Holistic Cancer Retreat For Women - Aug. 21-26

[Guest guest]

Friends,

 

I want to alert you to this unique holistic cancer retreat (second annual)

taking place at the

Shambhala Mountain Center in the Colorado Rockies next month. The program

leaders are

diverse and renowned -- including Dr. Victoria Maizes, executive director of Dr.

Andrew

Weil's Integrative Medicine Program at the University of Arizona. Complete

details below.

 

I'm hoping you can help spread the word to anyone who may find it of interest.

 

" Courageous Women, Fearless Living: A Retreat for Women Touched by Cancer "

August 21 to 26

Shambhala Mountain Center

Red Feather Lakes, CO (two hours northwest of Denver and Boulder)

Fee: $295 tuition (plus lodging and meals)

Information and registration: www.shambhalamountain.org/programs/682 or (888)

788-7221

 

Peace,

Andrea

 

HOLISTIC CANCER RETREAT FOR WOMEN:

RENOWNED EXPERTS, 'BOUNDLESS HEALING,' REAL HOPE

Led by Dr. Victoria Maizes, Tulku Thondup Rinpoche, Acharya Judith Lief, Linda

Sparrowe,

Sofia Diaz

August 21 - 26, Shambhala Mountain Center, Colorado Rockies

 

" This is a rare kind of retreat. It creates a profound sense of community and

allows

participants to feel the mind-body-spirit connection and live it. " — Dr.

Victoria Maizes

 

Red Feather Lakes, CO -- Cancer can be debilitating -- or it can be a vehicle

for profound

spiritual healing and awakening. The second annual " Courageous Women, Fearless

Living:

A Retreat for Women Touched by Cancer " -- to be held August 21 to 26, 2007 --

approaches the disease in an unconventional, truly holistic way, addressing the

mental,

physical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of the cancer journey with a team

of experts

in a mountain retreat setting.

 

The retreat draws on the latest insights in integrative medicine, the ancient

wisdom of

Buddhist teachings and yoga, and the healing potential of dance, art, and music.

It teaches

participants practical methods of healing to take home with them. This approach

proved

successful at the inaugural retreat last summer, which drew 85 women from all

over the

U.S., Mexico, and Chile.

 

The team of expert teachers this year includes Dr. Victoria Maizes, executive

director of

Dr. Andrew Weil's Integrative Medicine Program at the University of Arizona;

esteemed

Tibetan meditation master and Boundless Healing author Tulku Thondup Rinpoche;

contemplative hospice pioneer and author Acharya Judith Lief; Alternative

Medicine editor-

in-chief Linda Sparrowe; and yoga and sacred movement instructor Sofia Diaz.

 

" Courageous Women, Fearless Living " ( www.shambhalamountain.org/programs/682 )

is

presented by the Shambhala Mountain Center in the heart of the Colorado Rockies.

Founded in 1971, it is widely regarded as one of the preeminent spiritual

retreat centers in

the West. It is home to the Great Stupa of Dharmakaya, one of the most

noteworthy

examples of Buddhist sacred architecture in the world and the largest monument

dedicated to peace in North America.

 

" Courageous Women, Fearless Living: A Retreat for Women Touched by Cancer "

August 21 to 26

Shambhala Mountain Center

Red Feather Lakes, CO (two hours northwest of Denver and Boulder)

Fee: $295 tuition (plus lodging and meals)

Information and registration: www.shambhalamountain.org, (888) 788-7221

 

Program Highlights

Dr. Victoria Maizes, who has worked with hundreds of cancer patients over the

years,

offers her rich experience and practical knowledge on the latest in integrative

care. She'll

give five workshops on integrative approaches to cancer, including nutrition,

supplements,

mind-body connection, and spirituality, as well as strategies for dealing with

side effects

of treatment such as fatigue, hot flashes, and peripheral neuropathy.

 

Tulku Thondup will share healing visualizations and meditation practices,

powerful and

transformative techniques to awaken healing energies in body and mind. While

based in

the wisdom tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, the practices are designed to be

accessible to

those of all faiths or traditions or lack thereof.

 

Providing instruction in mindfulness meditation practice, Shambhala senior

teacher Judith

Lief will show participants how to meet and hold all of one's experience —

moment-by-

moment and breath-by-breath. Drawing on more than thirty years of experience in

meditation and hospice work, she will demystify meditation and introduce the

healing

power of presence.

 

In her commitment to women's health and well-being, yoga instructor Linda

Sparrowe will

lead gentle, transformative yoga sessions throughout the retreat. She will show

participants how to relate to themselves on and off the mat with kindness,

spaciousness,

and grace.

 

Celebrating and appreciating the feminine spirit, Sofia Diaz, a long-time

student of sacred

movement, will offer South Indian temple dancing performances and will lead

participants

in fully expressing their feminine beauty and power.

 

About the Program Leaders

Victoria Maizes, MD, is executive director of the Program in Integrative

Medicine at the

University of Arizona -- founded by Dr. Andrew Weil in 1994 -- and an associate

professor of Medicine, Family and Community Medicine, and Public Health. Dr.

Maizes

lectures nationally on integrative medicine, women's health, wellness, aging,

communication skills, mind-body medicine, nutrition, and herbal medicine.

 

Tulku Thondup Rinpoche was born in Tibet and trained at the Dodrupchen

Monastery. He

fled to India in 1958 and came to the U.S. in 1980 as a visiting scholar at

Harvard

University. Author of Boundless Healing, Masters of Meditation and Miracles, and

Peaceful

Death, Joyful Rebirth: A Tibetan Buddhist Guidebook, Tulku Thondup teaches

throughout

the U.S. and Europe.

 

Acharya Judith Lief is a contemplative hospice pioneer, meditation instructor,

and former

dean of Naropa University. A close student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, she is

the

author of Making Friends with Death (Shambhala Publications).

 

Linda Sparrowe is a writer, yoga teacher, mentor, and practitioner with deep

roots in yoga,

the Vedas, Sanskrit, and women's health. Editor-in-chief of Alternative Medicine

magazine, she is also the author of several books, including The Woman's Book of

Yoga

and Health and Yoga: A Yoga Journal Book.

 

Sofia Diaz offers a unique approach to Hatha Yoga, sacred movement, and feminine

spiritual practice, deriving her style of teaching and body philosophy from the

South

Indian temple arts. She lectures at Naropa University and teaches throughout

North

America.

 

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Media Contact: Scott Tillitt / Antidote Collective -- 917-449-6356,

scott

 

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