom Retreat™ is an intensive growth experience set in a loving and supportive community. Shalom Retreats are based on our understanding of love. More than anything else, we want to love and be loved. Love is a gift. Love is not time bound. Love is good will in action. Love is a response to need. Loving is an art. The skills of loving can be learned. They include seeing and hearing another, expressing good will, recognizing another’s right to think and feel as he/she does, and being fully present in our relationships with others. Through the practice of intentional loving, open space is created in which individuals can learn to express themselves with integrity, creativity and passion. Our ability to love and our life force can be blocked by unexpressed feelings of anger, fear and pain. By unblocking energy, we are able to reclaim our joy, passion and sexuality and to fully embody the Divine in our lives. A variety of techniques (e.g., guided fantasy, primal therapy, role-play, gestalt and bioenergetics) are used as a means for releasing and transforming repressed emotions, so that one’s passion for life may be fully realized.

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See map: Google MapsThe Shalom Retreat™ is an intensive growth experience set in a loving and supportive community. Shalom Retreats are based on our understanding of love. More than anything else, we want to love and be loved. Love is a gift. Love is not time bound. Love is good will in action. Love is a response to need. Loving is an art. The skills of loving can be learned. They include seeing and hearing another, expressing good will, recognizing another’s right to think and feel as he/she does, and being fully present in our relationships with others. Through the practice of intentional loving, open space is created in which individuals can learn to express themselves with integrity, creativity and passion. Our ability to love and our life force can be blocked by unexpressed feelings of anger, fear and pain. By unblocking energy, we are able to reclaim our joy, passion and sexuality and to fully embody the Divine in our lives. A variety of techniques (e.g., guided fantasy, primal therapy, role-play, gestalt and bioenergetics) are used as a means for releasing and transforming repressed emotions, so that one’s passion for life may be fully realized.

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See map: Google MapsWork Weekends are special times when the community gathers, bringing together old friends and new, lending essential support to the Mountain. Friday evening we gather for a potluck supper (bring a dish for eight) and community building. Saturday and Sunday we work for six to eight hours during the day and then spend the evening together with dancing and an auction to benefit Friends of Shalom Mountain. We wrap up the weekend celebrating our time together with a renewed commitment to live lovingly in the world. Bring a tent, sleeping bag (linens not provided) and your personal belongings. Arrive after lunch on Friday, please! Early arrivals must be negotiated with us in advance.

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See map: Google MapsThe Shalom Retreat™ is an intensive growth experience set in a loving and supportive community. Shalom Retreats are based on our understanding of love. More than anything else, we want to love and be loved. Love is a gift. Love is not time bound. Love is good will in action. Love is a response to need. Loving is an art. The skills of loving can be learned. They include seeing and hearing another, expressing good will, recognizing another’s right to think and feel as he/she does, and being fully present in our relationships with others. Through the practice of intentional loving, open space is created in which individuals can learn to express themselves with integrity, creativity and passion. Our ability to love and our life force can be blocked by unexpressed feelings of anger, fear and pain. By unblocking energy, we are able to reclaim our joy, passion and sexuality and to fully embody the Divine in our lives. A variety of techniques (e.g., guided fantasy, primal therapy, role-play, gestalt and bioenergetics) are used as a means for releasing and transforming repressed emotions, so that one’s passion for life may be fully realized.

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See map: Google MapsThe Shalom Retreat™ is an intensive growth experience set in a loving and supportive community. Shalom Retreats are based on our understanding of love. More than anything else, we want to love and be loved. Love is a gift. Love is not time bound. Love is good will in action. Love is a response to need. Loving is an art. The skills of loving can be learned. They include seeing and hearing another, expressing good will, recognizing another’s right to think and feel as he/she does, and being fully present in our relationships with others. Through the practice of intentional loving, open space is created in which individuals can learn to express themselves with integrity, creativity and passion. Our ability to love and our life force can be blocked by unexpressed feelings of anger, fear and pain. By unblocking energy, we are able to reclaim our joy, passion and sexuality and to fully embody the Divine in our lives. A variety of techniques (e.g., guided fantasy, primal therapy, role-play, gestalt and bioenergetics) are used as a means for releasing and transforming repressed emotions, so that one’s passion for life may be fully realized.

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See map: Google MapsWe are hard-wired to seek the divine, to ask the question "Who am I?" Ironically, it is this very desire to know that prevents us from finding an answer. The divine is ungraspable and unknowable but it can be experienced. This retreat draws on Western psychology and Buddhist spirituality to offer a direct experience of our fundamental nature - the great I AM. We do this by taking a point of view beyond the self, beyond the limitations of ego. We can realize that who we are is ever-present, eternal and unchanging. We are bathed in the vastness of our essence and oneness with all things - this is home, our true nature. Realizing our I AM-ness is an essential aspect of being a fully integrated human being, living an embodied life with wisdom and compassion.

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See map: Google MapsThe Shalom Retreat™ is an intensive growth experience set in a loving and supportive community. Shalom Retreats are based on our understanding of love:  More than anything else, we want to love and be loved.  Love is a gift.  Love is not time bound.  Love is good will in action.  Love is a response to need. Loving is an art. The skills of loving can be learned. They include seeing and hearing another, expressing good will, recognizing another’s right to think and feel as he/she does, and being fully present in our relationships with others. Through the practice of intentional loving, open space is created in which individuals can learn to express themselves with integrity, creativity and passion. Our ability to love and our life force can be blocked by unexpressed feelings of anger, fear and pain. By unblocking energy, we are able to reclaim our joy, passion and sexuality and to fully embody the Divine in our lives. A variety of techniques (e.g., guided fantasy, primal therapy, role-play, gestalt and bioenergetics) are used as a means for releasing and transforming repressed emotions, so that one’s passion for life may be fully realized.

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See map: Google Maps“Change and the passing of what has been, advancing years, an encounter with great beauty, the love of a precious child, illness, the pain of loss.” Life offers us so many moments that call us to be awake. In these moments, another reality breaks through. We become aware that the stories we have relied on to define our lives are simply that, stories; but stories that provide a familiar and hence comforting sense of home. The mystic’s journey draws us to risk leaving the known, to face dissolution of what has been, to wander in an unknown land and, in our wandering, to find the path that is truly our own, the path that ultimately leads us Home. Come and join our community of mystics as we share the next steps of our journey.