For Goodness Sake
Weekly Class Schedule and Description

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The Gathering
With Gavin Lura and Friends
Mondays, 8:00am - 9:30am
…Enlightenment…Spirituality…Wisdom
….Universal Truths …Inner Peace…Religion...
Do you ever find yourself questioning your life purpose?
Questioning the World and its future? Desiring a deeper sense of inner peace?
Questioning your beliefs? Questioning world religions?
Questioning how to navigate your own life in this seeming chaotic world??

Well, you are not alone…The Gathering… has evolved from a group of young adults (ages 18’s, 20’s, 30’s) who are meeting with like minded people to discuss these questions, to find answers through analyzing universal truth and wisdom presented by
contemporary and historical religious teachers.
By studying and discussing different teachings we are opening the door for conversations about how to attain inner peace in ourselves and in the world, and therefore aiding in a global shift to a greater sense of awareness.This is an opportunity for open discussion and creative collaboration amongst our peers as we find ourselves in a time of intense change in our world and in our lives. What better thing could you possibly do for yourself and the world we live in?
You are welcome to join... please drop in!

Just Us Kids:
Mondays, 10:30 to 11:30am
Bring your little ‘Imagineer’ to our new kids class!
Facilitated by Susan Randall, this class, for kids ages 0 to 10,
specifically focuses on using the imagination and play to cultivate a greater awareness, creativity, and spirituality.
Based around a spiritual children’s book as the foundation, each week will feature a story time session followed by a creative activity.
The group focus this month is on Truth, and each week a different book will teach the ‘Imagineers’ more about honesty, openness, and trust.
Our first class will be held on August 2nd, and will feature the story “The Empty Pot”, followed by planting and decorating our own pots.
Please join us for a fun filled Monday morning at 10:30 am.

Dinny’s Abraham-Hicks Group:
Following The Law of Attraction
Every Friday morning, 8:30am - 10:00am

Every Friday morning join Dinny Evans and a group who loves to follow the Law of Attraction by listening to questions proposed to Abraham-Hicks which are recorded from
workshops all over the country.
The group listens and shares their thoughts in lively discussion.Some knowledge of
Esther Hicks and Abraham is recommended.
Join the group or call Dinny at 530-414-1420 for any questions.

THE ARTISTS WAY:
A Spiritual Path to a Higher Creativity
(closed) Monday 10:30am - 12:30pm

Realize your innate creative potential in a 14-week program focusing on breaking through a variety of blocks including limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, jealousy, guilt, addictions, and other inhibiting forces, replacing them with confidence and productivity. This course links creativity to a nondenominational spirituality and provides useful tools, activities and exercises to tap into the creative energies of the universe.  Group meetings focus on a chapter each week.  This is an experiential course requiring active participation and a willingness to grow in a supportive environment.  Bring your copy of The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to a Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron, a pen and a 8½” x 11” notebook to the first meeting.  Facilitated by Kira Yannetta.

T'AI CHI CHIH
Monday 6:00-7:00pm

Led by Chris Worcester.Tai Chi Chih is a form of moving meditation based on the Chinese philosophy of promoting vitality, inner peace, serenity, joy, balance, and health performed in a series of twenty simple non-strenuous movements that relax the body and refresh themind.  Chris is accredited in Tai Chi Chih & Seijaku.  

MONDAY NIGHT MEDITATION with JON L
Monday 7:30-8:30pm

Jon explores ways to deepen your meditation practice and bring more creativity into your life.  He encourages you to make a commitment to take time for yourself and bring peace into your life and the world around you. 

SIMPLY SITTING MEDITATION
Tuesday 12:15-1:15pm

Simply Sitting in Silence on Tuesdays.  We have all  knowledge within. When we are silent we can tap into this knowledge directly.  No need for a leader…you are your leader.  Cathy Nason, Breezy Cross, and Hope Ortman will practice with you. We begin by ringing the bell, saying our names and sharing (if you need guidance or just want to express gratitude). We sit in silence for 30 minutes, and end with Hugging Meditation.

Cathy Nason has been practicing meditation for 15 years and has been doing inquiry for two years.  If you have a problem that is keeping you from your peace, Cathy will make herself available to you by appointment, at no charge . A helpful website before you sit, especially if its the first time, is www.zmeditation.com

BUDDHIST MEDITATION CLASS
Tuesday 4:30-5:45pm

This class is led by Leisa Peterson, senior member of the Mahakaruna Buddhist Meditation Center. Each class will feature a brief commentary on the object of meditation, followed by a guided meditation. These meditations are based on the Kadampa Buddhist tradition of Lamrim, the 21 meditations prescribed by the famous Buddhist teacher, Atisha, 1000 years ago in Tibet.   

