Rainbow Arriving Workshops (or classes) are centering practices gift wrapped for special needs. The sighting of a rainbow is always a moment of wonder, and we always feel that something good is about to happen now that the storm cloud has passed. My favorite poem from Hafiz says it all:
God disguised as myriad things
and playing a game of tag
has kissed you and said
“You’re it…I mean,
you’re REALLY IT!”
Now it does not matter
what you believe or feel
for something wonderful,
Major-league Wonderful
is someday going to
Happen. Hafiz
Below are some of our Rainbow Workshops. You can email me for more details at byc@blackstoneyogacenter.com
Rainbow Arriving Workshops: Where the treasure you find is you.
RAINBOWS FOR PARENTS
A STRESS HOLIDAY FOR PARENTS: a three-hour workshop that can change devils into angels.
You need a break today. In fact, you need a break every day from your children. This workshop for parents will show you how to create breaks from your children during the time you are with your children. It is not the child that is causing your stress but your own mind that perceives the child’s behavior as an attack on your peace. Parenting should not be warfare.
Included in the workshop will be proven techniques through correct breathing, stretching exercises, and mind relaxation that will empower you to transform your stress with your child to play with your child. Learn how you can change your world by changing the way you relate to the world. The Rainbow will includes training and practice of the techniques, sharing, and a take-home reminder of what you learned so you can continue the practice at home. You will also have a direct email link to the workshop teachers for follow up at home.
RAINBOWS FOR MID-LIFE
A NEW LIFE MAP FOR THIRTY SOMETHINGS: A three-hour workshop that can get your life moving again
The decade of the thirties, especially the years nudging up to forty, is a rough passage for most because the life map they have depended on either takes them in circles or the wind and the current that has brought you this far has suddenly disappeared leaving you in the doldrums of despair and dissatisfaction. You need a new map and a new compass.
The Rainbow will acquaint you with the classic maps of life’s passages so you can orientate yourself to the soul’s true journey instead of being lost in the storms of the moment. You will learn how to create a quiet retreat in your daily life where you can reset your compass each day and calm the storms of the mind before they capsize your ship. Through on-the-go breathing techniques, tension releasing stretches, and the practice of witnessing the mind’s disturbances you will be able to take charge of the helm and steer yourself through this difficult passage. You are not alone, and knowing that, and sharing that, will be like sighting land after you thought all was lost and your life was a failure.
RAINBOWS FOR LOSS
TURNING JOB LOSS INTO A LIFE GAIN: A three-hour workshop that can turn loss into opportunity
Whether you have lost your job, fear losing your job, or just have general anxiety about the uncertainty of life, this workshop can help you discover the treasure to be found in what your thought was an empty hole. Through proven techniques in correct breathing, tension releasing stretches, and become master of your mind you will be empowered to find peace in your storm and opportunities in your stress. Personal loss, while painful can be an opportunity for a new course in your life and an expansion of your capacity to enjoy life. Change always offers something good if we know how to allow the negative to turn into a positive. This Rainbow could flip your fear into inspiration.
RAINBOWS FOR WORK
TRANSFORMING YOUR WORK PLACE INTO YOUR PEACE PLACE: A three-hour workshop to help you turn stress into productivity
We spend a third of our day at work quite often waiting for the 5 o’clock bell to ring or the weekend’s relief from its stress. Work should not be a prison sentence or a punishment for some forgotten sin. Work can be an opportunity to practice freedom from stress. Work can be a wellness center where stress becomes the weights you use to master the mind. This workshop can help you make work workable for the discovery of inner peace and a joyous productivity. Through proven techniques of breath awareness, mindfulness, and tension releasing stretches you can bust up a stress pattern on your walk to the water cooler. This Rainbow could make you look forward to work.
RAINBOWS FOR MARRIAGE
DON’T TURN UP YOUR NOSE AT YOUR MARRIAGE; JUST FIND A NEW RECIPE.
A weekend retreat (at the B&B in Blackstone) where you can get divorced from an old marriage and honeymoon the next—all with the same person!
No lawyers needed.
When our marriage becomes stale or a source if irritation instead of joy, we’ve lost the magic of renewal and the healing of forgiveness. This workshop can help you as a couple get in touch with that magic moment of the wedding when the groom lifts the veil of his bride and sees her beauty for the first time. Every moment holds the possibility of that veil lifting when your partner is suddenly fresh and new, a dish that has yet to be tasted. In this retreat you will learn and practice proven techniques using your breath, yoga stretches to release tension in the body, and mindfulness practices that break up our old recipes and allow for new ones to be created. After this Rainbow you may find that your wedding vows have been renewed and you didn’t even have to hire a minister or book a reception.
RAINBOWS FOR SENIORS
RETIRED AND CAN’T FIND THE POT OF GOLD? You need a Rainbow!
We were told that retirement was the pot of gold we must sacrifice and save for, and now that we are here, where is it? We were told it would be in golf, grandchildren, cruises and just lots of free time, but something is missing, and now there is no more time to search. This workshop will point you in the right direct by giving you a map to the spot where the treasure lays, your own heart. You will learn some easy breathing, stretching techniques, and mind relaxing exercises that will not only reverse the aging process of the body but also free your mind from the stress of retirement. This Rainbow will put you in touch with the person you remember you once used to be.
RAINBOWS FOR DEPENDENCE
CHASING A RAINBOW IN A BOTTLE OR DRUG OR FOOD? You need to stop and sit down….Oh, oh, look, you’re on a pot of gold!
All dependence upon some external substance, whatever its form, is chasing a pot of gold hanging in front of us on a pole we are holding. Our hunger for the gold is so great that we don’t notice that it is our hands holding the pot in front of us. This Rainbow workshop is to help you notice your hands and the long pole dangling the gold. Through breathing techniques, stretching to release tension, and practice in being mindful of the dependence patterns of mind you will come upon a place within yourself that is free from dependence. When you stumble into the end of the rainbow, you will recognize your true self in a burst of joy, and your hands will effortlessly let go of the pole and the gold will spill at your feet. Let this Rainbow break into your life!
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This post was written by ed on December 12, 2008
Hello. All of us could discuss together this theme in more details!?