Shalom Mountain Retreat & Study Center

Community for Spiritual Living: Communicating with Heart

Tom Goddard — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:19:00 -0400

Start: 08/02/2008 - 4:00pm

End: 08/02/2008 - 8:00pm

Timezone: US/Eastern

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.

2007 Shalom Men's Gathering

Tom Goddard — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:04:53 -0400

The Soul of Singing

Tom Goddard — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:12:25 -0500

Start: 08/24/2008 - 6:00pm

End: 08/27/2008 - 1:00pm

Timezone: US/Eastern

Your 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.

Extended Couples

Tom Goddard — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:09:25 -0500

Start: 08/17/2008 - 6:00pm

End: 08/24/2008 - 1:00pm

Timezone: US/Eastern

Loving 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.

Family Festival

Tom Goddard — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:06:52 -0500

Start: 08/15/2008 - 6:00pm

End: 08/17/2008 - 1:00pm

Timezone: US/Eastern

Children 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.

Teen Gathering

Tom Goddard — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:03:07 -0500

Start: 08/12/2008 - 6:00pm

End: 08/15/2008 - 1:00pm

Timezone: US/Eastern

In 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.

Beyond the Self

Tom Goddard — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:58:12 -0500

Start: 08/07/2008 - 6:00pm

End: 08/10/2008 - 1:00pm

Timezone: US/Eastern

We 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.

The Story Is the Journey

Tom Goddard — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:54:53 -0500

Start: 07/31/2008 - 6:00pm

End: 08/03/2008 - 1:00pm

Timezone: US/Eastern

"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.

Integrating Life Choices - an Extended Shalom Retreat

Tom Goddard — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:51:33 -0500

Start: 07/22/2008 - 6:00pm

End: 07/27/2008 - 1:00pm

Timezone: US/Eastern

Integrating 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!

Path of the Mystic: Entrances to the Holy

Tom Goddard — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:48:53 -0500

Start: 07/06/2008 - 6:00pm

End: 07/13/2008 - 1:00pm

Timezone: US/Eastern

With 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.