NEWS & VIEWS

Khayaal is an award winning charitable British arts enterprise dedicated to the dramatic interpretation of wisdom texts for the stage, screen, and radio. It was founded in 1997 and aims to produce wisdom-orientated entertainment from classic Muslim world literature.

Hearts & Minds

A 40 minute production for senior schools and colleges, this play explores what it means to be young, British and Muslim today. A moderated discussion of key issues is highlighted. The play is based on extensive consultations and conversations with young British Muslims and is inspired by actual events.

For further information please visit www.khayaal.co.uk

SPIRITUAL REIKI RETREAT IN INDIA

28th February to 6th March 2009

Reiki is a unique energy for self healing and also to heal anyone around you. To attain such a gift in hand is invaluable to anyone. Reiki is peace at hand, healing at hand for self and others. It's a way of living! The amount you can change your lives with it is immeasurable. Bringing Reiki into your life, you follow your heart and listen to your body and soul & live the life of your highest potential. Robin Bela, who leads this retreat, is a trained Reiki Master and Teacher practising in the UK and a UK Reiki Federation Master Teacher and is herself from India.

CONTACT: www.coursesinreiki.com

British Focusing Teachers Association

Focusing offers a radical new way of listening to yourself and to others. It is based on a natural ability, which you were born with, to get in touch with your deep inner experiencing. Focusing is a subtle, transformative practice of inner awareness developed by Eugene Gendlin, PhD. at the University of Chicago. By practising Focusing, you can develop this
ability into an important resource which may help you to live life more fully. It is an increasingly popular way of living successfully with life’s challenges, enabling positive change to emerge naturally.

For more information visit: www.focusing.org.uk

WOULD YOU LIKE TO RUN A RETREAT?

An opportunity has arisen for anybody looking to run an holistic/ relaxation centre. A profitable, established business, with good forward bookings, and a lot of repeat business,is for sale due to illness. Ideally suited to a couple or someone with complimentary therapies experience. A lovely property in a truly stunning location. Anybody interested should contact the owners on +44 1751 417 219

DIOCESE OF EXETER WEBSITE

The Diocese of Exceter runs a valuable information resource site which lists a number of good links for retreats and quiet days. www.exeter.anglican.org

French Therapy Retreats & Courses

Francais

Today France, like many European countries, offers many varieties of therapuetic approaches to healing and well-being and it is often difficult to know how authentic and safe such workshops, courses, and personal guidence really are as they can and often are offered under the title of spirituality. This may even include those on offer which appear to be based in established religions such as Christianity or in church organisations such as Catholism. If you have any questions about the kind of therapy you are being offered or about the organisation offering it, then visit the website of L'ASSOCIATION PSYCHOTHERAPIE VIGILANCE at www.PsyVig.com to find out more. This association was founded by Guy Rouquet to help safeguard people from psychologically risky and questionnable therapies and spirituality movements claiming to be founded on' science. The site is in French at this time.

If you ever felt drawn to join or find out about a contemplative life in a community of prayer and peace, now is your chance to start exploring a new future for yourself.

Just write to The Revd. Mother at the address below

The Community of the Sisters of the Love of God

Convent of the Incarnation
Fairacres Daubeny Road
Oxford OX4 1TB England
E-Mail: guests@slg.org.uk

Website for SLG Press: www.slgpress.co.uk

For more details about the Community go to their page in Selected Retreat Place

INTERNATIONAL

THOMAS MERTON SOCIETY

Sezione Italia

http://xoomer.alice.it/merton/

Thomas Merton was one of the most widely read spirituality writers of the 20th century. This interesting site is in Italian with some English and a number of links.

New Spiritual Adventures from

the Anglican Church

Named Cutting Edge Ministries, theChurch of England's Oxford Diocese has launched a number of spiritual initiatives appropriate to the information and internet age. Exciting and innovative, so click onto the following sites to get a new vision and a new invitation to Christian worship, prayer community.

www.maybe.org www.contemplativefire.org www.i-church.org

THE EDWARD CARPENTER COMMUNITY

FOR GAY MEN

Committed to Personal Growth, Support, Trust & Friendship

2008 Programme

You will find details of the 2008 programme and a booking form on the website or you can telephone [UK] 0870 321 5121 or write to The Edward Carpenter Communty, BMECC London WC1N 3XX for the 2008 Events booklet and more details about the organisation.

Tel: 0870 321 5121

contact_ecc@edwardcarpentercommunity.org.uk

www.edwardcarpentercommunity.org.uk

ECOLOGICAL & SPIRITUAL LIVING
EarthLight - A Journal for Ecological & Spiritual Living
111 Fairmount Avenue
Oakland, CA 94611
Tel: 01+510-451-4926
www.earthlight.org

The growth of eco-spirituality and nature retreats has been growing steadily more popular over the past few years as millions more people become aware of the profound and intimate connection between themselves and Creation in all its amazing diversity and unity. Our increasing ecological concerns for Earth and the discovery that this connection is not just a physical one but also spiritual at the deepest level, guarantee that such retreats will be in great demand. EarthLight, dedicated to life, love, a culture of wisdom, and the children of all species, is a timely quarterly of ecology and religion published for everyone who wants to deepen their understanding of the human spirit in an emerging ecological age.

SWIMMING WITH MONSTERS OF THE DEEP

Swimming with dolphins and whales as a healing life force and a bonding with Planet Gaia have long been established as a spiritual experience, but now you can venture intoswimming with sharks. No previous experience necessary and guards keep tiger sharks, barracudas, lemon sharks, moray eels, and brown sharks distracted. This sounds like a face-the-fear- experience and, perhaps, some of us may need to rediscover our courage in a way that is not quiet and meditative.

ARE YOU HELPING IN SENSELESS

ACTS OF CRUELTY?

All and everything is Creation and we are not separate from any other living thing, be it monkey, dog, or insect. Perhaps even the stones have a life we cannot understand if not in the physical sense then in the metaphysical and spiritual sense. The lesson facing us is simple: we must learn to live in harmony on this earth or we will not have an earth left to live on. World-renowned scientists, Jane Goodall and Marc Bekoff, have written a profoundly inspired and up-to-the mark-science book, THE TEN TRUSTS, to show us how we need to change our perspective regarding how we live on this planet and how we must at long last respect for all life. For those that love animals, this book will encourage you to go on living in harmony with all creatures. For those who never give a thought to how the meat on their table got there, who never wonder how many animals painfully died testing the makeup they put on their face or the medicines they take, or who still want to believe that animals are inferior to us.

News about The Good Retreat Guide

2007 Year 3 The Good Retreat Guide website is redesigned and launched.

2006 Year 2 The Good Retreat Guide website with more entries than ever. Redesign of website in progress.

2005 Year 1 The Good Retreat Guide website gets outstanding media coverage.

2004 Sept. The Good Retreat Guide website launched.

2004 Feb. Publication of The Good Retreat Guide 5th edition.

2003 Sept. Initiation of project website.