What the Body Knows

Goat-in-the-Road/Philo

5:00 p.m., Friday, February 15 –
3:00 p.m., Monday, February 18, 2008

Corporeal knowledge and intuition, however strongly devalued and ignored in modern materialistic American culture, are nevertheless reliable and empowering modes of cognition and understanding. The information contained in physical sensation and direct perception are sound and reliable, in contrast, for example, to the insubstantiality of thoughts and emotional feelings. In this retreat Yvonne will teach participants to recognize the signals which our bodies are continually sending us and to adjust the volume so that these signals are consistently audible, no longer so faint and weak that the surround of everyday external noise and internal mind chatter drowns them out.

The cost of the retreat is $280 (the cost includes accommodations, meals and a teaching fee). To register send a deposit of $140. Please make your check payable to The Callipeplon Society and mail to: Goat-in-the-Road P.O. Box 330249 San Francisco, CA 94133

Summer Retreat: Transforming Patterns From One's Family of Origin

Goat-in-the-Road/Philo

5:00 pm, Wednesday, July 16 – 4:00 pm, Saturday, July 26

We cannot change our family of origin, our parents, our siblings, or other relatives. Nor
can we change what actually happened to us as children and adolescents and adults. But we
can certainly change the mental, emotional and psychological patterns which result from our early experiences. We can learn how to replace reactivity with conscious responsiveness. In this retreat Yvonne will suggest methods for recognizing the patterns and expectations which develop in familial contexts, methods for evaluating whether such patterns are worth preserving or are better dissolved, and methods for transforming old patterns and the ways in which we understand what happened to us as we moved from infancy to adulthood.

The cost of the retreat is $900 (the cost includes accommodations, meals and a teaching fee). To register, make your deposit check of $450 payable to "The Callipeplon Society" and mail to Goat-in-the-Road.

Update: the retreat with Venerable Tenzin Palmo is now full.

Special Event: Residential Retreat with Venerable Tenzin Palmo

Goat-in-the-Road/Philo

5:00 pm, Thursday, November 20 - 4:00 pm, Sunday, November 23

"It is important to use our daily life: our relationships and family, our work, and social time, in fact everything we do, as our spiritual practice."

Venerable Tenzin Palmo was born in London in 1943. She traveled to India when she was 20, meet her teacher, and in 1964 was one of the first Western women to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun. After twelve years of study and doing frequent retreats during the long Himalayan winter months, she sought complete seclusion and better conditions. She found a nearby cave, where she stayed and practiced for another twelve years. In the mid 1990's Venerable Tenzin Palmo founded Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery. The Nunnery was established as an environment where young nuns of the Drukpa Kagyu lineage from the Himalayan regions can realize their spiritual and intellectual potential after so many centuries of neglect and to reinstate at the Nunnery the 'Togdenma' (yogini) tradition.This will be a chance to practice with one of the remarkable contemporary women Buddhist teachers living today.

The cost of the retreat is $300 (the cost includes accommodations, meals and a teaching fee). To register send your deposit check of $150 made payable to "The Callipeplon Society" and mail to Goat-in-the-Road.