A COURSE IN MIRACLES
TUESDAYS FROM 6:30-8:00 P.M. with Richard Mallett
Click here for the 2009 Reading Schedule

A COURSE IN MIRACLES is a self-study course consisting of three volumes - a Text, a Workbook For Students, and a Manual For Teachers. The teaching of the Course strikes at the heart of the basic human condition, which it characterizes as one of conflict, suffering and despair, fearful isolation from God, others, and even ourselves. The Course aims at the healing of this condition by affecting a profound change in our basic outlook. Its tool is the healing of human relationships, which it accomplishes by transforming our perception of others to seeing them as fundamentally good and holy. This opens the way for love, which replaces the fear and separateness, and which the Course describes as our natural inheritance. Since its publication in 1976, the Course has gained immense popularity and acclaim. An increasing number of people from varying traditions, cultures, and walks of life have found a home in it.

This course is a year-long spiritual journey, with one meeting each week, following a carefully planned workbook. The goal of the program is to change the perception that we are separated from our Source, to the truth of our unity with our Higher Power. As we learn to forgive and release judgments of our selves and others, we gain God's peace, and well-being, and bring these qualities into our homes and communities.
This is an on-going course and you can join the group any time.

For more information visit the Circle of Atonement website.

ATTITUDINAL HEALING
Wednesdays from 10:00 - 11:30 am
This class is on-going, so join at any time!

WISDOM CIRCLE
Tuesdays 10 am - 12 pm

Facilitated by Earleen Norris, A Wisdom Circle is formed to share wisdom gained in life. Based around a spiritual book or film as the catalyst, "it is a place for individuals to practice heart-to-heart communication skills, to heal the wounds of loss, illness and abuse, to find the courage to act upon that still small voice within, to empower our best selves."

The group is now studying The Infinite Way. Feel free to join the Wisdom Circle any Tuesday at 10 am. Call 530-550-8981 for more information.

POWER OF THOUGHT
Wednesdays 6:00pm - 7:30pm

This is exciting new series is Offered by Vertical Dimension Inc, who previously ran the series on You Can Be Happy NO Matter What. If you experienced that program, you will love this one!  If you haven’t had an opportunity to experience The Power Of Thought Technologies (Debora McDermed and Laurie Martin) please join us for this next series.

Beginning on Wednesday May 12 we will meet for 12 weeks to look deeper at the 3 Principles of Creating Experience as discovered and taught by Sydney Banks. 
This time we will be exploring 5 domains of our human experience.They are:

Health and Vitality
Work and Vocation
Finances and Freedom
Relationships – friends, family and community
Spirituality

Don’t worry if you haven’t had exposure to this understanding …the first 2 weeks will be devoted to the overview and then we will move into the domains.

CHAKRA BALANCING MEDITATION
Every alternate Thursday at 12:15-1:15pm (check the calendar)
DeeDee will guide you through a Chakra balancing meditation. Please do come along for some inspiration in the middle of your busy day! 

YOGA NIDRA MEDITATION
Every alternate Thursday at 12:15-1:15 pm &
2nd Saturday of every month at 8:30-9:30 am

Facilitated by Dee Dee Boies. No meditation experience is necessary to enjoy the deep relaxation found in practicing Yoga Nidra. If you have a meditation practice, Yoga Nidra is a great compliment, taking you to a much deeper level. It is important not to be distracted or interrupted, so please arrive a few minutes early. Bring a light cover and something to support your head as you will be lying on the floor during practice. Please join us! If you have any questions or need more information, please email Dee Dee Boies at deahn1@yahoo.com
**Space is limited to 15, so please show up early to reserve your space**

ATTITUDINAL HEALING with Edna Lamppert
Every alternate Friday 3:30-5:00pm...postponed until further notice

Edna Lamppert has been trained at Gerald Jampolskys Center for Attitudinal Healing - for personal growth, grief and loss, and for those who have debilitating and life threatening diseases.Gerald Jampolsky's work is based on A Course In Miracles and is known worldwide, all his books have been best sellers. Attitudinal Healing helps us to recognize that we have a choice as to how we perceive ourselves, others and the world around us. The goal always is inner peace. Come and experience the possibilities of inner growth in a safe and loving atmosphere. Get in touch with your own inner wisdom for solving the problems in your life, especially if you are feeling loneliness and stress at this time of the year. There is no charge for this classFor more information call Edna at 530-550-0956 and check out www.jerryjampolskyanddianecirincione.com

FUNDAMENTALS of ASCENSION and
SELF-MASTERY
Thursday evening, 6:30 - 8:30pm

Self-Mastery II
Even though we are building on the first class, this one is open to anyone. We will be exploring deeper understandings into the ascension process. See what happens as the consciousness of life penetrates into and through the various levels of mass consciousness. Some levels will be very familiar depending upon the individual's awareness. Others will probably seem inconceivable. See why integration and developing integrity can have many stumbling blocks. Opening your mind is as important as opening your heart.

