A personal development workshop with Moumina Jeffs.
Next workshop: this workshop will run once during 2009. Dates are still being scheduled; please email to be kept informed.
Below on this page:Full details About Moumina Jeffs Practical information and Contact details
If you’d like to feel more alive and more at peace, more loving towards others, and more in love with yourself, and more able to act effectively and dynamically, then this workshop can help you to do that.
It is aimed to help you to make the next step in your life no matter what that is, what your background is, and no matter what is in the way.
Moumina is a very old friend and I can testify that her work is exceptional: safe, gentle, non-confrontational and yet very powerful and going very deep. She creates a healing atmosphere where it is safe to explore the most intense issues and emotions with love, with respect, and with inner silence in the way that leads to real transformation. This work is profound.
Moumina leads workshops and trainings all round the world, but this is, amazingly to those who know her, the first open workshop she has run here in England since 1988. She intends to run no further workshops in the UK, and she will run no further Family Constellation groups. So seize the opportunity!
With any questions, please don’t hesitate to ring me:
Andrew White, organiser: 0845-3510604 / 0117-968-7307
Fri evening Nov 23, Sat Nov 24, Sun Nov 25,
at Croydon Hall, near Minehead
This workshop will show you how to relate to your feelings and emotions in a trusting, friendly way which turns obstacles into openings, darkness into light, stress and tension into deep relaxation about your life. It will help you to fall in love with yourself and to have a close and loving connection with others. It will help clear away barriers to action, feel your inner truth, and let you move in life more strongly and effectively.
Moumina creates a safe and protected atmosphere in which to feel, to express, to relate with love and inner truth. This work is profound.
There’s a very direct route to transformation: your body. Even when the mind gets lost in pain and worry, the body remains spontaneous, impulsive and alive. So the workshop starts with playfulness and fun. Playfulness steps right past the crushing censorship of the critical mind and frees forgotten aliveness. Playfulness liberates a great source of vitality, fresh energy, creativity and new ways of seeing things.
Working with the body is especially important for men. Men are typically out of touch with their bodies and their feelings. They may feel that something is wrong with life, but commonly don't associate that with their own emotions. I remember one man who wept for the first time in a very long while and then said "Oh, that feeling is sadness then? - I feel like that all the time."
When they can't feel what is really going on, men try to deal with problems by changing the world around them, especially their partners. Sometimes, they do so angrily. Or, they live in their heads, analyzing what ought to happen. So especially for men, it's really useful and effective to work via the body.
Light-hearted playfulness is the spirit of the workshop even if very dark and intense emotions surface – in fact, especially then!
The other theme of the workshop is to relax into yourself, dropping down into the silent inner place which exists behind all thoughts and feelings. From that inner centre, no emotion is to be feared, all can be welcomed. It’s the place where you can just fall in love with being you, the place where delight and joy bubble up from inside you. In this place, simply accepting thoughts and feelings is enough to transform them.
If this sounds similar to the language of advaita and the “nondual” school of enlightened satsang teachers, that’s correct. It is the identical truth.
But this truth isn't always easy to experience. Thoughts and feelings can in many ways be difficult to let into our consciousness. They may be deeply buried, or highly charged, or split off as “not me.” When this happens, practising advaita-style meditation can be difficult or impossible.
This workshop uses contact with the body, with other people and with our natural aliveness to help us find the home inside us, the inner source of tranquillity and delight, from where thoughts and feelings can be transformed through tranquil acceptance.
The workshop is also in harmony with a very different-looking vision of life, that of tantra. The language is different from advaita, but in fact the understanding is the same. Tantra is profoundly non-dual, rejecting nothing, accepting all experiences, including the body and sexuality and “bad” feelings, and using that acceptance as a doorway to enter meditation. In the tantra vision, to find the inner home the body needs to relax from the tensions which come from stuck feelings and repressed emotions so the body flows in its natural aliveness. This workshop helps you to do that.
