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Non-Duality West: The Logos of Your Heart EVENT RESCUEDULED - NEW DATES: August 22-26, 2011 Enroll here. Olga Louchakova-Schwartz
During the last two years, our retreats incorporated scientific approaches to meditation. This time, our work will be connected with East-West dialogue between Christianity and Islam. The central theme of this dialogue is Logos, the Divine intelligence of life. We will use the Prayer of the Heart to access this spiritual force in the heart, and to learn directly from its wisdom. Spiritual Heart, the main center of non-dual awareness in the human body, is also a seat of the individual expressions of the Logos of Life. Logos defines one’s destiny, psychological make-up, and spiritual predispositions. As usual, the retreat will have options both for advanced and for beginning practitioners. Purification of the Spiritual Heart enhances self-knowledge, brings up the direct intuition, expands consciousness, and leads to the gestalt of the non-dual awareness. Integration of the heart and the mind is the next step in this process, which leads to the discovery of individual Logos. The program of the retreat will include instructions in the Prayer of the Heart, guided and silent meditation, a practice of awareness between thoughts, engagement with non-dual consciousness, readings and spiritual discourses. There will be an option to work with sacred images. Central to this retreat will be a special set of exercises integrating the heart and the mind. This exercises lead to the understanding of Logos in the patterns of our lives.
Olga Louchakova, M.D., Ph.D., is a spiritual teacher, medical doctor and neuroscientist. She is the founding Director of the Neurophenomenology Research Center the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, and the mandated teacher of Advaita Vedanta, Kundalini Yoga and Prayer of the Heart. Her original spiritual training comes from the Russian spiritual underground. She recently gave an invited lecture on the Logos of Life at the Pontifica University in Rome. She is an active participant in Muslim-Christian dialogue, and published numerous papers in spirituality, science and philosophy. Dr. Louchakova can be reached via email at info@hridayamyoga.org, or call 650-493-4430, ext.264. Enroll here. View Past Events
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TESTIMONALS FROM 2010 "I just wanted to say thank-you once again for the wonderful week spent in meditation. It has really made an impact in my life. Not only has my anxiety all but disappeared during meditation, it also has reduced in my life in general. I've only been meditating once a week since the retreat, but it is still very helpful." - therapist, early 40s. "I continue to be a 'different person' since CA retreat. One of my neighbors--a woman in her 40's who has big mother issues---commented about it. I guess she is finding me less threatening." - clinical psychologist, mid 60s. View Past Events |
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Since 1994, this annual Prayer of the Heart meditation retreat became a tradition at the Mercy Center. Prayer of the Heart is a very versatile spiritual practice which renders many psychological and/or spiritual benefits. So, even though retreats are always focused on the Prayer of the Heart and communion with the living God, the specific themes of inner work change every couple of years.
Being in touch with the workings of this divine principle in one’s heart leads to a harmonious life and a peaceful mind.
Our lives are happening here and now. Even after a non-dual Realization or a deep communion with Divine, the patterns of destiny continue impacting one's relationship with the world, God and oneself. This retreat is especially recommended for those who want to integrate non-duality and/or spirituality with personal growth, self-knowledge, and intuition of their individual, uniquely human features. CEU for nurses, marriage and family therapists, medical doctors, social workers is pending.