Immerse yourself...in a private retreat to heal your body, mind and soul. Refresh your spirit in the abundant peace and quiet of our sanctuary.

Experience...group retreats and workshops throughout the year that offer the Sunburst teachings and tools of meditation along with a variety of creative programs, such as Organic Gardening and Farming, Sustainable Living and Sacred Geometry workshops.

Join us at The Expanding Light, situated within Ananda Village, one of the most successful intentional communities in the world - celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2008. Walk our 700 acres in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Enjoy lovingly prepared vegetarian meals in the company of others on retreat, Expanding Light staff and Village residents.

Learn ancient and effective techniques to expand your own sense of harmony and gain an increased sense of God’s loving presence in your own life. People of all faiths and backgrounds are welcome and respected.

Select from a long list of planned programs and events, or fashion your own personal retreat.

During the retreat you will learn to:

* understand the different levels of consciousness and access the power to exercise choice over thoughts, feelings, and responses;
* connect with the Divine;
* and make meditation and spirituality a part of your daily life.

Facilitators:

Hema Patel, teacher of Raja Yoga meditation for 28 years; and Kyoko Kimura, BA in Music Education and MA in flute performance. She teaches music, meditation and Living Values to people of all ages.

Includes vegetarian lunch and tea breaks

Suggested donation $50

Power of Positive Thinking
Weekend Retreat
June 20-22, Friday 6:00 pm to Sunday 4:00 pm

"Thoughts and emotions play a very crucial role in affecting how we perform at home, at work, and in all aspects of our daily lives."

The energy of the human mind is thought. Thought is said to be one of the greatest, but least understood, energy resources of the universe. When we learn to understand and harness the energy of the mind, we are able to master our lives and produce those thoughts that give the most happiness and fulfillment. The mind has the power to create whatever it focuses on. Even if you think you are already fairly positive in life, you can benefit tremendously by looking at how much we do to ourselves unconsciously. Life will never be without its challenges. Knowing how to create a positive attitude can change a problem into an opportunity, making life seem less perilous and more enjoyable.

Through discussion, meditation and reflection, creative activity and exercises, this weekend retreat will take you on a journey to explore the power and influence of thought and the impact of positive attitudes. It will also look at the underlying spiritual principles that help maintain positivity in your daily life.

Elizabeth Padilla has been teaching meditation for 23 years. For the past 16 years she has facilitated many seminars and workshops, such as Self Managing Leadership, Circle of Wise Women, Stress Management, and value based programs. Elizabeth is a very talented singer and a theater artist, having performed with Beach Blanket Babylon and the American Conservatory Theater. She is now fulfilling her life's dream by reaching the heart and spirit through her songs and work.

Dennis Hiebert has been a meditator for 34 years and has studied, practiced and taught Raja Yoga Meditation with the Brahma Kumaris for 22 years. Dennis has been interviewed on cable television in Los Angeles on the topic of the effects of our thoughts. He is the past President of the Activity Directors Organization of San Gabriel Valley and an active member of the Southern California Association of Activity Professionals.

Includes accommodation and vegetarian meals

Suggested Donation $175

Spiritual Living and the Arts of Hatha Yoga and Qigong
Weekend Retreat
June 28-29, Saturday 9:30 am to Sunday 4:00 pm

When we create a lifestyle that supports our whole being, peace, stability, simplicity and cohesiveness are promoted. When each aspect is in alignment, we are fine-tuned and living in a state of well being, balance and purpose.

Topics covered:

• Orient to self- who am I really?
  
• Orient to the Divine- what is the highest purpose of my life and how can I become the best I can?
  
• How do I orient the rest of my life to these 2 poles?
  
• What are the qualities of Hatha Yoga and Qigong that support our spiritual lifestyle and purpose?
  
  Facilitators: Mary Friedland and Fern Jeffcoat
  

Mary Friedland has been teaching Hatha Yoga in the Bay Area for the past 17 years. She earned a Certificate of Advanced Studies & Teacher Training at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco and a Masters Degree in Special Education from Northeastern Illinois University. Mary also teaches meditation and courses in spiritual development at the Brahma Kumaris Meditation Center as well as in the Financial District, hospitals, government offices and community centers around the City. A board member of the Interfaith Center at the Presidio, she is active in interfaith activities throughout the Bay Area.

Fern Jeffcoat has been teaching the Tai Chi Yang style long form for 17 years, as well as many Qigong sets. She co-led Women's Spiritual Questing Circles in Sonoma County in the 1980's. She has many years experience in small business management. Fern combines movement and meditation to explore the synthesis of body and spirit.

Includes accommodation, vegetarian meals, and tea breaks

Suggested donation $125

On A SpeakingQuest Retreat You Will

• Discover the art of listening and speaking from your heart.
  
• Learn how to be fully present and confident in each moment.
  
• Experience the healing power of complete self-acceptance.
  
• Express your personal passion and reveal your deep wisdom.
  

Weekly Events
Tours and Labyrinth Walks

Enjoy the beautiful gardens, walk the labyrinth to relax and let go. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, 11 AM-3 PM, tours starting at 11, 12, and 2 PM. Sundays, 12-4 PM, tours starting every half hour.

Peace Awareness Labyrinth and Gardens (Prana) presents:

Can we really forgive what seems to hurt us? Experience freedom and joy? This is a day about forgiveness: how to forgive those things that seem impossible to forgive, what keeps us from being able to forgive and how through Grace, all things can be healed and lifted. Forgiveness is a path of freedom and joy. When we can forgive all things we are open like children, joyous and free, able to receive all of God's blessings.

Enjoy walking the outdoor Chartres-style labyrinth as a way to anchor in your awarenesses and learnings.

Includes a buffet style gourmet brunch for $15 donation.

Call Peace Awareness Labyrinth and Gardens at (323) 737-4055, ext. 1137 or email registrar@peacelabyrinth.org to register. It is safe to leave your credit card information on voice mail or email. You can also send a check made payable to PTS to 3500 West Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90018

A Dreamwork Intensive with Jeremy Taylor

May 2 - 4, 2008:
Begins Friday night with dinner Concludes Sunday after lunch
$290/$250 Commuter

The Language of Dreams

Our dreams speak a shared language of archetypal symbol and metaphor. These images and experiences connect us to each other, and to the world, in ever more profound and subtle ways. The health and wholeness out of which they spring, and back toward which they draw us, is not limited by the envelope of skin of the individual dreamer. We are all being invited to more conscious and celebratory relationship with less-conscious aspects of our own beings, and with the cosmos simultaneously.

Everyone is welcome - people just beginning to explore the fascinating world of myth and dream, as well as seasoned professionals. Only the dreamer can say with any certainty what meanings his or her dreams may hold. “If it were my dream” style group participatory dream work is one of the few activities that put beginners and experts on an equal emotional footing right from the outset.

Jeremy Taylor, an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, has worked with dreams for over thirty years; he blends the values of spirituality with an active social conscience and a Jungian perspective. Founding member and past president of the Association for the Study of Dreams, he has written three books integrating dream symbolism, mythology, and archetypal energy.

Jeremy appears regularly on local, regional, and national radio and TV, and pioneered on-line dream work as host of AOL's innovative dream work show. He has taught in the schools and seminaries of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA for 30 years and teaches at a wide variety of colleges and universities in the Bay Area and in South Korea.