Moumina Jeffs is an outstanding therapist and workshop leader with an international reputation. Formerly Director of the Centre for Transformation in the Osho International Meditation Resort (www.osho.net), she works all over the world, and in the past 25 years has run very popular workshops and trainings in India, Brazil, England, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Switzerland, Italy, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland.
She leads practitioner trainings in Family Constellation therapy, counselling, Pulsation (neo-Reichian emotional release breathwork), and neo-Reichian body type reading and co-leads trainings in Star Sapphire psychic energywork.
She also runs personal development trainings and workshops in tantra, tantra for women, relating, primal feeling, neo-Reichian emotional release, shamanism and Family Constellation.
She has a magical way to create a safe atmosphere in which to feel and express the deep emotions which lead to real transformation.
The workshop is residential. It will be held at Croydon Hall, (http://www.croydonhall.co.uk/) located in north Somerset in the Exmoor countryside, about 20 minutes from Minehead and 45 minutes from Taunton. Croydon Hall features beautiful grounds and really good vegetarian food. It is a winner of the Kindred Spirit magazine best venue award and one of the best places for this type of work.
The workshop starts at 8:00 pm in the evening on Friday Nov 23rd and finishes around 6:00 pm on Sunday Nov 25th.
We are attempting to roughly balance the numbers of men and women in the group. To avoid being on the waiting list – book early!
The workshop involves dance, breathing and energetic activity and requires normal physical mobility. If you have any doubts or questions, or to ask about special arrangements, please ring to check.
You should bring: loose comfortable clothes for dancing in, a notebook and a blindfold, umbrella, outdoor shoes, a shawl, and a drinking water bottle with your name on. (Towels are provided.)
All food at Croydon Hall is vegetarian (and it’s very good). Special diets such as vegan, wheat free, gluten free can be catered for, but there is a surcharge. Speak to Croydon Hall about this as early as you can.
In order to keep the cost of this workshop as low as possible, we are “unbundling” the tuition and accommodation costs and letting you choose the accommodation you want. Speak to Croydon Hall directly about this. (Contact details below.)
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Thus total price = (1) + (2) and ranges from £237.30 in dormitory accommodation as below, through £278 in a shared premium en-suite room.
Shared accommodation plus (delicious vegetarian) food for the weekend ranges from:
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with a range of options in between (eg en-suite dormitory or triple, shared ordinary-standard twin).
These options, within this price range, include a small number of single rooms with separate bathroom. However, beyond that, single accommodation requires one person occupying a double room at a higher rate. A single person in a double room would typically pay £150 including food for the whole weekend.
The number of bedspaces in each category is limited: first come, first served.
The £70-00 deposit to Andrew White and the 50% deposit to Croydon Hall are non-refundable. The balances if paid in advance can be refunded less an administration fee of £10 in each case.
As explained above under Costs and Accomodation, you book the workshop in two parts:
(1) the tuition of the workshop you book with me, Andrew White, by sending me a cheque for the non-refundable deposit of £70. Please phone or email me (below) for the postal address to send the cheque to.
(2) food and accommodation you book directly with the venue, Croydon Hall. (Address below.)
This allows us to keep costs as low as possible.
All enquiries for the workshop itself and payment of tuition/grouproom fees: Andrew White 0845-3510604 / 0117-968-7307 andrew@themagicofyou.co.uk or use the enquiry form on this page.
All administration of room choice, special diet and payment of accommodation / food: directly with Croydon Hall
Croydon Hall, Felons Oak, Minehead, Somerset, TA24 6QT 01984 642200 info@croydonhall.co.uk http://www.croydonhall.co.uk/
The office is open every day from 9.00am to 5.00pm.
Please remember, first come, first served both with workshop places and choice of accommodation.
To arrange an appointment, or for more information, ring and speak to me direct. Clinics for hypnotherapy & counselling in Clifton, Bristol, Avon BS9 1JE and in Taunton, Somerset, TA2 7BZ
0845 351 0604 / 0117-968-7307
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