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SeekaRetreat - California directory of retreat leaders and spiritual directors and coaches. Retreats, retreat workshops, programs and events. Retreats include themes with topics including: spiritual retreats, religious retreats, healing, yoga, self improvement etc...
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California is a state located on the west coast of the United States, bordering the Pacific Ocean. California is the most populous state in the United States bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada (E) and across the Colorado River to Arizona (E), Mexico (S). |
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Featured Retreat Leaders
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Michael J Tamura
Celebrated Spiritual Teacher, Clairvoyant, Healer, Visionary
& Award-Winning Author of You Are The Answer
Michael J Tamura awakens souls. With compassion, humor and wisdom, he heals thousands of people from around the world and helps guide them to their true destiny and life purpose. Michael believes that no matter the circumstance, everyone can find happiness and spiritual fulfillment if they just know how.
Born and raised in Japan, yet educated in American schools, Michael has spent a lifetime bridging gaps: not only between East and West, but also between men and women, young and old, mind and body, heart and soul
Today, Michael is revered around the world as a master teacher, life coach, visionary, healer, clairvoyant, and pioneer of spiritual healing and psychic development. His award-winning book, You Are The Answer, is highly celebrated and his powerful seminars are booked long in advance as people flock to experience his unique 'No Pain - All Gain' approach and profound healing work.
Raphaelle Tamura
Renowned Spiritual Teacher, Clairvoyant, Healer and Life Coach
For 25 years, Raphaelle Tamura, a renowned and gifted spiritual healer, teacher and life coach, has been astounding clients around the world with her powerful clairvoyant reading abilities. Her international client-base ranges from celebrities, to top corporate executives, to thousands of everyday people looking for healing and guidance in their lives.
Raphaelle dedicates her everyday to lovingly tending to the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of everyone she encounters. Her clients leave her counseling sessions armed with an array of spiritual tools and a focused path of empowerment that accelerates their healing and dramatically shifts their thinking and their lives.
In addition to being a gifted clairvoyant, healer and spiritual teacher, Raphaelle is also a talented animal communicator, helping owners better understand and communicate with their pets. Her love of animals has inspired her to write a book called Aiko's Lives, about her own beloved dog. In the book, Raphaelle shares her intimate experience with a dog soul, who has returned to be her faithful companion for the third time in her lifetime. Aiko's Lives is also being developed as a children’s book and film.
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Roxanne Howe-Murphy, Ed.D., is an executive and (mid)life coach, teacher, retreat leader and author. She is the Director of the Enneagram Institute of the San Francisco Bay Area, and is on the faculty of the Core Strengths Coaching Program at San Francisco State University. She specializes in retreats for people in midlife. Some retreats are held for women only.
Her mission is to inspire, deepen, and animate that which is best within and to honor one’s True Nature while navigating the big transitions in life. She supports others to access and embody their inner authority and has inspired countless people to live a fuller, more conscious and liberated life. Her work is done in service of encouraging our innate Inner Light to shine while bringing greater peace to the planet.
While specific retreats have different emphasis, they all center around expanding the capacity for being present, becoming more internally expansive,”being at home” in one’s own skin, releasing self-criticism and creating inner peace. She teaches and integrates the principles of the Enneagram as it offers a robust framework for awakening to reality, seeing ourselves more clearly, and recognizing our inherent connectedness to the Divine.
Beyond her formal education and extensive experience, she says, "It is my own life journey, guided by my faith in the power of the human spirit that most inspires my work. Since I was a child, I’ve been drawn to the preciousness of this human experiment, to entering into the Mysteries, and to experiencing the Sacred in All of life. After a period of ‘forgetting who I am,’ I experienced a more profound connection through learning what it really is to be present. It is this direct experience of presence that is possible for each of us and makes all the difference.”
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Jana Fleming, is the founder of A Woman's Journey to Wholeness Retreats. When choosing the location, and the co-facilitators in each of her retreats she chooses from the perspective of 'the retreat she would want to attend'. All of the women who will be presenting with her throughout the weekend are amazing teachers, spiritual leaders, and brilliant women. Jana is a Master Certified Life Coach with the Ford Institute for Integrative Coaching at JFK University. She is passionate about teaching 'Shadow work' and assisting others to embrace and integrate all that they judge and disown within themselves.