Thursday Night Ascension Class with Christian Steele is an informal discussion group which is open to the public. We discuss various topics centered around the ascension process and self-mastery. We also make time for meditation. By bringing understanding and insight into the various aspects of our being we rid ourselves of the limitations that restrict our lives. We recognize that everyone has gifts, and a group setting is a powerful place to share them. The goal is to uplift consciousness so that we may transform our life. Every Thursday evening from 6:30-8:00pm. See Flyer for more details.

FUNDAMENTALS OF BUDDHIST PRACTICE
The Three Turnings of the Wheels of Dharma
Fridays 10:30am-12:00pm

This class, led by Phyllis Matyi, is for people wanting to listen/study, contemplate/ investigate, and meditate. All classes will include Meditation Instruction: Mindfulness instructions leading to Insight as ground for non-dual meditation.
There will also be questions, interactions and discussions.
These classes are open for both beginners and experienced practitioners. Since these classes will build on each other in an organic manner it is recommended that people attend as often as possible.
First Series of Classes(4 weeks):
Introduction:
1. Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma
2. The Foundational Practices: conduct and taming the mind
3. The Mahayana Path of the Bodhisattva: inter-relatedness of everything,
impermanence and compassionate activity.
This study and practice will continue through all levels of training.

Phyllis trained in Zen while living in Asia in her 20’s and began practicing Tibetan Buddhism in 1983. She completed a Five Year Lineage Program, a householder program similar in curriculum as the traditional three year retreat, under the guidance of Lama Palden, resident Lama of Sukhasiddhi. She completed the first inter-Lineage three year Zen/Vajrayana Teacher Training Program, is on Sukhasiddhi’s Teacher Council and is authorized to teach in the Kagyu Lineage (Tibetan/Vajrayana).  Accordingly, she holds the title "Mitra," Sanskrit for "spiritual friend." Phyllis apprenticed in the Navajo Lineage as well and is an attorney in private practice. See Flyer

INNER ACTION MEDITATION GROUP
With Polly M. Ryan MFT.
Sundays 3:00pm to 5:00pm

Our meditation group will focus on two meditation practices as taught by Lama Tsultrim. The first is the Prajna Paramita practice that teaches us to turn our out-going energy back inward, recognize the ground of being, return home and rest non-conceptually. The second, Feeding Your Demons, is based on the Chod, a Tibetan Buddhist practice discovered by the eleventh-century yogini, Machig Labdron. This approach to life's difficulties, both inner and outer, is based on compassion rather than fear, on engagement rather than attack. These complimentary practices, Feeding Your Demons and Prajna Paramita, are skillful means to address our relative world and to discover our true condition.

Teachings and on-going meditation sessions will be held weekly and beginning students are welcome. Traditionally, the teachings are offered freely and students can offer Dana (suggested Dana $12-$15), the Pali work for generosity, which will be divided between the center, the teacher and a scholarship fund to send someone to retreat at Tara Mandala. If you have questions contact Polly at: pollyryanmft@yahoo.com or 530.587.1978. You may also read Lama Tsultrim's books : Feeding Your Demons and Women of Wisdom and visit her website at www.taramandala.org.

Polly has been a student of Lama Tsultrim Allione and studied Tibetan Buddhism for over two decades. Having met the educational and practice requirements of Lama Tsultrim's Kapala Training in 2008, Polly is now certified as a Feeding Your Demons Therapist and is among those who are currently authorized by Lama Tsultrim to teach this work to others as well as to give transmission for the Prajna Paramita practice. Polly has also studied Shamata, The Four Applications of Mindfulness, Lojong (Seven Point Mind Training),The Four Immeasurables, Tonglen, Dzogchen and other practices with B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D., Tibetan Buddhist scholar, translator and teacher, for over twenty-two years (www.sbinstitute.com ).

For more information on all of our classes please call us at
530-550-8981