Conscious Connections with Clive Tempest

 
 

Eastcott Retreats

Events

2012

January 4 - March 21 : Weekly Classes
Hestercombe Chi Gung Group: Spring Season
Wednesday mornings (except February 29)
at The Memorial Hall, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Taunton

Beginners: 10.30-11.30   Level II   11.30-12.30
Group membership £45 a season or Drop-In £5

New Beginners Class starts January 4 2012: Registration 10.15
Learn Shibashi Taichi for improved health and wellbeing

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February 11-12 : Residential Weekend Workshop
Sopukka Conference Centre, near Helsinki, Finland.
Continuing development for those who have been to previous events at Sopukka - investigating the nature of change. 
FULLY BOOKED (Waiting list open)
Contact: iina.pennanen@gmail.com

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March 30 - April 1 :  Retreat at Eastcott Barn
Spring into Spring with three days of energising relaxation,
good food, deep sleep, walks and talks. Take time out to look at what’s changing in your life, or what needs to change.Events at Eastcott are for small groups so only a few places remain.
Book well in advance.
Contact: info@eastcottbarn.co.uk 01404 841450

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April 27-May 2 : The Chi of Valley and Sea
A Conscious Connections Workshop in Devon and Cornwall.
How to connect the energy of the body and the energy of the earth. To be held at Eastcott Barn in a green secluded valley in Devon
and at The Bluff Centre on the rugged and exposed north coast of Cornwall.  A two-centre holiday with chi gung, meditations, walks and talks. Limited places. Priority booking given to Finnish visitors who have done previous Conscious Connections workshops in Finland.  Group travel from Helsinki on 26 April and May 3.
Enquiries: iina.pennanen@gmail.com
FULLY BOOKED

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May 9 - July 25 : Weekly Classes 
Summer Season of sessions with the Hestercombe Chi Gung Group on Wednesday mornings at The Memorial Hall, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Taunton.

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July 14-15 :  Earth Energy
The good that nature gives and how to benefit from it.  
Workshop at Eastcott Barn, Devon.  
Contact: info@eastcottbarn.co.uk 01404 841450

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August 25-26 :  Conscious Connections
A weekend workshop at Majvik Congress Centre, Espoo, Finland. www.majvik.fi
An introduction to shibashi taichi and ‘conscious connections’.
How to bring more life to your body and more clarity to your life. Booking opens May 15. Contact: iina.pennanen@gmail.com
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31 August - 2 September : Residential Workshop
Dragon and Tiger Chi Gung.  Priority given to people
who have attended previous courses and already practise
shibashi taichi. Sopukka Centre, Near Helsinki Finland.
Booking opens May 15. Contact: iina.pennanen@gmail.com
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September 22-23 :  The Nature of Change
The principles of ‘fix and flux’ and how to adapt to changes in your life.  At Eastcott Barn, Devon.
Contact: info@eastcottbarn.co.uk 01404 841450

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October 3 – December 20 : Weekly Chi
Continuing sessions for the Hestercombe Chi Gung Group, Taunton.
Wed mornings and Thurs evenings at The Memorial Hall, Cheddon Fitzpaine.
Beginners welcome at the start of the season.
Wednesdays 10.30 -11.30am and/or Thursdays 7- 8.30pm
More advanced chi gung: Wednesdays 11.45 - 12.45
Group Membership £45 per season  (attend any class).

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November 24 :  More Chi
Saturday Workshop 
Majvik Congress Hotel, Kirkkonummi, Finland. 
For people who have learned shibashi taichi with
Clive Tempest.
A chance to develop your practice and your perception of chi.
There will be correction of the movements, plus other exercises and teachings to increase your connection to vitality and wellbeing.
Registration 9.30.  Closing at 18.00. 
Refreshments and lunch included.
Non-refundable deposit payable with booking €75
plus €52 payable on the day to Majvik Hotel
Contact: iina.pennanen@gmail.com

November 23, 25, 26  Private Sessions
In Helsinki and Tampere.
Individual work for personal healing and self-knowledge.
€70  Limited number of places/times available.
Book well in advance.
Contact: iina.pennanen@gmail.com

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Eastcott Weekend Workshops
14-15 July and 22-23 September

Two weekend workshops where we'll work on accessing earth energy and solar energy to increase personal chi. We'll use various chi gung exercises, meditations and work outdoors.