Jana maintains a full-time private coaching practice where she specializes in spiritual coaching in harmony with all faiths. It is her belief that we all need spiritual tools to journey through our lives. The tools she teaches are practical and easy to adopt. Presently she is working on her teachers training at the Chopra Center in Southern California for Certification in Primordial Sound Meditation. She will be adding this teaching to her retreats assisting others to learn the ancient practice of Primordial Sound Meditation.
Jana's mission is to inspire and enlighten hundred's of thousands of people worldwide, through seminars, conferences and retreats. Bringing together enlightened individuals who have made "known the unknown" in the world, including but not limited to; authors, coaches, teachers, scientists, spiritual leaders, healers, sages, saints, seers, mystics and so on. Jana is passionate about supporting people to live fully integrated lives. She makes a home in both Florida and Southern California..
A Woman's Journey to Wholeness Retreats
Enjoy a weekend nourishing yourself in a spectacular setting nestled between the mountains and the majestic Pacific Ocean.
We will use a variety of ways to nurture our spirit:
Group Meditation
Guided Visualization
Creative Writing Prompts/Journaling
Yoga
Labyrinth Walk
Beautiful Sound Healing with Harp, Drums & Flute
Ceremony & Oneness Blessing
"When I began facilitating retreats is was simply because I wanted to create a retreat that I wanted to attend. My mission is to provide a weekend where women can reclaim the wisdom of their inner voice, relax and rejuvenate all the while learning the spiritual tools to create more joy, peace and abundance in their lives."
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Testimonials
"I could feel the Divine, a presence that was immediately in front of me, it was sublte, but much more strong than ever before."
"Basically I feel more happiness and peace than in any time in my life."
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The Self Awareness Institute is a gathering place for thousands all over the world who are actively engaged in raising their consciousness and realizing their full potential. We provide you the tools and training to access your inner knowing, purpose and raise your calibrated level of consciousness to full enlightenment. What makes us unique is our use of Shaktipat (Life Force Energy) to deepen your connection and awaken higher awareness. This is the fast track to Self Realization. Experience it for yourself.
Steven S. Sadleir is Director and co-founder of the Self Awareness Institute. Mr. Sadleir is a scholar and lecturer of philosophy and has written several books, one a compendium of every major spiritual path or teaching called: Looking for God, A Seeker's Guide to Religious and Spiritual Groups of the World (Penguin, 2001). He is also co-author, with Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer, of Wake Up, Live the Life You Love. His most recent book is Self Realization, An Owner-User Manual for Human Beings.
He has made several trips around the world studying meditation with many of the world's enlightened masters; apprenticed with two, and spent months sitting in India for, first, 8 hours a day, then 12 hours a day, and finally 23 hours a day for 40 consecutive days and nights to complete his training as a Yogi!
He founded the Self Awareness Institute in 1985 and has trained thousands of people from over 120 counties to meditate and find greater clarity, happiness and peace. He also holds a Master of Arts in Economics, from the University of Wales, United Kingdom, holds a securities license, worked as an investment banker and fund advisor for many years, and now lives in Laguna Beach, California and devotes all his time to teaching.
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Lynda Terry
Leader Credentials: Founder of Vessels of Peace, an international spiritual peace and service network for women; author of The 11 Intentions: Invoking the Sacred Feminine as a Pathway to Inner Peace; meditation teacher and spiritual mentor
707-539-2081
vesselsofpeace.com
lyndaterry@vesselsofpeace.com
Retreat Themes: Women, Peace, Sacred Feminine, Meditation, Silence, Service, Global Consciousness
Spiritual Focus: Multi-faith, interspiritual, ecumenical
Address: P.O. Box 9006
Santa Rosa, CA 95405
 Lynda Terry is a meditation teacher, spiritual mentor, author and the founder of Vessels of Peace. Over the past 15 years, Lynda has transitioned from a career in marketing communications, college teaching and public relations, to a life and work grounded in spiritual service. She began teaching meditation in the early 1990s, after her own meditation practice – initiated to cope with a life crisis – transformed her physically, emotionally and spiritually. People began asking her to teach them to meditate, and she realized she had found her calling. |
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I work with individuals on all spiritual paths, including those who are unaffiliated with a particular religious tradition. Many of my clients are on a creative, interfaith or integral path. I am a graduate of the Spiritual Directors Institute (Mercy Center) and the Kaiser Hospital Training Program for Interfaith Chaplains, and am former director of the interfaith spiritual direction program at the Chaplaincy Institute. In addition to being a spiritual director, I am a professor, writer-poet, and creativity coach who teaches courses on spirituality, creativity, literature, and work visioning. I also volunteer as an interfaith chaplain at Kaiser Hospital.
