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1. Inner Sadhana (Formerly Mini/Midi Sadhana) (Age Limit: 35-55) |
(Jan 02 – Feb 12)
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This experiential course provides change related insight and equips those who are involved in leadership roles, formation work and also weary from the ministry. Drawing from the Depths or Affect Regulating gently activates the inward passage. As the inner path is accessed it brings to consciousness insight into one's own patterns of speaking and behaving and invites change through individual therapeutic processing done in group. Via the same processes one is led to discover helpful means of relating with oneself, others and with the Transcendent. Moderate input on Individual and Family Lifespan, Relational Sexuality, Myers Briggs Type Indicator or Midlife is provided to understand the above processes and to facilitate the participants onward Sadhana.
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| 2. Drawing from the Depths |
(arrival, Jan. 2, by 7 p.m., departure, Jan. 8, by 8 a.m.) |
Using the non-analytical, non-diagnostic and integrative approach to life employed in the Intensive Journal, this retreat seeks to help participants learn to work with all of their life experiences, both positive and negative, to develop a basis for important life decisions.
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| 3. Meaning Through Mid Years, Age Limit: 40-55 |
(March 2 - 31) |
As humans we are daily growing and transforming while passing through the various stages of development. The middle years are a time of diminishing spiritual, intellectual, physical and sexual energies. This course, with its emphasis on midlife development, becomes a time to harness together one's scattered and underutilized resources from earlier stages of development and to direct them toward meaningful later years. Besides theory, group therapeutic processing attends to past issues that might interfere with this meaning-seeking journey and also facilitates conscious choices that could lead to spiritual wholeness. The participants' symbols and dreams tend to become the vehicle for healing the past and dealing with resistances to a meaningful life ahead.
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| 4. Inner Sadhana (Formerly Mini/Midi Sadhana) |
(April 26 - 31 May)
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Please see course description under #1 above.
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| 5. Drawing from the Depths |
(arrival, April 28, by 7 p.m., departure, May 4, by 8 a.m.)
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Please see course description under #2 above.
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| 6. Rekindling Marriage |
(Three Weekends of June 10-12, 17-19 & 24-26) |
(arrival, Friday 7.00 p.m.-departure, Sunday 4 p.m.)
It is natural and expected that over the years of marriage the animated romance and vowed resolves get modified and transformed as children are born and grow up. It is also possible that, because of the personality that each spouse is, the wine of commitment and intimacy might turn sour-commitment erupts into a cloud of disappointments and questions and intimacy becomes dull routine. Each or both spouses may feel let down in trusting and in remaining trustworthy. The course wants to blow away the ashes and to expose the glowing embers so as to rekindle the dulled out aspects of marriage. It will try to provide understanding that will hopefully dissolve what could arrest the flowering for a fruitfully satisfying married family life. The course, which will be spread over three weekends to last from a Friday evening till Sunday evening, is meant for those who have been married for over four years (12 couples. Please use course specific application form from website).
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| 7. Mid Years Training Workshop |
(Sept 4 - Oct 2) |
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The training workshop is meant primarily for those trained counsellors who are active in the field of counselling, familiar with Carl Jung's theory which they have begun relating to their lives and to the lives of their counselees. It is a process of going beyond the ego years to understand oneself and grow psychospiritual as well as to offer the same lens of the Mid Years for the deepened and widened development of others. The training workshop will require one to engage personally and through group processing with the material so that it becomes an experience based procedure one will provide for others. Those who have attended a Myers Briggs Typology workshop are required to bring their scores when they attend the workshop from September 11. |
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| 8. Rekindling Marriage |
(Three Weekends of Oct 14-16,21-23 & 28-30) |
(arrival, Friday 7.00 p.m. - departure, Sunday 4 p.m.)
Please see course description under # 6 above.
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| 9. Ignatian Psychospirituality & Discernment |
(Oct 16-30) |
The Ignatian Psychospirituality section is an education towards appropriate maturity so that the heart of the person is free to love or to perceive as "beautiful" what the mind discovers as "true" and the will experiences as "good and right." The course tries to see psychospiritual determinants that may help us on our journey to be contemplatives in action or mystical-prophets in today's world as gathered from the rich Ignatian tradition of the Autobiography and the Spiritual Exercises. Further, the Discernment component is geared to clarify what Spiritual Discernment really is. It will help to understand whether one's present emotional experience comes from God or not. It will also explain the presuppositions for and methods of finding God's will in an important choice/decision in life, whether vocational or otherwise. The main purpose of the course is to attune one's life to God's will which is ultimately our deepest happiness. The participants will be required to share and engage in some practice too.
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| 10. Body-Mind Sadhana |
(Nov 13 - Dec 10) |
Religions and traditions in India have developed different ways of liberation (margas). During this course, Yoga, one of those margas, will attend to the Body through the three aspects of philosophy (darsana), the spirituality (sadhana) and the life style (jivana). The participant will receive theory on the philosophical background of yoga, be trained in the practice of suryanamaskar for flexibility of body, pranayama for stillness of mind, and basic asana for body fitness. This will be deepened through the practice of Spiritual Sadhana. Consciousness of deeper processes in the Mind which help and hinder relationships, work and leisure will be provided through a trust- based interaction between input and processing in group as another portion of the course.
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Admissions |
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1. Application forms are available at our website and may be completed online and submitted. Confidential recommendation of the applicant's Major Superior is an admission requirement for first time applicants. This is available at the website but has to be printed out and mailed to us directly.
2. Upon receiving your completed forms, you will receive a letter of acknowledgement and information about the status of your admission.
3. When admission is granted, a letter of acceptance will be sent to you offering you a seat and containing relevant information regarding fees, how to get to Sadhana Institute, and what to bring with you.
4. If, for some reason, you cancel your admission, your seat is not transferable. It is given to the next person on the waiting list.
Important
1. The dates announced include the dates of your arrival and departure.
2. We do not accept late arrivals, nor do we allow early departures.
3.Our courses are personally demanding and challenging and yet greatly transforming. They are not meant for those who are seeking rest and relaxation.
4. You send your applications as early as possible as we like to finalize the list of participants at least two months ahead of the program.
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Correspondence |
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address all admissions-related correspondence to: |
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Admissions
Director
Sadhana Institute
Lonavla 410 401 India
Tel.: (02114) 273370, 276112
Fax: (02114) 277413
E-mail: sadhanalonavla@gmail.com
Website: www.sadhanainstitute.org
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