At the July weekend I will introduce the primary 'conscious connection' that I usually only use in private sessions for healing and in developing individual consciousness.  If there's time we will start to investigate the nature of change and how consciousness evolves.

During the September workshop we will take the same process a bit further to look at the inhibitions that we impose on ourselves and how to consciously overcome them or adapt to inevitable change. We will investigate the cycles of change which affect us through what I call the dynamic of ‘fix and flux’.

A chi gung practice we can use to examine these themes is The Marriage of Heaven and Earth (from Bruce Frantzis).  I may teach this set at Eastcott in July/September, and am considering focusing on it at a third Eastcott workshop - perhaps just for a day - in November.  (Details to be announced).

Each workshop will be a complete experience and you don’t have to have been in July to attend in September or November.  But anyone who comes to all these Eastcott events will in effect be taking an ongoing course. (This plan substitutes for the four or five day chi gung retreat at Eastcott which I previously announced would take place in November.)

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Eastcott Barn is a small retreat centre in the village of Sheldon, tucked away in the Blackdown Hills in East Devon.

See: www.eastcottbarn.co.uk

We start with registration on Saturday morning 9.30-10.00 and finish with supper on Sunday evening. 

Course Fees £120 per weekend.

Accommodation is at Eastcott Barn or in local bed and breakfast. Charges for one overnight stay, all meals and use of the premises are £95. 

To reserve place email Jenny at Eastcott: jennyash26@hotmail.com

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Eastcott Retreat

You can turn a weekend workshop into a longer retreat by staying more than one night. I will include a private session on Friday or on Monday for anyone who wants to dedicate more time for themselves. 

Eastcott is a peaceful place, poised on the side of a Devon valley. At my Eastcott events you can take a path down into yourself and discover new energy and personal resources. It's not just about learning some chi gung movements. You benefit from giving more time to the process.

A breakdown of standard retreat charges is here


Finland 2012


'I use chi gung to introduce a more conscious way of living. I teach ways of connecting with the real you — an intelligence, a power, a love shining. It is always there for you to know it and be it. All you have to do is make that conscious connection . . .'



August 25-26 : Weekend Workshop : Majvik

How to bring more life to your body and more clarity to your life.


We need to engage new energy to work with ‘conscious connections’. Practising chi gung produces the necessary vitality and stillness of mind. This weekend we will start to unlock the real you.

We will learn shibashi taichi and make the essential conscious connection from within your body to the power of the sun and the earth.

The 18 movements of shibashi taichi are relatively easy to learn and are designed to stimulate and distribute chi throughout the body. They are suitable for all ages and varying degrees of fitness and can be adapted and done seated if you have limited mobility. You should be able to go away from this course able to do most if not all of the exercises at home. You will get increasing benefit from daily practice (10 to 20 minutes) and right from the start you may be surprised by the impact that these gentle exercises can have on you.

I will also be talking about the ancient knowledge revealed in chi gung and why it is so relevant to the evolution of consciousness now. I will pass on some of the discoveries I have made through my own practice about the essential principles we need to apply in our lives if we are to participate in the ‘bigger picture’ of life on earth.

This is a two-day residential workshop at Congress Hotel Majvik, an excellent venue in wooded grounds on the shore near Espoo.

 

Majvik Majvik Shore

 

Kongressihotelli Majvik, Majvikintie 1, 02401 Kirkkonummi
25 kilometres west of downtown Helsinki via Ring Road III.
The train station at Masala is a 20 minute walk away.
www.majvik.fi

Teaching will be in English. There will chi gung classes of up to two hours, some individual instruction, relaxation periods and talks. It may be possible to arrange translation for the talks if requested in advance.

