The Embodied Life™ explores: "Returning to Essence and the Ground of Being"

Join Russell and Linda at the serene Johanneshof Zen Center. This is a Public retreat so all are invited.

“Who are you before your parents were born?”

This illuminating Zen question, usually spoken as “Original Face”, opens an inquiry into a quality of Being before, within and beyond our usual self-identities. Can we both value and be free from our historic self-identities?

Returning to Essence: Points directly to knowing ourselves before our thoughts, feelings, stories and inner dialogue. Deeper than our cultural conditioning, this essence never goes away.

Ground of Being: When grounded in our bodies and sensing the support of the earth, we can open to the moment, “just as it is.” This ground of Being gives us great confidence for learning from our life challenges.

This Embodied Life stands on three legs:

1) Embodied Meditation – Sitting and walking meditation,

2) Embodied Movement – Feldenkrais movements, Spatial Awareness and other original somatic practices,

3) Embodied Inquiry- Awareness explorations based in Focusing, Non-Violent Communication, life-giving memories and deep listening.

If you are interested in exploring this further, please visit www.russelldelman.com for more information.

This course is taught in English. For registration you need to book here, as well as at Russell’s homepage: https://theembodiedlife.org/calendar/ – there you would also find the tuition fee.

Program

Thursday:

• 3-6 p.m. arrival & check-in
• 6:30 p.m. dinner

Friday-Saturday:

• Mornings and evenings: zazen-meditation
• During the day: seminar program, work practice time units

Sunday:

• Retreat ends at 12:15, departure after lunch (approx. 14:00)

Meals and diet

• Meals: in the morning silent meal, otherwise convivial buffet meals
• Diet: vegan-vegetarian and largely organic-regional.
• Intolerance: We take intolerances into account on request – as far as we are able to do so.

Accommodation

• Accommodation: choice of single or double room (with private sink or bathroom in the corridor) or studio (with private bathroom)
• Facilities: desks in all rooms; bed linen and towels provided
• Internet access: wireless via WLAN in all buildings

All prices include accommodation, meals but not the tuition fee. For further information please visit:
https://theembodiedlife.org/230420_embodied-life-retreat.html
Please also register there.