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Margaret Wolff facilitates retreats and is a popular speaker at conferences around the US. Her work provide resources -- models, skills, and inspiration -- to help others, no matter what their spiritual tradition, learn to respond to their innate wisdom and integrate their most deeply held values into their daily lives.
"Though I have degrees in Art Therapy, Psychosynthesis, and Leadership and Human Behavior, and have been nationally recognized as a training consultant and journalist, what contributed most to the person I am today began not in the halls of any university or the board rooms of any corporation, but in the midnight hours of my childhood. It was then that I first began to carry on long, intimate conversations with an unseen but palpable Presence I called "The Magic," a presence that filled me with uncharacteristic bravado about my ability to master my life -- and sometimes, joy."
Margaret's Book - "In Sweet Company Conversations With Extraordinary Women About Living A Spiritual Life (Jossey Bass), is a compelling collection of intimate conversations with 14 remarkable women, each with a spiritual life that nourishes them and serves as a dependable compass for their decision-making.
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Retreat Leaders and Resources
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Credentials: BA Religious Studies, MA Experiential Education, Vista Volunteer Juneau,AK, Facilitated Youth Retreats at La Salle Manor Retreat Center, High School Religion Teacher, Published Author, Poet, Outdoor Educator, Lifetime member of the Girl Scouts, Member of National Eating Disorder Association, Active participant of University of Santa Monica's Spiritual Psychology Program, Team building Facilitator, Experiential Educator.
Retreat Themes: General Youth, Finding the best in ourselves, Teambuilding, Service, Soul-Centered Education, It's not about me -Following Spirit.
Mary Pat is a dynamic,Inspirational speaker, facilitator and Author who provides a space for individuals to become their authentic selves. Her program Learn,Lead and Serve offers an opportunity for students of all ages to experience Body,Mind and Spiritual techniques that will assist them in becoming present in their own lives. There is no better time than the present to become who you were truly meant to be - YOU!!!
Mary Pat's book "Reflecting Grace" is a compilation of beautiful and artistic poems that take you on a personal jouney of life. Get it today on Amazon.com.
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Swami Khecaranatha
info@rudramandir.com
Sacred Space Yoga Sanctuary
830 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, CA 94710
510-486-8700
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Swami Khecaranatha (born Steven Ott) began practicing Kundalini Yoga under Swami Rudrananda (Rudi) in 1971. Rudi recognized him as a teacher within this lineage in 1972. Khecaranatha lived in an ashram for 30 years, and has traveled to India, Nepal, & Asia, spending extended time in meditation and spiritual practice. At the same time he is very accessible, and understands the pressures of living in the world. He has dedicated his life to spiritual development and to serving others in their spiritual quest.
Khecaranatha grew up in an international environment. When he was 6 he moved to Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina -- basically the bottom of the earth. He lived there until age 12. He moved directly from South America to North Africa where he lived in Tripoli, Libya until 1970 when he moved back to the U.S.
Shortly thereafter, Khecaranatha met Swami Rudrananda -- in October of 1971. He moved into the ashram in January of 1972. He lived in the ashram in Indiana, Massachusetts, and most recently in Portland, OR. In June of 2001 he moved to Berkeley to start a spiritual center and to establish his import business -- which is a business path that is seamless with his spiritual focus and commitment.
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Mary Pat Nally