There are a few non-residential places for people who live nearby. But note that all participants have to be available for the full course.  Registration is 9.15-9.45 on Saturday and we will not finish until 18.00 Sunday. There may be an evening session or talk on Saturday evening and there will be a session before breakfast on Sunday morning. Wear loose clothing and soft flat shoes.  As Majvik is in such a lovely setting it’s likely we will be working outdoors for one or more sessions.  

The cost is €285 per person which includes course fees, meals and an overnight stay in a double room.
 – Add €20 for a single room.
 – Deduct €60 for non-resident rate (limited number of places).
 – Deduct €20 for early booking (before July 1).
Non-returnable deposit: €80 before June 30; €100 afterwards.
Remainder to be paid to Congress Hotel Majvik on arrival.
Deposits required to secure booking and refunded only if the event is cancelled.

Enquiries, bookings and deposits to Iina Penannen:
045 678 1303
iina.pennanen@gmail.com

Booking opens May 15. Cut-off date for early booking discount:
July 1.

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31 August - 2 September : Residential Course

Learn Dragon and Tiger Chi Gung : Connect with Change

 

Dragon And Tiger is a form of medical chi gung introduced to the West by the American Chi Gung Master Bruce Frantzis. Its seven movements stimulate the passage of chi in specific ways through the legs, arms and torso to disperse stagnant energy and free blockages and tensions.  Long-term practice develops flexibility and  agility - Dragon chi - combined with the grounded presence and power of Tiger energy.

I teach Dragon and Tiger after shibashi because you will benefit more from it if you already know what it is to raise your own chi. With Dragon and Tiger we can more consciously use the chi for self-healing.

This is a three-day course and continues the series of events held at the Sopukka Centre over the last three years.  Over that time we have investigated the two hemispheres of being, the three phases of energy, the five dynamics of consciousness and the eight energetic impulses of nature. The background to this has been an exploration of the way intelligence enters matter to generate consciousness; and I have touched on the way that our perception of change is vital to this process. All this has unfolded as we went along. It seems likely now that we can make a more profound connection with change, with what is changing at any time.  It is not hard to predict that humanity will soon be driven to adapt to the changes that are coming to the earth. Can we change ourselves consciously? Can we somehow facilitate a beneficial mutation of the human brain? Is it possible for there to be a collective change in the human condition?

This residential course will again be held at the Sopukka Centre.

 Koulutuskeskus Sopukka, Uusi Porvoontie 482,
 01120 Västerskog. 23 kms east of Helsinki and
 half an hour’s drive from Vantaa Airport.
 www.ensijaturvakotienliitto.fi/sopukka

Numbers at Sopukka are limited to 22 people and priority in booking will be given to people who have attended the previous Sopukka sessions. In any case it is essential that you already practise Shibashi taichi on a regular basis.
The cost is €330 per person which includes course fees, meals and two nights (shared room).
 – Add €20 for a single room.
 – No non-resident rate.
 – Deduct €20 for early booking (before July 1).
 – Deduct €20 if also booking to attend Majvik Weekend Workshop.
Non-returnable deposit: €50 before June 30; €80 afterwards.
Remainder to be charged at Sopukka Centre.
Deposits required to secure booking and refunded only if the event is cancelled.

Enquiries, bookings and deposits to Iina Penannen:
045 678 1303
iina.pennanen@gmail.com


Soppuka Forest Clive Tempest

November 24 :  More Chi
Follow-up day workshop at Majvik
Majvik Congress Hotel, Kirkkonummi, Finland. 
For people who have learned shibashi taichi with
Clive Tempest.
A chance to develop your practice and your perception of chi.
There will be correction of the movements, plus other exercises and teachings to increase your connection to vitality and wellbeing.
Registration 9.30.  Closing at 18.00. 
Refreshments and lunch included.
Non-refundable deposit payable with booking €75
plus €52 payable on the day to Majvik Hotel
Contact: iina.pennanen@gmail.com

November 23, 25, 26  Private Sessions
In Helsinki and Tampere.
Individual work for personal healing and self-knowledge.
€70  Limited number of places/times available.
Book well in advance.
Contact: iina.pennanen@gmail.com

Enquiries: chi.gung@btinternet.com

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